Kino Lorber falls in love in PORTO (Review)

In Anton Yelchin's final film, he plays an American expatriate who shares an intense night of lovemaking with a French archaeology student that ends on bad terms.  Years later, they are haunted by their time together and their separately reflections on the events reveal regret and loss.

REVIEW LINK: Kino Lorber (US) Region A Blu-ray (DVDCompare)

PORTO Blu-ray specs:

• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 2.35:1 and 1.37:1 pillarboxed widescreen
• English/Portuguese/French DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 and 2.0 stereo
• Optional English, English SDH, French, and Spanish subtitles
• Audio Commentary by director Gabe Klinger
• "Double Play: James Benning and Richard Linklater" documentary (70 minutes)
• Making-of
• Outtakes
• Portuguese News Report
• Super 8mm Footage with unused Chantal Akerman narration
• Theatrical Trailer
• Booklet by Michael Sicinski

Kino Lorber ventures NOWHERE IN AFRICA (review)

Winner of the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, NOWHERE IN AFRICA is the story of a Jewish family to flee the Nazis to Kenya where their new existence is threatened by wartime persecution of German refugees as enemy aliens and husband and wife growing apart.

REVIEW LINK: Kino Lorber (US) Region A Blu-ray (DVDCompare)

NOWHERE IN AFRICA Blu-ray specs:

• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 2.35:1 widescreen
• German/Swahili/English DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 and 2.0 Stereo
• Optional English subtitles
• Deleted Scenes
• Interviews:
• Caroline Link, Peter Herrmann and Stefanie Zweig
• Sidede Onyulo
• Merab Ninindze
• Juliane Kohler
• Matthias Habich
• Making-of Documentary
• Storyboard Comparison
• U.S. Trailer
• German Trailer

Warner reanimates THE ROBOT CHICKEN WALKING DEAD SPECIAL (review)

The writers of ROBOT CHICKEN and THE WALKIGN DEAD come together with the original cast for an outrageous comic sendup involving zombies, bestiality, and the Negan Dip!  Andrew Lincoln, Lauren Cohan, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Michael Rooker, Seth Green, and more star.

REVIEW LINK: Warner Home Video (US) Region 1 NTSC DVD (DVDCompare)

THE ROBOT CHICKEN WALKING DEAD SPECIAL DVD specs:

• 16:9 anamorphic 1.78:1 widescreen
• English Dolby Digital 5.1
• Optional English SDH subtitles
• Audio Commentary by Robot Chicken producers Matthew Senreich, Tom Sheppard, and Seth Green & The Walking Dead producers Scott M. Gimple and Robert Kirkman
• Audio Commentary by Robot Chicken writers Seth Green, Josh McDermitt, Tom Root, and Tom Sheppard
• "Inside Robot Chicken The Walking Dead: Look Who's Walking"
• Eight Cut Sketches (with introductions by the writers)
• "Sketches to Die For"
• "Bawkward"
• Behind the Scenes

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Acorn Media and BBC present REQUIEM (review)

After her mother inexplicably commits suicide before her eyes, cellist Matilda Gray discovers a connection between her mother and a girl who went missing in Wales twenty-four years before.  Arriving in a small Welsh village, she finds her attempts to stir up the past unwelcome and an unnatural presence awaiting her return to a country manor house holding deep dark secrets.  From the makers of THE MISSING.

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

REQUIEM DVD specs:

• Six episodes on two dual-layer DVDs
• 16:9 anamorphic 1.78:1 widescreen
• English Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo
• Optional English subtitles
• Cast and Crew Interviews
• Picture Gallery

Second Sight is taken BREATHLESS (review)

Richard Gere deconstructs his AMERICAN GIGOLO sex symbol image as the comic book reading, Jerry Lee Lewis-loving car theif in this Americn take on the French New Wave classic BREATHLESS from the director of THE BIG EASY and the writer of TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE 2.

REVIEW LINK: Second Sight (UK) Region B Blu-ray (DVDCompare)

BREATHLESS Blu-ray specs:

• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 1.85:1 widescreen
• English LPCM 2.0 mono
• Optional English HoH subtitles
• "Mark Kermode on BREATHLES" featurette
• "Still BREATHLESS" interview with actress Valerie Kaprisky

Second Run chronicles HEIMAT (review)

Edgar Reitz's epic German television saga chronicles the changes to a German village from 1919-1982 as seen through the eyes of the Simon family torn apart and brought together by war, compassion, greed, love, and lust.

REVIEW: Second Sight (UK) Region B Blu-ray (DVDCompare)

HEIMAT Blu-ray specs:

• 1080i50 MPEG-4 AVC 1.66:1 widescreen
• German LPCM 2.0 mono
• Optional English subtitles
• Eleven episodes on five Blu-ray discs
• Bonus Blu-ray disc featuring:
• "HEIMAT - The Hunsrück Villages: Stories From The Film Locations" Edgar Reitz's 2-hour documentary 'prologue' to HEIMAT
• Interview with Edgar Reitz
• "Maria's Story: Marita Breuer on Heimat" featurette
• "Christian Reitz: Restoring HEIMAT" featurette
• "Showing Not Talking: Jan Harlan on HEIMAT" featurette
• Visual Essay by Daniel Bird
• Limited Edition fifty-page booklet featuring liner notes by Carmen Gray, "The Collaboration with Gernot Roll" by Edgar Reitz and 'Germany as Memory' by Anton Kaes

Vinegar Syndrome in the spotlight of STAR TIME (review)

Schizophrenic Henry Pinkle lives for television.  When his favorite family sitcom is cancelled, he tries to commit suicide but is saved by a mysterious "talent agent" who puts him on a one-way ticket to stardom as "The Baby Mask Killer".

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

STAR TIME Blu-ray/DVD combo specs:

• Blu-ray:
• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 1.85:1 widescreen
• English DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0 stereo
• DVD:
• 16:9 anamorphic 1.78:1 widescreen
• English Dolby Digital 2.0 stereo
• Optional English SDH subtitled
• Audio Commentary by director Alexander Cassini
• "Shooting STAR TIME" interview with cinematographer Fernando Argüelles
• "The Great Performance" short film by Alexander Cassini
• Theatrical Trailer
• Reversible Cover

A limited edition with slipcover is also available directly from Vinegar Syndrome.