January 2012 DVD & Blu-rays

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Contagion PG-13

An action-thriller that takes place in a worst case scenario of a deadly virus.
Matt Damon, Bryan Cranston, Kate Winslet, Laurence Fishburne, Gwyneth Paltrow, Marion Cotillard, Jude Law, Chin Han
Action Adventure Thriller 3D

I Don't Know How She Does It PG-13

A woman must balance her important business career and her duties as a mom.
Pierce Brosnan, Olivia Munn, Sarah Shahi, Sydney Pollack, Kelsey Grammer, Seth Meyers, Anthony Minghella, Kevin Wade
Comedy

Don't Be Afraid of the Dark R

A young girl is sent to live with her father and his new girlfriend and discovers sinister creatures that live underneath the stairs.
Guillermo del Toro, Bailee Madison, Katie Holmes, Guy Pearce, Mark Johnson, Matthew Robbins, Jack Thompson, Keri Putnam
Thriller Suspense Horror Supernatural

Shark Night 3D PG-13

Said to be "Jaws" for the 3D generation.
Joel David Moore, Chris Briggs, Chris Carmack, Katharine McPhee, Lynette Howell, David R. Ellis, Mike Fleiss, Sara Paxton
Action Adventure Thriller Horror 3D

I Am

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

The Guard R

A small-town cop gets pulled into the investigation of an international drug smuggling ring.
Fionnula Flanagan, Mark Strong, David Wilmot, Andrew Lowe, Brendan Gleeson, John Michael McDonagh, Chris Clark, Ed Guiney
Action Comedy

The Greening of Whitney Brown PG

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.
Brooke Shields, Charlotte Matthews, Kris Kristofferson, Gail Gilchriest, Sammi Hanratty, Justin Moore-Lewy, Peter Skillman Odiorne, Charlie Mason
Adventure Comedy Family

Puncture R

The story follows a troubled young attorney who must come to terms with his own demons when taking on a healthcare giant.
Chris Evans, Mark Kassen, Brett Cullen, Jordan Foley, Chris Lopta, Michael Biehn, Marshall Bell, Jesse L. Martin
Drama

The Last Lions PG

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
Documentary
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Moneyball PG-13

Billy Beane, the Oakland A's general manager, assembles a contending ballclub despite having a payroll much lower than other teams.
Brad Pitt, Chris Pratt, Aaron Sorkin, Scott Rudin, Jonah Hill, Robin Wright, Sidney Kimmel, Philip Seymour Hoffman
Drama Biography Sports

Killer Elite R

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, Clive Owen, Ben Mendelsohn, Dominic Purcell, Joni Sighvatsson, Lachy Hulme, Yvonne Strahovski
Action Adventure Gangster

What's Your Number? R

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.
Chris Evans, Anna Faris, Joel McHale, Andy Samberg, Zachary Quinto, Mark Mylod, Tripp Vinson, Thomas Lennon
Comedy Romance

Higher Ground R

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.
Norbert Leo Butz, Vera Farmiga, Taissa Farmiga, John Hawkes, Joshua Leonard, Bill Irwin, Donna Murphy, Matt Parker
Drama Biography

There Be Dragons PG-13

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.
Charlie Cox, Olga Kurylenko, Wes Bentley, Guy J. Louthan, Dougray Scott, Derek Jacobi, Roland Joffe, Ignacio Gomez Sancha
Drama Epic

Back Door Channels: The Price of Peace

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

The Caller R

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.
Stephen Moyer, Luis Guzman, Rachelle Lefevre, Matthew Parkhill
Horror

Film Socialisme

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

1911 R

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
Drama Action Adventure

Saving Private Perez

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

The Electric Daisy Carnival Experience

Features footage from the 2011 Electric Daisy Carnival in Los Angeles and Las Vegas.
Kevin Kerslake
Music

The Ides of March R

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.
George Clooney, Ryan Gosling, Grant Heslov, Paul Giamatti, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Max Minghella, Marisa Tomei, Evan Rachel Wood
Drama Political

Bucky Larson: Born to Be a Star R

A small-town Midwestern nerd discovers his parents were famous porn stars.
Adam Sandler, Nick Swardson, Stephen Dorff, Don Johnson, Christina Ricci, Tyler Spindel, Tom Brady, Allen Covert
Comedy

Abduction PG-13

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.
Jason Isaacs, Sigourney Weaver, Maria Bello, Taylor Lautner, Alfred Molina, Roy Lee, Ellen Goldsmith-Vein, Lily Collins
Drama

Courageous PG-13

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?
Robert Amaya, Alex Kendrick, Stephen Kendrick, Kevin Downes, Ken Bevel, Rusty Martin, Ben Davies
Drama Action Faith Re-Release

