Week of October 30

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Fantasies of the Outsiders

Wanted: Somebody to go back in time with me. This is not a joke. You'll get paid after we get back. Must bring your own weapons. I have only done this once before. Safety not guaranteed.

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Safety Not Guaranteed

Jeff (Jake Johnson), a writer at Seattle Magazine, drives to Ocean View, Washington to research a story with intern Darius (Aubrey Plaza) in tow in Safety Not Guaranteed. They're investigating a classified ad looking for a partner for time travel, but self-proclaimed time traveler Kenneth (Mark Duplass) wants nothing to do with a cynical writer like Jeff... so Darius goes under cover. While Jeff uses his time in Ocean View to track down an old girlfriend (Jenica Bergere), Darius is brought into Kenneth's world of Do-It-Yourself time travel, righting wrongs, and emotional vulnerability. It all seems crazy, but Kenneth is earnest enough for Darius to start believing in him. On DVD and Blu Ray.

Young writer Calvin (Paul Dano) was dubbed a "genius" over the strength of his first novel, but now he's suffering from writer's block in Ruby Sparks. When his therapist (Elliott Gould) instructs him to write about someone who likes his dog, Calvin invents the character of Ruby Sparks (Zoe Kazan), a perfect, quirky, free spirited girl... and then, suddenly, she's actually in his life. Just as he wrote her, Ruby is Calvin's girlfriend, staying in his house. Calvin thinks he's losing his mind-- how real can she be, if Ruby is always just as Calvin writes her? With Chris Messina.

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Behaving Badly

North Carolina's Congressman Cam Brady's (Will Ferrell) scandals and childish behavior have made him an embarrassment in The Campaign, so the businessmen (John Lithgow and Dan Aykroyd) who control Cam's district decide to make a change. They ask a colleague (Brian Cox) to put his son into the race, and suddenly Cam isn't running unopposed: he's squaring off against Marty Huggins (Zach Galifianakis), a meek, quiet, family man. Marty's given a cutthroat campaign manager (Dylan McDermott) and sent to win the election, and Cam and Marty begin a campaign of slander, one-upmanship, public humiliation, and baby punching... but neither of them know what their backing business interests have in mind for the victor. With Jason Sudeikis. On DVD and Blu Ray.

When his school bans Catcher in the Rye, Andrew and his friends get suspended when they too-enthusiastically defend the book in Bindlestiffs, one of the first films out of Kevin Smith's Smodcast Productions. Andrew's obsessed with Holden Caulfield, and he takes his friends out to live their own Catcher in the Rye adventure... but they're naive, and immediately veer off the novel's path and into their own twisted, comically exaggerated adventure of prostitutes, drugs, and encounters with the homeless.

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Realism

In 1995, shortly before he regained control of the company he founded, Apple mastermind Steve Jobs recorded a rare, long-form interview. Released to the public for the first time as Steve Jobs: The Lost Interview, the film provides detailed information about the beginnings of computer culture and Jobs' particular philosophy and approach to advancing society.

Shot in a docu-realistic style, the French Polisse adopts a fly-on-the-wall style as a photographer (Maiwenn, who also directs) is given access to the Juvenile Protection Squad of the Paris police department. The squad goes out on individual missions, tracking down child abusers of all kinds, as the stress of the job affects the lives of the officers involved in a dangerous, specialized field of law enforcement. With Karin Viard.

Six ballet dancers are on their way to the American Grand Prix in the documentary First Position, a film that follows children age 11-17 as they prepare for the five minutes on stage that could be their best chance at a professional dancing career. From different backgrounds, teachers with different approaches, and different levels of parental involvement, the film observes the children, their lives, and what they have to give to earn their place in the spotlight.

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Family and Community

In order to close a deal for tribal land, Joe (Brandon Routh) has to return to his Onondaga tribe and coach their underdog lacrosse team in Crooked Arrows. His father (Gil Birmingham) won't let him broker the land deal until Joe sets his spirit right, and teaching the boys in the ways of "the healing game," the sport that has been part of their tribe's heritage for over a thousand years, is his first step. With Chelsea Ricketts.

