New DVD • Blu-ray • 4K Ultra HD Activity For The Period Ending September 03, 2021

 

 

New DVD Additions

 

Acorn Media

08/31/21 — Released Murdoch Mysteries: Season 14 (3 disc set)

 

BBC Home Entertainment (MOD)

08/31/21 — Released Back: Series 2 (2 disc set) and Romeo & Juliet

 

Bridgestone Multimedia (MOD)

08/31/21 — Released Esther and the King and Giants of Rome

 

Burning Bulb Publishing (MOD)

08/31/21 — Released Man Who Went to Heaven, Notebooks, Perfect Day, Uncommon and Zombie Club

 

Championship Productions

08/31/21 — Released NABC On the Court Open Practice with Jeff Depelteau: Passing, Defense, and Team Drills, NABC On the Court Open Practice with Jeff Depelteau: Transition Offense and Skill Development, Preston Spradlin: My Favorite Drills for Basketball Practice, Scott Davenport: My Favorite Drills for Basketball Practice, Sherri Coale: More of My Favorite Drills and Steve Forbes: Program Management Insights + Defense Drills

 

Chrome Dreams

08/31/21 — Released Smiths: Sad About Wrong Boy

 

Cohen Media Group

08/31/21 — Released Classics of French Cinema (2 film set: The Gang, Three Men to Kill) (French)

 

EWTN

08/31/21 — Released @ Home with Jim & Joy: Jim and Joy Pinto Answer Viewer Calls, Questions, And E-Mails Live From the Pinto House, @ Home with Jim & Joy: Michael Heinlein /the lessons of inspiration learned through the legacy of holiness of six Black Catholics on their way to sainthood, Called to Communion, EWTN Live: Mother Assumpta, OP and Mother Amata Veritas, OP, Sunday Best, Women of Grace: Mary Dillenback -'Women of Grace: The Everday Genius of Woman and World Over with Raymond Navarro: Fr. Richard John Neuhaus / Dion DiMucci

 

Film Detective

10/05/21 — Sets Amazing Mr. X

 

Gemini Entertainment (MOD)

08/31/21 — Released Gift of Acadia and Life of Senator Margaret Chase Smith

 

Grasshopper Film

08/31/21 — Released Malni: Towards the Ocean Towards the Shore

 

Gravitas Ventures (MOD)

08/31/21 — Released Pulk and Steel Song

 

Hope of the World (MOD)

08/24/21 — Released Overwhelming

08/31/21 — Released Powers of the Spirit

 

I-Cine

08/31/21 — Released Ngoi Sao Ve Lang (10 disc set), Nhat Ky Trinh Sat (10 disc set) and Toi Ac (12 disc set)

 

Just for the Hell of It (MOD)

08/31/21 — Released Double Feature (2 film set: Dayton's Devils, The Day of the Wolves) (2 disc set), Goldrunner and Hit and Run

 

Kino Lorber

08/31/21 — Released Berlin Alexanderplatz (German), Love Rites (French) and Lydia Lunch: The War Is Never Over (ARR of 60 days; box office: $12,368)

 

Lionsgate Home Ent.

08/31/21 — Released Fear the Walking Dead: The Complete Sixth Season (4 disc set)

 

MVD Entertainment Group

12/14/21 — Sets Jack Frost and Jack Frost 2: Revenge of the Mutant Killer Snowman

 

Movie Buffs Forever (MOD)

08/24/21 — Released Pony Soldier

08/31/21 — Released Mickey's House of Villains

 

Movie-O-Zone (MOD)

08/24/21 — Released Dark Angel

 

PCN Productions (MOD)

08/31/21 — Released 2021 African American Experience: “August Wilson” with Laurence Glasco, 2021 It’s History!: PA Lumber Museum, 2021 Keystone Cuisine: Noir Dark Spirits and 2021 PCN Profiles: Natalie Carbone Mangini

 

Random Media (MOD)

08/31/21 — Released Beautiful Lure - A Modern Tale of Painted Skin (Japanese) and Man Vs. Bigfoot

 

Samuel Goldwyn Films

08/31/21 — Released Edge of the World

 

