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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:
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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. | |
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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. |
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