Week of November 26th

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Chase

Retired from the guns-and-chases super-spy business, Frank (Bruce Willis) is trying to live a quiet life with Sarah (Mary-Louise Parker) in Red 2. Their paranoid friend Marvin (John Malkovich) bursts into their life and shatters their calm: suddenly, the three of them are on the run, chased by an amoral CIA agent (Neal McDonough), a contract killer (Lee Byung-hun) with grudge against Frank, and their comrade from MI6, Victoria (Helen Mirren). On a globe-trotting adventure to find the pieces of their past responsible for their current danger, they have to survive hired professionals, government agents, a Russian femme fatale (Catherine Zeta-Jones), and an operative locked away for being unstable (Anthony Hopkins). Together, they have to survive their own mysterious past long enough to save the world in the present day. On DVD and Blu Ray.

Brent's (Ethan Hawke) wife has been kidnapped in Getaway, and only Brent's history as a famous race car driver can win her freedom. Ordered into a modified car-- armored and fitted with cameras, to watch his every move-- Brent is ordered by a voice (Jon Voight) through a series of phone calls: where to drive, what to crash into, when to stop. When a tough girl (Selena Gomez) tries to carjack him, she's forced into the car, and together they evade police and do whatever the mysterious mastermind demands of them. During their high-speed chase, they have to find a way to fight back against the voice on the phone and rescue Brent's wife. On DVD and Blu Ray.

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Biography

Jobs
Now & Then

A portrait of the creator of Apple computers, Jobs begins its story with Steve Jobs (Ashton Kutcher) in college, traveling, and eventually chafing under inflexible bosses and management, working for Atari. When he sees his friend Steve Wozniak's (Josh Gad) idea for a personal computer, they form a partnership. Forming a startup company in Jobs' garage, the first team (Lukas Haas, Victor Rasuk, Nelson Franklin, and Ron Eldard) build the first Apple computers, they find a willing investor (Dermot Mulroney) and begin their meteoric rise... but Steve Jobs' philosophy and drive both make Apple the cutting-edge in computers and alienate his friends and partners. With an equal mix of intuition and arrogance, he engineers the largest successes and failures in both his company and his life. With Matthew Modine. On DVD and Blu Ray.

The story of a legendary 70s rock band, the documentary Big Star: Nothing Can Hurt Me details the band's formation and immediate critical acclaim, as well as the lack of popular success that followed. Brought to more widespread audiences in the 1990s after being touted by commercially successful acts like Beck, The Flaming Lips, and REM, the documentary follows the recording of Big Star's three studio albums, their struggles within the band and with the music business, and the mainstream appeal they never found in their heyday.

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Behind Closed Doors

Written by Bret Easton Ellis and directed by Paul Schrader, the erotic thriller The Canyons tells the story of Christian and Tara (Lindsay Lohan) in privileged Beverly Hills society. Christian is using his trust fund to film a low budget horror movie, but, unbeknownst to him, Tara has begun a relationship with the movie's star, Ryan (Nolan Gerard Funk). As the betrayals, lies, and deceptions pile up, the characters discover new depths of immorality inherent within privileged, Los Angeles culture. On DVD and Blu Ray.

11-year-old Skunk's world changes drastically when she witnesses a violent beating in her neighborhood in Broken. Her neighbor, Mr. Oswalt (Rory Kinnear) savagely beats the off-kilter boy across the street Rick (Robert Emms) after the false accusation from one of Oswalt's daughters... girls that torment Skunk at school. Her father (Tim Roth), brother (Bill Milner), and favorite teacher (Cillian Murphy) do their best to keep Skunk safe, but she's slowly being exposed to sex, violence, and-- thanks to a visit to Ricky in the asylum-- insanity.

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Unconventional Children

19-year-old Hana falls in love with a mysterious boy in her college class in Mamoru Hosoda's Wolf Children, but after a little time together, he reveals that he's actually a wolf. She stays with him and they have two children, but a tragic accident leaves Hana alone with her rambunctious daughter Yuki and timid son Ame... both of whom shapeshift into wolves when they get excited. Hana has to keep the kids' secret, and they move to the country to live in isolation, but the family finds themselves in a closer community than they've ever known before. As Yuki goes to school and learns to be part of society, Ame takes to the woods and bonds more closely with his wolf side, and Hana does her best to raise two unconventional children.

