So, Comic-Con is over and it’s time to decompress a bit. What better way than by sitting back drinking a cool beverage, cranking the AC, ordering a pizza and watching some of the magic below.
This week, there are several must sees including the latest MST3K release, Rosario Dawson playing femme fatale in Trance, some rare Jack Benny, Paul Walker behind the wheel, some female standup featuring the ridiculously funny Amy Schumer and an opportunity to have your very own Shark Week.
Fire up that queue and prep that shopping cart and check out the latest releases!
Mystery Science Theater 3000: XXVII
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| Shout! Factory / Released 7/23/13 |
There may be no finer—and certainly no funnier–meditation on monsters than this collection of episodes from the cult comedy series Mystery Science Theater 3000. As food for thought, we are served subterranean slime people, giant praying mantis’, Soviet spies and–perhaps the most terrifying of all–enormous teenagers from the disturbing menu of America’s twisted psyche. Battling these Goliaths for us with their slingshots of sass and silliness are Joel, Mike and their robot henchmen Tom Servo and Crow. The monsters are gruesome and the movies even more so, but the riffs are risible and retaliatory, proving definitively that revenge is actually a dish best served funny.
Mystery Science Theater 3000: XXVII brings us The Slime People, wherein nuclear testing has driven a race of subterranean creatures up through the sewers of Los Angeles, and after defeating the military, they erect a dome out of fog over the city to preserve an inhabitable atmosphere. A small band of heroes-in-the-making, stranded inside the dome, must fight to survive; Rocket Attack U.S.A ; a propagandistic film about a nuclear attack on New York City being planned by the scariest monster of the atomic age-The Communist; Village Of The Giants, wherein MST3K mainstay Bert I. Gordon brings to life a tale of the inventor (played by Ron Howard) of a goo that causes animals to grow to many times their natural size. When some rebellious teenagers steal and consume his concoction, they take over the town, the generation gap takes a turn for the worse; and The Deadly Mantis, a film that attempts to answer the age-old question “How can insects and movie lovers be the victims of a single hate crime?” this 1957 knockoff of the much more agreeable Them! proves once again that nuclear testing simply isn’t for everyone.
Extras include an introduction by Mary Jo Pehl, an all-new featurette Chasing Rosebud: The Cinematic Life Of William Alland, Life After MST3K: Trace Beaulieu, an interview with Village of the Giants star Joy Harmon, an interview with The Slime People star Judith Fraser (Judee Morton), original trailers and four exclusive Mini-Posters by artist Steve Vance.
Trance
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| 20th Century Fox / Released 7/23/13 |
After a blow to the head during his attempted robbery of a $27 million Goya painting, Simon (James McAvoy), a fine-art auctioneer, awakens to find that the painting – and his memory – are missing. Forced by his ruthless crime partner Franck (Vincent Cassel) to undergo hypnosis, Simon enters into a deadly love triangle with his seductive hypnotist (Rosario Dawson). As the plot twists, the line between reality and dream becomes blurred in this fast-paced, unpredictable thriller. Extras include making of, Danny Boyle Retrospective, Short Film: Eugene By Spencer Susser and Deleted Scenes.
The Jack Benny Program: The Lost Episodes
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| Shout! Factory / Released 7/23/13 |
Here at last are 18 long-lost episodes – unseen since their original broadcast – that have been lovingly restored by the UCLA Film & Television Archive that celebrates the enduring heart, soul and wit of this American icon. This first of its kind set features 18 episodes of the beloved program — unseen since their original broadcast.
In addition to the recurring character lineup of Jack, Don, Mary and Eddie “Rochester” Anderson; The Jack Benny Program: The Lost Episodes also features a superb lineup of guest stars including Natalie Wood, Red Skelton, Gary Cooper, George Burns, John Wayne, Dick Van Dyke, Billy Graham, Milton Berle, Tony Curtis and President Harry Truman.
Extras include excerpts from the Jack Benny color television specials, an new interview with Harry Shearer, director Norman Abbott and Benny’s secretary Dorothy Ohman; newsreels featuring rare footage from the 1930s and ’40s, a 16-page booklet and much more.
Dragons: Riders of Berk – Part 1
Dragons: Riders of Berk – Part 2
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| 20th Century Fox / Released 7/23/13 |
Disc one contains episodes 1-11 and disc two features episodes 12-20. Based on the DreamWorks Animation Academy Award-nominated hit movie How to Train Your Dragon, the series features original voice talent from the film including Jay Baruchel, America Ferrera, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Zack Pearlman, and more.
