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Family Vacations:
The Rescue Package
John McClane (Bruce Willis) decides to take his vacation in Russia and catch up with his son in A Good Day to Die Hard, but he doesn't know chip-off-the-ole'-block Jack McClane (Jai Courtney) is engaged in life-or-death terrorist busting, working undercover for the CIA. Jack is tied up in the assassination of a corrupt official who was blackmailing a government whistleblower (Sebastian Koch) when John blows his cover, and father and son are forced to bond (and bicker) amidst a hail of gunfire, car chases of mass destruction, and leaps from incredible heights as things explode behind them. On DVD and Blu Ray.Gary Supernova (Rob Corddry) lives in the shadow if his action hero brother, Scorch Supernova (Brendan Fraser) in the animated Escape from Planet Earth, but while Scorch does all the running and jumping-- and gets all the glory-- Gary is the brains of the operation. Without Gary's support, Scorch gets captured on his mission to Earth, "the dark planet," and it's up to Gary to rescue his big brother. Unfortunately, no alien has ever come back from the dark planet, and Scorch and Gary will be doomed to the same fate unless they can overcome General Shanker (William Shatner) and his alien technology stealing schemes. On DVD, Blu Ray, and 3D Blu.
Adapting to Life
Nicholas Hoult is a walking corpse after the zombie apocalypse in Jonathan Levine's Warm Bodies. He wanders through an imitation of life, has a few grunts-and-murmurs conversations with his best friend (Rob Corddry), and can't even remember his name... though he thinks it started with "R." Something in R awakens when he sees Julia (Teresa Palmer)-- though that may just be a symptom of R eating her boyfriend's (Dave Franco) brains-- and, instead of eating her, he keeps her safe and hides her from other zombies. In their time together, R begins to change: he starts to speak and generally seem more alive, and Julia realizes that he might be the answer the world needs. As Julia and R grow closer, she wonders about how to show R's evolution to the rest of humanity, especially when the leader of the anti-zombie army is her dad (John Malkovich). On DVD and Blu Ray.
Joe (D.J. Mendel) has potential-- he's written a novel, produces videos, is a decent drummer, and can fix just about anything-- but he just can't seem to get his life in order in Hal Hartley's Meanwhile. Joe's trying to put together a business deal, but finds all of his accounts frozen; he can't afford a cab, he can't add minutes to his cell phone, and he has to walk across Manhattan to make the one meeting that might actually make him a success... but his journey keeps him side-tracked, fixing the problems of everyone he comes across, while never solving his own.
Comedies
Sandy Patterson's (Jason Bateman) life is teetering on the brink of ruin when Diana (Melissa McCarthy) runs up massive debt in his name in Identity Thief. Sandy and his wife (Amanda Peet) are already having trouble making ends meet, but he stands up to his abusive boss (Jon Favreau) and joins John Cho in a new, fairer venture...
until
he finds himself suddenly bankrupt. The courts will take too long, so
Sandy tracks Diana down to clear his ledger and hold her responsible...
but that puts the two of them on a reckless, madcap roadtrip to get back
to Sandy's life. Unwillingly partnered, they both have to contend with
Diana's history of theft, and all the baddies (Johnathan Banks, T.I, Genesis Rodriguez, and Robert Patrick) that are chasing her for less noble reasons than Sandy's. On DVD and Blu Ray.Shirley (Rebecca Gibney) just wants her family to be happy in the Australian Mental: she wants her husband Barry (Anthony LaPaglia) to occasionally come home, she wants her daughters to get along, and she wants the family to sing like the Von Trapps. When her most recent scheme to get her husband to come come lands her in an institution, Barry has a hitchhiker called Shaz (Toni Collette) take care of his five girls while he continues to avoid his family... but Shaz gives him more than he bargained for. Under Shaz's guidance, the girls stand up to their extended family (Caroline Goodall), gossiping neighbors (Kerry Fox), and everyone else who would make their family into a neighborhood joke. With Liev Schreiber.
Documentaries
Where many schools have outstanding football teams or arts programs, Brooklyn's Intermediate School 316 is renown for its chess team. Explored in the documentary Brooklyn Castle, the middle-school students of 316 tend to dominate national chess competitions, providing top-tier competitors in a school in a high poverty, high crime district. Threatened with budget cuts, the students of 316 have to rally to keep the extracurricular events that make their school stand out, and keep their classmates competitive in a tough educational system.Focusing on the influential poster artists in the music scene, Just Like Being There talks to the artists who design the posters and the bands they feature. Dealing with the artistry that goes into screen-printing posters, the collectors that cherish the physical artifacts that can't be downloaded, and the processes that go into designing the poster art that are part of the music scene culture.
Imported Sequels
The sequel to 2002's Yossi & Jagger (also new this week in our New to Reckless section), Yossi sees Dr. Yossi Hoffman (Ohad Knoller) burying himself in his career and avoiding the complications of being a closeted, gay man in Israel. When a near fatal accident on the job causes his peers to encourage him to take a vacation and stop working himself to death... and his vacation, removing Yossi from his sheltered work life, offers him a chance to resolve some of the issues that have been weighing him down.Sadako, the third movie in the Japanese Ringu series, frees Sadako (the creepy little girl from the original Ringu) from her VHS prison. A video of an artist's suicide seems to be resurrecting the "watch it, and you will die" curse on the internet, and a schoolteacher's class starts dwindling when her students begin committing suicide after watching his video. Has Sadako's curse been revived, or are these deaths not actually suicides but the work of a killer hiding behind Sadako's legacy?
New this week in our TV New Releases:
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Breaking Bad Season 5 |
Walter (Bryan Cranston) and Jesse (Aaron Paul) distance themselves from Gustavo's empire and the fallout from season 4, but have to contend once again with being in business for themselves... only this time, they have Mike (Johnathan Banks) and deeper connections the the underworld. |  |
Falling Skies Season 2 |
The 2nd Massachusetts Militia Regiment is still waging guerilla war against the invading aliens, but when Tom Mason (Noah Wyle) is returned to them after being abducted at the end of season 1, their mission, destination, and tactics all change, and they may be about to strike a blow that will drive away the aliens. |
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Adventure Time
Season 2 |
Come on, grab your friends, we'll go to very distant lands. Jake the Dog and Finn the Human-- the fun will never end. |  |
Lego Batman | Batman leads an all-star team of DC superheroes (in Lego-form) against the Joker and his top-tier league of supervillains. |
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