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Sergeant York
BD - Prize-winning Tennessee marksman
Alvin York (Gary Cooper), a recent convert to Christianity,
finds himself torn between his non-violent beliefs and his
desire to serve his country when recruited to fight in World War
I. Kindly Major Buxton (Stanley Ridges) convinces York to engage
in battle, where the pacifist's prowess with a rifle earns him
honors as he continues to struggle with his decision to kill.
Howard Hawks directs this adaptation of the real York's memoirs.
Blu-ray Release Date: August 3rd, 2017
Bend of the River
BD - Glyn McLyntock (James Stewart) is
escorting a wagon train to Portland, when he stops to save
Emerson Cole (Arthur Kennedy) from being lynched. The new
buddies help fight off a pack of marauding Indians as the
settlers bunk down for the evening, but their friendship
eventually turns to a bitter hatred fueled by the greed of the
crazed Gold Rush fever. Gambler Trey Wilson (Rock Hudson) is
choosing sides. Making new vows Glyn must face his notorious
past to join the familial settlement on the river's bend.
Blu-ray Release Date: August 10th, 2017
The Giant Claw
BD - Engineer Mitch MacAfee (Jeff Morrow)
spots a UFO while directing a study at the North Pole. But when
the Air Force arrives, they cannot find anything visually or on
radar, throwing Mitch's reputation into doubt. Soon, though,
many airplanes are reporting attacks by a UFO, which turns out
to be a giant speeding bird from outer space. Along with
mathematician Sally Caldwell (Mara Corday), Mitch tries to
determine a way to stop the bird, which has a force field that
renders all weapons useless. Blu-ray Release date: April
13th, 2017
Atlantis - The Lost Continent
BD - Rejoice, citizens of
Atlantis! Princess Antillia, lost upon uncharted seas, has been
guided home by intrepid Greek fisherman Demetrios. In a strange
act of Atlantean gratitude, Demetrios is cast into slavery. He
will endure the macabre House of Hell. Fight for his life before
a cheering arena throng in the Ordeal of Fire and Water. And
rescue the princess again as they flee the realm's volcanic
doom. Welcome to Atlantis, the Lost Continent, where royal
guardsmen wear uniforms that could easily be from the wardrobe
of Ming the Merciless and where some unfortunate slaves are
turned into bovine-headed beasts. Yes, that kind of movie:
popcorn-worthy and spearheaded by legendary fantasy film
producer George Pal. Blu-ray Release Date: December 2nd, 2016
Sink the Bismarck!
BD - Sink the Bismarck is a faithful
retelling of the British Navy’s attempts to debilitate the
German mega-battleship Bismarck. Based on C.S. Forester’s book
and directed by Lewis Gilbert (of James Bond film fame) the
real-life naval battle is detailed and fascinating as it delves
deep into the successes and failures of one small triumph of the
war. We are treated to exposure of massive amounts of
information leaving character development to take a backseat.
