October 21

	Chain Reactions: A cinematic deep dive into the lasting impact of Tobe Hooper’s slasher masterpiece “The Texas Chain Saw Massacre” on five great artists – Patton Oswalt, Takashi Miike, Alexandra Heller- Nicholas, Stephen King, and Karyn Kusama. (Digital sales, VOD only)
	The Long Walk: In the near future in this Stephen King thriller, a group of teenage boys compete in an annual contest known as “The Long Walk,” in which they must maintain a certain walking speed or get shot. (Digital sales, VOD; DVD, Blu-ray release: November 25)
	Riefenstahl: Leni Riefenstahl was Nazi Germany’s preeminent filmmaker and one of its key propagandists. Yet from the end of WWII until her death, she denied her close ties with Hitler and claimed ignorance of the Holocaust. (Digital sales, VOD; DVD release: November 18)
	The Summer Book: On a tranquil Finnish island, young Sophia comes into her own while exploring the wonders of the natural world at her family’s seasonal home alongside her father and grandmother (Glenn Close). (Digital sales, VOD only)
	The Roses: Life seems easy for picture-perfect couple Ivy and Theo: successful careers, great kids, an enviable sex life. But underneath the façade of the perfect family is a tinderbox of competition and resentments that’s ignited when Theo’s professional dreams come crashing down. (Digital sales, VOD; DVD, Blu-ray release: November 25)
	What Happened to Dorothy Bell?: A young woman confronting her own mental health struggles video documents her investigation into the traumatic events from her early childhood, which involved her late grandmother, Dorothy Bell. (Digital sales, VOD only)

October 22

Hedda: A modern take on Henrik Ibsen’s renowned stage drama from 1891. (Prime Video)

October 24

	A House of Dynamite: Centered on White House staffers grappling with an impending missile strike on America, this gripping drama unfolds in real-time as tensions escalate. (Netflix)
	Stiller & Meara: Nothing is Lost: The new documentary feature from Apple Originals Films features comedy icons Jerry Stiller and Anne Meara, and is directed by award-winning director Ben Stiller. (Apple TV+)
	Weapons: When all but one child from the same class mysteriously vanish on the same night at exactly the same time, a community is left questioning who or what is behind their disappearance. (Now on HBO Max)

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Altered States

(1980) The ultimate cinematic head trip of the 1980s, British renegade Ken Russell’s first Hollywood film — adapted by the legendary screenwriter Paddy Chayefsky from his own novel — is part hallucinogenic freak-out, part gonzo creature feature, part transcendent love story, all played at a fever pitch. When researcher Eddie Jessup (William Hurt) begins using himself as a test subject for his mind-expanding psychological experiments, it sends him on an increasingly dangerous, substance-fueled odyssey from humankind’s primordial past to the outer limits of consciousness. It’s all visualized by Russell in a psychedelic supernova of out-there imagery that encompasses everything from the pagan to the cosmic sublime, culminating in a brain-wave-blasting battle between the mind and the heart. Formats: 4K UHD + Blu-ray, Blu-ray with new 4K digital restoration, with 2.0 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack. Alternate 5.1 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack. In the 4K UHD edition: One 4K UHD disc of the film presented in Dolby Vision HDR and one Blu-ray with the film and special features. Extras: Read more here. (The Criterion Collection).

Furious Swords and Fantastic Warriors: The Heroic Cinema of Chang Cheh.

