New Releases for the Week of Nov. 29

From the Big Screen:

“Pete’s Dragon,” “The BFG” and “Don’t Breathe.” For more information on other releases this week, see the Weekly Guide to Home Video Releases.

From TV to DVD:

“House of Lies: The Final Season” (2016) is a two-disc set with all 10 episodes of the series that takes a subversive, scathing look at a self-loathing management consultant from a top-tier firm. Marty Kaan (Don Cheadle), a highly successful, cutthroat photo for House of Lies: The Final Season consultant is never above using any means (or anyone) necessary to get his clients the information they want. Now that Kaan & Associates is back on top, their biggest mission is staying there. In the fifth and final season, the tight-knit, profit-seeking pod launches life-changing moves with some game-changing tactics. Marty and Jeannie Van Der Hooven (Kristen Bell) venture into new romances while they co-parent their baby daughter. Numbers analyst Doug Guggenheim (Josh Lawson) tackles an item on his bucket list by preparing and delivering a Ted Talk, while spin doctor Clyde Oberholt (Ben Schwartz) lends his skills to a mayoral candidate. Together, the team’s unconventional management style continues to make corporate waves. And an unexpected offer from the past could alter all of their futures, culminating in a historic series closer filmed in Havana, Cuba. From Paramount.

Buzzin’ the ‘B’s:

Appropriate for their big screen debut in “Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie”
(2016), Edina and Patsy (Jennifer Saunders and Joanna Lumley) are still oozing glitz and glamour, living the high life they are accustomed to; shopping, drinking and clubbing their way around London’s trendiest hotspots. Blamed for a major incident at an uber fashionable launch party, they become entangled in a media storm and are relentlessly photo for Baked In Brooklyn pursued by the paparazzi. Fleeing penniless to the glamorous playground of the super-rich, the French Riviera, they hatch a plan to make their escape permanent and live the high life forever more. Co-stars Rebel Wilson, Kim Kardashian West, Joan Collins. On DVD, Blu-ray/DVD Combo from Fox … First time feature director DuVall writes, directs and stars in “The Intervention” (2016) in which four couples reunite for a “marriage intervention” disguised as a fun-filled weekend at a lakeside vacation home. In an attempt to push Ruby (Smulders) and her husband Peter (Piazza) toward divorce, Annie (Lynskey) and her fiancé Matt (Ritter) have gathered family and friends to address their failing marriage. But as “the fun weekend” falls apart, close quarters bring longstanding issues to the surface. Stars Melanie Lynskey, Natasha Lyonne, Vincent Piazza, Jason Ritter, Ben Schwartz, Alia Shawkat, Cobie Smulders. From Paramount … In “Baked In Brooklyn” (2015), starring Alexandra Daddario, Josh Brener, Lindsey Broad and Tovah Feldshuh, a recent college graduate decides to sell marijuana on the streets of Manhattan after losing his job at a consulting firm. With an unsupportive girlfriend, an increase of clients and the growing threat of being caught or killed, he soon realizes he’s in way over his head.On DVD, Blu-ray Disc from Well Go USA.

For the Family:

“The Wild Life” (2016 — Belgium/France) is an animated family yarn about a daring parrot who recounts how Robinson Crusoe came to be stranded on a tropical island. When savage cats invade their paradise, Robinson and the island’s animals team up to defend themselves and their home. With the voices of Matthias Schweighöfer, Kaya Yanar, Ilka Bessin, Dieter Hallervorden. ON DVD, Blu-ray/DVD Combo from Lionsgate.

Special Interest:

Produced in association with the late legendary music producer George Martin, and the filmmakers Show of Force, LLC, the highly-anticipated eight-part series “Soundbreaking: Stories from the Cutting Edge of Recorded Music”
(2016) took over five years to make and features more than 150 exclusive and original interviews with some of photo for Soundbreaking: Stories from the Cutting Edge of Recorded Musicthe most celebrated recording artists, producers, and music industry pioneers of all time sharing behind-the-scenes stories celebrating the art of recording. Soundbreaking includes Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, Elton John, Roger Waters, Joni Mitchell, Roger Daltrey, Linda Perry, Quincy Jones, B.B. King, Annie Lennox, Dave Stewart, Tom Petty, Willie Nelson, Bonnie Raitt, Rosanne Cash, Steven Van Zandt, Billy Idol, Beck, RZA, and many more. In eight captivating episodes, “Soundbreaking” charts a century’s worth of innovation and experimentation, and offers a behind-the-scenes look at the birth of brand new sounds. From the Beatles’ groundbreaking use of multi-track technology to the synthesized stylings of Stevie Wonder, from disco-era drum machines to the modern art of sampling, the series highlights the dynamic tension between the artificial and the natural––between the man-made and the God-given –– and explores the way in which that tension has continuously redefined not only what we listen to and how we listen to it, but our very sense of what music is and can be. In the end, “Soundbreaking” makes us hear the songs we love in a whole new way, and illuminates the sonic alchemy by which the music we listen to becomes a fundamental part of who we are. The episodes: The Art of Recording, Painting with Sound, The Human Instrument, Going Electric, Four on the Floor, The World is Yours, Sound and Vision, and I Am My Music. On three-disc DVD, three-disc Blu-ray from Athena … What happens when the worlds most acclaimed restaurant picks up and moves halfway across the world? Named for just one of the many surprising dishes that René Redzepi serves at his esteemed Copenhagen foodie destination Noma (named Worlds Best Restaurant in 2010, 2011, 2012, and 2014), “Ants on a Shrimp” (2016) follows the superstar chef and his team as they relocate to Japan to set up a five-week pop-up in Tokyo. From IFC Films.

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