With his status as the Dragon Warrior, Po (Jack Black) is charged with hosting the prestigious and mannered Winter Feast in Kung Fu Panda Holiday. His new duties mean he won't be able to have holiday dinner with his father (James Hong), but how can he disappoint Shifu (Dustin Hoffman) and the gathering of the greatest kung fu legends in the land?

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New this week in our TV New Releases:

	Metalocalypse Season 4	Dethklok are still comically overreacting to fame, wealth, and metal as they remain oblivious to the prophecy of the Metalocalypse, as narrated by Werner Herzog.		Star Wars Clone Wars Season 4	Anakin, Obi Wan, and the rest of the Jedi continue to fight the Clone Wars and uncover the threat from the Dark Side of the Force.
	Upstairs / Downstairs Series 2	The continuing story of the class divide within the house of Sir Hallam Holland, his family, and the large staff that keeps his estate running.		Chuggington Icy Escapades	The Chuggers take on the cold weather as winter comes to the station and their world gets icy.

Week of October 23

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Leaving Your Comfort Zone

Adam (Alex Pettyfer) is sleeping on his sister's (Cody Horn) couch and quits his construction job on his first day in Steven Soderbergh's Magic Mike. The one friend he makes at the site, Mike (Channing Tatum), takes him club hopping, picking up girls, and inviting them to "the show;" Mike is a stripper in a male dance review. Suddenly, Adam is on-stage, working for the club's opportunistic owner (Matthew McConaughey)-- he's behind the scenes in a world he never imagined, but it gives him all the girls and money he could ever want. On DVD and Blu Ray.

Margot (Michelle Williams) and Daniel (Luke Kirby) meet on a plane and share a cab in Take This Waltz; they have immediate chemistry, but Margot confesses that she is married. Margot loves her husband (Seth Rogen), and he loves her, but the fire has gone out of their relationship over time. With Daniel living across the street, making advances and flattering her, Margot is drawn to the new and exciting... but accepting his propositions would mean throwing away everything in her life. On DVD and Blu Ray.

There are three weeks left before an asteroid will collide with the Earth and wipe out the human race in Seeking a Friend for the End of the World, and Dodge Peterson (Steve Carell) is still going to work at his insurance firm. His wife ran off, and everyone he knows is indulging every wild impulse they can before the end of the world. He makes a random connection with his neighbor Penny (Keira Knightley), and they team up to each do the one thing they need to do before the end: he wants to find "the one who got away" and she wants to fly home to England (even though the airlines have stopped flying.) Their road trip takes them through the strange behaviors of people preparing for the end, and Dodge and Penny have to push through a world turned upside-down to get where they need to go. With Martin Sheen, Derek Luke, and Patton Oswalt. On DVD and Blu Ray.

George (Eugene Levy) walks in on his co-workers frantically shredding documents to hide evidence of their mob-run ponzi scheme in Madea's Witness Protection, and he's relocated in the witness protection program. The government puts George and his wife (Denise Richards) someplace the mob will never look for them: Madea's (Tyler Perry) house in Georgia. George's geeky New York mentality isn't going to mesh with Madea's sensibilities, but his financial expertise might still be useful in her community. With Romeo. On DVD and Blu Ray.

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Epic Monsters

Young Abraham Lincoln (Benjamin Walker) hunts down Jack Barts (Marton Csokas), the man that murdered his mother, only to have Barts turn on him with fangs and claws in Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter. He's saved by Henry (Dominic Cooper), a mysterious stranger who knows the ways of the vampires, and soon he's training Abraham in the ways of vampire hunting and the silver-bladed axe. Lincoln's destiny is greater than picking off vampires one by one, but his larger path will lead him to fight the father of all American vampires (Rufus Sewell) and defend the nation from hordes of the Confederate undead. On DVD and Blu Ray.


A group of friends travel to the Mountain Man Festival (a cross between Burning Man, Bumbershoot, and hillbilly costume party) in Wrong Turn 5: Bloodlines... only to be killed off in elaborately slow and painful ways by a family of murderous, inbred, mutant hill people. The family run amok in the small mountain town because their not-mutated, but still murderous and insane, father (Doug Bradley) is locked in a holding cell by the upstanding local sheriff (Camilla Arfwedson). He promises the killing will stop if she'll just let him go, and the sheriff is cut off from any help, but she'd rather fight to the end than set the killer free.

