Tuesday Release: Wildcat

LIMITED EDITION BLU-RAY DIGIPACK: $32.99
LIMITED EDITION DVD DIGIPACK: $27.99
STANDARD EDITION BLU-RAY: $32.99
STANDARD EDITION DVD: $27.99

Wildcat

Oscilloscope Pictures | 2023 | 103 min | Not Rated
Directed by Ethan Hawke

Directed and co-written by four-time Academy Award nominee Ethan Hawke, WILDCAT invites the audience to weave in and out of celebrated Southern Gothic writer Flannery O’Connor’s mind as she ponders the great questions of her writing: Can scandalous art still serve God? Does suffering precede all greatness? Can illness be a blessing? In 1950, Flannery (Maya Hawke) visits her mother Regina (Laura Linney) in Georgia when she is diagnosed with lupus at twenty-four years old. Struggling with the same disease that took her father’s life when she was a child and desperate to make her mark as a great writer, this crisis pitches her imagination into a feverish exploration of belief. As she dives deeper into her craft, the lines between reality, imagination, and faith begin to blur, allowing Flannery to ultimately come to peace with her situation and heal a strained relationship with her mother.

Special featureS

Audio Commentary with Director/Co-Writer Ethan Hawke & Co-Writer Shelby Gaines
“Flannery O’Connor and Wildcat” – Ethan Hawke and Author Brandon Taylor in Conversation
“Bishop Barron Presents” Conversations at the Crossroads with Ethan & Maya Hawke
Behind the Scenes Featurette
Additional Footage
Theatrical Trailer

4K ULTRA HD + BLU-RAY: $39.96
BLU-RAY: $31.96
DVD: $23.96

Thief (#691)

Criterion | 1981 | 125 min | Not Rated
Directed by Michael Mann

The contemporary American auteur Michael Mann’s bold artistic sensibility was already fully formed when he burst out of the gate with Thief, his debut feature. James Caan stars, in one of his most riveting performances, as a no-nonsense ex-con professional thief planning to leave the criminal world behind after one last score—but he discovers that escape is not as simple as he’d hoped. Finding hypnotic beauty in neon and rain-slick streets, sparks and steel, Thief effortlessly established the moody stylishness, tactile approach, and drama that would also define such later iconic Mann films as Heat, The Insider, Ali, and The Last of the Mohicans.

DIRECTOR-APPROVED 4K UHD + BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES

New 4K digital restoration of the director’s cut, supervised and approved by director Michael Mann, with 5.0 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
Audio commentary featuring Mann and actor James Caan
Interviews with Mann, Caan, and Johannes Schmoelling of the band Tangerine Dream, which contributed the film’s soundtrack
Trailer
English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
PLUS: An essay by critic Nick James

Cover by Fred Davis

BLU-RAY: $19.28
DVD: $26.98

Ernest Cole: Lost and Found

Magnolia Pictures | 2024 | 106 min | Not Rated
Directed by Raoul Peck

Visionary filmmaker Raoul Peck chronicles the life of Ernest Cole, whose photographs of apartheid-era South Africa and the US in the 1960’s revealed countries vastly different, yet eerily similar. After his death, more than 60,000 of his 35mm film negatives were re-discovered, reintroducing a pivotal artist to a new audience. With Lakeith Stanfield as the voice of Cole.

Special featureS

Not Listed

All Creatures Great and Small: Season Five (2024)
Chu-Bra!: Panty Appreciation Society (2010)
Frasier: Season Two (2024)
Nasu: Summer In Andalusia (2003)
NOVA: Lost Tombs of Notre Dame
PBS KIDS: Every Day Is Earth Day
Quantum Leap: Season Two
The Rising of the Shield Hero: Season Three (2023)
The Unwanted Undead Adventurer: The Complete Season (2024)
Welcome to Demon School Iruma-kun: Season Two (2021)

4K ULTRA HD + BLU-RAY: $26.57

Daylight

Kino Lorber | 1996 | 115 min | Rated PG-13
Directed by Rob Cohen

Brace yourself for earth-shaking action and suspense! Screen legend Sylvester Stallone (Cliffhanger) races against time to lead a group of stranded commuters out of a collapsed tunnel 100 feet below the Hudson River, and safely back into Daylight. When an explosion seals off a commuter tunnel, the survivors are faced with toxic fumes, fires and the impending collapse of the tunnel. Their only hope lies in the hands of Kit Latura (Stallone), a former Emergency Medical Services chief who is haunted by a tragic past. As the walls cave in and the tunnel fills up with water, Latura risks his own life to save others and prevent the disaster from escalating into an even greater catastrophe. Amy Brenneman, Viggo Mortensen, Dan Hedaya and Jay O. Sanders co-star in this thrilling adventure from director Rob Cohen (The Fast and the Furious). Filled with spectacular special effects and heart-pounding intensity, Daylight will have you holding your breath from start to finish!

