May 2014 DVD & Blu-rays

With Philipp Kadelbach

Depicts the lives of five young German friends forced to navigate the unconscionable moral compromises of life under Hitler. Level-headed, highly decorated officer Wilhelm (Volker Bruch) goes off to the eastern front with his sensitive younger brother Friedhelm (Tom Schilling). Deeply in love with Wilhelm is Charlotte (Miriam Stein), a young nurse who looks forward to serving in the Red Cross. Greta (Katherina Schüttler) is a talented singer who longs to become another Marlene Dietrich, while her Jewish boyfriend Viktor (Ludwig Trepte) fights for his life while hiding among members of the Polish Resistance.

With Kristen Bell • Krysten Ritter • Rob Thomas • Percy Daggs III • Jonathan Chesner • Tina Majorino • Enrico Colantoni • Chris Lowell • Jason Dohring • Bell Dohring • Francis Capra • Brandon Hillock • Kevin Sheridan • Dianne Ruggiero

A new case draws Veronica Mars back to her hometown of Neptune, CA, just in time for her ten-year high school reunion.

With Jay Baruchel • Devon Bostick • Kurt Russell • Katheryn Winnick • Matt Dillon • Terence Stamp • Nicholas Tabarrok • Jonathan Sobol • Chris Diamantopoulos

Renowned art thief and former daredevil Crunch Calhoun (Kurt Russell) teams up with a motley crew of international grifters to pull off the most elaborate double-crossing caper of a lifetime. Also starring Jay Baruchel and Matt Dillon.

With James Cromwell • Michael McGowan • Genevieve Bujold • Rick Roberts • Julie Stewart

In his first lead role after decades of playing supporting characters, James Cromwell gives a tour de force performance in Still Mine, an exquisitely crafted and deeply affecting love story about a couple in their twilight years. Based on true events and laced with wry humor, Still Mine tells the heartfelt tale of Craig Morrison (Academy Award® nominee Cromwell), who comes up against the system when he sets out to build a more suitable house for his ailing wife Irene (Academy Award® nominee Geneviève Bujold). Although Morrison uses the same methods his father, an accomplished shipbuilder, taught him, times have changed. He quickly gets blindsided by local building codes and bureaucratic officials. As Irene becomes increasingly ill – and amidst a series of stop-work orders – Craig races to finish the house. Hauled into court and facing jail, Craig takes a final stance against all odds in a truly inspirational story.

With Jon Foster • Sarah Jones • Ross Dinerstein • Karl Mueller

Scott (Jon Foster) and Penny (Sarah Jones) just moved to a remote cabin to escape the pressures of the world and breathe new life into their art. But they’ll soon discover they are not alone: an infamously reclusive artist – known only as ‘Mr. Jones’ – lives nearby. He doesn’t like to be disturbed, and only comes out at night when he drags his strange, sinister sculptures deep into the woods. When Scott and Penny’s curiosity leads them too close for Mr. Jones’ comfort, he plunges the young couple into a nightmare world of mayhem, madness and mind-bending terror.

With Todd Sklar • Alex Rennie

Follows estranged brothers, played by James Pumphrey and Alex Rennie, who are forced to travel to Branson together to renovate and flip the lake house they've inherited from their just-deceased father.

With Denis Leary • Tom Putnam • Brenna Sanchez

The documentary takes audiences to the frontlines of Detroit, a city where some residents seem to think of arson as a sport. Detroit has more fires than any city in the United States: A population drop from 1.85 million in 1950 to near 700,000 today has left 80,000 abandoned structures as kindling. The result is a city with 30,000 fire calls a year — the highest fire-load in America. On average, Detroit sees 30 structure fires daily (firefighters estimate that more than 90% are set intentionally), while Los Angeles, with a population of 4 million, sees only 11 structure fires per day.

