Best DVD & Blu-rays Released June 2014
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The Son of God
Diogo Morgado portrays the role of Jesus as the film spans from his humble birth through his teachings, crucifixion and ultimate resurrection.
Amber Rose Revah, Christopher Spencer, Mark Burnett, Roma Downey, Diogo Morgado, Louise Delamere, Andrew Brooke, Darwin Shaw
Lone Survivor
A Navy Seal leads a team into Afghanistan on a mission to kill a Taliban leader but he is the only one to survive.
Emile Hirsch, Stephen Levinson, Randall Emmett, Taylor Kitsch, Mark Wahlberg, Ben Foster, Akiva Goldsman, Norton Herrick
Small Time
Story centers on the owner of a used-car lot and his son, who decides to forgo college in order to join his dad as a salesman on the lot.
Joel Surnow, Dean Norris, Bridget Moynahan, Christopher Meloni, Devon Bostick, Amaury Nolasco, Xander Berkeley, Garcelle Beauvais-Nilon
Parts Per Billion
Three couples respond to a life-threatening situation in their city.
Rosario Dawson, Penn Badgley, Brian Horiuchi, Molly Hassell, Jennifer Levine, Michael Benaroya, Olivia Thirlby, Alexis Bledel
Goodbye World
James and Lily live off the grid, raising their young daughter in a cocoon of comfort and sustainability. When a mysterious mass text ripples its way across the country, triggering a crippling, apocalyptic cyber attack, their home transitions from sheltered modern oasis to a fortress for the estranged old friends that show up at their door for protection and community. The unexpected reunion--abundant with revelry and remembrances, generously enhanced by organic wine and weed--is quickly undermined by the slights of the past, the spark of lingering flirtations and the threat of a locally grown new world order.
Kerry Bishé, Denis Henry Hennelly, Sarah Adina Smith, Adrian Grenier, Gaby Hoffmann, Benjamin McKenzie, Mark Webber, Caroline Dhavernas
The Pretty One
Follows an awkward but loveable young woman who is mistaken for her dead "perfect" identical twin, and seizes the chance to masquerade as her sister. But when she falls in love with her twin’s next door neighbor, she finds herself wanting to live her own imperfect life, and have the truth come out.
Zoe Kazan, Jake Johnson, Jenee LaMarque, Robin Schorr, Steven J. Berger, Ron Livingston
Blood Ties
Two brothers, on either side of the law, face off over organized crime in Brooklyn during the 1970s.
Christopher Woodrow, Billy Crudup, Maria Cestone, Hoyt David Morgan, Mila Kunis, Marion Cotillard, Guillaume Canet, John Lesher
Graceland
Family man Marlon Villar is the long-time driver of Manuel Chango, a corrupt Filipino congressman. One afternoon, while driving his and Chango's preteen daughters home from school, the three are violently ambushed in a kidnapping attempt. When the attempt goes horribly awry, the wrong girl is taken, and the driver's life takes a sudden, terrifying turn. Left as the only witness to the crime, Marlon's loyalty is called into question. As events unravel further, he, Chango, and their families become ensnared in a downward spiral of betrayal and deceit that will ultimately leave no one innocent.
Ron Morales, Arnold Reyes, Menggie Cobarrubias, Leon Miguel, Ella Guevara
Black Out
On the day before his wedding, retired criminal Jos (Raymond Thiry) wakes up with a splitting headache, a missing wedding ring, and a dead body in bed next to him. With no memory of the previous day's events, he quickly finds himself pursued by suspicious narcotics officers and an assortment of eccentric and dangerous criminals who believe Jos has stolen 20 kilos of cocaine. With less than 24 hours to unravel the mystery, Jos is forced back into the seedy Amsterdam underworld in hopes that he can recover the coke and ring, and live long enough to make it to the altar.
Kim van Kooten, Arne Toonen, Raymond Thiry
Burt's Buzz
The film takes an intimate look at the world of Burt Shavitz, the face and co-founder of Burt’s Bees, exploring his fascinating and unique life. Wise and wry, ornery and opinionated, the reclusive Shavitz is committed to living off the land and keeping true to his humble beginnings despite his celebrity status. The film chronicles Burt’s life as a photographer, beekeeper, and brand spokesman, following his complicated relationship with the company, his fans, and the world around him.
