Allumination
What’s the secret to a perfect date? Find out in How to Go Out On a Date in Queens (street Aug. 22, prebook now; DVD $29.98). Arriving Oct. 10, Push (prebook Aug. 29; DVD $29.98) is about drugs, sex and money, which blur the boundaries between two different societies. Checking Out (street Nov. 7, prebook Sept. 26; DVD $29.98) stars Peter Falk as a retired actor who is planning his suicide.
BFS
Power belongs in a gun in Bang (street Sept. 26, prebook Aug. 29; DVD $22.98).
Blue Underground/Ryko
Tombs of the Blind Dead, Return of the Evil Dead, The Ghost Galleon and Night of the Seagulls are available Sept. 26 (prebook Sept. 8) for the first time as singles, priced at $19.95 each.
Buena Vista
On Aug. 1 (prebook now; DVD $29.99), Tim Allen stars as a man who becomes man’s best friend in The Shaggy Dog.
Clarendon/Ryko
Urban S.L.A.M., Vol. 1 (street Aug. 29, prebook Aug. 11; DVD $24.95) presents a collection of eight short live-action movies (SLAM).
Cult Epics/Ryko
Arriving Aug. 29, Private: Director’s Cut (prebook Aug. 11; DVD $24.95) focuses on erotically charged couples who realize that regular doses of fooling around keeps them together.
First Look
The Nugget (street Sept. 12, Aug. 15; DVD $24.99) is about three friends with a gold-mining hobby.
Fox
In The Sentinel (street Aug. 29, prebook Aug. 2; DVD $29.98), Secret Service agents uncover an inside job to assassinate the president.
Genius
Lucky Number Slevin (street Aug. 22, prebook now; DVD $29.95) stars Morgan Freeman and Ben Kingsley as gangsters who have waited 20 years to kill each other. Josh Hartnett, Bruce Willis and Lucy Liu add to the chaos in this title from The Weinstein Company. Scary Movie 4, the latest installment of the franchise from TWC, arrives Aug. 15 (prebook now; DVD $29.95). Vampires go on a high-tech hunt in the horror film The Last Sect, from Wellspring, and a night filled with dancing and sex at a West Hollywood Halloween carnival turns deadly for four gay friends when two men are found dead in the horror film HellBent (both street Sept. 12, prebook Aug. 1; DVD $24.95 each).
Hart Sharp/WEA
Let the matzo fly in When Do We Eat? (street Aug. 22, prebook July 25; DVD $24.99), a Passover comedy that tells the story of the world’s fastest Seder gone horribly awry.
Heretic/Ryko
The Last Broadcast (street Sept. 26, prebook Aug. 7; DVD $19.95) follows a documentary filmmaker’s investigation into the mysterious murders of three would-be TV personalities.
Image
Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle (street Sept. 5, prebook July 25; DVD $14.99) is Alan Rudolph’s look at Dorothy Parker and the literati of that time period.
Inspired
Fright Pack contains Terror House, Last House on Hell Street and Malefic. Terror Pack contains Holy Terror, Hellinger and Insaniac. Both street Aug. 8, prebook July 18; DVD $19.98 each
Koch Lorber
Two French films arrive Aug. 8: Gilles’ Wife (prebook now) is a haunting tale of love and betrayal; and Changing Times (street Oct. 3, prebook Sept. 5) stars Gérard Depardieu as a man who tries to
rekindle his first love (Catherine Deneuve), but his advances are not welcomed. Both DVD $29.98 each
Lifesize/Koch
Ryna is a Swiss/Romanian film about a teenager who struggles to satisfy the demands of her father as she seeks her own identity. Street Sept. 5, prebook Aug. 8; DVD $24.98
MTI
Twisted Sisters (street Aug. 15, prebook July 25; DVD $24.95) is a dark tale that deals with the personal struggle between twins. Arriving Sept. 5, the supernatural thriller The Legend of Lucy Keyes (prebook Aug. 15; DVD $24.95) is based on the true story of the disappearance of a young girl in 1755. A CIA agent is pursued by a mystery avenger in the action thriller Backlash (street Oct. 3, prebook Sept. 12; DVD $24.95). Starring the new James Bond, Daniel Craig, Archangel (street Nov. 14, prebook Oct. 24; DVD $19.95) is set to be a major film for MTI.
No Shame/Ryko
A Cloistered Nun (street Aug. 29, prebook Aug. 11; DVD $19.95) is a sensual masterpiece of soft erotica, uncut for the first time on DVD. The creepy cult classic Dark Waters (street Sept. 26, prebook Sept. 8; DVD $29.95) is being released in a two-disc collector’s edition. Roberto Rossellini returns to his neorealist roots to depict the life of martyred philosopher Socrates (street Nov. 14, prebook Oct. 29; DVD $19.95).
