For the period ending May 11, 2018 ... New DVD and Blu-ray selections added to the DVD & Blu-ray Release Report's database.

For the period ending May 11, 2018 ... New DVD and Blu-ray selections added to the DVD & Blu-ray Release Report's database.

 

DVD New Additions:

 

Acorn Media

05/08/18 — Released Ackley Bridge: Series 1 (2 disc set) and Midsomer Murders: County Case Files (8 disc set)

Air Bud Entertainment (MOD)

05/08/18 — Released Pup Star: World Tour

Alakazam Magic

05/08/18 — Released Etienne Pradier: The Collection (3 disc set)

Alchemy Werks, LLC

05/08/18 — Released Latex: Fetish or Fashion?

Barlates Body Blitz (MOD)

05/08/18 — Released Barlates Body Blitz Beginners Loop, Barlates Body Blitz Endurance 90 Series andBarlates Body Blitz Mix and Match Lower Series

Bayview Entertainment

05/08/18 — Released Inside Sportfishing: Deep Creek Fishing Club, Inside Sportfishing: El Nino Invasion, Inside Sportfishing: Intrepid 10 Day, Inside Sportfishing: Klamath Steelhead and Salmon,Inside Sportfishing: Ocean Odyssey and Inside Sportfishing: Sitka's Kings, Lings and Giant Halibut

Berrett-Koehler Publishers

05/08/18 — Released Eat That Frog!

Blue Forge Films (MOD)

05/08/18 — Released Forge Flashpoint Film Festival 3 (7 short films: Body Language, Minera, Buyer's Remorse, The Customer is Always Right, Off Limits, Trapped, We Happy Daddy) and Rock Paper Knife

Blue Fox Entertainment (MOD)

05/08/18 — Released Becks

Breaking Glass Pictures

05/08/18 — Released House of Evil

Championship Productions

05/08/18 — Released Face-off Drills & Techniques, Hugh McCutcheon: Establishing Effective Blocking Systems, Hugh McCutcheon: Passing & Serve Receive, Jim Shannon: How to Attack Trapping, Changing & Special Defenses, Ryan Odom: Keys to Scoring Quickly in Transition, Steve Schmidt: Competitive Drills to Improve Your Program and Todd Franklin: Offensive Skill Development

Cheezy Flicks

05/08/18 — Released Bizarre (aka: Secrets of Sex)

Chesslectures.com

05/01/18 — Released Young Nimzowitsch

Cinedigm Entertainment

05/08/18 — Released Yu-Gi-Oh! Arc V, Season 2 (6 disc set)

Cinedigm Entertainment (MOD)

05/08/18 — Released Pali Road and Point B

Cleopatra Music & Films

05/08/18 — Released Sunset Society

Cohen Media Group

05/08/18 — Released Beautiful Troublemaker (French)

DreamScape Media, LLC

05/08/18 — Released Desert Between Us and Them, Egret and Zena

Ei Independent Cinema

05/08/18 — Released 42nd Street Pete Presents Bad Barbara, Too Young to Care

Eagle Rock Entertainment

05/08/18 — Released John Mellencamp: Plain Spoken (DVD/CD Combo Pack)

Fox Hollow Features, LLC

05/08/18 — Released And Then I was French

Frolic Pictures (MOD)

05/08/18 — Released Double Feature (2 film set: All the Kind Strangers, Savage Weekend), Double Feature (2 film set: Blood Freak, The Pyx), Double Feature (2 film set: Carnival of Souls, Spider Baby), Double Feature (2 film set: Joshua, The Swap) and Double Feature (2 film set: Scream Bloody Murder, Track of the Moon Beast)

Giant Interactive (MOD)

05/08/18 — Released Axis and What We Started

Gravitas Ventures (MOD)

05/08/18 — Released Bill Murray Experience, Dead Bullet, Mask, Perfect Bid: The Contestant Who Knew Too Much, Real Fake and Wraith

Greg Scholl Video Productions

05/08/18 — Released Return to Deshler and Rio Grande Steam Passenger Trains

Guy in His Basement (MOD)

05/08/18 — Released Two Student Shorts (2 short films: Love: The Movie, Pat Gets a Cat)

Hallmark Entertainment

05/08/18 — Released Away and Back and Remember Sunday

here! Films (MOD)

