Best DVD & Blu-rays Released April 2013
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The Baytown Outlaws
Follows three redneck brothers who get more than they bargained for after agreeing to help a woman get her son back from his seemingly abusive father.
Griffin Hood, Barry Battles, Robert Teitel, Billy Bob Thornton, Eva Longoria, Serinda Swan, Clayne Crawford, Thomas Sangster
Luv
With his mother in rehab and his father out of the picture, young Woody Watson (Michael Rainey Jr.) lives with his grandmother (Lonette McKee) in suburban Baltimore and longs for his family to be reunited. His charismatic Uncle Vincent (Common) has recently returned home after eight years in prison determined to straighten out his life by opening a high-end crab shack that will establish him as a solid citizen with a legitimate future.
One day, instead of dropping Woody off at school, Vincent decides to give the boy a tutorial on how a man gets things done. After a trip to a tailor to get Woody a custom-fitted suit, the pair heads to the bank to sign off on the loan Vincent needs to fulfill his dreams. But when his meeting with the bank officer puts the brakes on his plans, Vincent has no one to turn to for help but his former associates, including Baltimore crime boss Mr. Fish (Dennis Haysbert) and his brother Arthur (Danny Glover). A day that begins with a parking- lot driving lesson and Woody’s first oyster takes a desperate turn when Fish insists Vincent run one more drug deal to demonstrate his loyalty. Soon Vincent finds himself pulled back into the violent world he is trying to escape—and Woody has to decide whether to follow his hero…or become his own man.
Common, Dennis Haysbert, Danny Glover, Sheldon Candis, Michael Rainey Jr.
Freeloaders
About a group of friends who have been living in a Beverly Hills mansion for the last seven years, courtesy of their famous rock star buddy. But now, their pal is getting married, settling down in Manhattan, and selling his West Coast digs.
Adam Duritz, Jane Seymour, Dan Rosen, Dave Gibbs, Olivia Munn, Kevin Heffernan, Josh Lawson, Brit Morgan
John Dies at the End
It's a drug that promises an out-of-body experience with each hit. On the street they call it Soy Sauce, and users drift across time and dimensions. But some who come back are no longer human. Suddenly a silent otherworldly invasion is underway, and mankind needs a hero. What it gets instead is John and David, a pair of college dropouts who can barely hold down jobs. Can these two stop the oncoming horror in time to save humanity? No. No, they can't.
Chase Williamson, Daniel Roebuck, Don Coscarelli, Paul Giamatti, Rob Mayes, Clancy Brown, Doug Jones, Glynn Turman
The Sweeney
Follows a hardened detective in the Flying Squad of London's Metropolitan police.
Hayley Atwell, Nick Love, John Hodge, Ray Winstone, Christopher Simon, Felix Vossen, Damian Lewis, Steven Mackintosh
Stiches
Years after a cruel kids’ prank during a birthday party for 8-year-old Tommy (Tommy Knight, Doctor Who, The Sarah Jane Adventures) left hired clown Richard “Stitches” Grindle (Ross Noble) dead on the kitchen floor, the childhood friends gather to plan a birthday bash to end all bashes. But they haven’t counted on the degenerate jester rising from the grave to seek vengeance on the children who mocked him and caused his grisly, untimely end.
Now Tommy and his teenage friends are on the run from an undead jokester who’s ready to use every trick in the book (and many that aren’t) to exact his revenge. Dead Meat writer-director Conor McMahon delivers a delirious slasher epic, a hilariously twisted and blood-soaked tale of one very bad clown with a talent for making balloon animals – but with one very hideous difference.
Tommy Knight, Ross Noble
The Sorcerer and the White Snake
Based on an old Chinese legend about an herbalist who falls in love with a thousand-year-old White Snake disguised as a woman. Jet Li stars as a sorcerer who discovers her true identity and battles to save the man's soul.