SPECIAL FEATURES

DISC 1 (4KUHD):

Brand New HDR/Dolby Vision Master – From a 4K Scan of the 35mm Original Camera Negative
Audio Commentary by Director Rob Cohen
5.1 Surround and Lossless 2.0 Audio
Triple-Layered UHD100 Disc
Optional English Subtitles

DISC 2 (BLU-RAY):

Brand New HD Master – From a 4K Scan of the 35mm Original Camera Negative
Audio Commentary by Director Rob Cohen
The Making of Daylight (33:28)
EPK Featurette (6:26)
Whenever There Is Love: Music Video by Donna Summer and Bruce Roberts (4:31)
Theatrical Trailers (4:31)
5.1 Surround and Lossless 2.0 Audio
Dual-Layered BD50 Disc
Optional English Subtitles

BLU-RAY STEELBOOK: $64.99

Ragna Crimson

(COLLECTOR’S EDITION)

Sentai Filmworks | 2023-2024 | Season 1 | 600 min | Rated TV-MA
Directed by Shannon Reed & Shin Onuma

Few humans have more reason to hate dragons than Ragna, who seems cursed to lose everyone he loves to the ancient monsters. Unfortunately, Ragna’s abilities as a dragon hunter are inadequate, so he takes revenge by serving as the junior partner to young hunting prodigy Leonica… until he has a prophetic dream in which Leo is slain and multiple cities are destroyed. Confronted by an apparition from his future, Ragna finds himself wielding new powers that should be far beyond his reach. Have mankind’s greatest foes finally met their match? Find out as a new apex predator is born in RAGNA CRIMSON!

SPECIAL FEATURES

Includes Special 104 Page Booklet
With staff interviews, exclusive manga and more.

Includes Bonus Special Features Disc

Clean Opening Animations
Clean Closing Animations
Pre-Airing Emergency Broadcast Program: Dawn of the Dragon Hunters
Special Program: The Path to Ultimate Power
Production Documentary
Japanese Promos

BLU-RAY: $18.99

Best Defense

Kino Lorber | 1984 | 94 min | Not Rated
Directed by Willard Huyck

If you’re out to build the ultimate Super Tank/Super Weapon, and you find out Dudley Moore (Foul Play, Arthur) has something to do with the missile guidance system, you’ve got to be concerned. Then, when you find out Eddie Murphy (48 Hrs., Beverly Hills Cop) is going to test the tank in an actual combat situation, you ought to forget about it all together. Luckily for us, the government and Dynatechnics Incorporated don’t know Moore and Murphy like we do. And both legendary comics are turned loose on a high-tech, hilarious adventure that sets modern warfare back a couple hundred years. Kate Capshaw (Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom) co-stars in this madcap military farce from filmmaking duo Willard Huyck and Gloria Katz (Messiah of Evil, Howard the Duck).

SPECIAL FEATURES

Brand New HD Master – From a 4K Scan of the 35mm Original Camera Negative
NEW Audio Commentary by Screenwriter/Producer Alan Spencer and Author/Film Historian Justin Humphreys
Theatrical Trailer
Optional English Subtitles

BLU-RAY: $18.99

Cry, the Beloved Country

Kino Lorber | 1951 | 108 min | Not Rated
Directed by Zoltan Korda

2023 HD Master by StudioCanal – From a 4K Scan of the 35mm Original Nitrate Negative! Cry, the Beloved Country is an extraordinarily moving adaptation of the legendary best-selling novel by Alan Paton. A Black minister, Stephen Kumalo (Canada Lee, Body and Soul) lives a quiet life as a parish priest in the back country of South Africa. When his son, Absolom, leaves the small valley where he grew up for the bright lights of the city, he goes missing. After several months of silence, the minister goes to search for him and comes face to face with the squalor and poverty of the Johannesburg slums. Reverend Msimangu (Sidney Poitier in a breakout early performance) is a young clergyman who joins him in his search, but neither are prepared for what they will discover. Directed with grace and sensitivity by Zoltan Korda (Sahara).

SPECIAL FEATURES

Audio Commentary by Film Historian Daniel Kremer
CANADA LEE: An Interview with Mona Z. Smith

BLU-RAY: $18.99

Two-Way Stretch

Kino Lorber | 1960 | 78 min | Not Rated
Directed by Robert Day

In this caper-comedy classic of 1960s British cinema, the great Peter Sellers (The Ladykillers, The Pink Panther) stars as cocky criminal “mastermind” Dodger Lane, who has been concocting the perfect robbery in prison. With two cellmates he intends to break out of jail, steal a fortune in diamonds from a rich Maharajah, and then break back in. He only has a few days left of his sentence to serve and his alibi couldn’t be any tighter. As long as the operation runs smoothly, what could possibly go wrong? Everything—in one of Sellers’ funniest farces packed with a rib-tickling rogues’ gallery of British comedy legends: Lionel Jeffries as the hilariously humiliated prison officer; Wilfrid Hyde-White as a bogus vicar; David Lodge as the meat-headed muscleman; and Bernard Cribbins in the nice young man part. Riotously directed by Robert Day (The Green Man).

SPECIAL FEATURES