Video On Demand’s Top New Releases: Winter 2016 Edition

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Grab the popcorn and some hot cocoa, and treat yourself to a cozy night in with these top new releases from Video on Demand!

 

December Video on Demand

 

Bridget Jones’s Baby

Start Date: 12/13/16

Genre: Romantic Comedy

Rated: R

Critics: 6.9/10 (iMDb), 77% (Rotten Tomatoes), 59% (Metacritic)

SYNOPSIS: Breaking up with Mark Darcy (Colin Firth) leaves Bridget Jones (Renée Zellweger) over 40 and single again. Feeling that she has everything under control, Jones decides to focus on her career as a top news producer. Suddenly, her love life comes back from the dead when she meets a dashing and handsome American named Jack (Patrick Dempsey). Things couldn’t be better, until Bridget discovers that she is pregnant. Now, the befuddled mom-to-be must figure out if the proud papa is Mark or Jack.

 

Jason Bourne

Start Date: 12/6/16

Genre: Thriller/Action

Rated: PG-13

Critics: 6.7/10 (iMDb), 56% (Rotten Tomatoes), 83% (Google Users)

Synopsis: The next chapter of Universal Pictures’ Bourne franchise, which finds the CIA’s most lethal former operative drawn out of the shadows.

 

Miss Peregrine’s Home For Peculiar Children

Start Date: 12/13/16

Genre: Fantasy/Drama

Rated: PG-13

Critics: 6.9/10 (iMDb), 63% (Rotten Tomatoes), 89% (Google Users)

Synopsis: When Jake discovers clues to a mystery that spans alternate realities and times, he uncovers a secret refuge known as Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children. As he learns about the residents and their unusual abilities, Jake realizes that safety is an illusion, and danger lurks in the form of powerful, hidden enemies. Jake must figure out who is real, who can be trusted, and who he really is.

 

The Secret Life of Pets

Start Date: 12/6/16

Genre: Adventure/Comedy

Rated: PG

Critics: 6.6/10 (iMDb), 74% (Rotten Tomatoes), 87% (Google Users)

Synopsis: Max (Louis C.K.) is a spoiled terrier who enjoys a comfortable life in a New York building until his owner adopts Duke, a giant and unruly canine. During their walk outside, they encounter a group of ferocious alley cats and wind up in a truck that’s bound for the pound. Luckily, a rebellious bunny named Snowball swoops in to save the doggy duo from captivity. In exchange, Snowball demands that Max and Duke join his gang of abandoned pets on a mission against the humans who’ve done them wrong.

 

Storks

Start Date: 12/20/16

Genre: Fantasy/Adventure

Rated: PG

Critics: 7/10 (iMDb), 63% (Rotten Tomatoes), 88% (Google Users)

Synopsis: Storks deliver babies — or at least they used to. Now, they deliver packages for a global internet retail giant. Junior (Andy Samberg), the company’s top delivery stork, lands in hot water when the Baby Factory produces an adorable but wholly unauthorized girl. Desperate to deliver this bundle of trouble, Junior and his friend Tulip (Katie Crown), the only human on Stork Mountain, race against time to make their first baby drop before the boss (Kelsey Grammer) finds out.

 

Suicide Squad

 

Start Date: 12/13/16

Genre: Fantasy/Science Fiction

Rated: PG-13

Critics: 6.5/10 (iMDb), 26% (Rotten Tomatoes), 83% (Google Users)

Synopsis: Figuring they’re all expendable, a U.S. intelligence officer decides to assemble a team of dangerous, incarcerated supervillains for a top-secret mission. Now armed with government weapons, Deadshot (Will Smith), Harley Quinn (Margot Robbie), Captain Boomerang, Killer Croc and other despicable inmates must learn to work together. Dubbed Task Force X, the criminals unite to battle a mysterious and powerful entity, while the diabolical Joker (Jared Leto) launches an evil agenda of his own.