At the moment of India's independence, the stroke of midnight, August 15, 1947, 1001 babies are born in Deepa Mehta's Midnight's Children, all with special powers. As he grows up, Saleem (Satya Bhabha) discovers his ability to hear the voices of the other thousand children. Saleem's power binds the rest of Midnight's Children and becomes their binding member, the unifying voice they need when the Prime Minister (Sarita Choudhury) seeks them out for persecution.

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New this week in our TV New Releases:

	Breaking Bad Final Season	Walter White's journey from milquetoast high-school chemistry teacher to drug kingpin reaches its end in Breaking Bad's final season, where the split between providing for his family and his life in the criminal underworld reaches its breaking point, and Walter's fate is finally decided.
	Mystery Science Theater 3000 25th Anniversary	Joel, Mike, and the bots are keeping their sanity on the Satellite of Love by mocking terrible movies, including Gorgo, The Day the Earth Froze, The Leech Woman, and Moon Zero Two		Rifftrax Night of the Living Dead	Mike, Kevin, and Bill provide their MST3K style running commentary for George Romero's classic Night of the Living Dead.

Week of November 19th

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Adulthood, and Moving Forward

Gary King's (Simon Pegg) life hasn't turned into the unbridled success he assumed it would be when he was 17 and on top of the world in Edgar Wright's The World's End, so he does the only thing he can: he gets the gang back together. His teenage friends Peter (Eddie Marsan), Oliver (Martin Freeman), and Steven (Paddy Considine) have all moved on, living adult lives, and Andy (Nick Frost) hasn't had a drink in years... so they're not thrilled to reform Gary's gang, return to their childhood home, and join him in completing the 12-bar pub crawl they didn't finish the night Gary's life peaked. When they get to their sleepy little hometown, they discover that everything has changed-- either everything seems different because they've grown older, or something sinister is happening, and they'll have to fight for their lives. With Rosamund Pike. On DVD and Blu Ray.

When her best friends (Alia Shawkat and Sarah Steele) force her to go to a party, valedictorian Brandy (Aubrey Plaza) has her first drink, and first near-sexual encounter in The To Do List and realizes something: she has a lot to learn. Her more experienced sister (Rachel Bilson) tells Brandy that she needs to be prepared before she goes off to college, Brandy approaches her sex education like any overachieving mathlete-- she makes a lesson plan. Over her summer vacation, she gets a lifeguard job at a pool (working for Bill Hader) and works on gaining the kinds of skills and experience that will allow her to lose her virginity to the hunky lifeguard (Johnny Simmons) at work. With Scott Porter. On DVD and Blu Ray.

The first movie based on a David Sedaris essay, C.O.G. stars Jonathan Groff as David who graduates Yale and travels to Oregon to live a Steinbeck-inspired dream. Determined to work the soil and see how the other half lives, David is both sheltered and arrogant, and has no idea how to relate to his fellow passengers on a cross-country Greyhound bus, the non-English-speaking laborers working with him at an apple orchard (run by Dean Stockwell), or the deeply religious family man (Denis O'Hare) who takes him in. Aided by a self-depricating sense of humor, he does discover how people outside of his privileged world live, but his experience shows him more than a romantic view of "working the land." With Casey Wilson.

Ambitious Adam (Liam Hemsworth) is working for technology genius Wyatt (Gary Oldman) in hopes of making his fortune and out-running his blue collar past in Paranoia. Wyatt drives Adam to spy on rival company (and former partner) Goddard (Harrison Ford), and he's suddenly a pawn in Wyatt's game of corporate espionage. Groomed by Wyatt's assistant (Embeth Davidtz), Adam is groomed to look and act like an executive and sent to Goddard's company, but an FBI agent (Josh Holloway) tells him he's not the first. Adam has to consider what he really wants from these corporations when he learns the fate of the last protege Wyatt pressed into espionage. With Amber Heard. On DVD and Blu Ray.

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Across Borders

Powerful megalomaniacal drug lord Brad Gurdlinger (Ed Helms) forces David (Jason Sudeikis), a small-time pot dealer, to move marijuana across the Mexican border in We're the Millers. David knows clean-cut, all-American families don't get searched at border crossings, so he drafts his naive 18-year-old neighbor (Will Poulter), a street urchin homeless girl (Emma Roberts), and a stripper (Jennifer Aniston) to form a makeshift family: the Millers. They load an RV full of marijuana and set off to make the delivery, but the drugs actually belong to a Mexican drug lord (Tomer Sisley) who has no intention of letting them get away, and the Millers are going to have to pull together as a family to survive their caper. On DVD and Blu Ray.

