My movie picks this week are 'The King's Speech' and 'Water for Elephants'

It’s Wednesday, so today I give you my weekly list of movies that will open in theatres this week as well as a 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:

- African Cats (Documentary, Special Interest, G): Directed by Alastair Fothergill and Keith Scholey.

- Apollo 18 (Science Fiction, Suspense): Directed by Gonzalo Lopez-Gallego.

- Dum Maaro Dum (Foreign, Suspense, Thriller, R): Starring Abhishek Bachchan, Bipasha Basu, Prateik Babbar, Aditya Pancholi and Harry Key.

- The Greatest Movie Ever Sold (Comedy, Documentary, Special Interest, PG-13): Directed by Morgan Spurlock and starring Morgan Spurlock and Ralph Nader.

- Incendies (Drama, R): Directed by Denis Villeneuve and starring Lubna Azabal, Melissa Desormeaux-Poulin, Remy Girard, Maxim Gaudette and Allen Altman.

- Madea’s Big Happy Family (Comedy, Drama, PG-13): Directed by Tyler Perry.

- Water For Elephants (Drama, PG-13): Directed by Francis Lawrence and starring Robert Pattinson, Reese Witherspoon, Christoph Waltz, Hal Holbrook and Ken Foree.

- When Harry Tries to Marry (Comedy, Romance, PG-13): Directed by Navan Padrai and starring Rahul Raj, Freishia Bomanbehram, Stefanie Estes, Caitlin Gold and Tony Mirrcandani.

New DVD releases for the week of April 19 include:

- Gulliver’s Travels (Adventure, Comedy, PG): Directed by Rob Letterman and starring Jack Black, Emily Blunt, Jason Segel, Amanda Peet and Billy Connolly.

- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part I (Action, Drama, Family, Fantasy, PG-13): Directed by David Yates and starring Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, Emma Watson, Bill Nighy and Richard Griffiths. (Actually released on Fri., April 15)

- Ip Man 2: Legend of the Grandmaster (Action, R): Directed by Wilson Yip and starring Donnie Yen, Lynn Hung, Simon Yam, Sammo Hung and Darren Shahlavi.

- The King’s Speech (Drama, R): Directed by Tom Hooper and starring Colin Firth, Geoffrey Rush, Helena Bonham Carter, Timothy Spall and Guy Pearce.

- Rabbit Hole (Drama, PG-13): Directed by John Cameron Mitchell and starring Nicole Kidman, Aaron Eckhart, Dianne Wiest, Tammy Blanchard and Sandra Oh.

- Somewhere (Comedy, Drama, R): Directed by Sofia Coppola and starring Stephen Dorff, Elle Fanning, Chris Pontius, Michelle Monaghan and Benicio Del Toro.

- Street Kings 2: Motor City (Action, Crime and Mystery, Thriller, R): Directed by Chris Fisher and starring Ray Liotta, Shawn Hatosy, Clifton Powell, Charlotte Ross and Kevin Chapman.

- The Way Back (Drama, PG-13): Directed by Peter Weir and starring Colin Farrell, Ed Harris, Jim Sturgess, Saoirse Ronan and Dragos Bucur.

If I could only watch one movie at the theatre this week, it would be “Water for Elephants,” and if I had to pick just one DVD to rent this week, it would be “The King’s Speech.”

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.