“Nick, we’re going home and I’m not tucking you into bed, I’m tying you in.”
William Powell and Myrna Loy in SONG OF THE THIN MAN (1947) will be available on Blu-ray January 18th from Warner Archive
At a charity gambling benefit aboard the S.S. Fortune, the tables are hot, the jazz is hotter and before you know it, a bandleader’s body is growing cold. They’re playing your song, Nick and Nora Charles! William Powell and Myrna Loy return for the sixth and final time as the married sleuths, rousting suspects out of bed for 4 a.m. interrogations while trying to fathom the bebop argot of ‘40s jazz jive. Speaking of their renowned screen chemistry, Loy once said, “It wasn’t a conscious thing. If you heard us talking in a room, you’d hear the same thing. He’d tease me, and there was a sort of blending which seemed to please people.” Decades later, people are still pleased. The melody of Song of the Thin Man and the entire beloved series lingers on.
Special Features:
M-G-M Passing Parade short “A Really Important Person”
“Please boss, don’t put that thing over my face, don’t put me in the dark. I’s afraid of the dark.”
The Green Mile, which received four Oscar nominations, including Best Picture, Best Supporting Actor for Michael Clarke Duncan, Best Sound and Best Screenplay Based on Material Previously Produced or Published, will be released on Ultra HD Blu-ray Combo Pack and Digital on 2/22/22, it was announced today by Warner Bros. Home Entertainment.
Released in 1999, the critically-acclaimed The Green Mile was directed by Frank Darabont (The Shawshank Redemption) and is based on Stephen King’s 1996 novel of the same name.
The film stars Academy Award winner Tom Hanks (Philadelphia, Forrest Gump), Academy Award® nominee Michael Clarke Duncan (Armageddon), David Morse, Bonnie Hunt, James Cromwell, Michael Jeter, Graeme Greene, Doug Hutchison, Sam Rockwell, Barry Pepper, Jeffrey DeMunn, Patricia Clarkson, and Harry Dean Stanton.
The film was written and directed by Darabont, based on “The Green Mile” by Stephen King, and produced by Darabont and David Valdes. Mr. Darabont is one of only six filmmakers in history with the unique distinction of having his first two feature films receive nominations for the Best Picture Academy Award: 1994’s The Shawshank Redemption and 1999’s The Green Mile.
Ultra HD* showcases 4K resolution with High Dynamic Range (HDR) and a wider color spectrum, offering consumers brighter, deeper, more lifelike colors for a home entertainment viewing experience like never before.
The Green Mile will be available on Ultra HD Blu-ray Combo Pack for $24.99 ERP and includes an Ultra HD Blu-ray disc with the feature film in 4K with HDR and a Blu-ray disc with the feature film and special features. Fans can also own The Green Mile in 4K Ultra HD via purchase from select digital retailers beginning on 2/22/22.
About the Film: Nominated for four Academy Awards, including Best Picture, this emotional film about miracles and the power of redemption stars Tom Hanks as prison guard Paul Edgecomb. When John Coffey (Oscar nominee Michael Clarke Duncan), a giant of a man, is brought to death row, Edgecomb and his fellow guards discover something very unusual about him. Convicted for the sadistic murder of two young girls, but behaving almost like a child himself, Coffey seems to have a supernatural gift of healing living things. Expectations are turned upside down and the guards’ sense of humanity is awakened in this adaptation of Stephen Kings compelling novel.
Ultra HD Blu-ray and Blu-ray Elements The Green Mile Ultra HD Blu-ray contains the following previously released special features:
Commentary by Frank Darabont
Also on Blu-ray: Additional Scenes
Walking the Mile: The Making of The Green Mile Documentary
Miracle and Mystery: Creating The Green Mile Featurette Gallery
WITNESS THE BEGINNING OF EVIL! RESIDENT EVIL: WELCOME TO RACCOON WILL BEAVAILABLE ON DIGITAL JANUARY 18, THENON 4K ULTRA HD, BLU-RAY and DVD FEBRUARY 8th. THREE ALL-NEW FEATURETTES TAKE FANS EVEN DEEPER INTO THE WORLD OF RACCOON CITY – LIMITED EDITION 4K STEELBOOK INCLUDES FIVE COLLECTIBLE POSTER CARDS FEATURING FAN ART FROM AROUND THE WORLD
Raccoon City, which was once a booming home of pharmaceutical giant Umbrella Corporation, is now a dying Midwestern town. The company’s exodus left the city a wasteland…with great evil brewing below the surface. When that evil is unleashed, a group of survivors must work together to uncover the truth behind Umbrella and make it through the night.
