New DVD • Blu-ray • 4K Ultra HD Additions For The Period Ending October 30, 2020

 

 

 New DVD Additions

 

Acorn Media

10/27/20 — Released Hidden: Series Two (2 disc set)

 

Adult Source Media

10/27/20 — Released Hentai Sex School

 

Altered Innocence

10/27/20 — Released Rapture in Blue

 

Arrow Video

10/27/20 — Released Double Feature: Blood Feast/Scum of the Earth and Double Feature: Two Thousand Maniacs/Moonshine Mountain

 

Ballet Beautiful, LLC (MOD)

10/20/20 — Released Ballet Beautiful: Cardio Fat Burn, Ballet Beautiful: Essential Ballerina - Dance Class Burn and Ballet Beautiful: Essential Ballerina - Stretch and Tone

 

Bayview Entertainment

12/15/20 — Sets Atomic Rooster: The Ultimate Anthology, Bruce Springsteen: Music In Review, Iron Maiden: Ultimate Critical Review, Metallica: Kill Em All to St Anger, Oasis: The Oasis Pehnomenon, Pink Floyd: Meddle The Essential Albums, Red Hot Chili Peppers: Behind the Music, Red Hot Chili Peppers: In Performance, Status Quo: Inside 1968-1979 and U2: War

 

Breaking Glass Pictures

10/27/20 — Released 7 Minutes (French), Halloween Party and Rialto

 

CBS Home Entertainment (MOD)

10/27/20 — Released Dynasty: Season Three (4 disc set)

 

Colossal Content (MOD)

10/20/20 — Released Expulsion

 

Film Movement

10/27/20 — Released Mr. Topaze

 

Gemini Entertainment (MOD)

10/20/20 — Released Nerve Agents

10/27/20 — Released Espionage: Target You

 

Grasshopper Films

10/27/20 — Released Fourteen

 

Gravitas Ventures (MOD)

10/27/20 — Released Attack of the Unknown, Defying All Odds, Fishbowl, Narco Soldiers, Two Face: The Grey and Wolfman's Got Nards

 

I-Cine

10/27/20 — Released Truyen Thuyet Phi Dao (14 disc set)

 

Icarus Films

12/01/20 — Sets Space Dogs (Russian)

 

Kino Lorber

10/27/20 — Released Babylon Berlin: Seasons 1 and 2 (4 disc set), Ipcress File, Secret Ways, Whistler Blower and Wiggles, Choo Choo Trains, Propeller Planes, and Toot Toot ChuggaChugga

 

Kitty Media (MOD)

10/27/20 — Released Lady Does Butler

 

Lionsgate Home Ent.

10/27/20 — Released Friendsgiving

 

MHz Home Entertainment

10/27/20 — Released Agatha Christie's Criminal Games, Set 4 (3 disc set) and Captain Marleau, Volume 3 (3 disc set)

 

Media Blasters (MOD)

10/27/20 — Death Stop Holocaust, Jubei-Chan 2: The Counterattack of Siberia Yagyu (2 disc set) and Zebraman (Japanese)

 

Pentrex

10/27/20 — Released UP 3985 Over Cajon

 

Railway Productions

10/27/20 — Released BNSF's Butte Subdivision: The Crawford Hill Line

 

Rarefilmsandmore.com (MOD)

10/20/20 — Released Blind Woman of Sorrento (Italian), Different Fortunes (Russian), Flight (Russian) and Le Million (French)

11/03/20 — Sets Freddy und die Melodie der Nacht (German)

 

Screen Media

10/27/20 — Released Fleabag: Season Two

 

Severin Films

10/27/20 — Released Black Cat, Patrick Still Lives (Italian) and Shock Treatment (French)

 

TLA Releasing

10/27/20 — Released Young Hunter (Spanish)

 

The High School Sports Network (MOD)

