New releases for November 18 & 11

November 18 releases:

22 Jump Street
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After making their way through high school (twice), big changes are in store for officers Schmidt and Jenko when they go deep undercover at a local college.

And So It Goes
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A self-absorbed realtor enlists the help of his neighbor when he’s suddenly left in charge of the granddaughter he never knew existed until his estranged son drops her off at his home.

Ragnarok (Swedish)
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The ancient and modern worlds collide when archaeologist Sigurd Svendsen finds the true meaning of the secret runes found in the Oseberg ship.

Into The Storm
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Storm trackers, thrill-seekers, and everyday townspeople document an unprecedented onslaught of tornadoes touching down in the town of Silverton.

If I Stay
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Life changes in an instant for young Mia Hall after a car accident puts her in a coma. During an out-of-body experience, she must decide whether to wake up and live a life far different than she had imagined.

New DVDs for November 11:

How To Train Your Dragon 2
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When Hiccup and Toothless discover an ice cave that is home to hundreds of new wild dragons and the mysterious Dragon Rider, the two friends find themselves at the center of a battle to protect the peace.

Jersey Boys
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The story of four young men from the wrong side of the tracks in New Jersey who came together to form the iconic 1960s rock group The Four Seasons.

Let’s Be Cops
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Two struggling pals dress as police officers for a costume party and become neighborhood sensations. But when these newly-minted “heroes” get tangled in a real life web of mobsters and dirty detectives, they must put their fake badges on the line.

Tammy
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After losing her job and learning that her husband has been unfaithful, a woman hits the road with her profane, hard-drinking grandmother.

Mr. Pip
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As a war rages on in the province of Bougainville in Papua New Guinea, a young girl becomes transfixed by the Charles Dickens novel Great Expectations, which is being read at school by the only white man in the village.

Iceman (Cantonese)
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An imperial guard and his three traitorous childhood friends ordered to hunt him down get accidentally buried and kept frozen in time. 400 years later passes and they are defrosted continuing the battle they left behind.

I Am Ali
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Unprecedented access to Muhammad Ali’s personal archive of “audio journals” as well as interviews and testimonials from his inner circle of family and friends are used to tell the legend’s life story.

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New releases for November 4, 2014

Maleficent
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A vengeful fairy is driven to curse an infant princess, only to discover that the child may be the one person who can restore peace to their troubled land.

Hercules
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Having endured his legendary twelve labors, Hercules, the Greek demigod, has his life as a sword-for-hire tested when the King of Thrace and his daughter seek his aid in defeating a tyrannical warlord.

Exhibition
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An intimate examination of a contemporary artist couple, whose living and working patterns are threatened by the imminent sale of their home.

Le Chef
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A veteran chef faces off against his restaurant group’s new CEO, who wants to the establishment to lose a star from its rating in order to bring in a younger chef who specializes in molecular gastronomy.

Behaving Badly
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Teenager Rick Stevens has a crush on Nina Pennington. They form a friendship and embark on a rock n’ roll journey together while Nina deals with her overbearing boyfriend, Kevin.

Begin Again
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A chance encounter between a disgraced music-business executive and a young singer-songwriter new to Manhattan turns into a promising collaboration between the two talents.

About Alex
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When a group of old college friends reunite over a long weekend after one of them attempts suicide, old crushes and resentments shine light on their life decisions, and ultimately push friendships and relationships to the brink.

Child of God
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A dispossessed, violent man’s life is a disastrous attempt to exist outside the social order. Successively deprived of parents and homes and with few other ties, Ballard descends to the level of a cave dweller as he falls deeper into crime and degradation.

The Prince
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When his daughter is kidnapped, a retired assassin is drawn back into the life he gave up. To rescue her, he must confront his former rival.

Plastic
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Sam & Fordy run a credit card fraud scheme, but when they steal from the wrong man, they find themselves threatened by sadistic gangster. They need to raise £5m and pull off a daring diamond heist to clear their debt.

Step up: All In
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All-stars from the previous Step Up installments come together in glittering Las Vegas, battling for a victory that could define their dreams and their careers.

A Most Wanted Man
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A Chechen Muslim illegally immigrates to Hamburg, where he gets caught in the international war on terror.

