For the period ending March 23, 2018 ... New DVD and Blu-ray selections added to the DVD & Blu-ray Release Report's database.

For the period ending March 23, 2018 ... New DVD and Blu-ray selections added to the DVD & Blu-ray Release Report's database.

 

 

DVD Releases:

Apple Man Production (MOD)

03/20/18 — Released Year and a Day

Bayview Entertainment

03/20/18 — Released Two Left Arms

Beachmusic Studios

03/20/18 — Released Scott Wilkie: The Live Studio Sessions

Blue Forge Films (MOD)

03/20/18 — Released Forge Flashpoint Film Festival (14 short films: Gender Studies 101, Overcoming the Flood, Little Boy Beauty,Showtime, Always Watching, Heart & Soul, Zen Master Plan, Delicious, Households & Humans, Of a Feather, Last Case, Shot in the Dark, Case Number ?, Stage Three), Forge Flashpoint Film Festival 2 (14 short films: Within the Study, Home is Where His Heart Is, Ask First, The Door, Transition, Crono Scavenger's, Daughters, The Waiting Game, Tears, Traumatized, Lost Art, Reaching In, Immortal Thoughts, Tomorrow), Forge Flashpoint Film Festivals 4 & 5 (13 short films: The Wall, Radobees, Cycling, Spot Cleaner, The Reunion, Sands of Time, Transformation, I See You, My Immortal, What They See, The Actor, Stage Paralysis, Teatro di Freak: Buyer's Market), Gentlemen Longlegs, Take 8 Film Festival Forest, Take 8 Film Festival White Room and Timeline Shifter: Space Marines

Bongiovanni

03/20/18 — Released Alfano: Sakuntala

Branko (MOD)

03/20/18 — Released Silvatrinha

CBS Home Entertainment (MOD)

03/20/18 — Released Californians: Season Two (4 disc set) and Most Wanted: The Complete Series (5 disc set)

Championship Productions

03/13/18 — Released 40 Minutes Baseline-to-Baseline Defense, All Access Volleyball Practice with Kirsten Bernthal Booth (4 disc set), Attack and React Offense by Vic Schaefer (2 disc set) and Open Practice: Individual and Team Progressions (2 disc set)

Cinedigm Entertainment (MOD)

03/20/18 — Released Courting a Killer

Cohen Media Group

03/20/18 — Released Daughter of the Nile (Mandarin)

Criterion Collection

06/12/18 — Sets Manila in the Claws of Light (Tagalog) (2 disc set)

06/19/18 — Sets Bowling for Columbine (2 disc set) and El Sur (Spanish)

06/26/18 — Sets Female Trouble and Virgin Spring (Swedish)

Cycling Videos Online

03/20/18 — Released Going the Distance: The San Francisco Backroads Collection, Part Two - The Marshall Loop

DIY MotorCity, LLC (MOD)

03/20/18 — Released ASE: G1 Interactive Test Prep & Workbook Series

Destiny Image Publishers

03/20/18 — Released Robert Henderson: Receiving Healing from the Courts of Heaven (2 disc set)

DreamScape Media, LLC

03/20/18 — Released Chasing Life, Mushers, Out of Wonder: Poems Celebrating Poets, Secret Garden and Shakespeare's Diaries: A Very British Adventure

EWTN

03/20/18 — Released Women of Grace: Authentic Masculinity: Teaching Young Guys to be Men

Eagle Rock Entertainment

03/20/18 — Released Moody Blues: Days of Future Passed Live

Ear Music

03/20/18 — Released Thunder: Live

Echo Bridge Home Ent.

03/20/18 — Released Danny Trejo Double Feature (2 film set: Border Cross, Chavez: Cage of Fury), Disappearances Includes 7 Bonus Movies (8 film set: Disappearances, Jory, The Great Indian Wars, Battles of Chief Pontiac, Sitting Bull, The Deadly Companions, Against a Crooked Sky, The Young Land) (2 disc set), Men of Action (18 film set: Love & Rage, Gold, Passion's Way, Legend of Sea Wolf, Blade, The Wild Ride, Last Man Standing, Black Fist, The Master Touch, High Risk, Kill Cruise, The Great St. Louis Bank Robbery, Death Sentence, Tunnel Vision, Con Games, The Eliminator, Airborne.  Men With Guns) (4 disc set), Prom Night Collection (3 film set: Prom Night, Prom Night 2: Hello Mary Lou, Prom Night 4: Deliver Us From Evil), Scent of Rain & Lightning and Soldiers of Change

Film Movement

05/01/18 — Sets In Between (Arabic/Hebrew) (ARR of 116 days; box office: $94,821)

