For the period ending March 16, 2018 ... New DVD and Blu-ray selections added to the DVD & Blu-ray Release Report's database.

For the period ending March 16, 2018 ... New DVD and Blu-ray selections added to the DVD & Blu-ray Release Report's database.

 

DVD Releases: 

 

AP International

03/13/18 — Released Akasha Mittayee (Malayalam)

Alexia Parks Institute (MOD)

03/13/18 — Released Dr Joel's Anti-Aging for Seniors, Dr Joel's Easy Weight Loss and Control, Dr Joel's Favorite Super Foods, Dr Joel's Feeding Your Miracle Brain, Dr Joel's Help for Insomnia & Sleep Problems, Dr Joel's How to Buy and Use Supplements, Dr Joel's Secrets of Longevity, Dr Joel's Super High Energy, Dr Joel's The New Nutrition and Dr Joel's Tune Up Your Digestive System

Alpha Video (MOD)

03/13/18 — Released Count of Monte Cristo, Volume 9 (4 episodes), Cowboy G-Men, Volume 7, Crimes of Stephen Hawke, Early Silent Classics of Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy, Volume 6 (6 silent short films: The Battle Royal (1916), Hungry Hearts (1916), Just Rambling Along (1918), Noon Whistle (1923), Stick Around (1925), Crazy to Act (1927)), Forbidden Cinema, Volume 25, From Stage to Screen, Volume 1,  From Stage to Screen, Volume 2, Living Christ, Volume 2, Occultist, Pride of the Clan (silent-1917), Rare Shorts from the Golden Age of Hollywood, Volume 3 (6 short films: Henry the Ache, Strictly Fresh Yeggs, Pardon My Accident, Radio Rascals, Some Little Bug, Knight Duty), Riders of the West, She Devil (aka: Drums O' Voodoo) and Silent Adventure Classics (2 silent films: Return of Grey Wolf (1926), Tangled Trails (1921))

Bayview Entertainment

03/13/18 — Released Ancient Aliens and the Illuminati (2 disc set), Bedroom Eyes and Lust for a Witch

Brink

03/13/18 — Released Invincible Force

Championship Productions

03/13/18 — Released Defending Leg Riders and Winning Heavyweight Concepts: Mindset, Strategy & Techniques

Cheezy Flicks

03/13/18 — Released Hand That Feeds the Dead (Italian)

Cinedigm Entertainment

03/13/18 — Released Hellcat's Revenge, My Daddy is in Heaven and When the Starlight Ends

Danacord Records

03/13/18 — Released Pianocrazy: Rarities of Piano Music Festival

EWTN

03/13/18 — Released @ Home with Jim & Joy: Chris Slattery - President, Expectant Mother Care, @ Home with Jim & Joy: DR. John Bruchalski - Divine Mercy Care, @ Home with Jim & Joy: Robert Avery - How a Verse from Sirach Guides Minstry in Restoring Dignity to Homeless Men, Best of Mother Angelica: Ann Carey - Sisters in Crisis, Called to Communion: Dr. David Anders, EWTN Live: Dr. Scott Sullivan - Learning How to Intellectually Defend Your Catholic Faith, Journey Home: Laura Richards - Revert, Life on the Rock: Justin Fatica - Hard as Nails, Sunday Night Prime: Fr. Benedict Groeschel  - Purgatory and Women of Grace: Parenting with God - Practicing the Beatitudes

03/20/18 — Sets Best of Mother Angelica: Jeff Cavins - Discussing a Variety of Topics on the Faith, Journey Home: John Carmichael - Revert and Life on the Rock: Jon and Andy Erwin - I Can Only Imagine

03/27/18 — Sets Best of Mother Angelica: Jim Farren and Brian Gail, Journey Home: Jaime & Jack McAleer - Former Lutheran (Jaime) & Revert (Jack) and Life on the Rock: Chris Stefanick - Host of Real Catholic Life

Eagle Rock Entertainment

03/13/18 — Released Robert Glasper Experiment: Live

Film Chest

05/01/18 — Sets Dark Film Mysteries II (12 film set: D.O.A., Impact, Club Paradise, Pitfall, Hollow Truimph, Strange Illusion, Cause for Alarm, Suddenly, He Walked by Night, They Made Me a Criminal, Port of New York) (3 disc set)

