(2023) A charming thief and a band of unlikely adventurers undertake an epic heist to retrieve a lost relic, but things go dangerously awry when they run afoul of the wrong people. Vitals: Director: Jonathan Goldstein & John Francis Daley. Stars: Chris Pine, Michelle Rodriguez, Regé-Jean Page, Justice Smith, Sophia Lillis, Hugh Grant.
CC, MPAA rating: PG-13, 134 min., Action, North American box office gross: $88.231 million, worldwide $194.231 million, Paramount.Formats: DVD, Blu-ray + Digital Code, 4K Ultra HD/Blu-ray Combo, VOD, Digital.
Extras: "From Dice to Dragons: Honoring the Lore" behind-the-scenes with Chris Pine, Michelle"; "The Bestiary"; "Forging the Forgotten Realms"; "Broadswords, Battle-axes & Badass Brawls"; gag reel; deleted and extended scenes.
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(2023) After a catastrophic crash on an unknown planet, pilot Mills (Adam Driver) quickly discovers he’s actually stranded on Earth … 65 million years ago. Now, with only one chance at rescue, Mills and the only other survivor, Koa (Ariana Greenblatt), must make their way across an unknown terrain riddled with dangerous prehistoric creatures in an epic fight to survive.
Vitals: Director: Scott Beck & Bryan Woods. Stars: Adam Driver, Ariana Greenblatt.
CC, MPAA rating: PG-13, 93 min., Sci-Fi, North American box office gross: $31.982 million, worldwide $56.182 million, Sony.Formats: DVD, Blu-ray + Digital Code, 4K Ultra HD/Blu-ray Combo, VOD, Digital.
Extras: Deleted and extended scenes; "Creating the World of 65"; "Primordial Planet"; "Final Showdown: Concepts to Screen"; more. Read more here
This Months's Digital Releases
May 30
Book Club: The Next Chapter: Sequel follows the new journey of four best friends as they take their book club to Italy for the fun girls trip they never had. (Digital, VOD only)
Mojave Diamonds: No-holds-barred action film follows an MMA fighter in a race against time to rescue his kidnapped family after a desert diamond deal goes horribly wrong. (DVD release: Day & date)
The Pope's Exorcist: Inspired by the actual files of Father Gabriele Amorth, Chief Exorcist of the Vatican, the film follows Amorth as he investigates a young boy's terrifying possession and ends up uncovering a centuries-old conspiracy the Vatican has desperately tried to keep hidden. (DVD, Blu-ray release: June 13)
The Walking Dead: After sheriff’s deputy Rick Grimes awakens from a coma in an abandoned hospital, he’s immediately thrust into a life-or-death struggle in an apocalyptic, walker-ravaged world. This complete collection of the Primetime Emmy Award-winning series follows Rick and his band of survivors – Daryl, Morgan, Maggie, Carol, Michonne, Glenn, and more – as they struggle to survive their bleak new reality where the living pose as much of a threat as the hungry, roaming undead. (Digital only)
June 2
Esme, My Love: When Hannah notices the symptoms of a terminal and painful illness in her aloof daughter, Esme, she decides to take her on a trip to their abandoned family farm in a desperate attempt to connect before they have to say goodbye. (Digital only)
Follow Her: An aspiring actress responds to a mysterious classified ad and finds herself trapped in her new boss's twisted revenge fantasy. (VOD only)
Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves
(2023) Chris Pine, Michelle Rodriguez, Regé-Jean Page, Justice Smith, Sophia Lillis, Hugh Grant. A charming thief and a band of unlikely adventurers embark on an epic quest to retrieve a lost relic, but things go dangerously awry when they run afoul of the wrong people.
Formats: DVD, Blu-ray + Digital Code, 4K Ultra HD/Blu-ray Combo, VOD, Digital. Extras: "From Dice to Dragons: Honoring the Lore" behind-the-scenes with Chris Pine, Michelle"; "The Bestiary"; "Forging the Forgotten Realms"; "Broadswords, Battle-axes & Badass Brawls"; gag reel; deleted and extended scenes. (Paramount).
