Best DVD & Blu-rays Released July 2011
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Hobo With a Shotgun
Based on one of the fake trailers Jason Eisener created for "Grindhouse," pic follows a homeless vigilante on a mission to clean up the city.
Jason Eisener, Rutger Hauer, Gregory Smith
Action Crime
3 / 5
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Set at the end of Japan's feudal era in which a group of unemployed samurai are enlisted to bring down a sadistic lord and prevent him from ascending to the throne and plunging the country into a war-torn future.
Takashi Miike, Koji Yakusho
Action Remake
3 / 5
Play Trailer Of Gods and Men
Eight French monks live peacefully in a monastery perched in the mountains of Algeria until post-colonial tensions escalate.
Xavier Beauvois, Lambert Wilson, Michael Lonsdale
Drama
4 / 5
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The Lincoln Lawyer
"Lawyer" concerns an attorney with a questionable set of ethics and an old Lincoln Town Car as his office. He discovers that a man he put on death row for murder is innocent and the man he currently is defending is the real killer.
Matthew McConaughey, Bryan Cranston, John Leguizamo, Trace Adkins, Katherine Moennig, Gary Lucchesi, Scott Steindorff, Marisa Tomei
Drama Crime Gangster
4 / 5
Play Trailer Insidious
A young family makes the terrifying discovery that the body of their comatose son has become a conduit for the supernatural, while his consciousness is held hostage in the dark and insidious realm known as The Further.
Rose Byrne, James Wan, Jason Blum, Steven Schneider, Patrick Wilson, Barbara Hershey, Ty Simpkins, Leigh Whannell
Thriller Horror
4 / 5
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Dax Shepard tries to radically change the direction of his career. Known as a comedian, Dax is met with strong opposition while trying to secure financing for his martial arts film.
Bradley Cooper, Jon Favreau, Dax Shepard, Josh Temple, David Koechner, Tom Arnold, Ashton Kutcher, Michael Rosenbaum
Comedy
3 / 5
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A sequel to hand-held horror "[Rec]" in which a medical officer and SWAT team attempt to seal off an apartment complex.
Paco Plaza, Jaume Balaguero
Sequel Horror
3 / 5
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The story of Hind Husseini, who founded an orphanage in Jerusalem in the wake of the 1948 partition of Palestine and the creation of the state of Israel.
Willem Dafoe, Freida Pinto, Rula Jebreal, Hiam Abbass, Vanessa Redgrave, Julian Schnabel, Jon Kilik
Drama
5 / 5
Play Trailer White Irish Drinkers
In the autumn of 1975 in Brooklyn, Danny tries to enlist his brother Brian in one last scheme - to rob the Lafayette on the night of the Rolling Stones concert. Danny sees this as their only chance to get enough money to skip town and start them both off in a new life, somewhere far away from Brooklyn.
Nick Thurston, Stephen Lang, John Gray, Karen Allen, Geoff Wigdor
Drama
3 / 5
Play Trailer Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives
A dying old man choses to spend his last days with his loved ones in the countryside. The ghost of his deceased wife appears to care for him and his long-lost son returns home in a non-human form.
Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Drama Fantasy
3 / 5
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A household pet goes on an adventure to discover its true self.
Johnny Depp, Stephen Root, Graham King, Alfred Molina, Abigail Breslin, Bill Nighy, Hemky Madera, Tim Headington
Action Adventure Family Animated
4 / 5
Play Trailer Arthur
A boozy playboy rascal is set to inherit a fortune if he marries an heiress his family thinks will make something out of him. However, he falls in love with a working-class woman and turns to his valet for help when his family makes him choose between money and love.
Jennifer Garner, Helen Mirren, Kevin McCormick, Russell Brand, Nick Nolte, Luis Guzman, Geraldine James, Jason Winer
Comedy Remake
3 / 5
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Limitless
The story follows a loser who gets his hands on a top-secret pharmaceutical drug that makes you smarter. He experiences suddenfinancial and social success but soon discovers that the drug has lethal and lasting side effects, including "trip-switching," a phenomenon inwhich time moves with a stop-motion quality.
Robert De Niro, Bradley Cooper, Ryan Kavanaugh, Tucker Tooley, Abbie Cornish, Neil Burger, Leslie Dixon, Anna Friel
Drama Action Adventure Thriller Suspense
4 / 5
Play Trailer Take Me Home Tonight
Follow an aimless college grad who pursues his dream girl at a wild Labor Day weekend party. He, his twin sister and their best friend struggle with their burgeoning adulthood over the course of the night.
Anna Faris, Topher Grace, Brian Grazer, Teresa Palmer, Gordon Kaywin, Dan Fogler, Michael Dowse, Michael Biehn
Drama Comedy
4 / 5
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An ex-vice cop gets framed for a robbery and murder at the Mafia-owned casino and brothel where he works.
Danny Trejo, Amy Smart, Dominic Purcell, Chuck Hustmyre, Dave Battista, Craig Fairbrass, Brian Miller
Thriller Suspense Crime Gangster
Peep World
The story charts the mayhem caused by a family member's kiss-and-tell novel that comes to light during a family celebration.
Rainn Wilson, Taraji P. Henson, Michael C. Hall, Ben Schwartz, Judy Greer, Sarah Silverman, Kate Mara, Jason Hefter
Drama Comedy
3 / 5
Play Trailer Tekken
Jin Kazama is a young and talented fighter with a dark energy within him. The Devil Gene he has inherited from his father, Kazuya Mishima, is slowly tearing him apart and consuming his mind with evil and hate. He now realizes that the only way he can save himself is to not only confront his father, but his grandfather, Heihachi Mishima, as well. Both Kazuya and Heihachi have their own agendas for what they want with Jin's power. It's coming to a head at The King of Iron Fisting Tournament: a fighting tournament sponsored by Heihachi where the winner will receive 1 billion dollars, ownership of Heihachi's company, and be crowned the greatest fighter on Earth.
