By David Weiner
10:59 AM PST, November 19, 2013
Jennifer Aniston and Jason Sudeikis fake a family to smuggle weed in the hilarious We're the Millers; Simon Pegg, Nick Frost and Martin Freeman face space invaders in the modern pub-crawl classic The World's End; Disney's Planes soars onto Blu-ray; Denzel and Wahlberg team up with 2 Guns; Tank Girl fires onto Blu-ray; a young Ethan Hawke and River Phoenix in Explorers and much more in this week's new releases.
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New on Blu-ray & DVD: November 19
Warner Bros.
Jennifer Aniston and Jason Sudeikis fake a family to smuggle weed in the hilarious We're the Millers; Simon Pegg, Nick Frost and Martin Freeman face space invaders in the modern pub-crawl classic The World's End; Disney's Planes soars onto Blu-ray; Denzel and Wahlberg team up with 2 Guns; Tank Girl fires onto Blu-ray; a young Ethan Hawke and River Phoenix in Explorers and much more in this week's new releases.
We're the Millers
Warner Bros. Home Entertainment
Jennifer Aniston, Jason Sudeikis, Emma Roberts and Will Poulter team up for the new comedy from Dodgeball director Rawson Marshall Thurber, which finds Sudeikis as a small-time tasked with moving a huge shipment of weed into the U.S. from Mexico for an insanely wealthy client (played by Ed Helms). Believing that all-American families get through the border unnoticed by authorities, he recruits his neighbors to pose as the "perfect family" – a cynical stripper (Aniston), a virgin "dork" (Poulter) and a runaway "gutterpunk." Can they hold it together long enough to pull it off?
The World's End & Cornetto Trilogy
Universal
The Edgar Wright-directed alien-invasion/drinking comedy featuring Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Martin Freeman, Rosamund Pike and Pierce Brosnan is now on Blu-ray! The hilarious film follows a group of friends (including Paddy Considine and Eddie Marsan) who embark on an epic 12-pub crawl in their hometown in an effort to complete "The Golden Mile," having fallen short two decades earlier when they were teens in their prime. Back to finish what they started, the reunited pals find out the hard way that an alien robo-invasion is taking place. Can they live to tell the tale -- or are they just too drunk?
Of course, for those not in the know, The World's End completes what has become known as The Three Flavours Cornetto Trilogy, which started with 2004's Shaun of the Dead and 2007's Hot Fuzz, and now all three films are also available separately on Blu-ray!
Of course, for those not in the know, The World's End completes what has become known as The Three Flavours Cornetto Trilogy, which started with 2004's Shaun of the Dead and 2007's Hot Fuzz, and now all three films are also available separately on Blu-ray!
Disney's Planes
Disney
Disney's Planes flies onto Blu-ray, DVD and 3D Blu-ray! High above The World of Cars, Planes is the comedic tale of Dusty (voiced by Dane Cook), a plane with dreams of competing as a high-flying air racer. Dusty's not exactly built for racing – and he's also afraid of heights – so he turns to a seasoned naval aviator (played by Stacy Keach) to learn how to take on the defending champ of the race circuit. Featuring some fun and friendly nods to favorite, high-flying films (Top Gun stars Val Kilmer and Anthony Edwards cameo as fighter jets named Bravo and Echo), Planes also features the vocal talents of Brad Garrett, Teri Hatcher, Dane Cook, Teri Hatcher, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Priyanka Chopra, Cedric the Entertainer, John Cleese, Carlos Alazraqui, Roger Craig Smith, Gabriel Iglesias, Colin Cowherd, Sinbad, Oliver Kalkofe and Brent Musburger.
Danny Kaye Double Feature
Warner Bros.
"The pellet with the poison's in the vessel with the pestle; the chalice from the palace has the brew that is true!" Two of Danny Kaye's most memorable classics are now available in a double-disc set! The 1956 musical comedy The Court Jester casts Kaye as a carnival performer in medieval England who impersonates a fool to aid in the ousting of a usurping tyrant. Angela Lansbury and Basil Rathbone co-star. 1959's The Five Pennies reteams Kaye with the legendary Louis
Armstrong in a biopic, based on the roller-coaster life of Jazz hornblower Red Nichols, whose beloved daughter is stricken with polio and he must curtail his Dixieland dreams, only to make an astonishing comeback with the help of his friends. Barbara Bel Geddes, Susan Gordon and Tuesday Weld co-star.
The Danny Kaye Double Feature is manufactured On Demand and can only be ordered at www.WarnerArchive.com or www.WBShop.com.
The Danny Kaye Double Feature is manufactured On Demand and can only be ordered at www.WarnerArchive.com or www.WBShop.com.
Explorers
Warner Bros.
This 1985 sci-fi fantasy from director Joe Dante (Gremlins) featured the big-screen debuts of a very young Ethan Hawke and River Phoenix in a tale of three friends who create a homemade spaceship and embark on an otherworldy adventure of galactic proportions.
The Explorers disc is manufactured On Demand and can only be ordered at www.WarnerArchive.com or www.WBShop.com.
The Explorers disc is manufactured On Demand and can only be ordered at www.WarnerArchive.com or www.WBShop.com.
