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April 15:
High Maintenance Season 3 : This season profiles everyday people whose stories of success, failure, love and loss intersect across New York, while delving deeper into personal life of The Guy, who is spending less time on his iconic bicycle and more time in “Steve RV,” a set of wheels gifted to him last season. (HBO Digital Download)
Les Misérables: A blockbuster novel for over 150 years comes vividly to life in award-winning screenwriter Andrew Davies’s multi-layered retelling of Les Misérables by Victor Hugo. (PBS MASTERPIECE Prime Video Channel)
Someone Great: Aspiring music journalist Jenny (Gina Rodriguez) has just landed her dream job at an iconic magazine and is about to move to San Francisco. Rather than do long distance, her boyfriend of nine years (Lakeith Stanfield) decides to call it quits. To nurse her broken heart, Jenny gathers up her two best friends Erin (DeWanda Wise) and Blair (Brittany Snow) for one outrageous last adventure in New York City. (Netflix)
Vice Season 6: Covering a wide range of social and cultural issues, this season focuses on education in America, investigating teacher pay, student mental health, the school-to-prison pipeline and other pressing topics. (HBO Digital Download)
Wyatt Cenac’s Problem Area’s Season 2: Covering a wide range of social and cultural issues, this season focuses on education in America, investigating teacher pay, student mental health, the school-to-prison pipeline and other pressing topics. (HBO Digital Download)
April 16:
The LEGO Movie 2: The Second Part: It's been five years since everything was awesome and the citizens are facing a huge new threat: Lego Duplo invaders from outer space, wrecking everything faster than they can rebuild. (DVD, Blu-ray release: May 7)
Master of Dark Shadows: A comprehensive celebration of the legendary Gothic daytime series "Dark Shadows" and its visionary creator, Dan Curtis. Includes interviews with key actors and filmmakers involved in the undyingly popular story of vampire Barnabas Collins and all the eerie goings-on at the gloomy Maine mansion Collinwood. (DVD release: Day & date)
Miss Bala: Caught in the perilous world of a brutal cross-border cartel, a young woman (Gina Rodriguez) finds powers she never knew she had as she seeks to rescue her friend. (DVD, Blu-ray release: April 30)
The Adventures of Jurassic Pet
(2018) David Fletcher-Hall, Kyler Beck, Ben Hall. In this live-action family adventure, a teen boy adopts and hatches a baby T. rex, but then must rescue the creature from a mad scientist who wants to clone a whole new breed of dinosaurs. Formats: DVD, VOD, Digital. (Lionsgate).
Becky Sharp
(1936) Director: Rouben Mamoulian; Starring: Miriam Hopkins, Frances Dee, Cedric Hardwicke, Billie Burke, Nigel Bruce, Alan Mowbray. In the years just preceding Waterloo, best friends Becky Sharp (Miriam Hopkins) and Amelia Sedley (Frances Dee) graduate from Miss Pinkerton's Academy for Girls. The wealthy Amelia invites the penniless Becky into the bosom of her family home while the manipulative Becky plots her climb up the social ladder. Entirely lacking in scruples and unhampered by conscience or morality, Becky ascends to the very pinnacle of society, crushing anyone who stands in her path. Set against the backdrop of the Napoleonic Wars, Rouben Mamoulian's adaptation of Thackeray's epic novel "Vanity Fair" was the first film to be produced in three-strip Technicolor. Screenplay by Francis Edward Faragoh ("Little Caesar," "Frankenstein"). Brand new 4K restoration from the 35mm nitrate negative & positive separations. Formats: DVD, Blu-ray. Extras: Audio commentary by film historian Jack Theakston, trailers. (Kino Lorber Studio Classics).
