New DVD • Blu-ray • 4K Ultra HD Additions For The Period Ending November 13, 2020

 

New DVD Additions

 

4 Digital Media

11/03/20 — Released Final Voyage (German)

 

Adult Source Media

11/10/20 — Released Best of Hentai Collection 2

 

Alchemy Werks, LLC - Filmlandia

11/10/20 — Released Direct to Video

 

Alpha Video (MOD)

11/03/20 — Released Border Badmen, Don Ricardo Returns, Golden Age of Television, Volume 17 (2 episodes: Studio One: The Innocence of Pastor Miller, I Am Jonathan Scrivener), He Who Gets Slapped (silent-1924), Movie Man's Matinee: Early Sound Comedies (5 short films: The Old Barn, The Bees' Buzz, Guests Wanted, The Inventors, How Am I Doing), Navajo Kid, Perils of Pauline, Rare TV Comedies of the 1950s (4 episodes: The Alan Young Show, Where's Raymond, The Mickey Rooney Show, Professional Father), Revenge of the Devil Bat and Yankee Fakir

 

BBC Home Entertainment (MOD)

11/03/20 — Released Doctor Who: Planet of the Dead and Red Dwarf: Back to Earth (2 disc set)

 

Brain Power Studio

11/03/20 — Released Snowbound for Christmas and Very Country Christmas: Homecoming

 

Breaking Glass Pictures

11/03/20 — Released Killed My Wife (Korean)

11/10/20 — Song Lang (Vietnamese) and The Special

 

Cheezy Flicks

11/10/20 — Released Police Connection

 

Chrome Dreams/Sexy Intellectual

11/03/20 — Released Pink Floyd: The Wall … And What Came Next

 

Excel Entertainment

11/10/20 — Released Santa Box

 

Film Movement

11/03/20 — Released Botero and Regular Woman (German)

11/10/20 — Girl Missing (Japanese)

 

FUNimation

11/10/20 — Released One Piece: Season Ten, Part 3 (2 disc set)

 

Gravitas Ventures (MOD)

11/10/20 — Released Dark Figures, Dave Not Coming Back, Last Three Days, Phantom Rider and Where She Lies

 

Greenwich Entertainment

11/03/20 — Released Jimmy Carter: Rock & Roll President

11/10/20 — Released Creem: America's Only Rock 'n' Roll Magazine and Harry Chapin: When in Doubt, Do Something

 

HWIC Filmsworks

11/10/20 — Released Heights Girl and Swing Lowe Sweet Chariote

 

Hallmark Channel

11/10/20 — Released Christmas Club, Godwink Christmas: Meant for Love, Holiday for Heroes and Our Christmas Love Song

 

Hallmark Channel (MOD)

11/10/20 — Released Blue Ridge Mountain Christmas, Bottled with Love and Crossword Mysteries: Proposing Murder

 

I-Cine

11/03/20 — Released Dong Dai Chay Nguoc (12 disc set) and Gao Nep Gao Te 2 (12 disc set)

 

ITN Distribution

11/03/20 — Released Frozen Front: Breakthrough (Slovenian), Metro (Russian) and Midnight Evil (aka: Midnight Devils)

 

Image Entertainment

11/03/20 — Released Christmas Presence and Monogamy: Season One

11/10/20 — Released Penance: Season One

 

JC Films

11/03/20 — Released Being Trump, Dispatched, Prodigal Cowboy and Promise to Astrid

 

Kino Lorber

11/03/20 — Released Bureau: Season 5 (3 disc set) and Ryuichi Sakamoto: Coda (Japanese)

 

Lionsgate Home Entertainment

11/10/20 — Released Charlie's Christmas Wish, Guest House and Mortal

 

MPI Home Media

11/10/20 — Released Hosts, Rainy Day in New York and Secret Zoo (Korean)

 

MVD Entertainment Group

02/08/21 — Sets Murderous Trance

 

Music Box Films

11/03/20 — Released Represent

 

PBS Direct

11/03/20 — Released Age of Nature

11/10/20 — Released Molly of Denali: Molly's Awesome Alaskan Adventures (2 disc set) and Trouble with Maggie Cole (3 disc set)

 

Paramount Home Media (MOD)

