Tuesday, November 26, 2013

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.

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.

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.

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.


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.

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