Week of February 28

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The Magic of Movies

The winner of five of this year's Academy Awards, Martin Scorsese's newest film tells the story of Hugo (Asa Butterfield), an orphan living in the walls of a 1930s train station, maintaining the station's clocks. Hugo's inherited a passion for fixing machines and all things mechanical from his clockmaker father, but his mission to complete his father's final project-- repairing a strange automaton-- is interrupted by toy store owner George Melies (Ben Kingsley). When Hugo befriends Melies goddaughter (Chloe Grace Moretz), the two children begin to uncover his secret: that he is part of the beginning of cinema, and his former life of magic and wonder connects directly with Hugo himself. With Sacha Baron Cohen. On DVD, Blu-Ray, & 3DBlu.

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Not So Super Spy

Brought back into service for MI-7, bumbling spy Johnny English (Rowan Atkinson) is brought in to stop an assassination in Johnny English Reborn. Johnny English has to contend with a new boss (Gillian Anderson) and a star MI-7 agent (Dominic West), but he always seems to stumble and botch his way to success... but can he stop a secret society of assassins, get the girl (Rosamund Pike), and win the day with no idea what he's doing and no skills? With Richard Schiff. On DVD and Blu-Ray.

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Fists of Fury

Mandrill, the titular hero of his own movie, was defined by two things as a child: a James Bond-style action hero from 1970s TV... and his father's murder at the hands of a drug kingpin. As an adult, Mandrill works as a hitman for hire, but he's getting closer to finding the man who killed his father. As he gets closer to winning his revenge, Mandrill takes on a personal war, taking out armies of henchman with brutal fights and wirework-free acrobatics, and, when necessary, a really big gun.

Set during the 17th century Manchurian invasion of Korea, War of the Arrows follows Nam Yi (Park Hae-Il), a skilled archer, as he strikes out to rescue Ja In, his kidnapped sister. The siblings grew up without family, while listless Nam Yi had no ambition other than fighting, Ja In always wanted to be a society lady. When she's kidnapped on her wedding day, Nam Yi finally finds his purpose: with his skills as a brawler and an almost superhuman relationship with archery, he can chase down the kidnappers and save his only family. On DVD and Blu-Ray.

When a gang boss is killed during a counterfeiting operation, the new head of the organized crime family is in question in the Chinese King of Triads. The next in line for leadership (Simon Yam) has to contend with the boss' ambitious son (and less driven, dance-obsessed daughter), opportunistic women in the boss' life, and a vengeful illegitimate son (Andy On) seeking to elevate his name. As everyone jockeys for position, they make their plays in knife and machete fight scenes, from one-on-one death matches to kung fu battle royales where bosses-to-be take on small armies of attackers.

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Documentaries

Director Mercedes Alvarez returns to her home, a remote village in northern Spain, after 35 years in the The Sky Turns. Mercedes was the last person born in the village of Aldealsenor, and she returns to a population of fourteen people, the last inhabitants of a village that dates back centuries. The film documents the village and its remaining villagers, and the crush of progress that is consuming small villages throughout the country.

Though chess master Bobby Fischer's disappearance at the height of his fame is the stuff of legend, Bobby Fischer against the World covers his early life and the rise to fame that led to the troubled end to his story. Detailing Bobby's status as a cultural icon in the 60s and 70s, the first player to make chess both profitable and popular, the film also portrays his troubled history, strange behavior before and after games, and the pressures that may have contributed to his disappearance.

Exploring the complicated world of Orchids, The Judge, The Hunter, The Thief, and The Black Orchid details the people who grow, sell, buy, trade, judge, and sometimes steal the coveted flowers. The documentary sees the once-rare orchid becoming more common, the shifts in the judging and appraising the orchids, and the lengths collectors will go to acquire native orchids that can't be legally removed from their native habitat.

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Four college friends reunite after 25 years in I Melt with You, looking back at choices and promises they've made, and how their current lives compare to where they thought they'd be all those years ago. Together, they're a novelist (Thomas Jane) with a lot of success but no one in his life, and investment banker (Jeremy Piven) with his indiscretions nipping at his heels, a romantic (Christian McKay) crippled by guilt, and a compromised doctor (Rob Lowe) struggling with his divorce... and through a week of drink, drugs, debauchery, and loud music, they come face to face with how they felt when they were young and the realities of their adult lives. With Carla Gugino.

