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OnVideo's Weekly Guide to Home Video Releases
Ariel: Back To Buenos Aires: A brother and sister return to the country of their birth, Argentina, for the first time in their adult lives. In the glamorous tango clubs of Buenos Aires, they uncover dark family secrets and the reason for their parents' emigration. (VOD only)
Barbie: Barbie suffers a crisis that leads her to question her world and her existence. (Digital, VOD only)
The Latent Image: Gay writer Ben has his solitude in the woods invaded by a mysterious stranger. Both threatened by and attracted to the attractive man, has Ben found the perfect inspiration for his new book or are his darkest and most dangerous fantasies about to come to life? (DVD release: Day & date)
Theater Camp: The eccentric staff of a rundown theater camp in upstate New York must band together with the beloved founder's bro-y son to keep the camp afloat. (Digital only)
Air
(2023) Matt Damon, Jason Bateman, Ben Affleck, Chris Messina, Viola Davis, Julius Tennon, Damian Delano Young, Chris Tucker, Matthew Maher, Gustaf Skarsgard, Barbara Sukowa, Jay Mohr, Joel Gretsch, Michael O'Neill, Marlon Wayans. Follows the history of sports marketing executive Sonny Vaccaro, and how he led Nike in its pursuit of the greatest athlete in the history of basketball, Michael Jordan. Formats: DVD, Blu-ray + Digital Code, VOD, Digital. (Amazon).
Between Two Worlds
(2023 -- France) Famed author Marianne Winckler (Juliette Binoche) goes undercover to investigate the exploitation of the working class in Northern France. She eventually lands a job as a cleaner on the cross-channel ferry and develops close connections with the other cleaning women, many of whom have extremely limited resources and income opportunities. As she learns more about the plight of these workers, Marianne struggles with her deception toward them and tries to rationalize that it’s for the greater good. A longtime passion project for star and Academy Award-Winning Actress Juliette Binoche, "Between Two Worlds" is adapted from Florence Aubenas’s bestselling non-fiction work "Le Quai de Ouistreham (The Night Cleaner)" and marks Emmanuel Carrère’s return to directing for the first time since "The Moustache" in 2008. Carrère has achieved world renown and acclaim as an author and has been described by The New Yorker as "France’s best-known writer of literary nonfiction." Formats: DVD, Blu-ray. Runtime: 107 minutes; Rating: NR. "Language:" French with English subtitles. (Cohen Media Group).
Cobra Kai Season 5
(2022) Two-disc set with all 10 episodes of the aeries that takes place over 30 years after the events of the 1984 All Valley Karate Tournament with the continuation of the inescapable conflict between Daniel LaRusso (Ralph Macchio) and Johnny Lawrence (William Zabka). Following the shocking results of the All Valley Tournament, Season 5 finds Terry Silver expanding the Cobra Kai empire and trying to make his "No Mercy" style of karate the only game in town.
With Kreese behind bars and Johnny Lawrence setting karate aside to focus on repairing the damage he’s caused, Daniel LaRusso must call on an old friend for help. Formats: DVD. (Sony).
Cobweb
(2023) Lizzy Caplan, Woody Norman, Cleopatra Coleman, Antony Starr. Eight-year-old Peter is plagued by a mysterious, constant tap, tap from inside his bedroom wall – a tapping that his parents insist is all in his imagination. As Peter’s fear intensifies, he believes that his parents (Lizzy Caplan and Antony Starr) could be hiding a terrible, dangerous secret and questions their trust. And for a child, what could be more frightening than that?
Formats: DVD, Blu-ray + Digital Code, VOD, Digital. Run Time: 88 Minutes; Rating: R for horror violence and some language. Extras: "Becoming The Girl”; "Through the Eyes of a Child"; "A Primal Fear." (Lionsgate).
Death Game
(1977) Seymour Cassel, Sondra Locke, Colleen Camp. Cassel stars as George Manning, a family man whose perfect life is turned into a nightmare of sex and torture when he allows himself to be seduced by two nubile young strangers (Locke and Camp) who show up at his door on a rainy night. Considered lost for many decades, "Death Game" is being presented for the first time on home video in its original 2.39:1 aspect ratio, meticulously restored in 4K from the original camera negative.
