Best DVD & Blu-rays Released September 2011
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Hanna
A 14-year-old raised by her father to be a cold-hearted killing machine must learn how to be a girl.
Eric Bana, Saoirse Ronan, Cate Blanchett, Jason Flemyng, Joe Wright, Olivia Williams, Marty Adelstein, Tom Hollander
Assassination Games
Jack Conway and Derek Chase (Van Damme) are the two best assassins in the world—but unknown to each other. While Conway is a master sharpshooter, Chase is equally skilled with a knife.
Scott Adkins, Jean-Claude Van Damme, Patrick Newall, Justin Bursch, Brad Krevoy, Ernie Barbarash, Michael Higgs
Last Night
A married couple is apart for a night while the husband takes a business trip with a colleague to whom he's attracted. While he's resisting temptation, his wife encounters her past love.
Griffin Dunne, Keira Knightley, Sam Worthington, Eva Mendes, Nick Wechsler, Guillaume Canet, Massy Tadjedin, Scott Adsit
Scarface
Released in 1983, Scarface is directed by Brian Del Palma and written by Oliver Stone and stars Al Pacino, Michelle Pfeiffer and Steven Bauer. Scarface is the rags-to-riches story of Tony “Scarface” Montana (Al Pacino), a Cuban immigrant who finds wealth, power and passion beyond his wildest dreams…at a price he never imagined. Tony Montana’s meteoric rise, lavish life and soul-destroying fall anchor an epic film that inspired a worldwide following.
Al Pacino, Steven Bauer, Robert Loggia, Brian De Palma, Michelle Pfeiffer, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio
Vidal Sassoon: The Movie
The documentary traces the life of a self-made man whose passion and perseverance took him from a Jewish orphanage in London to the absolute pinnacle of hairdressing.
Craig Teper
Singham
Bajirao Singham (Ajay Devgn) is a police sub- inspector who hails from a small town of Sawantwadi in Maharashtra. He fights against corruption with the valor of lion. When Kavya (Kaajal Aggarwal) comes to Sawantwadi, from Goa to visit her grandparents on a vacation she is charmed by Bajirao’s bold and courageous demeanor. Everything goes well for Singham until there is a clash with a goon that eventually escalates into a full blown fight. Singham eventually gets promoted & is transferred to Goa which also happens to be the operational hub of the goon. While this move brings Singham closer to Kavya, it also brings him in the clutches of the very same goon who is on a mission to destroy him. How Singham rises to the challenge to expose this crook and put an end to his malicious activities forms the rest of the story.
Rohit Shetty
Everything Must Go
A guy loses his job and gets locked out of the house by his wife. She deposits his belongings on the front lawn, and he spends the next four days trying to sell his possessions.
Will Ferrell, Gabourey Sidibe, Wyck Godfrey, Marty Bowen, Rebecca Hall, Laura Dern, Stephen Root, Michael Peña
X-Men: First Class
Said to be a next-gen sensibility into the superhero series. Probably focusing on young mutants with powers taught at the Xavier Institute for Higher Learning.
Nicholas Hoult, Michael Fassbender, Matthew Vaughn, Simon Kinberg, Jason Flemyng, Rose Byrne, Zoe Kravitz, Ashley E. Miller
Thor
Story of the mythological hammer-throwing Thor, the son of the Norse god Odin.
Anthony Hopkins, Kenneth Branagh, Chris Hemsworth, Idris Elba, Kevin Feige, Natalie Portman, Stan Lee, Tom Hiddleston
Son of Morning
The movie centers on a dissatisfied ad copywriter (Joseph Cross) who returns home to a resort town in Florida to mediate his parents' divorce. While there, he is mistaken for the Messiah and must decide whether to use his newfound celebrity to indulge his own selfish desires or to do some good in the world.
Heather Graham, Jesse Bradford, Bob Odenkirk, Stephen Root, Lorraine Bracco, Steven Weber, Danny Glover, Moritz Borman
The Tempest
In Julie Taymor's version of "The Tempest," the gender of Prospero has been switched to Prospera. Shakespeare's play mixes romance with fraternal politics and the supernatural. As revised for the screen, it will center around Prospera (Mirren), her daughter Miranda (Jones) and a shipwrecked crew full of Prospera's enemies.
