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Police Story
BD - It all begins here!
Director-star Jackie Chan's celebrated Police Story series began
with this classic action comedy, which features the inimitable
Jackie Chan charm and some of the most spectacular action
sequences ever put to film. Jackie Chan is cop Chan Ka Kui,
who's assigned to guard beautiful witness Selina (Brigitte Lin),
the girlfriend of evil drug kingpin Chor Yuen. Selina's presence
causes some friction between Chan and his petulant girlfriend
May (international star Maggie Cheung), but when the bad guys
come-a-calling, all that gets left behind. Glass breaks, bones
crunch, and anything and everything becomes a weapon in
Police Story! Eureka Blu-ray
Release date: August 20th, 2018
Police Story 2
BD - As if Hong Kong needed
more collateral damage from Jackie Chan, along comes Police
Story 2, the follow-up to the immensely successful Police Story!
Jackie Chan returns as cop Chan Ka Kui, who's saddled with a
trio of problematic plots that would bring even down the
toughest guy. Some mad bombers are threatening Hong Kong, so
Chan is put on the case to sniff out the bad guys. However, Chan
simultaneously must contend with the creeps from the original
Police Story, who've returned to annoy him with their smarmy
attitudes. AND there's Chan's increasingly grumpy girlfriend May
(Maggie Cheung, given a bigger role in this sequel), who's a
little sick and tired of playing second-fiddle to drug dealers
and mad bombers. Eureka Blu-ray
Release date: August 20th, 2018
Eight Hours Don't Make a Day
BD - Commissioned to make a
working-class family drama for public television, up-and-coming
director Rainer Werner Fassbinder took the assignment and ran,
dodging expectations by depicting social realities in West
Germany from a critical—yet far from cynical—perspective. Over
the course of five episodes, the sprawling story tracks the
everyday triumphs and travails of the young toolmaker Jochen
(Gottfried John) and many of the people populating his world,
including the woman he loves (Hanna Schygulla), his eccentric
family, and his fellow workers, with whom he bands together to
improve conditions on the factory floor.
Blu-ray Release Date: October 9th,
2018
Hollywood Boulevard
BD - Welcome to Miracle
Pictures...where "If it's a good film, it's a miracle!" This
hilarious tribute to the unsung heroes of low-budget filmmaking
is an enduring tale of all would-be actresses seeking to make it
in Hollywood as a young ditsy pretty blond arrives in Hollywood
to try her luck as an actress. After some mishap, a shady agent
finds her a job with a sleazy B-movie crew plagued by strange
deadly accidents. Now restored in HD from the original camera
negatives! Blu-ray Release Date:
August, 2018
The Miraculous Virgin
BD - Adapted by The Sun
in a Net director Stefan Uher from the renowned 1944 novella
by Dominik Tatarka, the film is an exquisite, surreal odyssey
through the Slovak art scene of the 1960s. The mysterious
Anabella (Knife in the Water's Jolanta Umecka) casts a spell
over a group of young artists to become their muse, awakening
desires and providing inspiration. Few works have embraced or
expressed the notion of artistic fervour as wholeheartedly as
The Miraculous Virgin. Blu-ray
Release Date: August 20th, 2018
The Princess Bride
BD - A high-spirited
adventure that pits true love against inconceivable odds, The
Princess Bride has charmed legions of fans with its
irreverent gags, eccentric ensemble, and dazzling swordplay. A
kid (Fred Savage), home sick from school, grudgingly allows his
grandfather (Peter Falk) to read him a dusty storybook—which is
how we meet the innocent Buttercup (Robin Wright, in her
breakout role), about to marry the nefarious Prince Humperdinck
(Chris Sarandon) though her heart belongs to Westley (Cary Elwes).
The wedding plans are interrupted, however, by a mysterious
pirate, a vengeful Spaniard, and a good-natured giant, in a tale
full of swashbuckling, romance, and outrageously hilarious
spoofery. Directed by Rob Reiner from an endlessly quotable
script by William Goldman, The Princess Bride reigns as a
fairy-tale classic. Criterion Blu-ray
Release date: October 30th, 2018
Shampoo
BD - Shampoo gives us
a day in the life of George (Warren Beatty), a Beverly Hills
hairdresser and lothario who runs around town on the eve of the
1968 presidential election trying to make heads or tails of his
financial and romantic entanglements. His attempts to scrape
together the money to open his own salon are continually
sidetracked by the distractions presented by his lovers—played
brilliantly by Goldie Hawn, Julie Christie, and Lee Grant (in an
Oscar-winning performance). Beatty dreamed up the project,
cowrote the script with Robert Towne, and enlisted Hal Ashby as
director, and the resulting carousel of doomed relationships is
an essential seventies farce, a sharp look back at the sexual
politics and self-absorption of the preceding decade.
