Tuesday, October 15, 2013

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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