What To Watch: 'The A-Team,' 'Shutter Island' DVD, 'Tanzania: A Friendship Journey'

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Coming out this week is 'The A-Team,' which stars Liam Neeson, Bradley Cooper, Quinton "Rampage" Jackson, Sharlto Copley, Jessica Biel, Patrick Wilson and Gerald McRane.

Based on the TV show of the same name, the action packed film follows the exciting and daring exploits of a colorful team of former Special Forces soldiers who were set up for a crime they did not commit. Going "rogue," they utilize their unique talents to try and clear their names and find the true culprit.

The original series, which ran from 1983-87 and starred George Peppard, Mr. T, Dirk Benedict and Dwight Schultz, followed an unofficial team of Vietnam vets who will stop at nothing to get the bad guys. Sent to prison by a military court for a crime they didn't commit, these four commandos escaped from a maximum-security stockade and now survive in the Los Angeles underground as soldiers of fortune.

The Middle East will replace Vietnam as the place the four did their tour of duty, but director Joe Carnahan said the origin story is the jumping-off point.

Out on home video is the Paramount thriller, 'Shutter Island,' from Oscar-winning director Martin Scorsese and starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Mark Ruffalo, Ben Kingsley, Michelle Williams, Patricia Clarkson, Max von Sydow, Jackie Earle Haley, Elias Koteas, and Curtiss Cook.
Based on the best-selling novel by celebrated writer Dennis Lehane, the film tells the story of two U.S. marshals, Teddy Daniels (played by Leonardo DiCaprio) and Chuck Aule (played by Mark Ruffalo), who are summoned to a remote and barren island off the cost of Massachusetts to investigate the mysterious disappearance of an inmate from a hospital for the criminally insane. But as their investigation proceeds, they uncover an intricate web of deception where nothing may be as it seems.

Filled with nail-biting suspense and unexpected plot twists, 'Shutter Island' is a must-see thriller that will keep you guessing to the very end.

Two American friends discover their own lives anew, and make new friends, whether in joy or sorrow, as they traverse Tanzania.

'Tanzania: A Friendship Journey' is a new feature-length documentary directed and produced by Emmy Award winning filmmaker Sylvia Caminer. The team completed a rigorous location shoot throughout Tanzania, from the cities of Dar es Salaam and Zanzibar, to the summit of mighty Mount Kilimanjaro in sub-zero temperatures, to the sweltering plains of the Serengeti, to the impoverished village of Nkwenda.

When one fully shares his culture with friends it can have a powerful impact on how they and those around them begin to interact with the world and the people who inhabit it. It breeds tolerance, respect and a collaboration of ideas and philosophies.

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