Best DVD & Blu-rays Released February 2012
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A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas
Jon Hurwitz and Hayden Schlossberg, who wrote "Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle" and "Harold & Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay" and directed the latter, will return to write and direct the third installment, which will have a Christmas theme.
Neil Patrick Harris, Fred Melamed, Hayden Schlossberg, Richard Brener, Todd Strauss Schulson, Greg Shapiro, Jon Hurwitz, John Cho
A Warrior's Heart
In shock and denial over his Marine father's death in combat, high school lacrosse star Conor Sullivan (Kellan Lutz) starts acting out in self destructive ways until he's kicked off the team and sent to a wilderness lacrosse camp run by his dad's combat buddy (Adam Beach). Strengthened by the support and understanding of his new found love (Ashley Greene) and though a deep understanding of the game and its Native American roots, he opens his eyes to the true meaning of sportsmanship, love and life.
Kellan Lutz, Ashley Greene, Michael F. Sears, Martin Dugard, Gabrielle Anwar, Chord Overstreet, William Mapother, Adam Beach
Anonymous
Edward de Vere, the 17th Earl of Oxford, was an accomplished poet and dramatist for Queen Elizabeth I in the 16th Century. In the 20th Century theories arose crediting Edward as the true author of Shakespeare's works.
David Thewlis, Roland Emmerich, John Orloff, Edward Hogg, Vanessa Redgrave, Rhys Ifans
Ladies vs. Ricky Bahl
A charismatic ladies-man cons women for a living until he finally meets his match when some of his former conquests develop a crafty plan.
Maneesh Sharma
Five Star Day
The film is a journey of self-discovery about a guy (Cam Gigandet) who loses everything and must come to terms with what's most important in life.
Danny Buday, Cam Gigandet, Jena Malone, Will Yun Lee, Mark Boone Junior
Project Nim
The life of a chimpanzee who was raised like a human child as part of a pioneering 1970s experiment. The film combines interviews with participants in the experiment and archival footage to depict the chimpanzee's experience.
Simon Chinn, James Marsh
Fireflies in the Garden
The complexities of love and commitment in a family torn apart by an unexpected tragedy.
Ioan Gruffudd, Dennis Lee, Marco Weber, Ryan Reynolds, Sukee Chew, Philip Rose, Julia Roberts, Willem Dafoe
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1
The fourth and final part of the "Twilight" series.
Dakota Fanning, Peter Facinelli, Kristen Stewart, Karen Rosenfelt, Wyck Godfrey, Kellan Lutz, Ashley Greene, Lee Pace
The Rum Diary
Paul Kemp, is a young New Yorker starting out as a newspaperman in Puerto Rico in the late '50s. Soon after arriving in San Juan, he manages to land a job at the 'Daily News', an English-language rag whose staff, an assortment of has-beens, mad geniuses, drunks, and spongers, would seem more at home in the Foreign Legion.
Johnny Depp, Amber Heard, Aaron Eckhart, Richard Jenkins, Giovanni Ribisi, Bruce Robinson, A.J. Dix, Anthony Rhulen
Take Shelter
Chronicles a man's descent into madness. He fears an apocalyptic cloud he believes will engulf his town, and builds a storm shelter in his yard.
Michael Shannon, Jessica Chastain, Jeff Nichols, Tyler Davidson, Sophia Lin, Shea Whigham
Things Fall Apart
A drama centered around a promising football running back during his senior year in college.
Randall Emmett, Brian Miller, Mario Van Peebles, Curtis Jackson, Lynn Whitfield, Steve Eastin, Mike Puwal, Ray Liotta
Labios Rojos
A happily married couple face sudden problems in the bedroom.
Silvia Navarro, Jorge Salinas, Rafa Lara
Tiny Furniture
A tragicomedy about what does and does not happen when you graduate from college with no skills, no love life, and a lot of free time.
Lena Dunham, Laurie Simmons, Grace Dunham
Mozart's Sister
riginally the featured performer, Nannerl has given way to Wolfgang as the main attraction, as their strict but loving father Leopold (Marc Barbe) tours his talented offspring in front of the royal courts of pre-French revolution Europe. Approaching marriageable age and now forbidden to play the violin or compose, Nannerl chafes at the limitations imposed on her gender. But a friendship with the son and daughter of Louis XV offers her ways to challenge the established sexual and social order.