Planes: Fire and Rescue
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When Dusty learns that his engine is damaged and he may never race again, he joins a forest fire and rescue unit to be trained as a firefighter.

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New releases for Oct. 7, Sept. 23 and Sept. 16

New releases for October 7:

Obvious Child
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A twenty-something comedienne’s unplanned pregnancy forces her to confront the realities of independent womanhood for the first time.

Million Dollar Arm
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A sports agent stages an unconventional recruitment strategy to get talented Indian cricket players to play Major League Baseball.

A Million Ways To Die In The West
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As a cowardly farmer begins to fall for the mysterious new woman in town, he must put his new-found courage to the test when her husband, a notorious gun-slinger, announces his arrival.

Edge of Tomorrow
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An officer finds himself caught in a time loop in a war with the alien race. His skills increase as he faces the same brutal combat scenarios, and his union with a Special Forces warrior gets him closer to defeating the enemy.

Life After Beth
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A young man’s recently deceased girlfriend mysteriously returns from the dead, but he slowly realizes she is not the way he remembered her.

The Grand Seduction
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To survive, a dying Newfoundland fishing village must convince a young doctor to take up residence by any means necessary.

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New releases for Sept. 9 and Sept. 2, 2014

A Long Way Down
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Four people meet on New Year’s Eve and form a surrogate family to help one another weather the difficulties of their lives.

Around the Block
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An Aboriginal boy is torn between his unexpected love of acting and the disintegration of his family.

Words and Pictures
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An art instructor and an English teacher form a rivalry that ends up with a competition at their school in which students decide whether words or pictures are more important.

Captain America: The Winter Soldier
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Steve Rogers struggles to embrace his role in the modern world and battles a new threat from old history: the Soviet agent known as the Winter Soldier.

Decline Of An Empire
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Constantine joins the Roman army to find his missing childhood friend. Once alerted to his friend’s whereabouts, he prepares for an all out war between the East and the West.

Fed Up
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An examination of America’s obesity epidemic and the food industry’s role in aggravating it.

God’s Pocket
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When Mickey’s crazy step-son Leon is killed in a construction ‘accident’, nobody in the working class neighborhood of God’s Pocket is sorry he’s gone. Mickey tries to bury the bad news with the body, but when the boy’s mother demands the truth, Mickey finds himself stuck in a life-and-death struggle between a body he can’t bury, a wife he can’t please and a debt he can’t pay.

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New releases for August 19 & 26

August 26 releases

Belle
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The mixed race daughter of a Royal Navy Admiral is raised by her aristocratic great-uncle in 18th century England.

The Double
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A clerk in a government agency finds his unenviable life takes a turn for the horrific with the arrival of a new co-worker who is both his exact physical double and his opposite – confident, charismatic and seductive with women.

The Normal Heart
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A gay activist attempts to raise HIV/AIDS awareness during the early 1980s.

Blended
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After a bad blind date, a man and woman find themselves stuck together at a resort for families, where their attraction grows as their respective kids benefit from the burgeoning relationship.

The Love Punch
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A divorced couple scheme to recover the retirement money that was stolen from them.

Aftermath
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Searching for a happy ending to a tale of unimaginable disaster and horror, nine strangers find themselves holed up together in a farmhouse cellar in rural Texas.

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Sons of Anarchy: Season 6
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A man in his early 30s struggles to find a balance in his life between being a new dad and his involvement in a motorcycle club.

The Walking Dead: Season 4
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Police officer Rick Grimes leads a group of survivors in a world overrun by zombies.

Parks and Recreation: Season 2
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The absurd antics of an Indiana town’s public officials as they pursue sundry projects to make their city a better place.

The Blacklist: Season 1
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Former government agent Raymond “Red” Reddington (James Spader) has eluded capture for decades. But he suddenly surrenders to the FBI with an offer to help catch a terrorist under the condition that he speaks only to Elizabeth “Liz” Keen (Megan Boone), a young FBI profiler who’s just barely out of Quantico.

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New releases for July 29, Aug. 5 and Aug. 12

The Railway Man
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A former British Army officer, who was tormented as a prisoner of war at a Japanese labor camp during World War II, discovers that the man responsible for much of his treatment is still alive and sets out to confront him.

