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Tuesday, February 21, 2017

New on DVD and Blu-ray: February 21, 2017

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New on DVD and Blu-ray this week we have Mel Gibson's visceral war movie "Hacksaw Ridge", the drama "Manchester by the Sea", the psychological drama "Nocturnal Animals", the R-rated comedy "Bad Santa 2" and the TV special "Doctor Who: The Return of Doctor Mysterio". Also out now on home video is the first season of the British TV series "The Level".

Check out all the new movies and TV shows released on DVD and Blu-ray after the jump.





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MOVIES


HACKSAW RIDGE (2016)


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Product Description: HACKSAW RIDGE is the extraordinary true story of Desmond Doss [Andrew Garfield] who, in Okinawa during the bloodiest battle of WWII, saved 75 men without firing or carrying a gun. He was the only American soldier in WWII to fight on the front lines without a weapon, as he believed that while the war was justified, killing was nevertheless wrong. As an army medic, he single-handedly evacuated the wounded from behind enemy lines, braved fire while tending to soldiers and was wounded by a grenade and hit by snipers. Doss was the first conscientious objector awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor.

Purchasing Links: DVD, Blu-ray, 4K Ultra HD, Amazon Instant Video

Director: Mel Gibson

Starring: Andrew Garfield, Sam Worthington, Luke Bracey, Vince Vaughn, Sam Worthington, Hugo Weaving, Teresa Palmer, Rachel Griffiths

Genre: Drama, History, War

Runtime: 139 min

Rating: R for intense prolonged realistically graphic sequences of war violence including grisly bloody images

Language: English

Studio: Lionsgate

Special Features:
  • Featurettes
  • Deleted Scenes
  • Trailers




MANCHESTER BY THE SEA (2016)


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Product Description: In the acclaimed new drama from writer-director Kenneth Lonergan (You Can Count On Me, Margaret), Casey Affleck stars as Lee, a man whose spare existence is suddenly ruptured when the death of his brother Joe (Kyle Chandler) forces him to return to the hometown he abandoned years before. Rocked by contact with his estranged ex-wife (Michelle Williams) and the revelation that Joe has made him guardian of his teenage son (Lucas Hedges), Lee is forced to face up to painful memories and new-found levels of responsibility as he reconnects with his family.

Purchasing Links: DVD, Blu-ray, Amazon Instant Video

Director: Kenneth Lonergan

Starring: Casey Affleck, Michelle Williams, Kyle Chandler, Lucas Hedges

Genre: Drama

Runtime: 137 min

Rating: R for language throughout and some sexual content

Language: English

Studio: Lionsgate

Special Features:
  • Featurette: "Emotional Lives: Making 'Manchester by the Sea'"
  • Audio Commentary with director/writer Kenneth Lonergan
  • Deleted Scenes




NOCTURNAL ANIMALS (2016)


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Product Description: Academy Award nominees Amy Adams and Jake Gyllenhaal star in this haunting romantic thriller from acclaimed writer/director Tom Ford (A Single Man). Susan (Amy Adams) is living through an unfulfilling marriage when she receives a package containing a novel manuscript from her ex-husband, Edward (Jake Gyllenhaal). The novel is dedicated to her but its content is violent and devastating. Susan cannot help but reminisce over her past love story with the author. Increasingly she interprets the book as a tale of revenge, a tale that forces her to re-evaluate the choices that she has made, and reawakens a love that she feared was lost. Also starring Armie Hammer and Michael Shannon, Nocturnal Animals is a thriller of shocking intimacy and gripping tension.