Geoffrey Rush, Chris Cooper, Djimon Hounsou, Helen Mirren, Alfred Molina, Julie Taymor, Jeremy Irons, Russell Brand
Hesher
"Hesher" is the story of a twenty-something long-haired tattooed metal-head who one day unexpectedly enters the life of a grieving family. Hesher (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) is the most unlikely person to help 13-year-old TJ (Devin Brochu) cope with the death of his mother, but he proves to be the only one who can truly free TJ from his overwhelming sadness. The charismatic and dangerous Hesher drags TJ out of loss and confusion by sheer force of will and gives the young boy and his grieving father (Rainn Wilson) a chance to be a family again.
Rainn Wilson, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Natalie Portman, Devin Brochu, Spencer Susser, Piper Laurie
Love, Wedding, Marriage
A family comedy-drama about love and divorce. In the story, an idealistic young newlywed who is also a marriage counselor returns from her honeymoon only to learn that her parents, whom she saw as the model for a happy marriage, are getting a divorce.
Dermot Mulroney, Kellan Lutz, Nathalie Marciano, Kathy Bates, Jessica Szohr, Mandy Moore, Jane Seymour, Anouska Chydzik Bryson
Conan O'Brien Can't Stop
Covers Conan O'Brien's live concert tour following his depature from The Tonight Show.
Rodman Flender, Conan O'Brien
Without Men
In a remote South American town, the women remake their world when all the town's men are forcibly recruited by communist guerrillas.
Christian Slater, Eva Longoria, Gabriela Tagliavini, Paul Rodriguez, Yvette Yates, Judy Reyes
True Legend
Su Can’s (Vincent Zhao) respectable life is obliterated when his vengeful brother, Yuan (Andy On), returns from war armed with the deadly Five Venom Fists. Weakened but not destroyed, Su Can learns a never-before-seen form of martial arts: the Drunken Fist. Armed with this new power, he returns home to honor his family through retribution by taking on his brother in a battle to become the ultimate warrior.
Michelle Yeoh, Man Cheuk Chiu, Woo-ping Yuen
Bill Cunningham New York
For decades, the Schwinn-riding Bill Cunningham, cultural anthropologist, has been obsessively and inventively chronicling fashion trends and high society charity soirées for the New York Times Style section.
Richard Press
35 and Ticking
A romantic comedy which looks at a group of thirty-somethings trying to figure out life, love and marriage.
Kevin Hart, Mike Epps, Tamala Jones, Clifton Powell, Meagan Good, Nicole Ari Parker, Russ Parr, Wendy Raquel Robinson
Meek's Cutoff
The year is 1845, the earliest days of the Oregon Trail, and a wagon train of three families has hired mountain man Stephen Meek to guide them over the Cascade Mountains. Claiming to know a shortcut, Meek leads the group on an unmarked path across the high plain desert, only to become lost in the dry rock and sage. Over the coming days, the emigrants face the scourges of hunger, thirst and their own lack of faith in one another’s instincts for survival. When a Native American wanderer crosses their path, the emigrants are torn between their trust in a guide who has proven himself unreliable and a man who has always been seen as a natural born enemy.
Michelle Williams, Shirley Henderson, Zoe Kazan, Bruce Greenwood, Paul Dano, Kelly Reichardt
The Harvest/La Cosecha
Children who work as many as 12 hours a day, six months a year in the scorching hot sun, without the protection of child labor laws. These children are not toiling in the fields in some far away land. They are working here, in our back yard, in America.
U. Roberto Romano
Star Wars: Episode I - The P...
The Trade Federation begins an embargo around the planet Naboo. The Galactic Senate sends Qui-Gon Jinn and Obi-Wan Kenobi to settle the issue, but events don't go according to the plan.
Ewan McGregor, Liam Neeson, Natalie Portman, Anthony Daniels, Frank Oz, Ahmed Best, Kenny Baker, Ian McDiarmid
Bridesmaids
No plot details have been announced.
Kristen Wiig, Maya Rudolph, Melissa McCarthy, Jon Hamm, Matt Lucas, Paul Feig, Wendi McLendon-Covey, Rose Byrne
We Are the Night
An tale of a provocative gang of female vampires living large, making their own rules and leaving a merciless trail of blood. The film centers on a 20-year-old Berlin native Lena (Karoline Herfurth) who gets by as a petty thief. On one of her nightly job runs through an underground club, she meets 250-year-old Louise (Nina Hoss). Louise is a glamorous vixen, who is not only the owner of the club, but also the leader of an unusual all-female vampire trio - the other two members being wild child Nora (Anna Fischer) and elegant Charlotte (Jennifer Ulrich). Louise falls head over heels in love with the scruffy Lena and bites her during their first night together. Once bitten, Lena discovers the curse and the blessing of her new, eternal life. She revels in the glamour, parties and infinite freedom. But she quickly discovers that the endless blood thirst and murderous appetite of her new girlfriends come at a steep price. When Berlin police commissioner Tom Serner (Max Riemelt) begins investigating the women, it is just a matter of time before their day comes and events spiral out of control.