 

Sully

Start Date: 12/20/16

Genre: Drama/Biography

Rated: PG-13

Critics: 7.6/10 (iMDb), 83% (Rotten Tomatoes), 93% (Google Users)

Synopsis: On Jan. 15, 2009, Capt. Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger (Tom Hanks) tries to make an emergency landing in New York’s Hudson River after US Airways Flight 1549 strikes a flock of geese. Miraculously, all of the 155 passengers and crew survive the harrowing ordeal, and Sullenberger becomes a national hero in the eyes of the public and the media. Despite the accolades, the famed pilot now faces an investigation that threatens to destroy his career and reputation.

 

January Video on Demand

 

The Accountant

Start Date: 1/10/17

Genre: Crime Drama

Rated: R

Critics: 7.5/10 (iMDb), 52% (Rotten Tomatoes), 89% (Google Users)

Synopsis: Christian Wolff (Ben Affleck) is a mathematics savant with more affinity for numbers than people. Using a small-town CPA office as a cover, he makes his living as a freelance accountant for dangerous criminal organizations. With a Treasury agent (J.K. Simmons) hot on his heels, Christian takes on a state-of-the-art robotics company as a legitimate client. As Wolff gets closer to the truth about a discrepancy that involves millions of dollars, the body count starts to rise.

 

The Girl on the Train

Start Date: 1/17/17

Genre: Mystery/Drama

Rated: R

Critics: 6.7/10 (iMDb), 43% (Rotten Tomatoes), 71% (Google Users)

Synopsis: Commuter Rachel Watson (Emily Blunt) catches daily glimpses of a seemingly perfect couple, Scott and Megan, from the window of her train. One day, Watson witnesses something shocking unfold in the backyard of the strangers’ home. Rachel tells the authorities what she thinks she saw after learning that Megan is now missing and feared dead. Unable to trust her own memory, the troubled woman begins her own investigation, while police suspect that Rachel may have crossed a dangerous line.

 

Inferno

Start Date: 1/24/17

Genre: Crime Mystery

Rated: PG-13

Critics: 6.3/10 (iMDb), 20% (Rotten Tomatoes), 70% (Google Users)

Synopsis: In the heart of Italy, Harvard professor of symbology Robert Langdon is drawn into a harrowing world centered on one of history’s most enduring and mysterious literary masterpieces: Dante’s Inferno. When he wakes up in an Italian hospital with amnesia, he teams up with Sienna Brooks, a doctor he hopes will help him recover his memories. Against this backdrop, Langdon battles a chilling adversary and grapples with an ingenious riddle that pulls him into a landscape of classic art, secret passageways, and futuristic science.

 

Jack Reacher: Never Go Back

Start Date: 1/31/17

Genre: Crime Mystery

Rated: PG-13

Critics: 6.3/10 (iMDb), 38% (Rotten Tomatoes), 88% (Google Users)

Synopsis: Investigator Jack Reacher (Tom Cruise) springs into action after the arrest of Susan Turner (Cobie Smulders), an Army major accused of treason. Suspecting foul play, Jack embarks on a mission to prove that the head of his old unit is innocent. After crossing paths with the law, Reacher must now go on the lam to uncover the truth behind a major government conspiracy that involves the death of U.S. soldiers.

 

Ouija

Start Date: 1/31/17

Genre: Thriller/Horror

Rated: PG-13

Critics: 6.3/10 (iMDb), 82% (Rotten Tomatoes), 82% (Google Users)

Synopsis: In 1967 Los Angeles, widowed mother Alice Zander (Elizabeth Reaser) unwittingly invites authentic evil into her home by adding a new stunt to bolster her séance scam business. When the merciless spirit overtakes her youngest daughter Doris (Lulu Wilson), the small family must confront unthinkable fears to save her and send her possessor back to the other side.

 

With hundreds of entertaining movies to choose from and new releases available each week, you’re sure to have a superior cinematic experience – all in the comfort of your own home! View the latest new releases here or contact us with any questions you may have about Video on Demand.