Week of October 29th

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Higher Education

Ever since he was a small monster, Mike Wazowski (Billy Crystal) has always wanted to be a scarer in Monsters University, so he joins the scare program at the University. When he bumps into James "Sully" Sullivan (John Goodman)-- a big monster with a great roar, coming from a long line of famous scarers-- their clash forces the dean (Helen Mirren) to fail them. Mike and Sully's only hope to get back into the scare program is to win the campus Scare Games. Partnered with a middle aged back-to-school salesman (Joel Murray), a 2-headed nerd (Sean Hayes and Dave Foley), the kid who still lives with his mom (Peter Sohn), and a burn-out (Charlie Day), Mike and Sully have to rally Monsters University's least-likely-to-succeed monsters and out-scare Johnny J. Worthington III (Nathan Fillion) and the popular monsters of Roar Omega Roar. On DVD, Blu Ray, and 3D Blu.

Law school dropout Jillian (Jess Weixler) doesn't remember much from last night, has a terrible hangover, and is stuck covering her friend's (Halley Feiffer) shift in an ice cream truck in Free Samples. She only has one responsibility-- to hand out free ice cream samples-- but since she doesn't really work there, Jillian doesn't feel the need to be nice to the customers... or anyone, for that matter. She dismisses her friends (Jason Ritter) and the guy (Jesse Eisenberg) she doesn't remember meeting, too; though she says the only thing she wants is a cup of coffee, what Jillian really needs is to get her life back on track.

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Blood Soaked

Vampire mother Clara (Gemma Arterton) and daughter Eleanor (Saoirse Ronan) have survived for two-hundred years in Neil Jordan's Byzantium. While Clara supports them, working as a stripper and prostitute, callously killing her customers, Eleanor only kills people ready for death: the old and the sick. They keep their real identities a secret, killing anyone who knows the truth about them... but Eleanor begins to pull away from her mother. Telling her story to a boy (Caleb Landry Jones), dreaming of a life where she isn't hidden from the world by Clara, Eleanor sets off a chain of events that will change their lives forever. With Daniel Mays. On DVD and Blu Ray.

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Trackers

Nick (Ryan Reynolds) and his partner Bobby (Kevin Bacon) are Boston police who discover a chest full of gold during a drug bust, but Nick won't live to spend it in R.I.P.D. Instead of securing a better life for his wife (Stephanie Szostak), Nick is whisked to the afterlife where he's assigned to the Rest In Peace Department. Partnered with a crotchety marshall from the old west (Jeff Bridges), Nick starts his R.I.P.D. job: they keep the undead in check among the living. Their first case is more than either the rookie or the veteran could have expected, making them the only obstacles to a plot to destroy the balance between the living and the dead. With Mary-Louise Parker. On DVD and Blu Ray.

A bounty has been placed on the white collar criminals that caused the apocalypse and left the world bankrupt in Bounty Killer. Bounty killers like the shoot-first-ask-questions-later Drifter (Matthew Marsden) and the graceful and seductive Mary Death have become celebrities in post apocalyptic society, inspiring fans like Jack (Barak Hardley) to be their "gun caddies," traveling with them, reloading their weapons, and handling the sidekick duties. When a new bounty shocks Drifter and Mary Death, they have to brave corrupt businessmen (Gary Busey), cannibalistic gypsies, secretive cabals, unreliable informants, and more as they travel the wasteland. With Kristanna Loken.

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Documentary

Detailing the decades-long friendship between actor Sam Shepard and comedian Johnny Dark, the documentary Shepard & Dark assembles the letters that kept them in touch after their first meeting in the early 1960s. Though they are admittedly very different, their enduring friendship is preserved in paper as they prepare to publish their correspondence... though Dark is a compulsive archiver who eagerly applies himself to old letters, and Shepard is less willing to sift through the past.

