New Releases for February 16!

It’s another glorious New Release Tuesday!

BLU = Also available to rent on Blu-ray disc

3D BLU = Available for rent on lovely 3D Blu-ray, though you must have a 3D TV to experience the full glory

@ = Available for sale in the store (but we can special order anything, see us for details)

First up, the Heroes at the Criterion Collection have another classic Charlie Chaplin film, 1921’s THE KID (@ BLU). The Little Tramp taking care of adorable street urchin Jackie Coogan! What’s not to love?

Then, one of the most entertaining slasher movies in history, the so-bad-it’s-good magnum opus PIECES (@ BLU)! College campus, chainsaw-wielding maniac, creepy groundskeeper…like the tag line says, “It’s exactly what you think it is!”

As for the rest, don’t forget to check out the following: Also from Criterion, Nagisa Oshima’s rare Japanese New Wave experimental docudrama DEATH BY HANGING (@ BLU). Johnny Depp and a whole bunch of other famous actors do Boston accents in BLACK MASS (BLU). Hitchcock’s I CONFESS (@ BLU) makes it to blu-ray. STEVE JOBS (BLU) is three days in the life of Steve Jobs. Arrow has to vintage gems, 80’s ninja film PRAY FOR DEATH (@ BLU), and hard-to-see slasher THE MUTILATOR (@ BLU). A MIGHTY WIND (@ BLU) is THIS IS SPINAL TAP for folk music. Bryan Cranston plays blacklisted screenwriter Dalton TRUMBO (BLU). BEAT STREET (@ BLU) is one of the great 80’s hip-hop cash-in films. The TAVIANI BROTHERS COLLECTION (@ BLU) has three great films from these Italian masters. And THE VINCENT PRICE COLLECTION VOL. 3 (@ BLU) has four more with one of horror’s greatest performers. John Frankenheimer made a samurai movie with Scott Glenn in the 1980’s called THE CHALLENGE (@ BLU). There’s a gorgeous re-release of THE IRON GIANT (@). And don’t forget WHAT THE PEEPER SAW (@ BLU).