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Albert Nobbs
(2011) Glenn Close, Janet McTeer, Mia Wasikowska, Brendan Gleeson, Aaron Johnson, Jonathan Rhys Meyers. Formats: DVD, Blu-ray Disc, Digital Download, VOD). Extras: Commentary, deleted scenes. (Lionsgate).
Being John Malkovich
(1999) Have you ever wanted to be someone else? Or, more specifically, have you ever wanted to crawl through a portal hidden in an anonymous office building and thereby enter the cerebral cortex of John Malkovich for 15 minutes before being spat out on the side of the New Jersey Turnpike? Then director Spike Jonze and writer Charlie Kaufman have the movie for you. Melancholy marionettes, office drudgery, a frizzy-haired Cameron Diaz, but that’s not all! Surrealism, possession, John Cusack, a domesticated primate, Freud, Catherine Keener, non sequiturs, and absolutely no romance! But wait: get your Being John Malkovich now and we'll throw in emasculation, slapstick, Abelard and Heloise, and extra Malkovich, Malkovich, Malkovich. New high-definition digital restoration, with 5.1 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition. Formats: DVD, Blu-ray Disc. Extras: New selected-scene audio commentary featuring filmmaker Michel Gondry; new behind-the-scenes documentary by filmmaker Lance Bangs; conversation between John Malkovich and humorist John Hodgman; director Spike Jonze discusses "Being John Malkovich" via photos from its production; two films within the film: "7½ Floor Orientation" and "“American Arts & Culture Presents John Horatio Malkovich, Dance of Despair and Disillusionment"; "An Intimate Portrait of the Art of Puppeteering," a documentary by Bangs; trailer and TV spots; booklet featuring a conversation between Jonze and pop-culture critic Perkus Tooth. (The Criterion Collection).
The Bling Ring
(2011) Austin Butler, Yin Chang, Jennifer Grey. True story of the group of average, middle-class teens from a quiet suburb who broke into celebrities homes -- including Paris Hilton and Lindsay Lohan -- and robed them of millions of dollars in clothes and jewelry. Formats: DVD. (A&E).
Bringing Down the House BLU-RAY DEBUT
(2003) Steve Martin, Queen Latifah, Betty White, Eugene Levy, Joan Plowright. (Disney).
Chained: Code 207
(2011) Tino Struckmann, Jill Headrick, Jack Dimich, Tiffany Anne Hughes, Chase Stevens, Tommy Mercer. A criminal gang that kidnaps women and sells them to wealthy clients meets its match when they abduct the wife of an Army Ranger. Formats: DVD, VOD, Digital Download. (MTI Home Video).
Chronicle
(2011) Dane DeHaan, Alex Russell, Michael B. Jordan, Michael Kelly, Ashley Hinshaw.
Director's cut. Formats: DVD, Blu-ray/DVD Combo, Digital Download. Extras: Deleted scenes, pre-viz, camera test. (Fox).
Descendents
(2008 -- Chile) Karina Pizarro, Cristobal Barra, Patricio Lynch, Sergio Allard. In an unknown future, the Earth has been destroyed by man and the air is polluted with a mysterious virus that turns humans into zombies, and only a few children are immune to the disease. Camille, a 9-year-old girl, wanders through these desolate wastelands, protecting herself from zombie and armed military forces that roam the land killing anyone in sight. As she makes her escape to the ocean, she will do whatever it takes to survive and be among other Descendents.Formats: DVD, VOD, Digital Download. (Lionsgate).
The Devil Inside
(2012) Fernanda Andrade, Simon Quarterman, Evan Helmuth, Ionut Grama, Suzan Crowley. In Italy, a woman becomes involved in a series of unauthorized exorcisms during her mission to discover what happened to her mother, who allegedly murdered three people during her own exorcism. Formats: DVD, Blu-ray Disc,VOD, Digital Download. Extras: (Paramount).
Father of the Bride/Father of the Bride II BLU-RAY DEBUT
(1991/1995) Steve Martin, Diane Keaton, Kimberly Williams-Paisley, George Newbern, Martin Short, Kieran Culkin. Three-disc Blu-ray/DVD combo. (Disney).
Freak Dance
(2012) Musical send-up from the inventive minds at the Upright Citizens Brigade
Formats: DVD, VOD. (Image Entertainment).
Flashpoint: The Fourth Season
(2011) Three-disc set with 18 episodes, $42.99. Formats: DVD. Extras: "The Music of Flashpoint," "On the Set of Flashpoint," "Sgt. Greg Parker Character Study." (CBS/Paramount).