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New this week in our TV New Releases:

	Family Tree Season 1	Christopher Guest's mockumentary series chronicles Tom Chadwick (Chris O'Dowd) who, upon finding an old photo of his great grandfather, begins to investigate his family history... only to meet one wild character after another.
	Foyle's War Series 8	Set in the summer of 1946, Christopher Foyle returns from America, applying his investigative skills to unmasking Soviet spy rings and the threats of the Cold War.

Week of October 22nd

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Continued

The third installment in the series, Richard Linklater's Before Midnight catches up to Jesse and Celine (Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy) nine years after Before Sunset. Nearly twenty years after their chance meeting on a Vienna-bound train, the film spends a day with them in Greece. As they walk and talk, their conversation details how their lives have changed over the last several years, and how that affects the relationship between the two of them. On DVD and Blu Ray.

The second installment of the trilogy that began with Paradise: Love, Paradise: Faith focuses on Anna Maria, a fifty-something medical technician and Roman Catholic missionary. When her estranged, paraplegic, Muslim husband re-enters her life, he imposes on the key relationship in Anna Maria's life-- she's devoted to the church to the point of self-flagellation, and spends her free-time trying to convert her immigrant neighbors. While her husband is part of a life she'd like to forget, their religious differences form an entirely different threat to her rigorously Catholic household.

After the birdpocalypse in 2010, the world mostly returned to normal in Birdemic 2: The Resurrection where independent film producer Bill spots his new leading lady in waitress Gloria. Unfortunately, before Bill can get his new movie off the ground, the birds come back. The crisis reunites Bill and Gloria with Rod and Natalie (from the first Birdemic), and they all have to fight for their lives against killer birds.

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Phenomena

Based on a case by real-life paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren (Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga), James Wan's The Conjuring centers on Roger and Carolyn Perron (Ron Livingston and Lili Taylor) as they move their five daughters into a new home. As they set up their new household, the family experiences strange sounds and odd occurrences... by the time they call the Warrens, the seven of them are sleeping together in the living room to protect themselves from whatever is terrorizing them. Ed and Lorraine Warren are experts at dealing with hauntings and possessions, but whatever has infested the Perron household could be the most dangerous and deadly event they've ever faced. On DVD and Blu Ray.

A woman's (Martina Gedeck) vacation at a remote hunting lodge takes an unexpected turn in the German The Wall when she finds herself cut off from the rest of the world by an invisible wall. Cut off from all of humankind, the woman has to survive in her new environment within the invisible barrier without help from the outside world.

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Coming of Age

Tomboy Lucy (Sarah Bolger) is growing up-- her first kiss has led to an awareness of both her own sexuality and the lives of the adults around her in As Cool As I Am. Though she never saw anything strange about her lumberjack father's (James Marsden) months-long absences, or how little her mother (Claire Danes) seems to miss him, her new perspective makes her aware of a lot she had been missing in her own life. With Thomas Mann.

When his mother (Toni Collette) and her new boyfriend Trent (Steve Carell) drag 14-year-old Duncan (Liam James) along with them for a Cape Cod summer vacation, he's dreading the trip in The Way Way Back. Trent and his mother are much more involved in themselves than in Duncan, so he finds a safe haven in the local water park. Mentored by Owen (Sam Rockwell), Duncan gets a job at the park, where he can thrive among his diverse group of coworkers (including Maya Rudolph) and find some self-esteem away from Trent's bullying. He might even gain enough confidence to woo AnnaSophia Robb. With Allison Janney. On DVD and Blu Ray.

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Comedies

Billy and Nick (Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson) are ace salesmen who find themselves jobless in The Internship, so they apply as interns at Google. They're older than everyone else in the program and don't really have any computer skills, so Billy and Nick end up on an intern team with other misfits and outcasts. Only one team will be guaranteed Google jobs, and Billy and Nick's group of outsiders don't think they can compete with an alpha-team of programmers (led by Max Minghella), but before you can say "slobs vs. snobs," they set out to prove that some oddball charm and can-do spirit can win the day. With Rose Byrne. On DVD and Blu Ray.

