DVD & Blu-Ray Release Report: 2022-01-16

Tuesday, January 18, 2022

Mill Creek Entertainment's Four-Strong Documentary Promotion On DVD Arrives On Feb. 15

Mill Creek Entertainment has a quartet of new DVD releases set to rollout on Feb. 15 that focus on the cult, occult and all-things alien. Each of these releases feature four different documentaries (double-disc collections) and provide hours-worth of insights that challenge the viewer on the subject at hand … so let’s get to it and see what is planned.

We begin with the DVD collection titled Ancient Alien Enigma: 4 Documentary Collection, which includes documentary filmmaker Philip Gardiner’s 2017 feature-length documentary Anunnaki, an examination of ancient deities that are referenced in early cultures such as the Babylonians and the Sumerians, which date to over 4,000 years ago.

Also included in this unique collection of possible other-world visitations are documentary filmmaker J. Michael Long’s 2016 film, Aliens in Egypt; director O.H. Krill’s 2015 presentation, Alien Encounters in America: UFOs and Extraterrestrial Visitations, and J. Michael Long 2017 film release titled Alien Contact in Outer Space.

Another space-themed collection on its way home on Feb. 15 from Mill Creek Entertainment is titled Alien Agenda: 4 Documentary Collection.

This collection kicks off with documentary filmmaker J. Michael Long’s insightful 2014 film, Abducted by Aliens: UFO Encounters of the 4th Kind, which explores the shared phenomenon by countless individuals over the years of alien abductions … scholars on the subject, plus actual abductees are interviewed in this feature-length presentation.

The other three films included in this DVD collection are: documentary filmmaker Chris Turner’s 2015 documentary titled Alien Reptilian Legacy; also from 2015, documentary filmmaker Dan Marrow’s Alien Mind Control: The UFO Enigma and the filmmaking team of Anthony and Robert Miles’ 2014 shocker, Alien Agenda Planet Earth: Rulers of Time and Space.

Rounding out the collections from Mill Creek Entertainment on Feb. 15 are Knights Templar and Freemasons: 4 Documentary Collection and New World Order: American Apocalypse - 4 Documentary Collection.

New DVD • Blu-ray • 4K Ultra HD Activity For The Period Ending January 14, 2022

New DVD Additions

Artsploitation Films

01/11/22 — Released Man with the Answers (German/Greek)

Asian Cult Cinema (MOD)

01/11/22 — Released Bangkok Samurai: Final Target (Thai), Crocodile Evil (Taiwanese), Jaguars vs. Mysterious Invaders (Spanish), Open Tomb … Empty Coffin (Spanish), Rapist at Dawn (Spanish) and Srigala (Indonesian)

BBC Home Entertainment (MOD)

01/11/22 — Released Silent Witness: Season 24 (3 disc set)

Back to the Fudda

01/11/22 — Released New Goblin: 2 Concerts in Tokyo

Bayerische Staatsope

01/11/22 — Released Abrahamsen: The Snow Queen

Bayview Entertainment

03/22/22 — Released All for Amy, HNN Presents: Rust Belt Driller, In Utero, Invisible City (Italian), Islands (Italian), Juvenile Transgressions, On Any Sunday: 50th Anniversary Remastered Edition, Quiet, Pretty Things, Thorn of the Rose (Portuguese), Those Dark Nights (Bosnian), To Die is Hard, Troubles (French), Unrighteous Men (Swedish), Wilderness Hotel (Mandarin) and Your Flesh Your Curse (Portuguese)

Championship Productions

01/11/22 — Released 2-Man is the Way: Drills to Implement 2-Man Offensive Concepts, Implementing the 2-3-3-2 Formation, Kirsten Bernthal Booth: Passing, Split Session for More Reps, Ball Control + Creating a Solid Practice, Making it Count: How to Structure the Start of Every Practice, Pipeline Defense: Pack It In, Recoverability: Training Soccer Resiliency, Ryan Theis: 6v6 Game-Like Drills, Defensive Systems + Lots of Touches & Reps and Soccer Games & Drills for Team Building

Cleopatra Entertainment

03/22/22 — Sets Dreaming Hollywood

DVD Treasures (MOD)

12/07/21 — Released Mystery Woman Collection (8 film set: Mystery Woman, Vision of a Murder, Game Time, At First Sight, Wild West Mystery, Oh Baby, Redemption, In the Shadows) (8 disc set)

