Cinedigm and SyFy play TRUTH OR DARE (review)

Eight college kids discover that a "Haunted Rental" is the real thing when they play a game of "Truth or Dare" that begins to play them back with devastating truths and deadly dares in this gruesome SyFy TV movie made a year before the Blumhouse production of the same name.

REVIEW LINK: Cinedigm (US) Region 1 NTSC DVD (DVDCompare)

TRUTH OR DARE DVD specs:

• 16:9 anamorphic 1.78:1 widescreen
• English Dolby Digital 5.1
• English Closed Captioning

Rooster Teeth colors in RWBY: VOLUME 5 (review)

Team RWBY (pronounced "Ruby") are back to prevent an all-out assault on the kingdom of Mistral in the fifth volume of RWBY.

REVIEW LINK: Rooster Teetch/Cinedigm (US) Region A Blu-ray (DVDCompare)

RWBY: VOLUME FIVE Blu-ray specs:

• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 1.78:1 widescreen
• English DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1
• Optional English SDH Subtitles
• Directors' Commentary Track
• Crew Commentary Track
• "5 Years of RWBY" featurette
• 14 CRWBY Behind the Episode featurettes
• Photo Gallery
• Trailers

Cinedigm experiences ALTERED PERCEPTION (review)

Three couples with troubled and violent relationships agree to participate in a study with a drug intended to alter their perceptions but the revelations caused by the drug have differing effects on each participant, pushing one or more to murder.

REVIEW LINK: Cinedigm (US) Region 1 NTSC DVD (DVDBeaver)

ALTERED PERCEPTION DVD specs:

• 16:9 anamorphic 1.78:1 widescreen
• English Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo
• Optional English subtitles
• Previews

Crimson Forest absorbs SHOCK WAVE (Review)

Andy Lau stars in this tense thriller as a bomb disposal expert who must battle an explosives expert who takes over a tunnel with a 1000 kilos of plastic explosives.

REVIEW LINK: Crimson Forest/Cinedigm (US) Region 1 NTSC DVD (DVDCompare)

SHOCK WAVE DVD specs:

• 16:9 anamorphic 2.40:1 widescreen
• Mandarin and Chinese Dolby Digital 5.1
• Optional English subtitles
• Making-of
• Trailer
• Previews 

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Cinedigm presents INOPERABLE (review)

Amy wakes up in a hospital after a car crash with no memory of how she got there only to learn that the hospital has been evacuated for the coming hurricane.  Those that remains have a propensity for violence and unnecesssary surgery, and Amy soon realizes that those who don't escape the hospital before the hurricane comes may not leave at all.  Danielle Harris star.

REVIEW LINK: ITN Distribution/Cinedigm (US) Region 1 NTSC DVD (DVDBeaver)

INOPERABLE DVD specs:

• 16:9 anamorphic 1.85:1 widescreen
• English Dolby Digital 5.1
• Audio Commentary by director Christopher Lawrence Chapman, writer Jeff Chapman, and actors Jeff Denton & Katie Keene
• Trailer

Crimson Forest mounts an EXTRAORDINARY MISSION (Review)

From the director of INFERNAL AFFAIRS comes EXTRAORDINARY MISSION in which a rookie cop goes deep undercover to bust a drug ring only to discover that his own colleagues are part of the criminal operation and he does not know who to trust.

REVIEW LINK: Crimson Forest/Cinedigm (US) Region A Blu-ray (DVDCompare)

EXTRAORDINARY MISSION Blu-ray specs:

• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 2.40:1 widescreen
• Mandarin DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1
• Optional English subtitles
• Making-of
• Theatrical Trailer
• Previews

Rooster Teeth teams up with RWBY: VOLUME 4 (review)

In the aftermath of the attack on the kingdom of Vale and the fall of the Beacon Academy, team RWBY is scattered and Ruby Rose joins with the remains of team JNPR on a journey to the kingdom of Mistral fraught with monsters and a malevolent goddess on the hunt for Ruby to prevent her from achieving her destiny.

