New DVD • Blu-ray • 4K Ultra HD Additions For The Period Ending September 11, 2020

 

 New DVD Additions

 

Bayview Entertainment

11/17/20 — Sets 3 Beauties (Spanish), Dogs Die Alone (Serbian), Elina, Evil Night (Italian), Execution Squad (aka: Dark Target), HNN Presents: The Wicked Woods (Spanish), Insanity (Finnish), Jakes Are Missing, Lifeology (Mongolian), Love Crime (Mongolian), Middleman (Mandarin), Unwholly Moments and Waratah

 

Championship Productions

09/08/20 — Released Game-Winning, Special Situation Strategies: Inbound Plays, Free Throw Rebounding & Jump Balls, Jim Larranaga's Approach to Teaching Offense & Defense and Jim Larranaga's Shooting Drills to Improve Accuracy and Shot-Making Under Pressure

 

Cinema Guild

09/29/20 — Sets Chinese Diary (Mandarin)

 

Film Movement

09/08/20 — Released Tramway to Jerusalem (Hebrew)

 

Full Moon Features

12/15/20 — Sets Orgy of the Living Dead

 

Grasshopper Film

09/08/20 — Released Los Reyes (Spanish) and Vitalina Varela (Portuguese) (ARR of 200 days; box office: $14,941)

 

Gravitas Ventures (MOD)

09/08/20 — Released Deadly Legend, Krow's Transformation, Machine, Standard and Up on the Grass

 

HBO Home Entertainment (MOD)

09/08/20 — Released Bad Education

 

Hallmark Channel

09/08/20 — Released Love, Fall & Order

 

Kino Lorber

09/08/20 — Released Grey Fox

 

Mill Creek Entertainment

11/24/20 — Sets Ice House (with Digital Copy)

 

Movie Detective (MOD)

09/08/20 — Released Ani Imoto (Japanese), Cuori Solitari (Italian), Le Cinema de Papa (French), Lost World of Sinbad (Japanese), One-Two, Soldiers Were Going … (Russian) and Pokrov Gates (Russian)

 

Music Box Films

09/08/20 — Released Beats

 

Nostalgia Family (MOD)

09/08/20 — Released Lost TV: Collection 1 (3 episodes: Barefoot in the Park, Octavius and Me, Joan of Arkansas)

 

Oscilloscope Laboratories

10/20/20 — Sets Clementine

 

PBS Direct

09/08/20 — Released And She Could be Next, Frankie Drake Mysteries: The Complete Third Season (3 disc set) and Let's Talk Menopause

 

Paramount Home Media

11/10/20 — Sets PAW Patrol: PUP-tastic! 8 DVD Collection (8 adventure collection: Robo Dog Rescues, Sea Patrol, The Great Pirate Rescue, Ultimate Rescue, Pups Save Atlantis, Summer Rescues, Jungle Rescues, Pups Chase a Mystery!) (8 disc set)

 

Paramount Home Media (MOD)

09/08/20 — Released Ace High, Carrie, I'll Sleep When I'm Dead,  Is Paris Burning?, Murphy's War, New Kind of Love, Patsy and Save the Tiger

 

Samuel Goldwyn Films

09/08/20 — Released Waiting for the Barbarians

 

Sony Pictures Home Ent.

09/08/20 — Released Mr. Mercedes: Season 3 (3 disc set)

 

Team Marketing

09/08/20 — Released Shaped by Faith: Fitness in the Spirit

 

UMN, LLC

09/08/20 — Released Flying V

11/10/20 — Sets Bay Area Godfathers

 

Uncork’d Entertainment

09/08/20 — Released Demons Inside Me and Range Runners

 

Universal Pictures Home Ent.

09/08/20 — Released Candyman and Chicago P.D.: Season Seven (6 disc set)

 

Vertical Entertainment

09/08/20 — Released Big Ugly (ARR of 46 days; box office: $502,588) and Nice Girl Like You

 

Video Artists International

09/08/20 — Released Mahler's Titan: The Romance Death and Triumph of a Young Musician

 

Warner Bros. Home Ent.

09/08/20 — Released We Bare Bears: The Movie

 

Well Go U.S.A.

