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Panic in the Streets
BD - In this suspenseful
melodrama, a bullet-ridden corpse turns up in the water off the
New Orleans docks. To the police, he's a John Doe...until a
public health doctor (Richard Widmark) discovers he carries a
virulent strain of bubonic plague. Hundreds of officers are
mobilized to track down the killers and all who had contact with
the dead man in a desperate race against the clock before the
highly contagious disease spreads far beyond the port area and
puts the entire country in peril.
Blu-ray Release Date: March 26th, 2013
One Foot in Hell - TV
producer Aaron Spelling penned this standard western set in a
small town just after the American Civil War. Mitch (Alan Ladd)
has tragically lost his wife during a problem in her pregnancy
because he could not come up with $1.87 for the medicine she
needed. A little twisted right from the beginning, he vows
revenge. In the first step toward his goal, he gets the post of
deputy sheriff from the repentant townspeople. In the second
step, he murders the sheriff and then recruits a gang of
disreputable toughs to steal $100,000 and bankrupt the town. In
the last and fatal part of his plan for vengeance, he turns on
his own gang of thieves. DVD Release Date: August 7th, 2012
Apartment For Peggy - Jason
(William Holden) is a World War II veteran going to college on
the GI Bill in the hope of bettering himself. He has recently
married his sweetheart, Peggy (Jeanne Crain), who has learned
that they're having a baby. However, money is tight for the
young couple, and inexpensive housing is at a premium in the
post-war boom times. Peggy meets Professor Henry Barnes (Edmund
Gwenn), an instructor at the college who lives alone in a huge
house. Barnes is convinced that the best years of his life are
over, that he has no purpose in life, and that our culture has
sacrificed its highest ideals. But Peggy convinces Prof. Barnes
to let her and Jason stay in his attic. As the newlyweds try to
turn the cobwebbed space into a home, the professor gets to know
his tenants better, and their enthusiastic optimism rubs off on
him, giving him a sense that there are things left to be
accomplished and reasons to go on. Apartment for Peggy reunited
director George Seaton with actor Edmund Gwenn, who had clicked
the previous year in the classic
Miracle on 34th Street.
DVD Release Date: March 1st, 2013
Hitler's Children - Adolf
Hitler did not have children, but what of the families of
Hermann Göring, Heinrich Himmler and Hans Frank, to name a few?
What is it like for the descendants of these top Nazi officials
to deal with the legacy left behind by their notorious families?
HITLER'S CHILDREN introduces us to the children,
grandchildren and nieces and nephews of these infamous men.
Among them Niklas Frank, son of Hans Frank and godson of Hitler,
who despises his father's past so much that he has spent his
entire adult life researching and writing negatively about him,
often touring around Germany to lecture against his father and
the Nazi regime. DVD Release Date: April 2nd, 2013
Coney Island - A
delightful, spectacularly costumed, if predictable musical
featuring the legs and talents of Betty Grable as a brassy
singer in a lower class Coney Island saloon. The owner of said
saloon and interested party in Miss Grable’s love life is Cesar
Romero. George Montgomery, desperately trying to channel Clark
Gable, is Romero’s longtime friend and fellow con man, newly
arrived in town to settle an unending score with Romero.
Naturally, he can’t take his eyes off Grable; the fact that she
is also Romero’s love interest only makes her more tempting.
There are lots of songs, mostly on stage, except for the
bellowings of the ever-tipsy Charles Winninger; also wonderful
costumes, lots of color and a beauty mark poorly placed on
Grable that disappears (thankfully) in the movie’s second act.
