Week of July 10th

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Artists, Fakes, and Old Friends

Aimless twentysomething Nick Flynn (Paul Dano) is between menial jobs when he meets a girl (Olivia Thirlby) who encourages him to join her working at a homeless shelter in Being Flynn. One of the men in the shelter turns out to be Jonathan Flynn (Robert De Niro), the man who abandoned Nick and his mother (Julianne Moore) eighteen years ago. The elder Flynn represents himself as a genius writer and poet... but in person, Jonathan is belligerent, racist, and a bit delusional, drinking to oblivion and living at the shelter. As Nick struggles with being a writer like his father, he discovers he may have more than just a talent in common with the man he resents. On DVD and Blu-Ray.

The American Pie gets back together for the Class of 1999 reunion in American Reunion, reuniting Jim (Jason Biggs), who married Michelle (Alyson Hannigan), Oz (Chris Klein) and his supermodel girlfriend (Katrina Bowden), Kevin (Thomas Ian Nichols), and Paul (Eddie Kaye Thomas). Getting the gang back together and returning to East Great Falls, they bump into Stiffler (Sean William Scott), who decides to join them for the weekend... and adding Stiffler to the mix ensures that their reunion is destined for craziness and debauchery. With Eugene Levy. On DVD and Blu-Ray.

Mortician John Miller (Christian Bale) arrives in WWII-era China after the Japanese bombing of Nanjing in Zhang Yimou's The Flowers of War. He's there to bury the head of a Catholic girl's convent, but when he arrives in the war zone, he finds the convent has become a sanctuary for not just the girls, but refugees from the nearby red light district. While the Japanese colonel promises to honor the safety of the convent, Miller fears for the girls safety, and has to come up with a scheme to prevent the invaders from taking them as spoils of war. On DVD and Blu-Ray.

15-year-old Josh (Josh Hutcherson) is homeless and living by his wits in The Forger, but when he lands in the art community of Carmel, California, he finds his luck may have changed. Josh is a talented artist, and is brought into the care of Everly (Alfred Molina), a high-profile artist with a secret: he sells forgeries of coveted paintings. Everly uses Josh's talent to fill his clients' demands, but a local art legend (Lauren Bacall) would rather see the young artist flourish without compromise, cons, or criminal activity... but she has secrets of her own. With Hayden Panettiere.

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New this week in our TV New Releases:

Warehouse 13 Season 3

The agents assigned to protect the government's supernatural artifacts in Warehouse 13 continue to investigate the strange occurrences that come with the reality-defying items.

Adventure Time Season 1

Come on, grab your friends, we'll go to very distant lands. Jake the Dog and Finn the Human-- the fun will never end.