Jody Shapiro
The Good Son: The Life of Ray 'Boom Boom' Mancini
Ray “Boom Boom” Mancini wasn’t merely the lightweight champ. He fought for his father and for those in small towns across America. The Good Son is an intimate history, a saga of fathers and fighters, loss and redemption and finally, forgiveness.
Jesse James Miller
Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit
The story centers on former intelligence analyst and all-American good guy Jack Ryan.
Kevin Costner, Keira Knightley, Chris Pine, Kenneth Branagh, Mace Neufeld, Lorenzo di Bonaventura, David Barron, Adam Cozad
Haunt
Story follows the son (Gilbertson) of a family recently moved into a new house with a dark past who begins a sexual relationship with the girl next door (Liberato) that prompts the opening of a terrifying alternate reality of the house. Weaver will play a former resident of the house who has suffered a terrible family tragedy.
Liana Liberato, Steven Schneider, Mac Carter, Andrew Barrer, Jacki Weaver, Danielle Chuchran
Devil's Knot
An infamous Arkansas murder case ends with the conviction of three teens based largely on their alleged fascination with the occult.
Reese Witherspoon, Christopher Woodrow, Richard Saperstein, Robert Baker, Maria Cestone, Hoyt David Morgan, Amanda Bowers, Elizabeth Fowler
Midrange
Fresh off a stellar collegiate basketball career, aspiring professional basketball star, Damon Sharp, returns to his hometown in Chicago quickly to discover a more challenging game off the court. His former life and old bad habits abruptly challenge his newfound faith in God. Damon’s dreams of playing pro ball hang in the balance while he faces the circling demons of his past, which are being beckoned by his brother Darrin, who’s on a fast track to jail.
Devastated when he doesn’t make the draft pick, weakness takes root and the downward spiraling ensues. Damon’s extended stay at home unveils his mother’s severe depression and his brother’s growing penchant for trouble despite being a single dad, exposing his young nephew’s vulnerability.
An intimate portrait of the two brothers emerges when they are suddenly forced to re-examine their lives, loyalty, love and their own limitations. Ultimately the choices they make reveal their true character when one of them takes a shot in life that will set the course for everyone’s life forever.
Jason Fields
Summer In February
A love triangle set at an Edwardian artists’ colony on the Cornish coast of England in the early 20th century.
Emily Browning, Christopher Menaul, Jonathan Smith, Michael Maloney, Dominic Cooper, Dan Stevens, Hattie Morahan, Shaun Dingwall
The Missing Picture
The Missing Picture explores filmmaker Rithy Panh's quest to create the missing images during the period when the Khmer Rouge ruled over Cambodia between 1975 and 1979. Panh uses intricately detailed clay figurines intercut with archival footage he could find to relay what is indelibly recorded in his memory, he creates the missing pictures of what does not exist in photograph or film.
Rithy Panh
Perfect Sisters
A pair of abused and neglected teenage girls almost get away with murder in Perfect Sisters, a riveting true-crime thriller based on the notorious “Bathtub Girls” case. Sisters Sandra and Beth learned early in life that they had no one to depend on but each other. But when their addict mother Linda makes plans to move the girls in with her lecherous and abusive lover, the girls’ situation becomes unbearable. Seeing no other way out, Sandra and Beth recruit their classmates to help them plan their mother’s murder. When the girls’ guilt spins out of control and they compulsively confess their involvement to friends, rumors that they are cold-blooded killers reach the ears of the authorities. Perfect Sisters is a harrowing and heartbreaking look at the teen subculture that nurtured the girls’ murderous fantasies and covered up for them after they committed an unthinkable crime in an effort to create a normal life for themselves.
Mira Sorvino, Abigail Breslin, Georgie Henley, Jeffrey Ballard, Stan Brooks
Omar
Omar is accustomed to dodging surveillance bullets to cross the separation wall to visit his secret love Nadia. But occupied Palestine knows neither simple love nor clear-cut war. On the other side of the wall, the sensitive young baker Omar becomes a freedom fighter who must face painful choices about life and manhood. When Omar is captured after a deadly act of resistance, he falls into a cat-and-mouse game with the military police. Suspicion and betrayal jeopardize his longtime trust with accomplices and childhood friends Amjad and Tarek, Nadia’s militant brother. Omar’s feelings quickly become as torn apart as the Palestinian landscape. But it’s soon evident that everything he does is for his love of Nadia.
