4K UHD, Blu-ray Release Date: March 10, 2026 Price: 4K UHD/Blu-ray Combo $34.99, Blu-ray $37.98 Studio: Criterion Collection
Banned in Spain and denounced by the Vatican upon its premiere, Luis Buñuel’s (Belle de jour, That Obscure Object of Desire) 1961 Viridiana, an irreverent vision of life as a beggar’s banquet, is regarded by many as his masterpiece.
In the film, novice nun Viridiana (Silvia Pinal, The Exterminating Angel) does her utmost to maintain her Catholic principles, but her lecherous uncle (Fernando Rey, Illustrious Corpses) and a motley assemblage of paupers force her to confront the limits of her idealism.
Winner of the Palme d’Or at the 1961 Cannes Film Festival, Viridiana is as audacious today as ever.
4K UHD + BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
New 4K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
One 4K UHD disc of the film and one Blu-ray with the film and special features
Interviews with actor Silvia Pinal and film scholar Richard Porton
Excerpts from a 1964 episode of Cinéastes de notre temps on director Luis Buñuel’s early career
Trailer
Plus: An essay by film scholar Michael Wood and an interview with Buñuel
Blu-ray Release Date: March 10, 2026 Price: Blu-ray $34.97 Studio: 88 Films/MVD
In the 1987 fantastical comedy-romance adventure Picture of a Nymph, Shih Erh (Yuen Biao, The Champsons), a Taoist monk disciple, takes in a scholar named Tsui Hung-Chuen (Lawrence Ng, To Be Number One) after he inadvertently burned down his house after battling a demon.
Shih Erh and his master Wu Men-Chu (Ma Wu, Kickboxer) house and attempt to protect Tsui from the demons and spirits that lurk nearby; however, Tsui encounters a benevolent female ghost named Mo Chiu (Joey Wang, A Chinese Ghost Story), who is confined to the hands of the wicked King Ghost (Elizabeth Lee, Widow Warriors). As Tsui falls in love with Mo Chiu, he paints a portrait of her, which the spirit uses to conceal herself from the King Ghost’s clutches.
Directed by Wu Ma, the new Blu-ray incarnation of the Hong Kong production from 88 Films contains the following features:
LIMITED EDITION RIGID SLIP CASE WITH NEW ARTWORK BY SEAN LONGMORE
LIMITED EDITION 40 PAGE PERFECT BOUND BOOK
LIMITED EDITION PREMIUM ARTCARD
BRAND NEW 2K RESTORATION FROM THE ORIGINAL NEGATIVE
REMASTERED ORIGINAL CANTONESE MONOAURAL SOUNDTRACK
NEWLY TRANSLATED ENGLISH SUBTITLES
AUDIO COMMENTARY BY FRANK DJENG (NY ASIAN FILM FESTIVAL)
Blu-ray Release Date: Feb. 24, 2026 Price: Blu-ray $20.97 Studio: 88 Films/MVD
Joyce Godenzi stars in the 1990 violent action classic She Shoots Straight about a newlywed police officer who battles a Vietnamese gang whilst also trying to impress her new in-laws!
Inspector Mina is a career-focused officer who has just married her supervisor (Tony Leung Ka-fai, Ashes of Time), who himself comes from a family of dedicated police officers. Her new sisters-in-law (including Carina Lau, Ashes of Time, Days of Being Wild) are a little jealous that Mina outranks them, but when a gang of violent Vietnamese criminals (led by the always excellentYuen Wah, Eastern Condors, Kung Fu Hustle) target the family, the sisters unite into a lethal force of vengeance.
Also starring Sammo Hung and directed by Corey Yuen (Yes, Madam), She Shoots Straight is another slice of top-tier Hong Kong action, newly restored in 2K and making its debut on Blu-ray!
Bonus Materials
O-RING SLIP CASE WITH NEW ARTWORK BY SEAN LONGMORE
2K RESTORATION FROM THE ORIGINAL NEGATIVE
REMASTERED ORIGINAL CANTONESE MONOAURAL SOUNDTRACK
NEWLY TRANSLATED ENGLISH SUBTITLES
English Dub Option
Audio Commentary with Asian Cinema Expert Frank Djeng
Blu-ray Release Date: Feb. 24, 2026 Price: Blu-ray $20.97 Studio: 88 Films/MVD
In 1983’s Duel to the Death, every ten years, a duel is held between the finest Japanese and Chinese martial artists to determine whose Swordmanship is superior. During the Ming Dynasty, as the next duel approaches, the chosen candidates are caught in the middle of a battle between Ninjas and Shaolin monks. Only a Duel to the Death will settle the countries’ conflicts and stop the bloodshed.