Marie Feret, Rene Feret, Marce Barbe
Elite Squad: The Enemy Within
After a prison riot, Captain Nascimiento is swept into a bloody political dispute involving government officials and paramilitary groups.
Jose Padilha
Swinging with the Finkels
Mandy Moore and Martin Freeman star as a bored suburban couple that decide to spice up their sex life by swinging.
Martin Freeman, Deepak Nayar, Jonathan Newman, Mandy Moore, Melissa George, Jonathan Silverman, Jerry Stiller, Thomas Augsberger
The Human Centipede Part 2 (Full Sequence)
A sequel to The Human Centipede in which a surgeon attempts to graph humans together.
Tom Six
The Interrupters
The stories of three Violence Interrupters who try to protect their Chicago communities from the violence they once employed.
Steve James
The Mighty Macs
Set against the backdrop of the 1972 feminist movement, "Victory" tells the true story of sassy newlywed Cathy Rush (Gugino), who becomes the head basketball coach at a tiny, all-girls Catholic college, a team with no gym and no uniforms. She eventually leads the team to the first national championship in women's basketball, while the school's nuns fight to keep the owners from selling the institution and its land to developers.
Marley Shelton, Carla Gugino, Tim Chambers, Whitney Springer, David Boreanaz, Ellen Burstyn, James Rebhorn, Phyllis Somerville
Tower Heist
Eddie Murphy and Chris Rock play Trump Tower janitors who scheme to rip off its luxury tenants.
Eddie Murphy, Tea Leoni, Bill Collage, Michael Peña, Brett Ratner, Adam Cooper, Leslie Dixon, Casey Affleck
The Woman with the Five Elephants
Her father ends up in one of Stalin's prison camps and then young Svetlana experiences the German invasion. In order to survive she learns German at home in Kiev and gets work as a translator before ending up in a German camp in 1943. Now, 65 years later, she is a renowned translator who in her twilight years has translated the great works of Dostoevsky. For the first time in all these years, she returns to Kiev together with her granddaughter.
Vadim Jendreyko
The Son of No One
A young cop is assigned to a precinct in the working class neighborhood where he grew up, and an old secret threatens to destroy his life and his family.
Steve Golin, Cassian Elwes, Gary Howsam, Al Pacino, Tracy Morgan, Dito Montiel, Holly Wiersma, Channing Tatum
Blank City
A disparate crew of renegade filmmakers who emerged from an economically bankrupt and dangerous moment in New York history.
Celine Danhier
The Way
Martin Sheen plays Tom, an American doctor who comes to St. Jean Pied de Port, France to collect the remains of his adult son, killed in the Pyrenees in a storm while walking The Camino de Santiago, also known as The Way of St. James. Driven by his profound sadness and desire to understand his son better, Tom decides to embark on the historical pilgrimage, leaving his "California bubble life" behind.
Emilio Estevez, James Nesbitt, Martin Sheen, Deborah Kara Unger
J. Edgar
In 1935, J. Edgar Hoover forms the FBI and makes it an efficient crime-fighting organization — in part by harassing dissenters and building secret files on politicians. Hoover also fights the gangster wars in the ’30s and, later, the Mafia. He remains the FBI's director until his death in 1972.
Naomi Watts, Armie Hammer, Clint Eastwood, Leonardo DiCaprio, Damon Herriman, Josh Lucas, Brian Grazer, Rob Lorenz
Octubre
Clemente, a moneylender of few words, is a new hope for Sofía, his single neighbor, devoted to the October worship of Our Lord of the Miracles. They're brought together over a new-born baby, fruit of Clemente's relationship with a prostitute who's nowhere to be found.
Daniel Vega Vidal, Diego Vega Vidal
London Boulevard
After release from prison, a South London criminal tries to give up the gangster life by becoming a handyman for a reclusive young actress.
