Best DVD & Blu-rays Released May 2011
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Chance Pe Dance
New love convinces a struggling actor and dancer to enter a talent competition that could make him a superstar.
Ken Ghosh
Romance
3 / 5
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The Dilemma
Set in Chicago and explores the fallout surrounding infidelity between lovers and friends.
Kevin James, Vince Vaughn, Jennifer Connelly, Brian Grazer, Queen Latifah, Kim Roth, Winona Ryder, Channing Tatum
Comedy Romance
3 / 5
Play Trailer The Green Hornet
Britt Reid (Seth Rogen), son and heir to Los Angeles’ largest newspaper fortune, is a rich, spoiled playboy who has been happy to maintain a direction-less existence. When his father James Reid (Tom Wilkinson) dies, Britt meets an impressive and resourceful company employee, Kato (Jay Chou). They realize that they have the resources to do something worthwhile with their lives and finally step out of James Reid’s shadow. Kato builds the ultimate weapon, The Black Beauty, an indestructible car with every weapon imaginable and Britt decides that in order to be heroes, they will pose as villains. With the help of Britts new secretary, Lenore Case (Cameron Diaz), they learn that the chief criminal in the city is named Benjamin Chudnofsky (Christoph Waltz). He has united all the gangs under his power, and he quickly sees that the Green Hornet is a direct threat to the prosperous criminal underworld he controls.
Adam Sandler, Michael Peña, Seth Rogen, Analeigh Tipton, Neal H. Moritz, Jay Chou, Harold Berkowitz, Cameron Diaz
Action Adventure Crime Superhero Martial Arts 3D Post-3D
4 / 5
Play Trailer The Butcher's Son
A cop works against his country's corrupt government in order to find justice on a case.
Josh Crook, Manny Perez
Crime
1 / 5
Play Trailer A Somewhat Gentle Man
An ex-convict released from prison tries to live a normal, quiet life but is also looking for vengeance against the snitch who put him in jail.
Stellan Skarsgard, Hans Petter Moland
Comedy Crime
2 / 5
Play Trailer From Prada to Nada
Two sisters, one a young beauty who chooses passion over logic, the other a law student whose fixed moral compass keeps her from following her desires, are uprooted from their luxurious home when their father suddenly passes away. Out of money and out of options, the women move into their Great Aunt Aurelia's modest, but lively home in the Latino-centric Boyle Heights neighborhood where they find themselves thrown into a world that, despite their heritage, seems completely foreign. Over time, they discover the beauty of the culture they once fought so desperately to hide. And in the process they find the one thing that had eluded them: love.
Adriana Barraza, Alexa Vega, Gigi Pritzker, Nicholas D'Agosto, Camilla Belle, Wilmer Valderrama, Kuno Becker, Fina Torres
Drama Comedy Romance Adaptation
3 / 5
Play Trailer Waiting for Forever
Tom Sturridge plays a wanderer who tries to reconnect with his childhood love, an actress in Hollywood (played by the Rachel Bilson).
Richard Jenkins, Rachel Bilson, Blythe Danner, James Keach, Steve Adams, Tom Sturridge, Scott Mechlowicz, Jaime King
Comedy Romance
3 / 5
More Info No Strings Attached
Emma and Adam have the best relationship ever! They’re twentysomething pals who, you know, do it. A lot. But then Adam goes and falls in love with Emma and ruins everything.
Natalie Portman, Ashton Kutcher, Kevin Kline, Joe Medjuck, Liz Meriwether, Roger Birnbaum, Ali Bell, Greta Gerwig
Comedy Romance
3 / 5
Play Trailer Now & Later
An illegal Latina immigrant living in Los Angeles who stumbles across a disgraced banker on the run. She takes him in and through soul-searching conversations and other worldly pleasures, Angela introduces Bill to another worldview.
Philippe Diaz
Drama
4 / 5
Play Trailer Blue Valentine
"Blue Valentine" chronicles a disintegrating marriage between Dean (Gosling) and Cindy (Williams), told in flashback.
Ryan Gosling, Michelle Williams, Lynette Howell, Derek Cianfrance, John Doman, Alex Orlovsky, Cami Delavigne, Jamie Patricof
Drama Romance
4 / 5
Play Trailer I Saw the Devil
A special agent's pregnant wife becomes the latest victim of a disturbed and brutal serial killer. Vowing revenge, the agent blurs the lines between hunter and hunted.
Ji-woon Kim
Horror
3 / 5
More Info The Illusionist
The film details the story of a dying breed of stage entertainer whose thunder is being stolen by emerging rock stars. Forced to accept increasingly obscure assignments in fringe theaters, garden parties and bars, he meets a young fan who changes his life forever.
