Weekly New Releases – April 23, 2019

The best releases this week are library titles.

Alien
Amazon
  • 40th Anniversary 4K Ultra HD/Blu-Ray/Digital: US, CAN
Arctic
Amazon
  • Digital: US, CAN
Comments Available on physical media April 29, 2019
Bernie Madoff in Their Own Words
Amazon
  • DVD: US, CAN
Boss: The Black Experience in Business
Amazon
  • DVD: US, CAN
Captain America: Civil War
Amazon
  • 4K Ultra HD/Blu-Ray/Digital: US, CAN
  • Digital: US
Captain America: The Winter Soldier
Amazon
  • 4K Ultra HD/Blu-Ray/Digital: US, CAN
  • Digital: US
Dead by Dawn
Amazon
  • DVD: US, CAN
Deepwater Horizon in Their Own Words
Amazon
  • DVD: US, CAN
Destroyer
Amazon
  • Blu-Ray/DVD/Digital: US, CAN
  • DVD: US, CAN
Doreiku
Amazon
  • Complete collection Blu-Ray: US, CAN
Rightstuf
  • Complete collection Blu-Ray: US
Escape Room
Amazon
  • Blu-Ray/DVD/Digital: US, CAN
  • DVD/Digital: US, CAN
A Face in the Crowd (Criterion Collection)
Amazon
  • Blu-Ray: US, CAN
  • DVD: US, CAN
Farinelli
Amazon
  • Blu-Ray: US, CAN
  • DVD: US, CAN
Frontline: Predator on the Reservation
Amazon
  • DVD: US, CAN
Growing Up With I Spit on Your Grave
Amazon
  • DVD: US, CAN
Comments Documentary about the controversial exploitation film.
Hagazussa
Amazon
  • Blu-Ray: US, CAN
  • DVD: US, CAN
High Chaparral
Amazon
  • Season 3 DVD: US, CAN
House of the Seven Gables
Amazon
  • Blu-Ray: US, CAN
I Spit on Your Grave
Amazon
  • DVD: US, CAN
I Spit on Your Grave: Deja Vu
Amazon
  • Blu-Ray: US, CAN
  • DVD: US, CAN
Informer
Amazon
  • Blu-Ray: US, CAN
  • DVD: US, CAN
Land Unknown
Amazon
  • Blu-Ray: US, CAN
Margaret: The Rebel Princess
Amazon
  • DVD: US, CAN
Maria the Virgin Witch
Amazon
  • Complete Series Blu-Ray/Digital: US, CAN
Rightstuf
  • Complete Series Blu-Ray/Digital: US
Mikagura School Suite
Amazon
  • Complete Series Blu-Ray/Digital: US, CAN
Rightstuf
  • Complete Series Blu-Ray/Digital: US
Comments Appears to be a sort of magical girl anime comedy.
Narco Wars in Their Own Words
Amazon
  • DVD: US, CAN
Nature: The Wild Way of the VIkings
Amazon
  • DVD: US, CAN
Noir Archive Volume 1: 1944-1954 9 Movie Collection
Amazon
  • Blu-Ray: US, CAN
Comments Includes Address Unknown, Escape in the Fog, The Guilt of Janet James, The Black Book (aka Reign of Terror), Johnny Allegro, 711 Ocean Drive, The Killer That Stalked New York, Assignment Paris, and The Miami Story
Paradise Alley
Amazon
  • Blu-Ray: US, CAN
Please Teacher! Collection
Amazon
  • Blu-Ray: US, CAN
Rightstuf
  • Blu-Ray: US
Comments Anime series about a high school student, who has just emerged from a coma after two years and then discovers his teacher is an alien, and ends up fake (ish) marrying her to help cover up the fact that he knows her secret.
Sankarea: Undying Love
Amazon
  • Blu-Ray/Digital: US, CAN
Rightstuf
  • Blu-Ray/Digital: US
Comments Anime series about a girl who tries to kill herself but ends up becoming a zombie insted.
Scared Stiff (Arrow)
Amazon
  • Blu-Ray: US, CAN
Scream and Scream Again
Amazon
  • Blu-Ray: US, CAN
  • DVD: US, CAN
Serenity (2019)
Amazon
  • Digital: US
Comments Available on physical media April 29, 2019
Shameless
Amazon
  • Season 9 Blu-Ray: US, CAN
  • Season 9 DVD: US, CAN
Shooting Stars
Amazon
  • Blu-Ray: US, CAN
  • DVD: US, CAN
Sinking of the Rainbow Warrior
Amazon
  • DVD: US, CAN
Story of God with Morgan Freeman
Amazon
  • Season 3 DVD: US, CAN
Strange Door
Amazon
  • Blu-Ray: US, CAN
This is North Preston
Amazon
  • Digital: US
Tito and the Birds
Amazon
  • Blu-Ray/DVD: US, CAN
Under the Silver Lake
Amazon
  • Digital: US
Underground
Amazon
  • Blu-Ray: US, CAN
  • DVD: US, CAN
What Men Want
Amazon
  • Digital: US
Comments Available on physical media May 6, 2019
White Sands
Amazon
  • Blu-Ray: US, CAN
Witch
Amazon
  • 4K Ultra HD/Blu-Ray/Digital: US, CAN

Finally, the picks of the week. Alex says, “If you have a 4K TV and a way to play 4K disks, then I’d recommend picking up Alien. Otherwise, wait until later.” Blaine says, “I agree that the most appealing titles this week are 4K titles, but I’d give the edge to Captain America: Winter Soldier. Also, A Face in the Crowd has been on my ‘must see’ list for years.”

5 replies on “Weekly New Releases – April 23, 2019”

  1. Alien is one of those movies that really doesn’t transition well to hidef, let alone 4K. The SFX, and especially the alien suit, end up looking immersion-breakingly bad.

  2. I rather liked Witch, but a lot of people didn’t. As I wrote in my original review, “a film for an audience that occupies the Venn overlap among horror fans, history buffs, and festival hipsters constitutes some kind of mad originality,” but it also had trouble finding a large audience.

    Has anyone seen Under the Silver Lake? I’ve heard some good things.

    • I was annoyed with the VVitch, and we haven’t stopped giving my daughter crap for telling us to go see it. If it looks interesting to you, I’d recommend staying home and watching Chilling Adventures of Sabrina instead.

        • It’s a movie where a poor girl has a horrible life for 99% of the movie, and just when it turns around and she gets powers and moves off to a secret world of magic and power the story ends. It’s like if Harry Potter spent three or four hours in the cupboard under the stairs, and they rolled credits after he runs through the doorway to Diagon Alley.

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