WHAT’S NEW ON DVD/BLU/4K IN MARCH – Leonard Maltin’s Movie Crazy

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WHAT’S NEW ON DVD/BLU/4K IN MARCH – Leonard Maltin’s Movie Crazy


The following article was written by my good friend and colleague Alonso Duralde. You can be taught extra about him HERE.

WHAT’S NEW ON DVD/BLU/4K IN MARCH: BABYGIRL, WOMEN WHO RUN HOLLYWOOD, FILIPINO HORROR, AND MORE!

NEW RELEASE WALL

Babygirl (A24): Overlooked by the Oscars, however nonetheless considered one of 2024’s most memorable and provocative movies, this sophomore characteristic from writer-director Halina Reijn (Bodies Bodies Bodies) stars Nicole Kidman as a forceful CEO and seemingly completely happy spouse and mom who discovers she has a craving for sexual submissiveness when she crosses paths with a brand new intern performed by Harris Dickinson. Kidman is fearless and frank as she plunges into the character’s contradictions, and the movie by no means judges her for intimate journey of discovery.

Also out there:

Antiviral (Severin): A 4K launch of Brandon Cronenberg’s 2012 debut characteristic.

The Brutalist (A24): Brady Corbet’s Oscar-winning epic was an intense big-screen expertise, however lots of its strengths will nonetheless come by in your house theater.

Gladiator II (Paramount): Paul Mescal steps into Russell Crowe’s sandals and breastplate for an additional go across the area.

Kraven the Hunter (Sony): The ultimate nail within the coffin of Sony’s “Spider-Man Without Spider-Man” films is best than Morbius however not fairly as stupid-fun as Madame Web or Venom: Let There Be Carnage.

Moana 2 (Disney): Turning what was initially meant to be an episodic sequence right into a big-screen sequel turned out to be good enterprise for Disney.

Red One (WBD): This saving-Santa motion epic starring Dwayne Johnson, Chris Evans, and J.Okay. Simmons is best than its fame, and on condition that Apple nonetheless gained’t launch movies like CODA and Killers of the Flower Moon on bodily media, we ought to be at the least a bit of thrilled when a streamer places their films on Blu-ray.

The Room Next Door (Sony): Pedro Almodóvar proves his fluency within the language of cinema along with his shattering English-language characteristic debut, that includes indelible performances from leads Tilda Swinton and Julianne Moore.

Sing Sing (A24): Colman Domingo stars in (and was Oscar-nominated for) considered one of final 12 months’s sleeper hits, a transferring have a look at males behind bars creating artwork and looking for transcendence.

Wolf Man (Universal): Christopher Abbott stars as a stay-at-home dad turned lycanthrope on this moody remake.

NEW INDIE

Ex-Husbands (Greenwich Entertainment): James Norton, Griffin Dunne, and Richard Benjamin play three generations of males whose varied emotional points come to the fore when the youngest of them will get marries. (And with Rosanna Arquette alongside, she and Dunne have an After Hours mini-reunion.)

NEW INTERNATIONAL

Rose (Cohen Media Group): French movie legend Françoise Fabian (My Night at Maud’s) scores a late-career triumph along with her portrayal of a French widow who slowly sheds her personal life and begins to glitter anew, a lot to the consternation of her grown kids, who all have issues of their very own. It took three or 4 years for Aurélie Saada’s humorous, transferring, and insightful character research to get to the United States, nevertheless it was well worth the wait.

Also out there:

Eat the Night (Altered Innocence): This queer French pageant fave follows a brother and sister whose respective love lives turn into inextricably entwined with a web-based role-playing recreation.

Ghost Cat Anzu (GKIDS): An 11-year-old lady is shipped off to reside along with her grandfather in a temple, the place she befriends the titular creature/spirit.

NEW DOCUMENTARY

Women Who Run Hollywood (Kino Classics): This field set contains a quartet of documentaries devoted to feminine filmmakers who made a huge effect on the primary 5 – 6 many years of the artwork kind, from the writers and administrators of the silent interval, by film star and mogul Mary Pickford, trailblazing auteur Dorothy Arzner, and actress-turned–legendary director Ida Lupino. An important primer for an oft-overlooked department of cinema historical past.

Also out there:

The Battle of Chile (Icarus): This launch of the restoration of Patricio Guzmán’s legendary documentary additionally consists of the director’s first movie, The First Year.

