Midwest Tape Weekly April 8, 2024

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April 8, 2024

Arthur the King

Hot New Releases!

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“Wahlberg and company manage to hold your attention, and not just because there’s a cute dog in the frame.” - New York Times

Starring: Mark Wahlberg, Nathalie Emmanuel, Simu Liu

An adventure racer adopts a stray dog named Arthur to join him in an ambitious endurance race.

PG13 107 min. (2024) Action/Adventure

DVD 16621006

Blu-ray+DVD 16621007 2 Discs

COMING SOON

Taylor Swift

The Tortured Poets Department

Republic Records

Pop/Rock Guest Artists: Post Malone, Florence + The Machine Taylor Swift surprised fans when she announced her eleventh studio album during the Grammy Awards. The highly anticipated release includes the tracks Fortnight; Down Bad; and Guilty as Sin?

CD 16729561 $14.99 Parental Advisory

AVAILABLE APRIL 19

One of the most anticipated albums of the year

The Act Complete Limited Series

Starring: Joey King, Patricia Arquette, Chloe Sevigny Dee Dee

Best

Blanchard is overprotective of her daughter, Gypsy, who is trying to escape the toxic relationship she has with her mother. Her quest for independence ultimately leads to murder.

TVMA 420 min. (2019) Drama

DVD 16607832 $31.99

2 Discs

Blu-ray 16607833 $37.99

2 Discs

Skymed Season 2

Starring: Natasha Calis, Ace ‘Aason’ Nadjiwon, Morgan Holmstrom

The young medics and pilots flying air ambulances in Northern Canada face new challenges as SkyMed expands, throwing them into intense emergencies at work and in their personal lives.

NR 393 min. (2023) (Canada) Drama

DVD 16668671 $31.99

2 Discs

AVAILABLE APRIL 9

The Chosen Season 4

Starring: Elizabeth Tabish, Nick Shakoour, Jordan Walker Ross

The enemies of Jesus close in for the kill while His followers struggle to keep up, leaving Him to carry the burden alone.

NR 536 min. (2024) Drama

DVD 16713122 $26.24

3 Discs

Blu-ray 16713121 $31.49

3 Discs

AVAILABLE MAY 28

“The acting is superb. Set

designs are aesthetically pleasing, with exquisite attention applied to historic detail.”

-Movieguide

Coroner Seasons 1-4

Starring: Serinda Swan, Roger Cross, Kiley May

Based on the bestselling series of books by M.R. Hall, Coroner follows a recently widowed coroner who investigates unnatural, suspicious or sudden deaths in Toronto.

NR 1843 min. (Canada) Drama

DVD 16579151 $45.99 8 Discs

“[Serinda] Swan is appealing as Jenny, and we’re always happy when a procedural focuses as much on characters as it does on the case of the week.” - Decider

British TV

Midsomer Murders

Series 24

Starring: Neil Dudgeon, Nick Hendrix, Fiona Dolman

DCI John Barnaby and his sidekick, DS Jamie Winter investigate a vicious inheritance dispute, a pet detective’s death, and a string of murders in the avowed “Greenest Village in Midsomer.”

NR 372 min. (2023) (United Kingdom) Mystery

DVD 16500823 $39.99

2 Discs

Blu-ray 16500822 $39.99

2 Discs

Masterpiece: Maryland

Starring: Suranne Jones, Eve Best, Stockard Channing

Sisters Becca and Rosaline find themselves thrown together by the sudden death of their mother, Mary.

UNK 150 min. (2024) (United Kingdom) Drama

DVD 16516954 $22.49

AVAILABLE MAY 28

Guilt

Season 3

Starring: Mark Bonnar, Emun Elliott, Stuart Bowman

Season 3 takes us deeper into Max and Jake’s murky past, revealing new secrets that could threaten to derail their plans to live a ‘normal’ life.

UNK 240 min. (2024) Drama

DVD 16560170 $26.24

2 Discs

AVAILABLE MAY 21

All Creatures

Great and Small

Season 4

Starring: Nicholas Ralph, Anna Madeley, Samuel West

It’s spring 1940 and Europe is at war. With Tristan away serving, Siegfried and James bring in some extra hands to help around the practice.

UNK 360 min. (2024)

(United Kingdom) Drama

DVD 16332870 $37.49

2 Discs

Blu-ray 16332871 $44.99

2 Discs

Alice & Jack

Starring: Andrea Riseborough, Domhnall Gleeson, Aisling Bea

Explore perseverance, passion, and the true sense of partnership over the course of a profound fifteenyear relationship between two imperfect lovers and its highs and lows.

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

TVMA 270 min. (2024) Drama

DVD 16596350 $26.24 2 Discs

AVAILABLE MAY 14

“...gloriously, magnificently spot on about love, which is its main job...I entirely believe in their passion, the fierce, cruel intimacy of their time together.”

-

The Times (UK)

Land of Bad Starring: Liam Hemsworth, Russell Crowe, Luke Hemsworth

A US Army special forces unit is ambushed during a mission to retrieve an intellegence asset and their only remaining hope lies with a remote Air Force drone operator.

