December 2014 DVD & Blu-rays

With Helen Mirren • Steven Knight • Manish Dayal • Oprah Winfrey • Steven Spielberg • Lasse Hallstrom • Om Puri • Carla Gardini • Juliet Blake • Charlotte Le Bon • Caroline Hewitt

In The Hundred-Foot Journey, Hassan Kadam (Manish Dayal) is a culinary ingénue with the gastronomic equivalent of perfect pitch. Displaced from their native India, the Kadam family, led by Papa (Om Puri), settles in the quaint village of Saint-Antonin-Noble-Val in the south of France. Filled with charm, it is both picturesque and elegant – the ideal place to settle down and open an Indian restaurant, the Maison Mumbai. That is, until the chilly chef proprietress of Le Saule Pleureur, a Michelin starred, classical French restaurant run by Madame Mallory (Academy Award®-winner Helen Mirren), gets wind of it. Her icy protests against the new Indian restaurant a hundred feet from her own escalate to all out war between the two establishments – until Hassan’s passion for French haute cuisine and for Mme. Mallory’s enchanting sous chef, Marguerite (Charlotte Le Bon), combine with his mysteriously delicious talent to weave magic between their two cultures and imbue Saint-Antonin with the flavors of life that even Mme. Mallory cannot ignore. At first Mme. Mallory's culinary rival, she eventually recognizes Hassan's gift as a chef and takes him under her wing.

With Peter Chernin • Andy Serkis • Jason Clarke • Gary Oldman • Keri Russell • Judy Greer • Kirk Acevedo • Toby Kebbell • Scott Z. Burns • Mark Bomback • Rick Jaffa • Dylan Clark • Amanda Silver • Matt Reeves • Kodi Smit-McPhee • Terry Notary • Karin Konoval

A growing nation of genetically evolved apes led by Caesar is threatened by a band of human survivors of the devastating virus unleashed a decade earlier. They reach a fragile peace, but it proves short-lived, as both sides are brought to the brink of a war that will determine who will emerge as Earth's dominant species.

With Christina Ricci • Rosie Perez • Wayne Brady • Arsenio Hall • Craig Ferguson • Jessica Kedward • J.P. McCormick • David Kaye • Frank Gladstone

An imaginative animated tale for the pre-school/kindergarten set, The Hero of Color City chronicles the adventures of a diverse band of crayons that come alive in a little boys room when he drifts off to sleep. Yellow (voiced by Christina Ricci), a timid and fearful crayon, inadvertently awakens two unfinished drawings that threaten to take over Color City, and must set off on an adventure that leads her to discover inner strength and courage she never knew she had.

With Drew Dowdle • Ben Feldman • John Erick Dowdle • Edwin Hodge • Alex Hedlund • Perdita Weeks

Miles of twisting catacombs lie beneath the streets of Paris, the eternal home to countless souls. When a team of explorers ventures into the uncharted maze of bones, they uncover the dark secret that lies within this city of the dead. A journey into madness and terror, As Above, So Below reaches deep into the human psyche to reveal the personal demons that come back to haunt us all.

With Reese Witherspoon • Sarah Baker • Brian Grazer • Karen Kehela Sherwood • Ron Howard • Corey Stoll • Philippe Falardeau • Thad Luckinbill • Trent Luckinbill • Sharon Conley • Margaret Nagle • Maria Howell • Joshua Mikel • Mike Pniewski

They were known simply as "The Lost Boys." Orphaned by the brutal Civil war in Sudan that began in 1983, these young victims traveled as many as a thousand miles on foot in search of safety. Fifteen years later, a humanitarian effort would bring 3600 lost boys and girls to America. In The Good Lie, Philippe Falardeau brings the story of their survival and triumph to life.