Carville: Winning Is Everything, Stupid(Greenwich): Doc filmmaker Matt Tyrnauer (Valentino: The Last Emperor, Where’s My Roy Cohn?) examines famed Democratic guide James Carville.

Every Little Thing (Kino Lorber): A stunning profile of a Hollywood resident who tends to injured hummingbirds.

Hans Zimmer: Live in Prague (Mercury): Live live performance movie celebrating the legendary movie composer in efficiency.

The Klezmer Project (Greenwich): A historical past of the beloved Yiddish musical custom together with a search by Eastern Europe to get better misplaced melodies.

NEW GRINDHOUSE

Fear within the Philippines: The Complete Blood Island Films (Severin): This two-disc set options new 4K scans of a quartet of outrageous horror films – Terror Is a Man, Brides of Blood, Mad Doctor of Blood Island, and Beast of Blood – created by Filipino horror pioneers Eddie Romero and Gerry de Leon between 1959 and 1971. Featuring US style stars like John Ashley and Celeste Yarnall, these schlocky creations grew to become cult favorites and are being introduced totally intact with improved colour and audio.

Also out there:

The tenth Victim (KL Studio Classics): This fashionable 1965 Italian satire noticed actuality TV coming from many years away, as Marcello Mastroianni and Ursula Andress play finalists on a lethal recreation present who would possibly fall in love in the event that they don’t kill one another first.

38 Especial (Degausser): This Mexican cult fave sees a detective and a radio psychologist teaming as much as cease a religious-fanatic serial killer.

The Bloody Lady (Arbelos): A Czech tackle the legendary Elisabeth Bathory, who purportedly bathed within the blood of younger virgins to retain her youthfulness.

College Confidential (KL Studio Classics): One of the nuttiest ensembles ever assembled, for a drive-in film that dared to take intercourse severely: Steve Allen, Jayne Meadows, Mamie Van Doren, Walter Winchell, Mickey Shaughnessy, Herbert Marshall, Rocky Graciano, Sheilah Graham, Earl Wilson, and Elisha Cook, Jr.

Crawlspace (Kino Cult): Klaus Kinski performs considered one of his trademark creepazoids, a son-of-a-Nazi who runs a boarding home that options feminine residents and many secret passageways.

The Daredevils / Ode to Gallantry (Eureka Classics): Two collaborations between director Chang Cheh, often known as the “Godfather of Hong Kong Cinema,” and the “Venom Mob,” six legendary martial-arts performers identified for his or her work in Cheh’s Five Deadly Venoms.

Deep Blue Sea (Arrow): One of the cinema’s best shark-eating deaths, plus a ridiculous closing theme from co-star LL Cool J make this one a midnight-movie fave.

Devil Fetus / Her Vengeance (Vinegar Syndrome): Two of the wilder Eighties titles from Hong Kong studio Golden Harvest.

Devil’s Stay (Well Go USA Entertainment): There’s a disturbing power afoot as a heart specialist’s lifeless daughter miraculously and terrifyingly comes again to life on this South Korean import.

Don’t Torture a Duckling (Arrow): Well, they informed you. Lucio Fulci’s giallo basic makes its North American 4K debut.

Eye for an Eye 2: Blind Vengeance (Well Go USA Entertainment): A bounty hunter turns into enmeshed in a younger lady’s seek for revenge.

Forgotten Gialli: Volume Eight (Vinegar Syndrome): The Italian horror style enters the Nineteen Seventies and leans on each intercourse and violence, as displayed in Rings of Fear, Reflections in Black, and A.A.A. Masseuse, Good-Looking, Offers Her Services.

The Godsend (Kino Cult): A mysterious pregnant lady provides beginning, leaves the kid with one other household, after which all Hell breaks free.

Godzilla vs. Biollante (The Criterion Collection): Following up on Criterion’s complete and beautiful Showa-era field set, the label digs into Gojira’s Heisei period with this 1989 basic in a brand new 4K restoration.

The Hungry Snake Woman (Mondo Macabro): Go-go dancers, chainsaws, black magic and extra on this unhinged Indonesian horror curiosity.

The Killer Is Not Alone (Mondo Macabro): This long-unavailable Spanish giallo, the one featured directed by Jesús García de Dueñas, makes its North American debut and its first Blu-ray launch worldwide.

