For the period ending October 27, 2017 ... New DVD and Blu-ray Selections Added to the DVD & Blu-ray Release Report's Database

For the period ending October 27, 2017 ... New DVD and Blu-ray selections added to the DVD & Blu-ray Release Report's database.

 

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7Idea Productions (MOD)

10/24/17 — Released Deschutes Daylight: SP 4449 Portland to Bend

108 Media Corporation

10/24/17 — Released Triangle

Acorn Media

10/24/17 — Released Midsomer Murders: Series 19, Part 2 and Vera: Set 6 (4 disc set)

Alakazam Magic

10/24/17 — Released Jamie Daws: He's Not Here

BBB Films (MOD)

10/24/17 — Released Punch: Going Fast Slowly

BBC Home Entertainment

10/24/17 — Released Curse of the Phoenix

Bayview Entertainment

10/24/17 — Released Terrible Dr. Mabuse (3 films set: Return of Dr. Mabuse, Invisible Dr. Mabuse, Death Ray Mirror of Dr. Mabuse)

Broad Green Pictures

10/24/17 — Released Good Catholic

CBS Home Ent. (MOD)

10/24/17 — Released Survivor: Caramoan (6 disc set)

Championship Videos

10/24/17 — Released Entrenamiento De La Quinta Brazada: Progresiones, Ejercicio Y Serie Para Desarrollar Las Patadas Bajo El Agua and Lo Mejor Del Club De Natacion: Avance Tcnico Para Un Exitoso Estilo Libre

Cleopatra Films & Music

12/08/17 — Sets The Rift: Dark Side Of The Moon

Cohen Media Group

10/24/17 — Released Old Dark House

Comedy Dynamics

10/24/17 — Released Andy Kindler: I Wish I Was Bitter, Andy Newman: Fuzzie, Andy Peters: Exclamation, Mark Question Point, Brooks McBeth: This Ain't Shakespeare, Chad Daniels: As Is, Chris Porter: Ugly and Angry, Dana Gould: I Know It's Wrong, Sam Kinison: Live in Las Vegas/Brother Sam: A Tribute to Sam Kinison and Tim Allen: Men are Pigs/Tim Allen Rewires America

DreamScape Media, LLC

10/24/17 — Released Only You Can Save Christmas: A Help-the-Elf Adventure

Dynamic

10/24/17 — Released Bellini: Norma - Macerata Opera Festival

E1 Entertainment

10/24/17 — Released Saving Hope: The Complete Fifth Season (5 disc set)

EWTN

10/24/17 — Released EWTN Live: The Many Times Throughout History That Our Lady has Interceded on Our Behalf - Carrie Gress, Journey Home: Former Evangelical Protestant - Tom Murphy, Sunday Night Prime: Jesus: Head of His Mystical Body - Fr. Andrew Apostoli and World Over with Raymond Arroyo: The Papal Posse ... Fr.Gerald Murray & Robert Royal

Film Movement

10/24/17 — Released Evil in the Time of Heroes (Greek)

FilmRise (MOD)

10/24/17 — Released Dayveon (ARR of 39 days; box office: $2,077), Purifiers and Pursued

Films Around the World, Inc. (MOD)

10/24/17 — Released Arsenal (silent-1929), Best of Kung-Fu Fights, Black Narcissus, Bloomer Girl, Buster Keaton: The Early Years, Volume 2 (3 silent short films: The High Sign (1921), One Week (1920), My Wife's Relations (1922)), By the Law (silent - 1926), Cabiria (silent - 1914), Cheat (silent - 1915), Cheers for Miss Bishop, Choppy and the Princess: Queen Icicle In Coolland (English dubbed), Civilization (silent - 1915), Cold Sweat, Cottage to Let, Crocodile (English dubbed)Deserter (Russian), Easy Virtue (silent - 1928), From the Manger to the Cross (silent-1912), Guest in the House, Love Never Dies (silent-1921), Marie, Matter of Life and Death (aka: Stairway to Heaven), Mr. Moto's Last Warning, Producer's Showcase: Festival of Magic, Regeneration (silent-1915), Salt For Svanetia (silent-1930), Silent Double Feature (2 film set: Traffic in Souls (1913), A Girl's Folly (1917))Storm  Over Asia (silent-1928), Three Ages (silent-1923), Turksib (silent-1929), White Gorilla and Young Romance (silence - 1915)

