February 2013 DVD & Blu-rays

Flight

An alcoholic and drug-addicted pilot's plane engine malfunctions, but he manages to rescue the aircraft and its passengers, becoming a hero in the process. When the FAA investigates and finds evidence of drug abuse, it tries to sweep it to the side to help preserve the image of the captain, who is trying to change the course of his life.

Denzel Washington, Melissa Leo, John Goodman, Laurie MacDonald, Walter F. Parkes, John Gatins, Kelly Reilly, Don Cheadle

Alex Cross

Early in his career detective Alex Cross tries to find his pregnant wife’s murderer.

Tyler Perry, Rob Cohen, Paul Hanson, Steve Bowen, Kerry Williamson, Jean Reno, Giancarlo Esposito, Matthew Fox

Here Comes the Boom

A physics teacher's school faces drastic cutbacks. In an attempt to save his best friend's job and the music program his students love, he moonlights in the octagon as a mixed martial arts fighter, ultimately leading to brawling in the UFC.

Salma Hayek, Allan Loeb, Henry Winkler, Marty Ewing, Joe Rogan, Frank Coraci, Kevin James, Todd Garner

Deadfall

Two desperate sibling fugitives on the run collide with the holiday homecoming of a troubled ex-boxer.

Zach Dean, Charlie Hunnam, Todd Wagner, Gary Levinsohn, Shelly Clippard, Olivia Wilde, Stefan Ruzowitzky, Eric Bana

Toys in Attic

Set in a magical world of toys and knick-knacks stored in the attic of a home in Prague. The setting for the film was inspired by the cultural and po litical contrast of the Cold War era and its impact on director Jiri Barta and the Czech Republic. The world of the attic is divided into the land of happy toys in the West and the Land of Evil in the East. The despotic Head of State rules over the Land of Evil with a band of sinister minions, insects and rotted vegetables. When the lovely Buttercup (Vivian Schilling) is kidnapped and held prisoner by The Head (Jiri Labus, with voice by Douglas Urbanski), it is up to her friends - a teddy bear (Forest Whitaker), a mechanical mouse (Joan Cusack) and marionette puppet (Cary Elwes) to cross the international boundary and attempt their daring rescue.

Cary Elwes, Forest Whitaker, Vivian Schilling, Jiri Barta, Joan Cusack, Marcelo Tubert

In Our Nature

A portrait of two couples at a crossroads. What was supposed to be a romantic getaway for two young lovers, turns into an uncomfortable confrontation when the young man's estranged father shows up ... with his own girlfriend. As their collisions mount, the weekend transforms into a major turning point for each of them.

Gabrielle Union, Jena Malone, Brian Savelson, Zach Gilford, John Slattery

My Worst Nightmare

An uptight contemporary gallery owner falls in an unlikely relationship with a crass contractor who is in the process of remodeling her apartment.

Isabelle Huppert, Benoit Poelvoorde, Andre Dussollier, Anne Fontaine

Celeste and Jesse Forever

A young divorcing couple who try to maintain their longstanding friendship while pursuing other relationships.

Emma Roberts, Rashida Jones, Chris Messina, Elijah Wood, Lee Toland Krieger, Suzanne Todd, Jennifer Todd, Will McCormack

Little White Lies

Bringing together some of the top names from France's current generation of actors, Guillaume Canet weaves a joyous and heartfelt ensemble film out of the dilemmas of eight thirty and forty-something close friends as they vacation together in the summer beach house of uptight restaurateur Max (Cluzet). Starting out light and carefree, tensions begin to fill the air when Ludo is clinging to life following a motorcycle accident, and Max is grappling with unwanted affections from Vincent (Magimel), whose married life and sexuality are under fire. Womanizing actor Eric (Lellouche) and free-spirited ethnologist Marie (Cotillard) navigate the challenges of single life while lovelorn Antoine (Laurent Lafitte) pines for his ex-girlfriend after a sudden breakup.

