Tuesday, November 8, 2011

Week of November 8

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In Series

The final movie of the Harry Potter series, part two of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows finds Harry (Daniel Radcliffe), Hermione (Emma Watson), and Ron (Rupert Grint) reaching the end of their years-long confrontation with the evil Lord Voldemort (Ralph Fiennes). With Voldemort holding the incredibly powerful Elder Wand and Harry searching for the Sword of Gryffindor, the two of them are destined to face off in their ultimate battle as Hogwarts becomes the site of the largest battle in the world of Harry Potter. With Alan Rickman. On DVD and Blu-Ray.

The first part of a proposed trilogy adapting the famous Ayn Rand novel, Atlas Shrugged: Part 1 is set in a future where gas prices have made train travel essential. Dagny Taggart (Taylor Schilling), CEO of a railroad, joins forces with Henry Rearden (Grant Bowler), an entrepreneur whose new experimental metal could save her company. As two, strong, self-reliant businesspeople, they're naturally poised for success, but liaisons from the government (Michael Lerner), unscrupulous businessmen (Jsu Garcia), and the crumbling society around them are determined to undermine "the people who move the world." On DVD and Blu-Ray.

Body-Swap

Lifelong friends Dave (Jason Bateman) and Mitch (Ryan Reynolds) envy each other's lives in The Change-Up, but before they can say "Freaky Friday" they wake up in each other's bodies. Low-rent actor and lifelong slacker Mitch has no idea how to live Dave's life, married to Leslie Mann, raising children, and going to work as a high-power lawyer. Though Dave wanted Mitch's man child lifestyle, he's not prepared for Mitch's compromising positions, troubled relationship with his father (Alan Arkin), or the ability to live like an unmarried man and follow through on his crush on a beautiful co-worker (Olivia Wilde). Through a comedy of errors, they each see their own lives from a new perspective and discover what they might be doing wrong. On DVD and Blu-Ray.

Quiet Lives

The independent Putty Hill begins the day after the death of a young man in a small community, drifting between fly-on-the-wall observations of the people in the town to interviewing his friends and family. As the film explores the community's questions about life and death, it builds a portrait of the community and the characters in a naturalistic, cinema verite style.

Gus (Zach Gilford) is a fishing savant in The River Why, seeking his own path after rebelling against his famous, fly-fishing father (William Hurt) and mother (Kathleen Quinlan). As he sets out on the road, he begins a quest for enlightenment on the water, the one thing he truly understands, but Gus' journey is complicated when he meets a tomboy fly-fisher named Eddy (Amber Heard).

National Geographic's Life in a Day asked people around the world to shoot video and upload clips to YouTube. The film is assembled from worldwide submissions of July 24, 2010, putting together a patchwork of life around the world as submitted by the self-filmed.



Catherine Breillat's The Sleeping Beauty creates a blessed/curse princess Anastasia, a tomboy destined to fall into a 100-year sleep. Twisting and subverting classical fairytale logic, the film provides an adult fairytale full of magical faeries, ghost trains, a snow queen, dwarf station masters, and not-so-heroic princes.

Vince (Sam Riley) steals someone else's invitation, follows elaborate instructions, and ends up the contestant in a dangerous, illegal, underground game in 13. Though Vince has no idea what he's gotten himself into, he cannot leave the game, stuck with players who been sold to the game runners (Mickey Rourke) or hijacked from institutions (Ray Winstone), and the gamblers (Jason Statham) invested in the fates of the players. One police officer (David Zayas) might be able to intervene... but only if Vince cooperates. On DVD and Blu-Ray.

Merry Christmas

The newest Barbie Christmas movie is A Perfect Christmas, as Barbie and her friends take a musical vacation from their New York home to the town of Tannenbaum. In appreciation for Tannenbaum's hospitality, the friends use their musical talents to put on a show and give them all a perfect Christmas.

A group of golden retriever puppies help an older married couple play matchmaker in A Golden Christmas 2: The Second Tail. Making sure everyone finds true happiness in time for Christmas. When the dogs interrupt a marriage proposal, only the puppies can make it right again.

An elf runs away from the north pole with Santa's sleigh and presents in Beethoven's Christmas Adventure, but he crashes in the suburbs. With the bag of presents in the wrong hands, it's up to Beethoven (voiced by Tom Arnold) to get the bag back and save Christmas. Narrated by John Cleese. With Curtis Armstrong.


New this week in our TV New Releases:
Doctor Who
Series 6 Part 2
The Doctor continues his adventures through time and space, following the connections between Amy Pond, her new baby Melody, and the mystery of River Song.
Bramwell
Series 2
Victorian-era doctor Eleanor Bramwell runs a free hospital for the poor in East London in defiance of the male-run medical community.

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