Best DVD & Blu-rays Released March 2011
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Love and Other Drugs
A pharmaceutical salesman begins a relationship with a woman who has Parkinson's while on one of his sales calls. Their love story plays out in the political and social context of the time.
Anne Hathaway, Mary Parent, Jake Gyllenhaal, Josh Gad, Gabriel Macht, Hank Azaria, Oliver Platt, Ed Zwick
Burlesque
Christina Aguilera will play an ambitious small-town Iowa girl with a big voice who comes of age in a neo-burlesque club on Sunset Boulevard that’s run by Tess (Cher), a former dancer who struggles to keep the club open and gives the young girl a chance to shine.
Kristen Bell, Stanley Tucci, Steven Antin, Risa Shapiro, Donald De Line, Susannah Grant, Diablo Cody, Christina Aguilera
127 Hours
The story of Aron Ralston, a mountain climber who, while hiking Utah's back-country in 2003, had to self-amputate part of his arm with a dull knife when it was pinned by a boulder in an accident.
Kate Mara, James Franco, Lizzy Caplan, Danny Boyle, Christian Colson, Amber Tamblyn, Clemence Poesy
S.W.A.T.: Firefight
Transferred to Detroit to put a local SWAT team through a training regimen, LAPD Lieutenant Paul Cutler finds himself the target of a homicidal genius who is protected by government officials.
Benny Boom, Reed Steiner, Gabriel Macht, Carly Pope, Neal H. Moritz, Amanda Lewis, Kristanna Loken, Robert Patrick
No One Killed Jessica
Jessica, a young attractive model trying her hand at bartending, is shot dead at a celebrity party for refusing to serve a drink after closing hours. The culprit Manish, son of a prominent politician, inebriated by a deadly cocktail of alcohol and a sense of entitlement, pulls the trigger in a fit of rage. With 300 of Delhi's swish set present at the party, many of whom are witnesses to the murder, Manish looks all set to go to the gallows. Except, that it doesn't quite turn out that way. Now two women, Jessica's sister, Sabrina and the feisty TV reporter, Meera will have to drum up every resource at their disposal to outwit Manish at his own game, if the truth is to have any chance of prevailing over money and political clout.
Raj Kumar Gupta
Genius Within: The Inner Life of Glenn Gould
Documentary about the Canadian pianist Glenn Gould.
Michele Hozer, Peter Raymont
What If...
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
The Next Three Days
An ordinary couple find themselves in an unthinkable situation and have to make desperate choices that will test the limits of love.
Liam Neeson, Russell Crowe, Elizabeth Banks, Ty Simpkins, Olivia Wilde, Jonathan Tucker, Agnes Mentre, Anthony Katagas
Morning Glory
A struggling female news producer hires an iconic, temperamental anchorman in order to revive a failing network morning show.
Rachel McAdams, Roger Michell, Bryan Burk, Harrison Ford, Sherryl Clark, J.J. Abrams, Aline Brosh McKenna, Diane Keaton
Jackass 3D
The third segment of the Jackass series that will be shot in 3D.
Chris Pontius, Jeff Tremaine, Johnny Knoxville, Spike Jonze, Preston Lacy, Bam Margera, Steve-O, Ryan Dunn
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
Every Day
Liev Schreiber and Helen Hunt play a couple whose troubled marriage escalates into crisis when a sexy colleague, played by Carla Gugino, enters the mix.
Helen Hunt, Carla Gugino, Liev Schreiber, Eddie Izzard, Richard Levine, Brian Dennehy
Helena From the Wedding
Newlyweds question their relationship as they host their friends in a remote cabin over New Year's weekend.
Dagmara Dominczyk, Joseph Infantolino, Dominic Fumusa
Kenny Chesney: Summer in 3D
Kenny Chesney, the biggest ticket-seller of this century in any musical genre, has wrapped his latest concert tour, the Sun City Carnival. This coming spring, Sony Pictures Releasing's special programming division, The Hot Ticket, will take audiences for another ride. For a limited engagement beginning in April 2010 in movie theatres nationwide, "Kenny Chesney: Summer in 3D", will give fans the chance to live the fun, the friends, the songs and the moments that make Kenny Chesney the must-see concert experience to kickoff the summer season.
Joe Thomas, Ted Kenney, Kenny Chesney
Inside Job
The global financial meltdown, at a cost of over $20 trillion, resulted in millions of people losing their homes and jobs. Through extensive research and interviews with major financial insiders, politicians and journalists, "Inside Job" traces the rise of a rogue industry and unveils the corrosive relationships which have corrupted politics, regulation and academia.
