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Vamp
BD - Two fraternity pledges
head to a seedy part of town to find some entertainment for
their college friends but are faced with bloodthirsty vampires!
Keith (Chris Makepeace) and AJ (Robert Rusler) want to make the
right impression at college and so they devise a plan to get
them into the best frathouse on campus. They head to the After
Dark Club where they want to find a stripper for a party their
friends won t forget, instead they find themselves among
vampires led by Kinky Katrina (Grace Jones)!
Blu-ray Release date: October
3rd-4th, 2016
Bring Me The Head of Alfredo Garcia
BD - Reviled on its release,
reassessed today as a masterpiece, Bring Me the Head of
Alfredo Garcia (1974) is pantheon director Sam Peckinpah’s
nihilistic yet poetic tale of Bennie (Warren Oates, iconically
great), a wastrel sometime piano player lost in the wilds of
Mexico. He and his beautiful, tragic lover (the fragile/strong
Isela Vega) stumble across one last, perilous chance at
happiness: in order to claim more money than they’ve ever
dreamed of, all they have to do is retrieve the head of a wanted
man. But the path to their ultimate escape is littered with
dangers – some, of course, of the fatal variety. Twilight
Time (Encore) Blu-ray Release date:
September, 2016
Dark Water
BD - Based upon on a short
story by Ring author Koji Suzuki, Dark Water follows
Yoshimi, a single mother struggling to win sole custody of her
only child, Ikuko. When they move into a new home within a
dilapidated and long-forgotten apartment complex, Yoshimi begins
to experience startling visions and unexplainable sounds,
calling her mental well-being into question, and endangering not
only her custody of Ikuko, but perhaps their lives as well.
Blu-ray Release Date: October
10-11th, 2016
Cosmos (Żuławski)
BD - The final film by the late
Andrzej Zulawski, director of the legendary Possession (the only
Cannes-winning arthouse film to be officially classified as a
video nasty), Cosmos adapts Witold Gombrowicz's legendarily
challenging novel into a beguilingly witty combination of
(deceptively) lighthearted French farce and a complex, knowing
reflection on the absurdities both of humanity itself and the
way that we define our notion of the universe according to our
individual hang-ups. Blu-ray
Release date: October 17th, 2016
Daredevil (Season One)
BD - All 13 episodes from the
first season of the action adventure following the Marvel Comics
superhero. Idealistic lawyer Matt Murdock (Charlie Cox), along
with his long-time friend Foggy Nelson (Elden Henson), uses his
newly established firm to tackle the rising levels of criminal
activity in New York City. By night however, Murdock - who was
blinded by a chemical spill as a young boy - uses his heightened
senses to fight crime on the streets as vigilante Daredevil.
With the influence of underworld kingpin Wilson Fisk (Vincent
D'Onofrio) continuing to grow, Murdock faces a fight on two
fronts to keep the city safe. Blu-ray
Release date: October 3rd, 2016
52 Pick-up
BD - This is the one Elmore
Leonard fans were waiting for, the one that lost least on the
swings and roundabouts of translation to the screen. It has,
damagingly, exchanged the precise economic placing of Detroit
for impersonal LA, fiddled a bit with the plot, but courageously
sticks by the unheroic tone of the book. Married Harry's passing
fling with a young 'model' places him in the hands of a trio of
extortionists. They show him the evidence on video, and when he
refuses to pay up, execute his mistress with his gun, and play
him the subsequent snuff movie. Harry's survival depends upon
his ability to play the unstable trio off against each other.
Excellent performances. Best of all is the casting of Williams
as Bobby Shy - as shamblingly conspicuous as the brother from
another planet, golliwog hair and a too-tight raincoat that
clings like a hobo's fart, this is a guy who wants a good
leaving alone. Blu-ray Release
date: October 17th, 2016
The Burning
BD - Apart from early
appearances by Jason Alexander and Holly Hunter, an interesting
score by Rick Wakeman, and some typically... effective work by
effects icon Tom Savini, this slasher film is also among the
more frightening of its kind. The plot concerns a summer-camp
caretaker named Cropsy (Lou David) who is horribly burned by
mischievous teen campers during a botched practical joke. Years
later, he leaves the hospital as a disfigured gloppy mess with
an axe (actually, hedgeclippers) to grind. After dispatching a
local prostitute, Cropsy heads out to the wilderness to
terrorize a group of campers. Blu-ray
Release date: October 10th, 2016
Nighthawks
BD - Deke DaSilva (Sylvester
Stallone) and Matthew Fox (Billy Dee Williams) are New York
police officers specially assigned to a special multi-national
team dedicated to tracking down terrorist Wulfgar (Rutger Hauer).
