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Staying Afloat
Airline pilot William Whitaker (Denzel Washington) performs a near-miracle, gliding a jumbo jet into a field after almost all the controls fail, in Robert Zemeckis's Flight. Though his abilities saved over 100 passengers, the six deaths and the loss of the plane necessitates an investigation, an investigation that could reveal that Captain Whitaker was drunk during the crash. The media calls him a hero while his union representative (Bruce Greenwood) and lawyer (Don Cheadle) fight to keep him out of jail, but even if he wins his legal battles, everyone around him is concerned with Whitaker's self-destructive decline. His co-pilot (Brian Geraghty) wants to save his soul, and the heroin addict (Kelly Reilly) he meets in recovery wants to bring him to meetings, but Whitaker is sure that he can maintain his lifestyle if he just makes it through the trial. With John Goodman. On DVD and Blu Ray.
Teenage Sweetness (Zoe Kravitz) lives in a modest home with her parents in Yelling to the Sky, and, while her family loves her, her father (Jason Clarke) is subject to violent outbursts and her mother (Yolonda Ross) can disappear into severe depression. One group of girls (led by Gabourey Sidibe) in her gang-run school targets Sweetness because of her light skin, but she has two paths open to her: she's encouraged by her counselor (Tim Blake Nelson) to embrace her college options, but a boy in school offers Sweetness a chance to deal drugs and make her own money.
Catching the bad guys
Clinical psychologist Alex Cross (Tyler Perry) and his partners (Edward Burns and Rachel Nichols) are brought in to solve a grisly murder in Alex Cross. Cross deduces that the killer is a professional assassin (Matthew Fox)
nicknamed Picasso (because of his artistic calling card/clues), and
that they need to stop him before Picasso hunts down the next target (Jean Reno)...
but by interfering with the killer's mission, Alex has made a dangerous
enemy, and Picasso now considers him an adversary that needs to be
confronted. On DVD and Blu Ray.Having grown up on the wrong side of the law, Addison (Eric Bana) and his sister Liza (Olivia Wilde) are fleeing a botched casino heist in Deadfall, but they have to split up after they crash their getaway car in a blizzard. Addison takes over a cabin in the woods, but Liza finds a ride in Jay (Charlie Hunnam), fresh out of prison and on his way home... but Jay's parents (Sissy Spacek and Kris Kristofferson) include a retired sheriff, and his policewoman sister (Kate Mara) striving to win her father's respect. Addison and Liza planned to reunite and cross the border into Canada, but a manhunt is tracking Addison as armed and dangerous, and Liza is living with Jay's police family and getting a taste of a life she'd never experienced before. On DVD and Blu Ray.
Night Vision
When Robbie, the little boy across the street, needs someone to look after him, teenage Alexandra's family offers to help out in Paranormal Activity 4. Alex's little brother Wyatt is about Robbie's age, and the family is happy to help while Robbie's mother is away, but the video chat between Alex and her boyfriend starts to reveal strange occurrences around Robbie. As Alex starts recording more of what goes on in her house after the lights go out, she becomes convinced that there is something supernatural happening, but none of the adults will believe her. On DVD and Blu Ray.
Togetherness
Celeste (Rashida Jones) and Jesse (Andy Samberg) haven't finalized their divorce but still spend all of their time together in Celeste and Jesse Forever.
Though Jesse had hoped their separation was temporary, Celeste urges
him to get on with his life, but she's unprepared for the impact that
will have on her. Suddenly, Celeste's life is a mess-- professionally,
she and her partner (Elijah Wood) are stuck with the worst client imaginable (Emma Roberts),
personally, she finds she's not as equipped to deal with men (at least,
men that aren't Jesse) as she thought. As someone who prides herself on
being right, she never considered that, while she knew Jesse needed to
change, she may need to change as well. With Chris Messina. On DVD and Blu Ray.Agathe (Isabelle Huppert) is ruthlessly efficient, which is fantastic for her career as an art dealer, but leads to a frigid relationship with her husband (Andre Dussollier) in the French My Worst Nightmare. When her husband hires Patrick (Benoit Poelvoorde) to remodel their apartment, Agathe's tightly-controlled life can't stand up to the coarse, womanizing, reckless handyman in her home... but for as infuriating as he is, Patrick might have just the thing her world has been missing.
The fugue string quartet has played together for 25 years in A Late Quartet, but when their cellist, Peter (Christopher Walken), the heart of the group, announces his retirement, it upsets the status quo of the other three. The perfectionist first violin (Mark Ivanir) wants to keep control of the quartet, but the second violin (Philip Seymour Hoffman) wants change, though the viola, his wife (Catherine Keener), doesn't believe in him. All Peter wants is to play his last concert, but the quartet might dissolve before they're done rehearsing. With Imogen Poots. On DVD and Blu Ray.
A group of friends gets together every summer in the French Little White Lies, but when their most energetic friend, Ludo (Oscar-Winner Jean Dujardin), gets into a near fatal accident, the balance of their group changes. Without Ludo to be the life of the party, the summer get-together leaves ambitious restaraunteur Max (Francois Cluzet), his mild-mannered friend Vincent (Benoit Magimel), free-spirited and wild Marie (Marion Cotillard), minor celebrity and womanizer Eric (Gilles Lellouche), and goofy Antoine (Laurent Lafitte) to deal with their secrets, infidelities, and hidden desires.
Seth (Zach Gilford) drives up to his family's cabin with his girlfriend Andie (Jena Malone) in In Our Nature, but they're surprised when his father (John Slattery), who was supposed to be out of town, arrives with his new girlfriend (Gabrielle Union). Seth and his father have a prickly relationship, but their respective ladies each encourage staying at the cabin, both wanting to know more about the family. The men keep trying to find reasons to leave, because spending time together could reveal more than either of them would like to share.
Aesthetic
A documentary about "The Empress of Fashion," Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has To Travel
recounts the impact of the woman who began dispensing fashion advice in
the 1930s. A fashion designer, magazine editor, and world-famous
socialite, Diana Vreeland made her mark as a force to be reckoned with
throughout the worlds of fashion, beauty, art, publishing, and culture--
a powerful, trend-setting woman well ahead of her time.Comedy and Montages
Scott Voss (Kevin James) is a lazy teacher in Here Comes the Boom, but he's stirred to action when his school threatens to cut the music program and fire the music teacher (Henry Winkler). A wrestler in his college days, Scott decides to take action when he learns UFC fighters take home $10,000 when they lose a fight... and if he can train hard enough, pick up enough mixed martial arts fights, he'll take the punishment if it means raising enough money to keep the music program alive. Besides, all the cuts and bruises put him in the company of the school nurse (Salma Hayek). On DVD and Blu Ray.Molly Morris (Miley Cyrus) is a young private investigator, working with her dad (Mike O'Malley) photographing unfaithful spouses in So Undercover, but her life switches from Veronica Mars to Miss Congeniality when an FBI agent (Jeremy Piven) recruits her. Molly has to go undercover at a sorority to protect a college girl that's been targeted by gangsters, but she'll have to lose her tomboy demeanor, fix her hair, wear pink, blend in with her new sorority sisters, and handle college boys. On DVD and Blu Ray.
New this week in our TV New Releases:
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Southland Seasons 3 & 4 |
Delving deeper into the lives of the officers policing Los Angeles, the show splits time between detectives and uniformed patrols, and the lives of the people within the precinct. |
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Psych Season 4 |
Shawn continues to solve crimes while pretending to be a psychic, along with his partner Gus and the Santa Barbara police that believe in his "gifts." |
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