New DVD • Blu-ray • 4K Ultra HD Activity For The Period Ending May 14, 2021

 

New DVD Additions:

 

 

Acorn Media

05/11/21 — Released Suitable Boy (2 disc set)

 

Bridgestone (MOD)

05/11/21 — Released Committee: The Complete Series, Exorcism In Amarillo, Rising Free, Translated and Why She Smiles

 

CBS Home Entertainment (MOD)

05/11/21 — Released Dead to Me: Season Two (2 disc set)

 

CMI Education/PESI Publishing

05/04/21 — Released Antisocial, Borderline, Narcissistic and Histrionic: Effective Treatment for Cluster B Personality Disorders (2 disc set)

05/11/21 — Released Expressive Arts Psychotherapy and Trauma: Sensory-Based and Somatic Approaches to Trauma Treatment (2 disc set), Gaslighting: Help Clients Escape and Rebuild from a Narcissist's Emotional Abuse (2 disc set) and Virtual Reality (VR) for Anxiety and Phobia Treatment: A How to Guide to Using VR for More Practical, Rapid and Effective Exposure Therapy (2 disc set)

 

Championship Productions

05/11/21 — Released Dan D'Antoni's 'Organized Chaos' Man-to-Man Defense, Dan D'Antoni's Offensive System and NABC On the Court Open Practice with Rick Croy: Offensive & Defensive Drills to Promote Toughness

 

Cheezy Flicks (MOD)

05/11/21 — Released Atragon (Japanese) and Hillbillys in a Haunted House

 

Cleopatra

05/11/21 — Released Scavenger (Spanish)

 

Cult Epics

05/11/21 — Released Cool Lakes of Death (Dutch)

 

Elvis DVD Collector & Movie Store (MOD)

05/11/21 — Released Alabama's Ghost, Arch of Triumph, Asphalt Jungle, Battle Circus, Bird of Paradise, Blackboard Jungle, Blood on the Moon, Boom Town, Brewster's Millions, Bride Came C.O.D.Bridge to the Sun, Bright Leaf, Canterville Ghost, Captain Blood, Captain Kidd, Captains Courageous, Chain Lightning, Champion, Christmas in Connecticut, Clash by Night, Copacabana, Creature from the Haunted Sea, Cross Shot (Italian), Cyrano De Bergerac, Dakota, Death's Dealer (Italian), Family Honor, Gunga Din, Hideout in the Sun, Montana Belle, Moonshine War, Pray to God and Dig Your Grave (Italian), Smiling Maniacs (Italian), Tall Women and Witch (Italian)

 

Film Movement

05/11/21 — Released Columnist (Dutch), Lapsis and Nina Wu (Cantonese)

 

Freestyle Digital Media (MOD)

05/11/21 — Released Best Summer Ever, Classic, Goodbye Honey and West Michigan

 

FUNimation

05/11/21 — Released One Piece: Season Eleven Voyage Two (2 disc set)

 

Gravitas Ventures (MOD)

05/11/21 — Released Bastards Road, In Action, Insight and Prague Orgy

 

Hallmark Channel

05/11/21 — Released Taking a Shot at Love and Timeless Love

 

Icarus Films

06/15/21 — Sets Granny Nanny (German) (ARR of 200 days; box office: $432)

 

IndiePix

05/11/21 — Released Last Days and Peace Piece: The Immersive Poems of Mandy Kahn

 

Kino Lorber

05/11/21 — Released Never Gonna Snow Again (Polish), Reason I Jump and Wild Geese II

 

Leomark Studios, LLC (MOD)

05/11/21 — Released Pandemiocracy

 

Lionsgate Home Entertainment

05/11/21 — Released Send It

 

MPI Home Media

05/11/21 — Released Man with a Camera: The Complete Series (2 disc set)

 

MVD Entertainment Group

08/24/21 — Sets One Dark Night

 

National Geographic (MOD)

05/11/21 — Released National Geographic: The Wild Life of Dr. Ole, Season 1 (2 disc set)

 

Once Upon a Time

05/11/21 — Released Pinocchio's Adventures

 

PBS Direct

05/11/21 — Released Dolly Parton: 50 Years at the Opry

 

