February 2015 DVD & Blu-rays

With Keanu Reeves • Willem Dafoe • Eva Longoria • Jason Isaacs • Basil Iwanyk • Chad Stahelski • Adrianne Palicki • Ian McShane • Bridget Moynahan • Lance Reddick • Derek Kolstad • Bridget Regan

An ex-hitman comes out of retirement to track down the gangsters that took everything from him. With New York City as his bullet-riddled playground, John Wick (Keanu Reeves) is a fresh and stylized take on the "assassin genre".

With James Marsden • Bailey Winston • Michelle Monaghan • Liana Liberato • Denise DiNovi • Sebastian Arcelus • Jon Tenney • Nicholas Sparks • J. Mills Goodloe • Will Fetters • Michael Hoffman

The Best of Me tells the story of Dawson and Amanda, two former high school sweethearts who find themselves reunited after 20 years apart, when they return to their small town for the funeral of a beloved friend. Their bittersweet reunion reignites the love they've never forgotten, but soon they discover the forces that drove them apart twenty years ago live on, posing even more serious threats today. Spanning decades, this epic love story captures the enduring power of our first true love, and the wrenching choices we face when confronted with elusive second chances.

With Michael De Luca • Luke Evans • Charlie Cox • Matt Sazama • Sarah Gadon • Samantha Barks • Zach McGowan • Jeff Kirschenbaum • Donna Langley • Dominic Cooper • Burk Sharpless • Alissa Philips • Gary Shore • Art Parkinson

Follows a young prince who, when the lives of his wife and child are put in danger by a bloodthirsty sultan, risks his soul to save them, and in the process becomes the first vampire.

With Said Faraj • Patrick Stewart • Marco Khan • David Winning • Shahin Sean Solimon • Sadie Alexandru • Isaac C. Singleton Jr. • Mariam Vardani

When the Sultan's first born is taken by an evil sorcerer, Sinbad is tasked with traveling to a desert of magic and creatures to save her.

With Michael Bay • Andrew Form • Brad Fuller • Simon Kinberg • Brian Goldner • Olivia Cooke • Bianca A. Santos • Douglas Smith • Evan Spiliotopoulos • Jason Blum • Stiles White • Juliet Snowden • David Berenbaum • Bennett Schneir • Edward Kitsis • Adam Horowitz • Erin Moriarty • Daren Kagasoff • Vivis Colombetti • Ana Coto

Follows a group of friends attempting to make contact with a recently deceased classmate through a Ouija board who awaken a dark and terrifying presence.

With Jamie Nash • Samuel Davis • Brian Steele • Eduardo Sanchez • Robin Cowie • Gregg Hale • Mark Ordesky • Jane Fleming • Andy Jenkins • Dora Madison Burge • Roger Edwards • Chris Osborn • Denise Williamson • Reed Frerichs

For five friends, it was a chance for a summer getaway— a weekend of camping in the Texas Big Thicket. But visions of a carefree vacation are shattered with an accident on a dark and desolate country road. In the wake of the accident, a bloodcurdling force of nature is unleashed—something not exactly human, but not completely animal— an urban legend come to terrifying life…and seeking murderous revenge.

With Stellan Skarsgard • Rosamund Pike • Simon Pegg • Christopher Plummer • Jean Reno • Toni Collette • Peter Chelsom • Tinker Lindsay • Chris Gauthier • Chad Willett

Hector (Simon Pegg) is a quirky psychiatrist who has become increasingly tired of his humdrum life. As he tells his girlfriend, Clara (Rosamund Pike), he feels like a fraud: he hasn’t really tasted life, and yet he’s offering advice to patients who are just not getting any happier. So Hector decides to break out of his deluded and routine driven life. Armed with buckets of courage and child-like curiosity, he embarks on a global quest in hopes of uncovering the elusive secret formula for true happiness. And so begins a larger than life adventure with riotously funny results.

With Viola Davis • James McAvoy • Bill Hader • Jessica Chastain • Ryan Eggold • Cassandra Kulukundis • Jess Weixler • Archie Panjabi • Ned Benson • William Hurt • Ciaran Hinds

An exploration of how a married couple in New York City deals emotional, life-altering experience. This is being told in two movies and from two perspectives: one from the husband (James McAvoy), a restaurant owner, and the wife (Jessica Chastain).

With Tessa Thompson • Kyle Gallner • Dennis Haysbert • Tyler James Williams • Effie Brown • Justin Simien • Brandon P. Bell • Teyonah Parris

The film follows a group of African American students as they navigate campus life and racial politics at a predominantly white college.

