Best DVD & Blu-rays Released September 2014
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Ratings
- 4 / 5
out of 5 stars
(25)
Moms' Night Out
All Allyson and her friends want is a peaceful, grown-up evening of dinner and conversation . . . a long-needed moms' night out. But in order to enjoy high heels, adult conversation and food not served in a paper bag, they need their husbands to watch the kids for three hours—what could go wrong?
Patricia Heaton, Trace Adkins, Andrew Erwin, Jon Erwin, Robert Amaya, Sarah Drew, Sean Astin, David Hunt
Ratings
- 4.2 / 5
out of 5 stars
(60)
Draft Day
The general manager of the Cleveland Browns spends the day of the National Football League draft frantically trying to get the number one pick for his struggling team.
Jennifer Garner, Ivan Reitman, Scott Rothman, Kevin Costner, Denis Leary, Sean Combs, Rosanna Arquette, Griffin Newman
Ratings
- 3.7 / 5
out of 5 stars
(31)
Million Dollar Arm
Based on a true story of an American sports agent who discovered two Indian teenagers in a village who could throw 95mph fastballs, and brought them back to the US, moved in with them, teaching them english, american culture, and the game of baseball. At 19 years old, they signed with the Pittsburgh Pirates with million dollar contracts.
Craig Gillespie, Joe Roth, Tom McCarthy, Jon Hamm, Lake Bell, Mark Ciardi, Gordon Gray, Mitch Glazer
Ratings
- 3.3 / 5
out of 5 stars
(3)
Two: The Story of Roman & Ny...
Combining over twelve years of footage and narrated by their twin sons, TWO: The Story of Roman & Nyro, follows legendary songwriter Desmond Child and his lifelong partner's loving journey to create their new modern family.
Curtis Shaw Child, Desmond Child, Jon Bon Jovi, Brent Briscoe, Heather Winters, Karl Bakke, John Barrett
Ratings
- 2.7 / 5
out of 5 stars
(6)
They Came Together
When Joel and Molly meet, it's hate at first sight; his big corporation is the one that threatens to shut down her quirky knick-knack store. Their predictably on-again/off-again relationship involves a jealous ex-girlfriend, an office jerk, scary in-laws, a boring dentist, a wise dog and beautiful shots of New York City in autumn.
Paul Rudd, Cobie Smulders, Jason Mantzoukas, Ed Helms, David Wain, Michael Showalter, Amy Poehler, Christopher Meloni
Ratings
- 3 / 5
out of 5 stars
(1)
Night Moves
Follows three eco-terrorists who plot to blow up a dam. Jesse Eisenberg will play the ringleader, while Dakota Fanning will play a wealthy young girl who funds the plan. Peter Sarsgaard will play the mastermind behind the bomb.
Dakota Fanning, Kelly Reichardt, Jesse Eisenberg, Peter Sarsgaard
Ratings
- 1 / 5
out of 5 stars
(2)
American Promise
American Promise spans 13 years as Joe Brewster and Michèle Stephenson, middle-class African-American parents in Brooklyn, N.Y., turn their cameras on their son, Idris, and his best friend, Seun, who make their way through one of the most prestigious private schools in the country. Chronicling the boys' divergent paths from kindergarten through high school graduation at Manhattan's Dalton School, this provocative, intimate documentary presents complicated truths about America's struggle to come of age on issues of race, class and opportunity.
Joe Brewster, Michele Stephenson
Out of the Clear Blue Sky
Out of the Clear Blue Sky tells the riveting, behind-the-scenes story of Cantor Fitzgerald. It’s a story of disaster without precedent. What do you when everything – and almost everyone – is gone?
On September 10, 2001, financial firm Cantor Fitzgerald was headquartered on the top 5 floors of the World Trade Center. With offices soaring 100 stories above downtown Manhattan, the Wall Street powerhouse was unknown to the public until tragedy struck. On September 11, 2001, 658 of their employees were missing – presumed dead – in the nation’s worst terrorist attacks. Overnight, Cantor became world famous for the worst of all possible reasons. One of the few who survived was their notorious CEO Howard Lutnick, who had been taking his son to his first day of kindergarten when the planes hit. On September 13th, Lutnick’s emotionally raw, tear-filled interviews transfixed the nation. His distraught television appearances struck a deep personal chord with millions of traumatized Americans reeling and shell-shocked by the unprecedented attacks. But, within a week, in a move that was to become very controversial, Lutnick stopped the paychecks of his missing employees. It was an act that has been praised by some – as a necessary decision to save the company to help the widows of his fallen friends — but severely lambasted by more — as a self-serving, heartless betrayal by a man well known for his ruthlessness. Lutnick’s prior reputation as cut-throat – even by Wall Street standards – preceded him.