09/08/20 — Released Evil Boy (Russian)

 

 

 

 New Blu-ray Additions

 

 

Arrow Video

09/08/20 — Released Graveyard of Honor (Japanese) (2 disc set)

 

Cinema Guild

09/29/20 — Sets Chinese Diary (Mandarin)

 

Film Media

09/08/20 — Released Caro Diario (Italian)

 

Full Moon Features

12/15/20 — Sets Orgy of the Living Dead

 

Grasshopper Film

09/08/20 — Released Vitalina Varela (Portuguese)

 

Gravitas Ventures (MOD)

09/08/20 — Released Deadly Legend, Krow's Transformation, Machine, Standard and Up on the Grass

 

Indie Rights, Inc. (MOD)

09/08/20 — Released Night Into Day

 

Kino Lorber

09/08/20 — Released Cary Grant Collection (3 film set: Ladies Shouldn't Listen, Wedding Present, Big Brown Eyes) (3 disc set), Daleks: Invasion Earth 2150 A.D., Dr. Who and the Daleks and Grey Fox

 

Lionsgate Home Entertainment

09/08/20 — Released Retaliation (with Digital Copy)

 

Naxos

09/08/20 — Released Beethoven: Missa Solemnis - Stuttgart, Henze: Der Prinz von Homburg, Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 3; Symphony No. 3 and Royal Swedish Ballet: Eskapist

 

Oscilloscope Laboratories

10/20/20 — Sets Clementine

 

S&N Films (MOD)

09/08/20 — Released Shattered State

 

Sentai Filmworks

09/08/20 — Released Diabolik Lovers: The Complete Collection (2 disc set)

 

Unearthed Filns

12/15/20 — Sets Torched: Collector’s Edition

 

Universal Pictures Home Ent.

09/08/20 — Released Psycho: 60th Anniversary Edition

 

Vertical Entertainment

09/08/20 — Released Big Ugly

 

Warner Bros. Home Ent. (MOD)

09/08/20 — Released Prodigal Son: The Complete First Season (4 disc set)

 

 

 New 4K Ultra HD Additions

 

Lionsgate Home Ent.

09/08/20 — Sets Ghost in the Shell (4K Ultra HD/Blu-ray Combo Pack) (with Digital Copy) (Japanese)

 

Warner Bros. Home Ent.

11/03/20 — Sets V: For Vendetta (4K Ultra HD/Blu-ray Combo Pack) (with Digital Copy)

 

 

 

 

 

Writer/Director Lara Gallagher's Clementine On DVD And Blu-ray From Oscilloscope Laboratories On Oct. 20

Oscilloscope Laboratories has tabbed Oct. 20 as the release date for both DVD and Blu-ray editions of writer/director Lara Gallagher film festival-winning drama, Clementine.

Gallagher’s film opened at the Tribeca Film Festival in April of last year and then proceeded to work the festival circuit, pulling in wins in various categories, including Best Picture (Local Sightings Film Festival, BendFilm Festival, etc.), acting awards and cinematography (Andres Karu’s camera work is just stunning … a career highlighted by extensive episodic television work pays off here).  

By November, Oscilloscope, which is a company noted for spotting indie films of merit, struck a deal with Gallagher for domestic theatrical and home entertainment distribution.  

The initial plan was to release Clementine theatrically in early 2020, but that didn’t pan out (obvious reasons … no theatres, hello) … so now the film makes the move to the home entertainment market place on Oct. 20.   At least people, who were unable to catch it during its many film festival screenings, will have the opportunity to enjoy Lara Gallagher’s debut effort as a film director.   She nailed it!

Karen (played by Otmara Marrero) is a mess.  She’s just been locked out of her lover’s house, a woman we know only as “D” (Sonya Walger), and reacts by driving to Oregon (filmed in and around Florence, which is on the Pacific Coast about 30 miles west of Eugene) and breaking into D’s lake house.   She’s angry and acts out.

Here is where the film takes an interesting turn, a young woman (and we will use the word “woman” loosely … perhaps no more than a teen) by the name of Lana (Sydney Sweeney — one of the Manson girls in Once Upon a Time In … Hollywood, as Eden Spencer in The Handmaid’s Tale) happens by and the two strike up something of a friendship.   Maybe a better word is “fascination” instead of friendship …

In is an interesting juxtaposition, instead of the “older,” more experienced male showing an interest in a younger woman, it is the “experienced” woman who finds her new friend “fascinating.”   Sexual, to be sure, but more of a lyrical dance … and, if the truth be known, it is not Karen who is the better “game-player,” but the more manipulative Lana (wise beyond her years).