Formats: Blu-ray. Extras: Provocative, in-depth interviews with cult movie legend Colleen Camp and director Peter Traynor, conducted by Eli Roth; additional interviews with co-star Locke, producer Larry Spiegel, cinematographer-editor David Worth, and screenwriter Michael Ronald Ross; audio commentaries by Camp & Roth, and Spiegel and Worth; liner notes by cinema historian David Szulkin; extensive still galleries; beautiful embossed slipcover with new art by esteemed painter Dave Lebow; trailer; deleted scenes, more. Bonus CD: original soundtrack by Jimmie Haskell – newly discovered and remastered in 24bit/192Khz sound. (Grindhouse Releasing).
Irwin Allen: Master of Disaster Collection
This seven-film collection includes both television and theatrical films from director-writer-producer Irwin Allen, the master of the disaster film. From an overturned cruise liner and a bursting dam to collapsing caves, bridges and more, all seven white-knuckle thrillers are presented with a new 2K scan from the Interpositive. The films feature incredible all-star casts including Michael Caine, Paul Newman, Sally Field, Leslie Nielsen, Telly Savalas, Jacqueline Bisset, William Holden, Ernest Borgnine, Shirley Jones, Roddy McDowall and a huge roster of supporting screaming actors and actresses. The films: "Flood" (1976-TV), "Fire" (1977-TV), "Hanging By a Tread" (1979-TV), "Beyond the Poseidon Adventure" (1979), "When Time Ran Out" (1980), "The Night the Bridge Fell Down" (1980-TV), "Cave In!" (1983-TV). Formats: Blu-ray. Extras: Trailers, galleries. (Shout! Studios).
Joy Ride
(2023) Ashley Park, Lennon Yee, Isla Rose Hall, Sherry Cola, Chloe Pun, Stephanie Hsu, Sabrina Wu, Ronny Chieng, Meredith Hagner, David Denman. Follows four Asian American friends as they bond and discover the truth of what it means to know and love who you are, while they travel through China in search of one of their birth mothers. Formats: DVD, Blu-ray/DVD Combo + Digital Code, VOD, Digital. Extras: "A Grand Adventure: Making Joy Ride"; "Adele Lim, Director: A Siren Call to Hollywood"; "A Place of Joy: R Is for Representation"; "Never Too Much: A Comedic Lovefest"; "WAP Sing-along"; "WAP Solo Cast Choreography"; deleted scene; theatrical trailer. (Lionsgate).
The Latent Image
(2023) Joshua Tonks, Jay Clift. The tense drama mixes elements of fear, excitement, sexuality and danger as gay writer Ben (Tonks) has his solitude in the woods invaded by a mysterious stranger (Clift). Both threatened by and attracted to the attractive man, has Ben found the perfect inspiration for his new book or are his darkest and most dangerous fantasies about to come to life? Formats: DVD, VOD, Digital. (Cinephobia Releasing). Read more here
Poker Face: Season One
(2023) Three-disc set with all 10 episodes of the mystery-of-the-week series that follows Natasha Lyonne’s Charlie, who has an extraordinary ability to determine when someone is lying. She hits the road with her Plymouth Barracuda and with every stop encounters a new cast of characters and strange crimes she can’t help but solve. Co-stars Adrien Brody, Joseph Gordon-Levitt. Formats: DVD, Blu-ray. (Paramount).
Rick and Morty: The Complete Seasons 1-6
(2013-22) Six-disc set with all 61 episodes plus extras. "Rick and Morty" is the critically acclaimed, Emmy-award-winning half-hour animated comedy series on Adult Swim that follows a sociopathic genius scientist who drags his inherently timid grandson on insanely dangerous adventures across the universe. Rick Sanchez is living with his daughter Beth’s family and constantly bringing her, his son-in-law Jerry, granddaughter Summer, and grandson Morty into intergalactic escapades. Formats: DVD, Blu-ray, Digital. (Adult Swim/Warner).
The Walking Dead - Dead City: The Complete First Season
(2023) Two-disc set with all six episodes. "The Walking Dead" regulars Maggie and Negan travel into a post-apocalyptic Manhattan long ago cut off from the mainland in this spin-off series. The crumbling city is filled with the dead and denizens who have made New York City their own world full of anarchy, danger, beauty, and terror. Formats: DVD, Blu-ray. (RLJ Entertainment).
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