Tuesday, September 10, 2013

Week of September 10th

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Unknown Dangers


After being stripped of his command because of his recklessness, Captain Kirk (Chris Pine) is sent to answer to Star Fleet Command in J.J. Abrams' Star Trek into Darkness. When an unexpected threat takes Star Fleet by surprise, Kirk's punishment takes a back seat to a mission only he can face, and Kirk, Spock (Zachary Quinto), Uhura (Zoe Saldana), Bones (Karl Urban), Scotty (Simon Pegg) and the crew are pressed back into service aboard the Enterprise. Facing a mysterious adversary (Benedict Cumberbatch) they do not understand, the crew of the Enterprise has to find a way to stop him... but their new enemy is also the key to a larger mystery, and larger dangers than they could have imagined. On DVD, Blu Ray, 3D Blu.

In the first century, Viking prince Steinar (Charlie Bewley) is sent on a quest by his morally wounded father in Hammer of the Gods. Declared unfit to rule by the king, Steinar and his group of violent warriors are sent on a quest through a Nordic heart of darkness to find the king's long-since banished eldest son (Elliot Cowan). On his way to find his estranged brother, Steinar braves the journey, the Saxons, and an inscrutable new mythology that threatens to destroy his people's way of life.


Stylish Fairytales

A silent, black & white, surreal adaptation of Snow White, Blancanieves casts Maribel Verdu as Carmen, the daughter of a former bullfighter (Daniel Gimenez Cacho) well past his prime. When her father marries his nurse (Angela Molina), Carmen's life is controlled by her new, evil stepmother... and her story unfolds among bullfighting dwarves and arena battles in Carmen's family trade,

Real People

Defense attorney Linda Kenney Baden (Helen Mirren) is encouraged to take on a near-impossible case defending a music icon in David Mamet's Emmy-nominated Phil Spector. When her boss (Jeffrey Tambor) pushes her towards the case, Linda is reluctant-- famous music producer Phil Spector (Al Pacino) is loud, erratic, and has a long history of threatening people with guns, and when he's accused of shooting a woman in his house, Linda doesn't see any way to win the case. As she begins to look at the evidence, Linda starts to see how to defend her client... but still has to find a way to make a jury respond to famous, loud, flamboyant Phil Spector, who most of the country assumes is crazy.

A documentary about the world's most famous whistleblowing network, Alex Gibney's We Steal Secrets: The Story of Wikileaks follows the story of Julian Assange and his evolution from independent hacker to the most notorious publisher of state secrets in the world. As Wikileaks evolved as a network for making public state secrets, the story involves the people and systems the secrets could threaten, compromise, or possibly kill, and how the consequences clash with Assange's mission of transparency.

Showcasing the work of environmental photographer James Balog, Chasing Ice documents Balog's quest to photograph and record global warming's effect on receding glaciers and disappearing ice floes. Composing a counter-argument to anti-climate-change arguments, Balog's photography provides continuous information on the vanishing ice on the planet. On DVD and Blu Ray.

In-Laws

Ida (Trine Dyrholm) walks in on her husband Leif (Kim Bodnia) with his pretty, young accountant in Susanne Bier's mostly-Danish Love Is All You Need, but her unflappable optimism sees her through. As they plan for their daughter's wedding, Leif isn't even apologetic-- Ida's struggle with breast cancer has been hard on Leif, too-- but Ida's world is brightened when she meets Philip (Pierce Brosnan), the father of the groom.

Federal judge Virgil Peeples (David Alan Grier) and his wife Daphne (S. Epatha Merkerson) are about to have an unwelcome houseguest in Peeples: their daughter's (Kerry Washington) would-be fiance, Wade (Craig Robinson). Wade is a good-hearted but unrefined children's entertainer, and it seems impossible for him to prove himself worthy of the Peeples' out-of-his-league daughter-- Wade stumbles from comedic misunderstanding to comedic misunderstanding, with awkward fish out of water antics in between.

