My movie picks this week are 'Contagion' and 'X-Men: First Class'

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 week include:

Bucky Larson: Born to Be a Star (Comedy, R): Directed by Tom Brady and starring Nick Swardson, Christina Ricci, Stephen Dorff, Don Johnson and Edward Herrmann.

Burke and Hare (Comedy, Not Rated): Directed by John Landis and starring Simon Pegg, Andy Serkis, Isla Fisher, Tom Wilkinson and Christian Brassington.

Contagion (Action, Suspense, PG-13): Directed by Steven Soderbergh and starring Marion Cotillard, Matt Damon, Laurence Fishburne, Jude Law and Gwyneth Paltrow.

Creature (Horror, R): Directed by Fred Andrews and starring Serinda Swan, Mehcad Brooks, Sid Haig, Pruitt Taylor Vince and Rebekah Kennedy.

Kevin Hart: Laugh at my Pain (Comedy, Not Yet Rated): Directed by Leslie Small and starring Kevin Hart.

Main Street (Drama, PG): Directed by John Doyle and starring Colin Firth, Orlando Bloom, Amber Tamblyn, Patricia Clarkson and Ellen Burstyn.

One Fall (Drama, Fantasy, PG-13): Directed by Marcus Dean Fuller and starring Marcus Dean Fuller, Zoe McLellan, Seamus Mulcahy, James McCaffrey and Mark La Mura.

Tanner Hall (Comedy, Drama, R): Directed by Francesca Gregorini and Tatiana von Furstenberg and starring Rooney Mara, Georgia King, Brie Larson, Amy Ferguson and Tom Everett Scott.

Warrior (Action, Drama, PG-13): Directed by Gavin O’Connor and starring Tom Hardy, Joel Edgerton, Jennifer Morrison, Noah Emmerich and Nick Nolte.

We Were Here: Voices From the AIDS Years in San Francisco (Documentary, Not Rated): Directed by David Weissman and Bill Weber.

New DVD releases for the week of Sept. 6 include:

Assassination Games (Action, Suspense, R): Directed by Ernie Barbarash and starring Jean-Claude Van Damme, Scott Adkins, Kevin Chapman, Ivan Kaye and Valentin Teodosiu.

Bed & Breakfast (Comedy, PG-13): Starring Dean Cain.

A Cinderella Story: Once Upon a Song (Family, Musical, PG): Directed by Damon Santostefano and starring Lucy Hale, Freddie Stroma, Megan Park, Missi Pyle and Jessalyn Wanlim.

The Entitled (Suspense, Crime, R): Directed by Aaron Woodley and starring Ray Liotta, Kevin Zegers, Laura Vandervoort, Devon Bostick and Victor Garber.

Everything Must Go (Drama, R): Directed by Dan Rush and starring Will Ferrell, Rebecca Hall, Laura Dern, Stephen Root and Michael Pena.

Hanna (Action, PG-13): Directed by Joe Wright and starring Saoirse Ronan, Eric Bana, Cate Blanchett, Anna Popplewell and Olivia Williams.

A Horrible Way to Die (Horror, Suspense, R): Directed by Adam Wingard and starring A.J. Bowen, Amy Seimetz, Joe Swanberg, Brandon Carroll and Lane Hughes.

Vidal Sassoon: The Movie (Documentary, Epic and Historical, Special Interest, PG): Directed by Craig Teper.

X-Men: First Class (Action, Fantasy, PG-13): Directed by Matthew Vaughn and starring James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender, Jennifer Lawrence, Rose Byrne and Kevin Bacon.

If I could only watch one movie at the theatre this week, it would be “Contagion,” and if I had to pick just one DVD to rent this week, it would be “X-Men: First Class.”

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.