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About Endlessness: Showcasing seemingly insignificant or historical moments, whether playful, sorrowful, simple, lighthearted or heavy, "About Endlessness" beautifully captures what it means to be human as it delicately wanders into the day-to-day lives of everyday people. (Apple TV, Google Play, Prime Video, FandangoNOW)
Fireboys: Fireboys is the untold story of young men incarcerated in California who are offered a way out: by fighting wildfires. Immersive and personal, this coming-of-age story examines a correctional path that is both hopeful and destructive. (Digital, VOD)
Hum: When a mysterious and impenetrable Chest opens for the first time, a young man becomes inexplicably trapped in the woods along with his spiteful mentor and a strange woman with ties to a local cult. (Digital, VOD)
Lucky: Life takes a sudden turn for a popular self-help book author when she finds herself the target of a mysterious man with murderous intentions. Every night without fail, he comes after her, and every day the people around her barely seem to notice. With no one to turn to, she is pushed to her limits and must take matters into her own hands. (DVD release: Day & date)
Luca: Set in a seaside town on the Italian Riviera, Disney and Pixar’s “Luca” is a coming-of-age story about a young boy experiencing an unforgettable summer. Luca shares his amazing adventures with his friend Alberto, but their fun is threatened by a deeply held secret: They’re sea monsters from a world below the water’s surface. (DVD, Blu-ray release: Day & date)
Mondo Hollywoodland: Follows a mushroom dealer and a man from the 5th dimension as they look for all things groovy and the meaning of “mondo” in Los Angeles. Along the way, these two encounter the various factions of Hollywood as they all bumble through psychedelic-fueled introspection. (Digital, VOD)
On the Trail of UFOs: Dark Sky: Explores decades of reports of unusual craft and lights seen in the skies, and delves into some of the more overlooked aspects of the subject such as men in black, the connection between UFOs and energy sources and encounters with a mysterious being called “Cold.” (iTunes, Amazon Prime Video, Vudu and FandangoNOW)
Pooling to Paradise: an indie comedy about a ride share that turns into an unexpected road trip to Paradise, NV. Four strangers, each at a cross-worlds in their lives, find unexpected connections that change their view on life. (DVD release: Day & date - Walmart only)
A Savage Nature: A lonely waitress is desperate to escape her small town and repair her marriage to her deputy sheriff husband. On the evening of their wedding anniversary, the troubled couple attempts to make a fresh start, but things take an unexpected turn when sinister strangers invade their home. As the night unfolds, loyalties shift, secrets spill, and lives shatter. (VOD, Digital)
Night Drive: Russell is a driver in Los Angeles who’s reeling from a series of bad decisions. While his life seems to be caught in a downward spiral, a business proposition from an alluring but enigmatic passenger named Charlotte proves too good to turn down. A simple ride turns deadly, catapulting Russell into an even darker place, but Charlotte may be the key to a second chance he thought he’d never have ... if he can make it through the night. (Digital, VOD)
Notorious Nick: Even though he was born with a partial left arm, Nick Newell (Cody Christian) dreams of being a fighter. After wrestling in high school, Nick becomes a fierce competitor when his best friend, Abi, introduces him to mixed martial arts. Suddenly, a tragedy provides Nick with an unexpected opportunity, but to succeed he must commit to becoming the fighter he always hoped to be (DVD: August 17)
Whirlybird: Soaring above the chaotic spectacle of 80s and 90s Los Angeles, a young couple revolutionized breaking news with their brazen helicopter reporting and their action-packed live coverage of monumental moments in the history of L.A., including the 1992 riots and the O.J. Simpson Ford Bronco chase in 1994. (VOD)
Final Account
(2021) This documentary is a portrait of the last living generation of Hitler's Third Reich in never-before-seen interviews raising vital questions about authority, conformity, national identity, and their own roles in the greatest human crimes in history.
Formats: DVD. (Focus Features/Universal).
Luca
(2021) Voices of Jacob Tremblay, Jack Dylan Grazer, Emma Berman, Saverio Raimondo, Maya Rudolph, Marco Barricelli,Jim Gaffigan. On the Italian Riviera, an unlikely but strong friendship grows between a human being and a sea monster disguised as a human.
Formats: DVD, Blu-ray/DVD Combo, 4K Ultra HD/Blu-ray Combo, VOD, Digital. Extras: "Our Italian Inspiration" featurette; "Secretly a Sea Monster" featurette; "Best Friends" featurette; deleted scenes.
Read more here. (Disney).
Pooling to Paradise
(2021) Lynn Chen, Jonathan Lipnicki, Dreama Walker, Jordan Carlos, Taryn Manning. An indie comedy about a ride share that turns into an unexpected road trip to Paradise, NV. Four strangers, each at a cross-worlds in their lives, find unexpected connections that change their view on life. Formats: DVD (Walmart only), VOD, Digital. (SP Releasing). Read more here.
