October 2011 DVD & Blu-rays

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Dec. 14, 2022

Best DVD & Blu-rays Released October 2011

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Dwayne Johnson, Vin Diesel, Justin Lin, Michael Fottrell, TJ Hassan, Samantha Vincent, Neal H. Moritz, Tania Landau

PG-13 Action Adventure Sequel 2 hrs, 10 mins

80%

  • 4.6
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A look at how three cats -- a lioness, a leopard and a cheetah -- survive in the African plains.

Alastair Fothergill, Keith Scholey

G Documentary

86%

  • 4.4
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"Scream 4" sees the return of the three main characters, along with a group of new stars. Said to jump-start a proposed new trilogy of the franchise.

Kristen Bell, Neve Campbell, Bob Weinstein, Marley Shelton, Kevin Williamson, Alison Brie, Wes Craven, Iya Labunka

R Sequel Thriller Suspense Horror

65%

  • 4.2
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In the movie, Tim Allen stars as a parolee who finds life outside a prison cell to be much crazier once he enters his quirky sister's world.

Julie Bowen, Tim Allen, Richard Baker, Brett Gregory, Brian Reilly, Anastasia Stanecki, Judd Pillot, John Peaslee

PG-13 Comedy Crime

72%

  • 3.5
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Wood Harris, Dennis Cooper, Zoe Saldana, Mya, Method Man

R Comedy

100%

  • 3
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A 15-year-old boy has two objectives: To lose his virginity before his next birthday, and to stop his mother from leaving his father for her dance teacher.

Andy Stebbing, Sally Hawkins, Noah Taylor, Craig Roberts, Richard Ayoade, Ben Stiller, Mark Herbert, Mary Louise Burke

R Drama

61%

  • 3.8
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Coco (Daniel Hendler) has just moved to a new apartment with his wife Pipi (Jazmin Stuart), who’s seven months pregnant. At first, they don’t seem to notice the growing chaos around them, but when authorities quarantine their building after a deadly pandemic breaks out, Coco joins forces with his off-kilter, but well-prepared and stocked next-door neighbor Horacio to defend his refrigerator and keep Pipi safe.

Steven Schneider, Nicolas Goldbart

Horror

47%

  • 3.4
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Master horse trainer Buck Brannaman uses principles of respect and trust to tame horses and inspire their human counterparts.

Cindy Meehl, Buck Brannaman

PG Documentary 1 hr, 29 mins

78%

  • 5
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A documentary on the 40th Irish Dancing World Championships.

Sue Bourne

PG Documentary

100%

  • 3.7
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A documentary on Sarah Palin inspired by her book Going Rogue.

Stephen K. Bannon

PG-13 Documentary

21%

  • 4.3
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A young ghost loses his usual haunt and must search for a new one.

Yann Samuell, Emma Fielding, Miriam Segal, Jason Isaacs, Kevin McKidd

Comedy

100%

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Shortly after free diver Amy Sanchez breaks a freediving record, her boyfriend, a pilot transporting millions of dollar of gold, mysteriously vanishes.

Michael Gleissner

Action 3D

89%

  • 4
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Three best friends come together and agree to kill their horrible bosses.

Jason Bateman, Charlie Day, Kevin Spacey, Jamie Foxx, Brett Ratner, Julie Bowen, Jennifer Aniston, Jason Sudeikis

R Comedy Crime 1 hr, 33 mins

82%

  • 3.4
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While her friends all head off to exotic summer camps, bummed-out third-grader Judy Moody is is stuck in town to face a boring summer with only her friend Frank and her little brother Stink for company. However, when her Aunt Opal comes to visit, the summer takes an unexpectedly adventurous turn.

Heather Graham, Gary Magness, Sarah Siegel-Magness, John Schultz, Megan McDonald, Kathy Waugh, Jordana Beatty, Jaleel White

PG Adventure Comedy Family 1 hr, 31 mins

75%

  • 3.1
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A lonely, misguided zookeeper gets unexpected romantic help from the animals in his care.

