SUITABLE FLESH
Psychiatrist Elizabeth Derby becomes obsessed with helping a young patient suffering extreme personality disorder. But it leads her into dark occult danger as she tries to escape a horrific fate. Based on a Story by H.P. Lovecraft.
SPECIAL FEATURES
- Audio commentary with director Joe Lynch and producers Barbara Crampton and Bob Portal
- A Suitable Score: A conversation with composer Steve Moore
- Behind the scene of Suitable Flesh
- Blooper Reel
- Storyboard to Screen
- Optional English SDH, Spanish, and French subtitles for the main feature
BLU-RAY BACK
DVD RELEASE
BLOOD SIMPLE (#834)
Joel and Ethan Coen’s career-long darkly comic road trip through misfit America began with this razor-sharp, hard-boiled neonoir set somewhere in Texas, where a sleazy bar owner releases a torrent of violence with one murderous thought. Actor M. Emmet Walsh looms over the proceedings as a slippery private eye with a yellow suit, a cowboy hat, and no moral compass, and Frances McDormand’s cunning debut performance set her on the road to stardom. The tight scripting and inventive style that have marked the Coens’ work for decades are all here in their first film, in which cinematographer Barry Sonnenfeld abandons black-and-white chiaroscuro for neon signs and jukebox colors that combine with Carter Burwell’s haunting score to lurid and thrilling effect. Blending elements from pulp fiction and low-budget horror flicks, Blood Simple reinvented the film noir for a new generation, marking the arrival of a filmmaking ensemble that would transform the American independent cinema scene.
DIRECTOR-APPROVED 4K UHD + BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
- Restored 4K digital transfer, approved by cinematographer Barry Sonnenfeld and filmmakers Joel and Ethan Coen, with 5.1 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack
- One 4K UHD disc of the film presented in Dolby Vision HDR and one Blu-ray with the film and special features
- Conversation between Sonnenfeld and the Coens about the film’s look, featuring Telestrator video illustrations
- Conversation between author Dave Eggers and the Coens about the film’s production, from inception to release
- Interviews with composer Carter Burwell, sound editor Skip Lievsay, and actors Frances McDormand and M. Emmet Walsh
- Trailers
- English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
- PLUS: An essay by novelist and critic Nathaniel Rich
Cover by Michael Boland
DOCTOR WHO: THE UNDERWATER MEANCE
The Doctor and his friends find themselves in the lost city of Atlantis, where the crazed Professor Zaroff has convinced the people of Atlantis that he can raise their sunken city from beneath the sea. However, the Doctor discovers a terrible secret behind Zaroff’s plan – a secret that could destroy all life on Earth. As the countdown commences to the end of the world, can the Doctor defeat the underwater menace?
SPECIAL FEATURES
- Not Listed
DVD RELEASE
ADDITIONAL TV BOX SETS
- America Outdoors With Baratunde Thurston: Season Two
- Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon? – Season 4 Part 2 (2023)
- Native America: Season Two
- One Piece: Season Thirteen – Voyage Four (2017-2018) PBS KIDS: Book Buddies
- South Park: Seasons Eleven-Fifteen
The Royal Hotel
Hanna and Liv are backpacking in Australia. After they run out of money, they take a temporary job at ‘The Royal Hotel’. Soon, Hanna and Liv find themselves trapped in an unnerving situation that grows rapidly out of their control.
SPECIAL FEATURES
- Not Listed
Oldboy
Oh Dae-su is an ordinary Seoul businessman with a wife and little daughter who, after a night on the town, is locked up in a strange, private “prison.” No one will tell him why he’s there and who his jailer is. Over time, his fury builds to a single-minded focus of revenge. Fifteen years later, he is unexpectedly freed, given a new suit, a cell-phone and five days to discover the mysterious enemy who had him imprisoned. Seeking vengeance on all those involved, he soon finds that his enemy’s tortures are just beginning.
SPECIAL FEATURES
- A 68-PAGE CASEBOUND BOOK.
- THREE NEW ESSAYS BY STEPHANIE ZACHAREK, DAVID SIMS AND PHOEBE CHEN.
- SIX GIFT-WRAPPED COLLECTOR CARDS.
