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OnVideo's Weekly Guide to Home Video Releases
The Americans Season 3
(2015) Four-disc set with all 13 episodes of the period drama about the complex marriage of two KGB spies posing as Americans in suburban Washington D.C. shortly after Ronald Reagan is elected President. Formats: DVD. Extras: Deleted scenes, "The Cold War for Paige." (Fox).
Angry Birds Stella: Season Two
(2015) The Golden Egg mystery continues in Season Two of Stella's animated series. Stella and her feathered friends make an amazing discovery that rocks Golden Island to its molten core -- the location of the lost Golden Egg. It doesn't take long for the flock to find out that the Golden Egg has some serious power -- anything that touches it turns to gold. Features all 13 episodes. Formats: DVD, Digital. Extras: "Behind the Scenes Director's Day," "Angry Birds Stella A Day at the Office," character reels: Stella, Gale, Willow, Poppy, Luca, Dahlia, "Angry Birds Stella" gameplay trailer, "Angry Birds 2 Test Piggies: The Pig Inflator," "Angry Birds 2 Test Piggies: The Blizzard." (Sony).
The Boy
(2015) David Morse, Jared Breeze, Rainn Wilson, Bill Sage, Mike Vogel. An intimate portrait of a 9-year-old sociopath's growing fascination with death. Named one of the best under the radar films of 2015 by Indiewire and Hitfix. Formats: DVD, Blu-ray Disc. Extras: Behind-the-scenes featurette. (Scream Factory).
Capture the Flag
(2016) Animated family film approved by the Dove Foundation. Space travel runs in Mike Goldwing's family: both his father and grandfather were astronauts. But the plucky 12-year-old's estranged grandfather, Frank, has lived a life isolated from his family after missing out on the chance to make history as a member of the Apollo 11 crew. When Mike discovers that an eccentric billionaire plans to fly to the moon, claim its vast, valuable mineral resources, and destroy the American flag planted by the Apollo 11 astronauts, Mike teams with his grandfather, best friends Amy and Marty, and a clever chameleon, and blasts off on an incredible moon-bound mission, determined to thwart the billionaire's evil plan, capture the flag, and reunite his divided family. Formats: DVD, VOD, Digital. (Paramount).
Creed
(2015) Michael B. Jordan, Sylvester Stallone, Tessa Thompson, Phylicia Rashad, Anthony Bellew. For his portrayal of Rocky Balboa, Stallone has been nominated for an Academy Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role. Additionally, he was awarded the Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture at the 2016 Golden Globes, as well as Best Supporting Actor at the 2016 Critics' Choice Awards. Formats: DVD, Blu-ray/DVD Combo, VOD, Digital, UltraViolet (cloud). Extras: "Know the Past, Own the Future" featurette, "Becoming Adonis," deleted scenes. (MGM/Warner).
The Danish Girl
(2015) Director: Tom Hooper. Stars: Eddie Redmayne, Alicia Vikander, Ben Whishaw, Sebastian Koch, Amber Heard, Matthias Schoenaerts. A fictitious love story loosely inspired by the lives of Danish artists Lili Elbe and Gerda Wegener. Lili and Gerda's marriage and work evolve as they navigate Lili's groundbreaking journey as a transgender pioneer. Formats: DVD, Blu-ray Disc, VOD, Digital, UltraViolet (cloud). Extras: "The Making of The Danish Girl." (Universal).
Drunk History Season 3
(2015) All 13 episodes of the series that presents historical reenactments from A-list talent as told by inebriated storytellers. Drunken and often incoherent narrations provide a unique take on the familiar and less familiar people and events from our country's great past with unforgettable results. Host Derek Waters, along with an ever-changing cast of actors and comedians, travels across the country to present the rich tales that every city in this land has to offer. In Season 3, Waters and the crew travel around America to get a drunk history lesson in some of the nation's most historical locations. Some of the destinations include New Jersey, Miami, Oklahoma, New Orleans, New Mexico, Cleveland, L.A., and Vegas covering topics that include space, journalism, games, and inventors. Intrepid storytellers include Paget Brewster, Cameron Esposito, Fortune Feimster, Rich Fulcher, Mark Gagliardi, Dan Harmon, Kyle Kinane, and others. Guest appearances by Maya Rudolph, Will Ferrell, Taran Killam, Michael Cera, Natasha Leggero, Jack Black, Dr. Drew Pinsky, Topher Grace, Johnny Knoxville, Adam DeVine, and others. Formats: DVD, Blu-ray Disc. Extras: Five totally unblurred episodes, extended scenes, deleted scenes, hiccups, more. (Paramount).
