There’s something for everyone in this week’s new movie releases.
This week’s releases include The Butler, Carrie, Enough Said and other recent box office hits.
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New Movie Releases – 10/14/16
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 Lee Daniels’ The Butler ‘Lee Daniels’ The Butler’ tells the story of a White House butler who served eight American presidents over three decades. The film traces the dramatic changes that swept American society during this time, from the civil rights movement to Vietnam and beyond, and how those changes affected this man’s life and family. Forest Whitaker stars as the butler with Robin Williams as Dwight Eisenhower, John Cusack as Richard Nixon, Alan Rickman as Ronald Reagan, James Marsden as John F. Kennedy, Liev Schreiber as Lyndon B. Johnson, and many more.  |
 Carrie [Blu-ray] A reimagining of the classic horror tale about Carrie White (Chloe Grace Moretz), a shy girl outcast by her peers and sheltered by her deeply religious mother (Julianne Moore), who unleashes telekinetic terror on her small town after being pushed too far by her peers at their senior prom.  |
 Enough Said [Blu-ray] A divorced and single parent, Eva (Julia Louis Dreyfus) spends her days enjoying work as a masseuse but dreading her daughter’s impending departure for college. She meets Albert (James Gandolfini) — a sweet, funny and like-minded man also facing an empty nest.  |
 Riddick (Blu-ray + DVD + Digital HD with UltraViolet) ‘Riddick’, the latest chapter of the groundbreaking saga that began with 2000’s hit sci-fi film ‘Pitch Black’ and 2004’s ‘The Chronicles of Riddick’ reunites writer/director David Twohy (‘A Perfect Getaway’, ‘The Fugitive’) and star Vin Diesel (the Fast and Furious franchise, ‘xXx’). Diesel reprises his role as the antihero Riddick, a dangerous, escaped convict wanted by every bounty hunter in the known galaxy.  |
 Spectacular Now [Blu-ray] With sly humor and an intensity of feeling, ‘The Spectacular Now’ (directed by James Ponsoldt) creates a vivid, three-dimensional portrait of youth confronting the funny, thrilling and perilous business of modern love and adulthood.  |
 20 Feet from Stardom Millions know their voices, but no one knows their names. In his compelling new film ‘Twenty Feet From Stardom’, award-winning director Morgan Neville shines a spotlight on the untold true story of the backup singers behind some of the greatest musical legends of the 21st century.  |
 Short Term 12 SHORT TERM 12 is told through the eyes of Grace (Brie Larson, Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, 21 Jump Street), a twenty-something supervisor at a group home for troubled teens. She s passionate, tough and in love with her long-term boyfriend and co-worker, Mason (John Gallagher Jr., The Newsroom). But Grace s difficult past, her fierce independence and the arrival of a distraught new girl at the facility create complications that push Grace and Mason to the brink.  |
 Fruitvale Station Winner of both the Grand Jury Prize for dramatic feature and the Audience Award for U.S. dramatic film at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival, director Ryan Coogler’s ‘Fruitvale Station’ follows the true story of Oscar Grant (Michael B. Jordan), a 22-year-old Bay Area resident who wakes up on the morning of December 31, 2008 and feels something in the air.  |
 Plus One (+1) In this supernatural thriller, three college friends go to the biggest party of the year, each looking for something different: love, sex and a simple human connection. When a mysterious phenomenon disrupts the party, it lights a fuse on what will become the strangest night anyone has ever seen.  |
 Blue Caprice The striking feature film debut of writer-director Alexandre Moors, ‘Blue Caprice’ is a harrowing yet restrained psychological thriller about an abandoned boy lured to America into the shadows of a dangerous father figure.  |
 Khumba [3D/2D Blu-ray/DVD Combo] Rejected by his superstitious herd, a half-striped zebra embarks on a daring quest to earn his stripes but finds the courage and self-acceptance to save all the animals of the Great Karoo.  |
 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 changing climate mounts and the scientific consensus proves human causation, there continues to be no political action to thwart the warming of our planet.  |
 Four Wendell Pierce (The Wire, Treme) headlines this adaptation of Obie-winning playwright Christopher Shinn’s stage drama set over the course of one sweltering July 4th evening, as African-American family man Joe (Pierce) sneaks out for an internet date with a white teenage boy (Emory Cohen), and Joe’s brassy adolescent daughter Abigayle (Aja Naomi King) hits the town with a charming Latino basketball player (E.J. Bonilla) .  |
 Be My Valentine Firefighter lieutenant Dan Farrell (William Baldwin), a widower and single dad, has no interest in a romantic relationship at this point in his life, but when his team responds to a fire at a local florist shop, Dan cannot help but notice the beautiful owner, Kate (Natalie Brown).  |
 Underdogs In the vein of Friday Night Lights and ‘The Blind Side,’ ‘Underdogs’ is based on inspirational true events of a high school football team no one expected to succeed. In small town America, high school football provides its players a possible ticket to a bigger world and the community a source of pride.  |
 Big Sur In an attempt to heal from the deterioration caused by the pressures of sudden fame and too much alcohol, famous Beat author Jack Kerouac escapes to an isolated, mist-shrouded cabin in the primitive landscape of the Big Sur woods.  |
