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Movie Rentals Releasing Tuesday September 25, 2012

• The Avengers [Click here for Ed’s Review]
• Damsels in Distress

New in theaters this weekend Friday September 21, 2012

• House at the End of the Street
• End of Watch
• Dredd 3D
• Trouble with the Curve
• The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“House at the End of the Street” is a first class horror film, perfect for the season, about a mother (Elisabeth Shue) and her daughter (Jennifer Lawrence) who find the perfect house for them in an upscale rural town, but after they move in they find out that a horrible murder took place in the house next door, and immediately, strange things start to happen. “End of Watch” is a police drama about a couple of young officers (Jake Gyllenhaal and Michael Pena) patrolling the gang ridden streets of South Central L.A. “Dredd” is a 3D science fiction film about the future when the US is a wasteland. The whole east coast is one giant metropolis where criminals rule the streets and the only law and order is the judge, jury, and executioner known as Judge Dredd. “Trouble with the Curve” is Clint Eastwood’s latest, where he plays an aging scout who is reaching the end stages of his career when the Braves want to put him out to pasture. On one last trip, he asks his daughter Mickey (Amy Adams) to join him, something he would never have normally done. Emma Watson stars in a touching coming of age story that shows the highs and lows of growing up.

Last Weeks top Box Office:

1 – Resident Evil: Retribution
2 – Finding Nemo 3D
3 – The Possession
4 – Lawless
5 – ParaNorman

New in theaters this weekend Friday September 1, 2012

• The Master
• Resident Evil: Retribution
• Finding Nemo 3D
• Liberal Arts
• Arbitrage
• 10 Years
• Stolen
• Snowman’s Land

The biggest excitement for me is a re-release of “Finding Nemo”. It’s been a while since I’ve seen this stunning Pixar animated feature and now it’s in 3D on the big screen. Gotta love Dory. The other major release is “Resident Evil: Retribution” another in the long series of video game to big screen films. This fits in with the fall horror movie schedule, but it has it’s fans and fanatics. I’m not really one, and I generally don’t get too exited over these. I guess this is number 5 in the series and Mila Jovovich does look pretty good fighting the zombies! “The Master” is a post WWII film about those wandering about without purpose. Joaquin Phoenix and Phillip Seymour Hoffman star in this one, and both of those guys fit into a film like this. It’ll be relatively slow, and very literary, I’m sure. “Liberal Arts” is about a college graduate who is bored with his job and missed the college days. He’s afraid the best years of his life are behind him, so when he’s invited back to the college for his professor’s retirement party as a speaker, he jumps at the chance to relive the good old days. Richard Gere, Susan Sarandon, and Tim Roth are in “Arbitrage”, a story of the financial world mixed with a love story! Over his head in debt, but appearing to the world as highly successful, Robert Miller (Gere) tries to sell the company before his fraudulent debt ridden situation is uncovered. “10 Years” features an ensemble cast in a familiar story about a bunch of friends who have never grown up getting back together for a 10 year school reunion. Hilarity ensues, as they say. “Stolen” is a wild action film featuring both Nick Cage and New Orleans. This should be a roller-coaster ride! “Snowman’s Land” is a story about a successful hit man who screws up a job, and is sent on a cake walk to knock off an aged kingpin of an organized crime organization way up in the mountains. Rather than a walk in the park as he is promised, it turns into a fight for survival in this crime action film.

Last Weeks top Box Office:

1 – The Posession
2 – Lawless
3 – The Expendables 2
4 – The Words
5 – ParaNorman

Movie Rentals Releasing Tuesday September 11, 2012

• Snow White and the Huntsman[For Ed’s Review Click Here]
• What to Expect When You’re Expecting[For Ed’s Review Click Here]
• For Greater Glory
• October Baby
• Girl in Progress
• Where Do We Go Now?
• We Have a Pope
• Lola Versus

New in theaters this weekend Friday September 7, 2012

• Batchelorette
• Branded
• The Cold Light of Day
• For Ellen
• Girl Model
• Hello I Must Be Going
• The InBetweeners
• Toys in the Attic
• The Words

Lots of movies coming out this week, but not a whole lot of excitement I’m afraid. “Batchelorette” is an R rated comedy featuring Kirsten Dunst and Isla Fisher about old friends who get together to throw an awesome party but instead get to try to save the wedding. “Branded” is another R rated film, but this time a Orwellian, evil governments have set out to control the population, type film. “The Cold Light of Day” is familiar story about a family who goes to Spain on vacation, only to get caught up in a chase by spies who want certain contents of a mysterious briefcase. Bruce Willis and Sigourney Weaver star. “For Ellen” is about wannabe rock star Joby Taylor (Paul Dano) who wants to make it at all costs, but finds out after he signs divorce papers to get some money from selling the house, that he’s been denied access to his six year old daughter Ellen. “Girl Model” is a documentary about the model industry in Siberia and Tokyo of all things. It’s the look at the model industry in very unusual locations. Hit? I doubt it. 🙂 “Hello I Must Be Going” is a Sundance film which is a love story, however unusual, about a recent divorcee who return to her parents home in Connecticut. “The In-betweeners” is a raunchy graduation story about a trio of friends who head off to the island of Crete for a holiday and to taste the wild side of life with hilarious results. Based on a British TV Show. “Keep the Lights On” is an animated film featuring some great voice talkent including Forest Whitaker, Joan Cusack, and Cary Elwes about a lovely princess held prisoner for rescue by her toy friends. Finally “The Words” is a romantic drama featuring Bradley Cooper, Zoe Saldana, and many other stars about a guy who has reached the heights of literary achievement with a hugely successful book that he didn’t write.

Last Weeks top Box Office:

1 – The Possession
2 – Lawless
3 – The Expendables 2
4 – The Bourne Legacy
5 – ParaNorman