Best DVD & Blu-rays Released May 2012
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New Year's Eve
A New York-set relationship ensemble story.
Robert De Niro, Sofia Vergara, Ice Cube, Ashton Kutcher, Michelle Pfeiffer, Zac Efron, Katherine Heigl, Sienna Miller
Comedy Sequel Romance Ensemble
3 / 5
Play Trailer Haywire
A girl from the wrong side of the tracks is given a second chance to use her skills for constructive purposes.
Antonio Banderas, Ewan McGregor, Ryan Kavanaugh, Michael Fassbender, Lem Dobbs, Michael Douglas, Channing Tatum, Gina Carano
Action Thriller
3 / 5
Play Trailer Joyful Noise
Story centers on an unlikely partnership between two strong-minded, polar-opposites, who are forced to work together to save a small town gospel choir after budget cuts threaten to shut them down.
Queen Latifah, Jeremy Jordan, Broderick Johnson, Dolly Parton, Keke Palmer, Todd Graff, Andrew Kosove, Catherine Paura
Comedy Music
3 / 5
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A biopic about the affair between King Edward VIII and Wallis Simpson.
James D'Arcy, Abbie Cornish, Natalie Dormer, Madonna, Kris Thykier, Oscar Isaac, Richard Coyle, Alex Keshishian
Drama Biography Romance
4 / 5
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Underworld: Awakening
No plot details have been announced. However, it is rumored this fourth installment will actually be the start of a new trilogy and that the studio, Screen Gems, is looking at reprising the story of the world’s sexiest vampire, Selene (Kate Beckinsale).
Gary Lucchesi, Kate Beckinsale, Michael Ealy, Tom Rosenberg, Charles Dance, Scott Speedman, John Hlavin, India Eisley
Action Sequel Horror 3D
4 / 5
Play Trailer The Vow
The story centers a young woman who loses all recent memory in a car accident and struggles to rebuild her identity while her husband tries to win her heart for the second time.
Rachel McAdams, Martin Shafer, Sam Neill, Robert Teitel, Channing Tatum, Jessica Lange, Scott Speedman, Jessica McNamee
Comedy Romance
4 / 5
Play Trailer Mother's Day
Three brothers on the run from the law head for home, only to discover that their mother lost the house in a foreclosure. Mother ingeniously orchestrates her sons' escape, teaching the house's new owners and their guests a few lessons along the way.
Alexa Vega, Brett Ratner, Jonathan Zucker, Oren Koules, Rebecca De Mornay, Shara Kay, Mark Burg, Deborah Ann Woll
Thriller Suspense Horror Remake
4 / 5
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A group of high school students make a film about a grisly crime that took place in their town 17 years ago. As they dig deeper, an ongoing horror possesses their souls and tears their lives apart.
Toby Hemingway, Randall Emmett, John Bennett, Johnny Pacar, Michael A. Nickles, Larry Robbins, Brooke Smith, Alessandra Torresani
Thriller Suspense Horror
3 / 5
Play Trailer Tim and Eric's Billion Dollar Movie
Tim and Eric are given a billion dollars to make a movie, but squander every dime and the sinister Schlaaang corporation is pissed. Their lives at stake, the guys skip town in search of a way to pay the money back.
Zach Galifianakis, Jeff Goldblum, Will Ferrell, Eric Wareheim, Tim Heidecker, Will Forte, Adam McKay, Todd Wagner
Comedy
2 / 5
Play Trailer The Grey
Story centers on a group of plane crash survivors who are stranded in the desolate forest, and are being hunted by a pack of wolves.
Frank Grillo, Ridley Scott, Joe Carnahan, Liam Neeson, Tony Scott, James Badge Dale, Dermot Mulroney, Joe Anderson
Thriller Suspense
3 / 5
Play Trailer One for the Money
Stephanie Plum (Katherine Heigl), an unemployed lingerie buyer, convinces her bail bondsman cousin, Vinnie (Patrick Fischler), to give her a shot as a bounty hunter. Her first assignment is to track down a former cop, Joe Morelli (Jason O'Mara), on the run for murder -- the same man who broke her heart years before. With the help of some friends and the best bounty hunter in the business, Ranger (Daniel Sunjata), she slowly learns what it takes to be a true bounty hunter.
Other cast members include John Leguizamo as Jimmy Alpha, Ana Reeder as Connie Rossoli, Ryan Michelle Bathe as Jackie and Sherri Shepherd as dual roles playing two hookers with hearts of gold. There are no details about Shepherd's dual roles but one of them is confirmed to be Lula. Grandma Mazur will be played by Debbie Reynolds.
Other cast members include John Leguizamo as Jimmy Alpha, Ana Reeder as Connie Rossoli, Ryan Michelle Bathe as Jackie and Sherri Shepherd as dual roles playing two hookers with hearts of gold. There are no details about Shepherd's dual roles but one of them is confirmed to be Lula. Grandma Mazur will be played by Debbie Reynolds.
