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OnVideo's Weekly Guide to Home Video Releases
March 3
Black Christmas: A group of female students are stalked by a stranger during their Christmas break. That is until the young sorority pledges discover that the killer is part of an underground college conspiracy. (DVD, Blu-ray release: March 17)
The Furies: A woman is kidnapped and finds herself an unwilling participant in a deadly game where women are hunted by masked men. (Digital, VOD only)
Ne Zha: Internationally-acclaimed animated fantasy-adventure from first-time feature film director Jiaozi brings to the screen the enchanting story of a boy with unique powers who is recruited to fight demons and save the community that initially fears him. (DVD, Blu-ray release: March 3)
Playmobil The Movie: When her younger brother Charlie unexpectedly disappears into the magical, animated universe of Playmobil, unprepared Marla (Anya Taylor-Joy) must team up with the dashing and charismatic secret agent Rex Dasher (Daniel Radcliffe) and the smooth-talking food truck driver Del (Jim Gaffigan) to rescue him. (DVD release: Day & date)
Richard Jewell: Clint Eastwood directed hero movie tells the story of the security guard who discovers a bomb at the 1996 Atlanta Games and takes swift, heroic action, saving countless lives. But in a turn of events, he becomes the FBI’s number one suspect, vilified by the press and public alike. (DVD, Blu-ray release: March 17)
March 6
The Dark Red: A young woman is committed to a psychiatric hospital claiming that her newborn has been abducted by a secret society called the Dark Red -- an ancient, underground cult that harvests and controls an incredibly rare blood type that gives one the power to hear and guide another person's thoughts. (Digital only)
Escape From Pretoria: Based on the real-life prison break of two political captives, the film is a race-against-time thriller set in the tumultuous apartheid days of South Africa. Stars Daniel Radcliffe. (Digital, VOD only)
Run This Town: A young journalist and a young political aide become entangled in a larger-than-life political scandal as they struggle to navigate adult life. (Digital, VOD only)
Carol of the Bells
(2019) RJ Mitte, Lee Purcell, Andrea F. Friedman, Yuly Mireles, Donna Pescow, Donna Mills. A young man with a troubled past seeks out his biological mother. His world is turned upside down upon discovering that she is developmentally disabled. Unable to work through this new discovery on his own, the man's wife takes matters into her own hands forcing her husband to face the truth and heal the past. Formats: DVD, Digital. (High Octane Pictures).
Kansas City
(1996) Returning to the city of his birth for inspiration, legendary maverick director Robert Altman helms an evocative, bullet-riddled tribute to the music and movies of his youth in this Depression-era gangster flick as only he could make one. Blondie O'Hara (Jennifer Jason Leigh) resorts to desperate measures when her low-level hood husband Johnny (Dermot Mulroney) gets caught trying to steal from Seldom Seen (Harry Belafonte), a local crime boss operating out of jazz haunt The Hey-Hey Club. Out on a limb, Blondie kidnaps laudanum-addled socialite Carolyn (Miranda Richardson), hoping her influential politician husband can pull the right strings and get Johnny out of Seldom Seen's clutches. Nominated for the Palme d'Or at Cannes, and featuring
Ne Zha
(2019 -- China) Internationally-acclaimed animated fantasy-adventure from first-time feature film director Jiaozi brings to the screen the enchanting story of a boy with unique powers who is recruited to fight demons and save the community that initially fears him. A young boy, Nezha, is birthed from a heavenly pearl by the Primeval Lord of Heaven. Born with unique powers, Nezha finds himself as an outcast who is hated and feared. Destined by prophecy to bring destruction to the world, the young boy must choose between good and evil in order to break the shackles of fate and become the hero. Formats: DVD, Blu-ray/DVD Combo, 4K Ultra HD/Blu-ray Combo, VOD, Digital. (Well Go USA).
Queen & Slim
(2019) Daniel Kaluuya, Jodie Turner-Smith, Chloe Sevigny, Bokeem Woodbine, Sturgill Simpson, Kenneth Kynt Bryan. Slim and Queen's first date takes an unexpected turn when a policeman pulls them over for a minor traffic violation. When the situation escalates, Slim takes the officer's
Wakefield Project
(2019) Anthony Bewlz, Dennis Andres, Lindsay Seim. The little town of Wakefield, founded by a man whose post-mortem crimes stained the entire town, becomes the center of a temporary shift in atmospheric energies when unprecedented solar flares target North America. For 24 hours, the living find the dead walking among them. Formats: DVD, Digital. (High Octane Pictures).
