Tuesday, April 19, 2022

New DVD • Blu-ray • 4K Ultra HD Activity For The Period Ending April 15, 2022

 


New DVD Additions 

Ralph Tribbey, DVD & Blu-ray Release Report

All Time Movie Classics (MOD)

04/12/22 — Released Ramrod and Too Hot to Handle (aka: Playgirl After Dark)

 

Bridgestone Multimedi (MOD)

04/12/22 — Released Magdala Rose and Soundtrack to Sixteen

 

C Vision Productions (MOD)

04/12/22 — Released CN: In & Around Chicago Land, Volume 1 and Norfolk Southern's Marion Branch

 

CBS Home Entertainment (MOD)

04/12/22 — Released Survivor: Season 41 (4 disc set)

 

Dark Star Pictures

04/12/22 — Released Dingo

 

EWTN

04/12/22 — Released EWTN Live: Rod Bennett - How and why Jesus selected specific men to be the Twelve Apostles, Women of Grace: Dr. Edward Sri - Journeying Through Christ's Passion, Women of Grace: Fr. Sean Davidson - Mary Magdalene and Eucharistic Love and World Over with Raymond Navarro

 

Elvis DVD Collector & Movie Store (MOD)

04/12/22 — Released Unnatural Act

 

Film Collector (MOD)

04/12/22 — Released Bahama Passage, Between Us Girls, Boy Friend, Can This Be Dixie?, Frisco Sal, Girls of the Road, Give Us This Night, Hoosier Holiday, Kibitzer, Lady Lies, Madame Racketeer, Naval Academy, No Place to Land, Our Hearts Were Young and Gay, Sainted Sisters,Scatterbrain and Talk About A Lady

 

Film Movement

04/12/22 — Released Servants (Slovak)

 

Film Movement

04/12/22 — Released Slow Machine

 

Great Finds (MOD)

04/12/22 — Released Family Next Door and You're Not So Tough

 

Great Finds (MOD)

04/12/22 — Released Tales of the San Joaquin River, Tulare: The Phantom Lake 2022, Water Beneath Our Feet and When You Return

 

HBO Home Entertainment (MOD)

04/12/22 — Released Kimi

 

Hallmark Channel

04/12/22 — Released Chesapeake Shores: Season 5 (2 disc set)

 

I-Cine (MOD)

04/12/22 — Released Phi Ho 3 (12 disc set)

 

IFC Films

04/12/22 — Released Novice (ARR of 116 days; box office: $24,222)

06/14/22 — Sets Benedetta (French) (ARR of 191 days; box office: $354,311)

 

Icarus Films

05/10/22 — Sets Julietta (French)

06/14/22 — Sets Putin's Witnesses (Russian)

 

Image Entertainment

04/12/22 — Released Last Looks

 

Kino Lorber

04/12/22 — Released Fabian: Going to the Dogs (German) (ARR of 60 days; box office: $21,057)

 

Lifesize Entertainment (MOD)

04/12/22 — Released American St. Nick, Carlo Goldoni, Eagles of Mercy, River (Finnish), Flies, Nymphs, & Trophy Trout, Carousel of Revenge, Erosion, Luella Miller, Oral Fixation, Out of Bounds, Puzzlehead, Slippery Slope, Things to Do and West Wittering Affair

 

Lionsgate Home Entertainment

04/12/22 — Released My Sweet Monster and WarHunt

 

Machinations Entertainment (MOD)

04/12/22 — Released Voyage of the Chimera

 

Media Outlet (MOD)

04/12/22 — Released Tunnel Under the Wall and Who was Lee Harvey Oswald? (2 disc set)

 

National Geographic (MOD)

04/12/22 — Released National Geographic: Trafficked: Season 2 (2 disc set)

 

Naxos

04/12/22 — Released Fundamental Gilbert and George

 

PBS Direct

04/12/22 — Released NOVA: Alaskan Dinosaurs

 