Competitive office executive Hae-Won is being ground down by her job in the Korean Bedevilled, so she accepts a friend's invitation to visit on her home island. When she arrives, Hae-Won finds the island is a desolate place, and Bok-Nam, her friend, is used as a workhorse by the rest of the islanders. Bok-Nam's only comfort is her daughter, and her only hope is an escape from the island, but Hae-Won and Bok-Nam's reunion doesn't lead to escape... it leads to an emotional break with bloody and disastrous side-effects.

The president's 2018 moon expedition reveals something unexpected in Iron Sky: Nazis on the moon. A Nazi base has existed on the dark side of the moon since 1945, but when they capture the American astronaut (Christopher Kirby), a moon-ubermensch (Gotz Otto) can finally return lunar Nazism to the Earth. At first, no one believes in the moon Nazis, but when the president needs another war to boost her approval rating, she unleashes the spacecraft USS George W. Bush and initiates an epic space battle. With Udo Kier.

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Tinkerbell (Mae Whitman) leaves Fairy Hollow, where the sun is always shining, to explore the Winter Woods in Disney's Secret of the Wings. The fairies aren't supposed to enter the wood, but the ever-curious Tinkerbell finds something unexpected there: Periwinkle (Lucy Hale), the sister she never knew she had. Reunited, the sisters adventure to find Queen Clarion and Lord Milori (Anjelica Huston and Timothy Dalton) and ask why Fairy Hollow and the Winter Woods are kept separate.

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New this week in our TV New Releases:

	Happy Endings Season 2	The sitcom stays with Dave and Alex's ensemble group of friends in Chicago as they contend with modern life.		Lost Girl Season 1	Bo discovers that she was born Fae, one of a group of supernatural creatures such as succubi, werewolves, sirens, and sages, who live as a secret society, hidden from humans.
	The Mouse & the Motorcycle Collection	The TV specials made from Beverly Cleary's children's stories, including Runway Ralph and a variety of shorts.

Week of October 16

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Growing Up

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Moonrise Kingdom

Set in 1960s New England, twelve-year-old Sam has run away from his Khaki Scout troop to rendezvous with Suzy, who's run away from her family, and escape together to a remote cove in Wes Anderson's Moonrise Kingdom. As Suzy's parents (Bill Murray and Frances McDormand) search for her, Scout Master Ward (Edward Norton) and and his troupe search for Sam, and the police captain (Bruce Willis) is brought in to help reclaim the missing children, Suzy and Sam have hidden themselves away in their own little Moonrise Kingdom, exploring their blossoming romance. On DVD and Blu Ray.

14-year-old Donny became a tabloid celebrity and unexpected father in the 80s when he was seduced by his math teacher in That's My Boy. As an adult, Donny (Adam Sandler) has squandered his fame and is about to go to jail for tax evasion if he can't pay $40,000 back taxes... and there's only one person he can turn to: his estranged son (Andy Samberg). Unfortunately, Donny was too young (and too Adam Sandler-ish) to be a good father, and his son grew up, changed his name from Han Solo to Peter, and distanced himself from his immature father. When Donny shows up right before Peter is about to marry a rich girl (Leighton Meester) from an upper-class family, Peter is horrified, but Donny's crass humor and larger-than-life personality win over Peter's boss and future in-laws. Though Peter's still upset with his dad, Donny's irrepressible lifestyle might be just the thing that his repressed, tightly-wound world needs. With Milo Ventimiglia and James Caan. On DVD and Blu Ray.

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Vive la Animation

Little Zoe hasn't said a word since her police officer father was killed on duty in the Oscar nominated animated film A Cat in Paris. She stays at home with her cat and her nanny (Anjelica Huston) while her mother (Marcia Gay Harden), also a police officer, works tirelessly to track down the gangster who crippled their family. With her mother always at work, Zoe's cat is her only real friend... but at night, the cat goes out and tags along with Nico (Steve Blum), a cat burglar. Though the cat usually brings Zoe presents like dead birds or lizards, when it brings her a diamond necklace, she is suddenly in the middle of her mom's investigation, her father's killer, and Nico's jewel heists. Originally produced in France, the movie provides both French and English language tracks. On DVD and Blu Ray.