Special Edition contains over 18 hours of extra features including:
- Audio commentary with director Park Chan-wook 01:59:55
- Audio commentary with Park Chan-wook and cinematographer Jung Jung-hoon 01:59:55
- Audio commentary with Park Chan-wook, and actors Choi Min-sik, Yu Ji-tae, Kang Hye-jung 01:59:55
- Park Chan-wook + Refn interview Approx. 29 minutes
- Autobiography of Oldboy 3:29:24
- Old Days 2:00:00
- 18 Out takes 삭제장면_본편 사운드 24:52
- (deleted scenes)
- The Cast Remembers 1:03:05
- Audition 8:42
- First Reading Scout 6:53
- Location Scout 3:34
- Training 13:52
- Start of Principal Photography 5:30
- Production Design 13:12
- CGI Documentary 7:06
- The Music Score 16:47
- Le Grand Prix at Cannes 8:49
- Flashback 14:27
Varsity Blues
At first, backup quarterback Jonathan “Mox” Moxom (James Van Der Beek) is nowhere close to being a star athlete. Perfectly content to stay on the bench, he has no time for coach Kilmer’s (Oscar winner Jon Voight), win-at-all-cost strategies. But when the starting quarterback is injured, Mox is in the game, and soon confronting the pressures and temptations of gridiron glory. Soon everyone in Mox’s football-crazed community will realize there’s not just a new star quarterback in town, there’s a new kind of hero. This exciting and often funny coming-of-age story features an outstanding supporting cast that includes Paul Walker, Amy Smart, Scott Caan, Ali Larter, and Jesse Plemons.
SPECIAL FEATURES
- TWO-DISC SET (4K BLU-RAY/BLU-RAY)
- NEWLY REMASTERED IN 4K
- DOLBY VISION/HDR PRESENTATION OF THE FILM
- DOLBY ATMOS AUDIO TRACK
- Audio commentary with director Brian Robbins and producers Michael Tollin and Tova Laiter
- Football is a Way of Life – The Making of Varsity Blues
- Two-A-Days – The Ellis Way
- QB Game Analysis
- Billy Bob with No Bacon
- 4K Blu-ray subtitles: English, English SDH, and French
- Blu-ray subtitles: English, English SDH, Spanish, French, and Portuguese
4K BACK
Film Noir: The Dark Side of Cinema XVI
(The Mystery of Marie Roget / Chicago Deadline / Iron Man)
The Mystery of Marie Roget (1942)
The haunting film adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe’s The Mystery of Marie Roget stars Maria Montez and Patric Knowles. A successful actress in the City of Light, Marie Roget (Montez), has a sinister dark side: she is plotting the death of her younger sister (Nell O’Day). When Marie goes missing and the maimed corpse of a young woman is discovered, amateur detective Dr. Paul Dupin (Knowles) works to track down the killer. Filled with suspense and intrigue, this gripping classic was inspired by a real-life unsolved murder.
Chicago Deadline (1949)
When reporter Ed Adams (Alan Ladd) finds himself in the same hotel as the beautiful but dead Rosita Jean d’Ur (Donna Reed), he becomes obsessed with her and takes her diary. Although Rosita seems to have died from tuberculosis, Ed keeps digging, discovering that there were many men in Rosita’s life, and some of them were from the wrong side of the law. With help from Rosita’s former roommate, Ed starts to put together the pieces of Rosita’s life but also finds his own in danger.
Iron Man (1951)
Depressed by his impoverished small-town existence, miner Coke Mason (Jeff Chandler) agrees when his brother, George (Stephen McNally), urges him to box a fellow miner. Coke initially takes a beating, but when he grows angered, he fights viciously and wins. George and Coke’s wife, Rose (Evelyn Keyes), convince Coke to train professionally, but despite the guidance of boxing trainer Speed O’Keefe (Rock Hudson), his new career and soaring income are marred by his inability to fight cleanly.
SPECIAL FEATURES
The Mystery of Marie Roget (1942)
- NEW 2K RESTORATION FROM A FINE-GRAIN
- NEW audio commentary by Film Historians Tom Weaver, Gary L. Prange and Tom Zimmerman, Author of The Queen of Technicolor: Maria Montez in Hollywood
- NEW audio commentary by novelist/critic Kim Newman and writer/editor Stephen Jones
- Original trailer
- Optional English subtitles
Chicago Deadline (1949)
- NEW 2K RESTORATION FROM A FINE-GRAIN
- NEW Audio commentary by author/film historian Alan K. Rode
- Original trailer
- Optional English subtitles
Iron Man (1951)
- NEW 2K RESTORATION FROM A FINE-GRAIN
- NEW audio commentary by film historian/screenwriter Gary Gerani
- Optional English subtitles
Has Anybody Seen My Gal
Rock Hudson, Piper Laurie, Charles Coburn and Gigi Perreau star in Has Anybody Seen My Gal?, the charming musical comedy about second chances from legendary director Douglas Sirk (All That Heaven Allows, There’s Always Tomorrow, The Tarnished Angels). The year is 1928. When elderly millionaire Samuel Fulton (Coburn) reflects on his life and the love that got away, he decides to bequeath his fortune to his late beloved’s existing family—if they’re worthy, of course. Disguising himself as a poor lodger, he takes up residence with the middle-class Blaisdells to see how they react to receiving a small portion of the funds. Money soon leads to mayhem, but even Samuel finds redemption in their foolish choices in this endearing comic romp. The toe-tapping tunes of the Twenties include “Tiger Rag,” “When the Red, Red Robin Comes Bob, Bob, Bobbin’ Along,” “It Ain’t Gonna Rain No More,” and “Gimme a Little Kiss, Will Ya, Huh?” And featuring an uncredited James Dean as a soda fountain patron. It’s the cat’s meow—in Technicolor!
