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Dexter Season 6
BD - The
explosively popular Dexter is back with a vengeance for a sixth
season of startling suspense and unexpected twists. It's been a
year since last season's shocking and heartbreaking conclusion,
and mild mannered criminologist-cum-grisly serial killer Dexter
Morgan has come to terms with who he is. But his existence is
shattered when he crosses paths with an enemy unlike any he's
faced before. A delusional religious zealot with unflinching
convictions, this new adversary soon draws Dexter into a
dangerous game that could well end in disaster.
Blu-ray
Release date: August 14th, 2012
Les Vampires
BD - After the
success of his Fantomas films, French director Louis Feuillade
attempted to create the ultimate espionage serial, a
ten-episode, seven-hour epic called Les Vampires. Edouard Mathe
stars as Philippe Guerande, a crime-fighting journalist who
attempts to penetrate the international ring of thieves known as
The Vampires. Among the most fascinating of these sophisticated
thieves and assassins is Irma Vep (Musidora), a black-clad
seductress whose name is an anagram for ''vampre'' and who
endures today as an icon of European cinema. At times gruesome,
fantastic, and romantic, Les Vampires was a spectacular
accomplishment that influenced filmmakers for generations.
Blu-ray Release Date: August 14th, 2012
Jaws
BD - Directed by
Academy Award winner Steven Spielberg, Jaws set the standard for
edge-of-your-seat suspense quickly becoming a cultural
phenomenon and forever changing the movie industry. When the
seaside community of Amity finds itself under attack by a
dangerous great white shark, the town’s chief of police (Roy Scheider), a young marine biologist (Richard Dreyfuss) and a
grizzled shark hunter (Robert Shaw) embark on a desperate quest
to destroy the beast before it strikes again. Featuring an
unforgettable score that evokes pure terror, Jaws remains one of
the most influential and gripping adventures in motion picture
history. Blu-ray Release Date: August 14th, 2012
The Tempest
BD - Shot on
location at the ancient and ghostly Stoneleigh Abbey, The
Tempest tells the story of Prospero the magician, who lives
with his nubile daughter on an enchanted island and punishes his
enemies when they are shipwrecked there. It's a study of sexual
and political power in the guise of a fairy tale. Jarman
presents Shakespeare's intricate comedy of magic and revenge in
a form that is at once faithful to the spirit of the play and an
original and dazzling spectacle mixing Hollywood pastiche, high
camp, and gothic horror. His film recalls the innocent
homoeroticism of Pasolini's versions of classics, while its lush
sense of decor and color is worthy of Minnelli.
Blu-ray
Release date: August 7th, 2012
La Promesse
BD - La
promesse is the breakthrough feature from Luc and
Jean-Pierre Dardenne, who would go on to become a force in world
filmmaking. The brothers brought the unerring eye for detail and
the compassion for those on society’s lowest rungs developed in
their earlier documentary work to this absorbing drama about a
teenager (Jérémie Renier) gradually coming to understand the
implications of his father’s making a living through the
exploitation of undocumented workers. Filmed in the Dardennes’
industrial hometown of Seraing, Belgium, La promesse is a
brilliantly economical and observant tale of a boy’s troubled
moral awakening. Blu-ray Release Date: August 14th, 2012
The Royal Tenebaums
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Royal Tenenbaum (Gene Hackman) and his wife, Etheline (Anjelica
Huston), had three children—Chas, Margot, and Richie—and then
they separated. Chas (Ben Stiller) started buying real estate in
his early teens and seemed to have an almost preternatural
understanding of international finance. Margot (Gwyneth Paltrow)
was a playwright and received a Braverman Grant of $50,000 in
the ninth grade. Richie (Luke Wilson) was a junior champion
tennis player and won the U.S. Nationals three years in a row.
Virtually all memory of the brilliance of the young Tenenbaums
was subsequently erased by two decades of betrayal, failure, and
disaster. The Royal Tenenbaums is a hilarious, touching,
and brilliantly stylized study of melancholy and redemption from
Wes Anderson. Blu-ray Release Date: August 14th, 2012
Rosetta
BD - The Belgian
filmmaking team of brothers Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne turned
heads with Rosetta, an intense vérité drama that closely follows
a poor young woman struggling to hold on to a job to support
herself and her alcoholic mother. It’s a swift and simple tale
made revelatory by the raw, empathetic way in which the
directors render Rosetta’s desperation, keeping the camera
nearly perched on her shoulder throughout. Many have copied the
Dardennes’ style, but few have equaled it. This ferocious film
won big at Cannes, earning the Palme d’Or for the filmmakers and
the best actress prize for the indomitable Émilie Dequenne.
