New on Blu-ray: ALPHA (2025) Starring Tahar Rahim & Golshifteh Farahani

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Product Description: Alpha is a 13-year-old whose world collapses the day she returns from a party with a tattoo on her arm. It prompts others to wonder if she now has a terrifying blood-borne illness that is sweeping through society.

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ALPHA (2025) - Trailers, Clip, Images and Posters

"Alpha" is a body horror film written and directed by Julia Ducournau ("Titane", "Raw"). The film stars Mélissa Boros as Alpha, a troubled 13-year-old who lives with her single mom, until their world collapses the day she returns from school with a tattoo on her arm. The cast also features Tahar Rahim, Golshifteh Farahani, Emma Mackey, Finnegan Oldfield and Louai El Amrousy.

The film premiered in competition at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival, where it was nominated for the Palme d'Or. It was released in theaters in France on August 20, 2025, and in the US in select theaters on March 27, 2026. On April 14, 2026 it was released on digital platforms.

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New Trailers: STREET FIGHTER, THE MOMENT, SCARLET, ALPHA, THE PRESIDENT'S CAKE and MOSES THE BLACK

Today we have new trailers for:

• The upcoming video game adaptation "Street Fighter" directed by Kitao Sakurai ("Bad Trip") from a script by Dalan Musson ("Captain America: Brave New World"). The film stars Noah Centineo, Andrew Koji, Callina Liang, Joe "Roman Reigns" Anoa'i, David Dastmalchian, Cody Rhodes, Andrew Schulz, Eric André, Vidyut Jammwal, Curtis '50 Cent' Jackson and Jason Momoa.
• The satirical mockumentary "The Moment" starring Charli XCX. The film marks the directorial debut of music video director Aidan Zamiri, who previously worked with Charli XCX on her videos "Guess" and "360". Zamiri co-wrote the film with former VICE and GQ reporter Bertie Brandes. The cast also includes Rosanna Arquette, Kate Berlant, Jamie Demetriou, Hailey Benton Gates, Kylie Jenner, Trew Mullen, Isaac Cole Powell, Rachel Sennott and Rish Shah.
• The anime film "Scarlet" from acclaimed filmmaker Mamoru Hosoda ("Belle") and produced by Studio Chizu.
• The French body horror film "Alpha" from Julia Ducournau ("Titane"). The film stars Tahar Rahim, Golshifteh Farahani, Mélissa Boros, Emma Mackey, Finnegan Oldfield and Louai El Amrousy.
• The drama "The President's Cake" written and directed by Hasan Hadi. The film is Iraq's official submission to this year's Academy Awards.
• The crime drama "Moses the Black" starring Omar Epps, Wiz Khalifa, Quavo, and Chukwudi Iwuji . The film is written and directed by Yelena Popovic ("Man of God").

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New Trailers: JURASSIC WORLD: REBIRTH, CAUGHT STEALING, PREDATOR: KILLER OF KILLERS, THE NEW BOY, OFF THE GRID and ALPHA

Today we have new trailers for:

• "Jurassic World: Rebirth", the highly anticipated new installment in the Jurassic Park/World franchise. The film is directed by Gareth Edwards ("Godzilla", "The Creator"), and it stars Scarlett Johnasson and Mahershala Ali.
• "Requiem for a Dream" and "Black Swan" filmmaker Darren Aronofsky's darkly comic crime thriller "Caught Stealing" starring Austin Butler, Matt Smith and Zoe Kravitz.
• "Predator: Killer of Killers", an R-rated animated anthology film in the Predator franchise. The voice cast includes Lilndsay LaVanchy, Louis Ozawa Changchien, Rick Gonzalez and Michael Biehn. The film is co-directed by "Prey" filmmaker Dan Trachtenberg alongside Joshua Wassung, a visual effects artist from the animation studio The Third Floor.
• The Australian period drama "The New Boy" directed by Warwick Thornton ("Mystery Road", "Samson and Delilah"). The film stars Cate Blanchett, Deborah Mailman and Wayne Blair.
• The action crime thriller "Off the Grid" starring Josh Duhamel, Greg Kinnear, Peter Stormare and Maria Elisa Camargo.
• "Alpha", the new dark coming-of-age thriller from "Titane" and "Raw" filmmaker Julia Ducournau. The film stars newcomer Melissa Boros, Golshifteh Farahani ("Extraction"), Tahar Rahim ("A Prophet"), Emma Mackey ("Sex Education") and Finnegan Oldfield ("Infested").

