DVD & Blu-rays Released October 12, 2010

Tuesday, October 12

I Am Comic

Through candid interviews and backstage access, this documentary on Stand-Up explores the world of the working comedian and reveals a funny psychological profile of its practitioners.
Jordan Brady
Documentary
90 mins

Daniel and Ana

Ana is about to be married, Daniel is a gregarious teenager discovering his personal and sexual identity. Yet their harmony is instantly shattered when they are kidnapped and something shocking happens which forces them to confront their desires and fears.
Michel Franco
Drama Thriller
85 mins

Jonah Hex PG-13

Hex, known for having the right side of his face disfigured and wearing a Confederate army uniform, is a rough-and-tumble gunslinger and part-time bounty hunter whose adventures always end in blood.
Michael Shannon, Andrew Lazar, Brian Taylor, Josh Brolin, Mark Canton, Mark Neveldine, John Malkovich, Elishia Holmes
Drama Fantasy Western Superhero Sci-Fi
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119 mins

I Am Love R

"I Am Love" tells the story of the wealthy Recchi family of Milan, whose lives are rapidly changing. The family patriarch has surprised the family by willing shared ownership of his massive industrial company to both his son Tancredi (Delbono), and his grandson Edoardo Jr. (Parenti). Meanwhile, Edoardo Jr. has other plans, dreaming of opening a restaurant with a talented chef friend, Antonio (Gabbriellini). At the heart of the family is Tancredi's wife and Edoardo Jr.'s mother, Emma (Swinton), a Russian immigrant who has adopted the culture of Milan, and whose existence is shaken when she enters a passionate love affair with her son’s friend Antonio.
Luca Guadagnino, Christopher Granier-Deferre, Tilda Swinton, Flavio Parenti, Gabriele Ferzetti, Pippo Delbono
Drama
105 mins

Leaves of Grass

Bill Kincaid, an Ivy League classics professor, returns to rural Oklahoma to bury his dangerously brilliant identical twin brother, only to discover that the brother he believes to have been murdered has lured him home to involve him in a doomed plot against a local drug lord. Before Bill can flee, he's implicated in a murder, and his life has become completely unraveled, suggesting that no rational philosophy can protect us from life's twists and dangers.
Eric Gitter, Tim Blake Nelson, Keri Russell, John Langley, Elie Cohn, Kristina Dubin, Bill Migliore, Edward Norton
Comedy Thriller
90 mins

Carnies

"Carnies" follows a traveling sideshow in 1936, when the workers set up their oddities and illusions in another town hit by the dustbowl. However, this town is different, as a sinister force begins to kill off the carnies one-by-one.
Brian Corder, Doug Jones, Ron Leming, Chris Staviski, Reggie Bannister, David Markham, Lynn Ayala
Suspense Horror
100 mins

Kings of the Evening PG

After two year in jail, Homer Hobbs discovers that life on the outside is crueler than the injustice of the chain gang.
Andrew P. Jones, Robert Page Jones, Lynn Whitfield, Glynn Turman
Drama
106 mins

Peepli Live

On the eve of national elections in the Indian village of Peepli, two poor farmers, Natha and Budhia, face losing their land over an unpaid government loan.
Anusha Rizvi, Mahmood Farooqui
Drama

As Good as Dead R

Fundamentalists kidnap the man they believe murdered their religious leader, but they may have the wrong person.
Brian Cox, Cary Elwes, Frank Whaley, Jonathan Mossek, Andie MacDowell, Matt Dallas
Thriller

Tuesday, October 12