DVD Releases for February 11th, 2014

2014-02-11

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 LOST

Brief 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.”

Overall Rating Rank from 2013
77.1% 45

Cast: Robert Redford – Directed by: J.C. Chandor.

RATING BREAKDOWN (THE MIXED BAG)

Buttery 40%
Regular 40%
Half-Popped 20%
Stale 0%
Burnt 0%

 

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BEST MAN HOLIDAY, THE

Brief 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.”

Overall Rating Rank from 2013
65.33% 97

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)

Buttery 16.67%
Regular 33.33%
Half-Popped 33.33%
Stale 16.67%
Burnt 0%

 

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COUNSELOR, THE

Brief 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.”

Overall Rating Rank from 2013
51.85% 148

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)

Buttery 0%
Regular 30.77%
Half-Popped 38.46%
Stale 30.77%
Burnt 0%

 

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ENDER’S GAME

Brief 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.”

Overall Rating Rank from 2013
60.5% 115

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)

Buttery 8.33%
Regular 41.67%
Half-Popped 41.67%
Stale 0%
Burnt 8.33%

 

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HOW I LIVE NOW

Brief 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.”

Overall Rating Rank from 2013
61.33% 114

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)

Buttery 33.33%
Regular 33.33%
Half-Popped 0%
Stale 33.33%
Burnt 0%

 

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DIANA

Brief Synopsis: “The last two years of Princess Diana’s life: her campaign against land mines and her relationship with surgeon Dr Hasnat Khan.”

Overall Rating Rank from 2013
20.67% 184

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)

Buttery 0%
Regular 0%
Half-Popped 0%
Stale 0%
Burnt 100%

 

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WADJDA

Brief 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…”

Overall Rating Rank from 2013
76.33% 48

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)

Buttery 0%
Regular 100%
Half-Popped 0%
Stale 0%
Burnt 0%

 

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AUSTENLAND

Brief 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.”

Overall Rating Rank from 2013
51% 155

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)

Buttery 0%
Regular 16.67%
Half-Popped 50%
Stale 33.33%
Burnt 0%

 

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