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Friday, September 30th
Maybe it's got something to do with director Michael Bay's outsized personality, but his larger-than-life Transformers: Dark of the Moon wasn't released on Tuesday with the other movies... the third Transformers movie arrived on Friday, September 30th, and is already in our New Releases section.Once again, Sam Witwicky (Shia LaBeouf) reunites with the Autobots to save the Earth from the Decepticons, battling over the evidence of a previous Transformer encounter that inspired the Apollo 11 moon landing... which results in massive amounts of gunfire, chases, and giant robots crashing together. On DVD and Blu-Ray.
Number Five
Hiding out in Rio de Janeiro, street racer Dominic Toretto (Vin Diesel) and ex-cop Brian O'Conner (Paul Walker) are caught up in a heist-gone-wrong in Fast Five. To settle the score, they set aside the street racing plot of the previous
Fast and the Furious movies and plan and Ocean's 11-style heist to take revenge on the crime boss who burned them. They assemble a team of fast talking Roman (Tyrese Gibson), driver and reconnaissance expert Han (Sung Kang), tech-savy Tej (Ludacris), weapons specialist Gisele (Gal Gadot), and explosives duo Leo and Santos (Tego Calderon and Don Omar)-- the team has to face not just an extended crime organization and an army of corrupt cops, but also special agent Hobbs (Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson) on a mission to track down Dom and O'Conner. They face almost impossible odds, but with a good plan and the right team, they might pull off the perfect heist and ride off into the sunset. On DVD and Blu-Ray. Spooky
The Riverton Seven were all born on the same day, sixteen years ago... the same day notorious serial killer "The Riverton Ripper" died... in Wes Craven's My Soul to Take. On their sixteenth birthday, the Riverton Seven botch their annual Ripper Day ritual hosted by Brandon (Nick Lashaway), the bully of the group. Only Bug (Max Thieriot) thinks this will cause trouble, until, one by one, members of the Riverton Seven start turning up dead. Is the Ripper still alive, or is someone else killing the teenagers linked to the murderer's legacy? With Jeremy Chu, Zena Grey, John Magaro, and Denzel Whitaker.
Wes Craven also shepherds the newest entry in the Scream franchise onto video this week, where Sidney (Neve Campbell) returns to Woodsboro after years of being immortalized as a real-life "survivor girl" in Scream 4. Sheriff Dewey Riley (David Arquette) is still looking after the town, but Sidney's arrival coincides with a new set of murders, as Sidney's highschool-age cousin (Emma Roberts) and her friends (Hayden Panettiere, Rory Culkin, and Erik Knudsen) are stalked by a new, movie obsessed, ghostface mask-wearing killer. With Courtney Cox. On DVD and Blu-Ray.A photographer is hired to take the final pictures of recently deceased Angelica (Pilar Lopez de Ayala), but she comes alive through the lens of his antique camera in Manoel de Oliviera's The Strange Case of Angelica. The photographer begins to see her as a perfect but unattainable love, as she only lives, breathes, and moves in the pictures he has of her, but his obsession with her still grows.
Recently divorced Mary (Rachel Lefevre) moves into a new apartment, hoping to escape her abusive ex-husband in The Caller. When the antique phone in the apartment rings, Rose (Lorna Raver) is on the line... but she's calling from 20 years in the past. When Mary angers Rose, they discover that Rose's life in the past can affect Mary in the present, and she knows Mary's parents and the younger versions of the people in her life. With Stephen Moyer and Luis Guzman.
Mira Sorvino retreats to the cabin from her childhood in The Presence, but an invisible presence (Shane West) haunts her there, whispering dangerous thoughts into her subconscious. When her fiance (Justin Kirk) arrives, the presence's influence threatens to tear both their lives apart, drawing on the damaging memories from her past
Documentaries
Buck is the story of Buck Brannama, the real-life figure that inspired The Horse Whisperer. The film covers
Buck's difficult childhood and how his experiences in youth informed his approach to training horses with sensitivity instead of violence, and the skills that have made him an almost mythical figure.Lemmy is a portrait of Motorhead's hard-living rock icon Lemmy Kilmister, covering his time in the Beatles-era The Rockin Vicars and the early 70s space rock band Hawkwind, and the continuing legacy of Motorhead, still playing after more than 35 years. The film also covers Lemmy's day-to-day life, his home, family, and relationship with other bands and musicians. On DVD and Blu-Ray.
Documenting the 40th Irish Dancing World Championships, Jig goes behind the scenes of the competition to see the dancers and trainers that struggle to win world dance titles. Following six dancers, ages ten to nineteen, the film looks at all of the training, expense, and costuming that go into the struggle for the championship.
Disney Nature's African Cats documents two families of cats in the wilds of Africa. As a cheetah family and a lion family both compete for the limited resources of the savannah, their prides embark on a real-life adventure through the untamed wild. On DVD and Blu-Ray.
Smaller Dramas
Oliver (Craig Roberts) lives in his own private fantasy world in the coming-of-age film Submarine, re-imagining himself as the star of his own documentary. He's not quite sure who he is or how to behave, but he works on pursuing his goals, namely: winning the mischievous girl (Yasmin Paige), and keeping his depressed dad (Noah Taylor) and unsatisfied mother (Sally Hawkins) together. With Paddy Considine.
Nathalie (Isabelle Blais) finds an unexpected protector in The High Cost of Living. Just as her life is falling apart, she meets Henry (Zach Braff), a kind stranger dedicated to helping her through her tough times, though Nathalie doesn't know why Henry is so driven to help her.Giant Beasts
Based on the classic novel, Moby Dick stars William Hurt as the mad Captain Ahab obsessed with hunting the white whale. Ishmael (Charlie Cox) joins the crew of the whaling ship Pequod where he meets the contemplative Starbuck (Ethan Hawke) and the tribesman Queequeg (Raoul Trujillo), but once they're on the water, they all have to survive Ahab's single-minded quest.15-year-old Jun is transported out of modern-day Japan to an ancient time in Legend of the Millennium Dragon, where he becomes a reluctant hero in the middle of a war between humans and demons. Both sides want to recruit Jun to gain the advantage in the war, but neither side is exactly as they seem, but Jun hasn't yet discovered his destiny or all of his power. On DVD and Blu-Ray.
On Stage
A filmed performance of his current stage show, "Weird" Al Yancovic's Alpocalypse captures the live renditions of some of Al's most popular songs, including original songs, parodies, medleys, and (of course) a polka.Paul Reubens takes Pee-Wee live in The Pee-Wee Herman Show on Broadway, performing the show in front of a Broadway audience, recreating Pee-Wee from his original life in the 1980s.
New this week in our TV New Releases:
 | Bored to Death Season 2 | Inspired by detective stories, a struggling writer leads a double life by pretending to be a private detective. |  | The League Season 2 | The members of a fantasy football league will go to any extreme to upstage one another. |
 | Ken Burns Prohibition | Ken Burns' three part miniseries about the prohibition of alcohol in the 1920s. |  | Vera Series1 | Forthright and hard drinking British inspector Vera Stanhope investigates murders with dedication and professionalism. |
 | CSI Season 11 | Raymond Langston and his team investigate crime scenes and solve cases. |  | Lie to Me Season 3 | Dr. Lightman reads the facial expressions of suspects to help the police close cases. |
 | In Treatment Season 3 | Psychologist Dr. Paul Weston treats a new series of clients. |
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