Hany Abu-Assad
The Short Game
It tells the story of eight of the best 7-year-old golfers in the world as they train for and compete in the World Championships of Junior Golf.
Josh Greenbaum, John Battsek, Allan Kournikova, Zamokuhle Nxasana, David Frankel
The Secret Lives of Dorks
Payton is a pathetic dork, a comic book geek whose high school career is one series of hopeless faux pas after another. Hopelessly in love with Carrie, Payton is given life lessons by Carrie, who hopes to socialize Payton just enough to get him off her back and into the arms of Samantha. And when Payton takes his act out in public... well, that's when his life shifts into gear from lonely misery to utter disaster!
Salomé Breziner, Charlie Stewart, Gaelan Connell, Vanessa Marano, Beau Mirchoff, Riley Voelkel, James Belushi, Mark Daugherty
Patrick: Evil Awakens
Follows a former killer who is now a comatose patient in a small psychiatric clinic. When a pretty young nurse begins working with him, she senses that Patrick is communicating with her, and he seems to be using his powers to manipulate events in her life.
Peta Sergeant, Damon Gameau, Mark Hartley, Rachel Griffiths, Charles Dance, Sharni Vinson, Martin Crewes
Some Velvet Morning
Some Velvet Morning centers on Fred (Stanley Tucci), who arrives on the doorstep of his beautiful young mistress, Velvet (Alice Eve), after four years apart, claiming to have left his wife. But when she rejects his attempts at rekindling their romance, his persistence evolves into obsession -- and a dark history between the ex-lovers comes into focus.
Neil LaBute, Alice Eve, Stanley Tucci
Adult World
A Stanford coed who feels she's destined to be a poet and winds up working as a clerk in a mom-and-pop adult bookstore.
Chris Riggi, Armando Riesco, Andrew Cochran, Shannon Marie Woodward, Scott Coffey, Michael Ohoven, Kevin Turen, Joel Michaely
Ernest & Celestine
Tells the story of an unlikely friendship between a bear, Ernest, and a young mouse named Celestine.
Didier Bourdon
Alan Partridge
The film finds Alan (Steve Coogan) at the center of a siege, when a disgruntled fellow DJ (Colm Meaney) decides to hold their station hostage after learning that he’s getting sacked by the new management.
Billy Gerber, Declan Lowney, Bernard Slade, Alec Sokolow, Steve Coogan, Neil Gibbons, Colm Meaney, Tim Key
The LEGO Movie
Described as an action adventure set in a Lego world that centers on the idea of achild-like imagination and examines themes of creativity and teamwork in the manner of “Toy Story.”
Liam Neeson, Chris Pratt, Elizabeth Banks, Morgan Freeman, Will Ferrell, Jonah Hill, Phil Lord, Alison Brie
Walk of Shame
Follow's a news anchor's attempts at a dream-job promotion is jeopardized by a drunken one-night stand.
Elizabeth Banks, Bill Burr, James Marsden, Steven Brill, Lawrence Gilliard Jr, Tig Notaro, Sidney Kimmel, Gary Lucchesi
13 Sins
A naive man is dragged into a gruesome reality show with an audience he cannot see. Winning takes guts and questionable morals as one must perform acts straight out of "Fear Factor" or Abu Ghraib.
Ron Perlman, Stephanie Honore, Daniel Stamm, David Birke, Pruitt Taylor Vince, Mark Webber, Devon Graye, Rutina Wesley
Authors Anonymous
A dysfunctional writers’ group melts down when their newest member (Kaley Cuoco) finds overnight success.
Teri Polo, Ellie Kanner, Dylan Walsh, Jonathan Banks, Kaley Cuoco, Chris Klein, Jonathan Bennett, Dennis Farina
The Grand Budapest Hotel
No plot details have been announced.
Ralph Fiennes, Adrien Brody, Jude Law, Scott Rudin, Tilda Swinton, Steven Rales, Bill Murray, Edward Norton
Jimmy P.
