January 2012 DVD & Blu-rays

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Aug. 26, 2021

Best DVD & Blu-rays Released January 2012

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A woman must balance her important business career and her duties as a mom.

Pierce Brosnan, Anthony Minghella, Christina Hendricks, Seth Meyers, Sarah Jessica Parker, Greg Kinnear, Sarah Shahi, Douglas McGrath

PG-13 Comedy

81%

  • 3.4
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A young girl is sent to live with her father and his new girlfriend and discovers sinister creatures that live underneath the stairs.

Guy Pearce, Guillermo del Toro, Troy Nixey, Mark Johnson, Matthew Robbins, Katie Holmes, Bailee Madison, Jack Thompson

R Thriller Suspense Horror Supernatural

58%

  • 3.6
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An action-thriller that takes place in a worst case scenario of a deadly virus.

Steven Soderbergh, Bryan Cranston, Kate Winslet, Jude Law, Matt Damon, Stacey Sher, Michael Shamberg, Marion Cotillard

PG-13 Action Adventure Thriller 3D

67%

  • 4.1
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Said to be "Jaws" for the 3D generation.

Chris Carmack, Joel David Moore, Sinqua Walls, Dustin Milligan, David R. Ellis, Mike Fleiss, Lynette Howell, Chris Briggs

PG-13 Action Adventure Thriller Horror 3D

84%

  • 3.9
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Follows the misadventures of Whitney Brown, a privileged and popular Philadelphia teenager whose world is upended when her parents, Henry and Joan, experience sudden economic problems that necessitate a family move to Whitney’s grandparents’ old farm in the country. There, far from her dizzying world of shallow gir...lfriends, endless parties and school pressures, she finds a new best pal: Odd Job Bob, a beautiful and spirited Gypsy Vanner horse owned by her new neighbor Dusty --- a crusty rancher who turns out to be her estranged grandfather. Through her new relationships with Odd Job Bob, Dusty and her parents, Whitney rediscovers what it means to respect not only nature and her family, but also someone very special she had almost lost touch with: herself.

Aidan Quinn, Kris Kristofferson, Peter Skillman Odiorne, Justin Moore-Lewy, Charlie Mason, Gail Gilchriest, Sammi Hanratty, Brooke Shields

PG Adventure Comedy Family 1 hr, 27 mins

93%

  • 3.9
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Dereck and Beverly Joubert examine the dramatic decline in the number of lions in Africa and the moral duty to protect them.

Jeremy Irons, Dereck Joubert

PG Documentary 1 hr, 28 mins

91%

  • 4.3
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A small-town cop gets pulled into the investigation of an international drug smuggling ring.

Ed Guiney, John Michael McDonagh, Andrew Lowe, Brendan Gleeson, Mark Strong, Fionnula Flanagan, David Wilmot, Chris Clark

R Action Comedy

78%

  • 3.6
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The story follows a troubled young attorney who must come to terms with his own demons when taking on a healthcare giant.

Adam Kassen, Jordan Foley, Craig Cohen, Jesse L. Martin, Mark Kassen, Chris Lopta, Chris Evans, Vinessa Shaw

R Drama

83%

  • 3.1
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A first person documentary of Tom Shadyac (helmer of bigscreen comedies including "Ace Ventura: Pet Detective" and "Bruce Almighty") on his unusual journey of self-discovery. Film includes interviews with Noam Chomsky, Howard Zinn and Desmond Tutu, among others.

Tom Shadyac

Documentary 1 hr, 16 mins

30%

  • 3.7
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Billy Beane, the Oakland A's general manager, assembles a contending ballclub despite having a payroll much lower than other teams.

Chris Pratt, Robin Wright, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Scott Rudin, Aaron Sorkin, Jonah Hill, Bennett Miller, Brad Pitt

PG-13 Drama Biography Sports

91%

  • 4.1
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Recounts the true story of an elite group of vigilantes drawn from the ranks of England's select paramilitary operatives, who were charged with eliminating four contract killers so deft that their hits appeared to be merely accidents.

Jason Statham, Robert De Niro, Ben Mendelsohn, Firass Dirani, Grant Bowler, Gary McKendry, Joni Sighvatsson, Steve Chasman

R Action Adventure Gangster

94%

  • 4
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The story enters on a woman who goes on a trek through her sexual past in an effort to find Mr. Right, exploring the idea of a person's sexual quota and whether those numbers matter.

Andy Samberg, Gabrielle Allan, Joel McHale, Mark Mylod, Beau Flynn, Tripp Vinson, Karyn Bosnak, Jennifer Crittenden

R Comedy Romance

80%

  • 3.8
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Troubled divorcee Mary Kee is tormented by a series of sinister phone calls from a mysterious woman claiming that she's calling from the past.

