December 2013 DVD & Blu-rays

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The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones PG-13

A young girl inherits an ability to see and interact with a clan of supernatural spirits.
Lena Headey, Harald Zwart, Lily Collins, Jared Harris, Kevin Durand, Bob Shaye, Dylan Sellers, Robert Sheehan
Drama Adventure Fantasy Supernatural

The Wolverine PG-13

Set in Japan, Wolverine trains in the way of the samurai in a bid to control his primal urges, during which time he falls in love with Mariko Yashida, heir to a Yakuza family.
Christopher McQuarrie, Hugh Jackman, Mark Bomback, Jessica Biel, Kevin Feige, Will Yun Lee, Hiroyuki Sanada, James Mangold
Action Adventure Sequel Superhero Spin-off

The Smurfs 2 PG

A sequel to the 2011 movie that will continue the Smurfs adventure in the modern world.
Sofia Vergara, David Weiss, Neil Patrick Harris, George Lopez, Katy Perry, Fred Armisen, Anton Yelchin, Jayma Mays
Adventure Sequel Fantasy Family

Drinking Buddies R

Follows the lives of Kate (Olivia Wilde) and Luke (Jake Johnson) who work together at a craft brewery. They have one of those friendships that feels like it could be something more. But Kate is with Chris (Ron Livingston), and Luke is with Jill (Anna Kendrick). And Jill wants to know if Luke is ready to talk about marriage. The answer to that question becomes crystal clear when Luke and Kate unexpectedly find themselves alone for a weekend.
Anna Kendrick, Olivia Wilde, Joe Swanberg, Ron Livingston, Alicia Van Couvering, Andrea Roa, Jake Johnson
Comedy

All the Boys Love Mandy Lane R

Mandy Lane. Beautiful. Untouched. High school royalty waiting to be crowned. Since the dawn of Junior year, men have tried to possess her. Some have even died in reckless pursuit of this 16 year-old Texas angel.

Chloe and Red invite Mandy out to Red's family ranch for the weekend. Mandy sees it as an excellent opportunity to cement her new friendships. The boys see it as an opportunity to finally get with Mandy Lane. Driving across the Texas landscape, the kids begin to gently chip away at the wall that surrounds her. Joints are smoked. A keg is stolen off a beer truck. Pills are crushed to fine powder and inhaled. Mandy observes it all with the gentle interest of a foreign tourist. And they love her for it.

At the ranch, all the boys start to make their move – each one hoping to be the first to attain the unattainable Mandy Lane. However, as night falls and the booze, drugs, and hormones take over, things are said and advances made which can never be reversed. Suddenly, sweet Mandy finds herself pit in a brutal struggle for survival against someone whose interest she has rejected. Forget reading, writing and arithmetic. In high school, learning to be yourself and not succumbing to peer pressure is the ultimate test. And this is one exam that Mandy is determined not to fail.
Amber Heard, Jonathan Levine, Anson Mount, Michael Welch, Edwin Hodge, Jacob Forman, Aaron Himelstein
Thriller Horror

Good Ol' Freda PG

Documents Freda Kelly, The Beatles' lifelong secretary, who tells her story for the first time in 50 years.
Jessica Lawson, George Harrison, Ryan White, John Lennon, Freda Kelly
Documentary Music

Things Never Said

KALINDRA STEPNEY (Kal) is an emerging spoken-word poetess, someone who willingly speaks her thoughts, but she's an artist who has yet to find her voice. A native of California, Kal has dreams of taking her poems to New York and the infamous Nuyorican stage. Haunted by a miscarriage and saddled with RONNIE, a husband who's angry and without direction - he uses his fists as a form of speech, Kal tries desperately to find an outlet for her struggling voice.
Omari Hardwick, Charles Murray, Brian Lewis, Geofrey Hildrew, Shanola Hampton, Elimu Nelson, Nicole Elliot, Steven LaBroi
Drama Romance

Running Wild: The Life of Dayton O. Hyde

Running Wild: The Life of Dayton O. Hyde examines the inspirational life of Dayton O. Hyde as a modern-day renaissance man and one of the last old-style cowboys. Through heroic determination, he is preserving part of the American West with a breathtaking 12,000-acre prairieland Black Hills Wild Horse Sanctuary in South Dakota that he has maintained for the last 25 years and where more than 500 mustangs now run free—all rescued from the controversial wild horse roundups in the west.
Suzanne Mitchell
Documentary