05/08/18 — Released Cut Sleeve Boys, Dangerous Isolation (aka: Trapped), Deadly Skies (aka: Force of Impact), Eleven Men Out (Icelandic), Fat Girls, Holding Trevor, Killer Bash, Lair: Complete First Season (2 disc set), Lair: Complete Second Season (2 disc set), Looking for Cheyenne (French), Mr. Leather, Nina's Heavenly Delights, Nine Lives, No Regret (Korean), On the Other Hand, Death, Raven, Shelter, Shock to the System, Stephanie Daley, Summer Storm (German), Third Man Out, Trapped, Very Cool Christmas (aka: Too Cool for Christmas) and Wildfire 7: The Inferno

Icarus Films

05/08/18 — Released In Harmony (French) (ARR of 816 days; box office: $3,144)

Indican Pictures

06/26/18 — Sets Gray Matter

Indiepix

05/08/18 — Released Red Without Blue

It’s Raining Films (MOD)

05/08/18 — Released Wedding Invitation

Kino Lorber

05/08/18 — Released Feast of July, Roommates, Seven and Special Delivery

Lifeway Christian Resources

05/01/18 — Released Exceeding Great Joy with Joy to the World! - Anthem Accompaniment, One Small Child - Anthem Accompaniment, Receive Our King - Anthem Accompaniment and What Matter's Most: Leader Kit (7 disc set)

Lionsgate Home Entertainment

05/08/18 — Released Dear White People: Season One (3 disc set), Miss Sloane and Shut-In

MIG Music

05/01/18 — Released The Mission: Live at Rockpalast (DVD/2 CD Combo Pack)

Mill Creek Entertainment

08/07/18 — Sets Happy Endings: The Complete Series (6 disc set) and Masters of Sex: The Complete Series (8 disc set)

Movie Channel

05/08/18 — Released Little Superman (Malayalam)

Murphy’s Magic Supplies

05/08/18 — Released At the Table: Alan Rorrison 2, At the Table: Ben Cardell, At the Table: Chris Webb, At the Table: Chris Wood, At the Table: Craig Petty and At the Table: John Carey

Naxos

05/08/18 — Released Berlioz: Benvenuto Cellini (2 disc set) and Niccolo Jommelli: Il Vologeso (2 disc set)

Oscilloscope Laboratories

06/26/18 — Sets Beauty and the Dogs (Arabic) (ARR of 95 days; box office: $4,891)

PBS Direct

05/08/18 — Released Art of Shine, G.I. Jews and Gang Crackdown

PDSD, Inc. - Shami Media

05/08/18 — Released Tenderness (Polish)

PR Studios/GI Studios

05/08/18 — Released Sky Calls (Russian)

Passion River

05/08/18 — Released And Then I Go

Pirate Shade Productions (MOD)

05/08/18 — Released Kniamon Squad 4: Stolen

Rarefilmsandmore.com (MOD)

05/08/18 — Released Anastasia was Gently Passing By (Romanian), Catherine of Russia (Italian), Das Zauberkorn (German), Deliver Us from Evil (Hungarian), Happy Minister (Finnish), La Bandara (French), Life Belongs to Us (French), Pagliacci (Italian), People of the Mountains (Hungarian), Saltzburger Geschichten (German), So Little Time, Tanze Mit in Den Morgen (German) and Wenn Die Musik Spielt Am Worthersee (German)

Reality Entertainment

05/08/18 — Released 65 Buick Riviera: Dark Horse Gangsta Pimp Ride

SRS Cinema

05/08/18 — Released Tomboys

Scorpion Releasing

05/08/18 — Released Human Experiments

Sentai FilmWorks

05/08/18 — Released Is It Wrong to Expect a Hot Spring in a Dungeon? (with bonus CD)

Serpent Films (MOD)

05/08/18 — Released Blood Thirst, Emperor Jones, Fat Man, Ghost and the Guest, Laser Mission, Mama Dracula, Maniac, Manos: The Hands of Fate and Private Life of Don Juan

Severin Films, LLC

05/08/18 — Released Emanuelle and the Last Cannibals (Italian) and Violence in a Women's Prison (aka: Caged Women)

Shemaroo Entertainment

05/08/18 — Released Fever (Hindi)

Silent Hall of Fame (MOD)

05/08/18 — Released Unknown Love (aka: Stars of Glory) (silent-1919)

Smark Mark Video (MOD)

05/08/18 — Released IWA Mid-South Sunday Bloody Sunday - Memphis, IN and I'll Take the Bump: The Markus Crane Story

Sony Pictures Home Ent.

