Sony Pictures Home Entertainment have announced that For No Good Reason — a documentary about artist and frequent Hunter S. Thompson collaborator, Ralph Steadman (Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas) — will be released as a Blu-ray/DVD combo pack and digital download on September 2nd.
In 1975, Alejandro Jodorowsky — a Chilean/French avant-garde filmmaker best known for such cult movies as 1970’s El Topo and 1973’s The Holy Mountain — tried to turn Frank Herbert’s epic 1965 sci-fi novel Dune into a movie. But while the film never got made, the story of this spectacular failure is chronicled in the documentary Jodorowsky’s Dune, which Sony Pictures Home Entertainment are releasing as a Blu-ray/DVD combo pack. But this is small consolation because while the doc is engrossing, what Jodorowsky had planned for Dune would’ve been quite spectacular.
Released in 2011, The Raid: Redemption became an instant cult classic by injecting raw martial arts fighting and an unflinching attitude into an Die Hard-esque action movie. Now we have The Raid 2, which Sony Pictures Home Entertainment are releasing on DVD, Blu-ray, and digitally. But while sequels typically soften their edges or rehash the same ideas — y’know, like Die Hard 2 did — The Raid 2 is one of those rare sequels that matches, and in some ways surpasses, its predecessor.
Scream Factory have announced that they will release the previously unavailable Director’s Cut of Clive Barker’s 1980 movie Nightbreed on DVD and Blu-ray on October 28th.
When the sci-fi show Helix was first announced, potential fans wondered if it would be as good as the other one produced by Ronald D. Moore, Battlestar Galactica. And while we now know that no, no it isn’t, after seeing Helix again on DVD or Blu-ray, it’s clear that this freaky medical drama is worth checking out. Well, at least once.
FUNimation have announced what animes they’ll be releasing on DVD and Blu-ray this August, and it’s good news for fans of Dragon Ball Z, Toriko, and A Certain Scientific Railgun S.
Anchor Bay have announced that The Walking Dead: The Complete Fourth Season will be released on DVD, Blu-ray, and as a limited edition Blu-ray on August 26th.
Scream Factory have announced that they will release the ’80s cult horror classic Motel Hell in a Collector’s Edition Blu-ray/DVD combo pack on August 12th.