August 2012 DVD & Blu-rays

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Dr. Seuss' The Lorax PG

Despite warnings from the tree-loving Lorax, a greedy entrepreneur strips a forest of its stock of Truffula trees to manufacture clothing. The results are catastrophic as all the animals leave and nothing's left.
Taylor Swift, Chris Meledandri, Rob Riggle, Betty White, Cinco Paul, Ken Daurio, John Cohen, Danny DeVito
Adventure Family Animation 3D Shot-In-3D CG

Bel Ami R

The story centers on an unscrupulous, social climbing journalist.
Uma Thurman, Robert Pattinson, Declan Donnellan, Nick Ormerod, Uberto Pasolini, Rachel Bennette, Kristin Scott Thomas
Drama Biography

Marley PG-13

A documentary about legendary reggae star Bob Marley, which has been authorized by Marley's family.
Kevin Macdonald
Documentary

Warriors Of The Rainbow: Seediq Bale NR

Some eighty years ago, in the mountains of Taiwan, two races clashed in defense of their faiths. One believed in rainbows, the other believed in the sun. Neither side realized that they both believed in the same sky.
Te-Sheng Wei
Drama Action

Killing Bono R

Two brothers attempt to become global rock stars but can only look on as old school friends U2 become the biggest band in the world.
Krysten Ritter, Pete Postlethwaite, Nick Hamm, Dick Clement, Ben Barnes
Comedy

Girlfriend

A young man with Down's Syndrome romantically pursues a small town single mom who is still mixed up with her volatile ex-boyfriend.
Patch Mackenzie, Jackson Rathbone, Justin Lerner, Evan Sneider, Amanda Plummer, Shannon Marie Woodward
Drama

Blue Like Jazz PG-13

In Blue Like Jazz, Don (Marshall Allman), a pious nineteen-year-old sophomore at a Texas junior college, impulsively decides to escape his evangelical upbringing for life in the Pacific Northwest at one ofthe most progressive campuses in America, Reed College in Portland. Upon arrival, Reed's surroundings and eccentric student body proves to be far different than he could possibly imagine from the environment from which he came, forcing him to embark on a journey of self-discovery to understand who he is and what he truly believes.
Marshall Allman, Claire Holt, Steve Taylor, Tania Raymonde
Drama
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Hick R

The story is about a 13-year-old who runs away to Las Vegas after being abandoned by her parents in Nebraska. Along the way, the girl learns some truths about American society and the peril of her own sexual curiosity.
Steven Siebert, Eddie Redmayne, Blake Lively, Juliette Lewis, Derick Martini, Christian Taylor, Andrea Portes, Chloë Grace Moretz
Drama Teen

The Raid: Redemption

As a rookie member of an elite special-forces team, Rama (Iko Uwais) is instructed to hang back during a covert mission involving the extraction of a brutal crime lord from a rundown fifteen-story apartment block. But when a spotter blows their cover, boss Tama (Ray Sahetaphy) offers lifelong sanctuary to every killer, rapist and thief in the building in exchange fortheir heads. Now Rama must stand in for the team's fallen leader (Joe Taslim) and use every iota of his fighting strength - winding through every floor and every room to complete the mission and escape with his life.
Joe Taslim, Gareth Evans, Iko Uwais, Doni Alamsyah
Action Thriller Crime

Assassin's Bullet R

When an unknown vigilante begins killing high-priority terrorists from America's Most Wanted list in Europe, a former FBI field agent (Christian Slater) is brought in by the US Ambassador (Donald Sutherland) to discover the identity of the assassin.
Elika Portnoy, Christian Slater, Timothy Spall, Isaac Florentine, Donald Sutherland
Drama Action Thriller

Kill List

A group of soldiers, working as contractors, target a group of devil-worshippers.
Ben Wheatley, Amy Jump, Neil Maskell, Michael Smiley
Horror

The Snowtown Murders

Based on a true story involving Australian serial killer John Bunting, the film follows a 16-year-old who begins a friendship with a charismatic older man. As the relationship grows, the teen finds his world threatened by both his loyalty for, and fear of, his newfound father-figure.
Justin Kurzel, Sarah Shaw, Anna McLeish, Shaun Grant, Lucas Pittaway, Daniel Henshall, Louise Harris
Thriller

Tonight You're Mine R

An American pop star and British rock chick find themselves accidentally handcuffed together.
David MacKenzie, Thomas Leveritt, Natalia Tena, Luke Treadaway
Comedy Romance

Art Is...The Permanent Revolution

Three contemporary American artists and a master printer help explain the dynamic sequences of social reality and protest. While their graphics sweep by, the making of an etching, a woodcut and a lithograph unfolds, as the contemporary artists join their illustrious predecessors in creating art of social engagement.
Manfred Kirchheimer
Documentary

Inventing Our Life: The Kibbutz Experiment

The 100 year history of Israel's kibbutz movement. Can a radically socialist institution survive a new market-driven reality with its ideological integrity intact?
Toby Perl Freilich
Documentary

