It’s New Release Tuesday! This week we’ve got Milla and Tony Jaa vs. monsters, classic Bob Hope, pirate radio, Frank Zappa, and more.

ALL MY LIFE (2020) 

BALTHAZAR: SERIES 2 (2018) (3 DISKS)

As a forensic pathologist in Paris, Raphaël Balthazar (Tomer Sisley) can make the dead speak like no one else. He solves the city’s most disturbing crimes with no-nonsense chief inspector Hélène Bach (Hélène de Fougerolles), who, in Series 2, helps him reopen the one case that still haunts him: his wife’s murder (DVD)

CASTLEVANIA: SEASON 2 (2017) (2 DISKS)

CTHULHU MANSION (1992) 

After a drug deal gone wrong, a group of punks attempt to flee a local amusement park by taking a mysterious old magician named Chandu (Frank Finlay; Lifeforce) and his beautiful daughter hostage. While trying to evade the police, the punks force Chandu to take them to his secluded mansion where they plan to seek refuge for the night and wait for the heat to die down. Unbeknownst to them, Chandu’s obsession with the black arts and the occult has summoned an evil that not even he can control. As the house itself begins to terrorize and kill the trespassers, the survivors desperately attempt to uncover the horrifying secret to the mansion’s magical spells, along with Chandu’s own dark past… (BLU-RAY)

DARK TOWER (1988) 

A recently completed luxury high-rise in the center of Barcelona becomes the scene of an apparent ‘accident,’ which causes the death of a construction worker. However, witness Carolyn Page is adamant that someone – or something – else is responsible. Finding an unlikely ally in Dennis Randall, a grizzled cop now working as a private security consultant, the two decide to launch their own investigation into the mysterious goings on in the building, but it’s not long before another grisly ‘accidental’ death occurs… (BLU-RAY)

DOCTOR WHO: REVOLUTION OF THE DALEKS (2021) 

The Doctor is locked away in a high-security alien prison. Isolated, alone, with no hope of escape. Far away, on Earth, her best friends, Yaz, Ryan and Graham have to pick up their lives without her. But it’s not easy. Old habits die hard. Especially when they discover a disturbing plan forming. A plan which involves a Dalek. (DVD)

FATALE (2020) 

400 BULLETS (2021) 

An edge-of-your-seat, military actioner about what it means to fight for honor instead of profit, 400 Bullets combines gun battles, epic hand-to-hand fight sequences and the banter of hardened soldiers into a lean, two-fisted film that packs a wallop. One cold winter night in Afghanistan is about to get a whole lot worse for Rana Rae (Jean-Paul Ly, Jailbreak), a Gurkha soldier left to guard a British military outpost, when Captain Noah Brandt (Andrew Lee Potts, The Crown) arrives looking for refuge from a group of rogue special ops and a cell of heavily armed Taliban. The two soldiers must fight for their lives as they attempt to call for backup. (DVD)

GO-GO’S, THE (2020) 

The Go-Go’s are the most successful female rock band of all time. This documentary chronicles the meteoric rise of a band born of the LA punk scene that not only captured but created a zeitgeist. (DVD and BLU-RAY)

JOURNEY INTO FEAR (1975) 

MIDSOMMAR (2019) (DIRECTOR’S CUT) 

MONSTER HUNTER (2020) 

Behind our world, there is another: a world of dangerous and powerful monsters that rule their domain with deadly ferocity. When Lt. Artemis (Milla Jovovich) and her loyal soldiers are transported from our world to the new world, the unflappable lieutenant receives the shock of her life. In her desperate battle for survival against enormous enemies with incredible powers and unstoppable, terrifying attacks, Artemis will team up with a mysterious man (Tony Jaa) who has found a way to fight back. (DVD and BLU-RAY)

MY FAVORITE BLONDE (1942) 

Comedy legend Bob Hope (Nothing But the Truth) stars in this wonderful espionage comedy directed by Sidney Lanfield (The Lemon Drop Kid). It’s “all aboard” for intrigue, laughs and romance as Hope and Madeleine Carroll (The General Died at Dawn) contend with German spies during a daffy but dangerous cross-country chase. Bing Crosby makes a memorable cameo appearance in this free-wheeling comedy gem. Beautifully shot in glorious black-and-white by legendary cinematographer William C. Mellor (A Place in the Sun) and co-starring Gale Sondergaard (Road to Rio), My Favorite Blonde was the first of three “My Favorite” movies starring Hope, followed by My Favorite Brunette (1947) and My Favorite Spy (1951). (BLU-RAY)

