By David Weiner
11:56 AM PST, January 7, 2014
Ben Affleck and Justin Timberlake face off in Runner Runner; Duck Dynasty: Season Four takes aim; Archer: Season Four; Machete Kills and more in this week's new releases.
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New on Blu-ray & DVD: January 7
20th Century Fox
Ben Affleck and Justin Timberlake face off in Runner Runner; Duck Dynasty: Season Four takes aim; Archer: Season Four; Machete Kills and more in this week's new releases.
Runner Runner
20th Century Fox
Ben Affleck and Justin Timberlake go head-to-head in this high-stakes crime thriller. Justin plays a Princeton grad student who believes he's been swindled by an online poker site. Determined to set things right, he confronts the man he thinks is responsible, gambling tycoon Ivan Block (Affleck). But the tables are quickly turned when Block promises unlimited wealth -- and a zealous FBI agent (played by Anthony Mackie) gets into the mix, forcing Justin's character to be caught in the ultimate power play. Also starring Gemma Arterton, the film was directed by Brad Furman (The Lincoln Lawyer). Special features include deleted scenes and House of Cards: The Inside Story of Online Poker.
Machete Kills
Universal
Director Robert Rodriguez and title star Danny Trejo are back for the over-the-top movie that aims to best 2010's Machete at every turn, from cameos by Mel Gibson, Lady Gaga, and Charlie Sheen as the President of the United States, to a machine-gun-firing-bra-wearing Sofia Vergara makin' 'em eat lead… Trejo is the relentless anti-hero Machete, this time recruited by the president for a special mission that will grant him his freedom as well as an opportunity to fulfill his own personal vendetta. Jessica Alba, Michelle Rodriguez, Amber Heard, Demian Bichir and Cuba Gooding Jr. also star.
Thanks for Sharing
Lionsgate
Gwyneth Paltrow, Mark Ruffalo, Tim Robbins, Josh Gad, Joely Richardson, Patrick Fugit and pop star Alecia Moore star in this unconventional ensemble romantic comedy that follows the topsy-turvy lives and loves of three obsessive characters: an overachieving environmental consultant (Ruffalo), a stubborn small-business owner (Robbins) and a wisecracking ER doctor (Gad) who meet in a support group and set into motion a life-changing journey filled with laughter and surprises. Bonus features include a gag reel, deleted scenes, audio commentary and the featurette One Step at a Time: The Making of Thanks For Sharing.
Duck Dynasty: Season Four
Lionsgate
You've heard about the controversy. Now watch the show that started it all, entering its fourth season! The Robertsons are back with their mega-beards, red-neck charm and new misadventures sure to make you laugh and scratch your head.
Archer: The Complete Fourth Season
20th Century Fox
The world's most dangerous animated spy is back for more hilarious intrigue, sex and snarky humor. Follow Archer and his team as they globetrot from the Bermuda Triangle to the Vatican and all destinations in between, bickering, backstabbing and bumbling their way to another round of cocktails and carousing.
Star Trek Enterprise: Season Three on Blu-ray
Paramount
Join Captain Jonathan Archer (Scott Bakula) and his crew of the Starship Enterprise NX-01 as they explore strange new worlds and seek out new life and new civilizations, 100 years before James T. Kirk helmed the starship of the same name. Includes all 24 exciting episodes, commentary, deleted scenes, and an all-new, three-part documentary, In a Time of War.
House of Lies: Season Two
Showtime
Don Cheadle and Kristen Bell are back with their team of highly driven, power-hungry of management consultants stop at nothing to get business deals done in the second season of the wild Showtime series based on Martin Kihn's book, House of Lies: How Management Consultants Steal Your Watch and Then Tell You the Time. Also starring Ben Schwartz, Josh Lawson, Dawn Olivieri, Glynn Turman and Donis Leonard, Jr.
The Killing Fields 30th Anniversary Edition on Blu-ray
Warner Home Video
The haunting war story that won three Academy Awards for Best Supporting Actor (Haing S. Ngor), Best Cinematography (Chris Menges) and Best Editing (Jim Clark) returns on Blu-ray with a premium 36-page Blu-ray book containing rare photos, production notes and other material. Based on true events from the 1975 Khmer Rouge takeover of Cambodia, the story follows Sam Waterston as Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times reporter Sydney Schanberg, who remains in Cambodia after the government falls to report on the bloodbath perpetrated by one of the most brutal regimes of the 20th century and on the United States' role in precipitating the horror. Also starring John Malkovich, the film was produced by David Puttnam (Chariots of Fire) and directed by Roland Joffé (The Mission), who provides audio commentary.
Badges of Fury
Well Go USA
The Expendables star Jet Li teams up for a third time with Zhang Wen in this high-octane action-comedy as bickering cops out to catch a prolific serial killer. When a series of eerie murders erupt across Hong Kong, the two troublemaking cops are assigned to the case. After discovering all the victims were former boyfriends of aspiring starlet Liu (Shishi Liu), the detectives (one now posing as her lover) are caught in a deadly game to lure out the killer.
Tickety Toc: The Unstoppable, Unpoppable Bubble
Anchor Bay
Tommy and Tallulah and all of their adorable pals from the Nick Jr. series are together for another exciting adventure! In The Unstoppable, Unpoppable Bubble, Tommy and Tallulah test McCoggins' new unpoppable bubble formula -- but soon an unpoppable bubble becomes so large it engulfs the whole town! Will the town be rescued from the extra-large and extra-strong bubble? Will Tommy and Tallulah make it out of the bubble in time to chime? In this and five other exciting adventures, the Tickety Town team, along with your own preschoolers, will learn the importance of teamwork, community and social responsibility.
Armistice on VOD
Vampire Diaries star Joseph Morgan takes on this brutal psychological and supernatural thriller as a Royal Marine who finds himself imprisoned and forced to fight for his life against grotesque, inhuman opponents. Forced to kill every day or die himself, his one glimmer of hope comes in the form of a diary, left by former occupant WWI Lieutenant Edward Sterling (played by Matt Ryan).
Available on VOD now and in select theaters January 31.
Available on VOD now and in select theaters January 31.
The Following: The Complete First Season
Warner Home Video
Kevin Bacon headlines this stirring series from creator/executive producer Kevin Williamson (The Vampire Diaries, Dawson's Creek, the Scream franchise) as former FBI agent Ryan Hardy, brought in to consult on an ever-growing web of murder orchestrated by the devious serial killer Joe Carroll (James Purefoy), who dreams of writing a novel with Hardy as his protagonist. Bonus features include behind-the-scenes featurettes, unaired scenes and season finale commentary.