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Movie Rentals Releasing Tuesday October 16, 2012

• Madagascar 3: Europe’s Most Wanted
• Moonrise Kingdom [Click Here for Ed’s Review]
• That’s My Boy
• 2016 Obama’s America
• Chernobyl Diaries

New in theaters this weekend Friday October 12, 2012

• Argo
• Sinister
• Here Comes the Boom
• Seven Psychopaths
• Smashed
• Atlas Shrugged: Part II
• War of the Buttons
• Nobody Walks
• Middle of Nowhere
• Grave Encounters 2

There are a bunch of new films debuting at the theaters this week. “Argo” is Ben Afflecks new drama based on the true story of how six of the hostages from the embassy in Iran were rescued by the Canadian embassy. I remember this story in the news, and actually have a letter from the Canadian government in response to a thank you letter I sent them for the assistance in rescuing these folks. Here is the story of how it was done. “Sinister” is another of these found footage films about an evil presence that is terrorizing a family. Good Halloween stuff! “Here Comes the Boom” is another wide release about a high school which is in financial trouble, and in order to save the extra-curricular sports program, a teacher turns to the only thing he knows how to do to save the programs, extreme mixed martial arts fighting! This is a comedy featuring Kevin James. “Seven Psychopaths” is a funny film with a lot of stars about a screen writer who gets mixed up with the mob, and requires his friends to band together to try to pull him out of trouble. “Smashed” is a story of a couple who are heavy drinkers who’s life together is put to the test when the wife decides to sober up. “Atlas Shrugged Part 2” is the sequel to the science fiction film “Atlas Shrugged”. It is about the world on the brink of disaster due to a failed economy and the fight to save the world from the evil corporations. “War of the Buttons” is a French WWII movie about a Frenchman who is concerned about a young Jewish girl who is in danger from the Nazis and it causes him to take a closer look at what’s going on around him. “Nobody Walks” starring John Krasinski is about a family who is threatened after taking in a young woman so she can finish her art film. “Middle of Nowhere” tells of a lady who drops out of medical school when her husband is incarcerated for 8 years. Finally, “Grave Encounters 2” is a bit of a homage to the original “Grave Encounters”. The original film was about a psychiatric hospital where horrible events took place. Well a film student has become obsessed with the film, and especially those who don’t believe that it’s real, so he sets out to try to validate the things that happened in the first film.

Last Weeks top Box Office:

1 – Taken 2
2 – Hotel Transylvania
3 – Pitch Perfect
4 – Looper
5 – Frankenweenie

Movie Rentals Releasing Tuesday October 9, 2012

• Prometheus [Click Here for Ed’s Review]
• Rock of Ages
• The Raven
• Shut Up and Play the Hits
• A Cat in Paris

New in theaters this weekend Friday October 5, 2012

• Taken 2
• Frankenweenie
• Pitch Perfect
• The Paperboy
• Wuthering Heights
• V/H/S
• The House I Live In
• The Oranges
• Butter

“Taken 2” is the sequel to Liam Neeson’s action adventure where he rescued his daughter from some vicious kidnappers. His family is now in danger in Istanbul, and he’s back at it again trying to insure the family is safe. This is another high energy action film. On the opposite side is “Frankenweenie”, a cartoon adventure by Tim Burton about a little boy who brings his dog back to life setting of a series of troubles. “Perfect Pitch” is a glee like musical drama of a bunch of kids in college that form a singing group. This opened in limited release last week and was highly praised. It opens in wide release this week. “The Paperboy” is a drama with Zac Efron, Matthew McConaughey, John Cusack, and Nicole Kidman that is a story about a reporter who returns home to Florida for a story about a death row inmate. The modern day retelling of Emily Bronte’s “Wuthering Heights” is a story of a young poor boy who is taken in by the Earnshaw family where he falls in love with his young foster sister Cathy. “V/H/S” is anther “Blair Witch Project” handheld camera / found footage film about a band of guys hired to break into a remote house to locate and steal a very rare VHS tape, but naturally they find a lot more than they bargained for in this horror film. “The House I Live In” is a documentary about prison life from the views of a number of different kinds of people, from inmates, to guards, to judges, to narcotics officers. Basically it focuses on the US drug laws. “The Oranges” is a comedy about two families, and is a Romeo and Juliet type story when the daughter of the Ostroff’s comes home after five years for the holidays and falls for the head of the Walling family testing everyone’s friendship. “Butter” is a strange story of an adopted girl in Iowa who discovers a hidden talent in butter carving, and sets off to test her skills against the master butter carvers in the contest.

Last Weeks top Box Office:

1 – Hotel Transylvania
2 – Looper
3 – End of Watch
4 – Trouble With the Curve
5 – House at the End oof the Street

New in theaters this weekend Friday September 28, 2012

• Looper
• Hotel Transylvania
• Bringing Up Bobby
• The Hole
• The Other Dream Team
• Pitch Perfect
• Solomon Kane
• Trade of Innocents
• The Waiting Room
• Won’t Back Down

“Hotel Transylvania” opens this week. This is a fun monster themed cartoon feature with voices like Adam Sandler, Miley Cyrus, Cee-lo Green, David Spade, and tons of others, and it looks like lots of fun! “Looper” stars Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Bruce Willis, Emily Blunt sci-fi story about time travel, and a hired assassin who is responsible for killing people sent back from the future who need to be taken out by the mob. But when he’s hired to kill his future self, everything breaks down. “Bringing up Bobby” Milla Jojovich is European woman who, in order to escape her past and make a better for her and her young son, moves to Oklahoma, but runs into all sorts of challenges. What would the last days of September be without a new horror film to try to scare us. “The Hole” fits the bill. After moving into a new home, they find a huge hole in the basement that seems to have no bottom. Hence we get to watch them try to figure out why it’s there, what it means, and who lived in this house before them. “The Other Dream Team” is a documentary about a couple of athletes from Lithuania who lead the USSR to gold medal at the Seoul Olympics in 1988. It documents their life since, especially after the fall of the USSR and the challenges of living behind the iron curtain. “Pitch Perfect” with Anna Kendrick and Brittany Snow is a Glee-like film about a college choir trying to bring the trophy home with a lot of music mixed in with the usual teen angst of mean girls and other problems. “Solomon Kane” is an action film of a vicious mercenary who takes on the forces of hell to save his soul. “Trade of Innocents” with Mira Sorvino is about a woman trying to fight the sex slave business in southeast Asia. “THe Waiting Room” is a documentary looking at the care of uninsured patients at a public hospital. Based mostly in the ER, it shows what life is like for people with no insurance. Finally “Won’t Back Down” is the story of a mother who is fed up with the quality of education in kids school, so she puts together a team of teachers and parents to start their own school, and is based somewhat on a true story.

Last Weeks top Box Office:

1 – End of Watch
2 – House at the End of the Street
3 – Trouble with the Curve
4 – Finding Nemo 3D
5 – Resident Evil: Retribution