New Releases for June 17 2025

THE ANNIHILATION OF FISH (1999) 

Winner of an Honorary Oscar® for lifetime achievement, Charles Burnett is one of the world's most important filmmakers. In his astonishing The Annihilation of Fish, James Earl Jones (Field of Dreams, Claudine) stars as Obidiah "Fish" Johnson, a Jamaican widower recently released from a mental hospital, despite his continuing battles against an invisible demon named Hank. Relocating to Los Angeles, he moves into the boarding house of eccentric landlady, Mrs. Muldroone, (Margot Kidder, Superman). There he meets Poinsettia, played by Lynn Redgrave (Georgy Girl, Gods and Monsters), who has recently fled San Francisco and her fiancé, the ghost of composer Giacomo Puccini.

Hailed by critics and audiences as funny, compassionate, and tender, Burnett's long-lost film treasure is available for the first time. (DVD and (BLU-RAY)

MIDNIGHT (1939) (Criterion Collection)

Screwball comedy doesn’t get any more effortlessly elegant and gleefully irreverent than this roulette wheel of romantic deception, gleaming with cunning wit and Continental élan. A couture-clad Claudette Colbert is divine as a penniless American chorus girl who crashes Parisian high society by posing as a wealthy Hungarian baroness—but both a scheming nobleman (John Barrymore) and a smitten taxi driver (Don Ameche) are soon on to her game. Billy Wilder and Charles Brackett’s sophisticated script—a typically subversive blend of fairy-tale escapism and caustic social observation—and the pitch-perfect direction of master craftsman Mitchell Leisen yield a topsy-turvy Cinderella story with a cynical bite. (BLU-RAY)

FARMER, THE (1977) 

World War II is over and Kyle Martin returns to Georgia to try his hand at farm life. With no money to save his failing farm from foreclosure, Kyle finds himself in dire straits. A local gambler offers Kyle $50,000 to kill some mobsters who blinded him with acid but Kyle refuses. Meantime, Kyle falls in love with the gamblers girlfriend Betty. Soon the gangsters catch wind of the offer and burn down Kyle's farm, killing Kyle's friend Gumshoe in the process. One of the gangsters even goes so far as to brutally rape and sodomize Betty. Seething with anger, Kyle now willingly takes the gambler up on his offer and embarks on a violent, blood-soaked trail of revenge. (BLU-RAY + 4K)

DEEP STAR SIX (1989) 

From producer/director Sean S. Cunningham, the creator of the Friday the 13th and House films, comes this action-packed underwater sci-fi thriller starring Taurean Blacque (Hill Street Blues), Nancy Everhard (The Punisher), Greg Evigan (B.J. and the Bear), Miguel Ferrer (RoboCop), Matt McCoy (The Hand That Rocks the Cradle), Nia Peeples (North Shore), Cindy Pickett (Ferris Bueller’s Day Off) and Marius Weyers (The Gods Must Be Crazy). Far below the surface of the unforgiving sea, the daring crew of DeepStar Six are explorers in a forbidding world of impenetrable darkness and unimaginable pressure. They have invaded the icy fathoms into which no human has ever ventured. Their mission is to establish a top secret Navy base on the ocean floor. But something’s down there and the crew of DeepStar Six are about to make a startling discovery—there’s no escape from the terror of the deep. DeepStar Six will plunge you into the depths of fear… save your last breath... to scream. (BLU-RAY + 4K)

SABRINA (1954) 

Hollywood legends Humphrey Bogart (The African Queen), William Holden (Stalag 17) and Audrey Hepburn (Roman Holiday) star in this classic Cinderella story directed by the brilliant Billy Wilder (Sunset Boulevard, Some Like It Hot, The Apartment). Bogie and Holden are the mega-rich Larrabee brothers of Long Island. Bogie’s all work, Holden’s all playboy. But when Sabrina, daughter of the family’s chauffeur, returns from a stay in Paris all grown up and glamorous, the stage is set for some family fireworks as the brothers fall under the spell of Hepburn’s delightful charms. Sabrina scored 6 Academy Award nominations for the year 1954, including Best Actress for Hepburn, Best Director for Wilder, Best Screenplay for Wilder with Ernest Lehman (North by Northwest) and Samuel A. Taylor (Vertigo) based on Taylor’s hit Broadway play, and an Oscar win for Edith Head’s iconic costumes. Provocative, romantic, bubbling with laughter—Sabrina is simply irresistible! (BLU-RAY + 4K)