The Iran Job

When American basketball player Kevin Sheppard accepts a job to play in one of the world’s most feared countries – Iran – he expects the worst. But what he finds is a country brimming with generosity, acceptance, and sensuality. With a charismatic personality that charms everyone he meets, Kevin forms an unlikely friendship with three outspoken Iranian women who share with him their strong opinions on everything from politics to religion to gender roles. Kevin’s season in Iran eventually culminates in something much bigger than basketball: the uprising and subsequent suppression of Iran’s reformist Green Movement – a powerful prelude to the sweeping changes currently unfolding across the Middle East in the wake of the Arab Spring.
Till Schauder, Kevin Sheppard
Sports Documentary

Smash and Grab: The Story of the Pink Panthers

This film tells the story of the Pink Panthers, the world's most successful diamond thieves. With exclusive access to gang members as well as those tasked with catching them, the film combines animation and archive to explain their background in the history of Balkans and bring to life their gripping exploits.
Havana Marking, Mike Lerner, Daniel Vivian
Documentary

Winnie Mandela R

The story of Nelson Mandela's former wife. She was a steadfast supporter of her activist husband and was jailed for campaigning for his release and fighting against apartheid. Her image was subsequently tarnished by association with a bodyguard who murdered a 14-year old alleged informer, and she was later convicted of fraud
Terrence Howard, Jennifer Hudson, Darrell Roodt, Michael Mosca, Paul L. Johnson, Wendy Crewson, Elias Koteas, Andre Pieterse
Drama Biography
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Fast & Furious 6 PG-13

No plot details are available.
Dwayne Johnson, Gal Gadot, Vin Diesel, Paul Walker, Michelle Rodriguez, Luke Evans, Justin Lin, Tyrese Gibson
Action Adventure Sequel Thriller Crime

Despicable Me 2 PG

Sequel to the 2010 animated "Despicable Me". The story has not yet been written.
Chris Meledandri, Miranda Cosgrove, Steve Carell, Chris Renaud, Kristen Wiig, Benjamin Bratt, Steve Coogan, Pierre Coffin
Comedy Sequel Family Animated CG

Battle of the Year PG-13

A legendary b-boy crew must return to its roots to reclaim the world championship by competing against the top international breakdancing teams.
Josh Peck, Chris Brown, Tripp Vinson, Caity Lotz, Beau Flynn, Josh Holloway, Laz Alonso, Benson Lee
Drama Dance

Adore

Tale of love, lust and the power of friendship charts the unconventional and passionate affairs of two lifelong friends who fall in love with each other’s sons.
Ben Mendelsohn, Robin Wright, Naomi Watts, Xavier Samuel, Christopher Hampton, Sophie Lowe, Anne Fontaine, James Frecheville
Drama

Sightseers

Chris (Oram) wants to show Tina (Lowe) his world and he wants to do it his way – on a journey through the British Isles in his beloved Abbey Oxford Caravan. Tina’s led a sheltered life and there are things that Chris needs her to see – the Crich Tramway Museum, the Ribblehead Viaduct, the Keswick Pencil Museum and the rolling countryside that separates these wonders in his life. But it doesn’t take long for the dream to fade. Litterbugs, noisy teenagers and pre-booked caravan sites, not to mention Tina’s meddling mother, soon conspire to shatter Chris’s dreams and send him, and anyone who rubs him the wrong way, over a very jagged edge.
Ben Wheatley, Steve Oram, Eileen Davies, Alice Lowe, Richard Glover, Monica Dolan, Jonathan Aris

The Ultimate Life PG

Despite his best intentions, billionaire Jason Stevens can't seem to make the time to keep his beloved Alexia a priority. Until he discovers his grandfather's journal ... and is transported back to Red Stevens' incredible world. With everything he loves hanging in the balance, Jason hopes to learn from his grandfather what makes The Ultimate Life.
Ali Hillis, David Mann, Lee Meriwether, Michael Landon Jr., Peter Fonda, Bill Cobbs, Brian Bird, Cheryl McKay
Drama Sequel

Some Girls

Before getting married, a successful writer decides to travel across the country to meet his five ex-girlfriends in a series of hotel rooms.
Kristen Bell, Jennifer Morrison, Emily Watson, Adam Brody, Andrew Carlberg, Zoe Kazan, Mia Maestro, Patty West
Drama Comedy