Jamie (Michael Cera) is an American living in Chile in Sebastian Silva's Crystal Fairy & The Magical Cactus. Jamie and his Chilean friends are planning to drive to the beach to prepare a San Pedro cactus and have a mescaline experience, but the night before they leave, Jamie gets wasted and invites a girl he met at a party. They start their journey, but they're joined by Crystal Fairy (Gaby Hoffmann), happy for the invite and excited to join their adventure. Jamie is obnoxious and combative, and he routinely butts heads with the free-spirited hippie (who is a bit of a know-it-all) as the rest of the party just tries to keep the group together and get to the beach.

Jane (Kate Bosworth) accompanies her husband Leonard (Iddo Goldberg) to an island off the coast of Italy in And While We Were Here. Leonard is a violinist preparing for a symphony and has little time for his wife; Jane is depressed and doesn't engage with her husband much. While they wander through their boredom and dissatisfaction, the causes of their ennui slowly reveal themselves. With Jamie Blackley.

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Guns

Bobby Beans (Denzel Washington) and Stig (Mark Wahlberg) are small-time crooks planning to rob drug kingpin Papi Greco (Edward James Olmos) in 2 Guns. They've staked out the bank where Papi keeps his money and execute the heist... and walk out with more money than they could have imagined. They know they're in more trouble than they planned for-- Bobby and Stig turn on each other and try to get free of the situation, but with everyone involved with the money (James Marsden, Bill Paxton, and Edward James Olmos) hunting them, they're forced to embrace their "odd couple" relationship. Goofy Stig and strident Bobby can only rely on each other, but, luckily, they're both experts at shooting bad guys. On DVD and Blu Ray.

Daisy (Saoirse Ronan) is the naive and childlike partner of violent hitwoman Violet (Alexis Bledel) in the surreal fable Violet & Daisy. Together, they treat their executions as a kind of bullet-riddled game, but when they arrive at the home of their latest target (James Gandolfini), they're taken off guard by his calm kindness. He knows why they're there... and he's made them cookies. Violet and Daisy put off killing him for as long as they can, and as they talk with him, he shows them things about themselves the girls never realized. On DVD and Blu Ray.

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Animation

Narrated by Jim Broadbent, Lost & Found is the story of a young boy who wakes up one morning to find a penguin at his front door. He knows penguins live at the South Pole, so he hops into a small rowboat and helps his new friend get home. Together, their adventure takes them past many dangers as they learn why their journey is important.

Dusty Crophopper (Dane Cook) is a humble cropduster who dreams of racing in Disney's Planes, but he has a fear of heights. Coached by a wizened old warplane (Stacy Keach) and assisted by Chug the fuel truck (Brad Garrett) and Dottie the forklift (Teri Hatcher), Dusty joins an around-the-world race... but can he compete with Ripslinger (Roger Craig Smith), the plane who won the last three races in a row. On DVD and Blu Ray.

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Biographical

Hannah Arendt focuses on the titular writer (Barbara Sukowa) and her iconic report on Adolf Eichmann in the 1960s. As Eichmann faces trial, Hannah Arendt's coverage of the proceedings in the New Yorker became one of the most influential views of the Nazi regime (she famously coined the phrase "the banality of evil.") As she becomes an intellectual force in New York, befriending author Mary McCarthy (Janet McTeer) and philosopher Martin Heidegger, her work gains resonance and cements her place in history.

The documentary Deceptive Practice: The Mysteries and Memories of Ricky Jay tells the story of magician Ricky Jay. Ricky was born into illusions and a vaudeville tradition that is quickly evaporating, and his stories of learning a craft from legendary magicians and performers both trace his rise through stage, television, and film... and his journey through the culture of magic beginning in the early 50s.

Set in the summer of 1915, a 74-year-old painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir struggles with his artistic vision in Renoir. Mourning the recent death of his wife, and coping with two of his sons' serious war injuries, Renoir refuses to paint the world black. Made wealthy and famous by his work, the painter is singularly devoted to the way sunlight plays on a young woman's skin. When he meets his new muse, her arrogance offends Renoir's caretakers and household, but the painter is only concerned with painting her beauty.

