December 2011 DVD & Blu-rays

With Neil Patrick Harris • Quentin Tarantino • Kenan Thompson • Sofia Vergara • Anton Yelchin • Audrey Wells • Hank Azaria • George Lopez • Fred Armisen • Raja Gosnell • Alan Cumming • Jayma Mays • Jordan Kerner • David Stem • David Weiss • Katy Perry • Paul Reubens • Paul Neesan • Jonathan Winters • Ben Haber • Ezra Swerdlow

When the evil wizard Gargamel chases the tiny blue Smurfs out of their village, they tumble from their magical world and into ours – in fact, smack dab in the middle of Central Park. Just three apples high and stuck in the Big Apple, the Smurfs must find a way to get back to their village before Gargamel tracks them down.

Neil Patrick Harris, Jayma Mays, Sofia Vergara, and Hank Azaria star on camera opposite an all-star voice cast. Anton Yelchin will play Clumsy Smurf; comedy legend Jonathan Winters, who voiced roles in the "Smurfs" television series, will voice Papa Smurf; Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter Katy Perry will play Smurfette; Alan Cumming will play Gutsy Smurf; "SNL's" Fred Armisen will voice Brainy Smurf; and George Lopez will play Grouchy Smurf.

In the live-action roles, Azaria will play the Smurfs' nemesis, the evil wizard Gargamel. Harris and Mays star as an expectant couple whose lives are turned upside down when the Smurfs cross over from their magical village to New York City. Vergara plays Odile, Harris's boss, a cosmetics executive.

With Emma Stone • Mila Kunis • Justin Timberlake • Woody Harrelson • Keith Merryman • Will Gluck • Jenna Elfman • Patricia Clarkson • Andy Samberg • Richard Jenkins • David Newman • Alex Rodriguez

Story centers on a headhunter who recruits a magazine editor for a job, and realizing each is too busy to find a mate, they agree to sleep together with no strings attached. However, things start to get complicated when the guy falls for the girl, who’s started dating someone else.

With Lucas Black • Robert Duvall • Melissa Leo • Deborah Ann Woll • Matt Russell

Luke Chisolm, a talented young golfer set on making the pro tour but his first big shot turns out to be a public disaster. Luke escapes the pressures of the game and finds himself unexpectedly stranded in Utopia, Texas. It is home to eccentric rancher Johnny Crawford who forces Luke to question not only his past choices, but his direction for the future.

With Bradley Cooper • Ed Helms • Chris Bender • Zach Galifianakis • Craig Mazin • Jamie Chung • Paul Giamatti • Ken Jeong • Todd Phillips • David Siegel • Mike Tyson • Justin Bartha • Nick Cassavetes • Jon Jashni • J.C. Spink • Sasha Barrese • Scott Budnick • Thomas Tull • Scot Armstrong • Dan Goldberg • William Fay • Bill Clinton • Bryan Callen

Phil (Bradley Cooper), Stu (Ed Helms), Alan (Zach Galifianakis) and Doug (Justin Bartha) travel to exotic Thailand for Stu’s wedding. After the unforgettable bachelor party in Las Vegas, Stu is taking no chances and has opted for a safe, subdued pre-wedding brunch. However, things don’t always go as planned. A source familiar with the production said the character of the tattoo artist (played by Liam Neeson) is "pivotal" to the plot, in which one of the stars gets a tattoo during a night of debauchery.

With Emma Stone • Bryce Dallas Howard • Chris Columbus • Viola Davis • Jessica Chastain • Kathryn Stockett • Tate Taylor • David Oyelowo • Cicely Tyson • Brunson Green • Allison Janney • Octavia Spencer • Jennifer Blum • Lila Rogers • Nate Berkus • Michael Barnathan • Dean Jones • Michael Radcliffe • Mohamed Khalef Al-Mazrouei

Story follows a young white woman in the early 1960s in Mississippi who becomes interested in the plight of the African-American domestic servants that every family has working for them. She writes their stories about mistreatment, abuse and heartbreak, all just before the Civil Rights revolution.

With Ron Howard • Sam Rockwell • Steven Spielberg • Paul Dano • Olivia Wilde • Clancy Brown • Keith Carradine • Daniel Craig • Jon Favreau • Alex Kurtzman • Hawk Ostby • Harrison Ford • Mark Fergus • Brian Grazer • Roberto Orci • Abigail Spencer • Damon Lindelof • Adam Beach • Noah Ringer • Ervin Rustemagic • Scott Mitchell Rosenberg

1875. New Mexico Territory. A stranger (Daniel Craig) with no memory of his past stumbles into the hard desert town of Absolution. The only hint to his history is a mysterious shackle that encircles one wrist. What he discovers is that the people of Absolution don't welcome strangers, and nobody makes a move on its streets unless ordered to do so by the iron-fisted Colonel Dolarhyde (Harrison Ford). It's a town that lives in fear.

