It’s Movie Rental Tuesday!

By
Chris Spachman
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“American Assassin” (PG-13): CIA black ops Mitch Rapp and his instructor, Cold War veteran Stan Hurley, are enlisted by CIA Deputy Director Irene Kennedy to investigate a wave of apparently random attacks on both military and civilian targets. Together the three discover a pattern that leads to a joint mission with a lethal Turkish agent. Starring: Michael Keaton, Dylan O’Brien, Sanaa Lathan

“Despicable Me 3” (PG): The mischievous Minions hope that Gru will return to a life of crime after the new boss of the Anti-Villain League fires him. Instead, Gru decides to remain retired and travel to Freedonia to meet his long-lost twin brother for the first time. The reunited siblings soon have to team up to take down Balthazar Bratt, a former 1980s child star who seeks revenge against the world. Starring: Julie Andrews, Steve Carell, Kristen Wiig

DIRECT TO VIDEO

  • “Active Adults”: A couple start their life together as their grandparents’ lives fall apart. Starring: Lola Kirke, Dominic Chianese, Rosie Perez
  • “Better Watch Out”: Ashley heads to the Lerners to baby-sit their 12-year-old son Luke at around Christmas. She must soon defend herself and the young boy when unwelcome intruders announce their arrival. Starring: Virginia Madsen, Patrick Warburton
  • “Border Cross”: Ex-boxer Danny Boy Jackson comes out of retirement to rescue his son from human traffickers. Starring: Lorenzo Lamas, Danny Trejo
  • “Crash Pad”: A man thinks he has found true love with an older woman until he finds out she is married and using him to get revenge on her husband. Starring: Nina Dobrev, Christina Applegate, Domhnall Gleeson
  • “Howard Lovecraft and the Undersea Kingdom”: A young boy is transported by a mysterious book to a strange frozen realm of fairy tales and nightmares, where he befriends a monstrous Deep One and uncovers secrets that may lead him home. Starring: Mark Hamill, Christopher Plummer
  • “On Wings of Eagles”: Eric Liddell, China’s first gold medalist, returns to war-torn China. Starring: Joseph Fiennes
  • “The Osiris Child”: A group of strangers must work together to save a young girl — and humanity itself. Starring: Kellan Lutz, Rachel Griffiths
  • “People You May Know”: Four friends in their 40s living in Los Angeles confront a new reality. Starring: Nick Thune, Usher
  • “Singularity”: In 2020, a supercomputer deems mankind a threat and launches an all-out attack. Nearly a century later, two teenagers struggle to survive in the rubble of a ruined world. Starring: John Cusack
  • “Valley of Bones”: A disgraced paleontologist forms an uneasy alliance with a meth-addicted oil worker who discovers a monumental dinosaur fossil. Starring: Autumn Reeser