12/14/21 — Released Dance Til Dawn

Decal Releasing, LLC

01/11/22 — Released Mass (ARR of 95 days; box office: $145,006) and Spencer (ARR of 67 days; box office: $7,077,453)

Dreamscape Media, LLC

01/11/22 — Released Hair Story, Love in the Library and Wine of Summer

EWTN

12/28/21 — Released EWTN Live: Reflections on the guests of 2021 and Women of Grace: The Origins of the Christmas Season

01/04/22 — Released EWTN Live: Deb O'Hara Rusckowski - Human Trafficking, Indentify Victims and Actions Catholics Can Take to End This Tragedy and Women of Grace: The Shrine of Our Lady of Montligeon World Over with Raymond Navarro: Robert Sirico / Bill Donohue / Ross Douthat

01/11/22 — Released EWTN Live: Aude Dugast and Mark Bradford and Women of Grace: Wrap Up 2021

Film Detective

02/22/22 — Sets Dancing Pirate

Film Movement

01/11/22 — Released Corinth Films Historical Drama Collection (5 film set: Remembrance, Within the Whirlwind, The Chronicles of Melanie, Calm at Sea, Habermann) (German), Joy Womack: The White Swan (Russian) and Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy (Japanese)

Freestyle Digital Media (MOD)

01/11/22 — Released Chained, My Fiona, Out of Nowheresville, Reenactment and Sanzaru

Greenfield Media (MOD)

01/25/22 — Sets Megalodon Rising

Hallmark Entertainment

01/11/22 — Released Hallmark 2 Movie Collection (2 film set: Two for the Win, A Winter Getaway)

Hallmark Entertainment (MOD)

01/11/22 — Released All Summer Long and Darrow & Darrow: In the Key of Murder

Image Entertainment

01/11/22 — Released MLK/FBI (ARR: 361 days; box office: $44,877)

Kailuna Enterprises, LLC (MOD)

01/11/22 — Released Ultimate Restorations: Badger #2: The Last Remaining Fish Car, Ultimate Restorations: Cangarda: The Last American Steam Yacht, Ultimate Restorations: The Ahrens-Fox: A Kansas City Treasure, Ultimate Restorations: The Illions Supreme: The World's Most Beautiful Carousel, Ultimate Restorations: The Lysander: Canada's Unsung Hero, Ultimate Restorations: The Midmer-Losh: Breathing Life into the Beast, Ultimate Restorations: The Schooner Coronet: Racing into History and Ultimate Restorations: The Sierra #3 Locomotive: A Star is Reborn

Kino Lorber

01/11/22 — Released Journey to Shiloh and Pink Jungle

Jarrett Enterprises - Loving the Classics (MOD)

01/11/22 — Released Play for Today: A Follower for Emily, Play for Today: Blooming Youth, Play for Today: Brassneck, Play for Today: Funny Farm, Play for Today: Headmaster, Play for Today: O Fat White Woman, Play for Today: Our Flesh and Blood, Play for Today: The Rainbirds and Play for Today: The Reporters

Lionsgate Home Entertainment

01/11/22 — Released Amityville Uprising

Maelstrom Films (MOD)

01/11/22 — Released Fisher

Mill Creek Entertainment

02/22/22 — Sets Alien Agenda: 4 Documentary Collection (4 film set: Abducted by Aliens: UFO Encounters of the 4th Kind, Alien Reptilian Legacy, Alien Mind Control: The UFO Enigma, Alien Agenda Planet Earth: Rulers of Time and Space) (2 disc set), Ancient Alien Enigma: 4 Documentary Collection (4 film set: Anunnaki, Aliens in Egypt, Alien Encounters in America: UFOs and Extraterrestrial Visitations, Alien Contact in Outer Space) (2 disc set), Knights Templar and Freemasons: 4 Documentary Collection (4 film set: Knights Templar: Rise and Fall, Legend of the Grail, Illuminati: The Grand Illusion, Angels, Demons and Freemasons) (2 disc set) and New World Order: American Apocalypse - 4 Documentary Collection (4 film set: 666: New World Order, American Illuminati, American Illuminati 2, A War Over Reality) (2 disc set)

Music Box Films

01/11/22 — Released Ema (Spanish)