Purchasing Links: DVD, Blu-ray, Amazon Instant Video

Director: Tom Ford

Starring: Amy Adams, Jake Gyllenhaal, Michael Shannon, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Isla Fisher

Genre: Drama, Thriller

Runtime: 116 min

Rating: R for violence, menace, graphic nudity, and language

Language: English

Studio: Universal

Special Features:
  • "The Making of Nocturnal Animals": 3 Featurettes, including "Building the Story," "The Look of 'Nocturnal Animals,'" and "The Filmmaker's Eye: Tom Ford"




BAD SANTA 2 (2016)


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Product Description: Fueled by cheap whiskey and greed, Willie Soke (Academy Award-winner Billy Bob Thornton), teams up once again with his angry sidekick, Marcus (Tony Cox), to knock off a Chicago charity run by curvaceous Diane (Christina Hendricks). But the arrival of Willie's horror story of a mother, Sunny (Academy Award-winner Kathy Bates), and "the kid" – Thurman Merman – may upset their plan. You better watch out, Bad Santa 2 is coming to town!

Purchasing Links: DVD, Blu-ray, Amazon Instant Video

Director: Mark Waters

Starring: Billy Bob Thornton, Kathy Bates, Tony Cox, Brett Kelly, Christina Hendricks, Octavia Spencer

Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama

Runtime: 92 min

Rating: R for crude sexual content and language throughout, and some graphic nudity

Language: English

Studio: Broad Green Pictures

Special Features:
  • Bad Santa 2 arrives in a new Unrated version available only on Blu-ray and 4K Blu-ray+Blu-ray skus, which also include the original version of the film and the exclusive bonus feature "That's My Willie," an original animated series. Additional bonus materials featured on Blu-ray, 4K Blu-ray and DVD include the featurettes "Thurman Then & Now," and "Just Your Average Red Band Featurette"; "Jingle Balls" – an adult version of the classic holiday song, along with gag reel, alternate opening and ending, deleted scenes and more!




DOCTOR WHO: THE RETURN OF DOCTOR MYSTERIO (2016)


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Product Description: In Doctor Who: The Return of Doctor Mysterio, join the Time Lord (Peter Capaldi), as he teams up with an investigative journalist (Charity Wakefield) and a superhero to save New York from a deadly alien threat. Can the Doctor save Manhattan? And what will be revealed when we see behind the mask? Written by Steven Moffat, the special is executive produced by Moffat and Brian Minchin, produced by Peter Bennett, and directed by Ed Bazalgette ('Poldark'). It was shot in Cardiff at BBC Wales Roath Lock Studios. Doctor Who is produced by BBC Studios Wales.

Purchasing Links: DVD, Blu-ray

Director: Edward Bazalgette

Starring: Peter Capaldi, Charity Wakefield, Justin Chatwin, Matt Lucas, Adetomiwa Edun, Aleksandar Jovanovic, Logan Hoffman

Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family, Sci-Fi

Runtime: 60 min

Rating: Not Rated

Language: English

Studio: BBC

Special Features:
  • None




SOPHIE AND THE RISING SUN (2017)


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Product Description: Set in the autumn of 1941 in Salty Creek, a willowy fishing village in South Carolina, the film tells the compelling story of two interracial lovers, Sophie, an artist who also fishes and sells crabs to the townfolk, the other an Asian gentleman, swept up in the tides of history. As World War II rages in Europe, Mr. Ohta, appears in the town badly beaten and under mysterious circumstances. Sophie, a native of Salty Creek, quickly becomes transfixed by Mr. Ohta and a friendship born of their mutual love of art blossoms into a delicate and forbidden courtship. As their secret relationship evolves the war escalates tragically. And when Pearl Harbor is bombed, a surge of misguided patriotism, bigotry and violence sweeps through the town, threatening Mr. Ohta s life. A trio of women, each with her own secrets - Sophie, along with the town matriarch and her housekeeper - rejects law and propriety, risking their lives with their actions. Based on the novel by Augusta Trobaugh

Purchasing Links: DVD, Blu-ray

Director: Maggie Greenwald

Starring: Julianne Nicholson, Takashi Yamaguchi, Margo Martindale, Diane Ladd

Genre: Drama

Runtime: 116 min

Rating: R for some sexuality and nudity

Language: English

Studio: Monterey Media

Special Features:
  • Interview with Star Kurt McKinney
  • Audio Commentary by Screenwriter Keith W. Strandberg
  • Reverse Blu-ray Art
  • Original Theatrical Trailers




DESIRE WILL SET YOU FREE (2015)


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Product Description: Desire Will Set You Free takes you deep into the free-spirited, drug-fueled, queer-paradise of contemporary Berlin. Ezra, a struggling American writer, meets Sasha, a Russian immigrant escort, and he introduces him to his world of clubs and parties, a dizzying and vibrant hedonistic underground. As they journey together through Berlin's layered history and unique subcultural landscape, their relationship begins to take a new form and inner desires threaten to disrupt everything.

