Posted September 24, 2023 10:25 PM by Sean Greenwood
For the week of September 25th, Walt Disney Home Entertainment will release Loki: The Complete First Season (2021), starring Tom Hiddleston, Sophia Di Martino, Owen Wilson, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Wunmi Mosaku and Eugene Cordero.
Description: Description: Marvel Studios' Loki features the God of Mischief as he steps out of his brother's shadow. Set after the events of Avengers: Endgame, this action-packed, time-defying thriller stars Tom Hiddleston as the title characters with Owen Wilson as agent Mobius.
Disney's 4K UHD release of Loki: The Complete First Season contains HDR and Dolby Atmos audio. Extras include Designing the TVA, The Official TVA Orientation Video, deleted scenes, a gag reel and a making of featurette. Note that this release will be available in separate 4K UHD and Blu-ray SteelBook editions.
Also coming on 4K UHD and Blu-ray from Disney is Peter Sohn's Elemental, starring Leah Lewis, Mamoudou Athie, Ronnie Del Carmen, Shila Ommi, Wendi McLendon-Covey and Catherine O'Hara.
Description: "Elemental" is an original feature film set in Element City, where residents of Fire, Water, Earth and Air live together. The story introduces Ember, a tough, quick-witted and fiery young woman, whose friendship with a fun, sappy, go-with-the-flow guy named Wade challenges her beliefs about the world they live in. Directed by Peter Sohn ("The Good Dinosaur," "Partly Cloudy" short), and produced by Denise Ream ("The Good Dinosaur," "Cars 2"), "Elemental" features a screenplay by John Hoberg & Kat Likkel and Brenda Hsueh, and stars the voices of Leah Lewis and Mamoudou Athie as Ember and Wade.
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment has officially announced that it will release on Blu-ray
Patrick Wilson's Insidious: The Red Door, starring Ty Simpkins, Patrick Wilson, Sinclair Daniel, Hiam Abbass and Rose Byrne.
Description: The original cast from the horror franchise is back for the final chapter of the Lambert family's terrifying saga, with Patrick Wilson (also making his directorial debut), Ty Simpkins, Rose Byrne and Andrew Astor. To put their demons to rest once and for all, Josh and a college-aged Dalton must go deeper into The Further than ever before, facing their family's dark past and a host of new and more horrifying terrors that lurk behind the door.
Sony's Blu-ray of contains the extras Past, Present, Further and A Possessed Director.
Also from Sony is a Blu-ray for Gary Oldman's Nil By Mouth (1997), starring Ray Winstone, Kathy Burke, Charlie Creed-Miles, Jamie Foreman, Edna Doré and Jon Morrison. Extras include a theatrical trailer.
Then from Sony is a Blu-ray for Hector Babenco's Carandiru (2003), starring Enrique Diaz, Wagner Moura, Rodrigo Santoro, and Milton Gonçalves. Extras include filmmaker commentary, deleted scenes, a making of, featurettes and a theatrical trailer.
Coming to 4K UHD from Sony is Danny Cannon's I Still Know What You Did Last Summer (1998), starring Jennifer Love Hewitt, Freddie Prinze Jr., Brandy Norwood, Mekhi Phifer, Muse Watson and Bill Cobbs. Sourced from a new 4K scan of the original camera negative (approved by Danny Cannon), Sony presents I Still Know What You Did Last Summer with Dolby Vision HDR and a choice of a new Dolby Atmos remix or original 5.1 audio options. Extras on the 4K UHD disc include a new audio commentary with Danny Cannon and an interview with Muse Watson, while an included Blu-ray features a making of featurette, a music video and a theatrical trailer.
Finally from Sony comes a Blu-ray for Sylvain White's I'll Always Know What You Did Last Summer (2006), starring Brooke Nevin, David Paetkau, Torrey DeVitto, Ben Easter, Seth Packard and K.C. Clyde. Extras include filmmaker commentary, a making of featurette and a trailer.