05/08/18 — Released Faith Under Fire

06/19/18 — Sets Paul, Apostle of Christ (ARR of 88 days; box office: $17,407,931)

The Orchard (MOD)

05/08/18 — Released Ashram, The Pass and Wanderland

Universal Pictures Home Ent.

06/12/18 — Adds Bing Crosby: The Silver Screen Collection - The 1930s (9 film set: College Humor, We’re Not Dressing, Here Is My Heart, Mississippi, Sing You Sinners, East Side of Heaven, Rhythm on the Range, Waikiki Wedding, Double or Nothing; plus American Masters: Bing Crosby Rediscovered) (5 disc set) and Bing Crosby: The Silver Screen Collection - The 1940s (11 film set: If I Had My Way, Rhythm on the River, Birth of the Blues, Holiday Inn, Going My Way, Here Comes the Waves, Blue Skies, Welcome Stranger, Variety Girl, The Emperor Waltz, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court) (6 disc set)

06/19/18 — Adds Unsane (ARR of 88 days; box office: $7,690,042)

07/03/18 — Sets Blockers (ARR of 88 days; box office: $56,222,840)

Warner Bros. Home Ent. (MOD)

05/15/18 — Adds Broadway Hostess, Calm Yourself and Kansas City Princess

Well Go U.S.A.

05/08/18 — Released Paradox (Cantonese)

Wild Eye Releasing (MOD)

05/08/18 — Released Never Leave Alive

World Wide Multi Media

05/08/18 — Released Maniacal: Demons, Stalkers, Serial Killers and Psychopaths

WOWnow Entertainment

05/08/18 — Released Girls Like Magic

Blu-ray New Additions:

 

Cleopatra Music & Films

05/08/18 — Released Sunset Society (Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack with bonus CD and 7-inch vinyl single)

Cohen Media Group

05/08/18 — Released Beautiful Troublemaker (French)

Flicker Alley

05/08/18 — Released This is Cinerama: Deluxe Edition (Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack) and Windjammer: The Voyage of the Christian Radich (Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack)

FUNimation

05/08/18 — Released Ace Attorney, Part 2 (2 Blu-ray/2 DVD Combo Pack)

Gravitas Ventures (MOD)

05/08/18 — Released Wraith

Greg Scholl Video Productions

05/08/18 — Released Return to Deshler

It’s Raining Films (MOD)

05/08/18 — Released Wedding Invitation

Kino Lorber

05/08/18 — Released Feast of July, Roommates, Seven and Special Delivery

LSO Live

05/08/18 — Released Bruckner: Symphony No.8 - Messiaen: Couleurs de la Cité Céleste (Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack)

Lionsgate Home Entertainment

05/08/18 — Released Miss Sloane and Shut-In

MVD Entertainment Group

07/24/18 — Released Windrider

Mill Creek Entertainment

08/07/18 — Sets Flora (with Digital Copy), Happy Endings: The Complete Series (6 disc set), Masters of Sex: The Complete Series (8 disc set) and Psycho Biddy Double Feature (2 film set: Strait-Jacket, Berserk)

Mondo Macabro

05/08/18 — Released Devil Incarnate (Spanish)

Naxos

05/08/18 — Released Berlioz: Benvenuto Cellini and Niccolo Jommelli: Il Vologeso

Oscilloscope Laboratories

06/26/18 — Sets Beauty and the Dogs (Arabic)

Random Media (MOD)

05/08/18 — Released Trouble is My Business (2 disc set)

Sentai FilmWorks

05/08/18 — Released Is It Wrong to Expect a Hot Spring in a Dungeon? (with bonus CD)

Severin Films, LLC

05/08/18 — Released Emanuelle and the Last Cannibals (Italian) and Violence in a Women's Prison (aka: Caged Women)

Shout! Factory

05/08/18 — Released Caged Fury and House That Dripped Blood

Smark Mark Video (MOD)

05/01/18 — Released BBPW: Goddess of Gore 2018 - Sun Valley, CA and IWA Mid-South Derby Madness - Memphis, IN

05/08/18 — Released IWA Mid-South Sunday Bloody Sunday - Memphis, IN

Troma

05/08/18 — Released Gutboy: A Badtime Story and Sick Sock Monsters from Outer Space

Universal Pictures Home Ent.

