Wednesday, November 2, 2011

My movies picks this week are 'Tower Heist' and 'Bunraku'

It’s Wednesday, so today I give you my weekly list of movies that will open in theatres this week as well as a list of movies that will be released this week on DVD.

I hope this will serve as a useful guide as to what’s going on this week if you happen to be near a movie theatre or if you’re looking for something to drop into your NetFlix queue.

Movies that are scheduled to hit theatres this week include:

Five Star Day (Not Rated, Drama): Directed by Danny Buday and starring Cam Gigandet, Jena Malone, Will Yun Lee, Julianna Guill and Brooklyn Sudano.

Killing Bono (R, Comedy): Directed by Nick Hamm and starring Ben Barnes, Robert Sheehan, Krysten Ritter, Pete Postlethwaite and Peter Serafinowicz.

The Last Rites of Joe May (Drama): Directed by Joe Maggio and starring Dennis Farina, Jamie Anne Allman, Ian Barford, Chelcie Ross and Meredith Droeger.

The Other F Word (Not Rated, Documentary, Music): Directed by Andrea Blaugrund Nevins and starring Flea, Tim McIlrath, Jim Lindberg, Mark Hoppus and Tony Hawk.

The Son of No One (R, Drama, Thriller, Suspense): Directed by Dito Montiel and starring Channing Tatum, Al Pacino, Juliette Binoche, Ray Liotta and Katie Holmes.

Tower Heist (PG-13, Crime and Mystery, Comedy, Action): Directed by Brett Ratner and starring Ben Stiller, Eddie Murphy, Matthew Broderick, Gabourey Sidibe and Casey Affleck.

A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas (R, Comedy): Directed by Todd Strauss-Schulson and starring John Cho, Kal Penn, Neil Patrick Harris, Danneel Harris and Thomas Lennon.

Young Goethe in Love (Drama, Romance, Not Rated): Directed by Philipp Stolzl and starring Alexander Fehling, Miriam Stein, Moritz Bleibtreu, Volker Bruch and Burghart Klaubner.

New DVD releases for the week of Nov. 1 include:

Bunraku (R, Action Crime, Crime and Mystery, Martial Arts, Westerns, Fantasy): Directed by Guy Moshe and starring Josh Hartnett, Woody Harrelson, Demi Moore, Ron Perlman and Kevin McKidd.

Cars 2 (G, Family, Animation, Comedy): Directed by Brad Lewis and starring Owen Wilson, Larry the Cable Guy, Michael Caine, Bonnie Hunt and Cheech Marin.

Crazy, Stupid, Love (PG-13, Comedy, Romance): Directed by John Requa and Glenn Ficarra and starring Steve Carell, Ryan Gosling, Emma Stone, Julianne Moore and Kevin Bacon.

The Last Mountain (PG, Documentary, Special Interest): Directed by Bill Haney.

Magic Trip (R, Documentary, Special Interest): Directed Alison Ellwood and Alex Gibney.

Nutcracker (PG, Fantasy, Musical): Directed by Andrey Konchalovskiy and starring Elle Fanning, Nathan Lane, Charlie Rowe, Aaron Michael Drozin and John Turturro.

Snow Flower and the Secret Fan (PG-13, Drama): Directed by Wayne Wang and starring Bingbing Li, Gianna Jun, Vivian Wu, Hugh Jackman and Archie Kao.

Tabloid (R, Documentary, Special Interest): Directed by Errol Morris.

Trespass (R, Drama, Thriller): Directed by Joel Schumacher and starring Nicolas Cage, Nicole Kidman, Cam Gigandet, Liana Liberato and Ben Mendelsohn.

Water For Elephants (PG-13, Drama, Romance): Directed by Francis Lawrence and starring Robert Pattinson, Reese Witherspoon, Christoph Waltz, Hal Holbrook and Paul Schneider.

If I could only watch one movie at the theatre this week, it would be “Tower Heist,” and if I had to pick just one DVD to rent this week, it would be “Bunraku.”

In the end, let me know if you get a chance to watch any of the new movies in theatres this week or if you’ve already seen any of the movies that have just been released on DVD. What did you think about them? Which would you recommend? Let us know in the comments section below.

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