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Released on DVD and Blu Ray after years of post-production and lawsuits Margaret stars Anna Paquin as Lisa, a 17-year-old girl whose life is dramatically changed by a traffic accident. When she distracts a city bus driver (Mark Ruffalo),
he runs a red light, running over a woman who dies in Lisa's arms. Not
wanting to destroy the driver's life, Lisa tells the police that the
light was green and returns to her normal highschool life: seeing boys (Kieran Culkin) and hanging out with her friends (Olivia Thirby).
As time goes on, she begins to question her decision to lie, guilt
starts to set in, and though she's profoundly affected by the tragedy,
Lisa can only see the world from the perspective of an entitled
Manhattan teenager. Margaret's long-awaited release provides the original, un-cut, 3-hour version of the film. With J Smith-Cameron, Matt Damon, and Rosemarie DeWitt.
The Israeli Footnote
is the story of a father and son, Eliezer and Uriel Shkolnik, both
professors interpreting meanings of passages in the Talmud. While the
elder Eliezer is headed for obscurity, only referenced as a footnote in
rival researchers' work because of his stubborn adherence to classic
research methods, Uriel's work has earned him the Israeli Prize... but
the congratulations accidentally go to the wrong Shkolnik. When Uriel
learns of the mistake, he keeps it from his father-- taking the prize
away would hurt Eliezer-- but the older man's arrogance about his son's
(and other modern researchers') work make it hard for Uriel keep the lie
alive.
Taken from her Polish home and forced into hard
labor on the steppes of 1940s central USSR, Nina struggles for the
survival of herself and her infant in Beyond the Steppes.
Her journey of hard travel, labor, and escape, time among Soviet
soldiers and Kazakh nomads, and fierce determination draw the character
study of a woman forced to survive in the unkindest of circumstances.
Hester's affectionate but placid marriage and the exciting affair with the handsome pilot (Tom Hiddleston).
Putting her tragic day into perspective, the preceding events tell the
story of Hester's choices between passion and comfort and the lasting
impact on her life. With Harry Hadden-Paton. On DVD and Blu-Ray. Frightening Men
Jacob (Zak Kilberg) works as a night watchman in Midnight Son, an awkward twentysomething artist with a sensitivity for bright light and a developing jaundice than can only be treated with fresh blood. When he strikes a connection with Mary, Jacob doesn't explain how or why he's sick... but as he starts to need more and more blood to keep himself looking and feeling normal, the consequences of his need begin to threaten everyone around him. With Larry Cedar.
Fleeing from the violent ex-husband that tried to drown their 8-year-old son, Anna (Noomi Rapace) finds a new, secluded life in the Norwegian The Monitor.
Paranoid about her boy's welfare, she buys a baby monitor to hear if
anything happens in his room, but she hears screams of abuse as soon as
the device is plugged in. Another nearby apartment must have a similar
monitor that interferes with Anna's, but the already-terrified single
mother may be too shattered by her own troubles to investigate her
neighbors.
John (Luke Wilson) gets a ride from a smiling stranger named Richie (Samuel L. Jackson) in Meeting Evil,
but he doesn't know that losing his job is far from the worst thing
that will happen to him today. Richie is a forceful personality who
despises passivity and weakness-- traits John embodies fully-- but by
the time he starts killing random people, it's too late: John and his
one-time affair (Peyton List) are trapped on a joyride with a madman determined to teach them that it's better to be a lion than a lamb. With Leslie Bibb.
Documentaries
85-year-old Jiro Ono is the subject of the documentary Jiro Dreams of Sushi,
a legendary sushi chef who endlessly strives for absolute perfection in
his work. As a young boy, he ran away from home to apprentice at a
restaurant and Jiro has been obsessed ever since. Only happy while
making sushi, he works seven days a week, all day long, and the film
details the drive of a man whose whole life is sushi. On DVD and Blu-Ray.A rough history of the Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival, Never Stand Still: Dancing at Jacob's Pillow seeks to reveal America's lack of appreciation for dance as an art form. Interviewing dancers and choreographers, the film captures live performances of modern dance and makes its case for the festival and the form.
To the subjects of Fixation, fixed-wheel bicycles provide the "purest" form of cycling, which they treat with an almost holy reverence The film explores the resurgence of bikes with no free wheel and limited ways to stop or slow down, and the culture of riders that have risen up around them.
Timecrimes director Nacho Vigalondo's Extraterrestrial
finds Julio, a mild mannered student, waking up after a drunken
one-night stand with a girl named Julia. Upon awakening, they find that
Madrid has been evacuated and a giant UFO is hovering above the city.
Their cell phones don't work and they have no internet, and while Julia
intended to kick Julio out before her boyfriend got home, the empty city
changes her mind-- together, they have to figure out the next steps in
the city where they've been abandoned. That doesn't mean that Julia's
boyfriend isn't coming back, though, making the flying saucer only one
of their concerns.
A little steam engine (Alyson Stoner) dreams of being a Dream Hauler in the animated adaptation of the classic children's story The Little Engine That Could. The Dream Haulers carry dreams from Dreamland into the real world, overseen by the tower (Whoopi Goldberg), but when no other engines can get the job done, the littlest engine thinks it can...
New this week in our TV New Releases:
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Boss Season 1 |
Diagnosed with a degenerative disease, the mayor of Chicago has to run the city and maintain his family without revealing his secret. |  |
Children's Hospital Season 3 |
The staff of Children's Hospital continues to mine the overblown world of medical soap operas for comedy. | |
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Treasure Island
Miniseries |
The British miniseries tells the classic adventure story of a young man (Toby Regbo) who finds himself serving on a ship along side the mutinous Long John Silver (Eddie Izzard), sailing for treasure on Caribbean seas. | ||||
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