Palm/Vivendi
The documentary Kill Your Idols (street Aug. 29, prebook Aug. 9; DVD $19.98) takes a look at 30 years of alternative rock 'n' roll in New York City. From Brazil, Lower City (street Sept. 12, prebook Aug. 14; DVD $24.99) is the story of a love triangle between two friends and a stripper. Spanish film Rolling Family (street Oct. 24, prebook Sept. 25; DVD $24.99) is a comedy about love, life, laughter and the compromises made as a family.
Paramount
Jackass the Movie: Unrated (street Sept. 5, prebook July 25; DVD $14.99) is unleashed, uninhibited and unrated in this new special edition. Coming after summer loving is Grease: Rockin’ Rydell Special (street Sept. 12, prebook Aug. 1; DVD $17.95).
Screen Media/Universal
Loverboy (street Sept. 26, prebook Sept. 5; DVD $27.98) is an unflinching look at one woman’s frightening descent into obsession, love and paranoia, starring Kyra Sedgwick and Kevin Bacon.
SISU
The Schwartz Dynasty: A Shmuel Hasfari Film (street Sept. 19, prebook Aug. 22; DVD $29.95) is a dramatic satire about two small-town women whose lives collide.
Sony
Driving down the highway on Aug. 15 (prebook now; DVD and PSP $28.95, BD $38.95), RV stars Robin Williams as a man who persuades his wife and children to give up their Hawaiian vacation for a cross-country RV trip. Friends With Money (street Aug. 29, prebook July 27; DVD $28.95), starring Jennifer Aniston, examines the shifting relationships between four women who have been friends all their adult lives. Arriving the same day are Mountain Patrol (DVD $24.96), the true story of a Beijing journalist who investigates the endangered Tibetan antelope, and The Hard Corps (DVD $24.96), starring Jean-Claude Van Damme as a bodyguard for a former boxing champ who needs protection from a revengeful rap music mogul.
Subversive/Ryko
Werner Herzog’s The Wild Blue Yonder (street Nov. 14, prebook Oct. 27; DVD $19.95) is an epic vision of the search for a new planet after aliens attempt to settle on an almost uninhabitable Earth.
Tai Seng
Arriving on Aug. 29 (prebook now) are 49 Days, a supernatural horror thriller about a lawyer who must travel to the underworld to prove her client is innocent of murder, and Ninja 6 in a six-disc box set. Both DVD $19.95 each
Tartan/Genius
The Death of Mr. Lazarescu is a black comedy; The Maid is a supernatural horror film. Both street Sept. 12, prebook Aug. 1; DVD $22.25 each
ThinkFilm
The Zodiac (street Aug. 29, prebook Aug. 3; DVD $29.99) is about the hunt for a serial killer who leaves a series of cryptic clues; 10th & Wolf (street Sept. 19, prebook Aug. 24; DVD $27.98) is inspired by the true story of the FBI agent known as Donnie Brasco; Down in the Valley (street Sept. 26, prebook Aug. 31; DVD $27.98) is about a teen who meets a charismatic cowboy who is not all he appears to be, starring Edward Norton.
Universal
Coming Aug. 22 (prebook July 18; two-disc set $26.98), Double Indemnity: Special Edition is a classic film noir, starring Fred MacMurray and Barbara Stanwyck, and the Ron Howard-directed fire-fighting action-thriller starring Kurt Russell and William Baldwin returns in Backdraft: Anniversary Edition (street Sept. 12, prebook Aug. 8; two-disc set $19.98).
Urban Vision
In Azumi (street Nov. 7, prebook Oct. 9; DVD $24.95), a master samurai raises 10 orphans and trains them to be assassins.
Warner
Raw Feed’s Rest Stop (street Oct. 17, prebook Sept. 12; DVD $24.98 in rated and unrated versions) is a horror thriller about a young couple terrorized while on a cross-country trip.
Water Bearer
Michael Stock’s Prince in Hell is a film about a junkie’s life that reflects the troubles of a reunified Germany; Die Konsequenz (The Consequence) is one of Wolfgang Peterson’s earliest works and about the love between two men separated by age and society. Both are German films that street Aug. 29,
prebook Aug. 9; DVD $29.95 each
Westlake
6:30 (Six-Thirty) (street Aug. 15, prebook now; DVD $19.98) looks at choice and consequence.
Wolfe
Loving Annabelle (street Oct. 17, prebook Sept. 5; DVD $24.95) is a new lesbian romantic drama about a teacher and a student at a Catholic boarding school. GYPO (street Nov. 14, prebook Oct. 3; DVD $24.95) looks at the breakdown of a working-class family when an immigrant befriends their daughter and initiates a sweet romance with the mother. In the thriller OpenCam (street Dec. 5, prebook Oct. 24; DVD $24.95), a killer seeks new victims via gay Internet chat rooms.
Xenon
The 1972 film The Harder They Come stars singer Jimmy Cliff as a renegade musician who pursues his dreams of stardom. Street Aug. 22, prebook July 24; DVD $29.98
Zeitgeist
Oscar nominee for Best Foreign Language Film, Sophie Scholl: The Final Days is the true story of Germany’s most famous anti-Nazi heroine. Street Nov. 14, prebook Oct. 3; DVD $29.99