Luis Guzman, Matthew Parkhill, Stephen Moyer, Rachelle Lefevre

R Horror

80%

  • 3
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The film examines the personalities -- Menachem Begin, Anwar El-Sadat, and Jimmy Carter -- who drove the peace process along with the secret liaisons, communications, and third-party world leaders who played roles in forging the Camp David Accords.

Harry Hunkele

Documentary

57%

  • 1
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Carolyn Briggs grew up with modest means in the Iowa heartland. Pregnant at seventeen, married a few months later, by the age of 18 she found herself living in a trailer with no plans beyond having more babies-until she found Jesus.

Bill Irwin, Vera Farmiga, Carly Hugo, Matt Parker, Jonathan Burkhart, Tim Metcalfe, Taissa Farmiga, Donna Murphy

R Drama Biography 1 hr, 51 mins

76%

  • 3
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As a garish cruise ship travels the Mediterranean, Godard embarks on a state of the EU address in a vibrant collage of philosophical quotes, historical revelations and pure cinematographic beauty.

Jean-Luc Godard

Drama

67%

  • 5
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Features footage from the 2011 Electric Daisy Carnival in Los Angeles and Las Vegas.

Kevin Kerslake

Music

72%

  • 3
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An epic war film that details the fall of the Qing Dynasty and the violent rebellion that brought it down. With China split into warring factions and the starving citizens beginning to revolt, the ruling Qings are building a powerful army to quash any rebellion. But revolutionary leader Huang Xing (Chan) decides he must act before the Qing army becomes too powerful and leads an increasingly desperate series of violent uprisings against the power Qings.

Jackie Chan, Joan Chen

R Drama Action Adventure

89%

  • 4.2
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Tells the story of a Spanish journalist trying to mend his relationship with his dying father, a former fighter in the Spanish Civil War. He discovers his father was a close friend of Josemaria Escriva de Balaguer, the founder of the Catholic prelature Opus Dei.

Roland Joffe, Wes Bentley, Guy J. Louthan, Ignacio Gomez Sancha, Ignacio Nunez, Charlie Cox, Dougray Scott, Olga Kurylenko

PG-13 Drama Epic

61%

  • 3.8
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A group of drug traffickers search for the cartel leader's lost brother, who went missing in action in Iraq.

Beto Gómez

Comedy

57%

  • 4
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A young communications director works for a fast-rising presidential candidate. During the course of the campaign, the idealistic young man falls prey to the backstabbing and other dirty trickery of seasoned rival politicos.

Ryan Gosling, George Clooney, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Beau Willimon, Paul Giamatti, Marisa Tomei, Grant Heslov, Evan Rachel Wood

R Drama Political

82%

  • 3.7
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Taylor Lautner will star in "Abduction" as a teen who has long felt disconnected from his parents, and figures out why, which unleashes a chain of violent events.

Maria Bello, Doug Davison, Ellen Goldsmith-Vein, John Singleton, Roy Lee, Lee Stollman, Pat Crowley, Shawn Christensen

PG-13 Drama

78%

  • 3.9
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A small-town Midwestern nerd discovers his parents were famous porn stars.

Don Johnson, Adam Sandler, Jack Giarraputo, Barry Bernardi, Nick Swardson, Stephen Dorff, Edward Herrmann, Tom Brady

R Comedy

61%

  • 2.6
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A high school tramp runs away with the school's gay, fat kid in his homophobic dad's stolen car.

Milla Jovovich, William H. Macy, Sally Hawkins, Lisa Kudrow, Abe Sylvia, Mary Steenburgen, Rob Paris, Charles Pugliese

R Comedy LGBTQIA+ 1 hr, 30 mins

66%

  • 3.8
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Follows the biggest and most deadly racing tournament in the universe. Only held once every five years, everyone wants to stake their claim to fame, including JP, a reckless dare-devil driver oblivious to speed limits with his ultra-customized car - all the while, organized crime and militaristic governments want to leverage the race to their own ends. Amongst the other elite rival drivers in the tournament, JP falls for the alluring Sonoshee - but will she prove his undoing, or can a high speed romance survive a mass destruction race?

Takeshi Koike

Animation 1 hr, 42 mins

79%

  • 3.5
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Four men, one calling: To serve and protect. When tragedy hits home, these men are left wrestling with their hopes, their fears, their faith, and their fathering. Can a newfound urgency help these dads draw closer to God … and to their children?

Alex Kendrick, Ben Davies, Stephen Kendrick, Ken Bevel, Kevin Downes, Rusty Martin, Robert Amaya

PG-13 Drama Action Faith Re-Release

87%

  • 4.5
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Funnyman Kevin Hart is back and starring in the theatrical version of his 2011 LAUGH AT MY PAIN comedy tour. Catch the original, never-before-seen Raw and Uncut backstage footage, and travel back to Philly with Kevin Hart where he began his journey to become one of the funniest and most successful comedians of all time.