Laurent Lafitte, Guillaume Canet, Francois Cluzet, Marion Cotillard, Benoît Magimel, Gilles Lellouche

Side by Side

Join Keanu Reeves on a tour of the past and the future of filmmaking in Side by Side. Since the invention of cinema, the standard format for recording moving images has been film. Over the past two decades, a new form of digital filmmaking has emerged, creating a groundbreaking evolution in the medium. Reeves explores the development of cinema and the impact of digital filmmaking via in-depth interviews with Hollywood masters, such as James Cameron, David Fincher, David Lynch, Christopher Nolan, Martin Scorsese, George Lucas, Steven Soderbergh, and many more.

Keanu Reeves, Christopher Kenneally, Martin Scorsese, Robert Rodriguez, George Lucas, James Cameron, Walter Murch, David Fincher

Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has ...

A look at the life and work of the legendary fashion editor of Harpers Bazaar, Diana Vreeland. The film will capture Vreeland’s life visually through a multitude of media including film, photography, animation, graphics, text, sound, and music. Vreeland’s own voice and persona -- strong, eloquent and often very exaggerated -- will guide us through her life, adventures, accomplishments, and passions.

So Undercover

About the hard-driving, straight-shooting private eye Molly Morris, who goes undercover at a university sorority house to protect a coed who may have been targeted for murder.

Allan Loeb, Steven Pearl, Miley Cyrus, Jeremy Piven, Matthew Settle, Josh Bowman, Tom Vaughan, Tish Cyrus

A Late Quartet

After performing together for 25 years, a quartet has to adjust to a member retiring due to Parkinson's disease.

Imogen Poots, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Catherine Keener, Jeremy Northam, Christopher Walken, Yaron Zilberman, Tamar Sela, Seth Grossman

The Playroom

In the 1975 suburbs, a volatile teenage daughter acts as surrogate mother to her younger sister by creating a make-believe world in their attic hideaway.

Julia Dyer, Gretchen Dyer, Molly Parker, John Hawkes, Cody Linley

The Man with the Iron Fist

No plot details have been announced.

Russell Crowe, Eli Roth, Dave Bautista, RZA, Marc Abraham, Jamie Chung, Rick Yune, Lucy Liu

Skyfall

No plot details have been announced.

Daniel Craig, Ralph Fiennes, Michael Wilson, Neal Purvis, John Logan, Javier Bardem, Sam Mendes, Barbara Broccoli

Cloud Atlas

Story is a time-shifting, kaleidoscopic – weaving six interlinking narratives, with diverse settings from the savagery of a Pacific Island in the 1850s to a dystopian Korea of the near future.

Tom Hanks, Halle Berry, Hugo Weaving, Jim Sturgess, Grant HIll, Wilson Qiu, Andy Wachowski, Susan Sarandon

Silent Hill: Revelations 3D

Sequel to the 2006 video game adaptation "Silent Hill". The original, based on the Konami game, centered on a woman who travels to a desolate town to seek help for her ailing daughter only to find supernatural occurrences taking place there.

Kit Harington, Adelaide Clemens, Radha Mitchell, Sean Bean, Malcolm McDowell, Michael J. Bassett, Don Carmody, Roger Avary

Bully

Follows "a year in the life" of America's bullying crisis through five kids and their families.

Lee Hirsch, Cynthia Lowen

The Perks of Being a Wallflo...

A shy and unpopular teenager describes his life by writing a series of letters to an anonymous person and explores the awkward times of adolescence, including drug use and sexuality.

Emma Watson, Paul Rudd, Nina Dobrev, John Malkovich, Lianne Halfon, Stephen Chbosky, Logan Lerman, Johnny Simmons

Smiley

After learning of an urban legend in which a demented serial killer named Smiley can be summoned through the Internet, mentally fragile Ashley must decide whether she is losing her mind or becoming Smiley's next victim.