Fox Hollow Features, LLC

03/13/18 — Released Saint Nicholas

03/27/18 — Sets Wait (Italian)

FUNimation

03/13/18 — Released D. Gray-Man: Season Four, Part One (2 disc set)

Grasshopper Films

03/13/18 — Released Spettacolo (Italian)

Gravitas Ventures (MOD)

03/13/18 — Released Abe & Phil's Last Poker Game, Art of the Game: Ukiyo-E Heroes, Attack of the Southern Fried Zombies, Drinksgiving, Feels, Let There be Light and Prodigy

Hallmark Channel

03/13/18 — Released Signed, Sealed, Delivered: Truth Be Told

I-Cine

03/13/18 — Released Nguoi Dep Lo Thi (12 disc set) and Thua Thang Xong Len (10 disc set)

Icarus Films

05/01/18 — Sets Marx Reloaded

Indican Pictures

04/10/18 — Sets Lucky Man (ARR of 109 days; box office: $25,015)       

IndiePix

03/13/18 — Released Pastor Paul

JB Magic

03/13/18 — Released Andy Davis: No Tear Newspaper #2

Jadat Sports

03/13/18 — Released Best of the IWA, Volume 2, Legends of the Square Circle: Hangman Bobby Jones, Volume 1 and Memphis Wrestling Video Yearbook: 1987, Volume 3

Kino Lorber

03/13/18 — Released Court (Marathi/Hindi), It's the Old Army Game (silent-1926), Revenge of the Cheerleaders and Running Wild (silent-1927)

Lionsgate Home Ent.

03/13/18 — Released Children of the Corn: Runaway, Fear the Walking Dead: Season 3 (4 disc set), Into the Badlands: The Complete Second Season (3 disc set), Knightfall: Season One (2 disc set) and Monsters at Large

04/24/18 — Adds Forever My Girl (ARR of 95 days; box office: $16,251,220)

05/01/18 — Sets Winchester (ARR of 88 days; box office: $24,871,652)

Lost Empire Pictures

05/22/18 — Sets Night Zero

MGM Home Entertainment

03/13/18 — Released Handmaid's Tale: Season One (3 disc set)

MPI Home Video

03/13/18 — Released Kendra On Top: The Complette Sixth Season (3 disc set)

Mill Creek Entertainment

05/01/18 — Sets Barnum (with Digital Copy) and William Castle Western Collection: The Fastest Guns of the West (8 film set: Klondike Kate, Conquest of Cochise, Masterson of Kansas, Jesse James vs. the Daltons, Battle of Rogue River, The Gun that Won the West, Duel on the Mississippi, Uranium Boom) (2 disc set)

Ocean Avenue Entertainment

03/13/18 — Released Heart of Man

PBS Direct

03/13/18 — Released Bible Hunters, Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood: Best of Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood - Recipe for Fun Collection, NOVA: Great Escape at Dunkirk, Miffy's Adventures Big and Small: The Great Outdoors, Peg & Cat: The Big Dog Problem, Real Story: Apollo 13, Real Story: Star Trek and Regal Academy: The Grand Ball

PDSD, Inc./Shami Media

03/13/18 — Released Anarchist's Birthday, Heart Outright, Oscar, Permanent, Pitch and Twisted Minds

Paramount Home Media

05/22/18 — Sets

06/05/18 — Sets Invaders: The Complete Series (12 disc set), Jericho: The Complete Series (9 disc set) and South Park: The Complete Twenty-First Season (2 disc set)

Rarefilmsandmore.com (MOD)

03/13/18 — Released Camp on Blood Island, Fifth Offense (Czech/Slovak) and Schlosser und Katen (German)

Reality Entertainment

03/13/18 — Released 666: New World Order, 2020 Nostradamus and Another Barrio

Rogue Video (MOD)

03/13/18 — Released Crimes of the Black Cat (Italian) (2 disc set), Kiss Me Monster, Psychout For Murder (Italian) and Night Tide

SFM Entertainment (MOD)

