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VOD Spotlight: Kubo and The Two Strings

VOD Spotlight:  Kubo and the Two Strings In this 3D-stop motion animated tale, a young boy named Kubo is a storyteller in his seaside town, making his humble living telling stories via folded origami characters. When tragedy strikes, Kubo must set out on a quest with the help of Monkey (voiced by Charlize Theron) and Beetle (voiced by Matthew McConaughey) to solve the mystery of his fallen father in an attempt to fulfill his destiny. Over the five years it took to bring the project to the screen, Kubo and the Two Strings grew as a love letter to Japanese […]

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New to On Demand: War Dogs

In the new movie War Dogs, we get to meet two motivated young Americans. David Packouz (Miles Teller) is a kid doing whatever it takes to survive. He’s a massage therapist, but has dreams of going into business for himself. Efraim Diveroli (Jonah Hill), David’s old friend, rolls back into town and reconnects with him. Efraim quickly invites David to join his company, AEY, Inc. Together the two will be selling weapons to the U.S. government, a perfect career for any 20-something, right? Because of past rigged contracts, the government has been forced to open up the bidding process to […]

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On Demand DVD New Releases Nov. 21-28

On Demand DVD New Releases Nov. 21-28 Hands of Stone (pictured) This film tells the story of legendary fighter Roberto Duran and his rise from the streets of Panama to the top of boxing’s mountain. Legendary trainer Ray Arcel comes out of retirement to work with Duran and teach the fighter that winning takes strategy. Edgar Ramírez, Robert De Niro, Ellen Barkin (R, 1:51) 11/22 Hell or High Water Two brothers in a small town in West Texas come up with a scheme to save their parents’ land from the bank. Desperate times call for desperate measures, and this series […]

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New to On Demand: Finding Dory

As an audience, we love to revisit characters that we have enjoyed in past films; we just hope that filmmakers don’t tarnish that love when making a sequel. In the new film Finding Dory, we not only get Dory, Nemo and Marlin, but we also get new characters like Hank the octopus and a pair of lazy sea lions named Fluke and Rudder to ensure that we leave feeling like the new film has a life of its own. Ellen DeGeneres returns as the voice of our favorite blue tang fish, Dory. We walk through Dory’s past, from her days […]

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On Demand DVD New Releases Nov. 14-20

On Demand DVD New Releases Nov. 14-20 Finding Dory (pictured) Dory is a friendly — and forgetful — blue tang fish. In Finding Nemo, Dory helped Nemo’s father find him, but now she finds herself lost with a cast of new characters. Her journey will lead her to find out more about the meaning of family as she attempts to find her own. Voices of Ellen DeGeneres, Albert Brooks, Ed O’Neill (PG, 1:37) 11/15 Army of One An American civilian sets out on his own to find Osama Bin Laden. Nicolas Cage, Wendi McLendon-Covey, Denis O’Hare (R, 1:32) 11/15 My […]

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On Demand DVD New Releases Nov. 7-13

On Demand DVD New Releases Nov. 7-13 Before the Flood Leonardo DiCaprio and documentary filmmaker Fisher Stevens embark on an international quest to document the effects of climate change evident on a scale that no one can dispute. (PG, 1:33) 11/7 Indignation In 1951, a working-class Jewish student from New Jersey attends a small Ohio college, where he struggles with sexual repression and cultural disaffection amid the ongoing Korean War. Logan Lerman, Sarah Gadon (R, 1:51)  11/8 Sausage Party The only thing food wants is to go home with us. But when the food finds out what happens when they […]

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Hallmark Channel’s New December Films Promise Romanic Holidays

I may be early December, but Hallmark Channel is midway through its annual “Countdown to Christmas,” charming holiday programming that stretches from Halloween until the New Year. And in December, the Hallmark Channel has plenty of delightfully sweet holiday films for when the weather turns frightful! December Movies Saturday, Dec. 3 A Dream of Christmas An ambitious but discontented young married woman (Nikki DeLoach) gets more than she bargained for when she is granted a wish to be single again. She awakens one morning to discover she has the home, car and job of her dreams, but soon realizes she’s missing […]