Blu-ray Release Date: October 16th
/ November 5th, 2018
The Naked Prey
BD - Glamorous leading man
turned idiosyncratic auteur Cornel Wilde created in the sixties
and seventies a handful of gritty, violent explorations of the
nature of man, none more memorable than The Naked Prey.
In the early nineteenth century, after an ivory-hunting safari
offends an African tribe, the colonialists are captured and
hideously tortured. Only Wilde's marksman is released, without
clothes or weapons, to be hunted for sport, and he embarks on a
harrowing journey through savanna and jungle, back to a
primitive state. Criterion Blu-ray
Release Date: October 2nd, 2018
Goin' Down the Road
BD - Don Shebib’s definitive
1970 film is about two young and uneducated Maritimers who leave
the desolation of Nova Scotia and head for the legendary
opportunities of Toronto. Even when contacts fall through and
they are forced to spend their first nights at the Salvation
Army, both men maintain an optimistic sense of adventure as they
encounter offbeat characters in a variety of humorous
situations. However, as their prospects begin to fade, optimism
gives way to frustration and loneliness.
Blu-ray Release Date: May 15th,
2012
The Man Who Cheated Himself
BD - Blinded by love,
homicide lieutenant Ed Cullen (Lee J. Cobb) goes to great
lengths to cover up a murder. His coquettish girlfriend Lois
(Jane Wyatt) has killed her scheming husband before he could
bump her off. John Dall co-stars as Ed's kid brother Andy, a
rookie on the force who is determined to break his first big
case. These accomplished actors are nearly eclipsed by the
incandescent star power of San Francisco and especially the
world's most photographed bridge, the Golden Gate.
Blu-ray Release Date: September
25th, 2018
Sisters
BD - Margot Kidder is
Danielle, a beautiful model separated from her Siamese twin,
Dominique. When a hotshot reporter (Jennifer Salt) suspects
Dominique of a brutal murder, she becomes dangerously ensnared
in the sisters' insidious sibling bond. A scary and stylish
paean to female destructiveness, Brian De Palma's first foray
into horror voyeurism is a stunning amalgam of split-screen
effects, bloody birthday cakes, and a chilling score by frequent
Hitchcock collaborator Bernard Herrmann. Criterion
Blu-ray Release Date: October 23rd,
2018
Juliet of the Spirits
BD - Cinematographer Gianni
di Venanzo’s masterful use of Technicolor transforms Juliet
of the Spirits, Fellini’s first color feature, into a
kaleidoscope of dreams, spirits, and memories. Giulietta Masina
plays a betrayed wife whose inability to come to terms with
reality leads her along a hallucinatory journey of
self-discovery. Blu-ray Release
Date: September 24th, 2018
Gold
BD - Peter Hunt directed this old fashioned -- if
not reactionary -- action film about gold-mining in South
Africa. The story concerns a nefarious scheme to control the
international price of gold by sabotaging the country's largest
gold mine, flooding it with an underground sea. Hurry Hirschfeld
(Ray Milland) is a cranky but kind millionaire who owns the gold
mine. His granddaughter, Terry Steyner (Susannah York), is a
beautiful women suffering from the old ennui. She happens to be
married to chief bad-guy Manfred Steyner (Bradford Dillman),
who, along with unscrupulous international tycoon Farrell (John
Gielgud), hatches the plot to flood Hurry's gold- mine. To the
rescue comes Rod Slater (Roger Moore) and his faithful black
sidekick Big King (Simon Sabela), ready to right the wrongs and
stem the tide in order to make South Africa safe for cheap black
labor. Blu-ray Release Date:
September 18th, 2018
Schlock
BD - Carnage! Terror! Banana
skins! The mighty prehistoric ape Schlocktropus has emerged from
hiding to embark on a full-scale rampage across a quiet Southern
Californian suburb. The police are baffled. The army is
powerless. The body count is rising. But when Schlocktropus
encounters a kindly blind woman (Eliza Garrett) who sees beyond
his grotesque visage, the homicidal simian is presented with a
chance at redemption. Blu-ray
Release Date: October 15th-16th, 2018
BAT*21
BD - Based on a true story,
Bat 21 follows the harrowing adventures of Lt. Colonel Iceal
Hambleton (Gene Hackman), whose plane is shot down over enemy
territory while on reconnaissance behind enemy lines in Vietnam.