Fifteen-year-old Maria Mozart offers a glimpse into her famous family's life in the 1700s in the French Mozart's Sister. Touring Europe as pre-teen Wolfgang played concerts in the courts of royalty for small sums of money, the Mozart family traveled by carriage through the night, working to earn their next payment. Taught and managed by their father and cared for by their mother, the children were raised in music, but Maria's path through society is limited, and her relationship with music, and with royalty, is very different from her brother's.

Father Billy (Steve Little) is almost crippled by his naivety in The Catechism Cataclysm, from his misunderstanding of parables to his worship of Robbie Shoemaker (Robert Longstreet), whom he knew from high school. When Robbie agrees to meet up with Billy and go on a canoeing trip, the two talk about storytelling, playing music, and the different paths their lives took... until they miss a turn and end up in a surreal dream/nightmare that neither of them understands.

Travis, a troubled teen, discovers former football hero Ely (Dennis Quaid) is criminally insane in Beneath the Darkness. At first, he and his friends just think Ely, the town's mortician, is creepy, and look to Ely's house for ghost stories, but when Travis sees Ely commit murder, only his classmate Abby (Amiee Teegarden) believes him. Being the only people who know a deranged psychopath's secrets is dangerous, but can untrusted Travis and Abby keep their silence when the whole town sees Ely as a hero?

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New this week in our TV New Releases:

	Todd & the Book of Pure Evil Season 1	The Book of Pure Evil corrupts the students of Crowley High, and only metalhead stoner Todd can stop it.		Brothers & Sisters Season 5	One year after the events of Season 4, the story of the Walker family concludes in the 5th and final season.
	My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic	Twilight Sparkle joins the magical ponies, unicorns, and pegasi of Equestria to learn the magic of friendship.

Week of February 21

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Steal Big

The solo adventure of Shrek's co-star, Puss in Boots paints Puss (Antonio Banderas) as an outlaw, falsely accused, crusading to clear his name. When his childhood friend Humpty Dumpty (Zach Galifianakis) recruits him for an outlandish heist, Dumpty's plans, Puss' sword, and Kitty Softpaws' (Salma Hayek) cat-burglar skills band together as the only team that could climb a beanstalk and steal the golden eggs that can make them all rich. First they have to steal the magic beans from Jack and Jill (Billy Bob Thornton and Amy Sedaris), and Puss and Dumpty have a history of betrayal and mistrust that makes the job even more dangerous... but if they win the day, Puss could regain his honor and be seen as a hero again. On DVD and Blu-Ray.

Josh (Ben Stiller), the building manager of a high rise luxury apartment, had wealthy, successful Arthur Shaw (Alan Alda) invest all the building employees' pensions in Tower Heist. He is shocked to find Mr. Shaw, his wealthiest tenant, accused of fraud and sentenced to house arrest, but Josh, his concierge (Casey Affleck), and elevator operator (Michael Pena) are going to get their money back. They know their building better than anyone, but they'll need the help of a street-level thief (Eddie Murphy), a bankrupt former Wall Street investor (Matthew Broderick) who understands Shaw's crimes, and the building's Jamaican maid (Gabourey Sidibe) who can crack any safe in the world. Together, they plan to steal back the money they know Shaw is hiding in his penthouse... but the odds are against them, they're inexperienced, and the apartment is being watched by the FBI (Tea Leoni). On DVD and Blu-Ray.

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Legacy

Clint Eastwood's dramatization of a controversial figure in American history, J. Edgar stars Leonardo DiCaprio as FBI founder J. Edgar Hoover. From his time at the justice department to his appointment to an "anti-radical division," his story involves the beginning of applying science to crime scene investigations and the collecting of fingerprints to investigating citizens and wire tapping without evidence or proof... but it also explores the emotional world of a man who strove to be the man his stern mother (Judi Dench) demanded he be, living for his work, and his inability to acknowledge his life partner (Armie Hammer) and second in command. With Naomi Watts. On DVD and Blu-Ray.

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Smaller

The Cannes Film Festival award winning Octubre is the story of Clemente, a Peruvian money lender who discovers that someone has left a baby basket in his living room. The deadpan comedy sees Clemente, more interested in prostitutes and sulking than cultivating a family, looking for the abandoned baby's mother... meanwhile, Sofia, one of his borrowers, takes over his apartment and starts caring for the baby while Clemente's on his search. Though he'd be the last person to admit it, Sofia and the baby have had a massive effect on Clemente's home.

