February 9, Blu-ray, digital and DVD releases
Welcome to ComingSoon.net’s Blu-ray, Digital HD and DVD Column on February 9th! 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
Freaky
From Blumhouse, Blissfield High gets scary when 17-year-old Millie (Kathryn Newton) swaps bodies with a notorious serial killer (Vince Vaughn).
Greenland
A family struggles to survive as a comet that kills the planet races to Earth. John Garrity, his estranged wife Allison, and young son Nathan make a dangerous journey into their only hope of refuge.
Jiang Ziya
To earn his place among the gods, the commander of the Heavenly Army, Jiang Ziya, must defeat a terrifying fox demon that threatens the very existence of the mortal realm. The continuation of the international blockbuster Ne Zha and the second chapter in the Fengshen Cinematic Universe.
Hike dark
Sienna Miller and Diego Luna lead this thriller about a couple forced to rethink the past and unravel haunting truths on a fascinating journey of loss, love, heartbreak and hope.
The El Duce tapes
A long, hard look at Eldon ‘El Duce’ Hoke, the front man of the controversial ’90s shock metal band The Mentors.
The State of Texas Vs. Melissa
Melissa Lucio was the first Spanish woman to be sentenced to death in Texas. She has been waiting for her fate for ten years and is now facing her last roll call.
Deep in Vogue
“Deep in Vogue” celebrates the colorful, strange, emotional, and political stories of northern Vogue and its people.
Helter Skelter: An American Myth (DVD)
In the most comprehensive visual representation of the Manson family, Helter Skelter: An American Myth features never-before-consulted interviews with former family members and journalists, interweaving those original narratives with archive footage and newly excavated images. It will turn what people think they know about this complex story on its head and shed a whole new light on this crime of the century.
Book club
Star Wars: The Galaxy Knit
With 28 projects based on George Lucas’ epic movie saga, Star Wars: Knitting the Galaxy is the ultimate guide to stunning projects created by Luke Skywalker, Darth Vader, Rey, and a slew of droids, ships, and aliens from a far away Galaxy were inspired far away.
Criterion corner
The parallax view
Three years after the assassination of a senior senator on Seattle’s Space Needle, reporter Joseph Frady (Warren Beatty) begins to grapple with the mysterious circumstances surrounding the event – and comes across a labyrinthine conspiracy far more sinister than he could have imagined can. The cool, stylized, shadow-etched compositions of Parallax View by the renowned cameraman Gordon Willis give visual expression to a mood that begins as a fearful whisper and ends as a scream into space.
New editions
The hills run red
Revenge is never easy, and revenge never gets sweeter in this slam bang western full of fast-paced action and mounting tension! At the end of the Civil War, a Confederate soldier is jailed for robbing his buddy, who escapes with the loot and builds a life in his spare time. While suffering behind bars, he realizes he has been double crossed … and swears revenge.
Man of the east
Sir Thomas Fitzpatrick Phillip Moore (Hill) has come west to claim his father’s ranch. Unknown was his father’s desire that his friends and associates teach the boy how to be a real man.
So bad my love
In the late 19th century, English widow Olivia Harwood (Ann Todd) meets Mark Bellis (Ray Milland), a charming but dangerous criminal who rents a room in her guesthouse. Hopelessly in love with a man who plays her for a fool, Olivia is soon caught up in a life of crime when Mark persuades her to steal from her friend Susan Courtney (Geraldine Fitzgerald), the wife of a wealthy colleague.
The suspect
Philip Marshall (Charles Laughton) is a friendly accountant who becomes friends with Mary Gray (Ella Raines), a young unemployed stenographer who turned to him about his job. Gradually he falls in love with her, but keeps the relationship platonic. Since his wife suspects him of having an affair, Philip asks her for a divorce, but she refuses and threatens him with disclosure and scandal.
Jazz on a summer day
Filmed at the Newport Jazz Festival in Rhode Island in 1958, directed by world-famous photographer Bert Stern, Jazz on a Summer’s Day features intimate performances by an all-star cast of music legends such as Louis Armstrong, Thelonious Monk, Gerry Mulligan and Anita O’Day , Chuck Berry, Dinah Washington and closes with a beautiful rendition of the Our Father by Mahalia Jackson at midnight to usher in Sunday morning.
