Flick Picks 10/1

New This Week!

ENTERTAINMENT: This week, Tim Burton rehabilitates another old television show with his tongue-in-cheek remake of Dark Shadows. Johnny Depp stars as vampire Barnabas Collins, waking from his eternal slumber in 1972. He joins up with his remaining descendants (including Michelle Pfeiffer and Jonny Lee Miller) and combats his former lover who entombed him in the first place. It dances between funny and dark in what can only be described as a Burtonesque way. We've got it on DVD and Blu-ray. Also out this week is People Like Us, starring Chris Pine and Elizabeth Banks as estranged siblings who reconnect when their father dies.

SERIES:
There are two brand new British imports this week for you to explore. Vexed is a British take on the buddy cop series, with two bickering police officers investigating a variety of cases. A darker series is Kidnap and Ransom which revolves around a brash kidnapping negotiator who uses unconventional tactics to bring victims home.

The acclaimed new Emmy-nominated series New Girl, starring Zooey Deschanel, also arrives on DVD this week as does season 7 of How I Met Your Mother. Finally, if you can't get enough of slaves to fashion Edina and Patsy, you'll want to pick up the brand new Absolutely Fabulous: 20th Anniversary Specials. It contains three brand new episodes including one that takes on the 2012 Olympics.

SUBTITLED: Free Men tells the little known story of a Mosque in Paris that sheltered Jews in World War II. It's suspenseful and gritty as it tells a truly unique piece of history.

Be sure to check out Bibliocommons for all of our upcoming releases!

Can't Get Enough of Politics?

The Ides of March, shown at our most recent Talking Pictures program, is one of the best political thrillers we've seen in recent years. After you watch the debate, you just might be hungry for some more movies about American politics. Here are some of the best that we carry:

The Manchurian Candidate - stars Frank Sinatra as a political candidate who becomes brainwashed to be an assassin.
All The President's Men - the classic true story of the reporters who dug up the Watergate scandal.
Absolute Power - Clint Eastwood directed and stars in this thriller about a reporter who sees a crime involving the president. Based on a David Baldacci book.
All the King's Men - Based on the real-life Louisiana governor Huey Long, this tells the story of a politician's rise to power.
Thirteen Days - the story of the Cuban Missile Crisis from the perspective of one of his aides.
The Contender - following the death of the vice-president, a female senator is nominated as his replacement. Her political enemies try to bring her down with a sex scandal.
Advise and Consent - Henry Fonda is the newly nominated secretary of state who must first survive the nomination process, in the process of which much dirt is dug up.