DVD Release Calendar: November 2013

November 5

All movies are 2012/13 releases unless otherwise noted. Availability: DVD | Blu-ray | Both Blu-ray and DVD

Computer Chess 74 Add to Netflix Queue Watch Trailer

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. The comedy originally divided critics when it premiered at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival, but reviewers eventually warmed to the film's oddball charms.

Grown Ups 2 19 Add to Netflix Queue Watch Trailer

Adam Sandler's first-ever sequel reunites the star with director Dennis Dugan and co-stars Chris Rock, Kevin James, and David Spade. The results: predictably awful, and predictably successful at the box office. It's actually one of Sandler's lowest-scoring films to date, which means that a third Razzie worst picture nomination in three years is not out of the question.

White House Down 52 Add to Netflix Queue Watch Trailer

So who was the winner of this year's battle of the terrorists-invade-the-White House thrillers? Olympus Has Fallen is the one getting a sequel (and the one that made more money in the U.S.), while White House Down scored slightly better with critics and earned more money worldwide. This one comes from disaster master Roland Emmerich, and stars Channing Tatum as a cop who wants to be a Secret Service agent. While touring the White House with his daughter (Joey King), an attack occurs, and Tatum must become his daughter's bodyguard as well as the president’s (Jamie Foxx). Jason Clarke, Maggie Gyllenhaal, James Woods, and Richard Jenkins play supporting roles.

More movie releases on November 5, 2013
	The Best Years of Our Lives (1946) Drama / Myrna Loy, Fredric March
	The Bishop's Wife (1947) Comedy / Cary Grant, Loretta Young
53	Broken Drama / Tim Roth, Cillian Murphy	Add to Queue
	East of Eden (1955) Drama / James Dean, Julie Harris
62	The Fitzgerald Family Christmas Drama / Edward Burns, Connie Britton	Add to Queue
	Giant (1956) Drama / Rock Hudson, Elizabeth Taylor, James Dean
37	Girl Most Likely Comedy / Kristen Wiig, Annette Bening	Add to Queue
59	Hava Nagila: The Movie Documentary	Add to Queue
58	The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey Extended Edition (adds 13 minutes)
	Intolerance (1916) Drama / Lillian Gish
51	Lovelace Drama / Amanda Seyfried	Add to Queue
69	Out in the Dark Foreign drama	Add to Queue
51	Parkland Drama / Zac Efron, Marcia Gay Harden, Paul Giamatti	Add to Queue
52	Passion Thriller / Rachel McAdams, Noomi Rapace	Add to Queue
	Rebel Without a Cause (1956) Drama / James Dean, Natalie Wood
64	Renoir Foreign drama	Add to Queue
	The Right Stuff (1983) 30th Anniversary Edition
38	Scrooged (1988) 25th Anniversary Edition
	Syrup Comedy / Amber Heard, Shiloh Fernandez	Add to Queue
	Twilight Forever: The Complete Saga Box set
TV on DVD/Blu-ray
	Absolutely Fabulous "Absolutely All of It" complete series box set
	Bat Masterson Season 3
	Boy Meets World Complete series
69	Clear History HBO movie
	Doctor Who Series 1-7 box set
	Farscape Complete series
	Hell's Kitchen Seasons 1-10 box set
	Ice Road Truckers Season 7
	Law & Order Season 13
87	Mad Men Season 6
64	Magic City Season 2
	Naked City Complete series
	Robotech Complete series
	Saved by the Bell Complete series
72	Under the Dome Season 1
	Weeds Complete series

November 12

Frances Ha 82 Add to Netflix Queue Watch Trailer

A no-budget, black-and-white collaboration between writer/director Noah Baumbach and writer/star Greta Gerwig (who previously worked together on the Los Angeles-set Greenberg), Frances Ha finds Baumbach returning to his native New York, where he found success with 2005’s coming-of-age tale The Squid and the Whale. This one's a coming-of-age tale of a different sort, exploring what it feels like to be out of college and fumbling through life. Gerwig’s Frances, an apprentice dancer, is our guide as she moves between apartments (Girls’ Adam Driver is one of her roommates) and tries to maintain a relationship with her best friend, played by Mickey Sumner. This Criterion Collection release adds a conversation between Baumbach and Peter Bogdanovich, another between Gerwig and Sarah Polley, and more bonus content.