Jennifer's (Laura Prepon) 30th birthday party is off to a bad start in The Kitchen: her boyfriend Paul (Bryan Greenberg) has been cheating on her, and let her know right before the party. As the guests pile in and Jennifer discovers some of her friends are among Paul's affairs, she and her sister (Dreama Walker) are in for quite a night. With the apartment filling up with a wide assortment of characters, from an unstable photographer to a rocker with no impulse control, Jennifer's birthday might not be going the way she'd hoped, but it's bound to be memorable. With Tate Ellington.

Ambitious careerwoman Nat (Rose Byrne) and aspiring writer Josh (Rafe Spall) fall in love at first sight in I Give It a Year, and marry after only six months together. Their friends doubt that driven Nat and layabout Josh have a future together, and their differences do begin to stack up as they get on each other's nerves. Worse, Josh's old girlfriend (Anna Faris), who shares his laid back sense of humor, returns, and Nat's new client (Simon Baker) is a dashing and successful entrepreneur. They know that marriage isn't easy, but they have to decide whether making their contrasting natures fit together is worth the work. With Stephen Merchant and Minnie Driver. On DVD and Blu Ray.

Based on a recent Seattle election, Grassroots is the story of writer Phil Campbell (Jason Biggs) who finds his calling after being fired by The Stranger: he'll serve as campaign manager for Grant Cogswell (Joel David Moore). Grant is running for a seat on the Seattle City Council, fighting against incumbent Richard McIver's (Cedric the Entertainer) light rail plan with his proposal for a monorail. Grant is loud, vulgar, and speaks before he thinks... but his passion starts a grass roots movement, and Campbell find himself running a wilder campaign than he could have predicted.

A filmed recording of his Too Old to Die Young tour, Billy Connolly: Live in New York provides a complete performance of comedian Billy Connolly's stand up routine, shot at the New York Town Hall.

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Revenge

Julian (Ryan Gosling) is an American expatriate running a muay thai studio in Bangkok when he learns of his brother's murder in Nicolas Winding Refn's Only God Forgives. His mother (Kristin Scott Thomas) flies in to mourn her lost boy... and push Julian toward vengeance. What unfolds is Refn's particular vision of seedy noir: mostly wordless, carefully composed, and more based in tone than story, with shocking bursts of violence. On DVD and Blu Ray.

Guerrero de la Cruz (Danny Trejo) is the leader of a band of old west outlaws in Dead in Tombstone, and they help their own by saving bandit Red Cavanaugh (Anthony Michael Hall) from a lawman's noose. Guerrero and Red join forces, but when Red betrays and shoots him, Guerrero vows revenge from beyond the grave. Lucifer (Mickey Rourke) offers him a deal, and Guerrero rises from the dead to take vengeance on those who betrayed and killed him. On DVD and Blu Ray.

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Documentary

A documentary about the rogues galleries of some of the world's most famous superheroes, Necessary Evil: Super-Villains of DC Comics collects artists, writers, directors (including Guillermo del Toro and Zack Snyder) to discuss the necessity of each hero's own dark shadow. Narrated by Christopher Lee.

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New this week in our TV New Releases:

Nikita Season 3

Nikita and her Division team fight to clean up the aftermath of Percy's actions at the end of Season 2, working to find and redeem the rogue Division agents loose in the world and finally set their agency on a righteous path.

Week of October 15th

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Canceling the Apocalypse

When giant monsters called Kaiju rise from the ocean floor and attack humanity, mankind fights back with monster-sized Jaeger robots in Guillermo del Toro's Pacific Rim. After years of battling creatures and winning, larger and more dangerous Kaiju become a bigger threat than humanity can handle... but while the Earth's governments want to stop fighting and build an anti-monster wall, the commander of Jaeger forces Stacker Pentecost (Idris Elba) knows that if the monsters aren't stopped, it will be the end the world. Recruiting a former pilot (Charlie Hunnam) and pairing him with a rookie partner (Rinko Kikuchi) to captain one of the last remaining Jaegers, Pentecost and his science team (including Charlie Day) send them on a last-ditch mission to end the Kaiju threat forever. With Ron Perlman. On DVD, Blu Ray, and 3D Blu.