Wulfgar planted a bomb in a London department store, killing
several children and he is now an outcast, hunted by both the
police and his fellow gang members. He has extensive plastic
surgery and resumes his activities aided by Shakka (Persis
Khambutta), a completely psychotic fellow outcast.
Blu-ray Release date: October 18th,
2016
Glengarry Glen Ross
BD - Adapted from his Pulitzer
Prize winning play, Glengarry Glen Ross shows David
Mamet, at his searing, profane best. A group of Chicago
real-estate salesmen-cum-con artists live on the edge... life is
good for the one on a roll, for the rest, life hangs in the
balance. There is no room for losers. A-B-C Always Be Closing,
sell or go under, is the salesman's mantra. With the pressure
on, so begins a rainy night of cut-throat business and shattered
lives. Oscar nominated Al Pacino plays the fast talking Ricky
Roma, alongside a phenomenal performance by Jack Lemmon as the
veteran Shelly "The Machine" Levene, struggling to keep his neck
above water. With a star studded ensemble cast featuring Kevin
Spacey, Alec Baldwin, Ed Harris and Alan Arkin. Lionsgate
Blu-ray Release date: October 11th,
2016
Salem's Lot
BD - Novelist David Soul
returns to his hometown of Salem, finding that things have
changed a bit. More than a bit, in fact: the previously warm and
friendly community is downright sinister. Soul suspects that the
bizarre behavior of his onetime friends and neighbors is the
handiwork of oddball antique dealer James Mason. We won't reveal
here the secret of Salem; suffice to say that the action goes
directly to the jugular, and that makeup artists Jack Young and
Ben Lane won an Emmy nomination. Based on the best-selling novel
by Stephen King, Salem's Lot was originally telecast in
two parts on November 17 and 24, 1979; it was subsequently pared
down to a single three-hour installment, which in turn was
whittled down to about two hours for cable-TV play.
Blu-ray Release date: October 18th,
2016
Odds Against Tomorrow
BD - Considered by many to be
the last of the true 40s and 50s film noirs, is the story of a
daring robbery gone wrong. When ruthless killer Earle Slater
(Robert Ryan) teams up with crooked ex-cop Dave Burke (Ed
Begley), and gambler Johnny Ingram (Harry Belafonte) to rob a
New York bank, things quickly start to go wrong. Fuelled by his
racist hatred, Earle continually clashes with Johnny resulting
in the heist quickly spiralling out of control. With the
escalating tension comes increasing violence as Slater's
prejudice drives both him and Ingram to the very edge.
Blu-ray Release date: October 24th,
2016
The Pit
BD - One of the odder horror
film antagonists you’ll likely come across, Jamie Benjamin is in
actuality more of a victim of circumstance and manipulation than
a cold-blooded killer. Ignored by his parents, raised by a
string of negligent babysitters, shuttled from town to town and
school to school, and unable to establish any significant human
relationships, the boy inevitably develops an intense, unhealthy
bond with his teddy bear. Just what Teddy’s specific motivations
are remain unclear, but his perverted, murder-hungry attitude
coupled with Jamie’s mounting frustration with society makes for
a fascinating horror dynamic. Blu-ray
Release date: October 18th, 2016
Cat Ballou
BD - When hired gun Tim Strawn
(Lee Marvin) kills her rancher father, Cat Ballou (Jane
Fonda) becomes an outlaw set on vengeance. Enlisting the help of
washed-up gunslinger Kid Shelleen (also Marvin) as well as the
handsome bandit Clay Boone (Michael Callan), Cat strikes back at
the land-development company that employed Strawn, and
eventually targets the assassin himself. Adding to the lively
comedic mood of the film are narrative song performances by Nat
King Cole and Stubby Kaye. Blu-ray
Release date: August, 2016
Fixed Bayonets!