03/13/18 — Released Joey Bishop Show: Season 1 (3 disc set), Joey Bishop Show: Season 2 (4 disc set), Joey Bishop Show: Season 3 (4 disc set) and Joey Bishop Show: Season 4 (3 disc set)

SRS Cinema

03/13/18 — Released Penny Pinchers: The Kings Of No-Budget Horror

Saina Video Vision

03/13/18 — Released Richie (Malayalam)

Silent Hall of Fame (MOD)

03/06/18 — Released Endless Slapstick. Larry Semon: The Ultimate Collection, Volume 11 (5 silent short films: Skids And Scalawags (1918), His Home Sweet Home (1919), The Bakery (1921), The Fall Guy (1921), Oh, What a Man! (1927))

03/13/18 — Released Song of the Scarlet Flower (silent-1919)

Smart Mark Video (MOD)

03/13/18 — Released Prince of the Death Matches, 2018

Summer Hill Films

03/13/18 — Released Legendary A.D.

Synapse Films

03/13/18 — Released Suspiria

Synergetic

03/13/18 — Released Soy Nero

Team Marketing

03/13/18 — Released 2018 Cotton Bowl, 2018 Fiesta Bowl, 2018 Peach Bowl, 2018 Rose Bowl and 2018 Sugar Bowl

The Video Beat (MOD)

03/13/18 — Released Celebration at Big Sur

True Artist Studio (MOD)

03/13/18 — Released 3Ten Venture

Truthstream Media (MOD)

03/13/18 — Released Obsolete

20^th Century-Fox Home Ent.

03/13/18 — Released Maze Runner: The Death Cure (ARR of 88 days; box office: $57,448,833)

Universal Pictures Home Ent.

03/13/18 — Released Channel Zero: No-End House - Season Two (2 disc set)

Vinegar Syndrome

03/13/18 — Released Flesh and Laces, Part 1/Flesh and Laces, Part 2 and Little Showoffs

Vision Films (MOD)

03/13/18 — Released To the Beat!

Warner Bros. Home Ent.

03/13/18 — Released Major Crimes: The Complete Sixth Season (3 disc set)

Warner Bros. Home Ent. (MOD)

03/13/18 — Released Oblongs: The Complete Series (2 disc set)

Well Go U.S.A.

03/13/18 — Released Kickboxer: Retaliation

World Wide Multi Media

03/13/18 — Released Alien Swamp Beast

Blu-ray Releases: 

Arrow Video

05/12/18 — Sets Bloodthirsty Triology (3 film set: The Vampire Doll, Lake of Dracula, Evil of Dracula) (Japanese) (2 disc set)

Flicker Alley

03/13/18 — Released Trip to the Moon: In Its Original 1902 Colors (with The Extraordinary Voyage) (Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack)

FUNimation

03/13/18 — Released Tales of Zestiria the X Season 2 (2 Blu-ray/2 DVD Combo Pack)

Grasshopper Films

03/13/18 — Released Spettacolo (Italian)

Gravitas Ventures (MOD)

03/13/18 — Released Abe & Phil's Last Poker Game, Art of the Game: Ukiyo-E Heroes, Attack of the Southern Fried Zombies, Drinksgiving, Feels, Let There be Light and Prodigy

Indie Rights, Inc. (MOD)

03/13/18 — Released Unfallen

Kino Lorber

03/13/18 — Released Court (Marathi/Hindi), It's the Old Army Game (silent-1926), Lion in Winter: 50th Anniversary Edition and Running Wild (silent-1927)

Kitty Media

03/13/18 — Released Hentai Heaven, Collection 2

Lionsgate Home Ent.

03/13/18 — Released Children of the Corn: Runaway (with UltraViolet Digital Copy), Fear the Walking Dead: Season 3 (4 disc set), Into the Badlands: The Complete Second Season (3 disc set) (with UltraViolet Digital Copy) and Knightfall: Season One (2 disc set) (with UltraViolet Digital Copy)

04/24/18 — Adds Forever My Girl (with UltraViolet Digital Copy)

05/01/18 — Sets Winchester (Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack) (with UltraViolet Digital Copy)

MGM Home Entertainment

03/13/18 — Released Handmaid's Tale: Season One (3 disc set)

