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21 May 2017
New to DVD and On Demand Releases for May 21 - 27Releasing this Week: "Logan": Hugh Jackman apparently bids farewell to his "X-Men'' alter ego in this well-crafted, neatly played adventure. Banished to relative isolation with other remaining mutants, Logan gets his claws out again to help a super-powered youngster evade villains who want her DNA. Patrick Stewart also makes an effective, and affecting, return as Professor Charles Xavier. *** (R: AS, P, V) (Also on Blu-ray and On Demand) "Get Out": Jordan Peele (of Key and Peele) scored a major hit as a writer-director with this genre-bending melodrama, which follows an interracial couple on their weekend getaway to visit the woman's parents. Bizarre circumstances and behaviors eventually suggest to the boyfriend that his hosts may not be who they initially seem -- and that if he doesn't follow someone else's very forceful advice to "get out'' while he can, he could be doomed. *** (R: AS, P, V) (Also on Blu-ray and On Demand) "The Great Wall": Matt Damon goes ancient in this adventure that is among the costliest productions yet made in China. Indeed, most of the rest of the cast is foreign as Damon plays a mercenary who's among the warriors battling fearsome creatures at the title structure, and the special effects are impressive even if much of the story will seem familiar to anyone who's seen even one other movie in this genre. *** (PG-13: V) (Also on Blu-ray and On Demand).jpg) "Masterpiece: Dark Angel": In the same week PBS broadcasts it, this true drama gives "Downton Abbey'' alum Joanne Froggatt the very different role of Mary Ann Cotton, a Victorian-era serial killer. Men who loved her were prime targets of her dastardly deeds, which she accomplished by hiding arsenic in cups of (more) |
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19 May 2017
New to DVD and On Demand Releases for May 28 - June 3Releasing this Week: "Before I Fall": Zoey Deutch plays a car-accident victim who evidently has died, but she keeps experiencing the events of that tragic day over and over, each time learning more information about those in her life whom she thought she knew very well. *** (PG-13: AS, P, V) (Also on Blu-ray and On Demand) "Collide": Anthony Hopkins and Ben Kingsley square off in this adventure. Nicholas Hoult, alias Beast in the "X-Men'' movies, plays a young man involved in European drug-dealing ... a pursuit that becomes more urgent when he needs money for the treatment of his ill girlfriend. Much of what unfolds feels familiar, but that Kingsley-Hopkins showdown is worth the price of admission -- or, in this case, a rental. *** (PG-13: AS, P, V) (Also on Blu-ray and On Demand) "The Shack": Sam Worthington has the central role in this strongly spiritual drama, based on the same-named best seller, as a man grieving over the kidnapping and apparent death of his youngest daughter. He's lured by a mysterious letter to the shack where she may have perished, and there, several purported representatives of the Deity make him come to terms with what has happened and what may yet come. Oscar winner Octavia Spencer is among those playing the allegedly heavenly emissaries; country-music star Tim McGraw, Radha Mitchell and Graham Greene also appear. *** (PG-13: AS, V) (Also on Blu-ray and On Demand) (more) |
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14 May 2017
New to DVD and On Demand Releases for May 14 - 20Releasing this Week: "XXX: Return if Xander Cage": Vin Diesel is reasonably fast and somewhat furious in this action sequel that finds the title spy using his extreme-sports skills again as an enemy faction starts manipulating military satellites for its own purposes. Samuel L. Jackson also returns as Cage's handler. The real stars of the movie are the stunt experts whose services are called upon frequently over the course of the story. *** (PG-13: AS, P, V) (Also on Blu-ray and On Demand)
 "Resident Evil: The Final Chapter": If this is indeed the final stand of the franchise, it goes out with a bang. Milla Jovovich is back as heroine Alice, the lone survivor of mankind's all-out offensive against the undead. It's up to her to make a last strike against the sinister Hive by doing so from within. *** (R: P, GV) (Also on Blu-ray and On Demand) (more) |
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07 May 2017
New to DVD and On Demand Releases for May 7 - 13Releasing this Week: "Fifty Shades Darker": The relationship of Anastasia Steele and Christian Grey didn't end with "Fifty Shades of Grey.'' The story reflects what happened before and after "Ana'' became a part of Grey's world, with Kim Basinger as a woman who had much to do with his being who he is -- the prelude to a big reversal of interpersonal significance to each other for the couple. *** (R and unrated versions: AS, N, P) (Also on Blu-ray and On Demand) "Orange is the New Black: Season 4": Life certainly doesn't get any easier for Piper (Taylor Schilling), who finds herself in direct peril from other Litchfield inmates, in this round of the seriocomic and much-praised -- and often quite violent -- Netflix series. A new chief of the guards is a factor in Maureen's (Emily Althaus) amped-up desire to escape, and the populations of new inmates and veterans are integrating, stirring new tensions on top of those already very present. *** (Not rated: AS, P, V) (Also on Blu-ray).jpg) "Divorce: The Complete First Season": Sarah Jessica and Thomas Haden Church play a couple who -- as the title indicates -- are in the process of ending their marriage. With the time that a weekly show allows, the effects of their breakup on others around them also are explored, with Molly Shannon, Talia Balsam and Tracy Letts also in the cast. DVD extras: "making-of'' documentary; audio commentary by cast and crew members. *** (Not rated: AS, N, P) (Also on Blu-ray) "Beaches": The original 1988 movie directed by Garry Marshall remains so popular, many of its fans likely feel it doesn't need a remake ... but Lifetime went ahead with this recent one anyway, casting Idina Menzel and Nia Long in the earlier Bette Midler and Barbara Hershey parts as dissimilar women -- a singer and a lawyer -- whose lifelong friendship endures its share of hurdles. *** (Not rated: AS, P) (more) |
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28 April 2017
New to DVD and On Demand Releases for April 30 - May 6Releasing this Week: "A Dog's Purpose": This seriocomic story, directed by Lasse Hallstrom and based on W. Bruce Cameron's same-named novel, traces the multiple lives of a canine that is reincarnated several times in the path to finding its true place in the world. Josh Gad voices the dog, with KJ Apa and Britt Robertson as the younger incarnations of two of the animal's owners. Dennis Quaid and Peggy Lipton play those characters in later years. *** (PG: AS) (Also on Blu-ray and On Demand) "The Comedian": This Taylor Hackford-directed comedy-drama casts Robert De Niro as a veteran comic who's struggling to stay relevant. After a run-in with an audience member, his sentence to perform community service introduces him to a woman (Leslie Mann) who might prove as much a salvation to him as he is to her. *** (R: AS, P) (Also on Blu-ray and On Demand) "Gold": Matthew McConaughey certainly effects a much different physical look in this fact-inspired story of a modern gold prospector who seeks his claim to riches in Indonesia. In tandem with a geologist, he leaves his girlfriend behind and sets off in search of wealth ... which the hunters actually find, but being able to hold onto it once they return to New York is another story. ** (R: AS, N, P) (Also on Blu-ray and On Demand) (more) |
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