YESTERDAY
Universal Studios | 2019 | 116 min | Rated PG-13
Directed by Danny Boyle


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OFFICIAL SYNOPSIS

Jack Malik was just another struggling songwriter…but that was yesterday. After a mysterious blackout, Jack (Himesh Patel) discovers he is the only person on earth who remembers The Beatles! As he rockets to fame by passing off the Fab Four’s songs as his own, Jack risks losing Ellie (Lily James) – the one person who has loved him and believed in him from the start. Before the door to his old life closes forever, Jack must decide if all he needs is love, after all.

SPECIAL FEATURES
  • Feature Commentary with Director Danny Boyle and Writer/Producer Richard Curtis
  • Alternate Ending
  • Deleted Scenes
  • Live at Abbey Road Studios
  • Alternate Opening
  • Gag Reel
  • A Talented Duo
  • Playing for Real
  • Soul Mates
  • Ed Sheeran: From Stadium to Screen
  • Agent of Comedy: Kate McKinnon
  • A Conversation with Richard & Ed


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DC’S LEGENDS OF TOMORROW: SEASON FOUR
Warner Bros. | 2018-2019 | Not Rated


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OFFICIAL SYNOPSIS

After defeating the demon Mallus by cuddling him to death last season, DC’s Legends of Tomorrow join John Constantine and Ava Sharpe’s Time Bureau to save their world – and their legacy – from magical creatures from myths, fairytales and legends who have escaped and infected history. As the Legends time-travel across historical events and encounter famous figures, they now have to contend with an added shot of magical craziness!

SPECIAL FEATURES
  • ALL 16 one-hour episodes
  • DC’s Legends of Tomorrow: Legendary Storytelling
  • Post Production Theater
  • Gag Reel
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CRITERION CORNER


THE CIRCUS
Criterion | 1928 | 71 min | Not rated
Directed by Charles Chaplin


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OFFICIAL SYNOPSIS

In the last film he made during the silent era, Charlie Chaplin revels in the art of the circus, paying tribute to the acrobats and pantomimists who inspired his virtuoso pratfalls. After being mistaken for a pickpocket, Chaplin’s Tramp flees into the ring of a traveling circus and soon becomes the star of the show, falling for the troupe’s bareback rider along the way. Despite its famously troubled production, this gag-packed comedy ranks among Chaplin’s finest, thanks to some of the most audacious set pieces of the director-performer’s career, including a close brush with a lion and a climactic tightrope walk with a barrelful of monkeys. The Circus, which was rereleased in 1969 with a new score by Chaplin, is an uproarious high-wire act that showcases silent cinema’s most popular entertainer at the peak of his comic powers.

Special Features
  • New 4K digital restoration of Charlie Chaplin’s 1969 rerelease version of the film, featuring an original score by Chaplin, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray
  • New audio commentary featuring Chaplin biographer Jeffrey Vance
  • Interview with Chaplin from 1969
  • New interview with Chaplin’s son Eugene Chaplin
  • In the Service of the Story, a new program on the film’s visual effects and production design by film scholar Craig Barron
  • Chaplin Today: “The Circus,” a 2003 documentary on the film featuring filmmaker Emir Kusturica
  • Excerpted audio interview from 1998 with Chaplin musical associate Eric James
  • Unused café sequence with new score by composer Timothy Brock, and related outtakes with narration by comedy choreographer Dan Kamin
  • Newly discovered outtakes featuring the Tramp and the circus rider
  • Excerpts from the original recording session for the film’s opening song, “Swing Little Girl”
  • Footage of the film’s 1928 Hollywood premiere
  • Rerelease trailers
  • PLUS: An essay by critic Pamela Hutchinson

New cover by Mark Chiarello


LOCAL HERO
Criterion | 1983 | 111 min | Rated PG
Directed by Bill Forsyth


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OFFICIAL SYNOPSIS

Bill Forsyth put Scottish cinema on the map with this delightfully eccentric culture-clash comedy. Riffing on popular representations of Scottish life and folklore, Local Hero follows the Texas oil executive Mac (Peter Riegert), who is dispatched by his crackpot boss (Burt Lancaster) to a remote seaside village in Scotland with orders to buy out the town and develop the region for an oil refinery. But as business mixes with pleasure, Mac finds himself enchanted by both the picturesque community and its oddball denizens—and Texas starts to feel awfully far away. Packed with a near nonstop stream of droll one-liners and deadpan gags, this enchanting cult hit finds Forsyth surveying the idiosyncrasies of small-town life with the satirical verve of a latter-day Preston Sturges, arriving at a sly commentary on conservation, corporate greed, and the legacies we leave behind.