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Odd Couple

FBI Special Agent Sarah Ashburn (Sandra Bullock) is great at closing cases but bad at relating to her colleagues in The Heat, but when her boss (Damian Bichir) sends her to Boston she finds herself partnered with loose-cannon local cop Shannon Mullins (Melissa McCarthy). Mullins is a Boston native and a skilled detective, and she can help Ashburn with her investigation, but her gruff and aggressive style is guaranteed to drive tightly-wound Ashburn crazy. Though neither one can stand the other, the two women turn out to be the only ones who can solve the case, and they might be a better team than either of them could have guessed. With Marlon Wayans. On DVD and Blu Ray.

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Independents

New York teenagers Malcolm and Sofia are a graffiti art team with a plan to become the most notorious taggers in the city in Gimme the Loot: they'll make their mark on the giant, plastic apple that pops up every time the NY Mets hit a home run. With a lead that a friend of a friend can get them into the stadium, they'll need to pay their inside man $500 to get to the apple and make their mark... but neither of them have any money. Drifting from scheme to scheme, the pair do everything they can to raise the money-- from marijuana deliveries to selling sneakers to robbery, Malcolm and Sofia have one day to raise the money and become the most talked-about graffiti artists in New York.

Terence captures his feelings about Namik in An Oversimplification of Her Beauty, proceeding as a meditation on both Namik and a daydream about love itself. Drifting from filming the world around him to animation and stop motion, the movie weaves a self-aware tapestry of introspection, romantic dreams, and the realities of the object of Terence's desire.

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Documentary

Combining stories of CIA agents, special forces operators, military generals, and US-backed foreign warlords, Dirty Wars documents the aftermath of US military involvement across the globe. Led by journalist and national security correspondent Jeremy Scahill, the film explores the impact of night raids, drone attacks, and the operations of the War on Terror in Afghanistan as well as countries where no war has been declared.

Stonemason Chris Overing's years-long efforts to build a 1,000-mile wall on his rural Quebec property, Triumph of the Wall documents the ambition and obsession of Overing's construction, along with his lapses in focus and meanderings. Though the wall was supposed to be completed after eight weeks of work, the project, begun in 2001, is still underway, and Overing's project has taken on its own, strange personality.

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Imports

The story of modern day pirates, the Norwegian A Hijacking follows the crew of the cargo ship Rozen as they're taken over by Somali pirates in the Indian Ocean. Interweaving the attempts of the ship's cook to negotiate with the AK-47-toting pirates and the CEO of the shipping company as he tries the resolve the situation over the phone, the hostage situation becomes a tense, claustrophobic situation as all sides try to make it through the ordeal.

Middle-aged Theresa travels to Kenya on vacation in the Austrian Paradise: Love, excited by the prospect of meeting "beach boys" on the oceanfront. She befriends the soft spoken Munga and the two begin the romantic affair Theresa had fantasized about, but Munga begins asking her for money... and their relationship develops as the kind of transaction that defines beach boys and their sugar mamas.

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Bloodletting

Shot from the first-person perspective on a serial killer, Maniac unfolds from behind the eyes of Frank (Elijah Wood) as he stalks, kills, and scalps women. Working alone in his family business of restoring mannequins, he befriends a photographer (Nora Arnezeder) who sees him as a fellow artistic spirit, but deeply disturbed Frank's entire life is hobbled by his traumatic childhood, abusive mother, and unhealthy projections upon his mannequin art subjects.

In a future where a new ice age has forced humans to live underground, Briggs (Laurence Fishburn) and Mason (Bill Paxton), the leaders of Colony 7, respond to a nearby distress call in The Colony. Traveling to Colony 5, Briggs and his team (including Kevin Zegers) find the colony empty and covered in blood. Searching for answers, they discover the secret that destroyed Colony 5, a secret that could change the future of the human race, but they also find survivors... survivors who have no intention of letting Briggs' men leave the colony alive.

