Tuesday, August 28, 2012

Week of August 28

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Military vs. Aliens

Hot headed Alex (Taylor Kitsch) is pushed to join the Navy by his brother (Alexander Skarsgaard) to avoid jail time in Battleship, but even military service can't make a responsible man of him. When a fearsome alien ship crashes into the ocean and puts up a forcefield around Alex's destroyer and a few other boats, the Navy gets hit hard, and Alex finds himself in command. Outgunned by alien sci-fi weapons and with a scrappy crew of outsiders, Alex has to face impossible odds, take on the alien flagship, and lower the forcefield to let the Admiral (Liam Neeson) lead the rest of the Navy into the fight. If Alex can save the world, he might even earn approval to marry the Admiral's daughter (Brooklyn Decker). On DVD and Blu Ray
Acclaimed animation director Shinji Aramaki helms the fourth film in the Starship Troopers series, the computer animated Starship Troopers: Invasion, where an elite team of rangers is sent to rendezvous with a compromised starship and rescue any survivors. When they get there, the ship houses an alien threat greater than they've ever encountered, but might also offer the key for humans to win the war once and for all. On DVD and Blu Ray.

Professional Thieves

Roger (Aksel Hennie) is a high-powered corporate headhunter who supports his extravagant lifestyle as an art thief in the Norwegian Headhunters. He finds the score of a lifetime when he meets Clas (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau), the former head of a technologies firm who owns a priceless masterpiece. Roger plans the heist that will set him up for life, but his new target is more dangerous than any of his previous marks, and Clas has an agenda of his own.

The Pirate King (Hugh Grant) can't seem to lead his crew to fame, fortune, and the Pirate of the Year Awards in Aardman Animation's The Pirates! Band of Misfits. When one of their raids nets them Charles Darwin (David Tennant) instead of gold, they think they've captured another useless ship... but Darwin knows something that could make them rich: The Pirate Captain's parrot is actually the last living dodo. Against his first mate's (Martin Freeman) advice, the captain and Darwin head to England, braving the wrath of pirate-hating Queen Victoria (Imelda Staunton), to make their fortunes with the rare bird that could make them rich famous. Along the way, their claymation adventure leads them to secret societies, airships, and educated chimpanzees. On DVD and Blu Ray.

Comedies

The ladies of the ensemble comedy Think Like a Man have a secret weapon: they've all read the self-help book that gives the movie its title. Armed with the knowledge of how to Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man, Candace (Regina Hall) can win Michael by making him less dependent on his mother, Mya (Megan Good) won't let Zeke (Romany Malco) into her bedroom without a 90-day waiting period, Kristen (Gabrielle Union) can get a proposal out of her long-time boyfriend (Jerry Ferrara), and Lauren (Taraji P. Henson) makes peace with dating someone (Michael Ealy) without a sizable bank account.

One night, roommates Deena (Kate Bosworth) and Kim (Krysten Ritter) each bring a guy home, only to find there's only one condom in the apartment in L!fe Happens. A year later, Kim is a single mother still living in the apartment with Deena and their girlfriend Laura (Rachel Bilson) as they all try to keep their lives of dating, careers, and clubs on track. Without the baby's father, Kim gets by with the support of her friends and her father (Seymour Cassel). On DVD and Blu Ray.

Dom works nights in a small hotel in the Belgian The Fairy when Fiona, a woman claiming to be a fairy... and she might be: she offers him three wishes, and the first two of Dom's wishes come true. Their time together is a whimsical and surreal fantasy, and Dom has fallen completely in love, but Fiona disappears before he can make his third wish. Their strange romance and separation are peppered with vignettes and strange side-characters, and Dom's search for Fiona could lead him anywhere.

Love

Finding a picture saves Logan's (Zac Efron) life on an Iraq battlefield, and he searches for the girl in the photograph in The Lucky One, based on the book by Nicholas Sparks. When he arrives in a small Louisiana town, Logan finds the girl in the picture: Beth (Taylor Schilling), who lost a brother in the war and runs a kennel with her mother (Blythe Danner). At first, Logan can't explain his arrival, Beth is annoyed by his presence, and Beth's ruthless ex-boyfriend (Jay R. Ferguson) is suspicious of strangers, but she was Logan's good luck charm in the war; maybe he'll bring some luck to Beth's life at home. On DVD and Blu Ray.

Beth's (Diane Keaton) best friend is a dog called Freeway in Darling Companion. Found by the road, Freeway gives her the affection she's missing from her grown (and out-of-the-house) children and inattentive husband, Joseph (Kevin Kline). During a walk, Joseph loses Freeway, and it wreaks havoc on their relationship. They'll stop at nothing to find their dog, even consulting a clairvoyant (Ayelet Zurer), but the conflict forces them to take stock of what they still have in their lives and what's important to them.

Monstrous

Rebecca (Sarah Bolger) is eager to return to her prep school and see her best friend Lucie (Sarah Gadon) again in Mary Harron's The Moth Diaries, but she's frustrated when Lucie starts spending all her time with the new, pale, morbid student Ernessa (Lily Cole). Ernessa is a mystery, but her strange behavior and a series of accidents in the school seem tied to the themes of gothic horror in Rebecca's english class... but no one will believe her if she insists Ernessa is a vampire.


When a scientist's formula for enhancing organisms goes awry, he becomes The Amazing Bulk... which has as much in common with a Marvel comics character as Birdemic has with a certain Alfred Hitchcock movie. Shot entirely against green screens, The Amazing Bulk provides the kind of action, dialogue, and characters that could only be found in movies like Troll 2 and The Room before now. Can The Bulk stop the evil Dr. Werner von Kantlove's plan to blow up the moon?

When Alan White's (Kai Lennox) car accident costs his wife her life, his teenage daughter (Gia Mantegna) holds him responsible in Apartment 143. Strange disturbances begin to occur in their home, which could be messages from beyond, so they contact a paranormal investigator (Michael O'Keefe). The movie is seen through the investigators' cameras, Paranormal Activity-style, as they record supernatural movements, levitations, and disturbances that could be more dangerous than they suspect.

Almost at his deadline, screenwriter Jack (Edward Furlong) locks himself away in an abandoned slaughterhouse with no distractions in Below Zero. He starts composing a story about a frightening butcher (Michael Berryman) who traps a victim in a slaughterhouse freezer, but as time goes on, the boundaries between Jack's script and life start to blur. Is he in real danger from the mysterious threats that are delivered to him? Is his agent willing to do anything, including psychological torture, to get a good script? Is Jack fighting for his life, or is he too involved in his own story? With Kristin Booth.


New this week in our TV New Releases:
Boardwalk
Empire:
Season 2
Nucky Thompson (Steve Buscemi) fights to hold on to the bootlegging crime syndicate in Prohibition-era Atlantic City as his former colleagues conspire against him. The Walking
Dead:
Season 2
Rick and his band of survivors leave Atlanta and head across country, trying to find refuge from the zombie apocalypse that has consumed the world.
Once upon
a Time
Season 1
Snow White and her Prince Charming struggle against the Evil Queen who's banished them to live forever in our world in the town of Storybrooke, unable to remember who they really are. Homeland
Season 1
A CIA agent (Claire Danes) suspects a returning Marine has been turned by Al-Qaeda while he was a prisoner of war and she has to neutralize the threat to the national security.
Sons of
Anarchy
Season 4
Released from prison, the Sons have to reclaim their territory and resume running guns while staying clear of the law.

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