Because Hambleton used to call the shots from behind a desk, he
lacks combat survival experience and is forced to adapt while
the enemy surrounds him on all sides. As the Air Force plans a
risky rescue mission, he is befriended by pilot Bartholomew
Clark (Danny Glover), who can't land to pick up Hambleton due to
the enemy activity but keeps him company by radio. Hambleton's
plight takes a turn for the worse once the brass decide to
execute an intensive bombing mission in the area, whether or not
they can rescue Hambleton. Blu-ray
Release Date: September 18th, 2018
Retroactive
BD - Science fiction crime
thriller from Louis Morneau, genre director and graduate of the
Roger Corman school of filmmaking. Kylie Travis stars as Karen,
a psychiatrist and former hostage negotiator with the Chicago
Police Department. After a negotiation gone lethally wrong,
Karen has quit and returned home to Texas, where her car breaks
down on the side of the highway. Picked up by Frank (James
Belushi) and his ex-wife Rayanne (Shannon Whirry), it becomes
quickly evident that Frank, a psychotically violent and jealous
man, is involved in some sort of illegal activity involving a
stolen computer disk. Blu-ray
Release Date: September 18th, 2018
Cabin Boy
BD - A cult classic for
fancy lads everywhere, Cabin Boy was met with a frothy
blend of confusion and hostility upon first release, but has
aged like a fine flagon of wine. From Chris Elliott and Adam
Resnick, co-creators of the influential deconstructed sitcom
Get a Life, Cabin Boy is one of the most surreal
comedies ever released by a major Hollywood studio. After
graduating from finishing school as a well-bred “Fancy Lad,”
Nathanial Mayweather (Chris Elliott) prepares for a trip to
Hawaii. But his plans are dashed when he mistakenly boards The
Filthy Whore, a fishing boat manned by a ragtag crew of salty
shipmates, and soon becomes the vessel’s hapless Cabin Boy.
On his journey, he woos the feisty but beautiful Trina (Melora
Walters) and encounters a host of eye-rubbing curiosities
including an amiable shark man, a savage ice monster, a
tobacco-chewing cupcake, and a six-armed seductress...
Blu-ray Release Date: September
18th, 2018
Shot
BD - Semi-urban detective duo Ross and Wilson have
been charged with taking down local drug kingpin, Blasi. After
busting a low-level pusher, they convince his girlfriend,
Sheila, to start working for them as an undercover operative in
exchange for avoiding prison. But as Ross finds himself becoming
romantically interested in his new, perpetually spaced out
informant, Blasi continues to strengthen his crime empire,
setting his sights on even loftier, and deadlier, ambitions.
Blu-ray Release Date: August 28th,
2018
Grace Jones: Bloodlight and Bami
BD - This electrifying
journey through the public and private worlds of pop culture
mega-icon Grace Jones contrasts musical sequences with intimate
personal footage, all the while brimming with Jones’s bold
aesthetic. A larger-than-life entertainer, an androgynous
glam-pop diva, an unpredictable media presence – Grace Jones is
all these things and more. Sophie Fiennes’s documentary goes
beyond the traditional music biography, offering a portrait as
stylish and unconventional as its subject.
Blu-ray Release Date: August 14th,
2018
Picture of Beauty - Franek,
a talented painter and one-time forger, is commission by a
brothel to paint a large erotic painting to hang on the brothel
wall and excite the patrons. Franek searches for models to pose
for him and meets Stephanie. Stephanie falls in love with Franek,
but Franek is cold and distant, something in his past holds him
back. DVD Release Date: March 14th, 2017
All Together Now -
Attempting to close the generation gap, popular Aussie sitcom
All Together Now ran for four successful seasons, playing
out 101 madcap episodes of nostalgic rock 'n' roll fuelled
family comedy from 1991 - 1993. Back in 1972, Bobby Rivers (Jon
English) and his rock band Still Waters were at the top of the
pop charts with 'Easy Street', a catchy if not prophetic tune
that defined an era of carefree living. Fast forward to 1990,
caught in a time-warp... DVD Release Date: July 4th, 2018
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