Kevin Hart, Leslie Small

Comedy Documentary

95%

  • 3.5
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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.

Nick Hamm, Ben Barnes, Dick Clement, Krysten Ritter, Pete Postlethwaite

R Comedy 1 hr, 54 mins

66%

  • 4.3
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A high class prostitute (Isabelle Huppert) and an eminent psychoanalyst discover that they share many things in common. They are both unhappy with their professions, seeking a way out that involves unique contact with each other's worlds.

Richard Debuisne, Isabelle Huppert, Jeanne Labrune, Bouli Lanners, Sabila Moussadek

NR Drama Comedy 1 hr, 35 mins

85%

  • 2
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During the Second Sino-Japanese War, a village woman is given the grueling task of looking after her quadruple-amputee husband, a decorated solider tortured by memories of his war crimes.

Kôji Wakamatsu

Drama

57%

  • 4.2
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The docudrama explores the political unrest of 1960s Japan, when mass student uprisings coincided with the beginnings of the far-left United Red Army group, which tortured and murdered its “deviant” members during a 1972 training session.

Kôji Wakamatsu

Documentary

69%

  • 4.5
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Fifteen years ago, Ben Walker left his girlfriend and his ministry calling for a business opportunity. Now with a high-paying career and a trophy fiancé, he is visited by an angel, who gives him a glimpse into what his life would look like had he followed his calling.

Dallas Jenkins

PG Drama 1 hr, 40 mins

85%

  • 4.5
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Adam, a 25-year-old single Jewish (James McAvoy) dude, is diagnosed with spinal cancer. Hilarity ensues.

Bryce Dallas Howard, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Seth Rogen, Jonathan Levine, Evan Goldberg, Ben Karlin, Will Reiser, Anna Kendrick

R Drama Comedy Biography 1 hr, 39 mins

83%

  • 4.1
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With the sequel opening with over $40 million on a mere $3 million production budget, a third movie in the Paranormal Activity series would appear inevitable.

Steven Schneider, Ariel Schulman, Akiva Goldsman, Henry Joost, Jason Blum, Oren Peli, Christopher B. Landon, Katie Featherston

R Sequel Thriller Suspense Horror Supernatural 1 hr, 25 mins

67%

  • 4.1
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In the future, 2,000-pound robots resembling humans battle in a boxing ring. A promoter takes his fighter to the championships.

Steven Spielberg, Anthony Mackie, Robert Zemeckis, Hugh Jackman, Dakota Goyo, Mary McLaglen, Shawn Levy, Don Murphy

PG-13 Drama Action Adventure Fantasy Sci-Fi

92%

  • 4.6
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In Bosnia in 1999, Kathryn Bolkovac, a U.N. peacekeeper whose post with the Intl. Police Task Force was arranged by DynCorp Inc., is assigned to run the IPTF office that investigates sex trafficking, domestic abuse and sexual assault. She ultimately alleges that peacekeepers, U.N. workers and international police are visiting brothels and facilitating sex trafficking by forging documents and aiding the illegal transport of woman into Bosnia. DynCorp responds by firing Bolkovac, who returns to the U.S. and files a wrongful termination case. She wins the suit but says she's still blacklisted.

Rachel Weisz, Eilis Kirwan, Larysa Kondracki, Amy Kaufman, Christina Piovesan, Vanessa Redgrave, Monica Bellucci, David Strathairn

R Drama

67%

  • 4.3
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An overwrought mother drags her reckless daughters to a chaotic family wedding.

Kate Bosworth, Demi Moore, Sam Levinson, Johnny Lin, Celine Rattray, Sean McEwen, Ezra Miller, Thomas Haden Church

R Comedy 1 hr, 55 mins

78%

  • 3
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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

Comedy 2 hrs, 20 mins

96%

  • 3.4
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A successful country lawyer captures and attempts to civilize the last remaining member of a violent clan that has roamed the Northeast coast for decades, thereby putting the lives of his family in extreme jeopardy.

Lucky McKee, Jack Ketchum, Angela Bettis

R Horror

68%

  • 3.7
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A documentary about legendary NYC nightclub owner Peter Gatien. Profiles Gatien’s rise and fall in the world of nightspot dominance as owner of Limelight, Tunnel, Palladium and Club USA.

Billy Corben, Jen Gatien

Documentary

61%

  • 3
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A documentary on Sarah Palin that speaks with school friends, family and Republican colleagues of the former governor of Alaska.

Nick Broomfield

Documentary Political

13%

  • 2
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From his embed with US Marines Echo Company in Afghanistan, photojournalist and filmmaker Danfung Dennis reveals the devastating impact a Taliban machine-gun bullet has on the life of 25-year-old Sergeant Nathan Harris. The film seamlessly transitions from st

Danfung Dennis

NR Documentary 1 hr, 28 mins

54%

  • 2.6
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When two friends tape-recorded the fights of their violently noisy neighbours, they accidentally created one of the world’s first ‘viral’ pop-culture sensations.