Paramount Home Entertainment

07/06/21 — Sets Locked In (with Digital Copy)

07/20/21 — Sets Star Trek: Discovery - Season Three (4 disc set)

 

Random Media (MOD)

05/11/21 — Released Specialish

 

Reality Entertainment

05/11/21 — Released Alien Deception: The Biggest Lie in History, Space: Into the Great Beyond and Top 20 Nazi War Secrets

 

Ruthless Films, LLC (MOD)

05/11/21 — Released Bigfoot Vs Megalodon and Tickles the Clown

 

Death Reel, House on Cuckoo Lane and Shark! Double Feature (2 film set: House Shark, Bad CGI Sharks)

 

Screen Media

05/11/21 — Released Senior Moment (ARR of 46 days; box office: $41,598)

 

Shout! Factory

05/11/21 — Released Final Stand (Russian), Legend of Hei (Mandarin) and When Calls the Heart Double Feature (2 film set: Open Season, From the Ashes)

07/13/21 — Sets No Man’s Land (ARR of 172 days; box office: $138,847)

 

Sony Pictures Home Ent.

06/01/21 — Sets French Exit (ARR of 123 days; box office: $683,615)

 

Strand Releasing

05/11/21 — Released Twilight's Kiss (Cantonese)

 

Synapse Films – Impulse Pictures

05/11/21 — Released Girl in the Basket

 

Synergetic Distribution

05/11/21 — Released Liars & Cheats and Sin Pepitas en la Lengua (Spanish)

 

TLA Releasing

05/11/21 — Released Why Not You (German)

 

The High School Sports Network (MOD)

05/04/21 — Released 2020-21 NCHSAA 3A Football Championship, 2020-21 NCHSAA 4A Football Championship, 2021 AHSAA 1A-3A Boys Soccer Championship, 2021 AHSAA 1A-3A Girls Soccer Championship, 2021 AHSAA 4A-5A Boys Soccer Championship, 2021 AHSAA 4A-5A Girls Soccer Championship, 2021 CIF-SDS Baseball - Petco Park Series, 2021 CIF-SDS Baseball - Petco Park Series, 2021 CIF-SDS Baseball - Petco Park Series, 2021 CIF-SDS Baseball - Petco Park Series, 2021 CIF-SDS Baseball - Petco Park Series, 2021 FHSAA 1A Boys Lacrosse Semifinals #2, 2021 FHSAA 1A Boys Lacrosse Semifinals #2, 2021 FHSAA 1A Boys Lacrosse Semifinals #2 , 2021 FHSAA 1A Flag Football Semifinals #1, 2021 FHSAA 1A Flag Football Semifinals #2, 2021 FHSAA 1A Girls Lacrosse Semifinals #2, 2021 FHSAA 1A Girls Lacrosse Semifinals #2, 2021 FHSAA 1A Girls Lacrosse Semifinals #2, 2021 FHSAA 2A Boys Lacrosse Semifinals #1, 2021 FHSAA 2A Boys Lacrosse Semifinals #1, 2021 FHSAA 2A Boys Lacrosse Semifinals #1, 2021 FHSAA 2A Boys Lacrosse Semifinals #2, 2021 FHSAA 2A Flag Football Semifinals #1, 2021 FHSAA 2A Flag Football Semifinals #1, 2021 FHSAA 2A Flag Football Semifinals #1, 2021 FHSAA 2A Flag Football Semifinals #2, 2021 FHSAA 2A Girls Lacrosse Semifinals #1, 2021 FHSAA 2A Girls Lacrosse Semifinals #2, 2021 NMAA 2A Boys Basketball Championship, 2021 NMAA 2A Girls Basketball Championship, 2021 NMAA 3A Girls Basketball Championship, 2021 NMAA 3A Girls Basketball Championship, 2021 NMAA 3A Girls Basketball Championship, 2021 WVSSAC Class AAA Boys Basketball Semifinals #2, 2021 WVSSAC Class AAAA Boys Basketball Semifinals #1 and 2021 WVSSAC Class AAAA Boys Basketball Semifinals #2