Filth
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A corrupt cop manipulates and hallucinates his way through a bid to secure a promotion and win back his wife and daughter.

Locke
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Ivan Locke, a dedicated family man and successful construction manager, receives a phone call on the eve of the biggest challenge of his career that sets in motion a series of events that threaten his careful cultivated existence.

Bears
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A documentary that follows an Alaskan bear family as its young cubs are taught life’s most important lessons.

Muppets Most Wanted
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While on a grand world tour, The Muppets find themselves wrapped into an European jewel-heist caper headed by a Kermit the Frog look-alike and his dastardly sidekick.

Rage
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When the daughter of a reformed criminal is kidnapped, he rounds up his old crew and seeks his own brand of justice.

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New releases for Tuesday, July 22

Road to Paloma
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Wolf, a Native American on the run after avenging his mother’s murder, flees across the desolate American West on his motorcycle, where he’ll discover that justice has a cost.

The Single Moms Club
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When five struggling single moms put aside their differences to form a support group, they find inspiration and laughter in their new sisterhood, and help each other overcome the obstacles that stand in their way.

Dom Hemingway
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After spending 12 years in prison for keeping his mouth shut, notorious safe-cracker Dom Hemingway is back on the streets of London looking to collect what he’s owed.

Sabotage
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Members of an elite DEA task force find themselves being taken down one by one after they rob a drug cartel safe house.

Cesar Chavez
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A biography of the civil-rights activist and labor organizer Cesar Chavez.

The Angriest Man in Brooklyn
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A curmudgeonly man is mistakenly told that he has 90 minutes to live by his doctor and promptly sets out to reconcile with his wife, brother and friends in the short time he believes he has left.

Blue Ruin
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A mysterious outsider’s quiet life is turned upside down when he returns to his childhood home to carry out an act of vengeance. Proving himself an amateur assassin, he winds up in a brutal fight to protect his estranged family.

Transcendence
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A scientist’s drive for artificial intelligence, takes on dangerous implications when his consciousness is uploaded into one such program.

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New releases for Tuesday, July 15

The Face of Love
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A widow falls for a guy who bears a striking resemblance to her late husband.

A Night In Old Mexico
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Forced to give up his land and his only home, cantankerous Texas rancher Red Bovie isn’t about to go quietly to the dismal trailer park that’s all he can now afford, and instead goes off with his grandson Gally – son of his long-estranged son Jimmy – for one last wild and woolly adventure during a night in Old Mexico.

Stage Fright
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A snobby musical theater camp is terrorized by a blood-thirsty killer who hates musical theater.

Under the Skin
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A mysterious woman seduces lonely men in the evening hours in Scotland. Events lead her to begin a process of self-discovery.

Open Grave
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A man wakes up in the wilderness, in a pit full of dead bodies, with no memory and must determine if the murderer is one of the strangers who rescued him, or if he himself is the killer.

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New releases for June 24, 2014

Redwood Highway*
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Marie decides to journey 80 miles on foot to the coast of Oregon to revisit the ocean of her past for the first time in 45 years.

Rob the Mob*
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A Queens couple who specialize in robbing mafia social clubs stumble upon a score bigger than they could ever imagine, becoming targets of both the mob and the FBI in the process.

Some Velvet Morning
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Stanley Tucci stars as a man who surprises his former mistress (Alice Eve), claiming to have left his wife. Before too long, a dark history between the two has come into focus.

Faust*
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A despairing scholar sells his soul to the devil in exchange for one night with a beautiful young woman.

Two Lives*
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As the Berlin Wall crumbles, Katrine, the daughter of a Norwegian woman and a German occupation soldier, finds her idyllic life disrupted as she refuses to testify a trial against the Norwegian state on behalf of her fellow “war children.”

300: Rise of an Empire
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Greek general Themistokles leads the charge against invading Persian forces led by mortal-turned-god Xerxes and Artemisia, vengeful commander of the Persian navy.

Winter’s Tale
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A burglar falls for an heiress as she dies in his arms. When he learns that he has the gift of reincarnation, he sets out to save her.

Blood Ties
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Two brothers, on either side of the law, face off over organized crime in Brooklyn during the 1970s.

Enemy*
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A man seeks out his exact look-alike after spotting him in a movie.

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NEW: Bette’s Summer Family Flicks

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