Welcome to ComingSoon.net’s week of June 22 new releases column! We’ve highlighted this week’s Blu-ray, Digital HD, and DVD releases below! Click each highlighted title to purchase through Amazon or other retailers!
Movies on Blu-ray/DVD
Batman: The Long Halloween Part One
An adaptation of the classic comic of the same name, the film features Batman (voiced by Jensen Ackles) finding himself at a loss in capturing the mysterious Holiday, a killer that strikes on holidays. The cast is rounded out by Billy Burke, Josh Duhamel, Naya Rivera, and David Dastmalchian.
Hunter Hunter
Hunter Hunter follows a family living in the remote wilderness earning a living as fur trappers. Joseph Mersault (Devon Sawa), his wife Anne (Camille Sullivan), and their daughter Renée (Summer H. Howell) struggle to make ends meet and think their traps are being hunted by the return of a rogue wolf.
Night of the Sicario
Natasha Henstridge (Species) and Costas Mandylor (Saw franchise) star in this action-packed, suspenseful thriller that will shock you at every turn. While transporting the family of a key witness in a federal trial against the cartel, DEA agents are ambushed in a fatal shootout.
Nobody 4K
The action flick starring Bob Odenkirk is now available in 4K. Check out our review to learn more.
The Paper Tigers
Washed-up kung fu disciples Danny (Alain Uy), Hing (Ron Yuan) and Jim (Mykel Shannon Jenkins) reunite to avenge their master in this action comedy.
Siberia
Now available on Blu-ray, this thriller stars Willem Dafoe as a bartender at a snowbound roadhouse.
The Unholy
Based on James Herbert’s best-selling book Shrine, the film follows a young hearing-impaired girl who is visited by the Virgin Mary and can suddenly hear, speak and heal the sick.
Criterion Corner
Visions of Eight
Documenting the 1972 Munich Olympic Summer Games, this features eight short films from Miloš Forman, Kon Ichikawa, Claude Lelouch, Juri Ozerov, Arthur Penn, Michael Pfleghar, John Schlesinger, and Mai ZetterlingMiloš Forman, Kon Ichikawa, Claude Lelouch, Juri Ozerov, Arthur Penn, Michael Pfleghar, John Schlesinger, and Mai Zetterling. This features a 4K restoration, new audio commentary, and a documentary.
The Signifyin’ Works of Marlon Riggs
This collector’s set features the following films by Riggs: Ethnic Notions, Tongues Untied, Affirmations, Anthem, Color Adjustment, Non, Je Ne Regrette Rien, and Black Is … Black Ain’t.
Reissues
Career Opportunities
The town con (Frank Whaley, The Doors) and the town beauty (Jennifer Connelly, The Hot Spot) team up to outwit a half-wit pair of would-be burglars, real-life brothers Durmot Mulroney (Young Guns) and Kieran Mulroney (Nowhere to Run).
CB4
Chris Rock (Lethal Weapon 4, New Jack City) stars in CB4, an off-the-hook, hilarious look at the world of gangsta rap. Rock plays Albert, a.k.a. MC Gusto, the leader of the hot new rap group CB4
Half Baked
The stoner comedy classic has received another Blu-ray release. It stars Dave Chappelle and Jim Breuer.
The Secret World of Arrietty – Limited Edition Steelbook
From the creators of Spirited Away and Ponyo, and Academy Award-nominated director Hiromasa Yonebayashi, comes a gorgeous and adventure-filled adaptation of The Borrowers, one of the most beloved children’s books of all time.
The Wind Rises – Limited Edition Steelbook
Acclaimed filmmaker Hayao Miyazaki (Spirited Away) delivers a modern masterpiece with this Academy Award-nominated exploration of creative passion in a hostile world. Jiro Horikoshi is fascinated by aviation but unable to become a pilot due to a medical condition. He moves to Tokyo in 1923, surviving the Great Kanto Earthquake to become a highly accomplished airplane designer. As rumors of war escalate, Jiro reunites with Nahoko, a young woman he met during the earthquake years earlier. The two fall deeply in love, just as Nahoko falls ill with tuberculosis. Inspired by visions of Italian aeronaut Caproni, Jiro must confront mounting tragedies with dignity in this epic tale of love and perseverance.
