Best DVD & Blu-rays Released May 2012
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New Year's Eve
A New York-set relationship ensemble story.
Robert De Niro, Ice Cube, Halle Berry, Abigail Breslin, Sofia Vergara, Katherine Heigl, Michelle Pfeiffer, Sienna Miller
Haywire
A girl from the wrong side of the tracks is given a second chance to use her skills for constructive purposes.
Ewan McGregor, Antonio Banderas, Steven Soderbergh, Gina Carano, Channing Tatum, Ryan Kavanaugh, Greg Jacobs, Lem Dobbs
Joyful Noise
Story centers on an unlikely partnership between two strong-minded, polar-opposites, who are forced to work together to save a small town gospel choir after budget cuts threaten to shut them down.
Keke Palmer, Queen Latifah, Joe Farrell, Jeremy Jordan, Todd Graff, Michael Nathanson, Catherine Paura, Andrew Kosove
Underworld: Awakening
No plot details have been announced. However, it is rumored this fourth installment will actually be the start of a new trilogy and that the studio, Screen Gems, is looking at reprising the story of the world’s sexiest vampire, Selene (Kate Beckinsale).
Kate Beckinsale, Richard Wright, Charles Dance, India Eisley, Mans Marlind, Bjorn Stein, Len Wiseman, Gary Lucchesi
The Vow
The story centers a young woman who loses all recent memory in a car accident and struggles to rebuild her identity while her husband tries to win her heart for the second time.
Liz Glotzer, Rachel McAdams, Jessica McNamee, Robert Teitel, Michael Sucsy, Channing Tatum, Martin Shafer, Tony Gayton
Mother's Day
Three brothers on the run from the law head for home, only to discover that their mother lost the house in a foreclosure. Mother ingeniously orchestrates her sons' escape, teaching the house's new owners and their guests a few lessons along the way.
Mark Burg, Brett Ratner, Darren Lynn Bousman, Jonathan Zucker, Jay Stern, Scott Milam, Oren Koules, Deborah Ann Woll
Playback
A group of high school students make a film about a grisly crime that took place in their town 17 years ago. As they dig deeper, an ongoing horror possesses their souls and tears their lives apart.
Johnny Pacar, Brooke Smith, Ambyr Childers, Michael A. Nickles, John Bennett, Randall Emmett, Larry Robbins, Alessandra Torresani
Tim and Eric's Billion Dolla...
Tim and Eric are given a billion dollars to make a movie, but squander every dime and the sinister Schlaaang corporation is pissed. Their lives at stake, the guys skip town in search of a way to pay the money back.
Todd Wagner, Will Ferrell, Jeff Goldblum, Robert Loggia, Will Forte, Adam McKay, Kevin Messick, Ben Cosgrove
The Grey
Story centers on a group of plane crash survivors who are stranded in the desolate forest, and are being hunted by a pack of wolves.
Ridley Scott, Frank Grillo, Liam Neeson, Dermot Mulroney, Joe Carnahan, Tony Scott, James Badge Dale, Ian Jeffers
One for the Money
Stephanie Plum (Katherine Heigl), an unemployed lingerie buyer, convinces her bail bondsman cousin, Vinnie (Patrick Fischler), to give her a shot as a bounty hunter. Her first assignment is to track down a former cop, Joe Morelli (Jason O'Mara), on the run for murder -- the same man who broke her heart years before. With the help of some friends and the best bounty hunter in the business, Ranger (Daniel Sunjata), she slowly learns what it takes to be a true bounty hunter.
Other cast members include John Leguizamo as Jimmy Alpha, Ana Reeder as Connie Rossoli, Ryan Michelle Bathe as Jackie and Sherri Shepherd as dual roles playing two hookers with hearts of gold. There are no details about Shepherd's dual roles but one of them is confirmed to be Lula. Grandma Mazur will be played by Debbie Reynolds.
Sidney Kimmel, Katherine Heigl, Richard Wright, Liz Brixius, Jim Tauber, Eric Reid, Karen McCullah Lutz, Kirsten Kiwi Smith
Chronicle
Three Portland teens contact a mysterious substance in the woods and begin to develop incredible powers. They work together to hone their skills for fun, until personal and family problems begin to turn them against one another.
Josh Trank, Adam Schroeder, Max Landis, Ashley Hinshaw, Dane DeHaan, Anna Wood, Joe Vaz, Luke Tyler
The Devil Inside
The story centers on a woman who has been led to believe her mother brutally murdered three people because she was clinically insane. After being told the murders occurred during an exorcism, she sets out to discover the truth. While documenting her experience with a film crew in Italy, she becomes involved in a series of unauthorized exorcisms.
Matthew Peterman, Steven Schneider, William Brent Bell, Morris Paulson, Fernanda Andrade, Simon Quarterman, Evan Helmuth, Suzan Crowley
Rampart
The story centers on the widespread corruption in the Community Resources Against Street Hoodlums (or CRASH) anti-gang unit of the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) Rampart Division in the late 1990s. More than 70 police officers were implicated in varied misconduct.
Ice Cube, Sigourney Weaver, Paul Currie, Steve Buscemi, Clark Peterson, James Ellroy, Ben Foster, Robin Wright
Norwegian Wood
The story centers on the loves and losses of a sensitive college boy in the 1960s who is more interested in American literature than in the era's political upheavals.
Tran Anh Hung
My Perestroika
Five ordinary Russians living in extraordinary times, from their sheltered Soviet childhood, to the collapse of the Soviet Union during their teenage years, to the constantly shifting political landscape of post-Soviet Russia.