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New on Blu-ray: Julia Ducournau's TITANE (2021)

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Product Description: A Cannes Film Festival sensation and Palme d'Or winner, TITANE is a feverish and jaw-dropping ride from the mind of Julia Ducournau (RAW). With a titanium plate surgically fused to her skull following a car crash as a child, car model Alexia embarks on a wild and ultimately unpredictable journey that questions our assumptions about family, identity and love.

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TITANE Wins Palme d'Or at 2021 Cannes Film Festival

The winners of the 2021 Cannes Film Festival have been announced. French filmmaker Julia Ducournau became the second-ever female director to win the Palme d'Or for the controversial body-horror thriller "Titane". The last female winner of the coveted award was Jane Campion in 1993 in a tie between her "The Piano" and Chen Kaige's "Farewell My Concubine".

Spike Lee accidentally announced the win ahead of time during the ceremony, but Ducournau did not collect her award until the formal announcement at the end of the ceremony.

Lee presided over a mostly female jury that included French-Senegalese actor-director Mati Diop, American actor-filmmaker Maggie Gyllenhaal, Austrian director Jessica Hausner, French actor-helmer Mélanie Laurent, Brazilian helmer Kleber Mendonça Filho, French actor Tahar Rahim, South Korean actor Song Kang-ho and cult French singer Mylene Farmer.

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New on Blu-ray: RAW (2016) Starring Garance Marillier

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Product Description: At 16, Justine is a brilliant and promising student and a strict vegetarian. But when she starts at veterinary school, she quickly encounters a decadent, merciless and dangerously seductive world. Desperate to fit in during the first week of hazing rituals, desperate to fit in at whatever the cost, she strays from her family's principles when she eats raw meat for the first time. Justine will soon face the terrible and unexpected consequences of her actions as her true self begins to emerge.

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RAW Horror Movie Trailer, Clips, Images and Posters

"Raw", in french "Grave", is a French-Belgian horror film that gives cannibalism a modern spin. Written and directed by Julia Ducournau, the film tells the story of Justine (Garance Marillier) a vegetarian starting out at a veterinary school, who begins to experience a strange craving for flesh after participating in a hazing ritual that involved eating meat. Ella Rumpf, Rabah Nait Oufella, Joana Preiss and Laurent Lucas co-star.

"Raw" premiered in the U.S. on March 10th and received positive reviews from critics. It was also screened at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival, where it won the FIPRESCI prize. Other screenings in Gothenburg and Toronto resulted in several participants fainting or requiring medical assistance due to the film's graphic content.

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New Red Band Trailer and Poster for the Horror Film RAW

"Raw" is a delicious French-Belgian horror film that tells the story of a young vegetarian (Garance Marillier) who is just starting at a veterinary school. She is a brilliant and promising student, but she begins having a sudden and compulsive taste for fresh meat after partaking in a hazing ritual at school, which required her to eat raw meat. Soon, her true self begins to emerge with unexpected and terrible consequences.

Written and directed by Julia Ducournau, the film also stars Ella Rumpf, Rabah Nait Oufella, Laurent Lucas and Joana Preiss.

The film ran through all the major film festival circuits, including Cannes and the Toronto International Film Festival, gaining widespread acclaim. Furthermore, rumors indicate that at the TIFF screening, someone passed out because of all the gory carnage. True or not, it's certainly the kind of publicity that sells tickets.

"Raw" will be released in theaters in the U.S. on March 10th, and France on March 15th.

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