Jon Favreau, Adam Sandler, Sylvester Stallone, Kevin James, Jennifer Eatz, Rosario Dawson, Frank Coraci, Walt Becker

PG Comedy Romance 1 hr, 42 mins

89%

  • 3.9
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Jessica Chastain, Brad Pitt, Sean Penn, Terrence Malick, Tye Sheridan

PG-13 Drama

66%

  • 3.3
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Follows the relationship between Terri (Jacob Wysocki), an oversized teen misfit, and the garrulous but well-meaning vice principal (John C. Reilly) who takes an interest in him.

Azazel Jacobs, Jacob Wysocki, Patrick Dewitt, John C. Reilly, Creed Bratton

Comedy

53%

  • 3.7
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Eighteen years after disappearing without a trace, Cornelius Rawlings returns to his family's farm.

Michael Tully, Rachel Korine, Robert Longstreet, John Maringouin, Mark Darby Robinson

Drama Comedy 1 hr, 20 mins

11%

  • 3.7
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Steve Coogan plays a food critic for the UK's Observer who is joined on a working road trip by his friend (Rob Brydon) who fills in at the last minute when Coogan's romantic relationship falls apart.

Michael Winterbottom, Andrew Eaton, Steve Coogan, Rob Brydon

Comedy

52%

  • 4.1
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When an unhappily married couple learns their teenage son is the shooter in a college campus massacre, they struggle to find refuge from both the media and their mutual grief.

Maria Bello, Michael Armbruster, Mark Moran, Shawn Ku, Michael Sheen, Alan Tudyk, Richard Gabai

R Drama

86%

  • 4.1
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Director Ngawang Choephel, traveled to Tibet in 1995 to make a documentary about Tibetan folk music threatened by the Chinese occupation. While there, he was accused of being a spy by the Chinese and imprisoned for an 18-year sentence, of which he served seven years before he was released under international pressure.

Ngawang Choephel

Documentary 1 hr, 30 mins

67%

  • 4
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Story centers on a young man who is kidnapped and forced into the savage world of a modern gladiator arena, where men fight to the death for entertainment of the online masses.

Brad Krevoy, Nina Dobrev, Mike Callaghan, Mark Williams, Kellan Lutz, James Remar, Katia Winter, Jonah Loop

R Action Thriller 1 hr, 34 mins

97%

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To increase his family’s prestige, the Marquis de Mézières forces Marie to marry the Prince de Montpensier, whom she has never met.

Bertrand Tavernier

Drama Action Romance 2 hrs, 19 mins

76%

  • 4.3
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Hal Jordan, a test pilo, finds a downed alien spacecraft. A dying alien passes his ring to Jordan, introducing the man to a wider world that includes an interstellar police force known as the Green Lantern Corps and its overseers, the Guardians of the Universe.

Marc Guggenheim, Angela Bassett, Ryan Reynolds, Blake Lively, Peter Sarsgaard, Mark Strong, Geoffrey Rush, Martin Campbell

PG-13 Action Adventure Superhero 1 hr, 45 mins

90%

  • 4.2
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Three Midwestern schoolteachers ditch a disappointing no-frills holiday in Paris and pose as wealthy women vacationing in Monaco.

Nicole Kidman, Selena Gomez, Rick Schwartz, Denise Di Novi, Alison Greenspan, Tom Bezucha, Maria Maggenti, April Blair

PG Drama Comedy Romance Teen 1 hr, 49 mins

88%

  • 4.2
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Johnny Depp, Ian McShane, Penelope Cruz, Keith Richards, Geoffrey Rush, Rob Marshall, Jerry Bruckheimer, Ted Elliott

PG-13 Action Adventure Sequel Fantasy Mystery 3D

94%

  • 4.3
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A foul-mouthed, gold-digging seventh-grade teacher is dumped by her sugar-daddy boyfriend and turns her attention toward a colleague, which pits her against a rival who happens to be the school's model teacher.

Justin Timberlake, Jimmy Miller, Jason Segel, John Michael Higgins, Lee Eisenberg, Lucy Punch, Jake Kasdan, Michael Aguilar

R Comedy 1 hr, 29 mins

90%

  • 4
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Assigned to guard Divya, the daughter of a business tycoon, Lovely Singh accompanies Divya to her campus, but ends up rubbing her the wrong way with his over-protective nature and paranoia about security. She finds him to be a major obstacle in leading a regular campus life. To throw him off-track and get him out of the way, she plans to trap him in a fake love affair.

