April 2014 DVD & Blu-rays

The Legend of Hercules

The story centers on the mythological Greek god Hercules.

Scott Adkins, Roxanne McKee, Rade Serbedzija, Avi Lerner, Boaz Davidson, Trevor Short, Kellan Lutz, Kenneth Cranham

Anchorman 2: The Legend Cont...

The continuing adventures of San Diego news anchor Ron Burgundy (Will Ferrell) and his reporting team, including Veronica Corningstone (Christina Applegate), Steve Carell (Brick Tamland) and Brian Fantana (Paul Rudd).

Will Ferrell, Paul Rudd, Steve Carell, Greg Kinnear, Nicole Kidman, Harrison Ford, James Marsden, Luke Wilson

47 Ronin

Based on the group of swordsmen and their master who are revered in Japan for their revenge attack on Dec. 14, 1702.

Hiroyuki Sanada, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, Scott Stuber, Keanu Reeves, Togo Igawa, Erwin Stoff, Pam Abdy, Tadanobu Asano

Knights of Badassdom

Follows the exploits of a group of LARPers (Live Action Role Players) who accidentally release a big badass demon.

Mark Burton, Steve Zahn, Ryan Kwanten, Peter Dinklage, Joe Lynch, Danny Pudi, Kevin Dreyfuss, Matt Wall

At Middleton

Vera Farmiga and Andy Garcia play strangers who meet while escorting their teen children to campus-tour day at a mythical college named Middleton. They clash immediately, ditch the tour and through a series of escapades find themselves sliding helplessly into love and something far more than they ever imagined.

Vera Farmiga, Andy Garcia, Adam Rodgers, Taissa Farmiga, Glenn German, Nicholas Braun, Tom Skerritt, Spencer Lofranco

The Unknown Known

Drawing from extensive hours of filmed interviews and never-before-seen material from Donald Rumsfeld’s private archive, Errol Morris examines Rumsfeld’s extraordinary role in American history from the Watergate era to the Global War on Terror.

Errol Morris

Paranormal Activity: The Mar...

Described by sources as a “cousin” to the Paranormal Activity movies. The film will be Latino-themed. It will star a Latino cast and will tackle Catholic-based paranormal mythology.

Jason Blum, Oren Peli, Christopher B. Landon, Richard Cabral, Carlos Pratts, Eddie J. Fernandez, Jorge Diaz, David Fernandez Jr.

The Hobbit: The Desolation o...

The story centers on Hobbit Bilbo Baggins and the scary adventure he makes with 13 dwarves.

Cate Blanchett, Martin Freeman, Peter Jackson, Elijah Wood, Stephen Fry, Lee Pace, Benedict Cumberbatch, Guillermo del Toro

Grudge Match

Revolves around retired boxers Billy "The Kid" McGuigan and Henry "Razor" Sharp, lifelong bitter rivals who are coaxed out of retirement and into the ring for one final grudge match -- 50 years after their last title fight.

Sylvester Stallone, Robert De Niro, Kevin Hart, Doug Ellin, Kim Basinger, Alan Arkin, Peter Segal, Billy Gerber

August: Osage County

The sprawling family epic, which follows one volatile Oklahoma family in the aftermath of its patriarch's unexplained disappearance.

Julia Roberts, Dermot Mulroney, George Clooney, Abigail Breslin, Meryl Streep, Benedict Cumberbatch, Margo Martindale, Juliette Lewis

Snake and Mongoose

Southern California drag racers Don "The Snake" Prudhomme and Tom "The Mongoose" McEwen combine with corporate giants to change the face of sports and ultimately become the most famous rivalry in racing history.

Jesse Williams, Tim Blake Nelson, Noah Wyle, John Heard, Stephen Nemeth, Ashley Hinshaw, Robin Broidy, Wayne Holloway

Bastards

Vincent Lindon plays a captain on a container-ship called back to Paris by his desperate sister, portrayed by Chiara Mastroianni, to exact revenge on a powerful businessman who she blames for her husband’s suicide and the failure of the family business.