BD - His films are like
scenarios made from communities of rats, the camera itself a
king rat,' David Thomson wrote of Fuller. The rat trap is the
Korean war, in a studio set of fake rock and fake snow,
literally a theatre of war. The constantly moving camera
isolates the tensions within an American platoon fighting a
rearguard action. As the leaders are picked off by the 'alien'
reds, one sensitive corporal's struggle with the
responsibilities of leadership drags the plot in a slow dance of
death; only to be blasted apart by a typical cigar-chewing
affirmation of good old Yankee guts. Kino
Blu-ray Release date: September
20th, 2016
The Enemy Below
BD - A sure-handledly directed
film, it may be formulaic, but with a difference, mostly because
of the interesting resemblances and differences between Mitchum
and Jurgens, and some solid characterizations in other roles.
Naturally, it has the expected quota of stiff upper lip and "Up
periscope!", some bits about humanity, and last minute
sentimental touches thrown in. Blu-ray Release date:
September 20th, 2016
Malina
BD - Ms. Huppert's unnamed
character is a chain-smoking novelist who lives in Vienna with a
calm and devoted male companion, Malina (Mathieu Carriere).
Although attractive and successful, she is emotionally
disturbed. In the film's opening scene, she has a vision of
herself as a little girl being thrown to her death by her father
from the roof of a building. The father, a demonic figure,
reappears in several expressionistic set pieces, sometimes to
the accompaniment of operatic music.
Blu-ray Release date: November 10th, 2011
Miss Sadie Thompson
BD - In the Pacific after the
war, a U.S. Marine unit that includes Sgt. Phil O'Hara (Aldo
Ray) is awaiting discharge when missionary Alfred Davidson (Jose
Ferrer), physician Dr. Robert McPhail (Russell Collins) and
singer Sadie Thompson (Rita Hayworth) arrive at the base. The
soldiers are delighted by the spirited, friendly Sadie, and Phil
falls in love with her. Davidson, however, unearths a secret in
Sadie's past and, blocking her attempt to leave the island,
demands that she repent. Blu-ray
Release date: August, 2016
Wolf Lake
BD - Charlie is a bitter war
veteran. He and three of his friends go to Wolf Lake for their
annual weekend retreat of duck hunting, poker and hard drinking.
This year their usual contact person is not there, but instead
they find a young caretaker named David and his attractive
girlfriend. Charlie is deeply offended when he learns that David
is a Vietnam war deserter and fugitive, because his son was lost
in that conflict. So Charlie taunts David, and after a wild
party with too much drinking, things take a violent and tragic
turn at the lake. Blu-ray
Release date: October 25th, 2016
The Executioner
BD - This masterpiece of black
humor, beloved in Spain but too little seen elsewhere, threads a
scathing critique of Franco-era values through a macabre farce
about an undertaker who marries an executioner’s daughter and
reluctantly takes over her father’s job so the family can keep
their government-allotted apartment. As caustic today as it was
in 1963, this early collaboration between Luis García Berlanga
and his longtime screenwriter Rafael Azcona is an unerring
depiction of what Berlanga called “the invisible traps that
society sets up for us.” A furiously funny personal attack on
capital punishment, The Executioner evaded the state
censors who sought to suppress it, and today is regarded as one
of the greatest Spanish films of all time.
Blu-ray Release date: October 25th,
2016
Trouble Man
BD - T (Robert Hooks) is a
slick detective who's done very well for himself, but still runs
his operation from the same mean streets he grew up on in South
Central Los Angeles. His latest case comes from local hoods
Chalky (Paul Winfield) and Pete (Ralph Waite), who claim that
someone's been robbing their dice games at gunpoint. As T
searches for the perpetrator, he realizes the job is a setup.
Chalky and Pete have pinned a murder on him, and both cops and
criminals think T is to blame. Blu-ray
Release date: October 18th, 2016
The Laughing Policeman
BD - Stuart Rosenberg's taut
police thriller, based on the Martin Beck novel by Maj Sjowall
and Per Wahlöö, concerns a serial killer who is targeting bus
riders. When a bus full of innocent commuters are killed on a
San Francisco street, Jake Martin (Walter Matthau) is assigned
to track down the killer. Jake has a personal stake in the
killings because his partner was one of the victims. Teamed up
with new partner Leo Larsen (Bruce Dern), Jake investigates the
back alleys of San Francisco to find the serial killer. The
trail leads to a tour of the underbelly of the city's gay
subculture. Blu-ray Release
date: October 18th, 2016
A Cry From Within - After a
devastating miscarriage, a family trades their city lifestyle
for a quiet life in the country. Jonathan (Eric Roberts), Cecile
(Deborah Twiss) and their two children Ariel and Morgan settle
into a Long Island rental home that was vacated by a woman and
her elderly mother. The family soon finds themselves at the
mercy of a terrifying and violent manifestation that Ariel
identifies as a young boy named Sebastien. In fear for their
family, Jonathan and Cecile must unlock the secret that binds
Sebastien's torment with the former occupants and the local
priest. DVD Release Date: March 17th, 2015
Chevalier - In the middle
of the Aegean Sea, on a luxury yacht, six men on a fishing trip
decide to play a game. During this game, things will be
compared, measured and blood will be tested. Friends will become
rivals, but at the end of the voyage, when the game is over, the
winner will wear the victorious signet ring: the 'Chevalier'.