Smart Mark Video (MOD)

08/31/21 — Released Absolute Intense Wrestling: Chandler Biggens Memorila Tournament - Cleverland, OH, Absolute Intense Wrestling: Nightmare on North Elm Street - Jefferson, OH, Beyond Wrestling: Project Dolphin - Worchester, MA, Beyond Wrestling: Project Reality - Worchester, MA, F1rst Wrestling: Exodus - St. Paul, MN, F1rst Wrestling: Pride Pre-Party - St. Paul, MN, Insane Championship Wrestling: Insane 8, 2021 - Milwaukee, WI,Intergender Bonanza: The Stan Stylez Intergender Bonanza 9: Stan's Creamiest Birthday - Williamstown, NJ, WWR+: Let's Talk About Wrestling - Worcester, MA and WWR+: To Wrestle, Shoot Straight and Speak the Truth - Worcester, MA

 

Sony Pictures Home Ent.

08/31/21 — Released 12 Mighty Orphans and Good Doctor: Season Four (5 disc set)

 

Strand Releasing

08/31/21 — Released Sun Children (Farsi)

 

The Video Beat (MOD)

08/17/21 — Released Escala Musical (Spanish), It Came from Hollywood and Some Other Guys: The Story of the Big Three

 

Universal Pictures Home Ent.

08/31/21 — Released Boss Baby: Back in Business: Seasons 1 & 2 (4 disc set) (with Digital Copy) and Spirit Untamed (ARR of 88 days; box office: $17,620,410)

 

Walt Disney Studios Home Ent.

10/12/21 — Sets Free Guy (ARR of 60 days; box office: $80,031,260)

 

WOWnow Entertainment

08/31/21 — Released Halloween Family: Monster Showdown

 

Zeus DVD (MOD)

08/31/21 — Released .357 Magnum, .com for Murder, $6 Man, 10 Years Later, 13 Months of Sunshine (Amharic), 18 Again!, 18 Shades of Dust, 20 Mule Team, 23 1/2 Hour Leave, 42nd Street, 60s Pop Reunion, 77 Sunset Strip (6 disc set), Abar, Abbott and Costello in Hollywood, Above Suspicion, Act of Violence, Action of the Tiger, Adventures in Paradise (2 disc set), After Office Hours, Alfred the Great, All or Nothing, All That Jazz, Altered States, Amazon Women on the Moon, Ambush, American Gigolo, Another Thin Man, Avenue Montaigne (French), Belle of the Yukon, Bill of Divorcement, Broadway Musketeers, Bullet is Waiting, Darling Lili, Desperate Characters, Doc, Don't Look Now, Fistful of Dollars, Francis, Global Affair, Goin' South, Guns at Batasi, Happiest Millionaire, Harvey Girls, Heartbreak Kid, His Wife's Mother, Hook, Kissing Bandit, Last Coupon, Little Romance, Lost Missle, Man Called Peter, Man in Possession, Marriage of a Young Stockbroker, Navajo Kid, Notorious Lone Wolf, Pad (And How To Use It) , Parallax View, Pirates of Spring Cove (aka: The Truth About Spring), Reflection of Fear, Searchers, Shot in the Dark, Small Town in Texas, Song to Remember, This Man's Navy, Thunder in the Night, Too Late for Tears, Touch of Class, Under the Red Robe, Very Thought of You, Wagons West, Wandering Shadow (silent-1920), Washington Story, Westward Passage, Wives Under Suspicion, Wonder Man, Wyoming Roundup and Young Man with a Horn

 

 

 

 New Blu-ray Additions

 

Acorn Media

08/31/21 — Released Murdoch Mysteries: Season 14 (3 disc set)

 

Altered Innocence

08/31/21 — Released Sound and Fury (French)

 

Burning Bulb Publishing (MOD)

08/31/21 — Released Man Who Went to Heaven, Notebooks, Perfect Day, Uncommon and Zombie Club

 

Cohen Media Group

08/31/21 — Released Classics of French Cinema (2 film set: The Gang, Three Men to Kill) (French)

 

Collector’s Heaven (MOD)