With the Penguins having flown to Monte Carlo at the end of the second movie, Alex the lion (Ben Stiller), Marty the zebra (Chris Rock), Melman the Giraffe (David Schwimmer), and Gloria the hippo (Jada Pinkett Smith) head to France in Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted. They want to catch up with the Penguins and fly back to New York, but the Penguins schemes have caught the eye of an unstoppable animal control agent (Frances McDormand), and they have to flee. To make their escape, the animals hitch a ride with a circus-- they convince the cheetah (Jessica Chastain) that they're all circus performers and join the group, but the circus is failing and Alex and co. aren't getting any closer to New York. If they can get the show back on its feet, it might be their ticket back to America... but would they leave their new family to go back to the zoo? With Bryan Cranston. On DVD and Blu Ray.

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Music

Rock legend Neil Young travels to his childhood home town in northern Ontario in Jonathan Demme's Neil Young Journeys. He travels to streets of Omemee en route to a concert in Toronto, providing both live performance footage and an exploration of Young's home town, the family that remains there, and everything that has changed over the decades.

Covering the final performance of LCD Soundsystem, LCD Soundsystem: Shut Up and Play the Hits covers band leader James Murphy's final preparations to retire his successful band at its peak. The three-disc release offers the feature film that looks into the creation, rise, and end of LCD Soundsystem, provides extended interviews, and the complete, uncut recording of the group's farewell performance at Madison Square Garden.

Telling the story of The Who's early years, From the Bush to the Valley: The Keith Moon Years tracks the band's beginnings and their early rise, and assembles rare, archived footage of the band on stage and in interviews.

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Monsters

One of young Daniel's duties assisting the village doctor (Stephen Rea) in Werewolf: The Beast Among Us is putting down the werewolf-infected townsfolk that are brought to them. Life in the Transylvanian village has become grim since the wolf attacks began, but a group of monster hunters (led by Steven Bauer) promise to put an end to the town's monster troubles, but Daniel makes a shocking discovery: this werewolf is cunning, and its attacks seem to have a plan. With Ed Quinn. On DVD and Blu Ray.
A group of friends (including Jesse McCartney, Jonathan Sadowski, and Nathan Phillips) are visiting Russia and decide to join an "extreme tour" of an abandoned town outside Chernobyl in Chernobyl Diaries. They enter the ghost town with the help of a guide and assurances of their safety, but when the sun goes down and their vehicle won't start, everything changes. Their guide goes missing and they're trapped in the site of one of the world's most notorious nuclear meltdowns, and since they can't drive out, they try to find another way... only to discover they're not alone. On DVD and Blu Ray.

Flight 686 from London to New York is the only flight not grounded by a storm in Airborne, but the storm is the least of their worries when passengers go missing and the flight has veered off-course. The trouble: a group of terrorists have taken the plane as a plot to steal a Shang Vase, and the heist may have been successful if the vase weren't tied to the legend of the Chinese God of Death. The plane is beset by physical and supernatural threats, and their only link to the world is a world-weary air traffic controller (Mark Hamill).

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Overseas

Alma is an outcast in a tiny rural town in the Norwegian Turn Me On, Dammit!, and she's struggling with a common teenage problem: all she thinks about is sex. With her former clique spreading rumors about her, she's all but untouchable-- the boy she likes won't talk to her, she doesn't have any real friends, and the neighborhood kids have given her an embarrassing nickname that they chant constantly.

Michelle Yeoh stars as Aung San Suu Kyi, the 1991 winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, in Luc Besson's biopic The Lady. The film establishes Suu's father, who died fighting for Burmese independence from Britain, and how she was inspired to stand up against the ruthless Burmese government in the 1980s. Returning to her homeland from her home in Oxford, England, her international connections made her untouchable; while the regime encouraged her to return to England to be with her ailing husband (David Thewlis). she refused, and spent decades under house arrest in Burma.

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Documentary

A critique of "breast cancer culture," Lea Pool's Pink Ribbons, Inc investigates the ever-present breast cancer awareness ribbons, and the organizations they benefit. The banner of myriad fund-raising campaigns, the ribbons have become a symbol for the fight against breast cancer, but the film explores the effect these campaigns actually have on the disease, and the destination of the money the campaigns raise.

