October 2012 DVD & Blu-rays

Dark Shadows

Centers on vampire patriarch Barnabas Collins and also features monsters, witches, werewolves, ghosts and zombies.

Johnny Depp, Eva Green, Michelle Pfeiffer, Graham King, Tim Burton, John August, Seth Grahame-Smith, Jackie Earle Haley

People Like Us

"Welcome to People" centers on a twentysomething man who, after the death of his father, must deliver $150,000 in cash to an alcoholic sister he didn’t know he had as well as her son, a 12-year-old with major anger management issues. The man doesn’t want to part with the money but still reaches out to them without telling them who he really is.

Bobby Cohen, Michelle Pfeiffer, Chris Pine, Olivia Wilde, Alex Kurtzman, Mark Duplass, Jon Favreau, Elizabeth Banks

Red Lights

A para-psychologist and his mentor try to debunk a reputed psychic when he returns to the limelight after thirty years in seclusion.

Robert De Niro, Elizabeth Olsen, Toby Jones, Cillian Murphy, Sigourney Weaver, Rodrigo Cortés, Lisa Wilson, Cindy Cowan

The Lady

A biopic of Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi.

Michelle Yeoh, David Thewlis, Luc Besson

Iron Sky

In 1945, on a secret base built in the Antarctic, Nazis launched spaceships to establish the military base Schwarze Sonne on the dark side of the Moon. They built a powerful invasion fleet in order to take over the Earth once the time was right. Now it’s 2018, the Nazi invasion is on its way and the world is goose-stepping towards its doom.

Udo Kier, Timo Vuorensola

The Flying Swords of Dragon ...

A Ming Dynasty general at odds with an evil, power-hungry eunuch.

Jet Li, Xun Zhou, Kun Chen, Marvis Fan, Hark Tsui

The Hole 3D

Two brothers discover a mysterious hole in the basement that leads to their worst nightmares.

Haley Bennett, Teri Polo, David Lancaster, Mark L. Smith, Bruce Dern, JC Spink, Joe Dante, Michel Litvak

Cowgirls 'N Angels

Tells the story of Ida, a feisty and rebellious young girl, who has dreams of finding her father, a rodeo rider. While searching for her dad, she connects with the Sweethearts of the Rodeo, a team of young female rodeo riders run by former rodeo star Terence Parker. Recognizing Ida's innate talent for trick riding, Terence recruits her for their ranks. Accepted wholeheartedly by her new "family," Ida finds a new passion that redefines her life, and may also help her find the father she's been searching for.

Jackson Rathbone, James Cromwell, Bailee Madison, Timothy Armstrong, Alicia Witt, Leslie-Anne Huff, Andrew Sensenig

Peace, Love, and Misundersta...

After her husband leaves, a conservative lawyer moves her son and daughter into her hippy mother's house in Woodstock.

Elizabeth Olsen, Jane Fonda, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Bruce Beresford, Brice Dal Farra, Claude Dal Farra, Lauren Munsch, Catherine Keener

Sound of My Voice

A young Los Angeles couple, played by Christopher Denham and Nicole Vicius, as they infiltrate the underworld of a cult led by a young woman from the future (played by Brit Marling).

Brit Marling, Christopher Denham, Nicole Vicius, Hans Ritter, Zal Batmanglij, Shelley Surpin

Grassroots

Story centers on a recently fired journalist who reluctantly agrees to spearhead the Seattle City Council campaign of his eccentric friend, a former pedicab driver with a burning passion for the Monorail.

Joel David Moore, Cobie Smulders, Tom Arnold, Christopher McDonald, Jason Biggs, Lauren Ambrose, Cedric the Entertainer, Emily Bergl

Prometheus

The film is set up to be a prequel to the groundbreaking 1979 film that Ridley Scott directed. It will precede that film, in which the crew of a commercial towing ship returning to Earth is awakened and sent to respond to a distress signal from a nearby planetoid. The crew discovers too late that the signal generated by an empty ship was meant to warn them.

Charlize Theron, Patrick Wilson, Ridley Scott, Idris Elba, Guy Pearce, Michael Fassbender, Logan Marshall-Green, Michael Costigan

Rock of Ages

Takes place at a Sunset Strip rock club called Rock of Ages, where a man and woman fall in love but get torn apart by the rock lifestyle.