Gathr Films

10/24/17 — Released Slipknot: Days of the Gusano - Deluxe Limited Edition (2 DVD/CD Combo Pack) and Slipknot: Days of the Gusano (DVD/CD Combo Pack)

Gravitas Ventures (MOD)

10/24/17 — Released Aliens: Zone of Silence, Christmas Crime Story and Dave Made a Maze

High Octane Pictures, LLC (MOD)

10/24/17 — Released Clowntergeist

Image Entertainment

10/24/17 — Released Bushwick

Intuition Publishing

10/24/17 — Released Ross Taylor & Fraser Parker: Rapture (2 disc set)

John Pechulis Media (MOD)

10/24/17 — Released Anthracite Railroads in the 70s, Volume 4: Bethlehem Branch - East Penn to Reading, Reading to Trenton

Jungle Records

12/08/17 — Sets L.A.M.F.: Live at Bowery Electric

Kino Lorber

10/24/17 — Released Everybody Knows … Elizabeth Murray, Indian Runner, Night Angel (aka: Deliver Us From Evil), Portrait of Jennie, Rumble: The Indian Who Rocked the World, They Call Me Bruce?, Wiggles: Duets and Wiggles: Emma

Level 33 Entertainment (MOD)

10/24/17 — Released 200 Degrees

Lionsgate Home Entertainment

10/24/17 — Released Mind Blown and Where's the Money

12/05/17 — Sets American Assassin (ARR of 81 days; box office: $35,972,458)

MGM Home Entertainment

12/12/17 — Sets Teen Wolf: Season Six Part 2 (3 disc set)

Mind Pilots Media

10/24/17 — Released John Bunny: Film's First King of Comedy (plus four silent short films: The Feudists (1913), Kitty and the Cowboys (1911), Bunny's Dilemma (1913), Hearts and Diamonds (1914))

Monarch

10/24/17 — Released Christmas with the Andersons and Puppy For Christmas

National Geographic (MOD)

10/24/17 — Released National Geographic: Lion Kingdom

Naxos

10/24/17 — Released Bizet: Carmen, Don Quixote, Mozart: Lucio Silla (2 disc set), Puccini: Tosca - Berliner Philharmoniker, Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker - Royal Opera House and Waldbuehne 2017 - Legends of the Rhine

PBS Direct

10/24/17 — Released Durrells in Corfu: Season 2 (2 disc set)

Paramount Home Media

12/05/17 — Sets Twin Peaks: The Limited Event Series (8 disc set)

SM Productionz

10/24/17 — Released Felix Bodden: In a Flash

Sentai FilmWorks

10/24/17 — Released Flying Witch: The Complete Collection (3 disc set)

Silent Hall of Fame (MOD)

10/24/17 — Released Call of the North (silent - 1914)

Sony Music

10/24/17 — Released Jimi Hendrix Experience: Live at Monterey - The Definitive Edition

Sony Pictures Home Ent.

10/24/17 — Released Jesse Stone: 9-Movie Collection (9 film set: Stone Cold, Night Passage, Death In Paradise, Sea Change, Thin Ice, No Remorse, Innocents lost, Benefit of the Doubt, Lost in Paradise) (5 disc set)

Sri Ganesh Video

10/24/17 — Released Game (Kannada), Naani (Kannada) and Ondu Motteya Kathe (Kannada)

TLA Releasing

10/24/17 — Released I'm Fine: Season One

The Gioi Sao Online

10/24/17 — Released Tu Thi Len Tieng, Part One (6 disc set) and Tu Thi Len Tieng, Part Two (6 disc set)

The Video Beat (MOD)

10/24/17 — Released American Life Industrial Films, Volume 2: Telephone Technology 1950s (7 short films), American Life Industrial Films, Volume 3: Mid-Century Design (5 short films) and Pink Floyd: The Beginnings - 1967-1972

20^th Century-Fox Home Ent.

