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Epic in Scope
Bilbo Baggins (Martin Freeman) would rather stay in his Hobbit hole in Peter Jackson's The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, and isn't interested in adventures (horrible, nasty things that make one late for supper), but the wizard Gandalf the Grey (Ian McKellen) has big plans for Bilbo. Suddenly, his home is crowded with loud, irreverent Dwarves, led by the arrogant Thorin Oakenshield (Richard Armitage), planning the kind of epic quest that Bilbo would rather avoid... but Gandalf is persuasive, and Bilbo is adopted as the group's burglar as they contend with rock giants, goblins, orcs, trolls, and the ill portents that have begun to creep into the world. On DVD, Blu Ray, and 3D Blu.
Zero
"Politics are changing, and
you
don't want to be the last one
holding a dog collar when
the Oversight Committee comes."
Two years after the 9/11 attacks, CIA operative Maya's (Jessica Chastain) first assignment deploys her to Pakistan in Kathryn Bigelow's Zero Dark Thirty, where she's dropped into a fellow officer's (Jason Clarke)
interrogation of a detainee. Over the course of almost ten years, Maya
works to uncover informers, intelligence, and leads to pinpoint to
location of Osama bin Laden. Her single-minded pursuit unfolds like an
international police procedural, chasing leads through changes in policy
and shifts in agency personnel, until she can finally request the
now-famous raid on bin Laden's Abbottabad compound. From the
attacks on her colleagues (and herself), the compromises she
makes, and the night-vision raid that closes the case, Maya-- based on
an actual CIA operative-- is the driving force
that refuses to let the investigation fold, but what will she have
left when it's all over?
On DVD and Blu Ray.don't want to be the last one
holding a dog collar when
the Oversight Committee comes."
A young martial arts prodigy has a condition that can only be remedied by learning "internal kung fu" in Tai Chi Zero, but when he arrives in Chen village, no one will teach Chen style kung fu to outsiders. Though his persistence helps him befriend the local handyman (Tony Leung Ka Fai), the Chen family refuses to help... though the village has bigger problems: a railroad they don't want is about to plow through their town. The story unfolds as a kung fu epic with comic book and video game elements, set against steampunk technology of the railroad's mechanical monsters. On DVD and Blu Ray.
Comic Togetherness
Becky (Rebel Wilson) is the first of her close-knit high school group to get married, so her friends plan to throw her a massive party in Bachelorette. Reuniting her alpha-female maid of honor Regan (Kirsten Dunst), constantly wasted party girl Katie (Isla Fisher), and rampantly promiscuous Gena (Lizzy Caplan), Becky calls it a night when they ruin her rehearsal dinner... but the girls have no intention of stopping. When they rip Becky's wedding dress, Regan, Katie, and Becky need to find a way to save the wedding through a haze of drugs and alcohol (and a series of disastrous hi jinks) and maybe discover that they each need to take control of their lives. With Adam Scott, James Marsden, Kyle Bornheimer, and Hayes MacArthur. On DVD and Blu Ray.
In the "sort-of sequel to Knocked Up," Pete (Paul Rudd) and Debbie (Leslie Mann) are about to celebrate their birthdays-- less than a week apart-- in Judd Apatow's This Is 40,
but they're having a hard time coping with their kids, their mortgage,
their jobs, and growing up in general. Pete's running a small,
struggling record label and loaning too much money to his deadbeat
father (Albert Brooks), and Debbie suspects her employees (Megan Fox and Charlene Yi) of stealing, but their troubles are as much a collection of little, everyday things as their larger issues. With John Lithgow. On DVD and Blu Ray.Complicated Relationships
Alain (Matthias Schoenaerts) is an unemployed single father who just moved to the south of France in Jacques Audiard's Rust and Bone when he rescues Stephanie (Marion Cotillard) from a bar brawl and escorts her home. When they meet again, Stephanie has suffered an accident at work, and is missing both her legs. While Stephanie is feeling the psychological impact of her accident, Alain's problems stem from his violent nature and first instinct to pummel any of his obstacles... though they might each find the help they need from the other. On DVD and Blu Ray.High school senior Dave (Dylan O'Brien) meets sophomore Aubrey (Britt Robertson) in the alley behind a Friday night party in The First Time, right before the police show up. The two form a connection over the course of the night, but Aubrey has an older boyfriend (Craig Roberts) and Dave has a long term crush on his dream girl (Victoria Justice). They both had plans for their weekend, but their new circumstances interrupt everything, and Monday morning will put them somewhere neither of them expected.
Robert's life as an artist in San Francisco hasn't panned out the way he'd hoped in Falling Uphill: his art isn't selling, and he's secretly in love with his roommate Jenny. The day before he's about to leave for his hometown of Rochester, NY, he runs into Sara, who has a package for a friend of Robert. Sara veers wide of "manic pixie dream girl:" she lies, steals, and erratically switches moods... but she just won't go away. Sara may or may not be crazy, but she does make Robert think about Jenny and his need to go back to Rochester.
Scott (Ryan Phillippe) returns to the family he hasn't seen in years in Straight A's, finding his sister-in-law Katherine (Anna Paquin) less than thrilled to see him. His brother (Luke Wilson) is away on a business trip, and Scott's southern drifter's charm works on the kids, but he and Katherine were highschool sweethearts, and she's not interested in making him feel welcome. When the family does sit down together, the truth of Scott's visit after so many years is stranger than anyone imagined.
Documentary
Nominated for the Best Documentary at this year's Oscars, How to Survive a Plague tracks the long history of AIDS awareness and treatment. Looking back at the years when the public was terrified of even mentioning the disease, the film provides footage from within the ACT UP movement and their "Silence = Death" campaign, helping to turn the tides from ignorance and fear to education and public knowledge.Perplexed by America's obsession with gurus, New Jersey native Vikram conducts a social experiment in Kumare: he grows out his hair and beard, adopts his grandmother's accent, and reinvents himself as Kumare, a spiritual guru. Kumare's teachings are simple, telling followers that they are no more enlightened than he is (and that he is not the key to their enlightenment), but his false guru seems to bring people real joy. In the end, he must reveal his true self to his followers, but along the way, Kumare has taken on a life of his own.
New this week in our TV New Releases:
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Ripper Street | Set immediately after the last Jack the Ripper killing in the late 19th century, the Whitechapel police investigate the violent crime in East London as Detective Inspector Reid (Matthew Macfadyen) begins to suspect the Ripper might be back. |
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