Best DVD & Blu-rays Released April 2016
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The Revenant
In 1823, Hugh Glass, a 36-year-old fur trapper, joins the Rocky Mountain Fur Company on a dangerous expedition with ten other men. While hunting for food for his group, Glass is mauled by a grizzly bear, so the captain enlists two men to stay behind and bury Glass as his death was sure to come. Instead, the men rob Glass, leaving him defenseless in the wilderness, awaiting certain death. However, contrary to the belief of the good-willed captain, and the belief of the ill-willed marauders, Glass does not perish from his wounds. Fueled by anger, Glass vows to survive — and miraculously does, making his way through 350 miles of uncharted wilderness to exact revenge.
Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, Steve Golin, Leonardo DiCaprio, Akiva Goldsman, Mark L. Smith, Tom Hardy, Lukas Haas, David J. Kanter
Natural Born Pranksters
Natural Born Pranksters chronicles the merry band of YouTube pranksters, including VitalyzdTV, Roman Atwood and Dennis Roady, descending on Hollywood and turning it into Prankwood.
Denis Roady, Roman Atwood, Tyler Hassard, Vitaly Zdorovestskiy
Star Wars: The Force Awakens
The beginning of a new Star Wars trilogy that will take place sometime after the events of Episode 6 and may or may not feature the Skywalker family.
Lupita Nyong'o, Daisy Ridley, Andy Serkis, Bryan Burk, Lawrence Kasdan, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Peter Mayhew
Tumbledown
A young widow falls for a brash New York writer who barrels into her rural Maine town to investigate the death of her husband, a folk-music hero.
Michael McKean, Jason Sudeikis, Blythe Danner, Rebecca Hall, Desi Van Til, Joe Manganiello, Beau Bridges, Dianna Agron
Ava's Possessions
Ava Dobkins [Krause] is recovering from demonic possession. With no memory of the past month, she is forced to attend a Spirit Possession Anonymous support group. As Ava struggles to reconnect with her friends, get her job back and figure out where the huge bloodstain in her apartment came from, she’s plagued by nightmarish visions—the demon is trying to come back.
John Ventimiglia, Jemima Kirke, Jordan Galland, Louisa Krause, Wass Stevens, Whitney Able, Dan Fogler
Identicals
The organization Brand New-U identifies networks of Identicals—people who walk like you, talk like you, but are walking through different, better lives—and helps their customers make a life upgrade: eliminating the better-life donor, and relocating their client to that brand new life. Slater seems to have the perfect life, the perfect job and the perfect girlfriend. But when Slater’s girlfriend is abducted by Brand New-U, and a corpse left in her place, he is forced to become an Identical. As he moves through a series of parallel lives, he becomes more and more obsessed with finding his girlfriend, but what he must find in the end is himself.
Lachlan Nieboer, Simon Pummell, Nora-Jane Noone, Nick Blood
Bad Hurt
Life for the Kendalls has been burdened by grief and claustrophobia. Faced with caring for one child with special needs and another with PTSD, the family struggles for a sense of stability at home in their Staten Island, NY hamlet. When a secret from the past is revealed, it threatens to tear them apart.
Mark Kemble, Iris Gilad, Jamieson Stern, Theo Rossi, Karen Allen, Michael Harney, Johnny Whitworth, Ashley Williams
Prescription Thugs
Filmmaker Chris Bell's (Bigger Stronger Faster) hard-hitting and thought-provoking expose of Big Pharma, its marketing practices and their impact on the staggering level of addiction to prescription drugs in North America.
Vince Vaughn, Peter Billingsley, Chris Bell
The Masked Saint
Starring Brett Granstaff (Vice) as Christopher 'The Saint' Samuels, The Masked Saint follows the journey of former professional wrestler, Chris Samuels (Granstaff) who retires from the ring to settle down as a small town pastor. When Samuels witnesses rampant problems in the community, he decides to moonlight as a masked vigilante fighting the injustice. While facing crises at home and at the church, Samuels must evade the police and somehow reconcile his secret, violent identity with his calling as a pastor.
Warren P. Sonoda, Scott Crowell, Brett Granstaff, Lara Jean Chorostecki, Diahann Carroll, Patrick McKenna
The Hallow
When London conservationist Adam (Joseph Mawle) and his wife Clare (Bojana Novakovic) move with their infant son to a remote house near the Irish forest, they quickly find their new neighbors unwelcoming. The discovery of a gruesome “zombie fungus” growing in the house is just the beginning, as the surrounding woods spew forth a terrifying array of folkloric banshees, baby snatchers, and demons.
Joseph Mawle, Corin Hardy, Bojana Novakovic, Michael Smiley
#Horror
You’ve got followers… Cyberbullying goes offline during one deadly night. Based on a shocking true story, #HORROR follows a group of preteen girls living in a suburban world of money and privilege. But when their obsession with a disturbing online game goes too far, virtual terror becomes all too real.
