Week of September 4

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Comedies

After dating for a year, Tom (Jason Segel) proposes to Violet (Emily Blunt), and they begin to prepare for their wedding in Five Year Engagement. Before they've even picked a date for their perfect wedding, Tom's best friend (Chris Pratt) and Violet's sister (Alison Brie), meet, marry, and have a baby on the way. When Violet gets accepted into a prestigious post-graduate in Michigan, the wedding gets postponed again: Tom quits his job and they leave their comfortable life in San Francisco. The longer they wait, the harder things get, but Tom and Violet are still trying to hold out for the perfect wedding on the perfect day. On DVD and Blu Ray.

Henry (Matt Bush) is about to be the valedictorian of his graduating class in High School, but his childhood friend Breaux (Sean Marquette) passes him a joint the day before their authoritarian principal (Michael Chicklis) institutes mandatory, school-wide drug tests. To save Henry's reputation, position, and scholarship to MIT, Breaux comes up with a plan: they steal a lot of weed from local dealer Psycho Ed (Adrien Brody) and bake enough brownies to ensure the entire school tests positive for marijuana. They're sure this will invalidate the test, and with the entire school under the influence, what could go wrong?

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True Stories

A behind-the-scenes look at a popular phenomenon, Comic-Con Episode IV: A Fan's Hope explores the fans, vendors, enthusiasts, and participants attending the 2010 San Diego Comic-Con. Directed by Morgan Spurlock (and helped along by Stan Lee and Joss Whedon), the movie weaves together the stories of aspiring comic artists, a designer in a costume competition, and a comic book dealer hoping to keep his store alive by selling items from his rare collection. The movie also looks at the evolution of Comic-Con, its widening scope, and features interviews with many of the proudly nerdy celebrities that love the event. 

Based on the real-life events surrounding John Bunting, the Australian The Snowtown Murders follows young Jamie as he's brought into John's world. After an event with his mother's boyfriend, Jamie and his mother turn to Bunting for help. John is vocal about his hatred for pedophiles and homosexuals, and begins to rally the neighborhood to his point of view. By time John commits the first murder, Jamie's life is too dependant on Bunting to break free, and he finds himself under the control of a serial killer on a crusade, capturing, torturing, and killing "undesirables."

The story of three teenagers convicted of the satanic ritual killings of three 8-year-old children, 1996's documentary Paradise Lost explored the possibility that the boys were arrested, questioned by police, and tried based on their taste in music and clothes. As more and more evidence comes to light, documentary filmmakers Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky keep the story alive in Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory. Still in jail, the "West Memphis Three" continue to appeal their case as a death sentence deadline looms over them and continue to argue that not only was their 1994 trial was not only unfair, but that they are provably innocent.

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Statham, Guns, and Fists

Luke (Jason Statham) thought he had sunk as low as he could in Safe, working as a second-rate cage fighter in New York, but he's banished to the streets when he fails to throw a fight. About to give up, Luke's luck changes when he saves a little girl being chased by the same mobsters that wrecked his life. Protecting the little girl reminds Luke of what he used to be: a hero... but it also makes them a target. She's being chased by the Chinese Triads (James Hong) and corrupt cops (Robert John Burke), but Luke will drive, shoot, and fight to his last breath to make sure a young innocent isn't destroyed, even if it means taking on ruthless criminal organizations single-handed. On DVD and Blu Ray.

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Another Gruffalo

The sequel to The Gruffalo sees the Gruffalo's daughter (Shirley Henderson) head out into the woods in The Gruffalo's Child. She's looking for the only thing her father's afraid of: The Big Bad Mouse. Narrated once again by Mother Squirrel (Helena Bonham Carter), the movie tells the story of the little Gruffalo's search, the legend of the mouse, and what she learns when she meets the creature her father warned her about.

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Swarms of (funny) monsters

A year after Piranha's attack, Piranha DD hosts the opening of a new water park. Marine biology student Maddy (Danielle Panabaker) comes home to find the park she co-owns with her stepfather (David Koechner) opening a new attraction: Big Wet, an adult-themed park with water-certified strippers as lifeguards. Worse, her stepfather is illegally pumping water from an underground lake... a piranha-filled underground lake. Joined by the boy (Matt Bush) who's secretly loved her since high school, Maddy has to save the park, including survivors from the first movie (Ving Rhames and Paul Scheer), from campy, over-the-top death. On DVD, Blu-Ray, & 3DBlu. 

Juan has survived decades of troubles in Havana, and when the zombie apocalypse comes, he's sure he can survive that too in the Cuban Juan of the Dead. A natural-born schemer, he sees people bitten and turned into what the government calls "dissidents" and starts his own business. Answering the phone with "Juan of the Dead: We kill your loved ones," he and his band of misfits intend to clean up the city and turn a tidy profit. Maybe this could be the first of Juan's get-rich-quick schemes to actually work.

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New this week in our TV New Releases:

	Fringe: Season 4	Olivia, Peter, and Walter, as members of the FBI’s “Fringe Division” begin this new season in the year 1985, but are soon pulled into various other alternate timelines in the present, past, and future in an attempt to investigate and explain strange occurrences around them.		Bored to Death: Season 3	The third and final season of this HBO series finds Jonathan working on a case as his own client, searching for his biological father. Ray and George are, as always, along on the hunt, while dealing with familial issues of their own: Ray struggling with his girlfriend Leah, and George disowning and then approving of his daughter’s much-older fiance.
	The Good Wife Season 3	Alicia Florrick, in her third year as an associate at Stern, Lockhart & Gardner, continues to balance her professional and personal lives as her disgraced husband, Peter, works his way pack up the political ladder.		The Office Season 8	With Andy now in charge in Scranton under a new CEO (played by James Spader), a little upheaval rearranges the Dunder Mifflin hierarchy. Both Angela and Pam are expecting new babies (both named Philip), and Dwight is still the Assistant to the Regional Manager.
	Haven Season 2	When FBI Special Agent Emily Parker arrives in the small town of Haven to investigate strange occurrences, she begins to realize that her arrival may have been precipitated or even caused by forces unknown.		Criminal Minds Season 7	Follow the team members of the FBI’s Behavioral Analysis Unit in the penultimate season of Criminals Minds as they investigate the strange psyches and motives of criminals.
	Parks & Recreation Season 4	Leslie Knope and the staff of the Parks Department jump onboard to help her with her campaign for Pawnee City Council.		Hung Season 3	Tanya and Ray try to keep Happiness Consultants in business, but now have to compete with their former partner Lenore and her younger partner Jason.
	2 Broke Girls Season 1	Max and Caroline, two struggling waitresses in Brooklyn, scrape pennies to try to reach their goal of $250,000 to open a cupcake business.		Grey's Anatomy Season 8	The drama continues among the surgical interns and residents at Seattle Grace Mercy West Hospital.