SPECIAL FEATURES
- Brand New HD Master – From a 2K Scan of the 35mm Interpositive
- NEW Audio Commentary by Actress Piper Laurie, Moderated by Film Critic/Historian Lee Gambin
- FUN ON THE LOT (2008): Piper Laurie and Gigi Perreau Remember HAS ANYBODY SEEN MY GAL
- Theatrical Trailer (Newly Mastered in 2K)
- Optional English Subtitles
The Hell with Heroes
In 1946 North Africa, two former US Air Force pilots are forced to work for an international smuggler to get money needed for their return to civilian life after fighting in World War II.
SPECIAL FEATURES
- NEW 2K RESTORATION FROM AN INTERPOSITIVE
- NEW Audio Commentary by Filmmaker/Historian Steve Mitchell and Combat Films: American Realism Author Steven Jay Rubin
- Theatrical Trailer (Newly Mastered in 2K)
- Optional English Subtitles
Odds Against Tomorrow
Nerve-snapping suspense, gritty style and an unsparing look at racial tension unite this “thunderbolt of a film” (Los Angeles Examiner) from legendary director Robert Wise (The Set-Up, The Day the Earth Stood Still) and screenwriters Abraham Polonsky (Force of Evil) and Nelson Gidding (The Haunting), based on the novel by William P. McGivern (The Big Heat). Acting greats Harry Belafonte, Robert Ryan, Shelley Winters, Ed Begley and Gloria Grahame deliver superb performances in this taut and absorbing crime melodrama, often cited as the first film noir to feature a black protagonist. One hundred and fifty thousand dollars, ready for the taking. It’s too much to resist for bigoted ex-con Earl Slater (Ryan). He agrees to take part in a bank robbery with former cop Burke (Begley)—but hesitates when he finds out that one of his partners (Belafonte) is black. As tensions mount and the men get closer to their biggest score ever, Earl’s hatred erupts, resulting in violent consequences for the heist…and their lives.
SPECIAL FEATURES
- NEW Audio Commentary by Author/Film Historian Alan K. Rode
- Theatrical Trailer
- Limited Edition O-Card Slipcase
- Optional English Subtitles
The Outside Man
Jacques Deray (The Outsider) directed this gritty seventies action-classic featuring an iconic cast which includes Jean-Louis Trintignant (The Conformist), Ann-Margret (52 Pick-Up), Roy Scheider (Marathon Man), Angie Dickinson (Dressed to Kill), Michel Constantin (The Cop), Umberto Orsini (Violent City) and Ted de Corsia (The Killing) as they battle each other for their lives from the back alleys of downtown Los Angeles to the posh mansions of Beverly Hills. Trintignant is a hit man imported from Paris to kill L.A.’s biggest mafia boss. His unknown employer: the mafia boss’s own son and the son’s beautiful wife (Dickinson). Having done his job, the hit man looks for his reward. It comes, in the form of another hit man (Scheider), sent in to kill him and thus remove any links to the murder. Sexy Ann-Margret is Trintignant’s only ally as he and Scheider play a murderous game of cat-and-mouse. Nail-biting suspense, exciting high-speed chases and one of the most unique and climactic gun battles ever filmed are only part of The Outside Man, boasting an ultra-cool score by Michel Legrand (The Thomas Crown Affair). This special edition includes both the English and French versions of the 1970s thriller.
SPECIAL FEATURES
- Newly Restored – From 4K Scan of the 35mm Original Camera Negative
- NEW Audio Commentary by Film Historians Howard S. Berger, Steve Mitchell and Nathaniel Thompson
- Includes the Uncut Versions of THE OUTSIDE MAN (In English) and UN HOMME EST MORT (In French)
- Theatrical Trailers (Both Versions)
- Two Dual-Layered BD50 Discs
- Optional English Subtitles
BLU-RAY INSIDE
The Road to Hong Kong
Bob Hope and Bing Crosby take off on The Road to Hong Kong, the seventh and final Road movie from the irresistibly charming and wacky duo. Cavorting through a series of madcap adventures with Joan Collins, Robert Morley and Road queen Dorothy Lamour—as well as scene-stealers Peter Sellers, Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Pat O’Brien and David Niven—Crosby and Hope dish out a “fricassee of jokes and gags” (Los Angeles Times) in what may be the wildest entry in their legendary film series from Singapore to Bali. Vaudevillians Harry (Crosby) and Chester (Hope) travel to Tibet to search for a drug to restore Chester’s memory. Once they find the cure, Chester’s memory becomes so good that he accidentally memorizes a secret formula for space navigation. Soon the two meet up with a beautiful spy (Collins) and get slightly sidetracked…to another planet! From fabulous filmmakers Norman Panama and Melvin Frank (Road to Utopia, White Christmas, The Court Jester).
