Wednesday, July 24, 2013

This week's movie picks are 'The Wolvernine' and 'Twixt'

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 or pick up at the local Redbox.

Movies that are scheduled to hit theatres this week include:

- Blue Jasmine (Comedy, Drama, PG-13): Directed by Woody Allen and starring Cate Blanchett, Alec Baldwin, Michael Stuhlbarg, Peter Sarsgaard and Alden Ehrenreich.

- Breaking the Girls (Suspense, Drama, Not Yet Rated): Directed by Jamie Babbit and starring Madeline Zima, Agnes Bruckner, Shawn Ashmore, Shanna Collins and John Stockwell.

- Extracted (Science Fiction, Action, R): Directed by Nir Paniry and starring Jenny Mollen, Sasha Roiz and Dominic Bogart.

- Frankenstein’s Army (Action, Horror, R): Directed by Richard Raaphorst and starring Karel Roden, Joshua Sasse, Robert Gwilym, Alexander Mercury and Luke Newberry.

- Stranded (Science Fiction, Suspense, Horror, Not Rated): Directed by Roger Christian and starring Christian Slater, Brendan Fehr, Amy Matysio and Michael Therriault.

- The Time Being (Drama, Mystery, Not Yet Rated): Directed by Nenad Cicin-Sain and starring Wes Bentley, Frank Langella, Sarah Paulson, Ahna O’Reilly and Jeremy Allen White.

- This is Martin Bonner (Drama, R): Directed by Chad Hartigan and starring Paul Eenhoorn, Richmond Arquette, Sam Buchanan, Robert Longstreet and Demetrius Grosse.

- The To-Do List (Comedy, R): Directed by Maggie Carey and starring Aubrey Plaza, Andy Samberg, Clark Gregg, Connie Britton and Donald Glover.

- Wasteland (Drama, Not Yet Rated): Directed by Rowan Athale and starring Luke Treadaway, Iwan Rheon, Matthew Lewis, Gerard Kearns and Vanessa Kirby.

- The Wolverine (Action, Adventure, PG-13): Directed by James Mangold and starring Hugh Jackman, Will Yun Lee, Brian Tee, Rila Fukushima and Svetlana Khodchenkova.

New DVD releases this week include:

- Ginger & Rosa (Drama, PG-13): Directed by Sally Potter and starring Elle Fanning, Alice Englert, Annette Bening, Christina Hendricks and Timothy Spall.

- Kiss of the Damned (Drama, Horror, R): Directed by Xan Cassavetes and starring Milo Ventimiglia, Josephine de La Baume, Roxane Mesquida, Anna Mouglalis and Michael Rapaport.

- Love and Honor (Romance, Drama, PG-13): Directed by Danny Mooney and starring Liam Hemsworth, Teresa Palmer, Aimee Teegarden, Chris Lowell Austin Stowell.

- The Silence (Suspence, Crime, Mystery, Not Rated): Directed by Baran bo Odar and starring Ulrich Thomsen, Wotan Wilke Mohring, Sebastian Blomberg, Katrin Sass and Burghart Klaussner.

- Starbuck (Comedy, R): Directed by Ken Scott and starring Patrick Huard, Julie LeBreton, Antoine Bertrand, Dominic Philie and Marc Belanger.

- Trance (Crime, Drama, R): Directed by Danny Boyle and starring James McAvoy, Rosario Dawson, Vincent Cassel, Tuppence Middleton and Sam Creed.

- Twixt (Horror, Mystery, R): Directed by Francis Ford Coppola and starring Val Kilmer, Elle Fanning, Ben Chaplin, Bruce Dern and Joanne Whalley.

- Welcome to the Punch (Action, Crime, Suspense, R): Directed by Eran Creevy and starring James McAvoy, Mark Strong, David Morrissey, Andrea Riseborough and Jason Flemying.

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

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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