Tuesday, October 23, 2012

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.

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.


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.


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.

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