New Releases on DVD
Last updated Tuesday, Apr. 23, 2024
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The LEGO Movie
Starring: Chris Pratt (Emmet), Elizabeth Banks (Wyldstyle/Lucy), Will Arnett (Batman), Will Ferrell (President Business), Morgan Freeman (Vitruvius)
Rated: PG
DVD Release: Tue, Jun. 17, 2014
Length: 1hr 41min
Boasting beautiful animation, a charming voice cast, laugh-a-minute gags, and a surprisingly thoughtful story, The Lego Movie is colorful fun for all ages.
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"The LEGO (R) Movie" is the first-ever, full-length theatrical LEGO (R) adventure. The original 3D computer animated story follows Emmet (Chris Pratt) an ordinary, rules- following, perfectly average LEGO minifigure who is mistakenly identified as the most extraordinary person and the key to saving the world. He is drafted into a fellowship of strangers on an epic quest to stop an evil tyrant, a journey for which Emmet is hopelessly and hilariously underprepared. (c) Warner Bros
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The Grand Budapest Hotel
Starring: Saoirse Ronan (Agatha), Ralph Fiennes (M. Gustave), Bill Murray (M. Ivan), Tilda Swinton (Madame D.), Jeff Goldblum (Deputy Kovacs)
Rated: R
DVD Release: Tue, Jun. 17, 2014
Length: 1hr 39min
Typically stylish but deceptively thoughtful, The Grand Budapest Hotel finds Wes Anderson once again using ornate visual environments to explore deeply emotional ideas.
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THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL recounts the adventures of Gustave H, a legendary concierge at a famous European hotel between the wars, and Zero Moustafa, the lobby boy who becomes his most trusted friend. The story involves the theft and recovery of a priceless Renaissance painting and the battle for an enormous family fortune -- all against the back-drop ofa suddenly and dramatically changing Continent. (c) Fox Searchlight
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Joe
Starring: Nicolas Cage (Joe), Tye Sheridan (Gary Jones), Gary Poulter (Wade a.k.a. G-Daawg), Ronnie Gene Blevins (Willie-Russell), Adrienne Mishler (Connie)
Rated: R
DVD Release: Tue, Jun. 17, 2014
Length: 1hr 56min
Rich in atmosphere and anchored by a powerful performance from Nicolas Cage, Joe is a satisfying return to form for its star -- as well as director David Gordon Green.
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A gripping mix of friendship, violence and redemption erupts in the contemporary South in this adaptation of Larry Brown's novel, celebrated at once for its grit and its deeply moving core. Directed by David Gordon Green, JOE film brings Academy Award (R) winner Nicolas Cage back to his indie roots in the title role as the hard-living, hot-tempered, ex-con Joe Ransom, who is just trying to dodge his instincts for trouble - until he meets a hard-luck kid, (MUD's Tye Sheridan) who awakens in him a fierce and tender-hearted protector. (c) Roadside
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Walk Of Shame
Starring: Elizabeth Banks (Meghan Miles), James Marsden (Gordon), Gillian Jacobs (Rose), Sarah Wright (Denise), Kevin Nealon (Chopper Steve)
Rated: R
DVD Release: Tue, Jun. 17, 2014
Length: 1hr 35min
Incoherent, unfunny, and borderline misogynist, Walk of Shame lives up to its title for filmgoers entering and leaving the theater.
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The outrageous comedy WALK OF SHAME stars Elizabeth Banks (The Hunger Games, Pitch Perfect) as a resourceful reporter whose one-night stand with a handsome stranger (James Marsden of Anchorman 2) leaves her stranded the next morning in downtown Los Angeles without a phone, car, ID, or money - and only 8 hours before the most important job interview of her career. (c) Focus world
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The Machine
Starring: Toby Stephens (Vincent McCarthy), Caity Lotz (Ava/The Machine), Denis Lawson (Thomson), Sam Hazeldine (James), Pooneh Hajimohammadi (Suri)
Rated: R
DVD Release: Tue, Jun. 17, 2014
Length: 1hr 31min
The Machine proves an audacious debut for writer-director Caradog James and a solid entry in modern British sci-fi, with thematic heft to match its genre thrills.
