Heretic: Two young religious women are drawn into a game of cat-and-mouse in the house of a strange man. (Digital sales, VOD only)
Venom: The Last Dance: Eddie Brock and Venom must make a devastating decision as they're pursued by a mysterious military man and alien monsters from Venom's home world. (Digital sales, VOD only)
December 12
Red One:After Santa Claus is kidnapped, the North Pole's Head of Security must team up with a notorious hacker in a globe-trotting, action-packed mission to save Christmas. (Amazon Prime Video)
December 13
Forever Mine:A stylish domestic thriller about what happens when the perfect prey turns out to be another predator. Vincent, a sadistic man, marries Erica, believing her to be the perfect victim for his cruel intentions. Unbeknownst to him, Erica is a black widow. (Digital sales, VOD only)
December 16
Listen Carefully:When troubled assistant bank manager Andy McNeary's baby daughter goes missing, he must follow the instructions of a mysterious voice on the other end of a baby monitor to save her before she disappears and his life is ruined forever. (Digital sales, VOD only)
(2023) Voices of James Marsters, Christopher McDonald, Hana Mae Lee, Robert Englund, Jordan Peele, Sid Haig. Les Hackel hates his life. He works a dead-end job, was just dumped by his high-maintenance girlfriend, and still lives with his nagging mom. One night, he discovers a fresh incision behind his neck. His friend Danny tells him it's a bomb, that someone has implanted one in his neck, too. And then the messages start coming in, forcing Les to carry out missions with deadly results. Les is partnered up with a series of oddball characters to commit heinous tasks. The violence escalating around him, Les pieces together the clues that reveal the horrific plans to breed a monstrous race of beings. Formats: DVD, Blu-ray. Extras: "A New Kind of Horror": Interviews with the performers and filmmakers; audio commentary track with writer/director Evan Marlowe and producer Kerry Marlowe; audio commentary track with puppeteer Danny Montooth. (Anchor Bay).
The Addiction
(1995) The mid-nineties were a fertile period for the vampire movie. Big-name stars such as Tom Cruise and Eddie Murphy flocked to the genre, as did high-caliber filmmakers like Francis Ford Coppola, veterans Wes Craven and John Landis, independents Michael Almereyda and Jeffrey Arsenault, and up-and-comers Quentin Tarantino and Guillermo del Toro. Amid the fangs and crucifixes, Abel Ferrara reunited with his "King of New York" star Christopher Walken for "The Addiction," a distinctly personal take on creatures of the night. Philosophy student Kathleen (Lili Taylor) is dragged into an alleyway on her way home from class by Casanova (Annabella Sciorra) and bitten on the neck. She quickly falls ill but realizes this isn't any ordinary disease when she develops an aversion to daylight and a thirst for human blood. Having made a big-budget foray into science fiction two years earlier with "Body Snatchers," Ferrara's approach to the vampire movie is in a lower key. Shot on the streets of New York, like so many of his major works - including "The Driller Killer," "Ms. 45" and "Bad Lieutenant" - and beautifully filmed in black and white, "The Addiction" sees the filmmaker on his own terms and at his very best: raw, shocking, intense, intelligent, masterful. Brand new 4K restoration from the original camera negative by Arrow Films Formats: 4K UHD. Extras:Read more here. (Arrow Video/MVD Entertainment).
The Beast
(2023 -- France) By the year 2044, artificial intelligence reigns, and human emotions are a liability that must be surgically removed to produce a more pliant workforce. But this procedure triggers Gabrielle (Léa Seydoux) to experience haunting memories of her past lives, as she encounters different incarnations of her paramour, Louis (George MacKay), first in belle epoque Paris and then in 2014 Los Angeles. As she once more undergoes the pains and pleasures of romance -- and rediscovers what it means to be truly alive -- Gabrielle awaits the erasure of her humanity with growing fascination and dread. In his most ambitious film yet, visionary director Bertrand Bonello freely adapts Henry James’s novella "The Beast in the Jungle" into a visually stunning science-fiction labyrinth that is as metaphysically mysterious as it is emotionally powerful. Formats: DVD, Blu-ray, VOD, Digital. Extras: "Meet the Filmmakers," a new interview with director Bertrand Bonello; trailer. (Janus Contemporaries). Read more here
The Block Island Sound
(2020) Directors: Kevin and Matthew McManus. Stars Chris Sheffield, Michaela McManus, Neville Archambault, Ryan O'Flanagan, Matilda Lawler. Strange things are happening on the remote Block Island Sound. Harry notices that his father Tom is starting to act very differently, becoming forgetful and angry, and taking his fishing boat out in the middle of the night. It’s also alarming that birds and fish have been dying around the island. Harry’s marine biologist sister Audry arrives on the island to investigate the wildlife deaths for the Environmental Protection Agency. She brings along her daughter to enjoy island life with her family. Audry’s research exposes chilling truths about the strange occurrences in the area and her family. Are the unimaginable calamities being caused by man’s interference, nature running amok, or something beyond?
