Best DVD & Blu-rays Released August 2012
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Dr. Seuss' The Lorax
Despite warnings from the tree-loving Lorax, a greedy entrepreneur strips a forest of its stock of Truffula trees to manufacture clothing. The results are catastrophic as all the animals leave and nothing's left.
Chris Meledandri, Danny DeVito, Zac Efron, John Cohen, Betty White, Ed Helms, Taylor Swift, Ken Daurio
Adventure Family Animated 3D Shot-In-3D CG
4 / 5
Play Trailer Bel Ami
The story centers on an unscrupulous, social climbing journalist.
Robert Pattinson, Uma Thurman, Uberto Pasolini, Kristin Scott Thomas, Declan Donnellan, Nick Ormerod, Rachel Bennette
Drama Biography
4 / 5
Play Trailer Warriors Of The Rainbow: Seediq Bale
Some eighty years ago, in the mountains of Taiwan, two races clashed in defense of their faiths. One believed in rainbows, the other believed in the sun. Neither side realized that they both believed in the same sky.
Te-Sheng Wei
Drama Action
3 / 5
Play Trailer Blue Like Jazz
In Blue Like Jazz, Don (Marshall Allman), a pious nineteen-year-old sophomore at a Texas junior college, impulsively decides to escape his evangelical upbringing for life in the Pacific Northwest at one ofthe most progressive campuses in America, Reed College in Portland. Upon arrival, Reed's surroundings and eccentric student body proves to be far different than he could possibly imagine from the environment from which he came, forcing him to embark on a journey of self-discovery to understand who he is and what he truly believes.
Marshall Allman, Tania Raymonde, Steve Taylor, Claire Holt
Drama
4 / 5
Play Trailer Killing Bono
Two brothers attempt to become global rock stars but can only look on as old school friends U2 become the biggest band in the world.
Ben Barnes, Krysten Ritter, Dick Clement, Nick Hamm, Pete Postlethwaite
Comedy
4 / 5
Play Trailer Girlfriend
A young man with Down's Syndrome romantically pursues a small town single mom who is still mixed up with her volatile ex-boyfriend.
Justin Lerner, Shannon Marie Woodward, Jackson Rathbone, Patch Mackenzie, Evan Sneider, Amanda Plummer
Drama
3 / 5
Play Trailer Marley
A documentary about legendary reggae star Bob Marley, which has been authorized by Marley's family.
Kevin Macdonald
Documentary
4 / 5
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Hick
The story is about a 13-year-old who runs away to Las Vegas after being abandoned by her parents in Nebraska. Along the way, the girl learns some truths about American society and the peril of her own sexual curiosity.
Blake Lively, Chloë Grace Moretz, Eddie Redmayne, Steven Siebert, Juliette Lewis, Andrea Portes, Christian Taylor, Derick Martini
Drama Teen
4 / 5
Play Trailer Assassin's Bullet
When an unknown vigilante begins killing high-priority terrorists from America's Most Wanted list in Europe, a former FBI field agent (Christian Slater) is brought in by the US Ambassador (Donald Sutherland) to discover the identity of the assassin.
Donald Sutherland, Christian Slater, Timothy Spall, Isaac Florentine, Elika Portnoy
Drama Action Thriller
3 / 5
Play Trailer Kill List
A group of soldiers, working as contractors, target a group of devil-worshippers.
Amy Jump, Ben Wheatley, Neil Maskell, Michael Smiley
Horror
3 / 5
Play Trailer The Raid: Redemption
As a rookie member of an elite special-forces team, Rama (Iko Uwais) is instructed to hang back during a covert mission involving the extraction of a brutal crime lord from a rundown fifteen-story apartment block. But when a spotter blows their cover, boss Tama (Ray Sahetaphy) offers lifelong sanctuary to every killer, rapist and thief in the building in exchange fortheir heads. Now Rama must stand in for the team's fallen leader (Joe Taslim) and use every iota of his fighting strength - winding through every floor and every room to complete the mission and escape with his life.