Paramount Home Media

06/05/18 — Sets Avatar: The Last Airbender – The Complete Series (9 disc set) and South Park: The Complete Twenty-First Season (2 Blu-ray/2 DVD Combo Pack)

Sentai FilmWorks

03/13/18 — Released Initial D Legend 2: Racer (Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack)

Shout! Factory

03/13/18 — Released Ambulance and Downfall: Collector's Edition (German)

Smart Mark Video (MOD)

03/13/18 — Released Prince of the Death Matches, 2018

Synapse Films

03/13/18 — Released Path of Blood (Japanese), Suspiria and Unearthed & Untold: The Path to Pet Sematary

Synergetic

03/13/18 — Released Soy Nero

20^th Century-Fox Home Ent.

04/24/18 — Sets Maze Runner: The Death Cure (Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack) (with UltraViolet Digital Copy)

Twilight Time

03/20/18 — Sets Don't Bother to Knock, New Centurions, Seven-Ups and Underworld U.S.A.

Vinegar  Syndrome

04/24/18 — Adds Blood Hook (Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack), Blue Vengeance (Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack) and Terror (Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack)

Well Go U.S.A.

03/13/18 — Released Kickboxer: Retaliation (Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack)

 

Mill Creek Entertainment Selects May 1 For The Release Of The DVD Collection Titled The William Castle Western Collection: The Fastest Guns of the West

If you say William Castle, you immediately think of horror films.  But before he became a producer and showman extraordinaire with such horror classics as House on Haunted Hill, The Tingler, 13 Ghosts and Strait-Jacket, he learned the craft of movie-making at Columbia Pictures under the guidance of Harry Cohn and “Jungle Sam” Katzman.

Between 1943 and 1956 he directed 40 films … and not a single one of them was a horror film.  He did four films in The Whistler series (with Richard Dix), a trio of the Crime Doctor (Warner Baxter) movies and some gangster/crime films — Johnny Stool Pigeon (1949 with Howard Duff, Dan Duryea, Shelley Winters and newcomer Tony Curtis) and Undertow (also 1949 with Scott Brady, Johnny Hart, John Russell and another newcomer Roc Hudson … soon to be Rock Hudson).

He also did Westerns, really good Westerns, during this period and Mill Creek Entertainment let it be known this past week that on May 1 they will be releasing as a double-disc DVD set The William Castle Western Collection: The Fastest Guns of the West … collectors, film buffs and Western fans are already salivating at the thought of picking up this beauty at the bargain price of just $19.98 (and that’s before discounts at retail).

Included in the mix is one of his first films at Columbia Pictures, the 1943 Western, Klondike Kate, starring Ann Savage and Tom Neal, who would make screen history together in 1945 with the film noir classic, Detour.

He then became very active in the genre during 1953 through 1955, delivering Conquest of Cochise (1953, in Technicolor with John Hodiak, Robert Stack and Joy Page), Masterson of Kansas (1954, in Technicolor with George Montgomery as Bat Masterson, James Griffith as Doc Holliday and Bruce Cowling as Wyatt Earp … with Nancy Gates and Jay Silverheels) and Jesse James vs The Daltons (1954, in Technicolor with Brett King as the “son” of Jesse James, Barbara Lawrence as woman he saves from the hangman and James Griffith, William Phipps, John Cliff and William Tannen as the Daltons … and Rory Mallinson as Bob Ford, the man who shot Jesse James).

Klondike Kate, Conquest of Cochise, Masterson of Kansas and Jesse James vs The Daltons make up half of the collection … you could quit right there and call this a “keeper,” but Mill Creek Entertainment has four more in The William Castle Western Collection: The Fastest Guns of the West set on May 1 to thrill fans.

These are: Battle of Rogue River (1954, in Technicolor and starring George Montgomery, Richard Denning and Martha Hyer) and The Gun That Won the West (1955, in Technicolor) starring Dennis Morgan as Jim Bridger with Paula Raymond and Richard Denning).

Rounding out the collection, which are not really Westerns (in the truest sense) are Duel On The Mississippi (1956, in Technicolor … the action takes place in 1820, starring Lex Baxter, Warren Stevens and Patricia Medina as Lili Scarlet) and Uranium Boom (1956, black and white with Dennis Morgan, William Talman and Patricia Medina).