Vincent Lindon, Chiara Mastroianni, Claire Denis, Michel Subor

Justin Bieber's Believe

Believe features brand new interviews with Justin Bieber and appearances from manager Scooter Braun, Usher Raymond, Rodney Jerkins, Ludacris, Mike Posner and many more.

Jon M. Chu, Justin Bieber, Scooter Braun

Best Night Ever

Bride-to-be Claire, her sister Leslie, fun-loving Zoe, and quirky new friend Janet set off to Las Vegas for a one-night bachelorette party that turns out to be more than they bargained for. A series of unexpected adventures including, getting kicked out of a strip club, being mugged and getting pummeled by the Las Vegas’ reigning gelatin-wrestling champion, Veronica, rip them from the glitz and glamour of the Las Vegas strip and places them smack dab in Vegas’ seedy underbelly. Determined to keep their bachelorette party dreams alive, the girls band together and embark on the wildest night in bachelorette party history. Fueled by sex and booze, this raunchy, riotously hilarious, out-of-control, blow-out is, for better or worse, all caught on tape. And is destined to go down as the Best Night Ever.

Aaron Seltzer, Jason Friedberg, Samantha Colburn, Desiree Hall, Eddie Ritchard, Crista Flanagan

Black Coffee

Robert (Henson) picked the wrong time to meet his soul mate! After being fired from his own father’s company, he feels like his luck has run out – until Morgan (Dennis) enters into his life. Just as things start to heat up between them, trouble brews as Morgan’s ex-husband (Rucker) vows to get her back and Robert’s gold-digging ex-girlfriend (Hubbard) returns with an agenda of her own. With the help of his cousin (Keyes), Robert’s about to find out how much good can come out of a bad situation in this charming romantic comedy that’s good to the last drop.

Gabrielle Dennis, Erica Hubbard, Lamman Rucker, Darrin DeWitt Henson

Nurse 3D

Two sexy-but-disturbed nurses tend to the sick by day, but uses their charms to seduce and murder philandering men at night.

Niecy Nash, Katrina Bowden, Corbin Bleu, Judd Nelson, Boris Kodjoe, Doug Aarniokoski, Paz DeLa Huerta, Adam Herschman

Cavemen

Follows LA playboy Dean (Skylar Astin) who is fed up with one-night-stands and empty relationships and realizes that he wants something more out of life than just a party. With a little inspiration from his nine-year-old nephew and his best friend Tess (Camilla Belle), Dean decides to try his hand at finding true love for the first time - which proves to be much more difficult than he thought in modern-day Los Angeles.

Chad Michael Murray, Alexis Knapp, Camilla Belle, Kenny Wormald, Dayo Okeniyi, Jason Patric, Skylar Astin, Chasty Ballesteros

Back in the Day

Sometimes in order to move forward, you have to go back. And in this raunchy comedy, Jim Owens does just that when he heads home for his high school reunion. In an attempt to relive the glory days with his boys and explore an old romance, he nearly destroys his hometown and friendships.

Morena Baccarin, Nick Swardson, Michael Rosenbaum, Harland Williams, Sarah Colonna

Holy Ghost People

A Southern Gothic thriller about a teenager searching for her lost sister in the Appalachian Mountains, where she encounters a snake-handling religious cult and eventually learns the truth about her sister's fate.

Cameron Richardson, Mitchell Altieri, Emma Greenwell, Joe Egender, Brendan McCarthy, Don Harvey, Roger Aaron Brown

Murph: The Protector

Murph: The Protector is a feature-length documentary based on LT Michael Murphy's life of honor, courage and commitment, as told by his friends, family and teammates. Michael was raised in Patchogue, New York, attended Penn State University and then joined the U.S. Navy to serve in the SEAL Teams. Well-known for his selflessness, Michael gave his life for his men in 2005 and was posthumously awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor in 2007. His legacy now lives on in this moving portrait of a real American hero.

Scott Mactavish

Black Nativity

The popular Langston Hughes' gospel retelling of the birth of Jesus.

Jennifer Hudson, Angela Bassett, Forest Whitaker, Galt Niederhoffer, Daniela Taplin Lundberg, Mary J. Blige, Kasi Lemmons, Celine Rattray

The Secret Life of Walter Mi...