DVD Release Date: March 1st, 2013
I, Anna - The lives of a
beautiful divorcee (Charlotte Rampling) and a troubled detective
(Gabriel Byrne) intersect during the investigation of a vicious
murder on the grimy, rain-soaked streets of London, sparkling a
tangled web of passion, intrigue and deceit. Featuring
impressive performances from the award-winning cast and
whip-smart dialogue, I, ANNA is a stunning neo-noir from
one of Britain's greatest up-and-coming talents. DVD Release
Date: April 8th, 2013
The Bay - Chesapeake Bay is
a seaside town that relies on water and the dockside tourism it
brings to the community. When two biological researchers find a
staggering level of toxicity in the water they attempt to alert
the mayor before the situation gets out of control. However, the
mayor refuses to raise the alarm in fear of creating a panic
among the citizens of the docile town. As a result, a deadly
plague is unleashed, turning the people of Chesapeake Bay into
hosts for a mutant breed of parasites. Taking control of their
minds, and eventually their bodies, the parasites soon cause the
town to descend in absolute terror as they quickly realise the
harrowing reality they are faced with. DVD Release Date:
March 18th, 2013
Naked Lunch
BD - “Exterminate all rational
thought.” Naked Lunch, William S. Burroughs’
hallucinatory, “unfilmable” novel is finally realized on-screen
by director David Cronenberg. Part-time exterminator and
full-time drug addict Bill Lee (Peter Weller) plunges into the
nightmarish netherworld of the Interzone, pursuing a mysterious
project that leads him to confront sinister cabals and giant
talking bugs. The fruit of an unholy union between two masters
of the hilarious and the macabre, Naked Lunch mingles aspects of
Burroughs’ novel with incidents from his own life, resulting in
a compendium of paranoid fantasies and a searching investigation
into the mysteries of the writing process.
Blu-ray Release Date: April 8th,
2013
Lonely Are the Brave
BD - Dalton Trumbo wrote this
elegy to the western. Kirk Douglas gives one of his finest
performances as an out-of-place cowboy in the modern
west--almost like a time traveller. The theme of the film is
eloquently set up by the opening of the film in which we see
Douglas reclining beneath a clear and spacious western sky. The
peace and quiet is suddenly disrupted by the sound of a jet
plane passing overhead. This brings a wry smile to the old
cowboy's face. He rides his horse into Albuquerque to visit
friends Kane and Rowlands. Rowlands tells him that her husband
has been jailed for helping Mexicans enter the US illegally.
Douglas starts a brawl in a saloon to get put into jail; there
Douglas offers his friend Kane help in breaking out, but Kane
tells Douglas that he wants to serve his brief time, intends to
play out his hand with the law, and refuses to become a
fugitive. Douglas is hurt but undaunted. He breaks out himself
and heads for the hills, pursued by the compassionate
technocratic sheriff Matthau and a posse.
Blu-ray Release Date: March, 15th,
2013
Gate of Hell
BD - One of the key works of
the early 1950s wave of Japanese films to first reach foreign
markets, director Kinugasa’s sumptuous period drama astonished
audiences with its dramatic force and spectacular colour
cinematography. During feudal unrest in the 12th century,
samurai warrior Moritô (Kazuo Hasegawa) manages to thwart a
palace rebellion and save the life of the empress, using loyal
subject Lady Kesa (Machiko Kyô) as a decoy. When Moritô is
offered anything he should desire as reward, he requests Kesa’s
hand in marriage. Informed that she is already married to a
fellow samurai (Isao Yamagata), he refuses to withdraw his
request, setting in motion a tragic chain of events.
Criterion Blu-ray Release date:
April 9th, 2013
Christine
BD - She was born in Detroit on
an automobile assembly line. But she is no ordinary automobile.
Deep within her chassis lives an unholy presence. She is a red
and white 1958 Plymouth Fury named CHRISTINE, whose
unique standard equipment includes an evil, indestructible
vengeance that will destroy anyone in her way. She seduces
17-year-old Arnie Cunningham (Keith Gordon) who becomes consumed
with passion for her sleek rounded chrome-laden body. She
demands his complete and unquestioned devotion and when
outsiders seek to interfere, they become the victims of
Christine's horrifying wrath. John Carpenter brings Stephen
King's best selling novel to life in this chilling thriller.
