Tuesday, December 11, 2012

Week of December 11th

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Other Operatives

With government officials going public about Jason Bourne and other secret assassins, the director of the CIA (Scott Glenn) closes down every one of their clandestine programs in writer/director Tony Gilroy's The Bourne Legacy... which includes killing all of the Bourne-esque spies involved. Barely escaping an assassination attempt, Aaron Cross (Jeremy Renner) has to stay alive, survivng a government that will kill to keep its secrets. As a member of a chemically enhanced super-soldier program, Cross needs to find a way to stay functional without the government's chemicals. His only hope is the doctor (Rachel Weisz) in charge of his enhancements, but, just like Aaron Cross, the CIA plans to make her disappear. With Edward Norton. On DVD and Blu Ray.

Makeshift Families Make Funny

John (Mark Wahlberg) isn't moving forward with his life, or growing up at all, in Ted. Lori (Mila Kunis), his girlfriend, would like to settle down and get married, but John spends all his time partying with Ted (Seth MacFarlane), his foul-mouthed, hard-drinking, pot-smoking, wild-partying teddy bear. John's constant hi jinks with Ted could give Joel McHale an opportunity with the constantly disappointed Lori, but swearing off Ted and committing to her could leave Ted all alone... and there are plenty of crazy people (Giovanni Ribisi) in the world who would like a magically animated teddy bear all to themselves. On DVD and Blu Ray

The herd has matured-- Manny the Mammoth (Ray Romano) spends most of his time trying to shelter his rebellious teenage daughter (Keke Palmer) and the formerly familyless Sid the Sloth (John Leguizamo) is saddled with his rambunctious granny (Wanda Sykes) in the fourth Ice Age movie, Ice Age: Continental Drift. When the gang gets separated from their loved ones, set adrift on an iceberg, their only goal is to get back to the mainland, but they run afoul of Captain Gutt (Peter Dinklage) and his crew of ice pirates. The odds are against Manny and friends, but Sabertooth Tiger Diego (Denis Leary) might be able to win over Gutt's first mate (Jennifer Lopez) and add another member to their extended family. On DVD and Blu Ray.



Eli (Jesse Eisenberg) hopes to leave home and attend a prestigious music conservatory, but he can't leave home until his mother (Melissa Leo) goes through rehab in Why Stop Now. His mother's been a junkie as long as he can remember, and Eli won't leave his little sister in her care unless she cleans up... but when she passes her drug test, the clinic won't accept her. Eli has to find his mother's drug dealers (Tracy Morgan and Isiah Whitlock Jr), get his mom high so she can fail a drug test, enroll her in rehab, wow the judges at his audition, and pick up his sister after school. It's not as simple as it sounds, and Eli has to scramble to keep up with every little mistake spiraling into a catastrophe.



A three-part anthology, the Korean Doomsday Book contends with the end of days in individual stories: a meek scientist disgusted by the garbage and rot around him becomes the patient zero of a zombie apocalypse in Brave New World, a technician is called in to repair a service robot at a monastery that the monks believe is the living Buddha in Kim Ji-Woon's Heavenly Creature, and a young girl's internet order arrives-- from space-- as a meteor that could exterminate all life on Earth in Happy Birthday.



A comedy documentary about the concept of manliness in the age of fashion conscious "manscaping," Morgan Spurlock's Mansome assembles a group of experts, celebrities, and comedians to discuss male identity. From segments on grooming products to facial hair to shaving, the film tackles how men view themselves, with the segments separated by Jason Bateman and Will Arnett's visit to a spa.


New this week in our TV New Releases:
Futurama
Volume 7
Fry, Leela, Bender, Amy, and Zoidberg keep Professor Farnsworth's Planet Express delivery company running as well as they can... while managing to cause as much trouble as possible. Girls
Season 1
Tiny Furniture director Lena Dunham's new HBO series has her trying to survive in Brooklyn after her parents stop financially supporting her post-college life.
World Without End The follow-up to Pillars of the Earth explores the lives of ordinary citizens during the Hundred Years War in 1300s England, set among the plague, unrest between the church and crown, and war with

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