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New this week in our TV New Releases:

	Defiance Season 1	Humans and the alien Voltans keep a strained peace on post-apocalyptic Earth. Set among the ruins of St. Louis, a human sheriff and his adopted alien daughter try to keep the peace and survive among the fractured city states of the new world.		The Fades Series 1	Haunted by nightmares, teenage Paul can see "fades:" the fragments of deceased human souls that continue to walk the earth. As the Fades grow more violent towards the living, Paul finds himself in an epic battle for the fate of humanity.
	The Fall Series 1	Detective Superintendent Stella Gibson (Gillian Anderson) is called in to review a case in Northern Ireland. As the local police have no leads after a month with a serial killer on the loose, Detective Gibson has to take over the investigation and find a way to stop the murders.		Vikings Season 1	Following the historical adventures of Viking legend Ragnar Lodbrok, the Norsemen build a fleet of longships and voyage across the sea, discovering new lands and clashing with unknown dangers.
	Making Stuff	The four part Nova mini-series explores the future of the world we live in, and how what we produce with be made Stronger, Smaller, Cleaner, and Faster.		Clone Wars Season 5	The final season of Star Wars: Clone Wars wraps up the epic conflict between the Jedi and the Sith between Star Wars Episode II and Episode III.

Week of October 8th

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Maturity

After Alan (Zach Galifianakis) causes a 30-car freeway pile up, his friends and family stage in intervention in The Hangover Part III, but the only way to get him into rehab is to reunite the Wolf Pack. Set up as a road trip with Phil (Bradley Cooper) and Stu (Ed Helms), their trip to get Alan to an Arizona facility gets interrupted by a mob boss (John Goodman) who believes they are the only link to Mr. Chow (Ken Jeong) and all the criminal hijinks of the past two movies. Tasked with finding Chow and retrieving the mob boss' stolen property, the three friends have to join up once again to overcome the incredible odds that they can only face together. On DVD and Blu Ray.

Much Ado About Nothing
Now & Then

Director Joss Whedon assembled a cast of his regulars to film Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing, where a gathering at Leonato's estate (Clark Gregg) sparks love and immediate wedding plans between Hero and Claudio (Fran Kranz)... helped along by Don Pedro (Reed Diamond). They're complete opposites of Beatrice (Amy Acker) and Benedick (Alexis Denisof), who dislike each other even more than they dislike marriage, but it's Don Jon (Sean Maher) that plots to ruin their happiness. With Nathan Fillion and Tom Lenk. On DVD and Blu Ray.

The Borrowers
Now & Then

Pod Clock(Christopher Eccleston) has tried to keep his family safe, living in seclusion in the shadow of the giant Human Beans in The Borrowers. When his adventurous daughter Arrietty (Aisling Loftus) reveals herself to one of the humans, Pod and his family have to flee to the sewers to escape Professor Mildeye (Stephen Fry) and his quest to capture borrowers and expose them to the world. The Clocks find a guide (Robert Sheehan) to lead them to a new, safer home, but Arrietty isn't ready to return to solitude, and their family disagreement could jeopardize them all. The story of British entrepreneur Paul Raymond (Steve Coogan), Michael Winterbottom's The Look of Love tracks Paul's rise from his beginnings as a 1960s nudie club owner. As Paul's empire grows, spreading burlesque shows, dance reviews, and adult magazines, his lifestyle becomes more reckless. Leaving his wife (Anna Friel) for a dancer (Tamsin Egerton) in one of his shows, Paul follows his 60s empire into 70s decadence, Paul's hedonism leads to drugs and bad decisions, and he'll have to face the consequences eventually. With Imogen Poots.

On the cusp turning 30, Leigh (Kristen Bell) leaves New York, leaves her job, and returns to stay with her parents in suburbia in The Lifeguard. Retreating from her high pressure life, she gets a lifeguard job at the local pool and tries to figure out why she feels so lost... but hanging out with highschool kids and shirking responsibility makes her old friends (Mamie Gummer and Martin Starr) act the same way when they're with her. Though they all rediscover a freedom they've lost, they also have to accept who they've grown into.

