(2024) Based on a stranger-than-fiction true story, the film follows two neighbors: deeply-conservative local Edith Swan (Olivia Colman) and rowdy Irish migrant Rose Gooding (Jessie Buckley). When Edith and fellow residents start to receive wicked letters full of unintentionally hilarious profanities, foul-mouthed Rose is charged with the crime. The anonymous letters prompt a national uproar, and a trial ensues. However, as the town's women, led by Police Officer Gladys Moss (Anjana Vasan), begin to investigate the crime themselves, they suspect that something is amiss and Rose might not be the culprit after all. Vitals: Director: Thea Sharrock. Stars: Olivia Colman, Jessie Buckley, Anjana Vasan, Timothy Spall, Gemma Jones.
CC, MPAA rating: R, 100 min., Comedy Mystery, North American box office gross: $4.882 million, worldwide $25.804 million, Sony.Formats: DVD, VOD, Digital.
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Exhuma: After tracing a strange ailment to a remote grave site, a team of supernatural experts soon discovers what happens when you mess with the wrong grave in the award-winner South Korean horror-thriller. (Digital sales, VOD only)
The Hangman: To mend their troubled relationship, a middle-aged door-to-door salesman takes his teenage son on a camping trip into deep rural Appalachia. Little do they know of the mountainous region's sinister secrets: A local cult has summoned an evil demon born of hate and pain, known to them as The Hangman, and now the bodies have begun to pile up. (Digital sales, VOD only)
Insane Like Me?: A supernatural thriller about a combat veteran who returns home after a tour of duty overseas and becomes the lead suspect in his girlfriend's disappearance and is subsequently wrongly convicted and incarcerated. Nine years later he is released from the mental asylum, he returns home to find the truth and settle the score. (Digital sales, VOD only)
The Mattachine Family: While Thomas and Oscar are very much in love, after their first foster child returns to his birth mother they find that they have different ideas about what making a family actually means. (DVD, Blu-ray release: June 25)
June 7
Hit Man: A mild-mannered professor moonlighting as a fake hit man for police stings ignites a chain reaction of trouble when he falls for a potential client. (Netflix)
Israelism: When two young American Jews raised to unconditionally love Israel witness the way Israel treats Palestinians, their lives take sharp left turns. Their stories in this documentary reveal a deepening generational divide over modern Jewish identity.(Digital sales, VOD only)
Kill Your Lover: When Dakota tries to break off her toxic relationship with Axel, it starts transforming him into a monstrous creature. He gradually succumbs to the poison of the decaying relationship, becoming a creature with increased aggression, a touch that melts skin and worst of all, he's contagious. (Digital sales, VOD only)
(2024) Jean-Claude Van Damme, Kristanna Loken, Spencer Breslin, Shannen Doherty, Emerson Min, Peter Jae, Sticky Fingaz. Russell Hatch (Van Damme) is a washed up, former Interpol operative who vowed to protect the son of an informant killed years earlier in a raid gone wrong. When merciless street gangs start an all-out turf war and the kid is caught in the middle, Hatch will stop at nothing to keep the him safe and fight anyone who gets in his way. Formats: DVD, VOD, Digital. (Sony).
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
(1998) It is 1971, and journalist Raoul Duke barrels toward Las Vegas -- accompanied by a trunkful of contraband and his slightly unhinged Samoan attorney, Dr. Gonzo -- to cover a motorcycle race. What should be a cut-and-dried journalistic assignment quickly descends into a feverish psychedelic odyssey. Director Terry Gilliam and an all-star cast, headlined by Johnny Depp and Benicio Del Toro, show no mercy in bringing Hunter S. Thompson’s excoriating dissection of the American way of life to the screen, creating a film both hilarious and savage. Formats: 4K UHD/Blu-ray, with new 4K digital restoration, supervised and approved by director Terry Gilliam, presented in the aspect ratio of 2.39:1, with 2.0 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack. Alternate 5.1 surround soundtrack. 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).
Founders Day
(2024) Devin Druid, Amy Hargreaves, Naomi Grace, Catherine Curtin, Emilia McCarthy, Olivia Nikkanen, William Russ. A small town is shaken by a series of ominous killings in the days leading up to a heated mayoral election. As accusations fly and the threat of a masked killer darkens every street corner, the residents must race to uncover the truth before fear consumes the town. Formats: Blu-ray, VOD, Digital. (MPI Home Video). Read more here
Lost Soulz
(2023) Sauve Sidle, Alexander Brackney, Malachi Mabson, Micro TDH, Siyanda Stillwell, Krystall Poppin. A rapper leaves everything behind and embarks on an odyssey of self discovery, music, and friendship in the heart of Texas. Formats: DVD, Blu-ray. Extras: Audio commentary by director Katherine Propper and star Sauve Sidle; Katherine Propper’s short films: "Street Flame" (2019) and "Birds" (2021); deleted and extended scenes; theatrical trailer. (Kino Lorber).
Postal
(2007) Director: Uwe Boll; Stars Zack Ward, David Foley, Verne Troyer, Jackie Tohn, Chris Coppola. Dive into the chaotic world of Postal Dude, a man down on his luck, thrust into an outlandish scheme by his cult-leading uncle. Their audacious heist at a local amusement park, targeting a coveted trove of trendy toys, spirals into madness with the sudden intervention of terrorists with a sinister plot. Massacre Video brings Uwe Boll's daring and controversial adaptation of the popular video game to stunning 4K UHD. This darkly comedic masterpiece has been meticulously scanned from the original negatives for a state-of-the-art 4K presentation. Formats: 4K Ultra HD/Blu-ray Combo. Extras: Director audio commentary; "Running With Scissors" audio commentary: behind the scenes; deleted scenes; making of features; gag reel. (Massacre Video).
Ruby's Choice
(2024) Jane Seymour, Jacqueline McKenzie, Stephen Hunter, Coco Jack Gillies, Nicole Pastor. An aging woman with dementia moves in with her daughter's family when she is unable to continue to live by herself. Her teen granddaughter is forced to share her room and miss school to care for her. Her resentment turns to love as she spends her days and nights with her grandmother and long-hidden family secrets are revealed, giving a new understanding and appreciation of her past.Formats: DVD, VOD, Digital. (Vision).
Wicked Little Letters
(2024) Olivia Colman, Jessie Buckley, Anjana Vasan, Timothy Spall, Gemma Jones. When people in Littlehampton -- including conservative local Edith -- begin to receive letters full of hilarious profanities, rowdy Irish migrant Rose is charged with the crime. Suspecting that something is amiss, the town's women investigate. Formats: DVD, VOD, Digital. (Sony).
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