Flowers
(2015 -- Spain) Nagore Aranburu, Itziar Aizpuru, Josean Bengoetxea, Itziar Ituno. An intensely poetic meditation on love, pain and memory, all expressed through the metaphor of cut flowers. Ane lives a quietly unfulfilled life, trapped in a seemingly loveless marriage, until she suddenly begins to receive bouquets of flowers anonymously, once a week. Meanwhile, Tere wants nothing more than a grandchild, but her only son Benat and his wife have other plans. A sudden, tragic event jolts all of their lives into a new reality, and flowers start to appear anonymously once again, but this time, instead of passion, they represent an emotional memory. Spains submission to the 88th Academy Awards, and the first Academy Award submission in the Euskara (Basque) language. Formats: DVD, VOD. Extras: Making-of featurette, filmmaker Q&A from the film's Los Angeles premiere, film press conference from San Sebastian International Film Festival. (Music Box Films).
God's Club
(2015) Stephen Baldwin, Corbin Bernsen, Lorenzo Lamas. Following his wife's death, public high-school teacher Michael Evens (Baldwin) re-launches the Bible Club she originally founded. When upset parents cite the separation of church and state and want the group disbanded, a passionate dispute erupts and threatens to destroy their small Vermont community. Formats: DVD. (Cinedigm).
Home
(2016) Carrie, a young religious fundamentalist, is abandoned by her missionary father and has to move in with her mother, who has come out of the closet and married another woman; the two women have a biological child. When the women leave on a business trip, Carrie must take care of her small stepsister in a strange new house and deal with creepy occurrences that lead to full blown terror. Formats: DVD, Digital. (Inception Media Group).
Kill or Be Killed
(2015) Justin Meeks, Paul McCarthy-Boyington, Greg Kelly, Luce Rains, Arianne Margot, Bridger Zadina. A gang of cutthroat outlaws -- the most wanted men in Texas -- on a desperate ride across five hundred miles of badlands to recover a fortune in hidden loot are being picked off one by one by bounty hunters. What began as a hard journey driven by greed becomes a feverish race to survive. Formats: DVD, VOD. (RLJ Entertainment).
Legend
(2015) Dir.: Brian Helgeland; Stars Tom Hardy, Taron Egerton, Emily Browning. Crime biography follows the lives of Ronald and Reginald Kray -- identical twin brothers, both portrayed by Tom Hardy in a double performance -- who rose to power and terrorized London's underworld in the 1950s and 60s. Formats: DVD, Blu-ray Disc, VOD, Digital, UltraViolet (cloud). (Universal).
LEGO Star Wars: Droid Tales
(2015) Five complete episodes of the TV series that awakens the lighter side of the Force. Following the victory celebration in the Ewok village on Endor, at the end of "Star Wars: Return of the Jedi," R2-D2 and C-3PO have gathered to regale Luke, Leia, Han, Chewbacca and
Life
(2015) Robert Pattinson, Dane DeHaan, Peter Lucas. The real-life story of legendary actor James Dean and his complex friendship with Life Magazine photographer Dennis Stock. Rebel actor Dean was brought together for a Life Magazine assignment with Stock and their journey leads to an unbreakable friendship and some of the most iconic images of the age. Formats: DVD. (Cinedigm).
The Midnight Man
(2015) Will Kemp, Doug Jones, William Forsythe, Brent Spiner, Vinnie Jones. When Grady (Kemp), an assassin with a genetic disorder that renders him unable to feel pain, is sent on a high-stakes assignment, his world is turned upside-down after an attack when he awakens to
Miss You Already
(2015) Director: Catherine Hardwicke. Stars: Toni Collette, Drew Barrymore, Dominic Cooper, Paddy Considine, Frances De La Tour, Jaqueline Bisset. The friendship between two life-long girlfriends is put to the test when one starts a family -- with a rock star husband and a successful career -- and the other -- who works in a community garden and lives in a boathouse with her boyfriend -- falls ill with breast cancer. Formats: DVD, Blu-ray Disc, VOD, Digital, UltraViolet (cloud). Extras: Deleted scenes, "With Love: Making Miss You Already" featurette, "There's a Place" music video by The All-American Rejects, on-set selfies, filmmaker commentary, a director's lookbook of Milly's party.
Narcopolis
(2015) Eliot Cowan, Jonathan Pryce, James Callis, Elodie Yung. In 2024, when the manufacture and consumption of drugs has been legalized, an elite police unit, known as Drecks, keep the black market dealers off the streets and the licensed drug companies rich. When dreck and former addict Frank Grieves is called to investigate an unidentifiable corpse, he makes a connection to the biggest and most powerful drug producer of them all: The Ambro Company. But Ambro has friends in high places and as his corrupt superiors turn on him, Grieves finds himself cut loose by the law and separated from the people he loves. The only way to clear his name is to find the identity of the dead body and its connection to Ambro. Formats: DVD, Blu-ray Disc, Blu-ray/DVD Combo, VOD, Digital, UltraViolet (cloud). Extras: Audio commentary with writer-director Justin Trefgarne, "Behind the Scenes of Narcopolis" featurette, deleted scene, theatrical trailer. (IFC Midnight/Scream Factory).
