New Releases This Week: 3/26/2013
Movies
Credit: Touchstone Pictures
Lincoln
Steven Spielberg directs Daniel Day-Lewis to an historic third Best Actor Oscar as the 16th President of the United States in a biopic detailing Abraham Lincoln's contentious final months in office.
Credit: The Weinstein Company
Killing Them Softly
Three morons rob a Mob-protected card game, causing the local criminal economy to collapse, and drawing the ire of some bad hombres. Brad Pitt plays the enforcer hired to track them down and restore order.
Credit: 20th Century Fox
Parental Guidance
Artie (Billy Crystal) and Diane (Bette Midler) are old school when it comes to parenting. Of course, this creates problems when they're traditional ideologies clash with the 21st century mentality of their grandchildren, raised by obsessive helicopter parents (Marisa Tomei, Tom Everett Scott).
Credit: Magnolia Pictures
A Royal Affair
The nominee for the Best Foreign-Language Film Oscar hits DVD in all its lush, salacious, immaculately-costumed glory. It's the true story of the love triangle between the increasingly erratic Danish King Christian VII, the enlightened, idealistic royal physician Johann Friedrich Struensee, and the young yet indomitable Queen Caroline Mathilda.
Credit: 20th Century Fox
The Sandlot: 20th Anniversary Blu-Ray
The boyhood baseball classic hits Blue-ray for its 20th anniversary. Hop in the wayback machine to the summer of '62, with the PF Flyers ("The Secret Weapon"), The Beast, and the spirit of The Great Bambino.
Credit: Universal Studios
Jurassic Park
Another Spielberg movie hits shelves this week, this time a re-release of his 1993 blockbuster. Dinosaurs may have been extinct practically since time immemorial, but I can't imagine they'll ever go out of style.
Credit: Universal Pictures
Cheerful Weather for the Wedding
Felicity Jones and Downton Abbey's Elizabeth McGovern star as a mother and daughter embroiled in this comedy about family turmoil on a young woman's big day.
Credit: LD Entertainment
The Collection
In this horror/thriller, Elena (Emma Fitzpatrick) is taken to a secret party by her friends at an undisclosed location. However, she never imagined she would ultimately become the latest victim of The Collector, a psychopathic killer. It's okay, dear. No one ever does.
Credit: China Lion Film Distribution
Bangkok Revenge
Manit, a ten-year-old boy, witnesses the murder of his parents. Twenty years later, and you just know it's on. The revenge fantasy brings kinetic action, in spades.
Other DVD releases/re-releases:
Easy Money
To the Arctic
Stand Off
Day of the Falcon
Phantasm II
Futureworld
Beautiful Girls
Playing By Heart
The Devil and Miss Jones
Marvin's Room
Music of the Heart
A Man Escaped
Music
Alan Jackson Precious Memories, Vol. 2
Alice Cooper Original Album Series
Blake Shelton Based on a True Story...
David Archuleta No Matter How Far
Depeche Mode Delta Machine
Dido Girl Who Got Away
The Strokes Comedown Machine
Crystal Bowersox All That for This
OneRepublic Native
Lil Wayne I Am Not a Human Being II
Sevendust Black Out the Sun
Little Green Cars Absolute Zero
Wire Change Becomes Us
Harper Simon Division Street
Maggie Rose Cut to Impress
Marnie Stern The Chronicles Of Marnia
Wavves Afraid Of Heights
Videogames
BioShock Infinite (PC, 360, PS3)
Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon (3DS)
Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Gates to Infinity (3DS)
Slender: The Arrival (PC)
Warframe (PC)
Final Fantasy XI: Ultimate Collection (Seekers Edition) (360)
Army of Two: The Devil's Cartel (360, PS3)
Tiger Woods PGA Tour 14 (360, PS3)
Books
Credit: Scribner
Double Feature
Owen King
Credit: Viking Adult
Flimsy Little Plastic Miracles
Ron Currie Jr.
Credit: Ecco
I Dreamed I Was A Very Clean Tramp
Richard Hell
Credit: Random House
The Burgess Boys
Elizabeth Strout
