It's a week full of stars as releases featuring Barbra Streisand, Bradley Cooper, James Gandolfini, Russell Crowe, Jennifer Lawrence, Robert De Niro, Tobey Maguire, Elizabeth Banks, Seth Rogen, Mark Wahlberg, Catherine Zeta Jones, Ray Liotta and Twilight Sparkle!
As always, fire up that queue and prep that shopping cart and check out this weeks' latest releases!
Silver Linings Playbook
Pat Solatano (Bradley Cooper) has lost everything - his house, his job and his wife. He finds himself living back with his mother (Jacki Weaver) and father (Robert De Niro) after spending 8 months in a state institution on a plea bargain. While rebuilding his life, Pat is determined to remain positive and reunite with his wife despite the challenging circumstances of their separation. When Pat meets Tiffany (Academy Award Winner, Jennifer Lawrence), a mysterious girl with problems of her own, things get complicated. As their relationship plays out, an unexpected bond forms between them, and silver linings appear in both of their lives. Extras include deleted scenes, featurettes, and Q & A Highlights.
The Guilt Trip
An overly neurotic inventor, Andy (Seth Rogen), invites his overbearing mother, Joyce (Barbra Streisand), along on a cross-country road trip in order to sell his latest invention and, unbeknown to her, to reunite Joyce with a former lover. As the pair embark on their journey, Andy finds himself growing increasingly agitated by his mother's behaviour, while getting ever more closer to her at the same time. Extras include featurettes and deleted scenes.
Not Fade Away
Not Fade Away, David Chase’s deeply felt love letter to the music of the Sixties, is a film about dreams that come true -- and the ones that never do. A bit of a brooding outsider by nature, Douglas (John Magaro) finds his way in when he joins the band. As the band struggles to define itself, Douglas makes his way closer to the spotlight as he begins to explore his own voice by trying on the looks and sounds of his heroes. Before very long -- in a grand rock & roll tradition -- tensions ensue within the band, both creative and otherwise. The question becomes – as for countless bands everywhere, both before and since – will this group “make it big” before those tensions tear them apart?
Either way, being part of the band – at first called the Twylight Zones and later TBD -- dramatically transforms Douglas’ life and offers him the cooler and more bohemian identity that he so desperately desires. Among other things, Douglas’ raw talent and slightly Dylanesque onstage persona gives him the chance to finally win the attention of the beautiful girl of his dreams from high school, Grace Deitz (Bella Heathcote). This is, after all, the main reason that generations of male musicians have given for playing music in the first place. In Grace, Douglas finds his first true believer, and in his relationship with her, he begins to imagine a whole new world of possibilities -- as well as the chance to experience the burgeoning new sexual revolution hands on. Extras include three part making of, deleted scenes and featurettes.
Read more »