(Dir. James Neilson, 1969)
Starring Jacqueline Bisset, Wes Stern, Rickey Kelman, Sharon Acker, Cosette Lee, Gerard Parkes, Wink Roberts
Available on Blu-ray 9/5
Three teenage buddies meet the woman of their wildest fantasies and mistakenly think she belongs to the world’s oldest profession in The First Time. Kenny, Mike and Tommy (Wes Stern, Rick Kelman and Wink Roberts) have only one thing on their minds—and it isn’t baseball! At a Canadian summer resort, they meet the stunningly beautiful Anna (Jacqueline Bisset, Bullitt, The Mephisto Waltz, Le Magnifique) and believe since she has no passport, she must be a prostitute. Under the imagined spell of her “allure,” they help her cross the border into the U.S. where the four check into a motel. But comedic mayhem ensues when the inexperienced high-schoolers are reduced to behaving like scared little boys when they realize they’re not ready to take the plunge into manhood. This charming coming-of-age classic from 1969 was directed by James Neilson (Night Passage) and co-written by Jo Heims (Play Misty for Me).
Bonus Features:
- Theatrical Trailer
- Optional English Subtitles
(Dir. David Beaird, 1988)
Starring George Newbern, Leslie Hope, Kimberly Foster, Anthony Geary, Barry Corbin, Frances Lee McCain, Patrika Darbo
Available on Blu-ray 9/5
A match made in heaven is about to take a hell of a detour! Travis Rogers (George Newbern, Father of the Bride) and Stephi Lawrence (Leslie Hope, Men at Work) are small-town childhood sweethearts who are about to be married. Maybe. Stephi’s rich family is planning a lavish ceremony, and it’s giving Travis a pair of cold feet! While preparations for the wedding proceed, Travis takes off for Dallas to buy the car of his dreams. His riotous adventures behind the wheel of the super-fast sports car and in the bed of a beautiful blonde (Kimberly Foster, One Crazy Summer) take some hair-raising turns—and make the possibility of a wedding more remote the closer it gets. Hysterical supporting performances by Anthony Geary (UHF) and Barry Corbin (Career Opportunities) add to the matrimonial mayhem. Directed by David Beaird (My Chauffeur, Pass the Ammo), It Takes Two is a full-throttle, non-stop comedy that will keep you on the edge of your seat laughing!
Bonus Features:
- Theatrical Trailer
- Optional English Subtitles
(Dir. John Paragon, 1992)
Starring Peter Paul, David Paul, Roddy McDowall, David Carradine, Troy Donahue, Timothy Stack, Steve Kanaly, A.J. Johnson, Bill Mumy
Available on Blu-ray 9/5
Double the action and double the laughs with David and Peter Paul (“The Barbarian Brothers”), the most mismatched pair of identical twins since Danny DeVito and Arnold Schwarzenegger! David is an L.A. detective. Peter is a convicted cat burglar. The brawny brothers become unlikely partners when Peter is granted immunity to help his bro bust an international jewel smuggling ring. Sibling rivalry erupts as David tries to teach his slow-reforming brother that crime doesn’t pay. But when they team up against a sinister ringleader (Roddy McDowall, Fright Night) and an army of corrupt bureaucrats, no one can tear them apart in this fast-paced action-adventure that’s bulging with comedy and a stacked cast that includes A.J. Johnson (House Party), Steve Kanaly (TV’s Dallas), Troy Donahue (Cry-Baby), James Doohan (TV’s Star Trek), Bill Mumy (TV’s Lost in Space) and David Carradine (Bird on a Wire).
Bonus Features:
- Theatrical Trailer
- Optional English Subtitles
The Beast (aka Beast of War)
(Dir. Kevin Reynolds, 1988)
Starring Jason Patric, George Dzundza, Steven Bauer, Stephen Baldwin, Don Harvey, Kabir Bedi, Erick Avari, Chaim Jeraffi
Available on Blu-ray 9/12
The Beast (a.k.a. The Beast of War) is a powerful and emotionally charged portrait of a young soldier caught in a battlefield between his conscience and his country. Afghanistan, 1981, and the Soviet Union is locked in a futile and bloody battle with the mujahideen guerrillas. Separated from their patrol, the crew of a Russian tank engages in a deadly game of cat and mouse with the local insurgents led by Taj (Steven Bauer, Scarface). The tyrannical tank commander Daskal (George Dzundza, Basic Instinct) wreaks havoc on a peaceful Afghani village, pushing the moral boundaries of the tank driver Koverchenko (Jason Patric, Rush) to the limits. Sensing mutiny, the psychotic Daskal abandons the disenchanted tanker to die in the desert at the hand of rebels, only to find he’s sealed his own fate. Directed by Kevin Reynolds (Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves), The Beast explodes with spectacular action sequences, and is a dynamic portrayal of fighting men who are able to find common bonds amid death and destruction.
