Clint Eastwood in A Fistful Of Dollars

Arrow Video have already got April ready for our visual pleasure. Teasing us that the month will be one that will be a ‘fisful’ of 4K, that includes Clint Eastwood in 4K, Japanese crime thriller and a Geena Davis classic action.

The month starts with Booger on Limited Edition Blu-ray, multi-talented director Mary Dauterman’s unflinching exploration of grief, identity and resilience with a darkly comic edge. With a unique blend of horror, humour and heart, Booger transforms the mundane into the macabre, delivering a deeply human exploration of love, loss, and the strange ways we cope with pain, that lingers long after the credits roll. The Blu-ray includes a host of extras, along with a reversible sleeve and an illustrated collector’s booklet.

Next in April, A Fistful of Dollars, on Limited Edition 4K UHD and Limited Edition Blu-ray. It wasn’t really the first film of its kind, but the western all’Italiana – or “spaghetti Western” – was never the same again after Sergio Leone’s groundbreaking film, starring Clint Eastwood in the classic role that made him an international icon. Leone’s clever and contemporary inversion of Western archetypes was not only the first entry in a much-beloved trilogy, but the director’s first collaboration with the brilliant composer Ennio Morricone. Now fully uncut and freshly restored in glorious 4K with an arsenal of new and old bonus material – as well as a poster, reversible sleeve and perfect bound collector’s booklet – the Man with No Name rides again like never before! To complete The Dollars Trilogy, Arrow Video will also be releasing in May and June Limited Edition 4K UHD Blu-Ray editions of both For A Few Dollars More (1965) and The Good, The Bad and The Ugly (1966). Each edition will feature additional artwork from Tony Stella that will tie all three releases together through a collective spine.

Bryan Brown and Brian Dennehy star in F/X & F/X 2: The Grande Illusion are next up on Limited Edition Blu-ray. In the 1980s special make-up effects artists became stars, pushing the boundaries of what could be shown on screen as audiences around the world reacted with shock and delight. No surprise then that sooner or later they’d get a movie that made them the hero: F/X: Murder by Illusion, which was a smash-hit, so a sequel – F/X 2: The Deadly Art of Illusion – was inevitable. Beloved by a generation of movie fans and featuring two of the most charismatic character actors ever to grace the screen, in Brown and Dennehy, F/X and F/X 2 are the kind of charming action-thrillers they just don’t seem to be making anymore. The 2-disc Limited Edition 4K UHD includes a 60-page perfect bound collector’s book, a reversible sleeve, double-sided fold out poster, and stickers.

Next up is 5 Disc V-Cinema Essentials: Bullets & Betrayal, on Limited Edition Blu-ray, a collection of some of the best the Japanese crime film has to offer. In 1989 legendary Japanese studio Toei launched their V-Cinema line of direct-to-video genre features. Jam-packed with action, thrills, and double-crosses, V-Cinema Essentials: Bullets & Betrayal is an electrifying compendium of gems from this Japanese video underworld, including Crime Hunter, Neo Chinpira: Zoom Goes the Bullet, Stranger, Carlos, Burning Dog, Female Prisoner Scorpion: Death Threat, The Hitman: Blood Smells Like Roses, Danger Point: The Road to Hell, and XX: Beautiful Hunter.

Finally the month brings, the action blockbuster The Long Kiss Goodnight on Limited Edition 4K UHD. From screenwriter Shane Black (Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, The Nice Guys) and director Renny Harlin (Die Hard 2, Cliffhanger) comes one of the very best 90s action thrillers. Geena Davis is a revelation as the wholesome school teacher struggling to reconcile with her deadly alter ego Charly, while Samuel L. Jackson brings his quintessential charm to a role that so enamoured test audiences that they refused to let him die. With unforgettable action sequences and dialogue to die for, this is a hell of a good time, so strap yourselves in and hold on tight!

Booger Limited Edition Blu-ray 7th April
Booger 4K
Anna, a young New Yorker, is consumed with overwhelming grief after the sudden death of her best friend and roommate, Izzy. Struggling to cope, Anna becomes fixated on finding Booger, the stray cat she and Izzy took in together. When she finally tracks the cat down, an unexpected bite to the hand triggers a bizarre and unsettling transformation, causing Anna to gradually take on more feline characteristics.

