Best DVD & Blu-rays Released October 2016
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X-Men: Apocalypse
No plot details have been announced. It's unclear whether Apocalypse will star the cast of X-Men: First Class or the original trilogy X-Men.
Nicholas Hoult, Rose Byrne, Bryan Singer, James McAvoy, Ben Hardy, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Simon Kinberg, Mike Dougherty
The Purge: Election Year
Set a land where one night of the year, murder is legal and terrible things happen to those unlucky enough to not be locked up tight in their homes.
Elizabeth Mitchell, Michael Bay, Frank Grillo, James DeMonaco, Jason Blum, Brad Fuller, Andrew Form, Mykelti Williamson
Amerigeddon
A dire warning of a wake up call of what might be our future when a globalist terrorist organization aligned with the United Nations disables the United States' power grid and institutes martial law. It will take a dedicated family of patriots armed with strong survival skills and the remains of the Second Amendment to save America and reclaim its freedom.
Mike Norris, AnnaLynne McCord, Spencer Neville, Gary Heavin, Chase Hunter, Marshall Teague, Dina Meyer, Greta Norris
Ithaca
Set in a small town in California's San Joaquin Valley in 1942, fourteen-year-old Homer Macauley, a telegraph bike messenger, is left to care for his widowed mother, his older sister and his four-year-old brother, after his older brother goes to fight in World War II. The effects of the war are revealed as Homer delivers messages of love, friendship, pain and death, including one message that alters his own life forever.
Sam Shepard, Meg Ryan, Erik Jendresen, Melanie Griffith, Jack Quaid, Tom Hanks, Hamish Linklater
Into the Forest
The story centers on two teenage sisters, living alone in rural Northern California, as society seemingly comes apart around them.
Ellen Page, Patricia Rozema, Aaron L. Gilbert, Callum Keith Rennie, Niv Fichman, Evan Rachel Wood, Max Minghella, Michael Eklund
Being Charlie
Follows an aimless 18-year-old Charlie (Nick Robinson), who drifts in and out of rehab clinics for his drug addiction while his actor-turned-politician father (Cary Elwes) runs for governor of California. Charlie begins a relationship with fellow patient Eva (Morgan Saylor), and the two attempt the straight-and-narrow life.
Nick Robinson, Rob Reiner, Common, Cary Elwes, Susan Misner, Stephanie Rennie, Simon Goldberg, Johnson Chan
Kingsglaive: Final Fantasy XV
The magical kingdom of Lucis is home to the sacred Crystal, and the menacing empire of Niflheim is determined to steal it. King Regis of Lucis (Sean Bean) commands an elite force of soldiers called the Kingsglaive. Wielding their king’s magic, Nyx (Aaron Paul) and his fellow soldiers fight to protect Lucis. As the overwhelming military might of the empire bears down, King Regis is faced with an impossible ultimatum—to marry his son, Prince Noctis to Princess Lunafreya of Tenebrae (Lena Headey), captive of Niflheim, and surrender his lands to the empire’s rule. Although the king concedes, it becomes clear that the empire will stop at nothing to achieve their devious goals, with only the Kingsglaive standing between them and world domination.
Takeshi Nozue, Lena Headey, Sean Bean, Aaron Paul, Jon Campling, Kezia Burrows, Adrian Bouchet, Andrea Tivadar
Joshy
After his engagement suddenly ends, Joshy and a few his friends decide to take advantage of what was supposed to be his bachelor party in Ojai, California. In their attempt to help Joshy deal with the recent turn of events, the guys turn the getaway into a raucous weekend filled with drugs, booze, debauchery, and hot tubs.
Thomas Middleditch, Jenny Slate, Adam Pally, Nick Kroll, Brett Gelman, Jeff Baena, Alex Ross Perry
The Mind's Eye
Zack Connors and Rachel Meadows were born with incredible psychokinetic capabilities. When word of their supernatural talents gets out, they find themselves the prisoners of Michael Slovak, a deranged doctor intent on harvesting their powers. After a daring escape, they are free from his sinister institution, but the corrupt doctor will stop at nothing to track them down so that he may continue to siphon their gifts for his own use.
