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OnVideo's Weekly Guide to Home Video Releases
January 7
Countdown: A young nurse downloads an app that claims to predict exactly when a person is going to die. With only three days left to live and death closing in, she must find a way to save her life before time runs out. (DVD, Blu-ray release: January 21)
The Lighthouse: Hypnotic and hallucinatory tale of two lighthouse keepers (Willem Dafoe and Robert Pattinson) on a remote and mysterious New England island in the 1890s. As an approaching storm threatens to sweep them from the rock and strange apparitions emerge from the fog, each man begins to suspect that the other has become dangerously unmoored. (DVD, Blu-ray release: Day & date)
January 10
The Corrupted: Liam is an ex-con trying to win back the love and trust of his family. Liam's drive for redemption will see him caught up in a web of conspiracy, crime, and corruption. (Digital only)
January 13
A Serial Killer’s Guide to Life: A self-help addict unwittingly finds herself on a killing spree with her unhinged life coach. (Digital only)
Big Little Lies: The Complete Second Season
(2019) Two-disc set with all seven episodes. Meryl Streep joins the all-star cast in Season Two, along with Reese Witherspoon, Nicole Kidman, Shailene Woodley, Laura Dern and Zoe Kravitz. In Season Two, on the surface, everything seems the same in the seaside town of Monterey, CA: mothers continue to dote, husbands support, children are adorable, houses are beautiful. But the night of the school fundraiser changed all that, leaving the community reeling as the "Monterey Five" bond together to pick up the pieces of their shattered lives. Meanwhile, Perry's grieving mother Mary Louise Wright (Streep) comes to town in search of answers after son's death. Formats: DVD, Blu-ray, Digital. Extras: "The Lies Revealed: A Conversation With the Cast" about Season Two. (Warner).
Blood Hound
(2019) Ed Ackerman, David Foy Miles Dougal, Jess Allen, Silvia Moore. Private investigator Abel Walker, along with his cameraman, Jim, are on the hunt for a missing woman. As they unravel the mystery of her disappearance, they become caught in a sick and violent game that will end in murder. Formats: DVD, Digital. (High Octane Pictures).
Cobra Woman
(1944) Maria Montez, Jon Hall, Sabu, Lon Chaney Jr., Mary Nash Lois Collier. From Robert Siodmak, the legendary director of "Phantom Lady," "The Spiral Staircase," "The Killers," and "The Crimson Pirate" comes this romantic action-adventure starring Maria Montez and Jon Hall, the stars of "Arabian Nights," "White Savage," and "Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves." After Ramu (Hall) discovers that his fiancée Tollea (Montez) has been kidnapped by a lost tribe and taken to a Pacific isle, he and his friend Kado (Sabu) set out across the seas to find her. They soon discover that the island paradise is ruled by Tollea's evil twin Naja, the Cobra Woman, who commands all strangers to be killed on arrival. Not only does Naja have designs on her new prisoner Ramu, but she also desires to eliminate any competition from her benevolent sister.
Formats: Blu-ray. Extras: new audio commentary by film historian Phillipa Berry. (Kino Lorber Studio Classics).
Countdown
(2019) Elizabeth Lail, Jordan Calloway, Talitha Bateman, Tichina Arnold, P.J. Byrne, Peter Facinelli. A young nurse downloads an app that claims to predict exactly when a person is going to die. With only three days left to live and death closing in, she must find a way to save her life before time runs out. Formats: DVD, Blu-ray/DVD Combo, VOD, Digital. (Universal).
Dr. Cyclops
(1940) Albert Dekker, Thomas Coley, Janice Logan, Charles Halton, Paul Fix, Victor Killan. From Ernest B. Schoedsack and Merian C. Cooper, the legendary team behind "King Kong," "The Most Dangerous Game" and "Mighty Joe Young," comes this early Technicolor science-fiction classic about a brilliant but deranged physicist who learns how to shrink his enemies to one-fifth their normal size. Four explorers are summoned to the remote jungle laboratory of the legendary scientist Dr. Thorkel (Dekker). When they arrive, they discover that his brilliant mind has been warped by radiation and decide to return him to civilization for help. But the half-blind, half-mad Dr. Cyclops will have none of that and uses his experimental body-shrinking device to stop them. Now, harmless items and small creatures suddenly become giant-sized instruments of death. The impressive use of landmark special effects, which garnered an Oscar nomination (Best Effects, Special Effects), helped make this sci-fi yarn one of the most imaginative and memorable horror-fantasy films of all time. New 4K master. Formats: Blu-ray. Extras: new audio commentary by film historian Richard Harland Smith, "Trailers From Hell with Jesús Treviño." (Kino Lorber Studio Classics).