Into this pleasant diversion, comes Beau (Will Brittain — Kong: Skull Island, Savage Youth, Haunt), the “handyman,” who is someone who is hard to figure out.   He is employed by D to take care of the place … does he rat Karen out; report her for breaking in?  

Clementine is a sexually charge cat and mouse game.   It is hard to tell, at times, exactly who the cat and who the mouse roles are being played by, and that is the point.   And, we suspect that the tick tock of the arrival of the unseen “D” will bring the game-playing to a head … and, maybe not in a good way.

Bonus features for Clementine include commentary from filmmaker Lara Jean Gallagher, deleted scenes and outtakes.

 

 

Director Steven Elbert's Ice House On DVD From Mill Creek Entertainment On Nov. 24

Oh lord that’s cold.  It looks cold … feels cold.   And when you dig into the production of director Steven Elbert’s Ice House — making its DVD debut on Nov. 24 courtesy of Mill Creek Entertainment — you learn that it is all real!  It’s damn cold; bone-chilling cold … blizzard cold!!

Grant Reed (Roger Wayne — Heart of Wilderness, Emma’s Revenge, Fences) has lived a privileged life, living off of the family’s fortune.  He’s even got a trophy bride, Courtney (Tabby Delarosby) … more on that in a moment.

His high school buddy, Wayne (Greg Berman — Ultimate Redemption), came from the “other side of the tracks” and when his high school days were finished he joined the Marines and was deployed.  

Grant was popular, Wayne a loner, but the two were friends.   We pick up this relationship now, in the depths of winter in Minnesota … Wayne has been back home from Afghanistan for a while, but now Grant has reached out to him.   An invitation to go ice-fishing. 

About this point in the movie you are thinking, what kind of invitation is that?   Sitting in a little box, with a hole poked in the ice, freezing your ass off in the dead of winter.   Well, Grant, as mentioned is rich — not of his own doing — and this “ice house” comes with all the amenities … a bar, central heating, cable TV, a kitchen; sort of a home-away-from-home!!

The balance of the film takes place in this ice-fishing “cabin” on the lake (actually filmed on Lake Mille Lacs).   It is here that we learn of Grant’s real motives.   He’s had a whole bunch of cameras installed in his home, Courtney is aware of them, and she thinks that she’s learned how to turn them off, so that her husband can’t spy on her.   That’s an illusion, he sees all!!

Ice House is a twisted psychological thriller, very much in a Hitchcockian sense, that builds and builds with tension as Grant’s rage is heaped on Wayne.   Director Steven Elbert took some bold chances shooting the violent ending of the film in a full-blown blizzard … every bit of the footage is real.

We will tell you this much, and no more.   Of Grant, Courtney and Wayne, not all will survive this fishing trip!!   Ice House on DVD from Mill Creek Entertainment on Nov. 24, complete with Digital Copy … be sure to check it out!

 

 

 

Paramount Home Media Locks In Nov. 10 As The Street Date For PAW Patrol: PUP-tastic! 8-DVD Collection

Paramount Home Media will be teaming up with Nickelodeon on Nov. 10 for the release of a “PAW-tastic” eight-disc DVD gift set titled PAW Patrol: PUP-tastic! 8-DVD Collection.

Marshall and the PAW Patrol are front and center in the all-new Robo Dog Rescues, which showcases seven animated adventures not previously available on DVD in the domestic marketplace.

This collection is the perfect gift for PAW Patrol fans who might be new to the series and don’t have DVDs of their own (or missing one or two) … also included in this collection are: Sea Patrol, The Great Pirate Rescue, Ultimate Rescue, Pups Save Atlantis, Summer Rescues, Jungle Rescues and Pups Chase a Mystery!

 

 

 

 

 

 

Bayview Entertainment's HNN Presents: The Wicked Woods Heads To DVD On Nov. 17

Bayview Entertainment announced this past week that the latest addition to its popular “HNN Presents” line of domestic and international horror films — in association with Horrornews.net — will be heading to the DVD marketplace on Nov. 17.