Noah Segan, Joe Begos, Graham Skipper, Lauren Ashley Carter, John Speredakos
The Last King
Based on true events, The Last King is set in civil war-ravaged Norway. Aided by rebel group the Birch Legs, the Norwegian King fights for survival against the Church’s Bishopsmen, who seek to supplant the throne. On his deathbed after falling ill, the King soon welcomes a son, born in secrecy, as half the Kingdom wants him dead. Tasked with guarding the only remaining heir to the throne, two Birch Legs warriors, Skjervald (Oftebro) and Torstein (Hivju), escape with the infant and must traverse treacherous landscapes to protect their future King.
Kristofer Hivju, Nils Gaup, Nikolaj Lie Kaas, Jakob Oftebro, Thorbjørn Harr
Swiss Army Man
The story about a man (Paul Dano) who comes across a corpse (Daniel Radcliffe) that comes to life.
Paul Dano, Daniel Kwan, Lawrence Inglee, Daniel Radcliffe, Daniel Scheinert, Jonathan Wang, Miranda Bailey, Amanda Marshall
Attack on Titan
Tells the story of a world where most of humanity has been destroyed by giants and where the last of mankind fights to survive behind three concentric walls – walls that were once impenetrable to the giants.
Shinji Higuchi, Hajime Isayama, Haruma Miura, Kiko Mizuhara
Complete Unknown
Follows a couple whose life is unraveled when a mysterious former love — portrayed by Rachel Weisz — reappears in the man’s life.
Michael Shannon, Joshua Marston, Rachel Weisz, Lucas Joaquin, Jay Van Hoy, Lars Knudsen, Julian Sheppard, Kathy Bates
Diary of a Chambermaid
Léa Sedoux follows in the footsteps of Paulette Goddard and Jeanne Moreau as Célestine, a resentful young Parisian chambermaid who finds herself exiled to a position in the provinces where she immediately chafes against the noxious iron rules and pettiness of her high-handed bourgeois mistress (Clotilde Mollet), must rebuff the groping advances of Monsieur (Hervé Pierre), and reckon with her fascination with the earthy, brooding gardener Joseph (Vincent Lindon). Backtracking past the fetishism of Buñuel’s version to Octave Mirbeau’s original 1900 novel, Benoît Jacquot has one eye on contemporary France: the sense of social stiflement, Célestine’s humiliating submission to Madame’s onerous terms of employment, Joseph’s virulent anti-Semitism. But the turn-of-the-century setting saw the rise of Freud ideas about the human unconscious and so Jacquot takes care to look past the characters’ outward behavior and appearance to the repression and compulsions that lie behind.
Benoit Jacquot, Léa Seydoux, Vincent Lindon
The Infiltrator
A drama about a Customs official who helped uncover a massive money laundering scheme that involved Pablo Escobar. The story will focus on Mazur's transformation from a married accountant to an undercover operative who hobnobbed with unsavory figures and brought down several major banks that were laundering tens of millions of dollars for Escobar as well as Panamanian strongman Manuel Noriega, Al Qaeda and the Taliban.
Bryan Cranston, Brad Furman, Miriam Segal, Alex Holmes, Ellen Brown Furman, Benjamin Bratt, John Leguizamo, Diane Kruger
The Legend of Tarzan
Adventures of Tarzan, a man raised by gorillas.
Margot Robbie, Christoph Waltz, Jim Broadbent, David Yates, Stephen Sommers, John Hurt, Jerry Weintraub, Stuart Beattie
Ice Age: Collision Course
Another Ice Age adventure. No plot details have been announced.
Jennifer Lopez, Michael J Wilson, Josh Peck, Mike Thurmeier, John Leguizamo, Queen Latifah, Keke Palmer, Ray Romano
Hillary's America: The Secret History of the Democratic Party
A documentary that asks... Who are these Democrats? What are the Democrats hiding?
