Weekly CONNECTION January 8, 2024
Hot New Releases! When it comes to what's next, Midwest Tape is your source! “The legendary filmmaker has returned, thankfully, to deliver one of his best, most imaginative and mature movies yet.” - Observer
The Boy and the Heron
(Japanese) Voices of: Luca Padovan, Christian Bale, Dave Bautista A young boy named Mahito, yearning for his mother, ventures into a world shared by the living and the dead. There, death comes to an end, and life finds a new beginning. PG13 124 min. (2023) (Japan) Anime DVD 16428806 Blu-ray+DVD 16428807 2 Discs COMING SOON
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Video Honorees Barbie
Starring: Margot Robbie, Ryan Gosling, America Ferrera To live in Barbie Land is to be a perfect being in a perfect place. Unless you have a fullon existential crisis. Or you’re a Ken. PG13 114 min. (2023) $636M Comedy DVD 15994567 $26.24 Blu-ray 15994568 4K+Blu-ray 16146770
Oppenheimer
$32.24 $38.99
Past Lives
Starring: Greta Lee, Teo Yoo, John Magaro Nora and Hae Sung, two deeply connected childhood friends, reunite in New York after two decades apart, which forces them to confront their notions of love and destiny. PG13 105 min. (2023) $9M Drama DVD 16148327 Blu-ray 16148328
Spider-Man Across the Spider-Verse
Starring: Cillian Murphy, Emily Blunt, Matt Damon The story of American scientist J. Robert Oppenheimer and his role in the development of the atomic bomb. R 181 min. (2023) (United Kingdom) $324M Drama
$14.99 $16.49
The Holdovers
Starring: Paul Giamatti, Da’Vine Joy Randolph, Dominic Sessa A cranky history teacher at a remote prep school is forced to remain on campus over the holidays with a troubled student who has no place to go. R 134 min. (2023) Comedy DVD 16345466 $22.49 Collector’s Edition Blu-ray+DVD 16345467 $26.24 Collector’s Edition, 2 Discs
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Voices of: Shameik Moore, Hailee Steinfeld, Oscar Isaac Miles Morales catapults across the Multiverse, where he encounters a team of Spider-People charged with protecting its very existence. PG 140 min. (2023) $381M Children’s DVD 15961265 $26.24 Blu-ray+DVD 15961266 $30.74 2 Discs 4K+Blu-ray 16110646 $37.49 2 Discs
Succession Season 4
Poker Face Season 1
Abbott Elementary Season 2
The Last of Us Season 1
Starring: Brian Cox, Jeremy Strong, Sarah Snook The sale of media conglomerate Waystar Royco to tech visionary Lukas Matsson looms ever closer, provoking existential angst and division among the Roys. NR 651 min. (2023) Drama DVD 16106473 $22.49 3 Discs
Starring: Quinta Brunson, Tyler James Williams, Janelle James The teachers are back at Willard R. Abbott Public School for development week, a time to prepare for the upcoming year before the students’ first day of school. NR 476 min. (2022) Comedy DVD 16051279 $19.49 2 Discs
Starring: Natasha Lyonne, Benjamin Bratt, Simon Helberg Charlie has an extraordinary ability to determine when someone is lying. She is forced to hit the road and encounters a new cast of characters and strange crime with every stop. NR 548 min. (2023) Drama DVD 16023693 $22.49 3 Discs Blu-ray 16146788 $31.49 3 Discs
Starring: Pedro Pascal, Bella Ramsey, Anna Torv After a global pandemic destroys civilization, a hardnened survivor takes charge of a 14-year-old girl who may be humanity’s last hope. NR 521 min. (2023) Action/Adventure DVD 15793185 $22.49 4 Discs Blu-ray 15793184 $29.99 4 Discs 4K+Blu-ray 15793183 $33.74 4 Discs
“...very funny, occasionally touching and a sterling example of the bonds that can be forged by an unlikely family.” - CNN 2
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Brand new titles your patrons are sure to love, curated by our video experts here at Midwest Tape!
