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Ash vs Evil Dead
(2015) Two-disc set with all 10 episodes of the half-hour STARZ Original series that is the long-awaited follow-up to the classic horror film "The Evil Dead"; the series is executive produced by "Evil Dead" creator Sam Raimi, Rob Tapert and Bruce Campbell, and stars Campbell in his iconic role as Ash, the stock boy, now an aging lothario and chainsaw-handed monster hunter who has spent the last 30 years avoiding responsibility, maturity and the terrors of the Evil Dead. When a Deadite plague threatens to destroy all of mankind, Ash is finally forced to face his demons -- personal and literal. Destiny, it turns out, has no plans to release the unlikely hero from its "Evil" grip. Formats: DVD, Blu-ray Disc. Extras: Audio commentaries by Campbell, more. (Anchor Bay).
The Bloodstained Butterfly
(1971) Directed by Duccio Tessari ("Death Occurred Last Night," "A Pistol for Ringo"), "The Bloodstained Butterfly" melds the lurid giallo traditions popularized by Dario Argento and Mario Bava with courtroom drama, resulting in a film that is as concerned with forensic detail and legal process as it is with grisly murders and audacious set-pieces. When a young
Clown
(2014) Laura Allen, Andy Powers, Peter Stormare. Story of a loving father who dons a clown outfit and makeup to perform at his son’s sixth birthday, only to later discover that the costume -- red nose and wig included -- will not come off and his own personality changes in a horrific fashion. To break the curse of the evil outfit, the father must make grim choices with his own family facing danger. Formats: DVD, Blu-ray Disc. Extras: "Making Clown Featuring Producer Eli Roth." (Dimension Films/Anchor Bay).
DC Super Hero Girls: Hero of the Year
(2016) Wonder Woman, Supergirl, Batgirl, Harley Quinn, Bumblebee, Poison Ivy and Katana band together to navigate the twists and turns of high school at Super Hero High in these six animated adventures for girls 6-12.
Formats: DVD. (Warner).
The Duel
(2016) Woody Harrelson, Liam Hemsworth. A Texas Ranger (Hemsworth) investigates a series of murders in a small town led by a charismatic preacher (Harrelson); the routine undercover investigation soon turns personal for the Ranger, who must solve the case before he loses everything to the mysterious town. Formats: DVD, Blu-ray Disc, VOD, Digital. Extras: Commentary with director Kieran Darcy-Smith and production designer Toby Corbett. (Lionsgate).
The Huntsman: Winter's War
(2016) Chris Hemsworth, Jessica Chastain, Emily Blunt, Charlize Theron, Sam Claflin, Sheridan Smith, Sophie Cookson, Colin Morgan, Rob Brydon, Nick Frost. Huntsman Eric and fellow warrior Sara, raised as members of ice Queen Freya's army, try to conceal their forbidden love as they fight to survive the wicked intentions of both Freya and her sister Ravenna. Includes an extended version as well as the theatrical release version. Formats: DVD, Blu-ray/DVD Combo, 4K Ultra HD/Blu-ray Combo, VOD, Digital, UltraViolet (cloud). Extras: Deleted scenes, gag reel, "Dressed To Kill" costumes featurette, "Love Conquers All" behind-the-scenes featurette, commentary by director Cedric Nicolas-Troyan. Blu-ray adds "Two Queens and Two Warriors" featurette on the strength and complexity of the film's female roles, "Meet the Dwarfs" featurette, "Magic All Around" visual effects featurette. (Universal).
Maggie's Plan
(2016) Greta Gerwig, Ethan Hawke, Julianne Moore, Bill Hader, Maya Rudolph. Twentysomething New Yorker Maggie's plan to have a baby on her own is derailed when she falls in love with John, a married man, destroying his volatile marriage. Formats: DVD, Blu-ray Disc, VOD, Digital, UltraViolet (cloud). Extras: "Controlling Fate: The Making of Maggie's Plan" featurette, outtakes, Q & A at The Sundance Film Festival, commentary with writer-director Rebecca Miller. (Sony).
The Man Who Knew Infinity
(2016) Dev Patel, Jeremy Irons, Devika Bhise, Stephen Fry, Toby Jones, Jeremy Northam.
