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This title from Metro Goldwyn Mayer Pictures and Focus Features is now playing in select cinemas and opens everywhere on Christmas Day.

For movie enthusiasts, a new title from writer/director Paul Thomas Anderson is met with great anticipation. His early films like “Boogie Nights” and “Magnolia” earned plenty of accolades, detailing the trials and tribulations of several very eccentric characters. Anderson has also been responsible for powerful works like “There Will Be Blood,” but in the last decade his output has been spottier. “The Master” and “Inherent Vice” were intriguing, but messy and frustrating...

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This feature from Searchlight Pictures opens nationwide at cinemas on Dec. 17.

For many, the term “geek” refers to a nerdy, eccentric person with quirky interests. But this definition for the word is a fairly recent one. Not so long ago, it meant something entirely different and far more unsettling. Filmmaker Guillermo del Toro certainly wants to bring the original meaning back with his new film “Nightmare Alley,” as well as take viewers to the days of second-rate carnivals populated with a few shady characters.

Based on the acclaimed 1946 novel by William Lindsay Gresham, the story follows Stan Carlisle (Bradley...

Welcome to another look at highlights arriving on Blu-ray and DVD. The holidays are fast approaching, but the titles keep on coming. This week, you’ll find many notable studio pictures and independents in a wide variety of genres. So, if you can’t, or shouldn’t be heading out to the movies just yet, be sure to give one of these titles a try!



BIG NEW RELEASES!



AMERICAN SICARIO: A successful American-born drug lord sets his sights on taking over the Mexican trade and begins making moves to become an underworld leader across the border. Unfortunately, he runs into trouble when a shipment goes wrong. He immediately falls into the crosshairs of many other groups...

By Glenn Kay

For the Sun

Welcome to another look at highlights arriving on Blu-ray and DVD. With the end of the year approaching, there are fewer releases than normal, but many of features that are coming out are big and notable. So, if you can’t, or shouldn’t be heading out to the movies this week, be sure to give one of these titles a try!

BIG NEW RELEASES!

BLUE BAYOU: This drama follows a Korean-American man who was adopted from abroad at the age of three and has lived his entire life in the state of Louisiana. Now married to a local woman, he works diligently to help prepare for the imminent arrival of a new baby. Sadly, all that changes when the U.S. immigration board informs...