Naxos

01/11/22 — Released Benet Casablancas: Enigma di Lea, Daniel Barenboim At Buenos Aires - Brahms: The Complete Symphonies (2 disc set), Drei Schwestern and Purcell: Dido and Aeneas

NCircle Entertainment

01/11/22 — Released Magic School Bus Rides Again: Season 2, Rainbow Rangers: Help Is a Rainbow Away and Satie: Nuit Erik Satie

Ocean Avenue Entertainment

01/11/22 — Released Camp Manna

Onesmedia (MOD)

01/11/22 — Released Arizona, Barbarian, Blonde Crazy, High Pressure, Indiscreet, King Murder, Love Parade, Murder!, Night Life in Reno, Road to Singapore, Stranger May Kiss, Tresspasser, Virtue and Woman Between

PBS Direct

01/11/22 — Released Nature: Season of the Osprey, Nature: The Elephant and the Termite, NOVA: Particles Unknown and Now Hear This - Beethoven's Ghost

PCN Productions (MOD)

01/11/22 — Released 2022 PA Farm Show: Farm Show Fashions, 2022 PA Farm Show: Heavyweight Horse Pull, 2022 PA Farm Show: High School Rodeo I, 2022 PA Farm Show: High School Rodeo II, 2022 PA Farm Show: Lightweight Horse Pull, 2022 PA Farm Show: Mini-Horse and Mini-Mule Pull, 2022 PA Farm Show: Pony Pull and 2022 PA Farm Show: Square Dance

Paramount Home Entertainment

01/11/22 — Released Billions: Season Five (4 disc set) and Ren & Stimpy Show: Almost Complete Series! (9 disc set)

Random Media (MOD)

01/11/22 — Released Great and Terrible Day of the Lord and Making Sweet Tea

Rising Sun Media (MOD)

01/11/22 — Released Dead County, Harvest of the Dead: Halloween Night, Killer BBQ, Kinbaku Collection (2 film set: Flower, Moon) (Japanese), Mask the Kekko: Reborn (Japanese), Pink Collection 2: Blood Bead (Japanese), Pink Collection 3 (Japanese) and Space Vampire

Showtime Networks (MOD)

01/11/22 — Released Bitchin': The Sound and Fury of Rick James

Smart Mark Video (MOD)

01/11/22 — Released Absolute Intense Wrestling: Hell on Earth 16 - Eastlake, OH, Absolute Intense Wrestling: We had a Few Hits a Few Years Ago - Cleveland, OH, F1rst Wrestling: Holiday Havoc - St. Paul, MN and H2O Wrestling: Massacre in Massachusetts - Worchester, MA

Sony Pictures Home Ent.

01/11/22 — Released Cobra Kai: Season 3 (2 disc set)

Stonecutter Media (MOD)

01/11/22 — Released Brawling Bimbos: Crazy Cat Fights, CZW Girlz: Double D Destruction, Ghetto Girls: Bad Guy Beatdowns, Hood Girls Vs. Tough Thugs, Train Wreck - Street Brawls: Chicks Vs. Guys, Train Wreck - Wildest Cat Fight Mayhem, Women's Extreme Wrestling: Bloody Ho Ambush, Women's Extreme Wrestling: Pistol Whipped and Women's Extreme Wrestling: Sexual Sneak Attack

Strand Releasing

01/11/22 — Released Minyan (ARR of 81 days; box office: $11,451)

Summer Hill Films (MOD)

01/11/22 — Released Go to Hell and Turn Left

Universal Pictures Home Ent.

02/22/22 — Sets House of Gucci (ARR of 88 days; box office: $50,069,949)

VIZ Media

01/11/22 — Released Pokemon Journeys: The Series Season 23 - The Journey Starts Today! (2 disc set)

Vertical Entertainment

01/11/22 — Released Heart of Champions (ARR of 74 days; box office: $37,000) and Lantern's Lane

Vision Films (MOD)

01/11/22 — Released Lost Treasure

Walt Disney Studios Home Ent.

