Midwest Tape Weekly March 11, 2024

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March 11, 2024

The standalone origin story of one of Marvel’s most enigmatic heroines

“A snapshot of a lifestyle hero who is always the coolest guy in the room.” - New York Times

Madame Web

Starring: Dakota Johnson, Sydney Sweeney, Celeste O’Connor

Cassandra Webb is a New York City paramedic who starts to show signs of clairvoyance.

Forced to confront revelations about her past, she must protect three young women from a mysterious adversary who wants them dead.

UNK 116 min. (2024) Action/Adventure

DVD 16560161

Blu-ray+DVD 16560162 2 Discs

4K+Blu-ray 16560163 2 Discs

COMING SOON

Bob Marley One Love

Starring: Kingsley Ben-Adir, Lashana Lynch, James Norton

Celebrates the life and music of an icon who inspired generations through his message of love and unity. On the big screen for the first time, discover Bob’s powerful story of overcoming adversity and the journey behind his revolutionary music.

UNK (2024) Drama

DVD 16560158

Blu-ray+DVD 16560159 2 Discs

COMING SOON

Video Earth Day:

Planet Earth III

Starring: Sir David Attenborough

From the depths of the ocean to the most remote jungle, discover the planet’s last great wild places and the astonishing strategies animals have evolved to survive.

UNK 400 min. (2023) Documentary

DVD 16444184 $26.24 3 Discs

4K+Blu-ray 16444183 $36.74 6 Discs

“The scale and scope of this project are spectacular. It is...a great joy to watch.”

- Guardian

Children’s

FernGully

The Last Rainforest

Voices of: Robin Williams, Tim Curry, Cheech Marin

The magical inhabitants of a rainforest fight to save their home, which is threatened by logging and a polluting force of destruction called Hexxus.

G 76 min. (1992) Children’s

Blu-ray 15144203 $15.74 30th Anniversary Edition, 2 Discs

The Biggest Little Farm

Starring: John Chester, Molly Chester, Matthew Pilachowski

John Chester chronicles the eightyear quest he and Molly Chester went on when they traded city living for 200 acres of barren farmland and a dream to harvest in harmony with nature.

PG 92 min. (2019) $4M Documentary

DVD 12368822 $15.74

Blu-ray 12439273 $25.49

Princess Mononoke

Starring: Yoji Matsuda, Yuriko Ishida, Yuko Tanaka

On a journey to find a cure for a deadly curse, Ashitaka finds himself in the middle of a war between the forest gods and a mining colony.

PG13 133 min. (1997) (Japan) $2M Anime

DVD 11934756 $14.99

Dr. Seuss’

The Lorax

Voices of: Danny DeVito, Zac Efron, Taylor Swift

Ted will do anything to find the one thing to impress the girl of his dreams. On his journey, Ted discovers the incredible story of the Lorax, a grumpy but charming creature who speaks for the trees.

PG

March of the Penguins

Starring: Morgan Freeman

The story of a flock of emperor penguins as they trek across the Antarctic on an annual journey that includes just about every life experience.

G 80 min. (2005) (France) $77M

Documentary

Blu-ray 10182477 $15.74

Okja (Korean)

Starring: An Seo-hyun, Tilda Swinton, Paul Dano

A young girl risks everything to prevent a powerful, multinational company from kidnapping her best friend—a fascinating beast named Okja.

UNK 121 min. (2017) (South Korea)

Action/Adventure

Criterion Collection

DVD 15024235 $22.49 2 Discs

Blu-ray 15024234 $29.99 4K+Blu-ray 15024233 $37.49 2 Discs

Wall-E

Voices of: Sigourney Weaver, Kathy Najimy, John Ratzenberger

In the distant future, a small waste-collecting robot inadvertantly embarks on a space journey that will ultimately decide the fate of mankind.

G 98 min. (2008) $224M Children’s

DVD 10240361 $15.74

Blu-ray 12403846 $20.99 3 Discs

12733702 $29.99 3

Brand new titles your patrons are sure to love, curated by our video experts here at Midwest Tape!

Staff Picks Video

American Star

Starring: Ian

McShane, Thomas Kretschmann, Nora Arnezeder

An assassin on a final assignment arrives in Fuerteventura.

