Best DVD & Blu-rays Released May 2015
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Selma
A drama about Martin Luther King, Jr.'s freedom marches in Selma, Alabama in the 1960s, and specifically the relationship between King and President Johnson, who signed the Voting Rights Act a few months later.
Brad Pitt, Oprah Winfrey, Tessa Thompson, Carmen Ejogo, Tim Roth, Cedric the Entertainer, Andre Holland, Colman Domingo
Black or White
Widowed after the car crash death of his wife, a grandfather has raised his own bi-racial granddaughter since his daughter died in childbirth. The child's paternal grandmother surfaces to wage a custody battle over the little girl, and the thrust becomes about race and where she should grow up.
Kevin Costner, Anthony Mackie, Jennifer Ehle, Octavia Spencer, Gillian Jacobs, Bill Burr, Mike Binder, Todd Lewis
Black Sea
A submarine captain is laid off by a salvage company and makes a deal with a shadowy backer to look for a storied sunken submarine reputed to be loaded with gold at the bottom of the Black Sea. Since this find would get him even with his ex-bosses, he puts together a crew of English and Russian sailors for the task, taking off to uncharted depths with his motley crew. The closer they get to the prize, the riskier it becomes to trust one another.
Ben Mendelsohn, Scoot McNairy, Michael Smiley, Dennis Kelly, Sergey Puskepalis, Kevin Macdonald, Charles Steel, Jude Law
The Pyramid
A team of U.S. archaeologists unearths an ancient pyramid buried deep beneath the Egyptian desert. As they search the pyramid's depths, they become hopelessly lost in its dark and endless catacombs. Searching for a way out, they become desperate to seek daylight again. They come to realize they aren't just trapped, they are being hunted.
Daniel Meersand, Gregory Levesseur, Alexandre Aja, Mark Canton, Nick Simon, Ashley Hinshaw, James Buckley, Denis O'Hare
Lost River
Set against the surreal dreamscape of a vanishing city, Billy, a single mother of two, is swept into a macabre and dark fantasy underworld while her teenage son discovers a secret road leading to an underwater town. Both Billy and Bones must dive deep into the mystery, if their family is to survive.
Marc Platt, Ben Mendelsohn, Ryan Gosling, Adam Siegel, Christina Hendricks, Matt Smith, Saoirse Ronan, Michel Litvak
Mr. Turner
Mr. Turner explores the last quarter century of the great if eccentric British painter J.M.W. Turner (1775-1851).
Profoundly affected by the death of his father, loved by a housekeeper he takes for granted and occasionally exploits sexually, he forms a close relationship with a seaside landlady with whom he eventually lives incognito in Chelsea, where he dies.
Throughout this, he travels, paints, stays with the country aristocracy, visits brothels, is a popular if anarchic member of the Royal Academy of Arts, has himself strapped to the mast of a ship so that he can paint a snowstorm, and is both celebrated and reviled by the public and by royalty.
Timothy Spall, Karl Johnson, Mike Leigh, Paul Jesson, Dorothy Atkinson, Marion Bailey, Ruth Sheen, Sandy Foster
Against the Sun
In one of the most harrowing true stories of World War II, three US Navy airmen crash land their torpedo bomber in the South Pacific and find themselves on a tiny life raft, surrounded by open ocean. No food. No water. No hope of rescue. Against incredible odds, these three virtual strangers must survive storms, sharks, starvation - and each other - as they try to sail more than a thousand miles to safety.
Tom Felton, Brian Falk, Mark David Keegan, Garett Dillahunt, Jake Abel
Love, Rosie
A young woman and her best (male) friend/star-crossed lover are planning to head to the States for college together when she discovers she's pregnant after a crazy night out with the most popular boy in school. She encourages her friend to go without her and over the next twelve years their lives change but an undeniable connection remains.
