January 2016 DVD & Blu-rays

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The Visit PG-13

The Visit focuses on a brother and sister who are sent to their grandparents’ remote Pennsylvania farm for a weeklong trip. Once the children discover that the elderly couple is involved in something deeply disturbing, they see their chances of getting back home are growing smaller every day.
M. Night Shyamalan, Jason Blum, Marc Bienstock, Olivia DeJonge, Kathryn Hahn, Ed Oxenbould, Benjamin Kanes, Peter McRobbie
Thriller Horror

Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse R

A local boy scout troop must save the local girl scout troop from a zombie outbreak on an overnight camping trip.
David Koechner, Lukas Gage, Christopher B. Landon, Halston Sage, Sarah Dumont, Sean Robins, Bryan Brucks, Todd Garner
Comedy Suspense Horror Zombies

Captive

The true story of Ashley Smith (Mara), a single mother and recovering drug addict who was taken hostage in her own apartment by fugitive, murderer and accused rapist Brian Nichols (Oyelowo). With her back against the wall, Smith turned to the personal spiritual journey of Rick Warren’s best-selling book The Purpose Driven Life in an attempt to survive and help Brian find a better way out.
Kate Mara, David Oyelowo, Leonor Varela, Michael K. Williams, Jerry Jameson, Brian Bird
Drama Adaptation

Hell & Back R

A comedy about two best friends who must rescue their pal when he is accidentally dragged to hell.
Kumail Nanjiani, Brian Posehn, Mila Kunis, Jennifer Coolidge, Ross Shuman, Tommy Gianas, Alexander Bulkley, Corey Campodonico
Comedy Animation Stop-Motion

Sleeping with Other People

Can two serial cheaters get a second chance at love? After a one-night stand in college, New Yorkers Lainey (Alison Brie) and Jake (Jason Sudeikis) meet by chance twelve years later and discover they each have the same problem: because of their monogamy-challenged ways, neither can maintain a relationship. Determined to stay friends despite their mutual attraction, they make a pact to keep it platonic, a deal that proves easier said than done.
Alison Brie, Will Ferrell, Leslye Headland, Jason Sudeikis, Adam Scott, Jason Mantzoukas
Romantic Comedy

The Walk PG

Centers on the life of tightrope walker Philippe Petit and his walk between the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center on August 7, 1974.
Ben Schwartz, James Badge Dale, Jack Rapke, Robert Zemeckis, Steve Starkey, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Ben Kingsley, Charlotte Le Bon
Drama Adaptation True Story

Sicario R

The movie is set against the backdrop of the border wars between the cartels in Mexico, and the Americans trying to stem the violence from coming over the border.
Benicio Del Toro, Jon Bernthal, Denis Villeneuve, Victor Garber, Basil Iwanyk, Taylor Sheridan, Josh Brolin, Emily Blunt
Drama Crime Mystery

Close Range

After rescuing his kidnapped niece from a powerful drug cartel, Colton MacReady (Scott Adkins) begins a relentless fight to save his family. The cartel has descended upon his secluded ranch with a thirst for revenge. In tow are a corrupt local sheriff and his crew of deputies, ensuring that help won’t be coming any time soon. What ensues is a non-stop assault on the ranch, a blow-by-blow survival marathon for Colton to protect his loved ones and save his life.
Isaac Florentine, Scott Adkins
Action Adventure

Condemned

Fed up with her parents’ bickering, poor-little-rich-girl Maya (Dylan Penn) moves in with her boyfriend who is squatting in an old, condemned building on Manhattan’s Lower East Side. With neighbors that are meth heads, junkies and degenerates, this depraved hell hole is even more toxic than it appears: After a virus born from their combined noxious waste and garbage infects the building’s residents, one by one, they succumb to a terrifying pathogen that turns them into bloodthirsty, rampaging killers and transforms their building into a savage slaughterhouse.
Ronen Rubinstein, Eli Morgan Gesner, Dylan Penn, Lydia Hearst, Jon Abrahams
Horror

Ashby R

Awkward Ed Wallis (Nat Wolff) moves to a new town with his single mom (Sarah Silverman) and needs help fitting in. Brainier than his peers, Ed figures playing high school football might be good way to make more friends but his only new friend Eloise (Emma Roberts) thinks its odd. When Ed gets an assignment to write an essay about someone from an older generation, he introduces himself to his neighbor Ashby Holt (Mickey Rourke) and the two embark on an unlikely, immediate friendship. Ashby’s style of tough love takes some getting used to but, overtime, Ed learns a lot from Ashby including how to be courageous…which is very much needed when he learns his new best friend is a former CIA assassin.
Sarah Silverman, Tony McNamara, Nat Wolff, Mickey Rourke, Emma Roberts, Adam Aalderks
Drama Comedy