David Thewlis, Keira Knightley, William Monahan, Ben Chaplin, Ophelia Lovibond, Graham King, Quentin Curtis, Colin Farrell
Martha Marcy May Marlene
The story centers on a young woman (Elizabeth Olsen) who is living with her older sister (Sarah Paulson) after escaping a cult.
Antonio Campos, Josh Mond, Hugh Dancy, Elizabeth Olsen, Sarah Paulson, Sean Durkin, Ted Hope
Five Star Day
The film is a journey of self-discovery about a guy (Cam Gigandet) who loses everything and must come to terms with what's most important in life.
Danny Buday, Cam Gigandet, Jena Malone, Will Yun Lee, Mark Boone Junior
Puss in Boots
An adventure with the sword fighting cat, Puss 'n Boots, from "Shrek 2".
Salma Hayek, Guillermo del Toro, Chris Miller, David Lipman, Latifa Ouaou, Aron Warner, John H. Williams, David H. Steinberg
Hugo
An orphaned boy secretly lives in the walls of a busy Paris train station and looks after the clocks. He gets caught up in a mystery adventure when he attempts to repair a mechanical man.
Johnny Depp, Jude Law, Christopher Lee, Martin Scorsese, Christi Dembrowski, Sacha Baron Cohen, Charles Newirth, Graham King
Johnny English Reborn
Universal Pictures is bringing back bumbling British spy Johnny English (Rowan Atkinson) for a follow-up assignment.
Rosamund Pike, Tim Bevan, Gillian Anderson, Debra Hayward, Oliver Parker, Eric Fellner, Hamish McColl, Rowan Atkinson
I Melt With You
An intense character drama about four men who look within themselves and find emptiness.
Neil LaBute, Christian McKay, Rob Cowan, Carla Gugino, Sasha Grey, Mark Pellington, Norman Reiss, Glenn Porter
Tomorrow, When the War Began
A band of Aussie teenagers fight off an enemy invasion and occupation of their homeland.
Stuart Beattie, Rachel Hurd-Wood
The Myth of the American Sleepover
Storyline follows four teens on the last night of summer.
David Robert Mitchell, Adele Romanski
Insight
Kaitlyn (Natalie Zea), an ER nurse who is tending to a young stabbing victim, is accidentally electrocuted by the defibrillator that is used in an effort to save the woman's life. Almost immediately she starts to experience the victim's memories. Kaitlyn turns to family, friends, and the police, but no one takes her seriously. She decides to take it upon herself to solve the crime - as the terrifying visions threaten her sanity.
Sean Patrick Flanery, Veronica Cartwright, Richard Gabai, Natalie Zea, Angeline-Rose Troy, Adam Baldwin, Thomas Ian Nicholas, Christopher Lloyd
Answers to Nothing
Lost souls throughout Los Angeles search for meaning and redemption and affect each other in ways they don’t always see.
Elizabeth Mitchell, Dane Cook, Zach Gilford, Matt Leutwyler, Miranda Bailey, Amanda Marshall, Gillian Vigman, Julie Benz
Beneath the Darkness
After the death of his best friend, a 15-year-old boy struggles to expose the grim secrets surrounding a haunted house.
Dennis Quaid, Devon Werkheiser, Martin Guigui, Ronnie Clemmer, Scott Mednick, Bruce Wilkinson, Aimee Teegarden, Tony Oller
The Catechism Cataclysm
Father Billy (Steve Little), an eccentric young priest, is forced to take a sabbatical by his superiors when he is discovered telling inappropriate parables to his flock. Billy tracks down his high-school idol Robbie (Robert Longstreet), who begrudgingly agrees to a canoe trip. When night approaches, they realize they have lost their way -- and that's when things get weird.
Todd Rohal
The Sky Turns
Mercedes Alvarez was three years old when her parents left La Aldea, a village in the barren Northern Spanish Soria region. She was the last child born in La Aldea. Now, only fourteen people live there. Soon this village, like so many other rural communities all over the world, will be deserted. Alvarez returns for the first time to her ancestral home and makes a film about memory and the terrifying passing of time.
Mercedes Álvarez, Arturo Redin