The media turned on him and Lutnick went from sympathetic face-of-the-tragedy to vilified pariah over night. Then he completely withdrew from the public eye. Though Cantor suffered almost twice the casualties of the FDNY, their story soon disappeared.
Directed by a September 11th family member, “Out of the Clear Blue” tells twin stories – not only the saga of the ravaged business and surviving employees, but also an insider’s take on the unusual community of families that formed in the aftermath. Cantor’s loss was not only the largest loss by a single entity, it also created the largest single group of mourners, over 6000 people bound by their horrific common experience. This was tragedy writ large. People too young to die, all knowing each other, lost on one day. There wasn’t one memorial to attend; there were 10 a day for over two months, forcing people to choose whose funeral to go to. It wasn’t one dead per family; it was doubles or even triple losses in a family. This wasn’t a private loss; this was as public as could be, with television images played and re-played endlessly and inescapably. A true stranger-than-fiction account, from the jittery and stunned first days — a time unlike any other in American memory — then unfolding over months and years, the film captures what it’s like being caught in the crosshairs of history.
Danielle Gardner
Ratings
- 3.4 / 5
out of 5 stars
(15)
Third Person
Follows three inter-connected love stories of three couples in three cities, Rome, Paris and New York. The Rome-set segment revolves around a young couple on a road trip, to be played be Casey Affleck and Moran Atias. Both Liam Neeson and Olivia Wilde will play writers in the Paris-set section of the film. Mila Kunis is negotiating to play one half of an estranged couple in New York, with James Franco playing her partner in the segment.
Casey Affleck, Liam Neeson, Mila Kunis, Paul Haggis, Olivia Wilde, James Franco, Moran Atias
Ratings
- 1.6 / 5
out of 5 stars
(7)
Citizen Koch
Academy Award®-nominated directors Carl Deal and Tia Lessin (Trouble the Water; co-producers of Fahrenheit 9/11 & Bowling for Columbine) follow the money behind the rise of the Tea Party. Citizen Koch investigates the impact of unlimited, anonymous spending by corporations and billionaires on the electoral process, featuring stories of life-long Republicans whose loyalty is tested when their families become collateral damage in the GOP fight to take organized labor out at the knees.
Carl Deal, Tia Lessin
Ratings
- 2.7 / 5
out of 5 stars
(7)
Cabin Fever: Patient Zero
Centers on a bachelor party cruise in the Caribbean that unexpectedly runs ashore on a medical research island, where a deadly virus is unleashed.
Jake Wadewall, Kaare Andrews, Evan Astrowsky, Sean Astin, Brando Eaton, Ben Hollingsworth
Ratings
- 3.2 / 5
out of 5 stars
(6)
Whitewash
In the harsh, wintry woods of rural Quebec, Bruce (Thomas Haden Church), a down-on-his-luck snowplow operator, accidentally kills a man during a drunken night joyride. Stricken with panic, he hides the body and takes to the deep wilderness in hopes of outrunning both the authorities and his own conscience.
But as both begin to close in, Bruce falls apart mentally and morally and mysteries unravel to reveal who he was before the accident, the truth behind his victim, and the circumstances that brought them together in a single moment.
Marc Lebrèche, Thomas Haden Church
Ratings
- 4.6 / 5
out of 5 stars
(291)
Captain America: The Winter ...
Sequel to the 2011 summer movie. No plot details are available yet.
Frank Grillo, Scarlett Johansson, Samuel L. Jackson, Chris Evans, Cobie Smulders, Toby Jones, Robert Redford, Anthony Russo
Ratings
- 4.4 / 5
out of 5 stars
(33)
Brick Mansions
A detective tries to track down a stolen weapon of mass destruction in the ghetto dubbed Brick Mansions. He enlists the help of a fearless man who knows the slums better than anyone else.
Luc Besson, RZA, Christophe Lambert, Catalina Denis, Camille Delamarre, Robert Mark Kamen, Paul Walker, David Belle
Ratings
- 3.7 / 5
out of 5 stars
(6)
God's Pocket
Set in the gritty blue-collar neighborhood of God's Pocket, a man's crazy stepson is killed in a construction "accident" and the man quickly tries to bury the bad news with the body. But when a local columnist comes sniffing around for the truth, things go from bad to worse. The man finds himself stuck in a life and death struggle between a body he can’t bury, a wife he can’t please and a debt he can’t pay.