Jet Li, Siu-Tung Ching, Shengyi Huang, Raymond Lam, Charlene Choi, Zhang Wen, Vivian Hsu
The Kitchen
Jennifer (Laura Prepon) is turning 30 and her best friend, Stan (Matt Bush), is throwing her a party. But she is in no mood to celebrate. She just left her job, as well as her cheating boyfriend, Paul (Bryan Greenberg). Her cynical little sister Penny (Dreama Walker) is threatening to overshadow the whole affair with the most inappropriate party announcement. And she is pretty sure she's too old to still be living with her creepy roommate. What starts out as a well-intentioned day of celebration quickly spirals into a most ill-fated disaster, from an ex-boyfriend who can't "get enough" to the bands dueling in the backyard and from disloyal friends showing their true colors to a manic-depressive party photographer who may have forgotten to take his meds. In this hilarious ensemble comedy set entirely inside a kitchen, turning 30 has never looked this chaotic!
Dreama Walker, Baron Vaughn, Ishai Setton, Jim Beggarly, Laura Prepon, Bryan Greenberg, Matt Bush, Tate Ellington
Bad Kids Go to Hell
Six private school high school kids find themselves stuck in detention on a frightfully dark and stormy Saturday afternoon. During their 8 hour incarceration, each of the six kids falls victim to a horrible "accident" until only one of them remains. And as each of these spoiled rich kids bites the dust, the story takes on a series of humorous and frantic twists and turns. Is one of the kids secretly evening the school's social playing field? Or have the ghosts of prestigious Crestview Academy finally come to punish the school's worst (and seemingly untouchable) brats? One thing is for sure...Daddy's money can't save them now.
Matthew Spradlin, Barry Wernick, Amanda Alch, Marc Donato, Augie Duke, Roger Edwards, Ali Faulkner, Cameron Deane Stewart
Hyde Park on Hudson
Set in 1939 and follows the weekend visit of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth to President Roosevelt's upstate New York home, called Hyde Park on Hudson. Over the course of the visit, details of FDR's private life begin to unfold, including his affair with his distant cousin Daisy.
Laura Linney, Olivia Colman, Roger Michell, Kevin Loader, David Aukin, Richard Nelson, Bill Murray, Olivia Williams
Save the Date
Sarah begins to confront her shortcomings after she rejects her boyfriend's hasty proposal and soon finds herself in a rebound romance. Meanwhile, her sister Beth is immersed in the details of her wedding.
Mike Mohan, Neal H. Moritz, Jeffrey Brown, Egan Reich, Alison Brie, Lizzy Caplan, Martin Starr, Geoffrey Arend
Django Unchained
Django is a freed slave, who, under the tutelage of a German bounty hunter, becomes a bad-ass bounty hunter himself. After taking down some bad guys for profit, they track down Django's slave wife and liberate her from an evil plantation owner.
Leonardo DiCaprio, James Remar, Stacey Sher, Samuel L. Jackson, John Jarratt, Quentin Tarantino, Pilar Savone, Christoph Waltz
Save the Date
Sarah begins to confront her shortcomings after she rejects her boyfriend's hasty proposal and soon finds herself in a rebound romance. Meanwhile, her sister Beth is immersed in the details of her wedding.
Mike Mohan, Neal H. Moritz, Jeffrey Brown, Egan Reich, Alison Brie, Lizzy Caplan, Martin Starr, Geoffrey Arend
The Haunting in Connecticut 2: G...
Building on the terror of A Haunting in Connecticut, this horrifying tale traces a young family’s nightmarish descent into a centuries-old Southern hell. When Andy Wyrick (Chad Michael Murray, House of Wax) moves his wife Lisa (Abigail Spencer, TV’s Mad Men) and daughter Heidi to an historic home in Georgia, they quickly discover they are not the house’s only inhabitants. Joined by Lisa’s free-spirited sister, Joyce (Katee Sackhoff, TV’s Battlestar Galactica), the family soon comes face-to-face with a bone-chilling mystery born of a deranged desire…a haunting secret rising from underground and threatening to bring down anyone in its path.
Emily Alyn Lind, Abigail Spencer, Chad Michael Murray, Katee Sackhoff, Cicely Tyson
Future Weather
Lauduree (Haney-Jardine) is a 13-year-old loner passionate about nature and worried about global warming. Greta (Amy Madigan), her grandmother, is a fiery nurse jaded by alcohol and disappointment. When Lauduree is abruptly abandoned by her dreamer single mom (Marin Ireland), she decides to take survival into her own hands, forcing her and Greta to rethink their futures.
