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Shock Treatment
BD - This screwy sequel to original
midnight movie The Rocky Horror Picture Show
(1975) doesn’t quite hit all the marks or is as compulsively
watchable as its predecessor, but it’s an oddly fun enough time.
Newlyweds Brad and Janet Majors (De Young, Harper) find
themselves tagged to be the contestants on Marriage Maze, a game
show hosted by blind Viennese nutcase Bert Schnick (Humphries)
after they sit in on an episode’s filming.
Blu-ray Release
date: September 11th, 2017
Signs
BD - In Signs, another paranormal outing for the
writer-director, Shyamalan explores the eerie implications of a
500-foot crop circle that mysteriously appears on the Bucks
County, PA farm of reverend Graham Hess (Mel Gibson). As Hess
and his family (Joaquin Phoenix, Rory Culkin, Abigail Breslin)
try to take stock of what the sign means, and how its message
incorporates into their faith, they start to get the feeling
they are not alone in the fields behind their house.
Blu-ray
Release date: June 3rd, 2008
Tag
BD - Mitsuko (Reina Triendl) is the sole survivor of
a bizarre paranormal incident that kills all of her classmates.
Running for her life, Mitsuko seemingly slips into an alternate
reality, but death and chaos seems to follow her everywhere. As
Mitsuko finds herself in increasingly surreal and violent
situations, the true horror behind her nightmare is revealed.
Blu-ray Release date: November 20th, 2017
September
BD - Mia Farrow, Sam Waterston and Elaine Stritch star in this drama written and directed by Woody Allen.
The film follows Lane (Farrow), who is staying at her childhood
home in Vermont as she recovers from a nervous breakdown. She
has been having an affair with Peter (Waterston), a writer who
lives nearby, but now relations between them seem to have
inexplicably cooled. When Lane's mother Diane (Stritch) arrives
with unexpected news, and the fate of her relationship with
Peter becomes clear, Lane's emotional world is thrown into
turmoil once again. Blu-ray Release date: September, 2017
Lawman
BD - Burt Lancaster as the by-the-books title
character doggedly hunting down Lee J. Cobb and his six ranchhands after the group accidentally killed an old man during
a drunken spree. Robert Ryan, in an impeccable performance,
plays a local sheriff - weak and corrupt - who like the rest of
the town thinks Lancaster is too inflexible and arrogant in his
single-minded pursuit. Twilight Time Blu-ray Release date:
September, 2017
Beneath the 12-Mile Reef
BD - One of the earliest CinemaScope pictures, Beneath the 12-Mile Reef (1953)
takes us deep into the crystal-clear, perilous waters off the
Florida coast, where two rival sponge-diving families produce a
boy (Robert Wagner) and a girl (Terry Moore) who of course fall
for each other, hard. Stunning widescreen underwater
cinematography by Oscar nominee Edward Cronjager and a
staggeringly atmospheric score from the one and only Bernard
Herrmann are added attractions. Blu-ray Release date:
September, 2017
Personal Shopper
BD - This evocative character study
tells the story of a young American fashion assistant and
spiritual medium who is living in Paris and searching for signs
of an afterlife following the sudden death of her twin brother.
A stirring depiction of grief in the form of a psychological
thriller, Personal Shopper which won Assayas the best
director award at Cannes is a chilling meditation on modern
modes of communication and the way we mourn those we love.
Blu-ray Release date: October 24th, 2017
Four Nights of a Dreamer
BD - In the secular turn
Bresson reveals an unexpected sense of humor and worldly irony.
The transformation of Paris at night into a dream landscape
pulsing with electric mystery is reminiscent of Minnelli,
although the economy of expression is clearly Bresson's. A very
beautiful and essential film. Blu-ray Release date: February
11th, 2013
Retreat
BD - Director Carl Tibbetts razor eye behind the
lens went on to really make the most of the striking settings at
hand (the majestic ocean, the run down shack, the lonely island)
capturing all of its beautiful while channeling its uneasiness;
one that echoed the troubled mindset of our main characters and
the twisted tale that would eventually unfold. Speaking of the
tale, I really grooved to Gary Sinyor and David Frost’s
screenplay here, which in my useless opinion, did it pretty much
all right. Blu-ray Release date: October 17th, 2011
Gun Fury
BD - Originally filmed and released in 3-D,
Gun Fury (1953) is one of the better Westerns produced in
that format and works just as well in a flat version as it does
with all its gimmickry intact and various objects being hurled
at the viewer. The story takes place in the post-Civil War years
and opens with Jennifer Ballard (Donna Reed) traveling by
stagecoach to meet her fiancé, Ben Warren (Rock Hudson).
Blu-ray Release date: September, 2017
Hour of the Gun
BD - Garner turns in one of his best
performances. Sturges must have tamed him. He doesn't shout or
swagger; he's quiet and squint-eyed, and in 20 more years when
he works up some wrinkles he'll make a good indestructible
cowboy. Robert Ryan, who has worked up the wrinkles, doesn't
have much of a role -- but he handles it, as always, with
authority. The memory of the Kirk Douglas and Burt Lancaster
performances in "Gunfight" haunts the sequel like a ghost, but "Hour
of the Gun" pretty much manages to stand on its own.