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Two computer programmers fall in love as they create the first-ever piece of self-aware artificial intelligence, designed to help humanity. But things go terribly wrong when the British Government steals their breakthrough and teaches it to become a robotic weapon. (c) Xlrator
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Non-Stop
Starring: Liam Neeson (Bill Marks), Julianne Moore (Jen Summers), Nate Parker (Zack White), Scoot McNairy (Tom Bowen), Michelle Dockery (Nancy)
Rated: PG-13
DVD Release: Tue, Jun. 10, 2014
Length: 1hr 47min
While Liam Neeson is undoubtedly an asset, Non-Stop wastes its cast -- not to mention its solid premise and tense setup -- on a poorly conceived story that hinges on a thoroughly unbelievable final act.
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Global action star Liam Neeson stars in NON-STOP, a suspense thriller played out at 40,000 feet in the air. During a transatlantic flight from New York City to London, U.S. Air Marshal Bill Marks (Neeson) receives a series of cryptic text messages demanding that he instruct the government to transfer $150 million into an off-shore account. Until he secures the money, a passenger on his flight will be killed every 20 minutes. NON-STOP, which reunites Neeson with UNKNOWN director Jaume Collet-Serra and producer Joel Silver, co-stars Golden Globe Award winner Julianne Moore and will be released by Universal Pictures on February 28, 2014. The StudioCanal production is also produced by Andrew Rona and Steve Richards. (C) Universal
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Ernest & Celestine
Starring: Forest Whitaker (Ernest [English Language]), Lambert Wilson (Ernest [French Language]), Mackenzie Foy (Celestine [English Language]), Pauline Brunner (Celestine [French Language]), Lauren Bacall (The Grey One [English Language])
Rated: PG
DVD Release: Tue, Jun. 10, 2014
Length: 1hr 20min
Sweet and visually charming, Ernest & Celestine offers old-fashioned delights for animation lovers of all ages.
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Deep below snowy, cobblestone streets, tucked away in networks of winding subterranean tunnels, lives a civilization of hardworking mice, terrified of the bears who live above ground. Unlike her fellow mice, Celestine is an artist and a dreamer - and when she nearly ends up as breakfast for ursine troubadour Ernest, the two form an unlikely bond. But it isn't long before their friendship is put on trial by their respective bear-fearing and mice-eating communities. Fresh from standing ovations at Cannes and Toronto Ernest & Celestine joyfully leaps across genres and influences to capture the kinetic, limitless possibilities of animated storytelling. Like a gorgeous watercolor painting brought to life, a constantly shifting pastel color palette bursts and drips across the screen, while wonderful storytelling and brilliant comic timing draw up influences as varied as Buster Keaton, Bugs Bunny and the outlaw romanticism of Bonnie and Clyde. Bringing it all together is the on-screen chemistry between the two lead characters - a flowing, tender and playful rapport that will put a smile on your face and make your heart glow. Based on the classic Belgian book series by Gabrielle Vincent, Ernest & Celestine is winner of the Cesar Award for Best Animated Feature and numerous festival prizes. (c) GKids
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Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit
Starring: Chris Pine (Jack Ryan), Keira Knightley (Cathy Muller), Kevin Costner (William Harper), Peter Andersson (Dimitri Lemkov), Kenneth Branagh (Viktor Cherevin)
Rated: PG-13
DVD Release: Tue, Jun. 10, 2014
Length: 1hr 45min
It doesn't reinvent the action-thriller wheel, but Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit offers a sleek, reasonably diverting reboot for a long-dormant franchise.