Dinesh D'Souza
Ghostbusters
No plot details have been announced.
Kristen Wiig, Andy Garcia, Katie Dippold, Melissa McCarthy, Kate McKinnon, Chris Hemsworth, Paul Feig, Ivan Reitman
Blinky Bill: The Movie
Follows a mischievous little Koala boy.
Ryan Kwanten, Robin McLeavy, Deane Taylor, Alexs Stadermann, Rufus Sewell, Toni Collette, David Wenham, Deborah Mailman
Blood Father
A runaway turns to her reformed ex-con father after she witnesses a murder. To protect his long-estranged daughter, he is forced to return to his criminal lifestyle.
Mel Gibson, William H. Macy, Steve Golin, Diego Luna, Dale Dickey, Jean-Francois Richet, Alix Madigan, Andrea Berloff
Approaching the Unknown
Captain William D. Stanaforth (Mark Strong) is on a one-way solo mission, taking humanity’s first steps toward colonizing Mars. Although the entire world is watching him, he is completely alone in a dark and distant sea of stars. Stanaforth rockets bravely through space facing insurmountable odds, but as the journey takes a toll on his life-sustaining systems, he is forced to make impossible choices that threaten his sanity, mission and very existence.
Mark Strong, Sanaa Lathan, Mark Elijah Rosenberg, Luke Wilson, Charles Baker
Vice
Set on a resort in the future, the staff are lifelike synthetic beings and the rich can live out their darkest fantasies. The pseudo-paradise has an anything goes policy since the memories of the androids reset every night. One female staffer, however, suffers a glitch and is flooded with all her memories. Realizing the horror she has been made to suffer, she vows revenge.
Jeremy Passmore, Bruce Willis, Randall Emmett, George Furla, Andre Fabrizio, Thomas Jane, Ambyr Childers, Johnathon Schaech
Life, Animated
Tells the remarkable story of Owen Suskind, an autistic young man who was unable to speak for much of his childhood but who regained his ability to communicate with his loving family and the wider world through a life-long commitment to Disney animated movies. LIFE, ANIMATED is a rich visual journey into the challenges of autism as well as a deeply moving illustration of how the power of love and understanding can fix those things in life that often appear beyond repair.
Roger Ross Williams, Julie Goldman, Molly Thompson, Robert DeBitetto, Robert Sharenow, Ron Suskind.
Independence Day Resurgence
In October 2009, director Roland Emmerich said he once again had plans for a sequel, and has since considered the idea of making two sequels to form a trilogy.
Joey King, Vivica A. Fox, Liam Hemsworth, Carter Blanchard, Jessie Usher, Maika Monroe, Roland Emmerich, Harald Kloser
Cafe Society
The plot details are unknown. The film will shoot on location in New York and Los Angeles.
Kristen Stewart, Steve Tenenbaum, Jesse Eisenberg, Steve Carell, Blake Lively, Woody Allen, Letty Aronson, Parker Posey
Alice Through the Looking Glass
No plot details have been announced. The first film was inspired by Lewis Carroll's "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" and its sequel "Through the Looking-Glass," with Alice fleeing real-world pressures by returning to Wonderland.
Mia Wasikowska, Johnny Depp, Anne Hathaway, Ed Speleers, Joe Roth, Jennifer Todd, Sacha Baron Cohen, Toby Jones
Our Kind of Traitor
While on holiday in Antigua, former Oxford tutor Perry Makepiece and his lawyer girlfriend, Gail Perkins, meet Dmitri "Dima" Vladimirovich Krasnov, an avuncular Russian businessman who challenges Perry to a tennis match. Even though Perry wins, Dima takes a shine to the couple, and soon they're visiting with his extended family. At Dima's request, Perry conveys a message to MI6 in England that Dima wishes to defect, and on arriving home, Perry and Gail receive a summons from MI6 to a debriefing. Not only is Dima a Russian oligarch, he's also one of the world's biggest money launderers.
