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Adalynn: In order to keep herself and her newborn baby alive, a mother must fight to overcome postpartum depression, grief, inner demons, sinister impulses, and an unseen tormentor until her husband can return home from his business trip to help her. (DVD release: Day & date)
Avatar: The Way of Water: Jake Sully lives with his newfound family formed on the extrasolar moon Pandora. Once a familiar threat returns to finish what was previously started, Jake must work with Neytiri and the army of the Na'vi race to protect their home. (Digital only)
I'm an Electric Lampshade: This documentary-narrative hybrid tells the story of Doug Mccorkle, a buttoned- up, mild-mannered corporate accountant. After retiring at age 60, Doug puts his marriage and life savings on the line to chase his wildest dream. (Digital, VOD only)
Plane: Pilot Brodie Torrance (Gerard Butler) saves his passengers from a lightning strike by making a risky landing on a war-torn island – only to find that surviving the landing was just the beginning. When most of the passengers are taken hostage by dangerous rebels, the only person Torrance can count on for help is Louis Gaspare (Mike Colter), an accused murderer who was being transported by the FBI. (DVD, Blu-ray release: Day & date)
The Quest for Tom Sawyer’s Gold: Antony and his two friends believe Tom Sawyer’s vast treasure is hidden nearby, so they search for it using clues from the classic novel and a series of maps – and when Antony’s mom, Agatha, joins the search, she turns out to be a tough, smart explorer herself. (Digital, VOD only)
The Son: A drama that follows a family as it struggles to reunite after falling apart. Peter's hectic life with his infant and new partner Beth (Kirby) is upended when his ex-wife Kate (Dern) appears with their son Nicholas (McGrath), who is now a teenager. The young man has been missing from school for months and is troubled, distant, and angry. (DVD, Blu-ray release: Day & date)
Adalynn
(2023) Sydney Carvill, Wade Baker, Janet Carter. In order to keep herself and her newborn baby alive, a mother must fight to overcome postpartum depression, grief, inner demons, sinister impulses, and an unseen tormentor until her husband can return home from his business trip to help her. Formats: DVD, VOD, Digital. (Summer Hill Films). Read more here
Batman: The Doom That Came to Gotham
(2023) Inspired by the comic book series by Mike Mignola, Richard Pace and Troy Nixey, this animated feature is a 1920s-based tale that finds explorer Bruce Wayne accidentally unleashing an ancient evil, expediting his return to Gotham City after a two-decade hiatus. The logic/science-driven Batman must battle Lovecraftian supernatural forces threatening the sheer existence of Gotham, along the way being aided and confronted by reimagined versions of his well-known allies and enemies, including Green Arrow, Ra’s al Ghul, Mr. Freeze, Killer Croc, Two-Face, James Gordon and Bruce’s beloved wards. Formats: Blu-ray + Digital, 4K Ultra HD/Blu-ray Combo + Digital, Digital. Extras: "Batman: Shadows of Gotham," commentary. (Warner).