This helps produce an almost documentary-like representation
through Edmund H. North’s confident screenplay. Both Kenneth
More and the beautiful Dana Wynter are really given no
opportunities to shine as the story takes full command of our
senses. Blu-ray Release Date: August 25th, 2017
Jabberwocky
BD - Amid the filth and muck of England in
the Dark Ages, a fearsome dragon stalks the land, casting a
shadow of terror upon the kingdom of Bruno the Questionable. Who
should emerge as the town’s only possible saviour but Dennis
Cooper (Life of Brian’s MICHAEL PALIN), an endearingly witless
bumpkin who stumbles onto the scene and is flung into the role
of brave knight? The first outing as a solo director by TERRY
GILLIAM (Brazil)—inspired by Lewis Carroll’s poem “Jabberwocky”
and made on the heels of Gilliam’s success as a member of the
iconic comedy troupe Monty Python—showcases his delight in comic
nonsense, with a cast chock-full of beloved British character
actors. A giddy romp through blood and excrement, this fantasy
remains one of the filmmaker’s most uproarious visions of
society run amok. Blu-ray Release date: November 20th-21st,
2017
Desert Hearts
BD - Donna Deitch’s swooning and sensual
first narrative feature, Desert Hearts, was groundbreaking upon
its release in 1985: a love story about two women, made entirely
independently, on a shoestring budget, by a woman. In this
1959-set film, adapted from a beloved novel by Jane Rule,
straitlaced East Coast professor Vivian Bell (Helen Shaver)
arrives in Reno to file for divorce but winds up catching the
eye of someone new, the free-spirited young Cay (Patricia
Charbonneau), touching off a slow seduction that unfolds against
a breathtaking desert landscape. With undeniable chemistry
between its two leads, an evocative jukebox soundtrack, and
vivid cinematography by Robert Elswit, Desert Hearts
beautifully exudes a sense of tender yearning and emotional
candor. Blu-ray Release date: November 14th, 2017
Red Christmas
BD - Horror legend Dee Wallace stars as
the stressed-out mother of a squabbling family, gathered
together in a remote Outback estate on Christmas Eve. When a
mysterious, deformed young man named Cletus appears at their
door, things soon change from petty insults to bloody,
imaginatively orchestrated violence as Wallace attempts to
protect her family from the vengeful intruder. The film
deliriously infuses comedy, dark family secrets with outlandish
gore and adds the always controversial subject of abortion in
its blood-stained mix. Blu-ray Release Date: October 17th,
2017
Torso
BD - Sergio Martino directs this Italian horror
starring Suzy Kendall and Tina Aumont. Two college girls are
butchered by a masked killer who leaves a scarf at the scene. A
classmate of the dead girls has seen the scarf before - but
where? Her attempts to track down the culprit become more urgent
as the hacksaw-wielding maniac sets about a killing spree across
the Italian countryside. Blu-ray Release Date: September 25th,
2017
Le Samourai
BD - In a career-defining performance, Alain Delon plays a contract killer with samurai instincts. A
razor-sharp cocktail of 1940s American gangster cinema and 1960s
French pop culture—with a liberal dose of Japanese lone-warrior
mythology—maverick director Jean-Pierre Melville’s masterpiece
Le Samouraļ defines cool. Blu-ray Release Date:
November 14th, 2017
The Philadelphia Story
BD - Its witty dialogue, romantic
complications, and class-skewering satire are hallmarks of
screwball comedy, but George Cukor’s classic The Philadelphia
Story doesn’t turn on absurd situations, outlandish
behavior, or unpredictable plot twists. Instead, it’s a more
mature and humanistic social satire, a comedy of manners
skewering every kind of snobbery: not only the class-based
snobbery of the rich against the poor — and the poor against the
rich — but also the intellectual snobbery of the literate
against the popular, and above all the moral snobbery of the
self-righteous against the imperfect. Blu-ray Release Date:
November 7th, 2017
T-Men
BD - The moodily evocative docudrama T-Men
stars Dennis O'Keefe as Dennis O'Brien, a treasury agent
determined to bring a counterfeiting ring to justice. O'Brien
and his partner Tony Genaro (Alfred Ryder) go undercover to gain
the confidence of the ruthless Detroit mob responsible for the
phony money. The plot, compelling though it is, takes second
place to the film's stylish set pieces, superbly directed by
Anthony Mann and brilliantly photographed by John Alton. Among
the film's most famous moments is the scene in which two-bit
hood Wallace Ford is bumped off in a steam bath by sadistic hood
Charles McGraw, not to mention the harrowing vignette wherein
O'Keefe, posing as a crook, must stand by silently as his
partner Ryder is murdered. One of the finest examples of the
film noir form, T-Men proved beyond a shadow of a doubt
that a film didn't need to have a lush budget, brilliant
Technicolor and Clark Gable to score a hit with postwar
moviegoers. Blu-ray Release Date: October 10th, 2017
Summer Night
BD - Summer Night is Lina
Wertmuller's outrageous, and outrageously funny, response to her
own
Swept Away, updated with the politics and
conspicuous consumption of the 1980s. Mariangela Melato stars as
Signora Bolk, a self-made tycoon interested in ecological
preservation. She is fed up with the terrorists who poach Italy
s rich beauty, and as part of a crazy retaliation scheme she
hires a former CIA agent to abduct the number one violator,
Giuseppe Beppe Catania (Michele Placido). Catania is taken to
her villa on a private island where he insists that as a man, he
cannot go without sex. She relents and hires two prostitutes to
pleasure him. Blindfolded and chained, Beppe realizes that the
third woman is none other than the woman who kidnapped him and
agrees to pay the $100 million but only with a twist.