With Andy Nyman • Rodney Ascher • Julian Barratt • Robert Boocheck • Martina Garcia • Alan McKenna • Ian Virgo

The follow-up to the most ambitious anthology film ever conceived with productions spanning from Nigeria to UK to Brazil and everywhere in between. It features segments directed by over two dozen of the world's leading talents in contemporary genre film. The film is comprised of twenty-six individual chapters, each helmed by a different director assigned a letter of the alphabet. The directors were then given free rein in choosing a word to create a story involving death.

With Jesse Moss • Amanda McBaine

A modern-day Grapes of Wrath, award-winning documentary The Overnighters is an intimate portrait of job-seekers desperately chasing the broken American Dream to the tiny oil boom town of Williston, North Dakota. With the town lacking the infrastructure to house the overflow of migrants, a local pastor starts the controversial “overnighters” program, allowing down-and-out workers a place to sleep at the church. His well-meaning project immediately runs into resistance with his community, forcing the clergyman to make a decision which leads to profound consequences that he never imagined.

With Don Cheadle • Terrence Howard • Melissa McCarthy • Naomi Watts • Bill Murray • Chris O'Dowd • Fred Roos • Scott Adsit • Peter Chernin • Ted Melfi • Nate Corddry • Kay Liberman • Kimberly Quinn

In the wake of his parents' divorce, a 12-year old boy forms an unlikely friendship with the misanthropic retiree living next door. A war veteran whose life mainly consists of drinking, gambling and prostitutes, the elder soon becomes an unlikely mentor.

With Minka Kelly • Haley Joel Osment • Jeremy Irvine • Melissa Coolidge • Noah Wyle • Adelaide Clemens • Daniel Wagner • Todd Labarowski • Brad Coolidge • Michael Wrenn • David Burris

In a rural Appalachian community haunted by the legacy of a Civil War massacre, young and rebellious Travis Shelton (Jeremy Irvine) finds himself ensnared in the violence of the past and the subtle evils of the present.

With Sharon Leal • Billie Woodruff • Boris Kodjoe • Suzanne de Passe • Lucy Thurber • William Levy • Tasha Smith • Mike Paseornek • John Sacchi • Christina Welsh • Charisee Nesbit • Emayatzy Corinealdi • Tyson Beckford

The story centers on Zoe, a woman in a perfectly quaint marriage. The couple are busy raising three children while devoted to their careers. However, it’s not enough to fulfill all of her desires as she soon finds herself satisfying her addiction to sex with other men, which puts her on a dangerous path that she may not survive.

With Jake Gyllenhaal • Bill Paxton • Ann Cusack • Rene Russo • David Lancaster • Tony Gilroy • Jennifer Fox • Michel Litvak • Dan Gilroy • Kevin Rahm

Nightcrawler stars Jake Gyllenhaal as Lou Bloom, a driven young man desperate for work who discovers the high-speed world of L.A. crime journalism. Finding a group of freelance camera crews who film crashes, fires, murder and other mayhem, Lou muscles into the cut-throat, dangerous realm of nightcrawling -- where each police siren wail equals a possible windfall and victims are converted into dollars and cents. Aided by Rene Russo as Nina, a veteran of the blood-sport that is local TV news, Lou blurs the line between observer and participant to become the star of his own story.

With Ethan Hawke • Peter Spierig • Noah Taylor • Michael Spierig • Sarah Snook • Christopher Kirby

The film chronicles the life of a Temporal Agent (Ethan Hawke) sent on an intricate series of time-travel journeys designed to prevent future killers from committing their crimes. Now, on his final assignment, the Agent must stop the one criminal that has eluded him throughout time and prevent a devastating attack in which thousands of lives will be lost.

With Steve Carell • Shawn Levy • Ed Oxenbould • Jason Lust • Lisa Henson • Lisa Cholodenko • Miguel Arteta • Rob Lieber • Dan Levine

Follows the exploits of 11-year-old Alexander (Ed Oxenbould) as he experiences the most terrible and horrible day of his young life - a day that begins with gum stuck in his hair, followed by one calamity after another. But when Alexander tells his upbeat family about the misadventures of his disastrous day, he finds little sympathy and begins to wonder if bad things only happen to him. He soon learns he is not alone when his mom (Jennifer Garner), dad (Steve Carell), brother (Dylan Minnette), and sister (Kerris Dorsey) all find themselves living through their own terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day. Anyone who says there is no such thing as a bad day just hasn't had one.

