Tuesday, April 29, 2014

Week of March 29th

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Questionable Fathers

13-year old Henry (Gattlin Griffith) offers a stranger a lift in Jason Reitman's Labor Day. Unsure of rough and intimidating Frank (Josh Brolin), Henry's mother Adele (Kate Winslet) is wary of the stranger who calmly but firmly asserts himself into their life. The news reveals that Frank is an escaped convict, but his place in a single mother's home fills a void: he fixes cars, repairs plumbing, cooks, and does dishes. Henry's father (Clark Gregg) is concerned about a new presence in his ex-wife's house (and in his son's life) and the whole town is on the lookout for an escaped convict, but all of their lives will be irrevocably changed by Frank's presence. With Tobey Maguire. On DVD and Blu Ray.


Jim wants the last day of his family's Disneyworld vacation to be memorable Escape from Tomorrow. He's just gotten a call letting him know he's lost his job, but instead of telling his wife, he throws himself (and his young son and daughter) into the fantasy adventure of the park. Though he wants the day to be a good one, Jim's mind starts to play tricks on him as he sees evil faces on the animatronic puppets, suspects a park-wide infection, and finds himself haunted by a pair of teenage girls he can't seem to stop following. Made with clandestine cameras, without permission from Disney, the park becomes a villain out to destroy Jim and unravel his psyche.


Runaway, pregnant teen Apple (Vanessa Hudgens) is fleeing her unstable, abusive, meth-addicted mother (Rosario Dawson) in Gimme Shelter. After receiving a letter from her long-lost father (Brendan Fraser), Apple escapes to New Jersey in hopes of rescue: her father, now remarried, is a successful and wealthy stockbroker, and he takes in his estranged, wayward daughter and will support her through her abortion. Still lost, confused, and not entirely welcomed by her father's family, the answers Apple's troubles still haven't presented themselves, but could come from an unlikely source (James Earl Jones).

Maniacal Leaders

While vicious Greek King Amphitryon (Scott Adkins) descends into madness and tyranny, his wife's prayers for salvation are answered in Legend of Hercules: she is to give birth to the son of Zeus. As he grows up, Hercules (Kellan Lutz) is different from his brother Iphicles, Amphitryon's natural son-- Hercules is noble, brave, and wins the heart of Hebe even though she's betrothed to Iphicles. Though he's sent to war and eventually the gladiatorial arenas, Hercules will fight his way back to Greece to unseat the mad king and claim the woman he loves.


Baton Rouge detective Bud Carter (Willem Dafoe) threatens to topple the local crime syndicate when he arrests hitman Jesse Weiland (Matt Dillon) in Bad Country. If Jesse becomes an informant, Bud will protect him and his wife (Amy Smart) while they take down the criminal family running the Baton Rouge underworld, but making an enemy of white supreme crime boss Lutin Adams (Tom Beringer) will prove more dangerous than any of them could imagine.

The Pursuit of Love

Virgil (Geoffrey Rush) is the managing director of an auction house, traveling Europe looking for treasures among high-end art auctions in Giuseppe Tornatore's The Best Offer. When a young heiress asks him to sell off pieces, she only deals with Virgil over the phone or through locked doors, and he becomes obsessed with seeing the woman who will only let herself be heard. While his artist friends and collaborators (Jim Sturgess and Donald Sutherland) help him make sense of her artistic windfall, Virgil, who's never had a relationship with a woman, is more interested in the heiress herself.
50-something Chilean divorcee Gloria wanders through singles clubs looking for companionship in the Spanish-language Gloria. When Gloria meets Rodolfo at a bar, they make a connection and begin to see one another regularly, but Gloria is a complex woman, and her life has left her with more than a few secrets. If she and Rodolfo are to develop their romance, they both have to address and deal with the emotional baggage they bring with them.


Tour bus driver Paolo (Vincenzo Amato) is an Italian living in Paris in Girl on a Bicycle. Though he's engaged to his German girlfriend, Paolo becomes enchanted by the French girl who rolls up next to his bus on her bicycle. In light, comic fashion, Paolo is torn between the two women, struggling to keep his romances and his international mores in place. With Paddy Considine.


