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Now on Home Video: Disney’s ‘Zootopia,’ Coen Brothers’ ‘Hail Caesar’
Zootopia (2016)
Zootopia (2016)
Stars: Ginnifer Goodwin, Jason Bateman, Idris Elba, Jenny Slate, Nate Torrence, Tommy Chong, J. K. Simmons, Octavia Spencer, Alan Tudyk, and Shakira
Director: Byron Howard and Rich Moore
Genre: Family, Action, Adventure, Animation
Motion Picture Rating: PG
Synopsis from Walt Disney Studios: From Walt Disney Animation Studios comes a comedy-adventure set in the modern mammal metropolis of Zootopia. Determined to prove herself, Officer Judy Hopps, the first bunny on Zootopia’s police force, jumps at the chance to crack her first case – even if it means partnering with scam-artist fox Nick Wilde to solve the mystery.
Available on Amazon and iTunes
Hail, Caesar! (2016)
Hail, Caesar! (2016)
Stars: Josh Brolin, George Clooney, Alden Ehrenreich, Ralph Fiennes, Jonah Hill, Scarlett Johansson, Frances McDormand, Tilda Swinton and Channing Tatum
Director: Joel Coen and Ethan Coen
Genre: Comedy, Mystery
Motion Picture Rating: PG-13
Synopsis from Universal Studios: Four-time Oscar®-winning filmmakers Joel and Ethan Coen (No Country for Old Men, Fargo) write and direct Hail, Caesar!, an all-star comedy set during the latter years of Hollywood’s Golden Age. Starring Josh Brolin, George Clooney, Alden Ehrenreich, Ralph Fiennes, Jonah Hill, Scarlett Johansson, Frances McDormand, Tilda Swinton, and Channing Tatum, Hail, Caesar! follows a single day in the life of a studio fixer who is presented with plenty of problems to fix.
Available on Amazon and iTunes
13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi (2016)
13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi (2016)
Stars: James Badge Dale, John Krasinski, Max Martini, Toby Stephens, Pablo Schreiber, David Denman, Dominic Fumusa, Freddie Stroma, and Alexia Barlier
Director: Michael Bay
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Motion Picture Rating: R
Synopsis from Paramount Pictures: From director Michael Bay, 13 HOURS: THE SECRET SOLDIERS OF BENGHAZI is the gripping true story of six elite ex-military operators assigned to protect the CIA who fought back against overwhelming odds when terrorists attacked a U.S. diplomatic compound on September 11, 2012. When everything went wrong, six men had the courage to do what was right. Based on the nonfiction book 13 Hours: The Inside Account of What Really Happened in Benghazi by New York Times bestselling author Mitchell Zuckoff and Members of the Annex Security Team.
Available on Amazon and iTunes
Anomalisa (2015)
Anomalisa (2015)
Stars: David Thewlis, Jennifer Jason Leigh, and Tom Noonan
Director: Charlie Kaufman and Duke Johnson
Genre: Animation, Drama, Comedy
Motion Picture Rating: R
Synopsis from Curzon ArtiFicial Eye: Michael Stone, a husband, father and successful motivational speaker, is crippled by the mundanity of his life. On a business trip to a customer service convention in Cincinnati, he checks into his hotel and prepares to once more go through the motions. But this time a chance meeting with Lisa, an unassuming baked goods sales rep, throws the dullness into disarray and Michael feels he may have just met someone who can make a change…
Available on Amazon and iTunes
The Other Side of the Door (2016)
The Other Side of the Door (2016)
Stars: Sarah Wayne Callies, Jeremy Sisto, Javier Botet, and Sofia Rosinsky
Director: Johannes Roberts
Genre: Horror
Motion Picture Rating: R
Synopsis from 20th Century Fox: A family lives an idyllic existence abroad until a tragic accident takes the life of their young son. The inconsolable mother learns of an ancient ritual that will bring him back to say a final goodbye. She travels to an ancient temple, where a door serves as a mysterious portal between two worlds. But when she disobeys a sacred warning to never open that door, she upsets the balance between life and death.