11/10/20 — Released I'm Dancing as Fast as I Can, Jonathan Livingston Seagull, Lifeguard, Naked Jungle, No Way to Treat a Lady, Northfork, Pretty Baby and Racing with the Moon

 

Passion Play Films (MOD)

11/03/20 — Released Best Christmas Songs

11/10/20 — Released My Log Cabin Fireplace and North Pole

 

Passion River

11/10/20 — Released Gasoline Thieves (Spanish) and Our Time Machine (Mandarin)

 

Peak Curiosity (MOD)

11/10/20 — Released Magnolia’s Hope

 

Rogue Video (MOD)

11/10/20 — Released Brain Machine

 

Screen Media

11/03/20 — Released Blackbird

 

Shout! Factory

11/10/20 — Released Sesame Street: Old School - 1969/1974 (3 disc set) and Sesame Street: Old School - 1974/1979 (3 disc set)

11/17/20 — Sets MacShayne (2 film set: Winner Takes All, Final Roll of the Dice)

 

Smart Mark Video (MOD)

11/03/20 — Released Game Changer Wrestling: Effy's Big Gay Brunch - Indianapolis, IN, Game Changer Wrestling: For the Culture - Indianapolis, IN, Game Changer Wrestling: Jimmy Lloyd's D-Generation F - Indianapolis, IN, IWA Mid-South: 24th Anniversary - We are IWA - Indianapolis, IN and Zona 23: At Your House - Parts Unknown, MX

11/10/20 — Released Absolute Intense Wrestling: Thunder in Paradise - Indianapolis, IN, Game Changer Wrestling: Keep in Touch, Guanatos Hardcore Crew: Fiesta Indy #SomosIndependientes - Guadalajara, Mexico, H2O Wrestling: The Last Extravaganza, Night 1 - Williamstown, NJ, H2O Wrestling: The Last Extravaganza, Night 2 - Williamstown, NJ, IWA Mid-South: Hocus Eye-Poke Us - Jeffersonville, IN, IWA Mid-South: November Pain - Connersville, IN, Sean Anderson Presents: Step by Step - Williamstown, NJ, Sean Anderson Presents: Weekend at Sean's House, Night 1 - Williamstown, NJ and Sean Anderson Presents: Weekend at Sean's House, Night 2 - Williamstown, NJ

 

Strand Releasing

11/03/20 — Released Jose (Spanish) (ARR of 284 days; box office: $26,563)

 

Summer Hill Films

11/10/20 — Released American Psychopath

 

TLA Releasing

11/03/20 — Released Are We Lost Forever (Swedish)

 

The High School Sports Network (MOD)