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Based on the character created by bestselling author Tom Clancy, "Jack Ryan" is a global action thriller set in the present day. This original story follow a young Jack (Chris Pine) as he uncovers a financial terrorist plot. The story follows him from 9/11, through his tour of duty in Afghanistan, which scarred him forever, and into his early days in the Financial Intelligence Unit of the modern CIA where he becomes an analyst, under the guardianship of his handler, Harper (Kevin Costner). When Ryan believes he's uncovered a Russian plot to collapse the United States economy, he goes from being an analyst to becoming a spy and must fight to save his own life andthose of countless others, while also trying to protect the thing that's more important to him than anything, his relationship with his fiancee Cathy (Keira Knightley). (c) Paramount
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Alan Partridge
Starring: Steve Coogan (Alan Partridge), Felicity Montagu (Lynn Benfield), Simon Greenall (Michael), Colm Meaney (Pat Farrell), Tim Key (Side Kick Simon)
Rated: R
DVD Release: Tue, Jun. 10, 2014
Length: 1hr 30min
What it lacks in gut-busting laughs, Alan Partridge more than makes up in incisive wit, serving as a fine opener for newcomers as well as a gift for longtime fans.
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Alan Partridge (Steve Coogan) has had many ups and downs in his life. National television broadcaster. Responsible for killing a guest on live TV. Local radio broadcaster. A nervous breakdown in Dundee. His self-published book, 'Bouncing Back', subsequently remaindered and pulped. ALAN PARTRIDGE finds Alan at the center of a siege, when a disgruntled fellow DJ (Colm Meaney) decides to hold their station hostage after learning that he's getting sacked by the new management. The character Alan Partridge first appeared over twenty years ago as a BBC sports reporter on the radio show, On The Hour. Since then, this wonderfully conceited, petty, anal, idiosyncratic comic creation has flourished across virtually every medium you can think of. He's been a sports reporter (again) on the seminal TV news spoof, The Day Today, host of his own TV chat show, Knowing Me, Knowing You, star of the fly-on-the-wall sitcom I'm Alan Partridge, and most recently Mid-Morning Matters..(C) Magnolia
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The Missing Picture
Starring: Jean-Baptiste Phou (Narration), Randal Douc
Rated: Unrat
DVD Release: Tue, Jun. 10, 2014
Length: 1hr 36min
Thrillingly unorthodox and emotionally searing without being didactic, The Missing Picture is a uniquely poignant documentary -- and so much more.
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SYNOPSIS: For many years, I have been looking for the missing picture: a photograph taken between 1975 and 1979 by the Khmer Rouge when they ruled over Cambodia...On its own, of course, an image cannot prove mass murder, but it gives us cause for thought, prompts us to meditate, to record History. I searched for it vainly in the archives, in old papers, in the country villages of Cambodia. Today I know: this image must be missing. I was not really looking for it; would it not be obscene and insignificant? So I created it. What I give you today is neither the picture nor the search for a unique image, but the picture of a quest: the quest that cinema allows. (c) Strand
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Patrick: Evil Awakens
Starring: Sharni Vinson (Kathy Jacquard), Rachel Griffiths (Matron Cassidy), Charles Dance (Dr. Roget), Peta Sergeant (Nurse Williams), Damon Gameau (Ed Penhaligon)
Rated: Unrat
DVD Release: Tue, Jun. 10, 2014
Length: 1hr 33min
When a young nurse begins work at an isolated psychiatric ward, she quickly becomes fascinated with Patrick, a brain dead patient who is the subject of a mad scientist's cruel ...
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When a young nurse begins work at an isolated psychiatric ward, she quickly becomes fascinated with Patrick, a brain dead patient who is the subject of a mad scientist's cruel and unusual experiments. What starts as an innocent fascination quickly takes a sinister turn as Patrick begins to use his psychic powers to manipulate her every move, and send her life into a terrifying spiral out of control.(c) Phase 4 films
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Haunt
Starring: Harrison Gilbertson (Evan), Liana Liberato (Samantha), Jacki Weaver (Janet Morello), Ione Skye (Emily Asher), Brian Wimmer (Alan Asher)
Rated: R
DVD Release: Mon, Jun. 9, 2014
Length: 1hr 26min
A family of five moves into a beautiful, sprawling dream home. One problem: it's cursed, having caused the deaths of the previous family to occupy it, leaving only one survivor ...
