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Criminal Activity
Simon (James McAvoy) gets hit in the head during an art heist in Danny Boyle's Trance, and he can't remember where he stashed the stolen painting after his head injury. Franck (Vincent Cassel), the gangster who planned the heist, can't kill Simon, so they hire a hypo-therapist (Rosario Dawson)
to get inside Simon's head, unlock the lost memories, and find the
missing painting. Once they're in there, though, Simon's mind is more
tangled than they could have imagined: he's obsessed with his doctor,
afraid of being killed by gangsters, and has a few clashing realities in
his mind: brightly surreal worlds where he might be lover or killer,
thief or avenger. On DVD and Blu Ray.Also starring McAvoy, Welcome to the Punch is British crime thriller where Detective Max Lewinsky (James McAvoy) is haunted by the criminal who slipped through his fingers when he was just a rookie. When that criminal, Jacob (Mark Strong), returns to London, Max might be too jaded to return to the hunt, but his ambitious young partner (Andrea Riseborough) drives him into the chase. Jacob's not the man he used to be-- a retired expatriate, he's come to London looking for answers... answers that may involve Max, forcing them to work together and find out why they were thrown together all those years ago. With David Morrissey. On DVD and Blu Ray.
Jod is a small-time hood on the streets of Bangkok in the 1960s in The Gangster, running with gangs because he believes it's better to do the beating than to get beaten. As the years go by and Jod climbs the gangland ranks, the code of honor between the gangsters starts to fray, and the life he chose as a means for survival starts to have fewer and fewer benefits... not only is Jod burdened with regrets from the things he's had to do, the safety his gang life offered him is slowly slipping away.
Vampires in the art house
Struggling pulp horror writer Hall Baltimore's (Val Kilmer) book signing tour stops in a creepy, tiny town in Francis Ford Coppola's Twixt.
Though the town is too small to have a book store (Hall sets up his
table by the book rack at the hardware store), it does have one thing he
might need: the kind of mystery that could put him back on the
bestseller list. Though the sheriff (Bruce Dern)
is willing to walk him through the town's murders, his greatest
inspiration comes from the dreams where the ghosts of a little girl (Elle Fanning) and Edgar Allan Poe (Ben Chaplin)
walk Hall through a gothic ghost story. From his ghostly dreams to the
sheriff's vampire conspiracy to the strange teenagers across the lake,
Hall becomes mired in a story that begins to echo his own tragic story.
On DVD and Blu Ray.Djuna (Josephine de La Baume) tries to live as conservatively as a vampire can in Kiss of the Damned, not leaving evidence and not creating progeny, until she meets someone she can't live without. Though she tries to push Paolo (Milo Ventimiglia) away, the two are passionately drawn together, and she can't help but turn him. Djuna teaches Paolo the intricacies of being undead, introducing him to vampire society (Anna Mouglalis), but their new happiness is disrupted when her reckless, hedonistic sister Mimi (Roxane Mesquida) turns up on their doorstep. Mimi follows none of Djuna's rules, killing and seducing indiscriminately, and could destroy the new homestead Paolo and Djuna are trying to start. On DVD and Blu Ray.
Activism in the 1960s
Teenage Ginger (Elle Fanning) is an introspective poet, a sharp contrast to her wild best friend Rosa (Alice Englert) in Ginger & Rosa. As the girls grow and change-- Rosa becoming more sexually adventurous, Ginger, the daughter of an activist (Alessandro Nivola),
becoming involved in pacifism and protests-- they both have to contend
with the changing world of 1962. In the wake of the Cuban Missile Crisis
and forced to consider that the end of the world could come at any
moment, Ginger and Rosa both begin pushing at the boundaries of their
lives, even if it pushes them apart. With Christina Hendricks.On leave from Viet Nam, Dalton Joiner (Austin Stowell) returns home to reclaim the heart of his girlfriend Jane (Aimee Teegarden) in Love and Honor, but he discovers Jane is now "Juniper," an anti-war activist. Dalton and fellow soldier Mickey (Liam Hemsworth), join Juniper's circle, claiming to be AWOL, defying the army and standing up against the war... they're hailed as heroes by the activists and Joiner impresses Juniper, but their R&R has to come to an end. When they're due to return to Viet Nam, the soldiers both have to choose what's truly important to them. With Teresa Palmer.
Quirky Outliers
An ensemble film that tracks four story lines all occurring at the same time, The Power of Few follows a teenager (Devon Gearhart) who walks into a dangerous situation while trying to get medicine for his family, an sudden romance between a courier (Q'orianka Kilcher) and a man on the run (Jesse Bradford), suspicious operatives (Christian Slater and Nicky Whelan) raiding houses looking for contraband, and a homeless man (Christopher Walken) with a past that keep drawing attention. As the stories unfold, all at the same time, going to the same place, they all overlap as the characters are finally thrown together.David (Patrick Huard) is a 40-something loser in the French-Canadian Starbuck, barely able to support his pregnant girlfriend and pursued by gangsters for his debts. Worse, his extra cash scheme, frequent donations to a sperm bank under the name "Starbuck," has caused a class-action suit: 142 of Starbuck's children are pushing the courts to reveal David's identity. Though his troubles still follow him, the suit inspires David to start tracking down and observing his children.
New this week in our TV New Releases:
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Hit & Miss Season 1 |
Mia (Chloe Sevigny) is an preoperative transgender woman who is shocked to learn that she has fathered a son, and has to juggle her new family responsibility with an unusual job... Mia is an assassin. |  |
MST3K Volume 26 |
Mike, Joel, and the bots mock a new crop of bad movies from their perch on the Satellite of Love, including The Deadly Mantis, Village of the Giants, Rocket Attack USA, and Slime People |
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Superjail Season 3 |
The day-to-day operations of the mega-prison are constantly disrupted by psychedelic flights of fancy, the warden's bizarre whims, and overwhelming cartoon violence. | |||
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