Questioning society's drive for faster and more prolific technological advancement, the documentary Surviving Progress looks into the constant advancement of technology and increasing population. Featuring interviews with Stephen Hawking, Jane Goodall, and more, the film looks into what the future of civilization will be if he continue on our current course, and what would have to change to prevent our collapse.

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Based on a true story, Damien Oliver (Stephen Curry) and his brother Jason are the sons of a championship jockey in the Australian The Cup. When Jason dies in a riding accident, Damien loses his passion for horse racing, but an inspirational trainer (Brendan Gleeson) pushes him to stay with the sport that's in his blood and win the Melbourne Cup.

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New this week in our TV New Releases:

	Mad Men Season 5	Don Draper is less interested in his career and more focused on his new wife, while the employees at the ad agency struggle to stay relevant as the 60s progress.		Check It Out! with Dr. Steve Brule Seasons 1&2	Dr. Steve Brule (John C. Reilly) "checks out" a variety of aspects of modern life. For your health!
	Touch Season 1	Single father Martin (Kiefer Sutherland) is struggling to raise Jake, his special needs son, when he discovers Jake has abilities that could change the world.		Monster High: Ghouls Rule	The monster-themed Mattel fashion dolls come alive in their own animated series.

Week of October 9th

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In the Dark

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Prometheus

Set approximately 30 years before his classic Alien, Ridley Scott's Prometheus follows scientists Elizabeth and Charlie (Noomi Rapace and Logan Marshall-Green) as they discover paintings by ancient cultures all over the Earth: invitations to the stars, left by the creators of humankind. Their scientific mission is funded and overseen by a Weyland Corporation executive (Charlize Theron), and they board the space ship Prometheus (captained by Idris Elba) and travel to the distant moon LV-223. While the scientists search strange alien artifacts looking for answers, the Weyland Corporation's android (Michael Fassbender) has his own orders. Regardless of their objectives, everyone on the crew of the Prometheus are in the middle of a dangerous world with alien technology they can't fully understand. On DVD and Blu Ray.

Sulking teenager Dane (Chris Massoglia) is struggling with being the man of the house, supporting his single mom (Teri Polo) and taking care of his little brother (Nathan Gamble) in Joe Dante's The Hole, but he finds relief in the girl next door (Haley Bennett) and a mystery hidden in the basement of their new house. A strange hole in the floor, covered by a trap-door and secured with padlocks, but when they get it open, it unleashes a variety of supernatural horrors on the kids. But what is the hole, and, now that it's open, how do they stop its stream of monsters and creeps?

Richard Moyer (Stephen Moyer) plans a family camping trip to reconnect with his wife (Mia Kirshner) and kids, and to scatter his father's ashes, in Darren Lynn Bousman's The Barrens. Returning to his childhood vacation spot, the New Jersey Pine Barrens (home to the legends of the mythic Jersey Devil), Richard isn't content with the crowded, official campground, and takes his family deeper into the woods. He's experiencing mood swings and paranoia, and when Richard sees the fabled monster, it's impossible to tell if Richard's mind is slipping or if his childhood nightmares are coming for the Moyer family.

Edgar Allan Poe (John Cusack) is a mostly-unheralded writer in 1840s Baltimore in The Raven, barely able to pay his bar tab and incapable of earning the respect of Captain Hamilton (Brendan Gleeson), a man who'd rather threaten him than let Poe near the lovely Emily Hamilton (Alice Eve). When a murder investigation leads detective (Luke Evans) to the writings of Poe, he approaches the writer for help: Edgar Allan Poe has to rise to the challenge, because only he can unravel the next move of a killer using Poe's macabre fantasy writings as a template for real-world murders. On DVD and Blu Ray.

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Musically

Small town girl Sherrie (Julianne Hough) meets and falls in love with aspiring rocker Drew (Diego Boneta) in 1987 Los Angeles in the jukebox musical Rock of Ages. They're both working at a Sunset Strip bar run by Alec Baldwin and Russell Brand, but the club is deeply in the red, and their plan is to use their love of rock to save the club: bring in rock and roll superstar Stacee Jaxx (Tom Cruise) to play a club-saving show. While an anti-rock activist (Catherine Zeta-Jones) tries to save the world from the moral corruption of Stacee Jaxx and all things rock and roll, Sherrie and Drew attempt to follow their dreams, but the road to stardom and love is treacherous in 1980's LA. Adapted from the Broadway musical, Rock of Ages weaves the music of Def Leppard, Poison, Journey, Starship, Whitesnake, and more into its characters' stories. On DVD and Blu Ray.