11/28/17 — Sets Detroit (ARR of 123 days; box office: $16,790,139)

Uncork’d Entertainment (MOD)

10/24/17 — Released AfterDeath, Circus Kane, Confessions (Italian), Deep in the Wood (Italian), Gremlin and They Call Me Jeeg (Italian)

Universal Pictures Home Ent.

10/24/17 — Released Bob the Builder: Bob's White Christmas and Mrs. Brown's Boys: Crackin' Christmas (2 episodes: Mammy's Christmas Punch, Mammy's Widow's Memories)

12/12/17 — Sets Home Again (ARR of 95 days; box office: $26,911,487)

12/19/17 — Sets Victoria and Abdul (ARR of 88 days; box office: $14,836,649)

Vina Entertainment

10/24/17 — Released Tam Sinh Tam The Thap Ly Dao Hoa, Part 2 (6 disc set)

WWE

10/24/17 — Released WWE: 30 Years of Survivor Series (3 disc set)

Warner Bros. Home Ent.

10/24/17 — Released Jamie Foxx Show: The Complete Fourth Season (3 disc set)

12/19/17 — Sets Dunkirk (ARR of 88 days; box office: $187,730,954)

Wild Eye Releasing (MOD)

10/24/17 — Released Demon Hunter and Hum

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7Idea Productions (MOD)

10/24/17 — Released Deschutes Daylight: SP 4449 Portland to Bend

Acorn Media

10/24/17 — Released Midsomer Murders: Series 19, Part 2

Aniplex of America

10/24/17 — Released Fate/Grand Order: First Order

Broad Green Pictures

10/24/17 — Released Good Catholic (Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack)

Cohen Media Group

10/24/17 — Released Old Dark House

Dynamic

10/24/17 — Released Bellini: Norma - Macerata Opera Festival

Film Movement

10/24/17 — Released Afterimage (Polish) (Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack)

FilmRise (MOD)

10/24/17 — Released Dayveon, Edmond, Failures and Gigantic

FUNimation

10/24/17 — Released Alderamin on the Sky: The Complete Series (2 Blu-ray/2 DVD Combo Pack), Fairy Tail: Collection Ten (4 Blu-ray/4 DVD Combo Pack), Servamp: Season 1 (2 Blu-ray/2 DVD Combo Pack) and Space Dandy: The Complete Series (4 Blu-ray/4 DVD Combo Pack)

Garagehouse Productions

10/24/17 — Released Web of the Spider (Italian)

Gravitas Ventures (MOD)

10/24/17 — Released Aliens: Zone of Silence, Christmas Crime Story and Dave Made a Maze

Image Entertainment

10/24/17 — Released Bushwick

Kino Lorber

10/24/17 — Released Indian Runner, Night Angel (aka: Deliver Us From Evil), Portrait of Jennie and They Call Me Bruce?

Lionsgate Home Entertainment

12/05/17 — Sets American Assassin (Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack) (with UltraViolet Digital Copy)

Naxos

10/24/17 — Released Don Quixote, Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker - Royal Opera House and Waldbuehne 2017 - Legends of the Rhine

Nevermore Production Films, LLC

10/24/17 — Released Barn

Mill Creek Entertainment

01/16/18 — Adds S.W.A.T.: 15th Anniversary Special Edition and Yor: The Hunter from the Future - 35th Anniversary Edition

PBS Direct

10/24/17 — Released Durrells in Corfu: Season 2 (2 disc set)

Paramount Home Media

12/05/17 — Sets Twin Peaks: The Limited Event Series (8 disc set)

Sentai FilmWorks

10/24/17 — Released Flying Witch: The Complete Collection (2 disc set)

Shout! Factory

10/24/17 — Released Three O'Clock High: Collector's Edition

SONY Music

10/24/17 — Released Jimi Hendrix Experience: Live at Monterey - The Definitive Edition

Paramount Home Media

12/05/17 — Sets Twin Peaks: The Limited Event Series (8 disc set)

20^th Century-Fox Home Ent.

