Best DVD & Blu-rays Released August 2018
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Breaking In
Follows a woman who will stop at nothing to rescue her two children being held hostage in a house designed with impenetrable security. No trap, no trick and especially no man inside can match a mother with a mission when she is determined...
Gabrielle Union, Billy Burke, Will Packer, Ryan Engle, Craig Perry, Seth Karr, Christa Miller, Richard Cabral
Thriller Suspense
3 / 5
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Centers on a mentally ill man (Zachary Quinto) who, after suffering hallucinations, begins to see a therapist. He believes he has fallen in love, but isn't sure if his new soulmate is real or a hallucination. At the same time, his new therapist also finds love — with her new patient's famous brother.
Jon Hamm, Jenny Slate, Brian Shoaf, Zachary Quinto
Drama
1 / 5
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A dark fantasy tale centered on young Anna (BEL POWLEY) who spends her entire childhood in a single room under the care of a mysterious man she only knows as "Daddy" (BRAD DOURIF). He makes her fear the "Outside" by telling her of the "Wildling". At age 16, Anna is freed by small-town sheriff Ellen Cooper (LIV TYLER) with whom she finds a temporary home. For the first time in her life, Anna experiences the Outside, soon learning there's no such thing as the Wildling. But as she begins to flourish as a young woman, a series of unsettling events unfolds...
Mike Faist, Liv Tyler, Florian Eder, Brad Dourif, Bel Powley, James Le Gros, Fritz Böhm
Fantasy Horror
2 / 5
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The drama, which takes place in the UK in 1963, revolves around two repressed virgins in their early twenties whose attempt to consummate ends badly. Their futile attempt at lovemaking leads to doubt and recriminations.
Saoirse Ronan, Elizabeth Karlsen, Emily Watson, Samuel West, Ian McEwan, Adrian Scarborough, Sam Mendes, Dominic Cooke
Drama Adaptation Teen
3 / 5
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Follows four children who hide from the world in a farm that holds a terrible secret.
Anya Taylor-Joy, Mia Goth, Charlie Heaton, Juan Antonio Bayona, George MacKay, Sergio G. Sanchez, Belen Atienza
Thriller Horror
2 / 5
More Info The Measure of a Man
A bullied teen experiences a turning point summer in which he learns to stand up for himself.
Donald Sutherland, Judy Greer, Luke Wilson, David Scearce, Jim Loach, Madisen Beaty, Blake Cooper, Liana Liberato
Drama Comedy
5 / 5
More Info Revenge
Jen (Matilda Lutz) is enjoying a romantic getaway with her wealthy boyfriend which is suddenly disrupted when his sleazy friends arrive for an unannounced hunting trip. Tension mounts in the house until the situation abruptly - and viciously - intensifies, culminating in a shocking act that leaves Jen left for dead. Unfortunately for her assailants, Jen survives and reemerges with a relentless, wrathful intent: revenge.
Guillaume Bouchède, Coralie Fargeat, Matilda Lutz, Kevin Janssens, Vincent Colombe
Action Horror
4 / 5
More Info The Rider
Based on his a true story, The Rider stars breakout Brady Jandreau as a once rising star of the rodeo circuit warned that his competition days are over after a tragic riding accident. Back home, Brady finds himself wondering what he has to live for when he can no longer do what gives him a sense of purpose: to ride and compete. In an attempt to regain control of his fate, Brady undertakes a search for new identity and tries to redefine his idea of what it means to be a man in the heartland of America.
Lane Scott, Cat Clifford, Brady Jandreau, Chloé Zhao, Tim Jandreau, Lilly Jandreau
Drama
3 / 5
More Info DIGIMON ADVENTURE tri.: Coexistence
Meicoomon once again begins to rampage when she sees her partner Meiko injured by a mysterious man. Meicoomon, who disappeared into the Real World, is a distortion itself—in possession of too much power, and a key to destroying the world. The arrival of rampaging Meicoomon starts the countdown to the Real World’s collapse. A series of abnormal phenomena occur all over the place. The Digimon who appear through the distortions were waiting for this time to come. The DigiDestined are cast out of the Digital World when it goes out of order, and after returning to the Real World, are driven away by people because of their accompanying partner Digimon. Meanwhile, a cruel fate is imminent for Kari.
Adventure Sequel Animated
5 / 5
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Avengers: Infinity War
A third installment in Marvel's The Avengers franchise.