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Imports

Set in 1920s France, wealthy lady Therese (Audrey Tautou) marries her best friend's brother, the equally bourgeois Bernard (Gilles Lellouche) in the French Therese. Their marriage increases both families' land and wealth, but Therese isn't fulfilled by the arrangement, spending her days withdrawn and aloof. When she finds a spark of life within herself, she still has to contend with the families and her husband, and a lack of options force her into a drastic situation.

A family suffers the loss of their father in the Spanish We Are What We Are, but his traditions guide them in his absence. Brothers and sister observe their traditional rites to put food on the table... but since their father was the one who went hunting, they have to adapt and find their own game: other people. Since they're accustomed to only one kind of meat, they just have to devise a way to bring the meat home.

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Holiday

Dennis (Paul Giamatti) is released from prison in time for Christmas in All Is Bright, but returns home to find his wife (Amy Landecker) has given up on him. She's told their daughter he died and is planning on marrying Rene (Paul Rudd)-- his former partner in crime. Since Rene's gone straight and given up the criminal lifestyle, Dennis swears to do the same... but Dennis doesn't have any other friends on the outside. Swallowing his pride, he works for Rene selling Christmas trees in New York, and the two former thieves contend with their new lot in life, getting ready for the holidays.

Also new to Reckless Video's Holiday New Release section are the 5th Home Alone movie, Home Alone: The Holiday Heist, the Madagascar holiday special Merry Madagascar, the animated reindeer adventure Little Brother, Big Trouble, and the family dramedy Fitzgerald Family Christmas.

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New this week in our TV New Releases:

	Treme Season 4	A broad swath of New Orleans culture continues to interact in the HBO ensemble series, weaving a tapestry of the day-to-day dramas of local cooks, musicians, writers, lawyers, and personalities that make up the city.
	Lost Girl Season 3	After barely saving the fae folk at the end of Season 2, Bo struggles to control her dark side as the repercussions of her transformation on the supernatural world of faeries, succubi, sirens, and shapeshifters.

Week of November 12th

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Conflict

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David reviews
Man of Steel

Clark is taken in by Kansas farm family Johnathan and Martha Kent (Kevin Costner and Diane Lane), but as the orphan boy grows up, he learns he has a world-changing fate in Zack Snyder's Man of Steel. As a grown man, Clark Kent (Henry Cavill) lives a nomadic life until he's introduced to his heritage: he's Kal-El, from Krypton. Helped to understand his history by a recorded hologram of his father (Russell Crowe), Kal is a miracle to the world, a concern to the military, and a wonder to hotshot reporter Lois Lane (Amy Adams)... but when Kryptonian General Zod (Michael Shannon) arrives on Earth, he has to defend his adopted home from Zod and the Kryptonians that could destroy mankind. On DVD and Blu Ray.

Strategy obsessed PK always wins the games of capture the flag in I Declare War. The group of 12-year-olds set up teams and wage war in the woods with sticks and rocks... though, in the minds of the kids, they're heavily armed commandos. PK never loses against Quinn's team, but when Quinn's second-in-command stages a coup, PK is up against Skinner, an opponent he doesn't understand. Skinner is a different kind of challenge: irrational, emotional, and willing to do anything to win, even if someone really gets hurt.

Amin (Ali Suliman) is a Palestinian surgeon in Tel Aviv who is tending to the victims of a bombing in The Attack when he's shocked to learn that the suicide bomber was his wife. While he thought their life was fully integrated-- they were leading a successful life with many Israeli friends-- Amin's perception has changed. In the aftermath of the violence, he's driven to understand his wife's actions, a search that shows him their life was not what he thought.

Ciaran (Richard Coyle) is a cop on a small island off the coast of Ireland in Grabbers, a rustic community where so little happens, he rarely comes to work sober. Ciaran's putting up with a new temporary officer (Ruth Bradley) from Dublin when they discover an odd, tentacled creature. A doctor (Russell Tovey) tells them the creature has never been seen on the planet before-- it's the discovery of a lifetime-- but there are more creatures, larger ones, and they have a taste for human blood. The island is cut off from any help and the townsfolk have to survive an attack from tentacled monsters, so Ciaran has to find a way to fight them and keep the islanders alive.

Rejoining the master in his twilight years, Ip Man: The Final Fight stars Anthony Wong Chau-Sang as the elder Ip Man as he moves to Hong Kong and opens a new Wing Chun studio. Bringing his art to a larger world, he takes on new students (including Timmy Hung, Jiang Luxia, and Gillian Chung), but Ip Man faces new challenges. Removed from his home and his family, he must adapt to a changing world in a developing city in the late 1940s. On DVD and Blu Ray.