The Grey
(2012) Liam Neeson, Dermot Mulroney, Frank Grillo, James Badge Dale, Joe Anderson, Dallas Roberts, Nonso Anozie. Formats: DVD, Blu-ray/DVD Combo, VOD, Digital Download, UltraViolet (cloud). Extras: Commentary by co-writer/director Joe Carnahan and editors Roger Barton and Jason Hellmann; deleted scenes. (Universal).
Hell on Wheels: The Complete First Season
(2011-12) Three-disc set with 10 episodes. Formats: DVD, Blu-ray Disc ($39.98/$44.98). Extras: "Recreating the Past: The Making of Hell on Wheels," "Crashing a Train: From Concept to Camera," seven making-of featurettes, 10 "Inside the Episode" featurettes, seven character featurettes, behind-the-scenes footage. (Entertainment One).
Michael
(2011 -- Austria). Michael Fuith, David Rauchenberger. A drama focused on five months in the life of pedophile -- Michael, a seemingly meek insurance agent -- who keeps a 10-year-old boy locked in his basement. An official selection at the Cannes and Toronto film festivals. Formats: DVD. (Strand Releasing).
Rampart
(2012) Woody Harrelson, Ben Foster, Steve Buscemi, Jon Bernthal, Sigourney Weaver, Robin Wright, Brie Larson, Anne Heche, Ice Cube, Cynthia Nixon, Jon Foster, Robert Wisdom. Formats: DVD, Blu-ray Disc, Blu-ray/DVD Combo, Digital Download. Extras: Interviews with the cast and crew, behind-the-scenes featurettes. (Millennium Films).
Scooby-Doo! 13 Spooky Tales Around the World
(2012) Join Fred, Daphne, Velma, Shaggy and their canine pal as they visit some of the coolest and creepiest destinations across the world. They get shipwrecked in the Bermuda Triangle with scary skeleton scuba divers, chased through the canals of Venice by the Ghostly Gondolier, travel on a haunted Aztec barge, and visit the headhunter-happy jungles of Brazil. $19.98. Formats: DVD. (Warner).
Time Team: Unearthing the Roman Invasion
The popular British science-reality series presented by "Blackadder's" Tony Robinson makes its U.S. debut. Go along as archaeologists dig up the past in this long-running U.K. hit. Accompanied by an eclectic band of historians and experts, Robinson travels across Britain to unearth secrets from the era of the Roman occupation. Includes 12 collected episodes about Britain's Roman past from Series 2-18 (1995-2011), plus a 16-page viewer’s guide.
Formats: DVD. (Acorn Media).
Treasure Houses of Britain
(2012) New documentary offers intimate tours of England’s most magnificent homes. Formats: DVD. (Acorn Media).
The Universe: The Complete Season Six
(2011) Four-disc set. Formats: DVD, Blu-ray Disc. (A&E).
Walking Tall Trilogy Collectors Edition DVD and BLU-RAY DEBUT
Three-disc set with all three "Walking Tall" films, remastered and with new bonus features, including "Walking Tall: The Buford Pusser Story" documentary with new interviews, $24.97 DVD and $39.97 Blu-ray. "Walking Tall" (1973) starring Joe Don Baker, Noah Berry Jr., Elizabeth Hartman and Felton Perry; "Walking Tall Part 2" (1975), starring Bo Svenson, Richard Jaeckel, Noah Berry Jr.; "Final Chapter: Walking Tall" (1977), starring Bo Svenson,Margaret Blye, Forrest Tucker, Morgan Woodward. (Shout! Factory).
The War BLU-RAY DEBUT
(2007) Ken Burns and Lynn Novick's powerful and acclaimed documentary arrives on Blu-ray. Six years in the making, the epic, seven-part film explores the history and horror of the Second World War from an American perspective through the personal accounts of men and women from four quintessentially American towns. Narrated by Keith David with voiceovers from Tom Hanks, Samuel L. Jackson, Josh Lucas, Adam Arkin and Eli Wallach, and featuring recordings by Norah Jones and Wynton Marsalis, as well as war-era favorites from Benny Goodman, Nat "King" Cole and more. Six-disc set, $129.99. Extras: "Making The War Featurette," commentary by Burns and Novick, deleted scenes, additional interviews. (PBS Distribution/Paramount Home Media ).