R 113 min. (2024) Action/Adventure

DVD 16668086 $25.49

AVAILABLE MAY 14

“Russell Crowe...spends most of the movie sitting in a chair staring at a screen and manages to completely steal it anyway.”

- Hollywood Reporter

Uncropped

Starring: Wes Anderson, Alfred Hitchcock, Meryl Streep

This visual chronicle of New York City offers a window into the heyday of alternative print media through the work of Village Voice photojournalist

James Hamliton.

NR 111 min. (2024) Documentary

DVD 16705281 $19.99

AVAILABLE MAY 7

“James Hamilton’s pictures are tremendous, and a serious-minded look at an artistry that’s rarely afforded this kind of spotlight is a valuable thing.” - Hollywood Reporter

Building the Eiffel Tower

Explore the revolutionary engineering behind Paris’s iconic landmark.

Completed in just over two years for the 1889 World’s Fair, the iron tower ushered in a new age of global construction.

UNK 53 min. (2024)

Documentary

DVD 16482627 $22.49

AVAILABLE MAY 7

Part of the 51st season of the iconic PBS documentary series Nova

Remembering Gene Wilder

Starring: Gene Wilder, Alan Alda, Mel Brooks

This loving tribute to Gene Wilder celebrates his life and legacy as the comic genius behind an extraordinary string of film and television roles.

UNK 92 min. (2024) Biographical

DVD 16622327 $19.99

Blu-ray 16622328 $29.99

AVAILABLE MAY 7

“If the engaging documentary inspires a Wilder streaming marathon, so much the better.”

- AARP Movies for Grownups

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Audiobook Romance

How to End a Love Story

Yulin Kuang

When secrets come to light, Helen and Grant must reckon with the fact that theirs was never meant to be any kind of love story. And yet… the key to making peace with their past—and themselves—might just lie in holding on to each other in the present.

AB CD 9 Discs 16087257 $42.99

AVAILABLE APRIL 9

Western

The Rival Maisey Yates

Quinn isn’t one to back down easily, but not falling for the frustratingly handsome cowboy is proving to be the biggest challenge she’s ever faced.

AB CD 9 Discs 16224218 $42.99

AVAILABLE APRIL 23

The Garden Girls

Jessica R. Patch

On a remote Outer Banks island, a serial killer collects his prized specimens. And to stop him, an FBI agent must confront his own twisted past.

AB CD 9 Discs 16224031 $42.99

AVAILABLE APRIL 23

Out of Office

A.H. Cunningham

Genevieve, a career-driven woman, falls for her driver Adrián in Panama. Despite doubts about their future, fate suggests a lasting romance may be possible.

AB CD 7 Discs 16223950 $36.99

AVAILABLE APRIL 23

The Good Ones Are Taken

Taj McCoy

When Maggie’s best friend admits he’s in love with her, she’ll have to decide whether it’s worth giving up something good for something that could be amazing in this laugh-out-loud friends-to-lovers rom-com.

AB CD 8 Discs 15937113 $42.99

AVAILABLE APRIL 23

Always a Maverick Delores Fossen

After being injured in a crash during a flight, pilot Blue finds himself growing closer to Marin and Leo. However, a revelation about his future challenges him to rethink his priorities and whether they include his new family.

AB CD 9 Discs 15936773 $42.99

AVAILABLE APRIL 23

Finally Found My Cowboy

A. J. Pinea

Beth, a dancer, suffers a career-ending injury after an audition and is sent to recuperate in California. Despite her plans to return to New York, sparks fly between her and Eli, a widower afraid of love.

AB CD 8 Discs 16562635 $59.99

AVAILABLE APRIL 9

Picks Audiobook Bestselling authors

Mystery

Lost Birds

Anne Hillerman

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 not what they seem.

AB CD 7 Discs 16095531 $42.99

AVAILABLE APRIL 23

When Among Crows

Veronica Roth Fantasy

Dymitr and Ala must fight against time and the wrath of the Chicago underworld. But Dymitr’s secrets—and his true motives—may be the thing that actually destroys them.

AB CD 4 Discs 16447063 $34.99

AVAILABLE MAY 14

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

Close to Death

Anthony Horowitz

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 8 Discs 16095857 $42.99

AVAILABLE APRIL 16

Extinction

Douglas Preston Science Fiction

This page-turning thriller 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

Last House

Jessica Shattuck

Historical Fiction

Set against the backdrop of our nation’s history, this is an emotional tour de force that digs deeply into questions of inheritance and what we owe each other—and captures to stunning effect the gravity of time, the double edge of progress, and the hubris of empire.

AB CD 9 Discs 16461151 $42.99

AVAILABLE MAY 14

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 broke away, but the discovery of a body under their childhood home thrusts them into the spotlight.

