February 16, Blu-ray, digital and DVD releases
Welcome to ComingSoon.net’s Blu-ray, Digital HD and DVD column on February 16! We’ve highlighted this week’s releases in detailed descriptions of various titles below! Click any highlighted title to buy from Amazon!
New movies on Blu-ray / DVD
Archenemy
Max Fist claims to be a hero from another dimension who fell through time and space to earth where he has no powers but still fights crime.
Love, weddings and other disasters
Maggie Grace, Diane Keaton and Jeremy Irons direct this warm-hearted romantic comedy that follows a colorful cast of characters searching for love against a backdrop of a wedding.
The swordsman
After Joseon’s greatest swordsman was blinded in a coup against the king, he goes into hiding, far from the fear of his city. But when traffickers kidnap his daughter, he has no choice but to draw his sword again.
Fear of rain
FEAR OF RAIN delves into the terrible inner life of a young woman (Madison Iseman) who desperately wants to believe that the world she sees and feels is real … but instead she is forced to question everything and everyone around her put.
Random acts of violence
A crazy fan uses Todd Walkley’s “Slasherman” as inspiration for his murders, which force Todd to put an end to his comic book once and for all.
Break surface
Two sisters run into danger during a winter dive on a remote part of the coast in Northern Norway. When a rockfall catches one of the sisters on the ocean floor, a battle against time begins in the middle of the wilderness.
God of the Piano (DVD)
Anat never managed to match her father’s high musical standards, and now her family’s hope of producing a musical prodigy rests on her unborn son. If the baby is born deaf, they cannot accept it and take extreme measures to ensure that their child is the composer their father always wanted.
Major (DVD)
Mayor is a real political saga after Musa Hadid, the Christian mayor of Ramallah, during his second term. His immediate goals: to renew the sidewalks, attract more tourism and plan the city’s Christmas celebrations. His ultimate mission: to end the occupation of Palestine. Rich in detailed observations and surprisingly good humor, MAYOR offers a portrait of dignity amid the madness and absurdity of endless occupation as he asks the question: How do you run a city when you have no land?
New editions
Do the Right thing (4K)
Spike Lee wrote, produced, directed, and starred in this critically acclaimed comedy-drama starring Danny Aiello that chronicles the hottest day of the year in a diverse neighborhood of Brooklyn.
Man with a movie camera
This morning through evening view of the Soviet Union provides a montage of urban Russian life, showing the people in the city at work and play. Considered one of the most innovative and influential films of the silent movie era. Score by Michael Nyman.
Doll
This steamy Mediterranean drama stars Oscar winner Karl Malden as a cotton gin owner married to a sultry teenage bride who steadfastly refuses to sleep with her husband until she turns 20.
Orgy of the Living Dead
When the handsome gentleman Serge (Stelvio Rosi) arrives in a quiet 19th-century European village to read the will of his late uncle, he immediately enters a nightmare world of mad science, murder and resuscitated corpses.
The bells of Saint Trinian
St. Trinian’s school girls are more interested in race forms than books as they try to get rich quick. They are favored by the headmistress’s brother. Both the headmistress and her brother are played by Alastair Sim in this classic, sequel to comedy. Based on the cartoons by Ronald Searle.
Wild west days
Kentucky Wade and his two friends ride to help a couple threatened by outlaws. Kentucky and friends also continue to battle across the plains and mountains to battle an Indian tribe led by Red Hatchet. Shortly thereafter, they also grapple with false reports of a strike that sparked a gold rush and exciting action.
Santo in Dracula’s Treasure: The sexy vampire version
After the Mexican wrestler El Santo invented a time machine, he uses it to travel back in time and track down the location of Dracula’s hidden treasure. This is with the noble intention of using the treasure to finance a children’s hospital. In his search for the treasure, he is forced to face Dracula and his band of beautiful vampire vixens. The original 1969 release of Santo en El Tesoro de Drácula was black and white and did not show any nudity. The film was simultaneously shot in full color with full frontal nudity for the European markets and released in Mexico in 2012 as El Vampiro y el Sexo.
