New Releases for Movies, DVDs and Netflix Streaming for the Week of March 3rd

Hello again, my friends! It is a new week and a new list of new releases for you. This week things are slowly starting to turn itself around. A few new things in movies and DVDs, but the Netflix Streaming options should be bigger on next week’s list.

In movies this week, we have Sam Raimi’s Oz the Great and Powerful, Dead Man Down and Emperor hitting theaters this week, so you have a few options for all you cinephiles.

In DVD/Blu-ray, you have a smaller amount of pickings as Red Dawn (2011) makes its way to stores. As does the 20^th Anniversary Edition of Shindler’s List and Wreck-It-Ralph.

In Netflix Streaming, all you Dallas fans will be able to see the original TV movie of the new series, as well as the first season. Kevin Smith fans can see Jay and Silent Bob Go Down Under, which is a recording of their weekly podcast, and a slew of new films from the Asian cinema.

Anything out there you’re looking forward to?

Oz the Great and Powerful

James Franco, Mila Kunis, Rachel Weisz, Michelle Williams

Disney’s fantastical adventure “Oz The Great and Powerful,” directed by Sam Raimi, imagines the origins of L. Frank Baum’s beloved wizard character. When Oscar Diggs (James Franco), a small-time circus magician with dubious ethics, is hurled away… More

PG, 2 hr. 7 min. - Showtimes - Trailer

Dead Man Down

Noomi Rapace, Colin Farrell, Dominic Cooper, Terrence Howard

Niels Arden Oplev, the acclaimed director of the original The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, makes his American theatrical debut with the new action thriller, DEAD MAN DOWN. Colin Farrell and Noomi Rapace star as two strangers who are irresistibly… More

R, 1 hr. 50 min. - Showtimes - Trailer

The ABCs of Death

Dallas Malloy, Kyra Zagorsky, Peter Pedrero, Darenzia

Twenty-six directors. Twenty-six ways to die. The ABC’s OF DEATH is perhaps the most ambitious anthology film ever conceived with productions spanning fifteen countries and featuring segments directed by over two dozen of the world’s leading talents… More

R, 2 hr. 9 min. - Showtimes - Trailer

Emperor

Matthew Fox, Tommy Lee Jones, Eriko Hatsune, Toshiyuki Nishida

Matthew Fox (WORLD WAR Z, I, ALEX CROSS, “Lost”) joins with Academy Award (R) winner Tommy Lee Jones (LINCOLN, NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN, THE FUGITIVE, HOPE SPRINGS), newcomer Eriko Hatsune and award-winning Japanese star Toshiyuki Nishida (GET UP!,… More

PG-13, 1 hr. 38 min. - Showtimes - Trailer

Electrick Children

Julia Garner, Rory Culkin, Liam Aiken, Bill Sage

In the debut feature from director Rebecca Thomas, ELECTRICK CHILDREN, Julia Garner (MARTHA MARCY MAY MARLENE, WE ARE WHAT WE ARE, SIN CITY: A DAME TO KILL FOR) plays Rachel, a rambunctious teenager from a fundamentalist Morman family in Utah. On… More

R, 1 hr. 39 min. - Showtimes - Trailer

The Monk

Vincent Cassel, Déborah François, Joséphine Japy, Sergi López

A supernatural thriller adapted from Matthew G. Lewis’ (now cult) 1796 gothic novel, THE MONK traces the corruption of a 16th Century, pious Capuchin Monk. Abandoned at birth at the gates of a Capuchin monastery in Madrid, Brother Ambrosio (Vincent… More

R, 1 hr. 41 min. - Showtimes

The We and the I

Michael Brodie, Joe Mele, Alex Barrios, Meghan Murphy

Set on the last day of the school year, THE WE AND THE I follows a group of Bronx high schoolers who board a city bus on their way home. With summer break ahead of them, and feeling more liberated than usual, this broad array of kids–the cool ones,… More

Unrated, 1 hr. 43 min. - Showtimes

Beyond The Hills

Cosmina Stratan, Cristina Flutur, Valeriu Andriuta, Dana Tapalaga

In an isolated Orthodox convent in Romania, Alina has just been reunited with Voichita after spending several years in Germany. The two young women have supported and loved each other since meeting as children in an orphanage. Alina wants Voichita to… More

Unrated, 2 hr. 35 min. - Showtimes

The Silence

Ulrich Thomsen, Wotan Wilke Möhring, Katrin Sass, Burghart Klaussner

THE SILENCE begins 23 years ago on a hot summer day, when a young girl named Pia is brutally murdered in a field of wheat by Peer (Ulrich Thomsen-In a Better World, Fear Me Not), as his helpless friend Timo (Wotan Wilke Moehring-Soul Kitchen)… More

Unrated, 2 hr. - Showtimes - Trailer

Somebody Up There Likes Me

Keith Poulson, Nick Offerman, Jess Weixler, Stephanie Hunt

Byington creates an offbeat energy by brilliantly pairing established actors and non-actors in this comedic fable about a man watching his life fly by. Max (Keith Poulson), along with his best friend Sal (Nick Offerman, “Parks & Recreation”) and the… More

Unrated, 1 hr. 16 min. - Showtimes - Trailer

Don’t Stop Believin’: Everyman’s Journey

Jonathan Cain, Neil Schon, Ross Valory, Deen Castronovo

Don’t Stop Believin’: Everyman’s Journey, is a feature length documentary film about the iconic 80′s band, Journey, and their new lead singer, Arnel Pineda, whom they discovered through YouTube. — (C) Official Site

Unrated, 1 hr. 53 min. - Showtimes - Trailer

Greedy Lying Bastards

Hurricane Sandy. Wildfires in the West. “Brown-Outs” in the East. Farmers losing crops to the worst drought since the Dust Bowl. Climate change is no longer a prediction for the future, but a startling reality of today. Yet, as evidence of our… More

PG-13, 1 hr. 29 min. - Showtimes - Trailer

Language of a Broken Heart

Juddy Talt, Lara Pulver, Julie White, Ethan Cohn

A neurotic best-selling author on love, with the heightened emotional capacity of a woman, can write so eloquently about the subject, but can’t keep girls from leaving him. After he comes back to his apartment in New York City to find his fiancé with… More

R, 1 hr. 38 min. - Showtimes - Trailer

The Girl

Struggling with the loss of her child to Social Services, a single mother is trapped in the quicksand of her south Texas life. When her path collides with a young girl from Mexico, she begins a journey that will change her life – discovering that she… More

Unrated