10/27/20 — Released 2020 AHSAA 1A Girls Volleyball Quarterfinals #1: Donoho vs Millry - Birmingham, AL, 2020 AHSAA 1A Girls Volleyball Quarterfinals #2: Pleasant Home vs Meek - Birmingham, AL, 2020 AHSAA 1A Girls Volleyball Quarterfinals #3: Bayshore Charter vs Covenant - Birmingham, AL, 2020 AHSAA 1A Girls Volleyball Quarterfinals #4: Lindsay Lane vs Kingston - Birmingham, AL, 2020 AHSAA 1A Volleyball Championship: Donoho School vs Bayshore Charter - Birmingham, AL, 2020 AHSAA 1A Volleyball Semifinals #1: Donoho vs Pleasant Home - Birmingham, AL, 2020 AHSAA 2A Girls Volleyball Quarterfinals #1: Addison vs Horseshoe Bend - Birmingham, AL, 2020 AHSAA 2A Girls Volleyball Quarterfinals #2: Ariton vs Spring Garden - Birmingham, AL, 2020 AHSAA 2A Girls Volleyball Quarterfinals #3: G.W. Long Vs Hatton - Birmingham, AL, 2020 AHSAA 2A Girls Volleyball Quarterfinals #4: Altamont vs Orange Beach - Birmingham, AL, 2020 AHSAA 3A Girls Volleyball Quarterfinals #1: Plainview vs Thomasville - Birmingham, AL, 2020 AHSAA 3A Girls Volleyball Quarterfinals #2: Houston Academy vs Flyffe - Birmingham, AL, 2020 AHSAA 3A Girls Volleyball Quarterfinals #3: TPS vs Lauderdale - Birmingham, AL, 2020 AHSAA 3A Girls Volleyball Quarterfinals #4: Pleasant Valley vs PCA, 2020 AHSAA 3A Volleyball Championship: Plainview vs TPS - Birmingham, AL, 2020 AHSAA 3A Volleyball Semifinals #1: Plainview vs Houston Academy - Birmingham, AL, 2020 AHSAA 3A Volleyball Semifinals #2: TPS vs PCA - Birmingham, AL, 2020 AHSAA 4A Girls Volleyball Quarterfinals #1: Curry vs Northside - Birmingham, AL, 2020 AHSAA 4A Girls Volleyball Quarterfinals #2: LAMP vs Jacksonville - Birmingham, AL, 2020 AHSAA 4A Girls Volleyball Quarterfinals #4; Madison County vs St. Michaels - Birmingham, AL, 2020 AHSAA 4A Volleyball Championship: Curry vs Montgomery Academy - Birmingham, AL, 2020 AHSAA 4A Volleyball Semifinals #1: Curry vs LAMP - Birmingham, AL, 2020 AHSAA 4A Volleyball Semifinals #2: Montgomery Academy vs Madison County - Birmingham, AL, 2020 AHSAA 5A Girls Volleyball Quarterfinals #1: West Point vs Alberta - Birmingham, AL, 2020 AHSAA 5A Girls Volleyball Quarterfinals #2: Satsuma vs Alexandria - Birmingham, AL, 2020 AHSAA 5A Girls Volleyball Quarterfinals #3: Bayside Academy vs East Limestone - Birmingham, AL, 2020 AHSAA 5A Girls Volleyball Quarterfinals #4: Fairview vs Providence - Birmingham, AL, 2020 AHSAA 5A Volleyball Championship: West Point vs Bayside Academy - Birmingham, AL, 2020 AHSAA 5A Volleyball Semifinals #2: Bayside Academy vs Providence - Birmingham, AL, 2020 AHSAA 6A Girls Volleyball Quarterfinals #1: Hazel Green vs Northridge - Birmingham, AL, 2020 AHSAA 6A Girls Volleyball Quarterfinals #2: John Carroll vs Mountain Brook - Birmingham, AL, 2020 AHSAA 6A Girls Volleyball Quarterfinals #3: Spanish Fort vs Buckhorn - Birmingham, AL, 2020 AHSAA 6A Girls Volleyball Quarterfinals #4: Hartselle vs St. Paul's - Birmingham, AL, 2020 AHSAA 6A Volleyball Championship: Mountain Brook vs Hartsville - Birmingham, AL, 2020 AHSAA 6A Volleyball Semifinals #1: Hazel Green vs Mountain Brook - Birmingham, AL, 2020 AHSAA 7A Girls Volleyball Quarterfinals #1: Hoover vs Baker - Birmingham, AL, 2020 AHSAA 7A Girls Volleyball Quarterfinals #2: Prattville vs Thompson - Birmingham, AL, 2020 AHSAA 7A Girls Volleyball Quarterfinals #3: McGill-Toolen vs Vestavia Hills - Birmingham, AL, 2020 AHSAA 7A Girls Volleyball Quarterfinals #4: Spain Park vs Auburn - Birmingham, AL, 2020 AHSAA 7A Volleyball Championship: Spain Park vs Hoover - Birmingham, AL, 2020 AHSAA 7A Volleyball Semifinals #1: Hoover vs Thompson - Birmingham, AL, 2020 IHSAA - IDAHO Girls Soccer Championship: Rocky Moutain vs Boise - Middleton, ID, 2020 IHSAA 1A DI Volleyball Championship Match #1: Troy Senior vs Lighthouse Charter - Jerome, ID, 2020 IHSAA 1A DII Volleyball Championship Match #1: Watersprings vs Deary - Burley, ID, 2020 IHSAA 2A Volleyball Championship Match #1: Melba Senior vs St. Maries - Buhl, ID, 2020 IHSAA 3A Boys Soccer Semifinals #2: CDA vs SV Community - Post Falls, ID, 2020 IHSAA 3A Girls Soccer Semifinals #2: Marsh Valley vs Sugar-Salem - Post Falls, ID, 2020 IHSAA 3A Volleyball Championship Match #1: Parma vs Filer - Twin Falls, ID, 2020 IHSAA 4A Boys Soccer Championship: Blackfoot vs Vallivue - Idaho Falls, ID, 2020 IHSAA 4A Girls Soccer Championship: Preston vs Twin Falls - Ammon, ID, 2020 IHSAA 4A Volleyball Championship Game #1: Preston vs Lakeland - Kimberly, ID, 2020 IHSAA 5A Boys Soccer Championship: Boise vs Thunder Ridge - Canyon Ridge, iD, 2020 IHSAA 5A Boys Soccer Semifinals #2: Eagle vs Boise - Middleton, ID, 2020 IHSAA 5A Girls Soccer Semifinals #2: Rocky Mountain vs Timberline - Middleton, ID, 2020 IHSAA 5A Volleyball Championship Match #1: Mountain View vs Coeur d'Alene - Idaho Falls, ID, 2020 KHSAA 6A Volleyball Championship Pool Play 1 VS 2: Washburn Rural vs Olathe NW - Salina, KS,  2020 KHSAA 6A Volleyball Championship Pool Play 3 VS 4: Garden City vs. Blue Valley West - Salina, KS, 2020 MHSA Class AA Boys Soccer Championship: Hellgate vs Bozeman - Bozeman, MT, 2020 MHSA Class AA Girls Soccer Championship: Glacier vs Helena - Helena, MT, 2020 MHSAA 1A Volleyball Championship: Resurrection vs Hickory Flat - Madison, MS, 2020 MHSAA 2A Volleyball Championship: Puckett vs Walnut - Clinton, MS, 2020 MHSAA 3A Volleyball Championship: Belmont vs St. Andrews - Madison, MS, 2020 MHSAA 4A Volleyball Championship: Vancleave vs Pontooc - Clinton, MS, 2020 MHSAA 5A Volleyball Championship: Long Beach vs Lake Cormorant - Madison, MS and 2020 MHSAA 6A Volleyball Championship: Desoto Central vs Brandon - Clinton, MS