Jenny Deller, Perla Haney-Jardine, Amy Madigan, Lili Taylor, Marin Ireland
A Whisper to a Roar
A Whisper to a Roar tells the heroic stories of courageous democracy activists in five countries around the world – Egypt, Malaysia, Ukraine, Venezuela and Zimbabwe. From student leaders to prime ministers and heads of state, these activists share their compelling personal stories of struggle, past and present, with their countries’ oppressive regimes.
Alfred Molina, Ben Moses
Dragon
In the late Qing Dynasty, Liu (Donnie Yen) is a papermaker, leading a simple life with his wife Ayu (Tang Wei) and their two sons. Into their remote village comes Detective Xu (Takeshi Kaneshiro), who is investigating the deaths of two bandits during a robbery. Xu quickly realizes that the incident in question was no ordinary botched robbery – and his dogged inquiry threatens to dredge up the dark secrets of Liu's buried past, threatening not only Liu and his family, but the entire village.
Yu Wang, Wei Tang, Peter Ho-Sun Chan, Oi Wah Lam, Donnie Yen, Takeshi Kaneshiro
Reincarnated
Follows Snoop Dogg on a spiritual journey as he immerses himself in Rastafari, explores musical and religious histories deeply rooted in Jamaica, and reemerges from his experience as "Snoop Lion."
Snoop Dogg, Andy Capper, Dr. Dre
A Haunted House
When newlyweds Malcolm (Marlon Wayans) and Kisha (Essence Atkins) move into their dream house, they quickly find they're not alone. But it's not the house that's haunted, but his wife that is possessed with spirits - or as Malcolm calls it - "relationship baggage." Malcolm hires everyone from a priest to modern day ghost busters to rid her of the demon, determined not to let the evil spirit ruin his marriage... or his sex life for that matter.
Marlon Wayans, Rick Alvarez, Nick Swardson, David Koechner, Cedric the Entertainer, Mike Tiddes, Dave Sheridan, Essence Atkins
The Impossible
Based on the true story of events that occurred following the 2004 tsunami in Thailand.
Juan Antonio Bayona, Naomi Watts, Sergio G. Sanchez, Ewan McGregor, Geraldine Chaplin, Marta Etura, Tom Hollander
Gangster Squad
In 1946, in a chaotic and corrupt Los Angeles, gangsters brazenly engage in shootouts and drive-by shootings. The LAPD forms what is dubbed the Gangster Squad to keep East Coast Mafia out of the city. The squad's anything goes approach lasts through the 1950s.
Ryan Gosling, Frank Grillo, Ruben Fleischer, Josh Brolin, Anthony Mackie, Michael Peña, Giovanni Ribisi, Emma Stone
Jurassic Park 3D
A wealthy man has created an island amusement park filled with dinosaurs cloned from fossilized DNA. When he invites experts to endorse it, nature takes over.
Ariana Richards, Steven Spielberg, Sam Neill, Laura Dern, David Koepp, Jeff Goldblum, Samuel L. Jackson, Michael Crichton
The Central Park Five
In 1989, five black and Latino teenagers from Harlem were arrested and later convicted of brutally beating and raping a white woman in New York City’s Central Park. New York Mayor Ed Koch called it the “crime of the century” and it remains to date one of the biggest media stories of our time. The five eachspent between 6 and 13 years in prison before a shocking confession from a serial rapist and DNA evidence proved their innocence. Set against a backdrop of a decaying city beset by violence and racial tension, THE CENTRAL PARK FIVE tells the story of how five lives were upended by the rush to judgment by police, a sensationalist media and a devastating miscarriage of justice.
Ken Burns
Promised Land
A sales executive arrives in a small town only to have his whole life called into question.
John Krasinski, Dave Eggers, Gus Van Sant, Chris Moore, Matt Damon, Rosemarie DeWitt, Scoot McNairy, Frances McDormand
Any Day Now
When a teenager with Down syndrome is abandoned by his mother, a gay couple (Alan Cumming and Garret Dillahunt) takes him in and becomes the loving family he's never had. But when their unconventional living arrangement is discovered by authorities, the men are forced to fight a biased legal system to save the life of the child they have come to love as their own.
Travis Fine, Alan Cumming, Garret Dillahunt, Isaac Leyva, Frances Fisher, Gregg Henry
Family Weekend
Fed up with her dysfunctional family, Emily Smith-Dungy drugs and ties up her entire family in order to lay down the law on all their individual character flaws.