Barbara is an East German physician in 1980 in Barbara who, after asking to leave the country, is transferred from East Berlin to a small-town hospital. Working as a pediatric surgeon in the middle of nowhere, Barbara's new life is mostly avoiding the advances of the chief physician and shrinking under the constant observation of the Stasi. The conditions the state forces upon her are almost more than she can bear, and she begins to focus her efforts on escape.

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Family Comedy

Turbo (Ryan Reynolds) is a garden snail that dreams of being a world renown racer in Turbo, but his older brother Chet (Paul Giamatti) wants him to embrace more snail-like dreams: gardens, slow pace, and safety. When Turbo gains race car superpowers-- headlights, radio, and most importantly, super speed-- he and Chet blast out of the garden and are discovered by Tito (Michael Pena), who thinks snail racing will boost his taco truck's business. When he sees what Turbo can do, Tito knows how to put his taco truck on the map: put Turbo in the Indy 500... after all, there's no rule that says a snail can't race against cars. If any snail can out-race famed champion Guy Gagne (Bill Hader), it's Turbo, but can he compete against his racing hero. With Samuel L. Jackson. On DVD and Blu Ray.

Based on the popular children's book series, Dear Dumb Diary tells the story of 11-year-old Jamie Kelly (Emily Alyn Lind) and her best friend Isabella (Mary-Charles Jones) as they try to save the school art program. Though Jamie isn't the most popular kid in school, she sees the art program fundraiser as her opportunity to stand up for the less popular crowd, but not all of her plans go the way she expected.

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Naturalistic and Low Key

Frances (Greta Gerwig) is a 27-year-old understudy an a New York dance company in Noah Baumbach's Frances Ha. Sophie (Mickey Sumner), her best friend and roommate, decides to move out, Frances is set adrift-- she needs to find a place to live. She's idiosyncratic and a little selfish, so Frances wanders from place to place. Wandering New York in need of a home and a way to anchor her life, Frances' story unfolds casually, in black and white, as a mix of 1970s Woody Allen and Jean-Luc Godard. With Grace Gummer. On DVD and Blu Ray.

Dedicated and serious Alvin (Paul Rudd) is doing roadwork, painting the dotted yellow lines on backwoods Texas roads, in David Gordon Green's Prince Avalanche. He's saving to move to Germany with his girlfriend Madison, and, as a show of goodwill, Alvin has hired her younger brother Lance (Emile Hirsch) to help with his work. The two men couldn't be more different: Alvin's driven while Lance's mind is constantly elsewhere, but as they spend time together, they begin to develop an unconventional friendship. On DVD and Blu Ray.

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Non-Fiction

Though killer whales have become beloved performers in water parks like Sea World, the documentary Blackfish delves into the history of the many trainers that have been attacked or killed by the captive orcas. Interviewing the trainers that have worked with the whales over the years, the film tells the story of both the people that work with the whales and the whales themselves... specifically a whale named Tilikum with a particularly troubled past. On DVD and Blu Ray.

Based on a musicologist who lived among Bayaka Pygmies in central Africa for 25 years, Oka! focuses on Larry (Kris Marshall) who spent years recording Bayaka music. Though his doctor forbids him to go back to Africa, Larry is summoned back to the forest by its new soundtrack: logging trucks. When he returns, he finds a Chinese logging company (led by Will Yun Lee) operating under the guidance of "mayor for life" Bassoun (Isaach De Bankole). Blending documentary footage with the storytelling, the film mixes Larry's quest to help the Bayaka with the natural footage among the Bayaka Pygmies.

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Comedies

Max Morris (Jeff Garlin) is a comedian searching for the subject of his next movie when he notices the ridiculous behavior at his son's little league game in Dealin' with Idiots. Getting to know the larger-than-life parents that bring their kids to the games, he digs deeper into the worlds of the aggressive coach (Bob Odenkirk), an affable dimwit (Richard Kind) who can't stop talking, an upperclass showboat (Fred Willard) who isn't what he seems, a lesbian couple (Gina Gershon and Jami Gertz) that Max can't relate to, and more...

Lamb (Julianne Hough) is an innocent, God-fearing, midwestern girl until an accident shakes her faith in Diablo Cody's Paradise. Determined to break with her upbringing and indulge in everything she's been missing, Lamb travels to Las Vegas, she's given the grand tour of Sin City by a bartender (Russell Brand) and a world-weary cabaret singer (Octavia Spencer). Together they try to find the satirical line between sinners and saints as Lamb tries to find her way in a new, un-sheltered world.

