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Tuesday, February 28, 2017

New on DVD and Blu-ray: February 28, 2017

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The new DVD and Blu-ray releases for the week of February 28, 2017 include Marvel's "Doctor Strange" movie, the World War II spy drama "Allied" starring Brad Pitt and Marion Cotillard, the Oscar-winning drama "Moonlight", and Warren Beatty's latest directorial effort "Rules Don't Apply". New Blu-ray collections include "The Raid" films and Richard Linklater's "The Before Trilogy".

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





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MOVIES


DOCTOR STRANGE (2016)


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Product Description: From Marvel Studios comes DOCTOR STRANGE, the story of world-famous neurosurgeon Dr. Stephen Strange (Benedict Cumberbatch), whose life changes forever after a horrific car accident renders his hands useless. When traditional medicine fails him, he travels to remote Kamar-Taj in search of a cure, but instead discovers the mystical arts and becomes a powerful sorcerer battling dark forces bent on destroying our reality.

Purchasing Links: DVD, Blu-ray, 3D, Amazon Instant Video

Director: Scott Derrickson

Starring: Benedict Cumberbatch, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Rachel McAdams, Mads Mikkelsen, Tilda Swinton, Benjamin Bratt, Scott Adkins, Michael Stuhlbarg, Benedict Wong

Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy

Runtime: 115 min

Rating: PG-13 for sci-fi violence and action throughout, and an intense crash sequence

Language: English

Studio: Disney/Buena Vista

Special Features:
  • A Strange Transformation – Open your eye to a new dimension of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and see how the filmmakers brought one of comic books' greatest characters to life.
  • Strange Company – Find out what it's like for the cast to work on a Marvel film, and how Director Scott Derrickson engineered one of the most ambitious, imaginative films ever.
  • The Fabric of Reality – Take a closer look at the movie's extraordinary sets, meticulously crafted costumes and amazingly detailed production elements.
  • Across Time and Space – Explore the countless hours of dance and fight choreography the actors endured in preparation for their physically demanding roles.
  • The Score-cerer Supreme – Join Composer Michael Giacchino and a full orchestra during live recording sessions, and experience the movie's mind-bending music.
  • Marvel Studios Phase 3 Exclusive Look – Get an early peek at Marvel's spectacular upcoming films, including Marvel Studios' Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, Thor: Ragnarok, Black Panther and Avengers: Infinity War.
  • Team Thor: Part 2 – See more of the hilarious partnership between Thor and his roommate Darryl in this satirical short.
  • Deleted Scenes
  • Gag Reel
  • Audio Commentary by Director Scott Derrickson




ALLIED (2016)


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Product Description: The story of intelligence officer Max Vatan, who in 1942 North Africa encounters French Resistance fighter Marianne Beausejour on a deadly mission behind enemy lines. Reunited in London, their relationship is threatened by the extreme pressures of the war.

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

Director: Robert Zemeckis

Starring: Brad Pitt, Marion Cotillard, Jared Harris, August Diehl

Genre: Action, Drama, Romance

Runtime: 124 min

Rating: R for violence, some sexuality/nudity, language and brief drug use

Language: English

Studio: Paramount

Special Features:
  • Featurettes




MOONLIGHT (2016)


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Product Description: A timeless story of human connection and self-discovery, Moonlight chronicles the life of a young black man from childhood to adulthood as he struggles to find his place in the world while growing up in a rough neighborhood of Miami. Anchored by extraordinary performances from a tremendous ensemble cast, Moonlight is profoundly moving portrayal of the moments, people, and unknowable forces that shape our lives and make us who we are.

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

Director: Barry Jenkins

Starring: Alex R. Hibbert, Ashton Sanders, Trevante Rhodes, Mahershala Ali, Janelle Monáe, Naomie Harris

Genre: Drama

Runtime: 111 min

Rating: R for some sexuality, drug use, brief violence, and language throughout

Language: English

Studio: Lionsgate

Special Features:
  • Audio Commentary with Director Barry Jenkins
  • "Ensemble of Emotion: The Making of 'Moonlight'" Featurette
  • "Poetry Through Collaboration: The Music of 'Moonlight'" Featurette
  • "Cruel Beauty: Filming in Miami" Featurette




RULES DON'T APPLY (2016)


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Product Description: An aspiring young actress (Lily Collins) and her ambitious young driver (Alden Ehrenreich) struggle hopefully with the absurd eccentricities of the wildly unpredictable billionaire (Warren Beatty), who they work for.