Hidden Truths

Raised in a police family, brothers Joe (Paul Bettany) and Chrissie (Stephen Graham) work hard to live up to the legend of their tough-as-nails father (Brian Cox) in the British Blood. When a young girl is found murdered, the brothers quickly find their suspect... but not enough proof to lock him up... and when their attempt to force a confession goes awry, their secrets begin to pull their lives apart. As they try to move forward, another officer (Mark Strong) keeps looking into the circumstances of their case, and the brothers are slowly undermined by what they've done.

The truth of what happened one night of a Cambodian vacation is gradually revealed in the Australian Wish You Were Here, where Dave (Joel Edgerton), his wife Alice, and her sister Steph (Teresa Palmer) return from their travels without Steph's boyfriend. As they each start acting strangely-- no one more than Dave, whose behavior grows increasingly bizarre-- the film moves forward and back in time, filling in the events of what happened on that fateful night.

Africa

Mary (Hillary Swank) takes her pre-teen son on a six-month trip to South Africa for a six month trip in Mary and Martha, but a mosquito bite infects him with malaria, and the boy dies. In mourning, Mary meets Martha (Brenda Blethyn), who has also recently lost a son to malaria while working at an orphanage in Mozambique. Together, in their grief, the women band together to raise awareness and relief for the still-lethal malaria epidemic in Africa.

The story of 12-year-old Komona, forced to serve in a sub-Saharan rebel amy, War Witch follows the young girl from her recruitment, being forced to kill her parents, her indoctrination, to the life of an African child soldier. A filmed version of the real life struggle of the lead actress (and narrator), the movie offers the life of a child soldier, as well as the tale of her imagination and adaptability that allowed her to escape and tell her story.


On the verge of retirement, aging office clerk Celso (Sergio Hernandez) daydreams about his own mortality in the Chilean Night Across the Street. Celso's fantasy life and reality blend constantly as he wanders through his day, having conversations with Beethoven, Long John Silver, the novelist who first sparked his love of literature, and the landlady's nephew... who he thinks is trying to kill him. His whole life appears before him, and Celso has to contend with his past, his future, and the finale that lies ahead of him.

Eastender brothers Terry and Andy (Rasmus Hardiker and Harry Treadaway) were raised to live honestly, but have come up with a desperate bank robbery scheme in a last-ditch effort to save their grandfather's (Alan Ford) nursing home Cockneys vs Zombies. Though granddad has always lived in the east end of London-- and doesn't want to move north-- the east end is exactly where a zombie breaks out. The boys' robbery team and the nursing home residents both have to fend off the zombie attack, and if the family can reunite, they can show the living dead what working class, blue collar Londoners can do. With Michelle Ryan.

New this week in our TV New Releases:
Homeland
Season 2
While Carrie (Claire Danes) struggles to regain her mental health after the events of Season 1, now-Congressman Nick Brody finds resistance to his nonviolent approach to changing American Policy. Luther
Series 3
In the show's final season, Luther (Idris Elba) hunt rogue killers terrorizing London, but finds his loyalties questioned and his allegiances tested, always threatening to put him at odds with the law he is supposed to serve.
Castle
Season 5
After season 4, the relationship between Rick Castle and Kate Beckett has changed, but they still work together-- with his mystery novel intuition and her police skills-- to solve mysteries. Supernatural
Season 8
Dean escapes Purgatory to return to Earth, bringing his brother Sam back to hunting to take on their greatest challenge: to close the Gates of Hell forever.
Parade's End Set during World War I, Christopher Tietjens (Benedict Cumberbatch) is caught in a love triangle between his socialite wife and a free-thinking suffragette. One Piece Pirate captain Monkey D. Luffy sets out in search of adventure, gathering his ramshackle crew and seeking the One Piece treasure.
Psych
Season 6
Fake-psychic detective Shawn Spencer and his partner Gus continue to unravel mysteries the police can't solve, with episodes based on Chinatown, The Shining, Indiana Jones, and more. Big Bang
Theory
Season 6
Sheldon, Leonard, Penny, and the gang still have weekly sitcom misadventures while Howard is in orbit on the International Space Station.

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