New on Blu-ray from Universal Pictures Home Entertainment is Kirk DeMicco's Ruby Gillman: Teenage Kraken, starring Toni Collette, Jane Fonda, Annie Murphy, Will Forte, Sam Richardson and Lana Condor.
Description: Dive into the turbulent waters of high school with this heartwarming action comedy about a shy teenager who discovers that she's part of a legendary royal lineage of mythical sea krakens and that her destiny, in the depths of the oceans, is bigger than she ever dreamed. Learning to be an all-powerful sea creature while hiding among humans is hard enough for Ruby, but to make matters worse, her super popular new bestie, Chelsea, is secretly a mermaid! Mermaids have been battling the krakens for eons to rule the ocean, but Chelsea has come to land to finally put an end to that conflict. However, when Chelsea double-crosses her, Ruby will ultimately need to embrace who she is and GO BIG to protect those she loves most.
Universal's Blu-ray of Ruby Gillman: Teenage Kraken contains a Dolby TrueHD 7.1 audio track. Extras include filmmaker commentary, deleted scenes (with introductions by co-director Faryn Pearl) and several featurettes.
Also coming to Blu-ray from Universal is A.V. Rockwell's A Thousand and One, starring Teyana Taylor, Josiah Cross, William Catlett, Aaron Kingsley Adetola, Aven Courtney and Terri Abney.
Description: A Thousand and One follows unapologetic and free-spirited Inez (Teyana Taylor), who kidnaps her six-year-old son, Terry, from the foster care system. Holding onto their secret and each other, mother and son set out to reclaim their sense of home, identity, and stability in a rapidly changing New York City.
New on Blu-ray from RLJE Films is Interview with the Vampire: Season One (2022), starringJacob Anderson, Sam Reid, Eric Bogosian, Bailey Bass, Assad Zaman and Delainey Hayles.
Description: A sensuous, contemporary reinvention of Anne Rice's revolutionary gothic novel, Anne Rice's Interview with the Vampire follows Louis de Pointe du Lac (Jacob Anderson), Lestat de Lioncourt (Sam Reid) and Claudia's (Bailey Bass) epic story of love, blood, and the perils of immortality, as told to journalist Daniel Molloy (Eric Bogosian). Chafing at the limitations of life as a Black man in 1900s New Orleans, Louis finds it impossible to resist the rakish Lestat de Lioncourt's offer of the ultimate escape: joining him as his vampire companion. But Louis's intoxicating new powers come with a violent price, and the introduction of Lestat's newest fledgling, the child vampire Claudia, soon sets them on a decades-long path of revenge and atonement.
RLJE Films' Blu-ray of Interview with the Vampire: Season One contains all seven episodes on two discs. Extras include a 2022 San Diego Comic-Con Panel. For a full disc breakdown, read Randy Miller's Blu-ray review.
Also new to Blu-ray from RLJE Films is Yuval Adler's Sympathy for the Devil (2023), starring Nicolas Cage, Joel Kinnaman, Kaiwi Lyman and Cameron Lee Price.
Description: After being forced to drive a mysterious passenger (Nicolas Cage) at gunpoint, a man (Joel Kinnaman) finds himself in a high-stakes game of cat and mouse where it becomes clear that not everything is as it seems.
RLJE Films' Blu-ray of Sympathy for the Devil contains four short interviews with cast and crew members. For a full release breakdown, read Randy Miller's Blu-ray review. Note that a 4K UHD edition in SteelBook packaging is set for release on November 14th, 2023.
Finally from RLJE Films is a Blu-ray Mayfair Witches: Season One (2023), starring Alexandra Daddario, Jack Huston, Tongayi Chirisa, Harry Hamlin, Beth Grant and Erica Gimpel.
Description: Rowan Fielding, an intuitive young neurosurgeon, discovers that she is the unlikely heir to a family of witches. As she grapples with her newfound powers, she must contend with a sinister presence that has haunted her family for generations.
New on Blu-ray and 4K UHD from Paramount Home Media Distribution is Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan: Season Three (2022), starring John Krasinski. Paramount's two disc Blu-ray or 4K UHD releases of Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan: Season Three contain Dolby Atmos audio, with HDR on the 4K UHD edition. Extras include deleted scenes.