WOW, just WOW, that’s all you can say about these William Castle films that Mill Creek Entertainment has assembled for the May 1 DVD debut of The William Castle Western Collection: The Fastest Guns of the West.

Also announced this past week is the May 1 DVD release of director Lee Philips’ 1986 biopic, Barnum, starring four-time Oscar nominee Burt Lancaster (with a win for Elmer Gantry) as the legendary showman Phineas Taylor “P.T.” Barnum (of note, 20^th Century-Fox Home Entertainment’s The Greatest Showman arrives in the home entertainment marketplace on Apr. 10).

The Film Chest Tabs May 1 For The DVD Release Of Dark Film Mysteries II

The Film Chest announced this past week that it will be back with a second volume of film noir treasures on May 1 with the three-disc DVD presentation of Dark Film Mysteries II.

The SRP is just $19.98 for 12 films … and that’s before discounts being offered at retail.

So what does the set include, for starters, director Rudolph Maté Atomic Age thriller, D.O.A., starring Edmond O’Brien as a man who has been murdered and has but a very short time to solve the mystery of who and why.    Cast members in this film noir masterpiece include Pamela Britton, Lynn Baggett, William Ching, Luther Adler, Neville Brand and newcomer Beverly Garland (in her film debut).

Next up in the Dark Film Mysteries II collection is director Arthur Lubin’s 1949 twisted crime tale, Impact, which has Brian Donlevy surviving his own murder … at the hands of his wife’s lover.   The twist is that his wife (played by Helen Walker) is charged with his murder … the police are convinced that the burned beyond recognition body (Tony Barrett) is him.  

Meanwhile, the dazed and disillusioned Donlevy has settled town in a small Idaho town and has fallen in love with a lonely widow (Ella Raines) and is content to let his wife hang.   You know that it just can’t be that easy in a “twisted” film noir thriller!

Impact and D.O.A., and we are just getting started.   The collection also includes director André De Toth’s 1948 film adaptation of the Jay Dratler novel, Pitfall, starring Dick Powell, Lizabeth Scott and Jane Wyatt, filmmaker Ida Lupino’s 1953 edge-of-your-seat thriller, The Hitch-Hiker, starring Edmond O'Brien, Frank Lovejoy and William Talman and the 1945 Edgar G. Ulmer film noir tale, Strange Illusion, with Jimmy Lydon as a young man out to stop his mother (Sally Eilers) from marrying a psychopath (Warren William).

Rounding out the Dark Film Mysteries II collection are Club Paradise (1945, with Robert Lowery and Doris Merrick), Hollow Triumph (1948, directed by Steve Sekely and teaming Paul Henreid with Joan Bennett), Cause for Alarm (1951, starring Loretta Young, Barry Sullivan and Bruce Cowling), Suddenly (1954, with Frank Sinatra, Sterling Hayden and Nancy Gates), He Walked By Night (1948 starring Richard Basehart), They Made Me a Criminal (1939 all-star Warner Bros. production with John Garfield, Ann Sheridan, Claude Raines and The Dead End Kids) and Port of New York (1949, with Scott Brady, Richard Rober and Yul Brynner).

Documentary Filmmaker Jason Barket's Marx Reloaded On DVD From Icarus Films On May 1

Icarus Films has tabbed May Day (May 1), appropriately enough, as the DVD release date for documentary filmmaker Jason Barker’s Marx Reloaded, a retrospective look at the 2008 financial meltdown from a Karl Marx perspective.

Timed for the bicentennial celebration of 19^th Century German philosopher Karl Marx’s birthday (May 8), Marx Reloaded, makes the case that the 2008 financial crisis — brought on by the collapse of the housing market — could have (would have) been predicted by the writing of Marx.   In presenting his case, Barker (in interviews) hit upon the idea of using the Matrix and the “red pill/blue pill” sequence as a metaphor to make the subject a little less “dry.”

A number of academics are interviewed in the documentary, including Oxford political philosopher John Gray (author of “False Dawn: The Delusions of Global Capitalism”), author Michael Hardt (author of “Empire” and “Multitude: War and Democracy in the Age of Empire), Nina Power (academic and author of “One-Dimensional Woman”) and philosopher Slavoj Žižek. 