11/10/20 — Released 2020 AIA 2A Boys Soccer Championships Finals: Chino Valley vs. Blue Ridge - Phoenix, AZ, 2020 AIA 2A Girls Soccer Championships Finals: St. Johns vs Northland Preparatory Academy – , 2020 GHSA 1A Private Volleyball Championship: Hebron Christian Academy vs Holy Innocents’ Episcopal – Cartersville, GA, 2020 GHSA 3A Volleyball Championship: Morgan County vs Westmister – Cartersville, GA, 2020 GHSA 4A Volleyball Championship: NW Whitfield vs Marist – Cartersville, GA, 2020 GHSA 5A Volleyball Championship: Blessed Trinity vs McIntosh – Cartersville, GA, 2020 GHSA 6A Volleyball Championship: Pope vs Buford – Cartersville, GA, 2020 GHSA 7A Volleyball Championship: Alpharetta vs Walton – Cartersville, GA, 2020 IHSAA 1A DI Football Semifinals: Oakley vs Prairie – Moscow, ID, 2020 IHSAA 3A Football Semifinals: Kimberly vs Sugar-Salem – Madison, ID, 2020 IHSAA 4A Football Semifinals: Century vs Emmett – Emmett, ID, 2020 IHSAA 4A Football Semifinals: Sandpoint vs Skyline – Madison, ID, 2020 IHSAA 5A Football Semifinals: Coeur d'Alene vs Rocky Mountain – Meridian, ID, 2020 IHSAA 5A Football Semifinals: Mountain View vs Rigby – Rigby, ID, 2020 KSHSAA 1A-4A Boys Soccer Championship: Bishop Miege vs Trinity Academy – Witicha, KS, 2020 KSHSAA 1A-4A Boys Soccer Third Place Game: Louisburg vs Rose Hill – Witicha, KS, 2020 KSHSAA 5A Boys Soccer Championship: Maize vs Saint Thomas Aquinas – Spring Hill, KS, 2020 KSHSAA 5A Boys Soccer Third Place Game: Andover Central vs Shawnee Heights – Spring Hill, KS, 2020 KSHSAA 6A Boys Soccer Championship: Dodge City vs Olathe East – Topeka, KS, 2020 KSHSAA 6A Boys Soccer Third Place Game: Blue Valley vs Washburn Rural – Topeka, KS, 2020 LHSAA Div I Volleyball Quarterfinals: Northshore vs Mt Carmel Academy – Kenner, LA, 2020 LHSAA Div I Volleyball Semifinals #2: Mandeville vs Mandeville – Kenner, LA, 2020 LHSAA Div II Volleyball Quarterfinals: Ben Franklin vs Vandebilt Catholic – Kenner, LA, 2020 LHSAA Div II Volleyball Semifinals #1: Vandebilt Catholic vs Teurlings Catholic – Kenner, LA, 2020 LHSAA Div III Volleyball Quarterfinals: Edward Douglas White Catholic vs Pearl River – Kenner, LA, 2020 LHSAA Div III Volleyball Quarterfinals: Lutcher vs Cabrini – Kenner, LA, 2020 LHSAA Div III Volleyball Quarterfinals: Ursuline Academy vs St. Michael the Archangel – Kenner, LA, 2020 LHSAA Div IV Volleyball Semifinals #1: Ascension Episcopal vs Academy of the Sacred – Kenner, LA, 2020 LHSAA Div IV Volleyball Semifinals #2: Pope John Paul II vs John Curtis Christian – Kenner, LA, 2020 LHSAA Div V Volleyball Semifinals #2: Central Catholic vs Louise McGehee – Kenner, LA, 2020 MHSA Class A Volleyball Championship Match #1: Havre vs Columbia Falls – Sidney, MT, 2020 MHSA Class A Volleyball Championship Match #10: Ronan vs Columbia Falls – Sidney, MT, 2020 MHSA Class A Volleyball Championship Match #11: Billings Central Catholic vs Hardin – Sidney MT, 2020 MHSA Class A Volleyball Championship Match #12: Corvallis vs Columbia Falls – Sidney, MT, 2020 MHSA Class A Volleyball Championship Match #7: Havre vs Corvallis – Sidney, MT, 2020 MHSA Class A Volleyball Championship Match #8: Polson vs Ronan – Sidney, MT, 2020 MHSA Class B Volleyball Championship Match #1: Florence-Carlton vs