Scarlett Johansson, Robert Downey Jr., Mark Ruffalo, Chris Evans, Samuel L. Jackson, Chris Hemsworth, Dave Bautista, Jeremy Renner
Action Adventure Sequel Fantasy Superhero Sci-Fi
4 / 5
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Follows a group of journalists who asked the tough questions about Saddam Hussein’s alleged WMD’s (weapons of mass destruction).
James Marsden, Tommy Lee Jones, Milla Jovovich, Rob Reiner, Luke Tennie, Jessica Biel, Joey Hartstone, Woody Harrelson
Drama
4 / 5
Play Trailer The House of Tomorrow
The film follows a 16-year-old (Asa Butterfield) who has spent most of his life with his Buckminster Fuller-loving Nana (Ellen Burstyn) in their geodesic-dome home tourist attraction until she is sidelined by a stroke. He soon forms a punk band with a chain-smoking teen (Alex Wolff), who lives in the suburbs with his bible-banging single dad Alan (Nick Offerman) and teenage sister Meredith (Maude Apatow).
Asa Butterfield, Nick Offerman, Michaela Watkins, Ellen Burstyn, Alex Wolff, Peter Livolsi, Maude Apatow
Drama Coming-of-Age
3 / 5
More Info Bad Samaritan
Two young car valets use their business as a front to burglarize the houses of their unsuspecting patrons. Life is good for the petty thieves until they target the wrong house, changing their lives forever.
Rachel Olschan-Wilson, Dean Devlin, Robert Sheehan, David Tennant, Mark Roskin, Brandon Boyce
Thriller
3 / 5
Play Trailer The Boxcar Children - Surprise Island
The Alden children have a home with their grandfather now – but their adventures are just beginning! The first surprise comes when they learn they’ll be spending the summer on their private island. A kind stranger who lives there is always happy to help the children out, but does this new friend have a secret?
Joey King, Dane DeHaan, J.K. Simmons, Martin Sheen, Daniel Chuba, Griffin Cluck
Adventure Family
3 / 5
Play Trailer How to Talk to Girls at Parties
Set in the 1970s, the film follows two London boys who discover that the opposite sex is even stranger than they had originally thought.
Nicole Kidman, Elle Fanning, Philippa Goslett, John Cameron Mitchell
Comedy Music
3 / 5
Play Trailer The Last Warrior
A new era is about to begin in Eastern Europe. Scythians, the proud warriors, are all but gone and most of the few remaining descendants have become ruthless mercenary assassins. Lutobor, is a warrior who becomes involved in intertribal conflicts and sets off on a perilous journey to save his family. His guide is a captive Scythian who is his enemy, but they brave the treacherous wild steppes, moving toward the last haven of the Scythians, to what seems to be their inevitable demise.
Vadim Golovanov, Rustam Mosafir, Aleksey Faddeev, Aleksandr Kuxnetsov, Yuriy Tsurilo
Drama War
Deadpool 2
The wise-cracking mercenary returns.
Ryan Reynolds, Josh Brolin, Morena Baccarin, Simon Kinberg, Zazie Beetz, David Leitch, Lauren Shuler Donner, Brianna Hildebrand
Action Adventure Comedy Sequel
4 / 5
Play Trailer Show Dogs
Follows Max, a rugged, lone-wolf Rottweiler police dog. He and his human cop partners get a tip that an animal-trafficking ring is planning an attack on the Eastminster Dog Show. Macho Max must undergo a makeover – mud baths, ballet lessons, a Brazilian waxing – to go undercover in order to thwart the plot.
Stanley Tucci, Scott Lambert, Max Botkin, Raja Gosnell, Alan Cumming, Ludacris, Philip von Alvensleben, Will Arnett
Comedy Family
2 / 5
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An ex-military chaplain is tortured by the loss of a son he encouraged to enlist in the armed forces. He is further challenged after befriending a young parishioner, and her radical environmentalist husband. He soon discovers hidden secrets of his church's complicity with unscrupulous corporations.
Amanda Seyfried, Ethan Hawke, Cedric the Entertainer, Michael Gaston, Christine Vachon, Victoria Hill, Gary Hamilton, Paul Schrader
Drama Thriller
2 / 5
Play Trailer God's Not Dead: A Light in Darkness
Third installment of the God's Not Dead series.
