Film Movement investigates VIOLENT COP (review)

Takeshi Kitano's directorial debut VIOLENT COP has the comedian playing a stoic, no-nonsense officer who has no reservations about beating criminals into turning themselves in.  When his investigation of a dope dealer's murder leads back to the force, he becomes involved in a race against time to discover the identity of the supplier before his henchman kills anyone who can help him.

REVIEW LINK: Film Movement (US) Region A Blu-ray (DVDCompare)

VIOLENT COP Blu-ray specs:

• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 1.85:1 widescreen
• Japanese LPCM 2.0 stereo
• Optional English subtitles
• "This Man is Dangerous: The Birth of Takeshi Kitano" featurette
• Original Japanese Trailer
• 2015 Re-Release Trailer 
• Previews
• Collector's Booklet by Asian film curator Tom Vick

Vinegar Syndrome packs a MURDER WEAPON for DEADLY EMBRACE (review)

David De Coteau and Linnea Quigley take on the "erotic thriller" in this pair of 1989 films (not shot back to back but just looking that way due to the prolific output of the period).  In MURDER WOMAN, mob princess Dawn throws a hell of a party for her friend Amy when they get out of the mental hospital and invite all of their exes along with an uninvited killer who starts bumping them off one-by-one.  In DEADLY EMBRACE, pool boy Chris is seduced by lonely housewife Charlotte, and her obsession turns deadly when his actress girlfriend and her businessman husband enter the picture.  Jan Michael Vincent also stars.

REVIEW LINK: Vinegar Syndrome (US) Region ALL Blu-ray/Region 0 NTSC DVD (DVD Drive-in)

MURDER WEAPON/DEADLY EMBRACE Blu-ray/DVD combo specs:

• Blu-ray:
• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 1.78:1 widescreen presentations of both films
• English DTS-HD Master Audio 1.0 mono
• DVD:
• 16:9 anamorphic 1.78:1 widescreen
• English Dolby Digital 1.0 mono
• Optional English SDH subtitles
• Audio Commentaries by director David De Coteau and actress Linnea Quigley
• Director's Introductions on both films
• Video Trailer for MURDER WEAPON
• Outtakes for DEADLY EMBRACE

Breaking Glass Pictures braves THE HOURS TILL DAYLIGHT (review)

Deathly frightened of the dark since he was a child, Marco realizes that he is being haunted by a demonic force that has attached itself to his family line and he must undergo a grueling self-exorcism to free himself of the curse.

REVIEW LINK: Breaking Glass Pictures (US) Region 1 NTSC DVD (DVDBeaver)

THE HOURS TILL DAYLIGHT DVD specs:

• 16:9 anamorphic 1.78:1 widescreen
• English Dolby Digital 2.0 stereo
• English Closed Captioning
• Audio Commentary by director Jon Garcia
• Behind the Scenes
• Photo Gallery
• Trailer
• Previews

Breaking Glass Pictures invades HOUSE OF THE WITCHDOCTOR (review)

MAMA'S FAMILY's Allan Kayser plays a sadistic career criminal who teams up with old buddy Buzz (as in saw) who set their sites on the home invasion of a country house where Leslie and her four friends are vacationing, but things are not what they seem.  Leslie Easterbrook, William Moseley, and Dyanne Thorne also star.

REVIEW LINK: Breaking Glass Pictures (US) Region 1 NTSC DVD (DVDBeaver)

HOUSE OF THE WITCHDOCTOR DVD specs:

• 16:9 anamorphic 1.78:1 widescreen
• English Dolby Digital 5.1
• English Closed Captioning
• Audio Commentary by directo Devon Mikolas
• Trailer
• Previews

Breaking Glass Pictures blesses THE APOSTATE (review)

Student Tamayo decides that all the ills in his life can be solved by leaving the Catholic Church.  As he endures a surreal experience of the church bureaucracy, he also finds himself giving into the multiple temptations of the flesh he is confronted with in his own cockeyed Stations of the Cross.

REVIEW LINK: Breaking Glass Pictures (US) Region 1 NTSC DVD (DVDBeaver)

THE APOSTATE DVD specs:

• 16:9 anamorphic 1.66:1 widescreen
• Spanish Dolby Digital 5.1
• Optional English subtitles
• Photo Gallery
• Trailer
• Feature-length bonus films A USEFUL LIFE (65 minutes) and ACNE (86 minutes) 

Strand Releasing utters THE KIND WORDS (review)

When their mother goes into the hospital for an operation and their estranged father discovers that he has never been able to produce sperm, Dorona and her brothers Netanel and Shai race across France in search of the identity of their real father in this heartwarming French/Israeli comedy.

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

THE KIND WORDS DVD specs:

• 16:9 anamorphic 2.35:1 widescreen
• Hebrew/French Dolby Digital 5.1
• Optional English subtitles
• Theatrical Trailer
• Previews

Eureka Video presents RESISTANCE (review)

This French miniseries chronicles the youth of the French Resistance movement during the Nazi occupation.  Lily and The Kid go from idealistic youths distributing the movement's paper in forbidden territories to helping out with the movement's more daring operations.

REVIEW LINK: Eureka Video (UK) Region 2 PAL DVD (DVDBeaver)

RESISTANCE DVD specs:

• Six episodes on three dual-layer DVDs
• French Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround
• Optional English subtitles