The true story of a friendship that forever changed mathematics. In 1913, Ramanujan (Dev Patel), a self-taught Indian mathematics genius, traveled to Trinity College, Cambridge, where he forged a bond with his mentor, the eccentric professor GH Hardy (Jeremy Irons), and fought against prejudice to reveal his mathematic genius to the world.
Formats: DVD, Blu-ray Disc, VOD, Digital. (IFC Films).
Masterpiece Mystery!: Endeavour Series 3
(2016) Two-disc set with four all new episodes that follow a young Endeavour Morse (Shaun Evans) as he and his partner, Detective Inspector Fred Thursday (Roger Allam), investigate crimes around Oxford in 1967. The crimes include a carnival that turns sinister when a young bus conductress is murdered, a horrendous house fire, a missing person's case that contains similarities to a cold case, and a run-in with a notorious Oxford crime family. Formats: DVD, Blu-ray Disc. (PBS Distribution).
Masterpiece Mystery!: Inspector Lewis Season 8
(2015) Two-disc set with three full-length episodes. Kevin Whately and Laurence Fox return for one last time as Inspector Lewis and Inspector Hathaway, investigating new cases of murder and other crimes in the seemingly perfect academic haven of Oxford. The arrival of new Chief Superintendent heralds a fresh dawn for Oxfordshire Police, although the high
Midnight Run BLU-RAY DEBUT
(1988) Dir.: Martin Brest; stars Robert De Niro, Charles Grodin, Yaphet Kotto, John Ashton, Dennis Farina, Joe Pantoliano. Extras: New interview with Robert De Niro; "We've Got the Duke" interview with actor Charles Grodin; "Moscone Bail Bonds" interview with actor Joe Pantoliano; "Hey Marvin!" interview with actor John Ashton; "I'm Mosely!" interview with actor Yaphet Kotto; "Midnight Writer" interview with writer George Gallo; vintage making-of featurette; theatrical trailer. (Shout! Factory Shout Select).
Narcos: Season 1
(2015)Ten episodes. This Golden Globe-nominated series follows the true-life story of the rise of international cocaine cartels -- and the battle waged by law enforcement to stop
NCIS: The Thirteenth Season
(2015-16) Six-disc set with all 24 episodes. Led by Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs (Mark Harmon), the NCIS team continues to investigate all crimes with Navy or Marine Corps ties, from murder and espionage, to terrorism and stolen submarines. The popular ensemble cast also includes Michael Weatherly, Sean Murray, Pauley Perrette,
The Nice Guys
(2016) Dir.: Shane Black. Stars: Russell Crowe, Ryan Gosling, Kim Basinger, Matt Bomer, Margaret Qualley, Keith David, Beau Knapp, Angourie Rice. A mismatched pair of private eyes investigate the apparent suicide of a porn star in 1970s Los Angeles. Formats: DVD, Blu-ray/DVD Combo, VOD, Digital, UltraViolet (cloud). Extras: "Always Bet On Black" featurette. Blu-ray adds "Worst. Detectives. Ever. Making The Nice Guys" featurette. (Warner).
Ratchet & Clank
(2016) Voices of Paul Giamatti, John Goodman, Rosario Dawson and Sylvester Stallone. Based on the popular video game franchise, this animated sci-fi adventure
The Strain Season 2
(2015) Thirteen episodes. The mysterious epidemic transforming the citizens of New York into horrifying creatures continues to rage during the second season of this acclaimed horror series. Formats: Four-disc DVD, three-disc Blu-ray. Extras: Deleted scenes, "Meet the Crew of The Strain," "The White Room," audio commentary on "Night Train" featuring Carlton Cuse, gag reel, Beyond the Page" "Sentient strigoi." (Fox).
Sunset Song
(2016 -- U.K.) Agyness Deyn, Kevin Guthrie, Peter Mullan, Mark Bonnar. Director Terence Davies' ("The House of Mirth") intimate epic of hope, tragedy and love at the dawning of the Great War. A young woman's endurance against the hardships of rural Scottish life, based on the novel by Lewis Grassic Gibbon. The film takes place during the early years of the 20th century and is driven by the young heroine Chris (Deyn,) and her intense passion for life, for the unsettling Ewan (Guthrie) and for the unforgiving land. The First World War reaches
out from afar, bringing the modern world to bear on the community in the harshest possible way, yet in a final moment of grace, Chris endures, now a woman of remarkable strength who is able to draw from the ancient land in looking to the future. "Sunset Song" adds another
small gem to writer-director Terence Davies' filmography. Formats: DVD. (Magnolia Home Entertainment).