Special Features
  • New 2K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray
  • Audio commentary from 2018 featuring director Bill Forsyth and film critic Mark Kermode
  • New conversation between Forsyth and film critic David Cairns
  • Shooting from the Heart, a 1985 documentary about the work of cinematographer Chris Menges
  • Episode of The South Bank Show from 1983 about the production of the film
  • The Making of “Local Hero,” a documentary made during the film’s production, featuring interviews with actors Peter Riegert and Burt Lancaster
  • I Thought Maybe I’d Get to Meet Alan Whicker, a 1983 interview with Forsyth
  • Trailer
  • PLUS: An essay by film scholar Jonathan Murray

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HIGHLIGHT RELEASES OF THE WEEK


ANNA
Lionsgate Films | 2019 | 119 min | Rated R
Directed by Luc Besson


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OFFICIAL SYNOPSIS

Beneath Anna Poliatova’s striking beauty lies a secret that will unleash her indelible strength and skill to become one of the world’s most feared government assassins. An electrifying thrill ride unfolding with propulsive energy, startling twists and breathtaking action, Anna introduces Sasha Luss in the title role with a star-studded cast including Luke Evans, Cillian Murphy, and Academy Award® winner Helen Mirren.

SPECIAL FEATURES
  • “Dressing a Doll: Costumes of Anna” Featurette
  • “Anatomy of a Scene: Restaurant Fight” Featurette
  • “Unnesting a Russian Doll: Making Anna” Featurette
  • “Constructing the Car Chase” Featurette
  • English Dolby Atmos Track
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AWAKE
Cinedigm | 2019 | 92 min | Not rated
Directed By Aleksandr Chernyaev


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OFFICIAL SYNOPSIS

On a quiet evening, a shabby beige sedan speeds down a country highway. Dust and gravel fly through the air when suddenly the car slides out of control into a ravine. Later a man wakes up in a hospital bed with no recollection of who he is or how he got there. His nurse Diana (Francesca Eastwood) is unable to find any identification and refers to him as John Doe (Jonathan Rhys Meyers). The police barge into the hospital, accusing John of being a serial killer responsible for the murder of several young women in the area. As the sergeant ushers John into a private room for questioning, he manages to escape with the help of Diana, who is convinced of his innocence. The fugitives then set off for the last crime scene in search of clues and answers to clear John’s name but the benevolent nurse will soon uncover the shocking truth behind the amnesiac’s identity and the web of deceit that will lead him to a final fight for his survival.

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CHILD’S PLAY
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer | 2019 | 90 min | Rated R
Directed By Lars Klevberg


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OFFICIAL SYNOPSIS

After moving to a new city, young Andy Barclay receives a special present from his mother — a seemingly innocent Buddi doll that becomes his best friend. When the doll suddenly takes on a life of its own, Andy unites with other neighborhood children to stop the sinister toy from wreaking bloody havoc.

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  • The Making of Child’s Play
  • Bringing Child’s Play’s Chucky to Life
  • Soundtrack Trailer
  • Lee Hardcastle Claymations:
    • Toy Massacre
    • A.I. Mayhem
  • Theatrical Trailer
  • Gallery
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SHAFT
Warner Bros. | 2019 | 111 min | Rated R
Directed By Tim Story


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OFFICIAL SYNOPSIS

JJ, aka John Shaft Jr. (Jessie T. Usher), may be a cyber security expert with a degree from MIT, but to uncover the truth behind his best friend’s untimely death, he needs an education only his dad can provide. Absent throughout JJ’s youth, the legendary locked-and-loaded John Shaft (Samuel L. Jackson) agrees to help his progeny navigate Harlem’s heroin-infested underbelly. And while JJ’s own FBI analyst’s badge may clash with his dad’s trademark leather duster, there’s no denying family. Besides, Shaft’s got an agenda of his own, and a score to settle that’s professional and personal.