With Jon Hamm • Paul Giamatti • Harvey Keitel • Robin Wright • Ari Folman

More than two decades after catapulting to stardom with The Princess Bride, an aging actress (Robin Wright, playing a version of herself) decides to take her final job: preserving her digital likeness for a future Hollywood. Through a deal brokered by her loyal, longtime agent (Harvey Keitel) and the head of Miramount Studios (Danny Huston), her alias will be controlled by the studio, and will star in any film they want with no restrictions. In return, she receives healthy compensation so she can care for her ailing son, and her digitized character will stay forever young. Twenty years later, under the creative vision of the studio’s head animator (Jon Hamm), Wright’s digital double rises to immortal stardom.

With Bradley Cooper • Vin Diesel • Benicio Del Toro • Chris Pratt • Dave Bautista • Djimon Hounsou • Lee Pace • John C. Reilly • Zoe Saldana • Karen Gillan • Michael Rooker • James Gunn • Kevin Feige • Glenn Close • Gregg Henry • Nicole Perlman • Chris McCoy • Ophelia Lovibond

An American pilot ends up in space in the middle of a universal conflict and goes on the run with futuristic ex-cons who have something everyone wants.

With Alexa Vega • Stephen Lang • Dylan Baker • Toni Hoover • Bram Hoover • Max Adler • Mark Hapka • Breanna Dean • Kimberly Jo Zimmer

A typical teenager growing up in a small town in Kentucky, Travis is a local hero on and off the field. In the fall of 1997, in the prime of his youth, he is unexpectedly stricken with an infection that destroys his optic nerve. He becomes blind overnight. Under the influence of parents who love him, a physical therapist who challenges him, a coach who inspires him, and a best friend who he cannot bear to leave behind, Travis shows us what true bravery is by competing on the gridiron, helping his team advance to the State playoffs. We follow Travis and Jerry Baker, his closest friend, from the time they meet on the football field as kids through high school. Jerry’s attraction to the dark side of teenage temptations, beer and drugs, threatens to pull the friends apart. It is only on the football field where they truly connect.

With Jim Caviezel • Alexander Ludwig • Laura Dern • Michael Chiklis • Gavin Casalegno • Thomas Carter • David Zelon • Cathy Schulman • Scott Marshall Smith • Joe Massingill • LaJessie Smith

Tells the journey of legendary football coach Bob Ladouceur (Jim Caviezel), who took the De La Salle High School Spartans from obscurity to a 151-game winning streak that shattered all records for any American sport.

With Michael Fassbender • Scoot McNairy • Domhnall Gleeson • Maggie Gyllenhaal • Peter Straughan • Tess Harper • Lenny Abrahamson • Jon Ronson • Matthew Page

An offbeat comedy about a young wannabe musician, Jon (Domhnall Gleeson), who finds himself out of his depth when he joins an avant-garde pop band led by the mysterious and enigmatic Frank (Michael Fassbender), a musical genius who hides himself inside a large fake head, and his terrifying bandmate Clara (Maggie Gyllenhaal).

With Dylan O'Brien • Will Poulter • Kaya Scodelario • Wes Ball • Grant Pierce Myers • Ki Hong Lee • Ellen Goldsmith-Vein • Lindsay Williams • Blake Cooper • Thomas Sangster • Noah Oppenheim • Aml Ameen

When Thomas wakes up trapped in a massive maze with a group of other boys, he has no memory of the outside world other than strange dreams about a mysterious organization known as W.C.K.D. Only by piecing together fragments of his past with clues he discovers in the maze can Thomas hope to uncover his true purpose and a way to escape.

With Kristen Wiig • Bill Hader • Luke Wilson • Ty Burrell • Mark Duplass • Craig Johnson • Mark Heyman • Jennifer Lee

After many years of estrangement, twins Maggie and Milo lead separate lives on opposite sides of the country. When both feel that they're at the end of their ropes, an unexpected reunion forces them to confront how their lives went so wrong. For Maggie, that means re-examining her marriage to sweet “nature frat boy” Lance and her own self-destructive tendencies, while Milo must face the pain of an early heartbreak he never quite got past. As the twins’ reunion reinvigorates them both, they realize the key to fixing their lives just may lie in accepting the past and mending their relationship with each other.