Eureka Entertainment is proud to announce the release of this spectacular collection of 10 martial arts classics from the legendary Chang Cheh, the “Godfather of Hong Kong Cinema.” Presented on Blu-ray for the first time in North America. Five-disc set. Distinguished by his penchant for bloodshed and a thematic concentration on the bonds of brotherhood and masculine sacrifice, Chang Cheh is one of the most prolific and accomplished directors ever to emerge from the Hong Kong film industry.He enjoyed a career spanning six decades and worked in a multitude of genres, from Chinese opera to kung fu films via wuxia pian, historical epics and tales of the supernatural. Presented here are 10 films that reveal the range and versatility of Chang’s career as a filmmaker. Traditional wuxia pian is represented by “King Eagle,” “Trail of the Broken Blade” and “Wandering Swordsman”; choreographed by Lau Kar-leung, “Men from the Monastery” and “Shaolin Martial Arts” are both drawn from Chang’s Shaolin cycle, included here alongside “New Shaolin Boxers”; “Iron Bodyguard,” released at the dawn of the kung fu era, is representative of changing trends in Hong Kong cinema; and some of Chang’s more esoteric work is represented by the opera film “The Fantastic Magic Baby” and the supernatural fantasy “The Weird Man.” Also included is the anthology film “Trilogy of Swordsmanship,” to which Chang contributed a segment alongside his contemporaries Yueh Feng and Cheng Kan. Formats: Blu-ray. Extras: Limited edition collector’s booklet featuring new writing on all films in this set by film critic and writer James Oliver; new audio commentaries on each film by a selection of Hong Kong cinema experts, including Frank Djeng, Mike Leeder, Arne Venema and David West; new interview with Hong Kong cinema scholar Wayne Wong on the life and work of Chang Cheh; new video essay by Jonathan Clements (author of “A Brief History of China”) on “Iron Bodyguard”; new video essay by Jonathan Clements on Chang Cheh’s Shaolin films. (Eureka! Entertainment).

A History of Violence

(2005) In David Cronenberg’s subtly provocative film, all is not as it seems. In his first of many collaborations with the director, Viggo Mortensen delivers a highly nuanced performance as Tom Stall, a small-town husband and father who is hailed as a hero when he kills the would-be perpetrators of a violent robbery. But how did this ordinary family man dispatch them with such skill? Working with an exceptional cast that also includes Maria Bello, Ed Harris, and William Hurt, Cronenberg slyly deconstructs the mythos of the American action hero, posing elemental questions about identity, human nature, and the violence that we both abhor and can’t look away from. Formats: 4K UHD + Blu-ray, Blu-ray, with new 4K digital restoration, supervised by director of photography Peter Suschitzky and approved by director David Cronenberg, with 5.1 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack. In the 4K UHD edition: One 4K UHD disc of the film presented in Dolby Vision HDR and one Blu-ray with the film and special features. Extras: Read more here. (The Criterion Collection).

Three / Three … Extremes

(2002 — China) A trio of ghostly tales of terror, each from a different country, form the anthology “Three.” Initiated by acclaimed Hong Kong producer and director Peter Ho-Sun Chan, the film would prove highly influential in its innovative approach to pan-Asian horror, and lead to the shockingly compelling sequel, “Three… Extremes.” Dive into the ultimate omnibus of horror with both films lavishly restored and featuring a wealth of new and archival extras. Korean genre maestro Kim Jee-woon (“A Tale of Two Sisters”) opens “Three” with “Memories”, where a husband and wife with no memory of how they fell apart discover the terrifying truth behind their separation. In Thai filmmaker Nonzee Nimibutr’s (“Nang Nak”) tale of guilt and jealousy, “The Wheel,” a puppeteer fears his marionettes are possessed by the spirits of those he has wronged. Finally, in Peter Ho-Sun Chan’s “Going Home,” a widowed police officer and his young son move into a new apartment and uncover the chilling secret behind their new neighbor and his seemingly comatose wife. “Three… Extremes’ ” unforgettable first story, “Dumplings,” directed by celebrated filmmaker Fruit Chan (“Made in Hong Kong”), sees an aging actor discover that the dumplings she’s been eating for their miraculous rejuvenating benefits contain an unsavory secret ingredient. Next, in Korean legend Park Chan-wook’s (“Oldboy”) segment “Cut,” a wealthy filmmaker is caught in a twisted game when a vindictive actor takes his wife hostage. Finally, Japanese Master of Horror Takashi Miike’s (“Audition”) segment, “Box,” sees a novelist plagued by nightmares of her past as a child circus performer with her long-lost twin sister, until she receives a mysterious invitation to return to the site of her old circus. Brand new 2K restorations of both films by Arrow Films. Two-disc set. Formats: Blu-ray. (Arrow Video/MVD Entertainment). Extras: Read more here.