Welcome to another look at highlights arriving on Blu-ray and DVD. Readers will likely notice lots of independent fare. So, since you won’t be able to make it out to the movies this week, be sure to give one of these titles a try!

Alone Across the Arctic - We’d all like to get out and explore more, but geographer Adam Shoalts takes it to new extremes in this documentary. In order to mark the 150th anniversary of Canada’s Confederation, the subject decides to set off alone from Old Crow, Yukon (near the Alaskan border) and make the journey east across the continent to Baker Lake, Nunavut. He hikes and paddles his way over an entire summer through the wildest and most...

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Elephant - 86 minutes, Dolphin Reef - 77 minutes

Disney has a lengthy history producing non-fiction films chronicling the lives of various animal species. Just over a decade ago, they founded Disneynature, a specific branch made to develop these documentary projects. The distributor has made them available to stream on Disney+. The first title is largely set in the dry and unforgiving Kalahari Desert, while the second takes viewers under the water near the Polynesian Islands in the Pacific.

Elephant follows a herd on an arduous trek over many months across the sand and...

Welcome back to another look at highlights coming your way on Blu-ray and DVD. Looks like a wide variety of choices that include everything from dramas to documentaries this week. So, since you can’t make it out to the movies this week, be sure to give one of these titles a try!

Big New Releases!



The Cat and the Moon - A teenager is forced into dealing with several family-related problems after his father dies and his mother decides to go into rehab. With no support system, he accepts an invitation to stay with his dad’s old friend, a jazz musician in New York. The experience is an eye-opening one for the young man as he makes new friends and finds a way to endure a...

It’s time for another look at some highlights that are arriving on Blu-ray and DVD. There are plenty of high profile hit titles in this edition, as well as a great selection of independent features. So, since you can’t make it out to the movies this week, be sure to give one of these titles a try!

Big New Releases!

Blood & Flesh: The Reel Life & Ghastly Death of Al Adamson - Al Adamson was a low-budget genre filmmaker known among cult movie aficionados for his incredibly cheesy flicks that include Psycho a Go-Go, Blood of Ghastly Horror, Dracula vs. Frankenstein, some nudie films, and even a bizarre kid’s feature about a talking chimp called Carnival Magic. Eerily enough, Adamson...