05/11/21 — Released 2020-21 NCHSAA 2A Football Championship, 2020-21 NCHSAA 4AA Football Championship, 2021 AIA 3A State Baseball Semifinals #2, 2021 AIA 4A State Baseball Semifinals #1, 2021 AIA 4A State Baseball Semifinals #2, 2021 AIA 4A State Softball Semifinals #1, 2021 AIA 4A State Softball Semifinals #2, 2021 AIA 5A State Softball Semifinals #1, 2021 AIA 5A State Softball Semifinals #2, 2021 AIA 6A State Softball Semifinals #1, 2021 AIA 6A State Softball Semifinals #2, 2021 AIA DI State Beach Volleyball Championship, 2021 AIA Div II State Beach Volleyball Championship, 2021 CHSAA 1A Spring Volleyball Championship, 2021 CHSAA 1A Spring Volleyball Quarterfinals #1, 2021 CHSAA 1A Spring Volleyball Quarterfinals #2, 2021 CHSAA 1A Spring Volleyball Quarterfinals #3, 2021 CHSAA 1A Spring Volleyball Quarterfinals #3, 2021 CHSAA 1A Spring Volleyball Quarterfinals #4, 2021 CHSAA 1A Spring Volleyball Quarterfinals #4, 2021 CHSAA 1A Spring Volleyball Semifinals #1, 2021 CHSAA 1A Spring Volleyball Semifinals #2, 2021 CHSAA 2A Spring Volleyball Championship, 2021 CHSAA 2A Spring Volleyball Quarterfinals #1, 2021 CHSAA 2A Spring Volleyball Quarterfinals #2, 2021 CHSAA 2A Spring Volleyball Quarterfinals #4, 2021 CHSAA 2A Spring Volleyball Semifinals #1, 2021 CHSAA 3A Spring Volleyball Championship, 2021 CHSAA 3A Spring Volleyball Quarterfinals #1, 2021 CHSAA 3A Spring Volleyball Quarterfinals #2, 2021 CHSAA 3A Spring Volleyball Quarterfinals #3, 2021 CHSAA 3A Spring Volleyball Semifinals #1, 2021 CHSAA 3A Spring Volleyball Semifinals #2, 2021 CHSAA 4A Spring Volleyball Championship, 2021 CHSAA 4A Spring Volleyball Semifinals #1, 2021 CHSAA 4A Spring Volleyball Semifinals #2, 2021 CHSAA 5A Spring Volleyball Championship, 2021 CHSAA 5A Spring Volleyball Semifinals #1, 2021 CHSAA 5A Spring Volleyball Semifinals #2, 2021 CHSAA 8-Man Spring Football Championship, 2021 CIF-SDS Baseball - Petco Park Series, 2021 CIF-SDS Baseball - Petco Park Series, 2021 CIF-SDS Baseball - Petco Park Series, 2021 CIF-SDS Baseball - Petco Park Series, 2021 FHSAA 1A Boys Lacrosse Championship, 2021 FHSAA 1A Boys Lacrosse Championship, 2021 FHSAA 1A Boys Lacrosse Championship, 2021 FHSAA 1A Flag Football Championship, 2021 FHSAA 1A Flag Football Championship, 2021 FHSAA 1A Flag Football Championship, 2021 FHSAA 2A Boys Lacrosse Championship, 2021 FHSAA 2A Girls Lacrosse Championship, 2021 GHSA 2A Boys Soccer Championship, 2021 GHSA 2A Girls Soccer Championship, 2021 GHSA 3A Boys Soccer Championship, 2021 GHSA 3A Girls Soccer Championship, 2021 GHSA 4A Boys Soccer Championship, 2021 GHSA 4A Girls Soccer Championship, 2021 GHSA 5A Boys Soccer Championship, 2021 GHSA 5A Girls Soccer Championship, 2021 LHSAA Class 2A Baseball Championship, 2021 LHSAA Class 2A Baseball Semifinals #1, 2021 LHSAA Class 2A Baseball Semifinals #2, 2021 LHSAA Class 3A Baseball Semifinals #1, 2021 LHSAA Class 3A Baseball Semifinals #2, 2021 LHSAA Class 4A Baseball Semifinals #1, 2021 LHSAA Class 4A Baseball Semifinals #2, 2021 LHSAA Class 5A Baseball Semifinals #1, 2021 LHSAA Class 5A Baseball Semifinals #2, 2021 LHSAA Class B Baseball Semifinals #1, 2021 LHSAA Class B Baseball Semifinals #2, 2021 LHSAA Class C Baseball Semifinals #1, 2021 LHSAA Class C Baseball Semifinals #2, 2021 LHSAA Div I Baseball Semifinals #1, 2021 LHSAA Div I Baseball Semifinals #2, 2021 LHSAA Div I Baseball Semifinals #2, 2021 LHSAA Div II Baseball Semifinals #1, 2021 LHSAA Div II Baseball Semifinals #2, 2021 LHSAA Div III Baseball Semifinals #1, 2021 LHSAA Div III Baseball Semifinals #2, 2021 LHSAA Div IV Baseball Semifinals #1, 2021 LHSAA Div IV Baseball Semifinals #2, 2021 LHSAA Div V Baseball Championship, 2021 LHSAA Div V Baseball Semifinals #1, 2021 LHSAA Div V Baseball Semifinals #2, 2021 MHSAA Class 1A Softball Championship Game 1, 2021 MHSAA Class 1A Softball Championship Game 2, 2021 MHSAA Class 1A Softball Championship Game 2, 2021 MHSAA Class 2A Softball Championship Game 1, 2021 MHSAA Class 2A Softball Championship Game 2, 2021 MHSAA Class 3A Softball Championship Game 1, 2021 MHSAA Class 3A Softball Championship Game 2, 2021 MHSAA Class 5A Softball Championship Game 1, 2021 MHSAA Class 6A Softball Championship Game 1, 2021 NMAA 4A Boys Basketball Championship, 2021 NMAA 4A Boys Basketball Championship, 2021 NMAA 4A Boys Basketball Championship, 2021 NMAA 5A Boys Basketball Championship, 2021 NMAA 5A Girls Basketball Championship, 2021 OSSAA Class B Baseball Championship, 2021 OSSAA Class B Baseball Championship, 2021 OSSAA Class B Baseball Championship, 2021 SCHSL 2A Boys Soccer Championship, 2021 SCHSL 2A Girls Soccer Championship, 2021 Spring ASAA Mix 6 Volleyball State Tournament Game 11, 2021 Spring ASAA Mix 6 Volleyball State Tournament Game 11, 2021 Spring ASAA Mix 6 Volleyball State Tournament Game 11, 2021 WVSSAC Class A Boys Basketball Championship, 2021 WVSSAC Class AAA Boys Basketball Championship and 2021 WVSSAC Class AAAA Boys Basketball Championship

