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Welcome back to another look at highlights arriving on Blu-ray and DVD. This week it’s a very busy edition featuring some high-profile films alongside smaller, 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!

Arkansas - Based on the bestselling book by John Brandon, this dark comedy follows a pair of buddies who are park rangers by day and drug couriers at night. They work for a mysterious criminal kingpin whom they have never met. When one of the pair starts a relationship with a coworker, it sets off alarm bells among those in the illegal organization, leading to imminent...

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...

Community champions could be anyone you know or know about who stepped up to help in these trying times of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Congressman Ben Ray Lujan, D-N.M. launched an intiative during the week of April 20 to shine a spotlight on New Mexicans serving their communities during this crisis.

Lujan says he’s been encouraged by stories of neighbors delivering groceries to the elderly and vulnerable, and groups like ‘Rosie the Respirators’ sewing masks for essential personnel.

A form for nominations of community champions is available at lujan.house.gov/community-champions

These two pictures are currently available to stream on Disney+.



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Running Time:
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...