Girl on the Third Floor
<2019) Phil "C.M. Punk" Brooks, Trieste Kelly Dunn, Sarah Brooks, Elissa Dowling, Travis Delgado. Bursting pipes, rotting walls, and unidentifiable slime were not what Don Koch (WWE legend Brooks) expected when he convinced his wife, Liz (Dunn), that he could rehab their new Victorian home himself. In over his head, under duress, and tempted by his old weaknesses, Don soon discovers that the house has its own dark, sordid history and won't be so easy to renovate after all. Formats: DVD, Blu-ray. (Dark Sky Films).
The Lighthouse
(2019) Two lighthouse keepers try to maintain their sanity while living on a >remote and mysterious New England island in the 1890s. Formats: DVD, Blu-ray VOD, Digital. Extras: "The Lighthouse: A Dark & Stormy Tale" featurette,
The Mercenary
(2019) Dominiquie Vandenberg, Louis Mandylor, Carmen Argenziano. Maxx (Vandenberg) is a legionnaire turned mercenary. When a mission in South America goes wrong, Maxx is left for dead, but is nursed back to health and reborn with a new outlook on life. He tries to live tranquilly within the confines of his new beliefs surrounded by his new friends at a church. But his peaceful days are short-lived when mercenaries he used to work with cross his path again and he is forced to revisit and face his own demons. Formats: DVD, Digital. (Uncork’d Entertainment).
The Nightshifter
(2018 -- Brazil) Daniel de Oliveira, Fabiula Nascimento, Bianca Comparato, Marco Ricca. Stênio (Oliveira) works the graveyard shift in the morgue of a vast, violent city. Each night he prepares the lifeless corpses for examination, but he's never alone. For Stênio can talk to the dead…and they talk back. But when the whispers of the dead reveal secrets of his own life, Stênio unleashes a curse that brings forth unimaginable danger and darkness. Formats: DVD. (RLJE Films).
The Shed
(2019) Jay Jay Warren, Cody Kostro, Sofia Happonen, Frank Whaley, Siobhan Fallon Hoga, Timothy Bottoms. Stan and his best friend Dommer have put up with bullies their entire lives. All of that changes when Stan discovers he has a murderous vampire living in his shed. Seeing the bloodshed and destruction the monster is capable of, Stan knows he has to find a way to destroy it. But Dommer has a much more sinister plan in mind.
Formats: DVD, Blu-ray. (RLJE Films).
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Director Todd Phillips "Joker" centers around the iconic arch nemesis and is an original, standalone fictional story that explores the psyche of Arthur Fleck, who is indelibly portrayed by Joaquin Phoenix, is of a man struggling to find his way in Gotham's fractured society. A clown-for-hire by day, he aspires to be a stand-up comic at night…but finds the joke always seems to be on him. Caught in a cyclical existence between apathy and cruelty, Arthur makes one bad decision that brings about a chain reaction of escalating events in this gritty character study.
Vitals: Director:. Stars: Joaquin Phoenix, Robert De Niro, Zazie Beetz, Frances Conroy, Brett Cullen.
2019, CC, MPAA rating: R, 122 min., Drama, Box office gross: $133.035 million, Warner.
Extras: "Joker: Vision & Fury," "Becoming Joker," "Please Welcome… Joker!," "Joker: A Chronicle of Chaos."
Hypnotic and hallucinatory tale of two lighthouse keepers (Willem Dafoe and Robert Pattinson) on a remote and mysterious New England island in the 1890s. As an approaching storm threatens to sweep them from the rock and strange apparitions emerge from the fog, each man begins to suspect that the other has become dangerously unmoored.
Vitals: Director: Robert Eggers. Stars: Willem Dafoe, Robert Pattinson, Valeriia Karaman.
2019, CC, MPAA rating: R, 109 min., Drama, Box office gross: $10.392 million, Lionsgate.
Extras: "The Lighthouse: A Dark & Stormy Tale" featurette, audio Commentary with co-writer & director Robert Eggers, deleted scenes.
Holiday
(1938) Two years before stars Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant and director George Cukor would collaborate on "The Philadelphia Story," they brought their timeless talents to this delectable slice of 1930s romantic-comedy perfection, the second film adaptation of a hit 1928 play by Philip Barry. Grant is at his charismatic best as the acrobatically inclined free spirit who, following a whirlwind engagement, literally tumbles into the lives of his fiancée’s aristocratic family — setting up a clash of values with her staid father while firing the rebellious imagination of her brash, black-sheep sister (Hepburn). With a sparkling surface and an undercurrent of melancholy, Holiday is an enchanting ode to nonconformists and pie-in-the-sky dreamers everywhere, as well as a thoughtful reflection on what it truly means to live well. Formats: DVD, Blu-ray Disc with new 4K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray. Extras: "Holiday" (1930), a previous adaptation of Philip Barry’s play, directed by Edward H. Griffith; conversation between filmmaker and distributor Michael Schlesinger and film critic Michael Sragow; excerpts from an American Film Institute oral history with director George Cukor, recorded in 1970 and 71; costume gallery; an essay by critic Dana Stevens. (The Criterion Collection).
audio Commentary with co-writer & director Robert Eggers, deleted scenes. (Lionsgate).