Also coming from Paramount is a 4K UHD SteelBook release for Steve Miner's Halloween H20: Twenty Years Later (1998), starring Jamie Lee Curtis, Adam Arkin, Michelle Williams, Adam Hann-Byrd, Jodi Lyn O'Keefe and Janet Leigh. The film was previously only available in The Halloween 4K Collection (1995-2002) (1995-2002), which was released by Shout Factory in 2022. Paramount presents the film with Dolby Vision HDR and DTS-HD MA 5.1 audio, but no extras are included. For a full release breakdown, read Martin Liebman's 4K UHD review.
Also coming from Warner are three more Blu-rays from the Warner Archive Collection. They are:
Jack Conway's Saratoga (1937), starring Clark Gable, Jean Harlow, Lionel Barrymore, Frank Morgan, Walter Pidgeon and Una Merkel. Warner Archive presents Saratoga from a new 4K scan of preservation elements, with DTS-HD MA 2.0 Mono audio. Extras include the short documentary The Romance of Celluloid (1937) as well as the film's original theatrical trailer.
Rouben Mamoulian's Westward the Women (1951), starring Robert Taylor, Denise Darcel, Hope Emerson, John McIntire, Julie Bishop and Lenore Lonergan. Warner Archive presents Westward the Women from a new 4K scan of preservation elements, with DTS-HD MA 2.0 Mono audio. Extras include audio commentary by author / film historian Scott Eyman, the MGM short film Challenge of the Wilderness (1951), a 1952 Lux Radio Theater broadcast with Robert Taylor and Denise Darcel, the Tom and Jerry cartoons Texas Tom (1950) and The Duck Doctor (1952) as well as the film's original theatrical trailer.
Mark Dindal's Cats Don't Dance (1997), starring Scott Bakula, Jasmine Guy, Natalie Cole, Ashley Peldon, Lindsay Ridgeway and Kathy Najimy. Warner Archive presents Cats Don't Dance from a new 4K scan of the original camera negative, with DTS-HD MA 5.1 audio. Extras include the WB cartoons Daffy Duck in Hollywood (1938), Curtain Razor (1949), What's Up, Doc? (1950) and Show Biz Bugs (1957), as well as the film's original theatrical trailer.
New from GKIDS and ShoutFactory is a Blu-ray for Keiichi Hara's Lonely Castle in the Mirror (かがみの孤城), starring Aoi Miyazaki, Kumiko Asô, Mana Ashida, Minami Takayama, Sakura Kiryu and Takumi Kitamura.
Label description: Shy outcast Kokoro has been avoiding school for weeks when she discovers a portal in her bedroom mirror. She reaches through and finds herself transported to an enchanting castle where she is joined by six other students. When a girl in a wolf mask explains that they have been invited to play a game, the teens must work together to uncover the mysterious connection that unites them. However, anyone who breaks the rules will be eaten by a wolf.
From acclaimed director Keiichi Hara (COLORFUL, MISS HOKUSAI) and based on the bestselling novel by Mizuki Tsujimura, Lonely Castle in the Mirror is a heartfelt drama about the pains of growing up and the unlikely bonds that can bring people together.
Shout's Blu-ray of Lonely Castle in the Mirror contains both original Japanese and English audio tracks. Extras include an art gallery and trailers.
Also from Shout is a 4K UHD upgrade for George Mihalka's My Bloody Valentine (1981), starring Paul Kelman, Lori Hallier, Neil Affleck, Keith Knight, Alf Humphreys and Cynthia Dale. Shout presents My Bloody Valentine from a new 4K master of the uncut version, with DTS-HD MA 2.0 Mono audio and Dolby Vision HDR on the 4K UHD disc. Extras replicate Shout's 2016 Collector's Edition Blu-ray and include audio commentary by George Mihalka, a 35th anniversary cast reunion, and a second Blu-ray with the theatrical version, several interviews and more.
