March 2014 DVD & Blu-rays

With Brad Pitt • Michael Fassbender • Paul Dano • Steve McQueen • Taran Killam • Garret Dillahunt • Sarah Paulson • John Ridley • Jeremy Kleiner • Michael K. Williams • Chiwetel Ejiofor • Dede Gardner • Chris Chalk

In the pre-Civil War United States, Solomon Northup (Chiwetel Ejiofor), a free black man from upstate New York, is abducted and sold into slavery. Facing cruelty (personified by a malevolent slave owner, portrayed by Michael Fassbender), as well as unexpected kindnesses, Solomon struggles not only to stay alive, but to retain his dignity. In the twelfth year of his unforgettable odyssey, Solomon’s chance meeting with a Canadian abolitionist (Brad Pitt) will forever alter his life.

With Elizabeth Olsen • Samuel L. Jackson • Josh Brolin • Spike Lee • Roy Lee • Sharlto Copley • Taryn Terrell • Joe Chrest • James Ransone • Doug Davison • Mark Protosevich • Bruce Hornsby • Caitlin Dulany • Ciera Payton

Follows the story of an advertising executive (Josh Brolin) who is abruptly kidnapped and held hostage for 20 years in solitary confinement. When he is inexplicably released, he embarks on an obsessive mission to discover who orchestrated his bizarre and torturous punishment only to find he is still trapped in a web of conspiracy and torment.

With Liev Schreiber • Elias Koteas • Goran Kostic • Olivia Williams • Romola Garai • Ruairi Robinson • Clive Dawson • Andrea Cornwell • Johnny Harris

On the eve that the crew of the very first manned expedition to Mars are about to return to Earth, they make an astounding discovery—fossilized evidence of life on Mars. Oscar®-nominated and visionary filmmaker Ruairi Robinson, along with an extraordinary special effects team including the people behind District 9, X-Men: First Class and Avatar, introduce us to a terrifying new landscape, where the scientific discovery of life might be the death of us all.

With Paul Walker • Genesis Rodriguez • Yohance Myles • Peter Safran • Kevin Frakes • Eric Heisserer • Dan Clifton • Kerry Cahill

Before sunrise on August 29, 2005, Nolan Hayes (Walker) arrives at a New Orleans hospital with his pregnant wife, Abigail (Rodriguez), who has gone into early labor. What should be one of the happiest days of Nolan's life quickly spirals out of control when the birth goes tragically wrong and Hurricane Katrina ravages the hospital, forcing an evacuation. Nolan and his newborn baby are soon cut off from the world by power outages and rising flood waters. With his baby completely dependent on a ventilator Nolan faces one life-and-death decision after another, fighting to keep his daughter alive, as minute by agonizing minute passes...becoming unimaginable hours.

With Alice Eve • Bryan Cranston • Logan Marshall-Green • Erin Cummings • Leo Fitzpatrick • Tze Chun • Ursula Parker • Robin Taylor • Sarah Sokolovic

Tells the story of a struggling motel owner (Eve) who, along with her daughter (Parker), is taken hostage by a career criminal (Cranston) as he attempts to retrieve his cash package from a crooked cop (Marshall-Green). Everyone gets in over their heads, and a series of double-crosses leaves a string of dead bodies in this pulse-pounding story about desperation and survival.

With Jennifer Lawrence • Alan Ritchson • Josh Hutcherson • Elizabeth Banks • Woody Harrelson • Liam Hemsworth • Donald Sutherland • Toby Jones • Lenny Kravitz • Philip Seymour Hoffman • Stanley Tucci • Francis Lawrence • Simon Beaufoy • Willow Shields • Patrick St. Esprit • Lynn Cohen • Jon Kilik • Nina Jacobson • E. Roger Mitchell

Follows Katniss Everdeen who has returned home safe after winning the 74th Annual Hunger Games along with fellow tribute Peeta Mellark. Winning means that they must turn around and leave their family and close friends, embarking on a "Victor's Tour" of the districts. Along the way Katniss senses that a rebellion is simmering, but the Capitol is still very much in control as President Snow prepares the 75th Annual Hunger Games (The Quarter Quell) - a competition that could change Panem forever.