Man of Steel 55 Add to Netflix Queue Watch Trailer

When producer Christopher Nolan announced that Zack Snyder would direct Man of Steel, Superman fans expressed their trepidation. The director’s work has been spotty, with his first film, Dawn of the Dead, holding his highest Metascore and his last film, Sucker Punch, possessing his lowest. The resulting film wasn't a hit with critics (who found it "overlong" and "businesslike"), but grosses of over $660 million worldwide mean that we'll be seeing Superman again soon (on July 17, 2015, to be exact, when Superman meets up with Ben Affleck's Batman). Henry Cavill dons the cape and tights, joined in the cast by Diane Lane and Kevin Costner as Ma and Pa Kent, Russell Crowe as Jor-El, Michael Shannon as General Zod, Amy Adams as Lois Lane, and Laurence Fishburne as Perry White.

Prince Avalanche 73 Add to Netflix Queue Watch Trailer

Paul Rudd and Emile Hirsch spend a summer painting traffic lines on burned-out Texas roads in this remake of the Icelandic film Either Way by David Gordon Green (Pineapple Express). This low-budget (and secretly made) dramedy earned mostly positive notices upon its Sundance premiere, and if you don't expect a lot of action or plot, you, too, could enjoy spending an hour and a half in the company of the two stars.

More movie releases on November 12, 2013
	Akira (1988) 25th Anniversary Edition
74	The Attack Foreign drama	Add to Queue
86	Barbara Foreign drama	Add to Queue
83	Blackfish Documentary	Add to Queue
	City Lights (1931) Criterion Collection
62	Grabbers Horror, comedy	Add to Queue
65	Greenwich Village: Music That Defined a Generation Documentary, music	Add to Queue
59	I Declare War Comedy, drama	Add to Queue
35	Paradise Comedy / Directed by Diablo Cody	Add to Queue
67	Thirteen Days (2000) Drama / Kevin Costner
58	Turbo Animation / Ryan Reynolds, Paul Giamatti, Maya Rudolph	Add to Queue
TV on DVD/Blu-ray
	Combat! Complete series
	Dance Moms Best-of
	Deadliest Catch Season 8
71	Dexter Season 8
	Dexter Complete series
	Diagnosis Murder Season 6 / also: Complete Collection
	Family Ties Complete series
78	Last Tango in Halifax BBC/PBS series
	MADtv Season 4
	Merlin Complete series
	The Mod Squad Complete series
71	The Paradise Season 1
	Silk Season 1
	Stan Lee's Superhumans Season 2

November 19

The To Do List 61 Add to Netflix Queue Watch Trailer

Set in 1993, this raunchy R-rated comedy stars Parks and Recreation's Aubrey Plaza as Brandy Clark, an overachiever who has underachieved in the sexual realm. To remedy that, she puts together a to-do list of exploits she wants to complete before college. Aiding her in this pursuit are Donald Glover, Bill Hader, Andy Samberg, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Scott Porter, Rachel Bilson, and Alia Shawkat, while Clark Gregg and Connie Britton play her parents. Fairly decent reviews met this feature writing and directing debut for Maggie Carey (a frequent Funny or Die contributor and wife of SNL's Bill Hader).

We're the Millers 44 Add to Netflix Queue Watch Trailer

This fairly successful late-summer comedy stars Jason Sudeikis as an in-over-his-head drug dealer. He enlists a stripper (Jennifer Aniston), a homeless woman (Emma Roberts), and a neighbor kid (Will Poulter) to pose as his family and head off with him on an RV road trip to transport a huge shipment of marijuana across the Mexican border. Critics liked the cast, but found the material given them rather bland and forgettable.

The World's End 81 Add to Netflix Queue Watch Trailer

Edgar Wright’s Blood and Ice Cream Trilogy (aka The Three Flavours Cornetto Trilogy)—which began with Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz— draws to its conclusion at The World’s End. (The films aren't actually related story-wise, so seeing the first two is not a prerequisite to enjoying this one). As with the previous films, The World’s End was written by Wright and Simon Pegg and stars Pegg and Nick Frost. This installment is a sci-fi comedy that follows five friends (Pegg, Frost, Martin Freeman, Paddy Considine, and Eddie Marsan) as they try to repeat an epic 12-pub crawl they first attempted 20 years prior. This time, their obstacles are a bit more otherworldly.