New this week in our TV New Releases:
Mr. Selfridge
Season 2

Five years later, Selfriges is providing the luxuries to pre-war Europe, trying to compete with the boutiques of Paris and establish their department store as the way of the future.
The Story of Medicine
Pain, Pus & Poison

A history of the development of medicine and its impact on human history, the mini-series follows the oldest herbs used to treat primitive peoples to modern medicines that have more than doubled average human life expectancy.

Tuesday, April 22, 2014

Week of April 22

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Guilty Parties

When his daughter is found horribly murdered in the woods, a loose-cannon cop (Lior Ashkenazi) and the girl's father abduct the prime suspect in the Israeli Big Bad Wolves. The person they think is responsible for abducting and killing young girls is a mild mannered school teacher, so the vengeance-driven men tie him to a chair and and start questioning him. They begin doing to him what had been done to the girls, but as they cross more lines trying to get what they want, the righteous men become increasingly more monstrous.


Still affected by her mother's death during her childbirth, sullen and stand-offish Emanuel (Kaya Scodelario) walks all over her permissive father (Alfred Molina) and rebukes her stepmother's (Frances O'Connor) attempts at peace in The Truth About Emanuel. When she warms up to Linda (Jessica Biel), the single mother who just moved in next door, the two bond over the care for Linda's infant daughter, but their relation to each other, and to the child, is more complex and strange than either of them would ever admit. With Jimmi Simpson.


In the midst of Romania's WWII occupation, young Alex finds the body of a Nazi soldier in A Farewell to Fools. The Germans drag the fallen soldier into the center of Alex's village, threatening to kill the town's leaders unless the villagers turn over the guilty party. Father Johanis (Harvey Keitel) promises to find the culprit, but the townsfolk concoct a surefire plan to save their village: surrender Ipu (Gerard Depardieu), the village idiot, to the Nazis. Though Ipu is innocent, and a friend of Alex, the town asks the impossible of him... but in their flattering, feeding, romancing, and persuading of the simple man, the villagers may lose more than they bargain to save in their treating with the German soldiers.

Following Questionable Orders

Gregory Lioubov (Jean Dujardin) is a Russian spy undercover in Monaco in Mobius. He uses his suave, super-spy charm to romance Alice (Cecile de France), a brilliant international banker, but Gregory is simply maneuvering her into a position to gain leverage over a corrupt business tycoon (Tim Roth). Alice is the right tool for Gregory's job, but when the CIA contacts her, she realizes the full story of her whirlwind romance, and is now able to engineer a deceptive game of her own.


Office weakling Chris (Adam Brody) gets no respect within his company in Welcome to the Jungle: the assistant vice president (Rob Huebel) steals his ideas, his boss thinks he's a weakling, and the women around him don't even know he exists. Chris isn't excited about being sent to a wilderness team-building retreat, but when they lose their guide (Jean-Claude Van Damme), Chris is the only member of the group with real survival skills. Unfortunately, standing up for himself isn't something Chris learned in Eagle Scouts, so the island quickly descends into Lord of the Flies madness while Chris and a few friends work towards a rescue... but his only real hope is to stand up to the savages his co-workers have become. With Kristen Schaal.


Crime boss Dragna (Robert De Niro) has given Jack (John Cusack) a very simple job in The Bag Man: take his bag to a hotel, rent room 13, wait for Dragna, and-- most importantly-- do not look in the bag. Before he's even at the hotel, Jack's already been shot, his car's covered in blood, and the man at the motel (Crispin Glover) is obviously suspicious. His simple assignment goes haywire when a tall, beautiful woman knocks on the door asking for help, and Jack is suddenly dealing with unpredictable cops, pimps, hitmen, and worst of all... he can't be sure if his mystery woman has seen what's in the bag, and what that will mean for Dragna.

Documentary

A departure from his narrated, historical compositions, Ken Burns's The Address is a fly-on-the-wall exploration of a Vermont high school's program teaching students to recite the Gettysburg Address. Collecting students with a wide array of aptitudes and disabilities, from ADHD to dyslexia, the Greenwood School has established the performance and recitation of the Address as a rite of passage, and prestigious accomplishment in the community.


Narrated by Bettie Page herself, the documentary Bettie Page Reveals All tells the story behind the legend that grew around her after she sought seclusion after her 1950s heyday. Notoriously reclusive, Page recounts the actual events that made her a cheesecake icon, her small-town upbringing, and the scandals that led to her legal troubles, providing a first-person account of a tale that had previously been mostly rumor and speculation.