Joe Taslim, Iko Uwais, Gareth Evans, Doni Alamsyah
Action Thriller Crime
4 / 5
Play Trailer The Snowtown Murders
Based on a true story involving Australian serial killer John Bunting, the film follows a 16-year-old who begins a friendship with a charismatic older man. As the relationship grows, the teen finds his world threatened by both his loyalty for, and fear of, his newfound father-figure.
Louise Harris, Daniel Henshall, Anna McLeish, Justin Kurzel, Sarah Shaw, Shaun Grant, Lucas Pittaway
Thriller
2 / 5
Play Trailer Tonight You're Mine
An American pop star and British rock chick find themselves accidentally handcuffed together.
Natalia Tena, Luke Treadaway, David MacKenzie, Thomas Leveritt
Comedy Romance
4 / 5
Play Trailer Art Is...The Permanent Revolution
Three contemporary American artists and a master printer help explain the dynamic sequences of social reality and protest. While their graphics sweep by, the making of an etching, a woodcut and a lithograph unfolds, as the contemporary artists join their illustrious predecessors in creating art of social engagement.
Manfred Kirchheimer
Documentary
3 / 5
Play Trailer Inventing Our Life: The Kibbutz Experiment
The 100 year history of Israel's kibbutz movement. Can a radically socialist institution survive a new market-driven reality with its ideological integrity intact?
Toby Perl Freilich
Documentary
3 / 5
More Info The Samaritan
Samuel L. Jackson plays Foley, a grifter trying to escape from his past having spent 20 years in prison. But he gets ensnared in the plans of a young protege and it becomes all too clear to Foley that some wrongs can never be made right.
Samuel L. Jackson, Tom Wilkinson, Ruth Negga, Andras Hamori, David Weaver, Geoffrey Brandt, Elan Mastai, Mark Musselman
Drama Thriller
2 / 5
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The Hunger Games
Katniss Everdeen, a 16-year old from a poor territory that was once Appalachia, becomes a gladiator in a reality-show that is a battle to the death against other teens from the 12 districts of the former United States.
Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson, Amandla Stenberg, Donald Sutherland, Stanley Tucci, Elizabeth Banks, Jim Miller, Liam Hemsworth
Action Thriller Suspense Teen
4 / 5
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The Dictator
Revolves around a goat herder and a deposed foreign dictator who gets lost in the United States.
Megan Fox, Sacha Baron Cohen, Anna Faris, Scott Rudin, Jeff Schaffer, Ben Kingsley, David Mandel, Alec Berg
Comedy
3 / 5
Play Trailer Chimpanzee
This DisneyNature documentary spans 15 years as it follows a chimpanzee named Senengal and her journey from childhood to motherhood. Reflecting chimps' genetic closeness to humans, these animal subjects inject plenty of humor and drama into this remarkable film.
Alastair Fothergill, Mark Linfield
Family Documentary
4 / 5
Play Trailer Bernie
A Renaissance man-community leader-mortician Bernie strikes up an unlikely friendship with a wealthy but very particular widow. When he kills her, he goes to great lengths to maintain the illusion that she is still alive.
Matthew McConaughey, Jack Black, Shirley MacLaine, Martin Shafer, Richard Linklater, Celine Rattray, Rip Torn, Liz Glotzer
Comedy
4 / 5
Play Trailer Hide Away
Follows the story of a successful businessman (Josh Lucas) attempting to resurrect his life. Entering an idyllic harbor as a broken and haunted man, he buys and boards the dilapidated sailboat, Hesperus. Disturbed at night by unsettling dreams of his past, the boat becomes a beacon of hope as he begins the challenge of bringing back the shine to the tarnished vessel--and to his life.