11/28/17 — Sets Detroit (Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack) (with UltraViolet Digital Copy)

Uncork’d Entertainment (MOD)

10/24/17 — Released Confessions (Italian), Mother (Spanish) and They Call Me Jeeg (Italian)

Universal Pictures Home Ent.

10/24/17 — Released Holiday Inn: 75th Anniversary Edition (with UltraViolet Digital Copy)

12/12/17 — Sets Home Again (Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack) (with UltraViolet Digital Copy)

12/19/17 — Sets Victoria & Abdul (Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack) (with UltraViolet Digital Copy)

VEI

10/24/17 — Released Diagnosis Murder: Season 7 (4 disc set) and Diagnosis Murder: Season 8 (4 disc set)

VIZ Media

10/24/17 — Released Bleach: Set Three (4 disc set)

Vinegar Syndrome

10/24/17 — Released Double Feature: Seeds/Vapors (Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack) and Pick-Up: Limited Edition (with bonus feature: Orgy at Lil’s Place) (Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack)

Warner Bros. Home Ent.

12/19/17 — Sets Dunkirk (2 Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack) (with UltraViolet Digital Copy)

 

 

Warner Bros. Home Entertainment To Release DVD • Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack • And 4K Ultra HD/Blu-ray Combo Pack Editions Of Dunkirk On Dec. 19

Unless there’s something lurking in the weeds during the Christmas-season rush of new film releases that, cinematically-speaking, could upset the apple cart, the clear front-runner for Best Picture Oscar laurels in 2017 is writer/director Christopher Nolan’s Dunkirk.

Of course the same thing could have been said back in 1998 when Steven Spielberg and screenwriter Robert Rodat teamed for Saving Private Ryan, which somehow lost to Harvey Weinstein’s insipid Shakespeare in Love.   One of the greatest emotional experiences ever to reach the screen was not Oscar-worthy. 

  

The question is, will Dunkirk suffer the same fate?   The Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences has a date with destiny on Sunday, March 4, 2018 to turn-around the efforts of its members over the past few years to all but destroy the Oscar brand with some very questionable Best Picture choices — Moonlight over La La Land (or even Hell or High Water); Spotlight over The Martian, Mad Max: Fury Road or The Big Short (take your pick); Birdman, The Artist, seriously.

We while have to wait to see how the crushing politics and hypocrisy of the award’s season plays out, but for now the date of Dec. 19 can be circled on your home entertainment release calendar for the delivery of DVD, Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack and 4K Ultra HD/Blu-ray Combo Pack editions of Dunkirk to your favorite retail outlet.

Warner Bros. Home Entertainment finally made it official this past week after a three-week battle with retailing giant amazon.com over date-jumping and some confusion over the actual home entertainment launch (sparked by amazon.com).

The ARR is a leisurely 151 days and the domestic box office haul currently stands at $187.7 million.

The battle of Dunkirk plays out in a one-hour (the air battle), one-day (the sea rescue) and one-week (the trapped British and French forces) story that Nolan has cleverly blended together to tell a powerful tale of survival and heroism.

The bonus features are organized along these same lines in three over-arching presentations.   “The Land” features “Rebuilding the Mole,” “The Army on the Beach” and “Uniform Approach;” “The Sea” includes “Assembling the Naval Fleet,” “Launching the Moonstone,” “Taking to the Sea” “Sinking the Ships” and “The Little Ships;” and “The Air” has “Taking to the Air” and “Inside the Cockpit.”

There is also a making-of collection titled “Creation” which include four featurette segments — “Revisiting the Miracle,” “Dunkerque,” “Expanding the Frame” and “The In-Camera Approach.”   Finally, there is one final duo of featurettes titled “Conclusion” — “Turning Up the Tension” and “The Dunkirk Spirit.”