But his target is delayed. Instead of following protocol, he stays, drawn to the island. When the target returns, the world has shifted.

R 107 min. (2024) Suspense/Thriller

DVD 16564401 $17.24

AVAILABLE APRIL 23

“To hear it described, its premise sounds almost ridiculously predictable… but the movie turns out to be a serious work that goes to unexpected places.”

- San Francisco Chronicle

Royal Flying Doctor Service

Season 2

Starring: Emma Hamilton, Stephen Peacocke, Rob Collins

In Australia’s red heart with all of its precarious beauty, the modern-day heroes of the RFDS navigate private lives as turbulent and profound as the heart-stopping emergencies they attend.

UNK 370 min. (2024) Drama

DVD 16516953 $29.99 2 Discs

AVAILABLE APRIL 9

“There’s an easy and authentic camaraderie between the members of the team and a laconic style of communication that sounds quintessentially Australian.”

- Sydney Morning Herald

The Iron Claw Starring: Holt McCallany, Zac Efron, Harris Dickinson

The true story of the inseparable Von Erich brothers, who made history in the intensely competitive world of professional wrestling in the early 1980s.

R 130 min. (2023) (United Kingdom) $35M Drama

Blu-ray 16428803 $29.99 2 Discs

AVAILABLE MARCH 26

“...a crippler of a sports drama and [Zac] Efron is its heart, its champion left alone at the center of the ring.” - Detroit News

Poor Things

Starring: Emma Stone, Willem Dafoe, Ramy Youssef

The incredible tale of the fantastic evolution of Bella Baxter, a young woman brought back to life by the brilliant and unorthodox scientist Dr. Godwin Baxter.

R 142 min. (2023) (Ireland) $32M

Science Fiction

Nolly

Starring: Helena Bonham Carter, Mark Gatiss, Con O’Neill

The story of Noele ‘Nolly’ Gordon, one of the most famous faces on British TV in the 1960s and 70s, whose firing from her hit show at the height of her career was frontpage news.

UNK 165 min. (2024) (United Kingdom) Drama

DVD 16457854 $22.49

AVAILABLE APRIL 2

“While it details how TV can be cruel, it does also succeed as a warm and entertaining tribute to someone who ultimately loved life on the small screen.” - Financial Times

DVD 16428804 $24.74

Blu-ray 16428805 $32.24

AVAILABLE MARCH 12

“Often beautiful, never pretty, occasionally creepy and perpetually surprising, Poor Things lives in Stone’s fiery eyes; her performance is, to borrow Bella’s words, a changeable feast.”

- Seattle Times

Audiobook Thrillers Where suspense meets excitement

The Mystery Writer Sulari Gentill

Theodosia Benton abandons law school to pursue writing, unsure of family support and her own skills. When her mentor is murdered and her brother becomes a suspect, she sacrifices herself to protect him. However, his investigation threatens the hidden literary world they’re entangled in, endangering them all.

AB CD 9 Discs 16407549 $59.99

AVAILABLE MARCH 19

Everyone Is Watching

Heather

Gudenkauf

When long-kept secrets begin to rise to the surface, the contestants of a livestreamed game show realize this is no longer just a reality show—someone is out for blood. And the game can’t end until the world knows who the contestants really are.

AB CD 7 Discs 15936863 $36.99

AVAILABLE MARCH 26

Has Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?

Nicci French

Thirty years after the apparent murder-suicide of Charlotte Salter and Duncan Ackerley, Morgan Ackerley returns to Glensted with his older brother to make a podcast based on their shared tragedy with the Salters. Allegations fly, secrets come to light, and a suspicious fire leads to a murder.

AB CD 10 Discs 16095736 $42.99

AVAILABLE MARCH 19

The Angel of Indian Lake

Stephen

Graham Jones

With unfinished business looming, including the presence of serial killer cultists and wealthy interlopers, Jade Daniels discovers that the town’s darkest secret, the curse of the Lake Witch, awaits her return, prompting a final showdown.

AB CD 12 Discs 16389612 $73.99

AVAILABLE MARCH 26

Watch Where They Hide

Tamron Hall

An edge-ofyour-seat thriller featuring journalist Jordan Manning as she delves into the case of a mother in danger and uncovers a dangerous web of secrets that could lead right to the missing woman—or put Jordan in the crosshairs of her abductors.