02/08/22 — Sets Beatles: Get Back (3 disc set) and Summer of Soul (ARR: 228 days; box office: $2,316,090)

Zondervan

01/11/22 — Released Proverbs, A Video Study: 37 Lessons on History, Meaning and Application

New Blu-ray Additions

All Channels Films (MOD)

01/11/22 — Released I Got Five on It 3

Asuka the Disc Dog (aka: Fred the Blu-ray Dog) (MOD)

01/04/22 — Released Always a Witch: The Complete Series, Avenue 5 - Season 1, Cobra Kai - Season 4 and Stitchers: The Complete Series (2 disc set)

01/11/22 — Released After Life: Seasons 1-3, Angel Anaconda: The Complete Series (2 disc set), Busy World of Richard Scarry: The Complete Series (2 disc set), Emily in Paris: Seasons 1 & 2, High Fidelity: The Complete Series, In the Heat of the Night: The Complete Series (6 disc set), Kappa Mikey: The Complete Series (2 disc set), Kim Possible: The Complete Series (2 disc set), Machine Robo Rescue: The Complete Series, Petticoat Junction: The Complete Series (5 disc set), Ragdoll: Season 1, Stay Close: The Complete Series, Timon & Pumbaa: The Complete Series (2 disc set) and Undercover Boss: Seasons 1-10 (5 disc set)

Cleopatra Entertainment

03/22/22 — Sets Dreaming Hollywood

Creature Feature Videos (MOD)

01/11/22 — Released Devils (Blu-ray/2 DVD Combo Pack)

Decal Releasing, LLC

01/11/22 — Released I’m Your Man (German) and Mass

Film Detective

02/22/22 — Sets Dancing Pirate

Film Movement

01/11/22 — Released Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy (Japanese)

FUNimation

01/11/22 — Released A3!: Season Autumn & Winter (2 disc set), Heaven's Lost Property Final: The Movie: Eternally My Master (Japanese) (Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack) (with Digital Copy) and Strike Witches: Road to Berlin - Season 3 (2 disc set) (with Digital Copy)

Good Deed – Cranked Up Films

01/11/22 — Released Double Walker

Image Entertainment

01/11/22 — Released MLK/FBI

01/18/22 — Sets Dry

Kino Lorber

01/11/22 — Released 7th Dawn, Breaking In, Card Player (Italian), Gambit, Impasse, Journey to Shiloh, Laughing Heirs (German), Mafu Cage and Pink Jungle

Maelstrom Films (MOD)

01/11/22 — Released Fisher

Movies R U.S.A. (MOD)

01/11/22 — Released Cosby Show: The Complete Series (5 disc set), Dragnet 1967: The Complete Series (3 disc set), Fire in the Sky, Fortress, Hot in Cleveland: The Complete Series (4 disc set), Hotel Transylvania: Transformania, I Know What You Did Last Summer: Season One, Itsy Bitsy, Mudbound, Mute, Road to Hell, Shimmer Lake, Short Circuit Double Feature (2 film set: Short Circuit, Short Circuit 2) and Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea: The Complete Series (6 disc set)

Naxos

01/11/22 — Released Benet Casablancas: Enigma di Lea, Drei Schwestern and Purcell: Dido and Aeneas

PCN Productions (MOD)

Sentai Filmsworks

01/11/22 — Released Ane Log

Shout! Factory

01/11/22 — Released Temp and Whispers in the Dark

03/08/22 — Sets Writer's Odyssey (Mandarin)

Smart Mark Video (MOD)

01/11/22 — Released F1rst Wrestling: Holiday Havoc - St. Paul, MN

Universal Pictures Home Ent.

02/22/22 — Sets House of Gucci (Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack) (with Digital Copy)

Vertical Entertainment

01/11/22 — Released Heart of Champions

Well Go U.S.A.

01/11/22 — Released Multiverse

New 4K Ultra HD Additions

Arrow Video

03/15/22 — Sets American Werewolf in London

Kino Lorber

01/11/22 — Released Great Escape (4K Ultra HD/Blu-ray Combo Pack)

Paramount Home Entertainment

03/22/22 — Sets Godfather Trilogy (3 film set: The Godfather / The Godfather: Part II / The Godfather Coda: The Death of Michael Corleone) (4 4K Ultra HD/Blu-ray Combo Pack)

Universal Pictures Home Ent.

03/08/22 — Sets Downton Abbey (4K Ultra HD/Blu-ray Combo Pack) (with Digital Copy)

The Film Detective Restores Director Lloyd Corrigan's Technicolor Presentation Of The Dancing Pirate For Release As Blu-ray And DVD Editions On Feb. 22

The Film Detective’s latest 4K film restoration (from surviving 35mm film elements) will be arriving home on Feb. 22 as both DVD and Blu-ray product offerings.