A very shy man lives all sorts of adventures via his daydreams.

Ben Stiller, Adam Scott, Sean Penn, Patton Oswalt, John Goldwyn, Kristen Wiig, Peter Morgan, Kathryn Hahn

The Nut Job

Surly and his rat friend Buddy, two street-wise rodents, have the solitude of their city park home upended.

Katherine Heigl, Liam Neeson, Stephen Lang, Sarah Gadon, Brendan Fraser, Will Arnett, Jeff Dunham, Peter Lepeniotis

Ride Along

A tough cop tries to halt a budding romance between his sister and a fellow schoolteacher.

Kevin Hart, Ice Cube, Tika Sumpter, Matt Alvarez, JC Spink, Will Packer, Roger Kumble, Phil Hay

Devil's Due

A found footage-inspired film. The plot is being kept secret but is described as female-driven, with horror elements.

Radio Silence, Lindsay Devlin, Zach Gilford, Catherine Kresge, Griff Furst, Allison Miller, Colin Walker, Aimee Carrero

Better Living Through Chemis...

Story centers on a meek small-town pharmacist, stuck in a loveless marriage, who rediscovers himself through an affair with a trophy wife who introduces him to the wonderful world of prescription drugs, and the idea of murdering her husband.

Ben Schwartz, Michelle Monaghan, Sam Rockwell, Olivia Wilde, Jane Fonda, Ray Liotta, Geoff Moore, Keith Calder

Philomena

A woman searches for her adult son, who taken away from her decades ago when she was forced to live in a convent.

Jeff Pope, Tracey Seaward, Steve Coogan, Mare Winningham, Stephen Frears, Judi Dench, Gaby Tana, Michelle Fairley

The Invisible Woman

Nelly (Felicity Jones), a happily-married mother and schoolteacher, is haunted by her past. Her memories, provoked by remorse and guilt, take us back in time to follow the story of her relationship with Charles Dickens (Ralph Fiennes) with whom she discovered an exciting but fragile complicity.

Ralph Fiennes, Felicity Jones, Abi Morgan, Kristin Scott Thomas, Tom Hollander, Tom Burke, Michelle Fairley, Perdita Weeks

Wrong Cops

A group of bad cops look to dispose of a body that one of them accidentally shot.

Quentin Dupieux, Grace Zabriskie, Arden Myrin, Marilyn Manson, Eric Wareheim, Mark Burnham, Isabella Palmieri, Eric Judor

Copperhead

Copperhead is the story of Abner Beech, a stubborn and righteous farmer of Upstate New York, who defies his neighbors and his government in the bloody and contentious autumn of 1862.Far from the Virginia battlefields whose names etch our history, the war of Copperhead visits the devastation and unimaginable loss of a civil war upon a family and a community whose strength and very existence are tested by fire, rope, knife, and betrayal. This is the Civil War come home.With Copperhead, director Ron Maxwell, who with Gettysburg and Gods and Generals established himself as our foremost cinematic interpreter of the American Civil War, takes on the War from a stunning and unexpected and richly, unforgettably humanist angle.

Billy Campbell, Angus MacFadyen, Peter Fonda, Francois Arnaud, Augustus Prew, Lucy Boynton, Casey Brown, Ronald Maxwell

Date and Switch

Two best friends vow to lose their virginity before graduating high school. Then, one confesses he's gay.

Dakota Johnson, Nick Offerman, Gary Cole, Sarah Hyland, Laurence Mark, David Blackman, Alan Yang, Wendi McLendon-Covey

Great Expectations

A humble orphan suddenly becomes a gentleman with the help of an unknown benefactor.

Ralph Fiennes, Mike Newell, Helena Bonham Carter, Jason Flemyng, Sally Hawkins, David Nicholls, Jeremy Irvine, Robbie Coltrane

Trap for Cinderella

"Trap for Cinderella" is the story of a suspicious fire that traps two young women. One dies; the survivor is burned beyond recognition and left with amnesia. Plastic surgery gives her a new face, but suspicions arise that she may not have been a victim.