Tara Subkoff, Balthazar Getty, Chloë Sevigny, Timothy Hutton, Natasha Lyonne, Taryn Manning
The Forest
Set in the legendary Aokigahara Forest, a real-life place in Japan where people go to end their lives, The Forest tells the story of a young American woman in search of her twin sister, who has mysteriously disappeared. Despite everyone's warnings not to "stray from the path," Sara dares to enter the forest to discover the truth about her sister's fate, only to be confronted by the angry and tormented souls of the dead who now prey on anyone who crosses their paths.
Taylor Kinney, Jason Zada, David S. Goyer, Nellie Reed, Ben Ketai, Sarah Cornwell, Nick Antosca, Natalie Dormer
Standoff
Thomas Jane portrays a troubled veteran who gets a chance at redemption by protecting a 12-year-old girl from an assassin (Laurence Fishburne) after she witnesses a murder.
Ella Ballentine, Adam Alleca, Thomas Jane, Laurence Fishburne
The Cobbler
A shoe man has the ability to metaphysically step into the lives of the people whose shoes he repairs.
Adam Sandler, Dascha Polanco, Tom McCarthy, Mary Jane Skalski, Dan Stevens, Method Man, Ellen Barkin, Melonie Diaz
About Scout
Centers on a rebellious, slightly bad-ass Goth girl (India Ennenga) who convinces a suicidal young man (James Frecheville), to go on a road trip with her across Texas to track down her little sister (Onata Aprile) who’s been taken from her great-grandmother’s (Ellen Burstyn) home. Danny Glover portrays a Texas Ranger.
India Ennenga, Laurie Weltz, Nikki Reed, Danny Glover, Ellen Burstyn, James Frecheville
The Revenant
In 1823, Hugh Glass, a 36-year-old fur trapper, joins the Rocky Mountain Fur Company on a dangerous expedition with ten other men. While hunting for food for his group, Glass is mauled by a grizzly bear, so the captain enlists two men to stay behind and bury Glass as his death was sure to come. Instead, the men rob Glass, leaving him defenseless in the wilderness, awaiting certain death. However, contrary to the belief of the good-willed captain, and the belief of the ill-willed marauders, Glass does not perish from his wounds. Fueled by anger, Glass vows to survive — and miraculously does, making his way through 350 miles of uncharted wilderness to exact revenge.
Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, Steve Golin, Leonardo DiCaprio, Akiva Goldsman, Mark L. Smith, Tom Hardy, Lukas Haas, David J. Kanter
Fifty Shades of Black
Get ready for an erotic spoof comedy as Fifty Shades of Black takes you through a maze of hard, rough, and pre-mature encounters from inside of Mr. Christian Black's playroom.
Fred Willard, Mike Epps, Mike Tiddes, Rick Alvarez, Marlon Wayans, Jane Seymour, Kali Hawk, Affion Crockett
Norm of the North
"Norm of the North" tells the story of the titular polar bear and his three Arctic lemming buddies, who are forced out into the world once their icy home begins melting and breaking apart. Landing in New York, Norm begins life anew as a performing corporate mascot, only to discover that his new employers are directly responsible for the destruction of his polar home.
Heather Graham, Bill Nighy, Rob Schneider, Ken Jeong, Trevor Wall, Derek Elliott, Jack Donaldson, Zachary Gordon
Misconduct
An ambitious lawyer (Josh Duhamel) finds himself caught in a power struggle between a corrupt pharmaceutical executive (Anthony Hopkins) and his firm’s senior partner (Al Pacino). When the case takes a deadly turn, he must race to uncover the truth before he loses everything.
Julia Stiles, Alice Eve, Simon Boyes, Al Pacino, Anthony Hopkins, Gary Preisler, Shintaro Shimosawa, Adam Mason
Lamb
When a man meets a young girl in a parking lot he attempts to help her avoid a bleak destiny by initiating her into the beauty of the outside world. The journey shakes them in ways neither expects.
Ross Partridge, Oona Laurence, Jess Weixler, Tom Bower
Crazy About Tiffany's
The film seeks to capture how Charles Lewis Tiffany and the people behind the scenes transformed a small stationery and gift shop into the global phenomenon known as Tiffany & Co.
Matthew Miele
Ip Man 3
In this third installment of the blockbuster martial arts series, when a band of brutal gangsters led by a crooked property developer (Mike Tyson) make a play to take over the city, Master Ip (Donnie Yen) is forced to take a stand. Fists will fly as some of the most incredible fight scenes ever filmed play out on the big screen in this soon-to-be genre classic.
Wilson Yip, Donnie Yen, Mike Tyson
The Lady in the Van
Miss Shepherd, a vagrant woman, parks her decrepit van outside a man's house and stays living there for 15 years. He eventually allows her to park her vehicle in his drive, sparking an often-strained relationship which ends when she dies in 1989.
Jim Broadbent, James Corden, Nicholas Hytner, Alan Bennett, Maggie Smith, Alex Jennings, Dominic Cooper, Roger Allam
All Mistakes Buried
Struggling with drug addiction and heartbreak after his recent separation, Sonny looks to make amends by giving his wife a precious necklace on their anniversary. But when the necklace is stolen, he must delve into the dark corners of a Louisiana town to find it. Sonny faces dangerous drug dealers and truths he may not want to confront, all in a last ditch attempt to save his marriage.