4K Ultra HD™ and Blu-ray™ include over 20 minutes of all-new featurettes, exploring the characters, creatures and creepy locations of Raccoon City as well as the process of adapting the first two games of the massively popular video game franchise for the big screen. A limited edition 4K steelbook, available at major retailers while supplies last, includes five collectible poster cards featuring incredible original artwork from winners of a worldwide fan art contest.
BONUS MATERIALS4K ULTRA HD, BLU-RAY and DIGITALReplicating the DNACops, Corpses and ChaosZombies, Lickers and the Horrors of Resident Evil
Written and Directed By: Johannes Roberts Produced By: Robert Kulzer, James Harris, Hartley Gorenstein Executive Producers: Martin Moszkowicz, Victor Hadida, Jeremy Bolt, Paul W.S. Anderson Cast: Kaya Scodelario, Hannah John-Kamen, Robbie Amell, Tom Hopper, Avan Jogia with Donal Logue and Neal McDonough
CYRANO, the greatest love story ever told is in select cities January 28th and everywhere February 11th.Experience the vivid world of director Joe Wright’s CYRANO with Peter Dinklage, Haley Bennett and Kelvin Harrison Jr. in this new featurette:
Award-winning director Joe Wright envelops moviegoers in a symphony of emotions with music, romance, and beauty in Cyrano, re-imagining the timeless tale of a heartbreaking love triangle. A man ahead of his time, Cyrano de Bergerac (played by Peter Dinklage) dazzles whether with ferocious wordplay at a verbal joust or with brilliant swordplay in a duel. But, convinced that his appearance renders him unworthy of the love of a devoted friend, the luminous Roxanne (Haley Bennett), Cyrano has yet to declare his feelings for her — and Roxanne has fallen in love, at first sight, with Christian (Kelvin Harrison Jr.).
Cast: Peter Dinklage, Haley Bennett, Kelvin Harrison Jr., Ben Mendelsohn
Directed by: Joe Wright Screenplay by: Erica Schmidt
Based on: The stage musical adapted and directed by Erica Schmidt, from “Cyrano de Bergerac” by Edmond Rostand, with music by Aaron & Bryce Dessner and lyrics by Matt Berninger & Carin
The acclaimed German shocker SLEEP (2020) will be available on Blu-ray January 25th from Arrow Video
Nightmare and trauma. Fear and repression. Guilt and atonement. Weaving together the emotional violence of horror with the cryptic motifs of German folk and fairy tales, Arrow Video is proud to present Sleep, the debut feature from a major new talent in world cinema.
Tormented by recurring nightmares of a place she has never been, Marlene (Sandra Hüller, Requiem) cannot help but investigate when she discovers the place is real. Once there, she suffers a breakdown and is admitted to a psychiatric ward. Determined to discover what happened to her, Mona (Gro Swantje Kohlhof), her daughter, follows and finds herself in Stainbach, an idyllic village with a dark history. What is it that so tormented her mother, and the people of Stainbach? What is the source of the nightmares she suffers? And who is the mysterious Trude that lives in the forest?
Richly conceived and confidently told, director Michael Venus draws influence from Mario Bava, David Lynch, Franz Kafka and the Brothers Grimm, but his voice is uniquely his own. As invested in substance and story as he is in style, Venus claws his way down to the roots of what haunts a people, a community, a nation and comes up screaming. “Will definitely keep you up at night” – Joey Keough, Wicked Horror
LIMITED EDITION CONTENTS
High Definition Blu-ray (1080p) presentation
Original DTS-MA 5.1 audio
Optional English subtitles
Audio commentary by film critic and historian Kim Newman & author Sean Hogan
A Strange Dark Magic, a visual essay by film scholar Alexandra Heller-Nicholas
Sleepwalking through National Trauma, a visual essay by film critic Anton Bitel
Dream & Folktale in Sleep, an interview with anthropologist, dream researcher, and filmmaker Louise S. Milne
This is No Dream, a short introduction by director Michael Venus and star Gro Swantje Kohlhof
Talking in their Sleep, director Michael Venus and star Gro Swantje Kohlhof in conversation
A Dream We Dream Together, a compilation of film festival introductions created during lockdown by director Michael Venus and the cast of Sleep
Making Dreams Come True, a glimpse behind the scenes of Sleep
Deleted Scenes
Marlene’s Sketches, explore the many obsessive dream journal sketches that are only glimpsed in the film, created by artist Christoph Vieweg, presented here in full
Trailer
Image gallery
Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Oink Creative
Illustrated collector’s booklet featuring new writing by Alison Peirse, an interview with director Michael Venus, and Brothers Grimm fairy tale “Frau Trude”
Double-sided fold-out poster featuring newly commissioned artwork by Oink Creative
The movie is in theaters and On Demand February 18.
