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Escape
In the 1979 Iranian revolution, only six escaped the storming of the American embassy. Based on the actual operation to rescue the six Americans hiding in the home of the Canadian ambassador (Victor Garber), Ben Affleck's Argo is the story of the CIA's extraction plan. Because most of the CIA's cover stories aren't plausible in armed, anti-West Iran, their best choice is to pose as a Canadian movie crew scouting locations for a science fiction movie called Argo... but if the cover story is going to work, Argo has to be a real movie. Agent Mendez (Affleck) will fly into Iran as a movie producer, but the CIA has to work with Hollywood insiders (John Goodman and Alan Arkin) set up Argo as a real movie, with a script, a cast, advertisements, and industry buzz if Mendez and the refugees (including Tate Donovan and Clea DuVall) are going to fly out of Iran as a believable film crew. With Bryan Cranston. On DVD and Blu Ray.
Documentary
The winner of the documentary Oscar last year, Undefeated
spends one football season with a Memphis high school team. The
Manassas Tigers are populated by inner-city kids raised amidst drugs and
violence, but the team develops into a supportive family under their
coach (called "Big Daddy Snowflake"), becoming not just a better
football team, but stronger people off the field as well.
A story of a man who lives and breathes art, Beauty Is Embarrassing: The Wayne White Story
explores the world of a constant creator, painter, production designer,
and puppeteer. The documentary follows White, best known for his
puppetry work on Pee-wee's Playhouse, from his humble beginnings, heading to make his name in New York City, and the journey through the strange collectives like The Simpsons and Pee-Wee to his continued, current work.
Literature
Anna (Keira Knightley) travels to 1870s Moscow to help mend her brother's (Matthew Macfadyen) marriage after his wife (Kelly Macdonald) catches him cheating and banishes him from the house in Joe Wright's Anna Karenina. Adapted from the classic Tolstoy novel, Anna helps reunite her brother's household, but at the ball that night, she dances with the dashing Count Vronsky (Aaron Taylor-Johnson)
and the two have an immediate attraction. Though she returns home to her husband (Jude Law)
in St. Petersburg and initially refuses Vronsky's advances, the Count
follows her, demanding Anna acknowledge the connection between them...
but accepting Vronsky would mean abandoning her husband, her son, her
social status, and all of her social respectability. On DVD and Blu Ray.Continuing the story of Ayn Rand's objectivist novel, Atlas Shrugged Part II rejoins Dagny Taggart (Samantha Mathis) and Hank Reardon (Jason Beghe) as they work to understand the groundbreaking motor kept secret by corporate interests and government corruption. With their copper-magnate friend (Esai Morales) suffering mysterious explosions in his mines, the government enacting laws that demand control of their companies and ideas, and all of the great minds in business vanishing (and leaving the message "Who is John Galt?" when they disappear), Dagny and Hank fight for their rights to be groundbreaking thinkers and innovators in a world that takes them for granted. With Patrick Fabian.
On Film
Angelina (Ashley Hinshaw) is about to graduate high school face an uncertain future in About Cherry when her boyfriend suggests she pose for a nude photo shoot. She has her doubts, but the pictures make enough money for her and her best friend Andrew (Dev Patel) to move to San Francisco. In the city, she meets a wealthy lawyer (James Franco) who shows her the lavish life she could have and a former adult movie star (Heather Graham) who shows Angelina how she can afford it. Calling herself Cherry, Angelina establishes an identity in pornography, making money and launching a career, but her new life comes with new questions and consequences.True fiction writer Ellison Oswalt (Ethan Hawke) moves his family to the site of a multiple murder in Sinister in hopes of ending his career slump. He doesn't tell his wife about the murders-- she just knows they need a less expensive home-- but the local sheriff (Fred Dalton Thompson) sees Ellison as an opportunist, and moving into a notorious house as bad taste. When he discovers the box of Super 8 films in the attic contains actual footage of the murders in his new home, he's frightened; when he finds the other
Super
8 films are recordings of even more murders, he's terrified... but
telling the police could prematurely end the most incredible story of
his career. As Ellison studies the tapes, strange occurrences start to
overtake the house, and the secret of the recorded murders (and who was
holding the camera when they occurred) may bring the Oswalt family
closer to the macabre story than Ellison's new book can warrant. With James Ransone. On DVD and Blu Ray. Childcare
Joby Taylor (Paul Dano) is a rock star in a downward spiral and a deadbeat dad in For Ellen, and while there's not much he can do about his band, he is trying to reconnect with his daughter, Ellen. He heads to Chicago to learn his spineless lawyer (Jon Heder) hasn't won Joby any parental rights from a wife (Margarita Levieva) who won't even speak to him during the divorce proceedings. Trying to be a father for the first time in his life, he requests a day with his 6-year-old daughter, sending Joby and Ellen out for some time together in a sleepy suburban town where there is little for a rock star and his daughter to do.Wren (Victoria Justice) is invited by a boy (Thomas McDonell) she likes to a Halloween party in Fun Size, but her perfect evening is threatened when her mother (Chelsea Handler) makes Wren take her little brother Albert trick-or-treating. Wren and her best friend (Jane Levy) just want to get to the party, but they lose him when Albert goes into a haunted house. Now the girls have to track down Wren's weird little brother, put their night back together, and get to the party before their Halloween is ruined. On DVD and Blu Ray.
Murder
Weird, pale, hairless Franklin Franklin (Matt Lucas) has killed his landlord in Small Apartments, but he's not the kind of guy who can readily dispose of a body or convincingly fake a suicide. The dead landlord is bound to attract attention, just for the smell alone, making him contend with his neighbors: the apartment building's unkempt stoner (Johnny Knoxville) or the graph, gory painter (James Caan). Franklin doesn't usually interact with the world with a lot of sanity, but the dead landlord is bound to have consequences, so he'll have to figure out some way handle the body. With Dolph Lundgren and DJ Qualls.Fish (Noah Hathaway) served his six year prison sentence for a diamond heist without ever telling the police about his partners in Sushi Girl, so the mastermind behind the caper (Tony Todd) celebrates his release with a party. Their centerpiece is a sushi girl (Cortney Palm) who is told not to speak or react-- no matter what she hears or sees-- as Fish is reunited with his partners (James Duval, Andy Mackenzie, and Mark Hamill), but their reunion isn't as friendly as it seems. Each of them only wants one thing from Fish: the location of the diamonds. If Fish says he never stashed the loot, and the police obviously didn't catch him with stolen diamonds, his "friends" will have to force the information from him in a sadistic game that merges gang dominance, poor impulse control, drug addiction, police surveillance, greed, and secret motivations.
New this week in our TV New Releases:
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Game of Thrones Season 2 |
With the king dead and the North in open rebellion, the second season of Game of Thrones sees five claims for the throne: Robb Stark names himself King of the North and seeks revenge for his father, each of King Robert's brothers assert they are better heirs, questioning the legitimacy of King Joffery's crown, while, Daenerys, last heir to the Targaryen dynasty, gathers her strength in exile. On DVD and Blu Ray. | ||||
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Kingdom Season 2 |
Stephen Fry is a solicitor in a small, English country town, investigating his community problems while trying to solve the mystery of his brother's disappearance. |  |
Battlestar Galactica: Blood & Chrome |
Long before he was an Admiral on the Galactica, young Lieutenant Adama joins the first Cylon war in the prequel to the popular sci-fi series. On DVD and Blu Ray. | |
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Adventure Time Fiona & Cake |
Come on, grab your friends, we'll go to very distant lands. Jake the Dog and Finn the Human-- the fun will never end. | ||||
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