 

Unearthed Films

05/11/21 — Released No Reason (German)

 

Universal Pictures Home Ent.

05/11/21 — Released My Brother's Keeper

05/01/21 — Sets Boogie (ARR of 88 days; box office: $4,156,995)

 

Vision Films

05/11/21 — Released Call Time: The Finale

 

Well Go U.S.A.

05/11/21 — Released Morgue (Spanish)

 

Well Go U.S.A.

05/11/21 — Released Apex Predators, Bigfoot's Bride, Haunting in New England and Mind Runner

 

World Wide Multi Media

05/11/21 — Released Hellcats Revenge: Deadman's Hand

 

New Blu-ray Additions:

 

 

 

Arrow Video

07/27/21 — Sets Vengeance Trails (4 film set: Massacre Time, My Name is Pecos, Bandidos, And God Said to Cain) (Italian) (4 disc set)

 

Collector’s Heaven (MOD)

05/04/21 — Released Seinfeld: The Complete Series (4 disc set)

05/11/21 — Released Incredible Hulk: Complete Animated Series

 

Cult Epics

05/11/21 — Released Cool Lakes of Death (Dutch)

 

Darkside Releasing

05/11/21 — Released Astaroth (Portuguese)

 

FUNimation

05/11/21 — Released Infinite Dendrogram: The Complete Series (2 disc set), Infinite Dendrogram: The Complete Series (2 Blu-ray/2 DVD Combo Pack) (with Digital Copy) and One Piece: Season Eleven Voyage Two (2 Blu-ray/2 DVD Combo Pack)