Ruth Paxton’s women-led horror sees a mother tested when her daughter insists that her body is no longer her own, but in service to a higher power. Stars Sienna Guillory, Jessica Alexander and Ruby Stokes.
The movie had it’s premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival.
In Ruth Paxton’s spellbinding debut feature, widowed mother Holly (Sienna Guillory) grapples with eldest daughter Betsey’s (Jessica Alexander) disturbing conviction that her body has become a vessel for an unknown higher power, one that has ominously robbed her of any appetite, and which Betsey believes heralds a cataclysmic upheaval.
At first, her condition is suspected to be an act of adolescent rebellion or a psychological break. But despite her refusal to eat, Betsey loses no weight and gains a growing faith in her newfound and enigmatic sense of purpose. As her daughter’s personality is further subsumed by this affliction, Holly finds herself confronting the boundaries of her own beliefs and the repressed traumas of her past.
Towing the line between discomforting body horror and simmering psychodrama, Paxton skillfully escalates a common domestic dynamic (“You’re not leaving the table until you finish your plate!”) towards the upsetting but profound parental fears of being unable to understand one’s own child, what they want or need, and how to protect them from the external forces of an unforgiving world. Guillory and Alexander are both exceptional in dramatizing these conflicts, as Justin Bull’s intimate screenplay asks them to ricochet between immense emotional extremes.
Combined with stylish photography pervaded by grotesque culinary close-ups and subtle forays into nightmarish surrealism, A Banquet is a disquieting feast from a promising new filmmaker, with images and ideas that leave a potent and lingering aftertaste.
From IndieWire’s TIFF review: “While [‘A Banquet’] is not precisely a horror film, Paxton cleverly uses its expectations and ideas to build her story. It creeps, it chills, it gets under your skin, and though there may be nary a jump scare to be found, there are many scenes that happily hinge on the possibility that something (someone?) is just out of frame and ready to grab you. (Good luck getting through Isabelle’s many ice skating scenes without expecting something horrible to happen; skates are very sharp, don’t you know.) Mouths are everywhere, and close-ups of people eating, kissing, even getting their teeth cleaned, grate and worry and revolt. No wonder Betsey no longer wants to participate in any part of that, thank you very much.”
IndieWire’s Kate Erbland added, “Both Guillory and Alexander come out swinging and never let up, while Stokes and Lindsay Duncan (who appears in the second half as Holly’s pissed-off mother June) gradually grow into their roles and emerge as the film’s MVPs. There’s not a bad turn in the bunch.”
From Variety’s TIFF Review: “Paxton explores layered storytelling methods to further augment the narrative’s moody magnetism through meaningfully conceived aesthetics and spooky soundscapes. She deftly demonstrates a visual and auditory dexterity in crafting and capturing the insular, intimate world these characters inhabit — from the staging of the oppressive familial conflicts in their domestic confines to the conceptualizing of Betsey’s intense fear of food through heightened, sweetened sound design.” – Courtney Howard
“Captain, it is I, Ensign Pulver, and I just threw your stinkin’ palm tree overboard! Now what’s all this crud about no movie tonight?”
Nothing’s more fun than The Wildey’s Tuesday Night Film Series Henry Fonda, James Cagney, and Jack Lemmon in MISTER ROBERTS(1955) will be on the big screenwhen it plays at The Wildey Theater in Edwardsville, IL (252 N Main St, Edwardsville, IL 62025) at 7:00pm Tuesday January 11th. Tickets are only $3 Tickets available starting at 3pm day of movie at Wildey Theatre ticket office. Cash or check only. (cash, credit cards accepted for concessions) Lobby opens at 6pm.