Peril & Distress (KL Studio Classics): A thriller two-fer, that includes Agatha Christie’s Endless Night and Bert I. Gordon’s Picture Mommy Dead.

Play It Cool (Arrow): This acclaimed story of a Japanese faculty pupil working her method by faculty as a hostess in Tokyo’s nefarious nightclub circuit will get its first home-video launch outdoors of Japan.

There’s a Zombie Outside (Gravitas Ventures): Writer-director Michael Varrati (Deathcember) makes his characteristic debut with this horror yarn about an indie filmmaker whose monstrous artwork blurs into actual life.

Tokugawa Sex Ban (Mondo Macabro): A feudal Japanese warlord is launched to sexual pleasure, after which tries banning it amongst his topics, on this outrageous Nineteen Seventies sexploitation historic epic.

NEW CLASSIC

Choose Me (The Criterion Collection): One of the gems of writer-director Alan Rudolph’s cinematic profession is that this genre-defying love story, a bittersweet romantic farce of mistaken (or misrepresented?) id. Keith Carradine performs a mysterious and charismatic drifter whose sudden look shakes up the lives of an sad spouse (Rae Dawn Chong), a bar proprietor (Lesley-Anne Warren), and Dr. Love (Genevieve Bujold), a radio host who dispenses amorous recommendation regardless of having virtually no expertise with romance. (That all of those girls are instantly or not directly related to Patrick Bauchau’s wealthy wastrel is the farce half; that Bauchau’s character additionally will get a shot at redemption speaks to Rudolph’s love of his characters.) Overlay all of this with a memorable Teddy Pendergrass tune rating, and also you’ve acquired top-of-the-line movies of the Eighties, now with a brand new 4K restoration and new interviews and dialog with the solid and creators.

Also out there:

Akira (Crunchyroll): The groundbreaking anime basic, now in 4K.

Arabesque (KL Studio Classics): Director Stanley Donen didn’t fairly recreate the magic of Charade on this caper starring Gregory Peck and Sophia Loren, nevertheless it’s a worthy effort.

The Belly of an Architect (Vinegar Syndrome Labs): Brian Dennehy performs an architect who goes to some very Peter Greenaway locations on this provocative arthouse hit that deserves to re-enter the cultural dialog.

Best Defense (KL Studio Classics): Eddie Murphy was edited into this flatlining Dudley Moore comedy after the actual fact by determined Paramount executives, and even Murphy acknowledges it’s his worst movie.

Black Sheep (KL Studio Classics) / Tommy Boy(Paramount): Two Chris Farley–David Spade faves each making their 4K debuts.

The Black Tulip (KL Studio Classics): Before truly enjoying Zorro, Alain Delon swashed his buckle enjoying a really Zorro-like French hero.

Bobbie Jo and the Outlaw (Kino Cult): Lynda Carter stars as a waitress with desires of nation stardom reverse Marjoe Gortner’s self-styled outlaw on this cult favourite.

Brimstone & Treacle (Vinegar Syndrome): Sting performs a good-looking stranger who upends the lives of a repressed British household on this Teorema-esque drama written by Dennis Potter.

Cry, the Beloved Country (KL Studio Classics): The first adaptation of Alan Paton’s beloved novel about apartheid-era South Africa options considered one of Sidney Poitier’s earliest standout performances.

Delicatessen (Severin): Jeunet and Caro’s perversely hilarious post-apocalyptic comedy, now in 4K.

Diary of a Chambermaid (KL Studio Classics): Jeanne Moreau stars in Luis Buñuel’s perverse, surrealist satire.

Film Noir: The Dark Side of Cinema XXIV (KL Studio Classics): More robust guys and harmful dames in The Crooked Circle, Jennifer, and Union Station.

The General’s Daughter (KL Studio Classics): The John Travolta thriller makes its 4K debut.

The Glass Web (KL Studio Classics): John Forsythe and Edward G. Robinson star on this noir thriller from Jack Arnold (The Incredible Shrinking Man), out there on Blu-ray for the primary time in (purple/cyan) 3D.

Half a Chance (KL Studio Classics): Veterans Jean-Paul Belmondo and Alain Delon had been solid towards up-and-comer Vanessa Paradis in Patrice Leconte’s 1998 action-comedy.