Bend of the River
(1952) Director: Anthony Mann; Starring: James Stewart, Rock Hudson, Arthur Kennedy, Julie Adams, Harry Morgan , Jay C. Flippen, Chubby Johnson, Stepin' Fetchit, Royal Dano. Man-with-a-past James Stewart guides a band of pioneers from Missouri over the Oregon Trail to a new life in the Columbia River Basin in this western adventure directed by the great Anthony Mann. When the settlers are cheated out of their supplies and cattle, Stewart crosses rivers, climbs mountains and out-guns greedy hijackers to ensure their survival through the first winter. Along the way, he is double-crossed by ally Arthur Kennedy and assisted by handsome San Francisco gambler Rock Hudson and beautiful farmer's daughter Julia Adams. Screenplay by Borden Chase ("Red River"). Formats: DVD, Blu-ray. Extras: New audio commentary by film historian Toby Roan, theatrical trailer. (Kino Lorber Studio Classics).
Cynthia
(2018) Scout Taylor-Compton, Sid Haig, Bill Moseley, Robert LaSardo, Rebecca Marshall, James Karen. Robin and Michael are college sweethearts who have everything – a perfect marriage, adorable cat, a beautiful home, but one thing is missing from this idyllic setting -- a baby. After years of fertility treatments their dreams come true when Robin finds out she is pregnant. But their conception grows into a slimy six-fingered one-legged nightmare that terrorizes the entire neighborhood. Detectives embark on a monster-baby hunt of epic proportions as Cynthia munches her way home to mommy, leaving nothing but girls and corpses behind. Formats: DVD, VOD. (Indican Pictures).
Glass
(2019) Dir.: M. Night Shyamalan; James McAvoy, Bruce Willis, Anya Taylor-Joy, Sarah Paulson, Samuel L. Jackson. Writer-Director M. Night Shyamalan ("The Sixth Sense") completes a mind-bending "superhero" trilogy created nearly 20 years
Justice League vs. The Fatal Five
(2019) The Earth’s future hangs in the balance when the Justice League faces a powerful new threat – the Fatal Five in this latest DC Universe original animated feature. Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman seek answers as the time-traveling trio of Mano, Persuader and Tharok terrorize Metropolis in search of budding Green Lantern, Jessica Cruz -- whom they need to free remaining Fatal Five members Emerald Empress and Validus in order to carry out their sinister plan. But the Justice League discover an ally from another time in the peculiar Star Boy --brimming with volatile power, could he be the key to thwarting the Fatal Five?Formats: DVD, Blu-ray/DVD Combo, 4K Ultra HD/Blu-ray Combo, VOD, Digital. Extras: "Battling the Invisible Menace" featurette; "Justice League vs. Fatal Five: Unity of Hero" featurette; audio commentary; From the DC Vault: "Justice League Unlimited Far From Home”; From the DC Vault: "Legion of Superheroes Man of Tomorrow.” (Warner).
Master of Dark Shadows
(2019) A comprehensive celebration of the legendary Gothic daytime series "Dark Shadows" and its visionary creator, Dan Curtis. Includes interviews with key actors and filmmakers involved in the undyingly popular story of vampire Barnabas Collins and all the eerie goings-on at the gloomy Maine mansion Collinwood. In 1966, a phenomenon was launched when "Dark Shadows" debuted on ABC-TV as a daily Gothic suspense series. Airing in the late afternoon, the show attracted a massive youth audience as it shifted to the supernatural with the introduction of vulnerable vampire Barnabas Collins. Witches, ghosts and scary story lines turned Dark Shadows into a TV classic that led to motion pictures, remakes, reunions and legions of devoted fans who have kept the legend alive for five decades. Formats: DVD, Digital. (MPI Media).
The Stand-In
(1937) Newly transferred and restored. Humphrey Bogart stars as a film producer in this riotous, lacerating satire on the motion picture industry. Directed by Tay Garnett ("The Postman Always Rings Twice") and produced by Walter Wanger ("You Only Live Once"), "Stand-In" leaves no Tinseltown target untouched while serving up a sprightly mix of slapstick, send-up and sentiment with screwball-inspired romance for seasoning. Formats: DVD, Blu-ray. (Twilight Time Movies).