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  • Can Ya Dig It? The Making of Shaft
  • A Complicated Man: The Shaft Legacy – Part One: A Bad Mother Born
  • A Complicated Man: The Shaft Legacy – Part Two: No Questions Asked
  • A Complicated Man: The Shaft Legacy – Part Three: A Legend of His Time
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  • Gag Reel
  • Optional English SDH, Spanish, and French subtitles for the main feature

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STEPHEN KING’S THE SAND: THE ORIGINAL MINI-SERIES
(Collector’s Edition)
Spelling Entertainment | 1994 | 359 min | Not Rated


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101 DALMATIANS
(The Signature Collection)
Disney / Buena Vista | 1961 | 79 min | Rated G
Directed By Wolfgang Reitherman, Hamilton Luske, & Clyde Geronimi


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OFFICIAL SYNOPSIS

Walt Disney’s beloved animated masterpiece 101 Dalmatians is a spot-on, puppy-filled adventure! Join a heroic cast of irresistible tail-wagging characters as they set out to rescue Pongo and Perdita’s puppies from Cruella de Vil, the most fabulously outrageous villainess of all time.

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  • In Walt’s Words: 101 Dalmatians
  • Cruella de Vil: Marc Davis’ Last Animated Character
  • Color and Line: The Visual Design of 101 Dalmatians
  • The Further Adventures of Thunderbolt: Behind the Scenes
  • Lucky Dogs
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MALEFICENT
Disney / Buena Vista | 2014 | 97 min | Rated PG
Directed By Robert Stromberg


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OFFICIAL SYNOPSIS

Driven by revenge and a fierce desire to protect the lands over which she presides, the scorned fairy Maleficent places a cruel curse upon the human king’s newborn daughter, Aurora. As she grows and comes of age, Aurora is caught in the center of the dangerous conflict between the forest kingdom she has grown to love and the human kingdom which is to be her legacy. Maleficent realizes Aurora may hold the key to peace in the land and is forced into bold action which may change both of their worlds forever.

SPECIAL FEATURES
  • Deleted Scenes
  • Aurora: Becoming A Beauty—Elle Fanning reveals her lifelong love of Disney’s original animated classic.
  • From Fairy Tale To Feature Film—Reimagining Maleficent for a new generation.
  • Building An Epic Battle—Creating the clash between Maleficent and King Henry’s forces.
  • Classic Couture—Examine Maleficent’s spellbinding head wraps and jewelry.
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SLEEPING BEAUTY
Disney / Buena Vista | 2006 | 117 min | Rated G
Directed By John Lasseter & Joe Ranft


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OFFICIAL SYNOPSIS

The curse is cast…the magic is real…and one kiss will change everything! Fall under the spell of Sleeping Beauty, the ultimate princess fairy tale that is now part of the acclaimed Walt Disney Signature Collection. Beauty, wonder and thrilling adventure spin together in a grand legend that transcends time as the evil and jealous fairy Maleficent, one of imagination’s most spectacular villains, casts a curse on the kingdom’s beloved Princess Aurora. Hoping to save the princess, three Good Fairies—Merryweather, Flora and Fauna—spirit her off to the forest where they raise her as their own daughter. But it isn’t enough, for on her 16th birthday, Aurora pricks her finger on the spindle of a spinning wheel and falls into a deep, enchanted sleep, just as Maleficent had intended. The Good Fairies do not give up, and they help brave Prince Phillip—armed with the Shield of Virtue and the Sword of Truth—defeat a powerful fire-breathing dragon, rescue Aurora and break the spell with true love’s kiss. Share all the magic and majesty in Disney’s animated classic Sleeping Beauty!

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  • Never-Before-Seen Bonus
  • In Walt’s Words: Sleeping Beauty
  • Fun Facts Behind Sleeping Beauty
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  • Beauty-Oke “Once Upon A Dream”
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