With Allison Janney • Clark Gregg • Rose McIver • Peter Jacobson • Elvy Yost • Jessica Szohr • Chris Lowell • Maggie Kiley

Fresh out of college, a young man (Chris Lowell) is left devastated when the girl of his dreams dumps him. Refusing to move on, he devises a plan to transform himself into the man she desires. After resigning himself to working for the head of a company in corporate mediocrity (Clark Gregg), he falls for a hipster songstress (Jessica Szohr) who likes him as he is. As his path continues to unfold unexpectedly, the counsel of a kindred spirit astronomer (Allison Janney) helps him understand how to truly carve out a place in the universe.

With Joaquin Phoenix • Amy Adams • Rooney Mara • Sam Jaeger • Spike Jonze • Samantha Morton • Megan Ellison • Charlie Kaufman • Portia Doubleday

Set in the Los Angeles of the slight future, Her follows Theodore Twombly, a complex, soulful man who makes his living writing touching, personal letters for other people. Heartbroken after the end of a long relationship, he becomes intrigued with a new, advanced operating system, which promises to be an intuitive entity in its own right, individual to each user. Upon initiating it, he is delighted to meet “Samantha,” a bright, female voice, who is insightful, sensitive and surprisingly funny. As her needs and desires grow, in tandem with his own, their friendship deepens into an eventual love for each other.

With Vlad Yudin

Generation Iron examines the professional sport of bodybuilding today and gives the audience front row access to the lives of the top seven bodybuilders (from around the world, including New York, Los Angeles, Japan, and Germany) in the sport as they train to compete in the world's most premiere bodybuilding stage - Mr. Olympia.

With Bill Nighy • Aaron Eckhart • Miranda Otto • Caitlin Stasey • Jai Courtney • Stuart Beattie • Ryan Turek • Gary Lucchesi • Kevin Grevioux • Robert Sanchez • Chris Patton • Yvonne Strahovski • Aden Young

200 years after his shocking creation, Dr. Frankenstein's creature, Adam, still walks the earth. But when he finds himself in the middle of a war over the fate of humanity, Adam discovers he holds the key that could destroy humankind.

With Michael B. Jordan • Miles Teller • Zac Efron • Mackenzie Davis • Tom Gormican • Josh Pais • Kevin Turen • Jason Barrett • Imogen Poots • Justin Nappi • Scott Aversano • Andrew O'Connor

Follows three best friends who find themselves where we’ve all been– at that confusing "moment" in every dating relationship when you have to decide "So…where is this going?"

With Elisabeth Rohm • Kyra Sedgwick • Vincent D'Onofrio • Matt Fiorello • Tom Sizemore • Jay Alaimo • Gary Giudice • Christopher Beatty • Peter Tannenbaum

In the town of Copper Canyon, people are cashing in on an economic housing boom, and the local country club is buzzing about the investment opportunity. Once vivacious couple, Roger and Georgie Lent, have settled into a complacent lifestyle of mediocrity where their marriage is falling apart and their children are turning away from them. Nonetheless, desperately discontent Georgie, pushes Roger into finding a way to invest in the market bubble in the hopes that their family can be saved with the money they are sure to make. When local tennis pro and part-time drug dealer, Pat, comes to Roger for investment advice, Roger sees his opportunity. Torn by the reality that his family could be saved by this dirty money, Roger finds himself staring down the barrel of a moral conundrum. Chlorine is the tale of classic American greed.

With Gregory Marquette

Story centers on Walter L. Shaw, a prolific inventor in the telecommunications field who turned to the mob, whose bookies used his "black box" to run their gambling operations and wound up destitute before passing away in 1996. His son, embittered by his father's destruction, turned to organized crime in the 1970s and 1980s before attempting to set the record straight about his father.

Calvin & Hobbes dominated the Sunday comics in thousands of newspapers for over 10 years, having a profound effect on millions of readers across the globe. When the strip’s creator, Bill Watterson, retired the strip on New Year’s Eve in 1995, devoted readers everywhere felt the void left by the departure of Calvin, Hobbes, and Watterson’s other cast of characters, and many fans would never find a satisfactory replacement.

