New DVD and Blu-ray Releases: February 2015
Get your wallets ready because there are a ton of great movies hitting DVD and Blu-ray next month, from awards season favorites to some of the best dramas, thrillers, and comedies, there’s something for everyone. Read on for our guide to the new movies hitting DVD and Blu-ray in February!
February 3
‘The ABCs of Death 2’: Starring Martina Garcia, Beatrice Dalle, and Tristan Risk. Another 26-chapter anthology that showcases death in all its vicious wonder and brutal beauty.
‘The Best of Me’: Starring James Marsden, Michelle Monaghan, and Luke Bracey. A pair of former high school sweethearts reunite after many years when they return to visit their small hometown.
‘The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby’: Starring Jessica Chastain, James McAvoy, and Viola Davis. One couple’s story as they try to reclaim the life and love they once knew and pick up the pieces of a past that may be too far gone.
‘Dracula Untold’: Starring Luke Evans, Dominic Cooper, and Sarah Gadon. As his kingdom is being threatened by the Turks, young prince Vlad Tepes must become a monster feared by his own people in order to obtain the power needed to protect his own family, and the families of his kingdom.
‘Exists’: Starring Samuel Davis, Dora Madison Burge, and Roger Edwards. A group of friends who venture into the remote Texas woods for a party weekend find themselves stalked by Bigfoot.
‘Hector and the Search for Happiness’: Starring Simon Pegg, Rosamund Pike, and Tracy Ann Oberman. A psychiatrist searches the globe to find the secret of happiness.
‘John Wick’: Starring Keanu Reeves, Michael Nyqvist, and Alfie Allen. An ex-hitman comes out of retirement to track down the gangsters that took everything from him.
‘Ouija’: Starring Olivia Cooke, Ana Coto, and Daren Kagasoff. A group of friends must confront their most terrifying fears when they awaken the dark powers of an ancient spirit board.
‘The Overnighters’: Broken, desperate men chase their dreams and run from their demons in the North Dakota oil fields. A local Pastor risks everything to help them.
‘Starred Up’: Starring Jack O’Connell, Ben Mendelsohn, and Rupert Friend. A troubled and explosively violent teenager is transferred to adult prison where he finally meets his match—a man who also happens to be his father.
‘Whiplash’: Starring Miles Teller, J.K. Simmons, and Paul Reiser. A promising young drummer enrolls at a cutthroat music conservatory where his dreams of greatness are mentored by an instructor who will stop at nothing to realize a student’s potential.
February 10
‘Addicted’: Starring Sharon Leal, Boris Kodjoe, and John Newberg. A gallerist risks her family and flourishing career when she enters into an affair with a talented painter and slowly loses control of her life.
‘Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good Very Bad Day’: Starring Steve Carell, Jennifer Garner, and Ed Oxenbould. Alexander’s day begins with gum stuck in his hair, followed by more calamities. Though he finds little sympathy from his family and begins to wonder if bad things only happen to him, his mom, dad, brother, and sister all find themselves living through their own terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day.
‘Force Majeure’: Starring Lisa Loven Kongsli, Johannes Kuhnke, and Clara Wettergren. A family on a ski holiday in the French Alps find themselves staring down an avalanche during lunch one day; in the aftermath, their dynamic has been shaken to its core, with a question mark hanging over their patriarch in particular.
‘Kill the Messenger’: Starring Jeremy Renner, Robert Patrick and Jena Sims. After a reporter exposes the CIA’s role in aiding rebels in Nicaragua, he becomes the victim of a smear campaign, driving him to suicide.
‘Laggies’: Starring Keira Knightley, Sam Rockwell, and Chloe Moretz. In the throes of a quarter-life crisis, Megan panics when her boyfriend proposes, then, taking an opportunity to escape for a week, hides out in the home of her new friend, 16-year-old Annika, who lives with her world-weary single dad.
