New DVDs: Friday, March 29

Looking for a fresh new movie to watch on a Saturday night? We have all the latest releases from Hollywood favorites to the best of new TV shows. Here are a few of the DVDs we’ve recently received. Want to browse some more? Go HERE for the full list of new movies at Macedon Public Library.

When Evil Lurks

When brothers Pedro (Ezequiel Rodríguez) and Jimmy (Demián Salomón) discover that a demonic infection has been festering in a nearby farmhouse — its very proximity poisoning the local livestock — they attempt to evict the victim from their land. Failing to adhere to the proper rites of exorcism, their reckless actions inadvertently trigger an epidemic of possessions across their rural community. Now they must outrun an encroaching evil as it corrupts and mutilates everyone it is exposed to, and enlist the aid of a wizened “cleaner,” who holds the only tools that can stop this supernatural plague.

Saint Omer

Bringing a documentarian’s sense of open-ended inquiry to her first narrative feature, writer-director Alice Diop constructs a morally and emotionally layered courtroom drama unlike any other. When she travels to Saint-Omer, France, to attend the trial of a young Senegalese woman accused of murdering her infant daughter, novelist Rama finds herself shaken to the core by a case that proves to have profound resonances with her own life. Interweaving complex themes of mother-daughter bonds, immigrant alienation, and postcolonial trauma into a piercing portrait of two mysteriously connected women, Diop forgoes mere questions of guilt and innocence to plumb the unsettling unknowability of the human soul.

The Umbrella Academy. Season One.

On the same day in 1989, forty-three infants are inexplicably born to random women who showed no signs of pregnancy the day before. Seven are adopted by a billionaire who creates The Umbrella Academy and prepares his “children” to save the world. Now, six surviving members reunite upon the news of their father’s passing and must work together to solve the mystery surrounding his death. But the estranged family begins to come apart due to the divergent personalities and abilities, not to mention the imminent threat of a global apocalypse.