By: Al B.
A YARD OF JACKALS
IndiePix Films
On Blu-ray/ DVD/Digital June 9
In the winter of 1978, under Chile’s dictatorship in Santiago, Raúl Peralta, a lonely, disabled architectural model maker, leads a quiet life, caring for his ailing mother and accompanied only by a pet canary. His routine is shattered by the arrival of new neighbors whose sinister activities seem to hide dark secrets. As Raúl desperately clings to the last vestiges of his sanity, his life becomes increasingly entangled with Guillermo, a mysterious man in dark glasses. Caught between personal loss and political terror, Raúl must confront the scars of repression and survival in this haunting psychological thriller about isolation, moral decay, and a mind fracturing under authoritarian rule.
THE YEAR BEFORE THE WAR
IndiePix Films
Premiering On DVD/Digital July 14
As Europe teeters on the brink of World War I, Hans a humble doorman in Riga, is swept into a whirlwind of radical ideologies, political upheaval, and rising nationalism. His journey becomes an odyssey across a continent in turmoil, carrying him from utopian communes to imperial capitals. Bearing witness to violence, passion and intrigue, he crosses paths with some of the era’s most influential figures – including Mata Hari, Sigmund Freud, Vladimir Lenin, Joseph Stalin, and Leon Trotsky – amid the unraveling of the old order.
BROKEN LAND
@WellGoUSA
Available on VOD now
Carson Tidwell wants nothing more than to be left alone on his rural Texas ranch. When he accidentally shoots a pregnant migrant worker crossing his land, he feels compelled to protect her from his estranged Border Patrol agent son. As she recovers, a bond forms that ultimately heals them both.
IN THE GREY
Black Bear Pics
In Theaters now
In The Grey follows a covert team of elite operatives who live in the global shadows, as comfortable wielding power and influence as they are automatic weapons and high explosives. When a ruthless despot steals a billion-dollar fortune, the team is sent to steal it back on what would be for anyone else a suicide mission. What begins as an impossible heist gets much worse, spiraling into an all-out war of strategy, deception and survival.
NIGHT NURSE
IFC Independent Film Company
In Theaters July 10
At the start of her new job in a luxury retirement community, Eleni is drawn into a series of scam calls targeting the elderly residents, a pull she can’t quite name or resist. As the community’s strange rhythms close around her, she grows increasingly intimate with her elusive patient, Douglas, until the line blurs between care and desire, devotion and delusion.
HOT GIRLS SUMMER
Omnibus Entertainment
Available on VOD/Digital/FM+ July 10
Three best friends – Inken, Vicky, Lena — embark on a chaotic and hilarious journey to discover the secret to their first “big o”. Between bad advice, awkward mishaps, and unexpected crushes — including a bike ride that changes everything — they face friendship drama, body insecurities, and self-discovery in the heat of summer. And as the girls navigate the overblown and byzantine travails of modern high school life and 21st century mating rituals, they find that climaxing might not actually be the end-all it’s cracked up to be.
MAN OF WAR
@WellGoUSA Entertainment
On VOD July 3
MAN OF WAR stars LaMonica Garrett as an elite American Special Forces veteran operating in Ukraine during Russia’s invasion. While fighting to protect vulnerable civilians on the front lines, the stakes become deeply personal when his adopted daughter is kidnapped by Russian mercenaries. Forced to navigate a brutal landscape of fire and betrayal, he must risk everything on this high-stakes hostage rescue mission.
BLADES OF THE GUARDIANS: WIND RISES IN THE DESERT
@WellGoUSA
On Digital now
Legendary action master Yuen Woo-ping brings together martial arts icons Wu Jing, Nicholas Tse, Max Zhang, and Jet Li on an epic wuxia adventure across the desert sands. Bounty hunter Doa Ma takes a job escorting the empire’s most wanted man, Zhi Shi Lang, to Chang’an city. As word gets out, his group is hunted down by warriors across the land. The chase is relentless, the action is non-stop, and the blades cut deep.
7 SNIPERS
@WellGoUSA
In Theaters Now
A retired elite sniper and her daughter live a quiet life in the remote Australian countryside. That peace is shattered when a ruthless warlord from her past returns for retribution. Calling in her old crew, she prepares to defend her family in director Sandra Sciberras’ taut action-thriller Seven Snipers.
OUTLAW – DIRECTOR’S CUT
Ariztical Entertainment
On Digital TVOK & Blu-ray July 21
NIKITA is an 11th-grader in Moscow struggling to align his burgeoning homosexuality with his desire for acceptance while being infatuated by most popular boy in school, ALPHA. NINA, a transgender schoolteacher and dancer in the 1980s with secrets in the past that continue to haunt them. The rebellious OUTLAW is the only one who revels in her role as an outsider freed from societal restraints as she gives full rein to her carnal instincts.