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Posted: **Wed Jan 07, 2015 6:25 am**

Ashirg wrote:Updated list, also adding 2 war film to be released on DVD and blu in May - The McKenzie Break (1970) and Roger Corman's The Secret Invasion (1964).

Yeeeaaah! I have really enjoyed The Secret Invasion, and a blu-ray is much appreciated. The finger-snapping sequence seemed really amazing to me--a really versatile cinematic device, able to project menace and cool, swagger and calculation at the same time. And the film is full of less showy but equally clever ideas, and some rather good performances. This one has always seemed to me a little less like a B-grade picture than the typical Corman movie.

Posted: **Thu Jan 08, 2015 3:00 am**

Enter the Ninja (1981) will be released in May on blu only.

Posted: **Mon Jan 12, 2015 11:01 pm**

More Dudikoff fun in May - River of Death (1989), also Revenge of the Ninja (1983) and Kings of the Sun (1963).

Posted: **Mon Jan 12, 2015 11:24 pm**

Note to Kino since you're releasing all this MGM Ninja stuff: I will buy Rage of Honor if you release it on Blu-ray.

Posted: **Tue Jan 20, 2015 7:06 pm**

Coming in June - The Critically Acclaimed Sleeper Hit of 1986 and Its 1991 Sequel - To Be Released Separately and only on Blu-ray!

F/X (1986) - Starring Bryan Brown, Brian Dennehy, Diane Venora, Cliff De Young, Mason Adams, Jerry Orbach & Tom Noonan - Directed by Robert Mandel.

F/X2 (1991) - Starring Bryan Brown, Brian Dennehy, Rachel Ticotin, Joanna Gleason, Philip Bosco & Kevin J. O'Connor - Directed by Richard Franklin.

Posted: **Tue Jan 20, 2015 7:49 pm**

re: The Crimson Cult delay:

KINO LORBER STUDIO CLASSICS recently postponed the release of Vernon Sewell's THE CRIMSON CULT (CURSE OF THE CRIMSON ALTAR). We have a beautiful HD master of the uncensored version of the film, compiled all the bonus content from the recent UK Blu-ray release, and will be adding one or two new extras of our own. Unfortunately, we've been unsuccessful at clearing the rights to Peter Knight's original score. Therefore, if and when we reschedule the release, it will be accompanied by Kendall Schmidt's 1980s-era score.

Did UK release include the original score?

Posted: **Wed Jan 21, 2015 5:53 pm**

COMING IN JUNE - ONLY ON BLU-RAY! - H.G. WELLS' THE ISLAND OF DR. MOREAU (1977) - STARRING BURT LANCASTER, MICHAEL YORK, NIGEL DAVENPORT, BARBARA CARRERA & RICHARD BASEHART - DIRECTED BY DON TAYLOR

Posted: **Wed Jan 21, 2015 6:07 pm**

Ashirg wrote:Did UK release include the original score?

Yes. And the Odeon disc is region-free.

Posted: **Fri Jan 23, 2015 2:58 am**

Oddly Kino and NOT Scream Factory is releasing Needful Things in June. It will have a new commentary. On their Facebook page they said they are looking into licensing the extended cut (which apparently doesn't belong to MGM).

Posted: **Fri Jan 23, 2015 4:57 pm**

cdnchris wrote:Oddly Kino and NOT Scream Factory is releasing Needful Things in June. It will have a new commentary. On their Facebook page they said they are looking into licensing the extended cut (which apparently doesn't belong to MGM).

I've seen the extended version once and can't even remember to what extent it improved the film or not, but I'd certainly consider getting this if they did include it. It's not exactly a great film, but it is an fun excuse to see a terrific, overqualified cast (Harris, Von Sydow, Walsh, Plummer, McKinnon, etc) chew the scenery and beat the crap out of each other. Quite fond of the typically OTT Patrick Doyle score too.

Whatever happened to director Fraser "son of Chuck" Heston?