Siddique

Action Comedy Romance

100%

  • 3.6
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A hard-working immigrant Mexican gardener lives in Los Angeles and tries to protect his son.

Chris Weitz, Paul Witt, Christian McLaughlin, Jami Gertz, Eric Eason, Demian Bichir, Jose Julian, Erik Feig

PG-13 Drama

80%

  • 4.4
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A horror film in which a group of misfits encounter fundamentalism gone to the extreme in Middle America.

Dermot Mulroney, Jeff Anderson, Kevin Smith, Scott Mosier, Kevin Pollack, John Goodman, Michael Angarano, Kyle Gallner

R Drama Thriller Suspense Horror 1 hr, 38 mins

55%

  • 2.8
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Lance Preston (Sean Rogerson) and the crew of "Grave Encounters", a ghost-hunting reality television show, are shooting an episode inside the abandoned Collingwood Psychiatric Hospital, where unexplained phenomena has been reported for years. All in the name of good television, they voluntarily lock themselves inside the building for the night and begin a paranormal investigation, capturing everything on camera. They quickly realize that the building is more than just haunted - it is alive - and it has no intention of ever letting them leave. They find themselves lost in a labyrinth of endless hallways and corridors, terrorized by the ghosts of the former patients. They soon begin to question their own sanity, slipping deeper and deeper into the depths of madness, ultimately discovering the truth behind the hospital's dark past... and taping what will be their final episode.

Mackenzie Gray, The Vicious Brothers, Sean Rogerson, Juan Riedinger, Ashleigh Gryzko

Suspense Horror 1 hr, 32 mins

14%

  • 4.5
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The mining and burning of coal is at the epicenter of America's struggle to balance its energy needs and environmental concerns, so the daring solution proposed by this small Appalachian community takes on national significance when Bobby Kennedy, Jr. joins the Appalachian families to fight the extraordinary and insidious power of Big Coal.

Bill Haney, Peter Rhodes

PG Documentary

47%

  • 3.3
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Documents the inner workings and behind-the-scenes drama that follow the band, A Tribe Called Quest, even today and explores what’s next for a group many claim are the pioneers of alternative rap. Having helped to pave the way for innovative hip hop artists, A Tribe Called Quest has kept a generation hungry for more of its groundbreaking music since the group’s much-publicized breakup in 1998

Michael Rapaport

R Documentary Music

44%

  • 5
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1937, Spain is in the midst of the brutal Spanish Civil War. A "Happy" circus clown is interrupted mid-performance and forcibly recruited by a militia. Still in his costume, he is handed a machete and led into battle against National soldiers, where he single handedly massacres an entire platoon.

Alex de la Iglesia

R Comedy 1 hr, 41 mins

41%

  • 2.8
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Pearl Jam Twenty chronicles the years leading up to the band's formation, the chaos that ensued soon-after their rise to megastardom, their step back from center stage, and the creation of a trusted circle that would surround them-giving way to a work culture that would sustain them.

Cameron Crowe

Documentary Music 1 hr, 49 mins

88%

  • 3
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A hand-drawn animated "Winnie the Pooh" film, which will be released theatrically. The film will feature five previously unadapted stories from the original books.

Burny Mattinson, Craig Ferguson, Don Hall, Stephen J. Anderson, Clark Spencer, Jim Cummings, Max Burkholder, Gilbert Gottfried

G Sequel Family Animation 1 hr, 10 mins

84%

  • 4.6
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Born during the Great Depression, Steve Rogers grew up a frail youth in a poor family. Horrified by the newsreel footage of the Nazis in Europe, Rogers was inspired to enlist in the army. However, because of his frailty and sickness, he was rejected. Overhearing the boy's earnest plea, General Chester Phillips offered Rogers the opportunity to take part in a special experiment... Operation: Rebirth. After weeks of tests, Rogers was at last administered the Super-Solider Serum and bombarded by "vita-rays." Steve Rogers emerged from the treatment with a body as perfect as a body can be and still be human. Rogers was then put through an intensive physical and tactical training program. Three months later, he was given his first assignment as Captain America. Armed with his indestructible shield and battle savvy, Captain America has continued hiswar against evil both as a sentinel of liberty and as leader of the Avengers.