Desire features an über-large cast of famous cameos: Amber Benson (Tara on Buffy the Vampire Slayer), 'Godmother of Punk' Nina Hagen as Oracle, cult musician and performance artist Peaches, along with Rosa Von Praunheim, Rummelsnuff, Blood Orange, and Einstuerzende Neubauten and Blixa Bargeld (formerly of Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds).

Purchasing Links: DVD, Blu-ray

Director: Yony Leyser

Starring: Yony Leyser, Tim Fabian Hoffman, Chloe Griffin

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance

Runtime: 92 min

Rating: Not Rated

Language: English

Studio: Altered Innocence

Special Features:
  • Conversation with Director Yony Leyser and Rosa von Praunheim
  • Peaches Music Video
  • Photo Gallery
  • Trailer
  • Booklet Featuring Essays and Interviews




BEAUTY AND THE BEAST (2014)


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Product Description: A struggling merchant stumbles upon the magical domain of the fearsome Beast, who sentences him to death for stealing a rose. The merchant’s youngest daughter Belle bravely sacrifices herself and takes her father’s place. Once at the Beast’s castle, it is not death that awaits Belle, but a strange and fantastical life unlike anything she has ever experienced… and the discovery that her mysterious host is living under a terrible enchantment. As Belle valiantly attempts to release the Beast from his curse, the two discover that a most unlikely bond blooms between them… true love.

Purchasing Links: DVD, Blu-ray/DVD Comboo

Director: Christophe Gans

Starring: Vincent Cassel, Léa Seydoux, André Dussollier, Eduardo Noriega

Genre: Fantasy, Romance

Runtime: 112 min

Rating: PG-13 for some fantasy violence, sensuality and partial nudit

Language: English

Studio: Shout Factory

Special Features:
  • Cast and Director Interviews
  • Trailer




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TELEVISION


THE LEVEL: Series 1 (ITV)


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Product Description: Detective Sergeant Nancy Devlin (Karla Crome, Under the Dome, Prisoners’ Wives) is a good cop with a dark secret: she’s loyal to drug trafficker Frank Le Saux (Philip Glenister, Life on Mars, Ashes to Ashes), who is like a father to her. But when their clandestine meeting turns violent, leaving Frank dead and Nancy with a bullet wound, Nancy fears her double life may soon be exposed.

Assigned to Brighton to investigate the crime, Nancy must track down Frank’s killer while concealing her role—and her injury—from her enigmatic new partner, DS Gunner Martin (Noel Clarke, Star Trek Into Darkness), and her old friend, DS Kevin O’Dowd (Robert James-Collier, Downton Abbey). Can Nancy stay one step ahead of her colleagues—and the killer?

Featuring “a great cast and a twist-filled plot” (London Evening Standard, UK), The Level also stars Joe Absolom (Doc Martin), Amanda Burton (The Commander), Lindsey Coulson (EastEnders), Laura Haddock (Guardians of the Galaxy), and Gary Lewis (Outlander).

Purchasing Links: DVD, Blu-ray

Director: Andy Goddard, Mark Everest

Starring: Karla Crome, Laura Haddock, Noel Clarke, Robert James-Collier, Lindsay Coulson

Genre: Drama, Thriller

Runtime: 288 min

Rating: Not Rated

Language: English

Studio: Acorn Media

Special Features:
  • On Set & Behind the Scenes
  • From Page to Screen
  • Where Truth Meets Fiction
  • How They Do Like to Be Beside the Seaside
  • What’s Location Catering Like?
  • Why are Murder and Cop Dramas So Popular?




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