Mircea Monroe, Steven Paul, Gary Daniels, Dwight Little, Masaya Nakamura, Alan McElroy, Tetsu Fujimura, Jon Foo
Drama Action Adventure Fantasy Sci-Fi Martial Arts
Small Town Murder Songs
An aging police officer from a small Ontario Mennonite town hides a violent past until a local murder upsets the calm of his newly reformed life.
Ed Gass-Donnelly
Thriller Crime
4 / 5
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A trophy wife of an umbrella company magnate who shakes off the shackles of her cloistered well-to-do existence and takes the reigns of the family business when her husband suffers a heart attack.
Gerard Depardieu, Francois Ozon, Catherine Deneuve
Comedy
5 / 5
More Info Cracks
"Cracks" follows an elite group of boarding school girls who compete for the attention of their free-thinking and glamorous young teacher Miss G (Green). She encourages them to indulge their desires, flout the establishment and - suggesting a world of adventures in her own past - pursue a life of independence and travel. The girls are thrilled to have such an inspiring teacher, but the status quo is threatened when the arrival of an exotic and beautiful Spanish student (Maria Valverde) disturbs the girl's rigid and remorseless power structure. Favored girl Di Radfield (Juno Temple) feels especially threatened and, as Ms G's hold over the girls progresses from emancipation to obsession, there are tragic consequences for everyone.
Eva Green, Imogen Poots, Maria Valverde, Juno Temple, Ben Court, Jordan Scott
Drama Teen
3 / 5
More Info Hey, Boo: Harper Lee and To Kill a Mockingbird
Mary Murphy, who wrote the book, "Scout, Atticus and Boo: A Celebration of 50 Years of To Kill A Mockingbird"—reflects upon the impact of Harper Lee’s classic masterpiece with such personalities as Tom Brokaw, Mary Badham, Oprah Winfrey and James Patterson.
Mary Murphy
Biography Documentary
3 / 5
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A look at the Vent Haven Convention, which bills itself as the ventriloquism capital of the world.
Lindsay Goffman, Mark Goffman
Documentary
4 / 5
Play Trailer Phil Ochs: There But For Fortune
A documentary about the folk singer Phil Ochs.
Kenneth Bowser
Documentary
3 / 5
More Info Desert Flower
The autobiography of Waris Dirie, who fled from an arranged marriage in Somalia when she was 13-years-old and then lived in the streets of London before she became a supermodel and UN spokeswoman.
Sherry Horman
Drama
5 / 5
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Source Code
Being kept under wraps, but said to involve time travel.
Jake Gyllenhaal, Michelle Monaghan, Jeffrey Wright, Jordan Wynn, Vera Farmiga, Ben Ripley, Gordon Kaywin, Duncan Jones
Drama Fantasy Thriller Sci-Fi
4 / 5
Play Trailer Dylan Dog: Dead of Night
An ex-cop turned private investigator, is one of the few living humans to know the truth about the supernatural beings that exist on the fringes of the modern world. He takes on cases involving vampires, werewolves, zombies, and other strange creatures -- sometimes as adversaries, and sometimes as clients. He always gets his man—alive, dead, or undead.
Taye Diggs, Brandon Routh, Joshua Oppenheimer, Randy Greenberg, Sam Huntington, Jay Burns, Tom Donnelly, Ervin Rustemagic
Comedy Suspense Horror Remake
3 / 5
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A WWII comedy spoof using action figures to imagine what would have happened if the Germans had won the Battle of Britain.
Rosamund Pike, Tom Wilkinson, Ewan McGregor, Richard Griffiths, Timothy Spall, Richard E. Grant, Alan Cumming, Edward Mchenry
Comedy Historical Spoof
Ironclad
Ironclad is a castle epic based on the true story of the great siege of Rochester castle.
Paul Giamatti, Jonathan English, James Purefoy, Mackenzie Crook, Jason Flemyng, Robert Carlyle, Rick Bennatar, Erick Kastel
Action Adventure
3 / 5
Play Trailer Heartbeats
Francis and Marie are close friends and one day they meet Nicolas. As one rendezvous leads to another, whether real or imagined, the two friends slide deeper into obsessive fantasies around Nicolas.
Xavier Dolan
Drama Romance
4 / 5
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A dark drama about the damaging effects an online sexual predator has on a family. Clive Owen and Catherine Keener will play the parents of a 14-year-old girl who are stunned to discover she has been victimized by an adult who gained her trust posing as a teenager on a chat room.
Clive Owen, Viola Davis, Trevor Short, David Schwimmer, Avi Lerner, Boaz Davidson, Catherine Keener, Bob Greenhut
Drama
4 / 5
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Near the end of World War II, 14-year-old Michiel becomes involved with the Resistance after helping a wounded British soldier.
Martin Koolhoven
Drama War
3 / 5
Play Trailer Zokkomon
Kunal, an orphaned boy, discovers how cruel life is when he is abandoned by his heartless uncle. Left to fend for himself, Kunal soon realizes the hero within and begins his epic journey of adventure and transformation to become Zokkomon.
Satyajit Bhatkal
Action Adventure
2 / 5
Play Trailer Life During Wartime
Separated from her incarcerated husband Bill, Trish is about to be married again. Bill is a pedophile, so Trish couldn't be more excited to have Harvey, a "normal" father figure for her two sons. But when Bill is released from prison and the boys finally meet their future stepdad, the family is forced to decide whether to forgive or to forget.
Allison Janney, Shirley Henderson, Todd Solondz
Drama Comedy
4 / 5
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