Karoline Herfurth, Nina Hoss, Dennis Gansel, Max Riemelt, Jan Berger, Jennifer Ulrich, Anna Fischer
Bride Flight
Three young women – Ada (Karina Smulders), Esther (Anna Drijver), and Marjorie (Elise Schaap) – emigrate from post-WWII Holland to New Zealand for what they hope will be a better life. They are all awaited by their fiancés, who have already settled in Christchurch. On the plane trip overseas – dubbed the 'Bride Flight' – the three become fast friends and meet a dashing young man, Frank (Waldemar Torenstra), who will come to play a large role in each of their lives.
Rutger Hauer, Anna Drijver, Ben Sombogaart, Waldemar Torenstra, Karina Smulders, Elise Schaap
Spooky Buddies
In a race against a no good hound, the Buddies and their new friends, Pip, Zelda, Rodney, and Skip, must stop Warwick the Warlock and save the world from his dastardly deeds.
Robert Vince, Sierra McCormick, Anna McRoberts, Harland Williams
An Invisible Sign
"An Invisible Sign of My Own" is a coming-of-age drama based on Aimee Bender's quirky novel about a 20-year-old loner named Mona Gray (Alba) who as a child turned to math for salvation after her father became ill. As an adult, Gray now teaches the subject and must help her students through their own crises.
Jessica Alba, J.K. Simmons, Chris Messina, Pam Falk, Marilyn Agrelo, Mike Ellis
Circo
Set within a century-old traveling circus, a Mexican family struggles to stay together despite mounting debt, dwindling audiences, and a simmering family conflict that threatens this once-vibrant family tradition.
Aaron Schock
Inside Out
Recently sprung from prison, Arlo Jayne (Triple H) is determined to make a new life for himself, but when his best friend (Michael Rapaport) accidentally shoots a guy, Arlo Jayne must scramble to protect his friend's family.
Bruce Dern, Parker Posey, Mike Pavone, Michael Rapaport, Artie Mandelberg, Lori Lewis, Dylan Schaffer, Paul Levesque
All She Can
In a small Texas town, a high school student enters a powerlifting competition in order to earn a college scholarship.
Daniel Meisel, Julio Cedillo, Amy Wendel
The Butcher, The Chef and Th...
A stylized thriller rooted in a Chinese legend about a mystical blade that changes the fate of each of its three ambitious owners.
Wuershan
Viva Riva!
Riva is a small time operator who has just returned to his hometown of Kinshasa, Congo after a decade away with a major score: a fortune in hijacked gasoline. Wads of cash in hand and out for a good time, Riva is soon entranced by beautiful night club denizen Nora, the kept woman of a local gangster. Into the mix comes an Angolan crime lord relentlessly seeking the return of his stolen shipment of gasoline.
Manie Malone, Patsha Bay, Hoji Fortuna
Good Neighbors
Set in the dead of winter, Good Neighbors tells the story of a serial killer on the loose. Three residents of a small apartment building retreat indoors, but they might not be any safer there.
Scott Speedman, Jay Baruchel, Emily Hampshire, Kevin Tierney, Jacob Tierney
L'Amour Fou
The public life of Yves Saint Laurent was an extravagant spectacle, as a design prodigy and then the grand coutourier of a fashion empire, he influenced fifty years of style and was an icon to millions -- but few are familiar with the private life of the legend. In Pierre Thoretton's L'Amour Fou, Pierre Berge, the man with which YSL shared four decades of his life, reflects on the equally extravagant history of their personal relationship.
Pierre Thoretton
Dum Maaro Dum
A crime thriller set in the tourist hotspot of Goa, India.
Abhishek Bachchan, Shridhar Raghavan, Rohan Sippy, Bipasha Basu
Transformers: Dark of the Mo...
The follow-up to "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen". No plot details are available yet.
Michael Bay, Shia LaBeouf, Steven Spielberg, Ken Jeong, Tyrese Gibson, Tom DeSanto, John Malkovich, Alex Kurtzman
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Picture This
Sister Midnight
Hans Zimmer & Friends: Diamond in the Desert
Superboys of Malegaon
Untitled Sony and Marvel Universe Film
Colorful Stage! The Movie: A Miku Who Can't Sing
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