Lily Collins, Sam Claflin, Simon Brooks, Christian Ditter, Robert Kulzer
The Last 5 Years
A musical deconstruction of the love affair and marriage of Cathy (Anna Kendrick), a struggling actress, and Jamie, a rising novelist, told through emotionally powerful and comic songs from their individual perspectives
Anna Kendrick, Richard LaGravenese, Kurt Deutsch, Lauren Versel, Janet Brenner, Jeremy Jordan, Natalie Knepp, Steve Norman
Spare Parts
Four undocumented Mexican-American high school students who form a robotics club and go up against MIT in the National Underwater Robotics Competition.
Jamie Lee Curtis, Alexa Vega, George Lopez, Sean McNamara, Elissa Matsueda, Carlos Pena, Marisa Tomei
Fifty Shades of Grey
A soon-to-be college graduate Anastasia Steele strikes up an S&M romance with successful young entrepreneur Christian Grey, the physical and emotional dominant to her submissive.
Dakota Johnson, Luke Grimes, Sam Taylor-Johnson, Michael De Luca, Jennifer Ehle, Kelly Marcel, Jamie Dornan, Dana Brunetti
Tracers
Follows a messenger in New York City who is in debt to an organized crime gang. He crashes his bike into a sexy stranger and his seduced by her, as well as introduced to the world of parkour.
Taylor Lautner, Wyck Godfrey, Marie Avgeropoulos, Rafi Gavron, Daniel Benmayor, Mary Bowen, Adam Rayner, Sam Medina
The Cobbler
A shoe man has the ability to metaphysically step into the lives of the people whose shoes he repairs.
Ellen Barkin, Dascha Polanco, Melonie Diaz, Tom McCarthy, Mary Jane Skalski, Adam Sandler, Dan Stevens, Method Man
A Year in Champagne
A Year in Champagne is the follow-up to A Year in Burgundy and boasts many revelations about France's most famous beverage. And just as in A Year in Burgundy, legendary wine importer Martine Saunier is our guide as we get a rare glimpse behind the scenes into the real Champagne through six houses — from small independent makers like Champagne Saint-Chamant, where each and every bottle is still turned by hand in the cellars, to the illustrious houses of Gosset and Bollinger, which have been instrumental in shaping the image of Champagne around the world.
David Kennard
Extraterrestrial
Edgy sci-fi thriller that revolves around a group of friends on a weekend trip to a cabin in the woods. There, they are terrorized by alien visitors who definitely have not come in peace.
Brittany Allen, Collin Minihan, Randy Manis, Kim Arnott, Shawn Angelski, Martin Fisher, Colin Minihan, Stuart Ortiz
Camp X-Ray
Follows a young woman who signs up for the Army to get away from her small town. Instead of being shipped off to Iraq, the soldier is assigned to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, where she becomes friends with a prisoner who has spent eight years in lock-up.
Kristen Stewart, John Carroll Lynch, Peter Sattler, Lane Garrison, Tara Holt, Julia Duffy, Cory Michael Smith, Yousuf Azami
Just Before I Go
Ted Morgan has been treading water for most of his life. After his wife leaves him, Ted realizes he has nothing left to live for. Summoning the courage for one last act, Ted decides to go home and face the people he feels are responsible for creating the shell of a person he has become. But life is tricky. The more determined Ted is to confront his demons, to get closure, and to withdraw from his family, the more Ted is yanked into the chaos of their lives. So, when Ted Morgan decides to kill himself, he finds a reason to live.
Olivia Thirlby, Rob Riggle, Kyle Gallner, Evan Ross, David Arquette, Courteney Cox, Seann William Scott, Garret Dillahunt
Still Alice
A cognitive psychologist faces the early onset Alzheimer’s disease.
Alec Baldwin, Kristen Stewart, Julianne Moore, Wash Westmoreland, Kate Bosworth, Richard Glatzer, Hunter Parrish
Strange Magic
A madcap fairy tale musical inspired by 'A Midsummer Night’s Dream.' Popular songs from the past six decades help tell the tale of a colorful cast of goblins, elves, fairies and imps, and their hilarious misadventures sparked by the battle over a powerful potion.