Iain Softley, Robert Jones, Tuppence Middleton, Aneurin Barnard, Kerry Fox, Dixie Linder, Chris Gerolmo, Alexandra Roach

Barefoot

The "black sheep" son (Scott Speedman) of a wealthy family meets a free-spirited, but sheltered woman (Evan Rachel Wood). To convince his family that he's finally straightened out his life, he takes her home for his brother's wedding where an improbable romance blooms, as she impresses everyone with her genuine, simple charms.

J.K. Simmons, Evan Rachel Wood, Andrew Fleming, Kate Burton, Scott Speedman, Treat Williams, Stephen Zotnowski

Bettie Page Reveals All

Mark Mori’s Bettie Page Reveals All is an intimate look at one of the world’s most recognized sex symbols, featuring Bettie Page herself telling her story for the first time in her own words. In Mori’s documentary, the real Bettie Page emerges from the veil of myth and rumor via interviews Mori taped a decade prior to her death in 2008.

Mark Mori

Big Bad Wolves

A series of brutal murders puts the lives of three men on a collision course: The father of the latest victim now out for revenge, a vigilante police detective operating outside the boundaries of law, and the main suspect in the killings - a religious studies teacher arrested and released due to a police blunder.

Navot Papushado, Aharon Keshales

Labor Day

Tells the story of a long Labor Day weekend through the eyes of a then 13-year-old boy who along with his reclusive depressed divorced mother are willingly taken “hostage” by an escaped convict in their own home.

Lucas Hedges, Kate Winslet, Tobey Maguire, Russell Smith, Josh Brolin, Jason Reitman, Helen Estabrook, Lianne Halfon

The Legend of Hercules

The story centers on the mythological Greek god Hercules.

Scott Adkins, Roxanne McKee, Rade Serbedzija, Avi Lerner, Boaz Davidson, Trevor Short, Kellan Lutz, Kenneth Cranham

Devil's Due

A found footage-inspired film. The plot is being kept secret but is described as female-driven, with horror elements.

Radio Silence, Lindsay Devlin, Zach Gilford, Catherine Kresge, Griff Furst, Allison Miller, Colin Walker, Aimee Carrero

Gimme Shelter

A pregnant, homeless teen flees her abusive mother and seeks out her biological father. He first takes her in but then throws her out when she refuses to abort her child.

Vanessa Hudgens, Rosario Dawson, Jeff Rice, Brendan Fraser, Emily Meade, Dascha Polanco, Stephanie Szostak, James Earl Jones

The Selfish Giant

The film tells the story of two schoolmates in a struggling working-class community in Bradford, England: the scrappy, hyperactive Arbor (Conner Chapman) and the reserved, more mature Swifty (Shaun Thomas). To pick up some extra cash, Arbor and Swifty begin collecting scrap metal for Kitten (Sean Gilder), a shady local dealer with a penchant for racing horses. Arbor is eager to please, desiring the wealth that appears to come with Kitten's lifestyle. But it soon becomes evident that Swifty is the favored one, because of his talent with horses. As jealousy sets in, the fragile bond that holds Arbor to his closest mate begins to crumble away.

Clio Barnard, Conner Chapman, Shaun Thomas, Sean Gilder, Lorraine Ashbourne, Ian Burfield

Escape From Tomorrow

An epic battle begins when a middle-aged American husband and father of two learns that he has lost his job. Keeping the news from his nagging wife and wound-up children, he packs up the family and embarks on a full day of park hopping amid enchanted castles and fairytale princesses. Soon, the manufactured mirth of the fantasy land around him begins to haunt his subconscious. An idyllic family vacation quickly unravels into a surrealist nightmare of paranoid visions, bizarre encounters, and an obsessive pursuit of a pair of sexy teenage Parisians.

Randy Moore

The Best Offer

Geoffrey Rush, Jim Sturgess, Giuseppe Tornatore, Sylvia Hoeks, Donald Sutherland, Philip Jackson, Dermot Crowley

Gloria

Gloria follows a woman in her late 50s as she tries to balance family obligations with those of a new romance in this insightful and uplifting comedy that shows it's never too late to take charge.

Sebastian Lelio, Paulina García