Years Of Lead: Five Classic Italian Crime Thrillers
In Vittorio Salerno’s Savage Three (1975) and Mario Imperoli’s Like Rabid Dogs (1976), random acts of violence committed by vicious young sociopaths threaten the fragile fabric of respectable society. In Massimo Dallamano’s Colt 38 Special Squad (1976) and Stelvio Massi’s Highway Racer (1977), renegade cops battling against red tape and political corruption turn to new and morally dubious methods to dispense justice. Finally, class dynamics are explored in Salerno’s No, the Case is Happily Resolved (1973) as an innocent man finds himself under suspicion for a savage crime committed by a highly respected member of society.
New On Digital HD
Bad Detectives
The crime thriller stars Dralla Aierken (Only Children) and Freya Tingley (Hemlock Grove) as two young women who inherit their grandfather’s detective agency and reluctantly team up to solve their murders. Check out the trailer that ComingSoon premiered.
Babysitter Must Die
A wealthy family’s home is invaded during a game of hide-and-seek by a pack cultists. Josie, the babysitter hides in plain sight prepared and armed with a handful of survival skills. She battles the cult and her fears through a long night of terror. Ultimately good defeats evil and she triumphs, but not before a cruel twist reveals the cult were just foot soldiers for a much greater evil.
Batman: The Long Halloween Part One
An adaptation of the classic comic of the same name, the film features Batman (voiced by Jensen Ackles) finding himself at a loss in capturing the mysterious Holiday, a killer that strikes on holidays. The cast is rounded out by Billy Burke, Josh Duhamel, Naya Rivera, and David Dastmalchian.
Demon Slayer -Kimetsu no Yaiba- The Movie: Mugen Train (Dub)
Falling forever into an endless dream… Tanjiro and Nezuko, along with Zenitsu and Inosuke, join one of the most powerful swordsmen within the Demon Slayer Corps, Flame Hashira Kyojuro Rengoku, to face the demon aboard the Mugen Train on track to despair.
Demon Slayer -Kimetsu no Yaiba- The Movie: Mugen Train (Sub)
Falling forever into an endless dream… Tanjiro and Nezuko, along with Zenitsu and Inosuke, join one of the most powerful swordsmen within the Demon Slayer Corps, Flame Hashira Kyojuro Rengoku, to face the demon aboard the Mugen Train on track to despair.
TV on Blu-ray and DVD
Balthazar Series 3
Devastated by his friend’s death, Parisian forensic pathologist Raphaël Balthazar (Tomer Sisley, Messiah, We’re The Millers) has vowed never to touch a corpse again. But his resolve wavers when he discovers a dead body while sailing, and soon he’s working once more with Chief Inspector Hélène Bach (Hélène de Fougerolles) who’s closing in on their most elusive suspect: his wife’s killer.
No Guns Life: Season 2
Juzo Inui’s next mission is to rescue Rosa McMahon, a girl who holds a valuable piece of data the Berühren Corporation is after. And somewhere in the city, Pepper is determined to make Juzo her property alongside her current Gun Slave Unit, Seven.
Smile Down the Runway: The Complete Season
Ikuto dreams of becoming a top fashion designer but has family responsibilities and lacks the resources. Chiyuki dreams of becoming a leading model but doesn’t have the height. Thrust into an unlikely high school friendship, they’ll work together—with the support of friends and family—towards their goal of being in Paris Fashion Week!
Sword Art Online Alicization War of Underworld Box Set
This deluxe set contains episodes 1-23, 0, and 12.5 of the anime, plus a Special Booklet and an Original Soundtrack CD by Yuki Kajiura.
Umbrella Academy: Season One
On the same day in 1989, forty-three infants are inexplicably born to random, unconnected women who showed no signs of pregnancy the day before. Seven are adopted by a billionaire who creates The Umbrella Academy and prepares his “children” to save the world. Now, the six surviving members reunite upon the news of their father’s passing and must work together to solve a mystery surrounding his death. But the estranged family begins to come apart due to their divergent personalities and abilities, not to mention the imminent threat of a global apocalypse.
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