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L'Eclisse
BD - The conclusion of
Michelangelo Antonioni’s informal trilogy on modern malaise,
which began with
L’avventura,
L’eclisse (The Eclipse) tells the story of a young
woman (Monica Vitti) who leaves one lover (Francisco Rabal) only
to drift into a relationship with another (Alain Delon). Using
the architecture of Rome as a backdrop for the couple’s doomed
affair, Antonioni reaches the apotheosis of his modernist style,
returning to his favorite themes: alienation and the difficulty
of finding connections in an increasingly mechanized world.
Blu-ray Release Date: December
22nd, 2011
Le Week-End
BD - Director Roger
Michell's Le Week-end stars Jim Broadbent and Lindsay
Duncan as Nick and Meg, a British couple celebrating their 30th
wedding anniversary with a weekend getaway in Paris. As they
travel around the city, they revisit the highs and lows of their
relationship, fight about their faults, and continue to run out
of restaurants without paying the bill. They meet up with an old
colleague of Nick's and attend a dinner party at his house,
leading to some painful truths being spoken aloud.
Blu-ray Release date: February
10th, 2014
Swerve
BD - Driving cross-country
to a job interview Colin opts for a shortcut and happens across
a fatal car accident. One of the drivers the intriguing Jina is
shaken but not hurt while the other lies dead - leaving a
suitcase full of money without an owner. Colin resists
temptation and hands it into the local cop wanting to get on his
way. But what initially seemed to be a good deed prompts a
series of strange events to unfold where nothing is quite what
it seems and Colin quickly finds it hard to leave town.
Blu-ray Release date: March 18th,
2014
Witness
BD - In Peter Weir's
thriller Witness, Samuel (Lukas Haas), a young Amish boy,
witnesses a murder in the restroom of a Philadelphia bus
station. Harrison Ford stars as John Book, the police detective
investigating the murder. When Book discovers that the crime was
part of a conspiracy involving several officials in his
department, he flees Philadelphia to the Amish community where
Samuel lives with his widowed mother, Rachel (Kelly McGillis).
Slowly assimilating himself into the Amish community, Book
eventually finds himself falling in love with Rachel in the
midst of his investigation. Eventually, the corrupt police track
Book down, and he is forced to confront them, while also trying
to protect Rachel and Samuel. Blu-ray
Release Date: February 19th, 2014
55 Days at Peking
BD - Samuel Bronston
produced this extravagant blockbuster, shot in Super Technirama
70. Nominally directed by Nicholas Ray (who makes a brief
appearance as the U.S. ambassador), Ray was taken off the film
and replaced by the more pliable directorial touches of Andrew
Marton. Charlton Heston stars as Maj. Matt Lewis, the leader of
an army of multinational soldiers who head to Peking during the
infamous Boxer Rebellion of 1900. As the film unfolds, the
foreign embassies in Peking are being held in a grip of terror
as the Boxers set about massacring Christians in an
anti-Christian nationalistic fever.
Blu-ray Release Date: February 19th, 2014
American Hustle
BD - Christian Bale, Bradley
Cooper, and Amy Adams star in director David O. Russell's
fictional period crime drama about a reckless FBI agent who
recruits a con man and his alluring British partner into a
scheme to gain the upper hand over other talented swindlers.
Smooth-talking Irving Rosenfeld (Bale) is a hustler of the
highest order. No mark is off limits for Rosenfeld, especially
when his crafty partner Sydney Prosser (Adams) is by his side.
When renegade FBI agent Richie DiMaso (Cooper) thrusts the
deceptive duo into the treacherous world of New Jersey power
players and underworld heavies, the thrill of the grift grows
too strong to resist. Meanwhile, New Jersey politician Carmine
Polito (Jeremy Renner) gets caught in the middle, and
Rosenfeld's capricious wife Rosalyn (Jennifer Lawrence) holds
more power than anyone could imagine.
Blu-ray Release date: March 18th, 2014
The Front
BD - The Front is both a
comic delight and perhaps the most graceful act of show business
revenge in cinema history. Written by, directed by, and starring
various talents blacklisted during the McCarthy-era witch hunts
of the 1950s entertainment industry, the film stars Woody Allen
as Howard, a cashier and bookie approached by blacklisted
television-writer Alfred (Michael Murphy) to act as a "front,"
i.e., the alleged author of Alfred's works. The scam proves
hugely successful. Soon Howard is fronting for several other
banned writers, taking a cut from every sale to the networks,
and basking in praise (and romantic attentions) for his prolific
talent. Blu-ray Release date:
February, 2014
The Spy in Black
BD - Darkness, foreboding
and regret, rather than any sense of propaganda, dominate this
extraordinarily atmospheric World War I spy story made on the
eve of World War II. It signals the end of a peacetime era even
more clearly than
The Lady Vanishes. Daringly, the audience is
asked to sympathise with the 'enemy' as the magnificent, shadowy
Veidt moves through remarkable Scottish sets on a mission to
Scapa Flow to destroy the British fleet. Intrigue, uncertainty
and confused loyalties build to a bitter, ironic climax, and
along the way Powell effortlessly produces more memorable shots
and scenes than can be found in a dozen contemporary films.
