Best DVD & Blu-rays Released June 2011
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True Grit
A 14-year-old girl along with an aging U.S. marshal and another lawman, tracks her father's killer in hostile Indian territory.
Hailee Steinfeld, Steven Spielberg, Matt Damon, Scott Rudin, Megan Ellison, Joel Coen, Ethan Coen, Jeff Bridges
Just Go With It
After telling his girlfriend that he's married so that he never has to fully commit to their relationship, a plastic surgeon must recruit a fake family to prove his honesty.
Nicole Kidman, Brooklyn Decker, Adam Sandler, Jack Giarraputo, Jennifer Aniston, Barry Bernardi, Dennis Dugan, Heather Parry
Sanctum
A father and son lead a diving team to uncharted depths and a life-threatening crisis occurs.
James Cameron, Ioan Gruffudd, Ryan Kavanaugh, Alister Grierson, Andrew Wight, John Garvin, Richard Roxburgh, Rhys Wakefield
The Company Men
The impact of a corporate downsizing on both its casualties and survivors.
Ben Affleck, Kevin Costner, Maria Bello, Paula Weinstein, Chris Cooper, Rosemarie DeWitt, John Wells, Claire Polstein
Carancho
This love story begins the night Lujan and Sosa meet, on the street. She is fighting to save a car accident victim's life. He wants the victim to be his client. Together they will try to change the course of their lives, but Sosa's turbulent past will come up against them.
Pablo Trapero
Blue Crush 2
Haunted by the memory of her deceased mother, Dana leaves Malibu behind and heads to South Africa to fulfill her mother’s dream of surfing Jeffery’s Bay.
Sasha Jackson, Mike Elliott, Randall McCormick, Sharni Vinson, Gideon Emery, Elizabeth Mathis, Ben Milliken, Patrick Lyster
Go for It!
Carmen, a young woman living in Chicago, struggles to overcome her fears and follow her dream to be a dancer.
Aimee Garcia, Jossara Jinaro, Carmen Marron, Al Bandiero, Gina Rodriguez
If I Want to Whistle, I Whistle
Romania's official selection for the 2011 Academy Award centers around an 18-year-old about to be released from a juvenile detention center.
Ada Condeescu, Florin Serban, Catalin Mitulescu, Pistireanu George, Mihai Constantin
Guilty Hearts
The film which follows the lives of nine strangers living worlds apart as they look for love, happiness, success, and friendship against all odds. Carrying the burden of guilt, they must escape their pasts before they can move forward.
Eva Mendes, Gerard Butler, Stellan Skarsgard, George Augusto, Kathy Bates, Anna Faris, Charlie Sheen, Julie Delpy
The Housemaid
A man's affair with his family's housemaid leads to a dark consequences.
Im Sang-soo, Jeon Do-yeon
Salt of This Sea
A Brooklyn-born woman follows her Palestinian roots back to Israel, where she attempts to recover the funds from a family bank account that was frozen and seized in 1948.
Annemarie Jacir
The Wild Hunt
A medieval reenactment game turns into a Shakespearean tragedy when a non-player crashes the event to win back his girlfriend.
Alexandre Franchi
American: The Bill Hicks Story
An animated documentary drama on the legendary Texas outlaw comic Bill Hicks.
Matt Harlock, Paul Thomas
Another Year
No plot details are available at this time.
Jim Broadbent, David Bradley, Lesley Manville, Mike Leigh, Georgina Lowe, Imelda Staunton, Stuart McQuarrie, Ruth Sheen
Red Riding Hood
A Gothic reimagining of "Little Red Riding Hood." The classic tale of a young girl traveling alone through the forest to her grandmother's house.
Amanda Seyfried, Jennifer Davisson, Julie Christie, Leonardo DiCaprio, Max Irons, Julie Yorn, Lukas Haas, Catherine Hardwicke
Hall Pass
A married couple find themselves going through the motions. The wife gives her husband a "hall pass," which means permission to engage in extracurriculars. Complications ensue.
Alexandra Daddario, Owen Wilson, Christina Applegate, Tyler Hoechlin, Bradley Thomas, Jason Sudeikis, J.B. Smoove, Richard Jenkins
Battle: Los Angeles
The story follows one Marine platoon's encounter in the battle against an alien invasion on the streets of Los Angeles.
Michael Peña, Jonathan Liebesman, Ori Marmur, Aaron Eckhart, Bridget Moynahan, Ne-Yo, Neal H. Moritz, Chris Bertolini
Big Mommas: Like Father, Like Son
Continuing adventures of Big Momma (as played by Martin Lawrence).