Martha calls her sister Lucy (Sarah Paulson) for the first time in years in Martha Marcy May Marlene. Lucy drives out to pick up her sister, but Martha doesn't say where she's been; intercutting between her time at Lucy's house and her past, Martha's experiences with a cult in the Catskill mountains have affected her so deeply that she cannot separate the present day from what the cult impressed upon her. While Lucy and her husband (Hugh Dancy) are concerned by Martha's sometimes strange, sometimes dangerous behaviors, Martha hasn't told them about the cult, its leader (John Hawkes), the life she was living, or the reasons she ran away. On DVD and Blu-Ray.

When his adult son dies walking the Camino de Santiago, a traditional Catholic pilgrimage route, Thomas Avery (Martin Sheen) takes his son's ashes and walks the route himself in Emilio Estevez' The Way. Thomas begins walking, trying to connect with his son and cope with the tragedy of his loss, and he's initially cold to the travelers he meets on the path-- he can't escape the people on the road with him, and he's forced into the company of a Dutchman (Yorick van Wageningen) walking to lose weight, a Canadian (Deborah Kara Unger) escaping an abusive marriage, and an Irishman (James Nesbitt) trying to overcome his writer's block... but they're all on the same road, walking The Way together. On DVD and Blu-Ray.

Director Tom Tykwer's 3 is and adult, love triangle comedy where married couple Hanna and Simon (Sophie Rios and Sebastian Schipper), though still very much in love, begin having an affair with the same man. Neither Simon nor Hanna know each other is seeing Adam (Devid Streisow), and Adam doesn't know the people he's seeing know one another, but the odd complications between the trio keep them from becoming characters in a traditional screwball comedy.

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Dangerous

Just released from prison, Mitchell (Colin Farrell) wants to leave the life of crime that sent him away in writer William Monahan's directorial debut London Boulevard. He gets a job as a bodyguard and driver for a reclusive actress and model (Keira Knightley) and her drunken, shut-in manager (David Thewlis), but Mitchell can't escape his past-- his sister (Anna Friel) is consistently trouble-bound, and a childhood friend (Ben Chaplin) keeps trying to drag him into criminal activity. Though a new, honest life seems within his reach, Mitchell is propositioned by a dangerous mob boss (Ray Winstone) who won't take "no" for an answer, and he must stand and face the criminals in his life if he ever wants to escape them. On DVD and Blu-Ray.

Officer Jonathan White (Channing Tatum) is assigned to Queens, the neighborhood where he grew up, in The Son of No One, but returning home unearths dangerous memories and secrets. When an independent reporter (Juliette Binoche) starts receiving anonymous tips about White's childhood, the story finds its way to the cop (Al Pacino) who knew White as a child, his childhood friend (Tracy Morgan), and his father's former partner (Ray Liotta). The secrets from his past could destroy not just his own life, but people who would do anything to keep the past buried, including threatening White's wife (Katie Holmes) daughter.

Married couple Martin and Kate (Cillian Murphy and Thandie Newton) return to their remote island holiday cabin in Retreat. Alone on the island off the coast of Scotland, they hope the vacation will help their strained marriage when a man (Jamie Bell) washes up on the beach, barely conscious. With their generator broken and the radio malfunctioning, they have no contact with the outside world, and the man, in army fatigues and a gun tucked in his belt, tells them there's an airborne virus demolishing the world. The three of them have a perfect quarantine on the remote island, but Martin and Kate start to suspect that their new guest might not be telling them the truth, and could be dangerous.

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Sport

Based on a true story, The Mighty Macs stars Carla Gugino as Cathy Rush, a woman who took a job coaching a Catholic women's university basketball team in 1971. The team has never been competitive, the school's Mother Superior (Ellen Burstyn) isn't supportive, and the girls don't have uniforms or even a gym to practice in. Along with a young nun (Marley Shelton) eager to help, Cathy's indomitable spirit pushes the underdog team to win against bigger, richer, higher rated schools. With David Boreanaz.