Known for his classic film, A Chinese Ghost Story, as well as for directing Tsui Hark’s the Swordsman saga, this debut feature from director Ching Siu-tung is filled with dazzling visuals and astonishing martial arts choreography (also by Ching Siu-tung, who would later choreograph the action sequences for Zhang Yimou’s acclaimed wuxia triptych; Hero, House of Flying Daggers, and Curse of the Golden Flower), Duel to the Death comes to Blu-Ray for the first time in the USA from a brand new 2K restoration.
Bonus Materials
O-RING SLIP CASE WITH NEW ARTWORK BY KUNG FU BOB
2K RESTORATION FROM THE ORIGINAL NEGATIVE
REMASTERED ORIGINAL CANTONESE MONOAURAL SOUNDTRACK
5.1 DTS-HD MA Cantonese Re-Mix
NEWLY TRANSLATED ENGLISH SUBTITLES
English Dub Option
Audio Commentary with Asian Cinema Expert Frank Djeng
Duel Identity – Archival interview with actor Norman Chui Siu-keung
Flora Cheung on Duel to the Death – Archival interview with actress Flora Cheung
Blu-ray Release Date: Feb. 17, 2026 Price: Blu-ray $55.99 Studio: Criterion Collection
Renowned as a silent-film pioneer and the man who refined Hollywood comedy with such masterpieces as Trouble in Paradise, The Shop Around the Corner, and To Be or Not to Be, Ernst Lubitsch also had another claim to fame: he helped invent the modern movie musical. With the advent of sound, and with audiences clamoring for “talkies,” Lubitsch combined his love of European operettas and his mastery of cinema to develop this entirely new genre.
The elegant, bawdy films that comprise Eclipse Series 8: Lubitsch Musicals, made before strict enforcement of the moralizing Production Code, feature some of the greatest stars of early Hollywood (Maurice Chevalier, Jeanette MacDonald, Claudette Colbert, Miriam Hopkins), as well as that elusive style of comedy that would thereafter be known as “the Lubitsch touch.”
The Love Parade (1929)
The Love Parade (1929) Ernst Lubitsch’s first full talkie was also Hollywood’s first movie musical to integrate songs with narrative. Additionally, The Love Parade made stars out of toast-of-Paris Maurice Chevalier and girl-from-Philly Jeanette MacDonald, cast as a womanizing military attaché and the man-hungry queen of “Sylvania,” respectively. With its naughty innuendo and satiric romance, The Love Parade opened the door for a decade of witty screen battles of the sexes.
Monte Carlo (1930) Jeanette MacDonald’s independent-minded countess leaves her foppish prince fiancé at the altar, and whisks herself away to the Riviera. There, she strikes the fancy of the sly Count Rudolph (theater veteran Jack Buchanan), who poses as a hairdresser to get into her boudoir. Ernst Lubitsch’s follow-up to The Love Parade shows even more musical invention, and presents MacDonald at her haughtily sexy best.
One Hour with You (1932)
The Smiling Lieutenant (1931) Maurice Chevalier’s randy Viennese lieutenant is enamored of Claudette Colbert’s freethinking, all-girl-orchestra-leading cutie. Yet complications ensue when the sexually repressed princess (newcomer Miriam Hopkins) of the fictional kingdom of Flausenthurm sets her sights on him. Ernst Lubitsch’s The Smiling Lieutenant is a delightful showcase for its rising female stars, who are never more charming than when Colbert tunefully instructs Hopkins, “Jazz Up Your Lingerie.”
One Hour With You (1932) Ernst Lubitsch reunites Maurice Chevalier and Jeanette MacDonald, this time as a seemingly blissful couple whose marriage hits the skids when her flirtatious school chum comes on to her husband a bit too strong. Necking in the park at nighttime, husbands and wives having casual dalliances, and a butler telling his master, “I did so want to see you in tights!”: Lubitsch’s final pre-Code musical is one of his sauciest escapades.
The collection also includes an essay by author and film critic Michael Koresky
4K UHD, Blu-ray Release Date: Feb. 24, 2026 Price: 4K UHD $38.97, Blu-ray $32.47 Studio: Arrow/MVD
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When Westworld rode into theaters in 1973, it played like a smart, slightly pulpy genre hybrid: a Western with a science-fiction sting in its tail. Seen now, Michael Crichton’s directorial debut feels uncannily like a dry run for the anxieties that would later fuel Jurassic Park, another Crichton-penned story—and, eventually, dominate real-world conversations about artificial intelligence, automation, and spectacle.
