Thursday, June 28, 2018

NEW DVD TITLES FOR JUNE

Death Wish (Rated R): When his wife and daughter are violently attacked, Dr. Paul Kersey hunts down his family's assailants to deliver justice.

I Can Only Imagine (Rated PG): A biopic of musician Bart Millard and the song that he wrote about the relationship he had with his father that became the best-selling Christian single of all time.

Love, Simon (Rated PG-13): The story of a closeted gay teenage boy who is forced to balance his friends, his family, and the blackmailer threatening to out him to the entire school, while simultaneously attempting to discover the identify of the anonymous classmate whom he has fallen in love with online.

Pacific Rim: Uprising (Rated PG-13): Jake Pentecost is a once-promising Jaeger pilot whose legendary father gave his life to secure humanity's victory against the monstrous "Kaiju." Now an even more fearsome alien threat has been unleashed on the world and Jake is called back into action by his former co-pilot, Lambert, and a 15-year-old Jaeger hacker, Amara. Rising up to become the most powerful defense force to ever walk the earth, they will set course for a spectacular all-new adventure on a towering scale.

Sherlock Gnomes (Rated PG): Garden gnomes, Gnomeo and Juliet, recruit renowned detective Sherlock Gnomes to investigate the mysterious disappearance of other garden ornaments.

Thoroughbreds (Rated R): Two upper-class teenage girls in suburban Connecticut rekindle their unlikely friendship after years of growing apart. Together, they hatch a plan to solve both of their problems, no matter what the cost.

Tomb Raider (Rated PG-13): Lara Croft, the fiercely independent daughter of a missing adventurer, must push herself beyond her limits when discovers the island where her father disappeared.

Wrinkle in Time (Rated PG): Although she has been missing for several years and the entire town thinks her father has abandoned her family, Meg steadfastly believes the best and protects her younger brother, Charles Wallace, from the brunt of the rumors and taunting. It is he, however, who convinces her to join him, the school sports star Calvin, and three unusual women on an interplanetary voyage to rescue their father from a vast evil.

TELEVISION SHOWS
Orange is the New Black Season 5 (TV-MA): When the standoff at the prison turns into a full-blown riot, the inmates take advantage of the confusion by conducting seances, holding prisoner auctions, and preening for the morning news. But with relationships tested and friendships starting to fray, will life at Litchfield ever return to normal?

Speechless Season 1 (Not Rated): A family comedy centering on Maya DiMeo, a mom on a mission who will do anything to her family, husband Jimmy and kids Ray, Dylan, and J.J., her eldest son with cerebral palsy. As Maya fights injustices both real and imagined, the family works to make a new home for themselves and searches for just the right person to help give J.J. his "voice".

Speechless Season 2 (Not Rated): The DiMeo family moves from a neighborhood they hate to one a little more upscale in an effort to improve their lives. They just might find more complications though as new challenges confront them in their new environment. Mother Maya intends to take those challenges head-on with her take-charge attitude while dad Jimmy lets her take the lead, not believing himself not to be as intelligent as he really is. Their three kids - an athletic daughter, the brainy middle son, and their nonverbal son with cerebral palsy get caught in the midst of it all.

NEW DVD TITLES FOR MAY

12 Strong (Rated R): The story of the first Special Forces team deployed to Afghanistan after 9/11; under the leadership of a new captain, the team must work with an Afghan warlord to take down the Taliban.

15:17 to Paris (Rated PG-13): Three Americans discover a terrorist plot aboard a train while in France.

Annihilation (Rated R): Biologist and former soldier Lena is shocked when her missing husband comes home near death from a top-secret mission into The Shimmer, a mysterious quarantine zone from which no one has ever returned. Now, Lena and her elite team must enter a beautiful, deadly world of mutated landscapes and creatures, to discover how to stop the growing phenomenon that threatens all life on Earth.

Black Panther (Rated PG-13): King T'Challa returns home to the isolated, technologically advanced African nation of Wakanda to serve as new leader. However, T'Challa soon finds that he is challenged for the throne from divisions within his own country. When two enemies conspire to destory Wakanda, the hero known as Black Panther must join forces with C.I.A. agent Everett K. Ross and members of the Wakandan Special Forces, to prevent Wakanda from being drawn into a world war.

Fifty Shades Freed (Rated R): Believing they have left behind shadowy figures from their past, newlyweds Christian and Ana fully embrace an inextricable connection and shared life of luxury. But, just as she steps into her role as Mrs. Grey and he relaxed into an unfamiliar stability, new threats could jeopardize their happy ending before it even begins.

Game Night (Rated R): A group of friends who meet regularly for game nights find themselves trying to solve a murder mystery.

Mary and the Witch's Flower (Rated PG): A strange flower grants a young girl magical powers, which leads to the adventure of a lifetime.

Peter Rabbit (Rated PG): Beatrix Potter's classic tale of a rebellious rabbit trying to sneak into a farmer's vegetable garden.

Red Sparrow (Rated R): Ballerina Dominika Egorova is recruited to Sparrow School, a Russian intelligence service where she is forced to use her body as a weapon. Her first mission, targeting a C.I.A. agent, threatens to unravel the security of both nations.

TELEVISION SHOWS
Call the Midwife Season 7 (Not Rated): A drama about the lives of a group of midwives who care for expectant mothers in the East End of London during the 1950s.