DVD & Blu-rays Released January 28, 2014 - Movie Insider (original) (raw)
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Tuesday, January 28
Rush R
Set against the sexy and glamorous golden age of Formula 1 racing, Rush portrays the exhilarating true story of two of the greatest rivals the world has ever witnessed—handsome English playboy James Hunt (Chris Hemsworth) and his methodical, brilliant opponent, Niki Lauda (Daniel Brühl). Taking us into their personal lives on and off the track, Rush follows the two drivers as they push themselves to the breaking point of physical and psychological endurance, where there is no shortcut to victory and no margin for error. If you make one mistake, you die.
Chris Hemsworth, Olivia Wilde, Ron Howard, Alexandra Maria Lara, Tim Bevan, Brian Grazer, Eric Fellner, Peter Morgan
Drama Action Adventure
Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa R
86 year-old Irving Zisman is on a journey across America with the most unlikely companions, his 8 year-old Grandson Billy in Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa. This October, the signature Jackass character Irving Zisman (Johnny Knoxville) and Billy (Jackson Nicoll) will take movie audiences along for the most insane hidden camera road trip ever captured on camera.
Along the way Irving will introduce the young and impressionable Billy to people, places and situations that give new meaning to the term childrearing. The duo will encounter male strippers, disgruntled child beauty pageant contestants (and their equally disgruntled mothers), funeral home mourners, biker bar patrons and a whole lot of unsuspecting citizens.
Johnny Knoxville, Jeff Tremaine, Jackson Nicoll, Spike Jonze
Comedy Sequel
Last Vegas PG-13
Billy (Academy Award®-winner Michael Douglas), Paddy (Academy Award®-winner Robert De Niro), Archie (Academy Award®-winner Morgan Freeman) and Sam (Academy Award®-winner Kevin Kline) have been best friends since childhood. So when Billy, the group's sworn bachelor, finally proposes to his thirty-something (of course) girlfriend, the four head to Las Vegas with a plan to stop acting their age and relive their glory days. However, upon arriving, the four quickly realize that the decades have transformed Sin City and tested their friendship in ways they never imagined. The Rat Pack may have once played the Sands and Cirque du Soleil may now rule the Strip, but it’s these four who are taking over Vegas.
Robert De Niro, Morgan Freeman, Jon Turteltaub, Michael Douglas, Kevin Kline, Nathan Kahane, Mary Steenburgen, Jerry Ferrara
Adventure Comedy
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2 PG
Cloudy 2 picks up where the first movie left off, with Flint Lockwood discovering that his evil machine which turns water into food "is still operating and now creating mutant food beasts. With the fate of humanity in his hands, Flint and his friends must embark on a dangerously delicious mission, battling hungry tacodiles, shrimpanzees, apple pie-thons, double bacon cheespiders and other food creatures to save the world… again.
Terry Crews, John Francis Daley, Anna Faris, Neil Patrick Harris, Phil Lord, Benjamin Bratt, Will Forte, Chris Miller
Comedy Sequel Family
85 mins
Free Birds PG
Reggie (voiced by Owen Wilson) was an ordinary turkey, until one Thanksgiving he was pardoned by the President. Unaware of the fate he’s escaped, Reggie is living large and enjoying the good life at Camp David. But when Reggie is kidnapped by Jake (voiced by Woody Harrelson), the rebel leader of a turkey uprising, he discovers a horrifying secret: Turkeys aren’t honored holiday guests- they’re tasty holiday meals! Jake and Reggie hijack a top secret time machine and travel back in time to 1621, to the first Thanksgiving to take themselves off the menu.
Dan Fogler, Craig Mazin, Peter Farrelly, Owen Wilson, Woody Harrelson, Colm Meaney, Bobby Farrelly, Cary Granat
Comedy Family Animated
97 mins
Afternoon Delight R
Follows Rachel, a stay-at-home mom who becomes obsessed with saving a stripper named McKenna. Rachel is a quick-witted and lovable, yet tightly coiled, thirty-something steeped in the creative class of Los Angeles’s bohemian, affluent Silver Lake neighborhood. Everything looks just right—chic modernist home, successful husband, adorable child, hipster wardrobe. But when she visits a strip club to spice up her marriage and gets a private dance from McKenna, something cracks open. Rachel returns to the scene of the dance to get to know McKenna, and soon after, adopt her as a live-in nanny.
Michaela Watkins, Kathryn Hahn, Jane Lynch, Jill Soloway, Jessica St. Clair, Juno Temple, John Kapelos, Josh Radnor
Drama
The Fifth Estate R
Following Daniel Domscheit-Berg (Brühl), an early supporter and eventual colleague of Julian Assange (Cumberbatch), The Fifth Estate traces the heady, early days of WikiLeaks, culminating in the release of a series of controversial and history changing information leaks. The website’s overnight success brought instant fame to its principal architects and transformed the flow of information to news media and the world at large.
Stanley Tucci, Benedict Cumberbatch, Dan Stevens, Bill Condon, Anthony Mackie, David Thewlis, Laura Linney, Peter Capaldi
Drama True Story
Concussion R
A sexual examination of Abby (Robin Weigert), a forty something married wealthy, lesbian housewife who, after suffering a blow to the head from getting smacked by her son’s baseball—walks around every corner of her suburban life to confront a mounting desire for something else. She takes on a new project and purchases a pied-à-terre in Manhattan. Walking around the city streets reminds Abby what it feels like to be sexy, and her pent-up libido shakes off its inhibitions. Her newfound desire though is not a take-home item, so Abby inaugurates a double life as a high end escort.