First Run Features

03/20/18 — Released Extraordinary Ordinary People (ARR of 186 days; box office: $880)

FUNimation

03/20/18 — Released One Piece: Season Nine, Voyage Four (2 disc set)

Fusion Factory Films (MOD)

03/20/18 — Released Gathering of Heroes: Legend of the Seven Swords

Future Health (MOD)

03/20/18 — Released Understanding Anxiety & Stress

Gonzo Distribution

03/20/18 — Released Rick Wakeman: The Other Side of Rick Wakeman (DVD/CD Combo Pack)

Good Deed Entertainment (MOD)

03/20/18 — Released Permission

Gravitas Ventures (MOD)

03/20/18 — Released Altered Hours, As Far As The Eye Can See, Behind Some Dark Cloud, Delirium, Little Girl Who Was Too Fond of Matches (French), Passing Through and Stopping Traffic: The Movement to End Sex-Trafficking

Green Planet Films (MOD)

03/20/18 — Released Perfect Compost: A Masterclass With Peter Proctor

I-Cine

03/20/18 — Released Hoang De An May, Part 1 (12 disc set) and Hoang De An May, Part 2 (12 disc set)

In the Studio with Dianne Mize (MOD)

03/20/18 — Released Compose Like Sargent: Harmony with Alternation, Compose Like Sargent: Sargent's Rhythm, Composing Shapes: Enhancing Shape, Composing Shapes: Shapes that Merge and Composing Shapes: Simplifying Shapes

IronZeal Films

03/20/18 — Released Homeless Chorus Speaks

Kino Lorber

03/20/18 — Released No Orchids for Miss Blandish and Stingaree

05/15/18 — Sets Beuys (German) (ARR of 116 days; box office: $56,151)

Lionsgate Home Ent.

03/20/18 — Released Small Town Crime and Vanishing of Sidney Hall

04/10/18 — Sets Condorito (Spanish) (ARR of 88 days; box office: $442,934)

MTI Home Video

03/20/18 — Released Caged

Magnolia Home Entertainment

04/24/18 — Sets Final Year (ARR of 95 days; box office: $189,886)

Maverick Entertainment

03/20/18 — Released Out of Gas

Mill Creek Entertainment

05/01/18 — Adds Mary Higgins Clark 14 Film Collection (14 film set: Loves Music, Loves to Dance, The Cradle Will Fall, Lucky Day, All Around the Town, Pretend You Don't See Her, You Belong to Me, We'll Meet Again, I'll be Seeing You, Before I Say Goodbye, Haven't We Met Before, Try to Remember, A Crime of Passion, He Sees You When You're Sleeping, What are the Children?) (6 disc set)

Monarch

03/20/18 — Released Rachels

Moonlight Films (MOD)

03/20/18 — Released Legend of Demoniac

Multicom Entertainment Group (MOD)

03/20/18 — Released Above All Things

Music Box Films

04/24/18 — Sets Vazante (Portuguese) (ARR of 102 days; box office: $19,556)

National Geographic Video (MOD)

03/20/18 — Released National Geographic: The Long Road Home (2 disc set)

Naxos

03/20/18 — Released Bruckner: Symphony No. 1, Evening with the Royal Ballet & the Royal Opera (2 disc set), Mozart: Cosi Fan Tutte - The Royal Opera and Rimsky-Korsakov: The Golden Cockerel

Nostalgia Merchant (MOD)

03/20/18 — Released Dante: The Complete Series (6 disc set)

PBS Direct

03/20/18 — Released NOVA: Day the Dinosaurs Died and Secrets of the Dead: America's Untold Story (2 disc set)

Paramount Home Media

05/29/18 — Sets Jackass: Complete Movie and TV Collection (7 film set: Jackass the Movie, Jackass Number Two, Jackass 2.5, Jackass 3, Jackass 3.5, Jackass Presents Bad Grandpa, Jackass Presents Bad Grandpa 2; plus 3 seasons of Jackass) (11 disc set)

Passion River Films

03/20/18 — Released Django (French), Lies We Tell, Neat: Story of Bourbon and The Work

Rarefilmsandmore.com (MOD)

03/13/18 — Released Das Posthaus im Schwarzwald (German) and Die Andere Front (German)

03/20/18 — Released Der Onkel Aus Amerika (German), Der Schatz (silent-1923), Der Scheidungsgrund (German), Der Teufel Vom Muhlenberg (German), Der Weg des Herzens (German), Die Frau Ohne Verganggenheit (German), Dream (Ukranian), F.P. 1 Antwortet Nicht (German) Revised, Katharina, Die Letzte (German), Labyrinth des Grauens (silent-1921), Le Dernier des Six (French), Man from Morocco, Red Menace, Run, Virgin, Run (English dubbed), Sauerbruch: Das War Mein Leben (German), Serenade (German), Unter Ausschlub der Offentlichkeit (German) and Zwei Bayern Im Urwald (German)