Caitlin Gerard, Melanie Papalia, Keith David, Michael Traynor, Liza Weil, Michael Gallagher, Glasgow Phillips, Shane Dawson

Girl Model

Despite a lack of obvious similarities between Siberia and Tokyo, a thriving model industry connects these distant regions. Girl Model follows two protagonists involved in this industry: Ashley, a deeply ambivalent model scout who scours the Siberian countryside looking for fresh faces to send to the Japanese market, and one of her discoveries, Nadya, a 13-year-old plucked from her rustic home in Russia and dropped into the center of bustling Tokyo with promises of a profitable career. After Ashley's initial discovery of Nadya, they rarely meet again, but their stories are inextricably bound. As Nadya's optimism about rescuing her family from financial hardship grows, her dreams contrast against Ashley's more jaded outlook about the industry's corrosive influence.

David Redmon, Ashley Sabin

The Sessions

The life of Mark O'Brien, a poet and journalist who, after spending most of his life with an iron lung as a result of polio, decides to explore his sexuality. He hires a sex surrogate and soon develops a relationship that changes both of their lives.

Stephen Nemeth, Moon Bloodgood, William H. Macy, Ben Lewin, John Hawkes, Helen Hunt

The Thieves

It's the score of their lives--if they can pull it off. Five thieves at the top of their game, and the crew is assembling for their biggest job yet. Popie's the muscle and brains, Pepsee's the safecracker. Yenicall climbs walls, Zampano is the strategy man, and Chewingum is the master of disguise. But this new score--it's hot. Maybe too hot. But who can resist the Tear of The Sun: a 318-carat diamond, worth 20 million dollars, and locked away in a casino. The vault is impenetrable, the location covered in cops, and everyone knows there's no honor among thieves--especially not the crew Macao Park, Popie's old partner, has forced their team to work with. As they gear up and stroll into the casino with a plan, skills, and a whole lot of nerve, they quickly learn that avoiding the cops may not be their toughest problem. What's Macao Park's real motive? Who will betray them all? And who will walk away with the diamond?

Dong-hoo Choi, Yun-seok Kim, Gianna Jun, Hae-suk Kim

A Liar's Autobiography

Graham Chapman, probably best remembered as 'the dead one from Monty Python', writes and stars in the animated movie of his own life story, A Liar's Autobiography. Although Chapman selfishly dropped dead in 1989, he had taken the trouble to record himself reading his book, A Liar's Autobiography -- and those recordings have now ingeniously been used to provide Chapman's voice for the 3D animated feature of the same name. Fellow Pythons John Cleese, Terry Jones, Michael Palin, and Terry Gilliam also turn up, playing themselves and other characters, along with a few surprise guests.

Fun Size

No plot details were announced but the pitch described it as "Superbad" meets "Adventures in Babysitting" set on Halloween.

Victoria Justice, Chelsea Handler, Thomas Mann, Michael Beugg, Johnny Knoxville, Bard Dorros, Jane Levy, Josh Pence

Monsters, Inc. 3D

A comedy set in a surreal realm, where chaos ensues after a hapless monster lets a human child into the secret world by mistake.

John Goodman, Jill Culton, Pete Docter, David Silverman, Jeff Pidgeon, Steve Buscemi, Billy Crystal, Mary Gibbs

Argo

In 1979, CIA operative Tony Mendez, a master of disguise is put in charge of rescuing six Americans hiding out in Tehran. He comes up with the idea of using a bogus movie and contacts a Hollywood makeup artist John Chambers. Chambers and Bob Sidell, also a makeup artist, launch Studio Six Productions (an allusion to the six Americans awaiting rescue) and announce their first movie project, to be shot in Iran. Mendez travels to Tehran in January 1980 and tells the Americans to pretend they are Canadians on a scouting trip for a big-budget Hollywood epic. The ruse works.

Grant Heslov, Bryan Cranston, Ben Affleck, George Clooney, John Goodman, Nelson Franklin, Michael Parks, Alan Arkin

Sinister

Follows a journalist who moves his family into a house where another family was murdered. After moving in, he uncovers found footage that leads to clues about the murders.

Scott Derrickson, Jason Blum, James Ransone, Vincent D'Onofrio, Michael Hall D'Addario, C. Robert Cargill, Ethan Hawke, Clare Foley

Anna Karenina

Based on the classic Leo Tolstoy novel, a woman stuck in a loveless marriage struggles with her attraction to a soldier.

