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New Release Review - Total Recall

Directed by: Len Wiseman

Starring: Colin Farrell, Kate Beckinsale, Jessica Biel, Bokeem Woodbine, Bryan Cranston, Bill Nighy, John Cho

Blue collar worker Farrell visits Rekall, a company who implant their clients with false memories, and discovers a past he was unaware of.

First Time Watches - August 2012

Dolemite (1975)

Blaxploitation icon Rudy Ray Moore made a bunch of trashy movies in the seventies, starting here where he plays a convict freed to help take down a drug cartel.

Directed by: James Marsh

Starring: Clive Owen, Andrea Riseborough, Gillian Anderson, Aidan Gillen, Domhnall Gleeson, David Wilmot

IRA terrorist Riseborough is recruited by Owen as an informer.

Directed by: Woody Allen

Starring: Woody Allen, Penélope Cruz, Jesse Eisenberg, Judy Davis, Flavio Parenti, Roberto Benigni, Alison Pill, Alessandro Tiberi, Alessandra Mastronardi, Alec Baldwin, Carol Alt, Greta Gerwig, Ellen Page, Ornella Muti

Four comedic stories set in the Eternal City.

Directed by: Richard Lester

Starring: Christopher Reeve, Richard Pryor, Robert Vaughan, Annie Ross, Pamela Stephenson, Annette O'Toole, Gavan O'Herlihy, Jackie Cooper, Margot Kidder, Marc McClure

Computer wiz Pryor is hired by evil businessman Vaughan to build a computer capable of fulfilling his dreams of world domination.

Directed by: Akiva Schaffer

Starring: Ben Stiller, Vince Vaughn, Jonah Hill, Richard Ayoade, Rosemarie DeWitt, Will Forte, R Lee Ermey

Area busybody Stiller puts together a neighborhood watch outfit which soon finds itself battling aliens.

Directed by: Richard Lester / Richard Donner

Starring: Gene Hackman, Christopher Reeve, Margot Kidder, Ned Beatty, Jackie Cooper, Terence Stamp, Sarah Douglas, Jack O'Halloran, Valerie Perrine, Marc McClure, EG Marshall

The three intergalactic criminals imprisoned by Jor-El arrive on Earth and use their powers to rule the planet.

Directed by: Fernando Meirelles

Starring: Rachel Weisz, Jude Law, Anthony Hopkins, Lucia Siposová, Gabriela Marcinkova, Johannes Krisch, Jamel Debbouze, Vladimir Vdovichenkov, Maria Flor, Ben Foster

An examination of relationships told through interconnecting stories spanning the globe.

Directed by: Nigel Cole

Starring: Lucy Punch, Miriam Margolyes, Robert Webb, Rufus Hound, Harriet Walter

The events leading to Punch and Webb's wedding are told through footage shot by best man Webb.

Directed by: Richard Donner

Starring: Christopher Reeve, Margot Kidder, Gene Hackman, Marlon Brando, Ned Beatty, Jackie Cooper, Glenn Ford, Trevor Howard, Valerie Perrine, Terence Stamp, Phyllis Thaxter, Susannah York

The Man of Steel had been vacant from the big screen for close to thirty years when the father/son producing team of Alexander and Ilya Salkind decided it was time to bring him back.

Directed by: Tod Browning

Starring: Wallace Ford, Leila Hyams, Olga Baclanova, Harry Earles, Henry Victor

Trapeze artist Baclanova cons smitten carnival midget Earles into marrying her. Little does he know she is conspiring with strongman Victor to poison him for his inheritance.

Directed by: Tony Gilroy

Starring: Jeremy Renner, Rachel Weisz, Edward Norton, Stacy Keach, Scott Glenn, Zeljko Ivanek

Following the events of "The Bourne Ultimatum", Treadstone attempt to cover their tracks by eliminating their agents but one, the chemically addicted Renner, escapes with chemist Weisz on a quest for answers.