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OnVideo's Weekly Guide to Home Video Releases
January 21
Doctor Sleep: Years following the events of "The Shining," a now-adult Dan Torrance must protect a young girl with similar powers from a cult known as The True Knot, who prey on children with powers to remain immortal. (DVD, Blu-ray release: February 4)
The Good Liar: Consummate con man Roy Courtnay (Ian McKellen) has set his sights on his latest mark: the recently widowed Betty McLeish (Helen Mirren), worth millions. But this time, what should have been a simple swindle escalates into a cat-and-mouse game with the ultimate stakes. (DVD, Blu-ray release: February 18)
Playing With Fire: When straight-laced fire superintendent Jake Carson (John Cena) and his elite team of expert firefighters come to the rescue of three siblings in the path of an encroaching wildfire, they quickly realize that no amount of training could prepare them for their most challenging job yet – babysitters. (DVD, Blu-ray release: February 4)
Step Up: Street dancers join forces for a battle royal to determine the world’s best dance crew in this story set against the streets and stages of Beijing. (Digital only)
The Addams Family
(2019) Voices of Oscar Isaac, Charlize Theron, Chloë Grace Moretz, Finn Wolfhard, Nick Kroll, Snoop Dogg, Bette Midler And Allison Janney. The eccentrically macabre family moves to a bland suburb where Wednesday Addams' friendship with the daughter of a hostile and conformist local reality show host exacerbates conflict between the families. Formats: DVD, Blu-ray/DVD Combo, VOD, Digital. Extras: Deleted and extended scenes, "Welcome to the Family" making of/character profiles, "Life of a Scene" storyboards, "Charades with Thing," "Addams Family Throwback," "Haunted Heart" lyric video performed by Christina Aguilera, "My Family" lyric video performed by Migos, Karol G, Rock Mafia & Snoop Dogg. (Universal).
The Berenstain Bears: Tree House Tales Volume Two
(2019) Contains 26 fun-filled tales straight from the family tree house PBS Kids series. Formats: DVD, Digital. (PBS Distribution).
Black and Blue
(2019) Naomie Harris, Tyrese Gibson, Frank Grillo, Mike Colter, Reid Scott, Beau Knapp. Action-thriller about a rookie cop (Naomie Harris) who inadvertently captures the murder of a young drug dealer on her body cam. After realizing that the murder was committed by corrupt cops, she teams up with the one person from her community who is willing to help her (Tyrese Gibson) as she tries to escape the criminals out for revenge and the police who are desperate to destroy the incriminating footage. Formats: DVD, Blu-ray, VOD, Digital. Extras: Deleted scenes, "Line of Fire" behind-the-scenes with director Deon Taylor; "Be the Change in the Big Easy" with Naomie Harris and Tyrese Gibson. (Sony).
Church & State
(2018) A surprise federal court ruling in 2013 legalized gay marriage for Utah - triggering a fierce battle in a state where Mormon church values control the Legislature and every aspect of public life. This documentary chronicles the improbable story of a brash, inexperienced gay activist and a tiny Salt Lake City law firm that joined forces to topple Utah's gay marriage ban. It is a story of trump, setback, and a little-known lawsuit that should have failed, but instead paved the way for a U.S. Supreme Court decision that legalized same sex unions nationwide. Formats: DVD. (Breaking Glass Pictures).
Ever After (aka Endzeit)
(2019 -- Germany) Gro Swantje Kohlhof, Maja Lehrer, Trine Dyrholm. In post-apocalypse Europe, two years after zombies have overrun Earth, only two citadels of civilization remain: in the East German towns of Weimar and Jena. In Weimar, newly infected zombies are shot on site without mercy. The Jena authorities take a more humane approach by trying to find a cure for the plague victims. Vivi and Eva, in search of a more humane world, are stranded in the no-man's land of the Black Forest where they have to rely on each other and nature in order to survive. But their survival has also unleashed demons from their past that they must confront. Formats: DVD, Blu-ray, VOD. (Juno Films).
Humanpersons
(2018 -- Brazil) Pedro García Ríos, Mimi Lazo. James returns to his native Latin America after 30 years, with just one thing in mind -- taking an organ from a human victim and smuggling it back to the United States. On this trip, he relives memories of his own violent past, which makes him think twice about redeeming his future.
Formats: DVD, Digital. (Uncork’d Entertainment).
I See You
(2019) Helen Hunt, Jon Tenney, Judah Lewis, Owen Teague, Libe Barer, Greg Alan Williams, Erika Alexander, Allison King. When a 12-year-old boy goes missing, lead investigator Greg Harper (Tenney) struggles to balance the pressure of the investigation and troubles with his wife, Jackie (Hunt). Facing a recent affair, great strain is put on the family that slowly gnaws away at Jackie's grip on reality. But after a malicious presence manifests itself in their home and puts their son, Connor (Lewis), in mortal danger, the cold, hard truth about evil in the Harper household is finally uncovered. Formats: DVD, VOD, Digital. (Paramount).