Tom Cruise, Russell Brand, Julianne Hough, Bryan Cranston, Tobey Maguire, Alec Baldwin, Mary J. Blige, Diego González Boneta

The Raven

Thriller set in the last days of Edgar Allan Poe's life, when he gets wrapped up in a serial killer investigation.

Luke Evans, John Cusack, Brendan Gleeson, Alice Eve, Kevin McNally, Aaron Ryder, Oliver Jackson-Cohen, Glen Basner

E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial

Follows the unforgettable journey of a lost alien (known as E.T.) and the 10-year-old boy he befriends. Join Elliot (Henry Thomas), Gertie (Drew Barrymore) and Michael (Robert MacNaughton) as they come together to help E.T. find his way back home.

Steven Spielberg, Drew Barrymore, Henry Thomas, Dee Wallace, Peter Coyote, Robert MacNaughton

The Obama Effect

A serious health scare ignites John Thomas, an insurance salesman in his 50's (played by writer/director Charles S. Dutton) to take a closer look at his life. Motivated by a misguided obsession with getting Barack Obama elected, John takes an overwhelming involvement in the Presidential campaign. While John becomes obsessed with the ideal of change that Obama represents for Americans, he has in turn neglected to create positive change in his own life, particularly with regard to his health and familial relationships. John hides his health problems from his strong, yet supportive wife, Molly (Vanessa Bell Calloway), creating a strain on their marriage. John seeks the support of a Republican relative, MLK (Katt Williams), who initially starkly resists supporting a Democratic candidate. John's son, Kalil (Wesley Jonathan), rebels against his father's avid support of Obama by supporting the Republican candidate as well. John neglects to support his daughter, Tamika (Megan Good) at a crucial moment in her life, as she has recently fallen in love and become engaged to be married. John faces additional discord with his other son, Jamel, an up-and-coming boxer (Zab Judah), who gets mixed up with a shady manager, Slim (Glynn Turman), as he rises toward a professional boxing career. Joshua, John's recently-paroled brother (C.J. Mack), also struggles as he attempts to find work in a tough economy and to maintain his new marriage. When Molly discovers that John has been hiding his health scares from her, she urges him to take positive action to improve his bad habits. John works to get back on the right path with his health and family as Obama soars to success in the campaign.

Meagan Good, Charles S. Dutton, Emilio Rivera, Vanessa Bell Calloway, Katt Williams

30 Beats

A first encounter sparks a series of intimate and comedic moments linking ten New Yorkers in a chain reaction of love and desire.

Molly Conners, Justin Kirk, Alexis Lloyd, Lee Pace, Jennifer Tilly, Vahina Giocante, Paz De La Huerta, Ingeborga Dapkunaite

A Cat in Paris

When seven-year-old Zoe learns that her cat, Dino, has been using his late-night wanderings to help a kindhearted thief, the little girl embarks on a nighttime Parisian adventure that may help her come to terms with her father’s recent death.

Matthew Modine, Dominique Blanc, Marcia Gay Harden, Anjelica Huston, Jean-Loup Felicioli, Alain Gagnol

Crazy Eyes

With too much money and time on his hands, Zach(Lukas Haas) looks like he's living the dream. There's a steady stream ofbeautiful women and the party never ends. He meets a girl he calls "CrazyEyes" (Madeline Zima), and she's unlike anyone he's ever met before. She'sthe one woman Zach can't have, so naturally he wants her. While Zach'shard-partying lifestyle threatens to go off the rails, family concerns begin toplay a major role in Zach's life. Will the quest for love and theresponsibilities of family life help this poor little rich boy become a man?

Adam Sherman, Lukas Haas, Madeline Zima, Jake Busey, Tania Raymonde, Dave Reeves

Restless City

An African immigrant surviving on the fringes of New York City where music is his passion, life is a hustle and falling in love is his greatest risk.

Andrew Dosunmu

Shut Up and Play the Hits

On April 2nd, 2011, LCD SOUNDSYSTEM played its final show at Madison Square Garden. LCD frontman James Murphy had made the conscious decision to disband one of the most celebrated and influential bands of its generation at the peak of its popularity, ensuring that the band would go out on top with the biggest and most ambitious concert of its career. Shut Up and Play the Hits is simultaneously a document of a once-in-a-lifetime performance and an intimate portrait of Murphy as he navigates both the personal and professional ramifications of his decision.