With Alan Powell • Caitlin Nicol-Thomas • Danny Vinson • Ali Faulkner • Richard Ramsey • Chris Bolinger • Kyle Idleman

An aspiring singer-songwriter's life and marriage suffer when the song he writes for his wife propels him to stardom.

With Jeremy Renner • Robert Patrick • Scott Stuber • Andy Garcia • Ray Liotta • Rosemarie DeWitt • Mary Elizabeth Winstead • Michael Sheen • Naomi Despres • Tim Blake Nelson • Michael Cuesta • Lucas Hedges • Paz Vega • Barry Pepper • Oliver Platt • Nick Wechsler • Peter Landesman • Don Handfield • Josh Close • Michael K. Williams

Jeremy Renner stars as Gary Webb, the real-life dedicated reporter for The San Jose Mercury-News. In the 1990s, Webb uncovered the Central Intelligence Agency’s role in importing cocaine into California that was sold to raise money for the Nicaraguan Contras rebel army. Supported by his wife and children, Webb pursued the story and went public with his evidence. When targeted for a vicious smear campaign by the CIA and rival journalists, Webb found himself fighting for his reputation and his family.

With Jason Isaacs • Haley Bennett • Wes Bentley • Vinessa Shaw • Saar Klein • Audrey Walters

When everyday family man Bill loses his job, his peaceful life quickly spirals out of control. Terrified that he will lose everything he has achieved, he turns to a life of crime, descending into drastic and dangerous measures to stay ahead of the law. As he fights to provide for his family, Bill discovers that the only thing worse than getting caught is getting away with it.

With Joel Edgerton • Jai Courtney • Tom Wilkinson • Melissa George • Myles Nestel • Lisa Wilson • Matthew Saville • Rosemary Blight

Driving home after a celebration drink with his team after the long waited bust of a major gang, a decorated police officer (Joel Edgerton) runs a young cyclist off the road. As he gives CPR to the child, fellow officers arrive to take his statement. In a split second decision he tells them a lie about the accident which will change all their lives in this edge of your seat thriller.

With Robert Englund • Robert Hall • Aaron Drane

When trauma-induced phobias begin to re-emerge in five survivors a year after their horrifying tragedy, they return to the “Fear Clinic,” hoping to find the answers they need to get cured. Dr. Andover (Robert Englund), a fear doctor who runs the clinic, uses his Fear Chamber to animate their fears in the form of terrifying hallucinations. However, the good doctor soon begins to suspect that something more sinister may be at work, something that yearns to be more than just a hallucination…

With Chloë Grace Moretz • Sam Rockwell • Alix Madigan • Andrea Seigel • Steve Golin • Rosalie Swedlin • Lynn Shelton

Having spent her twenties comfortably inert, 28 year old Megan (Keira Knightley) reaches a crisis when she finds herself squarely in adulthood with no career prospects, no particular motivation to pursue any and no one to relate to, including her high school boyfriend (Mark Webber). When he proposes, Megan panics and given an opportunity to escape - at least temporarily - she hides out in the home of her new friend, 16-year-old Annika (Chloë Grace Moretz) and Annika's world-weary single dad (Sam Rockwell).

With Golshifteh Farahani • Gigi Pritzker • Dimitri Leonidas • Shohreh Aghdashloo • Gael García Bernal • Scott Rudin • Haluk Bilginer • Arian Moayed • Jon Stewart • Andrew Gower • Nasser Faris

Reporter Maziar Bahari is accused of being a spy and imprisoned by the Iranian government shortly after a "Daily Show" correspondent interviews him in Iran in 2009. He spends the next three months in Iran’s most notorious prison, enduring brutal interrogation sessions at the hands of a man he knows only by his smell: Rosewater. Bahari later reveals he was not imprisoned because of the TV show interview, but because his captors wanted an excuse to lock him up.

With Edward Norton • Emma Stone • Andrea Riseborough • Michael Keaton • Zach Galifianakis • Naomi Watts • Amy Ryan • John Lesher • Arnon Milchan • Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu • Lindsay Duncan • Molly Conners • Christopher Woodrow • Nicolas Giacobone • Alexander Dinelaris • Armando Bo • Sarah E. Johnson • James W. Skotchdopole

Riggan Thompson was Birdman, a crime-stopping superhero with a beak and a three-film franchise. Now, he's a washed up actor trying to get his career and life back together by opening his own play on Broadway. On the eve of it's opening, the play is close to falling apart and Riggan is forced to sign a younger, egotistical lead actor, whom he despises. What results over the next three days is strange, dark and downright hilarious, nearly costing Riggan his career, family and sanity in the process.