Blu-ray Release Date: August 14th, 2012
The Whisperer in Darkness
BD - Celebrated author H.P. Lovecraft's classic tale of alien
horror bursts onto the screen in the style of the classic horror
films of the 1930s. Professor Albert Wilmarth investigates
legends of strange creatures in the remote hills of Vermont. His
inquiry reveals a terrifying glimpse of the truth that lurks
behind the legends. Filmed in the style of the classic 1930s
films such as Frankenstein and King Kong, The Whisperer in
Darkness is a thrilling adventure of supernatural horror.
Blu-ray Release date: July 31st, 2012
Clue
BD - Here is the
murderously funny movie based on the world-famous Clue board
game. And now, with this special
Blu-ray version, you can see
all three surprise endings! Was it Colonel Mustard in the study
with a gun? Miss Scarlet in the billiard room with the rope? Or
was it Wadsworth the butler? Meet all the notorious suspects and
discover all their foul play things. You'll love their dastardly
doings as the bodies and the laughs pile up before your eyes.
Blu-ray Release date: August 7th, 2012
The Entity
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Oscar-nominee Barbara Hershey (Black Swan,
Insidious) stars as
Carla Moran, a hard-working single mother until the night she is
raped in her bedroom by someone -- or something -- that she
cannot see. Despite skeptical psychiatrists, she is repeatedly
attacked in her car, in the bath, and in front of her children.
Could this be a case of hysteria, a manifestation of childhood
sexual trauma, or something even more horrific? Now with a group
of daring parapsychologists, Carla will attempt an unthinkable
experiment: to seduce, trap and ultimately capture the depraved
spectral fury that is THE ENTITY. Ron Silver (Reversal of
Fortune, Ali) co-stars in this supernatural shocker directed by
Sidney J. Furie (Iron Eagle,
The Ipcress File) from a screenplay
by Frank De Felitta (Audrey Rose), based on his bestselling
novel. Blu-ray Release date: July 3rd, 2012
The Incredible Mr. Limpet
BD - Hailed as one of the greatest films of all time (Ed. ???),
The Incredible Mr. Limpet is a story about the wonders of
imagination and the triumph of the spirit. Live-action and 2-D
animation combine to tell the story of a man who longs to be a
fish after he is classified by the Navy as an F4 - "too small
and too weak to be a soldier." When his dream of being a fish
becomes a reality, Henry uses his underwater prowess to become
the Navy's strongest secret weapon. Blu-ray Release date:
August 7th, 2012
Puppet Master - A quartet
of psychics - Yale anthropologist Alex (Paul Le Mat,
AMERICAN GRAFFITI),
palm reader Dana (Irene Miracle,
INFERNO), psychometrist
Clarissa (Kathryn O'Reilly, JACK'S BACK), and mindreader
Frank (Matt Roe, CHILD'S PLAY 2) - are summoned to a
Bodega Bay hotel by horrific visions. They surmise that former
associate Neil Gallagher (Jimmie F. Skaggs, GHOST TOWN)
has finally tracked down the secret of Andre Toulon (William
Hickey, THE RUNESTONE) a puppeteer/alchemist who was the
last carrier of an ancient Egyptian secret for bestowing life
onto inanimate objects. The four arrive at the seaside hotel to
find out that Gallagher has committed suicide and requested of
his young widow Megan (Robin Frates, THE ARRIVAL) that he not be
buried until his "friends" have all assembled. Although she has
made sure that Gallagher is indeed dead, Dana still senses evil
in the hotel and takes measures to protect herself and the
others, but Alex is more concerned with fragile Megan, and Frank
and Clarissa plan to tear the place apart in the morning in
search of Tulon's secret; but will they all survive the night
with Tulon's deadly puppets - including the likes of Blade, The
Leech Woman, The Jester, Pinhead, and The Tunneler - stalking
the corridors? Barbara Crampton (CASTLE
FREAK) has a "special appearance" early on.
DVD Release Date: August 20th, 2012
Fallen Angels
BD -
Acknowledged throughout the world as one of the most important
directors working today, Wong Kar-Wai (Happy
Together,
Ashes Of Time) has
developed a signature style that employs bold, experimental use
of photography, music, and editing to capture the tension of the
approaching millennium. Originally intended to be a third story
in his now classic
Chungking Express,
Fallen Angels has emerged as what some critics have come to
consider his "quintessential work."
Blu-ray Release Date:
August 6th, 2012
Fire With Fire
BD - A
juvenile delinquent falls in love with a beautiful Catholic
girl's school student in this fact-based adolescent melodrama...
set in an Oregon forest. The two meet by accident when the
troubled young man is out on a nature hike and sees the lovely
girl floating in a small lake as she works on a photography
assignment. The two are immediately drawn to each other, but
neither of their schools encourages contact with the opposite
sex and when their relationship is discovered there is trouble
all around, forcing the young lovers to flee. The question then
remains: will they be able to evade the law and other
authorities long enough to find happiness.