Huntley Project – Shelby, MT, 2020 MHSA Class B Volleyball Championship Match #11: Joliet vs Huntley Project – Shelby, MT, 2020 MHSA Class B Volleyball Championship Match #12: Colstrip vs Choteau – Shelby, MT, 2020 MHSA Class B Volleyball Championship Match #8: Thompson Falls vs Colstrip – Shelby, MT, 2020 MHSA Class B Volleyball Championship Match #9: Colstrip vs Thomspon Falls – Shelby, MT, 2020 MHSA Class C Volleyball Championship Match #10: Charlo vs Fort Benton – Malta, MT, 2020 MHSA Class C Volleyball Championship Match #11: Bridger vs Manhattan Christian – Malta, MT, 2020 MHSA Class C Volleyball Championship Match #12: Plentywood vs Fort Benton – Malta, MT, 2020 MHSA Class C Volleyball Championship Match #7: Melstone vs Fairview – Malta, MT, 2020 MHSA Class C Volleyball Championship Match #8: Simms vs Charlo – Malta, MT, 2020 MHSA Class C Volleyball Championship Match #9: Plentywood vs Melstone – Malta, MT, 2020 MHSA Girls Volleyball Postseason Tournament: Anaconda vs Choteau – Shelby, MT, 2020 MHSAA Div 1 Boys Soccer Championship: Detroit Catholic Central vs Traverse City West = Comstock Park, MI, 2020 MHSAA Div 2 Boys Soccer Championship: Gull Lake vs DeWitt – Comstock Park, MI, 2020 MHSAA Div 3 Boys Soccer Championship: South Christian vs Grosse Ile – Novi, MI, 2020 MHSAA Div 4 Boys Soccer Championship: Calvin Christian vs Lenawee Christian – Novi, MI, 2020 NHIAA Boys D1 Soccer Championship: Windham vs Winnacunnet – Hampton, HH, 2020 NHIAA Boys D2 Soccer Championship: Bow vs Oyster River – Durham, NH, 2020 NHIAA Boys D3 Soccer Championship: Gilford vs Trinity – Manchester, NH, 2020 NHIAA Boys D4 Soccer Championship: Littleton vs Sunapee – Sunapee, NH, 2020 NHIAA Div 1 Volleyball Championship: Hollis Brookline vs Bedford – New Hampshire, 2020 NHIAA Div 2 Volleyball Championship: John Stark vs Gilford – New Hampshire, 2020 SCHSL Class 1A Volleyball Championship: Bamberg-Ehrhardt vs Southside Christian – Columbia, SC, 2020 SCHSL Class 3A Volleyball Championship: Oceanside Collegiate vs Powdersville – Columbia, SC, 2020 VPA Div 1 Boys Soccer Final: Burlington vs Essex – Burlington, VT, 2020 VPA Div 1 Girls Soccer Final: South Burlington vs Champlain Valley – Burlington, VT, 2020 VPA Div 2 Boys Soccer Final: Montpelier vs Milton – Burlington, VT, 2020 VPA Div 2 Girls Soccer Final: Rice Memorial vs Union 32 – Burlington, VT, 2020 VPA Div 3 Boys Soccer Final: Peoples Academy vs Green Mountain – Hartford, VT, 2020 VPA Div 3 Girls Soccer Final: Stowe vs Vergennes Union – Hartford, VT, 2020 VPA Div 4 Boys Soccer Final: Proctor vs Twin Valley – Manchester Center, VT, 2020 VPA Div 4 Girls Soccer Final: Hazen Union vs Proctor – Manchester Center, VT, 2020 WHSAA 3A Swim/Dive Finals Day 2 – Laramie, WY, 2020 WHSAA 4A Volleyball Championship 3rd Place Game: Thunder Basin vs Cheyenne East – Casper, WY, 2020 WHSAA 4A Volleyball Championship Cons Semis #1: Evanston vs Rock Springs – Casper, WY, 2020 WHSAA 4A Volleyball Championship Cons Semis #2: Star Valley vs Natrona County – Casper, WY, 2020 WHSAA 4A Volleyball Championship Finals: Laramie vs Kelly Walsh – Casper, WY, 2020 WHSAA 4A Volleyball Championship Quarterfinals #1: Rock Springs vs Cheyenne East – Casper, WY, 2020 WHSAA 4A Volleyball Championship Quarterfinals #2: Kelly Walsh vs Evanston – Casper, WY, 2020 WHSAA 4A Volleyball Championship Semifinals #1: Cheyenne East vs Kelly Walsh – Casper, WY, 2020 WHSAA 9-Man Football Championship: Niobrara County vs Southeast – Yoder, WY, 2020 WHSAA Girls Volleyball Semifinal: Laramie vs Thunder Basin – Casper, WY, 2020 WIAA Boys Volleyball Championship: Kettle Moraine vs Marquette - Burlington, WI, 2020 WIAA Boys Volleyball Quarterfinals #1: Arrowhead vs Westosha Central – Burlington, WI, 2020 WIAA Boys Volleyball Quarterfinals #2: Muskego vs New Berlin Eisenhower – Burlington, WI, 2020 WIAA Boys Volleyball Semifinals #1: Arrowhead vs Marquette – Burlington, WI, 2020 WIAA Boys Volleyball Semifinals #2: New Berlin Eisenhower vs Kettle Moraine - Burlington, WI, 2020 WIAA Div 1 Boys Soccer Championship: Arrowhead vs Marquette - Oconomowoc, WI, 2020 WIAA Div 1 Boys Soccer Semifinals #1: Elkhorn Area vs Arrowhead – Oconomowoc, WI, 2020 WIAA Div 1 Boys Soccer Semifinals #2: Hudson Vs Marquette – Oconomowoc, WI, 2020 WIAA Div 1 Girls Volleyball Championship: Burlington vs Hamilton - Wisconsin Rapids, WI, 2020 WIAA Div 1 Girls Volleyball Semifinals #1: Sauk Prairie vs. Hamilton – Lincoln, WI, 2020 WIAA Div 1 Girls Volleyball Semifinals #2: Burlington vs River Falls, Lincoln, WI, 2020 WIAA Div 2 Boys Soccer Championship: Sauk Prairie vs Roncalli - Marshfield, WI, 2020 WIAA Div 2 Boys Soccer Semifinals #1: Medford vs Roncalli – Marshfield, WI, 2020 WIAA Div 2 Boys Soccer Semifinals #2: Sauk Prairi vs Delavan-Darien – Marshfield, WI, 2020 WIAA Div 2 Girls Volleyball Championship: Lakeside Lutheran vs Luxemburg-Casco - Kaukauna, WI, 2020 WIAA Div 2 Girls Volleyball Semifinals #1: St. Croix Falls vs Luxemburg-Casco – Kaukauna, WI, 2020 WIAA Div 2 Girls Volleyball Semifinals #2: Lakeside Lutheran vs Plattsville – Wausau, WI, 2020 WIAA Div 3 Boys Soccer Championship: Saint Lawrence Seminary vs Prairie School - Kewaskum, WI, 2020 WIAA Div 3 Boys Soccer Semifinals #1: Saint Lawrence Seminary vs University School of Milwaukee – Kewaskum, WI, 2020 WIAA Div 3 Boys Soccer Semifinals #2: Arcadia vs Prairie School – Kewaskum, WI, 2020 WIAA Div 3 Girls Volleyball Championship: Waterloo vs Howards Grove - Kewaskum, WI, 2020 WIAA Div 3 Girls Volleyball Semifinals #1: Osseo-Fairchild vs Howard Grove – Wausau, WI, 2020 WIAA Div 3 Girls Volleyball Semifinals #2: Fall Creek vs Waterloo – Wausau, WI, 2020 WIAA Div 4 Girls Volleyball Championship: McDonell vs Catholic Central – Little Chute, WI, 2020 WIAA Div 4 Girls Volleyball Semifinals #1: McDonell Central vs Prentice – Little Chute, WI, 2020 WIAA Div 4 Girls Volleyball Semifinals #2: Eau Claire Immanuel Lutheran vs Catholic Central – Little Chute, WI, 2020 WVSSAC AA/A Boys Soccer Championship: Fairmont vs Charleston Catholic – Beckley, WV, 2020 WVSSAC AA/A Girls Soccer Championship: Fairmont vs Charleston Catholic – Beckley, WV, 2020 WVSSAC AAA Boys Soccer Championship: University vs George Washington – Beckley, WV, 2020 WVSSAC AAA Girls Soccer Championship: Parkersburg South vs Wheeling Park – Beckley, WV, 2020 WVSSAC Class A Volleyball Quarterfinals: Greenbrier West vs Summers County – Charleston, WV and 2020 WVSSAC Class AA Volleyball Quarterfinals #3: Point Pleasant vs Oak Glen – Charleston, WV

