Best DVD & Blu-rays Released August 2022
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Charm City Kings
A young boy joins a dirt bike gang in Baltimore.
Will Smith, Jada Pinkett Smith, Teyonah Parris, James Lassiter, Milan Ray, Angel Manuel Soto, Jahi Di'Allo Winston, Marla Aaron Wapner
White Elephant
When an assassination attempt is witnessed by two cops, Gabriel Tancredi, an ex-marine turned mob enforcer (Michael Rooker), is ordered by his ruthless mob boss (Bruce Willis) to eliminate any and all threats. With an eager underling out to prove himself, rival gangs making moves and a rising body count, every step Tancredi makes threatens lives…including his own.
Bruce Willis, Olga Kurylenko, John Malkovich, Jesse V. Johnson, Michael Rooker, Erik Martinez, Vadhir Derbez
Fire In The Mountains
In northern India, a breathtakingly beautiful Himalayan community attracts tourists by commingling South Asian and Swiss Alps aesthetics. Debut filmmaker Ajitpal Singh tells an unconventional story of feminist strength while “accentuating the [region’s] spectacular exteriors and wide-canvas nature shots” (Variety).
Ajitpal Singh, Vinamrata Rai, Chandan Bisht, Harshita Tiwari, Mayank Singh Jaira, Sonal Jha
Sonic the Hedgehog 2
Sequel to the live-action family comedy, Sonic the Hedgehog. No other plot details available.
Ben Schwartz, Jim Carrey, Tim Miller, Idris Elba, James Marsden, Tika Sumpter, Toby Ascher, Adam Pally
Hot Seat
Wallace Reed (Mel Gibson), veteran bomb squad officer, rushes to a city park where a bomb has just exploded creating a mass panic. In a nearby building, Orlando Friar (Kevin Dillon), a super-hacker turned IT support, receives a call. He is sitting on an explosive device, big enough to vaporize his whole office building, rigged underneath his desk chair. Standing up would trigger the bomb and the clock is ticking. Directed by a mysterious voice on the phone, Orlando is forced to hack into the hundreds of millions of dollars in hedge fund accounts which he is paid to protect. Bombs are armed all around him keeping the police away, as the voice keeps the pressure, forcing him to focus. Reed is on scene and discovers the larger plot just before S.W.A.T. snipers and police, who believe Orlando is a domestic terrorist, stage a full assault on the building and Orlando. With bigger explosives hidden throughout the city putting millions of people at risk, Reed and Orlando must work together to outwit the evil plan and save the day.
Mel Gibson, James Cullen Bressack, Randall Emmett, Kevin Dillon, Shannen Doherty, Sam Asghari
Harry Potter 20th Anniversar...
The retrospective special Harry Potter 20th Anniversary: Return to Hogwarts will tell an enchanting making-of story through all-new in-depth interviews and cast conversations, inviting fans on a magical first-person journey through one of the most beloved film franchises of all time.
Emma Watson, Daniel Radcliffe, Chris Columbus, Rupert Grint, Casey Patterson
Vivo
Follows a capuchin monkey with a thirst for adventure – and a passion for music – that makes a treacherous passage from Havana to Miami to fulfill his destiny.
Ynairaly Simo, Kirk DeMicco, Rich Moore, Zoe Saldana, Nicole Byer, Brian Tyree Henry, Laurence Mark, Lisa Stewart
Crimes of the Future
Set in a distant future where humans have evolved beyond their “natural state and into a metamorphosis, altering their biological makeup.”
Scott Speedman, David Cronenberg, Kristen Stewart, Viggo Mortensen, Lea Seydoux, Don McKellar, Yorgos Pirpassopoulos, Nadia Litz
Nitram
Nitram (Landry Jones) lives with his mother (Davis) and father (LaPaglia) in suburban Australia in the Mid 1990s. He lives a life of isolation and frustration at never being able to fit in. That is until he unexpectedly finds a close friend in a reclusive heiress, Helen (Essie Davis). However, when that relationship meets a tragic end, and Nitram’s loneliness and anger grow, he begins a slow descent that leads to disaster.
Justin Kurzel, Caleb Landry Jones, Shaun Grant, Anthony LaPaglia, Judy Davis, Phoebe Taylor, Sean Keenan, Conrad Brandt
The Time Capsule
In the near future, a politician fresh off an electoral loss escapes to his family's summer lake house. His vacation is disrupted by the appearance of his first love, who has just returned from a 20-year space voyage and hasn't aged a day.