Matt Damon, Charles Ferguson, Audrey Marrs, Jeffrey Lurie
Four Lions
A group of British jihadists push their abstract dreams of glory to the breaking point and as their plans collapse, a comic farce emerges.
Christopher Morris, Sam Bain, Jesse Armstrong
The Wildest Dream
Directed by acclaimed documentary filmmaker Anthony Geffen and featuring the vocal talents of narrators Liam Neeson, Hugh Dancy, the late Natasha Richardson, Ralph Fiennes and Alan Rickman, "The Wildest Dream" is a breathtaking mountaineering adventure that seeks to provide answers to the enduring mystery of the death of George Mallory on Mount Everest. Foremost among them: Did Mallory succeed in reaching the summit before he and fellow climber Sandy Irvine died that fateful day in 1924?
In 1999, renowned American mountaineer Conrad Anker made a discovery that reverberated around the globe. High in Mount Everest's "death zone," he found the remarkably preserved body of George Mallory—75 years after the British explorer mysteriously vanished during his attempt to become the first man to summit the world's tallest peak.
In the quest for answers, Anker returns to Everest in 2007 with British climbing prodigy Leo Houlding, replicating as closely as possible Mallory's fateful expedition. The men retrace the North East Ridge Route, even removing the 90-foot ladder from the infamous Second Step to "free climb" this terrifying section of the mountain, just as Mallory and Irvine would have done 83 years earlier.
Far more than a documentary about mountain climbing, "The Wildest Dream" tells the passionate story of a man torn between two overwhelming and competing loves: his wife and the mountain that ultimately took his life. Told through revealing letters between Mallory and his beloved Ruth, the film combines previously unseen archival photos and film footage with the present-day story of Anker's expedition.
Ralph Fiennes, Liam Neeson, Hugh Dancy, Natasha Richardson, Alan Rickman, Anthony Geffen, Mark Halliley
A Film Unfinished
The documentary examines an unfinished Nazi-produced film about the Warsaw Ghetto.
Yael Hersonski
Around a Small Mountain
On a winding mountain road, Vittorio helps Kate with her stalled car, and without a single word exchanged, speeds off. Later in town, he learns that Kate has returned to join her family's travelling circus after leaving under mysterious conditions many years ago. Intrigued by her stroy, Vittorio stays for the show, and the next one, and gradually is ingratiated into the circus and the lives of its performers in order to discover the secret that led to Kate's sudden depature.
Jacques Rivette
Tales from Earthsea
A Japanese anime loosely based on the book series Earthsea.
Goro Miyazaki
The Switch
A neurotic and insecure man finds out his best friend wants to have a child through artificial insemination. He surreptitiously replaces her donor's semen with his own and is then forced to live with the secret that he is the child's real father.
Jason Bateman, Will Speck, Josh Gordon, Juliette Lewis, Albert Berger, Jennifer Aniston, Ron Yerxa, Allan Loeb
The Fighter
"The Fighter" is a drama about boxing champ “Irish” Micky Ward and his half-brother Dicky, a boxer-turned-trainer who rebounded after nearly being destroyed by drugs and crime.
Christian Bale, Amy Adams, Mark Wahlberg, Todd LIeberman, Jack McGee, David O. Russell, Dorothy Auferiero, David Hoberman
No One Knows About Persian Cats
Two Iranian band members search for additional musicians and exit visas in order to play a concert in London.
Bahman Ghobadi
Waste Land
Follows artist Vik Muniz to his native Brazil and the world's largest garbage dump, Jardim Gramacho, located on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro. There he photographs an eclectic band of "catadores" - or self-designated pickers of recyclable materials.
Lucy Walker, Angus Aynsley
The Absent
A high school teacher is forced to choose between his career and a love affair with one of his students. The pressure mounts when his twin brother, Oscar, returns after serving 25 years in jail for killing their parents.
Sage Bannick, Chris Sivertson, Ari Bernstein, Damon Abdallah
Sharktopus
It is known as S-11, a diabolical hybrid of shark and octopus created by genetic scientist Nathan Sands (Eric Roberts) as the U.S. Navy's next super-weapon. But when its control implants are damaged during a training experiment, the beast escapes to Puerto Vallarta, Mexico.
Hector Jimenez, Eric Roberts, Declan O'Brien, Mike MacLean
Hemingway's Garden of Eden
A successful American writer and his beautiful wife go on an extended European honeymoon, but she becomes restless and draws an Italian girl into their lives.
