Enjoy your DVDs for watching on the go - DVD News on Sep 9

What are you waitting for? This weekend which great DVDs are coming out? Let’s see this list of September 9, 2014 DVD released date. 

Top 1. No Good Deed DVD
 DVD Release Date: September 12
Director: Sam Miller
Studio: Columbia Pictures  

Storyline: 

Follows a former D.A turned stay-at-home mom and her two small children who are terrorized and kidnapped after she invites a handsome but mysterious stranger into their home to wait for help after his car runs off the road.

Top 2. Palo Alto DVD
 DVD Release Date: September 9
Director: Gia Coppola
Studio: Tribeca Film 

Storyline: 

Palo Alto weaves together three stories of teenage lust, boredom, and self-destruction: shy, sensitive April (Emma Roberts), torn between an illicit flirtation with her soccer coach (James Franco) and an unrequited crush on sweet stoner Teddy (Jack Kilmer); Emily (Zoe Levin), who offers sexual favors to any boy to cross her path; and the increasingly dangerous exploits of Teddy and his best friend Fred (Nat Wolff), whose behavior may or may not be sociopathic.

Top 3. Burning Blue DVD
 DVD Release Date: September 9
Director: D.M.W. Greer
Studio: Lionsgate Films
 

Storyline: 
  
A government agent is assigned to an aircraft carrier after two flight accidents to find the cause of the problem. The investigation takes a wide turn when a sailor informs the agent that he saw a high ranking airman at a local gay club. The agent then begins to dig into the private life of not only the accused pilot, but the rest of his flight squad as well. As the airmen and their wives are suddenly made to deal with what has become a glorified witch hunt, they must quickly decide who they can truly trust and who they cannot.

Top 4. A Long Way Down DVD
 DVD Release Date: September 9
Director: Pascal Chaumeil
Studio: Magnolia Pictures 

Storyline: 

A disgraced TV presenter (Pierce Brosnan), a foul-mouthed teen (Imogen Poots), an isolated single mother (Toni Collette) and an aging pizza delivery boy (Aaron Paul) – decide to end it all on New Year’s Eve. When this disillusioned group of strangers unintentionally meet at Topper’s Tower, a trendy jumper hotspot, they agree to call off their plans for six weeks. Their written pact inadvertently binds them together and sweeps the public up--transforming them into unwitting media sensations—as they discover that even accidental families make life worth living. Four people meet on New Year's Eve and form a surrogate family to help themselves weather the difficult holiday period. 
  
Top 5. Words and Pictures DVD
 DVD Release Date: September 9
Director: Fred Schepisi
Studio: Roadside Attractions 

  

Storyline: 

Prep school English teacher Jack Marcus (Clive Owen) laments his students' obsession with social media and good grades - as opposed to rigorous engagement with language. A one-time literary star, Jack has not published in years. He's let the school's literary magazine fall into ruin. He's estranged from his son. In short, Jack has much to despair of, and when Jack despairs, Jack drinks. A lot. Jack's drunken behaviour has been bad enough to have him banned from a local upscale pub. Dina Delsanto (Juliette Binoche) is an abstract painter. Like Jack, she was once celebrated for her art, but the onset of arthritis has made the physical act of painting too painful to bear. Jack finds Dina attractive but icy; he flirts with and provokes her with equal relish.   
  
Top 6. God's Pocket DVD
 DVD Release Date: September 9
Director: John Slattery
Studio: IFC Films 

Storyline: 

Set in the gritty blue-collar neighborhood of God's Pocket, a man's crazy stepson is killed in a construction "accident" and the man quickly tries to bury the bad news with the body. But when a local columnist comes sniffing around for the truth, things go from bad to worse. The man finds himself stuck in a life and death struggle between a body he can’t bury, a wife he can’t please and a debt he can’t pay. 

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DVD Release date on this week of September 1, 2014

Below, our editors have selected 5 interesting films and top rates debuting this week, listed in alphabetical order and sharing some Youtube videos.  

Top 1. Draft Day on DVD 
 
Release date: April 11, 2014

                       Tuesday September 2, 2014 (dvd)

 

 

Draft Day Movie Synopsis: 
  
On the day of the National Football League (NFL) Draft, general manager Sonny Weaver (Kevin Costner) has the opportunity to save football in Cleveland when he trades for the number one pick.
He must quickly decide what he's willing to sacrifice in pursuit of perfection as the lines between his personal and professional life become blurred on a life-changing day for a few hundred young men with dreams of playing in the NFL.

