Welcome to Mandatory and ComingSoon’s weekly Binge & Buy, a digital HD, Blu-ray, and DVD column for the week of Dec. 3! Here, you’ll find detailed write-ups of different titles released this week, including a number of new releases like Big Trouble in Little China, reissues, combo packs, and TV seasons, none of which you can live without in 2019.
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Binge and Buy Dec 3
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'The Goldfinch'
Tragedy changes Theodore Decker's life after his mother was killed in a bombing at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. He holds on to a painting as hope from that tragic day.
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'Semper Fi'
When his reckless younger brother is given an unfair prison sentence, a marine reservist is torn between his by-the-book code and loyalty to family.
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'Where'd You Go Bernadette?'
An inspiring comedy about Bernadette Fox, a loving mom who becomes compelled to reconnect with her creative passions after years of sacrificing herself for her family.
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'Tunes of Glory'
The incomparable Alec Guinness inhabits the role of Jock Sinclair, a whiskey-drinking, up-by-the-bootstraps commanding officer of a peacetime Scottish battalion. Sinclair is a lifetime military man, who expects respect and loyalty from his men. But when Basil Barrow, an educated, by-the-book scion of a traditionally military family, enters the scene as Sinclair's replacement, the two men become locked in a fierce battle for control of the battalion and the hearts and minds of its men.
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'Big Trouble in Little China'
Kurt Russell tangles with baddies and beauties in John Carpenter's mystical fantasy, now out on Scream Factory Blu-ray!
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'Camille Claudel'
This biography of Camille Claudel, sister of writer Paul Claudel, focuses on how her enthusiasm impresses already-famous sculptor Auguste Rodin. He hires her as an assistant, but soon Camille begins to sculpt for herself and for Rodin. She also becomes his mistress.
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'Emanuelle in America'
Emanuelle (Laura Gemser) is a fearless photojournalist and fashion photographer who travels the world in search of the exotic, the erotic and the downright deadly. Never averse to shedding her clothes in pursuit of a good story, Emanuelle arrives in America with a mission to expose the sizzling inner secrets of the jet set at play.
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'The World, the Flesh, and the Devil'
Nuclear doomsday has come. Ralph is sure he is the last person alive. Then a woman appears and the two form a cautious friendship that's threatened when a third survivor arrives.
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'Grand Isle'
Walter (Nicolas Cage) and his neglected wife lure a young man into their Victorian home to escape a hurricane. When the man is charged with murder by Detective Jones (Kelsey Grammar), he must reveal the couple's wicked secrets to save himself.
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'Sesame Street's 50th Anniversary Celebration!'
Joseph Gordon-Levitt hosts this star-studded special that offers a sweeping look at 50 years of Sesame Street.