Mena Suvari, Jack Huston, Matthew Modine, John Irvin, Caterina Murino, Richard E. Grant, Carmen Maura
Dhobi Ghat
Four people from different background intersect in Mumbai and alter eachother's lives profoundly.
Kiran Rao
The Wildest Dream
Directed by acclaimed documentary filmmaker Anthony Geffen and featuring the vocal talents of narrators Liam Neeson, Hugh Dancy, the late Natasha Richardson, Ralph Fiennes and Alan Rickman, "The Wildest Dream" is a breathtaking mountaineering adventure that seeks to provide answers to the enduring mystery of the death of George Mallory on Mount Everest. Foremost among them: Did Mallory succeed in reaching the summit before he and fellow climber Sandy Irvine died that fateful day in 1924?
In 1999, renowned American mountaineer Conrad Anker made a discovery that reverberated around the globe. High in Mount Everest's "death zone," he found the remarkably preserved body of George Mallory—75 years after the British explorer mysteriously vanished during his attempt to become the first man to summit the world's tallest peak.
In the quest for answers, Anker returns to Everest in 2007 with British climbing prodigy Leo Houlding, replicating as closely as possible Mallory's fateful expedition. The men retrace the North East Ridge Route, even removing the 90-foot ladder from the infamous Second Step to "free climb" this terrifying section of the mountain, just as Mallory and Irvine would have done 83 years earlier.
Far more than a documentary about mountain climbing, "The Wildest Dream" tells the passionate story of a man torn between two overwhelming and competing loves: his wife and the mountain that ultimately took his life. Told through revealing letters between Mallory and his beloved Ruth, the film combines previously unseen archival photos and film footage with the present-day story of Anker's expedition.
Ralph Fiennes, Liam Neeson, Hugh Dancy, Natasha Richardson, Alan Rickman, Anthony Geffen, Mark Halliley
Step Off
Set in Atlanta’s hip-hop underground scene, Rippa (Conrad Clifton), a struggling music producer working on his latest tracks for a regional beat battle, loses everything after a robbery. While lying low, he is forced to get back to the music and prove he has real talent. With the help of his friends, he’ll devise a mix to bring down the house and get him closer to being the beat battle champion.
E. Roger Mitchell, Laron Austin, Martin Kelley, Eddie Singleton, Chris Burns, Taureen Blacque
The Tourist
The thriller concerns an American tourist (Sam Worthington) who finds his life in danger when a female Interpol agent (Angelina Jolie) uses him as a dupe to flush out an elusive criminal with whom she once had an affair.
Angelina Jolie, Johnny Depp, Paul Bettany, Steven Berkoff, Lloyd Phillips, Florian von Donnersmarck, Roger Birnbaum, Gary Barber
Yogi Bear
In Jellystone Park, Yogi Bear and his pal Boo Boo get into good-natured mischief and must elude their nemesis, Ranger Smith.
Justin Timberlake, Eric Brevig, Karen Rosenfelt, Tom Cavanagh, Nathan Corddry, Christine Taylor, Donald De Line, Joshua Sternin
Skyline
"Skyline" takes place in a Los Angeles high-rise where a small group of survivors brave a mysterious attack of otherworldly origins. Donald Faison is playing an entrepreneur who lures his longtime friend (Eric Balfour) to the West Coast. After a night of partying, both wake to find a strange force is swallowing humanity off the face of the earth.
Brittany Ann Daniel, Brett Ratner, Donald Faison, Ryan Kavanaugh, Colin Strause, Greg Strause, Liam O'Donnell, Kristian James Andresen
How Do You Know
Logline is being kept under wraps on the film, however, the project is said to involve at least three major characters.
Reese Witherspoon, Julie Ansell, Laurence Mark, Owen Wilson, Jack Nicholson, Kathryn Hahn, Paula Weinstein, Tara Subkoff
Meskada
Small-town detective Noah Cordin is called to solve a juvenile homicide that occurred during a home burglary in his affluent town of Hilliard. The dead boy's mother, Allison Connor, is a member of the Meskada County Board of Commissioners, and a powerful woman in Hilliard; and the entire township rallies together in solidarity - to support her and Detective Cordin's efforts to find the killers.
Nick Stahl, Rachel Nichols, Kellan Lutz, Norman Reedus, Josh Sternfeld, Grace Gummer, Michael Cerveris
Looking for Palladin
A young Hollywood player is drawn into a remote place looking for a quick deal and instead finds a sanctuary, a community, and ultimately himself.