Remember When Classic Movies, Ltd. (MOD)

03/20/18 — Released Happy Go Lovely, Scarlet Street, Sherlock Holmes in Terror by Night, Smash-Up: The Story of a Woman, The Terror and Three Came Home

Rogue Video (MOD)

03/20/18 — Released Death on the Fourposter (English dubbed), Deathhead Virgin (English dubbed) and Ghoul

Sentai FilmWorks

03/20/18 — Released Chihayafuru: Season 2 (5 disc set)

Serpent Films (MOD)

03/20/18 — Released Big Sombrero, Blonde Captive, Bush Pilot, Classic Movies: Two Retro Classics (2 film set: Breakfast in Hollywood, Calendar Girl), Country Gentlemen, Devil on Horseback, Eyes Behind the Stars, False Pretenses, Fangs of the Wild, Fire Trap, Flaming Signal, Flirting with Fate, Flying Deuces, Git Along Little Doggie, Grief Street, Guerilla Girl, Hand, Heldorado, Hell's Headquarters, Hercules Against the Moon Men, I Thank You, The Intruder, Island Captives, Killer Dill, Land of Haunted Men, Law of the Rio Grande, Lights of Old Santa Fe, Minstrel Man, Miracle Kid, Money Means Nothing, Murder at Dawn, Murder in the Red Barn, Nancy Drew Reporter, Naughty But Nice, Night Time in Nevada, O-Kay For Sound, Orloff Against the Invisible Man, Paradise Island, Parlor, Bedroom and Bath, Police Court, Rebellious Daughters, Rough Riding Ranger, Rustlers' Hideout, Sagebrush Trail, Secret Evidence, The Showdown, Sin of Nora Moran, Sixteen Fathoms Deep, Smart Alecks, Speak Easily, Spider Baby,Springtime in the Sierras, Stolen Paradise, Storm in a Teacup, Straight Shooter, Sucker Money, Ten Minutes to Live, Two Retro Gangster Classics (2 film set: Baby Face Morgan, Gangster Story) and Voyage to the Prehistoric Planet

Shout! Factory

03/20/18 — Released P. King Duckling: Lights, Camera, Duckling! and When Calls the Heart: The Heart of Homecoming

04/17/18 — Sets Humor Me (ARR of 95 days; box office: $38,419)

Silent Hall of Fame (MOD)

03/20/18 — Released Endless Slapstick. Larry Semon: The Ultimate Collection, Volume 12 (5 silent short films: Dunces and Dangers (1918), The Stage Hand (1920), The Suitor (1920), The Sawmill (1922), The Stunt Man  (1927))

Smart Mark Video (MOD)

03/13/18 — Released Enter the Dragon  - Akron, Ohio and Tuesday Night Fights - Memphis, TN

03/20/18 — Released King and Queen of the Ring 2017 - Voorhees, NJ

Sportsvideo.com

03/20/18 — Released Inside Basketball Practice with Coach Scott Nagy, Volume 2

Strand Releasing

04/24/18 — Sets Have a Nice Day (Mandarin) (ARR of 88 days; box office: $77,732)

Suara Networks

03/20/18 — Released Balloon (Tamil), Kalyanam (Malayalam) and Thupparivaalan (Tamil)

The Film Collector’s Socity of America (MOD)

03/20/18 — Released Edgar Bergen & Charlie McCarthy: Thanksgiving Show

20^th Century-Fox Home Ent. (MOD)

03/20/18 — Released Archer: The Complete Eighth Season (2 disc set)

Ultra DVD

03/20/18 — Released Hara Hara Mahadevaki (Tamil)

Universal Pictures Home Ent.

05/01/18 — Sets Mary and The Witch's Flower (Japanese) (ARR of 102 days; box office: $2,387,016)

Vanishing, Inc.

03/20/18 — Released Denis Behr: Magic on Tap (4 disc set)

Vertical Entertainment

03/20/18 — Released Still/Born

Virgil Films & Entertainment

03/20/18 — Released Augie

Vision Films (MOD)

03/20/18 — Released Doggone Adventure

WWE

03/20/18 — Released WWE: Best of NXT 2017 (3 disc set)

Warner Bros. Home Ent.