Keira Knightley, Joe Wright, Aaron Johnson, Tim Bevan, Paul Webster, Matthew Macfadyen, Olivia Williams, Domhnall Gleeson

Top Gun

The story of an elite group of pilots competing to be the best in their class and earn the title of "Top Gun". The film stars Tom Cruise as Maverick and Kelly McGillis as his civilian instructor.

Tom Cruise, Val Kilmer, Tom Skerritt, Tony Scott, Jerry Bruckheimer, Jim Cash, Jack Epps Jr., Kelly McGillis

Atlas Shrugged Part II

The second part of a planned trilogy that continues the Ayn Rand story.

Richard T. Jones, Duncan Scott, Samantha Mathis, Patrick Fabian, Paul McCrane, John Putch, Harmon Kaslow, John Aglialoro

The Undefeated

A documentary on Sarah Palin inspired by her book Going Rogue.

Stephen K. Bannon

Undefeated

Set in the inner-city of Memphis, Undefeated chronicles the Manassas Tigers' 2009 football season, on and off-the-field, as they strive to win the first playoff game in the high school's 110-year history. A perennial whipping boy, in recent decades Manassas had gone so far as to sell their home games to the highest bidder, but that all changed in the spring of 2004 when Bill Courtney, a former high school football coach turned lumber salesman, volunteered to lend a hand. When he arrived, the team consisted of 17 players, some timeworn equipment and a patch of grass masquerading as a practice field. Focusing more on winning young men than football games, the football program nevertheless began resurrecting itself and, in 2009, features the most talented team Manassas has ever fielded; a team that seems poised to end the playoff jinx that has plagued the school since time immemorial.

Dan Lindsay, T.J. Martin

North Sea Texas

Pim, an introverted child, occupies his time drawing and fantasizing while keeping his emerging desires a secret. As a teenager, he grows infatuated with Gino, the handsome boy next door. When a hunky young man from the local fair starts living with Pim and his mother, he seizes the opportunity to leave home and move in with Gino's family. His plan backfires as Gino departs, romancing and living with a girl from across the border. It seems like Pim's dreams will never come true, but then one rainy day Gino returns home...

Bavo Defurne, Jelle Florizoone, Nina Marie Kortekaas

Special Forces

A kidnapping drama set in Afghanistan.

Diane Kruger, Djimon Hounsou, Raphael Personnaz, Stephane Rybojad, Denis Menochet, Benoit Magimel

Small Apartments

Charts the comedic chain of events that ensue after a man murders his landlord and tries to cover it up.

Juno Temple, Peter Stormare, Dolph Lundgren, Jonas Åkerlund, Johnny Knoxville, Matt Lucas, James Caan, Chris Millis

For Ellen

An aspiring young rock musician agrees to a divorce with his estranged wife, only to discover he is not ready to forfeit custody of his six-year-old daughter.

Jena Malone, So Yong Kim, Bradley Rust Gray, Jen Gatien, Paul Dano, Jon Heder, Shaylena Mandigo

Chasing Mavericks

Story centers on the late Jay Moriarity and his quest to ride the iconic Northern California break known as Mavericks, where winter swells bring in treacherous waves the size of five-story buildings.

Gerard Butler, Elisabeth Shue, Scott Eastwood, Daniel Barnz, Ned Zeman, Jim Meenaghan, Abigail Spencer, Taylor Handley

Silent Hill: Revelations 3D

Sequel to the 2006 video game adaptation "Silent Hill". The original, based on the Konami game, centered on a woman who travels to a desolate town to seek help for her ailing daughter only to find supernatural occurrences taking place there.

Kit Harington, Adelaide Clemens, Radha Mitchell, Sean Bean, Malcolm McDowell, Michael J. Bassett, Don Carmody, Roger Avary

The Master

A charismatic intellectual hatches a faith-based organization that begins to catch on in America in 1952. The core is the relationship between the Master and Freddie, a twentysomething drifter who becomes the leader's lieutenant. As the faith begins to gain a fervent following, Freddie finds himself questioning the belief system he has embraced, and his mentor.

