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Manhunt
When a veteran sniper opens fire on a public park, he's quickly caught and arrested, but he asks for one man while in custody: Jack Reacher. The detective in charge (David Oyelowo) and district attorney (Richard Jenkins) have no idea how to find the infamous Jack Reacher (Tom Cruise),
an off-the-grid ex-military investigator, when Reacher suddenly
appears: he'd already been following the case. Working with the defense
attorney (Rosamund Pike),
Reacher's sharp, analytical mind is an asset to the case... but as he
uncovers plots and conspiracies, he also has to unleash his skills in
hand-to-hand combat, gunplay, car chases, and stealth to find the real
shooter and the mastermind behind the murders. With Werner Herzog. On DVD and Blu Ray.When someone kills Harry's dog, he sets out on an epic quest for vengeance in Revenge for Jolly! Harry doesn't have many friends, but he brings his cousin Cecil (Oscar Isaac) along, and together they follow a long path back to the man who killed Jolly. Beginning with the neighborhood bartender (Elijah Wood) who pointed the killer to Harry's home, to a prostitute (Gillian Jacobs), to a crooked lawyer (David Rasche), to crashing the killer's sister's (Kristen Wiig) wedding reception... but questioning any of their leads inevitably ends up in wild gunfire and massive bloodshed.
Women
The newest film adapted from a Nicholas Sparks novel, Safe Haven stars Julianne Hough as Katie, a woman on the run who finds herself lying low in a small, North Carolina town. Katie's quick to make friends (Cobie Smulders) and soon meets single father Alex (Josh Duhamel), beginning a romance. While her relationship with Alex deepens and she begins to win over his hesitant children, Katie can't escape the secrets of her past, which must eventually find her. On DVD and Blu Ray.
A young writer in the small, Korean costal town of Buan starts to compose a story using Buan as the setting in Hong Sang-Soo's In Another Country, but ends up writing three variations of the story. Each of her stories centers on a charming tourist (Isabelle Huppert)
visiting the town, but the writer changes her from a filmmaker to a
divorcee to an adulterer, and though she meets some of the same people
and visits the same locations in each story, the story themselves change
differently as Huppert's character is rewritten.A Portrait
Christopher Plummer performs as John Barrymore in Barrymore, a filmed version of his one-man, award-winning play. Speaking to the audience from stage, Barrymore is preparing to recapture his fading fame by revisiting his star-making turn in Richard III a few months before his death in 1942. As he prepares, John recounts his life on stage and screen in one of stage and screen's most famous families, and the excesses that shattered his career.Meet the Fokkens is a documentary about two 69-year-old Amsterdam prostitutes: Louise, who retired at 67, and Martine, who still has a window in the Red Light District. The twins have an extended conversation about the nature of their business, what they've learned about men, and how sex work has changed in the modern age.
Haunting
Lucas (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau) has never given up looking for his twin brother Jeffery after he vanished with his two little girls in Mama.
When he finds the girls years later in a cabin in the woods, cut off
from human contact and becoming feral, no one knows how they survived on
their own. The doctor (Daniel Kash) studying the girls gives Lucas and his girlfriend Annabel (Jessica Chastain)
custody to keep the children under observation... until they start to
discover how the girls survived, and why they keep asking for "Mama." On
DVD and Blu Ray.
Relationship Comedies
Sarah (Lizzy Caplan) and Beth (Alison Brie) are sisters, but couldn't me more different in Save the Date. While Beth is moving forward with her wedding to Andrew (Martin Starr), it's taken Sarah two years to move in with her boyfriend, Andrew's bandmate, Kevin (Geoffrey Arend). When Kevin publicly proposes to Sarah in the middle of a show, independent Sarah runs, devastating their relationship... but leaving her open to Jonathan (Mark Webber), who's had a long-term crush on her. Though she expects Jonathan to be a quick, rebound affair, Sarah begins to come to terms with her habit of fleeing relationships and commitment.
David and Paige Walling (Hugh Laurie and Catherine Keener) have been neighbors and friends with Terry and Cathy Ostroff (Oliver Platt and Allison Janney) for more than 20 years in The Oranges. When the Ostroff's free-spirited daughter Nina (Leighton Meester) comes home for Thanksgiving, Cathy tries to set her up with the Walling's successful son Toby (Adam Brody)
to get her to stop making bad lifestyle choices... but Nina ends up
with David. Though he's old enough to be her father, and David's
marriage is ruined, he's actually enjoying his life for the first time
in years. With Alia Shawkat. On DVD and Blu Ray.
New this week in our TV New Releases:
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30 Rock Season 7 |
The final season of 30 Rock sends the cast and crew of TGS with Tracy Jordan off to their happy endings, revisiting past gags, and closing down their show not with a whimper but a bang. |  |
Royal Pains Season 4 |
Doctor Hank Lawson continues to serve the rich and exclusive clients in the Hamptons while his brother Evan dreams up new schemes to keep the practice profitable. | |
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Fringe Season 5 |
Fringe's final season drops Anna, Peter, and Walter in the dystopian, Observer-ruled future, trying to combat their fate in 2036 and save their present. |  |
Psych Season 5 |
Shawn's fake-psychic routine allows him and his partner Gus to take cases and solve mysteries using their "psychic" powers. | |
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