Week of June 5th

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Epic Family Adventures

Disney's event movie John Carter stars Taylor Kitsch as the Civil War-era southern gentleman who finds himself transported to Mars, where he's found by Tars Tarkas (Willem Dafoe)... a four-armed, green Martian. Because Earth men have nearly super-human strength and agility on Mars, Tars Tarkas, King of the Tharks, makes John the champion of his people, but the Tharks aren't the only tribe on the red planet. When John rescues a human princess (Lynn Collins) from being married against her will to the leader of another empire (Dominic West), he kicks off a planet-spanning adventure. Chased by nearly everyone on Mars, John, the princess, and a Thark refugee (Samantha Morton) crusade across the planet, looking for the secrets that could send John home and solve the mystery of the powerful shapeshifter (Mark Strong) that controls the fates of everyone on both Mars and Earth. On DVD, Blu-Ray, & 3DBlu.

After his adventures in the center of the earth, Sean (Josh Hutcherson) is looking for another Jules Verne location in Journey 2: The Mysterious Island. Though Sean's got a rough relationship with his stepfather Hank (Dwayne Johnson), Hank's background with the navy breaks the codes that reveal the location of The Mysterious Island... codes transmitted by Sean's long lost grandfather (Michael Caine). Ferried by a wacky helicopter pilot (Luis Guzman) and his beautiful daughter (Vanessa Hudgens), they find the island but end up shipwrecked along with giant creatures, golden volcanoes, and the scientific inventions of Jules Verne himself. Now the gang must race against time to escape the legendary island before it's too late. On DVD, Blu-Ray, & 3DBlu.

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Protectors, Professionals, and Warriors

Based on a true story, Gerard Butler stars as real-life missionary Sam Childers in Machine Gun Preacher. Recovering from a history of drinking, drugs, and violence, Childers found a new purpose in traveling to Africa, building housing and missions for children in Uganda and Sudan. Befriending a member of the Sudanese People's Liberation Front (Souleymane Sy Savane), Childers and his allies resolve themselves to do whatever it takes to stop the abduction and murders in the area, fighting the Joseph Kony-led KLA. As the struggles in Africa overtake his life and his money, Childers' wife (Michelle Monaghan) is left with his best friend (Michael Shannon), who fear they may be losing him to an eternal struggle in a war-torn country. On DVD and Blu-Ray.

Frank Vega (Danny Trejo) is a Viet Nam vet who becomes a local hero when he stands up to thugs on a city bus in Bad Ass. He's not a violent man, but camera phone footage of his actions make him famous on the internet and local news. Dubbed "Bad Ass," Frank's new fame gets him into trouble as he's suddenly always on the wrong side of robberies and beatings-- though he doesn't want to fight, he won't back down when he sees innocent people threatened. His new reputation even attracts the attention of the mayor (Ron Perlman), who publicly congratulates Frank, but secretly arranges for an underworld leader (Charles S. Dutton) to get the people's hero out of the way of his shady dealings. With Joyful Drake.

Matt Weston (Ryan Reynolds) has a bottom-rung CIA job, acting as a Cape Town, South Africa "housekeeper" in Safe House. Everything goes wrong when Tobin Frost (Denzel Washington), a notorious seller of government secrets (and former CIA agent), is brought to Weston's safe house-- an attack by a group of mercenaries leaves only Weston and Frost alive. Weston could be a hero in the CIA if he can bring Frost in, but he's just a rookie, and his super-spy "houseguest" has his own agenda. Weston has to survive his attackers, his captive, and other CIA operatives (Brendan Gleeson and Vera Farmiga) who doubt his ability to bring in the infamous Tobin Frost... which could change his life forever.

Staring actual Navy SEALs (who don't reveal their full names), Act of Valor is an action film that sends a SEAL team into Costa Rica to rescue hostages. When an international drug smuggler (Alex Veadov) takes down two CIA agents (Nestor Serrano and Roselyn Sanchez), the SEALs are sent in. The film takes the group from the goodbyes with their families, to their briefings, to their deployment, and finally into the operation itself, up close and personal with the equipment, weapons, vehicles, and tactics of the Navy SEALs. On DVD and Blu-Ray.

