New Movies In Theaters
Brad Sloan (Ben Stiller) takes his son (Austin Abrams) on a tour of colleges the 18-year-old could possibly attend next year. The trip causes the father to reflect on his own life, questioning his past choices and regretting his present status. Although he is supposed to be thinking about the boy's future, he can't help also pondering his own.
mother! R
A couple's sense of peace and safety is shaken after the arrival of some unexpected company.
After the loss of his fiancee in a terrorist attack, Mitch Rapp (Dylan O'Brien) sets out to get revenge. Recruited by the CIA, he receives training by Stan Hurley and Irene Kennedy (Michael Keaton and Sanaa Lathen) who use his anger to track down a rogue agent (Taylor Kitch) intent on starting a war in the Middle East.
Home Again
PG-13
Overall: C+
Reese Witherspoon plays a single mom whose life gets complicated when she takes in three young men as boarders (Pico Alexander, Nat Wolff, Jon Rudnitsky), has an affair with one of them ... and then her ex-husband (Michael Sheen) comes home again.
It R
When some children, including Georgie (Jackson Robert Scott), goes missing in a small town, none of the adults seem interested in finding out who is behind the crime. So a group of seven young friends decide to find out what "it" is that the grown-ups won't talk about. This movie, starring a creepy clown, is based on a horror novel by Stephen King.
9/11 R
On the fateful day of September 11, 2001, a building supervisor (Whoopi Goldberg) tried to help five people (Charlie Sheen, Gina Gershon, Luis Guzmán, Wood Harris, Olga Fonda) who got stuck in an elevator in one of the World Trade Centers in New York City.
Unlocked R
Interrogating suspects is all in a day's work for CIA operative Alice Racine (Noomi Rapace). But about the time she senses something isn't right about her latest assignment, things suddenly turn terribly wrong. Now the agent is unsure who to trust in a case of terrorists and biological warfare.
In the midst of the Tulip mania of 17th century Amsterdam, a portrait artist (Dane DeHaan) gets caught up in his own fever when he falls in love with a young married woman (Alicia Vikander)he has been commissioned to paint.
New Movies on DVD
Wonder Woman
PG-13
Overall: B+
Leaving her sheltered home in the Amazon, Diana Prince (Gal Gadot) discovers a wider world in need of a hero -- and that is when Wonder Woman is born.
Close Encounters Of The Third Kind
PG
Overall: B
After Roy Neary (Richard Dreyfuss) experiences a strange, close encounter (of a third kind) with an UFO, he is left with an oddly burned face and an unexplainable obsession for a particular shape.
Cultural expectations and differences are a big problem for Kumail (Kumail Nanjiani), a Muslim man born in Pakistan, and Emily (Zoe Kazan), a Caucasian, American woman. Their affair remains a secret until Emily becomes seriously sick and Kumail meets her parents (Ray Romano, Holly Hunter) in the hospital waiting room.
Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie
PG
Overall: B
If you can't say anything nice about your school principal (voice of Ed Helms) -- hypnotize him! Or at least that is what two creative kids do (voiced by Kevin Hart and Thomas Middleditch). Then they turn him into a comedic superhero, and call him Captain Underpants.
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