The Samaritan R

Samuel L. Jackson plays Foley, a grifter trying to escape from his past having spent 20 years in prison. But he gets ensnared in the plans of a young protege and it becomes all too clear to Foley that some wrongs can never be made right.
Ruth Negga, Luke Kirby, Andras Hamori, Elan Mastai, Samuel L. Jackson, Tom Wilkinson, David Weaver, Geoffrey Brandt
Drama Thriller
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The Hunger Games PG-13

Katniss Everdeen, a 16-year old from a poor territory that was once Appalachia, becomes a gladiator in a reality-show that is a battle to the death against other teens from the 12 districts of the former United States.
Alexander Ludwig, Josh Hutcherson, Jennifer Lawrence, Woody Harrelson, Gary Ross, Wes Bentley, Alli Shearmur, Billy Ray
Action Thriller Suspense Teen
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The Dictator R

Revolves around a goat herder and a deposed foreign dictator who gets lost in the United States.
Alec Berg, Jeff Schaffer, J.B. Smoove, Sacha Baron Cohen, Ben Kingsley, John C. Reilly, Scott Rudin, Megan Fox
Comedy

Chimpanzee G

This DisneyNature documentary spans 15 years as it follows a chimpanzee named Senengal and her journey from childhood to motherhood. Reflecting chimps' genetic closeness to humans, these animal subjects inject plenty of humor and drama into this remarkable film.
Mark Linfield, Alastair Fothergill
Family Documentary

Hide Away PG-13

Follows the story of a successful businessman (Josh Lucas) attempting to resurrect his life. Entering an idyllic harbor as a broken and haunted man, he buys and boards the dilapidated sailboat, Hesperus. Disturbed at night by unsettling dreams of his past, the boat becomes a beacon of hope as he begins the challenge of bringing back the shine to the tarnished vessel--and to his life.
Jon Tenney, Josh Lucas, Chris Eyre, Ayelet Zurer, James Cromwell, Taylor Nichols, Casey LaBow
Drama

Virginia R

A pariah to most in her small beach boardwalk town, Virginia was diagnosed early-on as a hair shy of mentally stable. Her closest friend and 15- year-old son, Emmett, is more father than son to his impulsive, ill-behaved mother. Their shared dream: to skip town for California. They've been packed for years. Mussing things up, we discover Emmett's father is likely the older married Mormon sheriff his mother's been having an affair with for decades, and whose daughter Emmett dreams of eloping with. But secrets have a way of not staying so secret, and circumstances surrounded by madness have a way of getting dire. In their bent world a perfectly reasonable solution arises: to rob Virginia Beach blind on the day the President of the United States pays a much-anticipated visit.
Jennifer Connelly, Ed Harris, Emma Roberts, Amy Madigan, Yeardley Smith, Gus Van Sant, Dustin Lance Black, Susan Johnson
Drama

Freelancers R

The son of a slain NYPD officer joins the force, where he falls in with his father's former partner and a team of rogue cops.
Forest Whitaker, Curtis Jackson, Robert De Niro, Jessy Terrero, Randall Emmett, George Furla, Dana Delany, Beau Garrett
Drama Crime

Bernie PG-13

A Renaissance man-community leader-mortician Bernie strikes up an unlikely friendship with a wealthy but very particular widow. When he kills her, he goes to great lengths to maintain the illusion that she is still alive.
Richard Linklater, Jack Black, Shirley MacLaine, Matthew McConaughey, Rip Torn, Celine Rattray, Martin Shafer, Liz Glotzer
Comedy

Home Run Showdown

Two little league teams take on their coaches sibling rivalry, and end up doing battle in a place the baseball world never expected it: in the outfield of the Home Run Derby.
Dean Cain, Matthew Lillard, Barry Bostwick, Oz Scott, Joe Gressis, Dena Hysell, John Bella, Tim Cavanaugh
Sports Family

Lovely Molly R

The movie examines the thin line between demonic possession and psychosis. It begins with things that go bump in the night but slowly turns into a thriller about the evil power that exists inside one troubled young woman.
Todd Ryan Jones, Gregg Hale, Jamie Nash, Lauren Lakis, Eduardo Sanchez, Robin Cowie, Alexandra Holden, Ken Arnold
Thriller Horror Paranormal

A Separation PG-13

Set in Contemporary Iran, Nader And Simin, A Separation is a compelling drama about the dissolution of a marriage. Simin wants to leave Iran with her husband Nader and daughter Termeh. Simin sues for divorce when Nader refuses to leave behind his Alzheimer-suffering father. Her request having failed, Simin goes back to her parents’, but Termeh decides to stay with Nader…
Asghar Farhadi
Drama

I Am Bruce Lee

Features interviews with people who knew Bruce intimately, along with a broad array of international icons from the entertainment and athletic fields combined with rarely seen archival footage and classic photos.
Pete McCormack
Documentary

Weekend

On a Friday night after hanging out with his straight mates, Russell heads out to a nightclub, alone and on the pull. Just before closing, he meets Glen. And so begins a weekend that will resonate throughout their lives
Tom Cullen, Andrew Haigh, Chris New
Drama

