Magic Mike It's no surprise Steven Soderbergh was able to make a smart film about male strippers, but it is surprising how good an actor former stripper and the movie's star Channing Tatum has turned out to be. Here, he plays a partially autobiographical role as a stripper-slash-furniture maker who wants more out of life than he's getting making gobs of dough taking his tux off and rolling around the party scene with the 19-year-old stage newbie he's agreed to show the ropes. The performances are a good time, and the dramatic scenes have some heft, too.    

Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter I'm a sucker for movies like this--gothic, bloody, violent and effects driven--especially when I enjoyed the book on which it's based, and I think Timur Bekmambetov is a talented director. So why, why did I find myself asking why I was so bored through the whole thing? The slo-mo stuff that looked great in the trailer got pretty old pretty quick, lead actor Benjamin Walker has little charisma as Lincoln, and the whole mess bludgeons you over the head as subtly as Lincoln's axe obliterates trees. The movie strays too far from the book and leaves out key elements--so even if you did read it, you'll be stuck scratching your head and going, what the f*#%?   

Madea's Witness Protection Tyler Perry's latest follows the troubled times of a Wall Street CFO who finds out his company has been working a Ponzi scheme, on top of all his family's woes.

Seeking a Friend for the End of the World Steve Carell and Keira Knightley are neighbors who become unlikely traveling companions when an asteroid barreling toward Earth inspires them to travel across country: he to find his first love, she to reunite with her family.

The Ambassador Indie impresario Mads Brugger goes all Sasha Baron Cohen on an unsuspecting African nation by posing as a businessman hoping to dip into the blood diamond trade in a stunt he calls "performative journalism" but we would probably just call insane.

The Invisible War Did you know a whopping 20+ percent of American servicewoman are sexually assaulted during enlistment, and rape is considered by our military an "occupational hazard"? Kirby Dick's disturbing, difficult documentary should shock us all into action.

What are you watching at home these days? Are you on board for any of these new releases?