03/20/18 — Released Dirt

Warner Bros. Home Ent. (MOD)

03/20/18 — Released Living Single: The Complete Fourth Season (3 disc set)

03/27/18 — Adds Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

04/03/18 — Adds Big Parade of Comedy, Comet Over Broadway, Fireman Save My Child, Gay Bride and Hot Heiress

04/10/18 — Adds Alexander Hamilton, Droopy: The Complete Theatrical Collection (2 disc set), Lost Lady,  Prime Minister and Shinning Victory

04/17/18 — Adds Lights of New York, Manhattan Parade, Notorious Affair and Ship From Shanghai

04/17/18 — Adds Condemned, Devil to Pay and Woman Chases Man

Wild Eye Releasing

05/22/18 — Sets Soft Matter

 

Blu-ray Releases: 

 

Arrow Video

05/15/18 — Adds Two Thousand Maniacs

CBS Home Entertainment (MOD)

03/20/18 — Released Californians: Season Two (4 disc set)

Cohen Media Group

03/20/18 — Released Daughter of the Nile (Mandarin)

Criterion Collection

06/12/18 — Sets Manila in the Claws of Light (Tagalog)

06/19/18 — Sets Bowling for Columbine and El Sur (Spanish)

06/26/18 — Sets Female Trouble and Virgin Spring (Swedish)

Cycling Videos Online

03/20/18 — Released Going the Distance: The San Francisco Backroads Collection, Part Two - The Marshall Loop

Eagle Rock Entertainment

03/20/18 — Released Moody Blues: Days of Future Passed Live

FUNimation

03/20/18 — Released Chaos Child (2 Blu-ray/2 DVD Combo Pack) and Hand Shakers (2 Blu-ray/2 DVD Combo Pack)

Gravitas Ventures (MOD)

03/20/18 — Released Altered Hours, As Far As The Eye Can See, Behind Some Dark Cloud, Delirium, Little Girl Who Was Too Fond of Matches (French), Passing Through and Stopping Traffic: The Movement to End Sex-Trafficking

Kino Lorber

03/20/18 — Released Divine Order (German), No Orchids for Miss Blandish, Offerings and Stingaree

Lionsgate Home Ent.

03/20/18 — Released Small Town Crime and Vanishing of Sidney Hall

Naxos

03/20/18 — Released Bruckner: Symphony No. 1, Mozart: Cosi Fan Tutte - The Royal Opera and Rimsky-Korsakov: The Golden Cockerel

Scorpion Releasing

03/20/18 — Released Church (Italian)

Sentai FilmWorks

03/20/18 — Released Chihayafuru: Season 2 (3 Blu-ray/5 DVD Combo Pack) and Chihayafuru: Season 2 (3 disc set)

Shout! Factory

03/20/18 — Released Burbs: Collector's Edition, Nightmare at Noon and Rockula

Well Go U.S.A.

03/20/18 — Released Ichi the Killer (Japanese)

 

Wild Eye Releasing Selects May 22 For The DVD Debut Of Writer/Director Jim Hickcox's Soft Matter

A story about a mysterious creature and research scientists ended up being best picture of the year.   Of course we are talking about The Shape of Water, which began filming in 2016.   

Wild Eye Releasing, with sales and distribution expertise provided by MVD Entertainment Group, has selected May 22 as the DVD debut date for writer/director Jim Hickcox’s Soft Matter, which also features a mysterious creature and research scientists.   However, genre fans will soon see that the similarities between Hickcox’s research scientists and their mysterious creature and those of Guillermo del Toro’s begin and end right there.

Filmmaker Jim Hickcox has been perfecting his craft for over a decade — grip, gaffer, cinematographer, electrician, editor, writer, director, producer, etc. — and at about the same time that Guillermo del Toro was going into production on The Shape of Water, Hickcox was busy exhibiting his award-winning (kickstarter-funded) short film Slow Creep (about a mutating pile of garbage) at festivals.   

It was time (in the fall of 2016) to make the move from producing short films (The Rise of Kenji Gojira, Fantastic the Amazing, True Will, Slow Creep, etc.) to that of a feature film … Soft Matter is the result of a decade of hard work and learning the craft.   Another thing that genre fans will learn on May 22 is that Soft Matter is not a quickie rip-off of The Shape of Water as its production history belies that assertion.   

As to the story itself, a pair of Austin, Texas graffiti artists by the name of Kish (Ruby Lee Dove II) and Haircut (Devyn Placide) happen upon what they believe to be an abandoned medical facility — formerly used for hospice care — and are inspired to turn its interior walls into an impromptu art exhibition.     They quickly spread the word among the local critics in the hope of getting their work noticed (sort of an instant art-rave). 

