Best DVD & Blu-rays Released February 2010
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Love Happens
A widower writes a book about grieving that turns him into a phenomenon. Reinvented as a charismatic self-help guru, he falls for a woman at a seminar and is forced to confront the fact that he hasn't come to grips with his own loss.
Brandon Camp, Martin Sheen, Mary Parent, Jennifer Aniston, Aaron Eckhart, Scott Stuber, Mike Thompson, John Carroll Lynch
Zombieland
In a world overrun by zombies, a guy described as "the most frightened person on Earth" looks to find refuge a band of people to safety.
Ruben Fleischer, Emma Stone, Abigail Breslin, Paul Wernick, Jesse Eisenberg, Gavin Polone, Rhett Reese, Woody Harrelson
Amelia
The story centers on pilot Amelia Earhart in the early stages of her career and how she is chosen to be the first female pilot to attempt the daring nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean.
Mia Wasikowska, Richard Gere, Ewan McGregor, Cherry Jones, Mira Nair, Ted Waitt, Lydia Dean Pilcher, Kevin Hyman
More Than a Game
The movie, which will mix archival footage and family memorabilia with fresh interviews, follows LeBron James' high school basketball days, following the five starters on the varsity team at St. Vincent-St. Mary High School in Akron, Ohio. The team travels a winding road from a rundown gymnasium to national glory and NBA riches, seeking to remain a tight-knit quintet even as James becomes a megamillionaire. James was drafted out of high school in 2003 and led the Cleveland Cavaliers to the NBA Finals in 2007. He becomes a free agent in 2010.
LeBron James, Brad Hogan, Kristopher Belman
Black Dynamite
A campy story of drugs, violence and a powerful, mysterious figure who goes by the name Black Dynamite.
Arsenio Hall, Scott Sanders, Jenny Wiener Steingart, Jon Steingart, Michael Jai White, Miguel Nunez
Spiral
The project revolves around a reclusive telemarketer (Joel David Moore), whose dysfunctional friendship with his boss (Zachary Levi) is alleviated when a whimsical co-worker (Amber Tamblyn) enters his life. But as he begins to sketch his new friend's portrait, disturbing feelings from his past threaten to lead him down a path of destruction.
Zachary Levi, Joel David Moore, Jeremy Danial Boreing, Amber Tamblyn
New York, I Love You
12 separate segments will comprise this new feature film, which is being produced by Emmanuel Benbihy ("Paris, je t'aime") and Marina Grasic ("Crash," "Smart People") with the cooperation of Marianne Maddalena ("Scream," "Red Eye"). In "New York, I Love You," the 12 segments will be connected together via transitional linking sequences. New York City is the main unifying character and the Film will show the city as a living, breathing and loving whole. In the end, the audience will not only understand each individual story, but they will also see the integrated whole of chance encounters through these unique transitions.
Shia LaBeouf, Ethan Hawke, Marianne Maddalena, Kevin Bacon, Hayden Christensen, Blake Lively, Bradley Cooper, Chris Cooper
The House of the Devil
In the 1980s, college student Samantha Hughes takes a strange babysitting job that coincides with a full lunar eclipse. She slowly realizes her clients harbor a terrifying secret; they plan to use her in a satanic ritual.
Ti West, Jocelin Donahue
Ong Bak 2
Martial arts superstar Tony Jaa stars in and directs this epic tale of revenge set hundreds of years in the past. Featuring a huge cast and hordes of elephants, this prequel takes Jaas skills to the next level, showcasing him as a master of a wide range of martial arts styles - while proving him to be a promising director as well.
Tony Jaa, Sarunyu Wongkrachang, Sorapong Chatree, Nirut Sirichanya, Primorata Dejudom
The Stepfather
The story centers on the perfect stepfather's impact on the family dynamic.
Amber Heard, Brian Burns, Penn Badgley, Dylan Walsh, Nelson McCormick, Sela Ward, Amy Israel, Chad Hamilton
The Time Traveler's Wife
The love story focuses on a couple in which the man has a genetic disorder known as "chrono-impairment," a condition that causes him to involuntarily travel through time. Jeremy Leven wrote the adaptation.
Rachel McAdams, Brad Pitt, Eric Bana, Robert Schwentke, Dede Gardner, Nick Wechsler, Bruce Joel Rubin, Jeremy Leven
Couples Retreat
Four couples go to a tropical island resort. While one couple is there to work on their marriage, the others are there to play but soon discover that participation in the resort's couples therapy is not optional.