DVD Release Date: October 4th. 2016
Dollhouse - In 1996, nine
college students headed off for a fun weekend at a lake house on
Horse Creek. At the house, they uncovered the horrific story of
Dorchester Stewart, also known as Crinoline Head, and his
doll-maker mother, who once lived in the house. That weekend,
six students were killed, two survived and one went missing. Now
twenty years later, one of the survivors, Paul Donner, is
teaching at the college he once attended. When his students
discover an old newspaper article about the tragedy, they decide
to visit the old lake house to learn more about Crinoline Head.
While looking for answers, they discover something much more
terrifying. DVD Release Date: September 15th, 2015
Now We're Alive -
Imaginative, mentally stimulating, and ultimately moving piece
of French magic realism nearly alienates its viewer with a first
act that is deliberately-paced following a blandly-handsome
protagonist who threatens to alienate the viewer with behavior
that should be romantically-obsessive but comes across as
immature and churlish. The film is shot in desaturated colors
and has a perpetually overcast and dull look that becomes
monotonous, and even the internal sequences with Jeanne are
lacking life with an unnatural greenish lighting and overall
tinge that saps any sense of vitality these moments should bring
to the film. The film's twist refreshingly does not take things
into horror film territory, and instead reveals the
extraordinary things possible with the power of love in this
film's world with an ending that is irrational yet satisfying
rather than delusional or escapist. DVD Release Date:
September 27th, 2016
Happy Ever After - All the
episodes of the 1970s British comedy starring Terry Scott and
June Whitfield. Middle-aged couple Terry and June Fletcher
(Scott and Whitfield) expect to settle down in domestic bliss
when their children leave home and they are left with a quiet,
peaceful house. Their peace, however, is short-lived when ditzy
Aunt Lucy (Beryl Cooke) decides she's moving in... DVD
Release Date: September 26th, 2016
Joint Account - Bank
manager (Hannah Gordon) wants to retire, but her house husband
(Peter Egan) likes things the way they are, and doesn't want to
go back to work. DVD Release Date: September 5th, 2016
Man on the Run - Set in
post-war England, demobbed Cpl Newman (Kenneth More) bumps into
Army deserter Peter Burdon (Derek Farr) working as a barman in a
coastal public house, and being down on his luck blackmails his
old colleague for £2pw to keep his silence. In response Burden
goes on the run again, this time to London, but owing money to
his landlord he decides to pawn his old service revolver to pay
the rent. Just as Burden pulls out his empty revolver to show
the store keeper, two armed crooks burst into the jewellery
store to commit a robbery – assaulting the jeweller and killing
a police constable during the getaway. Burden is suspected of
being a member of the gang, and expecting the police won’t
believe the word of a deserter, he goes into hiding in the East
End. He is taken in by attractive war widow Jean Adams (Joan
Hopkins), who believes his alibi and offers to help prove his
innocence. But the only clue they have is that one of the crooks
has the top of his middle fingers missing... DVD Release
Date: June 22nd, 2012
Horror Double Feature: Village of the
Damned / Children of the Damned - We have met the
enemies and they are our children. Well, perhaps not OUR
children, and that's the problem: they are the offspring of
aliens who secretly impregnated human women. That's the riveting
premise of Village of the Damned, a science-fiction classic rife
with paranoia and set in England's Midwich. There, the glow-eyed
humanoids develop at an alarming rate and use astonishing powers
of mind to assert their supremacy. Woe to parents or anyone who
defies them. Yet one intrepid soul (George Sanders) does. It's
"yesterday Midwich, tomorrow the world" in the sequel Children
of the Damned. Unusually gifted youngsters who might be a leap
forward in human evolution are brought from around the globe to
England for scientific study - and then the terror hits with
full force. Children, behave! DVD Release Date: August 10th,
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