Matthew Bate, Julie Byrne

NR Documentary 1 hr, 30 mins

35%

  • 4
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Described as contemporary and distinctive take on young love.

Mia Wasikowska, Bryce Dallas Howard, Ron Howard, Henry Lee Hopper, Gus Van Sant, Brian Grazer, Jason Lew, Jane Adams

PG-13 Drama Romance 1 hr, 31 mins

54%

  • 2.5
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A Hollywood stuntman moonlights as a wheelman during robberies and discovers that a contract has been put on him.

Bryan Cranston, Christina Hendricks, Hossein Amini, Albert Brooks, Adam Siegel, Nicolas Winding Refn, Marc Platt, Gigi Pritzker

R Drama Action Adventure

86%

  • 3.9
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Set in the not-too-distant future where the aging gene has been switched off. To avoid overpopulation, time has become the currency and the way people pay for luxuries and necessities. The rich can live forever, while the rest try to negotiate for their immortality. The protagonist is a poor young man who comes into a fortune of time, though too late to help his mother from dying. He ends up on the run from a corrupt police force known as "time keepers."

Amanda Seyfried, Justin Timberlake, Alex Pettyfer, Cillian Murphy, Vincent Kartheiser, Collins Pennie, Olivia Wilde, Andrew Niccol

PG-13 Thriller Sci-Fi

91%

  • 3.8
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A remake and "a companion piece" to the 1982 original "John Carpenter's The Thing". The 1982 original dealt with a shape-shifting creature from outer space that terrorizes researchers at an Antarctic facility.

Joel Edgerton, Matthijs van Heijningen, Eric Newman, Marc Abraham, Eric Heisserer, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Jonathan Walker, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje

R Action Adventure Sci-Fi Prequel

72%

  • 3.9
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Daniel Craig plays a New York publishing exec who relocates his family to a small New England town only to learn that their new home was the scene of a vicious murder.

Naomi Watts, Rachel Weisz, David Loucka, Gregory Smith, Rachel Fox, Jim Sheridan, David Robinson, James G. Robinson

PG-13 Thriller Suspense Horror

87%

  • 3.8
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Three rival bird-watchers brave hazardous weather, competitor tactics and unhappy spouses to win the North American Big Year, an annual bird-watching competition.

Jack Black, Owen Wilson, Karen Rosenfelt, Jim Parsons, David Frankel, Ben Stiller, Stuart Cornfeld, Curtis Hanson

PG Adventure Comedy

94%

  • 4
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A young FBI agent teams up with a CIA agent to find a Russian hitman. The FBI agent discovers that the CIA agent is the hitman.

Odette Yustman, Martin Sheen, Ashok Amritraj, Patrick Aiello, Richard Gere, Stana Katic, Michael Brandt, Derek Haas

PG-13 Drama Action Adventure Crime Mystery 1 hr, 38 mins

87%

  • 3.9
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The story centers on a young girl who is abandoned by her drug-addicted, former-groupie mother at a concert and surprises the fading rock singer who’s performing with news that she is his daughter.

Abigail Breslin, David M. Rosenthal, Keith Kjarval, Eric Bassett, Alessandro Nivola, Elisabeth Shue, Frank Whaley, Brittany Snow

Drama

83%

  • 3.8
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Story centers on two cops who realize that the latest murder in their jurisdiction connects their case to the notorious killing fields murders. The killing field murders concern four bodies that were found in the same place in Texas.

Jessica Chastain, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Sam Worthington, Bradley Cooper, Annabeth Gish, Ami Mann, Michael Mann, Michael Jaffe

R Drama Thriller 1 hr, 45 mins

84%

  • 3.6
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The boss of a major crime syndicate orders his lieutenant to bring a gang in line, a job which gets passed on to a long-suffering subordinate.

Takeshi Kitano, Kippei Shiina

R Crime

29%

  • 4
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Thunder Soul tells the true story of Conrad O Johnson and the Kashmere Stage Band, a mediocre jazz band into a legendary funk powerhouse.

Keith Calder, Mark Landsman, Jessica Wu

PG Documentary

61%

  • 4.8
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A working-class girl lands a job in a posh ski resort and discovers her natural snowboarding genius while dating the boss’ son.

Felicity Jones, Bill Nighy, Pippa Cross, Phil Traill, Harriet Rees, Tom Williams, Ed Westwick, Tamsin Egerton

Drama Romance 1 hr, 36 mins

91%

  • 3.2
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Top January 2012 Movie Trailers

Dirty Girl Theatrical Trailer
Courageous Theatrical Trailer
Dream House Theatrical Trailer
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