Famous novelist Bill's (Greg Kinnear) life fell apart when his wife (Jennifer Connelly) left him in Stuck in Love. He passes his time with a casual hookup (Kristen Bell), but he hasn't been writing, and the shockwaves of his relationship have crippled his children: his daughter (Lily Collins) shuns emotional attachment in favor of one-night stands and his son (Nat Wolff) is a reclusive dreamer who won't reach out to anyone. As the rest of his family starts to grow and change, Bill is stuck in the same situation, keeping a promise he never shared with the rest of them. With Logan Lerman. On DVD and Blu Ray.

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Science Fiction

Kitai (Jaden Smith) has never been able to live up to the expectations of his father, war hero Cypher Raige (Will Smith) in M. Night Shyamalan's After Earth. When their ship crash lands, Kitai and Cypher are forced to face the fact that they're stranded on Earth: a planet so dangerous, humans abandoned it a thousand years ago. Cypher, wounded in the crash, sends Kitai on an epic quest to retrieve their distress beacon... but to survive the journey, he'll have to become the kind son his father needs him to be. On DVD and Blu Ray.

When the recorded footage of the privately funded expedition to Jupiter's moons is received on Earth, the CEO of Europa Ventures (Embeth Davidtz) presents the mission's findings in Europa Report. Put together as the found footage compilation to the manned voyage into deep space, the pilots (Daniel Wu and Anamaria Marinca), science officer (Christian Camargo), marine biologist (Karolina Wydra), and engineers (Sharlto Copley and Michael Nyqvist) film their search for marine life under the ice of Europa and the hardships they endure on their way to Jupiter. On DVD and Blu Ray.

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Killings

The reborn nation of the United States was saved from crippling poverty and violence by offering its citizens an annual night where everything-- including murder-- is permitted in The Purge. James (Ethan Hawke) made his fortune selling home security systems, so his home is secure on the night of The Purge: his wife (Lena Headey) and daughter (Adelaide Kane) settle in for the night, but his son (Max Burkholder) opens the door to offer sanctuary to a wounded man (Edwin Hodge) being hunted. They feel vulnerable with a stranger in their midst, but the entitled prep-school kids (led by Rhys Wakefield) hunting the stranger are a bigger threat-- if James doesn't send him out and let the kids do their violent, patriotic duty, they have enough supplies to break down his front door and "purge" everyone in the house. On DVD and Blu Ray.

Pastor Dan Bramfort (James Tupper) is taking his wife (Anne Heche) and children (including Rebekah Brandes and Jennifer Stone) to the small town of Stull, Kansas to lead their parish in Nothing Left to Fear. Dan is taking over for the outgoing pastor (Clancy Brown) who's helping him with the transition, and the townsfolk are very accommodating to the Bramforts, but when changes begin to occur within the family, they slowly begin to suspect that the town is not what it seems. With Ethan Peck.

When her mother dies immediately after the arrival of a mysterious package, paraplegic Nica (Fiona Dourif) is in mourning in Curse of Chucky. Nica's sister Barb arrives with the rest of her family the next day to discuss the estate, and Barb's young daughter Alice finds the discarded Good Guy doll that arrived in he package. As Nica and Barb battle over their mother's holdings, Alice has made fast friends with the doll she now calls Chucky (Brad Dourif). Chucky isn't in the house by accident... as the body count rises, his plans for the family unfold, and his new best friend Alice becomes the key to everything. With Maitland McConnell. On DVD and Blu Ray.

Recently dumped by his girlfriend, Simon (Brady Corbet) flies to Paris to gain some distance in Simon Killer. He finds some relief in the companionship of a supportive, pretty prostitute, but Simon is slowly crumbling... his ambitions in Paris first turn to criminal schemes to raise money to buy his new girl's freedom, but Simon's morality and inhibitions start to bend and eventually break.

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Activist

Taking its title from the local term for LGBT people, Call Me Kuchu is the story of Ugandan gay rights and activism, and David Kato, the first openly gay man in Uganda. Centering on Uganda's proposed "Anti-Homosexuality Bill" that requires citizens to turn in HIV positive men for execution, the documentary highlights the institutionalized homophobia in the country, and the uphill battle for basic human rights in the Ugandan gay community.

