April 13th Blu-ray, digital and DVD releases
Welcome to ComingSoon.net’s April 13th Blu-ray, Digital HD and DVD Column! We’ve highlighted this week’s releases in detailed descriptions of various titles below! Click on each highlighted title to buy from Amazon!
New films on Blu-ray / DVD
Shadow in the cloud
A WWII pilot traveling with top secret documents on a B-17 Flying Fortress encounters an evil presence on board the flight.
Leap of Faith – William Friedkin on the Exorcist
A cinematic essay on the exorcist that explores the nuances of William Friedkin’s trial and the mysteries of faith and fate that shaped him.
Doors
When numerous mysterious alien “doors” emerge around the world, humanity must come together to understand their purpose.
Oliver Sacks: His own life
A month after receiving a fatal diagnosis in January 2015, Oliver Sacks sat down in his New York City apartment for a series of filmed interviews, in which he talked about his life, work and constant amazement at nature.
Far Western (DVD)
As Japan awoke from the horrors of World War II, the bittersweet sounds of American country music began to drift over the radio waves. Seventy years later, a dedicated group of Japanese musicians pursues a lifelong passion for country music in honky tonks from Tokyo to Nashville.
My Mexican Pretzel (DVD)
MY MEXICAN BRETZEL uses home videos and sound moments to tell the story of Vivian Barrett, a wealthy Swiss woman, and her husband Léon, a WWII pilot who became an entrepreneur and whose hearing was partially lost in an airplane accident. Years of her life are recorded from the 1940s to 1960s from Le Mans to Hawaïi. Vulnerability, loss, and conviction are examined in an indulgent cinematic manner.
My little sister (DVD)
The Berlin-born twins Lisa (Nina Hoss) and Sven (Lars Eidinger) share a lifelong passion for the theater. Sven is a famous actor, while Lisa gave up writing to raise children with her husband in Switzerland. When Sven becomes seriously ill, Lisa begins to dramatically reassess her life.
New editions
The wild life
The Wild Life stars Christopher Penn (Mulholland Falls), Eric Stoltz (Bodies, Rest & Motion), Lea Thompson (SpaceCamp), Jenny Wright (Near Dark) and Ilan Mitchell-Smith (Weird Science) as teenagers on the verge of adulthood Discover that adult gambling can be a confusing game. Older men, single apartments, all night parties and falling in love bring heartache and exhilaration.
Spaceballs (4K)
Mel Brooks wrote this intergalactic parody with Brooks, John Candy (Once Upon a Crime), Rick Moranis (Little Shop of Horrors), Bill Pullman (Lost Highway), Daphne Zuniga (Modern Girls), Dick Van Patten (High Anxiety) , George Wyner (Fletch), Michael Winslow (Police Academy) and Comedy Great Joan Rivers.
The producers
Max Bialystock’s talent, once “King of Broadway”, has dried up. One day when Leo Bloom, his accountant, is reviewing his last flop, Max learns that it is possible to make more money making flops than making hits.
Doctor X.
Fay Wray (King Kong) plays the beautiful daughter of the mysterious scientist who is suspected by the local police of either harboring the murderer or of committing the gruesome crimes himself.
Hercules and the Captive Women
The always intrepid, global play of one man, Herc (Hercules for those who are not his friends), saves a beautiful virgin from the hands of an evil creature.
Sensation seekers / A chapter in their life
Among the most exciting rediscoveries in silent cinema are the films of Lois Weber, who produced and directed a number of popular and provocative films at Universal Studios that often portray the struggles of women for independence in the ever-changing moral landscape of modernism of the 1920s.
Dynasty 3-D
If the son of an emperor is accused of treason against the throne, he gets into a fight for his life against all comers. Directed by Mei-Chun Chang (Revenge of the Shogun Women), these spectacular martial arts stars Bobby Ming, Tao-Liang Tan, Kang Chin, David Wei Tang and Ying Bai were honored for Best Supporting Actor at the 1977 Golden Horse Film Festival .
Death has blue eyes
When the local gigolo Chess (Chris Nomikos) greets his vacation friend Bob Kovalski (Peter Winter) at the Athens airport, the two start a series of scams and erotic dalliances that they eventually come into contact with an elegant, wealthy woman, Geraldine Steinwetz (Jessica Dublin , lead) and their glamorous daughter Christine (Maria Aliferi).
Enter Us (DVD)
Newly arrived in New York City and left by her husband Gabriel, Mariana has to find a way to support her family financially and emotionally in a strange city where she hardly speaks the language.
Ambush (DVD)
With the odds against them, a gamekeeper and his assistant launch a desperate attack against a gang of army deserters to rescue the ranger’s wife and son who have been kidnapped and kept in hiding.
Run for Your Life (DVD)
During a cross-country run, two friends come across an illegal drug ring in the woods. Taken hostage by a notorious drug lord, they threaten to become drug slaves themselves. The two friends who are forced to work the plantation for Cobra must rely on their sanity if they are to defeat the armed guards who are holding them captive.
White Shadow (DVD)
Since 2008, albinos have become human targets in Tanzania. Witch doctors offer huge sums of money for their body parts to be used in potions. From 2008 to 2010, more than 200 witch doctor-inspired murders occurred. As a local saying goes, albinos don’t die, they just go away.
Faceless Man (DVD)
When an innocent man is involved in an assassination attempt, he works with the police to bring the main conspirator to justice … and a few more. A game of cat and mouse ensues in which a notorious criminal known only as a faceless man is among the police in the case.
New to Digital HD
City of lies
The disgraced LAPD detective Russell Poole (Depp) cannot solve his biggest case – the murders of music icons Tupac Shakur and The Notorious BIG Poole enter into an uncomfortable partnership with a “Jack” Jackson (Whitaker) to deal with this case clear up rest.