Vinegar Syndrome Picks Dec. 12 For The Next Slate Of New Film Restorations For DVD And Blu-ray Release

Vinegar Syndrome announced this past week that Dec. 12 will be the next street for the next selection of new Blu-ray and DVD restorations. 

It is like a cinematic wonderland … where does one begin!!!

Let’s start with the Crown International Pictures production of director Bernard Hirschenson’s 1975 “roadTRIP” gem, Pick-Up.   Which gets a new 2K restoration from the film’s original 35mm camera negative.  

This is a mixed-genre mishmash that is part sexploitation, part occult thriller and part drug-induced hippie/magic bus/trip-out.   In other words, Pick-Up can be anything you want … and then some.

Carol (Jill Senter in her only film role) and Maureen (Gini Eastwood, also in her only screen appearance) are hanging out in the Florida Everglades when a converted bus (a decked-out home away from home tour bus) stops and the driver, Chuck (Alan Long, yes his only screen appearance as well), offers them a ride (they were just sort of there in the weeds).   Carol is all for it, but Maureen senses danger, but in they get and off they go.

Chuck, as it turns out, has to deliver the bus to Tallahassee for a client and he is running a little behind schedule (his cigar-chomping boss keeps calling on the bus’ high-tech cellular phone … pretty awesome for 1975).   In no time, as the bus rolls along, he wants to get high with Carol, who, in turn, decides to dance topless just as a pick-up truck full of horny teens cruises by … they enjoy her impromptu dance in the front window of the bus (this little event foreshadows what will come later).

Meanwhile, Maureen has settled in with her tarot cards and is experiencing all sorts of weird vibes.   Pretty soon, and we are not pulling you leg here, Chuck comes to a detour, out in the middle of nowhere, manned by one guy with no apparent reason to be there.   On the side road, that they are directed to, they eventually get bogged down and some pretty strange things unfold.

There’s a mystical temple in the swamp that Maureen happens upon (an excuse to get naked), Chuck and Carol find a baby raccoon (and they too get naked) and there’s a clown, with balloons, prancing around … must have missed the party.  Oh yes, remember those guys in the pick-up truck, they too will find their way to this party spot.

Pick-Up, like we said, is anything you want it to be.   It can be viewed as simply a mid-‘70s drive-in sexploitation flick … or a pretty strong case can be made that the entire series of events that unfolded were simply visions of “possible things to come” experienced by Maureen (the ending seems to suggest this) just before her and Carol got on the bus at the beginning of the film.

As to bonus goodies, there’s a commentary track from director Bernard Hirschenson, video sessions with Hirschenson and actress Gini Eastwood and bonus movie … Orgy at Lil’s Place (produced by Hirschenson in 1963).

Next up is a double feature showcasing two by cult filmmaker Andy Milligan.   Teamed together — with new 4K restorations — are Seeds (1968) and his 1965 short film, Vapors.

Seeds is a thought-to-be-lost killer-on-the-loose thriller that appears to have had some regional theatrical exposure from fly-by-night distributor, Harrington Film Distributing Corporation, back 1968.   In any case, the film was withdrawn from distribution and re-cut as Seeds of Sin, which surfaced back in 2004 on DVD as part of a double-feature release from Something Weird Video … with Milligan’s The Ghastly Ones (also released theatrically in 1968, but by J.E.R. Pictures).

Vinegar Syndrome has re-assembled Seeds into it’s original director’s cut (unseen since 1968) and is also including the alternate “sexploitation” cut, Seeds of Sin.

As to bonus goodies, there is a video session with writer John Borske, who gave us scripts for Gutter Trash, Torture Dungeon and Bloodthirsty Butchers (all joint efforts with director Andy Milligan), another video session with Vapors’ actor Gerald Jacuzzo (Torture Dungeon, Guru, The Mad Monk), a Q&A session film at the Quad Cinema screening in New York earlier this year featuring Borske, Jacuzzo and Seeds’ actress Patricia Dillon (who also appeared in Milligan’s Gutter Trash and Torture Dungeon).