Documenting the activists that have halted deforestation and saved endangered wildlife, A Fierce Green Fire is both a celebration of successful environmentalism and a cautionary tale of a fragile balance. Combining individual stories, each with their own narrator (including Meryl Streep, Robert Redford, and Ashley Judd), the film addresses The Sierra Club, the Love Canal, and Greenpeace's war against whalers, among others.

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New this week in our TV New Releases:

	American Horror Story: Asylum	Departing from the cast and location of the first season, Season 2 delves into a 1960s mental hospital, slowly revealing the macabre secrets of the doctors and the patients.		In The Flesh Series 1	After the zombie apocalypse, the partially dead have returned to an almost-normal life with treatment and medication, but as Kieren returns to his small, country home, he learns that not everyone is willing to accept a rehabilitated zombie.
	Bones Season 8	Picking up where the finale for Season 7 left off, Bones and Booth team up to solve a variety of cases, examining remains, and catching killers.		White Collar Season 4	White collar criminal, forger, and thief Neal Caffrey is still working off his debt to society, helping the FBI catch crooks that dabble in his area of expertise.
	Psych Season 7	Fake-psychic detective Shawn Spencer and his partner Gus continue to unravel mysteries the police can't solve, with episodes that reunite the cast of Clue, put the guys in a musical episode, and more.		Robot Chicken Season 6	The stop-motion animated sketch series returns with toy and action figure-based observational comedy involving superheroes, G.I. Joe, the A-Team, Scooby Doo, Legos, Dora the Explorer, and more.
	Monster High 13 Wishes	Howleen Wolf-- Clawdeen's little sister-- finds a magic lamp in the attic of Monster High and releases a genie that grants her 13 wishes, along with a selection of other Monster High episodes.

Week of October 1st

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The End

The last family of cavemen have stayed alive by staying in their cave as much as possible in Dreamworks' animated The Croods. Grug (Nicolas Cage) has kept his family safe by being the strongest and by teaching them to fear everything-- especially anything new-- but his willful daughter Eep (Emma Stone) hates being cooped up in the dark cave. When Eep sneaks out one night and meets Guy (Ryan Reynolds), a wanderer trying to outrun "The End," Grug wants to get rid him: a stranger who uses fire and has a head full of new and frightening ideas has no place in Grug's world. With The End closing in on them, The Croods have to leave the cave and are forced to follow Guy's promise of something new over the horizon... which is everything Eep wants, and everything Grug fears. On DVD and Blu Ray.

Playing fictionalized versions of themselves, Jay Baruchel visits his old friend Seth Rogen in Los Angeles in This Is The End, but even though Jay doesn't like LA or the Hollywood scene, Seth drags him to a party at James Franco's house. The only thing worse for Jay than being stuck at a show business party would be the apocalypse, which rends the ground, sets the hills on fire, kills most of the partiers, and leaves him trapped in Franco's house with Seth, Jonah Hill, Craig Robinson, and Danny McBride. They hole up as long as they can, but the End of Days is knocking at their door, and with limited food and water, not even James Franco's house can keep them safe from the apocalypse outside. With Michael Cera. On DVD and Blu Ray.

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Real Killers

When the Anchorage police recover handcuffed and kidnapped Cindy Paulson (Vanessa Hudgens), they simply turn her back onto the street in The Frozen Ground. Though the officers on the case wouldn't take the word of a teenage prostitute, Sgt Halcolmbe (Nicolas Cage) sees Cindy as the first real link between missing Alaska girls and Robert Hansen (John Cusack). Based on the case to arrest and find evidence implicating Hansen, who killed around twenty women over a twelve-year span, Halcolmbe sees Cindy as his best hope in bringing Hansen to justice... but the one girl who got away is Hansen's biggest threat, something that needs to be taken care of if he wants to avoid jail. With Dean Norris.