The Knight of Shadows
(2019 -- China) Jackie Chan, Lin Peng, Ethan Juan, Elane Zhong. In this martial arts fantasy action-comedy, Pu Songling (Chan), a legendary demon hunter, is asked to investigate the mysterious disappearances of young girls from a small village. When he discovers evil forces are kidnapping the girls to feast on their souls, he sets out to save humanity from the inhuman invasion by journeying through hidden worlds and colorful dimensions with a lawman protégé and a motley group of friendly monsters. Formats: DVD, Blu-ray/DVD Combo, VOD, Digital. (Well Go USA).
Le petit soldat
(1963 -- France) Before his convention-shattering debut, "Breathless," had even premiered, Jean-Luc Godard leapt into the making of his second feature, a thriller that would tackle the most controversial subject in France: the use of torture in the Algerian War. Despite his lack of political convictions, photojournalist Bruno Forestier (Michel Subor) is roped into a paramilitary group waging a shadow war in Geneva against the Algerian independence movement. Anna Karina (in her first collaboration with Godard, whose camera is visibly besotted with her) is beguiling as the mysterious woman with whom Forestier becomes infatuated. Banned for two and a half years by French censors for its depiction of brutal tactics on the part of the French government and the Algerian fighters alike, "Le petit soldat" finds the young Godard already retooling cinema as a vehicle for existential inquiry, political argument, and ephemeral portraiture -- in other words, as a medium for delivering “truth twenty-four times per second.”
Formats: DVD, Blu-ray Disc with high-definition digital restoration, approved by cinematographer Raoul Coutard, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray. Extras: Interview with Godard from 1965, interview with actor Michel Subor from 1963, audio interview with Godard from 1961, an essay by critic Nicholas Elliott. (The Criterion Collection).
Pain and Glory
(2019 -- Spain) Dir.: Pedro Almodóvar; Antonio Banderas, Asier Etxeandia, Leonardo Sbaraglia, Nora Navas, Julieta Serrano, Penélope Cruz. A film director (Antonio Banderas) reflects on the choices he's made in life as past and present come crashing down around him in Pedro Almodóvar's semi-autobiographical film. Formats: DVD, Blu-ray, VOD, Digital. Extras: Q&A with Almodóvar and Banderas, "Pedro Almodóvar: In His Own Words" featurette. (Sony).
Sliding Doors [Collector’s Edition]
(1998) Gwyneth Paltrow, John Hannah, John Lynch, Jeanne Tripplehorn, Zara Turner. Paltrow plays London publicist Helen, effortlessly sliding between parallel storylines that show what happens if she does or doesn’t catch a morning train back to her apartment. The two stories shift back and forth, overlap, then surprisingly converge.
Formats: Blu-ray. Extras: New audio commentary with writer-director Peter Howitt; new “The Sliding Doors Moments” documentary that looks back at the making of the film with exclusive home movie footage and brand-new interviews with Howitt, Paltrow, Hannah, and more; new "A Stroll Through Sliding Doors London With Peter Howitt"; trailers. (Shout! Select).
Summer Days with Coo
(2007 -- Japan) A stunning fantasy film based on Japanese mythology. One day, Koichi Uehara, a fourth-grader living in the suburbs of Tokyo, picks up a fossil that looks like a large stone while on his way home from school. To his surprise, he has picked up a baby Kappa (a Japanese mythical water creature), who has been asleep underground for the past 300 years. Koichi names this baby creature “Coo” and brings him to live with his family, and soon the two are inseparable friends. However, trouble abounds as Coo struggles to adjust to modern life, and begins to miss his family, leading Koichi and Coo to embark on a summer road trip adventure in search of other Kappa. Formats: DVD, Blu-ray, Digital. (GKIDS/Shout! Factory).
Zombieland: Double Tap
(2019) Woody Harrelson, Jesse Eisenberg, Abigail Breslin, Emma Stone, Rosario Dawson, Zoey Deutch, Luke Wilson, Avan Jogia, Thomas Middleditch. Columbus, Tallahassee, Wichita, and Little Rock move to the American heartland as they face off against evolved zombies, fellow survivors, and the growing pains of the snarky makeshift family 10 years after the apocalypse. Formats: DVD, Blu-ray/DVD Combo, 4K Ultra HD/Blu-ray Combo, VOD, Digital. Extras: Extended bloopers & outtakes; alternate & extended scenes; "The Doppelgangers": In-depth piece breaks down doppelgangers Flagstaff and Albuquerque and comes complete with interviews, demonstrations, and multiple cameras to snag all the action in their wild scenes; "The Rides of Zombieland" featurette; "Rules of Making a Zombie Film"; "Making Babylon"; "New Blood"; "Single Take Doppelganger Fight"; commentary with director Ruben Fleischer; "Zombieland Ad Council." (Sony).
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