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New this week in our TV New Releases:

	Dexter Final Season	Dexter's secret couldn't hold forever, and the between his dual life-- split between working for the police and his dark desires-- reaches an end as the series comes to its conclusion.		Don't Trust the B. in Apt 23	June moves to New York City to follow her dreams, but ends up rooming with Chloe, a con artist and party girl who may or may not be a psychopath.
	Burning Love Season 1	Firefighter Mark tries to find his future wife in a parody of dating reality shows as the contestants (including the needy one, the extrovert, the religious fanatic, the insecure girl, and more) vie for his attention.		Silk Series 1	Barrister Martha Costello is working towards an appointment to the Queen's Council as she contends with her rival, Clive Reader.
	The Paradise	Set in the late 1800s, the story of England's first department store, its staff, culture, and owner, plays out over the course of an eight episode miniseries.

Week of November 5th

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Stopping the Bad Guys

John Cale (Channing Tatum) is working security for the Speaker of The House (Richard Jenkins) but he wants a Secret Service job on the President's security detail in Roland Emmerich's White House Down. Cale brings his White House-obsessed daughter (Joey King) to the interview, but they end up trapped when James Woods launches an attack on the White House, killing all of the Secret Service in the building... and, as an unlikely team, John Cale and President Sawyer (Jamie Foxx) have to survive the terrorist attack and outwit their enemies. The President needs to reestablish control of the country before the forces behind the attack wreak havoc across the globe, but Cale won't leave his daughter in enemy hands. With Jason Clarke. On DVD and Blu Ray.

When Tianjin police arrest drug lord Timmy Choi (Louis Koo), he makes a deal to avoid the death penalty in Johnnie To's Drug War. Working with Captain Zhang Lei (Sun Honglei), Choi helps the police track down his partners running a methamphetamine ring, but as their investigation leads to a series bloody gunfights, the captain starts to suspect Choi's loyalty.

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Humorous Developments

Lenny (Adam Sandler) and his family move back to his Connecticut hometown in Grown Ups 2, and the downsides (living outside of the city means deer can sneak into his house and pee on him) are outweighed by owning a home where he can reunite with his friends. Lenny is going to hang out with Eric (Kevin James), whose wife doesn't agree with his parenting choices, Kurt (Chris Rock), whose wife forgot their anniversary, and Marcus (David Spade), who just learned he has an 18-year-old son, but their time together is ruined by a group of obnoxious frat boys (including Taylor Lautner and Milo Ventimiglia) humiliating them. Together, the friends have to stand up to the younger, stronger boys, as well as deal with the bully ("Stone Cold" Steve Austin) who tormented Lenny when he was young. On DVD and Blu Ray.

Imogene (Kristen Wiig) gets dumped by her boyfriend Peter (Brian Petsos) in Girl Most Likely, and her phone call to bring him back-- begging him to come over, because she might "do something"-- doesn't get him to her apartment... it gets her hospitalized as a suicide risk. With no room in the hospital, she's released into the care of her wildly irresponsible mother (Annette Bening). Though Imogene never wanted to be stuck in this situation, she's trapped among the antics of her mother, her mother's self-proclaimed secret agent boyfriend "The Boche" (Matt Dillon), and her socially awkward brother (Christopher Fitzgerald) who prefers the company of lizards to people. On DVD and Blu Ray.

Nathan Flomm (Larry David) is a successful marketing executive working on Will Haney's (Jon Hamm) hybrid car in Clear History, but he quits when Will names the car "The Howard." Though Nathan didn't think The Howard could be marketed, it becomes the most successful car in the world... quitting Will's company loses him a billion dollars and makes him a national laughingstock. Changing his look and his name, Nathan is now "Rolly DaVore," a small-time handyman and caretaker on a New England island with new friends (Danny McBride) and a new life. When Will Haney arrives to build a gaudy mansion on the island, Nathan's past comes rushing back, and he's left with only one option: destroy the Haney mansion. He applies for a job with the foreman (Philip Baker Hall) and brings in demolition experts (Michael Keaton and Bill Hader) to get rid of Haney and banish is past for good. On DVD and Blu Ray.