But Absolution is about to experience fear it can scarcely comprehend as the desolate city is attacked by marauders from the sky. Screaming down with breathtaking velocity and blinding lights to abduct the helpless one by one, these monsters challenge everything the residents have ever known.

Now, the stranger they rejected is their only hope for salvation. As this gunslinger slowly starts to remember who he is and where he's been, he realizes he holds a secret that could give the town a fighting chance against the alien force. With the help of the elusive traveler Ella (Olivia Wilde), he pulls together a posse comprised of former opponents—townsfolk, Dolarhyde and his boys, outlaws and Apache warriors—all in danger of annihilation. United against a common enemy, they will prepare for an epic showdown for survival.

With Jim Carrey • Clark Gregg • John Davis • David Krumholtz • Angela Lansbury • Mark Waters • Sean Anders • James Tupper • Jared Stern • Carla Gugino • Philip Baker Hall • Joel Gotler • John Morris • Ophelia Lovibond • Andrew Stewart-Jones

A house painter's dreams of Arctic exploration prompt him to write letters to real explorers. One of them sends him a penguin, which he keeps in the icebox. Before he knows it, the painter has a litter of 12 beaked birds. They eat voraciously, leading him to form Popper's Performing Penguins, a stage act that goes on tour and creates mayhem at every stop.

With Nora Dunn • Mariel Hemingway • Michael Welch • Brooke Nevin • David Carradine • Gabriel Sunday • David Lee Miller

Archie Williams (Gabriel Sunday) is a 17-year old media geek who has suddenly found himself the most talked-about kid in school. He has announced that he's going to kill himself - on camera - for a class project. His classmates, parents, Sierra - the most beautiful girl in school (Brooke Nevin), and a "Shady Bunch" of shrinks, doctors, pill-pushers, and counselors descend on Archie. Some are hoping to save him, some want to imitate him, others try to push him over the brink. Archie films every moment of his high school experience, hiding nothing from his audience: realities of life, death, violence, sex, drugs, and the intense media overload and hypocrisy that bombard all teenagers.

With Helen Mirren • Jessica Chastain • Kris Thykier • Tom Wilkinson • Jane Goldman • Matthew Vaughn • Ciaran Hinds • John Madden • David Greenbaum

Twenty years after World War II's end, three Mossad agents learn that a Nazi war criminal is still alive and set out to pursue him across Europe.

With Elena Anaya • Gilles Lellouche • Roschdy Zem • Fred Cavaye • Gerard Lanvin • Mireille Perrier

A hospital nurse forced to do the bidding of a criminal after his pregnant wife is kidnapped.

With Rip Torn • Morgan Taddeo • Michael Kelly • Jicky Schnee • Ana Asensio • Craig Macneill • Alexei Kaleina

A young couple moves into an old schoolhouse on a desolate stretch of farm country. Hoping for a new beginning, their lives are instead drawn toward dark and unforeseen ends.

With Yvan Attal • Lucas Belvaux

Yvan Attal stars as a millionaire who is kidnapped and held for ransom.

With Wagner de Assis

Follows a doctor who dies and is taken to a spirit colony where he finds out about the afterlife and reincarnation.

With Oliver Schmitz

A drama, based on the novel Chanda's Secrets, about AIDS orphans in South Africa.

With James Franco • Freida Pinto • Andy Serkis • Tom Felton • Dylan Clark • Peter Chernin • Amanda Silver • Chelah Horsdal • David Oyelowo • Scott Frank • John Lithgow • Jamie Moss • Tyler Labine • Ralph Winter • Rupert Wyatt • Rick Jaffa

Set in present day San Francisco, "Rise of the Apes" deals with the aftermath of man's experiments with genetic engineering that lead to the development of intelligence in apes and the onset of a war for supremacy. James Franco will play a driven scientist who becomes a crucial figure in the war between humans and apes.