Watch TV with the Red Chinese (DVD)
A trio of Chinese exchange students, Tzu (James Chen, The Walking Dead), Wa (Keong Sim, Dead To Me) and Chen (Leonardo Nam, The Fast and the Furious: Toyko Drift), come eagerly to New York in 1980 for what America has to offer. They make friends, including a literature teacher named Dexter (Ryan O’Nan, Queen of the South) and his girlfriend Suzanne (Gillian Jacobs, Community).
New to Digital HD
The Very Excellent Mr. Dundee (exclusive clip)
Paul Hogan starred in this rough comedy, and is a retired actor overshadowed by his Crocodile Dundee character. When he is knighted by the Queen of England, he ends up in a series of funny scandals.
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Rams (exclusive clip)
Two estranged brothers, Colin (Sam Neill) and Les (Michael Caton), lead separate flocks of sheep during the war. When Les’ Preisbock is diagnosed with a rare and deadly disease, the authorities order all sheep in the valley to be cleaned up, but Colin tries to secretly outwit the forces available.
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I blame society
A struggling filmmaker senses that her colleagues are losing faith in her ability to succeed and decides to prove herself by finishing her last abandoned film and committing the perfect murder.
music
Zu is newly sober and finds her way into the world when she receives the message that she is to become the sole guardian of her half-sister named Music, a young girl on the autism spectrum. The film explores two of Sia’s favorite topics: Finding your voice and what it means to raise a family.
Barb and Star Go to Vista Del Mar.
From bridesmaid co-stars and co-writers Kristen Wiig and Annie Mumolo, this comedy is about two best friends who leave their small town and embark on the adventure of a lifetime.
Willy’s Wonderland
When his car breaks down, a quiet loner (Nic Cage) agrees to clean up an abandoned family fun center in exchange for repairs. Soon he is waging war against possessed animatronic mascots while trapped in Willy’s Wonderland.
Holy Maud
A newly devout hospice nurse is obsessed with saving the soul of her dying patient – but dark forces and her own sinful past threaten to end her sacred calling.
Monster hunter
When an unexpected sandstorm transports soldiers to a new world, they discover an unknown habitat filled with monsters that are immune to their firepower.
Supernova
Sam (Colin Firth) and Tusker (Stanley Tucci), partners of twenty, travel around England in their old motorhome and visit friends, family and places from their past. After a life-changing diagnosis, their time together is more important than ever until secret plans test their love like never before.
Wonder Woman 1984
Fast forward to the 1980s when Wonder Woman faces a multitude of enemies, including Max Lord and The Cheetah, on the next big movie adventure.
Woman on the Move: Nichelle Nichols, Star Trek, and NASA’s Remaking
In 1977, only four months to go, NASA is fighting to win over scientists, engineers and astronauts for its new space shuttle program. Then Nichelle Nichols, Lt. Uhura from Star Trek, got them out by asking, where are my people?
TV on Blu-ray and DVD
Lovecraft Country: The Complete First Season
Based on Matt Ruff’s novel, this series accompanies Korean war veterinarian Atticus Freeman, friend Letitia, and uncle George on a 1950s trip through Jim Crow America where they are exposed to racial horrors and the terrifying monsters of an HP Lovecraft paperback.
Bordertown Season 2
In the second season of Finnish Nordic Noir in Bordertown, Chief Investigator Kari Sorjonen from the Serious Crimes Division deals with a multitude of harrowing murders on the border between Finland and Russia. Each of these murder cases takes the viewer on a journey into the darkness of humanity
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Harley Quinn: The Complete First and Second Seasons
Harley Quinn (Kaley Cuoco) has finally broken up with The Joker (Alan Tudyk) once and for all and tries to make it alone as the criminal queen of Gotham City in this half-hour adult animated action comedy series. With the help of Poison Ivy (Lake Bell) and a ragged crew of DC offshoots, Harley tries to secure a seat at the biggest table of villainy: the Legion of Doom. Don’t worry, she did. Or does she? In season 2, Harley defeated the Joker, and what’s left of Gotham City is hers. Their celebration in the newly created chaos is cut short when Penguin, Bane, Mr. Freeze, The Riddler and Two Face team up to restore order to the criminal underworld. Calling themselves Injustice League, they want to prevent Harley and her crew from taking control as the top villains in Gotham.