Matthew Modine, Joey King, Benjamin Epps, Adam Saunders, Chris Aronoff, Matt K. Turner, Kristin Chenoweth, Olesya Rulin
Thale
Two crime-scene cleaners discover a mythical, tailed female creature in a concealed cellar. She never utters a word, unable to tell her story, but the pieces of the puzzle soon come together: she's been held captive for decades for reasons soon to surface.
Aleksander Nordaas
Happy People: A Year in the Taig...
Deep in the Siberian wilderness, far away from civilization, 300 people inhabit the small village of Bakhta at the river Yenisei. There are only two ways to reach this outpost: by helicopter or boat. There‘s no telephone, running water or medical aid. The locals, whose daily routines have barely changed over the last centuries, live according to their own values and cultural traditions. With insightful commentary written and narrated by Werner Herzog, Happy People follows one of the Siberian trappers through all four seasons of the year to tell the story of a culture virtually untouched by modernity.
Werner Herzog, Dmitry Vasyukov
K-11
The story behind the most bizarre unit in all of L.A. county lock-up, which houses transvestites, transsexuals, and the occasional high profile celebrity.
Patrick Muldoon, Jules Mann-Stewart, Michele Berk, Jared Kurt, Tom Wright Jr., Goran Visnjic, Kate Del Castillo, Jason Mewes
Cheech and Chong's Animated Movi...
Animated version of the Cheech and Chong routine.
Eric Chambers, Keith Chambers, Branden Chambers, Houston Curtis, Cheech Marin, Tommy Chong, Lou Adler
Broken City
The New York mayor asks private eye Billy Taggart to find out if the mayor’s wife is cheating on him. She is, with the campaign director of the mayor’s political rival, no less, who soon turns up dead. Did Billy’s investigation lead to murder?
Mark Wahlberg, Griffin Dunne, Stephen Levinson, Russell Crowe, Jeffrey Wright, John Malkovich, Randall Emmett, Brian Tucker
The Guilt Trip
An inventor and his mom hit the road together so he can sell his latest invention.
Seth Rogen, Anne Fletcher, John Goldwyn, Dan Fogelman, Barbra Streisand, Colin Hanks, Lorne Michaels, Evan Goldberg
Night of the Living Dead: Resurr...
Based on the 1968 zombie classic, the story focuses on four generations of a British family trapped in a farmhouse in Wales during a zombie apocalypse.
James Plumb, Richard Goss, Johnathon Farrell, Sabrina Dickens, Sule Rimi, Aaron Bell
The Silver Linings Playbook
A man, after a mental collapse, is released from a health facility determined to find the silver linings in his life. In total denial that his wife has remarried and moved on, he moves home with his parents and befriends a depressed woman who offers to act as a liaison between him and his wife.
Jennifer Lawrence, Bradley Cooper, Robert De Niro, Shea Whigham, Julia Stiles, Dash Mihok, David O. Russell, Michelle Raimo
Not Fade Away
Set on the East Coast during the 1960s, a coming of age story that follows the lives of Douglas, Wells and Ronny, members of a young rock n’ roll band trying to make it.
Brad Garrett, Mark Johnson, Jack Huston, Bella Heathcote, Christopher McDonald, David Chase, Will Brill, John Magaro
The Man Who Shook the Hand of Vi...
Retired radio DJ, Rex Page (Ernest Borgnine), always dreamed of being a Western movie cowboy — After suffering a back injury, Rex finds himself recovering at Rancho Park nursing home, a facility held in the villainous grip of local businessman Mr. Walker (Barry Corbin) and his evil henchman, Dr. Dominguez (Tony Plana).
At first, Rex is helpless in this lawless world, but when the Latino staff realizes that Rex once met their icon, Vicente Fernandez, Rex becomes a local celebrity. And like the cowboys from his dreams, Rex discovers the love and respect of his family and the staff when he faces down the tyrannical owners of Rancho Park this homage to the Spaghetti Westerns of yore.
Elia Petridis, Ernest Borgnine
Only the Young
Only the Young is the story of the children that inhabit a small desert town in Southern California – a town dominated by foreclosed homes and underpasses, unfilled swimming pools and skate parks. The three teenagers of focus must find things to do in a place that offers nothing – but in observing their day-to-day lives, we see them discover friendship, first love, heartbreak, and what it means to be young.
Elizabeth Mims
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