Sylvain Chomet, Jacques Tati
Drama Animated
3 / 5
Play Trailer Black Death
The year is 1348. Europe has fallen under the shadow of the Black Death. As the plague decimates all in its path, fear and superstition are rife. In this apocalyptic environment, the church is losing its grip on the people. There are rumors of a village, hidden in marshland that the plague cannot reach. There is even talk of a necromancer who leads the village and is able to bring the dead back to life. Ulric (Sean Bean), a fearsome knight, is charged by the church to investigate these rumors.
Eddie Redmayne, Sean Bean, Christopher Smith, Carice van Houten
Drama Horror
3 / 5
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Justin Bieber: Never Say Never
Justin Bieber will play himself in his life story. The pic will be sprinkled with performances from his current concert tour.
Jon M. Chu, Justin Bieber, Scooter Braun, Usher, Dan Cutforth, L.A. Reid, Jane Lipsitz
Biography Documentary Music 3D
2 / 5
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The Mechanic
Arthur Bishop (Jason Statham) is a well-paid assassin who executes people at the request of the American government. But after assassinating a former close associate, Bishop does something that's unprofessional and out of control: he takes on a apprentice (Ben Foster), the son of the man he just killed.
Jason Statham, Shane Salerno, Donald Sutherland, Trevor Short, William Chartoff, Christa Campbell, Irwin Winkler, Beau Brasso
Drama Action Remake
3 / 5
Play Trailer The Rite
An American priest studies at an exorcism school in Italy.
Anthony Hopkins, Michael Petroni, Mikael Hafstrom, Beau Flynn, Toby Jones, Alice Braga, Tripp Vinson, Ciaran Hinds
Drama Thriller Suspense True Story
3 / 5
Play Trailer The Roommate
Sara and Rebecca are assigned to be roomates in their freshman dorm. Things start off great but turn deadly as Rebecca begins to target people in Sara's life.
Roy Lee, Minka Kelly, Leighton Meester, Sonny Mallhi, Christian E. Christiansen, Cam Gigandet, Doug Davison, Beau Marks
Thriller Suspense Teen
3 / 5
Play Trailer The Other Woman
Emilia (Natalie Portman) is a Harvard law school graduate and a newlywed, having just married Jack (Scott Cohen), a high-powered New York lawyer, who was her boss — and married — when she began working at his law firm. Unfortunately, her life takes an unexpected turn when Jack and Emilia lose their newborn daughter. Emilia struggles through her grief to connect with her new stepson William (Charlie Tahan), but is finding it hard to connect with this precocious child. Perhaps the most difficult obstacle of all for Emilia is trying to cope with the constant interferences of her husband’s angry, jealous ex-wife, Carolyn (Lisa Kudrow).
Natalie Portman, Lauren Ambrose, Lisa Kudrow, Anthony Rapp, Don Roos, Charlie Tahan, Scott Cohen
Drama
3 / 5
Play Trailer Daydream Nation
A teenage girl moves to a small town, to find nothing in common with the stoner-hicks who populate her highschool. So she begins an affair with her teacher. But with a serial killer on the loose and townsfolk disappearing around them, their relationship takes a turn for the worse. She breaks off the relationship and the rejection makes her teacher crazy.
Josh Lucas, Scott Speedman, Kat Dennings, Michael Goldbach, Andie MacDowell, Reece Thompson
Drama Comedy Romance
4 / 5
Play Trailer Vanishing on 7th Street
The story centers on a once-thriving city where shadowy forms cause residents to inexplicably disappear. Five survivors fight to stay alive while grappling with the meaning of existence.
Hayden Christensen, Thandiwe Newton, Lawrence Mattis, Celine Rattray, Norton Herrick, John Leguizamo, Brad Anderson, Tove Christensen
Thriller Suspense Horror
3 / 5
Play Trailer I Want Your Money
A political documentary that examines two philosophies for the roles of the federal government as examplified by Ronald Reagan and Barack Obama.
Ray Griggs
Documentary
2 / 5
Play Trailer Brotherhood
College freshman Adam Buckley sits blindfolded in the back of a van outside of a convenience store as the final step of his initiation into the Sigma Zeta Chi fraternity. Minutes later a fellow pledge is shot. The senior fraternity brother is able to get the injured pledge out of the store alive, but the fraternity's troubles are just beginning.
Will Canon
Drama
4 / 5
More Info I Am Number Four
The "Four" story line involves nine alien teens assimilating to high school on Earth after their planet is destroyed by an enemy species. The fourth of the group discovers that the enemy is now after him on Earth.