Sebastian Stan, Neal McDonough, Avi Arad, Stanley Tucci, Toby Jones, Alan Fine, David Maisel, Joe Johnston

PG-13 Action Adventure Superhero 3D Post-3D 2 hrs, 4 mins

88%

  • 4.4
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Three college pals, depressed with their current social situation, decide to venture to New Orleans, a magical place where a man and his beverage can walk the streets undisturbed in pursuit of the happiness that has thus far eluded them.

Regina Hall, Arielle Kebbel, Bret Harrison, Josh Gad, Phil Dornfeld, Zanne Divine, Josh Heald, Carmen Electra

R Comedy

87%

  • 4.3
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As feuding warlords fight to expand their power, the noble monks of the Shaolin Temple clean up the mess left behind, tending to the injured while trying their best to protect the poor and weak. General Hou (Andy Lau) has caused much of this mess with his violent and ruthless tactics that rarely discriminate between soldiers and civilians. When Hao is betrayed by fellow general Cao Man (Nicholas Tse), he is forced into hiding, and takes refuge with the monks at their hidden mountain temple. As the days pass, he finds himself more and more at ease as he learns the ways of peace, and begins to release his hatred through Martial Zen. But Cao is not far behind, and war soon reaches the temple, where the monks are ready to fight back- with their unstoppable Shaolin Kung Fu.

Jackie Chan, Bingbing Fan, Benny Chan, Andy Lau, Nicholas Tse

R Drama Action Martial Arts 2 hrs, 11 mins

89%

  • 5
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A young man tries to arrange a marriage for his brother, but finds himself falling in love with the chosen fiancée.

Ali Abbas Zafar, Katrina Kaif

Comedy Romance

95%

  • 3.6
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A humble inventor-turned-egomaniacal billionaire loses it all when one of his inventions goes horribly awry. After eight years in federal prison, he returns bankrupt, homeless and determined to rebuild his reputation and fortune.

Heather Graham, Kevin Spacey, Craig Robinson, Trent Cooper, Dana Brunetti, Jonathan Krane, Nichole Beattie, Camilla Belle

PG-13 Drama Comedy 2 hrs, 0 mins

91%

  • 1.3
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A woman barely survives an attack by a serial killer and wakes up in hospital with a head injury that leaves her "face-blind." No longer able to recognize faces, she must navigate a world in which facial features change each time she loses sight of them while the killer is closing in, determined to eliminate the potential witness.

Milla Jovovich, Jean-Charles Levy, Julien Magnat, Scott Mednick, Sylvain White, Julian McMahon, Sarah Wayne Callies, Marianne Faithful

R Thriller Suspense 1 hr, 42 mins

91%

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The film centers on the Spanish police’s discovery of hours of recorded evidence that shed new light on a gruesome murder investigation. The found footage documents a family’s summer holiday, where a brother and sister investigate a terrifying local urban legend. As their investigation intensifies, strange occurrences in and around the house escalate rapidly, before culminating in unspeakable atrocities.

Fernando Barreda Luna

R Thriller Horror 1 hr, 15 mins

70%

  • 2.8
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A gang of South London teenagers defends their housing project against an alien attack.

Nick Frost, Luke Treadaway, Joe Cornish, Nira Park, Edgar Wright, Tessa Ross, Jodie Whittaker, John Boyega

R Comedy 1 hr, 28 mins

87%

  • 3.8
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On Christmas Eve in Finland, Santa Claus is unearthed in an archaeological dig. Soon after, children start disappearing, leading a boy and his father to capture Santa.

Jalmari Helander

R Action Comedy Fantasy Holiday 1 hr, 17 mins

57%

  • 2.8
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A recently widowed single mom reconnects with an old flame, who happens to be her sister's husband.

Michael J. Weithorn, Dena Hysell, Joe Gressis, Jenna Fischer

R Drama Comedy 1 hr, 45 mins

65%

  • 2.5
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Based on the memoir of First Lieutenant Mike Scotti as well as video footage shot by him and other members of 1st Battalion, 4th Marines on the outset of the 2003 invasion of Iraq.

Kristian Fraga

NR Documentary 1 hr, 33 mins

42%

  • 4
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Top October 2011 Movie Trailers

Grave Encounters Theatrical Trailer
Mardi Gras: Spring Break Home Entertainment Trailer
A Better Life Theatrical Trailer
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