Moviefone's Pick of the Week
"The Five-Year Engagement"
What's It About? Jason Segel and Emily Blunt play a happily devoted couple whose impending nuptials keep getting delayed by her rising career.
See It Because: Segel re-teams with his "Forgetting Sarah Marshall" co-writer and director for another romantic comedy that's very R-rated. It's a little too long, but with a supporting cast including players from "The Office," "Parks & Rec," "30 Rock" and "Community," it's pretty much an all-star team of funny people.
(Also Available on Amazon Instant Video)
New on DVD & Blu-ray
"High School"
What's It About? An MIT-bound star scholar tries weed for the first time, the night before his psycho principal (Michael Chiklis) imposes a school-wide drug test. In order to get away with his crime, he concocts a ridiculous plan to get the entire school stoned -- with the help of even more psycho dealer (Adrien Brody). In the end, an interesting cast and a ridiculous-in-a-good-way premise get wasted on the easiest, lamest, most tired jokes.
See It or Skip It: Skip it.
(Also Available on Redbox)
"Piranha 3DD"
What's It About? It's intentionally dumb horror garbage with over-the-top nudity and gore, only without the added spectacle of a theatrical 3D experience.
See It or Skip It: Skip it.
(Also Available on Amazon Instant Video)
"Safe"
What's It About? Jason Statham Jason Stathams his way through a very Jason Statham-y movie.
See It or Skip It: Jason Statham
(Also Available on Redbox DVD & Blu-ray | Amazon Instant Video)
"Touchback"
What's It About? This pigskin take on "It's a Wonderful Life" -- about a down-on-his-luck farmer who goes back in time to reattempt football glory that slipped through his fingers -- is too syrupy-sweet and painfully corny.
See It or Skip It: Skip it.
"Woman Thou Art Loosed: On the 7th Day"
What's It About? Blair Underwood headlines a faith-based movie about a beautiful couple "who thought they had it all," until their daughter is kidnapped by a suspected child murderer; revelations about their past lives come to light and the whole thing gets over-the-top corny in terms of suspense, dialogue and character motivation.
See It or Skip It: Skip it.
(Also Available on Redbox )
New to Blu-ray
"Airport"
"Blindness"
Sidney Lumet's "Child's Play" (1974)
"Cold Creek Manor"
"The Hand That Rocks the Cradle" 20th Anniversary Edition
"Hocus Pocus"
"Mad Monster Party"
"Man on a Swing"
"Mother's Day" (1980)
Buster Keaton's "The Navigator"
"A New Leaf"
"Pursued" (1947)
"Re-Animator"
"Secret Beyond the Door" (1947)
Stephen King's "Sleepwalkers"
"Umberto D." (Criterion Collection)
New on Redbox
"The Hunter"
"The Lorax" DVD & Blu-ray
"The Lucky One" DVD & Blu-ray
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