Jason Bateman, Kristen Bell, Jon Favreau, Jean Reno, Peter Billingsley, Vince Vaughn, Kristin Davis, Scott Stuber
Hurricane Season
A year after Hurricane Katrina, Al Collins, a high school basketball coach in Marrero, Louisiana, assembles a team of players who had previously attended five different schools before the disaster and leads them on the path to the state championships
Stephanie Allain, Jackie Long, Jared Einsohn, J.B. Smoove, Chyna Mcclain, Tim Story, Raymond Brothers, Scott Glassgold
Free Style
The story of an aspiring motocross racer who juggles dreams of Amateur National Championship glory with the reality of being relied upon to support his entire family.
Corbin Bleu, William Dear, Joshua Leibner, Jeffrey Nicholson, Penelope Ann Miller, Madison Pettis, Matt Bellefleur, Grant Langston
I Hate Valentine's Day
The story centers on this manufactured holiday and what happens to people when romance is forced upon them.
William Sherak, Nick Hurran, Jason Schuman, Madeleine Sherak, Nia Vardalos, John Corbett
Bronson
A young man who was sentenced to 7 years on prison for robbing a post office ends up spending 30 years in solitary confinement. During this time, his own personality is supplanted by his alter ego, Charles Bronson.
Tom Hardy, Nicolas Winding Refn
Serious Moonlight
A high-powered attorney duct tapes her adulterous husband to the toilet right before their home is invaded by burglars.
Kristen Bell, Justin Long, Meg Ryan, Cheryl Hines, Andy Ostroy, Michael Roiff, Adrienne Shelly, Timothy Hutton
Good Hair
When Chris Rock's daughter, Lola, came up to him crying and asked, "Daddy, how come I don't have good hair?" the bewildered comic committed himself to search the ends of the earth and the depths of black culture to find out who had put that question into his little girl's head! Director Jeff Stilson's camera followed the funnyman, and the result is Good Hair, a wonderfully insightful and entertaining, yet remarkably serious, documentary about African American hair culture. An exposé of comic proportions that only Chris Rock could pull off, Good Hair visits hair salons and styling battles, scientific laboratories, and Indian temples to explore the way black hairstyles impact the activities, pocketbooks, sexual relationships, and self-esteem of black people. Celebrities such as Ice-T, Kerry Washington, Nia Long, Paul Mooney, Raven Symoné, Maya Angelou, and Reverend Al Sharpton all candidly offer their stories and observations to Rock while he struggles with the task of figuring out how to respond to his daughter's question. What he discovers is that black hair is a big business that doesn't always benefit the black community and little Lola's question might well be bigger than his ability to convince her that the stuff on top of her head is nowhere near as important as what is inside.
Chris Rock, Jeff Stilson, Lance Crouther, Chuck Sklar
Peter and Vandy
The film follows the ups and downs of a young Manhattan couple, played by Jason Ritter and Jess Weixler.
Jesse L. Martin, Noah Bean, Jay DiPietro, Jason Ritter, Jess Weixler, Tracie Thoms
A Serious Man
The new film from Academy Award-winning writer/directors Joel and Ethan Coen. The film is the story of an ordinary man’s search for clarity in a universe where Jefferson Airplane is on the radio and “F-Troop” is on TV. It is 1967, and Larry Gopnik (Michael Stuhlbarg), a physics professor at a quiet Midwestern university, has just been informed by his wife Judith (Sari Lennick) that she is leaving him. She has fallen in love with one of his more pompous colleagues, Sy Ableman (Fred Melamed), who seems to her a more substantial person than the feckless Larry. Larry’s unemployable brother Arthur (Richard Kind) is sleeping on the couch, his son Danny (Aaron Wolf) is a discipline problem and a shirker at Hebrew school, and his daughter Sarah (Jessica McManus) is filching money from his wallet in order to save up for a nose job. While his wife and Sy Ableman blithely make new domestic arrangements, and his brother becomes more and more of a burden, an anonymous hostile letter-writer is trying to sabotage Larry’s chances for tenure at the university. Also, a graduate student seems to be trying to bribe him for a passing grade while at the same time threatening to sue him for defamation. Plus, the beautiful woman next door torments him by sunbathing nude. Struggling for equilibrium, Larry seeks advice from three different rabbis. Can anyone help him cope with his afflictions and become a righteous person – a mensch – a serious man?
