July 2011 DVD & Blu-rays

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Mar. 5, 2012

Best DVD & Blu-rays Released July 2011

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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.

Gregory Smith, Jason Eisener, Rutger Hauer

Action Crime

83%

  • 3.3
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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

R Action Remake 2 hrs, 6 mins

82%

  • 3.9
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Eight French monks live peacefully in a monastery perched in the mountains of Algeria until post-colonial tensions escalate.

Lambert Wilson, Xavier Beauvois, Michael Lonsdale

PG-13 Drama 2 hrs, 0 mins

50%

  • 4.4
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"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.

William H. Macy, Bryan Cranston, Michael Peña, Matthew McConaughey, Brad Furman, Marisa Tomei, Ryan Phillippe, Trace Adkins

R Drama Crime Gangster 1 hr, 59 mins

92%

  • 4.3
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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.

Leigh Whannell, Ty Simpkins, James Wan, Steven Schneider, Rose Byrne, Oren Peli, Jason Blum, Patrick Wilson

PG-13 Thriller Horror 1 hr, 42 mins

92%

  • 4.2
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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.

Julian Schnabel, Jon Kilik, Rula Jebreal, Freida Pinto, Hiam Abbass, Willem Dafoe, Vanessa Redgrave

PG-13 Drama

47%

  • 5
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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 1 hr, 54 mins

33%

  • 3.2
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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.

John Gray, Nick Thurston, Geoff Wigdor, Stephen Lang, Karen Allen

R Drama 1 hr, 49 mins

29%

  • 3.5
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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.

Jon Favreau, Dax Shepard, Tom Arnold, Bradley Cooper, Josh Temple, David Palmer, Nate Tuck, Michael Rosenbaum

Comedy 1 hr, 20 mins

44%

  • 3.2
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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.

Jaume Balaguero, Paco Plaza

R Sequel Horror 1 hr, 25 mins

73%

  • 3.7
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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.

Luis Guzman, Jennifer Garner, Nick Nolte, Sarah Schechter, Kevin McCormick, Peter Baynham, Helen Mirren, Greta Gerwig

PG-13 Comedy Remake

66%

  • 3.8
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A household pet goes on an adventure to discover its true self.

Johnny Depp, Bill Nighy, Abigail Breslin, David Shannon, Harry Dean Stanton, Timothy Olyphant, Gore Verbinski, John B. Carls

PG Action Adventure Family Animation 1 hr, 47 mins

90%

  • 4.3
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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.

Jackie Filgo, Michael Dowse, Topher Grace, Gordon Kaywin, Brian Grazer, Jeff Filgo, Anna Faris, Dan Fogler

R Drama Comedy 1 hr, 37 mins

72%

  • 4.2
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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.

Leslie Dixon, Robert De Niro, Ryan Kavanaugh, Bradley Cooper, Neil Burger, Scott Kroopf, Abbie Cornish, Anna Friel

PG-13 Drama Action Adventure Thriller Suspense 1 hr, 45 mins

91%

  • 4.2
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"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.

Jordan Scott, Eva Green, Ben Court, Juno Temple, Imogen Poots, Maria Valverde

R Drama Teen 1 hr, 45 mins

38%

  • 3.5
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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.

Francois Ozon, Catherine Deneuve, Gerard Depardieu

R Comedy

40%

  • 5
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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.

Alan McElroy, Steven Paul, Jon Foo, Luke Goss, Dwight Little, Benedict Carver, Tetsu Fujimura, Masaya Nakamura

R Drama Action Adventure Fantasy Sci-Fi Martial Arts

93%

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A look at the Vent Haven Convention, which bills itself as the ventriloquism capital of the world.

Mark Goffman, Lindsay Goffman

PG Documentary

15%

  • 4
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The story charts the mayhem caused by a family member's kiss-and-tell novel that comes to light during a family celebration.

Ben Schwartz, Kate Mara, Felipe Marino, Joe Neurauter, Keith Calder, Sarah Silverman, Ron Rifkin, Barry Blaustein

R Drama Comedy 1 hr, 29 mins

53%

  • 3.1
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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.

Amy Smart, Brian Miller, Craig Fairbrass, Chuck Hustmyre, Dominic Purcell, Danny Trejo, Dave Battista

R Thriller Suspense Crime Gangster 1 hr, 30 mins

93%

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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

R Drama 2 hrs, 0 mins

74%

  • 5
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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

R Thriller Crime 1 hr, 16 mins

0%

  • 4.2
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A documentary about the folk singer Phil Ochs.

Kenneth Bowser

Documentary

67%

  • 3.2
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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

NR Biography Documentary 1 hr, 22 mins

61%

  • 3.6
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Being kept under wraps, but said to involve time travel.

Jeffrey Wright, Jordan Wynn, Mark Gordon, Jake Gyllenhaal, Michelle Monaghan, Duncan Jones, Philippe Rousselet, Ben Ripley

PG-13 Drama Fantasy Thriller Sci-Fi 1 hr, 33 mins

91%

  • 4
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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.

Brandon Routh, Aaron Severson, Kevin Munroe, Scott Mitchell Rosenberg, Jay Burns, Randy Greenberg, Joshua Oppenheimer, Tom Donnelly

PG-13 Comedy Suspense Horror Remake 1 hr, 47 mins

86%

  • 3.7
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Ironclad is a castle epic based on the true story of the great siege of Rochester castle.

Odette Yustman, Erick Kastel, Paul Giamatti, James Purefoy, Jonathan English, Rick Bennatar, Chris Curling, Andrew J. Curtis

R Action Adventure

89%

  • 3.9
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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, Ewan McGregor, Edward Mchenry, Rory Mchenry, Richard Griffiths, Richard E. Grant, Timothy Spall, Tom Wilkinson

Comedy Historical Spoof 1 hr, 31 mins

100%

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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.

Liana Liberato, Viola Davis, Catherine Keener, Boaz Davidson, David Schwimmer, Avi Lerner, Heidi Jo Markel, Bob Greenhut

R Drama

92%

  • 4.4
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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.

Todd Solondz, Shirley Henderson, Allison Janney

R Drama Comedy 1 hr, 36 mins

28%

  • 4
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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 1 hr, 37 mins

23%

  • 4.8
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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 1 hr, 43 mins

82%

  • 3.7
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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 1 hr, 49 mins

59%

  • 2.9
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Top July 2011 Movie Trailers

Trust Theatrical Trailer
13 Assassins Theatrical Trailer
Tekken Theatrical Trailer
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