Gary Lucchesi, Katherine Heigl, Kirsten Kiwi Smith, Nancy Heigl, Nate Mooney, Tom Rosenberg, Fisher Stevens, John Leguizamo
Action Comedy Crime Adaptation Mystery
3 / 5
Play Trailer Chronicle
Three Portland teens contact a mysterious substance in the woods and begin to develop incredible powers. They work together to hone their skills for fun, until personal and family problems begin to turn them against one another.
Max Landis, Dane DeHaan, Adam Schroeder, Luke Tyler, Josh Trank, Ashley Hinshaw, Anna Wood, Joe Vaz
Drama Fantasy Teen
4 / 5
Play Trailer The Devil Inside
The story centers on a woman who has been led to believe her mother brutally murdered three people because she was clinically insane. After being told the murders occurred during an exorcism, she sets out to discover the truth. While documenting her experience with a film crew in Italy, she becomes involved in a series of unauthorized exorcisms.
Ionut Grama, Steven Schneider, Matthew Peterman, Suzan Crowley, Bonnie Morgan, Lorenzo di Bonaventura, William Brent Bell, Morris Paulson
Thriller Suspense Horror
3 / 5
Play Trailer Rampart
The story centers on the widespread corruption in the Community Resources Against Street Hoodlums (or CRASH) anti-gang unit of the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) Rampart Division in the late 1990s. More than 70 police officers were implicated in varied misconduct.
Ice Cube, Gwyneth Paltrow, Sigourney Weaver, Steve Buscemi, Robin Wright, Lawrence Inglee, Paul Currie, Woody Harrelson
Drama Crime Gangster Detective Cop
3 / 5
Play Trailer Norwegian Wood
The story centers on the loves and losses of a sensitive college boy in the 1960s who is more interested in American literature than in the era's political upheavals.
Tran Anh Hung
Drama
3 / 5
Play Trailer Albert Nobbs
Set in a luxury hotel in Dublin, "Albert Nobbs" is a Gosford Park-style “below stairs” drama featuring Glenn Close as a woman in Nineteenth Century Ireland who disguises herself as a man in order to survive.
Glenn Close, Alan Moloney, Michael Gambon, Mia Wasikowska, Rodrigo Garcia, Bonnie Curtis, Janet McTeer, Jonathan Rhys-Meyers
Drama
4 / 5
Play Trailer Windfall
The people of Meredith, in upstate New York, deal with a wind developer that promised to supplement the rural farm town's failing economy with 40 industrial wind turbines.
Laura Israel
Documentary
2 / 5
Play Trailer Man on a Mission
Richard Garriott's quest to become the first second-generation astronaut, from making his fortune to spending $30 million to reach the International Space Station via Russian rocket.
Mike Woolf
Documentary
3 / 5
Play Trailer My Perestroika
Five ordinary Russians living in extraordinary times, from their sheltered Soviet childhood, to the collapse of the Soviet Union during their teenage years, to the constantly shifting political landscape of post-Soviet Russia.
Robin Hessman
Documentary
2 / 5
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This Means War
Two best friends fall in love with the same woman and then wreak havoc on Manhattan.
Will Smith, Tom Hardy, Chris Pine, Reese Witherspoon, Timothy Dowling, Marcus Gautesen, Til Schweiger, Angela Bassett
Action Adventure Comedy
4 / 5
Play Trailer The Woman in Black
A young lawyer is ordered to travel to a remote village to take care of a deceased client's papers. The young man glimpses a mysterious woman dressed only in black during his stay, leading to the uncovering of a tragic secret.
Daniel Radcliffe, Roy Lee, Simon Oakes, Ciaran Hinds, Doug Davison, James Watkins, Janet McTeer, Nigel Sinclair
Thriller Suspense Adaptation 3D
4 / 5
Play Trailer Red Tails
A group of young WWII pilots overcome racism to form the Tuskegee Airmen, a distinguished group of fliers who broke the aviation color barrier to become the first African-American fighter pilots in U.S. military history.
Michael B. Jordan, Terrence Howard, Bryan Cranston, Nate Parker, Method Man, Rick Otto, David Oyelowo, Kevin Phillips
Drama War Historical
4 / 5
Play Trailer The Secret World of Arrietty
The Clock family, who are four-inch tall, secretly lives in another family's residence until their daughter Arrietty is discovered.
Hiromasa Yonebayashi, Karey Kirkpatrick, Gary Rydstrom, Amy Poehler, Kathleen Kennedy, Frank Marshall, Bridgit Mendler, Will Arnett
Fantasy Animated Re-Release
4 / 5
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A gallery owner living in a Tuscan village attends a lecture by a British author on authenticity and fakery in art. Afterwards she invites him on a tour of the countryside during which he is mistaken for her husband.