Brianna Hildebrand, Ravi Patel, Erwann Marshall, Todd Grinnell, KaDee Strickland, Baron Vaughn
Code Name Banshee
Caleb (Antonio Banderas), a former government assassin in hiding, resurfaces when his protégé, the equally deadly killer known as Banshee (Jaime King), discovers a bounty has been placed on Caleb’s head. Now they must put the past behind them and join together one last time to fight off the secret CIA backed killers who threaten to destroy them.
Antonio Banderas, Jaime King, Jon Keeyes, Tommy Flanagan, Matthew Rogers
Jazz Fest: A New Orleans Sto...
The New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival presented by Shell, aka “Jazz Fest,” is the signature annual music and cultural event of the city and has been called America’s greatest festival. Celebrating the music, food, and arts and crafts of all of Louisiana since 1970, Jazz Fest is an essential showcase of the rich heritage of the region, and hundreds of thousands attend the event each year.
Frank Marshall, Ryan Suffern
Neptune Frost
Focuses on an African hacker and a miner.
Ezra Miller, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Stephen Hendel, Saul Williams
The Black Phone
Story involves a 13-year-old boy, who is abducted by a sadistic killer and trapped in a soundproof basement. When a disconnected phone on the wall begins to ring, the boy discovers that he can hear the voices of the killer’s previous victims.
Scott Derrickson, Mason Thames, Madeleine McGraw, Jason Blum, Jeremy Davies, C. Robert Cargill, Ethan Hawke, James Ransone
Jurassic World Dominion
Picks up on the ending of Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom when dinosaurs escaped captivity and into the rest of the world.
Steven Spielberg, Jeff Goldblum, Colin Trevorrow, Chris Pratt, Omar Sy, Emily Carmichael, Frank Marshall, Laura Dern
The Mulligan
An intensely driven CEO, Paul McAlister is a success in everything — except life. Separated from his wife and estranged from his son, Paul's steely-eyed focus remains solely on his next boardroom mega-deal. But like an errant tee-shot on a difficult hole, Paul's life could use a do-over … a "mulligan." With the help of a new friend known as "the Old Pro," Paul is challenged to focus more on his priorities and purpose than pitching and putting. Desperate to make something good of a situation gone bad, Paul discovers he needs the ultimate mulligan.
Eric Close, Pat Boone, Tanya Christiansen, Charmin Lee
Frank and Penelope
Frank is on a road to nowhere when he stumbles into a run-down strip club where he sees Penelope dancing on a wobbly brass pole. This chance encounter ignites a love story that burns hotter than the West Texas blacktop.
Leaving their broken lives in the rearview mirror, Frank and Penelope head West with no destination in mind but each other. But a chance meeting leads them to the “Table of Truth” with a seductive, charismatic cult leader who has a penchant for travelers’ darkest secrets – and his own ideas on sins of the flesh. Two soulmates who had nothing to for live now find themselves in a bloody battle for life and love in a world where EVERYTHING is worth dying for.
Sean Patrick Flanery, Billy Budinich, Lin Shaye, Caylee Cowan, Kevin Dillion, Donna D'Errico, Jonathon Schaech, Charley Koontz
Baby Assassins
Upon graduation, highly trained teenage assassins Chisato and Mahiro are informed by upper management that they will need to hold down “normal” jobs as a cover, and—even worse—they’ll be forced to share an apartment. However, after an unfortunate run-in with a Yakuza member, the two must band together to survive an epic fight for their lives.
Hugo Sakamoto, Akari Takaishi, Saori Izawa, Masanori Mimoto
Paris, 13th District
Set in Paris’s 13th District, the film follows Emilie, Camille, Nora and Amber — four young adults who are friends and sometimes lovers.
Jacques Audiard, Céline Sciamma, Noémie Merlant, Line Phe, Oceane Cairaty, Lea Mysius, Genevieve Doang, Jehnny Beth
Blowback
When a master thief is sabotaged during a bank heist and left for dead, he seeks revenge on his former crew one target at a time. Now, with the cops and the mob closing in, he's in the race of his life to reclaim an untold fortune in cryptocurrency from those who double-crossed him.