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The Last Starfighter 4K UHD
(1984) Newly restored from a 4K scan of the original negative and featuring a 4.1 mix originally created for the film's 70mm release -- never included on previous home video formats. Alex Rogan (Lance Guess) dreams of something bigger than his current existence. He gets more than he bargained for when he breaks the record on "The Last Starfighter" video game and is recruited by the Star League to defend the universe against Xur and the Kordan Armada. Alex and pilot Grig (Dan O'Herlihy), armed with the “last” Starfighter, are all that stand between the villainous Xur and domination. Also stars Robert Preston and Catherine Mary Stewart. Formats: Blu-ray. Extras: Audio commentary with star Lance Guest and his son Jackson Guest; audio commentary with Mike White of The Projection Booth podcast; archival audio commentary with director Nick Castle and production designer Ron Cobb; "Maggie’s Memories: Revisiting The Last Starfighter" interview with actor Catherine Mary Stewart; "Into the Starscape: Composing The Last Starfighter" interview with composer Craig Safan; "Incredible Odds: Writing The Last Starfighter" interview with screenwriter Jonathan Betuel; "Interstellar Hit-Beast: Creating the Special Effects" interview with special effects supervisor Kevin Pike; "Excalibur Test: Inside Digital Productions" interview with sci-fi author Greg Bear on Digital Productions, the company responsible for the CGI; "Greetings Starfighter! Inside the Arcade Game" interview with arcade game collector Estil Vance on reconstructing the Starfighter game; "Heroes of the Screen" archival featurette; "Crossing the Frontier: The Making of The Last Starfighter" archival four-part documentary; image galleries; theatrical and teaser trailers; reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Matt Ferguson; collector's booklet featuring writing by Amanda Reyes and sci-fi author Greg Bear's Omni magazine article on Digital Productions. (Arrow Video/MVD Entertainment). Read more here.
Mojave Diamonds
(2023) UFC superstars Donald “Cowboy” Cerrone, Chael Sonnen, and Quinton “Rampage” Jackson star in this action-thriller. Cerrone plays Roy, a fighter who runs afoul of the Vegas mob and must run a $50 million shipment of diamonds to Mexico. He brings his G.l. brother Danny, but the shipment is stolen by a rival gang, and brother Joe’s family is abducted as punishment. Now the three siblings must join forces to penetrate the mob compound and rescue their loved ones — no matter how many lives it costs. Formats: DVD, VOD, Digital. (Lionsgate). Read more here
Noon Wine
(1966) Directed by Sam Peckinpah and starring Jason Robards, Olivia de Havilland and Theodore Bikel, and based on Ktherine Anne Porter's short novel, this TV drama aired as part of the anthology series ABC Stage 67, and has not been seen since its original air date. The show was recorded live, on kinescope and the original masters were thought to be lost. The story: Royal Earle Thompson owns a dairy farm in southern Texas during the late 1890s. His farm is fairly unproductive, due in part to Thompson's laziness and distaste for most of the required labor on a farm. Thompson lives with his wife, Ellie, and two small sons, and while Ellie is continually ill, she does her best to perform her domestic duties around the farm. One day, Olaf Helton presents himself at the farm and the taciturn Swede asks Farmer Thompson for a job and is hired on the spot. Helton proves to be an invaluable asset and after nine years pass, the dairy farm is thriving, thanks to Helton's incomparable work ethic. One day, an offensive and irritating stranger named Homer T. Hatch shows up at the farm, saying he is there to "locate" Helton. Thompson takes an immediate dislike to Helton due to his grating banter and subtle insults. Hatch eventually reveals he is a bounty hunter, and Helton is an escaped mental patient. Thompson has a vision of Hatch driving a knife blade into Helton's stomach and rushes to Helton's defense, striking Hatch with an axe blade and killing him. Nenwhile, Helton flees. After a perfunctory trial, Thompson is acquitted on the ground of self-defense/defense of another but Thompson continues to relive the killing, endlessly reviewing possible options, other paths he could have taken. Worse, though he is legally "not guilty," the community regards him as not innocent, and fears that he has become an outcast. In a climactic scene at home, Thompson realizes that even his wife is afraid of him and that their now nearly grown sons no longer trust him. Dressed in his best, Thompson writes a note of explanation, how he never meant to kill Hatch. Poignantly, Thompson puts no blame on Helton, observing that had Hatch come hunting him instead of Helton, his friend would have done the same for him. Formats: DVD. (Liberation Hall).
Rain Man (Anniversary Edition)
(1988) Winner of four Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Original Screenplay (Ronald Bass and Barry Morrow), Best Actor (Dustin Hoffman) and Best Director (Barry Levinson), makes its 4K Ultra HD format debut (for its 35th Anniversary) with a new restoration (a just completed 4K high definition 16-Bit Scan of the original camera negative) approved by Levinson and presented in its original 1.85:1 Aspect Ratio in Dolby Vision / HDR. "Rain Man" stars Dustin Hoffman and Tom Cruise as estranged brothers on a road trip unlike any other across America. Charlie Babbitt (Cruise) has been given the news that his recently deceased father has left his entire fortune to his autistic brother Raymond (Hoffman), who he did not know existed. In a crass bid to grab some, if not all of the inheritance, Charlie abducts Raymond and what begins as a money-making scheme for Charlie turns into a journey of discovery between brothers who are worlds apart. Formats: Blu-ray, 4K Ultra HD/Blu-ray Combo. Extras: Three audio commentaries (one with director Barry Levinson, one with co-writer Barry Morrow and a third with co-writer Ronald Bass; several making of/behind the scenes featurettes including: "The Journey of Rain Man" featurette, "Lifting the Fog: A Look at the Mysteries of Autism" featurette; a deleted scene; original theatrical trailer; more. (MVD Marquee Collection).