 

The Teaching Company, LLC

10/27/20 — Released Cognitive Behavioral Therpy (4 disc set), England of the 1960s and the Triumph of the Beatles (2 disc set), Language A to Z (2 disc set), Learning Italian: Step by Step, Region by Region (4 disc set), Microsoft Word Essentials (4 disc set) and Unsung Heroes of World War II (2 disc set)

 

Uncork’d Entertainment (MOD)

10/20/20 — Released Redwood Massacre: Annihilation

10/27/20 — Released No Such Thing as Monsters

 

Universal Pictures Home Ent. (MOD)

10/20/20 — Released Dirty John: The Betty Broderick Story (2 disc set)

 

Vision Films (MOD)

10/20/20 — Released Sky Dog

 

WWE

10/27/20 — Released WWE: Clash of Champions 2020 (2 disc set)

 

Warner Bros. Home Ent. (MOD)

10/27/20 — Released D-Day to Berlin and Head of the Class: The Complete Second Season (3 disc set)

11/10/20 — Sets Little Foxes, Pride of the Yankees, Stella Dallas, Westerner and Wuthering Heights

11/17/20 — Sets Blindspot: The Complete Fifth & Final Season (3 disc set)

11/24/20 — Sets For Me and My Gal, Kiss Me Kate, Meet Me In St. Louis (two disc set) and Ode to Billy Joe

 

Wild Eye Releasing

10/27/20 — Released Ouija Mummy

 

 

New Blu-ray Additions

 

 

 

Arrow Video

01/19/21 — Sets JSA: Joint Security Area (Korean)

 

Capital Motion Picture Group (MOD)

10/27/20 — Released Ravers

 

Darkside Releasing

01/19/21 — Sets Polterheist

 

Eastern Star

10/27/20 — Released Cleopatra (Japanese), Isuca + OVA (2 disc set), Lupin III: The Pursuit of Harimao's Treasure, New Getter Robo (2 disc set) and Symphogear: The Complete First Season (2 disc set)

 

Film Movement

10/27/20 — Released Mr. Topaze

 

FUNimation

10/27/20 — Released Black Clover Season 3, Part 1 (2 Blu-ray/2 DVD Combo Pack) (with Digital Copy and Ensemble Stars, Part Two (2 disc set) (with Digital Copy)

 

Gravitas Ventures (MOD)

10/27/20 — Released Attack of the Unknown, Defying All Odds, Fishbowl, Narco Soldiers, Two Face: The Grey and Wolfman's Got Nards

 

Kino Lorber

10/27/20 — Released Babylon Berlin: Seasons 1 and 2 (4 disc set), High Plains Drifter, Ipcress File, Joe Kid, Secret Ways, Two Mules for Sister Sara (2 disc set) and Whistler Blower

 

Kitty Media

10/27/20 — Released Lady Does Butler

 

Lionsgate Home Ent.

10/27/20 — Released Friendsgiving (with Digital Copy)

 

Media Blasters

10/27/20 — Released Death Stop Holocaust, Jubei-Chan 2: The Counterattack of Siberia Yagyu (2 disc set) and Zebraman (Japanese)

 

Meridian Releasing Group (MOD)

10/27/20 — Released Dead Air

 

Mill Creek Entertainment

01/12/21— Sets Blind Fury, Crossroads, Freshman and Like Father Like Son

 

Paramount Home Media

11/24/20 — Sets We're No Angels and Wonder Boys

 

Railway Productions

10/27/20 — Released BNSF's Butte Subdivision: The Crawford Hill Line

 

Scream Team Releasing

10/27/20 — Released Spine Chiller

 

Screen Media

10/27/20 — Released Fleabag: Season Two

 

Severin Films

10/27/20 — Released Black Cat, Patrick Still Lives (Italian) and Shock Treatment (French) (with bonus CD)

 

Starry Night Publishing, LLC (MOD)

10/27/20 — Released Gamera vs. Guiron (Japanese), Gamera 2: Attack of the Legion (Japanese), Gamera 3: Revenge of Iris (Japanese), Gamera the Brave (Japanese), Gamera vs Gyaos (Japanese), Gamera vs Jiger (Japanese), Gamera vs Viras (Japanese), Gamera vs Zigra (Japanese), Gamera: Guardian of the Universe (Japanese), Gamera: Super Monster (Japanese) and King Kong vs. Godzilla (Japanese)

 

VIZ Media

10/27/20 — Released K Seven Stories (2 disc set)

 

Warner Bros. Home Ent.