Seance
(2021) Suki Waterhouse, Madisen Beaty, Ella-Rae Smith, Inanna Sarkis. Camille Meadows is the new girl at the prestigious Edelvine Academy for Girls. Soon after her arrival, six girls invite her to join them in a late-night ritual, calling forth the spirit of a dead former student who reportedly haunts their halls. But before morning, one of the girls is dead, leaving the others wondering what they may have awakened. Formats: DVD, Blu-ray. Extras: Director commentary, "Behind the Scenes of Seance," outtakes, deleted scenes, decapitation pre-viz, behind-the-scenes photo gallery. (RLJE Films).
Those Who Wish Me Dead
(2021) Angelina Jolie, Nicholas Hoult, Aiden Gillen, Medina Senghore, Tyler Perry, Jake Weber, Jon Bernthal. A teenage murder witness finds himself pursued by twin assassins in the Montana wilderness with a survival expert tasked with protecting him -- and a forest fire threatening to consume them all. Formats: DVD + Digital Code, Blu-ray + Digital Code, VOD, Digital. Extras: "Making Those Who Wish Me Dead."
Read more here. (Warner).
Till Death
(2021) Megan Fox, Callan Mulvey, Eoin Macken, Aml Ameen, Jack Roth. After a romantic evening in their secluded lake house, Emma (Fox) awakens handcuffed to her dead husband. Trapped and isolated in the dead of winter, she must fight off hired killers to escape her husband's twisted plan. Formats: DVD, Blu-ray. (Screen Media Films).
Under the Stadium Lights
(2021) Milo Gibson, Abigail Hawk, Acoryé White, Carter Redwood, Noel G., Laurence Fishburne. Inspirational true story of a small-town high school football team who beat all the odds to win their state championship. After a crushing defeat ended their prior season, everyone counted the Abilene Eagles out of title contention. Facing doubts and personal challenges both on and off the field, it took the guidance of their team chaplain (Gibson) and a surrogate father figure (Fishburne) for them to realize what they could achieve when they stood united as a team. Formats: DVD. (Paramount).
The Unthinkable (Den Blomstertid nu kommer)
(2021 -- Sweden) Christoffer Nordenrot, Lisa Henni, Jesper Barkselius. It’s midsummer and Sweden wakes up to a state of emergency. TV, internet, and telephone networks are down, and before anyone realizes what’s behind the collapse, a series of unexplained attacks take place around the country. Alex, a successful pianist whose controlled existence is upturned when his mother dies in a suspected terror attack, returns to his childhood village to arrange the funeral. There, he must reconcile with both his father and his old flame, Anna, who he has desperately been trying to forget. As old feelings come back to the surface, more mysterious attacks plunge Sweden into chaos and confusion. Formats: DVD, VOD, Digital. (Magnolia Pictures).
Luca
Set in a seaside town on the Italian Riviera, Disney and Pixar’s “Luca” is a coming-of-age story about a young boy experiencing an unforgettable summer. Luca shares his amazing adventures with his friend Alberto, but their fun is threatened by a deeply held secret: They’re sea monsters from a world below the water’s surface.
Vitals: Director: Enrico Casarosa. Stars: Voices of Jacob Tremblay, Jack Dylan Grazer, Emma Berman, Saverio Raimondo, Maya Rudolph, Marco Barricelli,Jim Gaffigan.
2021, CC, MPAA rating: PG, 95 min., Animated Family, worldwide $11.6 million, Disney.
Formats: DVD, Blu-ray/DVD Combo, 4K Ultra HD/Blu-ray Combo, VOD, Digital.
Extras: "Our Italian Inspiration" featurette; "Secretly a Sea Monster" featurette; "Best Friends" featurette; deleted scenes.
Read more here.
Those Who Wish Me Dead
Oscar winner Angelina Jolie stars as Hannah, a smoke jumper reeling from the loss of three young lives she failed to save from a fire. When she comes across a bloodied and traumatized 12-year-old boy, the two set out together to cross miles of thick forest. Braving deadly lightning storms that challenge even Hannah’s well-honed survival skills, they’re unaware of the true dangers they face as they’re hunted by two killers while a massive fiery blaze heads straight for them.
Vitals: Director: Taylor Sheridan. Stars: Angelina Jolie, Nicholas Hoult, Aiden Gillen, Medina Senghore, Tyler Perry, Jake Weber, Jon Bernthal.
2021, CC, MPAA rating: R, 100 min., Action Thriller, US box office gross: $7.309 million, worldwide $23.814 million, Warner.
Formats: DVD + Digital Code, Blu-ray + Digital Code, VOD, Digital.
Extras: "Making Those Who Wish Me Dead."
Read more here.
Here Today
When veteran comedy writer Charlie Burnz (Billy Crystal) meets New York singer Emma Payge (Tiffany Haddish), they form an unlikely yet hilarious and touching friendship that kicks the generation gap aside and redefines the meaning of love and trust.
Vitals: Director: Billy Crystal. Stars: Billy Crystal, Tiffany Haddish, Penn Badgley, Laura Benanti, Louisa Krause, Anna Deavere Smith, Nyambi Nyambi, Sharon Stone.
