Best DVD & Blu-rays Released August 2014
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Divergent
Set in a futuristic dystopia where society is divided into factions based on human traits, a 16-year old leaves her faction to join a rival faction, but during the violent initiation into the new faction, she falls in love with a young man. They realize each is a "Divergent" who doesn't belong to any specific group.
Miles Teller, Zoe Kravitz, Kate Winslet, Jai Courtney, Theo James, Shailene Woodley, Ansel Elgort, Tony Goldwyn
Drama Teen Sci-Fi
4 / 5
Play Trailer Need for Speed
Rumored to involve a cross-county race from San Francisco to New York.
Dakota Johnson, Rami Malek, Michael Keaton, Imogen Poots, Aaron Paul, Dominic Cooper, Harrison Gilbertson, John Gatins
Action Adventure Thriller Based on Game
4 / 5
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A woman tries to exonerate her brother, who was convicted of murder, by proving that the crime was committed by a supernatural phenomenon.
Karen Gillan, Mike Flanagan, Katee Sackhoff, Rory Cochrane, Brenton Thwaites, Katie Parker, Jeff Howard, Miguel Sandoval
Suspense Horror
3 / 5
Play Trailer God's Not Dead
Follows college student Josh Wheaton (Shane Harper) whose faith is challenged by his Philosophy Professor Mr. Radisson (Kevin Sorbo) who believes God does not exist. It revolves around the lives of several individuals who are also challenged by a world that believes God doesn't exist.
Dean Cain, Kevin Sorbo, Shane Harper, Marco Khan, Harold Cronk, Willie Robertson
Drama
4 / 5
More Info Drones
Two soldiers are tasked with deciding the fate of a terrorist with a single push of a button. As the action plays out in real time, their window to use a deadly military drone on the target slowly closes. With time running out, the soldiers begin to question what the real motives are behind the ordered lethal attack.
Rick Rosenthal
Action Adventure
3 / 5
Play Trailer Ping-Pong Summer
Set in the 1980s, a hip-hop and ping pong-obsessed 13-year-old from the Maryland suburbs travels with his family to Ocean City, where he encounters both a new best friend and a new worst enemy
Susan Sarandon, Lea Thompson, John Hannah, Michael Tully, Robert Longstreet, Amy Sedaris, Judah Friedlander, Emmi Shockley
Comedy
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Muppets Most Wanted
Sequel to the 2011 Muppets movie featuring Kermin and Miss Piggy.
Tom Hiddleston, Salma Hayek, Danny Trejo, Christoph Waltz, Ricky Gervais, Eric Jacobson, Nick Stoller, Ty Burrell
Adventure Comedy Sequel Family Kids
4 / 5
Play Trailer Bears
Cozies up to the brown bears who call Alaska’s stunning coastal mountains and shores their home, revealing through tender moments and entertaining imagery how these animals are far from grizzly creatures.
Keith Scholey, Don Hahn, Alastair Fothergill, Adam Chapman
Documentary
3 / 5
Play Trailer Hateship, Loveship
A nanny is hired to care for a teenage girl whose mother has just died. Complications arise when the nanny falls in love with the teen's ailing father.
Hailee Steinfeld, Liza Johnson, Kristen Wiig, Guy Pearce, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Nick Nolte, Dylan Sellers, Mark Poirier
Drama Comedy
3 / 5
More Info Breathe In
A story about love, fidelity, marriage and music. No other plot details have been announced.
Felicity Jones, Mackenzie Davis, Ben York Jones, Guy Pearce, Drake Doremus, Amy Ryan, Elise Eberle, Andrea Sperling
Drama
4 / 5
Play Trailer The Railway Man
The capture and torture of Eric Lomax by the Japanese in World War II. Lomax was sent to work on notorious "death railway" in Burma and struggled for the next 30 years to come to terms with the trauma.
Nicole Kidman, Stellan Skarsgard, Colin Firth, Jeremy Irvine, Chris Brown, Hiroyuki Sanada, Jonathan Teplitzky, Frank Cottrell Boyce
Drama Biography True Story
Locke
Ivan Locke (Tom Hardy) has worked hard to craft a good life for himself. Tonight, that life will collapse around him. On the eve of the biggest challenge of his career, Ivan receives a phone call that sets in motion a series of events that will unravel his family, job, and soul.
