August 2014 DVD & Blu-rays

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Need for Speed PG-13

Rumored to involve a cross-county race from San Francisco to New York.
Michael Keaton, Dominic Cooper, Dakota Johnson, Ramon Rodriguez, Aaron Paul, Kid Cudi, Scott Waugh, John Gatins
Action Adventure Thriller Based on Game

Divergent PG-13

Set in a futuristic dystopia where society is divided into factions based on human traits, a 16-year old leaves her faction to join a rival faction, but during the violent initiation into the new faction, she falls in love with a young man. They realize each is a "Divergent" who doesn't belong to any specific group.
Zoe Kravitz, Kate Winslet, Maggie Q, Jai Courtney, Ben Lamb, Theo James, Miles Teller, Ashley Judd
Drama Teen Sci-Fi

Oculus R

A woman tries to exonerate her brother, who was convicted of murder, by proving that the crime was committed by a supernatural phenomenon.
Mike Flanagan, Brenton Thwaites, Jeff Howard, Karen Gillan, Rory Cochrane, Katee Sackhoff, James Lafferty, Miguel Sandoval
Suspense Horror

God's Not Dead PG

Follows college student Josh Wheaton (Shane Harper) whose faith is challenged by his Philosophy Professor Mr. Radisson (Kevin Sorbo) who believes God does not exist. It revolves around the lives of several individuals who are also challenged by a world that believes God doesn't exist.
Harold Cronk, Willie Robertson, Marco Khan, Shane Harper, Kevin Sorbo, Dean Cain
Drama

Drones

Two soldiers are tasked with deciding the fate of a terrorist with a single push of a button. As the action plays out in real time, their window to use a deadly military drone on the target slowly closes. With time running out, the soldiers begin to question what the real motives are behind the ordered lethal attack.
Rick Rosenthal
Action Adventure

Ping-Pong Summer

Set in the 1980s, a hip-hop and ping pong-obsessed 13-year-old from the Maryland suburbs travels with his family to Ocean City, where he encounters both a new best friend and a new worst enemy
Susan Sarandon, Michael Tully, Lea Thompson, John Hannah, Amy Sedaris, Judah Friedlander, Robert Longstreet, Emmi Shockley
Comedy
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Muppets Most Wanted PG

Sequel to the 2011 Muppets movie featuring Kermin and Miss Piggy.
Salma Hayek, Jemaine Clement, Nick Stoller, Ricky Gervais, Tom Hiddleston, James Bobin, Steve Whitmire, Eric Jacobson
Adventure Comedy Sequel Family Kids

Bears

Cozies up to the brown bears who call Alaska’s stunning coastal mountains and shores their home, revealing through tender moments and entertaining imagery how these animals are far from grizzly creatures.
Keith Scholey, Alastair Fothergill, Adam Chapman, Don Hahn
Documentary

Frankie and Alice R

A drama centered on a young woman with multiple personality disorder who struggles not give in to her racist alter-personality.
Phylicia Rashad, Halle Berry, Anna Waterhouse, Shawn Williamson, Geoffrey Sax, Hassain Zaidi, Vincent Cirrincione, Simon DeKaric
Drama Suspense

The Railway Man R

The capture and torture of Eric Lomax by the Japanese in World War II. Lomax was sent to work on notorious "death railway" in Burma and struggled for the next 30 years to come to terms with the trauma.
Colin Firth, Jeremy Irvine, Jonathan Teplitzky, Chris Brown, Frank Cottrell Boyce, Andy Paterson, Nicole Kidman, Stellan Skarsgard
Drama Biography True Story

Locke R

Ivan Locke (Tom Hardy) has worked hard to craft a good life for himself. Tonight, that life will collapse around him. On the eve of the biggest challenge of his career, Ivan receives a phone call that sets in motion a series of events that will unravel his family, job, and soul.
Tom Holland, Tom Hardy, Olivia Colman, Bill Milner, Steven Knight, Paul Webster, Ruth Wilson, Andrew Scott
Drama

Breathe In

A story about love, fidelity, marriage and music. No other plot details have been announced.
Felicity Jones, Amy Ryan, Matthew Daddario, Drake Doremus, Guy Pearce, Mackenzie Davis, Michael Pruss, Jonathan Schwartz
Drama

Filth

Follows Detective Sergeant Bruce Robertson, a scheming, manipulative, misanthropic man who spends his time indulging in drugs, alcohol, sexually abusive relationships, and 'the games' – cruel plots and systematic bullying of his coworkers and friends. While working on the murder case of a Japanese student, he starts coming unhinged, slowly losing his grip on reality and suffering from a series of increasingly severe hallucinations as he desperately tries to hold his life together.
Jon S. Baird, James McAvoy, Jamie Bell, Jim Broadbent, Emun Elliott, Joanne Froggatt, Imogen Poots, Iain De Caestecker
Drama Comedy Crime

Hateship, Loveship

A nanny is hired to care for a teenage girl whose mother has just died. Complications arise when the nanny falls in love with the teen's ailing father.
Hailee Steinfeld, Nick Nolte, Dylan Sellers, Guy Pearce, Liza Johnson, Mark Poirier, Kristen Wiig, Jennifer Jason Leigh
Drama Comedy

Dancing in Jaffa

Renowned ball-room dancer, Pierre Dulaine takes his belief that dance can overcome political and social differences and applies it to eleven-year-old Jewish and Palestinian Israelis.
Hilla Medalia
Documentary Dance