With Jennifer Lawrence • Jim Carrey • Sean Anders • John Morris • Jeff Daniels • Bobby Farrelly • Rob Riggle • Peter Farrelly • Bradley Thomas • Laurie Holden • Kathleen Turner • Brad Krevoy • Charles Wessler • Steve Stabler • Brady Bluhm • Rachel Melvin • Steve Tom

The plot will follow Harry Dunne and Lloyd Christmas 20 years later trying to track down one of their children.

With James Franco • Seth Rogen • Timothy Simons • Evan Goldberg • Lizzy Caplan • Randall Park • Dan Sterling

In the action-comedy The Interview, Dave Skylark (James Franco) and his producer Aaron Rapoport (Seth Rogen) run the popular celebrity tabloid TV show "Skylark Tonight." When they discover that North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un is a fan of the show, they land an interview with him in an attempt to legitimize themselves as journalists. As Dave and Aaron prepare to travel to Pyongyang, their plans change when the CIA recruits them, perhaps the two least-qualified men imaginable, to assassinate Kim Jong-un.

With Felicity Jones • Eddie Redmayne • Emily Watson • Lesley Manville • James Marsh • Harry Lloyd • David Thewlis • Tim Bevan • Eric Fellner • Lisa Bruce • Anthony McCarten • Maxine Peake

Follows Eddie Redmayne as theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking, world-famous as the author of A Brief History of Time, opposite Felicity Jones. The movie explores the excitement of the 1960s for Stephen as he studies at Cambridge University. At the dawn of a brilliant life’s work, he falls passionately in love with arts student Jane Wilde. Their relationship leads him through personal and scientific challenges and breakthroughs, and as his world opens up he opens up the entire world to new ways of seeing.

With Alicia Vikander • Ewan McGregor • Julius Avery • John Collee • Brenton Thwaites • Jacek Koman

In the criminal world, life is like a game of chess. To gain control, you have to stay a few moves ahead of your opponent. Lose that control, and you risk becoming a pawn in their very dangerous game. During a six-month stint inside a West Australian prison, rookie criminal JR (Brenton Thwaites) meets the smart and enigmatic Brendan Lynch (Ewan McGregor). In exchange for protection on the inside, JR agrees to help Brendan get outside, hooking up with the influential Sam Lennox (Jacek Koman) to orchestrate a daring prison escape that frees Brendan, and inmates Sterlo (Matt Nable) and Merv (Eddie Baroo).

JR is rewarded for his efforts, and with a taste of the high life and flirtations with Sam’s beautiful girl Tasha (ALICIA VIKANDER), he gets sucked deeper into Brendan’s criminal world. But whose game is he playing? Becoming a father-like mentor to JR, Brendan convinces him to join on another high stakes job - robbing a Kalgoolie gold mine. But with millions of dollars at stake, it’s hard to tell whom JR can trust, and whose side each player is actually on. And with his feelings for Tasha increasing, and his faith in Brendan decreasing, JR must figure out his next move… before its check, mate.

With Lucy Liu • Chloë Grace Moretz • James Marsden • Beau Bridges • Oliver Platt • Mary Steenburgen • Frank Marshall • Darren Criss • Dean Cain • Geoffrey Wexler

Found inside a shining stalk of bamboo, a tiny girl grows into an exquisite young lady, raised by an old bamboo cutter and his wife. From the countryside to the grand capital city, even unseen she enthralls all who encounter her, including five noble suitors. Ultimately however she must face her secret fate.

With Don Cheadle • Terrence Howard • Melissa McCarthy • Naomi Watts • Bill Murray • Chris O'Dowd • Fred Roos • Scott Adsit • Peter Chernin • Ted Melfi • Nate Corddry • Kay Liberman • Kimberly Quinn

In the wake of his parents' divorce, a 12-year old boy forms an unlikely friendship with the misanthropic retiree living next door. A war veteran whose life mainly consists of drinking, gambling and prostitutes, the elder soon becomes an unlikely mentor.

With Steve James

Roger Ebert was a beloved national figure and arguably our best-known and most influential movie critic, and his passing in 2013 was deeply felt across the country. Based on his memoir of the same name, LIFE ITSELF recounts his fascinating and flawed journey—from politicized school newspaperman, to Chicago Sun-Times movie critic, to Pulitzer Prize winner, to television household name, to the miracle of finding love at 50, and finally his “third act” as a major voice on the Internet when he could no longer physically speak.