Blu-ray Release date: September, 2017
A Fish Called Wanda
BD - A perfectly old-fashioned
romantic comedy, big on caper, generous on Ealing, and heavy on
the twisted stereotypes. Cleese scripts and stars as London
barrister Archie Leach, hired to defend a gem thief, and earning
a much-vaunted 'sex symbol' tag with the affections of
gangster's moll Wanda Gershwitz (Curtis). It's a plot too jagged
to document in full - Where are the gems? Who has the
safe-deposit key? Who's betraying whom? Is the London
Underground really a political movement? - but the interest lies
less in outcome than in character: Palin as a madly stuttering,
animal-loving dog-murderer, Kline as a maybe-CIA cruel paranoid
pseudo who's intermittently Wanda's lover/gay brother, and
Cleese and Curtis as the most unlikely rug-tearers since Miller
and Monroe. There's nothing deep, nothing ground-breaking, but
it's a never-dull, tightly scripted yarn with some very funny
gags. Blu-ray Release date: September 18th + October 3rd,
2017
Guns at Batasi
BD - The East African nation of Batasi is
tearing apart at the seams, and a group of British soldiers are
caught in the middle. As fighting breaks out between two rival
factions in the former British colony, by-the-books Regimental
Sgt. Maj. Lauderdale (Richard Attenborough) attempts to preserve
peace and order. But his rigid style of command becomes
increasingly ill-suited to a volatile political situation in
which the stability of the old era has been replaced by violent
conflict. Blu-ray Release date: July 31st, 2017
Trip With the Teacher
BD - Ms. Tenney (Brenda Fogarty)
and a group of summer school students are on a camping trip in
the desert to study ancient native cultures and to hike through
the Grand Canyon. But when their bus breaks down in the middle
of nowhere, a trio of bikers, led by the demented Al (Zalman
King) finds them and tricks them into heading out to an
abandoned farmhouse. Fearing for their lives, the girls and
their teacher try to survive the night and the short tempered,
psycho biker Al. Blu-ray Release date: September 26th, 2017
Suspicious Death of a Minor
BD - The final of Martino s
six gialli, The Suspicious Death of a Minor combines
conventional giallo trappings with elements of the then
flourishing poliziotteschi crime thrillers. Claudio Cassinelli (What
Have They Done to Your Daughters?) stars as undercover cop
Paolo Germi, on the trail of a Milanese criminal outfit
following the brutal murder of an underage prostitute. But a
killer-for-hire is also on the prowl, bumping off witnesses
before they have a chance to talk... Blu-ray Release date:
September 25th + October 3rd, 2017
20 Million Miles to Earth
BD - There's nothing that
brings you back to your boyhood dreams like master animator Ray Harryhausen's painstaking, frame-by-frame, stop-motion efforts.
You can forgive the flawed scripting and unconvincing
performances as the giant Ymir takes his justifiable fear and
self-protection instincts out on Rome's Colosseum.
Blu-ray
Release date: September 29, 2017.
It Came From Beneath the Sea
BD - While on a routine
mission, Cmdr. Pete Mathews (Kenneth Tobey) runs into trouble
when his submarine is nearly sunk by an unknown creature. Back
at base in Pearl Harbor, Dr. John Carter (Donald Curtis) and
Professor Lesley Joyce (Faith Domergue) identify the beast as a
giant octopus from the nether reaches of Mindanao Deep, which
has been awakened by nearby nuclear testing. Radioactive and
monstrously huge, the rampaging leviathan is heading toward the
North American Pacific Coast. Blu-ray Release date: September
29, 2017
The 3 Worlds of Gulliver
BD - The phenomenal team of
special effects wizard Ray Harryhausen, composer Bernard
Herrmann, and director Jack Sher bring their gifts to bear on
The 3 Worlds of Gulliver (1960), a spritely adaptation of
Jonathan Swift’s acerbic satire, Gulliver’s Travels. Satire
gives way here, however, to the fantastical tale of a doctor (Kerwin
Mathews) and his stowaway fiancée (June Thorburn) who adventure
first to Lilliput – a land populated by four-inch-tall schemers
– and then to Brobdingnag, where giants prove no more politic.
Blu-ray Release date: September 29th, 2017
Die Screaming, Marianne
BD - Marianne (Susan George,
Straw Dogs), following the sudden death of her
mother, stands to inherit the family fortune, along with several
documents that could incriminate her corrupt judge of a father.