It's Hollywood, 1958. Small town beauty queen and devout Baptist virgin Marla Mabrey (Collins), under contract to the infamous Howard Hughes (Beatty), arrives in Los Angeles. At the airport, she meets her driver Frank Forbes (Ehrenreich), who is engaged to be married to his 7th grade sweetheart and is a deeply religious Methodist. Their instant attraction not only puts their religious convictions to the test, but also defies Hughes' #1 rule: no employee is allowed to have any relationship whatsoever with a contract actress. Hughes' behavior intersects with Marla and Frank in very separate and unexpected ways, and as they are drawn deeper into his bizarre world, their values are challenged and their lives are changed.

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

Director: Warren Beatty

Starring: Lily Collins, Alden Ehrenreich, Haley Bennett, Taissa Farmiga, Matthew Broderick, Martin Sheen

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance

Runtime: 127 min

Rating: PG-13 for sexual material including brief strong language, thematic elements, and drug references

Language: English

Studio: 20th Century Fox

Special Features:
  • This is Rules Don't Apply - Featurette
  • Music Video: "The Rules Don't Apply" performed by Lily Collins
  • Gallery




WE ARE THE FLESH (2016)


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Product Description: A visionary and bizarre slice of Mexican arthouse cinema, We Are The Flesh is an extraordinary and unsettling film experience, a sexually charged and nightmarish journey into an otherworldly dimension of carnal desire and excess, as well as a powerful allegory on the corrupting power of human desire.

A young brother and sister, roaming an apocalyptic city, take refuge in the dilapidated lair of a strange hermit. He puts them to work building a bizarre cavernous structure, where he acts out his insane and depraved fantasies. Trapped in this maddening womb-like world under his malign influence, they find themselves sinking into the realms of dark and forbidden behaviour.

Mixing the graphic, powerful imagery of Gaspar Noe's Love and Enter The Void with the surreal, hallucinatory impact of Alejandro Jodorowsky, We Are The Flesh is a bizarre, psychedelic head trip, mixing intense, outrageously explicit imagery with a profound allegory on the nature of existence, to make this an unforgettable, boundary-pushing experience unlike anything you've ever seen.

Purchasing Links: Blu-ray, DVD

Director: Emiliano Rocha Minter

Starring: Noé Hernández, María Evoli, Diego Gamaliel

Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror

Runtime: 79 min

Rating: Not Rated

Language: English

Studio: Arrow Video

Special Features:
  • New interviews with director Emiliano Rocha Minter and actors Noé Hernández, María Evoli and Diego Gamaliel
  • New video appreciation by critic Virginie Sélavy
  • Original theatrical trailer
  • Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork
  • First pressing only: Illustrated collector's booklet featuring new writing on the film by critic Anton Bitel, and a note from the producer on the film.




SHUT IN (2016)


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Product Description: Terror hits home in this harrowing psychological-thriller that will chill you to the bone! Recently widowed child psychologist Mary Portman (Naomi Watts) lives an isolated existence caring for her bedridden stepson (Charlie Heaton) in rural New England. But when a young boy (Jacob Tremblay) Mary is treating goes missing in a snowstorm and is presumed dead, she becomes convinced that his ghost is haunting her...and soon Mary's grip on reality turns as slippery as her icy surroundings.

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

Director: Farren Blackburn

Starring: Naomi Watts, Charlie Heaton, Jacob Tremblay, Oliver Platt

Genre: Drama, Thriller

Runtime: 91 min

Rating: PG-13 for terror and some violence/bloody images, nudity, thematic elements and brief strong language

Language: English

Studio: 20th Century Fox

Special Features:
  • Nightmare V. Reality: Imagining Shut In
  • House on Delphi Lane: A Classic




ALL WE HAD (2016)


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Product Description: Life for teenage Ruthie (Stefania Owen) and her mother, Rita (Katie Holmes), has never been stable. Fleeing Rita’s abusive boyfriend, they find themselves homeless and heading east in search of a better life. When their car breaks down, they find themselves stuck in a small town where a smooth-talking real estate broker named Vic (Mark Consuelos) entices Rita with a subprime loan that leads to the purchase of their first home. Ruthie settles into a new high school, while Rita cleans up her act by landing a steady job waitressing at a local diner where the staff begin to feel like family. She even attends an AA-meeting where she connects with the open-hearted Lee (Luke Wilson). As the dark side of the American dream catches up with the small town, the diner is forced to close and Rita and Ruthie are faced once again with the prospect of homelessness. Reverting back to survival mode, they are forced to find comfort in each other despite their circumstances working to tear them apart.