A Fistful of Dollars Limited Edition 4K UHD 21st April
A Fistful of Dollars 4K
A nameless stranger (Eastwood) rides into the Mexican border town of San Miguel and quickly finds himself in the middle of a bloody battle for power between two rival families, the Baxters and the Rojos. Cannily realising there’s money to be made from playing each side against the other, the Man with No Name soon finds himself caught in the crossfire as the body count escalates, his only chance of escape a standoff against the Rojos’ mercilessly cruel leader, Ramón (Gian Maria Volonté).

Also available on: Limited edition Blu-ray

F/X & F/X 2: The Grande Illusion Limited Edition Blu-ray 14th April
F/X Films artwork
In F/X: Murder by Illusion, Rollie Tyler (Bryan Brown) is a special effects genius approached by the Department of Justice to fake the death of a gangster about to turn state’s evidence. But all is not as it seems. Now someone is trying to kill Rollie, and grizzled cop Leo McCarthy (Brian Dennehy) suspects him of murder. Unable to turn to the police, Rollie goes on the run with only his wits and his special effects expertise to save him. F/X was a smash-hit and a sequel was inevitable.

Under the auspices of ace Australian director Richard Franklin (Psycho II), F/X 2: The Deadly Art of Illusion sees Rollie convinced, against his better judgement, to once again use his expertise beyond the silver screen, this time helping to trap a murderer as part of an NYPD sting. When lightning strikes twice and things go wrong, Rollie, his girlfriend Kim (Rachel Ticotin) and her young son Chris are all plunged into danger; only with Leo’s help can Rollie keep them safe.

V-Cinema Essentials: Bullets & Betrayal Limited Edition Blu-ray 28th April
V-Cinema Box Set
Fast-paced and action-packed, Crime Hunter sees detective “Joker” Kawamura out for revenge against the men who gunned down his partner. Along the way he teams up with Lily, a gun-toting nun looking to get back five million dollars that was stolen from her church. Next up, Neo Chinpira: Zoom Goes the Bullet sees wannabe yakuza Junko get more than he bargained for when tasked with avenging the murder of a fellow gang member, or face the consequences for betrayal. Meanwhile, in Shunichi Nagasaki’s unbearably tense thriller Stranger, a late-night taxi driver is stalked by the unseen driver of an SUV, who just might have a connection to the taxi driver’s criminal past. In Carlos, the eponymous Brazilian-Japanese petty criminal sees an opportunity to play rival yakuza gangs against each other, but bites off much more than he can chew. Burning Dog is an action-packed heist film where a gang of thieves plot to rob a US military base in Okinawa, but rising tensions in the group threaten to put the plan in jeopardy.

The sequel to one of the most iconic Japanese franchises of all time, Female Prisoner Scorpion: Death Threat sees a female assassin hired to infiltrate a women’s prison and search for The Scorpion, a legendary rebellious prisoner hiding in the bowels of the prison. After his fiancée is killed in the crossfire of a yakuza turf war, a man on the edge remorselessly hunts down the gangsters responsible in legendary director Teruo Ishii’s The Hitman: Blood Smells Like Roses. Meanwhile in Danger Point: The Road to Hell, a duo of contract killers’ fragile partnership is tested when their most recent hit starts to have unforeseen consequences. Finally, assassin and femme fatale Shion rebels against the fanatical religious order who prepared her from birth to be the perfect killer in the pulpy XX: Beautiful Hunter.

The Long Kiss Goodnight Limited Edition 4K UHD 7th April
A Kiss Goodnight 4K Artwork
Eight years ago, Samantha Caine (Geena Davis) washed up on a beach, pregnant, with no memory. Now she’s a school teacher living an idyllic small town life with a daughter and boyfriend who love her. She’s almost given up on ever finding out about the life she used to lead, until an accident awakens hidden memories and her past comes back with all guns blazing. With the help of low rent private eye Mitch Henessey (Samuel L. Jackson) Samantha must uncover who she was and why so many people want her dead before it kills them both.


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