In Michael Cacoyannis’s 1977 fantastic Greek tragedy adaptation Iphigenia, King Agamemnon is left with an impossible choice: sacrifice his daughter or fail to fulfill his family/national obligations to retrieve his sister-in-law Helen from Troy. Now on Blu-ray from Radiance Films.
Abar, The First Black Superman (1977) [Black History Month]
After moving into a bigoted neighborhood, a successful scientist finds his family in peril and gives a super serum to a local revolutionary, Abar, in hopes of salvation.
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Lookin’ Italian [1994] [Severin Films]
A reformed mafioso has to try to keep his wayward nephew, pre-Friends Matt LeBlanc, out of trouble in Guy Magar’s 1994 drama Lookin’ Italian.
Time Helmet (2026)
A man creates a time travel helmet that can only be used in the future to travel back to it and decides to use it to patent troll his ex.
Westworld [1973] [Arrow LE 4K UHD & Blu-Ray]
The wonders of a special amusement park where one can let out their wildest dreams of the Wild West go astray when a technical malfunction leads to murders in the original 1973 Westworld, written and directed by Michael Crichton. Now on a new 4k UHD/Blu-ray from Arrow Video.
The Bootleg Files: The Flintstones on Ice
BOOTLEG FILES 931: “The Flintstones on Ice” (1973 television special mixing the Bedrock bunch with ice dancing).
LAST SEEN: On YouTube.
AMERICAN HOME VIDEO: None.
REASON FOR BOOTLEG STATUS: Who knows?
CHANCES OF SEEING A COMMERCIAL DVD RELEASE: Nope, sorry.
Back when I was a kid in the 1970s (yes, I am that old), the only time that ice skating appeared on television was during the Winter Olympics or in an occasional special anchored on an ice dancing spectacular production. In 1973, the Hanna-Barbera fun factory licensed their Flintstones characters for a one-shot ice skating special. The resulting work was among the most bewildering but strangely entertaining specials to air on 1970s television.
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Excalibur [1981] [Arrow 4k UHD/Blu-Ray]
Arrow gives John Boorman’s 1981 Arthurian epic Excalibur a Holy Grail for physical media collectors in a gorgeous new 4kUHD/Blu-Ray (you can finally SEE what happens!), bursting at the seams with 17 hours of material.