My movie picks this week are 'Season of the Witch' and 'Machete'

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:

- Season of the Witch (Action, Drama, Fantasy, PG-13): Directed by Dominic Sena and starring Nicolas Cage, Ron Perlman, Stephen Campbell Moore, Claire Foy and Robbie Shehan.

- Violent Blue (Crime and Mystery, Thriller, Not Rated): Directed by Gregory Hatanaka.

- The Time that Remains (Comedy, Drama, Not Yet Rated): Directed by Elia Suleiman and starring Saleh Bakri, Yasmine Haj, Leila Muammar, Elia Suleiman and Ali Suliman.

New DVD releases for the week of Jan. 4 include:

- Machete (Action, Horror, R): Directed by Robert Rodriguez and Ethan Maniquis and starring Danny Trejo, Jessica Alba, Michelle Rodriguez, Cheech Marin, Jeff Fahey, Robert De Niro, Don Johnson, Lindsay Lohan, Steven Segal, Daryl Sabara, Tom Sayini and Gilbert Trejo.

- Case 39 (Horror, R): Directed by Christian Alvart and starring Renee Zellweger, Ian McShane, Jodelle Ferland, Bradley Cooper, Kerry O’Malley, Cynthia Stevenson, Callum Keith Rennie, Adrian Lester, Georgia Craig and Tiffany Knight.

- Dinner for Schmucks (Comedy, PG-13): Directed by Jay Roach and starring Steve Carell, Paul Rudd, Stephanie Szostak, Bruce Greenwood, Ron Livingston, Zach Galifianakis, Jemaine Clement, Jeff Dunham, David Walliams, Lucy Punch, Chris O’Dowd and Patrick Fischler.

- Touching Home (Drama, PG-13): Directed by Logan Miller and Noah Miller and starring Ed Harris, Logan Miller, Noah Miller, Brad Dourif, Robert Forster, Lee Meriwether, Evan Jones and Ishiah Benben.

- The Yellow Handkerchief (Drama, Romance, PG-13): Directed by Udayan Prasad and starring William Hurt, Kristen Stewart, Maria Bello, Eddie Redmayne, Veronica Russell and Rebecca Newman.

- Catfish (Documentary, Special Interest, PG-13): Directed by Henry Joost and Ariel Schulman.

- Howl (Drama, Not Rated): Directed by Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman and starring James Franco, David Strathairn, Alan Alda, Jeff Daniels, Mary-Louise Parker, Paul Rudd and Jon Hamm.

If I could only watch one movie at the theatre this week, it would be “Season of the Witch,” and if I had to pick just one DVD to rent this week, it would be “Machete.”

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.