Each week we like to try to let you know what new options you have in the way of new Blu-rays. Here’s a list of movies being released today, February 11, 2014.
ALL IS LOSTBrief Synopsis: “After a collision with a shipping container at sea, a resourceful sailor finds himself, despite all efforts to the contrary, staring his mortality in the face.”
Cast: Robert Redford – Directed by: J.C. Chandor. RATING BREAKDOWN (THE MIXED BAG)
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SELECT REVIEWS
- Fr Dennis -[97 / 100]- (full review)
- Entertainment Blur Rob -[85 / 100]- (full review).
- Angry Vader -[79 / 100]- (full review).
- Tom Little of Digital Shortbread -[66 / 100]- (full review)
- Nathan Zoebl -[61 / 100]- (full review).
- Fast Film Reviews Mark Hobin -[52 / 100]- (full review)
BEST MAN HOLIDAY, THEBrief Synopsis: “A follow-up to the 1999 film, “The Best Man”, which centers on a writer whose recent autobiography put him at odds with being the Best Man at his friend’s wedding.”
Cast: Terrence Howard – Harold Perrineau Jr. – Morris Chestnut –Sanaa Lathan – Taye Diggs – Regina Hall – Nia Long – Monica Calhoun – Melissa De Sousa – Directed by: Malcolm D. Lee. RATING BREAKDOWN (THE MIXED BAG)
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SELECT REVIEWS
- Fr Dennis -[79 / 100]- (full review)
- Dan O’Neill -[65 / 100]- (full review)
- Tom Little of Digital Shortbread -[63 / 100]- (full review)
- Silver Screen Riot Matt Oakes -[36 / 100]- (full review)
COUNSELOR, THEBrief Synopsis: “A rich and successful lawyer named Counsellor is about to get married to his fiancée but soon meets up with the middle-man known as Westray who tells him his drug trafficking plan has taken a horrible twist and now he must protect himself and his soon bride-to-be lover as the truth of the drug business uncovers and targets become chosen.”
Cast: Brad Pitt – Natalie Dormer – Michael Fassbender – Dean Norris– Cameron Diaz – Penélope Cruz – Javier Bardem – Emma Rigby –John Leguizamo – Rosie Perez – Goran Višnjić – Bruno Ganz –Directed by: Ridley Scott. RATING BREAKDOWN (THE MIXED BAG)
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SELECT REVIEWS
- Rob from GuysFilmQuest -[76 / 100]- (full review)
- Chris of This Is Madness -[75 / 100]- (full review)
- Nathan Adams and the Temple Of Reviews -[43 / 100]- (full review)
- That Movie Guy Dion Wyn Hughes -[38 / 100]- (full review)
- Focused Filmographer Terrance -[34 / 100]- (full review)
- Committed to Celluloid Fernando Rafael -[34 / 100]- (full review)
ENDER’S GAMEBrief Synopsis: “Based on the classic novel by Orson Scott Card, Ender’s Game is the story of the Earth’s most gifted children training to defend their homeplanet in the space wars of the future.”
Cast: Asa Butterfield – Hailee Steinfeld – Harrison Ford – Abigail Breslin – Aramis Knight – Moisés Arias – Jimmy “Jax” Pinchak –Viola Davis – Directed by: Gavin Hood. RATING BREAKDOWN (THE MIXED BAG)
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SELECT REVIEWS
- Dave Examines Movies -[82 / 100]- (full review)
- Focused Filmographer Terrance -[70 / 100]- (full review)
- Silver Screen Riot Matt Oakes -[50 / 100]- (full review)
- Nathan Adams and the Temple Of Reviews -[43 / 100]- (full review)
- Fast Film Reviews Mark Hobin -[43 / 100]- (full review)
- Movie Waffler Eric Hillis -[20 / 100]- (full review)
HOW I LIVE NOWBrief Synopsis: “An American girl on holiday in the English countryside with her family finds herself in hiding and fighting for her survival as war breaks out.”
Cast: Saoirse Ronan – Tom Holland – Anna Chancellor – George MacKay – Corey Johnson – Sophie Ellis – Harley Bird – Sabrina Dickens – Natasha Jones – Directed by: Kevin Macdonald. RATING BREAKDOWN (THE MIXED BAG)
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SELECT REVIEWS
- Dave Examines Movies -[84 / 100]- (full review)
- Dan O’Neill -[70 / 100]- (full review)
DIANABrief Synopsis: “The last two years of Princess Diana’s life: her campaign against land mines and her relationship with surgeon Dr Hasnat Khan.”
Cast: Naomi Watts – Naveen Andrews – Charles Edwards – Douglas Hodge – Lee Asquith-Coe – Cas Anvar – Geraldine James – Juliet Stevenson – Laurence Belcher – Michael Byrne – Douglas Hodge –Mary Stockley – Chris Cowlin – Daniel Pirrie – Raffaello Degruttola –Directed by: Oliver Hirschbiegel. RATING BREAKDOWN (THE MIXED BAG)
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SELECT REVIEWS
- Silver Screen Riot Matt Oakes -[22 / 100]- (full review)
- Dan O’Neill -[20 / 100]- (full review)
- Movie Waffler Eric Hillis -[20 / 100]- (full review)
WADJDABrief Synopsis: “Wadjda is a 10-year-old girl living in a suburb of Riyadh, the capital of Saudi Arabia. Although she lives in a conservative world, Wadjda is fun loving, entrepreneurial and always pushing the boundaries of what she can get away with. After a fight with her friend Abdullah, a neighborhood boy she shouldn’t be playing with, Wadjda sees a beautiful green bicycle for sale. She wants the bicycle desperately so that she can beat Abdullah in a race. But Wadjda’s mother won’t allow it, fearing repercussions from a society that sees bicycles as dangerous to a girl’s virtue. So Wadjda decides to try and raise the money herself…”
Cast: Reem Abdullah – Waad Mohammed – Abdullrahman Algohani –Ahd – Sultan Al Assaf – Dana Abdullilah – Rehab Ahmed – Rafa Al Sanea – Sara Aljaber – Noura Faisal – Talal Loay – Sami Hazim –Mohammed Zahir – Nouf Saad – Faoziah Alyaaqop – Directed by:Haifaa Al-Mansour. RATING BREAKDOWN (THE MIXED BAG)
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SELECT REVIEWS
- Fast Film Reviews Mark Hobin -[79 / 100]- (full review)
- Andrew Buckle of The Film Emporium -[79 / 100]- (full review)
- Silver Screen Riot Matt Oakes -[71 / 100]- (full review)
AUSTENLANDBrief Synopsis: “Obsessed with the BBC production of “Pride and Prejudice”, a woman travels to a Jane Austen theme park in search for her perfect gentleman.”
Cast: Keri Russell – J. J. Feild – Bret McKenzie – Jennifer Coolidge –Georgia King – James Callis – Jane Seymour – Ricky Whittle –Directed by: Jerusha Hess. RATING BREAKDOWN (THE MIXED BAG)
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SELECT REVIEWS
- Fr Dennis -[79 / 100]- (full review)
- Sober Film Critic James Brown -[61 / 100]- (full review)
- Dan O’Neill -[50 / 100]- (full review)
- Movie Waffler Eric Hillis -[30 / 100]- (full review)
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