The Battle to Beat Malaria
Malaria is one of humanity’s oldest and most devastating plagues that still sickens or kills millions of people each year. Now, scientists may be on the verge of a promising new vaccine. UNK 60 min. (2023) Health DVD 16211484 AVAILABLE FEBRUARY 6
The Royal Hotel
$22.49
The 50th season of the landmark science documentary series continues with a look at a new breakthough in the fight against one of history’s deadliest diseases
Moon Garden
$26.24 $29.99
“...puts every bit of its imagination on the screen and constantly impresses with its DIY spectacle.” - RogerEbert.com
Starring: Julia Garner, Jessica Henwick, Hugo Weaving Backpackers Hanna and Liv take a job in a remote Australian pub for some extra cash and are confronted with a bunch of unruly locals and a situation that grows rapidly out of control. TVMA 91 min. (2023) Suspense/Thriller DVD 16418298 $19.49 AVAILABLE JANUARY 9
“[Director Kitty] Green’s feature thrums with imminent danger around every corner and is as tightly coiled as a big snake.” - San Jose Mercury News
Your Lucky Day
Starring: Augie Duke, Brionne Davis, Morgana Ignis A comatose fiveyear-old girl travels through an industrial wonderland to find her way back to consciousness. UNK 93 min. (2022) Fantasy DVD 16460110 Blu-ray 16460111 AVAILABLE FEBRUARY 6
Staff Video Picks
Starring: Angus Cloud, Elliot Knight, Jessica Garza After a dispute over a winning lottery ticket turns into a deadly hostage situation, the witnesses must decide exactly how far they’ll go and how much blood they’re willing to spill. R 89 min. (2023) Suspense/Thriller Blu-ray 16446966 $22.49 AVAILABLE JANUARY 23
The Marsh King’s Daughter
Starring: Daisy Ridley, Garrett Hedlund, Ben Mendelsohn A woman with a secret past will venture into the wilderness she left behind to confront the most dangerous man she’s ever met: her father. R 108 min. (2023) $2M Crime Blu-ray+DVD 16344608 $18.74 2 Discs
“B-movie material elevated by A-level performances.” - Hollywood Reporter
“...deceptively simple with a beer case’s worth of twists, most of which are unpredictable but make perfect character sense as they unfold.” - San Francisco Chronicle For all titles in this catalog, click Cat2Cart on MidwestTape.com / January 8, 2024
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New Audiobook Romance
Where hearts meet between the pages All Rhodes Lead Here Mariana Zapata
Midnight Ruin Katee Robert
Fiercely protective of his family and distrusting of strangers, gruff and grumpy Rhodes initially keeps little miss sunshine Aurora at a distance. But in time, Aurora breaks down his walls and soon an unbreakable friendship blossoms into a once-in-a-lifetime love. AB CD 16 Discs 16071956 $69.99 AVAILABLE JANUARY 30
With enemies slipping through Olympus’s faltering barrier to lay siege on the lower city, a trio of broken hearts will be the least of Eurydice, Charon, and Orpheus’s worries. AB CD 8 Discs 16351139 $59.99 AVAILABLE JANUARY 30
A scorchingly hot modern retelling of Eurydice and Orpheus and Charon
The (Fake) Dating Game Timothy Janovsky
Hedging Your Bets Jayne Denker
Not Bad for a Girl Anastasia Ryan
The Bright Spot Jill Shalvis
All Holden and Leo have to do is pretend to be a couple and win the game show, Madcap Market, and all of Holden’s problems—his broken heart, his buried grief, his complete lack of money —will be fixed. Of course, reality doesn’t quite work out that way. AB CD 6 Discs 16223971 $36.99 AVAILABLE JANUARY 23
Indiana ‘Ana’ Aaron enjoys the anonymity of working from home, so when her new boss thanks her as Mr. Aaron, she sees no reason to correct him. However, the longer Ana waits to set things straight, the more things get complicated. AB CD 7 Discs 16388364 $59.99 AVAILABLE JANUARY 30 4
