Best DVD & Blu-rays Released May 2015
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Selma
A drama about Martin Luther King, Jr.'s freedom marches in Selma, Alabama in the 1960s, and specifically the relationship between King and President Johnson, who signed the Voting Rights Act a few months later.
Brad Pitt, Tessa Thompson, Tim Roth, Colman Domingo, Andre Holland, Paul Garnes, Cedric the Entertainer, David Oyelowo
Drama
3 / 5
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Widowed after the car crash death of his wife, a grandfather has raised his own bi-racial granddaughter since his daughter died in childbirth. The child's paternal grandmother surfaces to wage a custody battle over the little girl, and the thrust becomes about race and where she should grow up.
Kevin Costner, Anthony Mackie, Bill Burr, Mike Binder, Octavia Spencer, Jennifer Ehle, Jillian Estell, Gillian Jacobs
Drama
3 / 5
Play Trailer Black Sea
A submarine captain is laid off by a salvage company and makes a deal with a shadowy backer to look for a storied sunken submarine reputed to be loaded with gold at the bottom of the Black Sea. Since this find would get him even with his ex-bosses, he puts together a crew of English and Russian sailors for the task, taking off to uncharted depths with his motley crew. The closer they get to the prize, the riskier it becomes to trust one another.
Jude Law, Scoot McNairy, Sergey Puskepalis, Ben Mendelsohn, Charles Steel, Sergey Kolesnikov, Jodie Whittaker, Kevin Macdonald
Adventure Thriller
3 / 5
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A team of U.S. archaeologists unearths an ancient pyramid buried deep beneath the Egyptian desert. As they search the pyramid's depths, they become hopelessly lost in its dark and endless catacombs. Searching for a way out, they become desperate to seek daylight again. They come to realize they aren't just trapped, they are being hunted.
Christa Nicola, Denis O'Hare, Daniel Meersand, Robert O. Kaplan, Alexandre Aja, Mark Canton, Gregory Levesseur, Nick Simon
Action Thriller Horror
3 / 5
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A young woman and her best (male) friend/star-crossed lover are planning to head to the States for college together when she discovers she's pregnant after a crazy night out with the most popular boy in school. She encourages her friend to go without her and over the next twelve years their lives change but an undeniable connection remains.
Christian Ditter, Sam Claflin, Simon Brooks, Lily Collins, Robert Kulzer
Romantic Comedy
3 / 5
More Info Against the Sun
In one of the most harrowing true stories of World War II, three US Navy airmen crash land their torpedo bomber in the South Pacific and find themselves on a tiny life raft, surrounded by open ocean. No food. No water. No hope of rescue. Against incredible odds, these three virtual strangers must survive storms, sharks, starvation - and each other - as they try to sail more than a thousand miles to safety.
Tom Felton, Jake Abel, Garett Dillahunt, Mark David Keegan, Brian Falk
Action War Historical True Story
3 / 5
Play Trailer Lost River
Set against the surreal dreamscape of a vanishing city, Billy, a single mother of two, is swept into a macabre and dark fantasy underworld while her teenage son discovers a secret road leading to an underwater town. Both Billy and Bones must dive deep into the mystery, if their family is to survive.
Ryan Gosling, Christina Hendricks, Saoirse Ronan, Matt Smith, Adam Siegel, Marc Platt, Ben Mendelsohn, David Lancaster
Drama Fantasy Suspense
2 / 5
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Four undocumented Mexican-American high school students who form a robotics club and go up against MIT in the National Underwater Robotics Competition.
Alexa Vega, Jamie Lee Curtis, Sean McNamara, Marisa Tomei, George Lopez, Elissa Matsueda, Carlos Pena
Adventure Teen
4 / 5
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Spoof filmmakers Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer (The Starving Games, Meet The Spartans, Vampires Suck) turn their attention to the Fast and Furious franchise with hilarious results!
Jason Friedberg, Dale Pavinski, Aaron Seltzer, Lili Mirojnick
Comedy Spoof
3 / 5
More Info Mr. Turner
Mr. Turner explores the last quarter century of the great if eccentric British painter J.M.W. Turner (1775-1851).
Profoundly affected by the death of his father, loved by a housekeeper he takes for granted and occasionally exploits sexually, he forms a close relationship with a seaside landlady with whom he eventually lives incognito in Chelsea, where he dies.
Throughout this, he travels, paints, stays with the country aristocracy, visits brothels, is a popular if anarchic member of the Royal Academy of Arts, has himself strapped to the mast of a ship so that he can paint a snowstorm, and is both celebrated and reviled by the public and by royalty.
Profoundly affected by the death of his father, loved by a housekeeper he takes for granted and occasionally exploits sexually, he forms a close relationship with a seaside landlady with whom he eventually lives incognito in Chelsea, where he dies.