Knockabout
(1979 -- Hong Kong) Having established himself as Hong Kong's premier action choreographer throughout the 1970s, Sammo Hung ended the decade by directing a non-stop assault of kung fu classics for Golden Harvest, starting with the brutal "Iron-Fisted Monk." But it would be his 1979 directorial effort that would finally give his Peking Opera brother-in-arms, acrobatic ace Yuen Biao, his first chance at leading man status. Brothers and partners-in-crime, Yipao (Biao)
The Son
(2022) Hugh Jackman, Laura Dern, Vanessa Kirby, Zen McGrath, Anthony Hopkins. Peter (Jackman) finds his already hectic life upended when his ex-wife (Dern) appears to discuss their teenage son, Nicholas (McGrath), who has been missing school for months and is deeply troubled. Peter strives to take care of Nicholas as he would have wanted his own father (Hopkins) to have taken care of him, but the rigors of raising a new son with Beth (Kirby) and a new position at work makes him lose sight of how to hold onto Nicholas. The film is a compelling cautionary tale from director Florian Zeller ("The Father") about a family struggling to reunite after falling apart. Formats: DVD, Blu-ray, VOD, Digital. Extras: "Bringing The Son to the Screen." (Sony). Read more here
The Weapon
(2023) Tony Schiena, AnnaLynne McCord, Sean Patrick Flanery, Jack Kesy, Cuba Gooding Jr., Bruce Dern. Schiena is Dallas, a one-man killing machine on a mysterious rampage. His attacks on biker gangs and meth labs anger the Vegas mob boss who’s holding Dallas’s girlfriend hostage. But who is Dallas working for? Even torture won’t make him talk…and he won’t stop until justice is served. Formats: DVD, VOD, Digital. (Lionsgate). Read more here
Plane
(2023) Pilot Brodie Torrance (Gerard Butler) saves his passengers from a lightning strike by making a risky landing on a war-torn island – only to find that surviving the landing was just the beginning. When most of the passengers are taken hostage by dangerous rebels, the only person Torrance can count on for help is Louis Gaspare (Mike Colter), an accused murderer who was being transported by the FBI. In order to rescue the passengers, Torrance will need Gaspare’s help, and will learn there’s more to Gaspare than meets the eye.
Vitals: Director: Jean-François Richet. Stars: Gerard Butler, Mike Colter, Yoson An, Daniella Pineda, Paul Ben-Victor, Tony Goldwyn.
2023, CC, MPAA rating: R, 107 min., Action Thriller, US box office gross: $31.931 million, worldwide $48.604 million, Lionsgate.
Formats: DVD, Blu-ray/DVD Combo + Digital Code, 4K Ultra HD/Blu-ray Combo + Digital Code, VOD, Digital.
Extras: "This Is Your Captain,"
"Plane Clothes," "Brace for Turbulence." Read more here
Missing
(2023) When her mother (Nia Long) disappears while on vacation in Colombia with her new boyfriend, June's (Storm Reid) search for answers is hindered by international red tape. Stuck thousands of miles away in Los Angeles, June creatively uses all the latest technology at her fingertips to try and find her before it's too late. But as she digs deeper, her digital sleuthing raises more questions than answers ... and when June unravels secrets about her mom, she discovers that she never really knew her at all. Vitals: Director: Nick Johnson, Will Merrick. Stars: Storm Reid, Joaquim de Almeida, Ken Leung, Amy Landecker, Daniel Henney, Nia Long.
CC, MPAA rating: PG-13, 111 min., Mystery, North American box office gross: $32.401 million, worldwide $45.001 million, Sony.
Formats: DVD + Digital, Blu-ray + Digital, VOD, Digital.
March 28
Black Sunday
(1977) Throughout the 1970s, a wave of daring disaster movies gripped cinemagoers with their combination of bravura spectacle and "ripped from the headlines" plotlines. Among these, John Frankenheimer's "Black Sunday" endures to this day as among the cream of the crop. Robert Shaw ("Jaws," "The Taking of Pelham One Two Three") stars as Major Kabakov, an Israeli agent attempting to avert a terrorist atrocity on US soil. The weapon: a blimp laced with explosives and piloted by Michael Lander (Bruce Dern), a troubled Vietnam vet driven to strike back against the nation he believes has betrayed him. The target: the Orange Bowl stadium, Miami. What follows is a nail-biting race against time culminating in a spectacular aerial climax that will determine the fate of 80,000 spectators. Adapted from the best-selling debut novel by Thomas Harris ("The Silence of the Lambs") and featuring virtuoso performances by a cast headlined by Dern, Shaw and Marthe Keller ("Marathon Man"), "Black Sunday" is a nerve-shredding, best-in-class suspense thriller from a filmmaker at the top of his game. Formats: Blu-ray. Extras: Brand new audio commentary by film scholar Josh Nelson; "It Could Be Tomorrow" brand new visual essay by critic Sergio Angelini, exploring the film’s adaptation and production, and its place within the pantheon of 70s terrorism thrillers; "The Directors: John Frankenheimer" hour-long portrait of the director from 2003, including interviews with Frankenheimer, Kirk Douglas, Samuel L. Jackson, Roy Scheider, Rod Steiger and others; image gallery; reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Peter Strain; FIRST PRESSING ONLY: Illustrated collector's booklet featuring new writing on the film by Barry Forshaw. (Arrow Video/MVD Entertainment). Read more here.
