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Conflict
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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. |
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