With James Franco • Jason Statham • Sylvester Stallone • Winona Ryder • Frank Grillo • Kate Bosworth • Christa Campbell • Gary Fleder • Rachelle Lefevre • Izabela Vidovic • Nicole Andrews

Homefront stars Jason Statham as former drug enforcement agent, Phil Broker, a family man who moves off the grid with his daughter, to a seemingly quiet bayou backwater to escape his troubled past. However, Broker's world soon becomes anything but quiet once he discovers that an underbelly of drugs and violence riddles the small town. Soon, a sociopathic methamphetamine kingpin, Gator Bodine (James Franco) puts Broker and his daughter in harm's way forcing Broker back into action in order to save his family and the town.

With Karen Rosenfelt • Geoffrey Rush • Michael Petroni • Brian Percival • Sophie Nelisse • Emily Watson • Ben Schnetzer • Nico Liersch • Kirsten Block • Sandra Nedeleff • Rafael Gareisen

Follows a spirited young girl named Liesel (Sophie Nelisse) who witnesses the horrors of Nazi Germany while in the care of foster parents, played by Rush and Watson. The girl arrives with a stolen book and begins collecting other tomes, learning to read while her stepparents harbor a Jewish refugee (Ben Schnetzer) under the stairs.

With Hong-soo Park

After his father’s botched espionage mission, North Korean Myung-hoon and his young sister Hye-in are sent to a labor prison camp. In order to save his sister’s life, Myung-hoon volunteers to become a spy and infiltrates the South as a teenage defector. While attending high school in the South, he meets another girl named Hye-in, and rescues her when she comes under attack. South Korean Intelligence soon discover Myung-hoon’s activities and begin tracking him, all the while his own government sends a vicious assassin to eliminate him.

With Leonardo DiCaprio • Christian Bale • Casey Affleck • Woody Harrelson • Scott Cooper • Ridley Scott • Forest Whitaker • Tony Scott • Zoe Saldana • Willem Dafoe • Ryan Kavanaugh • Sam Shepard • Michael Costigan • Jennifer Davisson Killoran

Russell Baze (Christian Bale) has a rough life: he works a dead-end blue collar job at the local steel mill by day, and cares for his terminally ill father by night. When Russell's brother Rodney (Casey Affleck) returns home from serving time in Iraq, he gets lured into one of the most ruthless crime rings in the Northeast and mysteriously disappears. The police fail to crack the case, so - with nothing left to lose - Russell takes matters into his own hands, putting his life on the line to seek justice for his brother.

With Carey Mulligan • John Goodman • Garrett Hedlund • Oscar Isaac • Justin Timberlake • Adam Driver • Scott Rudin • Max Casella • Ethan Coen • F. Murray Abraham • Joel Coen • Robert Graf • Jeanine Serralles

Inside Llewyn Davis follows a week in the life of a young folk singer as he navigates the Greenwich Village folk scene of 1961.

Llewyn Davis (Oscar Isaac) is at a crossroads. Guitar in tow, huddled against the unforgiving New York Winter, he is struggling to make it as a musician against seemingly insurmountable obstacles – some of them of his own making. Living at the mercy of both friends and strangers, scaring up what work he can find, Llewyn’s misadventures take him from the basket houses of the village to an empty Chicago club – on an odyssey to audition for music mogul Bud Grossman – and back again.

With Andrew Caldwell • Nikki Blonsky • Scott Bakula • Gary Entin • Edmund Entin • Ana Gasteyer • Meaghan Martin • Anthony Bretti • Cameron Deane Stewart • Justin Deeley • Allie Gonino • Ally Maki

16-year old Russell is going on dates with girls while nurturing a secret relationship with star quarterback Kevin, who will do anything to prevent his teammates from finding out. Min and Terese tell everyone that they're just best friends. And then there's Ike, who can't figure out who he is or who he wants to be. Finding the truth too hard to hide, they decide to form a Geography Club, thinking nobody else would want to join. However, their secrets may soon be discovered and they could have to face the choice of revealing who they really are.