The two-part DVD set is jam-packed with special features that dive deeper into the world of Dragons. As a bonus, each DVD comes with a code to unlock an ultimate battle pack – and in select DVDs an exclusive Whispering Death or Thunderdrum dragon – for the DreamWorks’ School of Dragons game. School of Dragons lets players enter the world of Berk, where Hiccup, Toothless and other friends help players become the finest dragon trainers around. With cinema-like graphics and an immersive 3D world, it takes more than courage to train a dragon, but brains as well. Extras include World of DreamWorks, Dragon Tracker, Evolution of Thunderdrum, “Heavy Metal” Dragon Mash-Up and Sneak Peeks.
Robotech: 2-Movie Collection (The Shadow Chronicles / Love Live Alive)
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| A&E Home Video / Released 7/23/13 |
Robotech: Love Live Alive debuts an expanded presentation of the adventures of an expeditionary soldier named “Lancer” Belmont as he joins pilot Scott Bernard on a mission against a mysterious extraterrestrial race known as the Invid. The two must fight for the liberation of the Earth as well as finding peace between the warring forces. Robotech: The Shadow Chronicles continues the epic battle as Scott Bernard must once again face his tragic past as he joins the returning Robotech Expedition against new mechanized adversaries known as the Haydonites.
The Robotech chronicle continues with the unveiling of the all-new anime adventure Love Live Alive. Taking place during and after the events of Robotech: The New Generation (available in Robotech: The Complete Series from Lionsgate Home Entertainment), this thrilling installment in the Robotech saga follows the adventures of Lieutenant Lance “Lancer” Belmont as he recounts his journey from before his first encounter with Scott Bernard to the aftermath following Admiral Rick Hunter’s expedition to liberate the Earth from the mysterious Invid race. Robotech: The Shadow Chronicles continues the epic battle as Scott Bernard must once again face his tragic past as he joins the returning Robotech Expedition against new mechanized adversaries known as the Haydonites.
Extras include pre-production gallery, featurettes, music video, outtakes, deleted scenes with optional commentary, podcast coverage, demo reel, motion capture sequences, animatics with optional commentary, trailers and image galleries.
New World
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| Well Go USA / Released 7/23/13 |
Pick a side. The head of the Goldmoon syndicate is dead. Three men prepare to seize power by brute force. And one man has a secret that could destroy them all. Ja-sung (Lee Jung-Jae), has been a deep-cover operative for Operation New World for eight years. He want out, but Police chief Kang (Choi Min-sik) is too close to bringing everyone down, and can’t let him disappear. The mole is about to be exposed. A gangland bloodbath is coming. Trapped and terrified, Ja-sung is about to make a shocking decision, and no one may get out alive. Extras include making of, photo gallery and trailer.
Kiss of the Damned
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| Magnolia Home Entertainment / Released 7/23/13 |
Beautiful vampire Djuna tries to resist the advances of the handsome, human screenwriter Paolo, but eventually gives in to their passion. When her troublemaker sister Mimi unexpectedly comes to visit, Djuna’s love story is threatened, and the whole vampire community becomes endangered. Extras include commentary, interviews and trailer.
Superjail: Season Three
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| Warner Home Video / Released 7/23/13 |
Includes all 10 episodes from the animated comedy’s third season, complete with fist fights, baffling love triangles and psychedelic animation that will melt your face off. Included are the episodes Stingstress, Superfail!, Uh-Oh Magic, Sticky Discharge, Special Needs, Trouble With Triples, Nightshift, Oedipusmess, Planet Radio and Burnstoolie Burn. Series creators and executive producers Christy Karacas and Stephen Warbrick have also created a collection of bonus features for the DVD, which include animatics, rough cuts and an Introstring featurette.
Twixt
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| 20th Century Fox / Released 7/23/13 |
Once the nightmares begin, the terror never ends. Val Kilmer and Elle Fanning star in this terrifying horror film written and directed by Francis Ford Coppola. Kilmer plays Hall Baltimore, a writer on a book tour who uncovers a disturbing murder that could be source material for his next novel. But as Hall investigates the killing, he finds himself confronted by chilling nightmares, including the ghost of a young girl (Fanning). As he uncovers more horrifying revelations, Hall will discover that the story has more to do with his own life than he could ever have imagined. Extras include Twixt: A Documentary by Gio Coppola.