10/27/20 — Released Flintstones: The Complete Series (10 disc set) and Tom & Jerry: A Nutcracker Tale (with Digital Copy)

01/26/21 — Sets Snowpiercer: The Complete First Season (3 disc set)

 

Warner Bros. Home Ent. (MOD)

10/27/20 — Released Black Lightning: The Complete Second Season (3 disc set) and Black Lightning: The Complete Third Season (3 disc set)

11/03/20 — Sets Josie and the Pussycats: The Complete Series (2 disc set)

 

Word on Fire

10/27/20 — Released Catholicism: The Pivotal Players, Volume 2, Part 2: St. Ignatius of Loyola & Bartolomé las Casas (2 disc set)

 

 

New 4K Ultra HD Additions

 

 

Blue Underground

10/27/20 — Released Daughters of Darkness (4K Ultra HD/Blu-ray Combo Pack) (with bonus CD)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mill Creek Entertainments Tabs Jan. 12 For The Next Round Of Retro VHS Blu-ray Releases

Mill Creek Entertainment announced this past week that four new additions to its popular “Retro VHS Blu-ray” line of priced-to-collect film products will be waiting for fans in the New Year.   The street date will be Jan. 12, 2021.

Kicking off the fun is director Phillip Noyce’s 1989 action-filled Blind Fury, an homage to the popular Japanese Zatoichi films of the 1960s. 

Nick Parker (played by the late Rutger Hauer — Blade Runner, Night Hawks, Split Second) is blinded by a mortar explosion in Vietnam, rescued and nursed back to health by local villagers.   As part of the healing process he is taught to use his senses to “see” and becomes an expert swordsman as well.  

That’s the backstory.   We now skip ahead some 20 years and pick up Nick on his way to visit an old army pal from his Vietnam days, Frank Deveraux (Terry O'Quinn — perhaps best known as John Locke from the Lost television series … plus such films as The Stepfather, Young Guns, Primal Fear, etc.), but Nick arrives in the middle of a would-be kidnapping and uses his skills to stop it.   He is able to save Frank’s son, Billy (Brandon Call — Jagged Edge, Warlock), but Frank’s ex-wife is killed by the attackers … she puts her son’s care in the hands of the blind Parker and makes him promise that he will reunite Billy with his father.

This begins a cross-country road trip as Frank is living in Reno, Nevada … the attackers strike once again, but to no avail.   Once in Reno, it doesn’t get any better, the assaults continue.  Why are they trying to kidnap Billy? 

Well, it seems that since the war Frank has become an expert chemist — he also has a gambling problem — and is deeply in debt to a gangster by the name of MacCready (Noble Willingham).   Make “designer” drugs or your son is toast!!

Filmmaker Phillip Noyce (Newsfront, Dead Calm, Patriot Games, etc.) was able to get the city of Reno, Nevada to give him free reign to shoot Blind Fury … it was like the wild west.   Also, of note, MacCready’s chief enforcer is former heavyweight boxer Randell “Tex” Cobb (Raising Arizona, Collision Course, Critical Condition).

Blind Fury, that’s just one of the four new “Retro VHS Blu-ray” titles being released by Mill Creek Entertainment on Jan. 12.   Also counted in the group is director Walter Hill’s 1986 blues-themed drama, Crossroads, starring Ralph Macchio as Eugene, a Juilliard-schooled student who goes in search of Blues legend Robert Johnson’s “missing” Texas-session song.

His quest leads him to a former Johnson associate, Willie Brown (Joe Seneca — Silverado, The Blob, Malcolm X), who is in a state hospital as terms of his sentence for a crime he was involved in.   At first, Willie refuses to meet with Eugene, and then later denies that he is the Willie Brown that Eugene seeks … but has a change of heart when Eugene plays blues on his guitar (of note, Macchio spent four months learning to play, although the final numbers in the movie are dubbed in).   The deal is, Willie will help him in his quest, but he has to break him out of the hospital … road trip!!!

And what an interesting road trip it is.   Eugene meets a young woman named Frances (Jami Gertz — Twister, The Lost Boys), who breaks his heart (those blues have to earned), and along the way, Willie introduces Eugene to an “old acquaintance” at a remote crossroad (played by Robert Judd), where a contract remains in force and only the skills of Eugene can set things right.   A nice twist.