Bonus Features:
- VHS Trailer
(Dir. James Foley, 1990)
Starring Jason Patric, Rachel Ward, Bruce Dern, Rocky Giordani, Mike Hagerty, Corey Carrier, Jeanie Moore
Available on Blu-ray 9/12
Jason Patric (The Beast) stars in this mesmerizing neo-noir thriller of the erotic tensions that explode into violence when a kidnapping goes wrong. Collie (Patric) is an ex-boxer who seems the perfect pawn to pull off a kidnapping planned by a sexy widow (Rachel Ward, Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid) and a cop-turned-con man (Bruce Dern, The Laughing Policeman). What they don’t know is that Collie is an escapee from a mental institution. When he realizes the woman he loves has been manipulating him, Collie turns the tables—playing a game of deceit and raw desire that can only end in death. Based on the hardboiled book by Jim Thompson (The Getaway, The Grifters) and directed by James Foley (At Close Range, Glengarry Glen Ross), After Dark, My Sweet “remains one of the purest and most uncompromising of modern films noir” (Roger Ebert).
Bonus Features:
- Brand New HD Master – From a 2K Scan of the Interpositive
- Audio Commentary by Director James Foley
- Primal Precipice: Interview with Actor Jason Patric (17:25)
- Call Me Uncle Bud: Interview with Actor Bruce Dern (12:51)
- Theatrical Trailer (Newly Mastered in 2K)
- Optional English Subtitles
(Dir. J. Lee Thompson, 1987)
Starring Charles Bronson, Kay Lenz, John P. Ryan, Perry Lopez, Soon-Tek Oh, Danny Trejo
Available on Blu-ray 9/26
The vigilante is back—with a vengeance! Superstar Charles Bronson (Death Wish 1-3) blows the drug underworld wide open in a blazing quest for justice and revenge in Death Wish 4: The Crackdown. Haunted by his violent past, Paul Kersey (Bronson) struggles to forget the brutal deaths of his loved ones—and his obsessive one-man battle to avenge their murders. But when a dose of toxic “crack” kills the young daughter of his new girlfriend (Kay Lenz, Breezy, House), Kersey again becomes the infamous urban vigilante. Vowing to wipe out the entire cocaine network of L.A., he skillfully lures two vicious, competing drug empires into a bloody turf war. But there’s a sinister force behind the scenes (John P. Ryan, Runaway Train) with his own diabolical plans for Kersey in this powerhouse action-thriller, which marks the seventh team-up between Bronson and legendary director J. Lee Thompson (The White Buffalo, Murphy’s Law).
Bonus Features:
- Audio Commentary by Film Historian Paul Talbot, the Author of the BRONSON'S LOOSE! Books
- Theatrical Trailer
- Optional English Subtitles
Death Wish 5: The Face of Death
(Dir. Allan A. Goldstein, 1994)
Starring Charles Bronson, Lesley-Anne Down, Michael Parks, Saul Rubinek, Kenneth Welsh, Chuck Shamata, Robert Joy, Miguel Sandoval, Lisa Inouye
Available on Blu-ray 9/26
No judge. No jury. No appeals. No deals. Superstar Charles Bronson (Death Wish 1-4) returns for his final appearance as the iconic dealer of death, Paul Kersey, in Death Wish V: The Face of Death. After battling on the streets in cities from coast-to-coast, vigilante Paul Kersey has moved back to New York. But when his beautiful fiancée Olivia (Lesley-Anne Down, The Great Train Robbery) is killed and her daughter is kidnapped by a kingpin of the underworld, Kersey finds himself back in the war. Kersey’s plan to live anonymously is shattered when he learns his fiancée was the victim of a protection racket run by her ex-husband, the psychotic Tommy O’Shea (Michael Parks, Nightmare Beach). One by one Kersey hunts down the criminals. Once again, upholding the law becomes his way of life. And this time, in the ultimate, take-no-prisoners Death Wish, it’s for good.