Paramount Home Ent. (MOD)

04/12/22 — Released Arrowhead, Crying Game, Shipping News and Tiger Rising

 

Pre-Code Classics (MOD)

04/12/22 — Released Clara Bow Double Feature (2 film set: Dangerous Curves, True to the Navy)

 

Showtime Networks, Inc. (MOD)

04/12/22 — Released Ricky Powell: The Individualist

 

Smart Mark Video (MOD)

04/12/22 — Released H2O Wrestling: Hardcore Kingdom 6 - Williamstown, NJ

 

The DVD HQ (MOD)

04/12/22 — Released Ann Carver's Profession, Blonde from Brooklyn, Channel Crossing, Circus Queen Murder, Fatal Witness and Lilly Turner

 

The High School Sports Network (MOD)

04/12/22 — Released 2022 UIL 4A Boys Soccer Championship, 2022 UIL 4A Boys Soccer Semifinals #1, 2022 UIL 4A Boys Soccer Semifinals #2, 2022 UIL 4A Girls Soccer Championship, 2022 UIL 4A Girls Soccer Semifinals #1, 2022 UIL 4A Girls Soccer Semifinals #2, 2022 UIL 4A Region 3 - Soccer Girls Regional Finals,  2022 UIL 5A Boys Soccer Semifinals #1, 2022 UIL 5A Boys Soccer Semifinals #2, 2022 UIL 5A Girls Soccer Semifinals #1, 2022 UIL 5A Girls Soccer Semifinals #2, 2022 UIL 6A Boys Soccer Semifinals #1, 2022 UIL 6A Boys Soccer Semifinals #2, 2022 UIL 6A Girls Soccer Semifinals #1 and 2022 UIL 6A Girls Soccer Semifinals #2

 

Tsmithco (MOD)

04/12/22 — Released Men Into Space: The Complete Series (5 disc set) and Three Mesquiteers (34 film set: The Three Mesquiteers, Ghost-Town Gold, Roarin' Lead, The Riders of the Whistling Skull, Hit the Saddle, Gunsmoke Ranch, Come On, Cowboys!, Range Defenders, Heart of the Rockies, The Trigger Trio, The Purple Vigilantes, Call the Mesquiteers, Riders of the Black Hill, Heroes of the Hills, Pals of the Saddle, Overland Stage Raiders, Santa Fe Stampede, Red River Range, The Night Riders, Three Texas Steers, Wyoming Outlaw, New Frontier, Cowboys From Texas, Heroes of the Saddle, Covered Wagon Days, Rocky Mountain Rangers, Under Texas Skies, The Trail Blazers, Lone Star Raiders, Pals of the Pecos, West Of Cimarron, Valley of Hunted Men, The Blocked Trail, Riders of the Rio Grande) (11 disc set)

 

Uncork’d Entertainment

04/12/22 — Released Jurassic Island

 

Uncork’d Entertainment (MOD)

04/12/22 — Released Reed's Point

 

Undercrank Productions (MOD)

04/12/22 — Released Beverly of Graustark (silent-1926)

 

Universal Pictures Home Ent.

04/12/22 — Released Chucky: Season One (2 disc set)

04/19/22 — Sets King's Daughter (ARR of 88 days; box office: $1,758,963)

05/03/22 — Sets Blacklight (ARR of 81 days; box office: $9,564,016)                           

 

Well Go U.S.A.

