Week of March 27

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Acceptance and Difficult Choices

Karl Jung (Michael Fassbender) takes a manic and uncontrollable patient in Sabrina Spielren (Keira Knightley) and starts to treat her with Sigmund Freud's "talking cure" in David Cronenberg's A Dangerous Method. Beginning in 1904, Jung uses the publicly mistrusted treatment of psychoanalysis to heal Sabrina, and his professional life instigates a friendship with the poised and removed Sigmund Freud (Viggo Mortensen), the father of psychoanalysis... but as Sabrina gets healthier, Jung's relationship with her becomes more than just professional. In the years leading up to World War I, Jung, Freud, and Spielren's relationships with one another change as the balance between their desires, repressions, and needs for control shift. With Vincent Cassel. On DVD and Blu Ray.

"Because people aren't like numbers. They're more like letters, and those letters want to become stories, and Dad said those stories want to be shared."

Nine-year-old Oskar tries to make sense of the world after his father (Tom Hanks) dies in the World Trade Center on September 11th in Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close. As he tells his story, afraid of a world where terrible things can happen, and finding his mother (Sandra Bullock) depressed and unhelpful, Oskar discovers a key he's certain is a message from his father. With the help of an elderly mute (Max von Sydow), he tracks down everyone he thinks might be connected to the key and collects their stories from what Oskar calls "The Worst Day." If he finds the right lock, he's sure he can find the message behind his father's key, and the world will finally make sense again. With Viola Davis and Jeffrey Wright. On DVD and Blu Ray.

Written and directed by Angelina Jolie, In the Land of Blood and Honey is the story of Ajla, a Muslim in Yugoslavia whose life is torn apart when war erupts in the 1990s. As the Bosnian war redefines Eastern Europe, Ajla is held in a camp run by the Bosnian Serbs, including Danijel (Goran Kostic), her lover before the war. Though they try to reconnect, Danijel cannot betray his role in the army, and Ajla is thrown in with a group of women forced to be sex slaves for the Serbian army. On DVD and Blu Ray.

Looking back on his years in flashback, Chow Yun Fat stars in Confucius, telling the story of his life. Beginning his story as the mayor of a smaller city and rising politically by outmaneuvering his rivals with cleverness instead of violence. Though Confucius becomes a powerful official, he still makes enemies and finds himself in exile, where he collects the knowledge that will inform his famous and enduring Book of Wisdom. With Zhou Zun.

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Alvin, Simon, and Theodore (Justin Long, Matthew Gray Gubler, and Jesse McCartney) and the Chipettes (Amy Poehler, Anna Faris, and Christina Applegate) are enjoying an ocean cruise in Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked when they end up stranded on a remote island. While the chipmunks make mischief on their remote island paradise, Dave (Jason Lee) and Ian (David Cross) set out to rescue them... but they find not only their friends, but the castaway (Jenny Slate) that's been taking care of Alvin and the rest during their stay.

Reflecting on the long, prolific, and storied career of legendary independent producer and director Roger Corman, Corman's World: Exploits of a Hollywood Rebel covers Corman's career from his beginnings in 1950s B-movies to his honorary Academy Award in 2010, along with interviews with the now-famous directors (like Peter Bogdanovich) and actors (like Jack Nicholson) who got their starts in Corman's productions.

Like Vampires Suck before it, Breaking Wind spoofs the Twilight series by having a vacuous and self-centered Bella in the middle of a contest between heavily made-up Edward and overweight and constantly farting Jacob.

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New this week in our TV New Releases:

	South Park Season 15	The fifteenth season of Comedy Central's animated satire series mocks the absurdities of the world, politics, and the show itself... and doesn't kill Kenny all that often.		Eureka Season 4.5	The conclusion of season 4 finishes the science fiction adventures through time and into (and back from) space.
	Mystery Science Theater 3000 Volume 23	Joel, Mike, and the bots are still stranded in space, watching the worst movies imaginable. This collection from various times in the show's 10-year run includes King Dinosaur, The Castle of Fu Manchu, Code Name: Diamond Head, and Last of the Wild Horses.