Detention of the Dead
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| Anchor Bay / Released 7/23/13 |
The Breakfast Club meets Zombieland in this head-busting zombedy. A group of teenagers trapped in detention fight for survival after their classmates turn into a ravenous zombie horde. Can a stoner, a jock, a bully, a goth, and a nerd put aside their differences for one night to take on the undead? Will they live to see the morning? Fat chance! This is High School after all. Extras include commentary and a featurette.
Love and Honor
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| MPI Home Video / Released 7/23/13 |
While serving in Vietnam, young soldier Dalton Joiner (Austin Stowell) finds out that his girlfriend back home, Jane (Aimee Teegarden) has dumped him. He vows to sneak out of Vietnam during his one-week leave to win her back. His best friend and fellow soldier Mickey Wright (Liam Hemsworth) will do anything to help his buddy out – as long as there are a few girls along the way.
In just seven days they must get to the U.S., change Jane’s mind and make it back to their posts without getting caught. But when they arrive in Michigan they find Jane and her beautiful, committed activist friend Candace (Teresa Palmer) at the heart of the anti-war movement. Now the young soldiers must make some life-changing decisions as they spend a week learning the truth about love, honor and commitment. Extras include Making Of and trailer.
Vehicle 19
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| Arc Enertainment / Released 7/23/13 |
A recently paroled man Michael Woods (Paul Walker) unwittingly picks up the wrong rental vehicle after a long flight. He soon realizes that he is the target of an entire police force that will use any means necessary to stop him and the tied-up female “passenger” he discovers in the trunk from getting to the courthouse to testify against their city’s top-to-bottom corruption.
Venus and Serena
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| Magnolia Home Entertainment / Released 7/2/13 |
Venus and Serena takes an unfiltered look into the remarkable lives of the greatest sister-act professional tennis has ever seen. In a sport where they were not welcomed, the indomitable Williams sisters faced the opposition with grace and courage not only breaking new ground for female and African American athletes everywhere, but dominating the women’s game for over a decade. The film tells the inspiring story of how these two women, against all odds, but with the help of visionary parents, made it to the top.
Venus and Serena also explores the struggle of these two aging superstars during the 2011 tennis season as they battle life and career-threatening health problems. In Venus and Serena we gain unprecedented access into the sisters’ lives – both in the spotlight and behind closed doors – and we watch as they draw their greatest strengths from one another to overcome countless adversities. Extras include featurettes, deleted scenes, interviews and a trailer.
Starbuck
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| Entertainment One / Released 7/23/13 |
One man’s journey to become a reproductive member of society. A 42-year-old lovable but perpetual screw-up, David Wosniak (Patrick Huard) has finally decided to take control of his life when he learns some eye-popping news. Having been a habitual sperm donor in his youth, he discovers that he’s the biological father of 533 children, 142 of whom are trying to force the fertility clinic to reveal the true identity of the prolific donor code-named Starbuck. As he sets out to unearth the identities of his offspring, a man anyone would describe as incapable of raising a child, learns even more about himself in a hilarious but moving tale. Extras include deleted scenes, bloopers and music video.
Great White Shark – A Living Legend
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| BBC Home Entertainment / Released 7/23/13 |
Take a journey with one of the world’s foremost shark divers, Mike Rutzen, as he unveils the mystery around one of the most successful predators on the planet – the Great White Shark. In this breathtaking documentary by the BBC’s acclaimed Natural History Unit, Rutzen explores the waters of South Africa, the home of the great whites as he dives without the safety of cage and swims with the great whites closer than anyone else. Mike’s unique ability to communicate with them using his body language allows him to swim amongst them unscathed as he explores their complex social structure, and attempts to redeem them from their violent reputation. Extras include featurette, Swimming With Roboshark.
The Gangster
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| Magnolia Home Entertainment / Released 7/23/13 |
The Gangster (Antapal) is based on the notorious Bangkokian gangs of the 1950s-60s. The story follows a newly released prisoner who desires to live straight, but knowing nothing else but the life of a gangster, he returns to his old gang. Extras include featurettes and trailer.