04/12/22 — Released Spiritwalker (Korean)

 

WOWnow Entertainment

04/12/22 — Released Ashley 8: Trick or Treat, Conch Bay 9: What Happened to Conch Bay, Train School: Counting with TootSkoot and Train School: Learning Trucks and Construction

 

 

 


New Blu-ray Additions  

 

Arrow Video

04/12/22 — Released Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

 

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

04/12/22 — Released 20Q: The Complete Series, Adventures of Pete and Pete, Breaking Amish: The Complete Series (3 disc set), Chuck Chicken: The Complete Series, Emogenius: The Complete Series, Fairly OddParents: Fairly Odder - Season 1, Fairly OddParents: The Complete Series (4 disc set), Fox's Peter Pan & The Pirates: The Complete Series (2 disc set), Frogger - Season 1, From - Season 1, Hardy Boys-Nancy Drew Mysteries: The Complete Series (2 disc set), Hardy Boys, The - Season 1, Hardy Boys, The - Season 2, Horrible Histories: The Complete Series, Japan Sinks: 2020: The Complete Series, K. C. Undercover: The Complete Series (2 disc set), Lenore: The Cute Little Dead Girl, Midnight Gospel - Season One, Most Hated Woman In America: The Complete Series , My Goldfish is Evil: The Complete Series, Other Two  - Seasons 1-2, Rated A For Awesome: The Complete Series, Return To Amish - Seasons 1-6 (4 disc set), Severance - Season 1, Sidekick: The Complete Series, Sirens: The Complete Series, Taylor Swift - Miss Americana, Twelve Forever: The Complete Series, Walt Disney Presents: The Hardy Boys - The Complete Series, Wayside: The Complete Series and X's: The Complete Series

 

C Vision Productions (MOD)

04/12/22 — Released CN: In & Around Chicago Land, Volume 1 and Norfolk Southern's Marion Branch

 

ClassicTVShop (MOD)

04/12/22 — Released New Adventures of the Lone Ranger & Zorro (3 disc set)

 

Code Red Entertainment

04/12/22 — Released Screams of a Winter Night

 

Cohen Media Group

04/12/22 — Released Oranges and Sunshine

 

Collector’s Heaven (MOD)

04/12/22 — Released Bel-Air, Belle (Japanese), Birds of Prey the Complete Series (2 disc set), Bridgerton: Season 2, Gilded Age: Season 1, Guardians of Justice: Season 1, Harry Potter 20th Anniversary Return to Hogwarts, I Carly: Season 1, Jackass Anthology (7 movies set: Jackass the Movie, Jackass Number Two, Jackass 2.5, Jackass 3, Jackass 3.5, Bad Grandpa, Bad Grandpa.5, plus TV series) (3 disc set), Jackass Forever, Jeff Foxworthy Show: The Complete Series, MacGruber: Season 1, Moonfall, Munich: The Edge of War, Nancy Drew: Season 3      , Parallels: Season 1, Peaky Blinders: The Complete Series (3 disc set), Snowpiercer: Season 3 , T.J. Hooker: The Complete Series (4 disc set), Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Upload Season 1

 

Flicker Alley

04/12/22 — Released Whistle at Eaton Falls

 

FUNimation

04/12/22 — Released King's Raid: Successors of the Will - Part 2 (2 disc set) (with Digital Copy), Knights of Sidonia: Love Woven in the Stars (Japanese) (with Digital Copy) and One Piece: Collection 29 (4 Blu-ray/4 DVD Combo Pack)

 

Image Entertainment

04/12/22 — Released Last Looks

 

Kino Lorber

04/12/22 — Released Double Feature (2 film set: Abominable Dr. Phibes, Dr. Phibes Rises Again), Fabian: Going to the Dogs (German), New Year's Evil, Tentacles and Two Films by Miklós Jancsó (2 film set: Round-Up, Red and White) (Hungarian) (2 disc set)

 

Lionsgate Home Entertainment

04/12/22 — Released WarHunt

 

Machinations Entertainment (MOD)

04/12/22 — Released Voyage of the Chimera

 

Media Blasters

04/12/22 — Released Ramen Fighter Miki: Full Course (2 disc set)

 

Mill Creek Entertainment

06/07/22 — Sets Martin Short Double Feature (2 film set: Cross My Heart, Pure Luck)

 

Monsterland Media (MOD)

