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What Movie Boomed Into The Top Spot At Johnston's Redbox?

Check out this week's Top 5 Redbox rentals and make your viewing list.

From action to comedy this week's top 5 has everything for your weekend.

Check out the other top rentals and new releases near you.

1. Here Comes The Boom -Former collegiate wrestler Scott Voss is a 42-year-old apathetic biology teacher in a failing high school. When cutbacks threaten to cancel the music program and lay off its teacher, Scott begins to raise money by moonlighting as a mixed martial arts fighter. Trailer.

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Redbox Review: 4 Stars Rating: PG Stars: Kevin James, Salma Hayek, Henry Winkler, Greg Germann, Joe Rogan

2. Flight - Whip Whitaker is a seasoned airline pilot who miraculously crash lands his plane after a mid-air catastrophe, saving nearly every soul on board.  Trailer.

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Redbox Review: 3.5 Stars Rating: R Stars: Denzel Washington, Don Cheadle, Kelly Reilly, John Goodman, Bruce Greenwood

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3. Hotel Transylvania- Welcome to the Hotel Transylvania, Dracula’s lavish five-stake resort, where monsters and their families can live it up, free to be the monsters they are without humans to bother them. Trailer.

Redbox Review: 4.5 Stars Rating: PG Stars: Adam Sandler, Andy Samberg, Selena Gomez, Kevin James, Fran Drescher

4. House at the End of the Street - Seeking a fresh start, newly divorced Sarah and her daughter Elissa find the house of their dreams in a small, upscale town. But when startling and inexplicable events begin to happen, Sarah and Elissa learn the town is in the shadows of a chilling secret. Trailer.

Redbox Review: 3 Stars Rating: PG-13 Stars: Jennifer Lawrence, Max Thieriot, Elisabeth Shue, Gil Bellows, Eva Link

5. Pitch Perfect- Beca is that girl who’d rather listen to what’s coming out of her headphones than what’s coming out of anyone’s mouth. Arriving at Barden University, she finds herself not right for any clique but is somehow muscled into one she would never have picked on her own – alongside mean girls, sweet girls and weird girls with nothing in common except how good they sound when they sing together. Trailer.

Redbox Review: 4 Stars Rating: PG-13 Stars: Anna Kendrick, Skylar Astin, Ben Platt, Brittany Snow, Anna Camp

Already saw the Top 5? Here are the newest flicks in the Redbox.

  • Rango
  • The Perks of Being a Wallflower
  • Taken 2
  • Won't Back Down
  • Bully

Johnston is home to six Redbox kiosks, so there's plenty of options when trying to find the perfect movie. 

  • Walgreens, 6200 Merle Hay Road
  • Hy-Vee, 5750 Merle Hay Road
  • Kum & Go, 5800 Northglenn Drive
  • Kum & Go, 6130 Northwest 86th Street
  • McDonalds, 5494 Northwest 86th Street
  • Kum & Go, 5225 Northwest 86th Street

To ensure that your movie is available, go to redbox.com and reserve online.

Not a fan of Redbox? Family Video in Johnston always has great movie deals. 
Here are a few new releases available there:

  • The Perks of Being a Wallflower
  • The Sessions
  • The Man With Iron Fists
  • Bully 
  • Skyfall


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