AB CD 7 Discs 15915051 $39.99

AVAILABLE APRIL 23

Music Reissues

Tina Turner

What’s Love Got to Do With It

30th Anniversary Edition

Rhino/Parlophone Pop/Rock

The soundtrack to Tina Turner’s 1993 biopic has been given the deluxe edition treatment with a collection of B-sides, rare tracks, and more.

CD 16687123 $24.99

AVAILABLE APRIL 26

The Laurie Berkner Band

Victor Vito

25th Anniversary Edition

KIDZ BOP

Children’s Experience these timeless tunes like never before with remastered versions of our all-time favorites like The Goldfish; Victor Vito; BOOTS; and Moon Moon Moon.

CD 16721624 $11.99

AVAILABLE JUNE 7

Luther Vandross

Luther Legacy Recordings

R&B

Luther Vandross’s debut album is being made available commercially for the first time in over forty years.

CD 16686519 $16.99

AVAILABLE APRIL 19

Returning favorites and expanded editions

Def Leppard

Pyromania

40th Anniversary Mercury Pop/Rock

Def Leppard’s 40th anniversary reissue of Pyromania has been expanded to a two CD set with unheard demos and live tracks from the era.

CD 16667998 $22.99 Deluxe Edition, 2 Discs

AVAILABLE APRIL 26

Sonny Rollins

A Night at the Village Vanguard

The Complete Masters (Blue Note Tone Poet Series)

Blue Note

Jazz

A Night at the Village Vanguard: The Complete Masters expands legendary tenor saxophonist Sonny Rollins’s tour de force 1957 live trio album to a two CD set. It has been remastered from the never-before-used original analog master tapes.

CD 16618822 $29.99 2 Discs

AVAILABLE APRIL 26

The Cure

Paris Elektra Catalog Group

Pop/Rock

To mark its 30th anniversary, the Cure are re-releasing their live album with two additional, previously unreleased live tracks.

CD 16687118 $14.99

Keane Hopes and Fears

20th Anniversary Edition

Interscope Pop/Rock

The 20th Anniversary Edition includes the newly remastered album, previously unreleased demos, B-sides and rarities, plus brand-new sleeve notes from the band and original team.

CD 16648097 $37.99

AVAILABLE MAY 10

Snoop Dogg

Doggystyle

DRR / Gamma Rap/Hip-Hop

Snoop Dogg’s multi-platinum

Doggystyle is heralded as one of the most important albums of all time. Death Row Records presents the original 1993 track listing on this CD, which also includes a fold-out poster.

CD 16678814 $18.99 Parental Advisory

AVAILABLE APRIL 19

Kamasi Washington Fearless Movement

Young Jazz Guest Artists: Thundercat, DJ

Battlecat

CD 16704479

$21.99

AVAILABLE MAY 3

Top upcoming releases patrons are looking for

A distinct blend of jazz, Latin, funk, and more

twenty one pilots

Clancy

Fueled by Ramen Pop/Rock

Three years after releasing Scaled and Icy, twenty one pilots return with a brand new album. They have been giving fans cryptic teases of what is to come, including the single Overcompensate.

CD 16729563 $14.99

AVAILABLE MAY 17

The rock duo begins a new era with their latest album.

The Avett Brothers

The Avett Brothers

Ramseur Records

Pop/Rock

CD 16687129

$17.99

AVAILABLE MAY 17

The band’s first new album in five years

Willie Nelson

The Border

Legacy

Country

Produced by Willie’s longtime collaborator, Buddy Cannon, The Border features four newly penned tracks by the pair combined with a half dozen tunes from some of their favorite songwriters.

CD 16716298 $16.99

AVAILABLE MAY 31

Seventy-fifth solo album from the country superstar

Raffi with Good Lovelies

Penny Penguin Craft Recordings

Children’s

CD 16584085

$13.99

AVAILABLE APRIL 19

Raffi collaborates with the folk trio Good Lovelies

Lenny Kravitz

Blue Electric Light

BMG Rights Management GmbH

Pop/Rock

CD 16356501

$17.99

AVAILABLE MAY 24

Includes the new single TK421

Luke Hemmings

Boy

Arista Records

Pop/Rock

CD 16704506

$14.99

AVAILABLE

APRIL 26

The solo EP from the 5 Seconds of Summer frontman

“...it’s a pleasure to see Johnson in this kind of movie.”

- San Francisco Chronicle

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.

PG13 116 min. (2024) $44M

Action/Adventure

DVD 16560161 $26.24

Blu-ray 16560162 $29.24

4K Blu-ray 16560163 $37.49

2 Discs

AVAILABLE APRIL 30

Listen for the Lie

Amy Tintera Mystery

After Lucy is found wandering the streets, covered in her best friend Savvy’s blood, everyone thinks she is a murderer. She has since moved and started a new life. But now the phenomenally huge-hit true-crime podcast Listen for the Lie, has decided to investigate Savvy’s murder. Lucy is forced to return to solve her friend’s murder, even if she is the one that did it.

AB CD 8 Discs 16354565 $49.99

AVAILABLE APRIL 30