With Angelina Jolie • Seth Rogen • Jackie Chan • Dustin Hoffman • Victor Garber • Jack Black • Lucy Liu • Guillermo del Toro • Gary Oldman • Michelle Yeoh • James Woods • David Cross • Jennifer Yuh Nelson • Charlie Kaufman • Melissa Cobb • James Hong • Jean Claude Van Damme

The film continues the adventures of Po the Panda (Jack Black) and and his friends known as the Furious Five - Tigress, Crane, Mantis, Viper and Monkey. This time the story follows Po who, whilst in search of other pandas, happens across a group of bandits. Gary Oldman will voice a character called Peacock who helps Po on his way but is more than he seems.

With Amy Sedaris • Tom Everett Scott • Rooney Mara • Chris Kattan • Julie Snyder • Francesca Gregorini • Tatiana von Furstenberg

Set in a boarding school, four teenage girls navigate adolescence while the adults in their world, the parents and teachers, struggle with their own midlife hurdles.

With Imogen Poots • Anton Yelchin • Michael De Luca • Colin Farrell • Craig Gillespie • Toni Collette • David Tennant • Christopher Mintz-Plasse • Josh Bratman • Marti Noxon • Sandra Vergara • Alison Rosenzweig • Lloyd Ivan Miller • Emily Montague

Senior Charlie Brewster (Anton Yelchin) finally has it all going on: he’s running with the popular crowd and dating the most coveted girl in his high school. In fact, he’s so cool he’s even dissing his best friend. But trouble arrives when Jerry (Colin Farrell) moves in next door. He seems like a great guy at first, but there’s something not quite right—but everyone, including Charlie’s mom (Toni Collette), doesn’t notice. After observing some very strange activity, Charlie comes to an unmistakable conclusion: Jerry is a vampire preying on the neighborhood. Unable to convince anyone, Charlie has to find a way to get rid of the monster himself.

With Ben Safdie • Joshua Safdie

Lenny juggles his kids and everything else all within a midtown studio apartment in New York City. He must choose between being their father or their friend all with the idea that their two weeks together must last 6 months.

With Katrina Kaif • Ali Abbas Zafar

A young man tries to arrange a marriage for his brother, but finds himself falling in love with the chosen fiancée.

With Maryam Keshavarz • Nikohl Boosheri • Sarah Kazemy

A wealthy family in Iran struggling to contain a teen's growing sexual rebellion.

With James Franco • Jason Cohn • Bill Jersey

The husband-and-wife team of Charles and Ray Eames are widely regarded as America's most important designers. Perhaps best remembered for their mid-century plywood and fiberglass furniture, the Eames Office also created a mind-bending variety of other products, from splints for wounded military during World War II, to photography, interiors, multi-media exhibits, graphics, games, films and toys. But their personal lives and influence on significant events in American life - from the development of modernism, to the rise of the computer age - has been less widely understood.

With Chen Kuofu • Tsui Hark • Andy Lau • Nansun Shi

When the mysterious deaths of a series of loyal subjects threaten to delay the 690 A.D. inauguration of Empress Wu, China's only female leader, she calls the infamous Detective Dee back from an exile into which she cast him eight years earlier.

With Goran Hugo Olsson

Documentary about the black power movement using previously unseen footage.

With Rachel McAdams • Léa Seydoux • Tom Hiddleston • Owen Wilson • Kathy Bates • Marion Cotillard • Michael Sheen • Gad Elmaleh • Kurt Fuller • Adrien Brody • Woody Allen • Elsa Pataky • Mimi Kennedy • Alison Pill • Manu Payet • Corey Stoll • Steve Tenenbaum • Letty Aronson • Jaume Roures • Carla Bruni

The story centers on a family traveling to Paris for business. The party includes a young engaged couple forced to confront the illusion that a life different from their own is better.

With Zoe Saldana • Amandla Stenberg • Luc Besson • Robert Mark Kamen • Olivier Megaton • Michael Vartan • Pierre-Ange Le Pogam

"Columbiana" is set in Latin America and the U.S. Saldana would play a young woman who, after witnessing her parents' murder as a child in Bogota, grows up to be a stone-cold assassin. She works for her uncle as a hitman by day, but her personal time is spent engaging in vigilante murders that she hopes will lead her to her ultimate target: the mobster responsible for her parents' death.

With Stanley Tucci • Kevin Spacey • Demi Moore • J.C. Chandor • Paul Bettany • Jeremy Irons • Zachary Quinto • Cassian Elwes • Mary McDonnell • Rob Barnum • Penn Badgley • Michael Benaroya • Simon Baker • Corey Moosa • Carla Gugino • Neal Dodson • Laura Rister

In the early stages of the financial crisis, eight people at large investment banks attempt to position themselves in anticipation of the coming collapse.