Tom Hardy, Olivia Colman, Tom Holland, Andrew Scott, Danny Webb, Ruth Wilson, Alice Lowe, Steven Knight
Drama
3 / 5
Play Trailer Frankie and Alice
A drama centered on a young woman with multiple personality disorder who struggles not give in to her racist alter-personality.
Stellan Skarsgard, Anna Waterhouse, Halle Berry, Cheryl Edwards, Alex Diakun, Marko King, Simon DeKaric, Geoffrey Sax
Drama Suspense
4 / 5
Play Trailer Filth
Follows Detective Sergeant Bruce Robertson, a scheming, manipulative, misanthropic man who spends his time indulging in drugs, alcohol, sexually abusive relationships, and 'the games' – cruel plots and systematic bullying of his coworkers and friends. While working on the murder case of a Japanese student, he starts coming unhinged, slowly losing his grip on reality and suffering from a series of increasingly severe hallucinations as he desperately tries to hold his life together.
Imogen Poots, James McAvoy, Jim Broadbent, Joanne Froggatt, Eddie Marsan, Jamie Bell, Emun Elliott, Jon S. Baird
Drama Comedy Crime
4 / 5
More Info Dancing in Jaffa
Renowned ball-room dancer, Pierre Dulaine takes his belief that dance can overcome political and social differences and applies it to eleven-year-old Jewish and Palestinian Israelis.
Hilla Medalia
Documentary Dance
The Amazing Spider-Man 2
Will follow up on the events of The Amazing Spider-Man. Since it is early in the development process, no plot details are available.
Emma Stone, Andrew Garfield, Jamie Foxx, Felicity Jones, Matt Tolmach, Paul Giamatti, Alex Kurtzman, Sally Field
Drama Action Adventure Sequel Superhero 3D
4 / 5
Play Trailer The Quiet Ones
An unorthodox professor uses controversial methods and leads his best students off the grid to take part in a dangerous experiment: to create a poltergeist.
Jared Harris, Sam Claflin, Olivia Cooke, Erin Richards, Guy East, Nigel Sinclair, John Pogue, Rory Fleck-Byrne
Thriller Horror Supernatural
3 / 5
Play Trailer The Sacrament
Sacrament stars AJ Bowen and Joe Swanberg as reporters for VICE Media who journey to a remote Central American compound along with a photographer (Kentucker Audley) hoping to reunite with his sister (Amy Seimetz), who has dropped off the map after struggling with drug addiction. They find an isolated community of true believers devoted to a shadowy but charismatic figure called “Father.” Skeptical at first, the journalists begin to come around to the group’s utopian claims, until things rapidly take a very dark turn.
Gene Jones, Eli Roth, Ti West, Amy Seimetz, Joe Swanberg, Kentucker Audley, Eric Newman, Hoyt David Morgan
Thriller Horror
2 / 5
Play Trailer Fading Gigolo
John Turturro and Woody Allen play cash-strapped best friends who decide to go into the gigolo business together and subsequently attract the suspicion of the Hasidic Jewish community in which they live.
Liev Schreiber, Sharon Stone, John Turturro, Bob Balaban, Sofia Vergara, Woody Allen, Max Casella, Jill Scott
Comedy
2 / 5
More Info The Olivia Experiment
Olivia Howell is a modern-day woman—brilliant, educated, funny, but with a secret. Turns out this 27-year-old graduate student thinks her intimacy issues might actually be a sign that she is—asexual. Confused and stressed out, Olivia's world is turned upside down when a concerned girlfriend offers to “loan” her very own boyfriend to Olivia for sex! Now with the support of her gay roommate, a lesbian friend and the digital age, Olivia embarks on a quest of exploration to understand the most basic of human mysteries: sex.
Skye Noel, Sonja Schenk, Brett Baumayr, Jen Lilley
Drama Comedy Romance LGBTQIA+
2 / 5
Play Trailer Only Lovers Left Alive
A story centered on two vampires who have been in love for centuries.
