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Better than Normal
Set in the 1960's, before he became Professor X, Charles Xavier (James McAvoy) is using his pro-mutant patter to pick up pretty undergrads in Matthew Vaughn's X-Men: First Class. When a CIA agent (Rose Byrne) discovers diamond-skinned women and teleporters plotting against the government with Sebastian Shaw (Kevin Bacon), she finds Xavier, an expert on mutants, and in tracking Shaw, they find Erik Lensherr (Michael Fassbender), a powerful mutant who can control magnetic fields. Now Xavier and Lensherr have to assemble a team of mutants to become the first X-Men, including Mystique (Jennifer Lawrence), Beast (Nicholas Hoult), and Banshee (Caleb Landry Jones)-- they have to stop Shaw and his mutants from tipping the Cuban Missile Crisis into a full-scale nuclear war. With
Jason Flemying,
Zoe Kravitz, and
January Jones. On DVD and Blu-Ray.
16-year-old Hanna (Saorise Ronan) was raised in the forest in isolation by her father (Eric Bana) in Joe Wright's Hanna. She's never met another person or lived with running water or electricity, but she's trained her whole life to fight and shoot, hunt and evade, waiting for the day she's ready to meet Marissa Wiegler (Cate Blanchett), the agent that will come for her. When that challenge finally comes, Hanna is set loose in an unfamiliar world where her ability to be a soldier and survivor come naturally, but her ability to be a normal girl is more questionable. On DVD and Blu-Ray.
Nick (Will Ferrel) is having a bad day in Everything Must Go-- on his drive home after being fired from his high ranking corporate job, he finds all of his possessions in the yard, his locks changed, and house empty. Nick's wife won't answer the phone, so he sits in the furniture on the 
lawn and begins to drink. Nick has very few friends, going against the advice of his AA sponsor (Michael Pena), but his new life on the front lawn acquaints him with a neighborhood boy who helps with Nick's impromptu yard sale and the neighbor (Rebecca Hall) who has more in common with Nick's predicament than she could guess. On DVD and Blu-Ray.
Allison (Alexandra Daddario) has moved to a rural town to live with her uncle (Michael Biehn) in Bereavement, but there are hidden dangers lurking behind the quiet country idyll. When she sees strange occurrences at an abandoned slaughterhouse, her investigation puts her in the path of a deranged killer (Brett Rickaby) and the small boy forced to watch his horrific work.
The documentary If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front tells the story of the group labeled "the #1 domestic terrorist threat" in the wake of 9/11. The film explores the idea of "terrorist" as a loaded term, specifically during the war on terror, as applied to a group that never targets people, but also weighs the group's civil disobedience and destruction of symbols of environmental abuse against truly non-violent forms of protest.
The third entry in the Cinderella Story series is A Cinderella Story: Once Upon a Song, where Katie (Lucy Hale) lives a hard life under the thumb of her vain and cruel stepmother (Missi Pyle). Katie dreams of being a pop star and forms an instant connection with the boy (Freddie Storma) who could make that happen for her, but she's forced to pretend she has no talent to make her stepsister (Megan Park) seem like the singer in the family. Can Katie show her prince charming that hers is the voice he's looking for?
Adrien Brody wakes up in a crashed car in Wrecked, pinned in the wreck with a broken leg, and little hope for rescue. He's alone in the forest, trapped in the car, and he doesn't remember much about the accident, how he got there, or who he is... he does have to deal with the dead man in the back seat, and basic survival-- getting out of the car, and being mobile enough to get to some kind of civilization-- but the details of how he ended up in this position might complicate matters. With Caroline Dhavernas and Ryan Robbins.
Filmed as a stage play, The Ideal Husband stars Shanti Lowry as the head of a beauty shop, going through the day's business with a host of colorful characters both in the shop's staff and among the customers. She's got a good life, with a successful husband (Darrin Dewitt Henson) recovering from an injury and heading back into professional football, and a baby on the way... until some loose talk under the hair dryer changes her perspective on love, marriage, and her own version of happiness.
New this week in our TV New Releases:
Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle, Looney Tunes: Back in Action
