Tuesday, July 16, 2013

Week of July 16th

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Standing Up


42 is the story of Jackie Robinson (Chadwick Boseman), the first baseball player to break baseball's "color barrier." Recruited for his obvious talent, Robinson is hired by a Brooklyn Dodgers executive (Harrison Ford) to make the Dodgers major league baseball's first integrated team. Facing opposition at every step, from the teammates who petition not to play with Robinson, to the suspending of the manager (Christopher Meloni) that forces the Dodgers to accept their new teammate, to the racism of opposing team's coaches (Alan Tudyk), Jackie Robinson has to endure the racism and intolerance of America's 1940s to become one of the greatest players in the sport's history. With Nicole Beharie and Lucas Black. On DVD and Blu Ray.

Bill (Charlie Creed-Miles) hasn't been much of a father-- he's barely had a chance to be a father at all, returning to his sons after finishing an 8-year prison sentence in Wild Bill. 16-year-old Dean (Will Poulter) and 11-year-old Jimmy (Sammy Williams) have been fending for themselves and aren't sure how they feel about their father's return, already seduced by a low-level drug dealer (Leo Gregory) and life on the streets of East London. To keep his boys from making the same mistakes he made, Bill has to stand up to the boss (Andy Serkis) that threatens Dean and Jimmy's safety.

Possession Corrupts


Evil Dead
Now & Then
Though he's been away for years, David (Shiloh Fernandez) joins his old friends Eric (Lou Taylor Pucci) and Olivia (Jessica Lucas) for a getaway in a remote cabin in the woods in Evil Dead. When they arrive, they tell David and his girlfriend (Elizabeth Blackmore) why they're really there: to keep David's drug addicted sister Mia (Jane Levy) from relapsing, like she's done many times in the past. When Mia's behavior turns destructive, they all assume it's withdrawal symptoms... but Eric suspects it might be related to the passages he read aloud from the demonic, flesh-bound tome in the basement. Adapting the first (and least comedic) movie from the classic Evil Dead series, the film plays its demonic possession and hard-R buckets of gore straight, piling on mayhem, bloodshed, and copious de-limbings without the slightest trace of irony. On DVD and Blu Ray.

Based on the character by classic pulp adventure novelist Robert E. Howard, Solomon Kane stars James Purefoy as the puritan warrior, eradicating evil from the 17th century English countryside. Disowned by his noble, land-owning father (Max von Sydow), Kane was a mercenary scoundrel until the devil came for him. Sworn to peace to save his soul, Solomon Kane returns to the way of the sword when an evil sorcerer (Jason Flemyng) begins conquering the land and possessing brigands to form an army... killing the pious wanderer (Pete Postlethwaite) that took him in and abducting the man's innocent daughter (Rachel Hurd-Wood). To rescue the girl, Kane endangers his soul and forgoes his vow, waging bloody war on the mystics and demons ravaging the countryside. On DVD and Blu Ray.


Romeo is leading an elite team into an underground research facility in the Australian Crawlspace, with one mission: shoot to kill any prisoners they find. The team doesn't ask questions, but when Romeo encounters Eve, one of the facility's prisoners, he hesitates: he knows her, and Eve's presence is a mystery he can't let go. Disobeying his orders, Romeo protects Eve, but his team members begin dying off one by one-- they all experience the danger in the compound differently, but they have to uncover what's really happening to have any chance of making it out alive.

Armed Professionals

New Orleans hit-man Bobo (Sylvester Stallone) finds himself on the wrong side of a contract in Walter Hill's Bullet to the Head. His partner dead, he saves the life of Detective Taylor Kwon (Sung Kang), and the only person he can trust is his daughter (Sarah Shahi)... but Bobo and Kwan have to become unlikely partners to survive. They have different styles-- Kwan's by-the-book, Bobo prefers to execute his enemies-- but they have to work their way up to the businessmen (Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje and Christian Slater) who've conspired against them, and the unstoppable assassin (Jason Momoa) hunting them. On DVD and Blu Ray.


Former CIA operative Ben Logan (Aaron Eckhart) is living in Belgium, reconnecting with his daughter (Liana Liberato), and working a civilian job testing security systems in Erased... until he goes to work one day to find an empty office. His contact numbers don't work, his employer has never heard of him... and he soon discovers all his co-workers have turned up dead. With his teenage daughter in tow, Ben has to find out who erased his entire team and why, and explain to his little girl why he's so good at killing the people chasing them. With Olga Kurylenko. On DVD and Blu Ray.

Documentary

The story of the unlikely friendship between New York artist Jackie Sumell and 70-year-old convicted murderer Herman Wallace, Herman's House focuses on Jackie's attempt to design Herman's "dream house." Sentenced to solitary confinement in a 6'x9' cell, Herman has described his dream home to Jackie, and Jackie has created a model to his specifications, believing that only by dreaming of freedom can Herman achieve it.


Filmed by his former model and muse, photographer Bert Stern's life is explored in Bert Stern: Original Mad Man by possibly the only person he'd allow to film and photograph him so closely. Following his rise from Look Magazine's mailroom to the most iconic ad photographer of his generation and a portfolio that put him in the path of the largest photographable people of the 1950s and 60s.

New this week in our TV New Releases:
Orphan Black
Season 1
Small-time con artist Sarah sees a woman that could be her twin commit suicide, sees an opportunity, and assumes her identity. Replacing her lookalike, Sarah is drawn into a situation beyond her control, and forced to discover why there's more than one person that looks exactly like her. Damages
Season 5
With her own law firm, Ellen Parsons (Rose Byrne) takes a WikiLeaks-style client, putting her in direct opposition to her mentor Patty Hewes (Glenn Close) in the show's final season
Misfits
Series 3
With their new powers, and without Nathan, the probation group of superpowered juvenile delinquents have to contend with zombies, doppelgangers, time travel, and Hitler. Alphas
Season 2
The Alphas, a team of government agents, each with their own X-Men-like superpower, have to regroup after the existence of the superpowered Alphas were exposed to the world.
Hell on Wheels
Season 2
Doc Durant (Colm Meaney) is spearheading the late 1800's western expansion of the Union Pacific railroad, confronting the wild west and the rugged men working on the frontier. Endeavour
Series 1
Before he became the inspector in Inspector Morse, young Endeavour Morse leaves Oxford to join the police and begins solving the mysteries that will go on to define his career.
Regular Show
Seasons 1&2
Best friends Mordecai the blue jay and Rigby the raccoon want to have regular, boring days... but their attempts to slack off at work always lead to magic, ninjas, unicorns, and other animated weirdness.
Word Girl
The Rise
of Miss Power
Wordgirl and Captain Huggy Face have a lot in common with Miss Power and Colonel Giggle Cheeks... but Miss Power's friendship might not be all it seems.
Bubble Guppies
On the Job
Nick Jr's Bubble Guppies discover different kinds of jobs, from zookeepers to dentists.

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