Maya Rudolph, Alfred Molina, David Berenbaum, Gary Rydstrom, Kristin Chenoweth, Peter Stormare, George Lucas, Irene Mecchi
Hot Tub Time Machine 2
More time traveling fun in a hot tub.
Steve Pink, Craig Robinson, Adam Scott, Rob Corddry, Clark Duke, Gillian Jacobs, Collette Wolfe, Chevy Chase
American Sniper
From 1999 to 2009, Texas native Chris Kyle, a Navy SEAL, records the highest number of sniper kills for an American.
Bradley Cooper, Luke Grimes, Sienna Miller, Clint Eastwood, Andrew Lazar, Steven Spielberg, Kyle Gallner, Max Charles
Cymbeline
Based on William Shakespeare's timeless play, "Cymbeline" unfolds as an epic battle between dirty cops and a drug dealing biker gang set in a corruption-riddled 21st century America.
Dakota Johnson, Milla Jovovich, Anthony Katagas, Bill Pullman, John Leguizamo, Ed Harris, Penn Badgley, James Ransone
Into the Storm
A group of high school students document the events and aftermath of a devastating super tornado.
Alycia Debnam-Carey, Max Deacon, Sarah Wayne Callies, Todd Garner, Arlen Escarpeta, Nathan Kress, Matt Walsh, Scott Lawrence
The Loft
Five married friends decide to rent a loft together where they can bring their mistresses. When the body of an unknown woman is found in the loft, they realize that they don't know each other as well as they thought and begin to suspect one another of murder.
Patrick Wilson, Wentworth Miller, Wesley Strick, Isabel Lucas, Eric Stonestreet, Erik Van Looy, Steve Golin, Paul Green
The Seventh Son
A yonng boy, the seventh son of a seventh son, starts work as an apprentice for the village spook, whose job is to protect ordinary folk from ghouls, boggarts, and all manner of wicked beasties.
Jeff Bridges, Julianne Moore, Sergei Bodrov, Lionel Wigram, Antje Traue, Olivia Williams, Elishia Holmes, Basil Iwanyk
Cut Bank
Dwayne McLaren (Liam Hemsworth) dreams about escaping small town life in Cut Bank, Montana, “the coldest spot in the nation,” with his vivacious girlfriend Cassandra (Teresa Palmer). When Dwayne witnesses an awful crime, he tries to leverage a bad situation into a scheme to get rich quickly but he finds that fate and an unruly accomplice are working against him. Thrust into the middle of a police investigation spearheaded by the local sheriff (John Malkovich), everything goes from bad to worse in this all-American thriller.
Liam Hemsworth, Teresa Palmer, John Malkovich, Bruce Dern, Matt Shakman, Billy Bob Thornton, Roberto Patino, Oliver Platt
Ballet 422
From first rehearsal to world premiere, BALLET 422 takes us backstage at New York City Ballet as Justin Peck, a young up-and-coming choreographer, crafts a new work. With unprecedented access to an elite world, BALLET 422 illuminates the process behind the creation of a single ballet.
Jody Lee Lipes
Nightlight
Set in a remote forest, the film revolves around five teens and a prank that goes awry over the course of one long night. Story will be told from a singular point of view.
Bryan Woods, Shelby Young, Scott Beck, Chloe Bridges, Carter Jenkins, Mitch Hewer
See You in Valhalla
After the bizarre death of her brother, Johana Burwood must return home after four years to face her quirky family, including her estranged dad, her two competitive brothers and various significant others. The family is uncomfortable with each other at first, and their inner turmoil manifests itself in quarrels and outright fights. Johana is forced to face some secrets from her past when she runs into an old boyfriend who just can’t seem to let go. It’s only when tensions are at a breaking point that someone comes up with a brilliant idea that will send their departed brother off with incredible style.
Sarah Hyland, Jarret Tarnol, Odeya Rush, Steve Howey, Bret Harrison, Emma Bell, Jake McDorman
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