Movies

On Demand and DVD New Releases: Nov. 13-19 Wind River The FBI sends rookie agent Jane Banner to investigate the murder of a woman on the Wind River Indian Reservation. She teams up with the game tracker who found the body, and together they look to uncover the story behind the horrible murder in an area isolated from the rest of the world. Jeremy Renner, Elizabeth Olsen, Julia Jones (R, 1:47) 11/14 The Nut Job 2: Nutty By Nature Surly is back, and the mayor of Oakton wants to destroy his home and replace it with an amusement park. It’s […]

New to On Demand: Cars 3 Everything changes over time. Coca-Cola became New Coke and then went back to being Coca-Cola again. DVD became Blu-ray, and we moved from standard definition to high definition. In most cases, change is a good thing as innovation leads the way. But in the film Cars 3, what happens when the competitors in the Piston Cup racing series seem to have moved beyond Lightning McQueen? McQueen (voiced by Owen Wilson) is looking to wrap up another stunning race against two of his best friends when a fresh-faced new car explodes through the pack. Jackson […]

On Demand DVD New Releases Nov. 6-12 The Glass Castle (pictured) Jeannette grew up with a dysfunctional family who moved around the country like nomads, always finding new and underwhelming places to live. Her alcoholic father would distract her and her siblings with visions of hope to take their mind off their current situation. Eventually, all of the past will be dealt with in the present. Brie Larson, Woody Harrelson, Naomi Watts (PG-13, 2:07) 11/7 Cars 3 Lightning McQueen is starting to fade. When the newer and faster Jackson Storm bursts onto the scene, it is time for McQueen to […]

On Demand DVD New Releases: Oct. 30-Nov. 5 Kidnap Karla Dyson experiences one of the horrors every parent fears when her son is kidnapped almost before her eyes. But this mom is not about to sit idly by and wait for the police to help her; she’s taking justice into her own hands. Halle Berry, Sage Correa, Chris McGinn  (R, 1:22) 10/31 The Dark Tower (pictured) It’s the ultimate battle of good versus evil as Roland, known as the last Gunslinger, has been going toe-to-toe with the Man in Black to keep the Dark Tower from toppling. But will Roland succeed in keeping […]

Humans and apes. Are we really that different from each other? Our sense of community, our quest for survival, our emotions, whether buried or released, are all the same for both species. In the film War for the Planet of the Apes, we simultaneously celebrate and despise the similarities of the two species. As the wildly unpredictable Colonel (Woody Harrelson) escalates the battle with the apes, Caesar (Andy Serkis) is forced to fight to preserve the species he loves. Though Caesar has always kept an open mind about humans, there are moments that will push even the most level-headed individual […]

The films released under the umbrella of The Conjuring universe have been creepy successes. They are the rare blend of scares and story, a higher level of horror frights. Now, with the newest addition to that series, Annabelle: Creation, I’m happy to report we get more good creepy fun. Samuel Mullins (Anthony LaPaglia) is an expert doll maker. He and his wife Esther (Miranda Otto) have one young daughter and when Samuel’s latest doll order is ready to ship, the family looks to be living a dream. But when tragedy strikes, life changes and the Mullinses become reclusive. Fast forward […]

On Demand DVD New Releases: Oct. 23-29 The Emoji Movie Gene is the “meh” emoji that lives in your phone. So what happens when emojis with one emotion actually have a range of emotions? When Gene makes the wrong face, a number of emojis set out to right the wrong and be relevant. Voices of T.J. Miller, James Corden, Anna Faris (PG, 1:26) 10/24 War For the Planet of the Apes The tensions between apes and humans escalate as the continuing effects of the simian flu have humans on edge. It becomes “us vs. them” and Caesar leads the apes to war. […]

Spidey is back in the Spider-Man: Homecoming. We pick up with a story that has Peter Parker (Tom Holland) headed home after his battle alongside Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.) during Captain America: Civil War. But his return home takes him from the adrenaline rush of being alongside the world’s greatest superheroes to that of an ordinary high-school student. Stark has plans for Spider-Man. He has gifted him with a new high-tech suit and all the accoutrements a teenage crime-fighter could ever want. But Peter is told to simply wait for his handler Happy (Jon Favreau) to call and put […]

Girls Trip, starring Jada Pinkett Smith, Regina Hall, Queen Latifah, Tiffany Hadish is about a group of lifelong friends (“The Flossy Posse”) who haven’t hung out in years and decide to get their groove back and head to the Essence Festival in New Orleans for a wild trip. A major highlight of the shoot was when the crew stumbled upon the idea of flying above the streets. The idea for a Zipline to be in Girls Trip came from producer  Will Packer. “Somebody in my office was telling me that in real life in Las Vegas a guy went on […]