Formats: Blu-ray, 4K Ultra HD. Extras: Audio commentary with directors Kevin McManus and Matthew McManus; behind-the-scenes featurettes about the production; McManus Family home movies; original trailer. (Synapse Films).
Crust
(2023) Sean Whalen, Daniel Roebuck, Alan Ruck, Felissa Rose, Ricky Dean Logan. The story of a depressed has-been child actor and laundromat owner, Vegas Winters (Whalen), who keeps the leftover socks from customers and uses them to clean himself. When he gets abused and weeps into the pile of socks, it turns into a creature who seeks revenge on Vegas' enemies. Formats: DVD, Blu-ray. Extras: Commentary with writer-director-star Sean Whalen; Q&A from "Crust" Los Angeles Premiere. (Anchor Bay).
Cursed in Baja
(2024) Jeff Daniel Phillips, Barbara Crampton, Finnegan Seeker Bell. Pirelli, an ex-lawman, travels to Mexico searching for the heir to a Los Angeles fortune, while confronting his own complicated past. But what he finds in Baja challenges him to the core.Formats: DVD, Blu-ray, VOD, Digital. (Anchor Bay).
8 1/2
(1963 -- Italy) Marcello Mastroianni plays Guido Anselmi, a director whose new project is collapsing around him, along with his life. One of the greatest films about film ever made, Federico Fellini’s "8½" turns one man’s artistic crisis into a grand epic of the cinema. An early working title for "8½" was "The Beautiful Confusion," and Fellini’s masterpiece is exactly that: a shimmering dream, a circus, and a magic act. Also featured is Fellini’s rarely seen first film for television, "Fellini: A Director’s Notebook" (1969). Produced by Peter Goldfarb, this “imagined documentary” of Fellini on Fellini is a kaleidoscope of unfinished projects, all of which provide a fascinating and candid window into the director’s unique creative process. New 4K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack. One 4K UHD disc of the film and one Blu-ray with the film and special features. Formats: 4K UHD + Blu-ray. Extras:Read more here. (The Criterion Collection).
Horrible History: Four Historical Epics From Chang Cheh
Often described as the “Godfather of Hong Kong Cinema,” Chang Cheh made nearly a hundred films during a long and storied career spent at the Shaw Brothers Studio, where he directed such landmark films as "The One-Armed Swordsman," "Five Deadly Venoms," and "The Heroic Ones." Many of his films drew upon Chinese history for inspiration – and many of them were based on real people and events. Eureka Classics presents four of his best historical epics in this limited-edition set: "Marco Polo," "The Pirate," "Boxer Rebellion," and "Four Riders." In "Marco Polo", the eponymous Venetian explorer (Richard Harrison) becomes embroiled in a battle between the Mongol Empire and Chinese rebels in the thirteenth century. In "The Pirate," the infamous 19th-century raider Cheung Po Tsai (Ti Lung) must evade agents of the Imperial Court while attempting to aid the downtrodden residents of a coastal village. In "Boxer Rebellion," a group of Chinese patriots use kung fu to protect their nation against invading forces at the turn of the 20th century. Finally, in "Four Riders," a Chinese veteran of the Korean War enlists three comrades to help him escape the South Korean Military Police Command after he is falsely accused of murdering an American soldier. Limited Edition of 2000 copies. Formats: Blu-ray. Extras: Two new commentaries by East Asian film expert Frank Djeng (NY Asian Film Festival) and martial artist and filmmaker Michael Worth; two new commentaries by action cinema experts Mike Leeder and Arne Venema; "National Defence" new interview with Hong Kong cinema scholar Wayne Wong on "Boxer Rebellion"; "Rewriting History" new video essay on Chang Cheh’s historical films by Jonathan Clements, author of "A Brief History of China"; limited edition collector’s booklet featuring new writing on all four films in this set by writer and critic James Oliver. (Eureka Entertainment ).
