Moss: Special Edition 2-Disc Set (Bayview Entertainment)
It’s a packed week for film buffs, as several contemporary Korean films get their due with North American releases and some old Disney animated favorites arrive in hi-definition for the first time. So let’s get cracking. Here are your Blu-ray and DVD releases for the week of 8/21/12:
ASIAN CINEMA
Moss Two-Disc Special Edition (DVD) – a young man travels to the village where his father was born, only to discover a place full of well-kept secrets in this 2010 Korean film based on a popular webcomic
Silenced (DVD) – this acclaimed 2011 Korean drama tells the true story of the tragic abuse that occurred at a school for the hearing impaired
Murderer (DVD) – in this 2009 Hong Kong thriller, Aaron Kwok is a detective chasing down a brutal killer…when all the clues point towards Kwok himself
Breathless (DVD) – this 2008 Korean film tells the story of a violent debt collector with a dark past and the high school girl who tries to soothe his troubled soul
Sunny (DVD) – two middle-aged woman, unhappy with their lives, reminisce about the good old days and decide to get the high school gang back together in this 2011 Korean drama
The Image of Bruce Lee: The Snake, The Tiger, The Crane (DVD) – this Brucesploitation release features two 1978 movies on one disc
FOREIGN CINEMA
A Separation (Blu-ray/DVD) – this 2011 Iranian film holds a 99% on Rotten Tomatoes and won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Picture
Bonsai (DVD) – in this 2012 Spanish-language comedy, a young writer searches for work and inspiration, all while dreaming of the one who got away
Post Mortem (Blu-ray/DVD) – in this 2010 Spanish-language film, a lonely morgue clerk’s obsession with a burlesque dancer is set against the backdrop of the 1973 Chilean military coup
Attack of the Killer Backpacks (DVD) – this 2012 German film offers a deliberate spoof on Eighties slasher movies
Tigra Chaco (DVD) – in this 2009 Spanish-language film, a young truckdriver returns to the town where he spent his idyllic childhoods and ends up rekindling romance with his childhood sweetheart
Bunty Aur Babli (Blu-ray) – this 2005 Bollywood film offers a more light-hearted, musical take on “Bonny & Clyde” – now in hi-def
Ishaqzaade (Blu-ray) – this 2012 Bollywood romantic drama proved to be a surprise hit worldwide and now arrives in hi-def
MAINSTREAM
Kill and Kill Again (DVD) – acclaimed martial artist James Ryan stars in this 1981 action movie. In the film, Ryan is hired to save a a Nobel prize winning chemist from a deranged billionaire and his private army of martial artists
Bernie (Blu-ray/DVD) – this Southern-fried 2012 comedy starring Jack Black is the latest from “Dazed & Confused” director Richard Linklater
The Dictator (Blu-ray/DVD) – Sacha Baron Cohen continues his irreverent brand of comedy with this 2012 feature
Freelancers (Blu-ray/DVD) – 50 Cent, Forest Whitaker, and Robert De Niro headline this 2012 direct-to-video cop thriller from Lionsgate
Two in the Chamber (Blu-ray/DVD) – Dolph Lundgren and Cuba Gooding Jr. team up for Anchor Bay’s direct-to-video action thriller about an assassin playing both sides of a Russian mob war
Virginia (DVD) – Jennifer Connelly and Ed Harris headline this 2010 Southern drama
Elevator (DVD) – in this 2011 thriller, 9 people are stuck on an elevator…and one of them has a ticking time bomb
Trucker’s Woman (DVD) – in this 1975 drive-in favorite, a college student is convinced his truck driver father’s death was no accident…along the way to stopping an evil crime syndicate, he falls in love with a beautiful woman at a truck stop
Joysticks (Remastered Widescreen Edition) (DVD) – the one and only Joe Don Baker stars in this 1983 sex romp apparently set in an arcade
NEW TO BLU-RAY
War Games (Blu-ray) – the 1983 Cold War thriller starring Matthew Broderick as a teenage computer genius who inadvertently starts World War III
Halloween 4 (Blu-ray) – the 1988 sequel that represented the return of killer Michael Meyers and actor Donald Pleasance to the series (Part 3 was quite the detour)
Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Meyers (Blu-ray) – this 1989 Halloween sequel actually went direct-to-video in most countries outside the United States
Stephen King’s Thinner (Blu-ray/DVD) – the 1998 thriller about an overweight man who starts shrinking down to nothing thanks to a gypsy curse
Good Will Hunting: 15th Anniversary Edition (Blu-ray) – Gus Van Sant’s 1997 drama that put Matt Damon and Ben Affleck on the Hollywood map
Weekend (Blu-ray/DVD) – the acclaimed 2011 British indie drama about two men’s one night stand receives a re-release from the Criterion Collection
ANIMATION
Space Adventure Cobra: The Animated Movie (DVD) – this 1982 theatrical anime is a deadly serious space opera
The Rescuers: 35th Anniversary Edition (The Rescuers / The Rescuers Down Under) (Blu-ray) – two of Disney’s animated classics return in hi-definition
Pocahontas Two-Movie Special Edition (Pocahontas / Pocahontas II: Journey To A New World) (Blu-ray) – the 1995 Disney animated film comes to hi-def
The Aristocats (Blu-ray) – the 1970 Disney animated musical comes to Blu-ray
Tiny Toon Adventures: How I Spent My Summer Vacation (DVD) – the 1992 direct-to-video animated feature, co-written by Paul Dini (“Batman: The Animated Series”), finally gets the upgrade to DVD
CLASSICS
Sante Fe Trail (Blu-ray) – Amazon describes this 1940 film as ‘A pre-American Civil War tale of bravery and romance starring Errol Flynn,’ and featuring Ronald Reagan as General George Custer(!)
Private Hell 36 (Blu-ray/DVD) – director Don Siegel (“Dirty Harry”) helms this 1954 film about a cop who falls for a world-weary lounge singer and betrays his partner
Captain Carey U.S.A. (Blu-ray) – in this 1950 noir film, a former OSS Operative returns to Italy after WWII only to discover that his former flame is not a casualty of war after all
HORROR
Black Magic Rites: Remastered Edition (Blu-ray/DVD) – this 1973 Italian horror film is a sadomasochistic shocker set in a gothic castle, now remastered in hi-def
Frankenstein ’80 (DVD) – this 1984 Italian splatter flick updates the Frankenstein mythos to then-modern times
Hell (Blu-ray/DVD) – the sun has scorched the earth barren in this 2011 post-apocalyptic horror film
Little Big Boy: The Death Stalker Murders (DVD) – this 2011 horror film tells the story of a horror director who suffers a psychotic breakdown when his leading lady leaves his current project
Zombie A-Hole (DVD) – the product description bills this 2012 horror film as ‘an exploitation flick with Southern gothic flair’
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