Join the
Sixties generation
DVD
Blu-ray Releases
OnVideo's Weekly Guide to Home Video Releases
Ditto: (South Korea) Two college students, one living in 1999 and the other in 2022, magically connect via a vintage radio and discuss their friendships and love lives. (Digital only)
Condition of Return: A churchgoing woman makes a heinous deal with the Devil in order to save her soul. (Available to rent or own on Vudu and cable; on iTunes, Prime Video and other TVOD digital platforms October 23)
Dark Asset: While attempting to pick up a woman at a bar, a mysterious man weaves a tale involving spies, implanted microchips, and the dangerous military scientist pursuing him. Little does she know, this stranger is actually telling her the truth. (Digital, VOD only)
Fire Country: Season One
(2022-23) All 22 episodes about a ragtag team of Northern California firefighters. Bode Donovan is a young convict who seeks redemption and a shortened prison sentence by joining a prison release firefighting program in Northern California, where he and other inmates are partnered with elite firefighters to extinguish massive, unpredictable wildfires across the region. It’s a high-risk, high reward assignment, and the heat is turned up when Bode is assigned to the program in his rural hometown, where he was once a golden all-American son until his troubles began. Now he’s back, with the rap sheet of a criminal and the audacity to believe in a chance for redemption with Cal Fire.
Formats: DVD. Extras: Two featurettes, gag reel. (Paramount).
Past Lives
(2023) Greta Lee, Teo Yoo, John Magaro. Nora and Hae Sung, two deeply connected childhood friends, are wrested apart after Nora’s family emigrates from South Korea. Two decades later, they are reunited in New York for one fateful week as they confront notions of destiny, love, and the choices that make a life, in this heartrending modern romance.
Formats: DVD, Blu-ray + Digital Code, VOD, Digital. Extras: Audio Commentary with writer-director Celine Song and actors Greta Lee and Teo Yoo; "Bound by Fate: Exploring Past Lives” featurette; deleted scenes. Read more here (Lionsgate).
What’s Love Got to Do With It?
(2023 -- UK) Lily James, Shazad Latif, Shabana Azmi, Emma Thompson, Sajal Aly. Rom-com about finding lasting love in today’s world. For documentary maker and dating app addict Zoe (James), swiping right has only delivered an endless stream of Mr. Wrongs, to her eccentric mother Cath’s (Thompson) dismay. For Zoe’s childhood friend and neighbor Kaz (Latif), the answer is to follow his parents’ example and opt for an arranged (or “assisted”) marriage to a bright and beautiful bride from Pakistan. As Zoe films his hopeful journey from London to Lahore to marry a stranger, chosen by his parents, she begins to wonder if she might have something to learn from a profoundly different approach to finding love. Formats: Blu-ray. Extras: Behind-the-scenes featurette, theatrical trailer. (Shout! Studios).
The Little Mermaid
(2023) Director Rob Marshall’s live-action reimagining of Disney’s beloved animated musical classic, the story of Ariel, a beautiful and spirited young mermaid with a thirst for adventure. The youngest of King Triton’s daughters and the most defiant, Ariel longs to find out more about the world beyond the sea and, while visiting the surface, falls for the dashing Prince Eric. While mermaids are forbidden to interact with humans, Ariel must follow her heart. She makes a deal with the evil sea witch, Ursula, which gives her a chance to experience life on land but ultimately places her life – and her father’s crown – in jeopardy. Vitals: Director: Rob Marshall. Stars: Halle Bailey, Jonah Hauer-King, Melissa McCarthy, Javier Bardem, Noma Dumezweni, Art Malik, Daveed Diggs, Jacob Tremblay, Awkwafina.
CC, MPAA rating: PG, 135 min., Family Fantasy Adventure, North American box office gross: $286.6 million, worldwide $530.4 million, Disney.
Formats: DVD, Blu-ray/DVD Combo + Digital Code, 4K Ultra HD/Blu-ray Combo + Digital Code, VOD, Digital.
Extras: Sing-along version; "Hotter Under The Water" five behind-the-scene featurettes; song breakdowns; "The Scuttlebutt On Sidekicks" featurette; "Passing The Dinglehopper" featurette; gag reel.
Read more here
September 19
September 22
Bad City
(2023 -- Japan) Hitoshi Ozawa, Akane Sakanoue, Masanori Mimoto, Lily Franky, Tak Sakaguchi. Long plagued by poverty and crime, Kaiko City has been torn apart by rampant corruption and growing violence between the local Yakuza faction and a notorious Korean crime boss. But when a mafia-connected businessman runs for mayor and begins systematically eliminating his opponents, a former police captain imprisoned for a brutal murder is released in a final desperate effort to reclaim the city. Formats: DVD, Blu-ray, VOD, Digital. (Well Go USA).
The Little Mermaid
(2023) Halle Bailey, Jonah Hauer-King, Melissa McCarthy, Javier Bardem, Noma Dumezweni, Art Malik, Daveed Diggs, Jacob Tremblay, Awkwafina. Director Rob Marshall’s live-action reimagining of Disney’s beloved animated musical classic, the story of Ariel, a beautiful and spirited young mermaid with a thirst for adventure. Formats: DVD, Blu-ray/DVD Combo + Digital Code, 4K Ultra HD/Blu-ray Combo + Digital Code, VOD, Digital.
Extras: Sing-along version; "Hotter Under The Water" five behind-the-scene featurettes; song breakdowns; "The Scuttlebutt On Sidekicks" featurette; "Passing The Dinglehopper" featurette; gag reel. (Disney).
Read more here
The Trial
(1962) A feverishly inspired take on Franz Kafka’s novel, Orson Welles’s "The Trial" casts Anthony Perkins as the bewildered office drone Josef K., whose arrest for an unspecified crime plunges him into a menacing bureaucratic labyrinth of guilt, corruption, and paranoia. Exiled from Hollywood and creatively unchained, Welles poured his ire at the studio system, McCarthyism, and all forms of totalitarian oppression into this cinematic statement -- one of his boldest and most personal, and the film that he himself considered his greatest. Dizzying camera angles, expressionistic lighting, increasingly surreal locations -- Welles unleashed the full force of his visual brilliance to convey the nightmarish disorientation of a world gone mad. Formats: Blu-ray, 4K UHD + Blu-ray combo edition, with New 4K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack. In the 4K UHD edition: One 4K UHD disc of the film and one Blu-ray with the film and special features. Extras: Read more here. (The Criterion Collection).
© 1996 -- 2023 OnVideo. All rights reserved
September 17, 2023
(ISSN 1094-3676).
|
|
