New Releases for April 21 2026

RESURRECTION (2025) 

With his ravishing third feature, visionary director Bi Gan takes his deepest plunge yet into the realm of pure dreamscape. In a world where humans have forsaken dreams in exchange for immortality, a dreaming monster (Jackson Yee) embarks on a shape-shifting odyssey through illusion, beauty, and terror that takes him across a century of cinema and to the end of time. Unfolding in five dazzlingly imagined chapters that encompass everything from silent-era expressionism to film noir to a delirious vampire love story shot in one of Bi’s signature long takes, Resurrection is a work of breathtaking imagination in which cinema is the ultimate portal to the unconscious mind. (DVD and BLU-RAY)

PEKING OPERA BLUES (1986) 

Having already proven himself a master of kinetic action with Zu Warriors from the Magic Mountain, legendary director Tsui Hark would add lashings of comedy and frenzied expressionism to spectacular effect with 1986's Peking Opera Blues.

Beijing, 1913. In a time of violent turmoil when local tyrants vie for supremacy, three women's lives converge in the local Peking Opera house. Together they hatch a revolutionary plan to stop president Yuan Shikai from reinstating the monarchy and proclaiming himself emperor. With the help of a righteous freedom-fighter and a disillusioned palace guard, the rebels must use all their wits and brawn to protect their democratic principles and save the emerging Chinese republic. (4K ULTRA HD)

DESPERATE TEENAGE LOVEDOLLS (1984) / LOVEDOLLS SUPERSTAR (1986)

David Markey's Desperate Teenage Lovedolls (1984) and its sequel Lovedolls Superstar (1986), two underground Super-8 cult films together for the first time, rebuilt and remastered in UHD. Chronicling the rise and fall and the subsequent resurrection in the sequel of the fictitious all girl band, the Lovedolls. 'Kind of an all-girl Spinal Tap' said the Los Angeles Reader at the time of release. The positive critical response didn't stop there. 'This is worthy of a Joan Crawford vehicle' chimed The Village Voice.

Made on a micro-budget and cast with members of the Los Angeles punk scene (Redd Kross, Black Flag etc.), shot guerrilla-style on the streets of Hollywood and Santa Monica and Venice. This was a true Do-It-Yourself effort, made for the ragged fellow travelers on the scene at the time. It was also a testimony to inventiveness- made by disaffected kids without much resource, raised on junk food and trash television. The rags to riches story is one of classic Hollywood lore with tongue planted firmly in cheek. Produced for paltry $250.00, the film inspired a sequel with a budget 40 times that amount, made possible by Desperate Teenage Lovedolls success.

Lovedolls Superstar was an even more ambitious project with more expansive, if not completely out-there story telling. The parodies were even more pointed, confronting pop and rock culture of the time. No one was spared; from 'Brews Springstien' to Billy Jack, from feminism to cult behavior, and to punk rock itself. They were unafraid to poke fun at themselves!

The Lovedolls films offer an antithesis to the squeaky clean, conservative 1980's America. They display just how far you can go with very little. David Markey would go on to helm many film projects, notably documenting the Sonic Youth / Nirvana tour in 1991 The Year Punk Broke. (BLU-RAY)

GOOD LUCK, HAVE FUN, DON'T DIE (2025) 

A man claiming to be from the future (Sam Rockwell) recruits an unlikely group of diner patrons to join him on a genre-defying adventure to save humanity from the perils of social media brainrot and the impending AI apocalypse! From Oscar®-winning director Gore Verbinski (Pirates of the Caribbean), GOOD LUCK, HAVE FUN, DON'T DIE is a comedic, kinetic, gonzo, world-ending adventure like nothing you've ever experienced. (BLU-RAY and DVD)

POINT BLANK (1967) (Criterion Collection)

Director John Boorman brought the gangster drama into new realms of modernist abstraction with this stylized revenge thriller, which transforms hard-edged pulp into a kaleidoscopic psychological puzzle. Lee Marvin is iconically cool as the enigmatic Walker, who, after he’s betrayed and left for dead by his best friend during a robbery, embarks on a brutal quest for vengeance, aided by a jaded ex-moll (a sensational Angie Dickinson) who has her own complex motives for helping him. Capturing Los Angeles locales with a surreal pop-art eye, Boorman locates the existential dread lurking beneath the city’s sunlit surface. (BLU-RAY + 4K)