What Kish and Haircut are blissfully unaware of, as they begin their work, is that two “mad” scientists — Grist (Hal Schneider) and Kriegspiel (Mary Anzalone) — are also making use of the seemingly abandoned facility.   They are working on a process to make humans healthy and perhaps immortal, but as Leo G. Carroll learned when his “tarantula took to the hills” that mad scientist experiments, no matter the motives, usually end up with creatures that go on killing sprees.

With the arrival of the Austin art critics (aka: the victim pool), Kish and Haircut’s art exhibition quickly descends into a haunted house thriller as artists and scientists alike try to find hiding places to escape the creature’s wrath!

For a grand time in a “haunted house” — complete with creature “that spits lightning and kills” — mark May 22 on your viewing calendar for the DVD arrival of writer/director Jim Hickcox’s Soft Matter from Wild Eye Releasing.

Mill Creek Entertainment Tabs May For The Six-Disc DVD Set Of Mary Higgins Clark 14 Film Collection

Mill Creek Entertainment expanded its May 1 DVD and Blu-ray release calendar this past week with news that a six-disc, 14-film collection of Mary Higgins Clark-inspired films will be available on DVD at the bargain price of just $29.98.   Fans, if they binge-watched the entire collection would need a full day to enjoy them all (with just enough time for bathroom breaks and snacks).

So let’s get to the contents of what is included in the Mary Higgins Clark 14 Film Collection!   Working in chronological order we begin with director Bruce Malmuth’s 1986 film adaptation of Clark’s 1975 novel, Where are the Children?, starring Jill Clayburgh as Nancy (aka: Nancy Eldridge and Nancy Holder), the mother of five-year old Missy and six-year old Michael.   Along with her husband, Clay (Max Gail), they live in a wonderful house on picturesque Cape Cod … it’s perfect, perhaps too perfect.

In short order the children are abducted and the local radio station receives a mysterious letter that exposes Nancy’s troubled past … she was convicted of murdering her two previous children and sentenced to death.  But, her conviction was overturned on a technicality and she could not be retried for the murders.   Is it all happening again?

Fans of Mary Higgins Clark know from the get-go that it can’t be that simple … and sure enough, Where are the Children? is loaded with twists, turns and a whopper of a surprise ending.   And this suspense thriller is just the first of 14 in the collection! 

Next up is the 2001 made-for-TV film adaption of Clark’s 1991 mystery novel Loves Music, Loves to Dance, which finds Darcy Scott (Patsy Kensit), a talk-show producer, going to extraordinary lengths to solve the death of her friend, who was using an online dating site.   Darcy is convinced that the killer is one of her dates and decides to work her way through the list until she finds, you guessed it, the killer!

With the success of this first MOW, the flood gates opened and from early 2002 through mid-2004 twelve more of Mary Higgins Clark’s mystery novels were produced as star vehicles … and the are all included in this marvelous collection.

They are: Pretend You Don't See Her (2002, with Emma Samms), You Belong to Me (2002, Lesley-Anne Down), Haven’t We Met Before (2002, Nicollette Sheridan), Lucky Day (2002, teaming Amanda Donohoe and Karen LeBlanc), All Around the Town (2002, with Nastassja Kinski and Andrea Roth), We'll Meet Again (2002, Laura Leighton), He Sees You When You're Sleeping (2002, Erika Eleniak), Before I Say Goodbye (2003, Sean Young), A Crime of Passion (2003, Cynthia Gibb), Try to Remember (2004, Gabrielle Anwar), The Cradle Will Fall (2004, Angie Everhart) and I'll Be Seeing You (2004, starring Alison Eastwood).

Arrow Video To Release Writer/Director Herschell Gordon Lewis’ Two Thousand Maniacs On Blu-ray This Coming May 15

Arrow Video, with domestic sales and distribution expertise provided by MVD Entertainment Group, has selected May 15 as the street date for the stand-alone Blu-ray presentation of writer/director Herschell Gordon Lewis’ 1964 slaughterfest, Two Thousand Maniacs.

Arrow has been systematically going through the massive 17-disc release of The Herschell Gordon Lewis Feast (out last Halloween) and breaking out the individual components in smaller units (bite-size chunks).

Bonus delights included with this SKU start with the bonus feature of Lewis’ 1964 non-horror flick, Moonshine Mountain, starring and written by Charles Glore as a country recording artist who returns home only to get caught up in a moonshine war.

Two Thousand Maniacs features an archival commentary by Herschell Gordon Lewis, outtakes and four featurettes — “Two Thousand Maniacs Can't be Wrong,” “Hickspoitation: Confidential,” “David Friedman: The Gentlemen's Smut Peddler” and “Herschell's Art of Advertising.”