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Family Strife
Teenage Meridia (Kelly Macdonald) takes after her father (Billy Connolly) in Pixar's Brave:
a flame-haired, willful Scottish warrior. Thanks to her father, the
king, she grew up with a bow in hand, but as Meridia grows into a young
woman, her mother (Emma Thompson)
needs her to be a proper princess... which, aside from changing how she
speaks and dresses, involves being married to the eldest son of another
clan. Wanting to live her own life her own way (and marry when she's
ready), Meridia asks a witch (Julie Walters)
to change her fate, and change her mother's mind, but the change
doesn't come the way she expected. Now she has to restore her fate, undo
what she's done to her mother, and prevent the war her refusal to marry
could spark among the clans. On DVD and Blu Ray.
Along with Brave, Pixar has also released Pixar Short Films: Volume 2,
collecting the award-winning animation studio's short films produced
since the release of the DVD of their first shorts collection. Volume 2
includes Ratatouille's Your Friend the Rat, WALL-E's BURN-E, Up's Doug's Special Mission and George & A.J, Toy Story's Hawaiian Vacation and Small Fry, Cars 2's Air Mater and Time Travel Mater, Academy Award nominees Presto, Day & Night, and La Luna, and more. On DVD and Blu Ray.
Though Ralphie (Braeden Lemasters) is turning sixteen, not much has changed in his family in A Christmas Story 2: the Old Man (Daniel Stern) is still grouchy and trying to save a buck, his mom (Stacey Travis) is still the voice of reason, and his little brother still gets wrapped head-to-toe before being sent out into the snow. Ralphie's grown out of BB guns, though-- now he wants a car-- but the object of his desire gets wrecked before he can even drive it off the lot, and Ralphie and his friends need to get jobs to pay the car salesman before Christmas.
Marion (Julie Delpy, who also directs) is living in New York with Mingus (Chris Rock) in 2 Days in New York
when her family comes to visit. Suddenly, their apartment is overrun by
her father (who knows no English), her exhibitionist sister (Alexia Landeau),
and her sister's boyfriend (who sees nothing wrong with making drug
deals in front of the kids). As their lives are turned upside-down right
before Marion's big art show, Mingus begins to wonder if the lunatic in
his home is Marion's true self and, as her behavior gets stranger and
stranger, Marion begins to wonder herself. On DVD and Blu Ray.A filmed stage performance of Stephen Sondheim's musical, Company stars Neil Patrick Harris as Bobby, a 35-year-old bachelor, as he interacts with his groups of married friends. Still unsure of his path in life, Bobby's friends give him a series of lessons on marriage, love, divorce, doldrums, and mid-life crises. With Stephen Colbert and Christina Hendricks.
Comedy Monsters
New York roommates Goody and Stacy (Alicia Silverstone and Krysten Ritter) are single girls who have an interesting take on city nightlife in Amy Heckerling's Vamps...
mostly because they're vampires. Goody's had a hard time since being
turned in 1841, feeding on rats because she doesn't want to kill anyone,
but things got easier when her sire (Sigourney Weaver) turned Stacy in the 1990s. The two attend meetings to keep themselves murder-free-- if an old population destroyer like Vlad (Malcolm McDowell)
is happier knitting than killing, the girls should have no problem--
but Goody is afraid of what will happen if their still-murderous sire is
killed and they suddenly revert to their real ages... because Sandy
doesn't know how old Goody really is. On DVD and Blu Ray.
unfortunately, the only people who join him are loud and jocular Bob (Vince Vaughn), unstable and violent Franklin (Jonah Hill), and out-of-town nebbish Jamarcus (Richard Ayoade),
all more interested in drinking beer than preventing crimes. When they
discover the truth-- that the local death is the beginning of an alien
invasion-- the local police (Will Forte) won't take them seriously, so it's up to The Watch to save the Earth. On DVD and Blu Ray.Violence
Afghanistan veteran Chon (Taylor Kitsch) and Buddhist hippie Ben (Aaron Johnson) are top-tier marijuana growers with their mutual girlfriend O (Blake Lively) in Oliver Stone's Savages,
but their idyllic California life is threatened when a Mexican cartel
offers them a deal. Chon wants to fight and Ben wants to walk away, but
refusing the deal sets a brutal enforcer on them (Benicio Del Toro), kidnapping O, forcing them to comply. The boys have to play along to keep her alive, but they use a corrupt FBI agent (John Travolta) to exploit the cartel's weaknesses, taking the fight all the way to the boss (Salma Hayek) to get O back. On DVD and Blu Ray.
The Real World
Red Chapel director Mads travels to another dangerous, unpredictable nation in The Ambassador,
securing black market diplomatic papers and establishing himself as an
ambassador to the Central African Republic (CAR). Though the people that
get him into the CAR warn him that he could end up in a cell (or dead
in a ditch), Brügger sets up hidden cameras and begins meeting with
government officials, heads of security, and powerful businessmen. His
goal: to "travel the world with a suitcase full of diamonds," not
motivated by greed, but to expose how easily blood diamonds are traded
throughout the world by corrupt, unscrupulous, and even murderous
individuals at the highest levels of African governments.
What began as a documentary about the largest home
in the United States became a different kind of film after the 2008
collapse of the real estate market. The Queen of Versailles
begins in the heyday of the Siegel family, David, king of the
time-share sales, and his beauty-queen wife Jackie. Suddenly shifted
from being millionaires to struggling to get by, the family has to adapt
to their new situation as David Siegel searches for a way to raise the
money to put their fortunes back in order.
New this week in our TV New Releases:
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Heartland Season 2 |
Amy and her grandfather Jack heal and raise wounded and neglected horses among the ups and downs of ranch life in the Canadian Rockies. |
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