Josh Lucas, Taylor Nichols, Chris Eyre, James Cromwell, Jon Tenney, Ayelet Zurer, Casey LaBow
Drama
2 / 5
Play Trailer A Separation
Set in Contemporary Iran, Nader And Simin, A Separation is a compelling drama about the dissolution of a marriage. Simin wants to leave Iran with her husband Nader and daughter Termeh. Simin sues for divorce when Nader refuses to leave behind his Alzheimer-suffering father. Her request having failed, Simin goes back to her parents’, but Termeh decides to stay with Nader…
Asghar Farhadi
Drama
4 / 5
Play Trailer Freelancers
The son of a slain NYPD officer joins the force, where he falls in with his father's former partner and a team of rogue cops.
Robert De Niro, Forest Whitaker, Beau Garrett, Curtis Jackson, Randall Emmett, Fred Malmberg, Dana Delany, George Furla
Drama Crime
3 / 5
Play Trailer Lovely Molly
The movie examines the thin line between demonic possession and psychosis. It begins with things that go bump in the night but slowly turns into a thriller about the evil power that exists inside one troubled young woman.
Alexandra Holden, Daniel Ross, Ken Arnold, Robin Cowie, Eduardo Sanchez, Gregg Hale, Jamie Nash, Lauren Lakis
Thriller Horror Paranormal
2 / 5
Play Trailer Virginia
A pariah to most in her small beach boardwalk town, Virginia was diagnosed early-on as a hair shy of mentally stable. Her closest friend and 15- year-old son, Emmett, is more father than son to his impulsive, ill-behaved mother. Their shared dream: to skip town for California. They've been packed for years. Mussing things up, we discover Emmett's father is likely the older married Mormon sheriff his mother's been having an affair with for decades, and whose daughter Emmett dreams of eloping with. But secrets have a way of not staying so secret, and circumstances surrounded by madness have a way of getting dire. In their bent world a perfectly reasonable solution arises: to rob Virginia Beach blind on the day the President of the United States pays a much-anticipated visit.
Emma Roberts, Jennifer Connelly, Susan Johnson, Yeardley Smith, Gus Van Sant, Toby Jones, Ed Harris, Michelle Weisler
Drama
4 / 5
Play Trailer I Am Bruce Lee
Features interviews with people who knew Bruce intimately, along with a broad array of international icons from the entertainment and athletic fields combined with rarely seen archival footage and classic photos.
Pete McCormack
Documentary
4 / 5
Play Trailer Home Run Showdown
Two little league teams take on their coaches sibling rivalry, and end up doing battle in a place the baseball world never expected it: in the outfield of the Home Run Derby.
Dena Hysell, Matthew Lillard, Dean Cain, Annabeth Gish, Tim Cavanaugh, Barry Bostwick, Oz Scott, Joe Gressis
Sports Family
2 / 5
More Info Think Like a Man
An ensemble comedy about romantic relationships.
Kevin Hart, Gabrielle Union, Michael Ealy, Steve Harvey, Regina Hall, Chris Brown, Kelly Rowland, Will Packer
Comedy Romance Adaptation
4 / 5
Play Trailer The Lucky One
Logan Thibault (Zac Efron), a Marine, survives three tours in Iraq. He attributes his good fortune to a photograph he carried of a woman (Taylor Schilling) he has never met, and he sets out to meet his good-luck charm when he returns to North Carolina.
Zac Efron, Blythe Danner, Taylor Schilling, Kevin McCormick, Scott Hicks, Denise DiNovi, Douglas McGrath, Will Fetters
Drama Romance
4 / 5
Play Trailer Battleship
Battleships fight on the open seas.
Alexander Skarsgard, Rihanna, Scott Stuber, Taylor Kitsch, Liam Neeson, Bennett Schneir, Peter Berg, Brooklyn Decker
Action Adventure Sci-Fi Based on Toy
3 / 5
Play Trailer The Pirates! Band of Misfits
A group of swashbuckling pirates team up with different historical and fictional characters and attempt to help them in their adventures & travels.