Posted: **Fri Jan 23, 2015 5:20 pm**

No, not a great film by any means, probably not even passable, but you're right in that it has some good moments, a decent score, and its cast actually makes it worthwhile: von Sydow makes for a fun villain, Plummer is good, and J. T. Walsh probably steals the film from everyone else. Harris may be the only one who doesn't seem to be fully in it, though.

The extended version is only better in that it inserts a lot of the good moments from the book that didn't make it into the original film, including some more characters (the mother obsessed with Elvis actually gets screen time instead of just showing up as a background character in a couple scenes for example), and it changes the context of a few scenes. The big disappointment with it is that the edit was made for television and I remember it cut out some of the gorier elements (and looking online I'm reminded it cut out the language as well, including those humourous notes left for Walsh's character). At 3-4 hours, though, it's definitely too long, but closer to the book (which was a fun read) yet still has the fairly lame ending. If the Blu-ray includes it I would definitely pick it up. If not I'd probably pass, though the commentary with Heston intrigues me.

And that's a good question about Heston. I remember he did a film called Alaska with his dad co-starring, but then nothing after that. (IMDB says he did a documentary called The Search for Michael Rockefeller a few years ago but that's it). Always figured his dad got him his directing gig but obviously he didn't take off with it if that was the case.

Posted: **Tue Jan 27, 2015 6:32 pm**

Mel Brooks' Life Stinks on Blu in July, leaving Dracula: Dead and Loving It as the only feature film of his not out on Blu.

Posted: **Tue Feb 03, 2015 7:03 am**

I always thought the extended cut of Needful Things worked quite a bit better, certainly closer to the book and it allows the dread to creep in and breathe better. Certainly a richer experience and more akin to a miniseries than a feature film. I'd be bowled over to have an R rated version of that cut. Wow. I should go away more often it's like Christmas finding out about all this stuff at once.

Excited for Late For Dinner as well, a charming and underrated gem.

Posted: **Thu Feb 05, 2015 10:27 pm**

Truck Turner, Report to the Commissioner, and Madhouse all coming in July on Blu.

Posted: **Fri Feb 06, 2015 9:59 am**

AfterTheRain wrote:Truck Turner, Report to the Commissioner, and Madhouse all coming in July on Blu.

I just did a quick double check to confirm, and Madhouse is the 1974 Amicus / AIP Vincent Price / Peter Cushing / Robert Quarry campathon, and not any other film with that title. It usually gets included as a mini Price-Cycle along with the Phibes films and Theatre of Blood as a succession of ingenious murders, but actually owes more (at least structurally) to the Hammer mini-Hitchcocks - and is no less fun.

Posted: **Fri Feb 06, 2015 11:04 pm**

Just announced on Blu-Ray for July: the deeply silly but very fun Charles Band-produced VHS favourite Zone Troopers, where Tim Thomerson and his team of GIs are trapped behind enemy lines in WWII and take on the Nazis... with the help of aliens!

Posted: **Mon Feb 09, 2015 10:23 pm**

Rush (1991) this July.

Posted: **Tue Feb 10, 2015 10:59 pm**

Miracle Mile coming in July!

Posted: **Wed Feb 18, 2015 7:56 pm**

Still of the Night (1982) in August

Posted: **Mon Mar 02, 2015 8:19 pm**

John Garfield's last film, He Ran All the Way, is due in August for the first time on Blu-ray and DVD.

Posted: **Mon Mar 02, 2015 8:47 pm**

It was released on DVD in the UK. It's a good one, a very nasty and mean-spirited film noir

Posted: **Tue Mar 03, 2015 11:18 pm**

Cornel Wilde's Storm Fear is also due in August, also for the first time on Blu and DVD here in the states.

Posted: **Fri Mar 06, 2015 1:58 am**

Big House, USA is the latest MOD MGM title to get the Blu-ray treatment this summer

Posted: **Sun Mar 08, 2015 7:58 pm**

I'm glad it's a new transfer because that MOD DVD is terrible.

Posted: **Tue Mar 10, 2015 4:37 pm**

Navajo Joe, with Burt Reynolds in the titular role, on the way in August.

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