The three-part interview with Richard Kuklinski, the basis for the recent release of The Iceman, The Iceman Interviews collects the conversations Kuklinski filmed for HBO in 1992. Interviewed by a forensic psychologist, Kuklinski talks about his upbringing, his family life, his long history as a contract killer for the mob, and his relationship with murder and morality.

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Documentaries

Exploring the over-80 table tennis championships, Ping Pong introduces 89-year-old athletic British Les, 100-year-old Australian Dot, chainsmoking Chinese Sun, and the rest of the 80+ table tennis contenders. Telling each player's story, the film explores both the contest itself and the competitive senior citizens that make up its culture.

Combining theories about the "real" meaning of Stanley Kubrick's 1980 film The Shining, Room 237 provides a platform for enthusiasts of the film to explain the hidden message of The Shining. Each commenter asserts that their theory is obviously Kubrick's intended meaning-- Kubrick being notoriously precise about even the smallest details of his films-- but their theories range from The Shining being Kubrick's apology for faking the moon landing, to a metaphor for sexual repression and abuse, to an exploration of Native American genocide... just to name a few. On DVD and Blu Ray.

A glimpse inside what it takes to become a master sommelier, Somm documents four young men as they study every detail of wine for the Master Sommelier Exam. Honing their palettes to become expert wine tasters, the master sommelier hopefuls must also learn even the most trivial details of wine culture to have any chance of becoming masters. The film follows them as they obsess over every aspect of wine culture while striving to join wine's most elite group: The Court of Master Sommeliers.

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Independents

Taking place in real time over the course of a Brooklyn bus ride, Michel Gondry's The We and The I assembles a group of teenage non-actors to create a naturalistic microcosm of New York life. Blurring the lines between character and actor, the film allows the kids to play off each other as they taunt, flirt, confront, and goad one another as their individual stories progress, but doesn't prevent their real lives from erupting on screen.

When Nick gets dumped by his girlfriend, he leaves his New York home and retreats to his hometown of Rockford, Illinois in the romantic comedy Language of a Broken Heart. Staying with his wacky mother (Julie White) and reuniting with his childhood best friend (Ethan Cohn), Nick begins to mend his heartache when he meets a beautiful, free-spirited bookstore owner (Kate French).

An eccentric entrepreneur (Lance Henriksen) bankrolls a 13-year manned flight to the Jupiter moon of Europa in Astronaut: The Last Push, but an accident leaves astronaut Michael Forrest (Khary Payton) alone in a crippled craft when the mission has barely begun. Stuck in one compartment on his ship, Michael has to make what basic repairs he can manage or end up adrift forever. With only limited contact from mission control (Brian Baumgartner), the astronaut struggles to keep his ship functioning... but as the months drag on, his perspective on returning to earth begin to change.

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A highly equipped Hong Kong police van disappears in Cold War, taking weapons and equipment, and holding the officers hostage. As the police force fights to track down the missing van, save their men, and recover weapons they need to keep off the black market, two deputy commissioners battle for control of the rescue operation. The management deputy (Aaron Kwok) tries to control the situation through procedure, while the operations deputy (Tony Leung Ka Fai) has a more brute force approach, but whoever can solve the hostage crisis will ascend to run the Hong Kong police.

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New this week in our TV New Releases:

	New Girl Season 2	Jess (Zooey Deschanel) is still living in her Craigslist-found home with slacker Nick, ladies' man Schmidt, and competitive Winston, who always put her in the way of sitcom antics.		How I Met Your Mother Season 8	The continuing story of Ted and how he found The One-- the woman he'd marry and the mother of his children-- continues to unfold amongst his friends and their adventures in New York.
	Glee Season 4	The New Direction glee club are preparing for sectionals before heading to the regional competition, singing and dancing their way through relationships and highschool issues.		Phineas & Ferb Mission Marvel	One of Dr. Doofenshmirtz's ray guns accidentally blasts The Avengers, bringing Iron Man, Spider-Man, Thor, and the Hulk to Phineas and Ferb's space station... but without their powers, they're going to need all the help they can get.