Available on Amazon and iTunes
Every Thing Will Be Fine (2015)
Every Thing Will Be Fine (2015)
Stars: James Franco, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Rachel McAdams and Marie-Josée Croze
Director: Wim Wenders
Genre: Drama
Motion Picture Rating: NR
Synopsis from Neue Road Movies: Based on an original script by Norwegian Bjørn Olaf Johannessen, Wim Wenders tells the story of the author Tomas (James Franco) in EVERY THING WILL BE FINE. One day a car accident transforms his life. Even though he is not directly to blame for this tragedy, it still causes his relationship with his girlfriend to break apart. Tomas falls into a deep hole. He seeks retreat in his writing and tries to start his own family with a new love. The film looks at Tomas’ attempt to give his life meaning again and recounts his search for forgiveness. It is not time alone that heals wounds but the courage to face up to things and to forgive. Especially oneself.
Available on Amazon and iTunes
Kill Your Friends (2015)
Kill Your Friends (2015)
Stars: Nicholas Hoult, Craig Roberts, Tom Riley, and Georgia King
Director: Owen Harris
Genre: Dark Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Motion Picture Rating: NR
Synopsis from Well Go USA Entertainment: As the twentieth century breathes its very last, with Britpop at its zenith, twenty-seven-year-old A&R man Steven Stelfox (Hoult) is slashing and burning his way through London’s music industry. Blithely crisscrossing the globe in search of the next megahit—fueled by greed and inhuman quantities of drugs and alcohol—Stelfox freely indulges in an unending orgy of self-gratification. But the industry is changing fast, the hits are drying up, and the only way he’s going to salvage his sagging career is by taking the idea of “cutthroat” to murderous new levels.
Available on Amazon and iTunes
Mr. Right (2015)
Stars: Sam Rockwell, Anna Kendrick, Tim Roth, James Ransone, Anson Mount, Michael Eklund and RZA
Director: Paco Cabezas
Genre: Comedy, Romance, Action
Motion Picture Rating: R
Synopsis from Focus Features: Hyperactive at the best of times, Martha (Anna Kendrick; Pitch Perfect) has gone full-on manic since her latest breakup. She babbles, parties like a monster, cooks everything in sight — and is looking to do something terrible when she meets Francis (Sam Rockwell; The Way Way Back). To anyone else, Francis’s approach would come across as creepy, but Martha can’t help but be intrigued. They seem a perfect match: she’s bananas, he’s bananas… except he’s a deadly sort of bananas. He’s a professional assassin.
Francis is a hitman with a cause: he unexpectedly kills the people ordering the hits. Just as Martha begins to realize her new beau wasn’t joking when he said he had to step out for a moment to shoot someone, things start heating up for Francis. His services are solicited by a dubious client who’s being sought by an equally dubious FBI agent (Tim Roth; The Hateful Eight, Reservoir Dogs). As the bodies pile up, Martha needs to decide whether to flee or join in the mayhem.
Available on Amazon and iTunes
Touched with Fire (2015)
Touched with Fire (2015)
Stars: Katie Holmes, Luke Kirby, Christine Lahti, Griffin Dunne and Bruce Altman
Director: Paul Dalio
Genre: Drama, Romance
Motion Picture Rating: R
Synopsis from Myriad Pictures: Touched with Fire stars Katie Holmes and Luke Kirby as two poets with bipolar disorder whose art is fueled by their emotional extremes. When they meet in a treatment facility, their chemistry is instant and intense driving each other’s mania to new heights. They pursue their passion which breaks outside the bounds of sanity, swinging them from fantastical highs to tormented lows until they ultimately must choose between sanity and love.
Available on Amazon and iTunes
The Abandoned (2015)
The Abandoned (2015)
Stars: Jason Patric, Louisa Krause and Mark Margolis
Director: Eytan Rockaway
Genre: Horror, Thriller, Mystery
Motion Picture Rating: NR
Synopsis from Shout! Factory: Take a terrifying plunge into the warped mind of a disturbed young woman. Desperate to get her life back on track, the unstable Streak (Louisa Krause, Martha Marcy May Marlene) takes a job as a security guard, working the graveyard shift at a once upscale, now abandoned apartment complex. But on her first night on duty, she discovers a horrifying presence lurking deep within the bowels of the decaying building. With her nerves already on edge, Streak must confront demons both real and imagined as she struggles to keep a grip on her sanity. Jason Patric (The Lost Boyss, Narc), and Mark Margolis (Breaking Bad) co-star in this harrowing thrill ride.