Dylan Southern, Will Lovelace

Prometheus

The film is set up to be a prequel to the groundbreaking 1979 film that Ridley Scott directed. It will precede that film, in which the crew of a commercial towing ship returning to Earth is awakened and sent to respond to a distress signal from a nearby planetoid. The crew discovers too late that the signal generated by an empty ship was meant to warn them.

Charlize Theron, Patrick Wilson, Ridley Scott, Idris Elba, Guy Pearce, Michael Fassbender, Logan Marshall-Green, Michael Costigan

Madagascar 3: Europe's Most ...

No plot details have been announced.

Ben Stiller, Bryan Cranston, Jessica Chastain, Chris Rock, Mark Swift, Sacha Baron Cohen, Frances McDormand, Andy Richter

Chernobyl Diaries

Set in Prypiat, the city that housed workers at the Chernobyl nuclear reactor, the film follows a group of friends vacationing in Europe who become stranded in the abandoned city and discover they are not alone.

Oren Peli, Brian Witten, Brad Parker, Carey Van Dyke, Shane Van Dyke

That's My Boy

A disagreeable father moves in on the eve of his son's wedding and immediately begins fighting with the bride-to-be.

Sean Anders, Adam Sandler, Andy Samberg, John Morris, Jack Giarraputo, James Caan, Ken Marino, Leighton Meester

Moonrise Kingdom

Two young lovers who take off from their New England hometown, causing locals to embark on a search for them.

Bruce Willis, Bill Murray, Scott Rudin, Frances McDormand, Wes Anderson, Jason Schwartzman, Tilda Swinton, Ed Norton

Turn Me On, Dammit!

In Skoddeheimen, Norway, 15-year-old Alma is consumed by her hormones and fantasies that range from sweetly romantic images of Artur, the boyfriend she yearns for, to daydreams about practically everybody she lays eyes on.

Jannicke Systad Jacobsen

The Forgiveness of Blood

An Albanian family caught up in a blood feud. Nik (Tristan Halilaj) is a carefree teenager in a small town with a crush on the school beauty and ambitions to start his own small internet business. His world is suddenly up-ended when his father becomes entangled in a dispute that leaves a fellow villager murdered. According to a centuries-old code of law known as the Kanun, Nik's family owes a life in return. Nik finds himself the prime target and becomes confined to home while his younger sister Rudina (Sindi Lacej) is forced to leave school and take over their father's business.

Joshua Marston

Chely Wright: Wish Me Away

Chely Wright: Wish Me Away is the story of Chely Wright, the first Nashville music star to come out as gay. Over three years, the filmmakers were given extraordinary access to Chely's struggle and her unfolding plan to come out publicly. Using interviews with Chely, her family, her pastor, and key players in the music world, alongside Chely's intimate private video diaries, the film goes deep into her back story as an established star and then forward as she steps into the national spotlight to reveal her secret. Chronicling the aftermath in Nashville and within the LGBT community, Chely Wright: Wish Me Away reveals both the devastation of her own internalized homophobia and the transformational power of living an authentic life.

Bobbie Birleffi, Beverly Kopf

The Last Ride

Henry Thomas stars as country crooner Hank Williams, revolves around Williams' final days and the young man (Jesse James) hired to drive him from Alabama to a New Year's Eve concert in Canton, Ohio. Kaley Cuoco will play a gas-station owner the duo meet during their travels who has a brief, innocent romance with the driver.

Kaley Cuoco, Ray McKinnon, Henry Thomas, Stephen Tobolowsky, Harry Thomason, Dub Cornett, Howard Klausner, Jesse James

Neil Young Journeys

A documentary about the singer-songwriter through concert footage.

Jonathan Demme

All Together

Five aging friends decide to move in together in Stephane Robelin's comedy, starring Jane Fonda, Geraldine Chaplin, and Claude Rich. Comfortably retired, they hire a handsome graduate student (Daniel Bruehl) as a live-in caretaker and rediscover the joys of "communal" living--but when old secrets and long-simmering jealousies emerge, discord among the group begins to grow.

Jane Fonda, Geraldine Chaplin, Claude Rich, Stephane Robelin

2016: Obama's America

2016 Obama's America takes audiences on a journey into the heart of the world’s most powerful office to reveal the struggle of whether one man's past will redefine America over the next four years. The film examines the question, "If Obama wins a second term, where will we be in 2016?"