NOTHING BUT THE TRUTH (1941) 

Screen great Bob Hope (My Favorite Blonde) teams up again with his The Cat and the Canary and The Ghost Breakers co-star Paulette Goddard (Modern Times) in the outrageous comedy Nothing But the Truth. Stockbroker Steve Bennett (Hope) is being pressured to lie to his clients, but his better moral judgment just won’t let him. So, when his boss and his partner bet him that no one can go without a falsehood in a 24-hour period, Steve takes on the challenge. He soon finds himself in the company of his boss’s beautiful niece (Goddard) as well as a conniving showgirl and some other interesting guests. There’s no telling what might come to light before the time is up in this hilarious classic starring one of the most beloved entertainers of all time. Co-starring Edward Arnold (Easy Living), Leif Erickson (Arabian Nights), Willie Best (The Ghost Breakers) and directed by Elliott Nugent (My Favorite Brunette). (BLU-RAY)

PUMP UP THE VOLUME (1990) 

SATAN’S BLOOD (1977) 

SCARE ME (2020) 

Two strangers, Fred and Fanny, are stuck in their Catskills cabin during a power outage. Looking to pass the time, they decide to tell each other scary stories. But the more Fred and Fanny commit to their tales, the more the stories come to life. As the horrors of reality manifest, Fred confronts his ultimate fear that Fanny may be the better storyteller, forcing him to craft the most horrific tale imaginable and put an end to the competition for good. (DVD and BLU-RAY)

SHE’S THE MAN (2006) 

TERROR WITHIN/TERROR WITHIN II (1989) 

The Terror Within: In the aftermath of a chemically induced plague that wipes out most of the world, the only survivors are a small group of scientists trapped in a laboratory 500 feet below the ground in the Mojave Desert. But they are not alone … The Terror Within stars veteran actor George Kennedy (Cool Hand Luke), Andrew Stevens (The Fury) and Terri Treas (The Nest).

The Terror Within II: In a world gone mad, the last human colony struggles to survive underground, beneath a land of nightmarish mutants who seek to destroy them. But when the mutants break inside humanity’s final stronghold, the battle for survival pits the human colonists against their deadly invaders miles below the Earth’s surface. Andrew Stevens returns to the sequel as actor, writer and director. R. Lee Ermey (Full Metal Jacket, Se7en), Burton Gilliam (Blazing Saddles) and Stella Stevens (The Poseidon Adventure) co-star. (BLU-RAY)

TWICE DEAD (1988) 

The Cates family is thrilled to learn they have inherited the old mansion of the deranged, stage actor, Tyler Walker. They arrive to discover that the mansion has turned into a playground for a local street gang. But the gang is not all the Cates children have to worry about as Tyler’s ghost makes it known he is not pleased with their intrusion. (BLU-RAY)

VICTOR AND VALENTINO: SEASON 1 VOL. 1: FOLK ART FOES (2019) 

Victor and Valentino is a supernatural adventure comedy about two half-brothers who spend a summer with their grandma in Monte Macabre, a small, mysterious town where the myths and legends of Mesoamerican folklore come to life. (DVD)

ZAPPA (2020) 

There has yet to be a film about the life and times of the brilliant and genuinely maverick musician Frank Zappa. Director Alex Winter and his team have crafted a documentary from over a thousand hours of mostly unseen material from Zappa’s personal vault. This is an expansive and intimate portrait of an extraordinary artist who was also fully engaged with the turbulent politics of his day. (DVD and BLU-RAY)

Donations added to the New to the Collection section:

ADRENALIN CREW: 100% ILLEGAL (2004) (DVD)
ARGERICH, MARTHA: EVENING TALKS (2003) (DVD)
BODYGUARD (2004) (DVD)
DICKNADO (2017) (DVD)
DICKSHARK (2016) (BLU-RAY)
LAST DAYS: HYPE OR HOPE? (1996) (DVD)
MASKARADE (2007) (DVD)
YOUR NEW DOG AND YOU: A BEGINNER’S GUIDE TO DOG CARE AND TRAINING (2003) (DVD)

And we also added a Blu-ray of SWALLOW (2019) to our Best of 2020 section.