Christina Hendricks, John Turturro, John Slattery, Alex Metcalf, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Richard Jenkins
Ratings
- 3 / 5
out of 5 stars
(5)
A Long Way Down
Four people meet on New Year's Eve and form a surrogate family to help themselves weather the difficult holiday period.
Pierce Brosnan, Rosamund Pike, Sam Neill, Imogen Poots, Pascal Chaumeil, Finola Dwyer, Amanda Posey, Nick Hornby
Ratings
- 4 / 5
out of 5 stars
(2)
Palo Alto
Palo Alto weaves together three stories of teenage lust, boredom, and self-destruction: shy, sensitive April (Emma Roberts), torn between an illicit flirtation with her soccer coach (James Franco) and an unrequited crush on sweet stoner Teddy (Jack Kilmer); Emily (Zoe Levin), who offers sexual favors to any boy to cross her path; and the increasingly dangerous exploits of Teddy and his best friend Fred (Nat Wolff), whose behavior may or may not be sociopathic.
Emma Roberts, Nat Wolff, James Franco, Val Kilmer, Chris Messina, Christian Madsen, Gia Coppola
Ratings
- 3.8 / 5
out of 5 stars
(5)
Words and Pictures
Prep school English teacher Jack Marcus (Clive Owen) laments his students' obsession with social media and good grades - as opposed to rigorous engagement with language. A one-time literary star, Jack has not published in years. He's let the school's literary magazine fall into ruin. He's estranged from his son. In short, Jack has much to despair of, and when Jack despairs, Jack drinks. A lot. Jack's drunken behaviour has been bad enough to have him banned from a local upscale pub.
Dina Delsanto (Juliette Binoche) is an abstract painter. Like Jack, she was once celebrated for her art, but the onset of arthritis has made the physical act of painting too painful to bear. Jack finds Dina attractive but icy; he flirts with and provokes her with equal relish.
Clive Owen, Fred Schepisi, Juliette Binoche, Keegan Connor Tracy, Amy Brenneman, Valerie Tian, Bruce Davison
Ratings
- 4.6 / 5
out of 5 stars
(5)
The Hornet's Nest
Armed only with cameras, Peabody and Emmy Award-winning conflict Journalist Mike Boettcher, and his son, Carlos, provide unprecedented access into the longest war in U.S. history. Mike and Carlos embed with U.S. Forces fighting on the front lines in Afghanistan, amidst the constant threat of the Taliban. They are the only Father and Son Journalist Team to ever embed with the US Frontline Armed Forces due to the extreme danger involved.
Christian Tureaud, David Salzberg
Ratings
- 4 / 5
out of 5 stars
(1)
The Galapagos Affair: Satan ...
Featuring the voice performances of international stars Cate Blanchett, Diane Kruger, Connie Nielsen, Sebastian Koch, Thomas Kretschmann, Gustaf Skarsgård and Josh Radnor, this film interweaves an unsolved 1930s murder mystery with stories of present day Galapagos pioneers (a handful of Europeans, Americans and Ecuadoreans who settled idiosyncratically on the Islands between the 1930s and 1960s).
Cate Blanchett, Diane Kruger, Dan Geller, Dayna Goldfine, Thomas Kretschmann, Josh Radnor, Connie Nielsen
Ratings
- 4.5 / 5
out of 5 stars
(309)
Godzilla
The monster is awakened by an undersea explosion and wreaks havoc on the citizens of Tokyo.
Elizabeth Olsen, Bryan Cranston, Thomas Tull, Mary Parent, Patrick Sabongui, Doug Davison, Gareth Edwards, Brian Rogers
Ratings
- 4.4 / 5
out of 5 stars
(107)
The Fault In Our Stars
A 16-year-old girl with terminal cancer strikes up a relationship with a teenage boy at her kids-with-cancer support group. Despite facing their own mortality, they bolster each other’s spirits with humor as they bravely face an uncertain future.
Nat Wolff, Willem Dafoe, Shailene Woodley, Marty Bowen, Laura Dern, Ansel Elgort, Josh Boone, Wyck Godfrey
Ratings
- 3.8 / 5
out of 5 stars
(50)
Think Like A Man Too
Women turn the table on men by thinking like a man.
Taraji P. Henson, Regina Hall, Kevin Hart, Michael Ealy, Gary Owen, Wendi McLendon-Covey, Adam Brody, Tim Story
Ratings
- 2.3 / 5
out of 5 stars
(4)
Burt's Buzz
The film takes an intimate look at the world of Burt Shavitz, the face and co-founder of Burt’s Bees, exploring his fascinating and unique life. Wise and wry, ornery and opinionated, the reclusive Shavitz is committed to living off the land and keeping true to his humble beginnings despite his celebrity status. The film chronicles Burt’s life as a photographer, beekeeper, and brand spokesman, following his complicated relationship with the company, his fans, and the world around him.
