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OnVideo's Weekly Guide to Home Video Releases
November 3:
On Wings of Eagles: Based on a true story, the biodrama chronicles the war-stricken final years of China’s first gold medalist and one of Scotland’s greatest athletes, Eric Liddell. (DVD, Blu-ray release: December 5)
November 7:
Daguerrotype: When an assistant to a daguerreotypy photographer falls in love with the latter's daughter, the relationship mirrors the art form as love and pain combine. From acclaimed Japanese master Kiyoshi Kurosawa ("Creepy," "Pulse"). (Digital only)
American Dad! Volume 12
(2017) This season finds the Smith family in a flood of trouble aboard Stan’s modern-day ark, a time-traveling Steve trying to save his cool future self, Roger deciding to quit all his personas, and everyone fighting to survive the post-apocalyptic 200th episode.
Formats: Three-disc DVD. (Fox).
Cars 3
(2017) Voices of Owen Wilson, Cristela Alonzo, Armie Hammer, Chris Cooper, Isiah Whitlock Jr., team owner and NASCAR racing legend Junior Johnson, Kerry Washington, Margo Martindale, Nathan Fillion, Lea DeLaria, Formula One driver Lewis Hamilton. A fast-paced new tale of Lightning McQueen, his classic "Cars" friends and a new spirited trainer Cruz Ramirez. Lighting finds himself pushed out of racing by a new generation of faster and younger cars and goes on a journey to discover where he belongs in this new type of high-octane competition. Formats: DVD, Blu-ray/DVD Combo, 4K Uktra HD/Blu-ray Combo, VOD, Digital, Disney Movies Anywhere (cloud). Extras: Commentary with Brian Fee (director), Kevin Reher (producer), Andrea Warren (co-producer) and Jay Ward (creative director); theatrical short “Lou”: When a toy-stealing bully ruins recess for a playground full of kids, only one thing stands in his way: the “Lost and Found” box. Blu-ray adds "Miss Fritter’s Racing Skoool" new mini-movie; "Let’s. Get. Crazy." featurette that takes a look at the world of demolition derby, the “rules” of figure 8 racing, and how Pixar puts the crazy in the Thunder Hollow Crazy 8 race; "Legendary" look at the racing legends Wendell Scott and Louise Smith, whose tenacity and perseverance got them into the race even when they weren’t invited; "Ready for the Race" in which Disney Channel’s Olivia Rodrigo and NASCAR Racer William Byron check out the Hendrick Motorsports campus to showcase how real-world race training influenced the filmmakers; "World’s Fastest Billboard" featurette on all of the graphics and “car-ified” advertisements created by Pixar’s art team to make the ”Cars 3” world as believable as possible; "Cruz Ramirez: The Yellow Car That Could" featurette on the filmmakers' journey to create a race-car trainer turned champion racer; "Generations: The Story of Cars 3" behind-the-scenes featurette; "My First Car" collection of illustrated first-car stories as narrated by members of the “Cars 3” cast and crew; deleted scenes, with an introduction as to why each scene was removed from the film: “The Boogie Woogie,” “The Jars of Dirt,” “Lugnut,” “The Bolt,” and “More Than New Paint”; "Cars to Die(cast) For" takes a look at the phenomenon of die-cast toy collecting and the more than 1,000 unique designs that exist in the "Cars" universe. (Disney).
The Crown: Season One
(2016) Four-disc set with 10 episodes. Claire Foy, Matt Smith, Vanessa Kirby, Jared Harris, John Lithgow. The British Empire is in decline, the political world is in disarray, and a young woman takes the throne ... a new era is dawning. Queen Elizabeth II is a 25-year-old newlywed faced with the daunting prospect of leading the world’s most famous monarchy while forging a relationship with legendary Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill. The show explores the Queen’s private journey behind the public facade with daring frankness. Winner of three Emmy Awards, including Best Supporting Actor in a Drama Series.
Formats: DVD, Blu-ray Disc. (Sony).
Doctor Who: The Complete Tenth Series
(2017) The tenth season of the beloved series sees Peter Capaldi embark on his thrilling final chapter as the Twelfth Doctor as well as the first introduction of companion Pearl Mackie as Bill Potts and the return of Matt Lucas as Nardole. Fantastic adventures await the team of heroes as they journey through space and time in this latest instalment of the globally-renowned drama. Formats: DVD, Blu-ray Disc. Extras: Deleted scenes, audio commentary, an “Inside Look” into each episode, “Becoming the Companion”: following Mackie as she travels from the London stage through the doors of the TARDIS to a once-in-a-lifetime role, more. (BBC Home Entertainment).