With Jason Bateman • Shawn Levy • Rose Byrne • Adam Driver • Dax Shepard • Abigail Spencer • Connie Britton • Timothy Olyphant • Tina Fey • Jane Fonda • Jonathan Tropper • Paula Weinstein • Jeff Levine • Corey Stoll

When their father passes away, four grown siblings, bruised and banged up by their respective adult lives, are forced to return to their childhood home and live under the same roof together for a week, along with their over-sharing mother and an assortment of spouses, exes and might-have-beens. Confronting their history and the frayed states of their relationships among the people who know and love them best, they ultimately reconnect in hysterical and emotionally affecting ways amid the chaos, humor, heartache and redemption that only families can provide—driving us insane even as they remind us of our truest, and often best, selves.

With Emily Browning • Michael Cera • Juno Temple • Catalina Sandino Moreno • Mike White • Sebastian Silva • Christine Vachon • Pamela Koffler • David Bernad

A girl vacationing with her friends in a remote area of Chile slowly starts losing her mental faculties. She tries to get her friends' attention, but they ignore her until it's too late.

With Kate Beckinsale • Mel Gibson • Mark Amin • Ben Kingsley • Michael Caine • Fiona Shaw • Brendan Gleeson • David Thewlis • David W. Higgins • Bruce Davey • Brad Anderson • Joe Gangemi • Jim Sturgess • Cami Winikoff • Christopher Fulford

Jim Sturgess will star as a Harvard Medical School grad who takes a job a mental institution which the inmates have taken over and are posing as doctors. He becomes obsessed with the title character (Kate Beckinsale), one of the patients.

With Emma Stone • Colin Firth • Woody Allen • Marcia Gay Harden • Hamish Linklater • Jacki Weaver • Erica Leerhsen • Eileen Atkins • Letty Aronson • Stephen Tenenbaum

A romantic comedy about an Englishman brought in to help unmask a possible swindle. Personal and professional complications ensue.

With Imelda Staunton • Bill Nighy • Paddy Considine • Dominic West • Matthew Warchus • Andrew Scott • Stephen Beresford • Joseph Gilgun

It’s the summer of 1984, Margaret Thatcher is in power and the National Union of Mineworkers is on strike, prompting a London-based group of gay and lesbian activists to raise money to support the strikers’ families. Initially rebuffed by the Union, the group identifies a tiny mining village in Wales and sets off to make their donation in person. As the strike drags on, the two groups discover that standing together makes for the strongest union of all.

With Steve Coogan • Rob Brydon • Michael Winterbottom • Rosie Fellner

Two men, six meals in six different places on a road trip around Italy. Liguria, Tuscany, Rome, Amalfi and ending in Capri.

With Sylvester Stallone • Cary Elwes • Kelsey Grammer • Omari Hardwick • Tom Berenger • Thomas Jane • Kyra Sedgwick • John Herzfeld • Nelly • Kevin Connolly • Danny Aiello • Elizabeth Henstridge • Rebekah Chaney

The movie explores the results of a self-published motivational book by a reclusive author (Berenger) on a tabloid journalist (Connolly), his editor (Stallone), an arsonist ex-con (Sedgwick), a gunfighter cop (Jane), an alcoholic priest (Aiello) and a dimwitted gangster.

With Sofia Vergara • Sharon Stone • John Turturro • Woody Allen • Liev Schreiber • Max Casella • Jill Scott • Bob Balaban • Aida Turturro • Vanessa Paradis • Jeffrey Kusama-Hinte

Fioravante (John Turturro) decides to become a professional Don Juan as a way of making money to help his cash-strapped friend, Murray (Woody Allen). With Murray acting as his "manager," the duo quickly finds themselves caught up in the crosscurrents of love and money.