 

Gravitas Ventures (MOD)

05/11/21 — Released Bastards Road, In Action, Insight and Prague Orgy

 

Kino Lorber

05/11/21 — Released Douglas Sirk Collection (2 film set: To New Shores, La Habanera) (German), Horizons West, Kill Them All & Come Back Alone (Italian), Never Gonna Snow Again (Polish), Quantez, Reason I Jump, Tank and Wild Geese II

 

MVD Entertainment Group

08/24/21 — Sets One Dark Night

 

Mbur Indie Film Distribution (MOD)

05/11/21 — Released Song That Calls You Home

 

Nozomi Entertainment

07/06/21 — Sets Mobile Suit Gundam SEED, Collection 1 (5 disc set)

 

Paramount Home Entertainment

07/20/21 — Sets Star Trek: Discovery - Season Three (4 disc set)

 

Sentai Filmworks

05/11/21 — Released 7 Seeds Season 2 (2 disc set) and Babylon: The Complete Series (2 disc set)

 

Shout! Factory

05/11/21 — Released All About the Benjamins, Final Stand (Russian), King Kong: Collector's Edition and Legend of Hei (Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack) (Mandarin)

07/13/21 — Sets No Man’s Land

 

Smart Mark Video (MOD)

05/04/21 — Released F1rst Wrestling: April Live! - St. Paul, MN

05/11/21 — Released IWA Mid-South: Ted Perry Invitational 2021, Night 1 - Jeffersonville, IN and IWA Mid-South: Ted Perry Invitational 2021, Night 2 - Jeffersonville, IN

 

Sony Pictures Home Ent.

06/01/21 — Sets French Exit

 

Unearthed Films

05/11/21 — Released No Reason (German)

 

Universal Pictures Home Ent.

05/11/21 — Released Smokey and the Bandit 3 Movie Collection (3 film set: Smokey and the Bandit, Smokey and the Bandit II, Smokey and the Bandit, Part III) (2 disc set)

06/22/21 — Sets Nobody (Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack) (with Digital Copy)

 

VIZ Media

05/11/21 — Released Naruto: Set 3 (4 disc set)

 

Walt Disney Studios Home Ent.

05/11/21 — Released 2 Movie Collection (2 film set: Aladdin (1992), Aladdin (2019)) (2 Blu-ray/2 DVD Combo Pack) (with Digital Copy), 2 Movie Collection (2 film set: Finding Nemo, Finding Dory) (2 Blu-ray/2 DVD Combo Pack) (with Digital Copy), 2 Movie Collection (2 film set: Lion King, Lion King) (2 Blu-ray/2 DVD Combo Pack), 2 Movie Collection (2 film set: The Incredibles, The Incredibles 2) (2 Blu-ray/2 DVD Combo Pack) (with Digital Copy), 3 Movie Collection (3 film set: Cars, Cars 2, Cars 3) (3 Blu-ray/3 DVD Combo Pack) (with Digital Copy), Captain America 3 Movie Collection (3 film set: Captain America: The First Avenger, Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Captain America: Civil War) (3 Blu-ray/3 DVD Combo Pack) (with Digital Copy) and Toy Story 4 Movie Collection (4 film set: Toy Story, Toy Story 2, Toy Story 3, Toy Story 4) (4 Blu-ray/4 DVD Combo Pack) (with Digital Copy)

 

Well Go U.S.A.

05/11/21 — Released Morgue (Spanish)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Paramount Home Entertainment's Star Trek Discovery - Season Three Arrives As Both DVD And Blu-ray Selections On July 20

Star date 47634.44 marks the DVD and Blu-ray landing of Paramount Home Entertainment’s Star Trek: Discovery – Season Three.   For earthbound humans, that would be July 20.  And yes, before we even get into the details … a fourth season is in the works!!

Control, the evil Control, an AI who is (was) out to destroy all life forms, seems to have been stopped by Michael Burnham’s (Sonequa Martin-Green) time-hopping efforts.   We pick up the action in the future and the crew of the Discovery learn that their efforts appear to have been successful, but this new alternative timeline also has seen the United Federation of Planets come apart and most of Starfleet destroyed.   This, the result of “The Burn,” which ignited the dilithium across the galaxy and sent things into chaos.

