New on Blu-ray: COME DRINK WITH ME (1966) - Special Edition

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Product Description: Years before Shaw Brothers’ kung fu films made them the biggest film studio in Hong Kong, local audiences flocked to their wuxia pian films: mythic tales of swordfighting (and often gravity-defying) heroes fighting for honor. In his final film for the studio, Come Drink With Me, director King Hu (A Touch of Zen) broke fresh new ground in martial arts storytelling, and catapulted fresh-faced lead actress Cheng Pei-pei to stardom in the process.

When the Governor’s son is taken hostage by bandits, a mysterious swordsman named Golden Swallow (Cheng) is hot on their trail to ensure the son’s release. What the bandits don’t realize, however, is that Golden Swallow is actually a woman, and that the hostage is her brother. Determined to set him free, no matter how many goons she has to fight her way through in doing so, she is aided in her quest by a drunken beggar (Yueh Hua) who may have a closer connection to the bandits’ leader than he initially lets on.

Decades before Ang Lee brought the wuxia genre to international attention with Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (in which Cheng played the villainous Jade Fox), King Hu set the original template in what is still considered one of Shaw Brothers’ greatest and most influential action masterpieces.

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The 2016 Australian crime thriller "Goldstone" follows Indigenous Detective Jay Swan (Aaron Pedersen) who arrives in the titular frontier town on a missing persons case and ends up uncovering a web of crime, corruption, trampling of land rights and human trafficking.

Written, directed, shot and edited by Ivan Sen, the film is a sequel to Sen's 2013 mystery thriller "Mystery Road", which also featured Swan as a protagonist and starred Pedersen. Alex Russell, Jacki Weaver, David Wenham, Pei-Pei Cheng and Michelle Lim Davidson co-star.

"Goldstone" opened in Australia on July 7, 2016 and received a limited release in the U.S. on March 9, 2018. It received generally positive reviews from critics.

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