 

There is also a clever animated sequence featuring Marx in debate with Leon Trotsky, which plays off of the Matrix conceit.

Icarus Films has included Marx Reloaded Bob Godfrey’s 1979 animated short film titled Marx for Beginners.

Vinegar Syndrome Announces Its DVD And Blu-ray Release Slate For The Month Of April (Apr. 24)

 Vinegar Syndrome announced its April release calendar of film restorations heading home as DVD and Blu-ray product offerings this past week.   The street date will be Apr. 24.

Of course it is always a subjective view as where to start, but with Vinegar Syndrome having released British filmmaker Norman J. Warren’s Prey as a 2K restored (from the original 35mm negative) Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack in February, why not start with his next film, the Halloween of 1979 theatrical release of Terror.

This indie film production was picked up by Crown International Pictures for release in the domestic market, which was a better fate than Warren’s Prey, which had to go the direct-to-video route in the United States.  In any case, this very British horror/mystery is good fun, which plays more like a traditional Italian giallo film — Suspiria, Deep Red, The Bird with the Crystal Plumage, etc. — which were popular in the 1970s.

The film itself begins as the ending of a Gothic witch-burning tale (you fully expect to see Vincent Price in full costume participating in the activities) directed by a chap named James Garrick (John Nolan — as Fredricks in Batman Begins and The Dark Knight Rises), which leads us to the arrival of the “victim” pool for a preview screening of the film at his family mansion.   We get a little backstory on the film production, which Garrick believes is based on an actual curse that has followed his family around for nearly 300 years.

His cousin Ann (Carolyn Courage) appears to be at the center of some strange goings-on at the party, which quickly devolve into a series of gruesome murders that begin the same night as the party.  These all seem to have some relationship to Ann, perhaps she is a magnet … or the source?

Even the police, in their investigation of the killings, are not immune to Ann’s “following,” which will all be revealed in the final confrontation back at the Garrick family mansion (hint: it ends as it began … pay close attention to a particular character in the movie ending that was at the beginning of the story).

Terror is a 2K restoration from the original 35mm camera negative, and, as mentioned, it will be available on Apr. 24 as a Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack.  

Bonus goodies include deleted and extended scenes, six newly minted video sessions with director Norman J. Warren, screenwriter David McGillivray and cast members Carolyn Courage (as Ann), Tricia Walsh (as Viv), Mary Maude (as Lady Garrick) and Peter Craze (an adult filmmaker), plus Diabolique Magazine’s Kat Ellinger is featured in an extended interview session with filmmaker Norman J. Warren. 

Also on the release calendar from Vinegar Syndrome on Apr. 24 is a Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack presentation of J. Christian Ingvordsen’s 1989 film serial killer thriller, Blue Vengeance.   Bonus features include two separate commentary tracks — one with filmmaker J. Christian Ingvordsen and the second with actor John Weiner — a documentary titled Making Blue Vengeance and the featurette titled “On Blue Vengeance.”  As an added attraction, co-writer Danny Kuchuck’s 1996 film, The First Man, is included as a bonus feature. 

Also on the direct-to-video front is director Jim Mallon’s 1986 slasher film, Blood Hook, which is getting a 2K restoration from the film’s original 16mm camera negative.   Blood Hook will be available as a Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack on Apr. 24.

Bonus features include a trio of featurettes — “Hook, Line and Sinker,” “First Blood Hook” and “What’s in the Tacklebox?” — plus a video session with cinematographer and editor Marsha Kahm.

On DVD release front, Vinegar Syndrome has two adult gems ready for connoisseurs to savor.   Adult filmmaker Carlos Tobalina’s two-part tale of family greed and lust, Flesh & Laces, Part I (June of 1983) and Flesh & Laces, Part II (September of the same year) arrives as a 2K restoration (yes, from 35mm source material) and Zachary Youngblood & Curt McDowell’s 1983 adult/arthouse film, Little Showoffs, arrives with all six erotic vignettes intact and featuring a 2K restoration from the film’s 35mm camera negative) … bonus features include video sessions with writer/director Zachary Youngblood and AD Molly Seagrim.