From Chile, we have writer/director Lucio A. Rojas’ atmospheric chiller, HNN Presents: The Wicked Woods.

Lovers, Ruben (Iñigo Urrutia — El Derechazo, Invierno, Dios Me Libre) and Laura (Catherine Mazoyer — Apio Verde, Marcelo: La Mafia y La Estafa, Rojo: La Película) arrive at an idyllic cabin in a forested area of Chile.   Away from the hustle and bustle of the city … a chance for some peace and quiet; time together.

It is, however, not as it seems.   Ruben is married and has children.   He may love and care for Laura, but, well, it’s complicated.   Laura, on the other hand, no longer wants to remain at home (for reasons that will become clear).

Soon, and this is where filmmaker Lucio A. Rojas (Zombie Dawn, Trauma) toys with us, we see things moving in the woods.  The music takes on an ominous tone … the troubles between Laura and Ruben intensify, and so the music.

The images increase … are they real?  Is the man in what appears to be hunter’s gear, real?   Are the children that appear, real?   They come … they disappear.

Rojas continues to ratch-things up … the music, being a useful participant in the ever-building terror that has descended upon these otherwise peaceful and tranquil woods.

HNN Presents: The Wicked Woods is in Spanish with English subtitles.

 

 

 

Full Moon Features Says That It Will Be Dec. 15 For The Release Of Uncut DVD And Blu-ray Editions Of Orgy Of The Living Dead

Full Moon Features, with sales and distribution expertise provided by MVD Entertainment Group, has tabbed Dec. 15 as the street for both DVD and Blu-ray editions of a newly remastered presentation — uncut for the first time in the United States (from the original 35mm negative) — of director Jose Luis Merino’s Orgy of the Living Dead.

Sources can be a little sketchy, but Box Office Magazine records that International Artists, an indie film distribution company found by Jerrold T. Brandt in early 1974 — to be headquartered in Mexico City — released, on a very limited basis, The Hanging Woman (a dubbed version of La Orgía de los Muertos, which literally translates as The Orgy of the Dead) in March of 1974.  

It then appears that International Artists vanished by the end of the year, but The Hanging Woman may have been resurrected for a brief theatrical run in 1975 … we skip ahead to the glory days of VHS and Wizard Video in 1984.  

This newly minted version of Orgy of the Living Dead clocks in at an additional three minutes in running time … it will be interesting to see what was cut from the original for the English-language dubbed version.

 

 

 

Unearthed Films Tabs Dec. 15 As The Street Date For DVD And Blu-ray Editions Of Director Ryan Nicholson's Torched

Unearthed Films, with sales and distribution support provided by MVD Entertainment Group, has a collector’s edition of the late Ryan Nicholson’s 2004 debut as a director, Torched, ready for both DVD and Blu-ray release on Dec. 15.

Call it an experimental film, Torched, introduced this f/x and makeup whiz as a filmmaker; a director, in his own right.   He had logged nearly two decades in the technical arena before making the transition to the director’s chair.    

With Torched, Nicholson got a chance to show off his understanding of makeup and prosthetics with a straight-forward tale of revenge.   Of note, both Elisabeth Jolliffe and Sarah Bergeest, newbies to the business, have gone on to have careers of their own and worked under Nicholson’s direction here.

Deanna (Michelle Boback) is no sooner introduced to us, when she is attacked and raped.  Since her character is that of a nurse, she has the presence of mind to collective evidence.  Before she can act on getting the samples to the lab, etc., she is attacked in her apartment, but turns the tables on her attacker and makes him a prisoner.  

Here is where Torched gets particularly gruesome.   She takes a blood sample, has the sperm sample from the first encounter and delivers them both to a trusted colleague … do they match?   While she waits for the results, she comes up with daily creative ways to torture the guy she has a prisoner — and they are nasty, cringe-worthy acts that signal that there is probably no going back … Deanna has gone down a rabbit hole of revenge!

Bonus goodies include a vintage commentary from director Ryan Nicholson, two different format presentations of the film, an extended version of Torched, out takes, behind the scenes footage and a making-of featurette titled “Behind the Burn: The Making of Torched.”