Sony Pictures proudly presents their releases from March and April.

Here’s the full list :

INSIDIOUS CHAPTER 2 (Released on 5^th March 2014)(DVD-Blu-ray)

Synopsis:

The haunted Lambert family seeks to uncover the mysterious childhood secret that has left them dangerously connected to the spirit world.

Director: James Wan

Stars: Patrick Wilson, Rose Byrne, Barbara Hershey

CAPTAIN PHILIPS (Released on 21^th March 2014) (DVD-Blu-ray)

Synopsis:

The true story of Captain Richard Phillips and the 2009 hijacking by Somali pirates of the US-flagged MV Maersk Alabama, the first American cargo ship to be hijacked in two hundred years.

Director: Paul Greengrass

Stars: Tom Hanks, Barkhad Abdi, Barkhad Abdirahman


BATTLE OF THE YEAR (Released on 9^th April 2014) (DVD-Blu-ray)

Synopsis:

Battle of the Year attracts all the best teams from around the world, but the Americans haven't won in fifteen years. Dante enlists Blake to assemble a team of the best dancers and bring the Trophy back to America where it started.

Director: Benson Lee

Stars: Josh Holloway, Laz Alonso, Josh Peck


THE HUNGOVER GAMES (Released on 5^th March 2014) (DVD)

Synopsis:

After Doug’s bachelor party in a rundown motel outside of Las Vegas, our hung-over partiers, Bradley, Ed, and Zach wake up in a strange room in an even stranger world without Doug.

Director: Josh Stolberg

Stars: Ross Nathan, Ben Begley, Herbert Russell

ICE SOLDIERS (Released on 5^th March 2014) (DVD)

Synopsis:

A scientist discovers the bodies of three frozen genetically modified Russians buried in the Canadian North. Upon thawing them out he realizes he has unleashed a deadly threat to Western society and must stop them at all costs.

Director: Sturla Gunnarsson

Stars: Dominic Purcell, Adam Beach, Michael Ironside


BAD COUNTRY (Released on 12^th March 2014) (DVD)

Synopsis :

Inspired by real events, BAD COUNTRY is a gritty Louisiana set crime drama. Detective Bud Carter's investigations lead to the arrest of Jesse Weiland, a contract killer from a criminal syndicate. Weiland, facing life in prison and losing his family, puts his trust in Carter and becomes an informant. The case attracts the FBI, who in turn, wrestles control from Carter. When a sting goes bad, the syndicate boss, Lutin Adams uses crooked politicians and lawyers to identify Weiland as the 'rat.' His family is executed, setting Weiland on a path of revenge executing targets on a manhunt for Lutin. Carter takes control, pursuing the syndicate to the French Quarter. The climax explodes as Carter, Weiland and Lutin are caught in a triangular crossfire.

Director: Chris Brinker

Stars: Amy Smart, Willem Dafoe, Neal McDonough


BAD MILO! (Released on 12^th March 2014) (DVD)

Synopsis:

A horror comedy centered on a guy who learns that his unusual stomach problems are being caused by a demon living in his intestines.

Director: Jacob Vaughan

Stars: Ken Marino, Gillian Jacobs, Patrick Warburton


BLESS ME, ULTIMA (Released on 12^th March 2014) (DVD)

Synopsis:

A drama set in New Mexico during WWII, centered on the relationship between a young man and an elderly medicine woman who helps him contend with the battle between good and evil that rages in his village.

Director: Carl Franklin

Stars: Luke Ganalon, Joseph A. Garcia, Miriam Colon


HOME RUN (Released on 12^th March 2014) (DVD)

Synopsis:

A pro ball player with a substance abuse problem is forced into rehab in his hometown, finding new hope when he gets honest about his checkered past, and takes on coaching duties for a misfit Little League team.

Director: David Boyd

Stars: Scott Elrod, Dorian Brown, Charles Henry Wyson


AUSTENLAND (Released on 9^th April 2014) (DVD-Blu-ray)

Synopsis:

Obsessed with Pride and Prejudice (1995), a woman travels to a Jane Austen theme park in search for her perfect gentleman.

Director: Jerusha Hess

Stars: Keri Russell, JJ Feild, Jennifer Coolidge

Entertainment One proudly presents their releases from March.


THE BUTLER (5^th March 2013 on both DVD and Blu-ray)

Director: Lee Daniels

Stars: Forest Whitaker, Oprah Winfrey, John Cusack

Synopsis:

As Cecil Gaines serves eight presidents during his tenure as a butler at the White House, the civil rights movement, Vietnam, and other major events affect this man's life, family, and American society.


