DVD & Blu-rays Released January 31, 2012

Tuesday, January 31

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, Eric Newman, Olivia Wilde, Alex Pettyfer, Andrew Niccol, Marc Abraham, Kristel Laiblin, Andrew David
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.
Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Eric Newman, Matthijs van Heijningen, Marc Abraham, Eric Heisserer, Joel Edgerton, Jonathan Walker, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje
Action Adventure Sci-Fi Prequel

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.
Jack Black, Dustin Hoffman, Ben Stiller, Curtis Hanson, Howard Franklin, Mark Obmascik, Angelica Huston, Jim Parsons
Adventure Comedy
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105 mins

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.
Ami Mann, Bradley Cooper, Sam Worthington, Michael Mann, Michael Jaffe, Chloë Grace Moretz, Bill Block, Don Ferrarone
Drama Thriller
98 mins

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

Drive R

A Hollywood stuntman moonlights as a wheelman during robberies and discovers that a contract has been put on him.
Oscar Isaac, Nicolas Winding Refn, Gigi Pritzker, Marc Platt, Michel Litvak, Hossein Amini, Carey Mulligan, Bryan Cranston
Drama Action Adventure

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

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.
Daniel Craig, Jim Sheridan, David Robinson, James G. Robinson, Daniel Bobker, Ehren Kruger, David Loucka, Joe Nussbaum
Thriller Suspense Horror

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.
Keith Calder, Mark Landsman, Jessica Wu
Documentary
96 mins

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

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.
Kippei Shiina, Takeshi Kitano
Crime

Tuesday, January 31