Week of July 30th

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Striking Back

Though the Cobra Commander and Destro have been captured, Duke (Channing Tatum), Roadblock (Dwayne Johnson), Jaye (Adrianne Palicki), and the rest of the Joes are still on high alert in G.I. Joe: Retaliation. Cobra's ninja, Storm Shadow (Lee Byung Hun), is still at large and ready to stage a jailbreak, their master of disguise has replaced the President of the United States (Jonathan Pryce), and soon, the Joes are under attack and on the run as the most wanted fugitives in America. With only one friend left to trust (Bruce Willis), the remaining G.I. Joes have to weather air strikes and ninja attacks to restore the president and clear their names. With Ray Stevenson. On DVD, Blu Ray, & 3DBlu.

Sarah (Kate Bosworth) tries to patch up the rift between her childhood friends Lou (Lake Bell) and Abby (Katie Aselton) by taking them camping in Black Rock. Returning to the island where they vacationed as children, they're surprised to encounter a trio of men (including Jay Paulson) on a hunting trip. Though they all start drinking and telling stories around the campfire, when things turn ugly, the women find themselves running for their lives, chased by armed hunters with brutal intentions.

The Flash (Justin Chambers), faced with an enemy (C. Thomas Howell) that matches his own powers (including the power to run fast enough to travel through time), has to contend with a world he doesn't understand in The Flashpoint Paradox. Because of changes in the past, The Flash is trapped in an alternate timeline where a war between Wonder Woman (Vanessa Marshall) with her Amazons and Aquaman (Cary Elwes) with his Atlatans has caused worldwide damage, a war on the verge of destroying the planet. Though he can't count on his friends being the same-- Batman (Kevin McKidd) carries guns and kills criminals, Cyborg (Michael B. Jordan) is a government lackey, Hal Jordan (Nathan Fillion) never received a ring and became the Green Lantern, and Superman is nowhere to be found-- Flash has to assemble all the heroes he can to find out what was changed, and restore the world to its natural state.

Working as security for a Wall Street firm, Jim (Dominic Purcell) faces one hardship after another in Uwe Boll's Assault on Wall Street. Though his wife's (Erin Karpluk) cancer is being successfully treated, medication is expensive... and Jim's investments vanish in the recent financial crisis. Though his friends (Edward Furlong and Keith David) try and support him, Jim considers it his duty to perform terrorist assassinations and office building shooting sprees to wipe out the corrupt Wall Street operators who only care about their own greed. With John Heard.

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Marriage

Stella (Olympia Dukakis) and Dot (Brenda Fricker) have lived together for 30 years in Cloudburst, but Dot's failing eyesight prompts her granddaughter to send her to a nursing home. Dot doesn't want to go, and Stella has no intention of losing her, so the two of them set out on a road trip together. During their journey, they have to contend with all the current social climate has to offer, but their destination is simple: they'll travel to Canada, where Stella and Dot can legally marry, and no one will be able to separate them.

Old friends reunite in Between Us, a filmed adaptation of a stage play where newlyweds Grace and Carlo (Julia Stiles and Taye Diggs) travel from New York to see Sharyl and George (Melissa George and David Harbour) at their country home to find their family ideal is fraught with more trouble than they could have imagined. The film flips between that night and a night years later, where happy and restored George and Sharyl come to New York to find Carlo and Grace having their own family meltdown. Intercutting the two nights, the story explores the similarities and differences between the couples, and where the friendship that began in art school has led them.

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New this week in our TV New Releases:

	Banshee Season 1	Sheriff Lucas Hood is new to the town of Banshee, PA... so no one in town knows Lucas isn't a cop: he's an ex-con with an assumed name and his own agenda. He's wearing the sheriff's badge, though, and he can only apply his prison yard instincts to the job at hand.		Scandal Season 1	Former White House Communications Director Olivia Pope (Kerry Washington) now works in the private sector, protecting the reputations of the political elite. She and her team have to manage the images and control the secrets of the nation's most powerful operators, keeping their scandals from coming to light.
	House of Cards: Complete Original Series	The acclaimed British political series that inspired the popular American remake follows Parliament member Francis Urquhart, betrayed by his allies, seeking political revenge through subterfuge, manipulation, and subtle maneuvering.