Week of May 26

by Philip Yu    May 26, 2009

Pick of the Week

Mega Shark vs. Giant Octopus The title pretty much says it all, doesn't it? The California coast is terrorized by two enormous prehistoric sea creatures who awaken from their 10 million-year slumber to battle each other for supremacy of the sea. Starring Deborah Gibson and Lorenzo Lamas, and boasting an awesome trailer, no other movie promises gigantic jaws taking on two-ton tentacles, wreaking a massive wave of destruction across the ocean. When these two titans tussle, get out of the way.

Small Town Girl

New In Town Renee Zellweger stars as a high-powered, upscale Miami businesswoman who finds herself transferred to rural Minnesota -- cold, remote, and the last place she envisioned her career taking her. After enduring icy roads, freezing weather and a chilly reception from the locals, she soon warms up to the small town and its people -- especially the town's handsome union representative -- a begins to re-evaluate her big-city values.

View to a Kill

Killshot After a long, rocky road to release, director John Madden's adaptation of the gritty Elmore Leonard crime novel comes to DVD. Diane Lane and Thomas Jane star as a couple placed in the Federal Witness Protection program after witnessing an "incident." Far from safe, they are targeted by an experienced hit man (Mickey Rourke) and his psychopathic young apprentice (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) who are hell bent on silencing them, by any means necessary.

Coming Next Week

Defiance Daniel Craig stars in an action-packed epic of family, honor, vengeance and salvation. The film tells the amazing true story of the Bielskis, four Jewish brothers living in Nazi-occupied Poland who escaped into the forest during World War II. Joining up with Russian resistance fighters against the Nazi regime, throughout the war they built a village inside the wildernesss and turned a group of war refugees into powerful freedom fighters, saving the lives of hundreds of Jewish civilians.