Welcome to Mandatory and ComingSoon’s weekly Binge & Buy, a digital HD, Blu-ray, and DVD column for the week of January 7! Here, you’ll find detailed write-ups of different titles released this week, including a number of new releases like Joker, reissues, combo packs, and TV seasons, none of which you can live without in 2019.
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Binge and Buy January 7
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'Joker'
This film is an original, standalone story. Arthur Fleck (Joaquin Phoenix), a man disregarded by society, is not only a gritty character study, but also a broader cautionary tale.
Photo: Warner Bros.
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'The Lighthouse'
Two lighthouse keepers (Robert Pattinson and Willem Dafoe) fight each other for survival and sanity on a remote and mysterious New England island in the 1890s. This movie comes from Robert Eggers, the visionary filmmaker behind horror masterpiece The Witch.
Photo: A24
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'The Shed'
When Stan discovers a murderous vampire living in his shed, he knows he must destroy it. But his best friend Dommer has a much more sinister plan.
Photo: Sideshow Pictures
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'The Nightshifter'
Steñio can talk to the dead. If he isn't careful, his gift will be a curse.
Photo: Canal Brasil
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'Brick'
A teenage loner pushes his way into the underworld of a high school crime ring to investigate the disappearance of his ex-girlfriend.
Photo: Bergman Lustig Productions
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'Wrinkles the Clown' (DVD)
It started with an online video that went viral. Wrinkles the clown had been hired by parents to scare their misbehaving child. Follow this eerie real-life character.
Photo: Crush Pictures
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'Cobra Woman'
After Ramu discovers that his fiancée Tollea has been kidnapped by a lost tribe and taken to a Pacific isle, he and his friend Kado set out across the seas to find her.
Photo: Universal Pictures
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'The Hellbenders'
Screen legend Joseph Cotten stars as the fanatical patriarch of a family of ex-Confederate killers who massacre an army convoy to finance an invasion of the North. But before they can reignite the Civil War, they'll have to smuggle a coffin crammed with stolen cash across a frontier enflamed by lust, violence and extreme vengeance.
Photo: Tecisa Film
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'Kill Them All and Come Back Alone'
In 1864, mercenary Clyde MacKay (Chuck Connors) leads a squad of hard-case cutthroats on a mission for the Confederate high command: infiltrate an enemy fortress and steal a million dollars in gold from the Union Army.
Photo: Fida Cinematografica
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'Dr. Cyclops'
Set in the Peruvian jungle, this 1940 landmark science-fiction adventure, directed by pioneering filmmaker Ernest Schoedsack, follows four explorers as they search for legendary physicist Dr. Cyclops.
Photo: Paramount Pictures