Maria (Kat Graham) leaves her upscale life and ends up back in the Bronx after a brush with the law in Honey 2, but she still has a passion for Step Up-style street dancing. When a rec center volunteer (Randy Wayne) sees her talent, he recruits her to lead his group of talented but undisciplined kids into a national competition. Maria's up to the challenge under one condition: she'll only do it if her scrappy band of underdogs promise to beat the dance crew that abandoned Maria... a crew led by her ex-boyfriend. With Lonette McKee.

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Documentaries

Though not related, Columbian soccer player Andres Escobar and drug lord Pablo Escobar led intersecting lives as seen in The Two Escobars. When the Columbian national soccer team rose to prominence in the 1990s, the team's financial backing came from the Columbian underworld. While Andres, captain of the team Pele picked to go to the 1994 World Cup, disliked the corruption in soccer and treated the field as a place of honor, Pablo's rise as a drug lord earned him the love of the lower classes, using his money to improve buildings, build soccer fields, and fund Colombian soccer. Their lives, and eventual, famous deaths, marked the rise and fall of Colombia as a worldwide soccer contender.

The Nova documentary Finding Life Beyond Earth details the newest and most advanced data coming from modern space exploration. Looking within our own solar system, new unmanned probes and telescopes are exploring ice fields, microorganisms, and the possibility of life on planets other than Earth and their moons.

Tracking the history of gay civil rights movement through the lens of Mardi Gras, The Sons of Tennessee Williams follows "krewes," social clubs of gay men who used the freedom of Festival to satirize aristocratic culture, as far back as 1959. Framed against current preparations for an upcoming Mardi Gras, the film looks at the history of the pageantry and expression that was specific to New Orleans, but emblemic of a national struggle.

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New this week in our TV New Releases:

Weeds Season 7

Nancy moves from prison to a halfway house and re-establishes her money-making franchise.

Nurse Jackie Season 3

Jackie struggles to keep her life afloat after her secrets were discovered in Season 2.

Week of February 14

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The People Around Us

Demian Bichir has been nominated for a Best Actor Oscar for his performance as a father trying to carve out a better life for his son in Chris Weitz's A Better Life. Carlos (Bichir) works as a gardener with a partner (Joaquin Cosio)-- while his partner dreams of returning to Mexico, Carlos works weekend and long hours and hopes to move to a better neighborhood and get his son into a better school. Luis, Carlos' son, is a high school student who doesn't want to follow in his father's footsteps, but he's surrounded by the gang culture of Los Angeles and doesn't see many options for himself. As Carlos and Luis each struggle for a better future, they both find the lines society doesn't want them to cross. On DVD and Blu-Ray.

Tao, a performer at the Beijing World Park, is in a relationship with Taisheng, one of the park's security guards, in The World. While Tao is beautiful and a bit distant, Taisheng has recently moved from the country and has a different relationship with the densely populated city. The characters living in and around the World Park are all working to make the best of their lives in modern China, but they're all striving for a bright future that their city may not be able to provide.

Curtis (Michael Shannon) is an Ohio construction worker who begins having apocalyptic dreams in Take Shelter. While he and his wife (Jessica Chastain) are working to meet their expenses and tend to their deaf daughter, Curtis begins preparing for the danger looming in his dreams. Though his friends (Shea Whigham) and family don't understand his strange behavior or the money he's spending, Curtis is compelled to fortify a storm shelter, but he's can't be sure if he's sensing impending disaster or if his family's history of mental illness has started to affect him. On DVD and Blu-Ray.

In his first purely dramatic role, Jet Li stars as a Wang Xingchang, widower with a 21-year-old autistic son, in Ocean Heaven. After years of taking care of his son, Dafu, Wang learns that he has cancer, and suddenly has to face the realities of leaving Dafu, who can't feed or dress himself, alone in the world. Along with a circus performer (Kwai Lun-Mei) who develops an immediate rapport with Dafu, Wang has to prepare his son to face the world without a father to care for him.

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An Artist's Voice

Johnny Depp stands in once again for gonzo journalist Hunter S. Thompson in director Bruce Robinson's The Rum Diary. Reprising his role as Thompson's alter-ego, Depp plays Paul Kemp, a writer who arrives in Eisenhower-era Puerto Rico and lands a job at the local newspaper. Working for an editor (Richard Jenkins) that can sense the new writer is trouble, Kemp is pulled between a land developer (Aaron Eckhart) who wants to use the newspaper to influence popular opinion and the wild journalistic personalities (Michael Rispoli and Giovanni Ribisi) who have no respect for the rich, the corrupt, and authority in general. To make matters worse, Kemp has become infatuated with the land developer's girl (Amber Heard)... On DVD and Blu-Ray.