Jody Shapiro
Ratings
- 3.3 / 5
out of 5 stars
(3)
The German Doctor
Patagonia, 1960. A German doctor (Alex Brendemühl) meets an Argentinean family and follows them on a long desert road to a small town where the family will be starting a new life. Eva (Natalia Oreiro), Enzo (Diego Peretti) and their three children welcome the doctor into their home and entrust their young daughter, Lilith (Florencia Bado), to his care, not knowing that they are harboring one of the most dangerous criminals in the world. At the same time, Israeli agents are desperately looking to bring The German Doctor to justice.
Lucia Puenzo
Ratings
- 3.9 / 5
out of 5 stars
(90)
Neighbors
A regular guy lives near an alpha male fraternity house and a member of the fraternity's raucous behavior wreaks havoc on his family life.
Andrew Cohen, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Chasty Ballesteros, Zac Efron, Rose Byrne, Dave Franco, Jake Johnson, Nicholas Stoller
Ratings
- 3.1 / 5
out of 5 stars
(20)
The Rover
A man goes on a mission to retrieve his stolen car, which contains something invaluable to him.
Robert Pattinson, Scoot McNairy, Susan Prior, David Michod, Liz Watts, David Linde, Guy Pearce, Anthony Hayes
Ratings
- 4.5 / 5
out of 5 stars
(2)
Free the Mind
In 1992 Professor Richard Davidson, one of the world’s leading neuroscientists, met the Dalai Lama, who encouraged him to apply the same rigorous methods he used to study depression and anxiety to the study of compassion and kindness, those qualities cultivated by Tibetan meditation practice. The results of Davidson’s studies at the Center for Investigating Healthy Minds at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, are portrayed in Free the Mind as they are applied to treating PTSD in returning Iraqi vets and children with ADHD. The film poses two fundamental questions: What really is consciousness, and how does it manifest in the brain and body? And is it possible to physically change the brain solely through mental practices?
Phie Ambo
Ratings
- 3.6 / 5
out of 5 stars
(5)
Very Good Girls
The story centers on two recent high school graduates who try to lose their virginity during one summer in New York City. Their friendship is tested when they both fall for the same man.
Dakota Fanning, Elizabeth Olsen, Hawk Koch, Boyd Holbrook, Gale Anne Hurd, Naomi Foner, Peter Sarsgaard, Dustin Hoffman
Ratings
- 2 / 5
out of 5 stars
(3)
The Last of the Unjust
1975. In Rome, Claude Lanzmann filmed a series of interviews with Benjamin Murmelstein, the last President of the Jewish Council in the Theresienstadt ghetto in Czechoslovakia, the only "Elder of the Jews" not to have been killed during the war. A rabbi in Vienna, following the annexation of Austria by Germany in 1938, Murmelstein fought bitterly with Adolf Eichmann, week after week for seven years, managing to help around 121,000 Jews leave the country, and preventing the liquidation of the ghetto.
2012. Claude Lanzmann, at 87 – without masking anything of the passage of time on men, but showing the incredible permanence of the locations involved –exhumes these interviews shot in Rome, returning to Theresienstadt, the town “given to the Jews by Hitler”, a so-called model ghetto, but a ghetto of deceit chosen by Adolf Eichmann to dupe the world. We discover the extraordinary personality of Benjamin Murmelstein: a man blessed with a dazzling intelligence and a true courage, which, along with an unrivaled memory, makes him a wonderfully wry, sardonic and authentic storyteller.
Through these three periods, from Nisko in Poland to Theresienstadt, and from Vienna to Rome, the film provides an unprecedented insight into the genesis of the Final Solution. It reveals the true face of Eichmann, and exposes without artifice the savage contradictions of the Jewish Councils.
Claude Lanzmann
Ratings
- 3.5 / 5
out of 5 stars
(15)
The Signal
Three college students on a road trip across the Southwest experience a detour: the tracking of a computer genius who has already hacked into MIT and exposed security faults. The trio find themselves drawn to an eerily isolated area. Suddenly everything goes dark. When one of the students, Nic (Brenton Thwaites), regains consciousness, he is in a waking nightmare…
Olivia Cooke, Laurence Fishburne, William Eubank, Sarah Clarke, Beau Knapp, Robert Longstreet, Lin Shaye, Brenton Thwaites
Ratings
- 2.5 / 5
out of 5 stars
(6)
The Olivia Experiment
Olivia Howell is a modern-day woman—brilliant, educated, funny, but with a secret. Turns out this 27-year-old graduate student thinks her intimacy issues might actually be a sign that she is—asexual. Confused and stressed out, Olivia's world is turned upside down when a concerned girlfriend offers to “loan” her very own boyfriend to Olivia for sex! Now with the support of her gay roommate, a lesbian friend and the digital age, Olivia embarks on a quest of exploration to understand the most basic of human mysteries: sex.