Glass
Writer-Director M. Night Shyamalan ("The Sixth Sense") completes a mind-bending "superhero" trilogy created nearly 20 years ago. From "Unbreakable," Bruce Willis returns as David Dunn as does Samuel L. Jackson as Elijah Price, known also by his pseudonym Mr. Glass. Joining from "Split" are James McAvoy, reprising his role as Kevin Wendell Crumb and the multiple identities who reside within, and Anya Taylor-Joy as Casey Cooke, the only captive to survive an encounter with The Beast. Following the conclusion of "Split," Glass finds Dunn pursuing Crumb's superhuman figure of The Beast in a series of escalating encounters, while the shadowy presence of Price emerges as an orchestrator who holds secrets critical to both men.
Vitals: Director: M. Night Shyamalan. Stars: James McAvoy, Bruce Willis, Anya Taylor-Joy, Sarah Paulson, Samuel L. Jackson.
2019, CC, MPAA rating: PG-13, 129 min., Thriller, Box office gross: $111.035 million, Universal.
Extras: Alternate opening; deleted scenes; "A Conversation with James McAvoy and M. Night Shyamalan." Blu-ray adds "The Collection of Main Characters"; "Bringing the Team Back Together"; "David Dunn vs. The Beast"; "Glass Decoded"; "Breaking Glass: The Stunts"; "Connecting the Glass Universe" explore Shyamalan's stylistic approach to the Glass trilogy and the unconventional concept of a comic book movie grounded in reality; "M. Night Shyamalan: Behind the Lens"; "Enhancing the Spectacle" VFX featurette; "Raven Hill Memorial" in which the cast and crew describe the eerie location as its own character in the film; "Night Vision - A look at the early stages of Glass by examining the storyboards and their remarkable similarity to the final shots in the film.
Replicas
Keanu Reeves stars as William Foster, a neuroscientist on the verge of transferring human consciousness into a computer when his beloved wife (Alice Eve) and children are tragically killed in a car crash. Desperate to resurrect his family, William recruits a fellow scientist (Thomas Middleditch) to help secretly clone their bodies and create replicas. When William learns that he can only replicate three of the four family members, he makes a decision with fateful consequences.
Vitals: Director: Jeffrey Nachmanoff. Stars: Keanu Reeves, Alice Eve, Thomas Middleditch, Emily Alyn Lind, Emjay Anthony, John Ortiz.
2018, CC, MPAA rating: PG-13, 107 min., Sci-Fi Thriller, Box office gross: $4.406 million, Lionsgate.
Extras: Audio commentary with director Jeffrey Nachmanoff and executive producer James Dodson, “Imprint Complete: The Making of Replicas” featurette, deleted scenes.
The Kid Who Would Be King
Alex thinks he’s just another nobody, getting bullied at school and told what to do by his teachers, until he stumbles upon the mythical Sword in the Stone, Excalibur. Now, with the help of the legendary wizard Merlin, he must unite his friends and school yard enemies into an allied band of knights to defeat the wicked enchantress Morgana. With the future at stake, Alex must become the great leader he never dreamed he could be and save the world.
Vitals: Director:. Stars: Louis Ashbourne Serkis, Denise Gough, Dean Chaumoo, Tom Taylor, Rhianna Dorris, Nathan Stewart-Jarrett, Noma Dumezweni, Rebecca Ferguson.
2019, CC, MPAA rating: PG, 117 min., Family Action Adventure, Box office gross: $16.788 million, Fox.
Extras: Deleted scenes, "Origins of a King," "Young Knights," hair, makeup & costume tests, "Merlin’s Magic." Blu-ray adds *Knight School," "The Two Merlins," "Meet Morgana," "Movie Magic," "Be the King,” "Lay Lay music video. 