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

Director: Katie Holmes

Starring: Stefania Owen, Katie Holmes, Mark Consuelos, Luke Wilson, Judy Greer

Genre: Drama

Runtime: 105 min

Rating: Not Rated

Language: English

Studio: Gravitas Ventures

Special Features:
  • None




CONTRACT TO KILL (2016)


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Product Description: When the CIA stumbles upon evidence that a dangerous group of extremists is planning to join forces with a drug cartel, CIA operative John Harmon assembles a high-tech team to turn the two groups against each other in an explosive confrontation.

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

Director: Keoni Waxman

Starring: Steven Seagal, Russell Wong, Jemma Dallender

Genre: Action

Runtime: 90 min

Rating: R for violence, language and brief sexuality

Language: English

Studio: Lionsgate

Special Features:
  • "The Making of Contract to Kill" Featurette
  • Theatrical Trailer




OFFICER DOWNE (2016)


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Product Description: Adapted from the 2010 graphic novel by Joe Casey and Chris Burnham, Officer Downe concocts a hyper-real Los Angeles for the story of a savage LA policeman who is repeatedly resurrected and returned to active duty via dark science technology. When a rookie officer named Gable is recruited as back up, he discovers there's much more to the titular super-cop than a mindless law enforcement drone warring against a twisted rouges gallery of over-the-top super-villains.

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

Director: Shawn Crahan

Starring: Kim Coates, Tyler Ross, Meadow Williams

Genre: Action, Comedy, Sci-Fi

Runtime: 88 min

Rating: R for brutal bloody stylized violence throughout, a strong prolonged sex scene with nudity, and pervasive language

Language: English

Studio: Magnolia

Special Features:
  • None




WHEELER (2017)


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Product Description: Wheeler is the story of an aspiring musician from Kaufman, Texas who travels to Nashville with the lifelong dream of trying his hand at country music. By embodying the title character under prosthetic make up, actor Stephen Dorff successfully infiltrates Music City and takes his character on an authentic singer / songwriter journey. With the help of key allies on the ground, "Wheeler" converses with real people in real locations, with every musical number performed live. The line between reality and fiction blurs as Wheeler chases his dream in this touching tribute to old school country legends.

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

Director: Ryan Ross

Starring: Stephen Dorff, Kris Kristofferson, Audrey Spillman, Bobby Tomberlin

Genre: Drama

Runtime: 100 min

Rating: PG for thematic elements, language, a nude image, and for smoking throughout

Language: English

Studio: Momentum Pictures

Special Features:
  • Life Performance from the Bluebird Cafe
  • Creating Wheeler - Special Effects Makeup




THE RAID COLLECTION (2011-2014)


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Product Description: The Raid: Redemption - Deep in the heart of Jakarta's slums lies an impenetrable safe house for the world's most dangerous killers and gangsters. Until now, the rundown apartment block has been considered untouchable. Cloaked under the cover of pre-dawn darkness and silence, an elite swat team is tasked with raiding the safe house in order to take down the notorious drug lord that runs it. But when a chance encounter with a spotter blows their cover and news of their assault reaches the drug lord, they find themselves stranded on the 6th floor with no way out. The unit must fight their way through the city's worst [criminals] to survive their mission. The Raid 2 - Immediately following the events of The Raid: Redemption, Rama (Iko Uwais) is forced to reinvent himself as an undercover cop in order to provide protection for his wife and child. Working for the anti-corruption taskforce led by the one person he can trust, Bunawar (Cok Simbara), he is given a mission to engage himself as an enforcer for a local mob boss, Bangun (Tio Pakusodewo). Finding a way in through Bangun's son Uco (Arifin Putra), Rama must hunt for information linking Bangun with police force corruption. All the while, he harbors a dangerous and personal vendetta for revenge and justice that threatens to consume him- and bring both this mission and the organized crime syndicates crashing