AB CD 6 Discs 16087312 $31.99

AVAILABLE MARCH 12

Annie Bot

Sierra Greer

A powerful, provocative novel about the relationship between a female robot and her human owner, exploring questions of intimacy, power, autonomy, and control.

AB CD 8 Discs 16095424 $42.99

AVAILABLE MARCH 19

Kill for Me, Kill for You

Steve Cavanagh

A razor-sharp and Hitchcock-inspired psychological thriller about two ordinary women who make a dangerous pact to take revenge for each other after being pushed to the brink.

AB CD 8 Discs 16125222 $63.99

AVAILABLE MARCH 19

What Happened to Nina?

Dervla McTiernan

After Nina disappears during a weekend trip with Simon, a media storm erupts. Simon’s wealthy family hires lawyers and a PR firm to protect him, while Nina’s family, determined to find their daughter, resorts to unconventional methods in their search for the truth.

AB CD 9 Discs 16087129 $42.99

AVAILABLE MARCH 26

City in Ruins

Don Winslow

Suspense

Former dock worker, Irish mob soldier, and fugitive from the law, Danny Ryan finds himself embroiled in a dangerous game where he must confront his past and resort to his old ruthless ways to protect his life and those he loves.

AB CD 10 Discs 16095890 $47.99

AVAILABLE APRIL 2

Bestselling authors

Staff Picks Audiobook

It Had to Be You Mary Higgins Clark, Alafair Burke

Mystery

Television producer Laurie Moran investigates the unsolved murder of a beloved couple celebrating the college graduations of their successful twin sons.

AB CD 7 Discs 16182265 $34.99

AVAILABLE APRIL 16

Book 8 of the Under Suspicion series!

Close to Death

Anthony Horowitz

Mystery Detective

Hawthorne is once again called upon to solve an unsolvable case—a gruesome murder in an idyllic gated community in which suspects abound.

AB CD 10 Discs 16095857 $47.99

AVAILABLE APRIL 16

Extinction

Douglas

Preston

Science Fiction

A page-turning thriller that explores the possible and unintended dangers of the very real efforts to resurrect the woolly mammoth and other long-extinct animals.

AB CD 10 Discs 15937962 $39.99

AVAILABLE APRIL 23

Darling Girls

Sally Hepworth Suspense

Jessica, Norah, and Alicia are raised by strict and unpredictable foster mother Miss Fairchild. In a moment of desperation, the three sisters break away, but the discovery of a body under their childhood home thrusts them into the spotlight.

AB CD 9 Discs 15915051 $39.99

AVAILABLE APRIL 23

Funny Story

Emily Henry

Romance

Daphne’s fiancé falls for his childhood friend, Petra, and leaves her stranded in Michigan. She becomes roommates with Petra’s ex, Miles, and they hatch a plan to mislead others about their relationship.

AB CD 9 Discs 16148291 $39.99

AVAILABLE APRIL 23

Lost Birds

Anne Hillerman

Mystery

Joe Leaphorn’s experience as a private detective becomes essential to finding the birth parents of a woman who was raised by a bilagáana family. Leaphorn discovers that his client’s adoption was questionable, and her adoptive family is not what they seem.

AB CD 7 Discs 16095531 $42.99

AVAILABLE APRIL 23

The Familiar Leigh Bardugo

Fantasy

Determined to seize this one chance to better her fortunes, Luzia plunges into a world of seers and alchemists, holy men and hucksters, where the lines between magic, science, and fraud are never certain.

AB CD 11 Discs 16313694 $39.99

AVAILABLE APRIL 9

Music New Country Albums

Will Hoge

Tenderhearted Boys

EDLO Records Country

Each track on this album unfolds as a chapter in Will Hoge’s sonic autobiography, exploring the beauty found in all the nuanced corners of modern life.

CD 16588727 $18.99

AVAILABLE APRIL 12

Glen Campbell

Glen Campbell

Duets

Ghost on the Canvas Sessions

Big Machine Country

Guest Artists:

Elton John, Dolly

Parton

The project is the first of its kind, an album recreated completely as duets posthumously, blending Glen’s original vocals with the talents of artists like Elton John, Eric Church, Dolly Parton, and more to create an artful body of work.