Michael Bay, Kevin Durand, Alex Pettyfer, Steven Spielberg, JC Spink, Jake Abel, Dianna Agron, Teresa Palmer
Action Adventure Fantasy Sci-Fi
4 / 5
Play Trailer Gnomeo and Juliet
An animated adaptation of Shakespeare's classic tale set in the world of tacky garden gnomes.
Emily Blunt, James McAvoy, Michael Caine, Kelly Asbury, Steve Hamilton-Shaw, Igor Khait, Baker Bloodworth, Ron Sprackling
Comedy Fantasy Family Animated 3D
3 / 5
Play Trailer Anton Chekhov's The Duel
Set in a seaside resort, an aristocratic civil servant convinces his mistress to leave her husband, but later seeks to abandon her.
Dover Koshashvili
Drama
4 / 5
More Info The Big Bang
Antonio Banderas as a private detective searching for a former stripper who is supposed to exist but no one has ever seen in a mystery connected to a particle collider. She plays a meth addict who works at a medical center pretending to have different diseases for interns to react to.
Antonio Banderas, Sienna Guillory, Delroy Lindo, Thomas Kretschmann, Sam Elliott, Snoop Dogg, William Fichtner, Tony Krantz
Action Thriller
3 / 5
Play Trailer Seconds Apart
Judging by their privileged lifestyles, one would never guess that Seth and Jonah are murderous twins who share an evil kinship. Damned from the moment of their births, the brothers possess a gruesome talent for telekinesis - a power they use in the most horrific ways imaginable. As fellow students meet gory fates, local law enforcement begins to suspect the twins' connection to the depraved murders.
Antonio Negret, Orlando Jones, Samantha Droke, Gary Entin, Edmund Entin
Thriller Suspense Horror
3 / 5
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Raj, Yogi and Vikram – best friends, business partners, serial womanizers and happily married. Happy, because their lovely wives have no clue that their husbands cheat on them with every pretty young thing they can lay their eyes on. This picture perfect world is rocked when Raj’s wife, Sanjana begins to suspect her husband and hires the suave private detective, Kishan, to tail him.
Anees Bazmee, Akshay Kumar, Irrfan Khan, Bobby Deol
Comedy Romance
3 / 5
More Info The Kids Grow Up
A look at father-daughter relationships, modern-day parenting, marriage and the looming empty nest.
Lori Cheatle, Doug Block
Documentary
1 / 5
Play Trailer Public Speaking
Features Fran Lebowitz expressing insights on social issues in an onstage discussion with longtime friend Toni Morrison, and on the streets of New York.
Martin Scorsese, Graydon Carter, Fran Lebowitz
Documentary
3 / 5
More Info Transcendent Man
Based on the book, "The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology," the documentary explores the potential of rapidly accelerating technological growth.
Robert Barry Ptolemy
Documentary
The Scenesters
A director loses funding for his avant-garde documentary and takes a job as a crime-scene videographer. He meets a crime-scene cleaner who begins finding key clues in a series of hipster killings missed by the apathetic detectives assigned to the case.
Sherilyn Fenn, Todd Berger
Comedy
5 / 5
Play Trailer Drive Angry
The story centers on an enraged man who is out for revenge, chasing the people who killed his daughter and kidnapped her baby.
Nicolas Cage, Amber Heard, Trevor Short, Billy Burke, Christa Campbell, Todd Farmer, Boaz Davidson, William Fichtner
Thriller Suspense 3D Shot-In-3D
4 / 5
Play Trailer Passion Play
An angel under the thumb of a ruthless gangster is saved by a trumpet player down on his luck.
Megan Fox, Bill Murray, Mickey Rourke, Daniel Dubiecki, Jonah Hirsch, Mitch Glazer, Kelly Lynch, Rebecca Wang
Drama Thriller
3 / 5
Play Trailer Burning Palms
Five dark and comedic stories that take place in Los Angeles.
Zoe Saldana, Rosamund Pike, Christopher B. Landon, Jamie Chung, Paz Vega, Lake Bell, Nick Stahl, Dylan McDermott
Drama Comedy
3 / 5
Play Trailer Biutiful
The story is about a troubled man who is confronted by a former friend, now a police officer.
Javier Bardem, Maricel Alvarez, Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
Drama
3 / 5
Play Trailer Kaboom
The story follows the sexual awakening of a group of college students.
Juno Temple, Roxane Mesquida, Thomas Dekker, Gregg Araki, Rooney Mara, Kelly Lynch
Comedy
3 / 5
Play Trailer Queen to Play
A hotel maid's growing interest in chess is nurtured by her American employer.
Kevin Kline, Jennifer Beals, Caroline Bottaro
Drama
4 / 5
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