And Dec. 12 will also mark the arrival of the latest edition of Vinegar Syndrome’s popular “Peekarama” series of vintage adult features.   Presented here — with new 2K scans from the original 35mm negatives — are two from director Paul Vatelli … Nasty Nurses (1984, with nurses portrayed by Janey Robbins, Brooke West, Kimberly Carson and “Candystriper” Misty Dawn … Herschel Savage is Dr. Matthews and Kay Parker is his lusty wife, Joyce) and Let’s Talk Sex (1983, featuring the love “call girls” of the phone sex shop, “Dial-A-Fantasy).

Cleopatra Music And Films Readies The Rift: Dark Side of the Moon For DVD Release On Dec. 12

Cleopatra Music & Films, with sales and distribution expertise provided by MVD Entertainment Group, has selected Dec. 12 for the DVD debut of director Dejan Zecevic’s sci-fi thriller, The Rift: Dark Side of the Moon.

Something happened on the moon.   In a prologue we learn that a team of American astronauts encountered something during their mission on the moon and now all hell is about to be unleashed on Earth!

With the aid of local Serbian operatives, a team of CIA agents are dispatched to a remote area north of Belgrade to investigate the downed spacecraft … included on the team are “John Smith” (Ken Foree — Dawn of the Dead, Leatherface: Texas Chainsaw Massacre III, Water for Elephants, etc.), Liz Waid (Katarina Cas — The Wolf of Wall Street, Danny Collins) and Dysart (Monte Markham).

The effects of the conflict in Serbia remain and much of the area that they focus on in their search is battle scarred and abandoned, which brings an eerie and uneasy feeling to their efforts.   Soon they discover one of the astronauts from the mission, who is neither all that well (in fact, he’s dead) and he has a story for them that none of them are all that eager to hear.   

It seems that they encounter a malevolent force on the moon — an alien presence — that has transported itself to Earth (a presence that is capable of time-shifting and time-portal transporting) and this “force” is preparing an army for invasion.   Army?   What army … everything looks pretty much dead around here!   That would be the army … the dead from Serbia’s bloody recent past!!!

Mill Creek Entertainment Expands Its Jan. 16 (2018) Release Calendar With Blu-ray Editions Of Yor: The Hunter from the Future And S.W.A.T.: Special Edition

Mill Creek Entertainment continues to expand its first wave of 2018 DVD and Blu-ray priced-to-collect product offering with news this week that Italian filmmaker Antonio Margheriti’s 1983 film release of Yor, The Hunter from the Future, will be available on Jan. 16 as a 35^th Anniversary Blu-ray edition.

The future and the prehistoric past intersect in the world of Yor (played by Reb Brown — Sssssss, The Sword and the Sorcerer, Uncommon Valor, Howling II: ... Your Sister Is a Werewolf, etc.), a loner in what appears to be a prehistoric world inhabited by dinosaurs and cave dwellers.    

One day he comes to the rescue of a hunter named Kala’a (Corinne Cléry — perhaps best known as “O” in Just Jaeckin’s 1975 film release of The Story of O, plus such films as Bond Girl, Corinne Dufour, in Moonraker) and her mentor, Pag (Luciano Pigozzi), who are under attack from a strange beast.

This encounter sets in motion a series of life-and-death adventures that eventually lead Yor and Kala’a to the truth about the world in which they live.  They discover that is a post-nuclear holocaust Earth, with tech-survivor, The Overlord (John Steiner) holding dominion over the planet’s now primitive survivors.

Bonus features include a new commentary option with the film’s star, Reb Brown.

Also heading to Blu-ray on Jan. 16 is S.W.A.T.: 15th Anniversary Special Edition.   Directed by Clark Johnson and starring Colin Farrell, Samuel L. Jackson, Michelle Rodriguez and LL Cool J as Los Angeles S.W.A.T. team members who are locked in a war with a power drug dealer who is aided by a former team member (played by Jeremy Renner).

Bonus goodies include two separate commentary options.