Best DVD & Blu-rays Released December 2014
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Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
Dan Lemmon, the FX supervisor, told Bleeding Cool that the sequel could begin 8 years after the events of the previous movie and focus on the offspring of Caesar.
Dylan Clark, Andy Serkis, Matt Reeves, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Peter Chernin, Rick Jaffa, Amanda Silver, Scott Z. Burns
As Above, So Below
Two archaeologists search for a lost treasure in catacombs below Paris.
John Erick Dowdle, Drew Dowdle, Perdita Weeks, Ben Feldman, Edwin Hodge, Alex Hedlund
The Hundred-Foot Journey
A rivalry exists between an Indian restaurant and the three-Michelin-star restaurant which is 100 feet away in a small village in the French Alps. The French restaurant is run by eccentric chef Madame Mallory, who reluctantly forms a mentoring bond with a young Indian boy whose family owns the rival eatery. The boy has a culinary awakening which leads him to Paris, the launch of his own restaurant, and a slew of new adventures.
Steven Spielberg, Juliet Blake, Lasse Hallstrom, Steven Knight, Helen Mirren, Carla Gardini, Oprah Winfrey, Om Puri
The Good Lie
A Sudanese refugee is taken in by a straight-talking American woman in their new home in the United States.
Reese Witherspoon, Ron Howard, Karen Kehela Sherwood, Margaret Nagle, Maria Howell, Joshua Mikel, Philippe Falardeau, Brian Grazer
The Congress
An aging, out-of-work actress accepts one last job, though the consequences of her decision affect her in ways she didn't consider.
Jon Hamm, Robin Wright, Paul Giamatti, Ari Folman, Harvey Keitel
The Hero of Color City
The CG-animated feature is about a group of crayons fighting to save their multihued city.
Arsenio Hall, Jessica Kedward, Craig Ferguson, Frank Gladstone, J.P. McCormick, David Kaye, Christina Ricci, Rosie Perez
Guardians of the Galaxy
A group of alien beings travel back in time to protect the earth from alien invasion.
Chris Pratt, Dave Bautista, Michael Rooker, Benicio Del Toro, Karen Gillan, Vin Diesel, Gregg Henry, James Gunn
When the Game Stands Tall
Bob Ladouceur, a young coach, turns the De La Salle Spartans football team, a perennial loser, into a legend by launching a streak of 138 straight victories. From 1992 to 2004, he guides his team to 12 consecutive undefeated seasons.
Laura Dern, Joe Massingill, Scott Marshall Smith, Thomas Carter, Cathy Schulman, David Zelon, Jim Caviezel, Michael Chiklis
23 Blast
Follows a high school football star (Mark Hapka ) who's suddenly stricken with irreversible blindness and the choice he's forced to make regarding whether he should return to the sport.
Alexa Vega, Dylan Baker, Max Adler, Toni Hoover, Bram Hoover, Stephen Lang, Mark Hapka, Breanna Dean
Frank
An offbeat comedy about a young wannabe musician, Jon (Domhnall Gleeson), who finds himself out of his depth when he joins an avant-garde pop band led by the mysterious and enigmatic Frank (Michael Fassbender), a musical genius who hides himself inside a large fake head, and his terrifying bandmate Clara (Maggie Gyllenhaal).
Lenny Abrahamson, Peter Straughan, Jon Ronson, Michael Fassbender, Domhnall Gleeson, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Scoot McNairy, Tess Harper
The Maze Runner
The story centers on a world where a group of boys have had their minds wiped and get stuck inside a labyrinthine maze that’s impossible to solve. There’s only one safe spot–an acre in the center–that closes off every night. Every day when the boys wake up, the walls have changed and the maze is different. But the arrival of another boy, Thomas suddenly upsets the ‘game’ and disrupts the balance of the boys living here in dangerous ways.
Wes Ball, Thomas Sangster, Ellen Goldsmith-Vein, Lindsay Williams, Noah Oppenheim, Grant Pierce Myers, Kaya Scodelario, Will Poulter
This Is Where I Leave You
The story about a father who dies and requests that his highly dysfunctional and non-religious family sit Shivah for seven days, in his honor. That experience forces them to confront their own family dynamic.
Jason Bateman, Tina Fey, Rose Byrne, Paula Weinstein, Timothy Olyphant, Dax Shepard, Shawn Levy, Jeff Levine
Stonehearst Asylum
A Harvard Medical School graduate takes a job at an insane asylum, unaware of the fact that it has been taken over by its occupants.
Kate Beckinsale, David Thewlis, Mel Gibson, Mark Amin, Michael Caine, Brendan Gleeson, Christopher Fulford, Brad Anderson
Magic In The Moonlight
No plot details have been announced yet; the film will be set in the South of France. Woody Allen is writing, producing and directing.
Emma Stone, Marcia Gay Harden, Stephen Tenenbaum, Colin Firth, Eileen Atkins, Woody Allen, Letty Aronson, Hamish Linklater
Magic, Magic
A girl vacationing with her friends in a remote area of Chile slowly starts losing her mental faculties. She tries to get her friends' attention, but they ignore her until it's too late.
Mike White, Pamela Koffler, Emily Browning, Sebastian Silva, Christine Vachon, David Bernad, Michael Cera, Juno Temple
The Skeleton Twins
After coincidentally cheating death on the same day, estranged twins Milo and Maggie reunite to confront how their lives went so wrong.
Kristen Wiig, Mark Duplass, Craig Johnson, Ty Burrell, Jennifer Lee, Mark Heyman, Bill Hader, Luke Wilson
Pride
It’s the summer of 1984, Margaret Thatcher is in power and the National Union of Mineworkers is on strike, prompting a London-based group of gay and lesbian activists to raise money to support the strikers’ families. Initially rebuffed by the Union, the group identifies a tiny mining village in Wales and sets off to make their donation in person. As the strike drags on, the two groups discover that standing together makes for the strongest union of all.
Bill Nighy, Matthew Warchus, Stephen Beresford, Imelda Staunton, Dominic West, Paddy Considine, Andrew Scott, Joseph Gilgun
The Trip to Italy
Two men, six meals in six different places on a road trip around Italy. Liguria, Tuscany, Rome, Amalfi and ending in Capri.
Michael Winterbottom, Rob Brydon, Steve Coogan, Rosie Fellner
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.
John Turturro, Max Casella, Sofia Vergara, Liev Schreiber, Vanessa Paradis, Aida Turturro, Jeffrey Kusama-Hinte, Bob Balaban