Chilly Scenes of Winter
(1979) The trailblazing Joan Micklin Silver -— one of only five women to direct a film for a Hollywood studio in the 1970s -— digs fearlessly into the psychology of a thorny relationship in this anti–romantic comedy, based on Ann Beattie’s best-selling novel, about lovelorn civil servant Charles (John Heard) and his married-but-separated coworker Laura (Mary Beth Hurt). Months after their affair has ended, Charles is haunted by memories as he desperately attempts to rekindle a love that perhaps never was. Switching deftly between past and present, Micklin Silver guides this piercing deconstruction of male wish-fulfillment fantasy beyond standard movie-romance tropes into something more complicated and cuttingly truthful.
Formats: Blu-ray, with new, restored 4K digital transfer, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack. Extras: New program featuring producers Griffin Dunne, Mark Metcalf, and Amy Robinson; documentary from 1983 by Katja Raganelli about director Joan Micklin Silver; excerpts of a 2005 interview with Micklin Silver; original ending of the film, cut by Micklin Silver for its rerelease in 1982; trailer; an essay by scholar Shonni Enelow. Read more here. (The Criterion Collection).
Code of the Assassins
(2022 -- China) William Feng, Jun Hu, Gina Jin, Qingxiang Wang. In this wuxia fantasy action-adventure, a distinguished young assassin, trained by the best, receives his first assignment for a secret society of assassins. Failing to complete his mission, he becomes a fugitive hunted by the government, shadowy figures and rival assassin groups. With his weaponized mechanical hand, he must survive double crosses, gadget-arsenal armed killers and clashing factions to find a secret treasure map and get to the bottom of the huge conspiracy he finds himself tangled in.. Formats: DVD, Blu-ray, VOD, Digital. (Well Go USA).
and Taipao (Leung Kar-Yan), have made an up-and-down career out of being hustlers, conning everyone from bank tellers to casino dealers. One day, they push their luck with the wrong man, martial arts master Chia Wu Dao (legendary Shaw Brothers fight choreographer Lau Kar-Wing), but convince him to reluctantly become their teacher in hand-to-hand combat. But upon learning Chia's dangerous true nature, Yipao turns to another master: a portly blinking beggar (Hung) trained in the ways of the monkey fist. Will this new skill defeat Chia's secret snake style? Combining Hung's hard-hitting choreography with the Mo Lei Tau style of humor that was increasing in popularity at the time, "Knockabout" is a thrill-a-minute action spectacular that would pave the way for later masterpieces such as Hung and Biao's subsequent collaboration, the Wing Chun tour-de-force "The Prodigal Son." 2K restorations from the original elements by Fortune Star of both the original HK Theatrical Cut and the shorter Export Cut. Original lossless Cantonese and Mandarin mono audio for the HK Theatrical Cut, plus lossless English mono for both cuts. Two choices of English dubbed audio for the HK Theatrical Cut: the original export dub mono and the newer 5.1 dub created for international DVD presentations. Formats: Blu-ray. Extras: Read more here. (Arrow Video/MVD Entertainment)
Plane
(2023) Gerard Butler, Mike Colter, Yoson An, Daniella Pineda, Paul Ben-Victor, Tony Goldwyn. Brodie Torrance saves his passengers from a lightning strike by making a risky landing on a war-torn island - only to find that surviving the landing was just the beginning. When most of the passengers are taken hostage by dangerous rebels, the only person Torrance can count on for help is Louis Gaspare, an accused murderer who was being transported by the FBI.
Formats: DVD, Blu-ray/DVD Combo + Digital Code, 4K Ultra HD/Blu-ray Combo + Digital Code, VOD, Digital. Extras: "This Is Your Captain," "Plane Clothes," "Brace for Turbulence." (Lionsgate). Read more here
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