2 Guns
Universal
Denzel Washington and Mark Wahlberg headline this explosive and entertaining action film that casts them as two operatives from competing bureaus -- the DEA and U.S. naval intelligence -- who are forced to go on the run together after a Mexican drug cartel infiltration goes awry, each of them unaware of the fact that the other is an undercover agent. Bill Paxton, Paula Patton, Fred Ward, James Marsden and Edward James Olmos also star.
Star Trek: The Next Generation - The Fifth Season on Blu-ray
Paramount
Boldly go! The fifth season of Star Trek: The Next Generation beams onto Blu-ray, with Captain Jean-Luc Picard (Patrick Stewart) and his intrepid Enterprise crew seeking out new life forms and new civilizations, boldly going where no one has gone before. In addition to all 26 remastered episodes from the fifth season, including I, Borg, The Inner Light, Cause and Effect, Ensign Ro, The Game and the cliffhanger resolution Redemption, Part II, special features include a gag reel, deleted scenes, the documentary In Conversation: The Music of Star Trek: The Next Generation and more.
Also available: Star Trek: The Next Generation – Unification as one feature-length movie on Blu-ray. The exciting two-part episode brought back Leonard Nimoy as Spock for a crucial mission with Jean-Luc Picard to unify the Vulcans with the Romulans.
Also available: Star Trek: The Next Generation – Unification as one feature-length movie on Blu-ray. The exciting two-part episode brought back Leonard Nimoy as Spock for a crucial mission with Jean-Luc Picard to unify the Vulcans with the Romulans.
The To-Do List
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
It's Easy A meets Superbad in this hilariously raunchy comedy starring Aubrey Plaza as a straight arrow overachiever teen who comes up with a risqué "to do" list to catch up on all the things she missed out on before she goes to college. Bill Hader, Johnny Simmons, Scott Porter, Alia Shawkat, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Andy Samberg, Clark Gregg and Donald Glover co-star.
Tank Girl on Blu-ray
Shout Factory
Lori Petty stars in this colorful, eccentric and strangely entertaining riot-grrl classic from 1995, now on Blu-ray. The post-apocalyptic tale follows the denizens of a world in 2033 where civilization has all but been destroyed by a humongous meteor. With water in scarce supply, the malevolent Water & Power company, led by Kesslee (played by Malcolm McDowell), uses the must-have resource to control the world's population. But the army of Rippers (half-men/half-kangaroo people, featuring Ice-T's character) have teamed up with the irreverent Tank Girl (Petty) to bring Water & Power down. Will their clash destroy them all? A young Naomi Watts also stars... Special features include commentary with director Rachel Talalay and Petty; interviews with Talalay, Petty and production designer Catherine Hardwicke; a vintage featurette and trailer.
Treme: The Complete Third Season
HBO
HBO's authentic and powerful series returns to further explore the vibrant culture and music that makes New Orleans one of America's most distinctive cities. Continuing to focus on the residents of the Crescent City two years after Katrina, the third season tells the colorful, interwoven stories of a group of ordinary people who must band together to protect their craft, art and music from opposing institutions with other priorities in mind.
Bridegroom
Virgil Films & Entertainment
The bittersweet story of real love and tragic loss is explored in Bridegroom, a compelling documentary that set records on Kickstarter. On May 7th, 2011, Shane Bitney Crone tragically lost the love of his life, Tom Bridegroom, in a freak accident when Tom fell from the roof of a building in Los Angeles. The pair met six years prior and immediately hit it off. They fell in love and built a life together with intentions to marry one day if it became legal. But while Shane's family lovingly accepted his homosexuality and his relationship, Tom's family refused to accept their son's sexual orientation – and banned Shane from Tom's funeral. And because they weren't married or prepared for the unexpected, Shane lost all legal claim to Tom after he died, despite the fact that they bought a home and started a business together.
All Is Bright
Anchor Bay
Paul Rudd and Paul Giamatti team up -- and then face off -- as ex-cons looking to cash in on the holiday season in this gritty comedy, playing former partners-in-crime who try out a get-rich-quick scheme by selling the trees in New York City. Giamatti's no-nonsense character is fresh out of the clink and looking to get his life back on track -- and his wife back. The only hitch is that his estranged spouse is living with Rudd's charming-yet-shallow character. As they encounter an eclectic array of tough New York customers and as old tensions boil to the surface, can the two former friends finally bury the hatchet and make an honest buck? All is Bright is directed by Phil Morrison (Junebug) and written by playwright and television writer Melissa James Gibson, (The Americans), her feature film-writing debut.
Paranoia
20th Century Fox
Liam Hemsworth creates sparks opposite Hollywood heavyweights Harrison Ford and Gary Oldman in this high-stakes thriller, which casts Hemsworth as Adam Cassidy, an entry-level employee at the Wyatt Corporation who is coerced by his ruthless CEO Nicholas Wyatt (Oldman) to spy on corporate rival Jock Goddard, played by Ford. A pawn in Wyatt's corporate game, Cassidy soon realizes he's in over his head when his boss will stop at nothing, even murder, to win a multi-billion dollar advantage. Directed by Robert Luketic (21, Legally Blonde), Paranoia boasts a supporting cast that includes Josh Holloway, Amber Heard, Julian McMahon, Embeth Davitz and Richard Dreyfuss.