08/31/21 — Released Alien Worlds: Season One, American Horror Stories: Season One, American Vandal: The Complete Series, Cannon: The Complete Series (8 disc set), Cat in the Hat Knows a Lot About That!: The Complete Series (3 disc set), Cruel Summer: Season One, Death in Paradise: Seasons 1 - 10 (8 disc set), Debris: The Complete Series, Defeated: Season One, Ellery Queen: The Complete Series (2 disc set), Family Affair: The Complete Series (4 disc set), Father Knows Best: The Complete Series (6 disc set), Freaks nad Geeks: The Complete Series, Glow: The Complete Series (2 disc set), Grace and Frankie: The Complete Series (3 disc set), Kissing Booth Trilogy (3 film set: The Kissing Booth, The Kissing Booth 2, The Kissing Booth 3), Libraians: Season One (3 disc set), Mannix: The Complete Series (8 disc set), Medium: The Complete Series (6 disc set), My Name is Earl: The Complete Series (2 disc set), Mysterious Benedict Society: Season One, Persuaders!: The Complete Series (2 disc set), Porridge: The Complete Series, Rain: The Complete Series, Remington Steele: The Complete Series (6 disc set), Scrubs: The Complete Series (4 disc set), Square Pegs: The Complete Series,  Starsky and Hutch: The Complete Series (6 disc set), Streets of San Francisco:The Complete Series (6 disc set), Superman & Lois: Season One, Witcher: Nightmare of the Wolf, Yin-Yang Msster Dream of Eternity (Mandarin) and Young Indiana Jones Chronicles (2 disc set)

 

Dark Force Entertainment

11/23/21 — Sets Young Cycle Girls (aka: Cycle Vixens)

 

FUNimation

08/31/21 — Released Kakushigoto: The Complete Season (2 disc set) (with Digital Copy)

 

Gemini Entertainment (MOD)

08/31/21 — Released Life of Senator Margaret Chase Smith

 

Gravitas Ventures (MOD)

08/31/21 — Released Pulk and Steel Song

 

Kino Lorber

08/31/21 — Released Berlin Alexanderplatz (German), Comedy of Terrors, Last Man on Earth, Love Rites (French), Master of the World and Raven

 

Lionsgate Home E

08/31/21 — Released Fear the Walking Dead: The Complete Sixth Season (4 disc set)

 

MVD Entertainment Group

12/14/21 — Sets Jack Frost and Jack Frost 2: Revenge of the Mutant Killer Snowman

 

Movies R USA (MOD)

08/24/21 — Released Pee-Wee's Big Holiday, Prayers for Bobby and Respect

08/31/21 — Released Appleseed Alpha, Army of One, Charmed: Season One (2 disc set), Cinderella, Cinderella Story II: The Shoe Fits, Don't Breathe 2, Freddie's Nightmare: The Complete Series (6 disc set), Healing Garden, Juwamma Mann, Love Victor: The Complete First Season, Love Victor: The Complete Second Season,  Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh, Matthew Bourne’s Romeo & Juliet,  Motherland: Fort Salem - Season Two, No Man of God, Pretty Outrageous, Protégé, Saving Paradise, Square Pegs: The Complete Series, Stealing Harvard, Superman & Lois: Season One, Swan Song, Ted Lasso: The Complete First Season, That Darn Cat, Vacation Friends, Winning London and Witcher: Nightmare of the Wolf

 

PCN Productions (MOD)

08/31/21 — Released 2021 African American Experience: “August Wilson” with Laurence Glasco, 2021 It’s History!: PA Lumber Museum, 2021 Keystone Cuisine: Noir Dark Spirits and 2021 PCN Profiles: Natalie Carbone Mangini

 

Paramount Home Ent.