2019, CC, MPAA rating: PG-13, 117 min., Comedy, US box office gross: $2.807 million, worldwide $2.807 million, Sony.
Formats: DVD, Blu-ray, VOD, Digital.
Extras: Commentary with Billy Crystal, Tiffany Haddish & writer Alan Zweibel; interviews with filmmakers and cast.
Read more here.
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The Daimajin Trilogy [Limited Edition]
(1966 -- Japan) "The Daimajin Trilogy" saw Daiei's Kyoto studios bringing its own iconic movie monster to life in a unique but short-lived series that transplants the Golem legend to Japan's Warring States period of the late-16th century. In "Daimajin," directed by Kimiyoshi Yasuda, the young son and daughter of the benevolent feudal lord Hanabusa flee to the mountains when their parents are slain by the treacherous usurper Odate. Ten years later, when the elderly priestess who has harbored them is also murdered, the rage of the slumbering ancient god that lies beneath the crumbling giant stone idol hidden deep in the forests in the mountains is invoked. In "Return of Daimajin," Kenji Misumi brings his usual stylistic flourish, as the wrathful deity is roused from his new home on an island in the middle of a lake by the violent incursions of a vicious warlord. In the final film, "Wrath of Daimajin," by veteran jidaigeki director Kazuo Mori, four young boys make a perilous trip to elicit the help of the ancient mountain god in freeing their family members who have been enslaved by a tyrannical lord. Remarkably overlooked in the West, these three thrilling tales of feudal oppression and divine retribution meted out by the iconic stone warrior of the title combine lavish period detail with jaw-dropping special effects. Formats: Three-disc Blu-ray set. Extras: Illustrated collector’s 100 page book featuring new essays by Jonathan Clements, Keith Aiken, Ed Godziszewski, Raffael Coronelli, Erik Homenick, Robin Gatto and Kevin Derendorf; postcards featuring the original Japanese artwork for all three films; reversible sleeves featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Matt Frank; commentaries; featurettes; image galleries; (Arrow Video/MVD Entertainment).
Here Today
(2021) Billy Crystal, Tiffany Haddish, Penn Badgley, Laura Benanti, Louisa Krause, Anna Deavere Smith, Nyambi Nyambi, Sharon Stone. When veteran comedy writer Charlie Burnz (Crystal) meets New York singer Emma Payge (Haddish), they form an unlikely yet hilarious and touching friendship that kicks the generation gap aside and redefines the meaning of love and trust.
Formats: DVD, Blu-ray, VOD, Digital. Extras: Commentary with Billy Crystal, Tiffany Haddish & writer Alan Zweibel; interviews with filmmakers and cast.
Read more here. (Sony).
The Sergio Martino Collection
(1971 -- Italy) One of Italian cinema's most celebrated and prolific filmmakers, Sergio Martino worked across a range of genres, but is arguably best known for his giallo thrillers. This collection brings together three of his finest. In "The Case of the Scorpion's Tail," recently widowed Lisa Baumer is summoned to Athens to collect her husband's generous life insurance policy, but soon discovers others are willing to kill to get their hands on it. In the Edgar Allan Poe-inspired "Your Vice is a Locked Room and Only I Have the Key," abrasive drunk Oliviero amuses himself by holding drunken orgies and abusing his long-suffering wife ... but when a series of grisly murders shakes the local community, Oliviero finds himself in the frame. Finally, "The Suspicious Death of a Minor" combines giallo and crime thriller tropes as undercover cop Paolo pursues the Milanese criminal outfit responsible for the brutal murder of an underage prostitute, but finds himself up against a killer-for-hire who's bumping off witnesses before they have a chance to talk. Featuring sensational casts of genre stalwarts, including Edwige Fenech, George Hilton, Anita Strindberg and Luigi Pistilli, with scripts by giallo master Ernesto Gastaldi and sensuous scores by maestro Bruno Nicolai, this is an essential collection for any Italian cult cinema fan. All three restored in 2K from the original camera negatives. Formats: Blu-ray. Extras: Commentaries, interviews, featurettes. (Arrow Video/MVD Entertainment). Read more here.
Tailgate (Bumperkleef)
(2019 -- Netherlands) Jeroen Spitzenberger, Anniek Pheifer, Willem de Wolf,
Roosmarijn Van Der Hoek. Hans, his wife and two young children, hit the highway on a trip to visit family. After getting stuck behind a slow-moving van, he recklessly starts to antagonize the eerily stoic driver, blaring the horn and riding his bumper. Little does he realize that he’s just crossed the wrong motorist – a deranged madman who sets out to teach Hans a lesson he’ll not soon forget. Lured into an alarming game of vehicular cat and mouse, a simple family road trip turns into a deadly obstacle course in this nerve-wracking, pulse-pounding thriller, an Official Selection at the Sitges Film Festival and FrightFest.
Formats: DVD, VOD, Digital. (Film Movement). Read more here.
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