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Defining Self
Years after the mandatory memory wipe, Tech 49 Jack (Tom Cruise) and his partner Vika (Andrea Riseborough) are a skeleton crew doing maintenance and repairs in Oblivion. Maintaining machinery on Earth after a war with an alien race ravaged the planet, Jack and Vika oversee the reactors that fuel the off-world colonies until their assignment ends, but their steady work is interrupted when Jack retrieves an escape pod housing a human survivor (Olga Kurylenko). Though there aren't supposed to be any other humans on Earth, and Jack and Vika are watchful for alien scavengers, the survivor only leads to questions that could shatter their world and make them targets for rebel uprisings, dogfight aerial chases, and epic plots to save the world. With Morgan Freeman. On DVD and Blu Ray.
Luke (Ryan Gosling), a motorcycle stunt man traveling with state fairs arrives in Altamont, New York in The Place Beyond the Pines only to discover the woman he met during his last visit, Romina (Eva Mendez), has a young son. Luke quits traveling and gets a job, but his best idea for taking care of his son is to team up with Ben Mendelsohn to rob banks and give the money to Romina. Avery Cross (Bradley Cooper), the rookie cop tasked with bringing him down, has a wife (Rose Byrne) and a young son of his own, and is disillusioned by his fellow officers confiscating Luke's money from Romina's home. The film balances the two men's conflict with their sons, fifteen years later, as Luke's son (Dane DeHaan), bristling against his troubled homelife, and Avery's son (Emory Cohen), acting out in defiance of his district attorney father, become friends. On DVD and Blu Ray.
Fourteen-year-old friends Ellis (Tye Sheridan) and Neckbone find a boat suspended in a tree in Mud, director Jeff Nichols' follow-up to Take Shelter. Their find is quickly tarnished when they learn
Mud (Matthew McConaughey) is living in the boat, keeping himself hidden in the Arkansas delta until he can be reunited with Juniper (Reese Witherspoon).
Ellis is especially taken with Mud's tales and outlaw status, adopting
Mud as a father figure while neglecting his mother and stepfather (Sarah Paulson and Ray McKinnon), where Mud's own father figure (Sam Shepard)
has all but disowned him. Mud's tales of star-crossed love and outlaws
on the run may inspire Ellis, and they may be wildly exaggerated, but
the men after him (Paul Sparks and Joe Don Baker) are certainly real. On DVD and Blu Ray.Syd (Caleb Landry Jones) works for a clinic that sells viruses taken from celebrities in Antiviral. Set in a dystopian near future so obsessed with fame that any piece of celebrity is a commodity, Syd injects himself with new viruses from his clinic and sells them to a black marketeer (Joe Pingue). When he contracts a disease from starlet Hannah Geist (Sarah Gadon) he's immediately too sick to work... and wakes up to find that Geist has died. Syd needs to find a cure for his fatal disease, but he's also infected with the most valuable property in the world: the virus that killed Hannah Geist. With Malcolm McDowell.
Based on the classic Jack Kerouac novel, On the Road tells the story of Sal (Sam Riley), whose sheltered artist's life is driven to new extremes when he meets the wild and uninhibited Dean Moriarty (Garrett Hedlund) and his girl-Friday Marylou (Kristen Stewart). Nearly autobiographical, the film tracks Sal across the country as Dean pushes him to abandon convention and push for newer, more unpredictable experiences. With Amy Adams. On DVD and Blu Ray.
Gail (Deborah Mailman) and her sisters don't win when they compete in an Australian talent show in The Sapphires, but they do attract the attention of a talent scout. Set in 1968, the drunken, Irish Dave Lovelace (Chris O'Dowd)
sees their potential, but needs to push them away from country ballads
and toward something that will draw a crowd: soul. Making the four
Aboriginal women into a Motown-style girl group, he manages their music
career: playing for American troops stationed in Vietnam. Based on a
true story, The Sapphires' time in Viet Nam shows them more of the
world, and more about themselves, than they could have imagined. On DVD
and Blu Ray.Terrence Malick's To the Wonder begins with a young couple in love: American Neil (Ben Affleck) who meets single mother Marina (Olga Kurylenko) while traveling in Europe. The two settle down in Neil's Oklahoma hometown, but as the blush of new romance fades, Marina finds comfort in a priest (Javier Bardem) suffering a crisis of faith, while Neil's job on the road allows him to reconnect with an old flame (Rachel McAdams). Malick's traditional naturalism and questions of higher meanings play out as the relationship between Marina and Neil is stretched and explored while they make their way through the world. On DVD and Blu Ray.
Alicia (Juno Temple) travels to Chile to visit her cousin Sarah (Emily Browning) in Magic Magic, and they connect with Sarah's friends (including Michael Cera and Catalina Sandino Moreno)
before Sarah is called away. In a country she doesn't know, where she
doesn't speak the language, Alicia starts to drive herself mad with
anxiety and paranoia. Surrounded by strangers that torment, mock, and
bully her, her sanity begins to slip, but can't be sure how much of
what's happening around her is real.Aman (Wesley Snipes) is a gunman wandering the old west in Gallowwalkers, but after the guns are fired, he takes his victims' heads. All of the gunfighters Aman stands off against are people he's faced, and killed, before-- they're "gallowwalkers," the undead, taking the skins of the living. He gains a sidekick when he rescues a young outlaw (Riley Smith), and Aman can finish his quest: not just kill the men who wronged him, but make sure they stay dead.
With her mother in jail, Majo grew up taking care of her little sister while her father (Lou Diamond Phillips) worked to support them in Filly Brown. In a last-ditch effort to raise the money that her mother's lawyer (Edward James Olmos) released, Majo begins rapping under the name Filly Brown. Filly Brown's fiery delivery and spunky demeanor make her a quickly rising star, but she also attracts the attention of a producer (Noel Gugliemi) who may not have her best interest at heart.
Young falcon Kai (Jeremy Suarez) runs away from home and finds himself in the bird metropolis of Zambezia in the animated Adventures in Zambezia. Kai meets a lot of colorful characters in the bird city, but he finds his place when he joins the Hurricanes (including Abigail Breslin and led by Leonard Nimoy), Zambezia's defenders. When an evil lizard (Jim Cummings) joins forces with the birds excluded from Zambezia, Kai and the Hurricanes have to fight for their city. On DVD and Blu Ray.
New this week in our TV New Releases:
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The Borgias Season 3 |
Pope Alexander (Jeremy Irons) fights to recover from the effects of the end of season 2, and the Borgia family tries to realize their ambitions amongst armies and warlords in the show's final season. |  |
Community Season 4 |
The Greendale Community College study group contends with changing relationships within their ranks, and their first season without series creator Dan Harmon. |
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Political Animals Complete |
A former first lady and presidential also-ran (Sigourney Weaver) works to keep her family life and political career alive in the USA Network's 6-episode miniseries. |  |
The Thick of It Seasons 1-4 |
The series that preceded In The Loop satirizes the selfish ambitions of political professionals, power plays, spin doctors (Peter Capaldi), and the continuous begging for public acceptance. |
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Smash Season 2 |
In the final season, Bombshell, the musical about Marilyn Monroe, returns to Broadway as the songwriters, actors, producers, and rest of the crew work to keep the show successful. |  |
Wild Kratts Rainforest Rescue |
The Kratts save animals and help educate viewers about ecology, zoology, and the environment. |
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