Will Burnham and her crew be able to undo “The Burn” and restore the timeline, or are they stuck in this bleak and dangerous future?   From out of the frying pan … and in the fire go the crew of the U.S.S. Discovery.

Also 13 episodes are included here in these four-disc Blu-ray or four-disc DVD collections. 

Bonus nuggets include a gag reel, deleted scenes and six production featurettes, “Star Trek Discovery: The Voyage of Season 3,” “Stunted,” “Being Michael Burnham,” “Kenneth Mitchell: To Boldly Go,” “Bridge Building” and “Writer’s Log: Michelle Paradise.”

Paramount Home Entertainment also added to the release calendar this past week the July 6 DVD debut of writer/director Carlos V. Gutierrez’s Locked In, starring Mena Suvari (Kiss the Girls, American Pie, American Beauty) and Jeff Fahey (Impulse, The Lawnmower Man, Lost).

Maggie (Suvari) is a single-mom desperately trying to hold things together.  Her teenage daughter, Tarin (Jasper Polish — Devil’s Whisper, The Astronaut Farmer), doesn’t help things with her miserable attitude.

We pick up the action with Maggie working at one of those storage facilities where people park their belongings in lockers.   It is probably the worst job she could have as she is terrified of confined spaces and the mere thought having to step inside one of the many storage lockers that she manages on her shift each day is enough to give her the chills.

She discovers that her co-worker has been taking cash on the side to “store” some loot taken in a robbery — a stash of diamonds — and in no time Mel (Fahey) and his buddy show up to claim the booty, but are double-crossed by their “inside” accomplice.   Suddenly our ill-prepared heroine finds herself on the receiving end of Mel’s rage … where in this maze of lockers are “his” diamonds!!

A cat and mouse game is on, with Maggie trying to stay alive and keep her daughter from being raped and murdered by these unwelcomed intruders.   Diamonds or die … tough choice, especially when the diamonds are the only leverage you have.

 

 

 

 

 

Icarus Films Selects June 15 As The Domestic DVD Debut Date For Director Wolfgang Gross' Granny Nanny

Icarus Films will be teaming up with France’s leading film production and distribution company, Distrib Films, for the domestic DVD debut of director Wolfgang Gross’ Granny Nanny on June 15.

Distrib Films has been a rich source of French-language movies for the domestic market, but the company also has an eye out globally for quality film productions from other countries, most notably South America.   However, they didn’t have to go too far afield as Granny Nanny is from neighboring Germany.

The film opened in Germany and Austria in February of 2020 to great reviews and excellent box office returns, but we all know what happened next.   It ran merrily along theatrically for a solid month and then the international lock-down was sprung upon the movie-going world.  

With the exception of a one-week, one-theatre arthouse run this past November in the United States, Granny Nanny remains virtually unseen.   That all changes with this Icarus Films delight on DVD in mid-June.

Part comedy and part social commentary, Gross introduces us to Karin (Maren Kroymann — Hounded, The Wave, The Hairdresser, Bliss, etc.), a recent retiree (perhaps too early), who would like to travel, but her husband thinks hanging out at home is just fine.   Bored out her mind, her Bohemian-like sister-in-law, Phillipa (Barbara Sukowa — Hannah Arnedt, Thirteen Conversations About One Thing, Johnny Mnemonic) tells Karin about the hot-new trend in German parenting, the “Patenoma.”

Young professional couples, who are busy checking the various “life” boxes of career, marriage, kids — career, travel, career, career and career — have taken to hiring stand-in mothers to raise and take care of their kids.  Kids, that are more of an inconvenience than a family bond.  Such messy, noising things.

Now, Philippa’s charge is Leonie, a young girl whose parents literally have no time for her, but are very specific on how she is to be raised, what she eats and where she goes.   Philippa has learned to ignore these requests.

Karin thinks that this is a good idea and signs up with the local agency and soon has two kids of her own.   Jannik, who is all over the place (maybe on the spectrum; maybe ADD) and his too-hip-for-her-age sister, Merle.   While it is chaotic at first, and the parents don’t seem to give a rip, Karin soon finds the kids “adopting” her as their parent.