‘The Lookalike’: Starring Justin Long, Gillian Jacobs, and John Corbett. Sadie’s death propels an ex-basketball champion, a deaf beauty, an addict, and an aspiring actress into an unlikely romance and a desperate quest to appease drug lord William Spinks.
‘Nightcrawler’: Starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Rene Russo, and Riz Ahmed. When Lou Bloom, a driven man desperate for work, muscles into the world of L.A. crime journalism, he blurs the line between observer and participant to become the star of his own story. Aiding him in his effort is Nina, a TV-news veteran.
‘Predestination’: Starring Ethan Hawke, Sarah Snook, and Noah Taylor. The life of a time-traveling Temporal Agent. On his final assignment, he must pursue the one criminal that has eluded him throughout time.
‘Rosewater’: Starring Gael Garcia Bernal, Kim Bodnia, and Dimitri Leonidas. Iranian-Canadian journalist Maziar Bahari is detained by Iranian forces who brutally interrogate him under suspicion that he is a spy.
‘The Song’: Starring Alan Powell, Ali Faulkner, and Caitlin Nicol-Thomas. An aspiring singer-songwriter’s life and marriage suffer when the song he writes for his wife propels him to stardom.
February 17
‘Birdman’: Starring Michael Keaton, Emma Stone, and Edward Norton. A washed up actor, who once played an iconic superhero, battles his ego and attempts to recover his family, his career and himself in the days leading up to the opening of a Broadway play.
‘Dumb and Dumber To’: Starring Jim Carrey, Jeff Daniels, and Rob Riggle. 20 years since their first adventure, Lloyd and Harry go on a road trip to find Harry’s newly discovered daughter, who was given up for adoption.
‘Foxcatcher’: Starring Channing Tatum, Steve Carell, and Mark Ruffalo. The greatest Olympic Wrestling Champion brother team joins Team Foxcatcher led by multimillionaire sponsor John E. du Pont as they train for the 1988 games in Seoul—a union that leads to unlikely circumstances.
‘The Homesman’: Starring Tommy Lee Jones, Hilary Swank, and Grace Gummer. Three women who have been driven mad by pioneer life are to be transported across the country by covered wagon by the pious, independent-minded Mary Bee Cuddy, who in turn employs low-life drifter George Briggs to assist her.
‘The Interview’: Starring Seth Rogen, James Franco, and Randall Park. Dave Skylark and producer Aaron Rapoport run the celebrity tabloid show “Skylark Tonight.” When they land an interview with a surprise fan, North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un, they are recruited by the CIA to turn their trip to Pyongyang into an assassination mission.
‘Life Itself’: The life and career of the renowned film critic and social commentator, Roger Ebert.
‘St. Vincent’: Starring Bill Murray, Melissa McCarthy, and Naomi Watts. A young boy whose parents have just divorced finds an unlikely friend and mentor in the misanthropic, bawdy, hedonistic war veteran who lives next door.
‘The Theory of Everything’: Starring Eddie Redmayne, Felicity Jones, and Tom Prior. A look at the relationship between the famous physicist Stephen Hawking and his wife.
‘V/H/S: Viral’: Starring Emmy Argo, Emilia Ares Zoryan, and Justin Welborn. Follows fame-obsessed teens who unwittingly become stars of the next internet sensation.
February 24
‘Beyond the Lights’: Starring Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Minnie Driver, and Nate Parker. The pressures of fame have superstar singer Noni on the edge, until she meets Kaz, a young cop who works to help her find the courage to develop her own voice and break free to become the artist she was meant to be.
‘Big Hero 6’: Starring Ryan Potter, Jamie Chung, and T.J. Miller. The special bond that develops between plus-sized inflatable robot Baymax, and prodigy Hiro Hamada, who team up with a group of friends to form a band of high-tech heroes.
‘Horrible Bosses 2’: Starring Jason Bateman, Charlie Day, and Jason Sudeikis. Dale, Kurt and Nick decide to start their own business but things don’t go as planned because of a slick investor, prompting the trio to pull off a harebrained and misguided kidnapping scheme.
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