Martin Lawrence, Portia Doubleday, John Whitesell, Randi Mayem Singer, Don Rhymer, Matthew Fogel, Brandon T. Jackson, Jessica Lucas
Kill the Irishman
Chronicles the rise and fall of gangster Danny Greene, who muscled in on the Italian mob in 1970s Cleveland and set off a turf war that ravaged the streets of Cleveland and led to the collapse of the Mafia in a number of U.S. cities, including Kansas City and Los Angeles.
Val Kilmer, Vinnie Jones, Ray Stevenson, Vincent D'Onofrio, Paul Sorvino, Jonathan Hensleigh, Bart Rosenblatt, Eugene Musso
Immigration Tango
An American couple and a foreign couple test the limits of friendship and love when they switch partners and get married for green cards.
David Burton Morris, Elika Portnoy
The Chaperone
An ex-con tries to rekindle his relationship with his daughter by being a chaperone on her class trip.
Michael Pavone, Billy Slaughter, Jake Austin Walker, Kevin Corrigan, Stephen Herek, S.J. Roth, Paul Levesque, Ariel Winter
Fall Down Dead
Police are on the trail of a serial killer – following clues that are as barbaric as they are "artistic". They have called the criminal the "Picasso Killer": death is his inspiration, the carved bodies of his victims are his works of art.
Jon Keeyes, Udo Kier, Dominique Swain, Mehmet Gunsur, David Carradine, R. Keith Harris
Legend of the Fist: The Return of Chen Zhen
Seven years after the apparent death of Chen Zhen, a mysterious stranger arrives from overseas and befriends a local mafia boss. That man is a disguised Chen Zhen, who intends to infiltrate the mob when they form an alliance with the Japanese. Disguising himself as a caped fighter by night, Chen intends to take out everyone involved as well as get his hands on an assassination list prepared by the Japanese.
Andrew Lau, Donnie Yen, Shu Qi
The Concert
Thirty years ago, the renowned conductor of the Bolshoi orchestra was fired for hiring Jewish musicians. Now a mere cleaning man at the Bolshoi, he learns that the Châtelet Theater in Paris has invited the Bolshoi orchestra to play. He decides to gather his former musicians and perform in Paris in the place of the current Bolshoi orchestra.
Radu Mihaileanu, Francois Berléand, Matthew Robbins, Mélanie Laurent, Alexei Guskov
Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules
"Rodrick Rules," which will be based on the second book in the "Diary of a Wimpy Kid" series, follows middle school student Greg Heffley, his older brother Rodrick, and the school talent show.
Robert Capron, Jackie Filgo, Steve Zahn, David Bowers, Nina Jacobson, Gabe Sachs, Jeff Judah, Zachary Gordon
The Adjustment Bureau
A man discovers that his reality is, in effect, a giant sound stage controlled and manipulated by mysterious guardians.
Emily Blunt, Anthony Mackie, Matt Damon, Michael Hackett, Shohreh Aghdashloo, George Nolfi, Chris Moore, Bill Carraro
Unknown
After a car accident, a doctor awakes from a coma to discover that another man has assumed his identity.
Aidan Quinn, Liam Neeson, Andrew Rona, Stephen Cornwell, Oliver Butcher, January Jones, Jaume Collet-Serra, Joel Silver
The Eagle
The story revolves around a wounded Roman soldier and his loyal Celtic slave try to solve the mystery of the Ninth Legion, a brigade of Roman soldiers that vanished after heading into the untamed Highlands of Scotland 15 years earlier.
Mark Strong, Kevin Macdonald, Duncan Kenworthy, Jeremy Brock, Jamie Bell, Channing Tatum, Donald Sutherland, Paul Ritter
Happythankyoumoreplease
Young people who are on the cusp of truly growing up. Tiring of their reflexive cynicism and struggling to connect and define what it means to love and be loved.
Kate Mara, Josh Radnor, Zoe Kazan, Malin Akerman
Elektra Luxx
The film is a sequel to "Women in Trouble", an ensemble comedy about one day in the lives of 10 Los Angeles women that has yet to find distribution. "Elektra Luxx" picks up the travails of the characters a month later, again covering a full day.
Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Marley Shelton, Carla Gugino, Timothy Olyphant, Emmanuelle Chriqui, Sebastian Gutierrez, Justin Kirk, Malin Akerman
Haunted 3D
Rehan visits Glen Manor to complete its sale, which his father had initiated, but he realizes that certain mysterious occurrences in the manor may jeopardise the sale.