Exploring the legacy of the most obscure member of the 1970s New York comics collective "The Studio," Better Things: The Life and Choices of Jeffrey Catherine Jones tracks down the elusive Jeffrey Jones. While other members of The Studio are remembered by comic book fans for iconic work with signature characters (Swamp Thing, Conan, The Shadow), Jones' disdain for producing content on a factory schedule left him inclined to branch out into ambitious, rule-breaking artwork. Speaking with the artist himself and collecting interviews with comics greats like Neil Gaiman and Mike Mingola, the film details the current world of a creator often unrecognized for a lifetime of work.

New this week in our TV New Releases:
The Science
of Measurement

From the earliest cave paintings showing the change of seasons to the most complicated modern devices, the series about history of math explores time, length, mass, brightness, and all of the building blocks of our world.
Talks About
Nothing

A series of talks at New York's Rubin Museum of Art, providing insight from sources as varied as neurologist Oliver Sacks, novelist Rick Moody, vocal coach Patsy Rodenburg, philosopher Simon Critchley, actor Brian Cox, and more.

Tuesday, April 15, 2014

Week of April 15th

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Off Your Beaten Path


The Secret Life
of Walter Mitty

Now & Then
Walter Mitty (Ben Stiller) is more involved in his daydreams than his work with photographs for Life magazine in The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, but is forced to face reality when a corporate transition manager (Adam Scott) comes in to downsize the company. When Walter loses the photograph that would appear on the cover of Life's final print issue, he has to track down the globe trotting field photographer out on assignment. Trading his fantasies for real-life adventure, Walter has to travel by plane, boat, helicopter, bicycle, and skateboard to catch up to the photographer in Iceland, saving the magazine and finally leading an interesting enough life to attract the attention of his pretty coworker (Kristen Wiig). On DVD and Blu Ray.

Fifty years ago, Philomena Lee (Judi Dench) was sent to an Irish nunnery. The story of the family shame that put her away and give her newborn son, Anthony, up for adoption, Philomena tracks the family's drama as Philomena's daughter enlists journalist Martin Sixsmith (Steve Coogan) to find Anthony. Though he thinks of a "human interest" story as beneath him, Martin joins Philomena in a search for the 50-year-old son she's never met, and together, they explore the circumstances that led to the quest that entangles them in each other's religion, politics, and social beliefs. On DVD and Blu Ray.


Pharmacist Doug Varney (Sam Rockwell) lives quietly and does what he's told until he's seduced by dissatisfied trophy wife Elizabeth (Olivia Wilde) in Better Living Through Chemistry. Elizabeth gives him a new lease on life, no longer dominated by his controlling wife (Michelle Monaghan) and a lot more adventurous with the pharmaceuticals under his care, but Doug's playground of sex and drugs are bound to go awry when he has to face Elizabeth's rich husband (Ray Liotta). Doug has gotten used to breaking rules, but his he ready for a film noir murder plot? On DVD and Blu Ray.


Highschool pals Michael (Nicholas Braun) and Matty make the standard "lose their virginity by prom" bet in Date and Switch, but Matty surprises Michael by coming out as gay. Though Michael's initially shocked, their pack stands, and he enthusiastically pledges himself to be Matty's wingman. While Michael's new quest puts him on new terms with Matty's ex (Dakota Johnson), Matty himself meets the more experienced, charming Greg (Zach Cregger), and though Michael's father (Nick Offerman) understands the boys are in a new situation, Matty's dad (Gary Cole) is less understanding. On DVD and Blu Ray.

Cops and Robbers

Officer James Peyton (Ice Cube) doesn't want to be stuck babysitting his bother-in-law-to-be Ben (Kevin Hart) in Ride Along, but Ben, a high-strung, fast-talking security guard, wants to go on a "ride along." James and his partner (John Leguizamo) are working an important case, trying to bring down an elusive drug lord, and don't really have much time for Ben, but Ben refuses to go home... and as the ride along turns into a developing situation, Ben is comically outmatched by car chases, crime bosses, and gunfights. If he manages not to get killed, Ben might be able to prove he's good enough to marry James' sister. With Laurence Fishburn. On DVD and Blu Ray.