Blu-ray
Release Date: September 19th, 2017
Ferdinando and Carolina
BD - In Ferdinando and
Carolina (1999), Lina Wertmuller turns her gimlet eye to the
18th century, and hilarity ensues. In the dazzling court of 18th
century Naples, against their wishes, young King Ferdinando
(Sergio Assisi) will wed Carolina (Gabriella Pession), the sweet
16-year-old daughter of Empress Maria Theresa of Austria. As the
monarchies of Europe hold their breath, something unexpected
happens. King Ferdinando and Carolina share one common interest
a rollicking, orgiastic celebration of the senses, and plunge
with gusto into the silken bed sheets to uphold their regal
duties. As the court continues on with magnificent splendor, the
sovereigns continue to reign, oblivious to the revolutionary
tides that are on the verge of tearing France apart and
overtaking all of Europe. Blu-ray Release Date: September
19th, 2017
Rawhead Rex
BD - A humble Irish farmer decides that it
is high time to move that big old stone in his field that has
been there seemingly since the dawn of time. This gory horror
film, an adaptation from one of noted British-author Clive
Barker's short stories, follows what happens next. No sooner
does he move the rock when out rushes an enormous, blood-thirsty
pagan demon, Rawhead Rex, who immediately goes berserk and
begins biting people left and right. Among the bitten is the son
of an American professor of history and anthropology. His father
immediately begins researching the angry old god and plotting
his demise. Blu-ray Release Date: October 17th, 2017
The Ornithologist - Fernando, a solitary ornithologist,
is looking for endangered black storks along a remote river in
northern Portugal when he is swept away by the rapids. Rescued
by a couple of Chinese pilgrim girls on their way to Santiago de
Compostela, he plunges into a dark, eerie forest, trying to get
back on track. But as he encounters unexpected and uncanny
obstacles and people who put him to the test, Fernando is driven
to extreme, transformative actions. Gradually he becomes a
different man: inspired, multifaceted, and finally enlightened.
DVD Release Date: October 3rd, 2017
Shortwave - Josh and Isabel Harris, after suffering the
loss of their only child, relocate to a secluded hillside
research facility with the hopes of repairing their broken
family. After years of trying, Josh and his research partner,
Thomas, have a breakthrough involving a cryptic shortwave radio
signal and its universal origins. Something within the signal
resonates with Isabel and she begins experiencing seeming
hallucinations and visions of distant memories. Upon further
investigation into the phenomenon, the scientists fear for
Isabel’s health while Isabel fears the signal has attracted
something sinister to their new home. DVD Release Date:
October 3rd, 2017
Devil's Whisper - 15-year-old Alejandro Duran, who comes
from a religious Latino family, aspires to one day be a Catholic
priest. But when he discovers a mysterious box he unwittingly
unleashes a demonic spirit bent on possessing him. Alex must
find a way to defeat this evil entity before it destroys him and
everyone he loves. On the surface, Devil's Whisper is a
psychological horror film about demonic possession but
underneath it's a character driven drama about repressed
psychological trauma and the cycle of abuse. DVD Release
Date: October 3rd, 2017 |