Top 2. They Came Together on DVD

Release date:June 27, 2014 - Toronto, Vancouver, Calgary
                      July 11 - Ottawa
                      Tuesday September 2, 2014 (dvd)

They Came Together Movie Synopsis:

When Joel (Paul Rudd) and Molly (Amy Poehler) first bump into each other on Halloween while wearing matching Benjamin Franklin outfits, they take an instant dislike to each other in this parody of corny romantic comedies. Things get worse when it turns out that the company Joel works for is planning to demolish Molly's adorable Upper West Side candy store.
However, as they get to know each other, they realize they have a lot in common. They both love fiction, Q-tips, the color blue and grandmothers. But an argument leads to a break up and Molly winds up dating her awkward accountant (Ed Helms) while Joel gets confusing advice from his buddies.

Top 3. Moms' Night Out on DVD

Release date: May 9, 2014
                       Tuesday September 2, 2014 (dvd)

Moms' Night Out Movie Synopsis: 

What exhausted moms like Allyson (Sarah Drew) and her friends want more than anything is to have a peaceful grown-up evening dinner out away from the kids. In order for this to happen they need their husbands to step up and watch the children for a few hours.
But their carefree evening without kids doesn’t go quite as planned. Problems with their restaurant reservation, car theft, a trip to a police station and a tattoo parlor, getting zapped with a stun gun, teaming up with bikers to find a missing baby – Allyson didn't have anything like this in mind for their night out.

Top 4. For No Good Reason on DVD

Release date: May 16, 2014 - Toronto, Vancouver
                       Tuesday September 2, 2014 (dvd) 

  

For No Good Reason Movie Synopsis: 

For No Good Reason is a documentary about Ralph Steadman, a British cartoonist best known for his work in collaboration with the American writer and author of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Hunter S. Thompson.
This visually creative film follows Steadman’s career, starting in the early 1970s up to today. Director Charlie Paul spent 15 years meticulously putting together the footage and the animation to match Steadman’s expressive illustrations. Through Johnny Depp, the audience is presented with the portrait of the artist’s life, his friendships, his art and passion.
Exploring the connection between life and art, For No Good Reason is an uplifting film with contributions from Terry Gilliam and Richard E. Grant, as well as music from Slash, Jason Mraz, James Blake, All American Rejects and Crystal Castles.

Top 5. Third Person on DVD 

Release date: Tuesday, September 2, 2014

Third Person Movie Synopsis:

Follows three inter-connected love stories of three couples in three cities, Rome, Paris and New York. The Rome-set segment revolves around a young couple on a road trip, to be played be Casey Affleck and Moran Atias. Both Liam Neeson and Olivia Wilde will play writers in the Paris-set section of the film. Mila Kunis is negotiating to play one half of an estranged couple in New York, with James Franco playing her partner in the segment. 

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Top New Movies In Theater Opening This Week - August 29, 2014

Top 1. As Above, So Below (2014)
  
93 min   -   Horror | Thriller
When a team of explorers ventures into the catacombs that lie beneath the streets of Paris, they uncover the dark secret that lies within this city of the dead.
Director: John Erick Dowdle
Stars: Perdita Weeks, Ben Feldman, Edwin Hodge, François Civil

Storyline:

Miles of twisting catacombs lie beneath the streets of Paris, the eternal home to countless souls. When a team of explorers ventures into the uncharted maze of bones, they uncover the dark secret that lies within this city of the dead. A journey into madness and terror, As Above, So Below reaches deep into the human psyche to reveal the personal demons that come back to haunt us all. Written by John Erick Dowdle and Drew Dowdle (Quarantine, Devil) and directed by John Erick Dowdle, the psychological thriller is produced by Thomas Tull, Jon Jashni, Drew Dowdle and Patrick Aiello. Alex Hedlund serves as the executive producer. 

Top 2. The November Man (2014) - [Opens 8/27]

108 min   -   Action | Crime | Thriller
Metascore: 33/100 (14 reviews)
An ex-CIA operative is brought back in on a very personal mission and finds himself pitted against his former pupil in a deadly game involving high level CIA officials and the Russian president-elect.
Director: Roger Donaldson
Stars: Pierce Brosnan, Luke Bracey, Olga Kurylenko, Bill Smitrovich

      

Storyline:

Pierce Brosnan and director Roger Donaldson reunite nearly 20 years after Dante's Peak for Bronan's Bondiest outing since Die Another Day. Apparently the studio is already at work on a potential sequel; often that's a last-minute Hail Mary for a film of questionable awareness, though. We hear Olga Kurylenko is underutilized and watching Bronan with his protege, played by Luke Bracey, is like "trying to get invested in a battle between Captain America and a tuna sandwich." 