Tom Hiddleston, Jeffrey Wright, Tilda Swinton, Mia Wasikowska, Jim Jarmusch, Anton Yelchin, John Hurt
Drama Romance Vampires
3 / 5
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Blended
After a disastrous blind date, a couple finds themselves stuck together with their kids from a previous marriage.
Adam Sandler, Drew Barrymore, Joel McHale, Bella Thorne, Terry Crews, Frank Coraci, Clare Sera, Ivan Menchell
Comedy Romantic Comedy
4 / 5
Play Trailer Legends of Oz: Dorothy's Return
Summoned by Glinda, Dorothy and Toto return to the land of Oz. Joined by her old friends the Scarecrow, the Tin Woodman and the Lion, Dorothy sets out on a perilous journey to stop the Jester from using the power of the Wicked Witch of the West’s wand to turn the people of Oz into puppets.
Oliver Platt, Martin Short, Kelsey Grammer, Patrick Stewart, Lea Michele, Bernadette Peters, Dan Aykroyd, Megan Hilty
Fantasy Family Animated 3D
3 / 5
Play Trailer The Rover
A man goes on a mission to retrieve his stolen car, which contains something invaluable to him.
Robert Pattinson, Guy Pearce, Gillian Jones, Scoot McNairy, David Field, Anthony Hayes, Susan Prior, David Michod
Drama
3 / 5
Play Trailer The Love Punch
A romantic caper about Richard (Brosnan) and Kate (Thompson), a divorced couple who, after their pension is stolen by an unscrupulous businessman, reunite to steal it back.
Emma Thompson, Pierce Brosnan, Timothy Spall, Tim Perell, Joel Hopkins, Louise Bourgoin
Romantic Comedy
The Possession of Michael King
Tells of a documentary filmmaker who does not believe in God or the Devil. When his wife dies, he sets out to make his next movie on religion and spirituality, hoping to prove those things are just myth. But in allowing demonologists, necromancers and various practitioners of the occult to try the deepest, darkest spells and rituals on him, he unleashes a horrifying force.
Dale Dickey, Ella Anderson, Cara Pifko, David Jung, Shane Johnson, Tomas Arana, Julie McNiven
Horror Supernatural
3 / 5
Play Trailer Aftermath
The devastating horror of a nuclear apocalypse is now reality and nine desperate strangers find themselves clinging to life in a farmhouse cellar, while radioactive fallout descends on the darkened world above. These would-be survivors face the nightmare of dwindling supplies, poisonous air and the greatest threat of all – the hordes of zombie-like refugees who want in. With each dying day, their choice becomes clearer – stay and let the makeshift shelter become their tomb or face the unknown terrors of the world outside.
Peter Engert, Edward Furlong, Monica Keena, Andre Royo, C.J. Thomason
4 / 5
Play Trailer Belle
Belle is inspired by the true story of Dido Elizabeth Belle (Gugu Mbatha-Raw), the illegitimate mixed race daughter of a Royal Navy Admiral. Raised by her aristocratic great-uncle Lord Mansfield (Tom Wilkinson) and his wife (Emily Watson), Belle’s lineage affords her certain privileges, yet the color of her skin prevents her from fully participating in the traditions of her social standing. Left to wonder if she will ever find love, Belle falls for an idealistic young vicar’s son bent on change who, with her help, shapes Lord Mansfield’s role as Lord Chief Justice to end slavery in England.
Tom Wilkinson, Tom Felton, Misan Sagay, Matthew Goode, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Sarah Gadon, Sam Reid, Miranda Richardson
Drama True Story
4 / 5
Play Trailer Heatstroke
On a family trip in the African desert, a research scientist unintentionally travels off course and is brutally murdered by an arms dealer. His girlfriend is put to the ultimate survival test as she attempts to evade the killers and protect his teenage daughter.
David Lancaster, Stephen Dorff, Maisie Williams, Svetlana Metkina, Peter Stormare, Evelyn Purcell
3 / 5
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