Redline (Special Edition)
(2007) On the streets of Los Angeles and Las Vegas, daredevil drivers race the world's most exotic cars for million dollar bets. But as the stakes rise, so does the danger -- from deadly crashes to kidnapping and murder -- and only the fast and furious survive. With adrenaline-pumping action and some of the rarest, most expensive high performance vehicles ever raced and obliterated on film, "Redline" roars into high gear and doesn't let off the gas until the final explosive rush. Directed by legendary stuntman and fight choreographer Andy Cheng ("End Game") and featuring Nadia Bjorlin, Nathan Phillips, Angus Macfadyen, Tim Matheson, Jesse Johnson, Eddie Griffin and Ernie Reyes Jr., with enough gorgeous cinematography from Academy Award® nominee Bill Butler ("Jaws," "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest"), whose "camera's intimacy with vehicles at rocket velocity is striking," and "breathless" editing to keep you on the edge of your seat from the start to the finish line. Formats: Blu-ray. Extras: "Under the Hood: The Making of Redline"; "Redline at the LA Auto Show"; original theatrical trailer. (MVD Marquee Collection).
The Siege
(2023 -- UK) Daniel Stisen, Lauren Okadigbo, Yennis Cheung, Byron Gibson, Steven Blades. After being compromised during a mission gone wrong, an international assassin is sent to a reassignment center to receive a new identity and erase any trace of his past handiwork. However, when a ruthless team of operatives storms the secure compound, he reluctantly teams up with an elite hitwoman and her mysterious charge in order to make it out alive. Formats: DVD, Blu-ray VOD, Digital. (Well Go USA).
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(2023) Adam Driver, Ariana Greenblatt. After a catastrophic crash on an unknown planet, pilot Mills (Adam Driver) quickly discovers he’s actually stranded on Earth … 65 million years ago. Now, with only one chance at rescue, Mills and the only other survivor, Koa (Ariana Greenblatt), must make their way across an unknown terrain riddled with dangerous prehistoric creatures in an epic fight to survive.
Formats: DVD, Blu-ray + Digital Code, 4K Ultra HD/Blu-ray Combo, VOD, Digital. Extras: Deleted and extended scenes; "Creating the World of 65"; "Primordial Planet"; "Final Showdown: Concepts to Screen"; more. (Sony).
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Spinning Gold
(2023) Jeremy Jordan, Michelle Monaghan, Jay Pharoah, Sebastian Maniscalco, Jason Isaacs, Lyndsy Fonseca, Dan Fogler, Peyton List. A biopic of 1970s record producer Neil Bogart, co-founder of Casablanca Records. The musical journey of Neil Bogart and how his Casablanca Records created the greatest soundtrack of our lives.
Formats: DVD, Blu-ray/DVD Combo + Digital, VOD, Digital. (Universal).
Thelma & Louise
(1991) Two women, a turquoise Thunderbird, the ride of a lifetime. With this pop-culture landmark, screenwriter Callie Khouri and action auteur Ridley Scott rewrote the rules of the road movie, telling the story of two best friends who find themselves transformed into accidental fugitives during a weekend getaway gone wrong — leading them on a high-speed Southwest odyssey as they elude police and discover freedom on their own terms. Propelled by irresistible performances from Susan Sarandon and Geena Davis (plus Brad Pitt in a sexy, star-making turn) — and nominated for six Academy Awards, winning one for Khouri — the exhilaratingly cathartic "Thelma & Louise" stands as cinema’s ultimate ode to ride-or-die female friendship. Formats: 4K UHD + Blu-ray, with new 4K digital restoration, supervised by director Ridley Scott, 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 two Blu-rays with the film and special features. Extras:Read more here. (The Criterion Collection).
Two Sinners and a Mule
(2023) Chantelle Albers, Hannah James, Cam Gigandet, Cord Newman, David Midthunder, Buck Taylor, Luce Rains. Kicked out of a small Western town for sinful behavior, free-spirited Alice (Albers) and Nora (James) set out for Virginia City to pursue their dream of opening a restaurant. Out on the prairie, they come across an injured bounty hunter named Elden (Gigandet). Hoping to share in the reward, they nurse Elden back to health and help him stalk his prey, Grimes (Newman). But as Nora and Alice both develop feelings for Elden, no one notices that Grimes is now on their tail, and the hunters become the hunted. Formats: DVD, VOD, Digital. (Lionsgate). Read more here