Experimenter

Yale University, 1961. Stanley Milgram (Peter Sarsgaard) designs a psychology experiment that still resonates to this day, in which people think they’re delivering painful electric shocks to an affable stranger (Jim Gaffigan) strapped into a chair in another room. Despite his pleads for mercy, the majority of subjects don’t stop the experiment, administering what they think is a near-fatal electric shock, simply because they’ve been told to do so. With Nazi Adolf Eichmann’s trial airing in living rooms across America, Milgram strikes a nerve in popular culture and the scientific community with his exploration into people’s tendency to comply with authority. Celebrated in some circles, he is also accused of being a deceptive, manipulative monster, but his wife Sasha (Winona Ryder) stands by him through it all.
Winona Ryder, Peter Sarsgaard, Jim Gaffigan, Kellan Lutz, Michael Almereyda, Edoardo Ballerini
Drama

Joe Dirt 2: Beautiful Loser

Follows the comedic misadventures of the mullet-clad, lovable redneck Joe Dirt.
David Spade, Christopher Walken, Fred Wolf, Brittany Ann Daniel, Patrick Warburton, Dennis Miller
Comedy Sequel

The Green Inferno R

Eli Roth makes the long-awaited return to the director’s chair with The Green Inferno - described as "the most grueling and terrifying thrill ride yet."
Eli Roth, Molly Conners, Nicolas Lopez, Hoyt David Morgan, Jason Blum, Miguel Asensio Llamas, Christopher Woodrow, Guillermo Amoedo
Thriller Horror

Wrecker NR

Best friends Emily and Lesley go on a road trip to the desert. When Emily decides to get off the highway and take a “short cut,” they become the target of a relentless and psychotic trucker who forces them to play a deadly game of cat and mouse.
Drea Whitburn, Micheal Bafaro, Anna Hutchison
Action Thriller

Shanghai R

An American returns to a corrupt, Japanese-occupied Shanghai four months before Pearl Harbor and discovers his friend has been killed. While he unravels the mysteries of the death, he falls in love and discovers a much larger secret that his own government is hiding.
John Cusack, Chow Yun-Fat, Ken Watanabe, Mikael Hafstrom, Hossein Amini, Gong Li, Rinko Kikuchi, Jeffrey Dean Morgan
Drama Thriller

Infinitely Polar Bear R

A bipolar man attempts to hold onto his stability in order to take care of his two daughters while their mother does her best to start a career.
Zoe Saldana, Mark Ruffalo, J.J. Abrams, Megan Ellison, Wallace Wolodarsky, Maya Forbes, Keir Dullea
Drama
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Walt Before Mickey PG

Before he created Mickey Mouse, Walt Disney was an animator and businessman who spent a decade shrugging off failure in order to build the studio that would turn him into an icon. The indie period drama Walt Before Mickey chronicles nine years worth of these early struggles
Arthur L. Bernstein, Jon Heder, Khoa Le, Armando Gutierrez, Thomas Ian Nicholas, Jodie Sweetin, David Henrie
Drama Biography Period

The Martian PG-13

An astronaut gets stranded on Mars in an accident, and then must figure out how to stay alive long enough to get back home.
Michael Peña, Sebastian Stan, Matt Damon, Simon Kinberg, Kristen Wiig, Drew Goddard, Kate Mara, Sean Bean
Action Adventure Thriller Sci-Fi 3D

Paranormal Activity: The Ghost Dimension R

A fifth installment in the Paranormal Activity franchise.
Gregory Plotkin, Jason Blum, Jason Pagan, Ivy George, Oren Peli, Andrew Deutschman, Chris J. Murray, Brit Shaw
Sequel Thriller Suspense Horror

Hotel Transylvania 2 PG

Dracula and the world's most-infamous monsters reunite in a Hotel Transylvania sequel.
Keegan-Michael Key, Steve Buscemi, Andy Samberg, Adam Sandler, David Spade, Genndy Tartakovsky, Kevin James, Robert Smigel
Comedy Sequel Family Animation