Surly (Will Arnett) isn't a very good squirrel in The Nut Job-- he isn't interested in stockpiling nuts for the coming winter, and his selfishness gets him banished from his tree by Raccoon (Liam Neeson). In order to make it through the winter, Surly finds himself a role in a team of thieves with the ambitious goal of robbing the well-stocked Maury's Nut Shop. Followed by good Samaritan squirrel Andie (Katherine Heigl), Surly joins a caper that could prove him every bit as worthwhile as park hero Grayson (Brendan Fraser). On DVD and Blu Ray.

Dickens

Great Expectations
Now & Then
Young Pip (Jeremy Irvine) travels from the country to the city to be outfitted as a gentlemen in the newest adaptation of Charles Dickens' Great Expectations. Raised by his sister and her blacksmith husband (Jason Flemyng), Pip's life is changed when his humble orphan's life is enhanced by a mysterious inheritance. With new ambition to be a gentleman in London, he becomes enamored of the beautiful Estella (Holliday Grainger) as he's hired to be her companion by Miss Havisham (Helena Bonham Carter), but Pip's life in society offers as much chance for corruption as opportunity. With Ralph Fiennes and Robbie Coltrane. On DVD and Blu Ray.

The story of Charles Dickens' (Ralph Fiennes) clandestine romance with young Nelly (Felicity Jones), The Invisible Woman recounts the affair between the 45-year-old author and the 18-year-old aspiring actress. Self-assured but arrogant, Dickens neglects his wife to court young Nelly, introducing her to his friend (Tom Hollander) who lives with a woman out of wedlock, and considering Nelly's mother (Kristin Scott Thomas) who doesn't want to see the girl's reputation ruined. Though she may be confusing the art with the artist, Nelly still begins a relationship that has a fixed, unavoidable ending. On DVD and Blu Ray.

New this week in our TV New Releases:
Ripper Street
Series 2

Inspector Reid and his deputies are still fighting to keep Whitechapel from descending into madness, crime, and corruption at the end of the 19th century.
Bletchley Circle
Series 2

Though they were expected to retire to home and hearth, the former WWII codebreakers of Bletchley Circle apply their skills to solving crimes in the 1950s
MST3K
Volume 29

Joel, Mike, and the bots are forced to sit on the Satellite of Love and watch Pumaman, Hercules and the Captive Women, The Thing That Couldn't Die, and Untamed Youth.

Tuesday, April 8, 2014

Week of April 8th

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Magic

Bilbo Baggins (Martin Freeman) is in the middle of his quest through Middle Earth in Peter Jackson's The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug. Still pursued by orcs, Bilbo accompanies the wizard Gandalf (Ian McKellen) and Thorin Oakenshield's (Richard Armitage) band of dwarves as they search for the gem that will finally unite the dwarves under Thorin's kingship. Their adventure will take them through a land filled with orcs, giant spiders, skin-changers, and wood elves-- including Legolas and Tauriel (Orlando Bloom and Evangeline Lilly)-- before they enter the Lonely Mountain and steal the gem from the dragon Smaug (Benedict Cumberbatch). On DVD, Blu Ray, and 3D Blu.

While Pixie Hollow celebrates the Four Seasons Festival, banished fairy Zarina puts the entire town to sleep in Tinkerbell: The Pirate Fairy. Tinkerbell and her friends are immune to Zarina's magic and decide to follow her. Zarina leads them to a pirate ship, and that she's become a pirate fairy. Tinkerbell and her friends have to face Zarina and the pirates and escape magical mix-ups if they want to save Pixie Hollow and finish the festival.

A Weekend Away

Edith (Vera Farmiga) accompanies her daughter (Taissa Farmiga) for a tour of a Washington State college in At Middleton, where an argument over a parking space introduces them to nerdy heart surgeon George (Andy Garcia). George is also at the campus tour for his son, and while both parents had hoped that the weekend would be a bonding experience with their children, Edith and George find themselves in each other's company. Separated from the group, they wander the campus, delighting in their day together as the connection between them grows. With Tom Skerritt.