Family Guy Season 15
(2016-17) Three-disc set with 20 episodes (16 are totally uncensored), in which viewers are taken way too far behind the scenes, Stewie and Brian run a bed-and-breakfast brothel, Peter gets into a sackful of trouble as a mall Santa, and the cast takes a novel approach to reenacting American literary classics. Formats: DVD. Extras: Deleted scenes, "Family Guy" Remembers Carrie Fisher, Adam West Tribute. (Fox).
The Glass Castle
(2017) Brie Larson, Woody Harrelson, Naomi Watts, Ella Anderson. A young girl comes of age in a dysfunctional family of nonconformist nomads with a mother who's an eccentric artist and an alcoholic father who would stir the children's imagination with hope as a distraction to their poverty. Formats: DVD, Blu-ray Disc, VOD, Digital, UltraViolet (cloud). Extras: Nine deleted scenes, "The Glass Castle: Memoir to Movie," "A Conversation with Jeannette Walls," "Making of Summer Storm by Joel P West," "Scoring The Glass Castle." (Lionsgate).
Gun Shy
(2017 -- UK) Antonio Banderas, Olga Kurylenko, Mark Valley. When vacationing in Chile, an aging and pampered rock star’s (Banderas) supermodel wife is suddenly kidnapped by renegades. Unable to navigate more than ordering a sandwich from room service, now he must take to the backstreets of Santiago to save her. Formats: DVD, Blu-ray Disc,
VOD, Digital, UltraViolet (cloud). Extras: “The Rock Star, the Pirate, and the Cast of Gun Shy” featurette, “Just Who I Can Be” music montage. (Lionsgate).
Ingrid Goes West(2017) Aubrey Plaza, Elizabeth Olsen, O'Shea Jackson Jr., Wyatt Russell, Billy Magnussen, Pom Klementieff. Ingrid Thorburn (Plaza) is an unhinged social media stalker with a history of confusing "likes" for meaningful relationships. Taylor Sloane (Olsen)is an Instagram-famous "influencer" whose perfectly curated, boho-chic lifestyle becomes Ingrid's latest obsession. When Ingrid moves to LA and manages to insinuate herself into the social media star's life, their relationship quickly goes from #BFF to #WTF.
Formats: DVD, Blu-ray Disc, VOD, Digital, UltraViolet (cloud). Extras: Deleted scenes, director's commentary. (Universal).
Inheritance
(2017) Mark Webber, Daniel Ahearn, Jessica Kaye, Louis C. Oberlander. Chronicles one woman's efforts to reconcile her past with her present. As she returns to her childhood home in Belize, successful television actor Mara is faced with the death of her estranged father, the ire and instability of her brother, and her increasingly frayed relationship with her new lover. Everything comes to the surface as she struggles to get through her father's tense all-night wake. Formats: DVD. Extras: Behind the scenes, deleted scenes, audio commentary. (Breaking Glass Pictures).
Into the Night BLU-RAY DEBUT
(1975) Dir.: John Landis; Jeff Goldblum, Michelle Pfeiffer, David Bowie, Dan Aykroyd. Unhappily married, unsatisfyingly employed and unsurprisingly depressed, aerospace engineer and insomniac Ed Okin (Goldblum) needs to get away. But getting away proves to be no easy feat when Ed drives to the airport and a gorgeous smuggler, Diana (Pfeiffer), leaps his car, pursued by four killers. Chased across the landscape of a truly mythical Los Angeles, Ed and Diana encounter an endless array of intriguing nocturnal characters (played by a bevy of famous directors) and a charming English hitman (Bowie). Extras: New "John Landis: Back Into The Night” featurette, new "Jeff Goldblum: Requiem for an Insomniac” featurette, award-winning documentary "B.B. King Into the Night," original theatrical trailer. (Shout! Factory Select).
The Journey
(2016 -- UK) Timothy Spall, Colm Meaney, Freddie Highmore, Toby Stephens, John Hurt. In 2006, amid the decades-long conflict in Northern Ireland, representatives from the two warring factions meet for negotiations. In one corner was Ian Paisley, the deeply conservative British loyalist; in the other was Martin McGuinness, a former Irish Republican Army leader who has devoted his life to the cause of Irish reunification. Over the course of an impromptu, detour-filled car ride through the Scottish countryside, each began to see the other less as an enemy, and more as an individual.
Formats: DVD. (IFC Films).
Julian Schnabel: A Private Portrait
(2017) Documentary chronicles the personal life and public career of the celebrated artist and filmmaker. Written and directed by Italy's Pappi Corsicato, the film details the Brooklyn-born Schnabel's formative years in Brownsville, Texas; the beginning of his professional career in New York City in the late 1970s; and his rise in the '80s to superstar status in Manhattan's art scene as well as international acclaim as a leading figure in the Neo-Expressionism movement.
