Happy New year to all our OnVideo friends.
From the Big Screen:
“Tusk.” For more information on these and other releases this week, see the Weekly Guide to Home Video Releases.
From TV to DVD:
“Banshee: The Complete Second Season” (2014) is a four-disc set with 10 episodes. “Banshee” charts the continuing twists and turns that follow Lucas Hood (Antony Starr), an ex-convict who assumes the identity of sheriff of the rural, Amish-area town of Banshee, where his former lover and partner-in-crime (Ivana Milicevic) lives under the alias Carrie Hopewell. Season 2 takes up
Buzzin’ the ‘B’s:
In “I Am Soldier” (2014), starring Tom Hughes and Duncan Casey, a military cook attempts to join the United Kingdom’s renowned special forces regime, the Special Air Service (S.A.S.), an elite group tasked with life-threatening missions in the most dangerous places on Earth. But to get in soldiers must first pass an excruciating selection process, and the cook must overcome torturous physical and mental obstacles, the most evil interrogation possible and a test that pushes his fellow candidates and him to the body-breaking limit. From Inception Media Group.
On the Indie Front:
In “Kelly & Cal” (2014), starring Juliette Lewis and Jonny Weston, Kelly, a punk-rocker turned suburban mom, is nostalgic for a life she can no longer have and uncertain of a future she doesn’t yet fit in. Seventeen-year-old Cal is frustrated at his lack of control over the hand he’s been dealt. When the two strike up an unlikely friendship, it’s the perfect spark needed to thrust them both back to life. From IFC Films … When an affluent matriarch gathers her dysfunctional family for a holiday at their Northern California lake house, her carefully constructed weekend begins to come apart at the seams, leading her to question her own role in the family in “Last Weekend” (2014), starring Patricia Clarkson, Chris Mulkey, Zachary Booth and Joseph Cross. From IFC Films.