My movie picks this week are 'Due Date' and 'Centurion'

It’s Wednesday, so today I give you my weekly list of movies that will open in theatres this week as well as my list of movies that will be released this week on DVD.

I hope this will serve as a useful guide as to what’s going on this week if you happen to be near a movie theatre or if you’re looking for something to drop into your NetFlix queue.

Movies that are scheduled to hit theatres this Friday include:

- Due Date (Comedy, R): Directed by Todd Phillips and starring Robert Downey Jr., Zach Galifianakis, Jamie Foxx and Michelle Monaghan.

- 127 Hours (Drama, R): Directed by Danny Boyle and starring James Franco, Amber Tamblyn, Kate Mara, Clemence Poesy and Kate Burton.

- Red Hill (Drama, R): Directed by Patrick Hughes and starring Ryan Kwanten, Steve Bisley, Tom E. Lewis, Claire Van Der Boom.

- Fair Game (Drama, PG-13): Directed by Doug Liman and starring Naomi Watts, Sean Penn and Noah Emmerich.

- Four Lions (Comedy, R): Directed by Chris Morris and starring Rizwan Ahmed, Arsher Ali, Nigel Lindsay, Kayvan Novak and Adeel Akhtar.

- Guy and Madeline on a Park Bench (Family, Musical, Not Rated): Directed by Damien Chazelle and starring Jason Palmer, Desiree Garcia, Sandha Khin, Andre Hayward and Frank Garvin.

- Megamind (Animation, Comedy, Family, PG): Directed by Tom McGrath and starring Will Ferrell, Tina Fey, Jonah Hill and Brad Pitt.

- For Colored Girls (Drama, R): Directed by Tyler Perry and starring Janet Jackson, Loretta Devine, Michael Ealy, Kimberly Elise and Omari Hardwick.

- Outside the Law (Drama, Not Yet Rated): Directed by Rachid Bouchareb.

New DVD releases for the week of Nov. 2 include:

- Centurion (Action, R): Direcgted by Neil Marshall and starring Michael Fassbender, Dominic West, Olga Kurylenko, Noel Clarke and David Morrissey.

- Toy Story 3 (Animation, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, G): Directed by Lee Unkrich and starring Tom Hanks, Tim Allen, Joan Cusack, Ned Beatty and Wallace Shawn.

- Winnebago Man (Documentary, Special Interest, Not Rated): Directed by Ben Steinbauer and starring Ben Steinbauer, Keith Gordon, Ghyslain Raza, Alexsey Vayner and Douglas Rushkoff.

If I could only watch one movie at the theatre this week, it would be “Due Date,” and if I had to pick just one DVD to rent this week, it would be “Centurion.”

In the end, let me know if you get a chance to watch any of the new movies in theatres this week or if you’ve already seen any of the movies that have just been released on DVD. What did you think about them? Which would you recommend? Let us know in the comments section below.