Purchasing Links: Blu-ray

Director: Gareth Evans

Starring: Iko Uwais, Donny Alamsyah, Yayan Ruhian, Tegar Satrya, Very Tri Yulisman, Joe Taslim

Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller

Runtime: 252 min

Rating: Not Rated

Language: English

Studio: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment

Special Features:
  • Audio Commentary with writer/director Gareth Evans
  • Video blogs
  • Behind-the-scenes featurettes
  • An Evening with Gareth Evans, Mike Shinoda, and Joe Trapanese conversation
  • In Conversation with Gareth Evans and Mike Shinoda feature
  • Claycat's The Raid
  • The Raid TV show ad (circa 1994)
  • English Dub in addition to the original language version of the film
  • Director Commentary with Gareth Huw Evans
  • The Next Chapter: Shooting a Sequel
  • Cinefamily Foundation Q&A with Gareth Huw Evans, Iko Uwais & Joe Trapanese
  • Ready for a Fight: On Location
  • Violent Ballet: Behind the Choreography
  • Deleted Scene: Gang War






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CLASSIC FILMS


THE BEFORE TRILOGY (1995-2013)


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Product Description: The cornerstone of the career-long exploration of cinematic time by director Richard Linklater, this celebrated three-part romance captures a relationship as it begins, begins again, deepens, strains, and settles over the course of almost two decades. Chronicling the love of Celine (Julie Delpy) and Jesse (Ethan Hawke), from their first meeting as idealistic twentysomethings to the disillusionment they face together in middle age, The Before Trilogy also serves as a document of a boundary-pushing and extraordinarily intimate collaboration between director and actors, as Delpy and Hawke, who cowrote two of the films, imbue their characters with a sense of raw, lived-in experience, and as they age on-screen along with them. Attuned to the sweeping grandeur of time’s passage as well as the evanescence of individual moments, the Before films chart the progress of romantic destiny as it navigates the vicissitudes of ordinary life.

Purchasing Links: DVD, Blu-ray

Director: Richard Linklater

Starring: Ethan Hawke, Julie Delpy

Genre: Drama, Romance

Runtime: 290 min

Rating: R

Language: English

Studio: Criterion Collection

Special Features:
  • New discussion featuring Linklater and actors Julie Delpy and Ethan Hawke, moderated by critic Kent Jones
  • Behind-the-scenes footage and interviews from the productions of Before Sunrise and Before Sunset
  • Audio commentary on Before Midnight by Delpy, Linklater, and Hawke
  • Dream Is Destiny, a 2016 feature-length documentary about Linklater by Louis Black and Karen Bernstein
  • New documentary about the making of Before Midnight in Greece by filmmaker Athina Rachel Tsangari
  • 3×2, a new conversation between scholars Dave Johnson and Rob Stone about Linklater’s work
  • Linklater // On Cinema & Time, a video essay by filmmaker :: kogonada
  • PLUS: An essay on the trilogy by critic Dennis Lim










SLAUGHTERHOUSE (1987)


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Product Description: Lester Bacon's slaughterhouse has run into financial problems. Faced with the town lawyer, the sheriff, and the rival slaughterhouse owner trying to purchase his land, Lester decides to take matters into his own hands. After discovering the type of violence his hulking and mentally deranged son, Buddy, is capable of, Lester orders him to permanently dispose of anyone who conspires against them...

A late 80s video store staple, Rick Roessler's Slaughterhouse is a gleefully bloody San Diego shot slasher featuring atmospheric and noirish cinematography along with a generous helping of creative kills. Vinegar Syndrome proudly presents Slaughterhouse in its North American Blu-ray debut, newly restored in 2K from its 35mm Interpositive and featuring the original Ultra-Stereo sound mix for the first time on home video.