The Hunt R

Follows a quiet kindergarden teacher falsely accused of sexually abusing a child.
Mads Mikkelsen, Thomas Bo Larsen, Thomas Vinterberg, Annika Wedderkopp
Drama Foreign

Jayne Mansfield's Car R

A man in between WWI and WWII raises a family after his wife leaves him for an Englishman and moves to England. After a decades long absence, the wife dies. Because she had asked to be brought back to Alabama to be buried, the two families, her original family she abandoned and her English family, finally meet.
Kevin Bacon, Robert Duvall, Robert Patrick, John Hurt, Billy Bob Thornton, Ray Stevenson, Tom Epperson
Drama

Touchy Feely R

A massage therapist is unable to do her job when stricken with a mysterious and sudden aversion to bodily contact. Meanwhile, her uptight brother’s foundering dental practice receives new life when clients seek out his “healing touch.”
Ellen Page, Rosemarie DeWitt, Lynn Shelton, Josh Pais, Scoot McNairy
Comedy

Angels Sing PG

A father's holiday spirit was crushed by an accident when he was a child. When his son faces a tragedy, a mysterious man instills in him the courage to find the joy he lost.
Kris Kristofferson, Willie Nelson, Tim McCanlies, Connie Britton, Chandler Canterbury, Fionnula Flanagan, Lyle Lovett, Elizabeth Avellan
Drama Family Holiday

Salinger PG-13

Documentary based on author J.D. Salinger.
John Cusack, Danny DeVito, Edward Norton, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Shane Salerno, Buddy Squires, Deborah Randall, Gore Vidal
Documentary

Berberian Sound Studio NR

Set in 1976, pic takes place at one of the cheapest, sleaziest post-production facilities in Italy, where a naive and introverted sound engineer from England is hired to orchestrate the sound mix for the latest film by a horror maestro.
Toby Jones, Peter Strickland, Tonia Sotiropoulou, Cosimo Fusco, Susanna Cappellaro
Horror

The Family R

The story of the Manzonis, a notorious mafia family who gets relocated to France under the witness protection program.
Robert De Niro, Dianna Agron, Michelle Pfeiffer, Tommy Lee Jones, Luc Besson, John D'Leo, Michael Caleo
Action Comedy Crime Adaptation

Prisoners R

A small-town man's daughter is kidnapped and responds in a vigilante fashion by imprisoning a neighbor he suspects committed the crime, while a big-city cop investigates the crimes.
Mark Wahlberg, Terrence Howard, Viola Davis, Hugh Jackman, Maria Bello, Jake Gyllenhaal, Denis Villeneuve, Stephen Levinson
Drama Thriller Suspense

Kick-Ass 2 R

Red Mist develops his martial arts skills, while Hit Girl is adopted by a cop.
Nicolas Cage, Chloë Grace Moretz, Jim Carrey, John Leguizamo, Donald Faison, Jane Goldman, Clark Duke, Evan Peters
Action Comedy Sequel Superhero

Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters PG

Percy Jackson journeys to The Sea of Monsters to free a captured friend and find the Golden Fleece.
Alexandra Daddario, Chris Columbus, Nathan Fillion, Logan Lerman, Yvette Nicole Brown, Brandon T. Jackson, Leven Rambin, Karen Rosenfelt
Adventure Sequel Fantasy Adaptation

Elysium R

No plot details have been announced for this sci-fi movie.
Matt Damon, Bill Block, Diego Luna, Jodie Foster, Alice Braga, William Fichtner, Michael Shanks, Simon Kinberg
Drama Sci-Fi

One Direction: This is Us PG

A 3D concert movie starring One Direction.
Simon Cowell, Harry Styles, Adam Milano, Niall Horan, Morgan Spurlock, Ben Winston, Zayn Malik, Liam Payne
Documentary Music Concert 3D

Lone Ranger PG-13

The Texas Rangers chase down a gang of outlaws led by Butch Cavendish, but the gang ambushes the Rangers, seemingly killing them all. One survivor is found, however, by an American Indian named Tonto, who nurses him back to health. The Ranger, donning a mask and riding a white stallion named Silver, teams up with Tonto to bring the unscrupulous gang and others of that ilk to justice.
Johnny Depp, Jerry Bruckheimer, Terry Rossio, Helena Bonham Carter, Armie Hammer, Tom Wilkinson, Jason Reed, William Fichtner
Action Adventure Western Remake