Mister Roberts is aboard a US cargo ship, working in the Pacific during the Second World War. He’d do anything to leave the quiet of the ship to join in the “action”. Trouble is, the captain of the ship, is a bit of a tyrant, and isn’t willing to sign Roberts’ transfer requests. Also on board is Ensign Pulver, who avoids work as best he can, whilst living off the riches of his buying and selling. Roberts and the crew are in constant battle, even over the smallest of disagreements
The Society of Composers & Lyricists have announced the full list of SCL AWARDS’ nominees, to be presented the 3rd Annual SCL AWARDS for score and songs in visual media on February 1st at the Skirball Cultural Center (Covid permitting). Awards are presented in seven competitive categories: Outstanding Original Score for a Studio Film, Outstanding Original Score for an Independent Film, Outstanding Original Score for a Television Production, Outstanding Original Song for a Dramatic or Documentary Visual Media Production, Outstanding Original Song for a Comedy or Musical Visual Media Production, Outstanding Original Score for Interactive Media, and the David Raksin Award for Emerging Talent.
The evening hosted by Darren Criss will include musical performances from Grammy-nominated singers/songwriters of Bridgerton: The Unofficial Musical Abigail Barlow and Emily Bear, Grammy winner Judith Hill, and more. A musical tribute will accompany the spirit of collaboration award.
Full list of nominees below:
Outstanding Original Score for a Studio Film
Nicholas Britell Don’t Look Up
Alexandre Desplat The French Dispatch
Germaine Franco Encanto
Jonny Greenwood The Power of the Dog
Hans Zimmer Dune
Outstanding Original Score for an Independent Film
Jonny Greenwood Spencer
Daniel Hart The Green Knight
Alberto Iglesias Parallel Mothers
Rachel Portman Julia
Kubilay Uner American Traitor: The Trial of Axis Sally
Outstanding Original Score for a Television Production
Christophe Beck WandaVision
Nicholas Britell Succession
Natalie Holt Loki
Jung Jae-il Squid Game
Cristobal Tapia de Veer The White Lotus
Outstanding Original Song for a Comedy or Musical Visual Media Production
Kris Bowers & Siedah Garrett “Together All The Way” Dear White People
Nicholas Britell & Taura Stinson (w/Ariana Grande & Scott Mescudi) “Just Look Up” Don’t Look Up
Amie Doherty “Fearless” Spirit Untamed
Jamie Hartman, Jennifer Hudson, & Carole King “Here I Am (Singing My Way Home)” Respect
Lin-Manuel Miranda “Home All Summer” In The Heights
Outstanding Original Song for a Dramatic or Documentary Visual Media Production
Jeymes Samuel (w/Shawn Carter & Scott Mescudi) “Guns Go Bang” The Harder They Fall
Billie Eilish & Finneas O’Connell “No Time To Die” No Time To Die
Rufus Wainwright “Secret Sister” Rebel Hearts
Diane Warren “Somehow You Do” Four Good Days
Diane Warren “(Never Gonna) Tame You” The Mustangs: America’s Wild Horses
Outstanding Original Score for Interactive Media
Germaine Franco Kung Fu Panda: Land of Awesomeness
Hildur Guđnadóttir & Sam Slater Battlefield 2042
Austin Wintory Alien Fireteam Elite
David Raksin Award for Emerging Talent
Anne-Kathrin Dern The Claus Family
Stephanie Economou Jupiter’s Legacy
Joy Ngiaw Blush
Spirit of Collaboration Award: Carter Burwell with Joel Coen & Ethan Coen
The Spirit of Collaboration Award presented to Oscar nominated composer Carter Burwell and Oscar-winning filmmakers Joel Coen and Ethan Coen; the three have collaborated on 17 films including Raising Arizona, The Big Lebowski, O Brother, Where Art Thou?, No Country for Old Men, Fargo, and The Tragedy of Macbeth directed and adapted by Joel Coen.
Denzel Washington and Frances McDormand in “The Tragedy of Macbeth,” coming soon to theaters and Apple TV+
Past winners who went on to win Oscars include Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross and Jon Batiste for Soul as well as Hildur Guđnadóttir for Joker. The Society of Composers & Lyricists (SCL) is the primary organization for professional film, television, video game, and musical theater composers and lyricists. With a 76-year history in the art of creating music for visual media, members include the top creative professionals working today. The organization is focused on education and addressing the creative, technological, legal, newsworthy issues affecting the music for visual media community.