06/19/18 — Adds Unsane (Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack) (with UltraViolet Digital Copy)

07/03/18 — Sets Blockers (Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack) (with UltraViolet Digital Copy)

Well Go U.S.A.

05/08/18 — Released Paradox (Cantonese) (Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack)

 

 

Mill Creek Entertainment Announces Its First Wave Of Priced-To-Collect DVD And Blu-ray Product Offerings For Delivery On Aug. 7

Mill Creek Entertainment announced its first wave of priced-to-collect DVD and Blu-ray product offerings this past week.   This first group arrives at retail outlets on Aug. 7 … and you can expect more announcements to follow.

Leading the way is writer/director Sasha Louis Vukovic’s sci-fi thriller, Flora, which will be making its domestic home entertainment debut as a special edition Blu-ray release (complete with Digital Copy).

It is, by all measurements, a beautiful summer in Québec.   It’s 1929 and the stock market crash is not yet a blip on the radar and all of the modern technology that would populate a film set in the here-and-now hasn’t been invented yet.   This makes Vukovic’s Flora very much a kindred spirit to Peter Weir’s Picnic at Hanging Rock … mysterious, foreboding and yet beautiful and picturesque. 

Into the forest six university students go (which genre fans will recognize as the “victim pool”), where they are to meet their professor for some field research.  It’s more or less a beautiful, even tranquil, camping trip.   

The professor, however, is nowhere to be found.   And the tranquility of the setting becomes more mysterious by the minute.   At this time of year you would expect mosquitoes the size of small birds … and gnats and deer flies galore.   But the forest is quiet, no bugs, none.   No animals either.   And the group’s canoe trip down the river was without fish in the stream.

Six college students, without “modern” technology, alone in the woods … there are no monsters, no big foot creature or rampaging bear.   Just the forest, and they soon learn it, the beautiful forest, is the “creature!!!”    

A moody soundtrack and some marvelous cinematography work by Eric Irvin (his first feature film) add to allure of Flora.

Bonus features include commentary with writer/director Sasha Louis Vukovic (his debut), who is joined by actors Teresa Marie Doran and Dan Lin (who also co-produced the film), deleted scenes and a “Behind-the-Scenes” featurette.

Also getting a Blu-ray push on Aug. 7 is the horror-double feature being promoted as Psycho Biddy Double Feature.

Priced at just $14.98 (and that’s before discounts at retail) are two chop’em horror classics from the 1960s starring Joan Crawford.   First up is Crawford starring in director William Castle’s 1964 thriller, Strait-Jacket, which was the third of a four-picture deal that he had struck with Columbia Pictures during the period.    

We know from the opening sequences that Crawford’s character, Lucy Harbin, is an ax-murderer.   She came home from a business trip and discovered her husband (an un-credited Lee Majors in his film debut) in bed with another woman and snaps.   Chop!  Chop!!  Chop!!!

Jump ahead 20 years and we find Lucy released from the nut house and returning home to reunite with her grown daughter, Carol (Diane Baker), who has made something of a name for herself locally as an artist.   She also has her sights on a local named Michael (John Anthony Hayes), who comes from a wealthy family.   Geeze, what are the chances that Carol’s plans can come true if her crazy mother is on the prowl?

Lucy is her mother, like it or not, so she tries to spruce her up a bit.   Of course, as with any good William Castle film from the period, you can take it to the bank that the ax murders will start again and it is up to you, the audience, to figure out who is hacking up the locals!!!

Teamed with Strait-Jacket is Crawford in director Jim O'Connolly’s 1968 circus-themed thriller, Berserk.   

Here she stars as Monica Rivers, a circus owner, whose acts begin dropping dead, which she cavalierly boasted would be “good for business” when the Gaspar the Great fell to his death from the high wire.   Is she killing her own performers to up the attraction of coming to the circus?    On Aug. 7 pick up this Blu-ray double-feature from Mill Creek Entertainment and find out for yourself.

Round out this first wave of Blu-ray and DVD selections during the month of August are two complete television series collections.