Vikram Bhatt
Ceremony
The comedy follows a young man (Eisenberg) who falls hard for an older woman about to be married. The infatuation prompts him to take along his unwitting friend (Angarano) to a beach town in an effort to break up the wedding. Upon arriving, the young men quickly realize just how out of place they are among the stately British groom-to-be and his guests.
Uma Thurman, Max Winkler, Darlene Caamano Loquet, Polly Cohen, Matt Spicer, Jesse Eisenberg, Emilio Diez Barroso, Michael Angarano
Cedar Rapids
A wholesome and naive small-town Wisconsin insurance agent goes to an industry convention in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, to try to save the jobs of his colleagues.
Ed Helms, Miguel Arteta, Alexander Payne, Jim Burke, Jim Taylor, Phil Johnston, John C. Reilly, Anne Heche
Beastly
A modern-day teacher turns into a beast, complete with fangs and claws, after a student in his class puts him under a spell.
Vanessa Hudgens, Alex Pettyfer, Dakota Johnson, Neil Patrick Harris, Peter Krause, Daniel Barnz, Susan Cartsonis, Mary Kate Olsen
Season of the Witch
In 14th century France, a group of knights in 14th century France must transport a woman accused of witchcraft to a mountain abbey, where the monks will seek to understand and destroy her powers, believed to be the source of the Black Plague.
Nicolas Cage, Christopher Lee, Ryan Kavanaugh, Charles Roven, Alex Gartner, Robbie Sheehan, Tom Karnowski, Alan G. Glazer
Sucker Punch
A girl is confined to a mental institution by her evil stepfather, who intends to have her lobotomized in five days. While there, she imagines an alternative reality to hide her from the pain, and in that world, she begins planning her escape, needing to steal five objects to help get her out before she is deflowered by a vile man.
Vanessa Hudgens, Jon Hamm, Zack Snyder, Emily Browning, Carla Gugino, Deborah Snyder, Steve Shibuya, Abbie Cornish
The Warrior's Way
A master warrior attempts to escape his past by traveling to America and settling in a small town.
Kate Bosworth, Barrie Osborne, Ryan Kavanaugh, Geoffrey Rush, Danny Huston, Sngmoo Lee, Michael Peyser, Jooick Lee
Lord of the Dance 3D
A 3D movie version of Michael Flatley's Irish dance production.
Marcus Viner, Michael Flatley
Barney's Version
A man leads a reckless life highlighted by three marriages, two children and being a "person of interest" in the mysterious disappearance of his bosom buddy.
Rosamund Pike, Paul Giamatti, Richard Lewis, Robert Lantos, Domenico Procacci, Lyse Lafontaine, Richard J. Lewis, Michael Konyves
Lebanon, Pa.
Will, a charming 35-year-old Philadelphia ad man, heads to Lebanon, Pa. to bury his recently deceased father. He forms an unexpected friendship with CJ, his bright, newly pregnant 17-year-old cousin. As Will becomes interested in CJ's married teacher and CJ confronts her conflicted father, both struggle with formidable decisions about the path their lives will take.
Ben Hickernell, Samantha Mathis
Rammbock: Berlin Undead
Just when Michael arrives in Berlin to visit his ex-girlfriend Gabi, a terrible virus starts spreading across the city at a rapid pace, turning people into mindless homicidal maniacs. Much to Michael's concern, Gabi's not home; instead, he meets Harper, a teenage plumber's apprentice at work in her apartment block. Together, they manage to barricade themselves when raging hordes of infected people swarm the building. Surrounded by these thirsty zombies, Michael and Harper have their hands full to survive - and it will take all of their ingenuity to make their way out to try and find Gabi.
Marvin Kren, Benjamin Hessler, Michael Fuith, Theo Trebs, Anka Graczyk, Brigitte Kren, Emily Cox
Bloodworth
It's been 40 years since E.F. Bloodworth (Kris Kristofferson) abandoned his loving wife and sons for a life on the road. Now at the end of the line, Bloodworth reappears, forced to reckon with the stale aftermath of his departure. With his ex-wife Julia (Frances Conroy) mentally destroyed, his three sons; Warren (Val Kilmer), Boyd (Dwight Yoakam) and Brady (W. Earl Brown) soured by years of anger, Bloodworth's only solace is a budding relationship with Fleming, the grandson he never knew. But when Fleming meets Raven (Hilary Duff), the woman of his dreams, will Bloodworth's presence force history to repeat itself?
Val Kilmer, Shane Dax Taylor, Kris Kristofferson, W. Earl Brown, Hilary Duff, Reece Thompson, Dwight Yoakam, Frances Conroy