Set in Delos, a futuristic amusement resort where affluent guests indulge in consequence-free fantasy, the film follows friends Peter (Richard Benjamin, Diary of a Mad Housewife) and John (James Brolin, Burlesque) as they vacation in the park’s Old West zone. There, they drink, duel, make love to and kill lifelike android–“hosts programmed never to harm humans.” When an inevitable system-wide malfunction causes the robots to stop following their rules, the fantasy curdles fast. Yul Brynner’s (Anastasia) black-clad Gunslinger, once a novelty attraction, becomes a mechanical force of nature, stalking Peter and John with pitiless efficiency.
Crichton’s genius lies in how little he overstates the danger. The catastrophe isn’t caused by malice or rebellion but by scale: too many systems, too much complexity, and the fatal assumption that control can always be restored. Again, the film’s DNA unmistakably anticipates Jurassic Park and its tale about rich tourists, cutting-edge attractions, ignored warnings, and the arrogance of believing nature (or technology) can be neatly contained.
Arrow’s new Blu-ray and 4K UHD limited editions offer a glittery restoration that greatly sharpen the film’s details (along with its stark desert imagery), while bonus features deepen its legacy. Included among these is a lively new commentary by filmmaker and historian Daniel Kremer and new interviews with Benjamin, Brolin and producer Paul N. Lazarus III. Together, they reinforce what time has already proven: Westworld wasn’t just ahead of its time—it was a warning shot we’re still pretending not to hear.
Blu-ray Release Date: now available Price: Blu-ray $24.99 Studio: Columbia Pictures/Alliance Entertainment
In the 1988 chiller Pulse, an intelligent pulse of electricity is moving from house to house. It terrorizes the occupants by taking control of the appliances, either killing them or causing them to wreck the house in an effort to destroy it. Then it travels along the power lines to the next house, and the terror restarts. Having thus wrecked one household in a quiet neighborhood, the pulse finds itself in the home of a boy’s divorced father whom he is visiting. It gradually takes control of everything, badly injures the stepmother, and traps father and son, who must fight their way out.
Written and directed by Paul Golding (Beat Street), this sci-fi-infused horror-thriller stars Cliff De Young (Road to Nowhere), Roxanne Hart (Highlander) and Joey Lawrence (TV’s Blossom)!
4K UHD/Blu-ray, DVD Release Date: Feb. 3, 2026 Price: 4K UHD/Blu-ray $22.96, DVD $14.96 Studio: Decal Releasing
A romantic anniversary trip to a secluded cabin turns sinister when a dark presence reveals itself, forcing a couple to confront the property’s haunting past in Keeper, the latest chiller from Osgood Perkins (Longlegs).
The film stars Starring Tatiana Maslany (TV’s Orphan Black), Rossif Sutherland (The Con Artist) and Claire Friesen.
Special features on the disc includes an audio commentary with the director, a theatrical trailer, and a teaser trailer.
Get ready for twice the terror with 1981’s Friday the 13th Part 2! Five years after the massacre at Camp Crystal Lake, the nerve-wracking legend of Jason Voorhees and his diabolical mother lives on. Despite ominous warnings from the locals to stay away from “Camp Blood,” a group of counselors at a nearby summer camp decide to explore the area where seven people were brutally slaughtered. All too soon, they encounter horrors of their own and the killing begins again. You’ll be at the edge of your seat for this gruesome thriller about 24 hours of bone-chilling fear!
Blu-ray & DVD Release Date: available now Price: DVD $12.96, Blu-ray $14.96 Studio: Decal Releasing
Joel Kinnaman (The Informer) and Danny Huston (The Warrior’s Way) star in the action-filled, sub-zero crime thriller Icefall, directed by Stefan Ruzowitzky (Hinterland)
In the film, set in Northern Montana, a young indigenous game warden arrests a notorious poacher, only to learn he knows the locatio of a plane full of cash that crashed into a frozen lake. When criminals and corrupt cops close in, the unlikely pair must fight to survive and escape across the melting ice.
In the film, novice nun Viridiana (Silvia Pinal, The Exterminating Angel) does her utmost to maintain her Catholic principles, but her lecherous uncle (Fernando Rey, Illustrious Corpses) and a motley assemblage of paupers force her to confront the limits of her idealism.
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