Tuesday, November 5, 2013

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.


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.


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.

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