Juliette Binoche, William Shimell, Abbas Kiarostami
Drama
5 / 5
Play Trailer Perfect Sense
A story about two people who fall in love just as their worlds start falling apart.
Ewan McGregor, Eva Green, Kim Fupz Aakeson, Stephen Dillane, David MacKenzie, Ewen Bremner, Connie Nielsen
Romance Sci-Fi
4 / 5
Play Trailer Newlyweds
Buzzy and Katie are a newly married couple when Buzzy's impulsive half-sister Linda arrives at their doorstep expecting to stay for an indefinite period in their Tribeca loft.
Edward Burns
Drama
2 / 5
Play Trailer Love Etc.
Five different relationship stories: high school sweethearts, octogenarian lovebirds, the divorced father of two teenagers, a gay single man and a traditional Indian wedding.
Jill Andresevic
Documentary
2 / 5
More Info Carol Channing: Larger Than Life
Chronicles the 90-year-old icon - both onstage and off...past and present. The film is both an intimate love story and a rarefied journey inside Broadway's most glamorous era.
Dori Berinstein
Documentary
4 / 5
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Gone
One night, a young woman named Jill returns home to find her sister's bed empty. She's convinced the serial killer who kidnapped her two years before has come back to finish the job. But the police do not believe Jill, who knows time is running out. With no one to turn to, she sets off to find her sister and face her abductor once and for all.
Amanda Seyfried, Gary Lucchesi, Tom Rosenberg, Sebastian Stan, Wes Bentley, Sidney Kimmel, Allison Burnett, Heitor Dhalia
Thriller Suspense
3 / 5
Play Trailer Man on a Ledge
An ex-cop-turned-con (Sam Worthington) threatens to jump to his death from a Manhattan hotel rooftop. The NYPD dispatches a female police psychologist to talk him down but, unbeknownst to the cops on the scene, the suicide attempt is a cover for a massive diamond heist.
Sam Worthington, Titus Welliver, Elizabeth Banks, Anthony Mackie, Jamie Tarses, Jamie Bell, Ed Harris, David Ready
Action Adventure Thriller Romance
4 / 5
Play Trailer We Need to Talk About Kevin
The movie, based on Lionel Shriver's novel, tells the story of a smart, educated New York mother who does her best to raise a son she never wanted in the first place. He turns out to be extremely difficult and is at the center of the woman's marital breakdown before going on a killing spree at his high school with a crossbow.
Lynne Ramsay, John C. Reilly, Steven Soderbergh, Rory Stewart Kinnear, Ezra Miller, Robert Salerno, Tilda Swinton, Jennifer Fox
Drama
3 / 5
Play Trailer Goon
The story centers on the world of semi-professional ice hockey.
Liev Schreiber, David Gross, Jay Baruchel, Seann William Scott, Marc-Andre Grondin, Eugene Levy, Michael Dowse, Evan Goldberg
Comedy Sports
4 / 5
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Four young people struggling to find their way in life are suddenly caught in a terrifying and deadly carjacking and abduction.
Brittany Snow, Charlie Mason, David Oyelowo, Christian Serratos, Evan Ross, Justin Moore-Lewy, Lee Clay, Aimee Lagos
Action Thriller Suspense
3 / 5
Play Trailer Sing Your Song
Told from Harry’s point of view, the film charts his life from a boy born in New York and raised in Jamaica, who returns to Harlem in his early teens where he discovers the American Negro Theater and the magic of performing.
Susanne Rostock, Harry Belafonte
Documentary
3 / 5
Play Trailer Coriolanus
Coriolanus, the hero of Rome, is manipulated and out-maneuvered by politicians and even his own mother Volumnia, resulting in his banishment. He subsequently offers himself to his sworn enemy, and together they march on Rome intending to destroy the city.
Gerard Butler, Ralph Fiennes, Jessica Chastain, Brian Cox, Julia Taylor-Stanley, Vanessa Redgrave, Eddie Marsan, William Hurt
Drama
3 / 5
Play Trailer Lula, the Son of Brazil
A working class boy moves to the financial capital of Brazil and becomes one the most influential politician in Brazil's history.
Marcelo Santiago, Fabio Barreto
Drama
3 / 5
More Info Take Me Home
After getting turned down by a photography agency, Thom finds his landlord throwing all of his belongings out into the hallway. With no job prospects and no place to sleep, Thom must turn to his recurring last resort: driving his illegal taxicab around the streets of New York. Fortunately for him, Claire Barrow isn't having a good day, either. First she comes home to find her husband flirting with his new secretary, then discovers her estranged father has suffered a heart attack in California. In a frenzy, Claire runs out into the night and hails what she assumes to be a cab. What she gets instead is Thom. With her life in ruins, Claire decides on a whim to pay Thom to drive her out to California. With nothing in New York to call his own, Thom reluctantly agrees.
Sam Jaeger
Comedy Romance
3 / 5
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