Rounding out these new “Retro VHS Blu-ray” releases from Mill Creek Entertainment on Jan. 12 are writer/director Andrew Bergman’s 1990 film release of Freshman, teaming Mathew Broderick with Marlon Brando (who mimics his Godfather persona) and Rod Daniels’ 1986 switch-a-roo comedy, Like Father Like Son, starring Dudley Moore and Kirk Cameron.

 

 

 

Icarus Films' Space Dogs Lands On DVD This Coming Dec. 01

Space Dogs?   A sci-fi thriller about canines in space?   Well, yes, sort of.  

Space Dogs, that was the news from Icarus Films this past week … the documentary filmmaking team of Elsa Kremser and Levin Peter’s award-winning story about the early Soviet Union’s space program will be making its way to the domestic DVD marketplace on Dec. 1.

On October the fourth of 1957 the world was stunned when the Soviet Union launched Sputnik.   The world changed as the little space craft zipped around the earth for a couple of months and then burned up in the atmosphere in January of 1958.  Mission accomplished: The Soviet Union was first into space.

Khrushchev wanted a follow-up; the next mission and it to be more spectacular than the first (if that wasn’t even possible).   It was designed to coincide with the 40^th Anniversary of Bolshevik Revolution, which meant a November of 1958 launch date.

Filmmakers Elsa Kremser and Levin Peter tell the story of Laika, a Moscow stray dog (one of many) that was “recruited” to be the first living mammal in space.   Yes, that was the plan, Sputnik 2 would have live cargo.   Kremser and Peter use current stray dogs on the streets of Moscow to help drive the narrative … they had archived footage to work with, diaries to help (from Soviet archival sources) and interviews with some of those involved.  It is a fascinating story … now almost a footnote to the early days of space exploration.

Space Dogs, available from Icarus Films on Dec. 1, is presented in Russian with English subtitles.

 

 

 

Darkside Releasing Sets Jan. 19 As The Street Date For A Blu-ray Edition Of Director David Gilbank's Polterheist

Darkside Releasing, with sales and distribution expertise provided by MVD Entertainment Group, has set Jan. 19 as the street date for the Blu-ray edition of English filmmaker David Gilbank’s mixed genre Polterheist — horror tale, crime thriller and comedy worked together into a winning combination.

Back in 2016, Gilbank hit upon the idea of making a short film based on a story that he thought might, just might, be worked into a feature-length film.   He also thought that he could use the short version of Polterheist as a tool to attract some financial backing for the feature-length version.  

The financial-backing part of the plan, according to Gilbank, didn’t work out as planned, but to his surprise, his short film, when entered into competition at various festivals, began to win awards and generate buzz.   So, with the backbone of a story and the encouragement of the marketplace, he set about to make a feature-length edition of Polterheist. 

Of the original short-film cast, only Sid Akbar Ali as Tarig was to reprise his role.   He plays a small-time hood, and together with his buddy, Boxy (Jamie Cymbal), they have a falling out with their boss, Frank, and kill him.   Hey, they are gangsters, thugs … that’s what criminals do, they kill people.  

There is just one problem with what they’ve done.   It seems that Frank has skimmed cash from the big boss, Uday (Pushpinder Chani), and he’d like to have it back.   Which means that Tarig and Boxy have, oh let’s say 72 hours, to retrieve it or Frank is going have company.

Tarig and Boxy are not what you would call bright lights, so after going through the motions of trying to figure out what Frank might have been up to, they hit upon the scheme of kidnapping a police- psychic by the name of Alice (Jo Mousley).   She had been in the news for helping solve a kiddie-porn murder, so clearly, she could help them find out with what Frank did with Uday’s cash.  

About this point you have to ask yourself, is there anything that Boxy and Tarig have done that seems to indicate that this is going to work?   This is where Gilbank has fun with the typical British gangster film (think: Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, Get Carter, The Long Good Friday, etc.) and introduces the “Poltergeist” aspects of the Polter/Heist storyline.   Alice does have access to the beyond … it is just not the “beyond” that our boys Tarig and Boxy had in mind.

Polterheist is a fun mix between crime thriller and horror/comedy, with newcomer Jo Mousley as Alice delivering the fun, especially when she “channels” the dead Frank.   Mark it down, Darkside Releasing’s Polterheist on Blu-ray in the New Year … Jan. 19.