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While on a forgettable first date together in Ohio, a black man (Daniel Kaluuya) and a black woman (Jodie Turner-Smith), are pulled over for a minor traffic infraction. The situation escalates, with sudden and tragic results, when the man kills the police officer in self-defense. Terrified and in fear for their lives, the man, a retail employee, and the woman, a criminal defense lawyer, are forced to go on the run. But the incident is captured on video and goes viral, and the couple unwittingly become a symbol of trauma, terror, grief and pain for people across the country. As they drive, these two unlikely fugitives will discover themselves and each other in the most dire and desperate of circumstances, and will forge a deep and powerful love that will reveal their shared humanity and shape the rest of their lives.
Vitals: Director: Melina Matsoukas. Stars: Daniel Kaluuya, Jodie Turner-Smith, Chloe Sevigny, Bokeem Woodbine, Sturgill Simpson, Kenneth Kynt Bryan.
2019, CC, MPAA rating: R, 131 min., Drama, Box office gross: $43.491 million, Universal.
Extras: Feature commentary with director-pProducer Melina Matsoukas and writer-producer Lena Waithe; "A Deeper Meaning": Daniel Kaluuya, Jodie Turner-Smith and filmmakers discuss the complicated journeys of Queen & Slim; "Melina & Lena" behind-the-scenes look at the creative partnership between director-producer Melina Matsoukas and screenwriter-producer Lena Waithe; "Off the Script" screenplay featurette; "On the Run With Queen & Slim" behind the scenes with cast and crew in Cleveland and New Orleans.
Shocking and heroic story of an attorney (Mark Ruffalo) who risks his career and family to uncover a dark secret hidden by one of the world's largest corporations and to bring justice to a community dangerously exposed for decades to deadly chemicals.
Vitals: Director: Todd Haynes. Stars: Anne Hathaway, Mark Ruffalo, William Jackson Harper, Tim Robbins, Bill Pullman, Victor Garber, Mare Winningham, Bill Camp.
2019, CC, MPAA rating: PG-13, 126 min., Drama, Box office gross: $11.085 million, Universal.
Extras: "Uncovering Dark Waters," "The Cost of Being a Hero," "The Real People." 
CMA Awards Live Greatest Moments: 2008-2015,
The first Blu-ray installment in the top-selling CMA Awards Live home entertainment line features country's biggest and brightest stars - Jason Aldean, Dierks Bentley, Brooks & Dunn, Luke Bryan, Kenny Chesney, Eric Church, Florida Georgia Line, Lady Antebellum, Miranda Lambert, Little Big Town, Reba McEntire, Brad Paisley, Blake Shelton, Carrie Underwood, Keith Urban, and more. For more than 50 years, the CMA Awards have spotlighted the top performers of America's favorite music, capturing the songs and artists who have provided a soundtrack for our lives. This collection features unforgettable collaborations that could only happen on "Country Music's Biggest Night" - including "Coal Miner's Daughter" by Miranda Lambert, Sheryl Crow, and Loretta Lynn, "Cowgirls Don't Cry" by Brooks & Dunn and Reba McEntire, "Tennessee Whiskey/Drink You Away" by Chris Stapleton and Justin Timberlake, "He Stopped Loving Her Today" by Alan Jackson and George Strait, and more. Formats:Blu-ray. Extras: Behind the scenes, candid artist interviews, interview with Robert Deaton, executive producer of the CMA Awards. (Time Life).
a remarkable soundtrack performed live by some of the best players in contemporary jazz, one of Altman's most underrated and idiosyncratic films finally makes its long-awaited Blu-ray debut. Formats: Blu-ray. Extras: Audio commentary by director Robert Altman; newly filmed appreciation by critic Geoff Andrew; "Gare, Trains et Deraillement," a 2007 visual essay by French critic Luc Lagier, plus short introduction to the film narrated by Lagier; "Robert Altman Goes to the Heart of America and Kansas City: The Music," two 1996 promotional featurettes including interviews with cast and crew; electronic press kit interviews with Altman, Leigh, Richardson, Belafonte and musician Joshua Redman, plus behind-the-scenes footage; four theatrical trailers; TV spots; image gallery; reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Jennifer Dionisio; FIRST PRESSING ONLY: Illustrated collectors’ booklet featuring new writing by Dr Nicolas Pillai, original press kit notes and an excerpt from Altman on Altman. (Arrow Academy/MVD Entertainment).
gun and shoots him in self-defence. Now labelled cop killers in the media, Slim and Queen feel that they have no choice but to go on the run and evade the law. Formats: DVD, Blu-ray, 4K Ultra HD/Blu-ray, VOD, Digital. Extras: Feature commentary with director-producer Melina Matsoukas and writer-producer Lena Waithe; "A Deeper Meaning": Daniel Kaluuya, Jodie Turner-Smith and filmmakers discuss the complicated journeys of Queen & Slim; "Melina & Lena" behind-the-scenes look at the creative partnership between director-producer Melina Matsoukas and screenwriter-producer Lena Waithe; "Off the Script" screenplay featurette; "On the Run With Queen & Slim" behind the scenes with cast and crew in Cleveland and New Orleans. (Universal).