Hell on Wheels: The Complete Second Season
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| Entertainment One / Released 7/16/13 |
Hell on Wheels tells the epic story of post-Civil War America, focusing on a soldier who sets out to exact revenge on the Union soldiers who have killed his wife. His journey takes him west to Hell on Wheels, a dangerous, raucous, lawless melting pot of a town that travels with and services the construction of the railroad, an engineering feat unprecedented for its time. The lavishly-produced series documents the railroads engineering and construction, as well as institutionalized greed and corruption, the immigrant experience and the plight of newly emancipated African-Americans during Reconstruction. Chronicling this potent turning point in our nation’s history, this fan favoriteseries shows just how uncivilized the business of civilization can be across 10 absorbing episodes. Co-stars include Common, Colm Meany, Dominique McElligott, Ben Esler, Tom Noonan, Phil Burke, Eddie Spears and Wes Studi. extras include featurttes.
Women Who Kill
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| Entertainment One / Released 7/9/13 |
It’s okay to feel intimidated –Women Who Kill is one night out with four talented women who are probably smarter than you, most likely sexier than you and definitely funnier than you. Top comediennes and close friends Amy Schumer (creator, star and writer of the new, hit Comedy Central series ‘Inside Amy Schumer’), Rachel Feinstein, Nikki Glaser and Marina Franklin come together in New York City for a special evening of killer comedy and sharp humor that will have you doubled over with laughter and begging for more. The broadcast premiere was March 2013 on Showtime; bonus programming includes featurettes “The Slumber Party”, “Photo Shoot”, “Gossip in the Make-Up Room” and “The Jist of Rachel”.
Saving Hope: The Complete First Season
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| Entertainment One / Released 5/21/13 |
Dr. Charlie Harris (Michael Shanks), Chief of Surgery at Toronto’s Hope Zion Hospital, ends up in a coma, leaving the hospital in chaos and his fiancée and fellow surgeon, Alex Reid (Erica Durance, ), in a state of shock. Now, a comatose Dr. Harris explores the hospital halls in “spirit” form, not sure if he’s a ghost or a figment of his own imagination. Meanwhile Reid and her fellow doctors press on to save his life and those of their other patients as they deal with the complicated and courageous decisions that are made in their daily struggle to keep hope alive. Extras include interview and behind the scene footage.
Black Pond
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| Entertainment One / Released 6/25/13 |
An ordinary British family is accused of murder when a stranger dies at their dinner table in Black Pond, a highly acclaimed black comedy from directors Will Sharpe and Tom Kingsley.
While out walking his dog, Tom Thompson (Chris Langham) meets a disheveled man named Blake and invites him over for tea. After Blake passes in the company of the dysfunctional Thompson family, the story eventually makes its way to off-the-wall freelance therapist Dr Eric Sacks (Simon Amstell) and the morbid tale finds its way to the press. And as the facts are bent and the details spun, the Thompsons become known to the public as ‘The Family of Killers’. DVD extras include deleted scenes and the short film “Cockroach” by Sharpe and Kingsley.
Tower Block
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| Shout! Factory / Released 7/2/13 |
The residents of Tower Block 31 are terrified after witnessing the brutal murder of a young man. The case is left unsolved, due in large part to their collective silence. A year later, with their building marked for demolition, the witnesses begin to find themselves picked off one by one by a mysterious sniper out for justice. Pitted against not only the sniper’s deadly traps, but also each other, the residents must figure out a way to escape their own building…or die trying. A pulse-pounding thriller that delivers gritty action and relentless suspense, Tower Block’s cast includes Jack O’Connell, Sheridan Smith, Ralph Brown and Russell Tovey. Extras include commentary, interview and trailer.
Cohen & Tate
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| Shout! Factory / Released 7/9/13 |
Cohen and Tate are two mafia hit men who don’t exactly hit it off. Cohen (Roy Scheider) is an old pro, a cold-blooded killer who is all business. Tate (Adam Baldwin) is a young hothead who kills for fun. Together they kidnap nine-year-old Travis Knight (Harley Cross), an eyewitness to a recent mob rub-out. Now, they’ve got 24 hours to deliver him to Houston for interrogation and elimination. Realizing their mutual hatred is his only hope, Travis plays this lethal odd couple against one another. But when their volatile words explode into a fiery gun battle, he’s caught in the crossfire. Extras include commentary, featurette, gallery, deleted/uncut scenes and trailer.
