Coming out this week is the animation film, 'Rango,' featuring the voices of Johnny Depp, Isla Fisher, Abigail Breslin, Bill Nighy, Stephen Root, Ray Winstone, Beth Grant, Ned Beatty, Harry Dean Stanton, and Alfred Molina.

Directed by Gore Verbinski, the movie follows a chameleon that aspires to be a swashbuckling hero but finds himself in a Western town plagued by bandits and is forced to literally play the role in order to protect it.

Also out in theaters this week is 'Beastly,' an edgy teen romance about learning how to see past false surfaces to discover true inner beauty.

Directed by Daniel Barnz, the film stars Vanessa Hudgens and Alex Pettyfer, Mary-Kate Olsen, Neil Patrick Harris, Peter Krause, and Lisa Gay Hamilton.

Kyle Kingson (played by Pettyfer) has it all – looks, intelligence, wealth and opportunity – and a wicked cruel streak. Prone to mocking and humiliating "aggressively unattractive" classmates, he zeroes in on Goth classmate Kendra, inviting her to the school's extravagant environmental bash. Kendra accepts, and, true to form, Kyle blows her off in a particularly savage fashion. She retaliates by casting a spell that physically transforms him into everything he despises. Enraged by his horrible and unrecognizable appearance he confronts Kendra and learns that the only solution to the curse is to find someone that will love him as he is – a task he considers impossible.

Repulsed by his appearance, Kyle's callous father banishes him to Brooklyn with a sympathetic housekeeper and blind tutor. As Kyle ponders how to overcome the curse and get his old life back, he chances upon a drug addict in the act of killing a threatening dealer. Seizing the opportunity, Kyle promises the addict freedom and safety for his daughter, Lindy (played by Hudgens) if she will consent to live in Kyle's Brooklyn home. Thus begins Kyle's journey to discover true love in this hyper-modern retelling of the classic "Beauty and the Beast" story.

Out on DVD is 'Skin,' starring Sophie Okonedo, Sam Neill, Alice Krige, Tony Kgoroge, and Ella Ramangwane.

The film is based on a true story. Sandra Laing entered the world a beautiful baby but no one, not the hospital staff, her mother, father or neighbours would admit the obvious. Abraham and Sannie Laing were white yet their daughter was dark. By a biological quirk, the pigment of an unknown black ancestor had lain dormant for generations and manifested in Sandra. If there was ever a wrong place and wrong time for this phenomenon, it was apartheid South Africa in 1955! 'Skin' is a compelling and moving story about love, betrayal and reconciliation.