 

The Teaching Company, LLC

11/03/20 — Released Introduction to Machine Learning (4 disc set) and Tai Chi for Strength, Balance and Tranquility (2 disc set)

 

20^th Century-Fox Home Ent.

11/03/20 — Released Mayans M.C.: The Complete Second Season (3 disc set)

 

Uncork’d Entertainment

11/03/20 — Released Crawl to Me Darling

11/10/20 — Released Cicada

 

Uncork’d Entertainment (MOD)

11/03/20 — Released They Reach

 

Universal Pictures Home Ent.

11/03/20 — Released Ricky Zoom: Let's Zoom Out

 

VIZ Media

11/10/20 — Released One Punch Man: Season Two (2 disc set)

 

Vertical Entertainment

11/03/20 — Released Hard Kill

11/10/20 — Released Henchmen (ARR of 704 days; box office: $51,145)

 

Virgil Films & Entertainment

11/10/20 — Released Maybe Next Year

 

WWE

11/10/20 — Released WWE: Ruthless Aggression, Volume One (2 disc set)

 

Walt Disney Home Ent.

11/10/20 — Released Mulan and Upside-Down Magic

 

WOWnow Entertainment

11/03/20 — Released Avenger Dog Christmas, Christmas Dance, Frozen Christmas Time 2, Thanksgiving Movie and Turkey Day

11/10/20 — Released Bahum Bug 2, Finding Jesus, Killer Clowns, Witchmas and Zombies

 

 

 

 

New Blu-ray Additions

 

 

Adult Source Media

11/10/20 — Released Maid in Heaven Collection

 

Altered Innocence

11/10/20 — Released Love Exposed: The Disappearance of Walerian Borowczyk

 

Cleopatra Entertainment

01/15/21 — Sets 311: Mardi Gras 2020 (Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack) (with bonus CD)

 

Criterion Collection

02/09/21 — Sets Parallax View

02/16/21 — Sets Man Push Cart (Urdu) and Mandabi (French/Wolof)

02/23/21 — Sets Chop Shop and Smooth Talk

 

FUNimation

11/10/20 — Released Cautious Hero: The Hero is Overpowered but Overly Cautious (2 disc set) (with Digital Copy), Miss Caretaker of Sunohara-Sou: The Complete Collection (2 disc set) (with Digital Copy) and My Hero Academia, Season 3 (4 disc set)

 

Gravitas Ventures (MOD)

11/10/20 — Released Dark Figures, Dave Not Coming Back, Last Three Days, Phantom Rider, Still Today and Where She Lies

 

Image Entertainment

11/10/20 — Released Metamorphosis (Korean)

 

IndieCan Entertainment, Inc. (MOD)

11/10/20 — Released Contracts

 

Kino Lorber

11/10/20 — Released Amazon Women on the Moon, Beguiled, Bustin' Loose, Eiger Sanction, Maybe Next Year and Play Misty for Me

 

Lionsgate Home Entertainment

11/10/20 — Released Guest House and Mortal (with Digital Copy)

 

MPI Home Media

11/10/20 — Released Rainy Day in New York and Secret Zoo (Korean)

 

MVD Entertainment Group

02/08/21 — Sets Murderous Trance

 

Meridian Releasing (MOD)

11/10/20 — Released Bruh.Mp4

 

Mill Creek Entertainment

01/19/21 — Sets Your Highness: Unrated

 

Retrosploitation Direct (MOD)

11/10/20 — Released Gloved Murderess and Occult Predator (aka: Occult Holocaust)

 

Shout! Factory

11/10/20 — Released Brides of Dracula, How to Make a Monster, Marona's Fantastic Tale (French) (Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack) and War of the Colossal Beast

 

Smart Mark Video (MOD)

11/10/20 — Released Absolute Intense Wrestling: Thunder in Paradise - Indianapolis, IN, Game Changer Wrestling: Keep in Touch and Guanatos Hardcore Crew: Fiesta Indy #SomosIndependientes - Guadalajara, Mexico

 

VIZ Media

11/10/20 — Released Inu Yasha: Set Three (4 disc set) and One-Punch Man: Season Two (2 disc set)

 

 

 

 

New 4K Ultra HD Additions

 

 

Walt Disney Studios Home Ent.

11/10/20 — Released Mulan (4K Ultra HD/Blu-ray Combo Pack) (with Digital Copy) and Mulan (4K Ultra HD/Blu-ray Combo Pack) (with Digital Copy)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

MVD Entertainment Group Preps Blu-ray And DVD Editions Of Writer/Director Arto Halonen's Murderous Trance For Release On Feb. 09

Intense, mind-ripping and based on actual events, MVD Entertainment Group announced this past week that writer/director Arto Halonen’s Murderous Trance will be available as both DVD and Blu-ray product offering on Feb. 9.

Arto Halonen is a renowned, award-winning documentary filmmaker, and he certainly toyed with the idea of telling the story of a sociopath and convicted criminal Björn Schow Nielsen as a straight-forward documentary.   But the tale of this mastermind villain was simply too juicy for that, so he put out the word for A-list actors to participate in a dramatic retelling of Nielsen’s diabolical “Moriarty-like” crime.  

Josh Lucas (Ford v Ferrari, Breakthrough, The Lincoln Lawyer, A Beautiful Mind) took on the role of Nielsen, who had been sentenced to prison for crimes during the Nazi occupation of Denmark.   While there, he started planning the perfect crime — seriously, the perfect crime — and to accomplish that he hit up the idea of using the power of hypnosis.

