My movie picks this week are 'The Tourist' and 'Inception'

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:

- The Tourist (Drama, Thriller, PG-13): Directed by Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck and starring Angelina Jolie, Johnny Depp, Paul Bettany, Rufus Sewell and Timothy Dalton.

- The Fighter (Drama, R): Directed by David O. Russell and starring Mark Wahlberg, Christian Bale, Amy Adams and Melissa Leo.

- The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (Action, Family, Fantasy, PG): Directed by Michael Apted and starring Ben Barnes, Georgie Henley and Skandar Keynes.

- The Tempest (Drama, Fantasy, PG-13): Directed by Julie Taymor and starring Helen Mirren, Djimon Hounsou, Russell Brand, Alfred Molina and Ben Wishaw.

- Hemingway’s Garden of Eden (Drama, R): Directed by John Irvin and starring Jack Huston and Mena Suvari.

- And Everything is Going Fine (Documentary, Special Interest, Not Yet Rated): Directed by Steven Soderbergh and starring Spalding Gray.

- Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale (Drama, Not Yet Rated): Directed by Jalmari Helander and starring Onni Tommita, Jorma Tommila, Per Christian Ellefsen, Tommi Korpela and Rauno Juvonen.

- Shoah: 25th Anniversary (Documentary, Not Yet Rated): Directed by Claude Lanzmann.

New DVD releases for the week of Dec. 7 include:

- Inception (Action, Science Fiction, PG-13): Directed by Christopher Nolan and starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Ellen Page, Marion Cotillard and Tom Hardy.

- Barry Munday (Comedy, R): Directed by Chris D’Arienzo and starring Patrick Wilson, Judy Greer, Jean Smart, Cybill Shepherd and Chloe Sevigny.

- Restrepo (Documentary, Special Interest): Directed by Sebastian Junger and Tim Hetherington and starring Dan Kearney, Lamonta Caldwell, Kevin Rice, Misha C. Pemble-Belkin and Kyle M. Steiner.

- Shrek Forever After (Animation, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, PG): Directed by Mike Mitchell and starring Mike Myers, Eddie Murphy, Cameron Diaz, Antonio Banderas and Kathy Griffin.

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

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.