Night Train to Lisbon R

Follows a Swiss professor who, having saved a beautiful Portuguese woman from leaping to her death, stumbles upon a mesmerizing book by a Portuguese author that compels him to leave his boring life and embark on an adventure in search of the scribe.
Jeremy Irons, Vanessa Redgrave, Melanie Laurent, Lena Olin, August Diehl, Bruno Ganz, Christopher Lee, Jack Huston
Drama Thriller Adaptation Mystery

Ghost Team One R

When roommates Brad and Sergio accidentally arouse the dead, they team up with sexy amateur ghost hunter, Fernanda, to expose the evil inside their home. But just as the guys start to get close to their hot new partner, they discover that a horny demon wants in on the action. Now, cameras are up and more than fear is rising in this outrageous romp where only one thing is certain: someone is gonna get screwed.
Tony Cavalero, Carlos Santos, J.R. Villarreal, Ben Peyser, Scott Rutherford, Meghan Falcone, James Babson
Comedy Horror

Ain't Them Bodies Saints R

A contemporary Bonnie And Clyde-esque picture.
Ben Foster, David Lowery, Rooney Mara, Casey Affleck, Keith Carradine, Cassian Elwes, Toby Halbrooks, Nate Parker
Drama
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Insidious: Chapter 2 PG-13

Follows a couple and their son confronting the demons that possess the young boy
Patrick Wilson, Steve Coulter, Rose Byrne, Lin Shaye, James Wan, Leigh Whannell, Ty Simpkins, Jason Blum
Sequel Thriller Suspense Horror

More than Honey NR

An examination of endangered honeybees in California, Switzerland, China and Australia.
Markus Imhoof
Documentary
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InAPPropriate Comedy R

A raunchy over-the-top sketch comedy.
Michelle Rodriguez, Lindsay Lohan, Rob Schneider, Bobby Lee, Adrien Brody, Vince Offer, Ari Shaffir
Comedy Spoof

CBGB R

The story centers on the real-life story of Hilly Kristal's CBGB club and its impact on the underground music scene, highlighting artists like the Talking Heads, the Ramones and Blondie.
Joel David Moore, Malin Akerman, Rupert Grint, Ashley Greene, Donal Logue, Johnny Galecki, Jody Savin, Justin Bartha
Drama Biography Music True Story

Sister NR

Simon (Kacey Mottet Klein) lives with his older sister (Lea Seydoux) in a housing complex below a luxury Swiss ski resort. With his sister drifting in and out of jobs and relationships, twelve-year-old Simon takes on the responsibility of providing for the two of them. Every day, he takes the lift up to the opulent ski world above, stealing equipment from rich tourists to resell to the local kids down in the valley. He is able to keep their little family afloat with his small-time hustles and his sister is thankful for the money he brings in. But, when Simon partners with a crooked British seasonal worker, he begins to lose his boundaries, affecting his relationship with his sister and plummeting him into dangerous territory.
Gillian Anderson, Martin Compston, Léa Seydoux, Ursula Meier, Kacey Mottet Klein
Drama

Sweetwater R

In the late 1800s, a fanatical religious leader, a renegade Sheriff, and a former prostitute collide in a blood triangle on the rugged plains of the New Mexico Territory.
Jason Isaacs, January Jones, Ed Harris, Eduardo Noriega, Chad Brummett, Jenny Gabrielle, Jason Aldean, Peter Wooster
Western

Hell Baby R

An expectant couple who moves into the most haunted fixer-upper in New Orleans -- a house with a demonic curse. Things soon spiral out of control and only the Vatican's elite exorcism team can save them -- or can they?
Thomas Lennon, Robert Ben Garant, Leslie Bibb, Rob Corddry, Michael Ian Black
Comedy Horror

Cassadaga R

Centers on a deaf girl who attempts to contact her late sister's spirit during a seance but instead attracts the avenging ghost of a murdered woman.
Kelen Coleman, Hank Stone, Anthony DiBlasi, Scott Poiley, Bruce Wood, Kevin Alejandro, Louise Fletcher, Rus Blackwell
Thriller Supernatural