Thursday, September 25, 2014

Weekly eHighlights: Video edition

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Our streaming video catalog just keeps getting better and better! This month we've added a plethora of new feature films, television series, and documentaries. Many of our new titles feature phenomenal stars: Matthew McConaughey, James Franco, Robert DiNiro, Nicole Kidman, Amy Poehler, and more. Below you'll find a sample of our hottest additions. To see all of our recently added videos, click on the link to the Marketplace cart.

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Feature Films

Are You Here
Millennium Entertainment – Comedy

Womanizing local weatherman Steve must accompany his off-the-grid best friend Ben to his childhood home for Ben’s estranged father’s funeral. They soon discover that Ben has inherited the family fortune, leaving the ill-equipped duo to battle Ben’s formidable sister and deal with his father’s gorgeous 25-year-old widow. Starring: Owen Wilson, Zach Galifianakis, and Amy Poehler.

 

As I Lay Dying
Millennium Entertainment – Drama

As I Lay Dying is adapted from the classic novel by William Faulkner.  The story chronicles the Bundren family as they traverse the Mississippi countryside to bring the body of their deceased mother, Addie, to her hometown for burial. Directed by, written by, and starring Oscar-nominated James Franco.

 

Bernie
Millennium Entertainment – Comedy

In small-town Texas, an affable mortician strikes up a friendship with a wealthy widow, though when she starts to become controlling, he goes to great lengths to separate himself from her grasp. Based on a true story. Starring: Jack Black, Shirley MacLaine, and Matthew McConaughey.

 

Dragon Tattoo Trilogy
Music Box Films – Drama, Suspense

The original Swedish adaptations of Stieg Larsson's best-selling trilogy are now available in streaming video! English subtitles.

 

The Great Buck Howard
Magnolia Pictures – Comedy

A young man, much to the chagrin of his father, becomes the new assistant to an illusionist in decline. Starring: John Malkovich, Colin Hanks, Emily Blunt, and Tom Hanks.

 

The Paperboy
Millennium Entertainment – Drama, Thriller

A reporter returns to his Florida hometown to investigate a case involving a death row inmate. Based on the novel by Pete Dexter. Starring: Zac Efron, Matthew McConaughey, Nicole Kidman, and John Cusack.

 

What Just Happened?
Magnolia Films – Comedy

A movie producer desperately tries to save his two films from falling apart while managing the chaos of two marriages that already have. Based on the acclaimed, best-selling memoir by veteran Hollywood producer Art Linson and directed by Academy Award-winning Barry Levinson. Starring: Robert De Niro, Sean Penn, Catherine Keener, and Bruce Willis.

 

Television

The Cisco Kid
Peter Rodgers Organization – Action, Adventure

The Cisco Kid and his English-mangling sidekick Pancho travel the old west in the grand tradition of the Lone Ranger, righting wrongs and fighting injustice wherever they find it.

 

Dan Vs.
Starz Digital Media – Animation, Comedy

A rude and selfish lunatic named Dan tries to get revenge on anyone and anything that he wants to stop from angering him. He gets his dimwitted best friend Chris and (sometimes) Chris’ beautiful and intelligent wife Elise to help Dan on his revenge plots.

 

Documentary and Instructional

Food, Inc.
Magnolia Pictures – Documentary

Food Inc. lifts the veil on our nation’s food industry, exposing how our nation’s food supply is now controlled by a handful of corporations that often put profit ahead of consumer health, the livelihood of the American farmer, the safety of workers, and our own environment. Nominated for Best Documentary Feature Oscar.

 

I'm Still Here
Magnolia Pictures – Documentary, Comedy

Documenting Joaquin Phoenix’s transition from the acting world to a career as an aspiring rapper. Starring: Joaquin Phoenix and Casey Affleck.

 

Put Your Heart on the Page
Dreamscape Media – Instructional

Anne Perry started out as a good writer, but has won greatness inch by inch by reading other authors, listening to editors and agents, and adapting techniques from other creators. Now you, too, can have a lesson from an author who The New York Times has called ‘First Rate,’ and who’s included in the 100 Masters of the crime genre; who’s sold 25 million copies worldwide to continuing critical acclaim.

 

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: A Family Portrait
MTI Home Video – Documentary

In 1974, Tobe Hooper unleashed a film that was an intense study of homicidal madness in psychological horror. It has since become a cult phenomenon and the most successful independent horror film ever made. This is the first ever documentary of the making of this landmark film.

 

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