And then there is Karin’s friend, a retired doctor by the name of Gerhard (Heiner Lauterbach), who is a curmudgeon … he’s miserable.   He’s gay and very much alone since his life-partner has died.

He gets roped in and becomes a Patenoma as well … even gets a kid of his own to parent.   A young boy by the name of Viktor, whose mother is a Russian immigrant and trying to hold things together.   Viktor routinely gets his butt kicked at school and seems to have no coping skills, but Gerhard soon takes care of that.   Ironically, he also begins to parent Viktor’s mom, screening her potential dates and helping her navigate her alien environment.

Each of these three Patenomas go about the parenting of their kids in different ways, which can be both funny and melancholy … Philippa, for example, teaches her “child” shop-lifting skills, not to respect authority too much and, if caught, have an out ready (Philippa simply puts on her Alzheimer's act and her little friend guides her gently back home, all a big misunderstanding of course).

Granny Nanny is presented in German with English subtitles.

 

 

MVD Entertainment Group Readies Both Blu-ray And DVD "Rewind Collection" Releases Of Writer/Director Tom McLoughlin's One Dark Night For Aug. 24

Word arrived this past week that MVD Entertainment Group has bestowed “Rewind Collection” status on writer/director Tom McLoughlin’s 1983 horror thriller, One Dark Night.   Both DVD and Blu-ray editions will be available on Aug. 24.

Meg Tilly was, and always planned to be, a dancer.   She had a small dance role in Alan Parker’s 1980 film release of Fame, which was filmed during July and August of 1979.   By the time Fame open theatrically in June of 1980 her career as a dancer had come to an end … a back injury saw to that.

She left the New York dance scene and moved to Los Angeles where she landed a co-starring slot in Tim Hunter’s Tex, opposite a young Matt Dillion … legend has it that she was picked for the role of Jamie Collins, the object of Dillion’s romantic interest, out of a stack of actress head shots.

In her second film, One Dark Night, Tilly plays Julie Wells, the new girl in high school, who is being courted as a new recruit for “The Sisters,” but it is something of a scam as the queen bee of the group, Carol Mason (Robin Evans in her film debut), is really out “to get” Julie for flirting with her boyfriend, Steve (David Mason Daniels).

Meanwhile, the police are mystified by the bizarre death of a mystic by the name of Raymar, who was found with the bodies of six young women.   We soon learn, by way of a conversation between “occult” writer, Samuel Dockstader (Donald Hotton), and Raymar’s daughter, Olivia (Melissa Newman) and her husband Allan (played by Adam West), that Raymar was — are you ready for this — a “psychic vampire,” who drained the life essence from his young female victims.  

It doesn’t take long before Carol’s vengeance on Julie and the “psychic vampire” nature of the “dead” Raymar intersect.   If Julie wants to become a Sister, then she must spend a night in a creepy old mausoleum.   To make matters worse, this is where Raymar is interred, the pills given Julie to help her relax through the long night are actually hallucinatory drugs and Carol and one of her cohorts plan to dress as monsters and scare the hell of the unsuspecting Julie!!

This high school prank quickly devolves into a night of terror as Raymar raises the dead and plans to drain the life-force from Julie.   Will help arrive in time?   Will Raymar succeed?   And what of the malevolent Carol, will she too become a victim?   Aug. 24, with the MVD Entertainment Group “Rewind Collection” release on both DVD and Blu-ray will reveal all … start counting the days!!

As to bonus goodies, there are two viewing options.  These are, the original theatrical cut and a “Director’s Cut” (from the film’s work-print).  Also included are not one, but two commentary options … the first features filmmaker Tom McLoughlin (Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives, Sometimes They Come Back, The Unsaid, Murder in Greenwich) and producer Michael Schroeder (Man in the Chair), while the second commentary teams McLoughlin with his co-writer, Michael Hawes.

Also included are seven video sessions, featuring McLoughlin, Schroeder, actors E.G. Daily and Nancy Mott, cinematographer Hal Trussell, production designer Craig Stearns and f/x crew member Paul Clements.   There is also behind-the-scenes footage and an extensive still gallery.