Wolfe Video revisits BIG EDEN (review)

Arye Gross, Eric Schweig, Tim DeKay, and Louise Fletcher star in the celebrated gay love story BIG EDEN getting its fifteenth anniversary release on Blu-ray from Wolfe Video.  When NYC artist Henry Hart learns that his grandfather has had a stroke, he drops everything and heads home to Montana and confronts old baggage and new love.

REVIEW LINK: Wolfe Video (US) Region A Blu-ray (DVDCompare)

BIG EDEN Blu-ray specs:

• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 1.78:1 widescreen
• English Dolby Digital 5.1 and 2.0 stereo
• Optional English SDH subtitles
• Audio Commentary by director Tom Bezucha
• "BIG EDEN: A Look Back" featurette with Tom Bezucha and actors Arye Gross, Eric Schweig, Tim DeKay, and Louise Fletcher
• Theatrical Trailer
• Previews

Arrow Films peers through FOG AND CRIMES: SEASON 3 (review)

In the third and final season of FOG AND CRIMES, Luca Barbareschi's cop finds himself solving high profile murders in Turin while dealing with his troubled relationship with lawyer Angela, a runaway child, and a nest of murders and lies among the elite.

REVIEW LINK: Arrow Films (UK) Region 2 PAL DVD (DVDBeaver)

FOG AND CRIMES: SEASON THREE DVD specs:

• Four feature-length episodes on two dual-layer DVDs
• 4:3 non-anamorphic 1.78:1 letterbox
• Italian Dolby Digital 2.0 stereo
• Optional English subtitles 

Wolfe Video cruises IN THE GRAYSCALE (review)

Driven by a gnawing feeling of something not working in his life, a thirty-something architect moves away from his wife and child.  When he accepts a challenging job to build a landmark in Santiago, Chile, he is paired with a quirky gay historian and finds himself questioning his sexual identity.

REVIEW: Wolfe Video (US) Region 1 NTSC DVD (DVDBeaver)

IN THE GRAYSCALE DVD specs:

• 16:9 anamorphic 1.78:1 widescreen
• Spanish Dolby Digital 5.1 and 2.0 stereo
• Burnt-in English subtitles
• Theatrical Trailer
• Previews

Simply Media revisits MY WIFE NEXT DOOR (review)

In the seventies Britcom co-created by Brian Clemens (THE AVENGERS) MY WIFE NEXT DOOR, George and Suzy have divorced after two years living apart and both have realized they need a change.  When they end up moving in to neighboring country cottages, they engage in a standoff to make the other move, to make each other jealous, and to keep each other out of their lives... but love is always lovelier the second time around.

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

MY WIFE NEXT DOOR DVD specs:

• Thirteen episodes on two dual-layer DVDs
• 4:3 non-anamorphic 1.33:1 fullscreen
• English Dolby Digital 2.0 mono
• Optional English SDH subtitles

Acorn Media and RLJ learn NEW TRICKS: SERIES 12 (review)

The crew of the Unsolved and Open Case squad bid farewell after twelve years in the final ten episodes.  As new evidence is discovered and new tips are sent in, the squad re-opens cases from the past decades to solve a series of murders while dealing with their troubled personal lives and police and government politics.  Larry Lamb, Denis Lawson, Nicholas Lyndhurst, Tamzin Outhwaite, and Dennis Waterman star.

REVIEW LINK: Acorn Media/RLJ Entertainment (US) Region 2 PAL DVD (DVDBeaver)

NEW TRICKS: SERIES 12 DVD specs:

• Ten episodes on three dual-layer discs
• 16:9 anamorphic 1.78:1 widescreen
• English Dolby Digital 2.0 stereo
• Optional English HoH subtitles
• Top Ten Series Moments
• Cast Filmographies
• Picture Gallery

Big World Pictures presents REBELS OF THE NEON GOD (Review)

A young man quits school for the bright lights of Taipei and falls in with a small time thief in this HD restoration of Tsai Ming-Liang's 1992 masterpiece.

REVIEW LINK: Big World Pictures (US) Region 0 NTSC DVD (DVDBeaver)

REBELS OF THE NEON GOD DVD specs:

• 16:9 anamorphic 1.85:1 widescreen
• Mandarin Dolby Digital 2.0 stereo
• Burnt-in English subtitles
• Theatrical Trailer
• Previews

Arrow Video pets EDGAR ALLAN POE'S BLACK CATS (review)

Two giallo-tinged adaptations of Edgar Allan Poe's classic story "The Black Cat" get the HD overhaul on Arrow Video's Blu-ray set.  In Lucio Fulci's "The Black Cat" (1981), a photographer in an English village becomes involved in the investigation of a series of freak deaths she comes to believe are the work of a black cat belonging to a medium conducting experiments with the dead.  David Warbeck, Mimsy Farmer, and Patrick Magee star.  In Sergio Martino's "Your Vice is a Locked Room and Only I Have the Key" (1972), a series of murders in a small Padua village have a drunken author and his mentally fragile wife believing his is responsible.  Luigi Pistilli, Anita Strindberg, and Edwige Fenech star.

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

EDGAR ALLAN POE'S BLACK CATS Blu-ray/DVD combo:

• The Black Cat (1981):
• Blu-ray:
• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 2.35:1 widescreen
• English and Italian LPCM 1.0 mono
• DVD:
• 16:9 anamorphic 2.35:1 widescreen
• English and Italian Dolby Digital 1.0 mono
• Optional English SDH subtitles for the English track and English subtitles for the Italian audio
• Audio Commentary by Fangoria's Chris Alexander
• "Poe Into Fulci" featurette with Stephen Thrower
• "In the Paw-Prints of the Black Cat" visit to the locations
• "Frightened Dagmar" inteview with actress Dagmar Lassander
• "At Home with David Warbeck" 70 minute interview from 1995
• Theatrical Trailer
• Your Vice is a Locked Room and Only I Have the Key (1972):
• 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 SDH subtitles for the English track and English subtitles for the Italian track
• "Through the Keyhole" an interview with Sergio Martino
• "Unveiling the Vice" featurette with Sergio Martino, actress Edwige Fenech, and writer Ernesto Gastaldi
• "Dolls of Flesh and Blood" video essay by Michael Mackenzie on Martino's giallo films
• "The Strange Vice of Ms Fenech" tribute to actress Edwige Fenech
• "Eli Roth on YOUR VICE" featurette on the filmmaker
• Limited Edition with eighty-page booklet
• Reversible Covers