CD 16567571 $11.99

AVAILABLE APRIL 19

My Black Country

The Songs of Alice Randall

Oh Boy Records

Country

Artists: Allison Russell, Rhiannon

Giddens

The companion to Alice Randall’s book is a powerful compilation of Black female country artists re-recording the greatest songs of Alice’s catalog.

CD 16626650 $15.99

AVAILABLE APRIL 12

Tyler Hubbard Strong

EMI Nashville Country

With more than one billion streams as a solo artist and two back-to-back number one singles, Tyler Hubbard’s sophomore solo album features 13 brand-new songs, including Back Then Right Now; Turn; and Wish You Would

CD 16618814 $11.99

AVAILABLE APRIL 12

Second solo album from the Florida Georgia Line member

Mackenzie Porter

Nobody’s Born with a Broken Heart

Big Loud Records Country

Pairing deeply honest country storytelling with her shimmering vocals, Mackenzie Porter delivers an emotive 19-song introduction with her allencompassing heartbreak album.

CD 16627212 $16.99

AVAILABLE APRIL 26

Charley Crockett

$10 Cowboy

Son of Davy Country

For his new album, Charley Crockett wrote freely, over a two-month period, as he wound his way across the United States on the back of a tour bus. The resulting songs are raw, personal, vivid portraits of a country in transition.

CD 16588729 $15.99

AVAILABLE APRIL 26

Anne Wilson

Rebel

EMI Nashville Country

Guest Artists: Lainey Wilson, Jordan Davis Anne Wilson’s sophomore album features 16 songs including her current country radio single, Rain in the Rearview, and current Christian radio single, Strong CD 16584188 $11.99

AVAILABLE APRIL 19

Sophomore album from the rising music star

Top upcoming releases patrons are looking for

Iron & Wine

Light Verse

Sub Pop Records

Pop/Rock

CD 16621050

$16.99

AVAILABLE APRIL 26

A lovingly handmade and self-assured release

Sia Reasonable Woman

Atlantic

Pop/Rock

Guest Artists: Chaka Khan, Tierra Whack

Sia’s first proper album since 2016 is so filled to the brim with pop perfection, it almost overwhelms with how effortless it is for her to craft such instantly connectable songs.

CD 16607603 $14.99

AVAILABLE MAY 3

Singer-songwriter’s first new album in eight years

Staff Picks Music

Four Tet

Three Temporary Residence

Pop/Rock

CD 16627213

$17.99

AVAILABLE APRIL 12

Features the single Daydream Repeat

Marcus King

Mood Swings

Republic Records

Pop/Rock

CD 16611393 $11.99

Parental Advisory

AVAILABLE APRIL 5

New album

produced by Rick Rubin

Girl in Red I’m Doing It

Again Baby!

Columbia (USA)

Pop/Rock

CD 16627214

$15.99

Parental Advisory

AVAILABLE APRIL 12

Second album from the critically acclaimed artist

Old 97’s

American Primitive

ATO Records

Pop/Rock

Guest Artist:

Peter Buck

CD 16618819

$15.99

AVAILABLE APRIL 5

A gloriously rowdy new album

Kacey Musgraves

Deeper Well

Interscope Records

Country

CD 16596301

$15.99

AVAILABLE MARCH 15

Fifth album from the Grammy Award-winning country star

Eagles

To the Limit

The Essential Collection

Elektra Catalog Group

Pop/Rock

CD 16611394

$35.99

AVAILABLE APRIL 12

Expansive new best-of collection

New music from the global superstar

Shakira

Las Mujeres Ya No Lloran

Sony Music Latin Latin

Guest Artists: Rauw Alejandro, Karol G Shakira’s 12th studio album features eight brand new songs and a remix in addition to seven global smash hits, including the record-breaking viral collaboration with Bizarrap, Music Sessions Vol. 53.

CD 16627215 $16.99

AVAILABLE MARCH 22

The Book of Clarence

Starring: LaKeith Stanfield, Benedict Cumberbatch, James McAvoy

Striving to find a better life, Clarence is enthralled by the power of the rising Messiah and soon risks everything to carve a path to a divine existence.

PG13 129 min. (2024) $6M Comedy

DVD 16498483 $26.24

Blu-ray 16498484 $29.24

AVAILABLE MARCH 26