A Taste of Honey
(1961) The revolutionary British New Wave films of the early 1960s were celebrated for their uncompromising depictions of working-class lives and relations between the sexes. Directed by Tony Richardson, a leading light of that movement, and based on one of the most controversial plays of its time, "A Taste of Honey" stars Rita Tushingham, in a star-making debut role, as a disaffected teenager finding her way amid the economic desperation of industrial Manchester, and despite an absent, self-absorbed mother. With its unapologetic identification with social outcasts and its sensitive, modern approach to matters of sexuality and race, Richardson's classic is a still startling benchmark work of realism. New, restored 4K digital transfer, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray.
Formats: DVD, Blu-ray.
Extras: New interviews with actors Rita Tushingham and Murray Melvin; audio interview with director and co-screenwriter Tony Richardson, conducted by film critic Gideon Bachmann at the 1962 Cannes Film Festival; new interview with Kate Dorney, curator of modern and contemporary theater at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, about "A Taste of Honey's" onstage origins; excerpt from a 1960 television interview with "A Taste of Honey" playwright Shelagh Delaney; "Momma Don't Allow" (1956), Richardson's first theatrical film; an essay by film scholar Colin MacCabe. (The Criterion Collection)
The Walking Dead: The Complete Sixth Season
(2015-2016) Five-disc set with all 16 episodes. Season Six starts with Alexandria's safety shattered by multiple threats. To make it, the people of Alexandria will need to catch up with Rick and the other survivors' hardness, while many of Rick's people will need to take a step back from the violence and pragmatism they've needed to embrace. These reversals won't happen easily, or without conflict. But now Rick's group is fighting for something more than surviva l... They're fighting for their home, and they will defend that at any cost, against any threat, even if that threat comes from within. Formats: DVD, Blu-ray Disc, Digital. Extras: Episode 616: "Last Day on Earth" The Extended Version, Deleted Scenes, "The Making of the Walking Dead," six featurettes: "In Memoriam," "601: Out of the Quarry," "Guts & Glory: The Death of Nicholas," "Strength in Bonds," "Negan: Someone to Fear," "The Face of Death: Iconic Walkers of the Season." (Starz/Anchor Bay).
Woman in the Dunes
(1964) One of the 1960s' great international art-house sensations, "Woman in the Dunes" was for many the grand unveiling of the surreal, idiosyncratic world of Hiroshi Teshigahara ("The Face of Another"). Eiji Okada ("Hiroshima mon amour") plays an amateur entomologist who has left Tokyo to study an unclassified species of beetle found in a vast desert. When he misses his bus back to civilization, he is persuaded to spend the night with a young widow (Kyoko Kishida) in her hut at the bottom of a sand dune. What results is one of cinema's most unnerving and palpably erotic battles of the sexes, as well as a nightmarish depiction of the Sisyphean struggle of everyday life -- an achievement that garnered Teshigahara an Academy Award nomination for best director. New high-definition digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray.
Formats: DVD, Blu-ray.
Extras: Video essay on the film from 2007 by film scholar James Quandt; four short films from director Hiroshi Teshigahara's early career: "Hokusai" (1953), "Ikebana" (1956), "Tokyo 1958" (1958) and "Ako" (1965);
"Teshigahara and Abe," a 2007 documentary examining the collaboration between Teshigahara and novelist Kobo Abe, featuring interviews with film scholars Donald Richie and Tadao Sato, film programmer Richard Peña, set designer Arata Isozaki, producer Noriko Nomura, and screenwriter John Nathan; trailer; an essay by film scholar Audie Bock and a 1980 interview with Teshigahara. (The Criterion Collection)
The Wonder Years: The Complete Series
(1988-1993) Twenty-two disc set with all 115 landmark episodes and nearly 12 hours of exclusive bonus features. Formats: DVD: $119.95. Extras: Highlights from the first cast reunion in 16 years; roundtable discussions with Danica McKellar, Fred Savage, and Josh Saviano; six newly produced featurettes; farewell set tour; one-hour ABC broadcast of the series finale; exclusive interviews with the show's creators and cast including Fred Savage, Danica McKellar, Josh Saviano, Alley Mills, Dan Lauria, Olivia d'Abo, Jason Hervey, and more. (Time Life).
