Tuesday, January 15, 2013

Week of January 15

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Woody Allen's To Rome with Love is an ensemble comedy on vacation in Italy, centered on Hayley (Alison Pill), a young woman who traveled to Rome, met a handsome Italian lawyer, and got engaged. Introducing her fiance to her parents (Woody Allen and Judy Davis), their light-romantic culture clash is echoed throughout the city, with sightseers, students, couples, locals, all embroiled in screwball misunderstandings and clever wordplay. With Alec Baldwin, Jesse Eisenberg, Ellen Page, and Roberto Benigni. On DVD and Blu Ray.


Frankenweenie
Now & Then
Young Victor (Charlie Tahan) is an ambitious scientist and movie maker in Tim Burton's stop-motion Frankenweenie, but he spends more time with his dog Sparky than with any of the kids in his neighborhood. When Sparky is killed by a car, Victor's parents (Catherine O'Hara and Martin Short) try to get him to accept the natural order of things, but Victor has a better idea: raise Sparky from the dead. Victor's Frankenstein project is a success, but his tampering unleashes a variety of classic movie-style monsters into the suburbs-- were-rats, lagoon creatures, vampire cats, and more-- and their community is overrun by cartoonish versions of monster movies. With Winona Ryder and Martin Landau. On DVD and Blu Ray.

Ryan (Liam Neeson) is taking time off after an assignment in Istanbul in Taken 2 when he's surprised by a visit from his daughter Kim (Maggie Grace) and her mother Lenore (Famke Janssen). Unfortunately, their family reunion is a perfect opportunity for Murad (Rade Serbedzija), the patriarch of the family Ryan decimated in the first movie-- seeking revenge for Ryan killing his son, Murad takes Ryan and Lenore. With Ryan's cunning, and his ability to keep in contact with Kim, he has to orchestrate his escape and fight to rescue his ex-wife... but still try to stop the escalation of a war between his family and Murad's. On DVD and Blu Ray.


Working-class single mom Jamie (Maggie Gyllenhaal) is frustrated with her daughter's school in Won't Back Down: her little girl can barely read, the teacher won't teach, and the system won't let her move to another class. When she sees Nona (Viola Davis), a teacher at the school, with her little boy at a charter-school lottery drawing, she may have found a kindred spirit... since neither of them win a lottery spot, and they don't want their kids in a dead-end school, they begin working toward creating the kind of school that would actually teach their kids. It's an uphill battle, against a principal (Bill Nunn) dedicated to the current system and the teacher's union president (Holly Hunter), but Jamie and Nona refuse to give up. On DVD and Blu Ray.


A documentary on the crisis in Detroit and the effects of a crumbling economy, Heidi Ewing & Rachel Grady's Detropia explores the gulf between what a community once was and what it has become. The film shares the point of view of people in the failing neighborhoods of Detroit, local business owners, auto union members, and citizens working to keep living in their city, and keep their city alive.


Divorced from his wife (Kyra Sedgwick), Clyde (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) sets up a new house out of the city, hoping to provide a good home for his daughters in The Possession. Hannah (Madison Davenport) is energetic and talkative, but Em (Natasha Calis) starts behaving strangely after Clyde buys her an ornate box at a yard sale. With his daughter's behavior becoming more withdrawn and destructive, Clyde begins to suspect there is something horribly wrong with the box, and has to take extreme measures if he wants to release the box's grip on Em. On DVD and Blu Ray.


15-year-old Lily (Juno Temple) spends her days in a run-down community, dreaming of a life in Los Angeles in Little Birds. Sullen after her father's suicide and rebelling against her drunken mother (Leslie Mann), Lily leaves the landscape of falling buildings and rusted mobile homes on a trip to the city with her best friend Alison (Kay Panabaker), but Alison is hesitant about shoplifting and scamming with LA street boys (including Kyle Gallner). Lily is drawn into her new, dangerous life and Alison wants to go home to her father (Neal McDonough)... but if Alison leaves, what will become of Lily?


Misha (Ed Stoppard) is a powerful ad executive in Russia in Branded, but has a crisis of conscience when a rebranding-by-reality-tv scheme goes awry. He goes into exile, but is pulled back into the city by Abby (Leelee Sobieski), his ex-girlfriend and mother of his child... but when he gets back, his perspective on advertising has changed: Misha can actually see brands as if they were alien creatures, driving people to consume. With a new vision of ad-monsters controlling humanity, Misha returns to marketing with a new goal: slaying the monsters. With Jeffrey Tambor and Max von Sydow. On DVD and Blu Ray.


New this week in our TV New Releases:
Men of a
Certain Age
Season 2
A group of lifelong friends contend with the lives they're living, turning 50, and day jobs filling in for dreams of being golf pros or successful marriages.
Life's Too
Short
Season 1
Playing himself, Warwick Davis navigates the TV and movie landscape with the ultimate "short man's complex," leading to endless, uncomfortable comedy.
Being Human
Series 4
After the events of Series 3, Annie the ghost, werewolf George, and vampire John are charged with taking care of an infant... a baby the vampire Old Ones are very interested in.

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