The Amazing Spider-Man 2 PG-13

Will follow up on the events of The Amazing Spider-Man. Since it is early in the development process, no plot details are available.
Felicity Jones, Emma Stone, Andrew Garfield, Paul Giamatti, Laura Ziskin, Jamie Foxx, Avi Arad, James Vanderbilt
Drama Action Adventure Sequel Superhero 3D

The Quiet Ones

An unorthodox professor uses controversial methods and leads his best students off the grid to take part in a dangerous experiment: to create a poltergeist.
Jared Harris, Sam Claflin, John Pogue, Guy East, Nigel Sinclair, Erin Richards, Olivia Cooke, Rory Fleck-Byrne
Thriller Horror Supernatural

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.
Brett Baumayr, Skye Noel, Sonja Schenk, Jen Lilley
Drama Comedy Romance LGBTQIA+

Fading Gigolo

John Turturro and Woody Allen play cash-strapped best friends who decide to go into the gigolo business together and subsequently attract the suspicion of the Hasidic Jewish community in which they live.
Liev Schreiber, Woody Allen, John Turturro, Sharon Stone, Max Casella, Aida Turturro, Jill Scott, Jeffrey Kusama-Hinte
Comedy

The Sacrament R

Sacrament stars AJ Bowen and Joe Swanberg as reporters for VICE Media who journey to a remote Central American compound along with a photographer (Kentucker Audley) hoping to reunite with his sister (Amy Seimetz), who has dropped off the map after struggling with drug addiction. They find an isolated community of true believers devoted to a shadowy but charismatic figure called “Father.” Skeptical at first, the journalists begin to come around to the group’s utopian claims, until things rapidly take a very dark turn.
Joe Swanberg, Eli Roth, Amy Seimetz, Gene Jones, Eric Newman, Stuart Ford, Amanda Bowers, Ti West
Thriller Horror

Only Lovers Left Alive R

A story centered on two vampires who have been in love for centuries.
John Hurt, Tom Hiddleston, Mia Wasikowska, Tilda Swinton, Jim Jarmusch, Anton Yelchin, Jeffrey Wright
Drama Romance Vampires
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Blended PG-13

After a disastrous blind date, a couple finds themselves stuck together with their kids from a previous marriage.
Bella Thorne, Emma Fuhrmann, Adam Sandler, Lauren Lapkus, Jack Giarraputo, Mike Karz, Joel McHale, Wendi McLendon-Covey
Comedy Romantic Comedy

The Rover R

A man goes on a mission to retrieve his stolen car, which contains something invaluable to him.
Robert Pattinson, David Linde, Guy Pearce, David Field, David Michod, Liz Watts, Scoot McNairy, Anthony Hayes
Drama

Legends of Oz: Dorothy's Return PG

Summoned by Glinda, Dorothy and Toto return to the land of Oz. Joined by her old friends the Scarecrow, the Tin Woodman and the Lion, Dorothy sets out on a perilous journey to stop the Jester from using the power of the Wicked Witch of the West’s wand to turn the people of Oz into puppets.
Adam Balsam, Kelsey Grammer, Will Finn, Bonne Radford, Oliver Platt, Patrick Stewart, Bernadette Peters, Dan St. Pierre
Fantasy Family Animation 3D

The Love Punch

A romantic caper about Richard (Brosnan) and Kate (Thompson), a divorced couple who, after their pension is stolen by an unscrupulous businessman, reunite to steal it back.
Emma Thompson, Pierce Brosnan, Joel Hopkins, Tim Perell, Timothy Spall, Louise Bourgoin
Romantic Comedy

Heatstroke

On a family trip in the African desert, a research scientist unintentionally travels off course and is brutally murdered by an arms dealer. His girlfriend is put to the ultimate survival test as she attempts to evade the killers and protect his teenage daughter.
Maisie Williams, Evelyn Purcell, David Lancaster, Stephen Dorff, Svetlana Metkina, Peter Stormare

Belle PG

Belle is inspired by the true story of Dido Elizabeth Belle (Gugu Mbatha-Raw), the illegitimate mixed race daughter of a Royal Navy Admiral. Raised by her aristocratic great-uncle Lord Mansfield (Tom Wilkinson) and his wife (Emily Watson), Belle’s lineage affords her certain privileges, yet the color of her skin prevents her from fully participating in the traditions of her social standing. Left to wonder if she will ever find love, Belle falls for an idealistic young vicar’s son bent on change who, with her help, shapes Lord Mansfield’s role as Lord Chief Justice to end slavery in England.
Miranda Richardson, Misan Sagay, Tom Wilkinson, Penelope Wilton, Sam Reid, Amma Asante, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Sarah Gadon
Drama True Story

The Possession of Michael King

Tells of a documentary filmmaker who does not believe in God or the Devil. When his wife dies, he sets out to make his next movie on religion and spirituality, hoping to prove those things are just myth. But in allowing demonologists, necromancers and various practitioners of the occult to try the deepest, darkest spells and rituals on him, he unleashes a horrifying force.
Shane Johnson, Dale Dickey, Julie McNiven, David Jung, Ella Anderson, Cara Pifko, Tomas Arana
Horror Supernatural

Aftermath

The devastating horror of a nuclear apocalypse is now reality and nine desperate strangers find themselves clinging to life in a farmhouse cellar, while radioactive fallout descends on the darkened world above. These would-be survivors face the nightmare of dwindling supplies, poisonous air and the greatest threat of all – the hordes of zombie-like refugees who want in. With each dying day, their choice becomes clearer – stay and let the makeshift shelter become their tomb or face the unknown terrors of the world outside.
Monica Keena, Peter Engert, Edward Furlong, Andre Royo, C.J. Thomason
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