SPECIAL FEATURES
- NEW Audio Commentary by Filmmaker/Historian Michael Schlesinger and Archivist/Historian Stan Taffel
- Theatrical Trailer
- Optional English Subtitles
Split Image
Split Image is a spirit-stirring story revolving around an all-American college athlete, Danny Stetson (Michael O’Keefe, The Great Santini), who is innocently lured into Homeland, a youth-oriented cult, by a compellingly beautiful girl (Karen Allen, Raiders of the Lost Ark). Here he is programmed by the charismatic leader Neil Kirklander (Peter Fonda, Ulee’s Gold) to believe that his new life now has the true meaning that it previously lacked. Anguished by their son’s disappearance, the Stetsons hire a modern-day bounty hunter, Charles Pratt (James Woods, Cop), to abduct Danny and exorcise his brainwashed mind, deprogramming him to return him to his family and friends.
SPECIAL FEATURES
- NEW 2K RESTORATION FROM AN INTERNEGATIVE
- NEW Audio Commentary by Film Historian/Filmmaker Daniel Kremer
- Theatrical Trailer (Newly Mastered in 2K)
- Limited Edition O-Card Slipcase
- Optional English Subtitles
St. Ives
Ex-crime reporter Raymond St. Ives (Charles Bronson) has elegant taste, a yen for gambling, and an unfinished novel in his typewriter. When he crosses paths with a sinister man by the name of Procane, he gets something else: a price on his head. St. Ives is a hard-boiled update of classic mystery thrillers, particularly The Maltese Falcon. Charles Bronson is smoothly right as the clever title character, at odds with petty crooks and high rollers, among them Maximilian Schell as a whining lackey and Jacqueline Bisset as a modern femme fatale. But the show is stolen by John Houseman as the devilish Procane, a worthy successor to Sydney Greenstreet. Elisha Cook, Daniel J. Travanti, Jeff Goldblum, and Robert Englund are also featured in this sleek, funny caper.
SPECIAL FEATURES
- NEW SCAN FROM AN INTERPOSITIVE (2023)
- Behind-the-Scenes Featurette
- Original trailer
- Optional English subtitles for the main feature
Telefon
The Cold War gets hot as master of action & violence Don Siegel (Dirty Harry) presents Telefon, a thriller of international intrigue. Telefon (a KGB codename for a chilling Soviet plan to blow key US military targets clear off the map) stars Charles Bronson, Lee Remick and Donald Pleasence as hard-nosed players in a hot-and-cold game of spy vs. spy. Hatched years ago during the icy Stalin era, the scheme enlists top Soviet agents – drugged, hypnotized, planted across America, and so secret that they don’t know themselves that they’re programmed to blow! The plan had been officially scrapped, but now someone is triggering the explosions, and the Soviets must stop him dead. Charles Bronson is the one man able to head off nuclear collision, with the aid of his beautiful KGB colleague (Remick). Telefon is fast and explosive … and ringing with tension.
SPECIAL FEATURES
- NEW SCAN FROM AN INTERPOSITIVE (2023)
- Original trailer
- Optional English subtitles for the main feature
- 24 Seven
- 555 (1988)
- Above Top Secret
- Amazing Dogs
- Ancient Alien Origins: Science and Legend
- Curse of the Dog God (1977) (Mondo Macabre)
- Dard Divorce (2007)
- Eddie Murphy Raw (1987)
- Everyone Will Burn (2021)
- The Exorcists (2023)
- Far Haven (2023)
- The Flying Swordsman
- Hallmark 2-Movie: Welcome to Valentine & A Picture of Her (2023)
- The Highest Of Stakes (2023)
- The Inferno (1979) (Mondo Macabre)
- In Too Deep
- Karate Ghost 2: Dojo of Death
- L’Inferno (1911)
- Love Again
- The Lovely Bones
- The Mental State
- On Angels Wings
- Our (almost completely true) Love Story
- The Peacemaker (1997)
- Pianoforte
- A Star Is Born (2018)
- Stony Island (1978)
- Tell Me About It
- They Turned Us Into Killers (2022)
- Tsurune: The Movie – The First Shot (2022)
- The Tunnel to Summer, the Exit of Goodbyes (2022)
- War Blade
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