LAST VEGAS (19^th March 2013 on both DVD and Blu-ray)

Director: Jon Turteltaub

Stars: Robert De Niro, Michael Douglas, Morgan Freeman

Synopsis:

Three sixty-something friends take a break from their day-to-day lives to throw a bachelor party in Las Vegas for their last remaining single pal.


THE FIFTH ESTATE (19^th March 2013 on both DVD and Blu-ray)

Director: Bill Condon

Stars: Benedict Cumberbatch, Daniel Brühl, Carice van Houten

Synopsis :

A dramatic thriller based on real events that reveals the quest to expose the deceptions and corruptions of power that turned an Internet upstart into the 21st century's most fiercely debated organization.

Today marks the release of Prolife's debut 7" on Sacred Bones Records. Recently the band shared the a-side track, a pulsating piece of techno-tinged industrial entitled "Overheated". Now you can stream the b-side of the record which is not far off from the electronic proto-punk stylings of Suicide. Stream "Gold Leaves", and read an interview with Prolife below and order the limited edition version of the 7" before it's gone! 

LISTEN: "Gold Leaves" 

About Prolife:

Prolife is an anti-suicide band formed out of the ashes of death rock enthusiasts and label alumni Slug Guts. After Slug Guts’ last U.S. tour, James Dalgliesh (vocals) and Nicholas Kuceli (saxophone) returned to their flat on Lygon St. in Melbourne, Australia and decided to buy some pedals to make noisy landscapes for the modern asthmatic gentleman to lie awake to at night. Using toy keyboards (and some real ones) they developed minimal two track techno into a set of sprawling song based sets and played some shows with Jonny Telafone, Forces, Asps and Lakes. Their first proper release, this 7-inch, was recorded and produced by themselves with the help of Todd Dixon, who has specifically asked not to be named here.

Having set the agenda with the phenomenal "Invisible Giving" and the singles "The String Of Everything" and "Something Else", Mariam The Believer kicks off 2014 with a new release and a European tour. Taken from her intoxicating album Blood Donation – "..free jazz colliding with psychedelia, folktronica with the musical influence of her Iranian ancestry” Sunday Times – "Above The World" is another unbridled example of Mariam’s extraordinary talent. Watch it below...

Best known as one half of the critically acclaimed Scandinavian pop duo Wildbirds and Peacedrums, Mariam Wallentin takes on the guise of Mariam The Believer for her first solo outing. Blood Donation has won plaudits across the board with the likes the likes of MOJO calling it “..a fertile new style of blues-soul shakedown....leaving Wallentin room to let fly with a spread of vocal incantations.”

“I was influenced by Alice Coltrane”, says Mariam “and this sort of free, spiritual warm music. I think quite a lot in images when I’m writing a song..if it’s cold, if it’s warm, light, dark…Alice Coltrane was one thing and Mark Hollis (Talk, Talk) too”.

Mariam's European tour includes three shows in London this month:

FEBRUARY

15 - Luxembourg (EXIT07)

16 - Amsterdam (Paradiso)

17 - Cologne (Theater der Wohngemeinschaft)

18 - Brussels (Witloof Bar)

19 - London (Electrowerkz) (Tickets)

20 - London (NME Awards Show @ The Garage w/ Au Revoir Simone) (Tickets)

22 - London (Rise Festival @ Roundhouse) (Tickets) 

24 - Berlin (Privatclub)

25 - Prague (Palac Akropolis)

26 - Numberg (MUZ)

27 - Schorndorf (Manufaktur)

MARCH

1 - Zurich (Theater Moods)

2 - Bern (Bee-flat)

3 - Offenbach (Hafen 2)

4 - Hamburg (Aalhaus)

Karawane is the new band of multi-instrumentalist, sound artist and songwriter Anne Caesar van Wieren.


After ten years and three albums with his former band LPG, Anne Caesar decided to take a break to work on his new solo album.
Two years of writing and recording followed, in which Anne Caesar experimented with a broad range of sounds and instruments. 
In keeping with his love of experimental music and search for fresh inspiration the album was recorded at many different locations (an old cinema in the centre of Groningen, an abandoned high school, a former military complex in a forest in the Dutch countryside and even a small living room in London at his girlfriend’s house).

All sides of his creative mind meet in Karawane. Alongside playing and creating music Anne Caesar is working as a visual and sound artist too.

Initially, the debut album of Karawane will be released in a unique way: Each track along with a video –made by Anne Caesar himself- will be presented on the first Monday of each month. This is the moment at which the sirens - that are placed all over the Netherlands, to warn people in case of emergency- go off as a test. This all kicks-off with the first song ‘Survive’ in January 2014. The physical album will be released later this year on the well-known Dutch indie label Excelsior Recordings.

Here you can hear some songs.