Robin Weigert, Maggie Siff, Stacie Passon, Johnathan Tchaikovsky, Emily Kinney
Drama
Dark Touch
In a remote town in Ireland, eleven-year-old Neve finds herself the sole survivor of a bloody massacre that killed her parents and younger brother. Suspecting a gang of homicidal vandals, the police ignore Neve’s explanation that the house is the culprit. To help ease her trauma, dutiful neighbors Nat and Lucas take her in with the supervision of a social worker. Neve has trouble finding peace with the wholesome and nurturing couple, and horrific danger continues to manifest.
Marina de Van, Padraic Delaney
Horror
80 mins
Snow Queen PG
The ice-cold Snow Queen wishes to turn the world into a frozen landscape, with no light, no joy, no happiness, and no free will. A young man, Kai, is rumored to be the son of a man who is the queen’s only remaining threat. He is abducted and held captive in the queen’s palace, and it’s up to his sister, Gerda, to rescue him. Gerda journeys across an icy land, facing difficult obstacles and meeting wonderful new friends that help her in her quest to set Kai free, defeat the Snow Queen, and save the world from eternal frost.
Timur Bekmambetov, Marianne Miller, Cindy Robinson, Vladlen Barbe, Maksim Sveshnikov, Doug Erholtz, Wendee Lee, Jessica Straus
Fantasy Animated 3D
User Rated:
3 / 5
I Will Follow You Into the Dark NR
A young woman (Mischa Barton) finds herself up against unseen paranormal forces as she searches to find an alluring young man (Ryan Eggold) and must confront her personal demons and take an extraordinary leap of faith in order to bring him back.
Leah Pipes, Christine Holder, Mark Holder, Mark Robinson, Mischa Barton, Ryan Eggold, Jaz Martin
Thriller Suspense
Metallica Through The Never R
The film marries groundbreaking footage and editing techniques with a narrative, in which a band crew member (played by Dane DeHaan) is sent out on a mission during Metallica's roaring live set in front of a sold-out arena. While on this mission, he unexpectedly has his life turned completely upside down.
Lars Ulrich, Dane DeHaan, Kirk Hammett, Nimrod Antal, Charlotte Huggins, James Hetfield, Robert Trujillo, Mackenzie Gray
Music 3D
User Rated:
3 / 5
A Perfect Man R
On the cusp of their ninth anniversary, James and Nina seem to have the perfect marriage and ideal lives - an affluent life in Amsterdam, lucrative jobs and adoring friends. Yet when Nina discovers James’s infidelity with a mutual friend of theirs after a long line of extramarital affairs, it’s the final straw, shattering whatever illusions they’ve created about their relationship and leaving them separated. Heartbroken about their separation, a stroke of luck leads Nina to impersonate James’s chatty travel agent on the phone, and he’s soon pouring his heart out and unwittingly falling for his wife all over again as they discuss the uncertainty of love and the eternal misunderstanding between men and women.
Liev Schreiber, Jeanne Tripplehorn, Joelle Carter, Kees Van Oostrum, Renee Soutendijk
Drama
Broadway Idiot
The documentary feature chronicling the creation of the legit musical version of Green Day album “American Idiot”.
Documentary
90 mins
I Used to Be Darker
When Taryn, a Northern Irish runaway, finds herself in trouble in Ocean City, MD, she seeks refuge with her aunt and uncle in Baltimore. But Kim and Bill have problems of their own: they’re trying to handle the end of their marriage gracefully for the sake of their daughter Abby, just home from her first year of college. A story of family revelations, people finding each other and letting each other go, looking for love where they’ve found it before and, when that doesn’t work, figuring out where they might find it next
Ned Oldham, Hannah Gross, Kim Taylor, Deragh Campbell, Nicholas Petr, Matthew Porterfield, Amy Belk
Drama Music
85 mins
Ass Backwards
Kate (June Diane Raphael) and Chloe (Casey Wilson) are two childhood best friends who met when they placed dead last in their hometown beauty pageant. Now they are all grown up and living in New York City, where Chloe works as a “girl in a box” at a nightclub and Kate is a CEO….of her own one-woman egg donor “corporation”. Lost in delusion, they believe they are living large until an invitation to their hometown pageant arrives and their past comes back to haunt them. Join these two loveable losers as they take an ass backwards journey home to reclaim their crown, stopping off at a women’s separatist commune, an amateur strip club competition, and meeting their favorite reality TV star along the way.
Alicia Silverstone, Teddy Grennan, Molly Conners, Vincent D'Onofrio, Brian Geraghty, Casey Wilson, Christopher Woodrow, Jon Cryer
Adventure Comedy
Argento's Dracula 3D
Dario Argento returns with a bloody, luridly creepy 3D version of the classic vampire tale, drenched in gore and sex. An unsuspecting Englishman arrives in Transylvania, lured by a job with a local nobleman. But the undead Count Dracula’s real target is the man’s innocent young wife. Featuring the iconic Rutger Hauer as vampire hunter Van Helsing and the inimitable Asia Argento (the director’s own daughter) as a local all-too-eager to fall under the Count’s sway.
Thomas Kretschmann, Asia Argento, Marta Gastini, Miriam Giovanelli, Dario Argento, Unax Ugalde
Thriller Horror 3D
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