With Luke Massey • Joseph Morgan • Benjamin Read • Matt Ryan • William Troughton

In the role of Royal Marine, A.J. Budd, Joseph Morgan stars in this brutal psychological and supernatural thriller, in which he finds himself trapped in the Warhouse. Imprisoned, he is forced to fight for his life against grotesque, inhuman opponents. He must kill every day or die himself. His one glimmer of hope comes in the form of a diary, left by a former occupant of the house, WWI Lieutenant Edward Sterling, played by Matt Ryan.

With Golshifteh Farahani • Michael Gentile • Jean-Claude Carriere • Atiq Rahimi • Hamid Djavadan • Massi Mrowat • Hassina Burgan

Golshifteh Farahani plays a soft-spoken woman in an unnamed, war-torn Middle Eastern country. As war rages around her, her husband lies in a coma and she is forced to send her two children to live with her aunt, she struggles to keep her husband alive. After falling into a relationship with a young soldier, she begins a secret dialogue with her ailing husband as a means of freeing herself.

With Fabien Constant • Tom Ford • Donatella Versace • Karl Lagerfeld

Film centers on former Vogue Paris editor-in-chief and French fashion stylist Carine Roitfeld, who left the magazine last year to create a new fashion magazine, “CR.” The documentary covers the first editorial meeting through to the extravagant launch party in New York.

With Jean-Claude Van Damme • Orlando Jones • Tom Everett Scott • Kristopher Van Varenberg • Peter Hyams • Linzey Cocker

After a major shipment of drugs goes missing on the US-Canadian border, forest ranger and former Navy SEAL Henry is plunged into survival mode when the drug cartel forces him to help retrieve the downed package. Trapped in the wilderness with no communication to the outside world, Henry finds himself face to face with Clay, a man with a personal vendetta against Henry who has returned for retribution. Now, the two mortal enemies must make a choice: put aside their past and work together, or die alone at the hands of the drug runners, a ruthless gang who will stop at nothing to retrieve their lost cargo.

With Alice Englert • Iain De Caestecker • Jeremy Lovering

When young couple Tom (Iain De Caestecker) and Lucy (Alice Englert) lose their way while driving to a music festival in the remote Irish countryside, they find themselves trapped in a maze of back-roads with only their vehicle for protection, terrorized by an unseen tormentor hell-bent on exploiting their worst nightmares. Driving, lost and tormented in the night, primal anxieties of the dark and the unknown take hold as the couple realizes that they may have to let the evil in, or that it is already there.

With Takeshi Kitano

The Sanno crime family has grown into a massive organization dominated by young executives whose new approach to running the family is causing frustration and pent-up resentment with the old-guard members. This vulnerability in the Sanno hierarchy is exactly what anti-gang detective Kataoka has been looking for, as the police force prepares a full-scale crackdown.

Kataoka wants start a war between Sanno and the neighboring Hanabishi crime family in the hopes that they destroy each other. His trump card is Otomo (Kitano) – the rumored-dead boss of a defunct family that was destroyed by the Sanno, who has just been released from prison. Otomo wants to retire from a life of crime, but finds himself drawn back in through Kataoka’s manipulations as the Sanno and Hanabishi clans teeter on the brink of an all-out war.

With Jeremy Allen White • Sarah Paulson • Ahna O'Reilly • Wes Bentley • Frank Langella • RIchard Gladstein • Corey Stoll • Nenad Cicin-Sain • Gina Gallego • Aiden Lovekamp

Wes Bentley portrays a young painter struggling to support his family who’s extended a lifeline in the form of a benefector, played by Frank Langella. The film explores the murky relationship between two men, along with the uncertainties of marriage, parenthood and friendship.

With Felix Van Groeningen

Elise (Veerle Baetens) and Didier (Johan Heldenbergh) fall in love at first sight. She has her own tattoo shop and he plays the banjo in a bluegrass band. They bond over their shared enthusiasm for American music and culture, and dive headfirst into a sweeping romance that plays out on and off stage — but when an unexpected tragedy hits their new family, everything they know and love is tested.