John Sullivan, Dinesh D'Souza

Last Ride

In Last Ride, a desperate father takes his ten year old son, Chook, on the run after committing a violent crime. As the two journey into the desert and an unknown future, their troubled relationship and the need to survive sees them battling the elements and each other. Chook eventually takes control, and the choice he is forced to make has a devastating effect on both their lives.

Hugo Weaving, Anita Hegh, Glendyn Ivin, John Brumpton, Tom Russell

The Cup

Damien Oliver, a young jockey, loses his only brother in a racing accident.

Brendan Gleeson, Stephen Curry, Ray Winstone, Kirk D'Amico, David Lee, Eric O'Keefe, Jan Bladier, Joel Pearlman

The Tortured

No plot details have been announced.

Jesse Metcalfe, Carl Mazzocone, Bill Moseley, Mark Burg, Oren Koules, Erika Christensen, Tom Strnad, Rob Lieberman

Stash House

A couple find the perfect starter home. Upon moving in, a group of dangerous men arrive who will stop at nothing to get what's locked inside the couple's house.

Gary Spinelli, Dolph Lundgren, Sean Faris, Briana Evigan, Jon Huertas

Magic Mike

Magic Mike schools a young dancer in the tricks of the trade of stripping.

Matthew McConaughey, Channing Tatum, Steven Soderbergh, Greg Jacobs, Gabriel Iglesias, Alex Pettyfer, Reid Carolin, Joe Manganiello

Tyler Perry's Madea's Witnes...

A man who, after his investment company goes belly up due to embezzling, is put in witness protection with his family, which is forced to move from a wealthy Connecticut neighborhood to Madea’s home in the South.

Tyler Perry, Denise Richards, Eugene Levy, Paul Hall, Romeo Miller, Tom Arnold, Ozzie Areu, Doris Roberts

Seeking a Friend for the End...

A man searches for a meaningful connection amid the end times.

Keira Knightley, Adam Brody, Steve Carell, Derek Luke, Gillian Jacobs, Steve Golin, Nicole Brown, Nathan Kahane

Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hun...

Abraham Lincoln, the Great Emancipator, secretly battles with the undead as an ax-throwing, highly trained vampire assassin. Vampires are presented as the real conflict behind the Civil War.

Anthony Mackie, Alan Tudyk, Rufus Sewell, Tim Burton, Dominic Cooper, Robin McLeavy, Timur Bekmambetov, Jimmi Simpson

Steve Jobs: The Lost Intervi...

Robert Cringely's 1995 conversation with the late co-founder of Apple.

Savages

The story centers on two pals from Laguna Beach who share the same girlfriend and a thriving business growing and distributing the best-quality pot on the planet. When they resist being muscled by a Mexican drug cartel , the girl is kidnapped and the ransom is every cent they’ve made for the last five years. They agree to pay but hatch an alternate plan to get her back, get revenge, and then get lost.

Salma Hayek, Blake Lively, John Travolta, Aaron Johnson, Uma Thurman, Mia Maestro, Joel David Moore, Shane Salerno

The Invisible War

An investigative documentary about one of America's most shameful and best kept secrets: the epidemic of rape within the U.S. military. The film paints a startling picture of the extent of the problem--today, a female soldier in combat zones is more likely to be raped by a fellow soldier than killed by enemy fire. The Department of Defense estimates there were a staggering 19,000 violent sex crimes in the military in 2010. Twenty percent of all active-duty female soldiers are sexually assaulted.

Kirby Dick

Take This Waltz

The story centers on a young woman who struggles with her infidelities and the budding realization that she may be addicted to the honeymoon period of her relationships.

Seth Rogen, Michelle Williams, Sarah Polley, Sarah Silverman, Luke Kirby, Susan Cavan

Crooked Arrows

A 30-year-old of mixed blood who must postpone his casino-building dreams to coach the inept local Native American high school lacrosse squad against the prep school league.

J. Todd Harris, Brandon Routh, Gil Birmingham, Adam Leff, Todd Baird, Steve Rash, Mitchell Peck, Crystal Allen

Thunderstruck

When Brian, a hopelessly uncoordinated young fan magically switches talents with his hero (Kevin Durant, playing himself), he becomes the star of his high school team...while Kevin Durant suddenly can’t make a shot to save his life. But with the playoffs approaching, Brian learns that being a true winner involves working hard at your own game, and he tries to make things right in time to prevent a catastrophic end to his hero’s season.