Family Strife

Adapted from the acclaimed play, August: Osage County stars Meryl Streep as Violet, the Weston matriarch, as the family gathers at her home. Summoned to the Weston home after the death of Violet's husband (Sam Shepard), their three daughters (including Julia Roberts as Barbara), Violet's sister and brother-in-law (Margo Martindale and Chris Cooper), their son Charles (Benedict Cumberbatch), and Barbara's estranged husband (Ewan McGregor) gather under one roof for the first time in years. With Violet's self-proclaimed roll as a "truth-teller," the crowded house's barely restrained secrets and simmering resentments are quickly brought to the surface, as the Westons contend with the realities of their family. On DVD and Blu Ray.

Five years in the making, Michael Winterbottom's Everyday is the story of a Ian's (John Simm) years prison and the way it shapes his life, and the life of his wife Karen (Shirley Henderson). As time passes and their four children grow up, Karen holds the family together as Ian endures his sentence, while his visits for Christmas show the strain his mistakes have put on them all.

Marked

Expanding the mythology established in the previous films, Paranormal Activity: Marked Ones shifts the story from the suburbs to the streets of Oxnard, CA, where best friends Jesse and Hector's highschool graduation celebration is cut short by the interference of the occult. Investigating the apartment of an elderly neighbor who just passed away, they discover a room full of demonic symbols, ritual devices, piles of VHS tapes, and, most frightening of all, pictures of Jesse. As Jesse slowly changes, he begins to suspect he's being haunted... he's developing inhuman strength, but he's also growing more dangerous and unpredictable by the day.

Stood up by her girlfriend, Samantha (Najarra Townsend) drinks too much with friends in a bar and ends up in a random guy's car in Contracted. When she feels lousy the next day, she assumes it's a hangover... the day after that, when she feels worse, she suspects something is wrong. Her mother (Caroline Williams) accuses her of a drug relapse, and her best friend doesn't know how to react to her, and her doctor can't diagnose her, but since the night of her drunken mistake, Samantha begins to suspect that she is rotting from the inside out.

Lady Killers

Abby Russell (Paz de la Huerta) trolls nightspots to find, seduce, and murder unfaithful men in Nurse. Working at a New York City hospital, she takes on an innocent, new nurse Danni (Katrina Bowden) as an understudy, and works to subtly turn her into another deadly weapon against men who would use women. Abby insinuates herself into Danni's life and begins to work her magic, killing anyone who would get in her way: hospital staff, friends, Danni's step-father (Judd Nelson), and a variety interfering, untrustworthy men. With Martin Donovan.

Based on the true story of the notorious 1892 murder, Lizzie Borden Took an Ax stars Christina Ricci as Lizzie, the frustrated daughter of a successful businessman (Stephen McHattie). As she rankles against her father's restrictive household, his ending her credit in local stores, and forbidding her socializing, Lizzie becomes increasingly dissatisfied with her father and step-mother (Sara Botsford). When she reports the brutal axe murders of her parents to the police they puzzle over her story-- her sister (Clea Duvall) was out of the house, Lizzie's alibi doesn't make much sense, and key evidence goes missing-- and she quickly becomes the prime suspect. As the case gains national notoriety, the Borden family lawyer (Billy Campbell) develops the best defense the 19th century has to offer: a woman could not be an axe murderer.

Rivals

Two aging, retired boxers are reunited for an exhibition match by an ambitious promoter (Kevin Hart) in Grudge Match. Former rivals, Henry "Razor" Sharp (Sylvester Stallone) and Billy "The Kid" McDonnen (Robert De Niro) bump into each other while contributing their likenesses to a video game... old tempers flare and a fight breaks out, but cell phone footage of their tussle goes viral on YouTube. Their new popularity could be the last boxing payday for either of them, but the long simmering bad blood between them is toxic: old injuries, failed careers, rivalry over a woman (Kim Basinger), and wounded pride drive them to comically excessive bad behavior. With Alan Arkin. On DVD and Blu Ray.

Scott lives with his grandmother and has a lousy job, so his pride and joy is his life as a role-playing game master in Zero Charisma. One of his players chooses marriage over the game, and Scott fills the position with Miles, a stranger he meets at his local game shop. Though Scott intends to wow the newbie with his gaming skills, Miles charms the group by being charming, low-key, and geek-knowlegable... everything Scott isn't. When the group makes Miles their game master, Scott starts to fall apart, and has to take stock of his own pettiness and personal failings.