Now, her sister and her father both want their hands on
Marianne's inheritance and they'll stop at nothing, even murder,
to get it! Screenbound Blu-ray Release date: July 3rd, 2017
The Legend of the Holy Drinker
BD - Adapted from the
novella by Joseph Roth, the film tells the story of Andreas Kartack, a homeless man living under the bridges of Paris. Lent
200 francs by an anonymous stranger, he is determined to pay
back his debt but circumstances and his alcoholism forever
intervene Blu-ray Release date: September 25th-26th, 2017
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me
BD - The television show
began famously with the discovery of high-school coed Laura
Palmer's (Sheryl Lee) plastic-wrapped body. Fire Walk with Me is
the story of how she got that way. It is a necessarily grim
story as the promiscuous and increasingly hysterical Laura
juggles two teenage boyfriends, bad boy Bobby Briggs (Dana Ashbrook) and sensitive James Hurley (James Marshall); S&M
playmates Jacques Renault (Walter Olkewicz) and Leo Johnson
(Eric DaRe); and the many men she picks up while hooking.
Criterion Blu-ray Release date: October 17, 2017
Barry Lyndon
BD - For the most sumptuously crafted film
of his career, Kubrick recreated the decadent surfaces and
intricate social codes of the period, evoking the light and
texture of eighteenth-century painting with the help of
pioneering cinematographic techniques and lavish costume and
production design, all of which earned Academy Awards. The
result is a masterpiece—a sardonic, devastating portrait of a
vanishing world whose opulence conceals the moral vacancy at its
heart. Blu-ray Release date: October 17th, 2017
Psychos in Love
BD - Joe (Carmine Capobianco) runs a
strip club and Kate (Debi Thibeault) is an attractive young
manicurist. After bonding over their mutual dislike of grapes,
they discover another commonality: both of them are bloodthirsty
serial killers. As they begin to balance their obsession with
murder and each other, they meet Herman (Frank Stewart), a
cannibal who, upon discovering their bloodlust, attempts to lure
them into killing as a means to satisfy his craving for human
flesh!: Blu-ray Release Date: September 26th, 2017
The Chase
BD - When "Bubber" Reeves (Robert Redford)
escapes from prison, it upsets the folks in the nearby town of
Tarl, Texas. Sheriff Calder (Marlon Brando) wants to capture
Reeves alive, which puts him in opposition to many of the
townspeople who have resorted to mob justice. Businessman Val
Rogers (E.G. Marshall) wants Calder to apprehend Reeves quickly,
through any means, since he fears the criminal will come after
Val's son, Jake, who is sleeping with Reeves' wife (Jane Fonda).
Indicator Blu-ray Release date: September 25th, 2017
See No Evil
BD - Sarah, played by Mia Farrow, is a young
English woman who had been struck blind after a horse-riding
accident, and has just returned to her country home to rejoin
her aunt, uncle and younger cousin. As she learns to cope with
her blindness, she reunites with her boyfriend, Steve, even
going on a horseback ride into the countryside with him. But
when she returns from riding that one day, something isn’t quite
right. Unbeknownst to Sarah, the home has been broken into and
her family has been murdered by a cold-blooded killer.
Indicator Blu-ray Release date: September 25th, 2017
Tout Va Bien
BD - In 1967, Jean-Luc Godard capped off
nearly a decade of nonstop productivity with the release of
Week End, an incendiary piece of filmmaking that easily
matched the best of his earlier work. In between the scenes of
car crashes, cannibals, and impassioned political monologues, a
curious inter-title continued to flash on the screen, trumpeting
“the end of cinema.” Blu-ray Release date: August 28th, 2017
Crime of Passion
BD - Crime of Passion is an
amazingly bold film for its time. Not only does the plot
effectively eviscerate the American Dream, but it also laces the
drama with two contrasting visions of female relationships. On
one hand, there are the wives of the police department--giddy,
silly, bitchy vacuous women who seem bred for lives of
conspicuous consumption (note the lengthy manicure session Kathy
has with Alice Pope), and then there are ‘other’ women
Blu-ray Release date: September 5th, 2017
Journey to the Center of the Earth
BD - It's one of the
very best Hollywood adventure movies, with lots of monsters,
underground oceans, sinister villains, and touches which would
have delighted Jules Verne himself. James Mason as usual carries
his part superbly, and there are plenty of good supporting
actors like Napier and Ronson. Some of the special effects are
intriguing... Blu-ray Release date: September 18th, 2017
Skyjacked - One of the first of many '70s disaster
films, Skyjacked (1972) puts together what would soon
become the traditional ensemble cast--former film and TV stars
who are subjected to all kinds of horrific situations. In this
case, passengers who think they're bound for Minneapolis are
actually heading for the Iron Curtain... DVD Release Date:
September 13th, 2017
Ants! - Colonies of poisonous black ants panic people
(Suzanne Somers, Robert Foxworth, Myrna Loy) at Lake Wood Manor,
a summer resort. DVD Release Date: February 9th, 2014
The Case of the Bloody Iris - Director Giuliano Carnimeo
avoids allowing the viewer to dwell on the gimmicky nature of
the storytelling by maintaining a snappy pace and trotting out a
vast array of eye-catching visual devices (zooms, fish-eye lens
shots, point-of-view camerawork) to keep the viewer's eye
dazzled throughout. DVD Release Date: February 26th, 2008 |