Blu-ray Release Date: March, 2013
Futureworld
BD - Do you remember that
disaster at Delos a few years ago when the
Westworld robots went
out of control and killed a few guests? Well, the entire resort
has now been rebuilt and redesigned to be completely fail-safe.
To combat the lingering adverse publicity, Duffy, the Delos
representative, has offered the IMC Communication Network
exclusive rights to the new Delos story. Tracy Ballard (Blythe
Danner), the network’s top commentator, has been assigned the
story with Chuck Browning (Peter Fonda), the newspaper reporter
who broke the original
Westworld disaster
story. But as Tracy and Chuck’s private tour starts, they get
the feeling the entire resort might not be as safe as Delos
thinks... Shout! Factory Blu-ray
Release date: March 26th, 2013
Ginger & Rosa
BD - Sally Potter's latest film
is an evocative and beautifully shot portrait of post-war
Britain, as seen through the eyes of Elle Fanning's
impressionable young teenager. She plays Ginger, who finds
herself increasingly estranged from her mother (Christina
Hendricks) and drawn further into the world of her pacifist and
anti-nuclear activist father (Alessandro Nivola). However, her
friendship with the fiery Rosa (Alice Englert) is severely
tested by his unconventional lifestyle and their relationship
threatens to explode like the bomb that threatens them all...
The result is a passionate, moving and intelligent examination
of political and personal responsibility, portrayed in exquisite
detail by some of the greatest acting and directing talents.
Blu-ray Release date: February
11th, 2013
Unfaithfully Yours - In
this pitch-black comedy from legendary writer-director Preston
Sturges, Rex Harrison stars as Sir Alfred De Carter, a
world-famous symphony conductor consumed with the suspicion that
his wife is having an affair. During a concert, the jealous De
Carter entertains elaborate visions of vengeance, set to three
separate orchestral works. But when he attempts to put his
murderous fantasies into action, nothing works out quite as
planned. A brilliantly performed mixture of razor-sharp dialogue
and uproarious slapstick, Unfaithfully Yours is a true
classic from a grand master of screen comedy. Fox Cinema
Archive DVD Release Date: March 1st, 2013
From Beyond
BD - The Resonator, a powerful
machine that can control the sixth sense, has killed its creator
and sent his associate into an insane asylum. But when a
beautiful psychiatrist becomes determined to continue the
experiment, she unwittingly opens the door to a hostile parallel
universe... and to the deviant behavior within the human psyche.
With its victims becoming creatures who feed on (and become
aroused by) human brains, the Resonator is the ultimate man-made
monster. And now something’s gone horribly wrong and no one can
turn it off! Blu-ray Release
date: March 26th, 2013
Bloodstone: Subspecies II -
The centuries-old conflict that has plagued the villages of
Transylvania explodes into bloodshed. The mad vampire Radu
(ANDERS HOVE) becomes obsessed with Michelle (DENICE DUFF), who
loves his half-mortal brother Stefan. In his quest to possess
Michelle and the sacred relic, the Bloodstone, Radu destroys
Stefan as he sleeps. Michelle steals the Bloodstone and escapes
from Radu s castle. She finds a lair beneath a theatre in
Bucharest and stalks the streets in torment, torn between her
fading humanity and her growing thirst for blood. Radu,
desperate to regain the Bloodstone, seeks help from his
monstrous mother, the ageless sorceress Mummy, who demands the
he destroy Michelle before she destroys him... DVD Release
Date: March 18th, 2013
28 Hotel Rooms - In this
sexy, surprising romance, a man and a woman meet each other in a
hotel while they are both traveling on business. Flirtation
leads to a feverish night of sex that both find hard to forget.
Although she s married, and he has a girlfriend, their intense
attraction turns a seemingly casual one-night stand into a
continual series of passionate hotel trysts, uniting them in a
profound and unconventional relationship. Unfolding as a collage
of moments some sexy, some innocent, some profound, some silly
28 HOTEL ROOMS is an intimate portrait of an affair in
which two people wrestle with the intoxication of sex and the
confusion of loving more than one person. DVD Release Date:
February 12th, 2013
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