Aura returns home from an art school and finds herself back in her old room in Tiny Furniture. Directionless after graduation and living in her mother's apartment, Aura's got nothing to show for her time as a film major but one video on YouTube-- she finds herself with self-centered men, a menial job, and troubles at home with her family, but no way to move forward with her life. Aura wants to be a filmmaker, a more successful artist than her mother (whose Tribeca home is paid for by her photographs of tiny furniture), but has no idea how to break out of her melancholy stasis. On DVD and Blu-Ray.

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Horror

Martin, a deranged fan who can't tell fiction from reality, is obsessed with The Human Centipede movie in The Human Centipede 2: Full Sequence. Martin lives with his emotionally abusive mother and he has become unstable and psychotic enough to fulfill the promise of his favorite horror move: instead of just three people, Martin intends to create the full, twelve-person sequence of a human centipede... but first, he'll need some volunteers.

An American engineer (Rob Freeman) survives the crash of a plane evacuating refugees from zombie-infected Africa in The Dead. Gathering what supplies he can, the engineer starts traveling through the African landscape, but the lumbering zombies are everywhere and, though they move slowly, they're always shambling towards the living. When the engineer meets a soldier, a deserter who left his post to find his family, the two men head for a military base where they hope to find their families and a refuge from the never-ending march of the walking dead. On DVD and Blu-Ray.

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Documentary

Comedy director Tom Shadyac reacts to a life-threatening injury by filming his soul-searching in the documentary I Am. Talking to experts, philosophers, scientists, and spiritualists, Shadyac investigates his history with success and money, and how acquisition and material goods don't guarantee anyone's happiness.

Following the famous family of mountain dancers (as seen recently in White Lightnin' ), The Wild and Wonderful Whites of West Virginia provides in-depth interviews with the expansive family. While interviews with the local population about the White family are anything but positive, the Whites themselves embrace a "fuss, fight, and party" motto that sees them all through wild times... and many trips to rehab centers, hospitals, and jails.

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New this week in our TV New Releases:

Beavis & Butthead Volume 4

Mike Judge's animated morons return to mock the worst of televised popular culture.

Delocated: Seasons 1&2

Outfitted with ski masks to protect their identities, a family in Witness Protection stars in a faux reality TV show in New York.

Week of February 7

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Big Drama

The first half of the final installment of the incredibly popular Twilight franchise is Twilight: Breaking Dawn: Part 1, which begins with the marriage of Bella Swan (Kristen Stewart) to her vampire lover Edward (Robert Pattinson). As they head off for their honeymoon in Brazil and plan to start a family, the concept of vampire/human breeding causes turmoil throughout the supernatural community, and especially with Bella-devoted werewolf Jacob (Taylor Lautner). On DVD and Blu-Ray.

Dramatizing an oft-debated theory, Roland Emmerich's Anonymous is the story of the gifted playwright and poet Edward de Vere (Rhys Ifans), Earl of Oxford, who cannot publish his work under his own name. Since a man of de Vere's station can't be associated with the playhouse, his work is accredited to a drunken, barely-literate actor named William Shakespeare (Rafe Spall). As de Vere's life unfolds, entangled with Queen Elizabeth I (Vanessa Redgrave) and the weight of 1500's nobility, his marriage and his position fall second to his true passion, writing, for which he will never receive any credit. With David Thewlis and Edward Hogg. On DVD and Blu-Ray.

Charles (Willem Dafoe) is a domineering father in Fireflies in the Garden, a professor who's punishments and rules have impacted his relationships with his wife Lisa (Julia Roberts), his son Michael (Ryan Reynolds), and his daughter Ryne (Shannon Lucio). When a tragic event disrupts their routine, it illuminates the family's story through three generations and a series of flashbacks, uncovering secrets within Charles' family, including Lisa's sister (Emily Watson) and Michael's ex-wife (Carrie-Ann Moss).