John Corbett, Tatum O'Neal, Chuck Konzelman, Michael Mason, Alysoun Wolfe, Jennifer Taylor, Shane Harper, David A.R. White
Drama Sequel Faith
4 / 5
Play Trailer Bleeding Steel
In an action-packed drama reminiscent of '80s techno-sci-fi thrillers, Jackie Chan stars as Lin, a police inspector in modern Hong Kong. While tracking down a deranged, mecha-enhanced villain, Lin discovers that a geneticist's lost bio-chemical invention has been surgically implanted into his missing daughter. With the help of a young hacker, Lin connects the dots between the device that haunts his daughter, his enemy's sinister army, and a strange cultural phenomenon called "Bleeding Steel."
Jackie Chan, Callan Mulvey, Tess Haubrich, Leo Zhang, Show Lo, Nana Ou-yang, Erica Xia-hou
Action Thriller
1 / 5
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The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
Follows the WWII-era exploits of a Nazi-foiling book club.
Glen Powell, Mike Newell, Matthew Goode, Jessica Brown Findlay, Penelope Wilton, Paula Mazur, Mitchell Kaplan, Lily James
Drama Historical Adaptation
4 / 5
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Book Club
Set in and around California, the film revolves around four lifelong friends who read 50 Shades of Grey in their monthly book club and have their lives changed forever.
Diane Keaton, Don Johnson, Alicia Silverstone, Andy Garcia, Bill Holderman, Wallace Shawn, Craig T. Nelson, Andrew Duncan
Drama Comedy Romance
4 / 5
Play Trailer Adrift
The movie is based on the true story of a woman and her fiance who, after setting sail from Tahiti, find themselves in the middle of a massive hurricane. After being knocked unconscious, the woman finds her boat in ruins and her fiance missing, now lost at sea. The rest of the story follows her 1,500 mile journey back to Hawaii while battling the elements.
Sam Claflin, Shailene Woodley, Aaron Kandell, Grace Palmer, Jordan Kandell, Baltasar Kormakur, Jeffrey Thomas, Elizabeth Hawthorne
Drama Thriller Suspense Horror
2 / 5
More Info Upgrade
The film centers on Grey Trace, a technophobe in a utopian near-future when computers control nearly everything – from cars to crime-surveillance – who is paralyzed in a freak mugging. But when a billionaire technologist offers him an experimental paralysis cure – an implanted computer chip called STEM – Grey finds that the chip has a voice and a mind of its own.
Jason Blum, Leigh Whannell, Benedict Hardie, Logan Marshall Green, Harrison Gilbertson, Betty Gabriel, Simon Maiden
Sci-Fi
3 / 5
Play Trailer Mary Shelley
Dangerously charismatic poet Percy Shelley and the brilliant and beautiful 18-year-old Mary Wollstonecraft have a tumultuous love affair, which ultimately inspires her to write "Frankenstein."
Elle Fanning, Maisie Williams, Alan Moloney, Tom Sturridge, Amy Baer, Joanne Froggatt, Douglas Booth, Haifaa Al-Mansour
Drama Romance Period
5 / 5
Play Trailer Woman Walks Ahead
Set in the 19th Century, Caroline Weldon moves from Brooklyn to the Standing Rock Reservation in Dakota Territory to help Sioux chieftain Sitting Bull keep the land for his people.
Sam Rockwell, Jessica Chastain, Susanna White, Steven Knight, Marshall Herskovitz, Ciaran Hinds, Ed Zwick, Rick Solomon
Drama Western Period
3 / 5
More Info RBG
At the age of 84, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has developed a breathtaking legal legacy while becoming an unexpected pop culture icon. But without a definitive Ginsburg biography, the unique personal journey of this diminutive, quiet warrior's rise to the nation's highest court has been largely unknown, even to some of her biggest fans – until now.
Betsy West, Julie Cohen
Documentary
4 / 5
Play Trailer The Guardians
The women of the Paridier farm, under the deft hand of Hortense, the family's matriarch (Nathalie Baye), must grapple with the workload while the men are off at the front. Initially, the mysterious Francine’s (Iris Bry) arrival is welcomed for her diligence and tirelessness. Soon enough, emotions run high when the sons return on leave, and Francine becomes the center of a familial disturbance.
Yann Bean, Frédérique Moreau, Cyril Descours, Iris Bry, Gilbert Bonneau, Xavier Beauvois, Nathalie Baye, Laura Smet
Drama War
3 / 5
Play Trailer American Animals
Four young men mistake their lives for a movie and attempt one of the most audacious heists in U.S. history.
Katherine Butler, Mary Jane Skalski, Evan Peters, Dimitri Doganis, Derrin Schlesinger, Bart Layton
Drama Heist
4 / 5
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