Nationtime
Nationtime is his vivid account of the 1972 National Black Political Convention, held in Gary, Indiana, a historic event attended by Black delegates from across the political spectrum including Jesse Jackson, Dick Gregory, Coretta Scott King and Dr. Betty Shabazz. Richard Hatcher, Amiri Baraka, Charles Diggs, Isaac Hayes, Richard Roundtree, and H. Carl McCall.
A man named Adam
Legendary entertainer Sammy Davis Jr. (Anna Lucasta) makes headlines with Louis Armstrong (Paris Blues), Ossie Davis (Jungle Fever), Cicely Tyson (Bustin ‘Loose), Mel Tormé (The Big Operator) and Rat Pack member Peter Lawford ( Buona Sera, Mrs. Campbell) in this powerful drama about a jazz musician who “has it all” – love, friendship and fame – whose tortured past threatens to destroy him and his career.
A fairy tale about two cities
Ronald Colman (The Prisoner of Zenda) plays Sydney Carton as a sardonic, determined, wasteland destined to break free in an act of courageous sacrifice. It’s a far better thing than I’ve ever done, Carton muses at this crucial moment.
3-D falcon wings
Irish Gallager (Heflin) gringo miner is embroiled in the Mexican Revolution of 1910-11 when corrupt administrator Colonel Paco Ruiz (George Dolenz, Scared Stiff) wrongly confiscated his gold mine.
Madame Claude
MADAME CLAUDE with the French new wave icon Françoise Fabian in the title role together with a sinister Klaus Kinski and the beautiful Dayle Haddon is an incredibly timeless look at one of the most controversial figures in recent French history.
The Mary Millington Film Collection
Released to mark the 40th anniversary of Mary Millington’s death, this special edition Blu-ray box set (individually numbered and limited to 3,000 copies) contains Mary’s most glamorous film roles with new, breathtaking 2K restorations including: Come Play with Me (1977 ), The Playbirds (1978), Confessions from the David Galaxy Affair (1979), Queen of the Blues (1979), Mary Millingtons True Blue Confessions (1980) and Respectable: The Mary Millington Story (2015) – deep documentary that records her extraordinary life.
Beach babies from beyond
Hot! Tan! Extraterrestrial! An intergalactic baby borrows her father’s T-bird ship to hop around a small planet with her two friends, but they suddenly run out of fuel and have to land on Earth.
Elizabethtown
Drew Baylor, a hot-shot designer whose life is completely unraveled on one fateful day. On the way to Elizabethtown, Drew meets Claire. She’s beautiful, and she’s decided to just be the girl who accompanies Drew on his journey home.
Love story
Ali MacGraw and Ryan O’Neal star in this heartbreaking 1970 romance about two young lovers whose passion cannot change their fate.
The little Prince
A pilot lands in the Sahara and finds a boy who says he is a prince who has fallen to Earth from his asteroid home.
Elysium (4K)
In 2154 there are two classes of people: the very rich who live on an untouched man-made space station called Elysium, and the rest who live on an overpopulated, devastated earth.
Six from Sondheim
Discover the life and career of well-known Broadway lyricist and composer Stephen Sondheim through six of his best-known songs.
New to Digital HD
The Croods: A New Age
In search of a new home, the Croods encounter the more discerning Betterman family. A new threat forces the two families to put their differences aside to avoid extinction.
Goodbye (exclusive clip)
A pregnant woman returns to her recently deceased grandparents’ home to spend time with her estranged mother. What starts out as a reunion becomes terrifying.
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Grace is thrown in jail after being falsely accused of being a witch. She faces extreme physical persecution from a ruthless witch hunter.
A bug in the matrix
Are we living in a simulation? Filmmaker Rodney Ascher (ROOM 237, THE NIGHTMARE) wrestles with this existential question in his latest documentary, a multimedia journey that’s partly science fiction mind-scrambler, partly true crime story.
Falling
John Peterson lives in Southern California with his partner Eric and their adopted daughter. When he is visited by his aging Los Angeles father, Willis, who is looking for a place to retreat, their two very different worlds collide.