Finally from Shout is a 4K UHD upgrade for Oliver Stone's Natural Born Killers (1994), starring Woody Harrelson, Juliette Lewis, Robert Downey Jr., Tommy Lee Jones, Tom Sizemore and Rodney Dangerfield. Shout presents Natural Born Killers in its director's cut, from a new 4K scan of the original camera negative (approved by Oliver Stone), with DTS-HD MA 5.1 and 2.0 audio and Dolby Vision HDR on the 4K UHD disc. Extras include audio commentary by Oliver Stone, new interviews with editor Hank Corwin, producer Clayton Townsend, special makeup effects artist Gordon J. Smith and cinematographer Robert Richardson, and a second Blu-ray disc with a newly remastered theatrical cut which contains additional legacy extras, including documentaries, deleted scenes an alternate ending and more. In addition to standard packagaing, a Best Buy Exclusive SteelBook will also be available.
New on Blu-ray from Vertical Entertainment is Dwight H. Little's Natty Knocks, starring Thomas Robie, Noen Perez, Channah Zeitung, Jason James Richter, Amit Sarin and Charlotte Fountain-Jardim.
Description: From the Director of "Halloween 4" comes a new screen classic..."Natty Knocks". Starring horror legends Bill Moseley, Danielle Harris, and Robert Englund, this small town thriller introduces babysitter Britt Henderson played by newcomer Charlotte Fountain-Jardim. On Halloween Eve, Britt and her "kids" have to survive the horror of serial killer Abner Honeywell, who is himself the traumatized son of B-movie horror legend "Natty Knocks".
New from Well Go USA is Soo-sung's Gangnam Zombie (강남좀비), starring Il-Joo Ji, Ji-Yeon Park, Kyoung-Hoon Jo, Min Choi, Tu-in Tak and Jung Yi-joo.
Description: Gangnam, an upscale neighborhood in Seoul, becomes the center of mass chaos overnight. Residents begin to experience unusual and terrifying symptoms that turn them into strange, inhuman creatures that begin to attack others. A man and woman are among the remaining few survivors but find themselves trapped inside an office building and must risk all in their fight to escape this zombie apocalypse.
Turning to catalog titles, Kino Lorber have a pair of titles getting 4K UHD upgrades this week. First is John Frankenheimer's The Train (1964), starring Burt Lancaster, Paul Scofield, Jeanne Moreau, Suzanne Flon, Michel Simon, Wolfgang Preiss. Kino presents The Train from a new 4K scan of the original camera negative, with DTS-HD MA 2.0 and 5.1 audio options and Dolby Vision HDR on the 4K UHD disc. Extras include two legacy audio commentaries, a newly remastered making of featurette from 1964, an isolated score track, newly remastered theatrical teaser and trailer and more.
Also coming to 4K UHD from Kino is Michael Cimino's Thunderbolt and Lightfoot (1974), starring Clint Eastwood, Jeff Bridges, George Kennedy, Geoffrey Lewis, Catherine Bach and Gary Busey. Kino presents Thunderbolt and Lightfoot from a new 4K scan of the original camera negative, with DTS-HD MA 2.0 and 5.1 audio options and Dolby Vision HDR on the 4K UHD disc. Extras include audio commentary by film critic Nick Pinkerton, a featurette with Michael Cimino, radio and TV spots and a theatrical trailer.
Also from Kino is a new Blu-ray edition of J. Lee Thompson's Death Wish 4: The Crackdown (1984), starring Charles Bronson, Kay Lenz, John P. Ryan, Perry Lopez, Danny Trejo and Soon-Tek Oh. Extras include audio commentary by film historian Paul Talbot (Bronson's Loose!) and a theatrical trailer.
Finally from Kino is a Blu-ray for Allan A. Goldstein's Death Wish V: The Face of Death (1994), starring Charles Bronson, Lesley-Anne Down, Michael Parks, Chuck Shamata, Kevin Lund and Robert Joy. Extras include audio commentary by film historian Paul Talbot (Bronson's Loose!) and a theatrical trailer.