More movie releases on November 19, 2013
55	2 Guns Action / Denzel Washington, Mark Wahlberg	Add to Queue
54	All Is Bright Dramedy / Paul Rudd, Paul Giamatti	Add to Queue
46	And While We Were Here Drama / Kate Bosworth	Add to Queue
	The Bells of St. Mary's (1945) Drama / Bing Crosby, Ingrid Bergman
42	Breaking the Girls Thriller / Agnes Bruckner, Madeline Zima	Add to Queue
85	Bridegroom Documentary	Add to Queue
60	C.O.G. Dramedy / David Sedaris adaptation	Add to Queue
67	Crystal Fairy Comedy / Michael Cera, Gaby Hoffmann	Add to Queue
67	Hannah Arendt Drama / Janet McTeer	Add to Queue
32	Paranoia Thriller / Gary Oldman, Harrison Ford, Liam Hemsworth	Add to Queue
39	Planes Animation / Dane Cook	Add to Queue
49	Thérèse Foreign drama / Audrey Tautou	Add to Queue
	Tokyo Story (1953) Criterion Collection
43	Violet & Daisy Thriller / Alexis Bledel, Danny Trejo, James Gandolfini, Saoirse Ronan	Add to Queue
TV on DVD/Blu-ray
62	Lilyhammer Season 1
	Lost Girl Season 3
65	Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight HBO movie
	Peter Gunn Season 3
	Star Trek: The Next Generation Season 5
	Touched by an Angel Season 9
77	Treme Season 3

November 26

Breaking Bad: The Complete Series

You won't want to bury this barrel in the desert. This one's filled with two copies of Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium every episode of what just may be TV's all-time greatest drama series—and one that definitely stands up to re-watching. The Blu-ray-only set includes the 55 hours of special features that were available on the individual season sets (including a three-minute alternate ending that is also on the final season DVD/Blu-ray set, which is also out today) and adds a new two-hour documentary and a 16-page booklet, as well as a Los Pollos Hermanos apron.

The Canyons 36 Add to Netflix Queue Watch Trailer

If you were going to watch an erotic thriller starring Lindsay Lohan as a troubled actress, you'd want it to be a trainwreck. Mission accomplished. The script comes from novelist Bret Easton Ellis, the direction from Paul Schrader, and the story revolves around an L.A. trust fund kid (played by porn star James Deen) who discovers that his girlfriend is cheating on him with her co-star on a movie he's producing. A few critics actually praised Lohan's performance, but they were in the minority, with most reviewers turned off by Schrader's tedious, overly artsy eroticism.

Jobs 44 Add to Netflix Queue Watch Trailer

This week's other trainwreck features star Ashton Kutcher completely transforming himself into the late Apple co-founder Steve Jobs. Or ... maybe not. Kutcher's performance was singled out by many reviewers as one of the chief problems with the film, though it wasn't the only fault; Jobs offered little insight on the man of the same name, resulting in a by-the-numbers biopic with no depth or revelations.

RED 2 47 Add to Netflix Queue Watch Trailer

2010 action-comedy RED was a surprise success for Summit, making almost $200 million worldwide, so naturally the sequel system started churning. Out came this story about Frank Moses (Bruce Willis) and his motley crew of retirees getting back together for yet another one last time, this time in Europe. Mary-Louise Parker, John Malkovich, Helen Mirren, and Brian Cox also return, as do the original film’s screenwriters, Erich and Jon Hoeber. Dean Parisot (Galaxy Quest) takes over as director for Robert Schwentke, and he’s brought along new cast members Anthony Hopkins, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Byung Hun Lee, David Thewlis, and Neal McDonough. Unfortunately, he forgot to bring along a decent script, and the result was a bit of a flop.

More movie releases on November 26, 2013
69	Big Star: Nothing Can Hurt Me Documentary, music	Add to Queue
22	Getaway Action / Ethan Hawke, Selena Gomez	Add to Queue
72	The Grandmaster Action / Directed by Wong Kar Wai	Add to Queue
68	Red Obsession Documentary	Add to Queue
71	Wolf Children Animation
	Zatoichi: The Blind Swordsman (1962-73) Criterion Collection; 25-film box set
TV on DVD/Blu-ray
	30 for 30 Volume 3
	Bill Cosby... Far From Finished Comedy Central stand-up special
	Breaking Bad Final season
	Impractical Jokers Season 1
	Murdoch Mysteries Season 6
	Mystery Science Theater 3000 Vol. XXVIII
	Poirot Series 10

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