Documentary

Exploring the rise of Mexican drug cartels from the perspective of the soldiers who engage in-- and sing about-- the violence that surrounds them in Narco Cultura. From the point of view of Edgar Quintero, a singer/songwriter for a Los Angeles-based latin folk band, the life of the gagster is one of uncompromised aggression and ambition... but when the film shifts to the everyday conditions Juarez, and the life of crime scene investigator Richi Soto, Quintero's lyrics are put into sharp contrast with reality.

New this week in our TV New Releases:
Earthflight
BBC's nature documentary shows flight from the perspective of birds in the air, traveling across six continents and observing the planet's oceans, mountains, plains, and skies.
Sofia the First
Floating Palace

Sofia is traveling the seas in a ship called The Floating Palace when a shipwreck throws her into an adventure of mermaids, castaways, and underwater kingdoms.

Tuesday, April 1, 2014

Week of April 1st

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Continuing Legends

Ron Burgundy (Will Ferrell) has it all in Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues: he married Veronica (Christina Applegate), and they co-anchor a popular nightly news program as they raise their six year old son... until Ron gets fired. Returning to San Diego, defeated and unable to hold a job, Ron gets a chance at a comeback when a new format emerges-- the 24-hour news network. Ron re-assembles his news team (Steve Carell, Paul Rudd, and David Koechner) and lands at the Global News Network's unpopular late-night spot, while their competition (James Marsden) takes the high-profile, prime time show. Since he's got a knack for sensationalism and prefers to tell audiences what they want to hear (instead of what they need to hear), Ron won't be stuck in late night for long, because cable news was made for reporters like Ron Burgundy With Dylan Baker and Kristin Wiig. On DVD and Blu Ray.

Based on a classic Japanese legend, 47 Ronin is the story of dishonored Oishi (Hiroyuki Sanada), seeking to restore his master's and family's names, and outcast, half-breed Kai (Keanu Reeves) and their journey among a band of ronin. The ronin, stripped of their samurai rank and position in feudal Japanese society after the death of their master (Min Tanaka), quest to challenge the lord (Tadanobu Asano) who left their clan leaderless, but their task throws them into battle against giants, mystical monks, dragons, and a tentacle-haired serpent witch before they can restore their honor. On DVD and Blu Ray.

Bloody Relationship Advice

Todd (Tyler Labine) plans to propose to Cammie (Malin Ackerman) in his family's upscale cabin in Cottage Country, but his perfect proposal is derailed when his brother, Salinger, and his girlfriend, Masha (Lucy Punch) show up at the cottage. Trouble-making Salinger and space-cadet Masha are bound to ruin their weekend, but neither Todd nor Cammie could predict just how badly their weekend is about to get. Suddenly, they're dealing with Sal's drunken friends, an impromptu party at the cottage, and a severed head, but Todd and Cammie are still determined to have their perfect weekend.

Beth (Margarita Levieva) is fed up with Joe's (Ryan Kwanten) laziness and lack of ambition, so she breaks up with him and chooses to move forward with her own life in Knights of Badassdom. Joe's best friends Eric (Steve Zahn) and Hung (Peter Dinklage) see their friend is heartbroken, and try to show him a good time with a weekend of Live Action Role Playing, but their LARPing session goes awry when they summon a succubus... who just happens to look exactly like Beth. Fighting a succubus in the form of his ex-girlfriend may help Joe gain some closure, but he and his friends are still stuck fighting for their lives with foam-padded swords.

Classic Family Comedy

When a scheming businessman tries to take over Grandma's bakery, Alfalfa, Darla, Buckwheat, Spanky, and Petey the dog try all the schemes and hi jinks they can muster in Little Rascals Save the Day. In the style of the classic Our Gang stories, the kids do everything they can to raise money and help Grandma-- golf caddying, a pet wash, a taxi service-- but something always goes wrong when the gang is involved, so they only have one option: win the local talent show and use the prize money to save the bakery.


New this week in our TV New Releases:
Broadchurch
Series 1

Detective Inspector Alec Hardy (David Tennant) moved to the small English town of Broadchurch to escape the violent crimes and high-profile murder trials that plagued his career in the city, only to find a new murder mystery in his provincial, country village.
Psych
Season 8

Shawn and Gus are still solving crimes with keen observation disguised as "psychic abilities" in the show's final season, tackling cases that unfold in the style of British gangster movies, zombie films, and classic sci-fi odysseys.