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Science Fiction
In the year 2044, Joe (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) has a low-level gangster job in Rian Johnson's Looper:
he waits for the people sent back in time by the mob... and executes
them. He is paid well for this service, but Joe knows that one day his
target will be his future self, "closing his loop." When the
30-years-older version of himself (Bruce Willis) does arrive, he escapes, and Joe has to find a way to survive after having failed his boss (Jeff Daniels).
Old Joe has come back with an agenda, trying to change the future, but
young Joe won't have a future at all unless he can out-wit the mob and
find out what his future self wants. With Emily Blunt. On DVD and Blu Ray.Cadet Thomas Lansky is training to combat insurrectionists as humans colonize deep space in Halo 4: Forward to Dawn, but he's a quiet, thoughtful student, given to questioning orders. Haunted by the death of his brother, a heroic shock trooper, Lansky is questioning if he belongs in the military at all when his base is attacked. Guided by a nameless Master Chief, Lansky and his few surviving classmates have to rise to a challenge leveled against all humankind... but first they must make it to the evacuation point, outnumbered and outgunned by alien invaders, and escape their doomed planet. With Anna Popplewell. On DVD and Blu Ray.
Morality
A successful author (Dennis Quaid) stands in front of a rapt audience and begins to tell the story of his new novel in The Words. He tells the tale of a young writer (Bradley Cooper) , supported by his father (J.K. Simons) as he works on The Great American Novel... a novel that gets rejected. When he discovers an amazing manuscript, he becomes so obsessed that he re-types the whole thing, and his wife (Zoe Saldana) sees his "new book," loves it, and sends it to the publisher, making him an instant success. When an old man (Jeremy Irons) tells him how good the book is, the young writer realizes he's sitting in the presence of the manuscript's original author, but how will the fraud affect his life from then on? As the successful author finishes his reading, a girl in the crowd (Olivia Wilde) tries to find the truth in his story. On DVD and Blu Ray.
Eric Packer (Robert Pattinson) is a billionaire master of Wall Street, trapped in Manhattan traffic in his limousine in David Cronenberg's Cosmopolis.
While the streets are gridlocked due to a presidential motorcade, a
rapper's funeral, and anarchist riots, Eric sits removed from the world
in his mobile command center, watching his wealth evaporate by the
millions. Though he has passionlessly married a rich girl that could
help his finances, he finds time in the slow crawl through New York for a
visit with his mistress (Juliette Binoche), an in-car examination by his doctor, and a session with his chief advisor (Samantha Morton). As the world crumbles outside his door, Eric becomes more self-destructive, and continuously ignores his head-of-security's (Kevin Durand) warnings about the growing threats to his safety. With Paul Giamatti. On DVD and Blu Ray.Imports
Adapting another book from the author that wrote Jean de Florette and Manon of the Spring, director Daniel Auteuil's The Well Digger's Daughter is a return to his French-Romantic roots. Auteuil stars as the titular well digger, widowed father of six daughters. Set in the pre-WWII French countryside, Auteuil watches one of his girls turn eighteen as she's torn between the handsome son of the richest man in town and her father's kind but homely assistant. On DVD and Blu Ray.Featured at SIFF, Putin's Kiss is the story of Masha, a 19-year-old who grew up in Vladimir Putin's Russia. Beginning with her joining Nashi, a youth organization centered on the unity of Putin's political party, Masha becomes a popular figure in the group, and soon the country. Her celebrity seems like a blessing at first, but as she becomes the public face of a political movement, Masha is slowly exposed to the reality of the party and the methods used to keep people in power.
New this week in our TV New Releases:
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Justified Season 3 |
Recuperating from his wounds at the end of Season 2, Raylan (Timothy Olyphant) has to contend with the power vacuum in the Frankfort Mafia as a variety of players vie for control: small timers looking for a big score, northern interests from Detroit, and even Raylan's old friend (and enemy) Boyd Crowder (Walton Goggins). |
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