For the week of August 5th, Decal Releasing will release Pamela Adlon's Babes, starring Ilana Glazer, Michelle Buteau, Hasan Minhaj, John Carroll Lynch, Stephan James and Oliver Platt.
Description: BABES follows inseparable childhood best friends Eden (Ilana Glazer) and Dawn (Michelle Buteau), having grown up together in NYC, now firmly in different phases of adulthood. When carefree and single Eden decides to have a baby on her own after a one-night stand, their friendship faces its greatest challenge. BABES delves into the complexities of female friendship with a blend of laughter, tears, and labor pains.
Decal Releasing's Blu-ray of Babes contains deleted scenes, Ilana & Michelle Taste Baby Food and Talk Babes and The Moms Behind Babes - Illana, Michelle, and Pamela in Conversation.
New on Blu-ray from Kino Lorber is Ramata-Toulaye Sy's Banel & Adama, starring Khady Mane, Mamadou Diallo, Binta Racine Sy, Amadou Ndiaye and Moussa Sow.
Description: Banel and Adama are fiercely in love. The young married couple lives in a remote village in northern Senegal. For them, nothing else exists except each other. But for the rest of their tight-knit village, duty dictates that Adama soon accept the role of chief. The two lovers have their own plans… until something in the air changes. The rains do not come, the cattle begin to die, the men leave. The curse weighs on Adama's sense of duty, and the chasm between them drives Banel into a feverish, mystical chaos.
A rare debut feature that premiered in competition at the Cannes Film Festival, and Senegal's official submission to the 96th Academy Awards®, Banel & Adama is a lush and lyrical West African dreamscape, a tragic romance that soars to the heights of longing and descends deep into the realm of myth as it sets its protagonists' perfect everlasting love on a collision course with their community's traditions.
Kino Lorber's Blu-ray of Banel & Adama contains a Q&A with director Ramata-Toulaye Sy and a theatrical trailer.
New on Blu-ray from Tribeca Film is Armagan Ballantyne's Nude Tuesday, starring Jackie van Beek, Damon Herriman and Jemaine Clement.
Description: In an effort to rekindle the spark in their troubled marriage, Laura and Bruno head to a couples' retreat run by relationship and sexual healing guru, Bjorg. Plagued by miscommunication, Nude Tuesday is an utterly singular excursion into naturism and self-discovery.
New on Blu-ray from Crunchyroll is the anime series Sweet Reincarnation: The Complete Season (おかしな転生) (2023), starring Ayumu Murase, Hiroshi Tsuchida, Natsumi Fujiwara, Maaya Uchida, Kaede Hondo and Rumi Okubo.
Description: Killed by his own edible statue, a famous confectioner is reborn as a kid named Pastry. He still has his skills in this new world, but almost none of the ingredients he needs. So before he can bake, he'll have to handle bandits, politics, and the supply chain.
Crunchyroll's Blu-ray of Sweet Reincarnation: The Complete Season contains all 12 episodes, with a choice of original Japanese: Dolby TrueHD 2.0 (with English subtitles) or dubbed English: Dolby TrueHD 5.1 audio options. Extras include mini anime episodes, and textless opening and ending songs.
Turning to catalog titles, Shout Factory will release a 4K UHD upgrade for Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey (1991), starring Keanu Reeves, Alex Winter, William Sadler, Joss Ackland, Pam Grier and George Carlin. Sourced from a new 4K scan of the original camera negative, Shout presents Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey with a choice of DTS-HD MA 2.0 and 5.1 audio options, with Dolby Vision HDR on the 4K UHD disc. Extras include two audio commentaries, the documentaries Bill & Ted Go To Hell and The Most Triumphant Making Of, an interview with guitarist Steve Vai, an air guitar tutorial with Bjorn Turoque & The Rockness Monster, a vintage EPK, The Linguistic Stylings of Bill & Ted and a theatrical trailer.
Also getting a 4K UHD upgrade from Shout is Bill & Ted Face the Music (2020), starring Keanu Reeves, Alex Winter, Kristen Schaal, Samara Weaving, Brigette Lundy-Paine and William Sadler. Sourced from a new 4K remaster of the original digital intermediate, Shout presents Bill & Ted's Face the Music with a choice of DTS-HD MA 5.1 and 2.0 audio options, with Dolby Vision HDR on the 4K UHD disc. Extras match the previous Blu-ray release and include The Official Bill & Ted Face The Music Panel at Comic-Con@Home and the short featurettes Be Excellent to Each Other, A Most Triumphant Duo, Social Piece (Excellence) and Death's Crib.
Finally from Shout this week are wide releases for the 4K UHD SteelBooks of Hackers (1995) and DragonHeart (1996), which were previously retailer exclusives.
Also available on 4K UHD SteelBook this week is Mochael Mann's Collateral (2004), starring Tom Cruise, Jamie Foxx, Jada Pinkett Smith, Mark Ruffalo, Peter Berg and Bruce McGill. The SteelBook is a limited edition.
Description: The reunion concert that brought New York to its knees in 1986 - the original Dead Boys, Stiv Bators, Cheetah Chrome, Jimmy Zero, Jeff Magnum and Johnny Blitz on stage at The Ritz! The band got together for one more show in their old stomping ground, starting with an introduction from long-time fan, Joey Ramone! Tracks include their hits Sonic Reducer, Search And Destroy, All This And More, Caught With The Meat In Your Mouth and many more!
Cleopatra's Blu-ray of Dead Boys - Return of the Living Dead Boys - Halloween Night 1986 contains a 1980 TV interview featuring Stiv, musical collaborator Frank Secich and interviewer Gary Cubberly and a video for "Sonic Reducer".