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PR Lidia Celebrates America: Life's Milestones on DVD Jan 21

In this program, Lidia joins four families as they celebrate special rites of passages including a French-Cajun sweet-sixteen birthday party and country music debut in Nashville, a Greek Orthodox baptism for triplets, a Brazilian-American culinary student's college graduation, and a Navajo house blessing ceremony.

PBS Distribution

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Posted by: News Editor - January 20, 2014, 8:27 am - PR
Keywords: documentary

PR NYPD Blue: Season Five on DVD Jan 21

Season Five finds Sipowicz (Dennis Franz) and Simone (Jimmy Smits) dealing with the aftermath of the Joey Salvo homicide, setting up a rape sting, following the trail of a stripper killer and investigating a murderous home invasion. Meanwhile Medavoy (Gordon Clapp), Martinez (Nicholas Turturro) and Russell (Kim Delaney) uncover a body-snatching ring, investigate the murder of a rock-and-roll manager and look for a man suspected of robbing taxis.

Shout! Factory

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Posted by: News Editor - December 19, 2013, 7:56 am - PR
Keywords: television

PR Silent Night, Bloody Night (Restored Version) on DVD Dec 10

A young man inherits a mansion once used as an insane asylum ... and in which his grandfather died in a fire. When he puts it up for sale, an axe-wielding madman ... who has been hiding in the residence ... threatens anyone who comes near. Who is this deranged murderer ... And why are the local townspeople acting so strange?

Film Chest

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Posted by: News Editor - December 6, 2013, 8:02 am - PR
Keywords: horror

PR A Year in Burgundy on DVD Dec 3

David Kennard's documentary is a guided tour of the Burgundy region with French wine importer Martine Saunier. The film covers the wine-making process over the course of an entire year, showing how the conditions of the four seasons - spring showers, drought, heat wave, hail and storms, harvest moons and the damp cold of winter - as well as the unique personalities of the wine-makers themselves shape the style and flavor of each vintage.

Kino Lorber

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Posted by: News Editor - November 19, 2013, 8:24 am - PR
Keywords: documentary

PR Frontline: Rape in the Fields on DVD & Digital Download Sep 3

For the women who pick and handle the food we eat every day, sexual assault often comes with the job. FRONTLINE partnered with Univision News - the award-winning news division of the leading media company serving Hispanic America, Univision Communications, Inc. - for "RAPE IN THE FIELDS/VIOLACION DE UN SUENO," to uncover the hidden price that many migrant women working in America's fields and packing plants, especially those who are undocumented, are paying to keep their jobs and provide for their families.

PBS Distribution

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Posted by: News Editor - September 16, 2013, 7:00 am - PR
Keywords: documentary

PR The Substance: Albert Hofmann's LSD on DVD Aug 27

In 1943, at the Sandoz chemical-pharmaceutical laboratories in Basel, Switzerland, chemist Albert Hofmann, in search of a respiratory and circulatory stimulant, first synthesized LSD.

Icarus Films

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Posted by: News Editor - August 19, 2013, 7:35 am - PR
Keywords: documentary

DVD Review RECTIFY

Tons of positive buzz surrounded this TV series' recent premiere, and Anchor Bay has given the show a quick DVD turnaround so those who missed it on the Sundance Channel can watch all six episodes in one sitting.

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Posted by: Chuck Aliaga - August 4, 2013, 12:15 pm - DVD Review
Keywords: isolation, outsider, imprisonment

DVD Review HELL'S HOUSE (BLU-RAY)

This forgettable drama from 1932 is best known for featuring Bette Davis and Pat O'Brien just before they hit it big, and now it's on Blu-Ray from Kino Classics.

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Posted by: Rich Rosell - August 24, 2013, 7:36 am - DVD Review
Keywords: bette davis, pat o'brien

PR Rectify: The Complete First Season on DVD Jun 18

The two-disc set contains all 6 hour-long episodes of the Sundance Channel's critically-acclaimed series that created buzz among critics and broke new ground in style and substance when it premiered in April. The DVD campaign builds on this excitement with an accelerated release that is only weeks after the season finale that aired May 20th.

Anchor Bay Entertainment

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Posted by: News Editor - June 17, 2013, 6:44 am - PR
Keywords: drama

DVD Review BADLANDS (BLU-RAY)

Watching Terrence Malick's early-career classic with a young Sissy Spacek and Martin Sheen never gets old, as there's always some tiny nuance to discover. Now, thanks to The Criterion Collection, the film sports a brand new 4K digital transfer, which is all the excuse I need to explore the film yet again.

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Posted by: Chuck Aliaga - May 5, 2013, 12:21 pm - DVD Review
Keywords: impressionistic, killing, romance

DVD Review ZOMBIE LAKE (BLU-RAY)

No doubt one of the biggest disasters in the already uneven Jean Rollin catalog, this entry is laughably awful.

Nice transfer. Rotten movie.

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Posted by: Rich Rosell - June 16, 2013, 8:41 am - DVD Review
Keywords: jean rollin, horror, sexploitation, zombie

DVD Review SCHOOLGIRL HITCHHIKERS (BLU-RAY)

A film like Jean Rollin's bizarro Schoolgirl Hitchhikers is something of an acquired taste. If at all. But if you dig the sexy weirdness there's plenty to enjoy.

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Posted by: Rich Rosell - April 6, 2013, 7:48 am - DVD Review
Keywords: jean rollin, joëlle coeur

DVD Review SAMSARA (BLU-RAY)

Filmmaker Ron Fricke has a heck of a great track record when it comes to unique films like this, so I imagine this is more of the same enthralling, gorgeous imagery that serves as a stay-at-home trip around the world.

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Posted by: Chuck Aliaga - February 9, 2013, 2:37 pm - DVD Review
Keywords: sensory, wonders, spirituality

DVD Review RASHOMON (BLU-RAY)

It took longer than we wanted, but Kurosawa's influential, twisty masterpiece is finally available on Blu-ray from The Criterion Collection. It's also certainly no surprise that this 62-year-old film has never looked or sounded better.

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Posted by: Chuck Aliaga - December 29, 2012, 6:24 pm - DVD Review
Keywords: thriller, truth, justice

PR Celebrity Trials in the Media on DVD Nov 6

Celebrity trials are big business, and when the news media comes to town to cover sensational cases, lives are changed and ethical barriers are shattered. If a celebrity is involved, an otherwise unnoticed case of drunk driving, insider trading, rape, or even murder gets more national and local coverage than the real news of the day.

Cinema Libre

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Posted by: News Editor - November 10, 2012, 9:36 am - PR
Keywords: documentary

PR Django! Double Features on DVD Dec 11

Classic Spaghetti Western Franchise! A Man Called Django and Django and Sartana Showdown in the West along with Django Kills Silently and Django's Cut Price Corpses - four of the most riveting films in this classic franchise in two DVD collections. With newly re-mastered prints and all-new bonus features

Shout! Factory

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Posted by: News Editor - October 25, 2012, 7:19 am - PR
Keywords: western

DVD Review TWO ORPHAN VAMPIRES (BLU-RAY)

This surreal vampire project from Jean Rollin never quite achieves the existential heft it tries so hard to deliver.

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Posted by: Rich Rosell - November 11, 2012, 7:42 am - DVD Review
Keywords: jean rollin, vampires