The Nice Guys
Holland March (Ryan Gosling) is a down-on-his-luck private eye in 1977 Los Angeles. Jackson Healy (Russell Crowe) is a hired enforcer who hurts people for a living. Fate turns them into unlikely partners after a young woman named Amelia (Margaret Qualley) mysteriously
disappears. Healy and March soon learn the hard way that some dangerous people are also looking for Amelia. Their investigation takes them to dark places as they uncover a shocking conspiracy that reaches up to the highest circles of power. Vitals: Director: Shane Black. Stars: Russell Crowe, Ryan Gosling, Kim Basinger, Matt Bomer, Margaret Qualley, Keith David, Beau Knapp, Angourie Rice.
2016, CC, MPAA rating: R, 116 min., Action Comedy, Box office gross: $38.087
million, Warner.
Extras: "Always Bet On
Black" featurette. Blu-ray adds "Worst. Detectives. Ever. Making The Nice Guys" featurette.
The Huntsman: Winter's War
The fantastical world of Snow White and the Huntsman expands to reveal how the fates of The Huntsman Eric and Queen Ravenna are deeply and dangerously intertwined. The evil Queen Ravenna (Charlize Theron) betrays her good sister Freya (Emily Blun) with an unforgivable act, freezing Freya's heart to love and unleashing in her an icy power she never knew she possessed. Retreating to a kingdom far to the north, Freya raises an army of Huntsmen as her protectors, with the only rule that no two of them should ever fall in love. As a war for domination escalates between the two queens, the hero standing between good and evil is Freya's most elite Huntsman, Eric (Chris Hemsworth). Alongside fellow warrior Sara (Jessica Chastain) -- the only woman who has ever captured his heart -- Eric must help Freya vanquish her sister or Ravenna's wickedness will rule for eternity. Vitals: Director: Cedric Nicolas-Troyan. Stars: Chris Hemsworth, Jessica Chastain, Emily Blunt, Charlize Theron, Sam Claflin, Sheridan Smith, Sophie Cookson, Colin Morgan, Rob Brydon, Nick Frost.
2016, CC, MPAA rating: PG-13, 114 min., Action-Adventure Fantasy, Box office gross: $47.952 million, Universal.
Extras: Deleted scenes, gag reel, "Dressed To Kill" costumes featurette, "Love Conquers All" behind-the-scenes featurette, commentary by director Cedric Nicolas-Troyan. Blu-ray adds "Two Queens and Two Warriors" featurette on the strength and complexity of the film's female roles, "Meet the Dwarfs" featurette, "Magic All Around" visual effects featurette.
Maggie's Plan
Greta Gerwig stars as Maggie Hardin, a vibrant and practical thirtysomething New Yorker working in education who, without success in finding love, decides now is the time to have a child on her own. But when she meets John Harding (Ethan Hawke), an anthropology professor and struggling novelist, Maggie falls in love for the first time, and adjusts her plans for motherhood. Complicating matters, John is in an unhappy marriage with Georgette Harding (Julianne Moore), an ambitious academic who is driven by her work. With some help from Maggie's eccentric and hilarious best friends, married couple Tony (Bill Hader) and Felicia (Maya Rudolph), Maggie sets in motion a new plan that intertwines their lives and connects them in surprising and humorous ways.
Vitals: Director: Rebecca Miller. Stars: Greta Gerwig, Ethan Hawke, Julianne Moore, Bill Hader, Maya Rudolph.
2016, CC, MPAA rating: R, 98 min., Comedy-Drama, Box office gross: $2.255
million, Sony.