REVIEW LINK: Rooster Teeth (US) Region A Blu-ray/Region 1 NTSC DVD (DVDCompare)

RWBY: VOLUME 4 Blu-ray/DVD combo specs:

• Blu-ray:
• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 1.78:1 widescreen
• English Dolby Digital 5.1
• DVD:
• 16:9 anamorphic 1.78:1 widescreen
• English Dolby Digital 5.1
• Optional English SDH subtitles
• Movie Mode (188 minutes) or Episode-by-Episode (210 minutes total) Playback
• Audio Commentary by directors Gary Haddock, Miles Luna, and Kerry Shawcross
• Blu-ray exclusive crew commentary featuring lead animator Joel Mann , visual effects artist Quentin Holtz, compositor Brian Arndt, and sound designer Chris Kokkinos
• "World of Remnant" featurettes (29 minutes)
• CRWBY Photos
• Blu-ray exclusive featurettes "A Grimm Inroduction" and "RWBY Production Diary"
• Collectible Crescent Rose Action Card

ITN swipes right for SLASHER.COM (Review)

With a killer stalking victims through online dating sites, it is just as well that Jack and Kristy decide to take their first date to the woods.  Unfortunately, they rent a cabin from the Myers family who treat them to some backwoods terror.  Jewel Shepard and R.A. Mihailoff star.

REVIEW LINK: ITN Distribution/Cinedigm (US) Region 1 NTSC DVD (DVDCompare)

SLASHER.COM DVD specs:

• 16:9 anamorphic 1.78:1 widescreen
• English Dolby Digital 2.0 stereo
• Trailer

Docurama presents THE SIMON WIESENTHAL COLLECTION (review)

Docurama's mammoth eleven-disc THE SIMON WIESENTHAL combines eleven of the twelve Moriah Films productions from the Simon Wiesenthal Center that feature some of the most exhaustive and comprehensive research into Jewish life before, during, and after the Holocaust including the Academy Award-winning documentaries GENOCIDE and THE LONG WAY HOME.  Featuring narration from Orson Welles, Elizabeth Taylor, Michael Douglas, Ben Kingsley, Sandra Bullock, David Paymer, Kevin Costner, Leonard Nimoy, and Christoph Waltz and music by Elmer Bernstein, Carl Davis, and Lee Holdridge.

REVIEW LINK: Docurama/Cinedigm (US) Region 1 NTSC DVD (DVDCompare)

THE SIMON WIESENTHAL COLLECTION DVD specs:

• Disc 1: Genocide (1982)
• 16:9 anamorphic 2.35:1 widescreen
• English Dolby Digital 2.0 mono
• English Closed Captioning
• Disc 2: Echoes That Remain (1991)
• 4:3 non-anamorphic 1.33:1 fullscreen
• English Dolby Digital 2.0 stereo
• English Closed Captioning
• Disc 3: Liberation (1994)
• 4:3 non-anamorphic 1.33:1 fullscreen
• English Dolby Digital 2.0 stereo
• English Closed Captioning
• Disc 4: The Long Way Home (1997)
• 4:3 non-anamorphic 1.33:1 fullscreen
• English Dolby Digital 2.0 stereo
• English Closed Captioning
• Disc 5: In Search of Peace (2001)
• 4:3 non-anamorphic 1.66:1 widescreen
• English Dolby Digital 2.0 stereo
• English Closed Captioning
• Disc 6: Unlikely Heroes (2003)
• 4:3 non-anamorphic 1.78:1 widescreen
• English Dolby Digital 2.0 stereo
• English Closed Captioning
• Disc 7: Ever Again (2006)
• 16:9 anamorphic 1.78:1 widescreen
• English Dolby Digital 2.0 stereo
• English Closed Captioning
• Disc 8: I Have Never Forgotten You: The Life and Legacy of Simon Wiesenthal (2007)
• 16:9 anamorphic 1.78:1 widescreen
• English Dolby Digital 2.0 stereo
• English Closed Captioning
• Disc 9: Winston Churchill: Walking with Destiny (2010) 
• 16:9 anamorphic 1.78:1 widescreen
• English Dolby Digital 2.0 stereo
• English Closed Captioning
• Disc 10: It Is No Dream: The Life of Theodore Herzl (2012)
• 16:9 anamorphic 1.78:1 widescreen
• English Dolby Digital 2.0 stereo
• English Closed Captioning
• Disc 11: The Prime Ministers: The Pioneers (2013)
• 16:9 anamorphic 1.78:1 widescreen
• English Dolby Digital 2.0 stereo
• English Closed Captioning

