New Titles – August 3

by | Jul 24, 2021 | Archived

TitleFormatRatingGenreStreetsynopsis
Arise, My Love (1940)DVDNRClassics8/3Claudette Colbert, Ray Milland, Dennis O'Keefe - A dashing pilot and a vivacious reporter have romantic and dramatic adventures in Europe as World War II begins. Won the 1941 Oscar for Best Writing, Original Story; Nominated for another 3 Oscars: Best Cinematography, Best Art Direction, Best Music Score
Final Account (2020) (UK, USA)DVDPG-13Documentary/History8/3An urgent portrait of the last living generation of Hitler's Third Reich in never-before-seen interviews raising vital questions about authority, conformity, national identity, and their own roles in the greatest human crimes in history.
Here Today (2021)DVDPG-13Comedy/Drama8/3Billy Crystal, Tiffany Haddish, Dierdre Friel - When veteran comedy writer Charlie Burnz meets New York street singer Emma Payge, they form an unlikely yet hilarious and touching friendship that kicks the generation gap aside and redefines the meaning of love and trust.
Séance (2021)DVDRHorror/Mystery8/3Suki Waterhouse, Madisen Beaty, Inanna Sarkis - At the prestigious Fairfield Academy, an elite boarding school for girls, six friends jokingly engage in a late night ritual, calling forth the spirit of a dead former student who reportedly haunts their halls. Before morning, one of the girls is dead, leaving the others wondering what they may have awakened.
Take Back (2021)DVDNRAction/Thriller8/3Gillian White, Michael Jai White. Mickey Rourke, James Russo - Zara and Brian are living the perfect small town life when a mysterious stranger from Zara's secret past kidnaps their daughter and now they must race to save her life.
Things Don't Stay Fixed (2021)DVDPG-13Drama8/3William Gregory Lee, Melissa Saint-Amand, Tara Ochs, Brenda Bynum, Desi Evans - When a worldly photojournalist returns to the Deep South to try to stop his daughter's wedding and save her future, he discovers that it is he who has been stuck in the past. The southern gothic drama highlights the pain of family struggles, while also painting a picture of one's internal fight to let go of the past and look toward the future.
Those Who Wish Me Dead (2021)BLU/DVDRAction/Drama/Thriller8/3Angelina Jolie Pitt, Finn Little, Jon Bernthal, Aidan Gillen, Nicholas Hoult - A teenage murder witness finds himself pursued by twin assassins in the Montana wilderness with a survival expert tasked with protecting him -- and a forest fire threatening to consume them all.
Till Death (2021)DVDRHorror/Thriller8/3Megan Fox, Callan Mulvey, Eoin Macken, Aml Ameen, Jack Roth - A woman is left handcuffed to her dead husband as part of a sick revenge plot. Unable to unshackle, she has to survive as two killers arrive to finish her off.
Under the Stadium Lights (2021)DVDPG-13Action/Drama/Sport8/3Milo Gibson, Laurence Fishburne - The inspirational true story of a small town high school football team who beat all the odds to win their state championship. After a crushing defeat ended their prior season, everyone counted the Abilene Eagles out of title contention. Facing doubts and personal challenges both on and off the field, it will take the guidance of their team chaplain (Gibson) and a surrogate father figure (Fishburne) for them to realize what they can achieve when they stand united as a team. In this uplifting underdog story, the Abilene Eagles will once again soar in an incredible comeback that will be forever remembered in sports history.
The Unthinkable (2018) (Sweden)DVDNRAction/Romance/Sci-Fi8/3Christoffer Nordenrot, Lisa Henni, Jesper Barkselius, Pia Halvorsen - It's midsummer and Sweden wakes up to a state of emergency. TV, internet, and telephone networks are down, and before anyone realizes whats behind the collapse, a series of unexplained attacks take place around the country. Alex, a successful pianist whose controlled existence is upturned when his mother dies in a suspected terror attack, returns to his childhood village to arrange the funeral. There, he must reconcile with both his father and his old flame, Anna, who he has desperately been trying to forget. As old feelings come back to the surface, more mysterious attacks plunge Sweden into chaos and confusion. THE UNTHINKABLE is a disaster-thriller about time running out, and protecting what matters most. 5 wins and 6 nominations at 5 international film festivals.
The Valdez Horses - aka "Chino" (1973) (Italy, Spain, France)DVDPGWestern8/3Charles Bronson, Jill Ireland, Vincent Van Patten - From John Sturges, the magnificent director of Bad Day at Black Rock, Backlash, The Magnificent Seven, The Great Escape and Joe Kidd, comes this hard-hitting western starring action icon Charles Bronson (Mr. Majestyk, The White Buffalo) as Chino Valdez, a leather-tough horse breeder who lives by his own rules. Avoided by everyone for having Native American blood, Chino lives in seclusion until he takes a young runaway (Vincent Van Patten, Rock n Roll High School, Hell Night) under his wing and shows him the ropes of ranching. Chino soon strikes up a romance with the beautiful Catherine (Jill Ireland, Breakheart Pass, Someone Behind the Door), but the smoldering passion ignites a fire of hatred when her brother (Marcel Bozzuffi, The French Connection, The Passage), a ruthless cattle baron, unleashes violence upon the half-breed. Its all-out warclassic Bronson at his toughest! A lush score by Guido and Maurizio De Angelis (Man of the East, Street Law) highlights this rousing Italian-Spanish-French co-production from Dino De Laurentiis (Navajo Joe, The Valachi Papers).
Willow (2019) (Republic of Macedonia, Hungary, Belgium)DVDNRDrama/Foreign8/3Sara Klimoska, Natalija Teodosieva, Kamka Tocinovski - Three women - one medieval, two contemporary - struggle to become mothers. They have not set out to change the world or society, but their struggles with tradition, loyalty, adoption and control over their bodies make them unlikely heroines.