Follows Jimmy Picard (Benicio Del Toro), a Blackfoot Indian, who returns from World War II with a mysterious illness and requires the help of psychoanalyst George Devereux (Matthieu Amalric).
Benicio Del Toro, Christopher Woodrow, Gary Farmer, Arnaud Desplechin, Jennifer Roth, Pascal Caucheteux, Kent Jones, Matthieu Amalric
The Final Member
Paris has the Louvre, London has the Tate Modern, and New York the Metropolitan Museum. But Husavik, Iceland-a diminutive village on the fringe of the Arctic Circle-boasts the world's only museum devoted exclusively to painstakingly preserved male genitalia. Founded and curated by Sigurður "Siggi" Hjartarson, the Icelandic Phallological Museum houses four decades worth of mammalian members, from a petite field mouse to the colossal sperm whale, and every "thing" in between. Lamentably, Siggi's collection lacks the holy grail of phallic phantasmagoria: a human specimen. Siggi's world changes dramatically when he receives generous offers from an elderly Icelandic Casanova and an eccentric American. However, as the competition for eternal penile preservation heats up between the two men, Siggi soon discovers that this process is more complicated than it initially appeared.
Zach Math, Jonah Bekhor
300: Rise of An Empire
No plot details have been announced.
Andrew Tiernan, Callan Mulvey, Zack Snyder, Mark Canton, Eva Green, Sullivan Stapleton, Noam Murro, Gianni Nunnari
Winter's Tale
A period reincarnation story based on the 1983 Mark Helprin novel.
Russell Crowe, Akiva Goldsman, Kevin Corrigan, Kerry Foster, Jessica Brown Findlay, Will Smith, Colin Farrell, William Hurt
Rob the Mob
A couple rob from mob-controlled social clubs in New York until they come across a list of every gangster in town and become the targets both of organized crime and the FBI.
Raymond De Felitta, Andy Garcia, Bill Teitler, Aida Turturro, Jonathan Fernandez, Nina Arianda, Michael Pitt, Ray Romano
Enemy
A dysfunctional history teacher accidentally discovers his exact double on a rented DVD, seeks him out and ends up turning both of their lives upside down.
Melanie Laurent, Isabella Rossellini, Jake Gyllenhaal, Denis Villeneuve, Niv Fichman, Miguel Angel Faura, Javier Gullón, Sarah Gadon
The Wedding Video
hen Riaf is asked to be the best man at his brother Tim's high-society British wedding, he decides to make a no-holds-barred documentary of everything that happens leading up to the big day and give it as a gift to the happy couple. As the moment of matrimony approaches, nothing seems to be going according to plan, leaving the bride and groom to wonder, "Whose wedding is this anyway?"
Nigel Cole, Lucy Punch, Harriet Walter, Matt Berry, Miriam Margolyes, Rufus Hound, Robert Webb
Pandora's Promise
The atomic bomb and meltdowns like Fukushima have made nuclear power synonymous with global disaster. But what if we’ve got nuclear power wrong? The documentary explores whether the one technology we fear most could save our planet from a climate catastrophe, while providing the energy needed to lift billions of people in the developing world out of poverty.
Robert Stone
Blood Ties
Two brothers, on either side of the law, face off over organized crime in Brooklyn during the 1970s.
Christopher Woodrow, Billy Crudup, Maria Cestone, Hoyt David Morgan, Mila Kunis, Marion Cotillard, Guillaume Canet, John Lesher
Repentance
The story centers on a life coach (Anthony Mackie) who’s mysteriously abducted by a deranged client, played by Forest Whitaker.
Anthony Mackie, Philippe Caland, Mike Epps, Sanaa Lathan, Nicole Ari Parker, Shintaro Shimosawa, Forest Whitaker
Some Velvet Morning
Some Velvet Morning centers on Fred (Stanley Tucci), who arrives on the doorstep of his beautiful young mistress, Velvet (Alice Eve), after four years apart, claiming to have left his wife. But when she rejects his attempts at rekindling their romance, his persistence evolves into obsession -- and a dark history between the ex-lovers comes into focus.
Neil LaBute, Alice Eve, Stanley Tucci
Wolf Creek 2
John Jarratt will once again reprise the role of serial killer Mick Taylor.
Aaron Sterns, John Jarratt, Greg McLean, Matt Hearn