11/1621 — Sets It's a Wonderful Life: 75th Anniversary Edition (2 disc set) (with Digital Copy) and Vanilla Sky: 20th Anniversary Edition (with Digital Copy)

 

Scorpion Releasing

08/31/21 — Released Devil's 8

 

Sentai Filmworks

08/31/21 — Released Vinland Saga (3 disc set)

 

Shoreline Entertainment (MOD)

08/31/21 — Released Father's Chair (Portuguese), Good After Bad, Grey Eyes (Spanish), Hidden Moon, How You Look to Me, Irrefutable Proof, Leave, Mary Loss of Soul, Minis, Original Sin, Pale Blue Moon and Road to Hell

 

Shout! Factory 

08/31/21 — Released Boxtrolls (Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack) and Coraline (Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack)

 

Smart Mark Video (MOD)

08/31/21 — Released Beyond Wrestling: Project Dolphin - Worchester, MA, Beyond Wrestling: Project Reality - Worchester, MA, F1rst Wrestling: Exodus - St. Paul, MN, F1rst Wrestling: Pride Pre-Party - St. Paul, MN, Insane Championship Wrestling: Insane 8, 2021 - Milwaukee, WI, WWR+: Let's Talk About Wrestling - Worcester, MA and WWR+: To Wrestle, Shoot Straight and Speak the Truth - Worcester, MA

 

Vinegar Syndrome

08/31/21 — Released Killer's Delight, Lamp (aka Outing) and Through the Fire (aka The Gates of Hell II: Dead Awakening)

 

Walt Disney Studios Home Ent.

10/12/21 — Sets Free Guy (with Digital Copy)

 

Warner Bros. Home Ent.

08/31/21 — Released Mortal Kombat Legends: Battle of the Realms (with Digital Copy)

 

Warner Bros. Home Ent. (MOD)

09/14/21 — Sets Santa Fe Trail

09/21/21 — Sets Naked Spur, Straight Time and Window

09/28/21 — Sets Night at the Opera

 

 

 

New 4k Ultra HD Additions

 

Gunpowder & Sky

08/31/21 — Released Awaken (Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack)

 

Lionsgate Home Ent.

10/12/21 — Sets Green Knight (4K Ultra HD/Blu-ray Combo Pack) (with Digital Copy)

 

Walt Disney Studios Home Ent.

10/12/21 — Sets Free Guy (4K Ultra HD/Blu-ray Combo Pack) (with Digital Copy)

 

Warner Bros. Home Ent.

08/31/21 — Released Mortal Kombat Legends: Battle of the Realms (4K Ultra HD/Blu-ray Combo Pack) (with Digital Copy)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Film Dective's New 4K Film Restoration Of Director Bernard Borhaus' The Amazing Mr. X On Blu-ray And DVD On Oct. 05

The Film Detective has a new 4K film restoration (from archival 35mm elements) of director Bernard Vorhaus' 1948 noirish-themed thriller, The Amazing Mr. X (aka: The Spiritualist) set for a Blu-ray debut on Oct. 5.   A DVD edition will also be available on the same date.

Christine Faber (Lynn Bari — Sun Valley Serenade, Kit Carson, Earthbound) is beautiful and wealthy.   A widow, she lives in a mansion that overlooks the Pacific; paradise.

Perhaps it is just her imagination; perhaps the winds off of the ocean, the background noise of the Pacific crashing against the shore.   One evening, she is convinced that she hears the voice of her dead husband (played by Donald Curtis — The Fuller Brush Man, All That Heaven Allows), it is jarring, but she dismisses it as just that, the wind and the surf. 

Later, while visiting her neighbor, Martin (Richard Carlson — It Came from Outer Space, The Maze, Creature from the Black Lagoon), she hears the voice again and also “bumps” into Alexis (Turhan Bey — The Mummy's Tomb, The Climax, The Mad Ghoul), who seems mystic, visionary … he warns her against getting involved with Martin and seems to know quite a bit about her.   If the voice of her dead husband was unsettling, you can only imagine what this encounter did to her.

Poor Martin, he was all set to propose to her and now Christine is not so sure.   The next thing you know, she’s making regular visits to Alexis to get advice and perhaps to contact her dead husband.  

Her sister, Janet (Cathy O'Donnell — The Best Years of Our Lives, They Live by Night, Detective Story), teams up with Martin, as they are both convinced that Christine is being scammed by a charlatan.  Their plan, hire a detective, Hoffman (Harry Mendoza), and expose Alexis for what he is, a crook.

