Tuesday Releases: The Nutcracker and the Four Realms & Suspiria (2018)

Official Synopsis: All Clara (Mackenzie Foy) wants is a key – a one-of-a-kind key that will unlock a box that holds a priceless gift. A golden thread, presented to her at godfather Drosselmeyer’s (Morgan Freeman) annual holiday party, leads her to the coveted key—which promptly disappears into a strange and mysterious parallel world. It’s there that Clara encounters a soldier named Phillip (Jayden Fowora-Knight), a gang of mice and the regents who preside over three Realms: Land of Snowflakes, Land of Flowers and Land of Sweets. Clara and Phillip must brave the ominous Fourth Realm, home to the tyrant Mother Ginger (Helen Mirren), to retrieve Clara’s key and hopefully return harmony to the unstable world. Starring Keira Knightley as the Sugar Plum Fairy, Disney’s new holiday feature film “The Nutcracker and the Four Realms” is directed by Lasse Hallström and Joe Johnston, and inspired by E.T.A. Hoffmann’s classic tale.

• On Pointe: A Conversation with Misty Copeland
• Unwrapping “The Nutcracker and the Four Realms”
• Deleted Scenes
  • “The Stahlbaums Arrive”
  • “Follow Your Ribbon”
  • “Clara Asks About Her Mother”
  • “Left, Left, Left, Left, Left”
  • “Out with the Old”
• Music Videos:
  • “Fall On Me” By Andrea Bocelli, Featuring Matteo Bocelli
  • “The Nutcracker Suite” By Lang Lang

Official Synopsis: As Jeff’s life continues to unravel, he begins to push back against the limits of the well-oiled machine that is Mr. Pickles’ Puppet Time, and of his executive producer, Seb. Seb fears Jeff’s mental state could ruin the branding empire they’ve built and thus begins preparing the show for life after Jeff, while Deirdre, the head puppet maker, grapples with her own personal and professional life issues.

Official Synopsis: Passing through the backwoods town of Sparta, Mississippi, Philadelphia detective Virgil Tibbs (Sidney Poitier) becomes embroiled in a murder case. He forms an uneasy alliance with the bigoted police chief (Rod Steiger), who faces mounting pressure from Sparta’s hostile citizens to catch the killer and run the African American interloper out of town. Director Norman Jewison splices incisive social commentary into this thrilling police procedural with the help of Haskell Wexler’s vivid cinematography, Quincy Jones’s eclectic score, and two indelible lead performances—a career-defining display of seething indignation and moral authority from Poitier and an Oscar-winning master class in Method acting from Steiger. Winner of five Academy Awards, including for best picture, In the Heat of the Night is one of the most enduring Hollywood films of the civil rights era.

• New 4K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray
• New interviews with director Norman Jewison and actor Lee Grant
• Segment from a 2006 American Film Institute interview with actor Sidney Poitier
• New interview with Aram Goudsouzian, author of Sidney Poitier: Man, Actor, Icon
• Audio commentary from 2008 featuring Jewison, Grant, actor Rod Steiger, and cinematographer Haskell Wexler
• Turning Up the Heat: Movie-Making in the ’60s, a 2008 program about the production of the film and its legacy, featuring Jewison, Wexler, producer Walter Mirisch, and filmmakers John Singleton and Reginald Hudlin
• Quincy Jones: Breaking New Sound, a 2008 program about Jones’s innovative soundtrack, including the title song sung by Ray Charles, featuring interviews with Jones, lyricists Alan and Marilyn Bergman, and musician Herbie Hancock
• Trailer
• PLUS: An essay by critic K. Austin Collins

New Cover by Sean Phillips

Official Synopsis:Boy Erased tells the courageous story of Jared Eamons (Lucas Hedges), the son of a Baptist pastor in a small American town, who must overcome the fallout of being outed to his parents (Nicole Kidman and Russell Crowe). His parents struggle with reconciling their love for their son with their beliefs. Fearing a loss of family, friends, and community, Jared is pressured into attending a conversion therapy program. While there, Jared comes into conflict with its leader (Joel Edgerton) and begins his journey to finding his own voice and accepting his true self.

• Deleted & Extended Scenes
• Jared Revealed
• Becoming the Eamons
• Man Consumed: Joel Edgerton

Official Synopsis: Captain Joe Glass (Gerard Butler) uncovers secret plans for a Russian coup while responding to a distress signal from a U.S. submarine beneath the Arctic Ocean. In an effort to protect world peace, he assembles a group of seasoned Navy SEALs to help rescue the kidnapped Russian President (Alexander Diachenko) before tensions between countries arise.

• Audio Commentary with Director Donovan Marsh
• “Surface Tension: Declassifying Hunter Killer”  (Two-Part Featurette)

Official Synopsis: Indivisible is the extraordinary true story of Army Chaplain Darren Turner and his wife Heather, whose lives are fully devoted to serving God, family, and country. But when war etches deep battle scars – both overseas and on the home front – the Turners’ rock-solid marriage is shaken to its core. Carrying the burdens the other can’t comprehend, they must decide if they’re willing to face one more battle: the fight to save their marriage. From the director of The Grace Card and the studio that brought you Fireproof and War Room comes Indivisible, the story of one marriage…one family…under God.

• The Heart of Indivisible
• Finding Hope for Your Marriage
• Haven’t We Seen You Somewhere?
• Meet the Real Turners
• Deleted Scenes
• Tia Mowry: Proud Army Brat
• Sarah Drew: My Marriage Story
• Skye P. Marshall: Air Force Veteran
• Madeline Carroll: God Can Heal Wounds
• Jason George: Honoring My Father
• Samara Lee: Real Life Meets Reel Life

Official Synopsis: Director Luca Guadagnino’s remake of Dario Argento’s 1977 movie of the same name stars Dakota Johnson as Susie Bannion, an American dancer accepted into a prestigious German academy. The school, run by director Madame Blanc (Tilda Swinton), houses sinister secrets that mysteriously drive away two of the program’s dancers, Patricia (Chloe Grace Moretz) and Olga (Elena Fokina). As psychotherapist Dr. Jozef Klemperer and fellow dancer Sara (Mia Goth) probe into the academy’s evils, Susie gives herself over to its dark powers.

• “The Making of Suspiria” Featurette
• “The Secret Language of Dance” Featurette
• “The Transformations of Suspiria” Featurette