The Grey
Liam Neeson stars as John Ottway, a sharpshooting wolf hunter who becomes an unlikely hero, leading a group of oilrig roughnecks on a death-defying backwoods trek through the Alaskan wilderness. When a plane transporting them to Anchorage crashes on a remote mountaintop, eight survivors must find their way back to civilization or perish in a frozen wasteland. With Ottway as their guide, the ravaged group faces hostile terrain with limited supplies. Most terrifyingly, they are stalked by a pack of fierce and cunning wolves. In order to survive, they will have to turn the tables on the ferocious predators.
Vitals: Director: Joe Carnahan. Stars: Liam Neeson, Dermot Mulroney, Frank Grillo, James Badge Dale, Joe Anderson, Dallas Roberts, Nonso Anozie.
2012, CC, MPAA rating: R, 118 min., Comedy, Box office gross: $51.359 million, Universal.
One for the Money
A proud, born-and-bred Jersey girl, Stephanie (Katherine Heigl) has plenty of attitude, even if she's been out of work for the last six months and just lost her car to a debt collector. Desperate for some fast cash, she turns to her last resort: convincing her sleazy cousin to give her a job at his bail bonding company as a recovery agent. The plot twists as Stephanie takes on the company's most notorious bail-jumper -- former vice cop and murder suspect Joe Morelli (Jason O'Mara ) -- the same Joe Morelli who happened to break her heart in high school. Nabbing Joe would be satisfying payback, and a hefty paycheck, but as Stephanie learns the ins and outs of the business from hunky colleague Ranger (Daniel Sunjata), she also realizes that the case against Joe isn't airtight. With a plethora of misadventures along the way, Stephanie's new job isn't nearly as easy as she thought. Based on the worldwide best-selling 18-book mystery series by Janet Evanovich.
Vitals: Director: Julie Anne Robinson. Stars: Katherine Heigl, Jason O'Mara, Daniel Sunjata, Sherri Shepherd, Debbie Reynolds, John Leguizamo.
2012, CC, MPAA rating: PG-13, 91 min., Action Comedy, Box office gross: $26.119 million, Lionsgate.
Chronicle
Three high school students make an incredible discovery, leading to their developing uncanny telekinetic powers beyond their understanding. As they learn to control their abilities and use them to their advantage, their lives start to spin out of control as their darker sides begin to take over. What starts out as fun and games quickly becomes dangerous and they must face the inevitable question of whether they can handle the responsibility that comes with their remarkable powers. Uses the by-now cliched hand-held filmmaking technique.
Vitals: Director: Josh Trank. Stars: Dane DeHaan, Alex Russell, Michael B. Jordan, Michael Kelly, Ashley Hinshaw.
2011, CC, MPAA rating: PG-13, 86 min., Sci Fi, Box office gross: $64.306 million, Fox.
Albert Nobbs
Award winning actress Glenn Close (Albert Nobbs) plays a woman passing as a man in order to work and survive in 19th century Ireland. Some thirty years after donning men's clothing, she finds herself trapped in a prison of her own making.
Vitals: Director: Rodrigo Garcia. Stars: Glenn Close, Janet McTeer, Mia Wasikowska, Brendan Gleeson, Aaron Johnson, Jonathan Rhys Meyers.
2011, CC, MPAA rating: R, 113 min., Drama, Box office gross: $2.610 million, Lionsgate.
Rampart
Los Angeles, 1999. Officer Dave Brown (Woody Harrelson) is a Vietnam vet and a Rampart Precinct cop, dedicated to doing "the people's dirty work" and asserting his own code of justice, often blurring the lines between right and wrong to maintain his action-hero state of mind. When he gets caught on tape beating a suspect, he finds himself in a personal and emotional downward spiral as the consequences of his past sins and his refusal to change his ways in light of a department-wide corruption scandal seal his fate. Brown internalizes his fear, anguish and paranoia as his world, complete with two ex-wives who are sisters, two daughters, an aging mentor dispensing bad advice, investigators galore, and a series of seemingly random women, starts making less and less sense. In the end, what is left is a human being stripped of all his pretense, machismo, chauvinism, arrogance, sexism, homophobia, racism, aggression, misanthropy; but is it enough to redeem him as a man? Great turn by Harrelson in a lackluster, almost film-school-amateurish production.
Vitals: Director: Oren Moverman. Stars: Woody Harrelson, Ben Foster, Steve Buscemi, Jon Bernthal, Sigourney Weaver, Robin Wright, Brie Larson, Anne Heche, Ice Cube, Cynthia Nixon, Jon Foster, Robert Wisdom.
2012, CC, MPAA rating: R, 108 min., Drama, Box office gross: $.239 million, Millennium Films.
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