It has now been more than a decade since the end of the Calvin & Hobbes era. Bill Watterson has kept an extremely low profile during this time, living a very private life outside of Cleveland, Ohio. Despite his quiet lifestyle, Mr. Watterson is remembered and appreciated daily by fans who still enjoy his amazing collection of work.

Mr. Watterson has inspired and influenced millions of people through Calvin & Hobbes. Newspaper readership and book sales can be tracked and recorded, but the human impact he has had and the value of his art are perhaps impossible to measure.

This film is not a quest to find Bill Watterson, or to invade his privacy. It is an exploration to discover why his 'simple' comic strip made such an impact on so many readers in the 80s and 90s, and why it still means so much to us today.

With Donnie Yen • Collin Chou • Clarence Fok Yiu-leung

Donnie Yen is Zilong "Dragon" Chen, an undercover cop deep inside China’s most ruthless crime syndicate. The boss, Xiong (Collin Chou) swears to find every traitor and make them pay with their lives. Agents are turning up dead. His days are numbered. Desperate to protect his family and his life, Chen must risk everything to protect the SPECIAL IDENTITY he never wanted before it’s too late.

With Martha Shane • Lana Wilson

After Tiller explores the highly controversial subject of third-trimester abortions in the wake of the 2009 assassination of practitioner Dr. George Tiller. The procedure is now performed by only four doctors in the United States, all former colleagues of Dr. Tiller, who risk their lives every day in the name of their unwavering commitment toward their patients.

With Hailee Steinfeld • Amber Heard • Luc Besson • Kevin Costner • Connie Nielsen • McG • Tucker Tooley • Adi Hasak • Ryan Kavanaugh • Virginie Besson-Silla

Secret Service Agent Ethan Runner discovers he's dying and decides to retire in order to reconnect with his estranged family. But when the Secret Service offers him access to an experimental drug that could save his life in exchange for one last assignment, he soon finds himself trying to juggle his family, his mission, and the drug's hallucinatory side-effects.

With Elizabeth Olsen • Tom Felton • Oscar Isaac • Matt Lucas • Jessica Lange • Shirley Henderson • Mackenzie Crook • William Horberg • Mickey Liddell • Charlie Stratton

A tale of obsessive love, adultery and revenge set in the lower depths of 1860s Paris. Therese (Elizabeth Olsen), a sexually repressed beautiful young woman, is trapped into a loveless marriage to her sickly cousin, Camille (Tom Felton), by her domineering aunt, Madame Raquin (Jessica Lange). Therese spends her days confined behind the counter of a small shop and her evenings watching Madame play dominos with an eclectic group. After she meets her husband's alluring childhood friend, Laurent (Oscar Isaac), she embarks on an illicit affair that leads to tragic consequences.

With Kevin Hart • Will Gluck • Regina Hall • Michael Ealy • Steve Pink • Bryan Callen • Joy Bryant • Leslye Headland • Adam Rodriguez

A modern reimagining of the classic romantic comedy, this contemporary version closely follows new love for two couples as they journey from the bar to the bedroom and are eventually put to the test in the real world.

With Paul W.S. Anderson • Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje • Jessica Lucas • Kiefer Sutherland • Paz Vega • Carrie-Anne Moss • Sasha Roiz • Jared Harris • Kit Harington • Janet Scott Batchler • Emily Browning • Lee Batchler

Set in 79 A.D., Pompeii tells the epic story of Milo, a slave turned invincible gladiator who finds himself in a race against time to save his true love Cassia, the beautiful daughter of a wealthy merchant who has been unwillingly betrothed to a corrupt Roman Senator. As Mount Vesuvius erupts in a torrent of blazing lava, Milo must fight his way out of the arena in order to save his beloved as the once magnificent Pompeii crumbles around him.