To accomplish this, Janet goes “undercover” and books a session with Alexis to get his fingerprints — the detective they’ve hire is convinced that he is indeed a conman out of Chicago.   Of course, Alexis is a conman, and he’s really good at it, so when Janet shows up, he has done his homework and knows that she is Christine’s sister … he plays it to the hilt, giving her fingerprints galore.  

Before you can say abracadabra, Alexis is holding a séance with the sisters … but Martin and Hoffman are on to the scam and stop the session … but wait, Paul actually materializes and his presence cannot be explained!!

Everything just got twisted.  Perhaps Alexis is the real deal.  Perhaps there is something more sinister going on!!   To discover the solution to the mystery, The Amazing Mr. X on Blu-ray from The Film Detective on Oct. 5.

Bonus features include commentary from film scholar Jason A. Ney and documentary titled Mysteries Exposed: Inside the Cinematic World of Spiritualism.

 

 

 

 

MVD Entertainment Group Bestows "Rewind Collection" Status On Filmmaker Michael Cooney's Jack Frost And Jack Frost 2 For Release As DVD And Blu-ray Product Offerings On Dec. 14

It is beginning to look a lot like Christmas!!  

It was “season’s greetings” from MVD Entertainment Group this past week as they announced not one, but two new “Rewind Collection” Blu-ray releases that have a certain “seasonal” theme to them.  

Writer/director Michael Cooney’s Jack Frost has snow, the setting is the Christmas-season in Colorado and there is a snowman by the name of Jack Frost (played by Scott MacDonald — Star Trek: Enterprise), who just happens to be a serial killer … but not to worry, he is on his way to death row!!  

This 2K scan from the original 35mm vault materials, checks off all the boxes as a Christmas-season release, it’s just not in the same vein as say, It’s a Wonderful Life, or Home Alone, or Miracle on 34^th Street, but more in the cinematic pew of Black Christmas, Santa Claws and Silent Night, Bloody Night.

The street date for this Blu-ray “Rewind Collection” edition of Jack Frost will be on Dec. 14, which makes it a Christmas-season release by definition.   Perfect.   Holiday cheer and good tidings … and a bloody good time for genre fans.

Right off the bat, Jack Frost, a serial killer, is captured by Sheriff Sam Tiler (Christopher Allport — To Live and Die in L.A., Dead & Buried) and convicted of killing over thirty people and, as we pick up the action, he is being transported to death row.   But, as “luck” would have it, he’s killed in a crash with a tanker containing chemicals that reduce poor Jack to a pile of goo, which is quickly absorbed by the snow.   The cost of executing him has been taken care of by a freak accident.  

Not so fast.   Jack Frost mutates into a snowman — back from the dead — and goes on a gleeful rampage of murder, including the rape of a young woman, who is played by future-American Pie star, Shannon Elizabeth (you don’t ask too many questions about how a snowman is capable of such a thing) … this creature appears to be unstoppable, until a very “unique” solution is hit upon!!

Jack Frost is one of those over-the-top horror films that is both fun and gruesome at the same time.

Bonus features include an introduction by filmmaker Michael Cooney, commentary by Cooney and a second, newly-prepared, commentary option featuring “Hack the Movies” Tony Piluso, Newt Wallen and Christal Quin.

There is also a new video session with MacDonald and two vintage video sessions with actor Scott MacDonald and Dean Lent, the director of photography.

So, what is the second “Rewind Collection” Blu-ray heading home from MVD Entertainment Group on Dec. 14?   Of course, it is the sequel to Jack Frost, writer/director Michael Cooney’s Jack Frost 2: Revenge of the Mutant Killer Snowman!!

He’s back and deadlier than ever!   And, he can’t be melted.   Oh my!!

Bonus features for this snowman terror delight include commentary from filmmaker Michael Cooney and the “Hack the Movies” gang are back with a commentary of their own.  There are also video sessions and behind-the-scenes featurette.

Also, DVD editions of Jack Frost and Jack Frost 2: Revenge of the Mutant Killer Snowman will also be available on Dec. 14 from MVD Entertainment Group.

 

 

 

 

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