Tuesday, March 5, 2013

Week of March 5th

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Player One

Every time someone puts a quarter into the arcade game Fix-It Felix, the player controls Felix (Jack McBrayer), the hero of the game, but no one gives any thought to the villain in Disney's Wreck-It Ralph. Though they've been in the same game for 30 years, Felix is treated like a hero by the other video game characters while Ralph (John C. Reilly) is snubbed and ignored. Though the villains from other games tell him to accept his role, Ralph wants to win games... so he breaks into a modern action game ,joining a squad of alien-fightng marines (led by Jane Lynch) to win a medal and prove he can be a hero. Instead, he finds himself stranded in a racing game called Sugar Rush, with his future in the hands of a "glitch" called Vanellope (Sarah Silverman) who has never been allowed to race before. While the ruler of Sugar Rush (Alan Tudyk) tries to stop Vanellope from racing, afraid for the future of his game, Felix enters Sugar Rush to find Ralph... because there's nothing for Felix to fix if there's no Ralph to do the wrecking. On DVD, Blu Ray, and 3D Blu.

A Little Help

Driss (Omar Sy) is an ex-con applying for jobs he'll never get to secure his unemployment benefits in the French The Intouchables, but his devil-may-care demeanor secures a trial period as a caretaker for rich, quadriplegic Phillippe (Francois Cluzet). Phillippe's gruff and combative nature drives off most eager-to-please caretakers in less than a month, but Driss is a different sort of character altogether: able to find humor in nearly everything and completely willing to talk back to his wealthy benefactor, Driss is exactly the kind of person Phillippe needs in his life. On DVD and Blu Ray.

Embracing Adulthood

Coping with her divorce, Amy (Melanie Lynskey) spends most of her time curled up into a ball of depression in a baggy t-shirt in Todd Louiso's Hello I Must Be Going. Her mother (Blythe Danner) is exasperated taking care of her 35-year-old daughter and her father (John Rubinstein) is preparing to close the deal that will secure his retirement, but Amy can hardly get out of bed... until she meets Jeremy (Christopher Abbott). As Amy and Jeremy sit at an uncomfortable dinner party, while their parents sideline and dismiss them both, they become an unlikely couple-- Amy is fifteen years older than Jeremy-- but Jeremy helps her discover what she needs in her life beyond her parents and her ex-husband.

Red Dawn:
Now & Then
When the United States' military is disrupted by a new weapon, the skies in Spokane, WA are darkened by North Korean parachutes in Red Dawn. Luckily, Jed Eckhert (Chris Hemsworth) is a Marine just returned from active duty, staying with his police sergeant father (Brett Cullen) and highschool football playing brother Matt (Josh Peck), and Jed has the combat experience to help Matt and his friends (including Josh Hutcherson and Adrianne Palicki) not just escape the North Korean invasion, but fight back, too. Calling themselves The Wolverines (after their school football team), they set about disrupting the North Korean occupation of Spokane and proving to the foreign commander (Will Yun Lee) that American soil is too dangerous for invaders to hold. With Jeffrey Dean Morgan. On DVD and Blu Ray.


Ex-pro-footballer George Dryer (Gerard Butler) is barely getting by, but finally starts forming a real relationship with his son Lewis by coaching the kids' soccer team in Playing for Keeps. George's legendary glory days win him the support of the team's wealthy sponsor (Dennis Quaid) and his accent and good looks attract every young mother on the soccer field (including Uma Thurman, Catherine Zeta-Jones, and Judy Greer), but he's shocked to find out Lewis' mother (Jessica Biel) is getting re-married. Suddenly, George has to choose between his self-involved lifestyle and dedicating himself to the family he's neglected for years. On DVD and Blu Ray.

Non Fiction

Nominated for a Best Documentary Academy Award, 5 Broken Cameras is the story of Palestinian farmer Emad Burnat and his attempts to film his village's protests on the West Bank Barrier... protests the begin peacefully but invariably end in beatings, stun grenades, and Emad's smashed cameras. Co-directed by Palestinian Burnat and Israeli Guy Davidi as they record the seemingly endless conflict, personally recording the effects of life on the Barrier at ground level as the struggles take place.

Focusing on the birds that gather in urban parks, Birders: The Central Park Effect interviews birders and ornithologists that frequent New York's Central Park. Following the change in seasons as migration brings different birds into and out of the city, the documentary tells the story of the birders that delight in the diverse birds that gather in the city parks.

Eco-Horror

Framed as a rogue transmission by a reporter (Kether Donohue) on the scene, Barry Levinson's The Bay re-imagines the real ecological disasters in the Chesapeake Bay as a disaster/monster movie. Assembled from cell phone footage, video chats, police car dashboard footage, and other on-the-scene video sources, the story of a small town unfolds as mysterious rashes and unexplained disappearances turn a 4th of July weekend into a catastrophe. With Kristen Connolly.

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