Simply Media presents THE BROTHERS: SERIES 2 (review)

Series two of THE BROTHERS charts the fortunes of the Hammond brothers as they try to run their late father's transport company (with his mistress on the board) as they deal with shady rivals, ruthless clients, lovers, exes, and the schemes of their domineering mother.

REVIEW LINK: Simply Media (UK) Region 2 PAL DVD (DVDBeaver)

THE BROTHERS: SERIES 2 DVD specs:

• Thirteen episodes on four dual-layered discs
• 4:3 non-anamorphic 1.33:1 fullscreen
• English Dolby Digital 2.0 mono
• Optional English HoH subtitles

Strand Releasing seeks GUIDANCE (Review)

Former Canadian child actor Pat Mills stars in this semi-autobiographical comedy as an ex-child actor and all-around trainwreck who gets fired from his latest non-union voiceover job and fakes a resume to become a high school guidance counselor.

REVIEW LINK: Strand Releasing (US) Region 1 NTSC DVD (DVDBeaver)

GUIDANCE DVD specs:

• 16:9 anamorphic 1.85:1 widescreen
• English Dolby Digital 5.1
• Optional English SDH subtitles
• Interview with star/writer/director Pat Mills
• Theatrical Trailer
• Previews

Film Movement attends THE DINNER (review)

Alessandro Gassman and Giovanna Mezzogiorno star in this Italian adaptation of the best-selling novel by Herman Koch.  The ideological gulf between the convictions of a doctor and his high-powered attorney brother are tested when they suspect that their own children are responsible for a hate crime against a homeless woman.

REVIEW LINK: Film Movement (US) Region 1 NTSC DVD (DVDBeaver)

THE DINNER DVD specs:

• 16:9 anamorphic 2.35:1 widescreen
• Italian Dolby Digital 5.1 and 2.0 stereo
• Optional English subtitles and English Closed Captioning
• Behind the Scenes
• Production Montage
• Theatrical Trailer

Videonomicon resurrects SCIENCE CRAZED (review)

When the Shelley Institute cuts off funding for his unusual growth experiments, Dr. Wilbur Frank injects a woman with his growth serum and she gives birth overnight to a deformed child who soon grows into a hulking full-grown man.  As Frank's creature goes on a murderous rampage throughout the corridors of the institute, his assistants and a hard-boiled detective may be the only help for people too stupid to run away from the monster.

REVIEW LINK: Videonomicon (Canada) Region 0 NTSC DVD (DVDBeaver)

SCIENCE CRAZED DVD specs:

• 4:3 non-anamorphic 1.33:1 fullscreen
• English Dolby Digital 2.0 mono
• Audio Commentary by Canuxploitation.com's Paul Corupe and Rewind This!'s Josh Johnson 
• "I Survived Science Crazed: Terry Jones Speaks" interview with actor Cameron Klein
• "Cameron Klein's Science Crazed Q&A" audio interview with still gallery
• "Cameron's Grim Stitch Factory" interview with Cameron Scholes 
• "Science Crazed Changes Everything" interview with Pontypool author Tony Burgess
• Home Video Trailer
• Trailer for "Ryan's Babe"
• DVD-ROM features include two promotional stills, a sell sheet, and an .mp3 music cue.
• Liner Notes Booklet by Ben Ruffett and Josh Johnson 
• Easter Eggs

LionsGate investigates MR. HOLMES (review)

Ian McKellen reunites with GODS AND MONSTERS director Bill Condon in this intriguing speculation on the great detective's retirement and his eagerness to recall the details of his final case.  Laura Linney also stars.

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

MR. HOLMES DVD specs:

• 16:9 anamorphic 2.40:1 widescreen
• English Dolby Digital 5.1
• Optional English, English SDH, and Spanish subtitles
• English Closed Captioning
• Behind the Scenes Clips
• Theatraical Trailer
• Digital Download Code

Olive Films has A BLACK VEIL FOR LISA (review)

John Mills, Luciana Paluzzi, and Robert Hoffmann star in this sixties Italian/German thriller from Massimo Dallamano.  A Hamburg narcotics detective pursuing an elusive underworld figure is driven to distraction and jealousy by his much younger wife.  When he captures the assassin who has been taking out witnesses on his case, he hires the man to kill his wife but her charms could cause the killer to double cross him.

REVIEW LINK: Olive Films (US) Region A Blu-ray (DVD Drive-in)

A BLACK VEIL FOR LISA Blu-ray specs:

• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 1.78:1 widescreen
• English DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0 mono

Arrow Video USA blesses REQUIESCANT (review)

Lou Castel (ORGASMO), Mark Damon (THE DEVIL'S WEDDING NIGHT), and filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini (SALO) star in this political western from director Carlo Lizzani (HOUSE OF THE YELLOW CARPET).  The only survivor of a massacre of Mexican revolutionaries double-crossed in a government land deal, Requiescant grows up with a traveling Protestant couple.  When the couple's daughter runs away with a dancing troupe, Requiescant goes to find her and his natural born sharpshooting abilities help him when up against the corrupt George Bellow Ferguson and his dissolute hired guns.

REVIEW LINK: Arrow Video USA (US) Region A/B Blu-ray/Region 1,2 NTSC DVD (DVD Drive-in)

REQUIESCANT Blu-ray/DVD combo specs:

• Blu-ray:
• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 1.85:1 widescreen
• English and Italian LPCM 1.0 mono
• DVD:
• 16:9 anamorphic 1.85:1 widescreen
• English and Italian Dolby Digital 1.0 mono
• Optional English subtitles (for Italian audio) and English SDH subtitles (for English audio)
• Interview with actor Lou Castel
• Interview with director Carlo Lizzani
• Theatrical Trailer
• Reversible Cover
• Liner Notes Booklet