Tuesday, November 20, 2012

Week of November 20

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Larger than Life


Barney Ross (Sylvester Stallone) and his bromantic partner (Jason Statham) and young protege (Liam Hemsworth) lead The Expendables (including hand-to-hand expert Jet Li, heavy weapons expert Terry Crews, explosives expert Randy Couture, and unhinged warrior Dolph Lundgren) into volatile Nepal in The Expendables 2, rescuing Ross' kidnapped rival (Arnold Schwarzenegger). When their actions put them back under control of a demanding CIA agent (Bruce Willis), the boys are forced into an impossible mission, fighting to keep sensitive material out of the hands of an international arms dealer (Jean-Claude Van Damme). Ross, The Expendables, and all their allies cross the globe to take down their enemies, from gun fight to helicopter chase to all out war, destroying everything that gets in their way. On DVD and Blu Ray.

In the real world

Collecting interviews from military survivors of sexual assault, Kirby Dick's The Invisible War explores rape of US servicewomen and the United States Armed Forces policies in dealing with complaints of assault. The documentary researches both the frequency of the assaults (as of 2011, 30% of servicewomen reported a sexual assault) and the military's general responses of denial and silence.

Maldives president Mohamed Nasheed is the subject of The Island President, a documentary by Lost Boys of Sudan director Jon Shenk. The Maldives, famous as an island paradise vacation spot, had been run by a brutal dictator for 30 years before President Nasheed, but when Nasheed was able to rally popular support for democratic elections, the Maldives were already facing another crisis: the islands, just barely above sea level, could be completely submerged by global climate change and rising water levels. Mohamed Nasheed led a crusade at the 2009 Copenhagen Climate Summit, fighting for environmental measures that could be agreed upon by the United States, China, India, to prevent his country from being swallowed by the ocean.


Ukrainian-born grifter Olive (Milla Jovovich) lives from con to con, winning money from anyone gullible enough to give it to her in Bringing Up Bobby. Olive is doing her best to provide for Bobby, her 10-year-old son, but her criminal lifestyle and the company of other small time crooks (Rory Cochrane) aren't providing Bobby with much of an environment. When she finally gets caught, Bobby is taken in by a wealthy couple (Bill Pullman and Marcia Cross)... but is he better off with his new family, or should he join the mother he loves as she tries to go straight, get a real job, and prove her worth?


Convinced they're old enough to spread Christmas cheer on their own, four puppies stow away on Mrs. Claus' sled in Santa Paws 2: The Santa Pups. When they begin granting Christmas wishes on their own, the puppies cause more mischief than they could have imagined... but they're still just trying to spread happiness and good cheer. On DVD and Blu Ray.


New this week in our TV New Releases:
Doctor Who
Series 7.1
The Eleventh Doctor keeps drifting through space and time, saving people and righting wrongs, but his companions Amy and Rory struggle with their real, ordinary lives grinding to a halt every time the Tardis materializes in their midst. Lost Girl
Season 2
With the weight of Bo's prophesized future tearing apart the world of the faerie folk, she must learn to work within the rules of the Fae community to find the answers she needs.
Ken Burns
Dust Bowl
The newest documentary miniseries from Ken Burns details the American Great Depression in the 1930s and the impact of the dust bowl on the nation. The Munsters
Complete
A mash-up of classic monster movies and 1960s family sitcoms puts horror movie icons into suburbia as a typical middle-class family.

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