Top 3. Last Weekend (2014) - [Limited]

94 min   -   Comedy | Drama
When an affluent matriarch gathers her dysfunctional family for a holiday at their Northern California lake house, her carefully constructed weekend begins to come apart at the seams, leading her to question her own role in the family.
Directors: Tom Dolby | Tom Williams
Stars: Patricia Clarkson, Zachary Booth, Joseph Cross, Chris Mulkey

Storyline:

Patricia Clarkson has been sporadic with her movie appearances over the past few years, and it's possible that that the funding for this film hinged upon her participation (we don't know that for sure -- just theorizing). After watching the trailer, we immediately thought about what it would be like to see Clarkson lead this cast in a staged version of the material so she could really go far in her development of what seems to be a memorable character.

Top 4. If I Stay (2014)

106 min   -   Drama
Metascore: 46/100 (33 reviews)
Life changes in an instant for young Mia Hall after a car accident puts her in a coma. During an out-of-body experience, she must decide whether to wake up and live a life far different than she had imagined.
Director: R.J. Cutler
Stars: Chloë Grace Moretz, Mireille Enos, Jamie Blackley, Joshua Leonard

Storyline:

Mia Hall thought the hardest decision she would ever face would be whether to pursue her musical dreams at Juilliard or follow a different path to be with the love of her life, Adam. But what should have been a carefree family drive changes everything in an instant, and now her own life hangs in the balance. Caught between life and death for one revealing day, Mia has only one decision left, which will not only decide her future but her ultimate fate. 

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Movie review: 22 Jump Street

I found the first one hilarious, and I was excited for this one since it was getting massive praise. But jesus, was this movie bad from what I saw. Jokes just fell flat and seemed disjointed and reminded me of a Family guy episode. I made it to the frat party and bounced. Anyone else felt the same?

  


22 Jump Street
(MA15+) ***
Creation date: July 8, 2014 
Director: Phil Lord & Chris Miller.
Cast: Jonah Hill, Channing Tatum, Ice Cube, Wyatt Russell, Amber Stevens, Peter Stormare, Jillian Bell.
  
22 Jump Street, the sequel to the 2012 comedy, brings us more hilarious, laugh out loud moments.  The sequel tells a similar story to the previous film and uses a lot of same jokes.  While the redundancy might slow the movie down from time to time, the film’s self-awareness of being a sequel is just over the top funny.

Jonah Hill and Channing Tatum return as Schmidt and Jenko, the two undercover cops for the Jump Street program.  After the success in the previous film, the Jump Street program received more budgets and our heroes are going to undercover at college this time around.  The movie then follows the same path as the previous movie, and the two partners ended up joining different social groups.  Jenko ends up investigating with the jocky frat boys, and Schmidt ends up with the artsy crowd.  The two begin to resentment each others, but the final stretch put them back together and their friendship never ends. 

 

Review: 'Begin Again' sparkles sometimes but tries too hard

  
Rating: R (for language)
Cast: Keira Knightley, Mark Ruffalo, Adam Levine, Hailee Steinfeld, Catherine Keener
Director and writer: 
John Carney 
Running time: 1 hour, 
41 minutes
   
Writer-director John Carney replays his greatest hit with "Begin Again," a semi-successful attempt to re-create the magic of the Oscar-winning musical "Once," only this time in New York and with a big-name cast.
Get past the wildly improbable "music biz" moments and impromptu performances that feel anything but impromptu, and this all-star cast and several utterly charming scenes give it a sparkle that overcomes the manufactured/trying-too-hard feel of it.

Keira Knightley is a British singer-songwriter summoned, reluctantly, on stage by a busker-pal who is performing in an intimate, down-market bar in Manhattan. Mark Ruffalo plays the only guy paying attention, standing, staring, transfixed by her performance.

A flashback takes us through the bad day Dan Mulligan's had, leading to that moment. He's a drunken has-been of a music "A & R Man," an "artists and repertoire" guru who had the record label he started snatched away from him by his partner (Mos Def). 