Andrzej Krakowski
Tangled
In this new telling of the classic fairy tale, "Rapunzel," audiences will be transported to a stunning CG fantasy world complete with the iconic tower, an evil witch, a gallant hero and, of course, the mysterious girl with the long golden tresses. Expect adventure, heart, humor, and hair ... lots of hair, when Rapunzel unleashes her locks in theaters for the 2010 holiday.
Zachary Levi, Roy Conli, Josann McGibbon, Nathan Greno, Byron Howard, Sara Parriott, John Lasseter, Mandy Moore
Black Swan
The story centers on the manipulative relationship betwen a veteran ballet dancer and a rival dancer.
Vincent Cassel, Natalie Portman, Mila Kunis, Winona Ryder, Darren Aronofsky, Eric Watson, Mike Medavoy, Arnie Messer
Dead Awake
Dylan (Nick Stahl) is haunted by his past. While searching for answers, he befriends a mysterious woman (Rose McGowan) and is reunited with an old love (Amy Smart) who seem to raise more questions than they answer. Now on the brink of madness, Dylan is transformed by supernatural forces and discovers that no one is who they seem.
Amy Smart, Omar Naim, Nick Stahl, Johnny Harrington, Justin Urich, Rose McGowan
The Resident
Hilary Swank will play a doctor who moves into a Brooklyn loft. Becoming suspicious that she's not alone in her new home, she discovers her landlord is a stalker.
Christopher Lee, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Lee Pace, Antti J. Jokinen, Erin Cressida, Robert Orr, Hilary Swank
Mao's Last Dancer
The true-life story of Chinese dancer Li Cunxin and his defection to the US and subsequent life in Australia.
Bruce Beresford, Kyle MacLachlan, Bruce Greenwood, Joan Chen
Fair Game
"Fair Game", the drama about the outing of CIA agent Valerie Plame Wilson, Ambassador Joseph Wilson watched his wife's CIA status become compromised after he wrote op-ed columns that accused the Bush Administration of manipulating intelligence about weapons of mass destruction to justify the invasion of Iraq.
Naomi Watts, Doug Liman, John Henry Butterworth, Akiva Goldsman, Sean Penn, Bill Pohlad, Jerry Zucker, Janet Zucker
Hubble 3D
Through the power of IMAX® 3D, Hubble 3D will enable moviegoers to journey through distant galaxies to explore the grandeur and mysteries of our celestial surroundings, and accompany space-walking astronauts as they attempt the most difficult and important tasks in NASA's history. The seventh film from the award-winning IMAX® Space Team, Hubble 3D will offer an inspiring and unique look into the Hubble Space Telescope's legacy and highlight its profound impact on the way we view the universe and ourselves.
Leonardo DiCaprio, Toni Myers, Graeme Ferguson
Husk
Based on the acclaimed Sundance Film Festival short, terror reigns amidst the cornfields in a supernatural game of cat and mouse. When crows collide with the windshield of their car, a young group of friends are left stranded next to a desolate cornfield. The friends seek out help from the single-standing farmhouse they see, but they quickly figure out that the only solace they have are each other when the house they have stumbled upon is actually the center of the supernatural.
Tammin Sursok, Brett Simmons, Devon Graye, Wes Chatham, CJ Thomason, Ben Easter
The Father of My Children
A french language film in which a movie producer suffers from crippling depression.
Michael Abiteboul, Mia Hansen-Løve, Chiara Caselli
Evangelion: 2.0 You Can (Not) Advance
In the battle to prevent the apocalyptic Third Impact, Shinji and Rei were forced to carry humanity's hopes on their shoulders. As the onslaught of monstrous Angels escalates, a group of young Eva pilots find their burden shared by two new pilots: the fiery Asuka and the mysterious Mari.
All Good Things
Set in the 1980s, a member of New York's real estate dynasty falls for a beautiful girl from the wrong side of the tracks. But the fairy tale ends when the girl disappears. As a down-and-out detective stumbles on info that may lead to the truth, the political stakes get higher and people close to the case end up dead.
Ryan Gosling, Kristen Wiig, Kirsten Dunst, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Andrew Jarecki, Marc Smerling, Michael London, Marcus Hinchey
Made in Dagenham
Focused on the 1968 strike at the Ford Dagenham car plant when 850 female workers walked out in protest against sexual discrimination in their job performance evaluations.
Rosamund Pike, Sally Hawkins, Miranda Richardson, Geraldine James, Simon Curtis, Stephen Woolley, Liz Karlsen, Billy Ivory
River of Darkness
Sid Eudy, Bill Laing, Bruce Koehler, S. William Hinzman, Kurt Angle, Kevin Nash, Alan Rowe Kelly