Fred Melamed, Jack Swiler, Tim Bevan, Robert Graf, Joel Coen, Ethan Coen, Michael Stuhlbarg, Aaron Wolff
The Song of Sparrows
Karim works at an ostrich farm outside of Tehran, Iran. He leads a simple and contented life with his family in his small house, until one day when one of the ostriches runs away. Karim is blamed for the loss and is fired from the farm. Soon after, he travels to the city in order to repair his elder daughter’s hearing aid but finds himself mistaken for a motorcycle taxi driver. Thus begins his new profession: ferrying people and goods through heavy traffic. But the people and material goods that he deals with daily starts to transform Karim’s generous and honest nature, much to the distress of his wife and daughters. It is up to those closest to him to restore the values that he had once cherished…
Majid Majidi
Eleven Minutes
A documentary following fashion designer Jay McCarroll.
Michael Selditch, Robert Tate
Rocket Singh: Salesman of the Year
Harpreet Singh Bedi is a fresh graduate trying to find a balance between the maddening demands of the 'professional' way, and the way of his heart.
Shimit Amin, Jaideep Sahni, Ranbir Kapoor
Law Abiding Citizen
The psychological thriller will find Gerard Butler starring as a successful assistant D.A. who finds himself at the center of a vigilante plot hatched by a traumatized victim of the legal system.
Jamie Foxx, Gerard Butler, Regina Hall, Alan Siegel, Lucas Foster, Kurt Wimmer, David Ayer, Frank Darabont
Women in Trouble
A serpentine day in the life of ten seemingly disparate women: a porn star, a flight attendant, a psychiatrist, a masseuse, a bartender, a pair of call girls, etc. All of them with one crucial thing in common. Trouble.
Carla Gugino, Sebastian Gutierrez, Adrianne Palicki
From Mexico with Love
A washed-up trainer takes a self-destructive young boxer under his wing.
Kuno Becker, Jimmy Nickerson, Steven Bauer
Cabin Fever 2: Spring Fever
No plot details have been announced.
Ti West, Noah Segan, Rider Strong, Michael Bowen
Coco Before Chanel
Biopic of pioneering French fashion designer Coco Chanel.
Christopher Hampton, Camille Fontaine, Caroline Benjo, Anne Fontaine, Philippe Carcassonne, Emmanuelle Devos, Anne Wiazemsky, Audrey Tautou
The Private Lives of Pippa Lee
An adventurous trip through Pippa Lee's past and present, as a methamphetamine-addicted mother whose husband leaves her for a younger woman. Pippa indulges in an array of erotic adventures while heading toward a quiet nervous breakdown.
Robin Wright, Julianne Moore, Keanu Reeves, Rebecca Miller, Wynona Ryder, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Alan Arkin, Monica Bellucci
The Informant!
What was Mark Whitacre thinking? A rising star at agri-industry giant Archer Daniels Midland (ADM), Whitacre suddenly turns whistleblower. Even as he exposes his company's multi-national price-fixing conspiracy to the FBI, Whitacre envisions himself being hailed as a hero of the common man and handed a promotion. But before all that can happen, the FBI needs evidence, so Whitacre eagerly agrees to wear a wire and carry a hidden tape recorder in his briefcase, imagining himself as a kind of de facto secret agent. Unfortunately for the FBI, their lead witness hasn't been quite so forthcoming about helping himself to the corporate coffers. Whitacre's ever-changing account frustrates the agents and threatens the case against ADM as it becomes almost impossible to decipher what is real and what is the product of Whitacre's rambling imagination. Based on the true story of the highest-ranking corporate whistleblower in U.S. history.
Steven Soderbergh, Matt Damon, Melanie Lynskey, George Clooney, Kurt Eichenwald, Joel McHale, Gregory Jacobs, Jennifer Fox
Cirque Du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant
"Cirque Du Freak" tells the frightening tale of a boy who unknowingly breaks a 200-year-old truce between two warring factions of vampires. Pulled into a fantastic life of misunderstood sideshow freaks and grotesque creatures of the night, one teen will vanish from the safety of a boring existence and fulfill his destiny in a place drawn from nightmares.
