Best DVD & Blu-rays Released April 2017
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When a photographer (Abbie Cornish) suffers severe memory loss after a traumatic accident, strange clues amongst her photos suggest she may be responsible for the deaths of family members she never knew she had. Justin Long plays a psychiatrist who helps her recover lost memories.
Justin Long, Dermot Mulroney, Abbie Cornish, Diego Klattenhoff, Ed Gass-Donnelly
Thriller
2 / 5
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The Bad Kids
At a remote Mojave Desert high school extraordinary educators believe that empathy and life skills, more than academics, give at-risk students command of their own futures. This coming-of-age drama watches education combat the crippling effects of poverty in the lives of these so-called “bad kids.”
Louis Pepe, Keith Fulton
Documentary
1 / 5
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An office party gets out of hand.
Jason Bateman, Jennifer Aniston, Olivia Munn, T.J. Miller, Abbey Lee, Jillian Bell, Randall Park, Matt Walsh
Comedy Holiday
3 / 5
Play Trailer Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
Rumored to be an origin story about Boba Fett.
Kathleen Kennedy, Mads Mikkelsen, Forest Whitaker, Gareth Edwards, Ben Mendelsohn, Felicity Jones, Donnie Yen, Riz Ahmed
Action Adventure Sci-Fi Spin-off 3D
4 / 5
Play Trailer Running Wild
Tells the story of a young widow trying to save her ranch following her husband's fatal car crash. She creates a convict rehabilitation program, working with a herd of wild horses that have wandered onto her property. She did not anticipate the greed, bureaucracy and vanity that she must overcome to heal the convicts, the horses and ultimately herself.
Sharon Stone, Jason Lewis, Christina Moore, Tom Williamson, Alex Ranarivelo, Brian Rudnick, Tommy Flanagan, Dorian Brown Pham
Drama
2 / 5
Play Trailer The Book of Love
Set in New Orleans, a grieving introverted architect, whose wife recently died in a car accident, finds refuge by helping a wisecracking young girl fulfill her dream of building a raft and sailing across the Atlantic Ocean.
Jason Sudeikis, Jessica Biel, Maisie Williams, Richard Robichaux, Bill Purple, Paul Reiser, Chuck Pacheco, Mary Steenburgen
Drama
3 / 5
Play Trailer Youth in Oregon
Follows an elderly man (Frank Langella) who has made the decision to take advantage of Oregon's assisted suicide law. His son-in-law (Billy Crudup) agrees to drive him 3,000 miles across the country, hoping to change his mind along the way.
Christina Applegate, Joel David Moore, Josh Lucas, Frank Langella, Billy Crudup, Nicola Peltz Beckham, Joey Carey, Stefan Nowicki
Drama Comedy Family
2 / 5
Play Trailer Ghost of New Orleans
A disgraced detective (Josh Lucas) has a supernatural encounter which leads him to investigate the murder of a beautiful cellist (Lake Bell) that unlocks the truth behind her mysterious death.
Josh Lucas, Cary Elwes, Terrence Howard, Lake Bell, Gerald DiPego, Sharon Leal, Predrag Antonijevic, Justin DiPego
Thriller Horror
2 / 5
Play Trailer The Bounce Back
A heartfelt romantic comedy about finding the courage to love after love has let you down. Follows a relationship guru (Shemar Moore) who falls for a beautiful woman (Nadine Velazquez).
Shemar Moore, Kali Hawk, Nadine Velazquez, Youssef Delara, Victor Teran, Staci Robinson, Bill Bellamy, Sheryl Underwood
Romance Romantic Comedy
2 / 5
Play Trailer Paterson
Paterson (Adam Driver) is a bus driver in the city of Paterson, New Jersey – they share the name. Every day, Paterson adheres to a simple routine: he drives his daily route, observing the city as it drifts across his windshield and overhearing fragments of conversation swirling around him; he writes poetry into a notebook; he walks his dog; he stops in a bar and drinks exactly one beer. He goes home to his wife, Laura (Golshifteh Farahani). By contrast, Laura’s world is ever changing. New dreams come to her almost daily, each a different and inspired project. Paterson loves Laura and she loves him. He supports her newfound ambitions; she champions his secret gift for poetry. The history and energy of the City of Paterson is a felt presence in the film and its simple structure unfolds over the course of a single week. The quiet triumphs and defeats of daily life are observed, along with the poetry evident in its smallest details.
Adam Driver, Cliff Smith, Jim Jarmusch, Golshifteh Farahani, Barry Shabaka Henley, Joshua Astrachan, Chasten Harmon, William Jackson Harper
Drama
4 / 5
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National Bird
Follows three Air Force whistle-blowers who have been distressed over their participation in the killing of faceless people in foreign countries.
Sonia Kennebeck
Documentary
4 / 5
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Monster Trucks
An original film based on the popularity of Monster Trucks. Revolves around vehicles typically styled after pickup trucks' bodies, modified or purposely built with extremely large wheels and suspension.