With Joel Kinnaman • Babak Najafi

JW (Joel Kinnaman), the promising business student who became an organized coke smuggler in Easy Money, is serving hard time in prison and is struggling to get back on an honest path. There are glimmers of hope in his life: some venture capitalists are interested in a new piece of trading software he’s developed, and while behind bars he’s made peace with an old enemy. This all proves to be an illusion. On leave from prison, and back in contact with his former gang, JW learns that once you’ve walked in the shoes of a criminal there just may be no going back.

With Josh Gad • Kristen Bell • Jonathan Groff • Idina Menzel • John Lasseter • Alan Tudyk • Santino Fontana • Chris Buck • Peter Del Vecho • Jennifer Lee

A prophecy traps a kingdom in eternal winter, so Anna (voice of Kirsten Bell) must team up with Kristoff, a daring mountain man, on the grandest of journeys to find the Snow Queen (voice of Idina Menzel) and put an end to the icy spell. Encountering Everest-like extremes, mystical creatures and magic at every turn, Anna and Kristoff battle the elements in a race to save the kingdom from destruction.

With Bradley Cooper • Jennifer Lawrence • Christian Bale • Jeremy Renner • Amy Adams • Michael Peña • Louis C.K. • David O. Russell • Jack Huston • Richard Suckle • Elisabeth Rohm • Charles Roven • Eric Singer

A fictional film set in the alluring world of one of the most stunning scandals to rock our nation, American Hustle tells the story of brilliant con man Irving Rosenfeld (Christian Bale) who, along with his equally cunning and seductive British partner Sydney Prosser (Amy Adams), is forced to work for a wild FBI agent, Richie DiMaso (Bradley Cooper). DiMaso pushes them into a world of Jersey powerbrokers and mafia that’s as dangerous as it is enchanting. Jeremy Renner is Carmine Polito, the passionate, volatile, New Jersey political operator caught between the con artists and Feds. Irving’s unpredictable wife Rosalyn (Jennifer Lawrence) could be the one to pull the thread that brings the entire world crashing down.

With James Woods • Ving Rhames • Rosa Salazar • Taissa Farmiga • Mary-Louise Parker • Lane Shadgett • Michael Trotter • Spencer Lofranco • Trevor White

The story of teenager James Burns (played by Spencer Lofranco) who goes from the suburban street gangs to a maximum-security prison cell surrounded by hardened criminals. In prison, he forms a friendship with a convicted murderer (Ving Rhames) who becomes his mentor and helps him turn his life around. In this unlikely setting, James ultimately emerges with hope and a brighter future.

With Tom Hanks • Colin Farrell • Emma Thompson • Paul Giamatti • Bradley Whitford • Kathy Baker • John Lee Hancock • Ruth Wilson • Alison Owen • Jason Schwartzman • B.J. Novak • Philip Steuer • Kelly Marcel • Ian Collie • Rachel Griffiths • Andrew Mason • Paul Trijbits • Annie Buckley • Troy Lum

When Walt Disney’s daughters begged him to make a movie of their favorite book, P.L. Travers’ “Mary Poppins,” he made them a promise—one that he didn’t realize would take 20 years to keep. In his quest to obtain the rights, Walt comes up against a curmudgeonly, uncompromising writer who has absolutely no intention of letting her beloved magical nanny get mauled by the Hollywood machine. But, as the books stop selling and money grows short, Travers reluctantly agrees to go to Los Angeles to hear Disney’s plans for the adaptation.

For those two short weeks in 1961, Walt Disney pulls out all the stops. Armed with imaginative storyboards and chirpy songs from the talented Sherman brothers, Walt launches an all-out onslaught on P.L. Travers, but the prickly author doesn’t budge. He soon begins to watch helplessly as Travers becomes increasingly immovable and the rights begin to move further away from his grasp.

It is only when he reaches into his own childhood that Walt discovers the truth about the ghosts that haunt her, and together they set Mary Poppins free to ultimately make one of the most endearing films in cinematic history.

