New Releases for October 8 2024

BANNING (1967)

Pro golfer Mike McDermot (Robert Wagner) is booted out of the PGA Tour after being framed for cheating by two fellow players (Guy Stockwell and Gene Hackman). Reinventing himself as Mike Banning, he secures a job at s swanky golf club where he orchestrates a high-stakes tournament-that he's going to have to win in order to pay back the small fortune he owes to the mob. (BLU-RAY)

DEVI DANGER (2024)

Devi Danger is a music driven cyberpunk thriller about a hard rocking singer coerced into becoming an electronically enhanced new-music diva by her high-tech billionaire patron. Set in the near future, her singing voice is used to control and energize the brains of employees that are being used as external processors for the corporation's high-tech clients. Devi Danger explores the conflict between high-tech and high-touch, and what it means to be human in a digitally enhanced future. (BLU-RAY)

MY HEART IS THAT ETERNAL ROSE (1989) 

The idyllic, beach-side life of a retired Triad boss, his daughter Lap (Joey Wong) and her boyfriend Rick (Kenny Bee), shatters when a mob favour turns into a bloody shootout. Trading her freedom for her father's, Lap becomes mistress to Godfather Shen, while Rick goes into exile. Years later, as Shen unknowingly hires Rick as a hitman, Lap sees her chance at escape, while doe-eyed Triad gofer (Tony Leung) completes the doomed quadrangle.

Directed by the foremost stylist of the Hong Kong New Wave (and a mentor to Wong Kar-Wai), My Heart Is That Eternal Rose is the apotheosis of Patrick Tam's time within the strictures of the Hong Kong mainstream. Fulfilling commercial requirements while elevating formula with a lush sense of style, My Heart Is That Eternal Rose sings with the painterly cinematography of Christopher Doyle and David Chung as Tam's dream-like direction bridges the distance between the bullet ballets of a John Woo and the festering darkness of a David Lynch. It the blue jewel in the crown of the Hong Kong heroic bloodshed sub-genre, shining bright to this day. (BLU-RAY)

BLONDE ON A BUM TRIP (1968) 

Innocent small-town college coed Suzzane falls in with the wrong crowd when her roommate enlists her help in making homemade LSD. Initially reluctant to partake, Suzanne eventually gives in and is soon after embroiled in the underground world of hallucinogenic free love as she abandons her prim and proper morals in favor of increasingly kinky, acid fueled sex trips. Unfortunately it’s also not long before the more sinister side of the drug begins to take effect, leading to an orgy of both sex and violence… (BLU-RAY)

HOWLING 2: YOUR SISTER IS A WEREWOLF (1985)

(BLU-RAY + 4KULTRAHD)