New Titles – February 9

by | Jan 30, 2021 | Archived

TitleFormatRatingGenreStreetsynopsis
Before/During/AfterDVDNRComedy/Drama2/9/21This sharp-witted dramedy studies a middle-aged NYC theatre actress suddenly forced to figure out the kind of person she wants to portray in real life when her marriage comes to an end after she catches her husband cheating.
Billie (2020)DVDNRDocumentary/Music2/9/21Documentary on the famed jazz singer Billie Holiday.
Birds without Feathers (2018)DVDNRComedy/Drama/Fantasy2/9/21A wannabe Instagram star, a comedian with stage fright, a depressed motivational speaker and a literal identity thief desperately look for love, approval and admiration out of one another over the course of a long weekend.
Bondage (2015)DVDNRComedy/Drama2/9/21An amusing, extraordinarily insightful conversation between client and service provider takes place in admittedly a most unlikely location; a location where what one would expect turns out to be quite the opposite than the anticipated. The unlikely location is Tiffany's fantasy dungeon, where anything is possible. The result... A challenge to the nature of existence and the essence of love.
Freaky (2020)BLU/DVDRComedy/Horror/Thriller2/9/21Vince Vaughn, Kathryn Newton, Celeste O'Connor - After swapping bodies with a deranged serial killer, a young girl in high school discovers she has less than 24 hours before the change becomes permanent.
Greenland (2020)BLU/DVDPG-13Action/Drama/Thriller2/9/21Gerard Butler, Morena Baccarin, Scott Glenn, Roger Dale Floyd - A family struggles for survival in the face of a cataclysmic natural disaster.
Hill of Freedom (2014) (South Korea)DVDNRComedy/Drama2/9/21Kwon (Seo Young-hwa) returns to Seoul from a restorative stay in the mountains. She is given a packet of letters left by Mori (Ryo Kase, Like Someone In Love), who has come back from Japan to propose to her. As she walks down a flight of stairs, Kwon drops and scatters the letters, all of which are undated. When she reads them, she has to make sense of the chronology and so must we. Shot in the narrow alleys, petite cafes and beautiful hanok inns of Seouls historic Jong-ro district, a favorite Hong location, Hill of Freedom is a masterful, alternately funny and haunting, tale of love and longing from the great director, Hong Sangsoo.
Jazz on a Summer's Day (1959)DVDNRDocumentary/Music2/9/21Filmed at the 1958 Newport Jazz Festival in Rhode Island and directed by world-renowned photographer Bert Stern, Jazz on a Summers Day features intimate performances by an all-star line-up of musical legends including Louis Armstrong, Thelonious Monk, Gerry Mulligan, Anita ODay, Chuck Berry, Dinah Washington, and closes with a beautiful rendition of The Lords Prayer by Mahalia Jackson at midnight to usher in Sunday morning. Presented in a stunning 4K restoration by IndieCollect.
Jiang Ziya (2019) (China)DVDNRAnimation/Action/Fantasy2/9/21When Jiang Ziya violates the code of the gods, he is banished to the mortal realm. He is saved by a kind young woman Qing Luan but disaster follows when the river god breaks the curse and starts slaughtering the locals.
Man of the East (1972)DVDPGAction/Comedy/"Spaghetti Western"2/9/21Terence Hill, Gregory Walcott, Yanti Somer - In the Wild West, a dead Englishman's greenhorn son joins his father's old gang and becomes a real frontier-man.
Masterpiece: All Creatures Great & Small (2020) (UK)DVDTV-PGComedy/Drama/TV Series2/9/21The numerous adventures of a friendly staff at a country veterinarian practice in 1930s to 1940s Yorkshire. A remake of the 1978-1990 series. Taken from the autobiographical books by James Herriot.
Monster Zone (2020)DVDPGAnimation/Family/Adventure2/9/21Jamie Bell, Jayssolitt, Ruby Rose - An intelligent 15-year-old high school student is unexpectedly transferred to a boarding school where he opens a portal of monsters from another dimension.
Murderous Trance (2018) (Finland, Denmark, Croatia)DVDNRDrama/Mystery/Thriller2/9/21Josh Lucas, Pilou Asbæk, Rade Serbedzija - The most incredible series of hypnosis crimes in history send an investigator and a hypnotist into a world of psychological manipulation.
Proper Binge (2017)DVDRComedy/Drama2/9/21For Burgess "Buzz" Zwink, wasting life is a way of life. At thirty-two years old, and still living with his parents, Buzz's adult life seems to be nothing more than a continuous haze of debauchery. Faced with the reality of his choices as he reluctantly forces himself into sobriety. Buzz must face his past, present, and possible future in order to take his life back from the bottle.
The Right One (2021)DVDRComedyRomance2/9/21In this heartfelt and hilarious rom-com, Sara, a novelist struggling with writers block, needs inspirationand finds it when she serendipitously meets Godfrey, a down-on-his-luck oddball who constantly changes personas and alter egos in order to cope with his past and avoid reality. Just as Godfrey starts opening up to Sara, he discovers that shes been using him as inspiration for her next novel, and he vanishes from her life. Did Sara just lose the man of her dreams, or will she be able to find him and make things right?
Sputnik (2020) (Russia)BLU/DVDNRDrama/Horror/Sci-Fi2/9/21The lone survivor of an enigmatic spaceship incident hasn't returned back home alone-hiding inside his body is a dangerous creature.
The Suspect (1944)DVDNRDrama/Thriller2/9/21Charles Laughton, Ella Raines, Dean Harens - An unhappily married man begins a flirtation with a younger woman. When his wife threatens to ruin her, he decides to take action.
Wander Darkly (2020)DVDRDrama2/9/21Diego Luna, Sienna Miller, Beth Grant - New parents Adrienne and Matteo are forced to reckon with trauma amidst their troubled relationship. They must revisit the memories of their past and unravel haunting truths in order to face their uncertain future.
The Wanting Mare (2020)DVDNRDrama/Fantasy2/9/21In the world of Anmaere, north of the city of Whithren, wild horses run through the moorlands and up the coast. These horses are the citys most valuable export, and as a result are hunted, trapped, sold & shipped across the sea once a year. For those in Whithren, this trade creates exciting possibilities: the chance to escape their constantly sweltering city to head across the sea. Meanwhile, in a small house just north of the city, a young woman dies in childbirth. Her last words are an attempt to tell her daughter of the life she will have and her inheritance of a recurring dream that must be kept secret; for it contains the memories of another age long before us, one where magic and myth were alive in the world.
Ewatching TV with the Red Chinese (2012)DVDNRComedy/Drama2/9/21In New York City in 1980, Dexter Mitchell plays half-willing big brother to his neighbors, a trio of exchange students from the People's Republic of China.
Wings of the Hawk (1953)DVDNRAdventure/Romance/Western2/9/21Van Heflin, Julie Adams, Abbe Lane - During the Mexican revolution of 1910, an American prospector gets involved with the revolutionaries after a corrupt Mexican official confiscates his mine.