04/12/22 — Released Alice, Assault On VA-33, Black Narcissus, Boys Diabolical: Season One, Fanatic, Fear City, Fresh, Huntress: Rune of the Dead, Journalist: Season One (2 disc set), Medical Police: Season One, Mischief, No Exit, Water Babies, Weekend Away, Worst Roommate Ever, Wrestlemania 38 (2 disc set), Zaat and Zorro: The Gay Blade

 

Movies R U.S.A. (MOD)

04/12/22 — Released Alice, Assault On VA-33, Black Narcissus, Boys Diabolical: Season One, Fanatic , Fear City, Fresh, Huntress: Rune of the Dead, Journalist: Season One (2 disc set), Medical Police: Season One, Mischief, No Exit, Water Babies, Weekend Away, Worst Roommate Ever, Wrestlemania 38 (2 disc set), Zaat and Zorro: The Gay Blade

 

Paramount Home Ent. (MOD)

04/12/22 — Released 45 Years, Blind Swordsman: Zatoichi (Japanese), Escape from Alcatraz, Jersey Girl and Shipping News

 

Sentai Filmworks

04/12/22 — Released Drifting Dragons: The Complete Collection (2 disc set)

 

Severin Films

06/28/22 — Sets Mardi Gras Massacre

 

Shout! Factory

04/12/22 — Released Song of the Sea (Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack) (French)

 

Sunshine, Inc.

06/07/22 — Sets Mobile Suit Gundam NT (Japanese)

 

Undercrank Productions (MOD)

04/12/22 — Released Beverly of Graustark (silent-1926)

 

Universal Pictures Home Ent.

04/12/22 — Released Chucky: Season One (2 disc set)

04/19/22 — Sets King's Daughter (with Digital Copy)

05/10/22 — Sets Blacklight (Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack) (with Digital Copy)

 

VCI Entertainment

06/07/22 — Sets Bloody 70's Horror Double Feature (2 film set: Mary, Mary, Bloody Mary, Blood Feast) (2 disc set)

 

Well Go U.S.A.

04/12/22 — Released Spiritwalker (Korean)

 

 

 

 

 

New 4K Ultra HD Additions  

 

Blue Underground

07/19/22 — Sets God Told Me To (4K Ultra HD/Blu-ray Combo Pack)

 

Vinegar Syndrome

05/31/22 — Sets Death Wish 2 ((4K Ultra HD/Blu-ray Combo Pack), Flesheater (4K Ultra HD/Blu-ray Combo Pack) and Peekarama Presents: Stiff Competition (4K Ultra HD/Blu-ray Combo Pack) (with Digital Copy)

 

 

Icarus Films Sets Marc Allégret’s Julietta For DVD Release On May 10 And Vitaly Mansky’s Putin’s Witnesses Follows On June 14

Ralph Tribbey, DVD & Blu-ray Release Report

Icarus Films has added legendary French filmmaker Marc Allégret’s 1953 (1957, domestic theatrical debut) romantic comedy, Julietta, to its May 10 DVD release calendar.

Already in place on that date is his 1955 (1959 domestic) film adaptation of D. H. Lawrence’s 1928 novel, Lady Chatterley’s Lover, which is noted for being the subject of the 1959 Supreme Court ruling that banning its exhibition in New York City was a violation of the First Amendment.

Julietta, adapted from Louise de Vilmorin’s 1951 novel, stars Dany Robin (Napoleon, Good Evening Paris, Waltz of the Toreadors, Topaz) as the title character, who has been roped into an arranged marriage with a much older man.  On her way to fulfill her commitment, she leaves the train and wanders the countryside until she happens upon the house of André Landrecourt (Jean Marais — Orpheus, Napoleon), a dashing young attorney who is engaged to a woman by the name of Rosie (played by Jeanne Moreau). 

Thus, a romantic juggling act begins.   Landrecourt tries to keep Julietta from upsetting Rosie … and in the end we know how that is going to work out!!

