DVD & Blu-rays Released January 31, 2012

Tuesday, January 31

In Time PG-13

Set in the not-too-distant future where the aging gene has been switched off. To avoid overpopulation, time has become the currency and the way people pay for luxuries and necessities. The rich can live forever, while the rest try to negotiate for their immortality. The protagonist is a poor young man who comes into a fortune of time, though too late to help his mother from dying. He ends up on the run from a corrupt police force known as "time keepers."
Amanda Seyfried, Olivia Wilde, Cillian Murphy, Justin Timberlake, Alex Pettyfer, Bella Heathcote, Andrew David, Andrew Niccol
Thriller Sci-Fi

The Thing R

A remake and "a companion piece" to the 1982 original "John Carpenter's The Thing". The 1982 original dealt with a shape-shifting creature from outer space that terrorizes researchers at an Antarctic facility.
Joel Edgerton, Eric Heisserer, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Eric Newman, Matthijs van Heijningen, Marc Abraham, Jonathan Walker
Action Adventure Sci-Fi Prequel
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Drive R

A Hollywood stuntman moonlights as a wheelman during robberies and discovers that a contract has been put on him.
Bryan Cranston, Hossein Amini, Gigi Pritzker, Oscar Isaac, Carey Mulligan, David Lancaster, Marc Platt, Albert Brooks
Drama Action Adventure
96 mins

Chalet Girl

A working-class girl lands a job in a posh ski resort and discovers her natural snowboarding genius while dating the boss’ son.
Ed Westwick, Felicity Jones, Bill Nighy, Tom Williams, Harriet Rees, Phil Traill, Pippa Cross, Tamsin Egerton
Drama Romance
105 mins

Texas Killing Fields R

Story centers on two cops who realize that the latest murder in their jurisdiction connects their case to the notorious killing fields murders. The killing field murders concern four bodies that were found in the same place in Texas.
Bradley Cooper, Sam Worthington, Jessica Chastain, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Chloë Grace Moretz, Stephen Graham, Jason Clarke, Ami Mann
Drama Thriller
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Thunder Soul PG

Thunder Soul tells the true story of Conrad O Johnson and the Kashmere Stage Band, a mediocre jazz band into a legendary funk powerhouse.
Mark Landsman, Keith Calder, Jessica Wu
Documentary

Dream House PG-13

Daniel Craig plays a New York publishing exec who relocates his family to a small New England town only to learn that their new home was the scene of a vicious murder.
Jim Sheridan, Naomi Watts, Daniel Craig, Rachel Weisz, Daniel Bobker, Joe Nussbaum, David Loucka, Rachel Fox
Thriller Suspense Horror
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The Big Year PG

Three rival bird-watchers brave hazardous weather, competitor tactics and unhappy spouses to win the North American Big Year, an annual bird-watching competition.
Ben Stiller, Jack Black, Jim Parsons, Rashida Jones, Owen Wilson, Dustin Hoffman, Karen Rosenfelt, Curtis Hanson
Adventure Comedy

Outrage R

The boss of a major crime syndicate orders his lieutenant to bring a gang in line, a job which gets passed on to a long-suffering subordinate.
Takeshi Kitano, Kippei Shiina
Crime
98 mins

The Double PG-13

A young FBI agent teams up with a CIA agent to find a Russian hitman. The FBI agent discovers that the CIA agent is the hitman.
Richard Gere, Topher Grace, Stephen Moyer, Ashok Amritraj, Andrew Deane, Michael Brandt, Derek Haas, Martin Sheen
Drama Action Adventure Crime Mystery

Janie Jones

The story centers on a young girl who is abandoned by her drug-addicted, former-groupie mother at a concert and surprises the fading rock singer who’s performing with news that she is his daughter.
Brittany Snow, Abigail Breslin, Elisabeth Shue, Frank Whaley, Keith Kjarval, Alessandro Nivola, David M. Rosenthal, Eric Bassett
Drama

Tuesday, January 31