 

Top movie review about “Snowpiercer (2014)”

  
Movie Information: 

In this sci-fi epic from director Bong Joon Ho (The Host, Mother), a failed global-warming experiment kills off most life on the planet. The final survivors board the SNOWPIERCER, a train that travels around the globe via a perpetual-motion engine. When cryptic messages incite the passengers to revolt, the train thrusts full-throttle towards disaster. (c) TWC-Radius

R, 2 hr. 6 min.
Science Fiction & Fantasy
Directed By: Joon-ho Bong
In Theaters: Jun 27, 2014 Limited
Box Office:$0.2M
Radius-TWC - Official Site 

  
Based on the French graphic novel "La Transperceneige," Bong Joon-ho's "Snowpiercer" begins in the extremely not-too-distant future as mankind launches a final attempt to halt the spread of global warming once and for all. Needless to say, the plan backfires spectacularly and plunges the world into a new ice age that causes the extinction of all life forms. Luckily, before all this happened, wealthy industrialist Wilford (an inspired bit of casting that I dare not reveal), taking several pages from Ayn Rand, constructed a high-speed luxury train that can circle the globe without stopping or suffering the effects of the weather outside. Now, humanity's last remnants reside on the train—the well-to-do people living in comfort in the head cars with the poor and downtrodden masses stuck in back in cramped quarters and forced to subsist on protein bars made from...well, don't ask what goes into the protein bars. 

The Rover review – an Australian road movie that runs out of road

Robert Pattinson proves his acting chops in David Michod's mysterious follow-up to Animal Kingdom – it's just a shame it squanders its early promise. 

 

 
It’s time to put away those Robert Pattinson jokes – the kid can act. He showed more attachment to the elephant in Water for Elephants than co-star Reese Witherspoon, but then he probably knew better how it felt:Twilight turned him into the most gawped at mammal on the planet. He cut like a blade through the first film, cheekbones set to stun, as pale as a rock star in recovery, summoning a palpable sense of threat. 

The series emasculated Edward as it wore on, shoving him to the side of the action, while Bella grew increasingly impatient – it was the only vampire series in which the vampires were afraid of the virgins, and exploited Pattinson’s greatest flaw as an actor: his passivity. He was coolly dissipated in David Cronenberg's Cosmopolis, as a megastar essaying the end of the world in blacked-out limo shades, but the film, and the role, both stayed well within the confines of the comfortably numb. In his new film, The Rover, Pattinson tries a different tack in his pursuit of a world seen without yellow contact lenses: he acts his socks off. 

When we first see him, he is face down in the Australian outback, bleeding out into the dirt. He’s been abandoned by his brother (Scoot McNairy), who heads up a gang of thugs making their getaway in a truck, with another member bleeding in the back. What they have done, or even who they are, is never made clear. The film, directed by David Michod, is set “10 years after the collapse”, in a future where resources like petrol and water have gone much the same place as the world’s reserves of narrative exposition. 

The whole thing is told in the mythic-elliptic style first pioneered in the spaghetti westerns of Sergio Leone and later retrofitted as pulp by George Miller in the Mad Max films, where the post-apocalypse means never having to explain yourself. This movie gives nothing up. 

So we never find out the exact circumstances that led to Pattinson being left for dead, or why he is speaking in a southern white trash accent, while everyone else speaks Australian, or why he is being hunted by squadron of American soldiers. Did he desert? What is important is that he crosses paths with Guy Pearce, about whom we know even less, except that a) he never cracks a smile, b) he looks pissed even before the gang make off with his car, and c) he wants it back. That’s how mythic he is: his character is carved out in the dust cloud left by his actions. He’s the Man With No Ride Home. 

Movie released about “Words and pictures(2014)”

Cast
Clive Owen as Jack Marcus
Juliette Binoche as Dina Delsanto
Valerie Tian as Emily
Bruce Davison as Walt
Amy Brenneman as Elspeth
Director
Fred Schepisi
Writer
Gerald Dipego
Cinematography
Ian Baker
Comedy, Drama, Romance
Rated PG-13 for sexual material including nude sketches, language and some mature thematic material
111 minutes

Reviews:  
If a picture is indeed worth a thousand words, this review would be just a selfie of yours truly looking sad and confused as the credits for "Words and Pictures" played in the background. Alas, I work in a medium driven by words, so to equal that picture, I’ve got 950 words to go.
Equating words and images is the major plot point of "Words and Pictures." Two high school Honors program teachers oversee a student debate on which is more important, images or the written word. In the process, the teachers fall in love. It sounds like a romantic comedy with a little heft to it, until you discover that one teacher is so repellent that you root against the relationship. Adding insult to injury, the debate itself is given little screen time to develop.
"Words and Pictures" has a helmer I greatly admire, suitably cast actors I enjoy and a plot that sounds intriguing. Rom-coms are the hardest genre to employ without failure, but director Fred Schepisi made two successful ones: "I.Q.," which I liked, and "Roxanne," which I adore. Clive Owen had a roguish charm in "Duplicity" and Juliette Binoche provided what little convincing romance there was to be had in "The English Patient." As a writer whose drawing skill makes Dr. Seuss look like Frank Miller, I was all set to root for words to win the big debate...