Cam Gigandet, Tibor Takacs, Randy Couture, Louis Mandylor, Texas Battle, Chris Maher, Kevin Yarris, Robert Edward Thomas
Unicorn Town
Following a handful of American professionals on a team of German amateurs, UNICORN TOWN takes us into one of the most fascinating sports organizations in the world. Despite having just 40,000 residents and limited financial resources, the Schwäbisch Hall Unicorns have been able to compete at the highest level of football in all of Europe. But as more money floods into the sport, coaches and fans must face the question: has this team become a relic of the past or can their remarkable culture propel them beyond the constraints of reality?
Nick Alfieri
My Hero Academia: World Hero...
In My Hero Academia: World Heroes’ Mission, U.A. High School students Izuku Midoriya, Shoto Todoroki, and Katsuki Bakugo face the greatest crisis in My Hero Academia history, with only two hours to save the world! During their internship with the number one Pro Hero Endeavor Agency, Deku and his new friend Rody find themselves wanted nationwide for a crime they didn’t commit. Can Deku and his friends stop Humarise’s global plans of eliminating all Quirks?
Kenji Nagasaki
Murder at Yellowstone City
The once peaceful and booming Yellowstone City has fallen on hard times, but when a local prospector strikes gold, things seem to be turning around. Any hope is soon shattered when the prospector is found dead and the Sheriff quickly arrests a mysterious newcomer. But nothing is so simple in this sleepy western town, and more than a few of the locals have secrets to keep and reasons to kill. As the brutal murders continue, pitting neighbor against neighbor, Yellowstone City goes down a bloody path to a final showdown that not all will survive.
Richard Dreyfuss, Nat Wolff, Gabriel Byrne, Richard Gray, Thomas Jane, Isaiah Mustafa, Anna Camp, Aimee Garcia
Ali & Ava
Sparks fly as two people develop a deep connection despite the lingering legacy of past relationships. A compelling love story enveloped in music and imbued with humor. BAFTA nominee for Best British Film.
Adeel Akhtar, Clio Barnard, Ellora Torchia, Claire Rushbrook
Mr. Malcolm's List
Set in early 1800s England, a young lady (Wu) engages in courtship with a mysterious wealthy suitor, Mr. Malcolm (Dirisu), unaware of his unattainable list of demands for his future wife.
Theo James, Freida Pinto, Oliver Jackson-Cohen, Zawe Ashton, Emma Holly Jones, Suzanne Allain, Sope Dirisu, Ashley Park
Brian and Charles
Brian and Charles follows Brian, a lonely inventor in rural Wales, who spends his days building quirky, unconventional contraptions that seldom work. Undeterred by his lack of success, Brian attempts his biggest project yet. Three days, a washing machine, and various spare parts later, he’s invented Charles, an artificially intelligent robot who learns English from a dictionary and has an obsession with cabbages. What follows is a humorous and entirely heartwarming story about loneliness, friendship, family, finding love, and letting go.
Louise Brealey, Jim Archer, Rupert Majendie, David Earl, Chris Hayward, Jamie Michie, Nina Sosanya, Lynn Hunter
We're All Going to the World...
A teenage girl becomes immersed in an online role-playing game.
Jane Schoenbrun, Michael Rogers, Sarah Winshall, Anna Cobb, Daniel Patrick Carbone
American Carnage
After a governor issues an executive order to arrest the children of undocumented immigrants, the newly detained youth are offered an opportunity to have their charges dropped by volunteering to provide care to the elderly. Once inside the eldercare facility, the volunteers discover the governor and the facility’s supervisor have cooked up a horrifyingly depraved conspiracy that endangers the young and the old in this twisted thriller-comedy.
Jenna Ortega, Brett Cullen, Eric Dane, Catherine McCafferty, Jorge Lendeborg Jr, Allen Maldonado, Bella Ortiz, Yumarie Morales
Gabby Giffords Won’t Back ...
In 2011, former Arizona Congresswoman Gabby Giffords survived an assassination attempt that left her partially paralyzed and unable to walk. This is her story.
Julie Cohen, Betsy West, Lisa Erspamer
The Phantom of the Open
Maurice Flitcroft (Rylance), an unrelenting optimist, gains entry to the British Open Gold Championship Qualifying in 1976 and subsequently shot the worst round in Open history. He becomes a folk hero in the process.
Craig Roberts, Sally Hawkins, Mark Rylance, Rhys Ifans, Kate Glover, Nichola Martin, Tom Miller, Simon Farnaby
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