Diamonds of the Night
(1964 -- Czechoslovakia ) With this simultaneously harrowing and lyrical debut feature, Jan Nemec established himself as the most uncompromising visionary among the radical filmmakers who made up the Czechoslovak New Wave. Adapted from a novel by Arnošt Lustig, "Diamonds of the Night" closely tracks two boys who escape from a concentration-camp transport and flee into the surrounding woods, a hostile terrain where the brute realities of survival coexist with dreams, memories, and fragments of visual poetry. Along with visceral camera work by Jaroslav Kucera and Miroslav Ondrícek -- two of Czechoslovak cinema’s most influential cinematographers -- Nemec makes inventive use of fractured editing, elliptical storytelling, and flights of surrealism as he strips context away from this bare-bones tale, evoking the dizzying plight of consciousness lost in night and fog. On DVD and Blu-ray, with new 4K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray.
Extras: Interview from 2009 with director Jan Nemec; "A Loaf of Bread," Nemec’s 1960 student thesis film, based on a short story by Arnošt Lustig; "Arnošt Lustig Through the Eyes of Jan Nemec," a short documentary on Lustig from 1993; new interview with film programmer Irena Kovarova; new video essay on the film’s stylistic influences by scholar James Quandt; an essay by film critic Michael Atkinson. (The Criterion Collection).
Escape at Dannemora
(2018) Three-disc set with all seven episodes of the limited series directed by Ben Stiller and starring Benicio Del Toro, Patricia Arquette, Paul Dano, Bonnie Hunt, Eric Lange and David Morse. Follows the true story of two convicted murderers, Richard Matt (Del Toro) and David Sweat (Dano), who escaped Clinton Correctional Facility with the help of Joyce "Tilly" Mitchell (Arquette), a female prison employee. Tilly, a working class wife and mother who supervises the prison tailor shop and becomes sexually involved with the two prisoners, ultimately assisting them in their escape. Formats: DVD. Extras: Commentary on each episode; "Primary Sources," featurette that looks at the real life circumstances of the 2015 prison break; "Making of "Sweat's Run" 17-minute Episode Five opening scene. (Showtime/Paramount).
ago.Following the conclusion of "Split," "Glass" finds Dunn ("Unbreakable") pursuing Crumb’s superhuman figure of The Beast in a series of escalating encounters, while the shadowy presence of Price (Mr. Glass) emerges as an orchestrator who holds secrets critical to both men. Formats: DVD, Blu-ray, Blu-ray/DVD Combo, 4K Ultra HD/Blu-ray Combo, VOD, Digital. Extras: Alternate opening; deleted scenes; "A Conversation with James McAvoy and M. Night Shyamalan." Blu-ray adds "The Collection of Main Characters"; "Bringing the Team Back Together"; "David Dunn vs. The Beast"; "Glass Decoded"; "Breaking Glass: The Stunts"; "Connecting the Glass Universe" explore Shyamalan's stylistic approach to the Glass trilogy and the unconventional concept of a comic book movie grounded in reality; "M. Night Shyamalan: Behind the Lens"; "Enhancing the Spectacle" VFX featurette; "Raven Hill Memorial" in which the cast and crew describe the eerie location as its own character in the film; "Night Vision - A look at the early stages of Glass by examining the storyboards and their remarkable similarity to the final shots in the film. (Universal).