The Last Video Store
(2023) A love letter to video rental stores and the B-movie treasures that lined their walls, Cody Kennedy & Tim Rutherford's debut feature is a genre-loving blast of pure joy. When her estranged father passes, twenty-something Nyla is tasked with the thing she hates the most - cleaning up his mess. Left behind are a collection of VHS tapes, and with them, the burden of returning them to "Blaster Video," a time capsule to an era in which cover art and a catchy movie title were king, run by Kevin, a human encyclopaedia of VHS history and a friend of her father. Amongst the returns is an unknown tape, a movie not even Kevin has heard of. Was this the last movie Nyla's father watched before he died? The mystery is too much to resist. But when Kevin and Nyla press play, they unwittingly activate a long-dormant curse and a series of classic cinematic villains are plucked from B-movie heaven and hell to be unleashed into the store itself. With style, charm and note perfect performances, "The Last Video Store" is a must for physical media fans. An elegy to the cinephilic havens of movie wisdom that could once be found on every corner, and the heroes like Kevin who staffed them. Formats: Blu-ray. Extras:Read more here. (Arrow Video/MVD Entertainment).
No Country for Old Men
(2007) A deadly game of chance and destiny plays out against the stark backdrop of early-1980s West Texas in Joel and Ethan Coen’s powerful adaptation of Cormac McCarthy’s novel. When he happens upon more than two million dollars from a drug deal turned desert massacre, a retired welder and Vietnam veteran (Josh Brolin) sets into motion a wave of senseless, inexorable violence as he’s stalked across the plains by a soul-weary sheriff (Tommy Lee Jones) and a psychopathic hit man (Javier Bardem). Winner of four Academy Awards -- including Best Picture, and Best Supporting Actor for the indelibly disturbing Bardem -- this darkly deadpan borderlands noir keeps both the tension and the existential unease mounting through each cruelly ironic twist of fate. New 4K digital master, supervised and approved by director of photography Roger Deakins, 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 one Blu-ray with the film and special features.
Formats: 4K UHD + Blu-ray, Blu-ray. Extras:Read more here. (The Criterion Collection).
DVD
Heroic Ones." Many of his films drew upon Chinese history for inspiration – and many of them were based on real people and events. Eureka Classics presents four of his best historical epics in this limited-edition set: "Marco Polo," "The Pirate," "Boxer Rebellion," and "Four Riders." In "Marco Polo", the eponymous Venetian explorer (Richard Harrison) becomes embroiled in a battle between the Mongol Empire and Chinese rebels in the thirteenth century. In "The Pirate," the infamous 19th-century raider Cheung Po Tsai (Ti Lung) must evade agents of the Imperial Court while attempting to aid the downtrodden residents of a coastal village. In "Boxer Rebellion," a group of Chinese patriots use kung fu to protect their nation against invading forces at the turn of the 20th century. Finally, in "Four Riders," a Chinese veteran of the Korean War enlists three comrades to help him escape the South Korean Military Police Command after he is falsely accused of murdering an American soldier. Limited Edition of 2000 copies. Formats: Blu-ray. Extras: Two new commentaries by East Asian film expert Frank Djeng (NY Asian Film Festival) and martial artist and filmmaker Michael Worth; two new commentaries by action cinema experts Mike Leeder and Arne Venema; "National Defence" new interview with Hong Kong cinema scholar Wayne Wong on "Boxer Rebellion"; "Rewriting History" new video essay on Chang Cheh’s historical films by Jonathan Clements, author of "A Brief History of China"; limited edition collector’s booklet featuring new writing on all four films in this set by writer and critic James Oliver. (Eureka Entertainment ). 