Sinister 2 R

In the aftermath of the shocking events in Sinister, a protective mother (Shannyn Sossamon) and her 9-year-old twin sons (real-life twins Robert and Dartanian Sloan) find themselves in a rural house marked for death as the evil spirit of Buhguul continues to spread with frightening intensity.
Shannyn Sossamon, Tate Ellington, Ciaran Foy, Jason Blumenthal, Scott Derrickson, James Ransone, Laila Haley
Sequel Thriller Horror

The Second Mother R

Story centers around Val, a hard-working live-in housekeeper in modern day Sao Paulo. Val is perfectly content to take care of every one of her wealthy employers’ needs, from cooking and cleaning to being a surrogate mother to their teenage son, who she has raised since he was a toddler. But when Val’s estranged daughter Jessica suddenly shows up the unspoken but intrinsic class barriers that exist within the home are thrown into disarray. Jessica is smart, confident, and ambitious, and refuses to accept the upstairs/downstairs dynamic, testing relationships and loyalties and forcing everyone to reconsider what family really means.
Anna Muylaert, Regina Casé
Drama

Irrational Man R

On a small town college campus, a philosophy professor in existential crisis gives his life new purpose when he enters into a relationship with his student.
Emma Stone, Joaquin Phoenix, Jamie Blackley, Meredith Hagner, Woody Allen, Parker Posey, Ethan Phillips, Ben Rosenfield
Drama Comedy

Sherlock: The Abominable Bride

Sherlock: The Abominable Bride will see Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman reprise their roles as Sherlock Holmes and Dr. John Watson in a one-off episode set in Victorian London in 1895. The episode has been co-written by Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss with performances by Rupert Graves, Una Stubbs, Louise Brealey and Amanda Abbington.
Benedict Cumberbatch, Martin Freeman
Drama Event
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Straight Outta Compton R

Revolves around the rise and fall of the Compton, California rap group N.W.A., whose initials read Niggas With Attitude. The members include drug dealer turned label founder Eazy-E, young disc jockey Dr. Dre and the politically bent Ice Cube, plus MC Ren and DJ Yella.
Ice Cube, Matt Alvarez, Tomica Woods, David Engel, Bill Strauss, Andrea Berloff, Leigh Savidge, Alan Wenkus
Drama Mystery True Story

Jem and the Holograms PG

Follows a small-town girl who is catapulted from underground video sensation to a global superstar. She and her three sisters begin a one-in-a-million journey of discovering that some talents are too special to keep hidden.
Jon M. Chu, Aubrey Peeples, Jason Blum, Ryan Guzman, Hayley Kiyoko, Scooter Braun, Bennett Schneir, Brian Goldner
Adventure Fantasy Musical Based on Toy

All Things Must Pass

Established in 1960, Tower Records was once a retail powerhouse with close to two hundred stores, in more than a dozen countries, on four continents. From humble beginnings in a small-town drugstore, Tower Records eventually became the heart and soul of the music world, and a powerful force in the music industry. In 1999, Tower Records made $1 billion. In 2006, the company filed for bankruptcy. What went wrong? Everyone thinks they know what killed Tower Records: The Internet. But that's not the story. All Things Must Pass is a feature documentary film examining this iconic company's explosive trajectory, tragic demise, and legacy forged by its rebellious founder, Russ Solomon.
Colin Hanks, Sean Stuart
Documentary

The Diary of a Teenage Girl R

Like most teenage girls, Minnie Goetze (Bel Powley) is longing for love, acceptance and a sense of purpose in the world. Minnie begins a complex love affair with her mother's (Kristen Wiig) boyfriend, "the handsomest man in the world," Monroe Rutherford (Alexander Skarsgård). What follows is an account of one girl's sexual awakening, without judgment.
Bel Powley, Kristen Wiig, Christopher Meloni, Alexander Skarsgard, Marielle Heller
Drama

Everest PG-13

A film about two deadly days on the world's tallest mountain, Mt. Everest.
Brian Oliver, Jason Clarke, Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Martin Henderson, Sam Worthington, Robin Wright, Baltasar Kormakur
Drama Adventure True Story

Samba R

When Samba (Sy) is suddenly ordered to leave France, he enlists the help of Alice (Charlotte Gainsbourg), an emotionally vulnerable immigration advocate with little experience but plenty of heart. As the immigrant aspiring chef and the burned-out corporate executive tentatively explore an unexpected bond, they inspire each other to reinvent themselves in this vibrant comedy full of tender humor and heartfelt optimism.
Olivier Nakache, Omar Sy, Eric Toledano, Charlotte Gainsbourg
Drama Comedy

