Your TV Guide to the Week - Sept 10th, 2021

Jennifer's Body

Length: 1hr 42min
Mood: Comedy, Horror
Director: Karyn Kusama
Starring: Megan Fox, Amanda Seyfried, Johnny Simmons

Nerdy, reserved bookworm Needy Lesnicki, and arrogant, conceited cheerleader Jennifer Check are best friends. One day, Jennifer mysteriously gains an appetite for human blood after a disastrous fire at a local bar. As Needy's male classmates are steadily killed in gruesome attacks, the young girl must uncover the truth behind her friend's transformation and find a way to stop the bloodthirsty rampage before it reaches her own boyfriend Chip.

Shrek Forever After

Length: 1hr 33min
Mood: Animation, Adventure, Comedy
Director: Mike Mitchell
Starring: Mike Myers, Eddie Murphy, Cameron Diaz

Bored of being a family man and celebrity amongst the villagers, Shrek makes a deal with the sneaky Rumpelstiltskin to relieve his days of being feared and reviled. He is then transported to an alternate reality where he was never born, he never met Fiona and Rumpelstiltskin rules the land. Shrek is soon in a race against time to restore his world before he vanishes for good.

Cop Out

Length: 1hr 47min
Mood: Action, Comedy, Crime
Director: Kevin Smith
Starring: Bruce Willis, Tracy Morgan, Adam Brody

After a clumsy operation trying to capture a drug dealer, N.Y.P.D detectives, Jimmy Monroe and Paul Hodges, are suspended for one month. Jimmy decides to sell his rare baseball card to pay for his daughter's expensive wedding while his jealous partner believes that his wife is cheating on him with their next-door neighbor. When Jimmy sells his card to a memorabilia store, the place is burgled by two small-time thieves and the detective loses his card. Now, they need to track down the thieves.

Silver Linings Playbook

Length: 2hr 2mins
Mood: Comedy, Romance, Drama
Director: David O. Russell
Starring: Bradley Cooper, Jennifer Lawrence, Robert De Niro

After a stint in a mental institution, former teacher, Pat Solitano, moves back in with his parents and tries to reconcile with his ex-wife. Things get more challenging when Pat meets Tiffany, a mysterious girl with problems of her own.

The Layover

Length: 1hr 28min
Mood: Comedy, Romance
Director: William H. Macy
Starring: Alexandra Daddario, Kate Upton, Matt Barr

Longtime friends, Kate, a high school English teacher, and Meg, an ambitious cosmetics saleswoman, are beginning to realize that they are going through a rough patch. To take a break, the pair soon finds themselves on an impromptu flight to Fort Lauderdale, seated next to the handsome blonde Ryan who is on his way to a friend's wedding. All of a sudden, the two best friends will get sucked into a destructive spiral of relentless competition with Ryan as the prize. They say all is fair in love and war, however, is Ryan worthy of Meg and Kate's years of friendship?

Reign of Fire

Length: 1hr 41min
Mood: Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Director: Rob Bowman
Starring: Matthew McConaughey, Christian Bale, Gerard Butler

In present-day London, twelve-year-old Quinn watches as his mother, a construction engineer, inadvertently wakes an enormous fire-breathing beast from its century-long slumber. Twenty years later, much of the world has been scarred by the beast and its offspring. As a fire chief, Quinn is responsible for warding off the beasts and keeping a community alive as they eke out a meager existence. Into their midst comes a hotshot American, Van Zan, who says he has a way to kill the beasts and save mankind, a way Quinn's never seen done.

Gamer

Length: 1hr 35min
Mood: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Directors: Mark Neveldine, Brian Taylor
Starring: Gerard Butler, Michael C. Hall, Amber Valletta

In a future mind-controlling game, death row convicts are forced to battle in a 'Doom'-type environment. Convict Kable, controlled by Simon, a skilled teenage gamer, must survive thirty sessions in order to be set free.

Young Rock

Length: 22 mins
Mood: Comedy Creators: Jeff Chiang, Nahnatchka Khan
Starring: Dwayne Johnson, Joseph Lee Anderson, Stacey Leilua

A look at the formative years of superstar Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson as he grows up through life. Johnson is running as a candidate in the 2032 United States presidential election and he has flashbacks to one of three periods of Johnson's life.