This week we’ve got box sets from the highbrow likes of Federico Fellini as well as the low-budget regional horror of William Grefé. There’s Buck Rogers and the latest from Martin Scorsese and MAD MAX in 4K and so much more.

2067

By the year 2067, Earth has been ravaged by climate change and humanity is forced to live on artificial oxygen. A mysterious illness is slowly killing the worlds’ population and the only hope for a cure comes in the form of a message from the future: Send Ethan Whyte. Suddenly Ethan, an underground tunnel worker, is sent to the future where he must face imminent and unknown dangers as well as the possibility of never returning home.

DVD

 

Adventurers of Modern Art

This elaborately produced documentary series made up of six episodes plunges us into Parisian life in the beginning of the twentieth century, a hotbed of artistic creation with the blossoming of Fauvism, Cubism, Dadaism, and Surrealism. Through illustrations, animation and stunning original archival footage, the films trace the highs and lows, scandals and celebrations, tragedies and the triumphs that shaped the phenomenal period of Modern Art from the basement of the Bateaulavoir in 1900 to the last shudders of World War II.

DVD

 

All Roads to Pearla 

Brandon Bell, a high school wrestler, wants to leave everything behind (including his abusive mother) but instead finds himself sinking down a deep rabbit hole.

DVD

 

Ava

Ava is a deadly assassin who works for a black ops organization, traveling the globe specializing in high profile hits. When a job goes dangerously wrong she is forced to fight for her own survival.

DVD

 

Babylon Berlin: Season 3

DVD

 

Better Call Saul: Season Five

DVD and Blu-ray

 

Blinded: Season 1

DVD

 

Buck Rogers In The 25th Century

In 1987, Captain William “Buck” Rogers pilots his space shuttle on a mission but a meteor storm freezes him into an orbit that returns him to Earth 500 years later. In the year 2491, his shuttle is found and captured by the Draconian flagship, under the command of Princess Ardala and her henchman Kane. Reviving him, they return him to Earth after planting a homing beacon aboard his shuttle to track a path through Earth’s defense barrier. Now, Buck Rogers must adjust to the 25th century, and convince the Terrans that the Draconians are planning to conquer Earth. Originally made as a television movie pilot, Universal Studios opted to release the film to theaters several months before the subsequent television series aired.

DVD

 

Buddy Games

DVD

 

Buoyancy

Buoyancy is a harrowing and inspiring drama about the scourge of human trafficking. A 14-yearold Cambodian boy secretly leaves home in search of a better life, but is sold to a Thai broker and enslaved on a fishing trawler. As fellow slaves are tortured and murdered around him, he decides his only hope of freedom is to become as violent as his captors.

DVD

 

Chinese Portrait

DVD

 

Creem: America’s Only Rock N Roll Magazine

Capturing the messy upheaval of the ’70s just as rock was re-inventing itself, Creem:
America’s Only Rock ‘n’ Roll Magazine explores the publication’s humble beginnings in post-riot Detroit, follows its upward trajectory from underground paper to national powerhouse, then bears witness to its imminent demise following the tragic and untimely deaths of its visionary publisher, Barry Kramer, and its most famous alum and genius clown prince, Lester Bangs, a year later. Fifty years after publishing its first issue, “America’s Only Rock ‘n’ Roll Magazine” remains a seditious spirit in music and culture.

DVD

 

Donut King

Everything you thought you knew about the donut begins with Ted Ngoy. The Donut King tells the rags to riches story of a Cambodian refugee arriving in America in 1975 and building a multi-million-dollar empire baking America’s favorite pastry, the donut. His story is one of love, hard knocks, survival, and redemption. Ted sponsored hundreds of visas for incoming refugees and helped them get on their feet teaching them the ways of the donut business. By 1979 he was living the American Dream, but a great rise can come with a great fall.

DVD

 

Essential Fellini

One hundred years after his birth, Federico Fellini still stands apart as a giant of the cinema. The Italian maestro is defined by his dualities: the sacred and the profane, the masculine and the feminine, the provincial and the urbane. He began his career working in the slice-of-life poetry of neorealism, and though he soon spun off on his own freewheeling creative axis, he never lost that grounding, evoking his dreams, memories, and obsessions in increasingly grand productions teeming with carnivalesque imagery and flights of phantasmagoric surrealism while maintaining an earthy, embodied connection to humanity. Bringing together fourteen of the director’s greatest spectacles, all beautifully restored, this centenary box set is a monument to an artist who conjured a cinematic universe all his own: a vision of the world as a three-ring circus in which his innermost infatuations, fears, and fantasies take center stage.

Each title is available individually on Blu-ray

 

Goddess of Fortune

DVD

 

The Gulf: Season 1

In this gripping psychological mystery from New Zealand, a detective investigates a cold case but notices troubling lapses in her memory that point to a darker truth.

DVD

 

Habermann

Habermann is a stimulating film that raises awareness of a post World War II event that must never be forgotten the brutal and horrific expulsion of ethnic Germans from the Sudetenland and other parts of Eastern Europe. A result of the resentment against Germans as Nazi sympathizers that are responsible for the war, millions of Germans that had been peacefully co-existing alongside Czechs were stripped of their land and possessions and forced in mass exodus back to German soil. Most of them were tortured, many were murdered; whether they had anything to do with the Nazis or not. Based on the true story of August Habermann, a wealthy mill owner interested in neither politics nor ideology, the film portrays a brave man in his attempt to hold together his family and community as he is manipulated by malicious forces beyond his comprehension.