Throughout this, he travels, paints, stays with the country aristocracy, visits brothels, is a popular if anarchic member of the Royal Academy of Arts, has himself strapped to the mast of a ship so that he can paint a snowstorm, and is both celebrated and reviled by the public and by royalty.
Timothy Spall, Dorothy Atkinson, Mike Leigh, Paul Jesson, Marion Bailey, Karl Johnson, Ruth Sheen, Sandy Foster
Drama Biography
4 / 5
Play Trailer The Last 5 Years
A musical deconstruction of the love affair and marriage of Cathy (Anna Kendrick), a struggling actress, and Jamie, a rising novelist, told through emotionally powerful and comic songs from their individual perspectives
Jeremy Jordan, Anna Kendrick, Natalie Knepp, Kurt Deutsch, Richard LaGravenese, Lauren Versel, Janet Brenner, Steve Norman
Comedy Adaptation Musical
3 / 5
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Fifty Shades of Grey
A soon-to-be college graduate Anastasia Steele strikes up an S&M romance with successful young entrepreneur Christian Grey, the physical and emotional dominant to her submissive.
Dakota Johnson, Sam Taylor-Johnson, Michael De Luca, Luke Grimes, Jamie Dornan, Jennifer Ehle, Victor Rasuk, Max Martini
Drama Adaptation Provocative
3 / 5
Play Trailer Blackhat
A thriller about cyber crime. No plot details have been announced.
Chris Hemsworth, Viola Davis, Leehom Wang, Jon Jashni, Michael Mann, Thomas Tull, Alex Garcia, Morgan Davis Foehl
Thriller Crime
3 / 5
Play Trailer The Cobbler
A shoe man has the ability to metaphysically step into the lives of the people whose shoes he repairs.
Adam Sandler, Melonie Diaz, Method Man, Mary Jane Skalski, Steve Buscemi, Dascha Polanco, Dan Stevens, Tom McCarthy
Comedy Fantasy
3 / 5
Play Trailer Still Alice
A cognitive psychologist faces the early onset Alzheimer’s disease.
Kristen Stewart, Kate Bosworth, Alec Baldwin, Julianne Moore, Hunter Parrish, Wash Westmoreland, Richard Glatzer
Drama
3 / 5
More Info Just Before I Go
Ted Morgan has been treading water for most of his life. After his wife leaves him, Ted realizes he has nothing left to live for. Summoning the courage for one last act, Ted decides to go home and face the people he feels are responsible for creating the shell of a person he has become. But life is tricky. The more determined Ted is to confront his demons, to get closure, and to withdraw from his family, the more Ted is yanked into the chaos of their lives. So, when Ted Morgan decides to kill himself, he finds a reason to live.
Garret Dillahunt, Kyle Gallner, Courteney Cox, Seann William Scott, Kate Walsh, Evan Ross, David Arquette, Olivia Thirlby
Drama Comedy
3 / 5
Play Trailer Tracers
Follows a messenger in New York City who is in debt to an organized crime gang. He crashes his bike into a sexy stranger and his seduced by her, as well as introduced to the world of parkour.
Taylor Lautner, Adam Rayner, Wyck Godfrey, Marie Avgeropoulos, Daniel Benmayor, Mary Bowen, Rafi Gavron, Sam Medina
Action Thriller
3 / 5
Play Trailer Extraterrestrial
Edgy sci-fi thriller that revolves around a group of friends on a weekend trip to a cabin in the woods. There, they are terrorized by alien visitors who definitely have not come in peace.
Randy Manis, Anja Savcic, Martin Fisher, Sean Rogerson, Colin Minihan, Collin Minihan, Melanie Papalia, Emily Perkins
Horror Sci-Fi
4 / 5
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Follows a young woman who signs up for the Army to get away from her small town. Instead of being shipped off to Iraq, the soldier is assigned to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, where she becomes friends with a prisoner who has spent eight years in lock-up.
Kristen Stewart, Peter Sattler, Yousuf Azami, John Carroll Lynch, Lane Garrison, Tara Holt, Cory Michael Smith, Julia Duffy
Drama
2 / 5
Play Trailer A Year in Champagne
A Year in Champagne is the follow-up to A Year in Burgundy and boasts many revelations about France's most famous beverage. And just as in A Year in Burgundy, legendary wine importer Martine Saunier is our guide as we get a rare glimpse behind the scenes into the real Champagne through six houses — from small independent makers like Champagne Saint-Chamant, where each and every bottle is still turned by hand in the cellars, to the illustrious houses of Gosset and Bollinger, which have been instrumental in shaping the image of Champagne around the world.