Sonja Schenk, Skye Noel, Jen Lilley, Brett Baumayr
Ratings
- 4.3 / 5
out of 5 stars
(194)
Chef
Follows a man who loses his chef job and starts up a food truck to reclaim his artistic promise, while simultaneously reclaiming his estranged family.
Scarlett Johansson, Robert Downey Jr., Jon Favreau, Sofia Vergara, Sergei Bespalov, Karen Gilchrist, Amy Sedaris, Oliver Platt
Ratings
- 4 / 5
out of 5 stars
(387)
Transformers 4: Age of Extin...
Paramount is keeping the plot details secrets. However, Vulture reports that it will not be a prequel and instead explore little-known characters from the Transformers canon.
Steven Spielberg, Mark Wahlberg, Stanley Tucci, Han Geng, Titus Welliver, John Goodman, Lorenzo di Bonaventura, Don Murphy
Ratings
- 2.9 / 5
out of 5 stars
(15)
Leprechaun: Origins
An evil, sadistic Leprechaun goes on a killing rampage in search of his beloved pot of gold.
Zach Lipovsky, Dylan Hornswoggle Postl, Harris Wilkinson, Brendan Fletcher, Stephanie Bennett, Teach Grant, Bruce Blain
Ratings
- 3.4 / 5
out of 5 stars
(9)
Are You Here
A romantic comedy from "Mad Men" creator Matthew Weiner.
Scott Hornbacher, Matthew Weiner, Jordan Horowitz, Owen Wilson, Alana Garza, Gary Gilbert, Amy Poehler, Laura Ramsey
Ratings
- 3.8 / 5
out of 5 stars
(5)
Hellion
In the dead of winter, the kidnapping of a young boy results in fatal consequences in the supernatural thriller "Hellion".
Max's last resort—and only remaining choice—is to team up with two shady associates hired by an absent mastermind to kidnap the son of one of the richest women in the state. After Max abducts the eight-year-old, he joins Roxanne and the fellow conspirators on an eerie, unsettling drive to their secluded winter hideout, an abandoned summer camp.
As they await ransom instructions, the group begins to turn on each other as past suspicions, betrayals and secrets inexplicability come into play. When the escalating events take a horrific turn, it soon becomes apparent to Max that the child may not be the innocent he first appeared to be.
Paul Brooks, Damon Lee, Walter Hamada, Christopher Borrelli, Scott Niemeyer, Norm Waitt
Ratings
- 4 / 5
out of 5 stars
(1)
Decoding Annie Parker
A breast-cancer patient believes her illness has a genetic component. Researchers work to determine the role DNA plays in the deadly disease. Doctors dismiss her beliefs, but she is ahead of her time: The group's research eventually leads to the discovery of BRCA1, which is associated with breast and ovarian cancer.
Bradley Whitford, Alice Eve, Steven Bernstein, Clark Peterson, Michael Moss, Aaron Paul, Maggie Grace, Rashida Jones
Ratings
- 3.1 / 5
out of 5 stars
(8)
Space Station 76
A dramatic comedy that takes place in a 1970's version of the future, where personalities and asteroids collide.
Jack Plotnick, Patrick Wilson, Liv Tyler, Marisa Coughlan, Matt Bomer, Jerry O'Connell, Kylie Rogers, Kali Rocha
Lucky Them
A rock-music journalist is assigned to track down her ex-boyfriend.
Alec Baldwin, Ryan Eggold, Joanne Woodward, Megan Griffiths, Huck Botko, Emily Wachtel, Thomas Haden Church, Allison Janney
Ratings
- 3.4 / 5
out of 5 stars
(15)
Third Person
Follows three inter-connected love stories of three couples in three cities, Rome, Paris and New York. The Rome-set segment revolves around a young couple on a road trip, to be played be Casey Affleck and Moran Atias. Both Liam Neeson and Olivia Wilde will play writers in the Paris-set section of the film. Mila Kunis is negotiating to play one half of an estranged couple in New York, with James Franco playing her partner in the segment.
Casey Affleck, Liam Neeson, Mila Kunis, Paul Haggis, Olivia Wilde, James Franco, Moran Atias
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