DVD

 

He Came From The Swamp: The William Grefé Collection

Killer sharks and human jellyfish and living mummies, oh my! Arrow Video is proud to present the first ever collection of works by William Wild Bill Grefé, the maverick filmmaker who braved the deep, dark depths of the Florida everglades to deliver some of the most outrageous exploitation fare ever to go-go dance its way across drive-in screens.

Bringing together seven of Grefé s most outlandish features, all new to Blu-ray, He Came from the Swamp: The William Grefé Collection packs in a macabre menagerie of demented jellyfish men (Sting of Death), zombified witch doctors (Death Curse of Tartu), homicidal hippies (The Hooked Generation) and seductive matrons (The Naked Zoo) not to mention the ubiquitous go-go dancing college kids to create one of the most wildly entertaining box-sets of all time!

The discs in this set each contain two features on blu-ray and rent individually

Death Curse of Tartu/Sting of Death

Hooked Generation/Psychedelic Priest

Mako: The Jaws of Death/The Naked Zoo

Whiskey Mountain/They Came from the Swam

 

Into The Labyrinth

​When a kidnapping victim turns up alive after fifteen years, a profiler (Dustin Hoffman) and a private investigator try to piece together the mystery.

DVD

 

The Irishman (Criterion Collection)

Martin Scorsese’s cinematic mastery is on full display in this sweeping crime saga, which serves as an elegiac summation of his six-decade career. Left behind by the world, former hit man and union truck driver Frank Sheeran (Robert De Niro) looks back from a nursing home on his life’s journey through the ranks of organized crime: from his involvement with Philadelphia mob boss Russell Bufalino (Joe Pesci) to his association with Teamsters union head Jimmy Hoffa (Al Pacino) to the rift that forced him to choose between the two.

DVD and Blu-ray

 

Iron Mask

The English traveler Jonathan Green receives from Peter the Great an order to map the Russian Far East. Once again he sets out for a long journey full of incredible adventures that will eventually lead him to China. The cartographer will unexpectedly face a lot of breathtaking discoveries, encounter bizarre creatures, meet with Chinese princesses, and confront deadly martial arts masters and even the king of all dragons – the Dragon King. What could be more dangerous than meeting eye to eye with Viy, except doing it again? What would be stronger this time – a staunch skepticism of the scientist or the old black magic that has seized power of Eastern lands?

DVD

 

Killing Floor

DVD

 

King Of The Mountain

Steve (Harry Hamlin) works at a Porsche repair garage by day, and by night reigns as the “King of The Mountain”, the most successful of a group that participate in races along Mulholland Drive on the hills over Los Angeles. In his highly tuned 356 Speedster, Steve races against both newcomers and veterans alike.

DVD

 

Libeled Lady

Blu-ray

 

The Lost Weekend

From Billy Wilder comes this  uncompromising look at the devastating effects of alcoholism, The Lost Weekend was almost never released because of the poor reaction by preview audiences unaccustomed to such stark realism from Hollywood. It has since gone on to be regarded as one of the all-time great dramas in movie history, featuring Ray Milland’s haunting portrayal of a would-be writer’s dissatisfaction with life that leads to a self-destructive three-day binge.

Blu-ray

 

Mad Max 

In the ravaged near-future, a savage motorcycle gang rules the road. Terrorizing innocent civilians while tearing up the streets, the ruthless gang laughs in the face of a police force hell-bent on stopping them. But they underestimate one officer: Max. And when the bikers brutalize Max’s best friend and family, they send him into a mad frenzy that leaves him with only one thing left in the world to live for—revenge!

4K UHD and Blu-ray

 

Monstrum

DVD

 

The Nest

DVD

 

Our Time Machine

DVD

 

Peninsula

In this sequel to TRAIN TO BUSAN, a  zombie virus has in the last 4 years spread to all South Korea. Four Koreans in Hong Kong sail through the blockade to Incheon for $20,000,000 hidden somewhere on a truck.

Blu-ray and DVD

 

The Photograph

After finding an old photograph of her recently deceased mother, Mae (Issa Rae) goes on a journey to help understand her distant mother and herself. Mae meets Michael (LaKeith Stanfield), falls hard, and is forced to deal with the issues of abandonment that have held her back since childhood.

DVD

 

The Pirate

Blu-ray

 

QT8 – Quentin Tarantino: The First 8

DVD

 

Twins

An ambitious genetic experiment takes a wrong turn when two twins—who look nothing alike—are born and then separated. Years later, the unlikely siblings meet: Julius (Arnold Schwarzenegger), a highly educated but sheltered giant with a big heart, and Vincent (Danny DeVito), a diminutive hustler with an insatiable lust for women and money. With girlfriends in tow and a hitman on their trail, the newfound brothers set off on a wild, cross-country misadventure to find their mother—but end up finding out more about themselves.

Blu-ray

 

Walrus and The Whistleblower

DVD

 

Wonder Boys

Pittsburgh college professor Grady Tripp is currently single following his divorce from his third wife. After publishing an acclaimed first novel, he’s sidelined by a severe case of writer’s block. On top of everything else, his affair with one of the (married) chancellors at the university, has resulted in her pregnancy. This often humorous tale of hopes and dreams is based on the bestselling novel by Michael Chabon and features an all-star cast with wondrous chemistry.

Blu-ray

 

Zenobia

Medicine man J. Thorndyke McCrackle (Harry Langdon) has a problem, a BIG problem: his main attraction, an elephant named ‘Zenobia’, is sick. Wasting no time, he enlists the help of local doctor Henry Tibbett (Oliver Hardy) who cures his patient… but all too well as she refuses to leave his side!

DVD