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Adventure
Young Peter (Charlie Rowe) and his friends are thieves and street urchins in early 1900s London in Neverland, watched over by their mentor James Hook (Rhys Ifans). SyFy Channel's prequel to Peter Pan story, Hook, Peter, and the boys are accidentally transported to Neverland, where they're captured by the wild Captain Elizabeth Bonny (Anna Friel) and her pirates. Though James joins the pirates, Peter doesn't trust them, and they begin to shift from friends to enemies as they assume their roles in the classic story. With Keira Knightley as Tinkerbell.
Learning to Cope
After a boating accident leaves his wife in a coma, Matt King (George Clooney) has to manage his family and his ancestral land on his own in The Descendants. Matt's business with his family's large, Hawaiian estate is put on hold after his wife's accident, and he has to collect his daughters, 10-year-old Scottie and 17-year-old Alex (Shailene Woodley), and help them deal with what their family's become. Along the way, he's forced to bear Alex's dim-witted boyfriend (Nick Krause), an angry and grieving brother-in-law (Beau Bridges), and the sudden realization that his wife wasn't what he thought she was. Through the Oscar-winning screenplay, the family must try to make their peace before it's too late to say goodbye. With Matthew Lillard. On DVD and Blu-Ray.Reuniting Juno's director (Jason Reitman) and writer (Diablo Cody), Young Adult stars Charlize Theron as Mavis, an author of young adult novels. When Mavis is invited to the baby-naming ceremony for her highschool boyfriend (Patrick Wilson), she packs up her dissatisfaction with her adult life and returns to her small town home to relive her prom queen glory days and win back her prom king. Mavis can't understand why her old flame could be happy with a baby and a wife (Elizabeth Reaser), but her self-centered view of life tends to frame everything as a story where she's the hero-- the only person who confronts her about her willful delusions is an estranged classmate (Patton Oswalt) whose high school experience was as tragic as Mavis' was glorious. On DVD and Blu-Ray.
Colin (Eddie Redmayne) travels to London to begin his career in movies and gets a job on Laurence Olivier's (Kenneth Branagh) new project in My Week with Marilyn, but he spends most of his time taking care of Marilyn Monroe (Michelle Williams). As Olivier directs The Prince and the Showgirl, Monroe struggles with her theatrical British costars (including Judi Dench) and her new husband, Arthur Miller (Dougray Scott). Though Colin attempts to form a relationship with a girl on set (Emma Watson), Marilyn overwhelms everything around her-- Colin, Olivier, and the entire production-- as she jumps from playful to fragile to intoxicated and unmanageable without warning. On DVD and Blu-Ray.
Documentarian Steve James spent a year with CeaseFire, an organization that steps into the middle of armed, inner-city conflicts, to film The Interrupters. Made up of locals with history on the streets or in gangs, the organization fights to stop the cycle of retribution with non-violence and the perspectives within local communities. Joining activists as they intervene and attempt to stop the violence and retaliation that continually damages neighborhoods and families, the documentary films the CeaseFire activists, the victims of violence, and the perpetrators they hope to change.
Justine (Kirsten Dunst) has just been married in Lars von Trier's Melancholia, but her crippling, clinical depression creeps through her over the course of her lavish wedding reception. Alienating her new husband (Alexander Skarsgaard), she comes to stay with her sister (Charlotte Gainsbourg) and brother-in-law (Kiefer Sutherland)... at the same time, coincidentally, as the metaphorically-named planet Melancholia is supposed to pass by the Earth. Though her family tells her everything will be fine, Justine has had premonitions of the apocalypse, and she is certain Melancholia will collide with Earth and completely eradicate humanity, On DVD and Blu-Ray.Jean-Louis (Fabrice Luchini) is a straight-laced, unassuming stockbroker in the French The Women on the 6th Floor, but his attitudes change when he befriends the Spanish cleaning ladies who live on the top floor of his building. When he befriends his new maid (Natalia Verbeke), he's brought into their social circle-- they don't have his financial success, but the maids live vibrantly, worlds removed from his reserved, unemotional life. Jean-Louis' wife (Sandrine Kiberlain) assumes the worst, but he can't seem to show her that he's not having an affair... he's just changed his outlook.
Erik is not a dancer like his father, Mumbles (Elijah Wood), in Happy Feet Two, and has to seek his own path. Mumbles and his wife (P!nk) want the best for the little penguin, but Erik struggles to find his voice amidst larger-than-life penguins like Ramon (Robin Williams) and The Mighty Sven (Hank Azaria). On DVD, Blu-Ray, & 3DBlu.
Bobby (Peter Facinelli) is a low-rent pickpocket in Loosies who bumps into Lucy (Jaimie Alexander), a long lost one-night-stand pregnant with his child. Bobby's stuck in a bad situation: he owes a fence (Vincent Gallo) for his dead father's gambling debts, and is working off the balance through petty theft. He wants to do right by Lucy, but he has to keep stealing, and a disgruntled cop (Michael Madsen) is driven to take him down. With the world closing in on him from both sides of the law, how can Bobby keep anyone in his life safe? With Joe Pantoliano.
Novelist Mike Noonan (Pierce Brosnan) is drawn to his summer home after his wife dies in Stephen King's Bag of Bones. Drawn to the lakes Maine retreat by his nightmares, Noonan finds himself drawn into the strange happenings at the lake over the decades. As he bonds with a single mother (Melissa George) fighting to keep her daughter, he makes a powerful enemy (William Schallert) with ties to the nightmares that transport him to the lake's drowning deaths throughout history. With Anika Noni Rose.
New this week in our TV New Releases:
 | The Killing Season 1 | The situation surrounding a girl's death unfolds slowly, as Season 1 covers the first two weeks of the murder investigation, the family's grief, and the effect on the town. |  | Superjail! Season 2 | The warden and inmates of Superjail! continue to have absurdly violent escapades in futuristic weirdness |
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