Joaquin Phoenix, Amy Adams, Joanne Sellar, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Jesse Plemons, Rami Malek, Paul Thomas Anderson, Laura Dern

Girls Against Boys

When Shae (Danielle Panabaker), a naïve college student, is tormented by several men in a matter of days, she reaches her breaking point, and is drawn into her friend Lu’s (Nicole LaLiberte) twisted plan for revenge. Together, the two embark on a gruesome killing spree, terrorizing and brutally murdering not just their attackers, but any man who gets in their way. However, after a wild weekend of retaliation, the friendship between the girls shifts into a dangerous obsession, and their perverse game becomes a desperate struggle for Shae to maintain control against Lu’s deadly and seductive influence.

Nicole LaLiberte, Austin Chick, Danielle Panabaker, Andrew Howard, Michael Stahl-David, Liam Aiken

Chicken with Plums

Tehran 1958 – Nasser Ali Khan, the most celebrated violin player, has his beloved instrument broken. Unable to find another to replace it, life without music seems intolerable. He stays in bed and slips further and further into his reveries from his youth to his own children’s futures. Over the course of the week that follows, and as the pieces of this captivating story fall into place, we understand his poignant secret and the profundity of his decision to give up life for music and love.

Mathieu Amalric, Golshifteh Farahani, Eric Caravaca, Vincent Paronnaud, Marjane Satrapi, Edouard Baer, Maria de Medeiros, Chiara Mastroianni

The Loneliest Planet

Alex (Gael Garcia Bernal) and Nica (Hani Furstenberg) are young, in love and engaged to be married. The summer before their wedding, they are backpacking in the Caucasus Mountains in Georgia. The couple hire a local guide to lead them on a camping trek, and the three set off into a stunning wilderness, a landscape that is both overwhelmingly open and frighteningly closed. Walking for hours, they trade anecdotes, play games to pass the time of moving through space. And then, a momentary misstep, a gesture that takes only two or three seconds, a gesture that's over almost as soon as it begins. But once it is done, it can't be undone. Once it is done, it threatens to undo everything the couple believed about each other and about themselves.

Gael García Bernal, Julia Loktev, Hani Furstenberg

Holy Motors

From dawn to dusk, a few hours in the life of Monsieur Oscar, a shadowy character who journeys from one life to the next. He is, in turn, captain of industry, assassin, beggar, monster, family man… He seems to be playing roles, plunging headlong into each part – but where are the cameras? Monsieur Oscar is alone, accompanied only by Céline, the slender blonde woman behind the wheel of the vast engine that transports him through and around Paris. He’s like a conscientious assassin moving from hit to hit. In pursuit of the beautiful gesture, the mysterious driving force, the women and the ghosts of past lives. But where is his true home, his family, his rest?

Leos Carax

How to Survive a Plague

The story of the brave young men and women who successfully reversed the tide of an epidemic, demanded the attention of a fearful nation and stopped AIDS from becoming a death sentence. This improbable group of activists bucked oppression and, with no scientific training, infiltrated government agencies and the pharmaceutical industry, helping to identify promising new medication and treatments and move them through trials and into drugstores in record time. In the process, they saved their own lives and ended the darkest days of a veritable plague, while virtually emptying AIDS wards in American hospitals in the process. The powerful story of their fight is a classic tale of empowerment and activism that has since inspired movements for change in everything from breast cancer research to Occupy Wall Street. Their story stands as a powerful inspiration to future generations, a road map, and a call to arms. This is how you change the world.

David France

Escape Fire: The Fight to Re...

Tackles one of the most pressing issues of our time: how can we save our badly broken healthcare system? Director/Producers Matthew Heineman (OUR TIME) and award-winning Susan Froemke (WAGNER'S DREAM, LALEE'S KIN: THE LEGACY OF COTTON) interweave dramatic personal arcs of patients and physicians with the stories of leaders battling to transform healthcare at the highest levels of medicine, industry, government, and even the U.S. military. ESCAPE FIRE is about finding a way out of our current crisis. It's a primer on how to save the health of a nation.

Matthew Heineman, Susan Froemke