Trust, identity, and the danger of unchecked power push a covert operative to the edge in director Mark Williams’ intense action thriller BLACKLIGHT.
Travis Block (Neeson) lives and fights in the shadows. A freelance government “fixer,” Block is a dangerous man whose assignments have included extracting agents out of deep-cover situations. When Block discovers a shadowy program called Operation Unity is striking down ordinary citizens for reasons known only to Block’s boss, FBI chief Robinson (Quinn), he enlists the help of a journalist (Raver-Lampman), but his past and present collide when his daughter and granddaughter are threatened. Now Block needs to rescue the people he loves and expose the truth for a shot at redemption. Nothing and no one is safe when secrets are hidden in BLACKLIGHT.
Only in theaters on February 11, watch the brand new trailer.
As Deadline exclusively reported in September 2021:
Briarcliff Entertainment, with The Solution Entertainment Group and Sina Studios, is set to distribute Blacklight, the new action thriller starring Liam Neeson and directed by Mark Williams. A wide domestic theatrical release has been set for over 2,000 theaters on February 11, 2022. Briarcliff CEO Tom Ortenberg and Solution CEO Myles Nestel made the deal. Neeson has managed to topline back-to-back No. 1 films (Honest Thief and The Marksman) during the pandemic, which connotes a special set of skills to get audiences out of the house and into theaters.
Ortenberg calls Blacklight “a timely action thriller with a ‘ripped from today’s headlines’ feel to it from start to finish. It is an honor to be working with the incomparable Liam Neeson for the sixth time and to be partnering again with friends Myles Nestel and multi-hyphenate filmmaker Mark Williams.”
“The rush of battle is often a potent and lethal addiction, for war is a drug.”
Winner of six Academy Awards (including Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Original Screenplay),The Hurt Locker arrives February 22 on 4K Ultra HD SteelBook from Lionsgate, exclusively at Best Buy.
Directed by Academy Award winner Kathryn Bigelow (2012, Best Picture, Zero Dark Thirty), the critically acclaimed film THE HURT LOCKER features Academy Award nominee Jeremy Renner (2010, Best Supporting Actor, The Town), Anthony Mackie (Captain America: Civil War, Avengers: Endgame, TV’s “Altered Carbon”), Brian Geraghty (The Guardian, Flight, TV’s “Chicago P.D.”), Primetime Emmy Award winner Guy Pearce (2011, Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or Movie, TV’s “Mildred Pierce”), Academy Award nominee Ralph Fiennes (1996, Best Actor, The English Patient), and Golden Globe nominee Evangeline Lily (2007, Best Television Actress – Drama Series, TV’s “Lost”). Featuring all-new artwork by Olivia Barrett, The Hurt Locker will be available on 4K Ultra HD™ SteelBook at Best Buy for the suggested retail price of $27.99.
War is a drug. Nobody knows that better than Staff Sergeant James, head of an elite squad of soldiers tasked with disarming bombs in the heat of combat. To do this nerve-shredding job, it’s not enough to be the best: you have to thrive in a zone where the margin of error is zero, think as diabolically as a bomb-maker, and somehow survive with your body and soul intact. Powerfully realistic, action-packed, unrelenting, and intense, The Hurt Locker has been hailed by critics as “an adrenaline-soaked tour de force” (A.O. Scott, The New York Times) and “one of the great war movies” (Richard Corliss, Time).
4K ULTRA HD SPECIAL FEATURES
Audio Commentary with Director Kathryn Bigelow and Writer Mark Boal
The Hurt Locker: Behind the Scenes
Image Gallery
CAST Jeremy Renner The Avengers, Wind River, TV’s “Hawkeye” Anthony Mackie Captain America: Civil War, Avengers: Endgame, TV’s “Altered Carbon” Brian Geraghty The Guardian, Flight, TV’s “Chicago P.D.” Guy Pearce Memento, Iron Man 3, L.A. Confidential Ralph Fiennes Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows: Part 2, Schindler’s List, The Grand Budapest Hotel Evangeline Lilly Ant-Man, Avengers: Endgame, The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