Robin Hessman
Albert Nobbs
Set in a luxury hotel in Dublin, "Albert Nobbs" is a Gosford Park-style “below stairs” drama featuring Glenn Close as a woman in Nineteenth Century Ireland who disguises herself as a man in order to survive.
Aaron Johnson, Glenn Close, Jonathan Rhys-Meyers, Rodrigo Garcia, Bonnie Curtis, Julie Lynn, Alan Moloney, John Banville
Man on a Mission
Richard Garriott's quest to become the first second-generation astronaut, from making his fortune to spending $30 million to reach the International Space Station via Russian rocket.
Mike Woolf
This Means War
Two best friends fall in love with the same woman and then wreak havoc on Manhattan.
Angela Bassett, Will Smith, Robert Simonds, Tom Hardy, Timothy Dowling, Chris Pine, Til Schweiger, Abigail Spencer
The Woman in Black
A young lawyer is ordered to travel to a remote village to take care of a deceased client's papers. The young man glimpses a mysterious woman dressed only in black during his stay, leading to the uncovering of a tragic secret.
Daniel Radcliffe, Doug Davison, Richard Jackson, James Watkins, Simon Oakes, Roy Lee, Jane Goldman, Ciaran Hinds
Red Tails
A group of young WWII pilots overcome racism to form the Tuskegee Airmen, a distinguished group of fliers who broke the aviation color barrier to become the first African-American fighter pilots in U.S. military history.
Michael B. Jordan, Bryan Cranston, Terrence Howard, John Ridley, Tristan Wilds, Nate Parker, David Oyelowo, Marcus T. Paulk
The Secret World of Arrietty
The Clock family, who are four-inch tall, secretly lives in another family's residence until their daughter Arrietty is discovered.
Kathleen Kennedy, Hiromasa Yonebayashi, Karey Kirkpatrick, Amy Poehler, David Henrie, Gary Rydstrom, Frank Marshall, Bridgit Mendler
Certified Copy
A gallery owner living in a Tuscan village attends a lecture by a British author on authenticity and fakery in art. Afterwards she invites him on a tour of the countryside during which he is mistaken for her husband.
Juliette Binoche, William Shimell, Abbas Kiarostami
Carol Channing: Larger Than ...
Chronicles the 90-year-old icon - both onstage and off...past and present. The film is both an intimate love story and a rarefied journey inside Broadway's most glamorous era.
Dori Berinstein
Perfect Sense
A story about two people who fall in love just as their worlds start falling apart.
Eva Green, Ewan McGregor, David MacKenzie, Connie Nielsen, Kim Fupz Aakeson, Stephen Dillane, Ewen Bremner
Man on a Ledge
An ex-cop-turned-con (Sam Worthington) threatens to jump to his death from a Manhattan hotel rooftop. The NYPD dispatches a female police psychologist to talk him down but, unbeknownst to the cops on the scene, the suicide attempt is a cover for a massive diamond heist.
Sam Worthington, Anthony Mackie, Elizabeth Banks, Jon Hoeber, Genesis Rodriguez, David Ready, Patrick Kelly, Erich Hoeber
Gone
One night, a young woman named Jill returns home to find her sister's bed empty. She's convinced the serial killer who kidnapped her two years before has come back to finish the job. But the police do not believe Jill, who knows time is running out. With no one to turn to, she sets off to find her sister and face her abductor once and for all.
Amanda Seyfried, Sidney Kimmel, Sebastian Stan, Dan Abrams, Heitor Dhalia, Tom Rosenberg, Gary Lucchesi, Chris Salvaterra
We Need to Talk About Kevin
The movie, based on Lionel Shriver's novel, tells the story of a smart, educated New York mother who does her best to raise a son she never wanted in the first place. He turns out to be extremely difficult and is at the center of the woman's marital breakdown before going on a killing spree at his high school with a crossbow.
Steven Soderbergh, Lynne Ramsay, Rory Stewart Kinnear, Ezra Miller, Robert Salerno, Paula Jalfon, Jennifer Fox, Luc Roeg
96 Minutes
Four young people struggling to find their way in life are suddenly caught in a terrifying and deadly carjacking and abduction.
Aimee Lagos, Evan Ross, David Oyelowo, Charlie Mason, Justin Moore-Lewy, Lee Clay, Brittany Snow, Christian Serratos
Take Me Home
After getting turned down by a photography agency, Thom finds his landlord throwing all of his belongings out into the hallway. With no job prospects and no place to sleep, Thom must turn to his recurring last resort: driving his illegal taxicab around the streets of New York. Fortunately for him, Claire Barrow isn't having a good day, either. First she comes home to find her husband flirting with his new secretary, then discovers her estranged father has suffered a heart attack in California. In a frenzy, Claire runs out into the night and hails what she assumes to be a cab. What she gets instead is Thom. With her life in ruins, Claire decides on a whim to pay Thom to drive her out to California. With nothing in New York to call his own, Thom reluctantly agrees.
Sam Jaeger
Coriolanus
Coriolanus, the hero of Rome, is manipulated and out-maneuvered by politicians and even his own mother Volumnia, resulting in his banishment. He subsequently offers himself to his sworn enemy, and together they march on Rome intending to destroy the city.
Gerard Butler, Ralph Fiennes, Jessica Chastain, Julia Taylor-Stanley, Vanessa Redgrave, Brian Cox, Gabrielle Tana, William Hurt
Sing Your Song
Told from Harry’s point of view, the film charts his life from a boy born in New York and raised in Jamaica, who returns to Harlem in his early teens where he discovers the American Negro Theater and the magic of performing.
Susanne Rostock, Harry Belafonte
Lula, the Son of Brazil
A working class boy moves to the financial capital of Brazil and becomes one the most influential politician in Brazil's history.
Marcelo Santiago, Fabio Barreto
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