Djbril arrives in New York from Senegal with hopes of becoming a pop star in Restless City, but for now, he's selling CDs on Canal Street. As the film paints a poetic picture of city life, Djbril meets and courts working girl Trini, and they fall in love among grey market suppliers, shady back rooms, and the tension between her street lifestyle and his low-level criminal connections.

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Lola's (Greta Gerwig) life seems perfect on her 29th birthday in Lola Versus, but she comes home to her fiance (Joel Kinnaman) calling off their wedding. Lola's life goes into a tailspin: she doesn't know how to be single, and whirls through a series of romantic misadventures, even throwing herself at her best friend (Hamish Linklater). She goes from being an aimless English-Lit doctoral student to waitressing, a job her parents (Debra Winger and Bill Pullman) set up for her. For the first time, she has to put her life together without the man she's been with since high school.

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Jeffrey Dean Morgan asks no questions, doesn't choose sides, and simply delivers packages in The Courier, but a stranger's (Til Schweiger) ultimatum pushes him into a job that might be too much for him. He's partnered up with a pilot and driver (Josie Ho) and driven to track down a villain (Mickey Rourke) who's nearly vanished into legend: though his enemies are viciously eliminated, no one knows where he is, or even if he's alive or dead. On DVD and Blu Ray.

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The newest Scooby Doo animated feature is Big Top Scooby Doo!, where Fred dreams of life under the big top and brings the gang along when the circus comes to town. When they get there, the ringleader asks for the group's help; the circus has been terrorized by a werewolf, and only Scooby, Shaggy, Velma, Daphne, and Fred can save the day.

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New this week in our TV New Releases:

	Bones Season 7	Booth and Brennan continue to solve crimes while beginning their life together and preparing for their new baby/		The League Season 3	Office drone Pete is still competing with his friends in their fantasy football league.
	Holliston Season 1	Horror director Adam Green's FearNet sitcom sees Adam and his blowhard roommate working at a cable access station, trying to get their independent horror movie made.		It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia Season 7	The owners of Paddy's pub travel to the Jersey Shore, embrace Facebook, learn about Frank's past, attend their high school reunion, and find out how Mac got fat.

Week of October 2nd

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Dark Fantasy

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Dark Shadows

Vampire Barnabas Collins (Johnny Depp) is unearthed after 200 years in a coffin to discover the strange world of 1972 New England in Tim Burton's Dark Shadows. Based on the 1970s soap opera, Barnabas returns to his family's manor and finds the remnants of the Collins family in poor shape: the matriarch, Elizabeth (Michelle Pfeiffer) is barely holding the family together, her teenage daughter (Chloe Grace Moretz) is withdrawn and stand-offish, her brother (Johnny Lee Miller) is an irresponsible cad, and her nephew is being treated for delusions. Since he's been gone, Collinwood has been run by Angelique (Eva Green), the witch who cursed the Collins family and turned Barnabas into a vampire. Now that Barnabas is back, he can restore his family's fortune, reclaim his town, win the heart of the Collins' comely (but strange) governess (Bella Heathcote), and defeat Angelique. On DVD and Blu Ray.

Jet Li is a crusading general, unseating corrupt officials in Tsui Hark's magical kung fu fantasy Flying Swords of Dragon Gate. He finds his match in a powerful eunuch warrior (Chen Kun), a villain on a quest to find and kill a pregnant palace maid under the protection of a female warrior (Zhou Xun). As they each prepare to claim a treasure that will be unearthed by a sandstorm that only recurs every sixty years, these fighters are set to clash in elaborate, gravity-defying battles that will change the fate of their nation. With Kwai Lun-Mei. On DVD, Blu-Ray, & 3DBlu.