An ex-con (Samuel L Jackson) sits down with a professor (Tommy Lee Jones) in the film adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's The Sunset Limited. After preventing the professor from stepping in front of train, the ex-con takes him home, and the two have a conversation about life and the meaning of suffering... but the ex-con, an evangelical Christian, and the professor, an atheist, approach the subjects from opposite sides.

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Comedies

Chance brings estranged friends together in A Very Harold and Kumar Christmas, where Kumar's (Kal Penn) life is on hold, parked on a couch playing video games in a cloud of smoke, and Harold (John Cho), now married to Maria (Paula Garces), has a good job and a nice house. When Kumar shows up on Harold's doorstep, he starts a series of events that send the pair off on another epic adventure... this time, to win the approval of Harold's intimidating father-in-law (Danny Trejo). Over the course of the night, they run afoul of gangsters, become claymation versions of themselves, befriend a waffle-making robot, perform emergency surgery on Santa Claus, and reunite with a resurrected Neil Patrick Harris for a show-stopping number. On DVD and Blu-Ray.

Sandy (Catherine Zeta-Jones) begins a new life as a single mom in Manhattan in the romantic comedy The Rebound. Moving into an apartment above a coffee shop, she befriends Aram (Justin Bartha), a waiter at the coffee house and college student, who babysits her kids. As Aram, 15-years Sandy's junior, becomes the family's full-time nanny, they begin to develop a relationship, but can two people at such different points in their lives make something last?

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More than Human

Tak Sakaguchi is a nearly undefeatable warrior in Yakuza Weapon, but he returns from his mercenary war in South America, he finds allegiances shifted among the Yakuza bosses. On the wrong side of a gang war, he finds himself on the wrong side of a fight even he can't win... left for dead, he's rebuilt, Machine Girl-style, with a gatling gun for an arm and a rocket launcher in his leg, making him even more of an over-the-top killing machine than he was before. On DVD and Blu-Ray.

The directors of Catfish apply their documentary skills to the found-footage based Paranormal Activity 3. Set 18 years before the first two films, the third movie explores the childhood that began Kristie and Katie's involvement with the supernatural world. Documented by cameras stationed around the house, the tapes reveal the backstory of the hauntings that haunt the girls into their adult lives. On DVD and Blu-Ray.

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Documentary

The follow-up to Who Killed the Electric Car?, Revenge of the Electric Car looks into the progress of the resurgence of electric vehicles since the recall of the General Motors EV1. What was shrouded in secret during the first movie is laid bare now, as the filmmakers are granted access to the in-development projects and behind-the-scenes work of GM and Nissan and their electric car projects. Exploring the future of electric vehicles, the film looks at the major manufacturers, upstart independents like Tesla Motors, and people who convert gas cars to electric on their own. Narrated by Tim Robbins.

Director James Marsh's Project Nim tells the story of a chimpanzee named Nim and the experiment to see if he could communicate like a human. The experiment took place in the 1970s, raising Nim like a human child and teaching him sign language in an attempt to refute the claim that only humans have language. As Nim's life (and the experiment) progressed, he had a profound impact on the people surrounding him, and the complex relationships that evolved as Nim grew into adulthood.

A documentary that developed during 12 years in the Irish Traveler community, Knuckle provides an in-depth look into feuding Traveler families and the bare-knuckle fights they use to settle family rivalries. Mostly focused on the feud that rose between the Quinn McDonagh family and the Joyce family in the 1990s, the film looks at the fights, the families, and the long term effects of the violent rivalry.

Le Cirque: A Table in Heaven is a documentary by the director of Page One: Inside the New York Times, providing a detailed portrait of famed New York restauranteur Sirio Maccioni. Maccioni's restaurant, Le Cirque, is a celebrated, high class restaurant, but its story hangs on the enormous personality of Sirio and the dramas that run through the Maccioni family, and how the legacy will be carried on by Sirio's three sons.

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New this week in our TV New Releases:

	Downton Abbey Series 2		The acclaimed British drama continues as World War I rages, and the aristocratic Crawley family and their servants adapt to a changing world.
	Hogfather	Terry Pratchett's Discworld tale Death must stand in for the missing Hogfather (the Discworld equivalent of Father Christmas)		The Color of Magic	The BBC miniseries that tells the story of Terry Pratchett's first two Discworld books, guiding a naive tourist through a strange and dangerous world.