Hossein Amini, Ewan McGregor, Stellan Skarsgard, Susanna White, Damien Lewis, Naomie Harris
Ghost Team
A paranormal-obsessed Louis (Heder) puts together a dysfunctional team to mount his own investigation into the beyond, in a desperate attempt to escape the monotony of his daily life.
Justin Long, Peter Warren, David Krumholtz, Oliver Irving, Jon Heder, Melonie Diaz, Paul W. Downs, Amy Sedaris
Baskin
A five-man unit of cops on night patrol get more than they bargain for when they arrive at a creepy backwater town in the middle of nowhere after a call comes over the radio for backup. Entering a derelict building, the seasoned tough guys and their rookie junior, who’s still haunted by a traumatic childhood dream, do the one thing you should never do in this kind of movie: they split up. They soon realize they’ve stumbled into a monstrous charnel house and descend into an ever-more nightmarish netherworld where grotesque, mind-wrenching horrors await them at every turn.
Mehmet Cerrahoglu, Can Evrenol, Gorkem Kasal, Ergun Kuyucu, Sabahattin Yakut, Mehmet Fatih Dokgoz, Muharrem Bayrak
Lights Out
A woman is haunted by a creature that only appears when the lights go out.
James Wan, Gabriel Bateman, Maria Bello, Richard Brener, Michael Clear, David F. Sandberg, Lawrence Grey, Eric Heisserer
Nerve
In an attempt to broaden her horizons, a high school senior wallflower joins a global online game of provocative truth or dare while an audience of "watchers" vote and comment. But as she becomes a sensation and advances higher and higher, the game evolves and soon she finds herself in a dangerous and life-ending situation.
Juliette Lewis, Ariel Schulman, Jessica Sharzer, Dave Franco, Emily Meade, Henry Joost, Allison Shearmur, Emma Roberts
Mr. Church
Eddie Murphy stars as a man hired to cook for a dying woman and her young daughter, played by Britt Robertson.
Eddie Murphy, McKenna Grace, Mark Canton, Natascha McElhone, Xavier Samuel, Bruce Beresford, Courtney Solomon, David Buelow
Be Somebody
Pop superstar Jordan Jaye (Matthew Espinosa) has a big dream — he just wants to live like a regular teenager. When he’s chased down by some excited female fans, he finds a perfect hideout and a reluctant new friend from a small town, high-school art student, Emily Lowe (Sarah Jeffery, Descendants). Despite being from different worlds, they soon discover they have way more in common than they ever imagined. Over the course of several days, the two embark on an unexpected journey of friendship, first love and self-discovery -- proving that maybe opposites really do attract.
Joshua Caldwell, Lamar Damon, Matthew Espinosa, Sarah Jeffery, Tava Smiley, Caitlin Keats, LaMonica Garrett, Allison Paige
The Idol
Gaza. Synonymous to so many with conflict, destruction and despair but to Mohammed Assaf, and his sister Nour, Gaza is their home and their playground. It’s where they, along with their best friends Ahmad and Omar, play music and football and dare to dream big. Their band might play on secondhand, beaten-up instruments, but their ambitions are sky-high. For Mohammed and Nour, nothing less than playing the world-famous Cairo Opera Hall will do. It might take them a lifetime to get there but, as Mohammed will find out, some dreams are worth living for.
Tawfeek Barhom, Sameh Zoabi, Hany Abu-Assad, Qais Atallah, Hiba Atallah, Abd-Elkarim Abu-Barakeh, Teya Hussein, Dima Awawdeh
Skiptrace
Jackie Chan will portray a Hong Kong detective who has been tracking a crime boss for over a decade, and Fan Bingbing will portray his niece, who gets into trouble with the syndicate.
Jackie Chan, Bingbing Fan, Jay Longino, Renny Harlin, Brian Gatewood, Johnny Knoxville
Captain Fantastic
About an idealistic father who returns to society from living off the grid for a decade in the Pacific Northwest with his children.
Kathryn Hahn, George MacKay, Steve Zahn, Matt Ross, Viggo Mortensen, Annalise Basso, Samantha Isler, Nicholas Hamilton