Tuesday, April 16, 2013

Week of April 16th

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Troubled Past

Dr. Schultz (Christoph Waltz) purchases Django's (Jamie Foxx) freedom from slavers for his help in collecting a bounty in Quentin Tarantino's Django Unchained. Django accompanies the bounty hunter to Big Daddy's (Don Johnson) plantation because he knows the outlaws they're chasing: the Brittle Brothers (led by M.C. Gainey) who separated him from his wife (Kerry Washington), brutally whipping her, and selling them to different owners. Schultz earns his bounty and Django gets his revenge, but their partnership is too good to dissolve-- if Django will join up with Schultz for the winter, Schultz will help Django find and rescue his wife, even if that takes them to the plantation of a brutal southern dandy (Leonardo DiCaprio) and more bloodshed than they could prepare for. With Samuel L. Jackson. On DVD and Blu Ray.

At the Gate of the Ghost
Now & Then
A new interpretation of the classic Rashomon, the Thai At the Gate of the Ghost sends a pious monk on a journey to understand the testimony of a notorious bandit at a murder trial. When the monk's sojourn puts him in contact with other witnesses at the trial, a wandering beggar, the bandit's wife, and a mystic, he's exposed to each of their perspectives on the events surrounding the crime. Though their stories are all different, each of their tales helps to paint a complete picture of the murder, the bandit, and the individuals telling each story. On DVD and Blu Ray.


When a pair of thugs threaten to kill a shopkeeper, humble villager Liu Jinxi (Donnie Yen) intervenes, clumsily grabbing one of the attackers and refusing to let go... and somehow emerges victorious in Dragon. Detective Xu Baijiu (Takeshi Kaneshiro) is suspicious of a guileless villager's vanquishing of notorious criminals, but Liu Jinxi is living a simple life with his wife (Tang Wei) and young boys, and just wants to put the incident behind him. Detective Xu's investigation doesn't collect any proof, but his inquiries will bring a violent presence from Liu's past (Jimmy Wang), forcing the detective to consider the results of his relentless pursuit of the truth: is unmasking Liu Jinxi worth the catastrophe it brings? On DVD and Blu Ray.

Lisa and Andy (Abigail Spencer and Chad Michael Murray) move their family into a house on inexpensive Georgia property in the inexplicably named The Haunting in Connecticut 2: Ghosts of Georgia. Their daughter Heidi (Emily Alyn Lind) has the same "gift" as her mother and aunt (Katee Sackhoff), but while Lisa takes medication to keep the hallucinations and voices away, Heidi has a strange knowledge about their new home... received, she says, from the property's long-dead former owners. While no one believes Heidi at first, the mysterious occurrences continue until the family must face the facts: their new home was so affordable because of its undeniable hauntings.

Securing Your Future

Jonah (Ryan Kwanten) is a low-key slacker, living a life of house parties and no commitment, when he learns he has testicular cancer in the Australian romantic comedy Not Suitable for Children. Suddenly, Jonah has a deadline for fathering children: his surgery is only thirty days away, and that's all the time he has to find a woman who will start a family with him. He looks up his ex (Bojana Novakovic), but she's only the start of his quest, and if he doesn't find the mother of his children quickly, he never will.

Younger

Emile (Jay Harrington), a shy projectionist, and his exuberant best friend Raoul (Adam Goldberg) unleash a strange creature on early 20th century France in the animated A Monster in Paris. Tinkering in a scientist's lab, they mix a growth potion with a potion called "Atomize-a-Tune," and they accidentally create a monstrous-looking, 7-foot-tall flea... but while the police commissioner (Danny Huston) makes a popular spectacle of hunting the monster, a cabaret singer has incorporated it into her act-- Atomize-a-Tune has given him a beautiful singing voice. The "monster" is a gentle soul, and never wanted to hurt anyone, so Emile, Raoul, and the singer have to save him from the city-wide manhunt. On DVD, Blu Ray, and 3D Blu.

The newest film from Disney Nature is Wings of Life, exploring the world of butterflies, hummingbirds, bees, and bats, and their relationship to plant life on Earth. Focusing on the life cycle that supplies a third of the world's food supply, the documentary delves into the mysteries of the small creatures that have a global impact on our environment. On DVD and Blu Ray.

Tony Stark comes in conflict with a technology he's not prepared for in Marvel Anime's Iron Man: Rise of the Technovore. A teenager in an incredibly powerful bio-tech suit dredges up regrets from Tony's past, kills his friend, and forces him to disobey Nick Fury and strike out on his own. Pursued by Hawkeye and Black Widow, and teaming up with the also-nonconforming Punisher, Iron Man is on his own as he unravels the mystery of the technology that won't just destroy Stark Industries, but also the world.


New this week in our TV New Releases:
The Killing
Season 2
Sarah Linden continues to investigate the murder of a Seattle teenager, but her progress is slow and deliberate, and she's not sure who she can trust. Boss
Season 2
Chicago's corrupt Mayor (Kelsey Grammer) is fighting to maintain his power, but also looking to cement after he's gone, correcting previous misdeeds.
Merlin
Series 5
The final season sees King Arthur, Guinevere, and Merlin in Camelot's golden age with their destiny quickly approaching: Morgana and Mordred are plotting their end.

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