Eric Champnella, John Whitesell, Brandon T. Jackson, Jim Belushi, Bill Johnson, Mike Karz, Taylor Gray, Kevin Durant

The Ambassador

This darkly comic, genre-bending piece of journalism from international provocateur Mads Brugger rips the corroded lid off the global scheme of political corruption and exploitation happening in one of the most dangerous places on the planet: the Central African Republic. Armed with a phalanx of hidden cameras, black-marked diplomatic credentials and a bleeding-edge wit, Bruegger transforms himself into an outlandish caricature of a European-African Consul. As he immerses himself in the life-threatening underworld of nefarious bureaucrats, Bruegger encounters blood diamond smuggling, bribery, and even murder--while somehow managing to crack amazing razor-sharp barbs at every steps along the way.

Mads Brügger, Maja Jul Larsen

Universal Soldier: Day of Re...

No plot details have been announced yet.

Scott Adkins, Jean-Claude Van Damme, John Hyams, Dolph Lundgren, Mark Damon

The Campaign

Story centers on two bumbling candidates in a heated rivalry for the 2012 Presidential election.

Will Ferrell, Adam McKay, Dan Aykroyd, Brian Cox, Zach Galifianakis, John Lithgow, Jay Roach, Chris Henchy

Safety Not Guaranteed

Three magazine employees investigate a classified ad from a man seeking a partner for time travel.

Kristen Bell, Jake Johnson, Jeff Garlin, Aubrey Plaza, Mark Duplass, Colin Trevorrow, Derek Connolly, Lynn Shelton

Excision

Alienated teen Pauline (AnnaLynne McCord) struggles with the pressures of fitting into high school, pleasing her parents and a burning desire to lose her virginity. With a grotesque curiosity for the darker side of life, Pauline is considered a social outcast by everyone around her. Enticed by flesh, she retreats into her own fantasies and hopes to become a great surgeon...that is if she doesn't go mentally insane first.

Ariel Winter, AnnaLynne McCord, Jeremy Sumpter, Matthew Gray Gubler, Richard Bates Jr., Roger Bart, John Waters, Malcolm McDowell

Ruby Sparks

A young novelist achieves success early in his career, but then struggles. In a bid to overcome his writer's block, he writes about a woman he thinks will love him, and wills her into existence.

Deborah Ann Woll, Valerie Faris, Steve Coogan, Paul Dano, Chris Messina, Jonathan Dayton, Zoe Kazan, Annette Bening

Americano

A fictional narrative about coming to terms with unattended grief and uncomfortable pasts.

Salma Hayek, Geraldine Chaplin, Chiara Mastroianni, Mathieu Demy

Polisse

Centers on individuals and officers working in and around a child protection unit in Paris.

Maiwenn Le Besco, Nicolas Duvauchelle, Emmanuelle Bercot, Karin Viard, Joey Starr, Marina Fois, Karole Rocher

Robot and Frank

Follows a young architect working to scan all the books at the library where he works when he's suddenly forced to go up against a man who plans to steal from the institution with his robot companion.

Liv Tyler, Jeremy Strong, Susan Sarandon, Frank Langella, James Marsden, Galt Niederhoffer, Christopher D. Ford, Liev Schreiber

Craigslist Joe

It was in this climate that 29-year-old Joseph Garner cut himself off from everyone he knew and everything he owned, to embark on a bold adventure. Armed with only a laptop, cell phone, toothbrush, and the clothes on his back – alongside the hope that community was not gone but just had shifted – Joseph began his journey. For 31 December days and nights, everything in his life would come from the Craigslist website. From transportation to food, from shelter to companionship, Joe would depend on the generosity of people who had never seen him and whose sole connection to him was a giant virtual swap meet.

Joseph Garner

First Position

For the young dancers at the Youth America Grand Prix, one of the world's most prestigious ballet competitions, lifelong dreams are at stake. With hundreds competing for a handful of elite scholarships and contracts, practice and discipline are paramount, and nothing short of perfection is expected. Bess Kargman's documentary, First Position, follows six young dancers as they prepare for a chance to enter the world of professional ballet, struggling through bloodied feet, near exhaustion and debilitating injuries all while navigating the drama of adolescence.

Bess Kargman