With Forest Whitaker • Bruce Willis • Megan Ellison • George Furla • Curtis Jackson • Malin Akerman • Deborah Ann Woll • Randall Emmett • Kate Mara • Nikki Reed • Ted Schipper • Jimmy Pressimono • Aaron Harvey

Tells the story of three friends, Tes, Dawn and Kara who work for an enigmatic, reclusive crime boss, Mel. When Mel sends the girls to intercept a drug deal at a desolate diner, the girls think nothing of it...until a sociopathic killer, a grizzled trucker and a delusional line cook appear and thrust the situation into chaos. A standoff ensues as the mystery of what brought them together slowly starts to unravel - and it quickly becomes apparent that things are not as they seem.

With Morgan Freeman • Andrew Kosove • Karen Janszen • Nathan Gamble • Kim Ostrenko • Austin Highsmith • Charles Martin Smith • Ashley Judd • Kris Kristofferson • Jordan Roberts • Harry Connick Jr. • Broderick Johnson • Cozi Zuehlsdorff • Austin Stowell • Juliana Harkavy • Jim Fitzpatrick • Richard Ingber

A young boy befriends Winter, an injured dolphin who lost her tail in a crab trap, and motivates everyone around him to help save the dolphin by creating a prosthetic appendage to replace the dolphin's missing tail. Harry Connick Jr. plays a vet who rescues the mammal and brings her to runs the marine hospital he runs. Ashley Judd plays the boy's mother while Morgan Freeman is a doctor who creates a prosthetic limb for Winter.

With Sean Astin • Winona Ryder • Chevy Chase • Jon Cryer • Michael Polish • Hilary Duff • Mark Polish • Ken Johnson • Jonathan Sheldon • Josh Holloway • Janet DuBois

The project is described as a "knowing-your-age comedy," centering on a successful author (Polish) who is forced to confront an unrequited high school crush (Ryder) when he returns home to deliver a commencement address to graduating seniors.

With Tom Hardy • Frank Grillo • Joel Edgerton • Nick Nolte • Gavin O'Connor • Jennifer Morrison • A.M. Tambakis • Greg O'Connor • Cliff Dorfman

An ex-Marine haunted by a tragic past, Tommy Riordan returns to his hometown of Pittsburgh and enlists his father, a recovered alcoholic and his former coach, to train him for an MMA tournament awarding the biggest purse in the history of the sport. As Tommy blazes a violent path towards the title prize, his brother, Brendan, a former MMA fighter unable to make ends meet as a public school teacher, returns to the amateur ring to provide for his family. Even though years have passed, recriminations and past betrayals keep Brendan bitterly estranged from both Tommy and his father.

But when Brendan’s unlikely rise as an underdog sets him on a collision course with Tommy, the two brothers must finally confront the forces that tore them apart, all the while waging the most intense, winner-takes-all battle of their lives.

With Guillermo del Toro • Julia Gutierrez Caba • Joan Dalma • Guillem Morales • Lluis Homar • Pablo Derqui • Francesc Orella

The film tells the story of a woman slowly going blind as she investigates the mysterious death of her twin sister.

With Léa Seydoux • Carlos Saboga • Melvil Poupaud • Raoul Ruiz • Clotilde Hesme

The drama follows a jealous countess, a wealthy businessman, and a young orphaned boy.

With Sam Shepard • Mateo Gil • Stephen Rea • Eduardo Noriega

An old American named cowboy in Bolivia who dreams of returning to the US. crosses paths with a young Spanish mining engineer accused of robbing a mine, and the two slowly strike up a friendship.

With Ryan Murphy • Dianna Agron • Lea Michele • Chris Colfer • Kevin Tancharoen • Amber Riley • Mark Salling • Heather Morris • Cory Monteith • Kevin McHale • Jenna Ushkowitz • Naya Rivera

A 3D concert movie based on the performances from Glee Live! In Concert!

With Asif Kapadia

Senna's remarkable story, charting his physical and spiritual achievements on the track and off, his quest for perfection, and the mythical status he has since attained, is the subject of SENNA, a documentary feature that spans the racing legend's years as an F1 driver, from his opening season in 1984 to his untimely death a decade later. Far more than a film for F1 fans, Senna unfolds a remarkable story in a remarkable manner, eschewing many standard documentary techniques in favor of a more cinematic approach that makes full use of astounding footage, much of which is drawn from F1 archives and previously unseen.