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Docu-Horror

Inspired by the exorcism that hospitalized her mother and left three people dead, Isabella travels to Rome to make a documentary about exorcists in The Devil Inside. Presented through the lens of her documentary's camera, Isabella finds a pair of rogue priests (Simon Quarterman and Evan Helmuth) who perform exorcisms outside the Vatican's jurisdiction and follows them in their work. Convinced by the footage that the exorcisms and demons are real, she takes to priests and her movie to her mother, hospitalized for over twenty years, to fight the powerful demon from the murderous exorcism all those years ago.

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New this week in our TV New Releases:

	Breaking Bad Season 4	After their actions at the end of Season 3, drug kingpin Gust (Giancarlo Esposito) has no choice but to keep Walter (Bryan Cranston) and Jesse (Aaron Paul) working in his lab... but they're under constant surveillance and forced to work until they outlive their usefulness. While his brother-in-law (Dean Norris) becomes more suspicious of Gust's cover operation, Walter struggles to keep Hank from being eliminated, ensure the safety of his family (Anna Gunn), and regain control of his life in what seems to be a hopeless situation.
	Falling Skies Season 1	After an apocalyptic alien invasion, Tom Mason (Noah Wyle) a former history professor, is made the 2nd in command of an underground resistance group trying to reclaim the planet. Serving under a once-retired soldier (Will Patton), Tom, his oldest son (Drew Roy), and their group's only doctor (Moon Bloodgood) fight to keep their humanity while under constant attack by alien occupiers and rogue human pirates and rebels (Colin Cunningham). Not only are the aliens extremely hard to kill, with advanced weapons and armor, but they also capture and enslave human children, Body Snatchers-style.
	Pretty Little Liars Season 2	The girls (Troian Bellisario, Ashley Benson, and Lucy Hale) are still getting anonymous notes from someone who knows about the death and disappearance of the leader of their clique (Sasha Pieterse), even after Spencer's brother-in-law (Ryan Merriman) was accused of the murder. After the Season 1 cliffhanger, the list of disappearances grows, more are presumed dead, and the anonymous informant shows no signs of stopping.
	Burn Notice Season 5	After hunting down the people who burned him at the end of Season 4, Michael (Jeffrey Donovan) and his boss (Dylan Baker) finish the conspirators and restore Michael's good name with the CIA. As he waits to go back to work for the government and his team (Gabrielle Anwar and Bruce Campbell) continue to take private jobs, Michael's paranoia grows: has he really caught the people that burned him, or is he being duped into thinking the case is closed?
	Doc Martin Series 5	After his disastrous wedding, curmudgeonly Doc Martin (Martin Clunes) keeps his residency on small-town Portwenn, even as an old flame moves in and Louisa returns from her Season 4 departure.		Zen Series 1	Aurelio Zen (Rufus Sewell), a senior police detective, has to navigate Italian public and political systems as he solves murders and kidnappings that powerful people would like to see hushed, tampered, or left unsolved.
	Curb Your Enthusiasm Season 8	Recently divorced, a single Larry David continues to fret, worry, and obsess as he moves to New York, still navigating his public entertainment life.		White Collar Season 3	There's friction between con-man Neal Caffrey (Matt Bomer) and his FBI partner Peter Burke (Tim DeKay) as Burke suspects that Neal hasn't completely abandoned his criminal past and is operating on both sides of the law.
	In Plain Sight Season 4	Working for the US Marshall Service, Mary McCormack and her partner (Frederick Weller) guard the new identities of the Witness Protection Program members they watch over while balancing their complicated personal lives.		Workaholics Season 2	Three roommates (wild goofball Blake, vain and immature Adam, and good-natured but gullible Anders) continue to share a cubicle at their wage-slave telemarketing job.