With Nicolas Cage • Paula Mae Schwartz • Steve Schwartz • Anton Yelchin • Irene Jacob • Paul Schrader • Nick Wechsler • Alexander Karim

Evan Lake (Nicolas Cage), a veteran CIA agent, has been ordered to retire. But when his protégé (Anton Yelchin) uncovers evidence that Lake's nemesis, the terrorist Banir (Alexander Karim), has resurfaced, Lake goes rogue, embarking on a perilous, intercontinental mission to eliminate his sworn enemy.

With Minka Kelly • Haley Joel Osment • Jeremy Irvine • Melissa Coolidge • Noah Wyle • Adelaide Clemens • Daniel Wagner • Todd Labarowski • Brad Coolidge • Michael Wrenn • David Burris

In a rural Appalachian community haunted by the legacy of a Civil War massacre, young and rebellious Travis Shelton (Jeremy Irvine) finds himself ensnared in the violence of the past and the subtle evils of the present.

With Miles Teller • Damien Chazelle • Jason Reitman • Austin Stowell • J.K. Simmons • David Lancaster • Paul Reiser • Jason Blum • Couper Samuelson • Melissa Benoist

Under the direction of a prestigious but borderline abusive instructor, a young college student begins to lose his humanity in his quest to become the core drummer of the top jazz orchestra in the country.

With Maya Rudolph • T.J. Miller • Jamie Chung • Alan Tudyk • Damon Wayans • Don Hall • Genesis Rodriguez • James Cromwell • Scott Adsit • Kristina Reed • Daniel Henney • Ryan Potter

An action-packed comedy-adventure about robotics prodigy Hiro Hamada, who learns to harness his genius—thanks to his brilliant brother Tadashi and their like-minded friends: adrenaline junkie Go Go Tamago, neatnik Wasabi, chemistry whiz Honey Lemon and fanboy Fred. When a devastating turn of events catapults them into the midst of a dangerous plot unfolding in the streets of San Fransokyo, Hiro turns to his closest companion—a robot named Baymax—and transforms the group into a band of high-tech heroes determined to solve the mystery.

With Jennifer Aniston • Jason Sudeikis • Chris Pine • Brett Ratner • Jason Bateman • Jamie Foxx • Christoph Waltz • Sean Anders • John Morris • Charlie Day • Jonathan Goldstein • John Francis Daley • Jay Stern

Fed up with answering to higher-ups, Nick, Dale and Kurt decide to become their own bosses by launching their own business in Horrible Bosses 2. But a slick investor soon pulls the rug out from under them. Outplayed and desperate, and with no legal recourse, the three would-be entrepreneurs hatch a misguided plan to kidnap the investor's adult son and ransom him to regain control of their company.

With Adam Driver • Mia Wasikowska • John Curran • Marion Nelson • Elizabeth Fowler • Emma Booth • Keir Pearson • Rainer Bock • Jessica Tovey • Melanie Zanetti • Robert Coleby

Tells the remarkable true story of Robyn Davidson (Wasikowska), a young woman who leaves her life in the city to make a solo trek through almost 2,000 miles of sprawling Australian desert. Accompanied by only her dog and four unpredictable camels, she sets off on a life-changing journey of self-discovery. Along the way, she meets National Geographic photographer Rick Smolan (Driver) who begins to photograph her voyage.

With Minnie Driver • Danny Glover • Ryan Kavanaugh • Nate Parker • Gina Prince-Bythewood • Gugu Mbatha-Raw • Tucker Tooley • Aisha Hinds • Matt Alvarez

Beyond the Lights is the story of Noni Jean, the music world’s latest superstar. But not all is what it seems, and the pressures cause Noni to nearly fall apart - until she meets Kaz Nicol, a promising young cop and aspiring politician who’s been assigned to her detail. Drawn to each other, Noni and Kaz fall fast and hard, despite the protests of those around them who urge them to put their career ambitions ahead of their romance. But it is ultimately Kaz's love that gives Noni the courage to find her own voice and break free to become the artist she was meant to be.

With Gilles Lellouche • Cedric Jimenez • Jean Dujardin

Tells the story of real-life Marseilles magistrate Pierre Michel (Jean Dujardin) and his relentless crusade to dismantle the most notorious drug smuggling operation in history: the French Connection. In his crosshairs is charismatic and wealthy kingpin, Gatean "Tany" Zampa (Gilles Lellouche), who runs the largest underground heroin trade into the States. Though the fearless and tenacious Michel, aided by a task force of elite cops, will stop at nothing--including boldly orchestrated drug raids, devastating arrests, and exacting interrogations--to ensure the crime ring's demise, Zampa's "La French" always seems one step ahead. As La French mounts its retaliation, Michel will be forced to make the most difficult decision of his life: to continue waging his war, or ensure his family's safety, before it's too late.