With Alexander Skarsgard • James Woods • Kate Bosworth • Dominic Purcell • James Marsden • Rod Lurie • Marc Frydman • Reed Steiner • Gilbert Dumontet

James Marsden as a Hollywood screenwriter who accompanies his wife (Kate Bosworth) as she returns to her hometown in Mississippi. Her ex-boyfriend (Alexander Skarsgard), a former high school football hero, sees her return as an opportunity to reclaim glory.

With Andy Serkis • Dan Aykroyd • Simon Pegg • Tom Wilkinson • Isla Fisher • John Landis • James Spring • Piers Ashworth • Barnaby Thompson • Nick Moorcroft

The true story of 19th century graverobbers Burke and Hare who discover a lucrative business in providing cadavers for an Edinburgh medical school.

With Eric Heisserer • Courtney B. Vance • Walter Hamada • Emma Bell • Miles Fisher • David Koechner • Richard Brener • Sheila Hanahan • Tony Todd • Nicholas D'Agosto • Craig Perry • Steven Quale • P.J. Byrne • Jacqueline MacInnes-Wood • Dave Neustadter • Arlen Escarpeta • Ellen Wroe • Eric Holmberg

The fifth installment of the franchise in which teens escape a deadly accident only to later discover that death is hunting them down. The opening scene will involve a suspension bridge and another scene reportedly involves a character undergoing laser-eye surgery.

With Timur Bekmambetov • Harvey Weinstein • Bob Weinstein • Brian Miller • Gonzalo Lopez-Gallego • Ron Schmidt • Cody Zwieg • Michele Wolkoff

The story follows film footage purported to have been shot by the crew of Apollo 18. This moon mission from the early 1970s was officially canceled by NASA, but according to urban legend, it actually happened. Footage shows signs of alien life, and the events of the mission are built into a thriller storyline.

With Radu Muntean

In the days leading up to Christmas, a married man forces himself to choose between his wife and his mistress.

With Steve Buscemi • Peter Dinklage • Rosie Perez • Tim Roth • Alexandre Rockwell

After hitting rock bottom when his faithful dog is kidnapped by a loan shark, K.C. (Peter Dinklage) sets off on an unexpected and hilarious adventure of redemption and retribution when he agrees to meet up with his long-time friend Jack (Mark Boone Junior) in Los Angeles to attend the funeral of their mutual friend and hot shot Hollywood director Pete Smalls (Tim Roth).

With Justin Chadwick • Ann Peacock

Based on a true story, an 84-year-old Kenyan fights to go to school after the country introduces universal education.

With Cindy Meehl • Buck Brannaman

A living legend in the horse world, Buck Brannaman was the inspiration for The Horse Whisperer. For this true cowboy, horses are a mirror of the human soul. Reared by an abusive father, Buck eschews violence. By teaching people to communicate with horses through instinct, not punishment, he frees the spirit of the horse and its human comrade. Crisscrossing the world with Zenlike wisdom, Buck promulgates grace in the bond between man and horse.

With Andy Serkis • Sam Riley • John Hurt • Andrea Riseborough • Sean Harris • Paul Webster • Rowan Joffe • Steven Robertson • Pete Postlethwaite

The story centers on a small-time gangster who kills a rival and finds his life in turmoil as he faces blackmail threats from a waitress (Andrea Riseborough) who knows about the murder.

With Kristin Scott Thomas • Alain Corneau • Ludivigne Sagnier • Patrick Mille

When Christine, a powerful executive (Scott Thomas), brings on a naive young ingenue, Isabelle (Sagnier), as her assistant, she delights in toying with her naivete and teaching her hard lessons in a ruthless professional philosophy. But when the protege's ideas become tempting enough for Christine to pass one as her own, she underestimates Isabelle's ambition and cunning-- and the ground is set for all out war. In this devilish, propulsive thriller, Corneau sets up a the scenery expertly and his actors devour it.

With Cameron Crowe

Pearl Jam Twenty chronicles the years leading up to the band's formation, the chaos that ensued soon-after their rise to megastardom, their step back from center stage, and the creation of a trusted circle that would surround them-giving way to a work culture that would sustain them.

With Lorenz Knauer

The film travels with animal research and wildlife conservatist Jane Goodall across several continents from her childhood home in England, to the Gombe National Park in Tanzania.

With Jason Sudeikis • Lucy Punch • Martin Starr • Lake Bell • Tyler Labine • Leslie Bibb • James D. Stern • Alex Gregory • Lindsay Sloane • Peter Huyck

A group of 30-something friends host an orgy at the end of summer.