Bonus Features:
- Audio Commentary by Film Historian Paul Talbot, the Author of the BRONSON'S LOOSE! Books
- Theatrical Trailer
- Optional English Subtitles
The Train 4K UHD
(Dir. John Frankenheimer, 1964)
Starring Burt Lancaster, Jeanne Moreau, Paul Scofield, Michel Simon, Suzanne Flon, Wolfgang Preiss, Albert Rémy, Jacques Marin
Available on 4K UHD 9/26
From John Frankenheimer, the acclaimed director of The Manchurian Candidate, Seven Days in May, Seconds, Grand Prix and Black Sunday, comes this action-packed WWII masterpiece starring screen legend Burt Lancaster (Run Silent Run Deep, Elmer Gantry, The Professionals). Paris, August 1944… with the Allied army closing in on German commander and art fanatic Colonel Franz Von Waldheim (Paul Scofield, A Man for All Seasons), he decides to steal a vast collection of rare French paintings and loads them onto a train bound for Berlin. But when a beloved French patriot is murdered while trying to sabotage Von Waldheim’s scheme, Labiche (Lancaster), a stalwart member of the Resistance, vows to stop the train at any cost. Calling upon his vast arsenal of skills, Labiche unleashes a torrent of devastation and destruction—loosened rails, shattered tracks and head-on collisions—in an impassioned, suspense-filled quest for justice, retribution and revenge. Featuring a top-notch score by Maurice Jarre (Doctor Zhivago) and a wonderful supporting performance by screen icon Jeanne Moreau (Viva Maria!), The Train was the fourth of five collaborations between filmmaker Frankenheimer and star Lancaster.
Bonus Features:
DISC 1 (4KUHD):
- Brand New HDR/Dolby Vision Master – From a 4K Scan of the 35mm Original Camera Negative
- Audio Commentary by Director John Frankenheimer
- Audio Commentary by Filmmaker/Historian Steve Mitchell and Combat Films: American Realism Author Steven Jay Rubin | Isolated Score by Maurice Jarre
- 5.1 Surround and 2.0 Lossless Audio
- Triple-Layered UHD100 Disc
- Optional English Subtitles
DISC 2 (BLU-RAY):
- Brand New HD Master – From a 4K Scan of the 35mm Original Camera Negative
- Audio Commentary by Director John Frankenheimer
- Audio Commentary by Filmmaker/Historian Steve Mitchell and Combat Films: American Realism Author Steven Jay Rubin
- 1964 Making-of The Train: Newly Mastered in 2K (6:37)
- Isolated Score by Maurice Jarre
- TRAILERS FROM HELL with Brian Trenchard-Smith
- TV Spot (1:01)
- Theatrical Teaser: Newly Mastered in 2K (1:12)
- Theatrical Trailer: Newly Mastered in 2K (4:25)
- 5.1 Surround and 2.0 Lossless Audio
- Dual-Layered BD50 Disc
- Optional English Subtitles
Thunderbolt and Lightfoot 4K UHD
(Dir. Michael Cimino, 1974)
Starring Clint Eastwood, Jeff Bridges, George Kennedy, Geoffrey Lewis, Catherine Bach, Gary Busey
Available on 4K UHD 9/26
From Michael Cimino, the legendary director of The Deer Hunter, Heaven’s Gate and Year of the Dragon comes this bold, witty and tough crime-thriller starring screen icons Clint Eastwood (A Fistful of Dollars) and Jeff Bridges (Winter Kills) as a pair of modern-day outlaws. Thunderbolt (Eastwood) is a former thief whose razor-sharp wits and steely nerves made him a master of his profession, but he’s about to re-enter the criminal world with a new partner: Lightfoot (Bridges), a brash young drifter whose energy and exuberance give the veteran a new outlook on life. Their target: the seemingly impenetrable Montana Armored Depository. After forming an uneasy alliance with Thunderbolt’s former partners in crime, Red Leary (George Kennedy, Cool Hand Luke) and Eddie Goody (Geoffrey Lewis, High Plains Drifter), they launch an amazing scheme that will test the limits of their endurance, and the power of their friendship. Fueled by explosive action, fascinating characters and a powerfully moving climax, Thunderbolt and Lightfoot is an adventure of the highest caliber and the directorial debut for Cimino, who also wrote the original screenplay. Wonderfully shot in Scope by Frank Stanley (The Eiger Sanction) and featuring a wonderful supporting cast that includes Catherine Bach (The Midnight Man), Gary Busey (Lethal Weapon), Jack Dodson (The Getaway), Burton Gilliam (Gator), Roy Jenson (Framed), Bill McKinney (Deliverance), Vic Tayback (Bullitt), Dub Taylor (Junior Bonner) and Gregory Walcott (Prime Cut).
Bonus Features:
DISC 1 (4KUHD):
- Brand New HDR/Dolby Vision Master – From a 4K Scan of the 35mm Original Camera Negative
- Audio Commentary by Film Critic Nick Pinkerton
- 5.1 Surround and 2.0 Lossless Audio
- Triple-Layered UHD100 Disc
- Optional English Subtitles
DISC 2 (BLU-RAY):
- Brand New HD Master – From a 4K Scan of the 35mm Original Camera Negative
- Audio Commentary by Film Critic Nick Pinkerton
- For the Love of Characters: Featurette with Director Michael Cimino
- Radio and TV Spots
- Theatrical Trailer
- 5.1 Surround and 2.0 Lossless Audio
- Dual-Layered BD50 Disc
- Optional English Subtitles