Blu-ray Release date: February 4th,
2014
Wake in Fright
BD - Awe-inspiring, brutal
and stunning, Wake in Fright is the story of John Grant, a
bonded teacher who arrives in the rough outback mining town of Bundanyabba planning to stay overnight before catching the plane
to Sydney. But his one night stretches to five and he plunges
headlong toward his own destruction. When the alcohol-induced
mist lifts, the educated John Grant is no more. Instead there is
a self-loathing man in a desolate wasteland, dirty, red-eyed,
sitting against a tree and looking at a rifle with one bullet
left... Blu-ray Release date:
March 31st, 2014
The Big Heat
BD - "Somebody's going to
pay… because he forgot to kill me." Ruthless criminals, a
dedicated honest cop, sultry women and a gripping plot - all the
elements of a classic police action-drama are here in full
force. Police Sergeant Bannion (Glenn Ford) is investigating the
apparent suicide of a corrupt cop, then is suddenly ordered to
stop - and The Big Heat is on. Driven to unravel the mystery,
Bannion continues probing until an explosion meant for him,
kills his wife. He resigns from the force and soon learns that
behind it all is the powerful underworld led by Mike Lagana
(Alexander Scourby) and his cold-blooded henchman, Vince Stone
(Lee Marvin). When Stone's girl Debby (Gloria Grahame) makes a
play for Bannion, Stone disfigures her face. In revenge, she
tells all she knows. Ultimately, Bannion and Stone square off in
a life-or-death confrontation. Resen
Blu-ray Release date: October 15th, 2013
The Stuff
BD - The Stuff is the new
desert taking supermarket shelves by storm. It s delicious, low
in calories and better still doesn't stain the family carpet...
What s not to like?! Well, for a start it has a life of its own,
and we re not talking friendly live bacteria... Young Jason
seems to be the only one who doesn't love The Stuff in fact he
won t go anywhere near it, after having seen the pudding
crawling around the fridge one night. What s more, everyone who
eats The Stuff has started acting really weird... Now, teaming
up with wise-cracking industrial saboteur Mo, Jason must put a
stop to The Stuff and the organisation behind it or face a
gooey, gloopy demise. Blu-ray
Release date: March 10th, 2014
Frozen
BD - After the kingdom of
Arendelle cast into eternal winter by the powerful Snow Queen
Elsa (voice of Idina Menzel), her sprightly sister Anna (Kristen
Bell) teams up with a rough-hewn mountaineer named Kristoff
(Jonathan Groff) and his trusty reindeer Sven to break the icy
spell. Chris Buck and Jennifer Lee co-directed this Walt Disney
Animation Studios production based on Hans Christian Andersen's
beloved fairy tale The Snow Queen.
Blu-ray Release date: March 18th,
2014
Samson and Delilah
BD - For Mr. DeMille, that
veteran geni who has already engineered three quasi-religious
film pageants that tower in the annals of the screen, has here
led his carpenters and actors and costumers and camera crews
into the vast manufacture of a spectacle that out-Babels
anything he's done. There are more flowing garments in this
picture, more chariots, more temples, more peacock plumes, more
animals, more pillows, more spear-carriers, more beards and more
sex than ever before. At least, that's the sizable impression
which Mr. DeMille has achieved by bringing together the Old
Testament and Technicolor for the first time.
Blu-ray Release date: March 11th,
2014
The Eddy Duchin Story
BD - Directed by veteran
George Sidney and shot by the great Harry Stradling, Sr., The
Eddy Duchin Story (1956) stars Tyrone Power as the
charismatic pianist who came out of nowhere to become one of the
1930s’ top bandleaders and Kim Novak as the society dame who
helps, loves, and marries him. Stratospheric success is laced
with tragedy in this real-life story brought to the screen in
superb Hollywood studio style topped by stunning location
footage of a magically romantic Manhattan.
Blu-ray Release date: February,
2014
The Selfish Giant
BD - The Selfish Giant
is a contemporary fable about 13-year-old Arbor (Conner Chapman)
and his best friend Swifty (Shaun Thomas). Excluded from school
and outsiders in their own neighbourhood, the two boys meet
Kitten (Sean Gilder), a local scrapdealer - the Selfish Giant.
They begin collecting scrap metal for him using a horse and
cart. Swifty has a natural gift with horses while Arbor emulates
Kitten - keen to impress him and make some money. However,
Kitten favours Swifty, leaving Arbor feeling hurt and excluded,
driving a wedge between the boys. Arbor becomes increasingly
greedy and exploitative, becoming more like Kitten. Tensions
build, leading to a tragic event, which transforms them all.