David Kennard
Documentary
5 / 5
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Strange Magic
A madcap fairy tale musical inspired by 'A Midsummer Night’s Dream.' Popular songs from the past six decades help tell the tale of a colorful cast of goblins, elves, fairies and imps, and their hilarious misadventures sparked by the battle over a powerful potion.
Maya Rudolph, Gary Rydstrom, Kristin Chenoweth, George Lucas, Evan Rachel Wood, Alan Cumming, Alfred Molina, Peter Stormare
Fantasy Musical Family Animated
3 / 5
Play Trailer Hot Tub Time Machine 2
More time traveling fun in a hot tub.
Adam Scott, Clark Duke, Craig Robinson, Chevy Chase, Gillian Jacobs, Rob Corddry, Collette Wolfe, Steve Pink
Comedy Sequel Time Travel
2 / 5
Play Trailer American Sniper
From 1999 to 2009, Texas native Chris Kyle, a Navy SEAL, records the highest number of sniper kills for an American.
Bradley Cooper, Kyle Gallner, Clint Eastwood, Sienna Miller, Steven Spielberg, Peter Morgan, Luke Grimes, Eric Ladin
Drama Action War Biography
4 / 5
Play Trailer Cymbeline
Based on William Shakespeare's timeless play, "Cymbeline" unfolds as an epic battle between dirty cops and a drug dealing biker gang set in a corruption-riddled 21st century America.
Dakota Johnson, Ethan Hawke, Milla Jovovich, Delroy Lindo, Michael Almereyda, Ed Harris, John Leguizamo, Vondie Curtis-Hall
Drama Romance Crime
3 / 5
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Into the Storm
A group of high school students document the events and aftermath of a devastating super tornado.
Steven Quale, Jeremy Sumpter, Arlen Escarpeta, Richard Armitage, Matt Walsh, Sarah Wayne Callies, John Swetnam, Alycia Debnam-Carey
Action Thriller
3 / 5
Play Trailer The Seventh Son
A yonng boy, the seventh son of a seventh son, starts work as an apprentice for the village spook, whose job is to protect ordinary folk from ghouls, boggarts, and all manner of wicked beasties.
Alicia Vikander, Jeff Bridges, Julianne Moore, Max Borenstein, Ben Barnes, Antje Traue, Alysia Cotter, Basil Iwanyk
Action Adventure Fantasy Adaptation 3D
3 / 5
Play Trailer The Loft
Five married friends decide to rent a loft together where they can bring their mistresses. When the body of an unknown woman is found in the loft, they realize that they don't know each other as well as they thought and begin to suspect one another of murder.
Patrick Wilson, Wentworth Miller, Steve Golin, James Marden, Matt DeRoss, Adam Shulman, Rachael Taylor, Hilde DeLaere
Thriller Suspense Remake
3 / 5
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Set in a remote forest, the film revolves around five teens and a prank that goes awry over the course of one long night. Story will be told from a singular point of view.
Chloe Bridges, Carter Jenkins, Scott Beck, Bryan Woods, Mitch Hewer, Shelby Young
Thriller Supernatural
3 / 5
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From first rehearsal to world premiere, BALLET 422 takes us backstage at New York City Ballet as Justin Peck, a young up-and-coming choreographer, crafts a new work. With unprecedented access to an elite world, BALLET 422 illuminates the process behind the creation of a single ballet.
Jody Lee Lipes
Documentary Dance
4 / 5
Play Trailer See You in Valhalla
After the bizarre death of her brother, Johana Burwood must return home after four years to face her quirky family, including her estranged dad, her two competitive brothers and various significant others. The family is uncomfortable with each other at first, and their inner turmoil manifests itself in quarrels and outright fights. Johana is forced to face some secrets from her past when she runs into an old boyfriend who just can’t seem to let go. It’s only when tensions are at a breaking point that someone comes up with a brilliant idea that will send their departed brother off with incredible style.
Steve Howey, Jake McDorman, Odeya Rush, Jarret Tarnol, Sarah Hyland, Bret Harrison, Emma Bell
Drama Comedy
3 / 5
Play Trailer Cut Bank
Dwayne McLaren (Liam Hemsworth) dreams about escaping small town life in Cut Bank, Montana, “the coldest spot in the nation,” with his vivacious girlfriend Cassandra (Teresa Palmer). When Dwayne witnesses an awful crime, he tries to leverage a bad situation into a scheme to get rich quickly but he finds that fate and an unruly accomplice are working against him. Thrust into the middle of a police investigation spearheaded by the local sheriff (John Malkovich), everything goes from bad to worse in this all-American thriller.
Michael Stuhlbarg, Roberto Patino, Oliver Platt, Liam Hemsworth, Billy Bob Thornton, Bruce Dern, Teresa Palmer, Matt Shakman
Thriller
2 / 5
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