Keoma
(1976 -- Italy) A strikingly original Spaghetti Western with a unique elegiac tone, "Keoma" truly is a one-of-a-kind classic of its genre. The legendary Franco Nero stars in the titular role as a half-breed gunfighter who returns from the killing fields of the Civil War to find his hometown riddled with the plague, its inhabitants terrorized (with the help of Keoma's own estranged half-brothers) by tyrannical gang leader Caldwell (Donald O'Brien). Keoma's father (Willian Berger) welcomes his prodigal son's return, but when Keoma saves a vulnerable pregnant woman (Olga Karlatos) from Caldwell's thugs, the stage is set for a violent confrontation. With the help of his father and his friend, the freed slave George (Woody Strode), Keoma prepares to take a savage revenge on Caldwell and his gang. Directed with immense flair and virtuosity by veteran Enzo G. Castellari (who channels Sam Peckinpah and Sergio Leone in equal measure), "Keoma" is an epic film of Shakespearean and biblical allusions, which boasts compelling performances and thrilling violent action. The film is presented here in a stunning new 2K restoration from the original 35mm camera negative. Formats: Blu-ray. Extras: New audio commentary by Spaghetti Western experts C. Courtney Joyner and Henry C. Parke; "The Ballad of Keoma," a new interview with the legendary star Franco Nero; "Ashes to Ashes, Dust to Dust," a new interview with director Enzo G. Castellari; "Writing Keoma," a new interview with actor and writer Luigi Montefiori AKA George Eastman; "Parallel Actions," a new interview with editor Gianfranco Amicucci; "The Flying Thug," a new interview with actor Massimo Vanni; "Play as an Actor," a new interview with actor Volfango Soldati; "Keoma and the Twilight of the Spaghetti Western," a newly filmed video appreciation by the academic Austin Fisher; "An Introduction to Keoma" by Alex Cox, an archival featurette with the acclaimed director; original Italian and international theatrical trailers; gallery of original promotional images from the Mike Siegel Archive; reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Sean Phillips. (Arrow Video/MVD Entertainment).
The Kid Who Would Be King
(2019) Louis Ashbourne Serkis, Denise Gough, Dean Chaumoo, Tom Taylor, Rhianna Dorris, Nathan Stewart-Jarrett, Noma Dumezweni, Rebecca Ferguson. A band of kids in the present embark on an epic quest to thwart a medieval menace. Formats: DVD, Blu-ray/DVD Combo, 4K Ultra HD/Blu-ray Combo, VOD, Digital. Extras: Deleted scenes, "Origins of a King," "Young Knights," hair, makeup & costume tests, "Merlin’s Magic." Blu-ray adds *Knight School," "The Two Merlins," "Meet Morgana," "Movie Magic," "Be the King,” "Lay Lay music video. (Fox).
Replicas
(2018) Keanu Reeves, Alice Eve, Thomas Middleditch, Emily Alyn Lind, Emjay Anthony, John Ortiz. A scientist becomes obsessed with bringing back his family members who died in a traffic accident. Formats: DVD, Blu-ray/DVD Combo, VOD, Digital. Extras: Audio commentary with director Jeffrey Nachmanoff and executive producer James Dodson, “Imprint Complete: The Making of Replicas” featurette, deleted scenes. (Lionsgate).
Steven Universe: Season 2 Giftset
(2018) Two-disc set with 22 episodes. "Steven Universe" is set in Beach City on the American East Coast, where the four Crystal Gems live in an ancient beachside temple, protecting the world from evil. As immortal alien warriors, they project female humanoid forms from magical gems that are the core of their being. The Crystal Gems are Garnet, Amethyst, Pearl and Steven, a young half-human, half-Gem boy who inherited the gem of his mother Rose Quartz, the former leader of the Crystal Gems. As Steven tries to figure out his powers, he spends his days with his human father Greg, his friend Connie or the other Gems, whether to help them save the world or just to hang out. He explores the abilities passed down to him by his mother, which include fusion -- the ability of two Gems to temporarily merge their identities and bodies to form a distinct new personality. Created by Rebecca Sugar, "Steven Universe" continues to resonate with fans and galvanize massive followings across demographics. Receiving high acclaim from critics for its art, music, voice performances, storytelling and characterization, the series has received one Primetime Emmy while being nominated for four others. It has also received nominations for five Annie Awards, two GLAAD Media Awards, a Kids’ Choice Award and three Teen Choice Awards. Formats: DVD. Extras: Animatics. Plus, an exclusive Garnet fusion keychain is enclosed in every DVD disc package. (Cartoon Network).
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