The Lucky One PG-13

Logan Thibault (Zac Efron), a Marine, survives three tours in Iraq. He attributes his good fortune to a photograph he carried of a woman (Taylor Schilling) he has never met, and he sets out to meet his good-luck charm when he returns to North Carolina.
Kevin McCormick, Douglas McGrath, Taylor Schilling, Scott Hicks, Denise DiNovi, Will Fetters, Zac Efron, Blythe Danner
Drama Romance

Think Like a Man PG-13

An ensemble comedy about romantic relationships.
Kevin Hart, Sherri Shepherd, Steve Harvey, Tim Story, Taraji Henson, Regina Hall, Will Packer, Michael Ealy
Comedy Romance Adaptation

Battleship PG-13

Battleships fight on the open seas.
Scott Stuber, Alexander Skarsgard, Rihanna, Brian Goldner, Peter Berg, Jon Hoeber, David Levein, Brian Koppelman
Action Adventure Sci-Fi Based on Toy

The Pirates! Band of Misfits PG

A group of swashbuckling pirates team up with different historical and fictional characters and attempt to help them in their adventures & travels.
Salma Hayek, Martin Freeman, Peter Lord, Julie Lockhart, Hugh Grant, Jeremy Piven, David Tennant, Imelda Staunton
Action Adventure Comedy Animation

What to Expect When You're Expecting PG-13

Story will follow the relationships of four interconnected couples as they experience the thrills, terrors, surprises, aches and pains of preparing to embark on life’s biggest journey, parenthood.
Anna Kendrick, Dennis Quaid, Kirk Jones, David Thwaites, Rodrigo Santoro, Chris Rock, Chace Crawford, Amir Talai
Drama Comedy Romance

Headhunters R

An unscrupulous corporate headhunter is also a secret art thief.
Morten Tyldum, Ulf Ryberg, Aksel Hennie
Thriller

Darling Companion PG-13

The film follows a woman (Keaton) who takes in a stray dog as a companion to fill the void left by her distracted husband (Kline), only to see him lose the mutt after a wedding at their vacation home in the Rockies. A search for the animal includes several guests and a mysterious young woman.
Dianne Wiest, Sam Shepard, John Kelly, Diane Keaton, Richard Jenkins, Mark Duplass, Christine Walker, Lawrence Kasdan
Comedy

Changing The Game

An intelligent young African-American man rises from the oppressive streets of North Philadelphia to become a shining star at Wall Street's most prestigious firm. However, he soon finds that the white-collar world is filled with crime and death just like the streets he left behind.
Tony Todd, Rel Dowdell, Sticky Fingaz, Irma P. Hall
Action

I Heart Shakey PG

Single father J.T. and his precocious daughter Chandler move from a small town to Chicago with their lovable family mutt Shakey. After missing the fine print in their rental contract, J.T. is forced to find Shakey a new home. Chandler hatches a plan to keep Shakey and teach J.T. a valuable lesson about loyalty and the importance of keeping family together.
Eric Stolze, Beverly D'Angelo, Steve Lemme, Philippe Brenninkmeyer, Kevin Cooper, Steve Guttenberg, Alfonso Arau, Michael Yurchak
Comedy

Moth Diaries

A teenage girl at a boarding girl suspects her roommate is a vampire.
Mary Harron, Sarah Bolger, Sarah Gadon, Lily Cole, Edward R. Pressman, Scott Speedman
Drama Suspense Vampires

Monsieur Lazhar PG-13

Bachir Lazhar has emigrated from his native Algeria to Canada, where he is awaiting approval of his asylum application. When he is hired as a substitute teacher at a French-Canadian school, Bachir finds that he is often ill-equipped to deal with his new students and their shock over their previous teacher’s death.
Philippe Falardeau
Drama Comedy

Apartment 143

A team of parapsychologists sets out to investigate a series of anomalous phenomena taking place in a newly occupied apartment. Telephone calls with no caller, mysterious shadows, extraordinary light emissions, flying objects, and exploding light bulbs, are some of the events they will face while recording their every step with state-of-the-art technology. Using infra-red filming, digital photography, psychophonic recordings, movement detectors, and magnetic field alteration meters, the group's attempts to contact the "other side" will grow increasingly dangerous as they near a point of no return...
Rodrigo Cortés, Rick Gonzalez, Carles Torrens, Kai Lennox, Michael O'Keefe, Fiona Glascott, Gia Mantegna
Drama Horror

The Highest Pass

Anand, a modern Indian yogi and guru, asks his student Adam to join him on a motorcycle expedition through the highest passes of the Indian Himalayas.
Jon Fitzgerald
Documentary

L!fe Happens R

Two best friends fight to maintain normalcy in their lives after one of the friends gets pregnant and has a baby.
Krysten Ritter, Kate Bosworth, Rachel Bilson, Kat Coiro, Justin Levine, David J. Phillips, Corbin Timbrook
Comedy