Danny Glover, Jane Levy, Holt McCallany, Chris Wedge, Rob Lowe, Frank Whaley, Lucas Till, Amy Ryan
Adventure Animated Live-Action/CGI
3 / 5
Play Trailer The Bye Bye Man
Story is based on true and terrifying events that occurred in Wisconsin in the 1990’s.
Lucien Laviscount, Faye Dunaway, Doug Jones, Jonathan Penner, David Prior, Carrie-Anne Moss, Michael Trucco, Douglas Smith
Thriller Horror
2 / 5
Play Trailer Hidden Figures
A period space-race drama is inspired by the real-life tale of a group of African-American female mathematicians — Dorothy Vaughn, Mary Jackson and Katherine Johnson — who helped put astronaut John Glenn into orbit.
Taraji P. Henson, Jim Parsons, Kirsten Dunst, Glen Powell, Pharrell Williams, Mahershala Ali, Kevin Costner, Peter Chernin
Drama True Story
4 / 5
Play Trailer Brimstone
A young woman and her family's lives change drastically when a diabolical preacher comes to town.
Dakota Fanning, Kit Harington, Guy Pearce, Emilia Jones, Carice van Houten, Martin Koolhoven, Els Vandevorst
Drama Suspense Western
3 / 5
Play Trailer Claire in Motion
Claire is sure of herself, her work and family, until - like a bad dream - her husband disappears, leaving a trail of puzzling secrets that shatter her certainty.
Betsy Brandt, Anna Margaret Hollyman, Lisa Robinson, Sakina Jaffrey, Annie J. Howell, Chris Beetem
Drama Thriller
3 / 5
Play Trailer Toni Erdmann
Centers on a father who plays pranks on his too-serious daughter.
Sandra Hüller, Thomas Loibl, Maren Ade, Michael Wittenborn, Peter Simonischek, Trystan Pütter
Comedy
3 / 5
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Set in modern day Greece, Worlds Apart is comprised of three separate narratives each following a love story between a foreigner and a Greek. Each story represents a different generation falling in love during a time of socioeconomic turmoil that dominates Southern Europe as a whole, only to connect as a single story in the end. Almost like a triptych work of art where each painting stands alone, yet its true impact lies when viewed as a whole.
Christopher Papakaliatis
Drama
3 / 5
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Michael Pena and Alexander Skarsgard play two corrupt cops in New Mexico who make a living blackmailing criminals until they try to intimidate someone who could be even more dangerous than they are.
Alexander Skarsgard, Tessa Thompson, Theo James, Michael Peña, John Michael McDonagh
Crime
2 / 5
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A 5-year-old Indian boy who, after a wrong train takes him thousands of miles away from home and family, survives many challenges before being adopted by an Australian couple. Twenty-five years later, armed with only the scantest of clues, he learns of a new technology called Google Earth, and sets out to find his lost family.
Nicole Kidman, Rooney Mara, Dev Patel, David Wenham, Garth Davis, Pallavi Sharda, Eamon Farren, Nawazuddin Siddiqui
Drama Adaptation
3 / 5
Play Trailer Daughters of the Dust
At the dawn of the 20th century, a multigenerational family in the Gullah community in the Sea Islands off of South Carolina -- former West African slaves who adopted many of their ancestors' Yoruba traditions -- suffers a generational split. An older group of sisters return after migrating north to New York with intentions of bringing the rest of their family back across the water to the mainland with them. But, tensions arrive when the newly Americanized sisters view their homeland’s way of living as backwards, all while Nana, the family elder who embodies the traditions and folklore of their African roots, is struggling to keep the family together and to pass on the knowledge of their ancestors.
Julie Dash, Tony King, Alva Rogers, Trula Hoosier, Barbara-O, Bahni Turpin, Cheryl Lynn Bruce, Cora Lee Day
Drama Re-Release
3 / 5
Play Trailer Split
No plot details have been released - this will be Shyamalan’s follow-up to The Visit, which has grossed over $53 million on a budget of $5 million.
Anya Taylor-Joy, Jason Blum, James McAvoy, Betty Buckley, M. Night Shyamalan, Haley Lu Richardson, Marc Bienstock, Jessica Sula
Thriller Supernatural
4 / 5
Play Trailer Sleepless
An undercover cop tries to get back his kidnapped son from a drug-dealing nightclub owner.
Dante Harper, Jamie Foxx, Michelle Monaghan, Dermot Mulroney, Roy Lee, Jeremiah Samuels, Tom Ortenberg, John Middleton
Action Comedy Remake
3 / 5
Play Trailer The Founder
The story will focus on how Ray Kroc — a milkshake dispensers salesman turned McDonald’s into a global fast food empire. Kroc began working for the McDonald brothers in 1954 at the age of 51 as a franchising agent and bought the chain for $2.7 million in 1961.
Michael Keaton, Laura Dern, Kimberly Battista, Jeremy Renner, B.J. Novak, Patrick Wilson, Karen Lunder, Robert Siegel
Drama Biography
3 / 5
Play Trailer Ocean Waves
Taku and his best friend Yutaka are headed back to school for what looks like another uneventful year. But they soon find their friendship tested by the arrival of Rikako, a beautiful new transfer student from Tokyo whose attitude vacillates wildly from flirty and flippant to melancholic. When Taku joins Rikako on a trip to Tokyo, the school erupts with rumors, and the three friends are forced to come to terms with their changing relationships.
