Week of May 28

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When their youngest son, Sammy, begins acting strangely, Daniel and Lacey Barrett (Josh Hamilton and Keri Russell) assume it's the influence Sammy's older brother, Jesse (Dakota Goyo) in Scott Stewart's Dark Skies. Jesse's stories about The Sandman affecting Sammy's sleepwalking could explain the strange disturbances in the house, but as the situation progresses, the mysterious circumstances around the Barrett family can't be explained by the boys' ghost stories. When they all start losing control, they consult an expert (J.K. Simons) to explain what's happening to their family, but the answers could be more unbelievable than what they're already going through. On DVD and Blu Ray.

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The new film from Shane Carruth, the writer/director of the independent Primer, is Upstream Color, centered around Kris (Amy Seimetz), recovering from being victimized by a thief who entranced her, directing her to sign over all of her property and valuables. As she forms a relationship with a fellow victim, their shared life cascades through time, embracing an elliptical, Terrence Malick style of non-linear storytelling that marries Kris' need for revenge, the evolution of romance, mind control, parasitic worms, and a pig farm. On DVD and Blu Ray.

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When 16-year-old Lore's high-ranking Nazi parents disappear to escape arrest by Allied forces at the end of World War II, she has to lead her siblings to their grandmother's house in Lore. Their grandmother is over 500 miles away, and the children are on foot, and their journey is part road movie (a long voyage encountering different people: some friendly, some dangerous) and part fairy tale (children wandering through a surreal, haunted world) as they contend with the tragedies that have befallen the German countryside. On DVD and Blu Ray.

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Former black-ops gunman Kent (John Cusack) has been reassigned to watch over a broadcast station in The Numbers Station, safeguarding Katherine (Malin Akerman), a broadcaster who transmits coded orders to operatives in the field. When they walk into an ambush, the find themselves locked in the numbers station, forced to piece together who is attacking them-- someone has transmitted a block of unofficial assassination orders, the surveillance tapes show a squad (led by Richard Brake) coercing the previous broadcaster and operative, and the controller on the other end of their emergency line has ordered Kent to terminate Katherine. With Liam Cunningham.

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Brian loves basketball... but he's such a lousy player, the only spot he can get on his highschool team is a coach's assistant in Thunderstruck. When he meets his hero, Kevin Durant (playing himself), a wistful "I wish I could play like you" causes a Freaky Friday-style talent switch: Brian impresses his coach (Jim Belushi) with a sudden burst of NBA level skill, and the Oklahoma City Thunder is losing game after game now that Durant is playing like a clumsy teenager.

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“You just get to a point where your
disappointment in yourself becomes
so much bigger than your parents’
disappointment in you.”

John (Keanu Reeves) is sleepwalking through an unfulfilling life, working part time as a chauffeur for an escort service in Generation Um... He spends his free time with the girls he drives for (wildly loud and hedonistic Bojana Novakovic and shyer, more reserved Adelaide Clemens) , but finds some shred of meaning when he steals a video camera from a park performance. With the camera, he records his aimless wandering through the streets of New York and coaxes secrets, confessions, and truths from the girls walking with him.

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New this week in our TV New Releases:

	Suits Season 2	College-dropout Mike is still earning his keep as the associate of high-powered lawyer Harvey Specter as the two form a case-closing odd couple.		Longmire Season 1	Wyoming sheriff Walt Longmire investigates major crimes with the help of his deputy (Katee Sackhoff) and best friend (Lou Diamond Phillips) as he navigates community politics with powerful local land-owners
	Doctor Who Series 7, Part 2		Parting ways with Amy and Rory, The Doctor adopts a new companion (Jenna-Louise Coleman) and begins showing her the edges of time and space, but a malicious intelligence is tracking The Doctor's every move, seeking to undo everything he's ever done.