Nielsen zeroed-in on fellow convict by the name of Palle (Cyron Melville — Love and Rage, A Royal Affair, Fighter), took the impressionable young man under his wing and began practicing hypnotism on him.   But it was more than that, it was a sort of mind control.  

Both are released from prison, the war is long-since over, it’s now 1949/1950 and it is time to turn the page on the past.   Nielsen had programmed Palle, with “suggestions” that would put him into a trance … and the crime, murder, with Palle the murderer and Nielsen the puppet-master.

This is all true.   Palle walks into a bank, robs it and then murders two bank tellers at point blank range.   He is caught and has no idea of the crime he has committed.

Enter our “Sherlock Holmes” in the case, a true case, in the form of detective Anders Olsen (Pilou Asbæk — as Euron Greyjoy in Game of Thrones, plus such films as A War, Silent Heart, A Hijacking, etc.), who questions Palle and sees something “amiss” in the crime.  

Murderous Trance becomes a suspense-thriller as the cat and mouse game of the investigation of the “perfect crime” unfolds.   Olsen recruits Dr. Dabrowski (Rade Serbedzija — The Liberation of Skopje, The Saint … as Prince Kuragin in the Downton Abbey cable series), a hypnotist to help him unravel the mystery.

But, it is even more devious than it appears as Nielsen has set his sights on detective Olsen in a most-sinister way (we will not give that plot point away here).   Let’s just say that if you love a mystery, Murderous Trance is one dark alley of a thriller … on DVD and Blu-ray from MVD Entertainment Group on Feb. 9.

As to bonus goodies, there are a series of four featurettes under the banner “Mystery of Hypnosis,” plus two additional featurettes — “Tom Silver: Hypnotist on Murderous Trance” and “The Making of Murderous Trance” — and four separate video sessions with cast members Josh Lucas, Pilou Asbæk, Rade Šerbedžija and Sara Soulié.

 

 

 

Director David Gordon Green's Your Highness On Blu-ray From Mill Creek Entertainment On Jan. 19

Mill Creek Entertainment has selected Jan. 19 as the release date for the priced-to-collect Blu-ray edition of director David Gordon Green’s fantasy-spoof comedy, Your Highness.

For game-players; cos-play dreamers and those inspired to dig deep into medieval personas — slay the dragon and all that — Green’s Your Highness is all that, and more (“cutting edge,” if you get the drift). 

Danny McBride (Pineapple Express, Tropic Thunder, Up in the Air, etc.) is Prince Thadeous and James Franco (127 Hours, Pineapple Express, Child of God) plays his brother, Prince Fabious … their father is King Tallious (Charles Dance) and they reign in the Kingdom of Mourne.  

It is here that they constantly have to fight off the evil wizard Leezar (Justin Theroux — American Psycho, Mulholland Drive, Zoolander, etc.), who has a scheme cooked up to take over once and for all (or is that forever and ever).  It involves a warlock and a virgin and two moons (two moons, really?). 

Leezar has his virgin, Belladonna (Zooey Deschanel — Elf, Almost Famous), who is betrothed to Fabious and so off the brothers go — along with their servant “Courtney” (played by voice talent Rasmus Hardiker) — to rescue her and save their kingdom.   While on their quest, they meet up with Isabel (Natalie Portman — Oscar-winner for the Black Swan … and, of course, as Padmé in the Star Wars movies), who gets them out of a jam, and they then join forces in their quest to vanquish Leezar, free Belladonna and save the kingdom.   Whew.

If you were looking for Knights of the Round Table (with Robert Taylor and Ava Gardner) or The Black Shield of Falworth (with Tony Curtis and Janet Leigh), then you have wandered into the wrong arena.   Green’s Your Highness is more akin to the adventures of the knights and their romp in Monty Python and the Holy Grail, mixed in with plenty of rowdy humor and double-entre jokes … and that all works wonderfully well.   Great special effects too.

Bonus nuggets include both the unrated and theatrical (R-rated) cuts of the movie, plus there is commentary with director David Gordon Green (Pineapple Express, The Sitter, the 2018 Halloween reboot, with Halloween Kills due out next year), who is joined by cast members Danny McBride, James Franco and Justin Therous.  Additionally, there are deleted scenes, a gag reel, alternate scenes and the featurette titled “The Making of Your Highness.”