Hardboiled: Three Pulp Thrillers by Alain Corneau (Radiance): This field set of 70s-80s French noir options two starring Yves Montand (Police Python 357, Choice of Arms) and a Jim Thompson adaptation (A Hell of a Woman).

Hi-Jack Highway (KL Studio Classics): French legends Jean Gabin and Jeanne Moreau star on this taut thriller.

Ho! (KL Studio Classics): Jean-Paul Belmondo performs a racecar driver who effortlessly segues into driving getaway automobiles for financial institution robbers, and earlier than lengthy, he’s working the entire gang. Co-stars Joanna Shimkus (Boom!).

In Custody / The Proprietor (Cohen Media Group): Two movies from Ismail Merchant, greatest often known as the producer half of Merchant Ivory, though he was identified to step behind the digicam himself sometimes.

Last of the Red-Hot Lovers (Cinématographe): Alan Arkin, Sally Kellerman, Paula Prentiss, and Renee Taylor star on this mostly-forgotten Neil Simon adaptation, given a brand new lease on life with this intensive launch that contains a new commentary monitor, new interviews, and new video and written essays.

Losing Ground (The Milestone Cinematheque): The first American characteristic movie written and directed by a Black lady, Kathleen Collins’ groundbreaking marital comedy-drama arrives on Blu-ray in a two-disc set with loads of extras, together with a restoration of Collins’ first quick.

My Girl (Sony): The film that traumatized a technology of younger Home Alone followers will get a 4K launch.

The Nice Guys (Warner Archive): Shane Black’s tongue-in-cheek homage to Nineteen Seventies buddy-cop films, that includes charming turns from Ryan Gosling and Russell Crowe, comes out in 4K.

Night Moves (The Criterion Collection): If you’re revisiting the filmography of the late, nice Gene Hackman, this existential thriller from Arthur Penn ought to completely be in your watch listing.

Paddington 2 (WBD): At lengthy final, one of many best movies of the twenty first century will get the 4K launch it so richly deserves.

Thief (The Criterion Collection): Michael Mann’s first foray from TV to the large display screen wasn’t an enormous hit on the time, however audiences and critics have come round on this methodical caper, starring James Caan and Tuesday Weld.

Tommy (Shout Studios): Celebrate the 50thanniversary of The Who and director Ken Russell’s legendary rock-opera freak-out with a brand new 4K version.

Two-Way Stretch (KL Studio Classics): Peter Sellers stars as a grasp thief planning the proper jewel heist – from inside a jail cell – when all the things goes hilariously improper.

The Wages of Fear (The Criterion Collection): Henri-Georges Clouzot’s thriller about males transporting nitro throughout rickety jungle bridges in South America stays some of the heart-stopping films ever made; now it’s in 4K, too.

A Woman of Paris (The Criterion Collection): A uncommon Charlie Chapin film to not star Chaplin himself, Edna Purviance is the titular femme, torn between being beloved and being saved.

NEW TV

Wait Till Your Father Gets Home: The Complete Series (Warner Archive): Here’s one for the “if you wait long enough, someone will finally release it” class – this Hanna-Barbera cartoon was basically the animated model of All within the Family, with an out-of-it dad and his extra open-minded teen kids occupying reverse sides of the technology hole on this prime-time sequence, which ran from 1972 to 1974. A snapshot of its period, to make sure, however now you possibly can personal it on house video.

Also out there:

Joseph Campbell and the Power of Myth with Bill Moyers (Film Movement): Campbell and his work have turn into so tied to George Lucas and Star Warsthrough the years that there’s a complete George Lucas further bonus part on this new launch. (I at all times consider this because the documentary that Rory and Paris rewatched on their spring-break journey as a substitute of partying on Gilmore Girls.)

Mr. Show: The Complete Collection (WBD): David Cross and Bob Odenkirk’s sensible and legendary sketch-comedy sequence nonetheless holds up.

The Penguin: The Complete First Season (WBD): An unrecognizable Colin Farrell reprises his position because the Batman villain, and he’s greater than matched by Cristin Milioti’s vengeful mob heiress.

Sesame Street: Elmo’s World: Elmo Loves to Giggle (Shout Kids/Sesame Workshop): It’s true, he does.

Star Trek: Lower Decks – The Final Season (CBS): The animated comedy in regards to the working-class grunts who preserve the starships aloft makes one ultimate spin across the universe.

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