Blu-ray Release
date: July 31st, 2012
The Dead Want Women - The
world s biggest female silent movie star, Rose Pettigrew, goes
on a killing spree when she loses her studio contract, murdering
her friends and co-stars - Tubby Fitzgerald, the comedian, Erik
Burke, the horror icon and Sonny Barnes (Eric Roberts), the
cowboy - before taking her own life. Rose's mansion has stood
empty for decades, but when two realtors Reese (Jessica Morris)
and Dani (Ariana Madix) finally buy the house to remodel and
sell it, they discover that there are more than skeletons in the
closets. Haunted by the ghosts of a time long ago, the girls
quickly find that they have been cast in a nightmare that will
never end. Get ready for your close-up and its "lights...
Camera... DIE!!!" DVD Release Date: July 30th, 2012
The Bunny Game - Banned in
the UK and partially inspired by a real-life experience of star
Rodleen Getsic, THE BUNNY GAME is an unflinching descent into
torment and madness. Junkie hooker Sylvia Grey (Gestic in a
brave, award-winning performance) turns the wrong trick in
demented trucker JR (Jeff Renfro). After knocking her out cold
and taking her to a desolate place where no one can hear her
cries, JR subjects Sylvia to a series of increasingly twisted,
sadistic "games". But will she survive the ultimate test when
she wakes up with her head sealed in a white leather bunny mask?
Adam Rehmeier directs with a fearless eye, pushing the
boundaries of on-screen mayhem to the extreme. Controversy has
surrounded THE BUNNY GAME since it premiered to festival
audiences around the world by delivering a terrifying experience
that once seen is impossible to forget. DVD Release Date:
July 31st, 2012
True Story of a Woman in Jail; Continues
- In this shocking sequel to
TRUE STORY OF A WOMAN IN JAIL: SEX HELL,
Mayumi (the tough inmate from the first film) emerges from
solitary confinement to find an all-new gang of bullies picking
on a meek, young female prisoner. Mayumi is now a much harder
soul who takes no attitude from anyone, and she turns savage
when the poor girl is enslaved by Yakuza! No one is safe as
Mayumi takes down the entire jail in a sudden act of violent
carnage. Nikkatsu turns the women-in-prison genre on its head
yet again with TRUE STORY OF A WOMAN IN JAIL: CONTINUES.
If you thought the first film was brutal, wait till you see
what's in store here! Bath house attacks, lesbian sex scenes,
rapist prison guards, violent abortions and even a transgender
inmate add to the exploitation fun! Bonus features include Liner
Notes from Jasper Sharp. DVD Release Date: July 10th, 2012
River of No Return
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Director Otto Preminger's only western, River of No Return
is set in Canada during the 19th century Gold Rush. Farmer Matt
Calder (Robert Mitchum) is released from prison after serving a
sentence for shooting a man in the back to protect a friend. He
arrives in a small town to retrieve his young son, Mark (Tommy
Rettig), who has befriended a sultry saloon singer, Kay (Marilyn
Monroe). Matt is also friendly with Kay, and thanks her
profusely for looking after Mark, but distrusts her paramour,
Harry Weston (Rory Calhoun)- a gambler with the morals of an
alley cat. Matt and Mark return to their rural homestead, but
soon glimpse Kay and Harry on a sinking raft, apparently en
route to make good on a gold claim; Matt rescues the two of
them, but doesn't count on Harry doing an about face, beating
him up, and stealing his horse and gun; Kay stays behind to look
after Matt. Blu-ray Release date: July 31st, 2012
Rumble Fish
BD - In this
second of Francis Ford Coppola's back-to-back screen adaptations
of novels by S. E. Hinton, the grand romanticism of The
Outsiders was flipped to create an expressionist, monochrome
vision of youthful passion and melancholy, and became one of
Coppola's most personal and dazzling works. Against a run-down,
industrial Tulsa, Oklahoma, Coppola presents a vivid portrait of
troubled teenage gang leader Rusty James (Matt Dillon) as he
struggles with cohorts, rival gangs, his frustrated girlfriend
Patty (Diane Lane), his estranged father (Dennis Hopper), and
the return of his idolised older brother The Motorcycle Boy
(Mickey Rourke). An audacious depiction of gang violence,
dead-end lives, and the ties that bind, Rumble Fish remains a
cult favourite and features magnificent cinematography by
Stephen H. Burum, a Golden Globe-winning score by Stewart
Copeland, and a remarkable cast that also includes Nicolas Cage,
Chris Penn, Tom Waits, and Laurence Fishburne.
Blu-ray
Release date: August 27th, 2012 |