Julietta is presented in French with English subtitles.

Also added to the DVD release calendar this past week by Icarus Films is documentary filmmaker Vitaly Mansky’s Putin’s Witnesses, which will be making its debut on June 14.

Ralph Tribbey, DVD & Blu-ray Release Report

The timing couldn’t be better.   If you want to understand how Vladimir Putin came to power, look no further than Mansky’s treasure trove of footage from his rise to power in 1999. 

Although a documentary, Putin’s Witnesses plays more like an arthouse thriller — think: filmmaker Costa-Gavras’ 1969 film release of Z.  

Mansky’s film worked the film festival circuit begin in the summer of 2018 (long before the current Ukraine situation) and piled up award after award as it moved around the world from festival-to-festival throughout all of 2019 and into the Pandemic shutdown of early 2020.

Now it will be available for all to watch as it moves into the home entertainment packaged media marketplace in mid-June.

As a bonus, Icarus Films is including director Tania Rakhmanova’s rarely seen 2005 film, How Putin Came to Power.

Both films are presented in Russian with English subtitles.

 

Ralph Tribbey, DVD & Blu-ray Release Report

Ralph Tribbey, DVD & Blu-ray Release Report

 

 

Blue Underground's New 4K Film Restoration Of Writer/Director Larry Cohen's 1976 Film Release Of Gold Told Me Set For 4K Ultra HD/Blu-ray Combo Pack Release On July 19

Ralph Tribbey, https://www.dvdandblurayreleasereport.com/

Blue Underground, with sales and distribution support provided by MVD Entertainment Group, has a new 4K film restoration (from the original camera negative) of auteur filmmaker Larry Cohen’s 1976 New York City slaughter-in-the-streets thriller, God Told Me To, ready for delivery as a 4K Ultra HD/Blu-ray Combo Pack edition on July 19.

For film fans, Larry Cohen was one of the best indie filmmakers of the 1970s and 1980s.   He could do blaxploitation with the best of them, but it was his genre films that set him apart … It's Alive (1974, plus sequels), Q: The Winged Serpent (1982), The Stuff (1985) and of course Gold Told Me To, which combines elements of sci-fi, horror and New York City detective work (much like Q: The Winged Serpent).

A sniper mows down over a dozen people, and when cornered by Lieutenant Detective Peter Nicholas (Tony Lo Bianco — The French Connection, The Seven-Ups, The Honeymoon Killers), he seems calms, almost unaware of the carnage he has created.  Why?  “God told me to” … and then he leaps to his death from his rooftop perch.  

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Soon Nicholas is interviewing a man in a hospital who went on a stabbing spree.  He’s in bad shape.   Why?  “God told me to” … and then he flatlines.

What the hell is going on.   Nicholas is mystified, but being a New York City police detective he is going to figure it out, it’s his job.

It happens again, this time at the famed St. Patrick's Day Parade, but it’s not some stranger, it is one of their own.   A cop, pulls his gun and just starts shooting people … and once again Nicholas is there in time to hear the final works of the killer, “God told me to.”  

Once, strange.  Twice, a coincidence.   A third time, this isn’t random, something evil is a work.

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As mentioned, filmmaker Larry Cohen combined sci-fi, horror and police work in Gold Told Me To, which sets Det. Nicholas on a mission; an obsession to solve this bizarre mystery.   It is an investigation that will lead him down a rabbit hole that is totally unexpected … what is going on comes right back to him.  Whoa!

Bonus features include a vintage commentary option with the late Larry Cohen, plus a newly-prepared commentary with film historians Steve Mitch and Troy Howarth, a vintage Lincoln Center Q&A session with Larry Cohen (2002) and three featurettes — “Heaven & Hell on Earth,” “Bloody Good Times,” and “God Told Me to Bone.” 

 

Ralph Tribbey, https://www.dvdandblurayreleasereport.com/