Purchasing Links: Blu-ray/DVD Combo

Director: Rick Roessler

Starring: Joe B. Barton, Don Barrett, Sherry Leigh

Genre: Comedy, Horror

Runtime: 85 min

Rating: R

Language: English

Studio: Vinegar Syndrome

Special Features:
  • Audio Commentary track with Director Rick Roessler, Producer Jerry Encoe & Production Designer Michael Scaglione
  • New video interview with Lead Actress Sherry Bendorf Leigh
  • "Making a Low Budget Indie" - Featurette with Rick Roessler
  • "Producing Slaughterhouse" - Interview with Jerry Encoe
  • Archival interviews with Rick Roessler & Jerry Encoe
  • "Epilogue: 30 Years After the Slaughter"
  • Radio interview featurette from 1987
  • Local news coverage from the theatrical premiere
  • Behind the scenes featurette
  • Outtakes
  • "No Smoking" Slaughterhouse snipe
  • Multiple theatrical trailers, TV & radio spots
  • Shooting script gallery
  • Reversible cover artwork




THE GATE (1987)


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Product Description: Two young boys accidentally release a horde of nasty, pint-sized demons from a hole in a suburban backyard. What follows is a classic battle between good and evil as the two kids struggle to overcome a nightmarish hell that literally begins to take over the Earth.

Purchasing Links: Blu-ray

Director: Tibor Takács

Starring: Stephen Dorff, Christa Denton, Louis Tripp, Kelly Rowan, Jennifer Irwin

Genre: Fantasy, Horror

Runtime: 85 min

Rating: PG-13

Language: English

Studio: Lionsgate

Special Features:
  • Audio Commentaries
  • Featurettes
  • Isolated Score
  • Still Galleries
  • Trailers




DEADTIME STORIES (1986)


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Product Description: Your favorite nightmares come to life in a salute to the age-old bedtime story ritual. Travel on a mysterious journey to a medieval world populated by blood-crazed witches, evil experiments and captive maidens. Then from the catacombs and dark caverns of medieval Europe, you’ll plunge into modern suburbia and the adventures of a female jogger stalked by a savage werewolf. Finally, sensuality will become macabre, black comedy as you follow the trail of three bank robbers who share their country house hideaway with a sweet murderess.

Purchasing Links: Blu-ray

Director: Jeffrey Delman

Starring: Scott Valentine, Nicole Picard, Matt Mitler

Genre: Comedy, Horror

Runtime: 83 min

Rating: R

Language: English

Studio: Scream Factory

Special Features:
  • NEW Audio Commentary with co-writer/director Jef Delman
  • NEW I Like the Grotesque – an interview with co-writer/director Jef Delman
  • NEW interviews with actors Cathryn de Prume, Melissa Leo and Scott Valentine
  • The Black Forest – an alternate cut of the first story
  • Deleted Scenes
  • Theatrical Trailers
  • Still Gallery




FRAMED (1975)


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Product Description: From the makers of the highly successful The Walking Tall Trilogy comes the ultimate story of revenge. Joe Don Baker (Lewis) plays a gambler who is framed for a crime he did not commit. A corrupt legal system leads him into a plea bargain and four years behind bars. By the time Lewis gets out of prison, he's determined to put together the pieces of his frame-up and dole out the justice he was denied to those responsible. Framed comes out swinging with two-fisted action that will have you cheering as some of cinema s most loathsome villains get what's coming to them.

Purchasing Links: Blu-ray, DVD

Director: Phil Karlson

Starring: Joe Don Baker, Conny Van Dyke, Gabriel Dell, John Marley, Brock Peters, Paul Mantee, Walter Brooke

Genre: Action, Crime, Drama

Runtime: 106 min

Rating: R

Language: English

Studio: Kino Lorber

Special Features:
  • NEW Audio Commentary by Film Writer Howard S. Berger and Mondo Digital's Nathaniel Thompson
  • Trailers




WHEN DINOSAURS RULED THE EARTH (1970)


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Product Description: After Raquel Welch conquered the screen in One Million Years B.C., Hammer Studios followed up with When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth, written and directed by Val Guest (The Quatermass Xperiment) and based on a story by J.G. Ballard (Crash). Victoria Vetri stars as Sanna, rescued from ritual sacrifice by Tara (Robin Hawdon), a member of a rival tribe. Her survival coincides with the mysterious formation of a new "fire" in the sky: the moon! Sanna's old tribe blames her for this affront to the sun; Sanna flees their wrath and Tara follows. Their shared adventures loom as large as the giants who once ruled the earth!

Purchasing Links: Blu-ray

Director: Val Guest

Starring: Victoria Vetri, Robin Hawdon, Patrick Allen

Genre: Adventure, Fantasy, Romance

Runtime: 100 min

Rating: G (General Audience)

Language: English

Studio: Warner Archive Collection

Special Features:
  • Original International Theatrical release version (with extra nudity)
  • Original Trailer




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