Extras: "Controlling Fate: The Making of Maggie's Plan" featurette, outtakes, Q & A at The Sundance Film Festival, commentary with writer-director Rebecca Miller.
female student is savagely killed in a park during a thunderstorm, the culprit seems obvious: her lover, TV sports personality Alessandro Marchi, seen fleeing the scene of the crime by numerous eyewitnesses. The evidence against him is damning ... but is it all too convenient? And when the killer strikes again while Marchi is in custody, it quickly becomes apparent that there's more to the case than meets the eye. Starring 70s heartthrob Helmut Berger alongside genre mainstays Evelyn Stewart and Carole André and featuring a score by Gianni Ferrio, "The Bloodstained Butterfly" is presented uncut and in a sumptuous new 4K restoration that allows this unique and haunting thriller to shine like never before. New 4K restoration of the film from the original camera negative. Original Italian and English soundtracks in DTS-HD MA mono 1.0. Formats: Blu-ray/DVD Combo. Extras: New audio commentary with critics Alan Jones and Kim Newman; "Murder in B-Flat Minor," a new visual essay on the film, its cast and crew by author Troy Howarth; new career retrospective on director Duccio Tessari; original Italian and English theatrical trailers; gallery of original promotional images; reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Matthew Griffin; limited edition 36-page booklet illustrated by Tonci Zonjic, containing writing by James Blackford, Howard Hughes and Leonard Jacobs. (Arrow Video/MVD Entertainment).
Clean Break
(2015) This atmospheric four-part crime drama is a gripping story of greed and revenge in a small Irish town. Car dealer Frank Mallon (Adam Fergus) is watching his life fall apart around him. His wife has left him, his cars aren't selling, and his teenage daughter, Corrina (Kelly Thornton), is out of control. When bank manager Desmond Rane (Aidan McArdle) tells Frank he's about to lose everything, Frank devises a plan to fix his money problems while also getting revenge on the people who are making his life miserable. But when the plan goes awry and one of his conspirators (Damien Molony) disappears, Frank’s troubles multiply as old jealousies come to light and lives are put at risk. Formats: Two-disc DVD, VOD. (Acorn Media).
DC's Legends of Tomorrow: The Complete First Season
(2016) All 16 episodes. From the creators of The Flash and Arrow comes this Super Hero team-up that combines characters from both series, as well as new heroes from the DC Comics pantheon. Focuses on time-traveling rogue Rip Hunter, who has to recruit a rag-tag team of heroes and villains to help prevent an apocalypse that could impact not only Earth, but all of time. Formats: Four-disc DVD, two-disc Blu-ray, Digital, UltraViolet (cloud). Extras: DC's Legends of Tomorrow: 2015 Comic-Con Panel, "Jonah Hex: Hex Marks the Spot" featurette, "A Fantastic Voyage: Touring the Waverider Set " featurette, "History in the Making" featurette, gag reel. (Warner).
Elementary: The Fourth Season
(2015-16) Six-disc set with all 24 episodes that follows the adventures of a modern-day Sherlock Holmes, living in NYC; Jonny Lee Miller portrays the iconic detective and Lucy Liu plays his legendary investigating partner Dr. Joan Watson. In the latest season, Holmes struggles to maintain his sobriety and attempts to keep his sanity despite the looming threat of a prison sentence. Meanwhile, the crime-solving duo continues to crack some of the NYPD's toughest cases when old enemies resurface, former files are reopened and new crimes run rampant close to home. Yet, the biggest obstacle the duo must face follows the unexpected arrival of Sherlock's estranged father, Morland Holmes (John Noble). Does he hold their best interest at heart or is he scheming for something far bigger than all of them combined?
Formats: DVD. Extras: Gag reel, deleted scenes, "The Signs of Fourth" behind-the-scenes fourth season featurette "Villainy!" inside look at the series' villains, "Mina, Cassie, & Ally," "Father Holmes," behind-the-scenes look at the "Wag the Dog: Hounded" episode. (CBS/Paramount).