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Estranged

When he gets word that his father has died, Sam (Chris Pine) and his girlfriend (Olivia Wilde) fly to L.A. for the reading of the will in People Like Us. Sam hasn't talked to his mother (Michelle Pfeiffer) in years and only heads home because he's in deep financial trouble, and he's shocked to find his father left $150,000 to Frankie (Elizabeth Banks), a struggling single mother and her young son. Sam's supposed to deliver the money, but he has two problems: 1) He'd like to keep the money for himself, and 2) He's determined to find out how Frankie is connected to his family. On DVD and Blu Ray.

When her husband asks for a divorce, Diane (Catherine Keener) takes the kids and drives to Woodstock to stay with her mother, Grace (Jane Fonda), in Peace, Love, & Misunderstanding. Uptight Diane hasn't talked to her free-spirit, hippie mother in twenty years, but her children, activist/poet Zoe (Elizabeth Olsen) and introverted filmmaker Jake, aren't as infuriated by Grace's lifestyle as their mother. With nowhere else to go, Diane begins to make peace with Grace, and they all find reasons to stay, but the troubles that first drove them apart flare up and threaten to scatter the family again. With Chace Crawford and Jeffrey Dean Morgan. On DVD and Blu Ray.

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Exposing Frauds

"There are two kinds of people out there with a special gift. The ones who really think they have some kind of power and the other guys who think we can't figure them out. They're both wrong."

Tom (Cillian Murphy) works as an assistant to Dr. Margaret Matheson (Sigourney Weaver) disproving paranormal phenomena in Red Lights. With clinical, scientific investigation, they have never encountered a "supernatural" event that they couldn't unmask, but Dr. Matheson backs off when famed, reclusive psychic Simon Silver (Robert De Niro) comes to town. Matheson has a history with Silver, but Tom is determined to expose the paranormal superstar... but when he moves forward with his investigation, his life is plagued with strange occurrences. With Elizabeth Olsen and Toby Jones. On DVD and Blu Ray.

Schoolteacher Peter (Christopher Denham) and his girlfriend Lorna (Nicole Vicius) are trying to make an investigative documentary in Sound of My Voice. They're investigating a cult overseen by Maggie (Brit Marling), a time traveler from the year 2054. While none of Maggie's claims are provable, her stories are plausible enough to grow a devoted cult with her stories of future hardships, war, and a crumbling society. As Peter and Lorna are accepted deeper into the cult, Maggie asks them to do more morally objectionable things... but the more time they spend with her, the more they question whether or not she is actually a fraud. On DVD and Blu Ray.

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A documentary about private citizens who buy and maintain dangerous animals as household pets, The Elephant in the Living Room interviews animal owners and animal control professionals on either side of the issue. The film travels to "exotic animal shows," examines the troubles of wild animals that get loose in residential neighborhoods, and explores the eventual fates of large animals when average homeowners can no longer care for them.

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Adapted from a narrative poem, The Song of Lunch reunites an editor (Alan Rickman) and his former lover (Emma Thompson) fifteen years after their break-up. They return to one of their favorite restaurants, but the years have changed everything: the restaurant is under new management, he harbors resentments about his age and failed writing career, and she is a wealthy society lady. They reminisce about their past, but their reunion becomes an examination of their relationship, and how it fell apart.

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New this week in our TV New Releases:

	Magic City Season 1	Jeffrey Dean Morgan runs a luxury hotel in Miami right after the 1958 Cuban Revolution, and has to deal with the mob to stay afloat		New Girl Season 1	Zooey Deschanel is an elementary school teacher who finds a new apartment on Craigslist, and ends up with three new, unpredictable roommates.
	How I Met Your Mother Season 7	In the sitcom's 7th season, Ted continues to tell the story of his adventures with his friends that eventually lead to meeting his future wife.		Kingdom Series 1	Stephen Fry is a solicitor in a small, English country town, investigating his community problems while trying to solve the mystery of his brother's disappearance.
	Portlandia Season 2	Fred Armisen and Carrie Brownstein assemble sketches skewering the foibles of personalities in the Pacific Northwest.		The Third: The Girl with the Blue Eye	Honoka uses her sword skills and armored tank to serve as an escort and guide in the post-apocalyptic world, but her job changes when she meets a stranger being pursued by the government.
	Nikita Season 2	Nikita and Michael have escaped Division and are living by their own rules, but they have something Division wants, and would kill to get.