Blu-ray Release date: January 27th,
2014
Mademoiselle C
BD - Mademoiselle C
chronicles Carine's launch of her new magazine "CR Fashion
Book." It gives a rare inside glimpse at the inner workings not
only of Roitfeld's professional world but also her personal
life. Featuring a who's who of the models *celebrities* and
eccentric personalities of the fashion world.
Blu-ray Release date: March 11th,
2014
The Freshman
BD - Harold Lloyd’s biggest
box-office hit was this silent comedy gem, featuring the
befuddled everyman at his eager best as a new college student.
Though he dreams of being a big man on campus, the freshman’s
careful plans inevitably go hilariously awry, be it on the
football field or at the Fall Frolic. But he gets a climactic
chance to prove his mettle—and impress the sweet girl he
loves—in one of the most famous sports sequences ever filmed.
This crowd-pleaser is a gleeful showcase for Lloyd’s slapstick
brilliance and incandescent charm, and it is accompanied here by
a new orchestral score by Carl Davis.
Blu-ray Release date: March 25th, 2014
The Doll Squad - Eamon O
Reilly and his private army of mercenaries have already
destroyed a manned American spacecraft during lift-off, just to
show they mean business. But what chance does O Reilly s army
have against a highly trained and beautifully tanned team of
brainy and brutal babes with machine guns? A rousing cocktail of
bombs and bikinis, topped with a slick 70s score, The Doll
Squad (aka Seduce and Destroy) was produced,
directed, written and edited with stylish overkill by low-budget
exploitation mogul Ted V. Mikels, the man responsible for The
Corpse Grinders (1971) and Blood Orgy of the She-Devils (1974).
DVD Release Date: March 17th, 2014
2 Jacks - The fast-paced
Hollywood lifestyle, with romance and glamor, comes alive in 2
Jacks; a now-and-then look at the renowned way of living.
Legendary film director Jack Hussar (Danny Huston), notorious
gambler and womanizer, returns to the LA scene to raise money
for his next feature film. Back in LA, Jack walks himself into
an eventful night. Doing what he does best, Jack seduces the
stunning Diana (Sienna Miller), attends some wild industry
parties, and narrowly escapes a brush with the law, all before
playing a high-stakes poker game at dawn. DVD Release Date:
February 11th, 2014
Reel Zombies - Independent
underground filmmakers Mike Masters and David J. Francis
(playing themselves) are eager to complete the third film in
their ZOMBIE NIGHT film trilogy, a series of rather
unsuccessful low-budget, shot-on-video gore fests. The problem,
however, is a recent zombie apocalypse has taken over the world
since their series began. The dead are rising from their graves
and eating the living... for real this time! Masters and Francis
embark on the production of their newest masterpiece anyway,
only to discover shooting in a post-apocalyptic world offers
many unforeseen challenges. Instead of giving up, they decide to
capitalize on the cannibalistic catastrophe. DVD Release
Date: February 11th, 2014
Transport From Paradise -
Zbynek Brynych's award-winning film presents a vivid and
realistic picture of the infamous Terezin Ghetto under Nazi
control during World War II. The Ghetto was an international
marshalling community in Czechoslovakia where thousands of Jews
from around Europe were held before being told they were being
simply transferred to other towns - when they were in fact being
sent to their deaths in the concentration camps. DVD Release
Date: March 10th, 2014
The Bridge - Series 2 - The
second series of the Scandinavian crime drama following the
joint efforts of Danish and Swedish police officers to solve
murders that take place along the border of the two countries.
In this series, 13 months since they last worked together,
Swedish detective Saga Norén (Sofia Helin) and Danish detective
Martin Rohde (Kim Bodnia) pair up again when a ship crashes into
the Oresund Bridge. The vessel is empty except for five kidnap
victims and when they die from pneumonic plague the case turns
into a murder investigation. Saga and Martin learn that
eco-terrorists are responsible for the incident and soon further
attacks occur. Can the duo find the culprits before more victims
are taken? Meanwhile, Martin has been trying to adjust to life
after suffering the loss of a loved one but some devastating
news from his wife motivates him to seek revenge... DVD
Release Date: February 3rd, 2014
Hideous - Dr. Lorca, an
eccentric collector of biological oddities, has just acquired
his greatest specimen; a horrible mutant born of noxious
waste... but the creature's rightful owner wants it back. The
collector's clash is cut short though, as the sickening specimen
comes to life, re-animating an angry, oozing little army of
ferocious freaks. DVD Release Date: January 27th, 2014
Beach Babes 2 - Cave Girl Island
- Chased by rampaging dinosaurs and pursued by the evil
megalomaniac, James T. Renford II, and his wisecracking sidekick
Gund, the stranded space sirens have the island rocking. In an
effort to help out the hot heroines, one of the girl s pumped-up
playmates rewires Renford s computers which accidentally sets
off a chain reaction that will cause the island to explode in an
ultimate cosmic climax! DVD Release Date: October 21st, 2013
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