Lucifer: The Complete First Season
(2015-16) Three-disc set with all 13 episodes of the series that follows Lucifer, bored and unhappy as the Lord of Hell, who has resigned his throne and retired to the City of Angels where he is indulging in a few of his favorite things — wine, women and song. When a beautiful pop star is brutally murdered before his eyes, he feels something awaken deep within him – for the first time in roughly 10 billion years. Is he actually capable of feelings for a human being? The murder attracts the attention of LAPD homicide detective Chloe Decker, who finds herself both repulsed and fascinated by Lucifer. As they work together to solve the murder, Lucifer is struck by Chloe's inherent goodness. Used to dealing with the absolute worst of humanity, he begins to wonder if there's hope yet, and he becomes a consultant for the LAPD. Based on the character from DC Entertainment's Vertigo comic. Formats: DVD, Blu-ray Disc, Digital, UltraViolet (cloud). Extras: Lucifer: 2015 Comic-Con Panel, four character profiles (Amenadiel, Linda, Chloe Decker, Dan), "Devilish Duo " featurette, "Lucifer Morningstar" featurette, deleted scenes, gag reel. (Warner).
flyer soon clashes with Robbie Lewis over the latter’s more traditional approach to detective work. With forensic pathologist Laura Hobson contemplating early retirement, and the new boss piling on the pressure, will Lewis finally decide to call time on his policing career? Formats: DVD, Blu-ray Disc. (PBS Distribution).
them. At the center of the conflict are Pablo Escobar (Wagner Moura), the notorious Colombian drug kingpin, and the two DEA agents sent to take him down: Steve Murphy (Boyd Holbrook) and Javier Peña (Pedro Pascal). Formats: Four-disc DVD, three-disc Blu-ray, Digital. Extras: "Establishing the Route" featurette, "The Colombian Connection" featurette, "The Language Barrier" featurette, deleted scenes, commentary with cast and crew on select episodes. (Lionsgate).
Rocky Carroll, Brian Dietzen, David McCallum and Emily Wickersham. Formats: DVD, Blu-ray Disc, Blu-ray/DVD Combo, VOD, Digital, UltraViolet (cloud). Extras: Deleted scenes; commentaries; "The Definitive DiNozzo" featurette includes special tributes to departing star Michael Weatherly from the cast, producers and crew; "BOOM" explosions featurette; "The Agency Turns 50" highlights the 50th anniversary celebration of the real-life NCIS; " Crossing Over: A Look at Sister City" profiles the special two-hour episode when the "NCIS" cast meets the stars of "NCIS: New Orleans"; more. (CBS/Paramount).
Psycho IV: The Beginning
(1990 - TV) Anthony Perkins, Henry Thomas, Olivia Hussey, CCH Pounder. Prequel to the classic Hitchcock thriller. A seemingly rehabilitated Norman Bates (Perkins) is drawn to a late-night radio show where the host (Pounder) encourages him to share his views on the topic of matricide. Reliving his childhood, Norman recounts his trials as a young boy (Thomas) living with his widowed schizophrenic mother (Hussey). These haunting memories are more than just disturbing visions of the past; they threaten to rekindle his killing urge. Formats: Blu-ray Disc. Extras: Audio commentary with director Mick Garris, actors Henry Thomas and Olivia Hussey; new "The Making of Mother," an interview with make-up effects artist Tony Gardner; rare behind-the-scenes footage from director Mick Garris; Mick Garris rare photo gallery. (Scream factory).
follows two unlikely heroes as they struggle to stop a vile alien from destroying every planet in the Solana Galaxy. Ratchet is the last of his kind, a foolhardy "Lombax" who has grown up alone on a backwater planet with no family of his own. Clank is a pint-sized robot with more brains than brawn. When the two stumble upon a dangerous weapon capable of destroying entire planets they must join forces with a team of colorful heroes called the Galactic Rangers in order to save the galaxy. Formats: DVD, Blu-ray/DVD Combo, VOD, Digital, UltraViolet (cloud). Extras: Two featurettes: "Ratchet & Clank: A Hero's Journey" and "Ratchet & Clank: Leveling Up." (Universal).
Superstore: Season One
(2015-16) Two-disc set with all 11 episodes. A hilarious workplace comedy venturing into the world of retail hell. Starring America Ferrera ("Ugly Betty") and Ben Feldman ("Mad Men, A to Z"), the giant megastore is staffed by employees ranging from bright-eyed newbies and the seen-it-all veterans, to the clueless summer hires and the in-it-for-life managers. Together they tackle the day-to-day grind of rabid bargain hunters, riot-causing sales and nap-worthy training sessions. Formats: DVD. Extras: Deleted scenes, gag reel. (Universal).
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