The Night Before
(2015) Anthony Mackie, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Seth Rogen, Lizzy Caplan, Jillian Bell, Mindy Kaling. Three best friends set out for one last wild night of debauchery before settling down into adulthood. Formats: DVD, Blu-ray Disc, VOD, Digital, UltraViolet (cloud). Extras: Cast gag reel, "Making One Epic Party: 20 Minutes of On-Set Shenanigans," four featurettes: "The Spirit of Christmas," "Drunkest Santas on The Block," "Whale Juice: Extended Strip Club Scene," "Midnight Mass with Nana." Blu-ray adds deleted & extended scenes, Mr. Green Line-O Rama, "Christmas in the Summer" featurette. (Sony).
The North Star
(2016) Jeremiah Trotter, Thomas C. Bartley, Jr., Lynn Whitfield, Keith David, John Diehl, Clifton Powell. A pair of black slaves make the desperate choice to escape their brutal masters just before the Civil War. Evading brutal slave hunters and with only the light of the North Star as their guide, the pair make the grueling journey across hostile land to the free state of Pennsylvania. Formats: DVD. (RLJ Entertainment).
Piggy Tales: Season Two Pigs At Work
(2015) Go on the job with the well-meaning but absent-minded working pigs of "Angry Birds" and find out how Pig City is constructed (and deconstructed) in this collection of 26 animated shorts. Formats: DVD, Digital. Extras: "The Making of Piggy Tales The Research," "The Making of Piggy Tales The Field Test," "Angry Birds Space Solar System" trailer, "Angry Birds Seasons Invasion of the Egg Snatchers," "Angry Birds 2 Test Piggies: The Golden Duck," two bonus episodes: "Demohogs" and "Swine Symphony." (Sony).
Room
(2015) Brie Larson, Jacob Tremblay, William H. Macy, Joan Allen, Wendy Crewson, Sean Bridgers. Formats: DVD, Blu-ray Disc, VOD, Digital, UltraViolet (cloud). (Lionsgate).
Sesame Street: The Cookie Thief
(2015) A cookie art museum has just opened on Sesame Street. Surrounded by beautiful cookie paintings, like "Girl With the Cookie Earring," and the "Muncha Lisa," the museum is full of
She's Beautiful When She's Angry
(2015) A provocative and insightful account of the birth of the modern women's liberation movement through to its contemporary manifestations in the new millennium. More than 30 fearless activists at the forefront of the women's movement from 1966-1971 come together and share their stories, their experiences and provide an in-depth look at the history of gender inequality. Directed by Mary Dore, the documentary combines rarely-seen archival footage, a classic soundtrack of the era and the first-person stories of the protests, poetry slams and community meetings that engineered the women's liberation movement and the meaningful social change it sought. Capturing the exhilaration felt by a generation of women who challenged and shed age-old gender role limitations in a surge of rebellious energy, the film features commentary from such women's issues activists and writers as Chude Pamela Allen, Judith Arcana, NonaWillis Aronowitz and Fran Beal. Despite episodes of internal discord, including challenges to leadership and disparity of focus, the movement nevertheless became the voice
Strike Back: Cinemax Season 4
(2013) Three-disc set with 10 episodes of the series that follows the unlikely alliance between two crack special agents one an American renegade, the other an elite British spy. From the tropical beaches of Thailand to the towering peaks of the Swiss Alps. "Strike Back" focuses on two members of Section 20, a secret British anti-terrorist organization: Michael Stonebridge (Philip Winchester), a consummate British soldier still struggling to overcome tragedy in his life, and Damien Scott (Sullivan Stapleton), a disgraced U.S. Delta Force operative who has found redemption with S20. In the fourth and final season, Stonebridge and Scott face their biggest assignment yet: A global threat involving a ruthless network of international terrorists. Scott, Stonebridge and their S20 colleagues Philip Locke (Robson
The Unauthorized Collection 4-Film Set
One of Lifetime's most successful franchises, the "Unauthorized" films explore the real-life journeys of actors launched into superstardom, revealing behind-the-scenes secrets and untold stories. Now in one set: "The Unauthorized Beverly Hills, 90210 Story," "The Unauthorized Melrose Place Story," "The Unauthorized Saved by the Bell Story" and "The Unauthorized Full House Story." Formats: DVD: $14.98, Digital. (Lionsgate).
Weaponized
(2016) Tom Sizemore, Mickey Rourke, Johnny Messner, Jon Foo. A damaged homicide detective (Messner) must prevent a grieving father from unleashing a "robotic virus" (that allows soldiers to swap consciousness with a target,
Youth
(2015) Michael Caine, Harvey Keitel, Rachel Weisz, Paul Dano, Jane Fonda. From Paolo Sorrentino, the director of Italy's Academy Award foreign language winner "The Great Beauty" comes this film about two longtime friends vacationing in the Swiss Alps. Michael Caine plays Fred, an acclaimed composer and conductor, who brings along his daughter (Rachel Weisz) and best friend Mick (Harvey Keitel), a renowned filmmaker. While Mick scrambles to finish the screenplay for what he imagines will be his last important film, Fred has no intention of resuming his musical career. The two men reflect on their past, each finding that some of
the most important experiences can come later in life. Formats: Blu-ray/DVD Combo. (Fox).
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