Nick Loeb, Missy Yager, Tim McCann, Sam Trammell, Vanessa Ferlito, Maria McCann
Drunk, Stoned, Brilliant, Dead: The Story of the National Lampoon
Amid the seismic cultural shift of the 1970s, American comedy got a sharper edge when a newly minted magazine named National Lampoon stuck its middle finger up at the establishment. Spawned at an Ivy League school by the wonderfully warped minds of Douglas Kenney and Henry Beard, National Lampoon rose from a counterculture rag to a revered comic institution. Bound by a passion for the absurd and a mistrust of authority, Lampoon's irreverence spanked nearly every available social taboo from weak-kneed politics to heated racial tensions. This unique cocktail of high satire and gallows humor exploded onto America's cultural consciousness attracting visionary talents such as Gilda Radner, John Belushi, Bill Murray, and Chevy Chase, whose comedic force helped expand the magazine's spirit to stage and film. Director Douglas Tirola unearths never-before-seen archival footage and brilliantly weaves it together with the magazine's beautiful and often shocking art, reliving National Lampoon's meteoric rise from go-to magazine of the counterculture to a brand synonymous with Hollywood's biggest comedies.
Douglas Tirola
Ride Along 2
A second-grade teacher must deal with his wife's tough cop brother.
Sherri Shepherd, Kevin Hart, Ice Cube, Matt Manfredi, Ken Jeong, Tim Story, Phil Hay, Olivia Munn
Jane Got a Gun
Follows a woman whose outlaw husband returns home riddled with bullet wounds and barely alive. When her husband’s gang eventually tracks him down to finish the job, she is forced to reach out to an ex-lover and ask if he will help defend her farm.
Boyd Holbrook, Peter Fruchtman, Brian Duffield, Gavin O'Connor, Zack Schiller, Natalie Portman, Joel Edgerton, Ewan McGregor
The Man Who Knew Infinity
In 1913, Ramanujan (Dev Patel), a self-taught Indian mathematics genius traveled to Trinity College, Cambridge, where he forged a bond with his mentor, the eccentric professor GH Hardy (Jeremy Irons), and fought against prejudice to reveal his mathematic genius to the world.
Dev Patel, Jeremy Irons, Devika Bhise, Toby Jones, Matthew Brown, Kevin McNally
Backtrack
In Backtrack, troubled psychotherapist Peter Bowers (Adrien Brody) is suffering from nightmares and eerie visions. When he uncovers the horrifying secret shared by his patients, he is put on a course that takes him back to the remote hometown he fled years ago. There in False Creek he is consumed by solving a decades-old mystery that holds the key to his strange and menacing delusions.
Adrien Brody, Robin McLeavy, Anna Lise Phillips, Michael Petroni, Sam Neill, Jenni Baird, Chloe Bayliss
The Last Man On The Moon
The Last Man On The Moon is powered by the same adrenalin, drama and raw emotions experienced by former NASA astronaut and Navy Captain Eugene “Gene” Cernan. When Cernan became the last man to step off of the surface of the moon in December 1972, he left his footprints and his daughter’s initials in the lunar dust. Only now is he ready to share his epic and deeply personal story of fulfillment, love and loss. Five years in the making, the documentary unveils a wealth of rare archival footage and takes Cernan back to the launch pad at Cape Kennedy (now NASA Kennedy Space Center), to the Arlington National Cemetery, and to his Texas ranch where he tries to find respite from a past that refuses to let him go. The film features exclusive interviews with former astronauts, such as Apollo 12 crew-members Alan Bean and Dick Gordon and Apollo 13 Commander Jim Lovell, as well as NASA Flight Director Gene Kranz and Director of Flight Operations Chris Kraft.
Mark Craig
River of Grass
Shot on 16mm, the story follows the misadventures of disaffected housewife "Cozy," played by Lisa Bowman, and the aimless layabout "Lee," played by up-and-comer Larry Fessenden.
Michael Buscemi, Kelly Reichardt, Lisa Bowman, Larry Fessenden, Dick Russell
Lost in the Sun
The story of John, a small time crook, who finds an unlikely accomplice in Louis, a newly-orphaned teenage boy. As their open-road adventure progresses and John drags the kid on a string of robberies, the pair forge an unexpected and powerful bond.
Trey Nelson, Josh Wiggins, Josh Duhamel
Son of Saul
Saul Ausländer is a Hungarian member of the Sonderkommando, the group of Jewish prisoners isolated from the camp and forced to assist the Nazis in the machinery of large-scale extermination.
While working in one of the crematoriums, Saul discovers the body of a boy he takes for his son.
As the Sonderkommando plans a rebellion, Saul decides to carry out an impossible task: save the child's body from the flames, find a rabbi to recite the mourner's Kaddish and offer the boy a proper burial.
Laszlo Nemes