With Samuel L. Jackson • Gloria Reuben • Ryan Robbins • Dominic Cooper • Peter Dowling • Peter Howitt • Philippe Brenninkmeyer • Erin Karpluk • Dylan Taylor • Lane Styles

When up-and-coming District Attorney Mitch Brockden (Cooper) commits a fatal hit-and-run, he feels compelled to manipulate the case to acquit the accused criminal who was found with the body and blamed for the crime. Following the trial, Mitch’s worst fears come true when he realizes that his actions freed a guilty man, and he soon finds himself on the hunt for the killer before more victims pile up.

With Idris Elba • Lindiwe Matshikiza • Naomie Harris • Anant Singh • Jamie Bartlett • Justin Chadwick • David Thompson • Riaad Moosa • Zolani Mkiva

Biographical film about the life of Nelson Mandela.

With Simon Barrett • Eric England • Najarra Townsend • Matt Mercer • Alice Macdonald • Katie Stegeman • Charley Koontz • Caroline Williams • J.D. Lifshitz

After a one night stand with a random stranger, Samantha contracts what she thinks is an STD... but is in fact something much worse.

With Adrian García Bogliano • Francisco Barreiro • Laura Caro • Michele Garcia

Francisco Barreiro and Laura Caro play parents Felix and Sol whose preteen son and daughter inexplicably reappear after being lost overnight on a desolate, cave-riddled mountainside after a casual hike became every parent’s nightmare. The good luck and good fortune of their return soon changes, as the children’s behavior suggests ominous and unspeakable events the night the children were lost that continue even now. As a loving couple – and loving parents – try to care for and protect their children, the ancient and half-whispered legends around the caves and the mountain and those who have gone there before become too strange to believe … and too dangerous, no matter how insane, to ignore.

With Jason Clarke • Emma Booth • David Lyons • Vince Colosimo • Craig Lahiff

hen Colin (David Lyons) happens across a fatal car accident and a suitcase full of money, he soon becomes entangled in the dangerous lives of a crooked local cop (Jason Clarke) and his mysterious wife (Emma Booth). His initial good deed leads to a series of deadly events, and Colin struggles in a game of survival set against the backdrop of the South Australian outback.

With Leonardo DiCaprio • Matthew McConaughey • Jon Bernthal • Margot Robbie • Martin Scorsese • Jonah Hill • Jon Favreau • Emma Koskoff • Kenneth Choi • Ethan Suplee • Kyle Chandler • Irwin Winkler • Alexandra Milchan • Georgia Kacandes • Terry Winter • Riza Aziz • Joey McFarland • Jean Dujardin

Jordan Belfort, a Long Island penny stockbroker, served 20 months in prison for refusing to cooperate in a massive 1990s securities fraud case that involved widespread corruption on Wall Street and in the corporate banking world, including mob infiltration.

With Vince Vaughn • Chris Pratt • Jack Reynor • Cobie Smulders • Ken Scott • Bobby Moynihan • Britt Robertson • Scott Mednick • Andre Rouleau

The story of affable underachiever David Wozniak, whose mundane life is turned upside down when he finds out that he fathered 533 children through sperm donations he made twenty years earlier. In debt to the mob, rejected by his pregnant girlfriend, things couldn't look worse for David when he is hit with a lawsuit from 142 of the 533 twenty-somethings who want to know the identity of the donor. As David struggles to decide whether or not he should reveal his true identity, he embarks on a journey that leads him to discover not only his true self but the father he could become as well.

With John Collee • Pierre de Lespinois • Neil Nightingale

Recent discoveries and a breakthrough in technology will introduce new and unique dinosaurs that are more real than ever before and put moviegoers in the middle of a thrilling prehistoric adventure, where an underdog dinosaur triumphs against all odds to become a hero for the ages.

With Jean-Claude Van Damme • Adam Brody • Dennis Haysbert • Robert Bevan • Justin Kanew • Alex Goldstone • Samantha Horley • Rob Huebel • Rob Meltzer • Jeff Kauffmann • Luillo Ruiz • Cyril Margret

This comedy follows a group of unsuspecting office workers who find themselves stranded on a desert island when a corporate retreat led by unhinged former Marine Storm Rothchild goes horribly wrong. Now Chris and his co-workers must battle nature -- and each other -- to survive!