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Sex Appeal

Growing up in a conservative, Catholic household, Linda Boreman's (Amanda Seyfried) best friend (Juno Temple) is always trying to get her to loosen up and go to parties in Lovelace, and at one of those parties, she meets Chuck Traynor (Peter Sarsgaard). Linda and Traynor marry, but when they need money, they show a home movie to a director (Hank Azaria) and producer (Chris Noth) who are amazed by what Linda can do. Suddenly, she's Linda Lovelace, star of Deep Throat, "The Citizen Cane of Adult Movies." As she contends with her success, the details of her rise to fame are slowly revealed: how Chuck convinced a shy Catholic girl into pornography, and why the make-up chair always had to cover Linda's cuts and bruises. On DVD and Blu Ray.

Isabelle (Noomie Rapace) is working to climb the corporate ladder, but her success infuriates her boss, the controlling and manipulative Christine (Rachel McAdams) in Brian De Palma's Passion. Christine undercuts everything Isabelle does, humiliates her in front of her coworkers, and plays sadistic games by using her partner (Paul Anderson)... but Isabelle and her assistant (Karoline Herfurth) try to dodge her tricks and outmaneuver Christine. Their clash keeps escalating until one of them makes a move that takes the other out for good, and then the victor has to deal with the consequences. On DVD and Blu Ray.

The first thing Scat (Shiloh Fernandez) learned in Marketing 101 was to design himself as a product in the advertising satire Syrup, and he sells himself to the young, powerful Six (Amber Heard.) Scat's got an idea for a soft drink, and Six's unflappable, perfectly coiffed, manufactured persona is just the tool to put his idea to work... until his roommate Pete (Kellan Lutz) sweeps in and steals the contract. Pete is too devious to control, so Scat and Six have to team up to out-play him, but Six is practically a product herself-- a perfectly marketed, impossibly sexy, desirable commodity-- and Scat can't help but believe her pitch.

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Preparing the Body

Adapted for the screen and directed by James Franco, As I Lay Dying adapts William Faulkner's classic deep south novel as Anse (Tim Blake Nelson) leads his wife Addie's (Beth Grant) coffin to its final resting place. As Anse and his family (including Jim Parrack, Ahna O'Reilly, and Logan Marshall-Green) accompany Addy on her last journey, their thoughts are rendered in split-screen as the characters present Faulkner's famous prose alongside their winding travels through the 1930s landscape. With Danny McBride.

All of Dallas is anticipating President Kennedy's visit in 1963 until the unthinkable happens in Parkland. Assembling the stories of the people who have to handle the aftermath of the assassination, the film weaves together the doctor (Zac Efron) who first receives the fallen President, the Special Agent (Ron Livingston) who had a file on the suspected shooter, the Dallas Secret Service Agent (Billy Bob Thornton) who needs to piece together the tragedy, and the everyman named Zapruder (Paul Giamatti) who was excited to use his new camera to film the President's visit. On DVD and Blu Ray.

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Fly on the Wall

Filming the day-to-day functions in Oakland's Highland Hospital, The Waiting Room spends 24 hours with the patients, doctors, and nurses in a facility that treats hundreds of people a day, many of them uninsured. As the patients wait for care, or even just a diagnosis, the staff try to give them the vital medicine or procedures they will need to survive, but their stories unfold naturally as they navigate the crowded system.

Placing cameras on a commercial fishing vessel off the coast of Massachusetts, Leviathan presents a cinema verite portrait of rough seas, full nets hauled onto decks, and the work of the fishermen as they handle their catch. Cameras capturing life and work on the ship are mounted on masts, dropped into bins of fish, or flung into the ocean, presenting an off-kilter, often abstract pastiche of images that sketch the parts of an industry that are seldom explored.

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The newest Barbie cartoon is Barbie & Her Sisters in A Pony Tale, sending Barbie and her sisters to the Swiss Alps. They're excited to spend their summer at a riding academy and pick out a special horse to bring back to Malibu, but when they discover a mystery in the woods, their summer takes an unexpected turn.

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New this week in our TV New Releases:

	Mad Men Season 6	As Don Draper's (Jon Hamm) life drifts further out of control, with heavy drinking and dangerous affairs, the people of Sterling Cooper have to adapt to the changing world as the 1960s draw to a close.
	Under the Dome Season 1	When an invisible wall suddenly, mysteriously cuts the town of Chester's Mill off from the rest of the world, the residents of the small town have to survive on their own and uncover the meaning of the dome.