TUESDAY BLUs (& DVDs): This Week's New Releases 4/23/13

It's an interesting week of releases including the pulpy ensemble of Gangster Squad, the Oscar nominated performance of Naomi Watts in The Impossible, an animated Cheech & Chong and some classic tv and music documentary releases which will definitely keep you occupied through the remainder of April's showers.

As always, fire up that queue and prep that shopping cart and check out this weeks' latest releases!


Gangster Squad

The year is 1949 and ruthless gangster Mickey Cohen (Sean Penn) has the city of Los Angeles in his grip. Against a gang protected by rampant corruption, Chief Bill Parker (Nick Nolte) resorts to extremes. He enlists battle-hardened hero Sgt. John O'Mara (Josh Brolin) to form a unit to exact vigilante justice. Their job isn't to make arrests... it's to make war. As the city explodes in gunfire, jaded cop Sgt. Jerry Wooters (Ryan Gosling) is reluctantly drawn into the fight as he falls hard for Grace Faraday (Emma Stone), the elegant beauty whom Cohen claims as his own. Inspired by an incredible true story, Gangster Squad blows open the secret flies of the cops who fought for L.A.'s soul.  Extras include Commentary With Director Ruben Fleischer, The Gangland Files, The Set Up, Rogues' Gallery: Mickey Cohen, Tough Guys With Style, and Deleted Scenes.

Broken City

Mark Wahlberg, Russell Crowe and Catherine Zeta Jones star in this gripping crime thriller where everyone has a motive and no one can be trusted.  Seven years after being forced to resign as a New York police officer, private detective Billy Taggart (Wahlberg) takes on his toughest case yet: following the wife (Zeta-Jones) of the city's hard-nosed mayor (Crowe), who's convinced she's cheating on him. But by the time the mayor reveals his true intentions, Billy is already in too deep. Now, with his freedom - and quite possibly his life - on the line, Billy will risk it all in a desperate bid to expose the truth, and seek redemption in a city where second chances don't come cheap.

Cheech & Chong's: Animated Movie

You're not hallucinating... but they are. It's the legendary toker jokers Cheech & Chong as you've never seen them before - in their very first Animated Movie. Catch all the buzz as their most outrageously funny routines and laugh-out-loud lines from their Grammy Award-winning albums come to life, including Dave's Not Here, Let's Make a Dope Deal and more. With help from a , bud-lovin' body crab named Buster, Cheech & Chong, "the masters of the smokin' word," deliver the ultimate comedy high and give you the munchies for more.  Joint Commentary By Cheech Marin & Tommy Chong, Commentary By Chambers Brothers & Lou Adler, Commentary By Tommy Chong & Paris Chong, 4.20 Listening Mode, Medical Marijuana Blues - Session With Blind Melon Chitlin' and Cheech & Chong Slideshow.

The Impossible

One family's incredible true story.  Maria (Naomi Watts) and Henry (Ewan McGregor) are on a family Christmas vacation in Thailand, enjoying their beachfront resort when their world is suddenly turned upside down. Unbeknownst to them, a huge earthquake across the ocean has triggered a massive tsunami... one of the most devastating natural catastrophes on record. This is their story.  Extras Audio Commentary With Director J.A. Bayona, Writer Sergio G. Sanchez, Producer Belen Atienza, And Maria Belon, Casting The Impossible Featurette, Realizing The Impossible Featurette and Deleted Scenes.

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