Kaori Nakamura, Tomomi Mochizuki
Drama Animated
5 / 5
Play Trailer La La Land
A jazz pianist falls for an aspiring actress in Los Angeles.
Emma Stone, Ryan Gosling, J.K. Simmons, John Legend, Damien Chazelle, Sonoya Mizuno, Rosemarie DeWitt, Finn Wittrock
Drama Comedy
4 / 5
Play Trailer Underworld: Blood Wars
Revolves around a war between the vampire and werewolf races.
Kate Beckinsale, Theo James, Gary Lucchesi, Charles Dance, Tom Rosenberg, Tobias Menzies, Bradley James, Lara Pulver
Action Sequel Thriller
3 / 5
Play Trailer The Daughter
A man returns home to uncover a long-buried family secret.
Sam Neill, Anna Torv, Ewen Leslie, Miranda Otto, Simon Stone, Geoffrey Rush, Paul Schneider, Odessa Young
Drama
Bokeh
When a flash of light shoots across the sky on their romantic, Iceland vacation, Jenai (Maika Monroe) and Riley (Matt O’Leary) wake up to discover every person on earth has disappeared. Their struggle to survive and to reconcile the mysterious event lead them to reconsider everything they know about themselves and the world. As they question why all the people have vanished from the planet, they soon start to wonder if perhaps they should leave too.
Maika Monroe, Andrew Sullivan, Matt OLeary, Geoffrey Orthwein
Sci-Fi
2 / 5
Play Trailer The Girl with All the Gifts
Set in a dystopian world where a seemingly normal and very intelligent little girl lives in an underground army bunker with other children her age. They are all experimental cases being examined by scientists – led by Dr. Caldwell (Glenn Close) – to find a cure for a fungal spore that has infected the planet.
Gemma Arterton, Glenn Close, Paddy Considine, Fisayo Akinade, Colm McCarthy, Anamaria Marinca, Sennia Nanua, Dominique Tipper
Thriller Horror
3 / 5
Play Trailer Mean Dreams
A small-town farm boy falls in love with the new girl next door. After stealing drug money from the girl's father, the young couple go on the run.
Ryan Grassby, Bill Paxton, Josh Wiggins, Sophie Nelisse, Kevin Coughlin, Nathan Morlando
Romance Crime Teen
We Are X
der the direction of drummer, pianist, composer, and producer Yoshiki, X Japan has sold over 30 million singles and albums combined and pioneered a spectacle-driven style of rock, creating a one-of-a-kind cultural phenomenon. Chronicling the band’s exhilarating and tumultuous history over the past three decades—persevering through personal, physical and spiritual heartache—the film focuses on preparations for their breathtaking concert at Madison Square Garden.
Stephen Kijak
Documentary
5 / 5
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A law student becomes embroiled in a plot to kill his own step-father.
Christopher Smith, Tye Sheridan, Emory Cohen, Bel Powley
Thriller
2 / 5
Play Trailer American Anarchist
A documentary about The Anarchist Cookbook creator William Powell.
Charlie Siskel
Documentary
Catfight
Catfight is a jet-black comedy about two bitter rivals whose grudge match spans a lifetime. Struggling outsider artist Ashley Miller (Anne Heche) and wealthy housewife Veronica Salt (Sandra Oh) were close in college, but haven't seen each other since. When they find themselves attending the same glitzy birthday party, verbal barbs lead to fisticuffs and an all-out brawl that will keep these two locked in combat for years to come. Alicia Silverstone will play Ashley's love interest, Lisa.
Alicia Silverstone, Sandra Oh, Anne Heche, Onur Tukel, Greg Newman, Gigi Graff
Comedy
2 / 5
Play Trailer The Girl From The Brothel
Mia, a successful Paris-based photographer, bored by her comfortable, Middle-class existence, flies to Cambodia to surprise her businessman husband, Xavier, with plans of convincing him to start the family with her that she has always wanted. But her hope for a romantic rendezvous is dashed when she spies her husband in a brothel having sex with an eleven year-old girl named Srey. Mia, her world turned completely upside down, resolves to rescue Srey and return her to the remote village from where she was abducted. Mia strikes a repulsive bargain with Sanan, the brothel owner, and sacrifices her own body to a high-powered government official in order to liberate the little girl. She and Srey then embark on the long journey home. However, Mia discovers that Srey has stowed away Daa and Malin, two other young escapees from the brothel. They had also stolen money from Sanan and Mia realizes that they, too, will be hunted down. Torn by the sudden additional responsibility, Mia reluctantly agrees to help all three children return to their separate villages spread across the Cambodian jungle. Under constant threat from their pursuers, Mia and the girls embark on a perilous escape to freedom and, along the way, are reminded that there is still much to celebrate in life.
Ilaria Borrelli
Drama
4 / 5
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