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Movie Rentals Releasing Tuesday September 4, 2012

• The Five-Year Engagement
• Safe
• Woman Thou Art Loosed: On the 7th Day
• Piranha DD
• High School
• Touchback

New in theaters this weekend Friday August 31, 2012

• Lawless
• The Possession
• For a Good Time, Call…
• The Ambassador
• Little Birds
• The Tall Man
• The Good Doctor
• Breathing
• The Oogieloves in the Big Balloon Adventure
• Chicken with Plums

Lots of new releases coming out this week. “Lawless” with Shia LeBeouf, is a true story of the infamous Bondurant Brothers who were bootleggers. “The Possession” is a horror film based on another alleged true story of a girl who becomes obsessed with a wooden box she got at a garage sale, as the spirit in the box takes her over. “Little Birds” tells us the story of two 15 year old girls who are friends despite struggling to survive on the shores of the Salton Sea which once was a up and coming playground for the rich, but has deteriorated into a slum. “For a Good Time, Call…” is a tale of two complete opposites who become roommates out of financial necessity. When one finds out the other is a phone sex operator, it seems like an easy way to make a living. “The Ambassador” is a documentary about a man who is a con artist selling fake documents and credentials and exploiting war in third world countries. “The Tall Man” is a film with Jessica Biel as a mom who learns her son has been abducted like many other children in the town, who sets out to find out the truth. “The Good Doctor” features Orlando Bloom as a young doctor eager to fit in and to prove he is worthy as his ambition turns into obsession. “Breathing” tells us about a man who through his work in the morgue during his incarceration learns a lot about himself and his destiny in life. “The Oogieloves in the Big Balloon Adventure” is a highly interactive film for kids and their parents where the audience is encouraged to sing and dance with the actors on the screen. Finally there’s “Chicken with Plums” is an Iranian film that documents a man who’s joy in life was music, but who’s violin was broken. He decides to go to bed and just wait for death to come and put him out of his misery.

Last Weeks top Box Office:

1 – The Expendables 2
2 – The Bourne Legacy
3 – ParaNorman
4 – The Campaign
5 – The Dark Knight Rises

Movie Rentals Releasing Tuesday August 28, 2012

• Think Like a Man
• Battleship [Click Here for Eds Review]
• The Lucky One
• The Pirates! Band of Misfits
• Monsier Lazhar
• Headhunters
• Darling Companion

New in theaters this weekend Friday August 24, 2012

• Premium Rush
• The Apparition
• Hit and Run
• Samsara
• Sleepwalk with Me
• Little White Lies
• Thunderstruck
• The Revenant
• General Education

This looks like a fairly slow week for new releases. Maybe Labor Day weekend will be a bit more memorable. “The Apparition” is a PG-13 scary movie about the haunting of a University parapsychology experiment with Ashley Green, Sebastian Stan, Tom Gelton, etc. “General Education” is another college picture about Levi Collins, about to go to school on a tennis scholarship, but he finds love and screws up his senior year of high school, failing his science class. So he goes to summer school to try to make it up before his parents find out. “Hit and Run” is a road trip flick featuring Dax Shepard who breaks out of the witness protection program to drive his fiance (Kristen Bell) to Los Angeles to grab a once in a lifetime opportunity in this comedy. “Little White Lies” is a French film about a restaurant owner who invites friends and family to his beach house for their annual vacation, but an accident sets off a tragic chain of events that sorely tests everyone in the group. “Premium Rush” is a Joseph Gordon-Levitt film about bicycle messengers in New York City who take their lives into their hands every time the head out to street to get the message delivered across Manhattan. One particular delivery takes every bit of skill he’s got to get through and survive the day. “Samsara” is a documentary filmed over 4 years and 25 countries in 70mm to breathtaking imagery and explore man’s relationship to nature and to the world, and to each other. “Sleepwalk with Me” is the filmed version on a one man autobiographical show performed by playwright/filmmaker/stand-up comic’s look at life. The final two “Thunderstruck” is a story about a young basketball fan who suddenly switches his talents with Kevin Durant, the Oklahoma Thunder all-star basketball player and he suddenly becomes the star of his high school team, whereas “The Revenant” is another horror film about a solider in Iraq who after being killed, suddenly arises and finds himself a bloodthirsty zombie. See what I mean? Not much going on this week! Time to catch up on the items you missed from the RedBox!!!

Last Weeks top Box Office:

1 – The Expendables 2
2 – The Bourne Legacy
3 – ParaNorman
4 – The Campaign
5 – Sparkle

Movie Rentals Releasing Tuesday August 21, 2012

• The Dictator
• Chimpanzee
• Bernie
• A Separation
• Weekend