When a gardening contest brings out the competition in Gillian and Noah, dueling plant arrangements and fiery banter ensue. But is it possible that beneath all their differences, they might just be perfect for each other? AB CD 8 Discs 16351130 $59.99 AVAILABLE JANUARY 9
Luna’s carefully controlled corner of the world is threatened and she—along with some help from her friends—has to dig deep to find true strength and the real meaning of love and family. AB CD 7 Discs 16071799 AVAILABLE JANUARY 16
January 8, 2024 / Midwest Tape / Weekly Buyer’s Guide / 800.875.2785
The London Bookshop Affair Louise Fein
With her newly formed romance taking a surprising turn and the world on the verge of nuclear annihilation, Celia must risk everything she holds dear, in the name of justice. AB CD 9 Discs 16071866 $42.99 AVAILABLE JANUARY 16
Wild Life Opal Wei
$36.99
Stranded amid all manner of flora and fauna— including a semidomesticated cougar called Baby—Davy and Zoey first have to survive the island. Then they’ll need to take a leap of faith, maybe even trusting in each other, to save it as an animal sanctuary. AB CD 6 Discs 16223999 $36.99 AVAILABLE JANUARY 23 Prices and availability are subject to change without notice.
Bestselling authors
Staff Audiobook Picks
Last Night Luanne Rice
Mystery There are stories of a twisted romantic past. Of old jealousies and resentments that still cut to the bone. And a history of greed, rage, and revenge that created the perfect storm for murder. AB CD 8 Discs 15306778 $38.99 AVAILABLE FEBRUARY 1
Fourteen Days Margaret Atwood
Literary Fiction Set in a Lower East Side tenement in the early days of the COVID-19 lockdowns, it is an irresistibly propulsive collaborative novel from the Authors Guild, with an unusual twist: each character in this diverse, eccentric cast of New York neighbors has been secretly written by a different, major literary voice— from Margaret Atwood and Celeste Ng to Tommy Orange and John Grisham. AB CD 10 Discs 14944632 $42.99
Only if You’re Lucky Stacy Willingham
Suspense A tantalizing thriller about the nature of friendship and belonging, about loyalty, envy, and betrayal. A sharp and twisty expoloration of female friendship. AB CD 9 Discs 15915041 $39.99 AVAILABLE JANUARY 16
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The Friendship Club Robyn Carr
The Bad Weather Friend Dean Koontz
Romance Four women come together at a tumultuous time in their lives, forging an unbreakable bond that will leave them all forever changed. AB CD 9 Discs 15367529 $42.99 AVAILABLE JANUARY 23
Action Benny is so nice they feel compelled to destroy him, but he has a friend who should scare the hell out of them in this breathtaking new kind of thriller. AB CD 9 Discs 16395128 $38.99 AVAILABLE FEBRUARY 1
The Year of the Locust Terry Hayes
The Ghost Orchid Jonathan Kellerman
Suspense Kane travels to the badlands to exfiltrate a man with vital information for the safety of the West—but instead he meets an adversary who will take the world to the brink of extinction. A frightening, clever, vicious man with blood on his hands and vengeance in his heart. AB CD 20 Discs 16125363 $94.99 AVAILABLE FEBRUARY 6
Mystery Psychologist Alex Delaware and Detective Milo Sturgis confront a baffling, vicious double homicide that leads them to one of the most shocking cases of their careers as they learn that some secrets are best left buried in the past. AB CD 9 Discs 16148271 $44.99 AVAILABLE FEBRUARY 6
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Music