Formats: DVD, Blu-ray Disc. Extras: (Cohen Media Group).
The Limehouse Golem
(2016) Bill Nighy, Olivia Cooke, Douglas Booth, Daniel Mays, Eddie Marsan. The city of London is gripped with fear as a serial killer -- dubbed The Limehouse Golem -- is on the loose and leaving cryptic messages written in his victim’s blood. With few leads and increasing public pressure, Scotland Yard assigns the case to Inspector Kildare (Nighy) -- a seasoned detective with a troubled past and a sneaking suspicion he’s being set up to fail. Faced with a long list of suspects, including music hall star Dan Leno (Booth), Kildare must get help from a witness who has legal troubles of her own (Cooke), so he can stop the murders and bring the killer to justice. Formats: DVD, Blu-ray Disc. Extras: Behind-the-scenes featurettes. (RLJ Entertainment).
Overdrive
(2017) Scott Eastwood, Freddie Thorp, Ana de Armas, Gaia Weiss. Two car thief brothers, who journey to the south of France for new opportunities, wind up in the cross hairs of the local crime boss. The legendary car thieves get caught in the act of stealing from notorious crime boss Jacomo Morier and, in order to win back their freedom, they're put to the ultimate test -- the theft of a priceless car from Morier’s sworn enemy. While putting together a crew to pull off the daring heist they're joined by two beautiful women, who are more dangerous than they look. The team has one week to put the plan in motion, steal the car, and make their escape or lose everything, including their lives.Formats: DVD, Blu-ray Disc. Blu-ray extras: Behind-the-scenes featurettes. (Paramount).
The Philadelphia Story
(1940) With this furiously witty comedy of manners, Katharine Hepburn revitalized her career and cemented her status as the era’s most iconic leading lady -- thanks in great part to her own shrewd orchestrations. While starring in the Philip Barry stage play "The Philadelphia Story," Hepburn snapped up the screen rights, handpicking her friend George Cukor to direct. The intoxicating screenplay by Donald Ogden Stewart pits the formidable Philadelphia socialite Tracy Lord (Hepburn, at her most luminous) against various romantic foils, chief among them her charismatic ex-husband (Cary Grant), who disrupts her imminent marriage by paying her family estate a visit, accompanied by a tabloid reporter on assignment to cover the wedding of the year (James Stewart, in his only Academy Award–winning performance). A fast-talking screwball comedy as well as a tale of regrets and reconciliation, this convergence of golden-age talent is one of the greatest American films of all time. On DVD and Blu-ray, with new 4K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray.
Extras: Audio commentary from 2005 featuring film scholar Jeanine Basinger; new introduction to actor Katharine Hepburn’s role in the development of the film by documentarians David Heeley and Joan Kramer; "In Search of Tracy Lord," a new documentary about the origin of the character and her social milieu; two full episodes of "The Dick Cavett Show" from 1973, featuring rare interviews with Hepburn, plus an excerpt of a 1978 interview from that show with director George Cukor; Lux Radio Theatre adaptation of the film from 1943, featuring an introduction by filmmaker Cecil B. DeMille; restoration demonstration; an essay by critic Farran Smith Nehme. (The Criterion Collection).
Poldark Season 3
(2017) Three-disc set with all nine episodes that follows Ross Poldark, who returns home after the American Revolutionary War and rebuilds his life with a new business venture, making new enemies and finding a new love where he least expects it. Follows the latest thrilling exploits of Ross Poldark and his fiery partner, Demelza, starring Aidan Turner and Eleanor Tomlinson as the intrepid eighteenth-century duo as they encounter new loves and new enemies. Also enlivening the new season are a mysterious plague of frogs, a thwarted famine, and Aunt Agatha’s eagerly anticipated one-hundredth birthday party, which has a catastrophic catch. But the most stirring action involves the French Revolution, which manages to ensnare one of the program’s main characters in its Reign of Terror, prompting Poldark’s most dangerous mission yet.
Formats: DVD, Blu-ray Disc, Digital. (PBS Distribution).