This latest effort is none other than director Lloyd Corrigan’s 1936 Technicolor musical, The Dancing Pirate, starring Charles Collins, a former vaudeville dancer, stage actor and later as a talent agent, he only starred in two films, The Dancing Pirate and in 1940, Swing Hostess.

The Dancing Pirate was the first three-strip Technicolor musical and over the years only “black and white” versions have made their way to DVD. This is the real deal, fully restored in all of its Technicolor glory … toss your old copies, you WILL want this one!!

Here Collins plays Jonathan Pride, a dance instructor in Boston in 1820 … he is a whiz at teaching the waltz, it is the latest thing from Europe and it is quite the thing!! It’s 1820, whalers and pirates still roam the seven seas, Maine and Missouri become states (making St. Louis the gateway to the west) and Mexico’s independence from Spain is still over a year away (not until August of 1821).

It is on these streets of Boston that Pride is shanghaied and forced to become a crew member of a pirate ship. During his long voyage from Boston around South America and up the west coast to the Spanish colony of New Spain (aka: California), Pride is transformed from a dancing dandy to a pirate, a dancing pirate, complete with early 19^th Century pirate garb.

At anchorage off the coastal town of Las Palomas, the pirate ship is spotted and the locals are alerted to the danger. The mayor, Don Emilio Perena (played by Frank Morgan — nominated for Best Actor in 1934 for his performance in The Affairs of Cellini and again in 1940 for Best Supporting actor in Tortilla Flat, is certainly best-remembered as “The Wizard” in the 1939 classic, The Wizard of Oz) and his lovely daughter, Serafina (Steffi Duna — Anthony Adverse, Way Down South, Waterloo Bridge … she married Dennis O’Keefe in 1940, the same year as Waterloo Bridge, and retired from the screen) arrive to see what all the fuss is about.

Meanwhile, Pride uses the opportunity to escape his captors and arrives in Las Palomas only to be met by a volley of gun fire (the villagers think he is a pirate), but his dancing skills save the day as he is able to “magically” dodge the bullets. Desperate, he finds a hiding place, which in a “small world sort of way” turns out to be Serafina’s bedroom … frying pan into the fire!!

A pirate in the bedroom of the mayor’s daughter in 1820 California … that was a hanging offense. So, there’s poor Jonathan Pride standing there on the gallows, a rope around his neck, when Serafina stops everything and says that she wants to learn the Waltz and that this pirate is really a dancing pirate and he can teach her and the other lovely young ladies of Las Palomas as well (included in the cast of young ladies are Rita Hayworth, Thelma Catherine Ryan (aka: Pat Nixon) and Marjorie Reynolds). Saved!

A local band magically appears, Pride does some fancy moves, with a rope around his neck, and everyone agrees that he’s no ordinary pirate, he’s a dancing pirate. The dancing lessons can now begin, Serafina will learn the waltz and Pride will not hang.

But, no sooner does the first lesson begin when he suddenly finds himself going from the frying pan to the fire and then back to the frying pan. He does the forbidden thing in 1820 Las Palomas, he puts his hand around the waist of an unmarried woman, Serafina, the mayor’s daughter!! Back to jail!!

Soon Serafina learns that this “affront” is part of the dance, so all is forgiven, but things get complicated when Capt. Don Balthazar (Victor Varconi — as Pontius Pilot in the 1927 version of The King of Kings, as Painted Horse in The Plainsman and as Rudolph Hess in The Hitler Gang, quite the gamut of characters in his long film career) and his men arrive from Monterey. He wants Serafina for his bride.

Can a dancing pirate defeat the dashing captain in a duel for the hand of Serafina, armed only with his aunt’s umbrella (which he has kept with him all this time)? To find that out, pick up a DVD or Blu-ray edition of The Dancing Pirate on Feb. 22 and discover the answer (hint: it involves some clever dance moves).

Bonus goodies include commentary from author Jennifer Churchill (“Movies are Magic”) and two newly-prepared featurettes — “Ambushed by Mediocrity: Remembering the Dancing Pirate” and “Glorious Pioneers: The Birth of Technicolor.”