All movies are 2013/14 releases unless otherwise noted. Availability: DVD | Blu-ray | Both Blu-ray and DVD One of the best films of 2013 —and one of the more remarkable documentaries to emerge in some time—this surreal meditation on the banality of evil examines a 1960s-era genocide in Indonesia that left perhaps more than a million dead.
All movies are 2012/13 releases unless otherwise noted. Availability: DVD | Blu-ray | Both Blu-ray and DVD Writer/director Andrew Bujalski’s follow-up to 2009’s Beeswax uses vintage 1980s-era video equipment to lend a realistic period feel to a story of a weekend chess tournament that pits man against machine.
Borrowing one writer and two actors from the Danish television drama Borgen, A Hijacking is a mercilessly taut depiction of what happens when a gang of Somali pirates commandeers a Danish cargo ship, and how the bosses react in the shipping company’s swanky headquarters.    Â
“We cross and re-cross our tracks like figure skaters,†claims Jim Broadbent’s bumbling publisher in this impenetrable adaptation of David Mitchell’s time-hopping bestseller. Various characters – played by Tom Hanks, Ben Whishaw, Halle Berry, Hugh Grant – are connected through the ages by a musical score and acts of violence.    Â
All movies are 2012/13 releases unless otherwise noted. Availability: DVD | Blu-ray | Both Blu-ray and DVD In 1964, a British television network brought together a group of 14 children—then, aged 7, and selected to represent a variety of socioeconomic groups—for a documentary called Seven Up!
All movies are 2012/13 releases unless otherwise noted. Availability: DVD | Blu-ray | Both Blu-ray and DVD A family (including Keri Russell and Josh Hamilton) is targeted by a deadly alien force in this sci-fi/horror mash-up directed by Scott Stewart ( Legion ).
All movies are 2012/13 releases unless otherwise noted. Availability: DVD | Blu-ray | Both Blu-ray and DVD Seth Rogen stars as an inventor who decides to take his mother (Barbra Streisand), on the road with him as he tries to sell his revolutionary organic cleaner in this comedy written by Dan Fogelman ( Crazy, Stupid, Love ) and directed by Anne Fletcher ( 27 Dresses ). Over the course of eight …
Forget the excellent John Thaw series. In Nick Love’s joyless take on Flying Squad hard-nuts Ray Winstone and Plan B play Regan and Carter, boozing, corrupt coppers who are being investigated by internal affairs (Steven Mackintosh) for their diabolical tactics: “There’s even talk of baseball bats”.