We begin with Michael Sheen and Lizzy Caplan starring in the TV series, Masters of Sex, which over four-seasons (46 episodes) chronicled the 1950s-era research on human sexuality by Masters and Johnson — Sheen as Dr. William Howell Masters and Caplan as Virginia Ellis Johnson.

The other complete series heading home as both DVD and Blu-ray sets is the Chicago-based sitcom titled Happy Endings … all three seasons (57 episodes) starring the ensemble cast of Eliza Coupe, Elisha Cuthbert, Zachary Knighton, Adam Pally, Damon Wayans Jr. and Casey Wilson are included here.

Icarus Films Readies Writer/Director Denis Dercourt's In Harmony For Its Domestic DVD Debut On July 10

Icarus Films will be guiding France’s Distrib Films latest DVD product offering to market on July 10.    It will be writer/director Denis Dercourt’s 2015 film adaptation of the Bernard Sachsé novel, “Sur Mes Quatre Jambes,” which was titled for the screen as In Harmony (in French: En Équilibre).   

The film had an ever-so-brief domestic arthouse showcase of just two screens back in 2016, so it arrives on DVD virtually unseen by audiences drawn to French cinema.

Marc Guermont (Albert Dupontel — See You Up There, 9-Month Stretch, A Very Long Engagement, etc.) is an elite equestrian who also does stunt and riding work in films.   On his latest film assignment things go horribly wrong and he takes a nasty fall that leaves him with a broken back.

At his lowest point, wheelchair bound, in pops a representative from the insurance company by the name of Florence (Cécile de France — Hereafter, The Kid With a Bike, etc.), who has been instructed by her sleezy boss to get Marc to settle as soon as possible (they know that they are on the hook big time for the accident).  The first visit proves fruitless, so she is dispatched a second time, this time dressed to seduce.   

Although married, she finds herself drawn to Marc, and he to her.   And that sets up a monumental conflict … not only with her job, which is to get the best settlement possible, but with her family as well.   

In Harmony is a sultry romantic tale that is based on writer Bernard Sachsé’s own real-life experiences.   Marc is driven to overcome his debilitating injuries to ride once again and Florence is at a crossroads in her personal life and career … nothing is as she expected it to be ... and she will have to betray both to find a path forward for herself.     

Can these two “broken” individuals find the happiness that has eluded them under such dire circumstances?   Icarus Films will provide the answers on July 10 with the DVD debut of In Harmony.

In Harmony is presented in French with English subtitles.

MVD Entertainment Group Preps Newest "Rewind Collection" Blu-ray Addition For July 24 Release — Nicole Kidman Stars In Windrider

MVD Entertainment Group announced this past week that the latest addition to its popular “Rewind Collection” series will be the Down Under film postcard showcasing the beach scene in Perth back in the mid-1980s, director Vincent Monton’s Windrider.   The hi-def restoration will makes its Blu-ray debut on July 24.

Over the years this film has become something of a cult gem and a film curiosity on two levels.  It is Nicole Kidman’s first “adult” Australian feature film — she had not registered on the domestic film scene as of yet (the irony is that Kidman was born in Hawaii) — and secondly, the location for the film’s production was on Australia’s far western shore near Perth and Freemantle.   We see so much of Sydney and the “outback” in films from Down Under, but Perth is a rarity … it is a jewel, with weather and surfing conditions almost identical to that of Southern California.

Stewart Simpson, who simply goes by the name of “P.C.” (played by Tom Burlinson, a Canadian-born actor, who burst onto the Aussie film scene with two back-to-back film hits, The Man from Snowy River and Phar Lap), has a cushy job at his father’s company, but prefers to surf — windsurf, that is — on almost a daily basis.   He is actually pretty good it at and looks to compete internationally, but everything goes topsy-turvy when his eye catches a young rock singer named Jade (Nicole Kidman) at a local club. 

Romance blooms — including a cozy shower for two — and both his career (what there is of it) and his potential as a surf legend take a backseat to his infatuation with the mop-haired beauty.

Bonus nuggets include commentary from director Vince Monton (noted for his stunning cinematography work in such films as Road Games, Newsfront, etc.) and writer Everett De Roche (scripts for such Aussie films as Patrick, Road Games and Razorback), the extended “bedroom scene,” a music promo featuring Nicole Kidman and the Boyd Wilson music video titled, “Young Days.”