Stonewall

Tells the story of the riots of June 1969 after police raided the Stonewall Inn in Greenwich Village.
Roland Emmerich, Jon Robin Baitz, Joey King, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Michael Fossat, Marc Frydman, Jeremy Irvine, Jonny Beauchamp
Drama LGBTQIA+

Woodlawn PG

In 1973, a spiritual awakening captured the heart of nearly every player of the Woodlawn High School football team, including its coach Tandy Gerelds. Their dedication to love and unity in a school filled with racism and hate leads to the largest high school football game ever played in the torn city of Birmingham, Alabama, and the rise of its first African American superstar, Tony Nathan.
Sherri Shepherd, Jon Erwin, Jon Voight, Quinton Peeples, Sean Astin, C. Thomas Howell, Brando Eaton, Andrew Erwin
Drama Sports True Story

Learning to Drive PG-13

Wendy Shields is a book editor from New York facing a marriage crisis. Darwan Singh Tur is a driving instructor from India with an abiding respect for tradition. When Wendy sets out to reclaim her independence, she hits a unique roadblock - she never learned to drive. She hires Darwan, a driving instructor and part-time cabdriver, to teach her. They form an unlikely bond that inspires each to embrace the humor, freedom, and strength that come with starting anew.
Isabel Coixet, Sarita Choudhury, Ben Kingsley, Patricia Clarkson, Grace Gummer, Jake Weber, Samantha Bee
Comedy Romance
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Goosebumps PG

A primary protagonist(s) is often situated in a remote location or somehow isolated from typical societal conventions. These range from a comfortable suburban area to boarding schools, foreign villages, campsites, unfamiliar relatives' homes or even oversea areas. The books in the series usually feature semi-homogenous plot structures with normal kids being, frequently indirectly, involved in scary situations; chapters end in cliffhangers, and after the central conflict has either been or appears to have been resolved, there is often a twist ending.
Jack Black, Dylan Minnette, Rob Letterman, Carl Ellsworth, Halston Sage, Ken Marino, Neal H. Moritz, Deborah Forte
Adventure Suspense Adaptation Family

Burnt R

Follows a disgraced chef who, after losing his Michelin-rated restaurant in Paris, decides to bring his crew back together in an attempt to create the best restaurant ever in London.
John Wells, Erwin Stoff, Alicia Vikander, Bradley Cooper, Omar Sy, Sam Keeley, Lily James, Sienna Miller
Comedy

A Brilliant Young Mind PG-13

Preferring to hide in the safety of his own private world, Nathan (Asa Butterfield) struggles to connect with people, often pushing away those who want to be closest to him, including his mother Julie (Sally Hawkins). Without the ability to understand love or affection, Nathan finds the comfort and security he needs in numbers and mathematics. Mentored by his unconventional and anarchic teacher, Mr. Humphreys (Rafe Spall), it becomes clear that Nathan’s talents are enough to win him a place on the British team competing at the highly revered International Mathematics Olympiad. Being part of a team and one which has a real chance of winning seems like it could change Nathan’s life forever. But when the team goes to train in Taiwan, Nathan is faced with a multitude of unexpected challenges, not least the new and unfamiliar feelings he begins to experience for one of the Chinese competitors, the beautiful Zhang Mei (Jo Yang).
Sally Hawkins, Eddie Marsan, Morgan Matthews, Asa Butterfield, James Graham, Rafe Spall, Jo Yang
Drama

The Wannabe

A story about Thomas (Piazza), a man obsessed with Mafia culture during the 1990s in New York City. When Thomas' failed attempts to fix the trail of infamous mobster John Gotti gets him rejected by the people he idolizes most, a sets off on a drug infused crime spree with his girlfriend Rose (Arquette) by brazenly robbing the local Mafia hangouts.
Michael Imperioli, Martin Scorsese, Nick Sandow, Patricia Arquette, Vincent Piazza, David Zayas
Drama True Story

Chi-Raq R

Women abstain from sex to persuade their significant others to end gang violence in Chicago.
John Cusack, Angela Bassett, Nick Cannon, Samuel L. Jackson, Wesley Snipes, Jennifer Hudson, Spike Lee, Teyonah Parris
Drama