Dirty Girl R

A high school tramp runs away with the school's gay, fat kid in his homophobic dad's stolen car.
Milla Jovovich, Rob Paris, Lisa Kudrow, Tim McGraw, Juno Temple, William H. Macy, Jana Edelbaum, Abe Sylvia
Comedy LGBTQIA+

Redline

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
Animated

United Red Army

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

What If... PG

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
Drama

Killing Bono R

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

Caterpillar

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

Laugh At My Pain

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

Special Treatment NR

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.
Isabelle Huppert, Jeanne Labrune, Richard Debuisne, Sabila Moussadek, Bouli Lanners
Drama Comedy
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Real Steel PG-13

In the future, 2,000-pound robots resembling humans battle in a boxing ring. A promoter takes his fighter to the championships.
Shawn Levy, Hugh Jackman, Evangeline Lilly, Hope Davis, Steven Spielberg, Anthony Mackie, Dan Gilroy, Kevin Durand
Drama Action Adventure Fantasy Sci-Fi

50/50 R

Adam, a 25-year-old single Jewish (James McAvoy) dude, is diagnosed with spinal cancer. Hilarity ensues.
Bryce Dallas Howard, Anna Kendrick, Seth Rogen, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Nathan Kahane, Ben Karlin, Anjelica Huston, Jonathan Levine
Drama Comedy Biography

Paranormal Activity 3 R

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.
Jason Blum, Steven Schneider, Henry Joost, Christopher Nicholas Smith, Katie Featherston, Akiva Goldsman, Oren Peli, Jessica Tyler Brown
Sequel Thriller Suspense Horror Supernatural

Limelight

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

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
Comedy

Restless PG-13

Described as contemporary and distinctive take on young love.
Bryce Dallas Howard, Gus Van Sant, Ron Howard, Mia Wasikowska, Brian Grazer, Henry Lee Hopper, Ryo Kase, Jane Adams
Drama Romance

The Woman R

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
Horror

Another Happy Day R

An overwrought mother drags her reckless daughters to a chaotic family wedding.
Demi Moore, Sam Levinson, Thomas Haden Church, Celine Rattray, Kate Bosworth, Ellen Barkin, Sean McEwen, George Kennedy
Comedy

Hell and Back Again NR

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
Documentary

Sarah Palin: You Betcha!

A documentary on Sarah Palin that speaks with school friends, family and Republican colleagues of the former governor of Alaska.
Nick Broomfield
Documentary Political

The Whistleblower R

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

Shut Up Little Man NR

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
Documentary
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In Time PG-13

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, Olivia Wilde, Cillian Murphy, Justin Timberlake, Alex Pettyfer, Bella Heathcote, Andrew David, Andrew Niccol
Thriller Sci-Fi

The Thing R

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, Eric Heisserer, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Eric Newman, Matthijs van Heijningen, Marc Abraham, Jonathan Walker
Action Adventure Sci-Fi Prequel

Drive R

A Hollywood stuntman moonlights as a wheelman during robberies and discovers that a contract has been put on him.
Bryan Cranston, Hossein Amini, Gigi Pritzker, Oscar Isaac, Carey Mulligan, David Lancaster, Marc Platt, Albert Brooks
Drama Action Adventure

Dream House PG-13

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.
Jim Sheridan, Naomi Watts, Daniel Craig, Rachel Weisz, Daniel Bobker, Joe Nussbaum, David Loucka, Rachel Fox
Thriller Suspense Horror

The Big Year PG

Three rival bird-watchers brave hazardous weather, competitor tactics and unhappy spouses to win the North American Big Year, an annual bird-watching competition.
Ben Stiller, Jack Black, Jim Parsons, Rashida Jones, Owen Wilson, Dustin Hoffman, Karen Rosenfelt, Curtis Hanson
Adventure Comedy

Chalet Girl

A working-class girl lands a job in a posh ski resort and discovers her natural snowboarding genius while dating the boss’ son.
Ed Westwick, Felicity Jones, Bill Nighy, Tom Williams, Harriet Rees, Phil Traill, Pippa Cross, Tamsin Egerton
Drama Romance

Texas Killing Fields R

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.
Bradley Cooper, Sam Worthington, Jessica Chastain, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Chloë Grace Moretz, Stephen Graham, Jason Clarke, Ami Mann
Drama Thriller

Thunder Soul PG

Thunder Soul tells the true story of Conrad O Johnson and the Kashmere Stage Band, a mediocre jazz band into a legendary funk powerhouse.
Mark Landsman, Keith Calder, Jessica Wu
Documentary

Outrage R

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
Crime

The Double PG-13

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.
Richard Gere, Topher Grace, Stephen Moyer, Ashok Amritraj, Andrew Deane, Michael Brandt, Derek Haas, Martin Sheen
Drama Action Adventure Crime Mystery

Janie Jones

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