Tribeca Film rests BESIDE STILL WATERS (review)

In actor Chris Lowell's warm and comic directorial debut BESIDE STILL WATERS, Daniel has tragically lost both of his parents in a car accident and seeks to recapture more innocent days with his childhood friends during a weekend get-together at his family's lake house before it is foreclosed.  When his first love shows up with a fiance, his friends conspire to help him win her back only for secrets and resentments to rise to the surface as the booze flows and the party games get more aggressive.

REVIEW LINK: Tribeca Film/Cinedigm (US) Region 0 NTSC DVD (DVDCompare)

BESIDE STILL WATERS DVD specs:

• 16:9 anamorphic 1.85:1 widescreen
• English Dolby Digital 5.1 and 2.0 stereo
• English Closed Captioning
• Audio Commentary by director Chris Lowell and producer Mohit Narang
• Behind the Scenes featurette
• Deleted Scenes
• Alternate Ending (with optional commentary)

Cinedigm shows up for THE SHIFT (review)

Danny Glover guest stars in this tense medical drama about the conflict between a veteran nurse whose idea of what's best for the patient includes letting them die and a trainee who wants to save patients at whatever costs.

REVIEW LINK: Cinedigm/Random Media (US) Region 1 NTSC DVD (DVDBeaver)

THE SHIFT DVD specs:

• 16:9 anamorphic 2.35:1 widescreen
• English Dolby Digital 5.1
• English Closed Captioning

Cinedigm reveals WOLFY: THE INCREDIBLE SECRET (review)

Orphaned Wolfy has grown up in the Land of Rabbits with his best friend Tom.  When gypsy witch Cornelia reveals that Wolfy's mother was the Princess of Wolfenberg, Wolfy and Tom head to Wolfenberg to find her.  Unfortunately they arrive on the eve of the La Carne Festival when "longfangs" hunt and eat herbivorous "nofangs" and the current prince is not happy about their presence.  Based on the French "Loulou" children's books by Grégoire Solotareff.

REVIEW LINK: Cinedigm/Random Media (US) Region 1 NTSC DVD (DVDBeaver)

WOLFY: THE INCREDIBLE SECRET DVD specs:

• 16:9 anamorphic 1.85:1 widescreen
• English Dolby Digital 5.1
• English Closed Captioning 

Random Media takes a trip AROUND THE BLOCK (review)

In this inspiring story, Christina Ricci plays an English teacher starting a new life with her fiance in Australia.  She gets a job at a high school in Redfern with a heavy Aboriginal and immigrant population.  She decides on a production of Hamlet for the year 11 play and finds her lead in Liam, an Aboriginal youth with a troubled home life.  As Liam gains confidence during rehearsals, his resolve to not end up like his imprisoned father is tested when his brother wants him to help kill the man responsible for their uncle's death.

REVIEW LINK: Random Media/Cinedigm (US) Region 1 NTSC DVD (DVDBeaver)

AROUND THE BLOCK DVD specs:

• 16:9 anamorphic 2.35:1 widescreen
• English Dolby Digital 5.1
•  Audio Commentary by writer/director Sarah Spillane and production designer Michael Fitzgerald
• Behind the Scenes
• Deleted Scenes
• "Broken Wings" Music Video
• Theatrical Trailer