The Red Skelton Hour In Color: Deluxe Collection
(1951-71) Twenty-two disc set with 130 remastered episodes. Red Skelton, America's Clown Prince, was a brilliant performer, a passionate patriot, and a master of simple, hilarious and classic comedy. Featuring over 65 hours of episodes from The Red Skelton Hour, many of which have been unseen for over 50 years. With a heart of pure gold, uproarious jokes and an unparalleled gift for physical comedy, Skelton kept TV audiences in stitches for 20 groundbreaking seasons on CBS-TV's The Red Skelton Show. Each week, viewers were treated to his memorable lineup of inimitable characters including country bumpkin Clem Kadiddlehopper, Sheriff Deadeye and lovable hobo Freddie the Freeloader, as well as the biggest movie and TV stars of the day who all clamored to appear on Red's show including John Wayne, Jackie Gleason, Johnny Carson, Jerry Lee Lewis, Milton Berle, Jackie Cooper, Tim Conway, Boris Karloff, Vincent Price, Simon and Garfunkel, Phyllis Diller, Merv Griffin, Audrey Meadows, Mickey Rooney, Nipsey Russell, Robert Goulet, Audrey Meadows and many more. Included here are The Red Skelton Show: The Early Years (8 discs), The Red Skelton Hour: In Color (10 discs), The Complete 20th Season: In Color (3 discs), Red Skelton: The Farewell Specials (1 disc), a full-length biography and a collectible memory book. Formats: DVD, $199.99. (Time Life).
The Show
(2017) Josh Duhamel, Giancarlo Esposito, Famke Janssen. Thriller about a reality show that exploits the on-camera deaths of its players -- on live TV. After a dating show ends in violence, its host Adam Rogers (Duhamel) and a ratings-hungry network exec (Janssen) launch a terrifying new program that promises fresh kills every week. The tension mounts as a kindhearted janitor (Esposito) joins the deadly program, hoping to help his struggling family survive … at any cost. Formats: DVD, Blu-ray Disc, VOD, Digital, UltraViolet (cloud). (Lionsgate).
Slamma Jamma
(2017) Chris Staples, Michael Irvin, Jose Canseco, Porter Maberry. The film also stars Ryan Gunnarson. Wrongfully accused and sent to prison, a former basketball star prepares for the national slam dunk competition while finding redemption in himself and in those he loves. Five-time world slam dunk champion and former Harlem Globetrotter Chris Staples, makes his acting debut playing the lead role of Michael Diggs. Relying on the strength of his faith and conviction to family, Michael faces the challenges presented to him on and off the court in this story of defying all odds. Extras: "Slam Dunkers" featurette, deleted scenes. Formats: DVD, VOD, Digital. (Sony).
The Tower
(2012 -- Germany) The two-part miniseries is a sweeping, monumental look at the decline of Communist East Germany in the 1980s as seen through the eyes of one privileged suburban family. Based on the acclaimed novel "The Tower: Tales from a Vanished Land," which won the 2008 German Book Prize and was heralded by the German national weekly newspaper Die Zeit as “one of the most important books of European post-War literature,” the series casts its gaze on the Hoffman family of suburban Dresden. But even for the cultivated few living in the villas of Dresden's noble suburbs, the growing cracks in their repressive police state’s façade begin to take their toll in 1982. Under pressure against increasingly tense climate and the secret police lurking around, the Hoffmann family make difficult choices with unsettling repercussions. As the 1980s come to a close and East Germany’s citizens publicly clamor for more freedom (arriving in the form of the Peaceful Revolution of 1989), the Hoffmann family must come to terms with the lives they’ve lived and have been forever changed. Formats: DVD. (Music Box Films).
The Untamed
(2016 -- Mexico) Ruth Ramos, Simone Bucio. Psychological thriller follows young mother Alejandra whose life is disrupted by the arrival of a mysterious woman, Veronica. She introduces her to an isolated cabin in the woods where an otherworldly creature dwells, a source of great pleasure but also great danger. Formats: DVD, Blu-ray Disc. Extras: Behind-the-scenes featurette. (Strand Releasing).
Westworld: Season One
(2016) Three-disc set with all 10 episodes of the HBO series. Based on the film written by best-selling author Michael Crichton, "Westworld" is a dark odyssey about the dawn of artificial consciousness and evolution of sin. Set at the intersection of the near future and a reimagined past, the series explores a world in which every human appetite, no matter how noble or depraved, can be indulged. Features a star-studded cast led by Anthony Hopkins, Ed Harris, Evan Rachel Wood, Thandie Newton, Jeffrey Wright, James Marsden, Ben Barnes, Ingrid Bolsø Berdal, Clifton Collins, Jr., Luke Hemsworth, Sidse Babett Knudsen, Simon Quarterman, Rodrigo Santoro, Angela Sarafyan, Jimmi Simpson, Tessa Thompson and Shannon Woodward.
Formats: DVD, Blu-ray Disc, 4K Ultra HD/Blu-ray Combo-Pack (six discs), Digital. Extras: "Inside Look with Jonah Nolan and Lisa Joy – Season One," "Imagining the Main Title," :"Key to The Chords," "2017 Comic Con Panel," gag reel, "Welcome to Westworld," "Crafting the Narrative," "An Invitation to the Set," "Welcome to Westworld: About the Series," "Reality of A.I.: Westworld," "The Big Moment." The 4K Ultra HD and Blu-ray sets will also include a premium collectible booklet. (Warner).
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