With Matt Damon • Cate Blanchett • George Clooney • John Goodman • Daniel Craig • Paul Giamatti • Bob Balaban • Hugh Bonneville • Grant Heslov • Dimitri Leonidas • Jean Dujardin

Based on the true story of the greatest treasure hunt in history, The Monuments Men is an action-thriller focusing on an unlikely World War II platoon, tasked by FDR with going into Germany to rescue artistic masterpieces from Nazi thieves and returning them to their rightful owners. It would be an impossible mission: with the art trapped behind enemy lines, and with the German army under orders to destroy everything as the Reich fell, how could these guys - seven museum directors, curators, and art historians, all more familiar with Michelangelo than the M-1 - possibly hope to succeed? But as the Monuments Men, as they were called, found themselves in a race against time to avoid the destruction of 1000 years of culture, they would risk their lives to protect and defend mankind's greatest achievements.

With Zoey Deutch • Olga Kurylenko • Gabriel Byrne • Lucy Fry • Cameron Monaghan • Mark S. Waters • Don Murphy • Dan Waters • Claire Foy • Michael Preger • Sarah Hyland • Danila Kozlovskiy • Ashley Charles • Dominic Sherwood • Shelley Longworth

Vampire Academy tells the legend of Rose Hathaway (Zoey Deutch) and Lissa Dragomir (Lucy Fry), two 17-year-old girls who attend a hidden boarding school for Moroi (mortal, peaceful Vampires) and Dhampirs (half-vampire/half-human guardians). Rose, a rebellious Guardian-in-training and her best friend, Lissa - a royal vampire Princess - have been on the run when they are captured and returned to St.Vladamirs Academy, the very place where they believe their lives may be in most jeopardy. Thrust back into the perils of Moroi Society and high school, Lissa struggles to reclaim her status while Rose trains with her mentor and love-interest, Dimitri (Danila Kozlovsky), to guarantee her place as Lissa's guardian. Rose will sacrifice everything to protect Lissa from those who intend to exploit her from within the Academy walls and the Strigoi (immortal, evil vampires) who hunt her kind from outside its sanctuary.

With John Cusack • Damien Chazelle • Elijah Wood • Kerry Bishe • Adrian Guerra • Rodrigo Cortés • Tamsin Egerton • Allen Leech • Eugenio Mira

Tom Selznick, the most talented pianist of his generation, stopped performing in public because of his stage fright. Years after a catastrophic performance, he reappears in public in a long awaited concert in Chicago. In a packed theater, in front of the expectant audience, Tom finds a message written on the score: “Play one wrong note and you die”. Without leaving the piano, Tom must discover the anonymous sniper’s motives and look for help without anyone realizing…

With Catherine O'Hara • Ryan Kwanten • Sara Canning • Will Sasso • Robert Lantos • Jeremiah Chechik • Ari Lantos • Ryan McPartlin • Megan Martin

Ryan Kwanten portrays a dishwasher and failed writer made famous by his ex-wife’s blog, “Why You Suck.”

With Rachel Nichols • David Morse • Mike Vogel • Ciarán Hinds • Trevor Morgan • Cory Monteith • Josh C. Waller

When narcotics detective Eugene “Mack” McCanick (David Morse) discovers that a seemingly harmless young criminal, Simon Weeks (Cory Monteith), has been released from prison, it triggers a firestorm of paranoia and violence. Unbeknownst to the chief of police (Ciaran Hinds), Mack and his partner, Floyd (Mike Vogel) mercilessly hunt down Weeks for unknown reasons over the course of one long, hot day. The closer Mack gets to his prey, the more we understand that his frenzy stems from a truth from the past, which only Weeks can expose.