Jeremy Piven, Brendan Gleeson, Martin Freeman, David Sproxton, Hugh Grant, Imelda Staunton, Peter Lord, Salma Hayek
Action Adventure Comedy Animated
3 / 5
Play Trailer What to Expect When You're Expecting
Story will follow the relationships of four interconnected couples as they experience the thrills, terrors, surprises, aches and pains of preparing to embark on life’s biggest journey, parenthood.
Jennifer Lopez, Chris Rock, Anna Kendrick, Elizabeth Banks, Dennis Quaid, Rodrigo Santoro, Rob Huebel, Mike Medavoy
Drama Comedy Romance
3 / 5
Play Trailer Darling Companion
The film follows a woman (Keaton) who takes in a stray dog as a companion to fill the void left by her distracted husband (Kline), only to see him lose the mutt after a wedding at their vacation home in the Rockies. A search for the animal includes several guests and a mysterious young woman.
Meg Kasdan, Diane Keaton, Kevin Kline, Richard Jenkins, Elisabeth Moss, Lawrence Kasdan, Dianne Wiest, Elizabeth Redleaf
Comedy
4 / 5
Play Trailer Monsieur Lazhar
Bachir Lazhar has emigrated from his native Algeria to Canada, where he is awaiting approval of his asylum application. When he is hired as a substitute teacher at a French-Canadian school, Bachir finds that he is often ill-equipped to deal with his new students and their shock over their previous teacher’s death.
Philippe Falardeau
Drama Comedy
4 / 5
Play Trailer Changing The Game
An intelligent young African-American man rises from the oppressive streets of North Philadelphia to become a shining star at Wall Street's most prestigious firm. However, he soon finds that the white-collar world is filled with crime and death just like the streets he left behind.
Irma P. Hall, Rel Dowdell, Tony Todd, Sticky Fingaz
Action
4 / 5
Play Trailer Headhunters
An unscrupulous corporate headhunter is also a secret art thief.
Ulf Ryberg, Morten Tyldum, Aksel Hennie
Thriller
3 / 5
Play Trailer The Highest Pass
Anand, a modern Indian yogi and guru, asks his student Adam to join him on a motorcycle expedition through the highest passes of the Indian Himalayas.
Jon Fitzgerald
Documentary
4 / 5
Play Trailer Moth Diaries
A teenage girl at a boarding girl suspects her roommate is a vampire.
Edward R. Pressman, Scott Speedman, Lily Cole, Sarah Bolger, Sarah Gadon, Mary Harron
Drama Suspense Vampires
2 / 5
Play Trailer Apartment 143
A team of parapsychologists sets out to investigate a series of anomalous phenomena taking place in a newly occupied apartment. Telephone calls with no caller, mysterious shadows, extraordinary light emissions, flying objects, and exploding light bulbs, are some of the events they will face while recording their every step with state-of-the-art technology. Using infra-red filming, digital photography, psychophonic recordings, movement detectors, and magnetic field alteration meters, the group's attempts to contact the "other side" will grow increasingly dangerous as they near a point of no return...
Rick Gonzalez, Gia Mantegna, Carles Torrens, Rodrigo Cortés, Kai Lennox, Michael O'Keefe, Fiona Glascott
Drama Horror
3 / 5
Play Trailer I Heart Shakey
Single father J.T. and his precocious daughter Chandler move from a small town to Chicago with their lovable family mutt Shakey. After missing the fine print in their rental contract, J.T. is forced to find Shakey a new home. Chandler hatches a plan to keep Shakey and teach J.T. a valuable lesson about loyalty and the importance of keeping family together.
Beverly D'Angelo, Steve Guttenberg, Michael Yurchak, Kevin Cooper, Steve Lemme, Philippe Brenninkmeyer, Eric Stolze, Alfonso Arau
Comedy
L!fe Happens
Two best friends fight to maintain normalcy in their lives after one of the friends gets pregnant and has a baby.
Kate Bosworth, Rachel Bilson, Krysten Ritter, Kat Coiro, David J. Phillips, Justin Levine, Corbin Timbrook
Comedy
3 / 5
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