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A family of five moves into a beautiful, sprawling dream home. One problem: it's cursed, having caused the deaths of the previous family to occupy it, leaving only one survivor (Jacki Weaver). The family's moody 18-year-old son and his mysterious new neighbor inadvertently awaken something in the house while also violently shaking the many skeletons in the many closets. Mac Carter's debut feature is a frightening and powerful character-driven haunted-house film that isn't afraid to take the action outside. (c) IFC
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Adult World
Starring: Emma Roberts (Amy), Evan Peters (Alex), John Cusack (Rat Billings), Armando Riesco (Rubia), Shannon Woodward (Candace)
Rated: R
DVD Release: Mon, Jun. 9, 2014
Length: 1hr 33min
Adult World is a satirical comedy about an eccentric young woman, Amy Anderson, (Emma Roberts) who has just come out of university, convinced she's going to be a famous poet. ...
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Adult World is a satirical comedy about an eccentric young woman, Amy Anderson, (Emma Roberts) who has just come out of university, convinced she's going to be a famous poet. Saddled with debt and unemployed she moves back in with her parents who force her to get a job. Desperate and armed with a poetry degree and not much else she takes the only job she can find, working in an adult book store called Adult World. Meanwhile, desperate to get her poems published, Amy stalks an aging punk poet figure named Rat Billings (John Cusack), "one of the greatest poets of the early 90s." Rat reluctantly agrees to mentor her. As Amy makes new friends, including a drag queen named Rubia, the elderly couple who own Adult World, and Alex, the charming and quirky young manager, she learns that she might not be the voice of her generation after all. (c) IFC Films
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Devil's Knot
Starring: Reese Witherspoon (Pam Hobbs), Colin Firth (Ron Lax), Amy Ryan (Margaret Lax), Mireille Enos (Vicki Hutcheson), Stephen Moyer (John Fogleman)
Rated: Unrat
DVD Release: Mon, Jun. 9, 2014
Length: 1hr 54min
Devil's Knot covers fact-based ground that's already been well-traveled with multiple (and far more compelling) documentaries.
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Atom Egoyan's haunting true mystery about who killed three children in a small town. The police identify three teens, aka the West Memphis Three, as committing the murders during a satanic ritual but the truth may be scarier as a mother (Reese Witherspoon) and investigator (Colin Firth) suspect all is not as it appears. (c) Official Facebook
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Tim's Vermeer
Starring: Tim Jenison, David Hockney, Martin Mull, Penn Jillette, Philip Steadman
Rated: PG-13
DVD Release: Mon, Jun. 9, 2014
Length: 1hr 20min
Entertaining and profound in equal measure, Tim's Vermeer uses its seemingly esoteric subject to pose fascinating questions about art and obsession.
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Tim Jenison, a Texas based inventor, (Video Toaster, LightWave, TriCaster) attempts to solve one of the greatest mysteries in all art: How did 17th century Dutch master Johannes Vermeer ("Girl with a Pearl Earring") manage to paint so photo-realistically - 150 years before the invention of photography? The epic research project Jenison embarks on to test his theory is as extraordinary as what he discovers. Spanning a decade, Jenison's adventure takes him to Delft, Holland, where Vermeer painted his masterpieces on a pilgrimage to the North coast of Yorkshire to meet artist David Hockney and eventually to Buckingham Palace, to see the Queen's Vermeer.
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RoboCop
Starring: Joel Kinnaman (Alex Murphy / Robocop), Gary Oldman (Norton), Samuel L. Jackson (Pat Novak), Abbie Cornish (Clara Murphy), Michael Keaton (Raymond Sellars)
Rated: PG-13
DVD Release: Tue, Jun. 3, 2014
Length: 1hr 57min
While it's far better than it could have been, Jose Padilha's RoboCop remake fails to offer a significant improvement over the original.