NOW That’s What I Call Music! 89 Legacy Recordings Pop/Rock Artists: Olivia Rodrigo, Doja Cat The latest installment in the popular NOW series includes a plethora of recent hits, including Billie Eilish’s What Was I Made For; *NSYNC’s Better Place; Morgan Wallen’s Thinkin’ Bout Me; and Tate McRae’s Greedy. CD 16487034 $21.99 AVAILABLE JANUARY 26
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NOW That’s What I Call ‘90s R&B Legacy Recordings R&B Artists: Mariah Carey, Mary J. Blige NOW That’s What I Call Music ‘90s R&B features 16 of the best R&B songs from the decade with tracks from Mariah Carey, Whitney Houston, Mary J. Blige, Bobby Brown, Babyface, Toni Braxton, and more. CD 16487033 $21.99 AVAILABLE JANUARY 26
Also available
NOW That’s What I Call Music 25th Anniversary Volume 1 NOW Pop/Rock Artists: Justin Timberlake, Dua Lipa CD 16219322 $18.99
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NOW That’s What I Call Music 88
Universal Music Enterprises, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc./Church Plain And Simple, LLC Pop/Rock Artists: Doja Cat, Selena Gomez CD 16241956 $18.99
January 8, 2024 / Midwest Tape / Weekly Buyer’s Guide / 800.875.2785
NOW That’s What I Call Hip-Hop at 50 NOW Rap/Hip-Hop Artists: Lil Nas X, Future CD 16154324 $18.99
Prices and availability are subject to change without notice.
Top upcoming releases patrons are looking for Keyon Harrold Foreverland
Concord Music Group, Inc. Jazz Guest Artist: PJ Morton CD 16219327 $15.99
AVAILABLE JANUARY 19
Includes appearances from Common, Robert Glasper, and more
Anna Calvi Peaky Blinders Season 5 & 6 Original Score
Music Staff Picks
Lil Peep Cry Baby
Death Note Music Rap/Hip-Hop Originally released to streaming services in 2016, Lil Peep’s debut mixtape is now available on CD. It includes the tracks Yesterday; Absolute in Doubt; and the title track. CD 16460057 $16.99 AVAILABLE FEBRUARY 16
Late rapper’s debut gets a CD release
Laufey Everything I Know About Love
Celtic Woman 20 (20th Anniversary)
Self Produced Jazz CD 16460055 $16.99
Capitol Music Group AB World CD 16444063 $15.99
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Original score by the acclaimed alternative musician
Singer’s first album is now available on CD
Celtic music ensemble celebrates two decades of music
Doggyland Kids Hits Volume 1
Sarah Jarosz Polaroid Lovers
Rod Stewart & Jools Holland Swing Fever
Domino Recording Co. Soundtracks CD 16470620 $19.99
Diggers Factory Children’s Artist: Snoop Dogg CD 16487340 $21.99 AVAILABLE FEBRUARY 23
Music from Snoop Dogg’s animated children’s series
Concord Music Group, Inc. Country CD 16219328 $15.99
Warner Records Pop/Rock CD 16482990 $14.99
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Seventh album from the Grammy-winning singer
Duo performs a selection of classic swing songs
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Trolls Band Together
Voices of: Anna Kendrick, Justin Timberlake, Camila Cabello Poppy discovers that Branch was once part of a boy band, BroZone, with his brothers. When Floyd is kidnapped, Branch and Poppy embark on a journey to reunite the other brothers and rescue Floyd. PG 92 min. (2023) Children’s DVD 16345468 $26.24 Blu-ray+DVD 16345469 $29.99 2 Discs 4K+Blu-ray 16444187 $38.99 2 Discs AVAILABLE JANUARY 16
Trolls Band Together Original Motion Picture Soundtrack Sony Soundtracks Artists: Justin Timberlake, *NSYNC CD 16308584 $13.99
“What resonates most about Trolls Band Together are its lessons about selfacceptance and letting go of perfectionism.” - Austin Chronicle
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