With Ryo Kase • Abbas Kiarostami • Rin Takanashi • Tadashi Okuno

Like Someone in Love revolves around the brief encounter between an elderly professor (the wonderful 81-year-old stage actor Tadashi Okuno, here playing his first leading role in a film) and a sociology student (Rin Takanashi) who moonlights as a high-end escort. Dispatched to the old man by her boss—one of the professor’s former students—the young woman finds her latest client less interested in sex than in cooking her soup, talking, and playing old Ella Fitzgerald records (like the one that gives the film its allusive title). Eventually, night gives way to day and a tense standoff with the student’s insanely jealous boyfriend (Ryô Kase); but as usual in Kiarostami, nothing is quite as it appears on the surface. Are these characters—who conjure in one another the specters of regret and roads not taken—meeting by chance, or is it fate? Is this love, or merely something like it?

With Rachel Nichols • Zoe Bell • Doug Jones • Sherilyn Fenn • Bailey Anne Borders • Tracie Thoms • Bruce Thomas • Josh C. Waller

A young woman is abducted by an elite, secret society and wakes to find herself in the company of fifty other women who are, just like her, forced to fight for their lives in an unimaginable hell.

With Robert Patrick • Alex Pettyfer • Scott Stuber • Josh Schwartz • Anna Enger • Gabriella Wilde • Pam Abdy • Stephanie Savage • J. Miles Dale • Shana Feste • Dayo Okeniyi • Sharon Conley • Jesse Malinowski

Alex Pettyfer and Gabriella Wilde star in the story of a privileged girl and a charismatic boy whose instant desire sparks a love affair made only more reckless by parents trying to keep them apart.

With Stephen Chow • Chi-kin Kwok • Qi Shu • Zhang Jizhong • Zhang Wen • Bo Huang • Show Lo • Sun Wukong

This is a world plagued by demons, who cause its human inhabitants unspeakable suffering. Young demon hunter Xuan Zang, fearlessly guided by his belief in “giving himself for the greater cause”, risks his all and conquers a water demon, a pig demon and the demon of all demons, Sun Wukong. He embraces them as his disciples, and melts them with love. Meanwhile, Xuan Zang discovers the true meaning of Greater Love himself. In order to atone for their own sins and save the common people, the four of them embark on a journey to the West that’s full of challenges…

With Ben Kingsley • David Frankel • James LeGros • Paul Miller • Kodi Smit-McPhee • Rob Meyer • Luke Matheny • Dan Lindau • Katie Chang

David Portnoy (Kodi Smit-McPhee), a 15-year-old birding fanatic, thinks that he's made the discovery of a lifetime. So, on the eve of his father's remarriage, he escapes on an epic road trip with his best friends to solidify their place in birding history.

With Helen Rogers • Sophia Takal • Joe Swanberg • Adam Wingard • Simon Barrett • Caroline White

Fetish photographer Billy (Adam Wingard) stages elaborate shoots around his fixations, photographing women in various stages of undress and death. When one of Billy's models winds up actually dead, depressed and romantically disillusioned investigator Michael (Simon Barrett), suffering through a crumbling relationship himself, knocks on his door and discovers a world he struggles to understand - in Billy's art, as well as his apparent ease at juggling professional and intimate relationships with a committed girlfriend and various models. Jealousy runs high, and meanwhile, a killer is still on the loose.

With Will Forte • Steph Green • Maxine Peake • Sharon Horgan • Ailbhe Keogan • Edward MacLiam

Run & Jump follows Vanetia Casey (Maxine Peake), the spirited and impossibly optimistic center of the Casey family, who is struggling to get life back to normal after her 38 year-old husband, Conor (Edward MacLiam), suffers a rare stroke which changes his personality. Entering the emotional fray is buttoned-up American doctor, Ted Fielding (Will Forte), who arrives in Ireland to stay with them for two months: his research grant providing the Caseys with essential financial aid. Vanetia’s a dynamo, but with two young kids and both men in the house, she’s feeling bombarded and initially treats Ted and his study of Conor with resistance. Only when she observes Ted’s calming influence on the family does she begin to value his friendship, and, in return, Ted enjoys her heady, happy-go-lucky world. But Ted’s continued presence in the house sets the family on course for an emotional collision.