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In RoboCop, the year is 2028 and multinational conglomerate OmniCorp is at the center of robot technology. Overseas, their drones have been used by the military for years - and it's meant billions for OmniCorp's bottom line. Now OmniCorp wants to bring their controversial technology to the home front, and they see a golden opportunity to do it. When Alex Murphy (Joel Kinnaman) - a loving husband, father and good cop doing his best to stem the tide of crime and corruption in Detroit - is critically injured in the line of duty, OmniCorp sees their chance to build a part-man, part-robot police officer. OmniCorp envisions a RoboCop in every city and even more billions for their shareholders, but they never counted on one thing: there is still a man inside the machine pursuing justice. (c) Sony
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The Pretty One
Starring: Zoe Kazan (Laurel/Audrey), Jake M. Johnson (Basel), John Carroll Lynch (Frank), Shae D'Iyn (May), Frankie Shaw (Claudia)
Rated: R
DVD Release: Tue, Jun. 3, 2014
Length: 1hr 30min
Written and directed by Jenee LaMarque, THE PRETTY ONE is a coming of age comedy about identity and loss and a wallflower who finally learns how to break out of ...
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Written and directed by Jenee LaMarque, THE PRETTY ONE is a coming of age comedy about identity and loss and a wallflower who finally learns how to break out of her shell. In a balancing act of a performance, Zoe Kazan portrays twins Laurel and Audrey, most poignantly as a relationship blooms with her new neighbor (Jake Johnson). As Laurel begins to slip into the life she has always wanted but never thought was possible, she must decide between continuing her life as Audrey and revealing herself as the perfect fraud. (c) DADA Films
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Lone Survivor
Starring: Mark Wahlberg (Marcus Luttrell), Ben Foster (Matt Axelson), Emile Hirsch (Danny Dietz), Taylor Kitsch (Mike Murphy), Eric Bana (Erik Kristensen)
Rated: R
DVD Release: Tue, Jun. 3, 2014
Length: 2hr 02min
A true account of military courage and survival, Lone Survivor wields enough visceral power to mitigate its heavy-handed jingoism.
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LONE SURVIVOR, starring Mark Wahlberg, tells the story of four Navy SEALs on an ill-fated covert mission to neutralize a high-level Taliban operative who are ambushed by enemy forces in the Hindu Kush region of Afghanistan. Based on The New York Times bestseller, this story of heroism, courage and survival directed by Peter Berg (Friday Night Lights) also stars Taylor Kitsch, Emile Hirsch, Ben Foster and Eric Bana. LONE SURVIVOR will be released by Universal Pictures in platform engagements on Friday, December 27, 2013, and will go wide on Friday, January 10, 2014. (c) Universal Pictures
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Goodbye World
Starring: Adrian Grenier (James), Gaby Hoffmann (Laura), Benjamin McKenzie (Nick), Mark Webber (Benji), Kerry Bishe (Lily)
Rated: Unrat
DVD Release: Tue, Jun. 3, 2014
Length: 1hr 40min
Living off the grid, James and Lily raise their young daughter in a safe haven of comfort and sustainability. After a crippling, apocalyptic cyber attack crosses the country, their home ...
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Living off the grid, James and Lily raise their young daughter in a safe haven of comfort and sustainability. After a crippling, apocalyptic cyber attack crosses the country, their home transitions from peaceful refuge to a fortress for the old friends seeking protection and community. This unexpected community gathering is soon compromised by personal histories and exchanges as well as the threat of a locally grown new world order.
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Son Of God
Starring: Diogo Morgado (Jesus Christ), Greg Hicks (Pilate), Adrian Schiller (Caiaphas), Darwin Shaw (Peter), Sebastian Knapp (John)
Rated: PG-13
DVD Release: Tue, Jun. 3, 2014
Length: 2hr 18min
The faithful may find their spirits raised, but on purely cinematic terms, Son of God is too dull and heavy-handed to spark much fervor.
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This major motion picture event -- an experience created to be shared among families and communities across the U.S. -- brings the story of Jesus' life to audiences through compelling cinematic storytelling that is both powerful and inspirational. Told with the scope and scale of an action epic, the film features powerful performances, exotic locales, dazzling visual effects and a rich orchestral score from Oscar (R)-winner Hans Zimmer. Portuguese actor Diogo Morgado portrays the role of Jesus as the film spans from his humble birth through his teachings, crucifixion and ultimate resurrection (c) Fox
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