DVD & Blu-rays Released August 23, 2011

Amy Renner Amy Renner

Jan. 28, 2012

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Focuses on a group of students who discover what they believe is a government conspiracy to keep the existence of trolls in the north of Norway hidden from the general public.

Andre Ovredal, John M. Jacobsen, Otto Jespersen, Tomas Alf Larsen, Hans Morten Hansen

PG-13 Thriller Horror Documentary Foreign Mockumentary 1 hr, 30 mins

A serial killer aims for tabloid immortality by executing cops in southeast London.

Jason Statham, Elliott Lester, Donald Kushner, Brad Wyman, Zygi Kaminski, Nic Manzi, Nathan Parker, Paddy Considine

R Drama Thriller Suspense

94%

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A paralyzed DJ, "Delicious" Dean O'Dwyer, struggling to survive in his wheelchair on the streets of Los Angeles, turns to faith-healing and mysteriously acquires the ability to cure the sick -- although not himself. A Jesuit priest tries to help him come to terms with the limits of his gift, while a rock singer in a band tries to exploit the suddenly famous healer.

Juliette Lewis, Matthew Weaver, Andrea Sperling, Mark Ruffalo, Chris Thornton, Orlando Bloom, Laura Linney, Noah Emmerich

R Drama Comedy

74%

  • 5
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A noirish tale of a young filmmaker who becomes enmeshed in a criminal scheme while making a movie on location.

Monte Hellman, Steven Gaydos, Dominique Swain, Shannyn Sossamon, John Diehl, Waylon Payne, Tygh Runyan

R Thriller Romance 2 hrs, 1 min

67%

  • 3.7
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Morgan Spurlock examines the world of advertising by making a film financed entirely by product placement.

Keith Calder, Morgan Spurlock, Jeremy Chilnick

PG-13 Documentary 1 hr, 30 mins
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A man walks around with a beaver puppet on his hand, treating it as something close to a human creature with human feelings.

Mel Gibson, Steve Golin, Jodie Foster, Anton Yelchin, Keith Redmon, Kyle Killen, Michelle Ang, Jennifer Lawrence

PG-13 Drama Comedy

Bruce Willis stars as an LAPD hostage negotiator, who withdraws to the countryside to become chief of a two-man police department after a bloody standoff. Instead of achieving a sense of peace in the small town, he finds himself embroiled in negotiations to save his wife and daughter. Messner will play an FBI operative who comes onto the crime scene to work with Willis' character and retrieve computer disks.

Bruce Willis, Rumer Willis, Ben Foster, Mark Gordon, Doug Richardson, Jonathan Tucker, Florent Siri, Arnold Rifkin

R Drama Action Adventure Thriller Crime Gangster

The film is a romantic comedy in which Keanu Reeves will play a big-hearted man who is falsely accused of robbing a bank in Buffalo.

Keanu Reeves, Lemore Syvan, Malcolm Venville, Stephen Hamel, Sacha Gervasi, Vera Farmiga, James Caan, Peter Stormare

R Comedy Romance

A mother moves with her son to the birthplace of dead husband. As she tries establish a new beginning, another tragedy overturns her life.

Chang-dong Lee

Drama 2 hrs, 22 mins

A light-hearted comedy about how a rough-and-tumble runaway changes the lives of a suburban New Jersey family and turns around the luck of a high school wrestling team.

Melanie Lynskey, Jeffrey Tambor, Paul Giamatti, Joe Tiboni, Tom McCarthy, Mary Jane Skalski, Lisa Maria Falcone, Amy Ryan

R Comedy 1 hr, 46 mins

The story on the burgeoning relationship between an unlikely pair. Nathalie (Isabelle Blais) is expecting her first child and Henry (Zach Braff) is on his way to his next drug deal. Their paths fatefully collide one night in an event that will irrevocably change their lives.

Deborah Chow, Zach Braff, Isabelle Blais, Patrick Labbe

NR Drama 1 hr, 32 mins

89%

  • 4
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The reunion of a young man and his family after being positively identified in an unsolved missing-persons case. The reunion turns bittersweet when suspicions arise about whether he really is their son.

Ram Bergman, Famke Janssen, Nick Stahl, Jean Paul Salome, Bill Perkins, Cooper Richey, Marie-Castille Mention-Schaar, Pierre Kubel

R Drama Thriller 1 hr, 46 mins

44%

  • 3
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While on a sailing trip, vacationing college students come across what appears to be an abandoned trawler. They soon discover it is the nest of a mutant creature, born of environmental abuse, who "fishes" for humans in the open water.

Kirk D'Amico, Eric Valette, Alex Leung, Neal Marshall Stevens, Shannon Beckner, Oded Fehr, Ryan Kennedy, Melanie Papalia

PG-13 Thriller Suspense

88%

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In the film, Shamoto’s teenage daughter is caught stealing, a generous stranger and his wife offer a solution – have the girl work at their tropical fish store. Too good to be true? You bet! Shamoto soon discovers the horrific truth about the seemingly perfect couple and their brutal business.

Sion Sono

Drama Thriller

63%

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Based on the 1956 British novel by J.R. Ackerley, "My Dog Tulip" follows a 14-year friendship between Ackerley and his German Shepherd, Tulip, after the writer rescued the dog.

Isabella Rossellini, Paul Fierlinger, Sandra Fierlinger, Norman Twain, Howard Kaminsky, Frank Pellegrino, Christopher Plummer, Lynn Redgrave

Adventure Family Kids Animation 1 hr, 23 mins

In 1970s Glasgow, a bright boy named John sees very few options in his life. With no one willing to give him a chance, he descends into a life of crime.

Peter Mullan, Conor McCarron, Louise Goodall, Gregg Forrest, Joe Szula, Gary Milligan, Richard Mack, Marianna Palka

Drama 2 hrs, 4 mins

Meet the Smiths - parents, Marilyn and Matt, and teens, Gloria, 16, and Quentin, 18 - a family full of secrets who keep themselves to themselves living on a back road outside a small Midwestern town. In this tightly wound and visceral horror/thriller, their lives are turned upside down when a sweet-talking Texan arrives on their doorstep on a mission for retribution. Will he succeed in his goal to bleed them of their sins or will the family's haunted past prove to be even more deadly than he bargained for?

Philip Gelatt, Patrick Breen, Alexandra Chando, Betsy Aidem, Richard Bekins, Charlie Hewson, Nina Lisandrello

NR Thriller Horror

73%

  • 3.2
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