With Ron Perlman • Josh Lawson • Emma Lung • Robert Green • Charles de Lauzirika

A downtrodden photographer, haunted by the urban violence and decay around him, retreats into an inner world of dark fantasies. Those dangerous visions explode in reality with deadly consequences when his intoxicating new relationship with a beautiful young woman goes sour.

With Sarah Biggins • Dan Palmer • Christian James • Antonia Bernath • Tamaryn Payne • Mark Holden

It's Christmas Eve and a soon to be shit-canned maintenance man (Dan Palmer) is changing light bulbs and cleaning toilets, instead of drinking egg-nog and making out with drunk receptionists at the annual office party. Unfortunately for this forlorn floor-sweeper he chooses to use the LADIES' RESTROOM the very second a ZOMBIE OUTBREAK occurs!

With Nico Tortorella • Willem Dafoe • Stephen Sommers • Anton Yelchin • Patton Oswalt • Curtis Jackson • John Baldecchi • Howard Kaplan • Addison Timlin

Small-town fry cook Odd Thomas (Anton Yelchin) is an ordinary guy with a paranormal secret: he sees dead people, everywhere. When a creepy stranger shows-up with an entourage of ghostly bodachs – predators who feed on pain and portend mass destruction – Odd knows that his town is in serious trouble. Teaming up with his sweetheart Stormy (Addison Timlin) and the local sheriff (Willem Dafoe), Odd plunges into an epic battle of good vs evil to try to stop a disaster of apocalyptic proportions.

With Jessica Biel • Alfred Molina • Kaya Scodelario • Rooney Mara • Jimmi Simpson • Kevin Iwashina • Aneurin Barnard • Jonathan Gray • Frances O'Connor • Francesca Gregorini • Paul Schiff

A troubled girl (Emanuel) becomes preoccupied with her mysterious new neighbor (Linda), who bears a striking resemblance to her dead mother. In offering to baby-sit Linda's newborn, Emanuel unwittingly enters a fragile, fictional world, of which she becomes the gatekeeper.

With Paddy Considine • Jeremy Leven • Nora Tschirner • Vincenzo Amato • Louise Monot

Centers on an Italian tour bus driver in Paris who becomes infatuated and obsessed with the title character to comic and chaotic effect.

With Jason Osder

On May 13, 1985, a longtime feud between the city of Philadelphia and controversial radical urban group MOVE came to a deadly climax. By order of local authorities, police dropped military-grade explosives onto a MOVE-occupied rowhouse. TV cameras captured the conflagration that quickly escalated—and resulted in the tragic deaths of eleven people (including five children) and the destruction of 61 homes. It was only later discovered that authorities decided to “...let the fire burn.” Using only archival news coverage and interviews, first-time filmmaker Jason Osder has brought to life one of the most tumultuous and largely forgotten clashes between government and citizens in modern American history.

With Sini Anderson

Kathleen Hanna, lead singer of the punk band Bikini Kill and dance-punk trio Le Tigre, rose to national attention as the reluctant but never shy voice of the riot grrrl movement. She became one of the most famously outspoken feminist icons, a cultural lightning rod. Her critics wished she would just shut-up, and her fans hoped she never would. So in 2005, when Hanna stopped shouting, many wondered why. Through 20 years of archival footage and intimate interviews with Hanna, The Punk Singer takes viewers on a fascinating tour of contemporary music and offers a never-before-seen view into the life of this fearless leader.

With Brendan Fraser • Alex Wolff • Julia Garner • Billy Kent

After being rejected from Harvard University, 14-year old genius and outcast Eli Pettifog (Alex Wolff) finds himself at Whittman College, an Ivy League wannabe. Eli meets 41-year-old freshman Leo Searly (Brendan Fraser), a gambler whose world has imploded and has dropped out of life to enroll in college. The odd duo becomes unlikely friends in this comedic coming-of-age film.

With Zach Clark • Anna Margaret Hollyman • Laura Lemar

After an unexpected tragedy, Suzanne struggles to put her life back together during a sad, strange Christmastime in suburban Virginia.