14-year-old Darren (Chris Kelly) was like most kids in his suburban neighborhood. He hung out with his best friend, got decent grades and usually stayed out of trouble. But when he and his buddy stumble upon a traveling freak show, things begin to change inside Darren. That's the exact moment when a vampire named Larten Crepsley (John C. Reilly) turns him into something, well, bloodthirsty.
Newly undead, he joins the Cirque Du Freak, a touring sideshow filled with monstrous creatures from a snakeboy and a wolfman to a bearded lady (Salma Hayek) and a gigantic barker (Ken Watanabe). As Darren flexes his newfound powers in this dark world, he becomes a treasured pawn between the vampires and their deadlier counterparts. And while trying to survive, one boy will struggle to keep their brewing war from devouring what's left of his humanity.
Salma Hayek, Lauren Shuler Donner, Kerry Kohansky, Paul Weitz, Ewan Leslie, Josh Hutcherson, Ray Stevenson, Brian Helgeland
The Box
Norma and Arthur Lewis (Cameron Diaz and James Marsden) are a suburban couple with a young child who receive an anonymous gift bearing fatal and irrevocable consequences. A simple wooden box, it promises to deliver its owner $1 million with the press of a button. However, pressing this button will simultaneously cause the death of another human being somewhere in the world...someone they don't know. With just 24 hours to have the box in their possession, Norma and Arthur find themselves in the crosshairs of a startling moral dilemma and face the true nature of their humanity.
Sue Baden-Powell, Richard Matheson, James Marsden, Paris Kasidokostas Latsis, Terry Dougas, Basil Hoffman, Ted Field, Richard Kelly
Everybody's Fine
Robert De Niro plays a widower who realizes his only connection to his children was through his deceased wife. So, he decides to take a trip to reconnect with his kids, and discovers they are living far from perfect lives.
Kate Beckinsale, Drew Barrymore, Kirk Jones, Robert De Niro, Sam Rockwell, Gianni Nunnari, Vittorio Cecchi Gori, Glynis Murray
Sorority Row
Focuses on a group of sorority sisters murdered at a party after they accidentally kill a teacher.
Rumer Willis, Julian Morris, Carrie Fisher, Matt Lanter, Stewart Hendler, Mike Karz, Darrin Holender, Pete Goldfinger
The Damned United
Set in 1960's and 1970's England, "The Damned United" tells the confrontational and darkly humorous story of Brian Clough's doomed 44 day tenure as manager of the reigning champions of English football Leeds United. Previously managed by his bitter rival Don Revie, and on the back of their most successful period ever as a football club, Leeds was perceived by many to represent a new aggressive and cynical style of football - an anathema to the principled yet flamboyant Brian Clough, who had achieved astonishing success as manager of Hartlepool and Derby County building teams in his own vision with trusty lieutenant Peter Taylor. Taking the Leeds job without Taylor by his side, with a changing room full of what in his mind were still Don's boys, would lead to an unheralded examination of Clough's belligerence and brilliance over 44 days. This is that story. The story of "The Damned United".
Tom Hooper, Peter Morgan, Michael Sheen, Timothy Spall
Motherhood
A mother prepares for her daughter's sixth birthday party but has no idea of the challenges she's about to face.
Uma Thurman, Katherine Dieckmann, Anthony Edwards, Minnie Driver
Examined Life
Filmmaker Astra Taylor accompanies some of today's most influential thinkers on a series of unique excursions through places and spaces that hold particular resonance for them and their ideas.
Astra Taylor, Bill Imperial, Lea Marin
Brief Interviews With Hideous Men
Julianne Nicholson stars as a grad student trying to cope with a recent breakup by conducting interviews with a wide variety of men.
John Krasinski, Will Forte, Eva Kolodner, Yael Melamede, James Suskin, Julianne Nicholson, Bobby Cannavale, Michael Cerveris
The Vicious Kind
A man tries to warn his brother away from the new girlfriend he brings home during Thanksgiving, but ends up becoming infatuated with her in the process.
J.K. Simmons, Lee Toland Krieger, Adam Scott, Brittany Snow, Alex Frost
The September Issue
The story of Vogue editor-in-chief Anna Wintour and her team of editors creating the 2008 fall-fashion issue.
R.J. Cutler, Eliza Hindmarch, Sadia Shepard