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Stranger Tides
Captain Jack Sparrow (Johnny Depp) takes to the high seas again in Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, this time ordered by King George to find the legendary fountain of youth. Forced to work with his old nemesis, Captain Barbossa (Geoffrey Rush), Jack searches for another mystical treasure, but Blackbeard (Ian McShane) and his voodoo-magical daughter (Penelope Cruz) are after the same prize. With everyone searching for the Fountain, the three captains race to win the ultimate prize, but the contest is fraught with magic chalices, shrunken ships, and mermaids. On DVD and Blu-Ray. Survival
A British journalist (Mira Sorvino) is on assignment in Leningrad in 1941 when the Nazi's attack in Attack on Leningrad. While she avoids capture and goes into hiding to survive, her partner (Gabriel Byrne) believes her dead-- she has to endure the harsh environment, invading forces, and the threat of starvation without being discovered, and becomes a part of the underground resistance. With Vladimir Ilin. On DVD and Blu-Ray.
Director Kevin Smith's first non-comedy, Red State sees three highschool boys (Michael Angarano, Nicholas Braun, and Kyle Gallner) on their way to an internet hookup, but their date (Melissa Leo) is simply bait. Drugged, abducted, and taken to a religious compound where Pastor Abin Cooper (Michael Parks) preaches intolerance of sin, vice, and wickedness... but their congregation does more to punish sinners than just preach and picket. As the boys' trip becomes more nightmarish, the situation pulls in the local sheriff (Stephen Root) and even the ATF (John Goodman) as Pastor Cooper's congregation spirals out of control. On DVD and Blu-Ray.Coco an his pregnant wife Pipi are quarantined in their apartment building in the Argentinean Phase 7. As the neighbors begin to worry about food and supplies, residents begin to take sides against on another. Coco befriends the prepared (and well armed) Horatio, but are Horatio's warnings about contagion, a New World Order, and their neighbors the key to Coco and Pipi's survival or the rantings of a paranoid lunatic?
Comedy
When Elizabeth Halsey's (Cameron Diaz) attempt to marry rich and retire doesn't work out, she has to go back to work in Bad Teacher. Miss Halsey's mission hasn't changed-- she still wants a rich man to take care of her-- but her new plan is to raise enough money to get plastic surgery and win the heart of Justin Timberlake, the new teacher in school who comes from a rich family. Though she's willing to lie, cheat, and steal to make her goals, and easily wins over the naive principal (John Michael Higgins), some of the faculty see Halsey for who she really is: one teacher (Lucy Punch) who wants to expose what a bad teacher she really is, and another (Jason Segel) who likes her... cynicism, vanity, and all. On DVD and Blu-Ray.Craig Ferguson's new stand-up DVD, Does This Need to Be Said?, is a live performance of Ferguson's comedy, performed and recorded in Nashville, Tennessee.
Documentaries
Granted rare access to film in North Korea, the Danish comedy team of Simon Jul Jorgensen and Jacob Nossell claim to be filming their show and praising North Korea in The Red Chapel, but their goal was to expose one of the most totalitarian societies in the world. Since all of their footage had to be turned in to the North Korean government daily, they had little choice but to accept the changes made to their act, say what they were asked to say, and participate in state functions... but their secret weapon was Jacob: though both performers are Korean-born, handicapped Jacob speaks what he calls "Spastic Danish," untranslatable by Korean censors, so his thoughts on the society survived government scrutiny.
A behind-the-scenes look at one of the country's most prestigious newspapers, Page One: Inside the New York Times looks at the Times in the era of internet, where many respected papers have gone bankrupt. Documenting a full year within the New York Times newsroom, the paper works to stay relevant in the instant-access mediascape as well as keep their own journalistic standards, researching and breaking new stories.Michael Rapaport's Beats, Rhymes & Life: The Travels of A Tribe Called Quest documents A Tribe Called Quest's 2008 reunion tour, focusing on the past, present, and future of the influential hip-hop group. Interviewing the members about their beginnings in New York and the rise of the band to their break-up, eventual reunion, and the current state of A Tribe Called Quest... and the effect their career together has had on their friendship.
Talking to all the captains in the Star Trek universe, William Shatner's The Captains talks to all of the actors who've led a Star Trek cast, including The Next Generation's Patrick Stewart, Deep Space 9's Avery Brooks, Voyager's Kate Mulgrew, Enterprise's Scott Bakula, and the new Captain Kirk, Chris Pine. Shatner talks to them all about their impact on the Star Trek franchise, and, conversely, Trek's impact on each of them.
A Danish filmmaker posted for six months at a Forward Operating Base in Afghanistan in Armadillo, recording the day-to-day life of soldiers stationed on the front lines, in direct conflict with Taliban fighters. The film documents the soldiers' experiences from their down time in the base to the violent clashes that await them on patrol, as well as the effect that life in a war zone has on them.
Monsters
Javier is a "sad clown" in 1970's Spain in The Last Circus, there to support the happy clown, to laugh at his jokes and be the butt of his pranks... but the happy clown in his new circus is Sergio, a sadistic and abusive scoundrel who abuses everyone around him. While Sergio may be a monster, there is also a darkness buried within meek and unimposing Javier: as a child, he saw his father recruited to fight in the Spanish Civil War, sent into battle in his clown costume, wielding a machete. On DVD and Blu-Ray.Will (Landon Liboiron) is about to graduate highschool in The Howling: Reborn, the newest entry in The Howling series, but he continues to spend his time trying to blend in and not be noticed. When he finally decides he doesn't want to miss a chance at the girl of his dreams (Lindsey Shaw), he decides to let some of his animal instincts take over, but but does this align him with or set him against the aggressive pack in his school? With Ivana Milicevic.
When a group of friends anger a truck driver on the freeway, they end up harassed and run off the road in Bunnyman. Stranded and hunted by a man in a bunny suit, they have to survive backwoods hillbillies, traps, chainsaws, and cannibals as they're picked off one-by-one.
Teenagers
A coming-of-age story set in apartheid-era South Africa, Master Harold and the Boys is the story of 17-year-old Hally (Freddy Highmore) who spends all his time with his family's two servants: intellectual Sam (Ving Rhames) and Willie (Patrick Mofokeng), who still calls Hally "Master Harold." When they receive news that Hally's abusive father is about to return from the hospital, Hally begins to take out his frustrations on Sam and Willie, beginning to treat them as servants instead of friends.Grace (Selena Gomez), Meg (Leighton Meester), and Emma (Katie Cassidy) have been dreaming of Paris... but their Paris vacation is a huge disappointment. Their vacation is saved when Grace is mistaken for a wealthy heiress in Monte Carlo, and they're whisked away to enjoy high society in ritzy Monaco. With Cory Monteith.
New this week in our TV New Releases:
 | Da Vinci's Inquest Series 2 | Vancouver's Dominic Da Vinci works as an undercover officer for the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. |
 | Star Wars: Clone Wars Season 3 | The continuing adventures of the Jedi, Obi Wan, and Anakin during the Clone Wars. |
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