Midwest Tape Weekly April 24, 2023

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April 24, 2023

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Starring: Keanu Reeves, Donnie Yen, Bill Skarsgård John Wick uncovers a trail to defeating the High Table. But before he can earn his freedom, Wick must face off against a new enemy with powerful associations across the globe and forces that turn old friends into foes.

R 169 min. (2023) Action

DVD 15752567

Blu-ray+DVD 15752568

4K-Blu-ray 15761536

COMING SOON

“It’s a killer night out at the movies, and another high for the ever-nonchalant (Keanu) Reeves.”

- AARP

A Women’s Murder Club Thriller, Book 23

The 23rd Midnight James Patterson, Maxine Paetro Mystery

An attention-seeking copycat is recreating murders by a famous killer from the Women’s Murder Club’s past, with devastating new twists.

AB CD 8 Discs 15373850 $44.99

AVAILABLE MAY 1

This is the final season!

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Part 2

(Japanese)

Just as the Jaegerists seize control, Marley launches their counterattack. Now shouldering the sins of the past, Eren enacts his true plan to protect Paradis. But what will remain in his wake? The line between right and wrong blurs in the fog of war.

TVMA 300 min. (2022)

Blu-ray 15633436 $48.74 4 Discs

Part 1

(Japanese)

TVMA 400 min. (2020)

Blu-ray 14709771 $48.74 6 Discs

Deemo Memorial Keys (Japanese)

Voices of:

Ayana

Taketatsu, Akari Nibu, Akari Kito

NR 89 min.

(2021)

Blu-ray

15673120

$20.24

2 Discs

Yashahime Princess

Half-Demon

Season 2

Part 1

TVMA 288 min.

(2021)

DVD

15685860

$29.99

2 Discs

Blu-ray

15673260

$63.74

2 Discs

Blue Thermal (Japanese)

Voices of: Mayu Hotta, Nobunaga

Shimazaki, Junya Enoki

NR 103 min.

(2022)

Blu-ray

15673251

$20.24

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

Staff Picks

His Dark Materials Complete Series

Triangle of Sadness

Starring: Harris Dickinson, Charlbi Dean, Dolly de Leon

A model-influencer couple get a ticket to the luxe life when they are invited aboard an all-expensespaid cruise alongside a coterie of the rich and ghoulish, but an act of fate turns their Insta-perfect world upside down.

UNK 147 min. (2022) (Sweden) $4M

Comedy

DVD 15686506 $22.49

Criterion Collection

Blu-ray 15686505 $29.99

Criterion Collection

4K+Blu-ray 15686504 $37.49

Criterion Collection, 2 Discs

AVAILABLE APRIL 25

Starring: Dafne Keen, Kit Connor, Ruth Wilson

His Dark Materials follows the coming of age of two children, Lyra Belacqua and Will Parry, as they wander through a series of parallel universes.

NR 1440 min. Adventure

DVD 15698631 $45.74 8 Discs

AVAILABLE APRIL 25

Small Axe

Starring: Letitia Wright, John Boyega, Steve Toussaint With the five films that make up his Small Axe anthology, director Steve McQueen offers a richly evocative panorama of West Indian life in London from the 1960s through the ‘80s.

UNK 425 min. (2020) (United Kingdom) Drama

Blu-ray 15686503 $74.99

Criterion Collection, 3 Discs

AVAILABLE APRIL 25

Star Trek

Lower Decks Season 3

Starring: Jerry O’Connell, Tawny Newsome, Jack Quaid

Created by Emmy Award winner Mike McMahan, Season 3 challenges the USS Cerritos ensigns in (hilarious) ways they could never imagine, starting with a shocking resolution for Season 2’s epic cliffhanger finale.

NR 257 min. (2022) Animated

DVD 15741405 $22.49

2 Discs

Blu-ray 15773832 $25.49

2 Discs

AVAILABLE APRIL 25

Jesus Revolution

Starring: Joel Courtney, Jonathan Roumie, Anna Grace Barlow

The true story of a national spiritual awakening in the early 1970s and its origins within a community of teenage hippies in Southern California.

PG13 120 min. (2023) $33M Drama

DVD 15689574 $22.49

BLU-RAY+DVD 15689575 $29.99

2 Discs

AVAILABLE APRIL 25

Genndy Tartakovsky’s

Primal Season 2

Starring: Aaron LaPlante, Laetitia Eido, Fred Tatasciore Spear and Fang journey to a new world to rescue Mira from her captors only to find it is a place filled with savage brutality.

UNK 221 min. (2022) Animated

DVD 15698627 $19.49

2 Discs

Blu-ray 15698628 $23.99

AVAILABLE APRIL 25

The award-winning series is now available in one complete edition for patrons to enjoy!

Children’s & Middle Grade Audiobook

My Weirdtastic School #2

Uncle Fred Is a Knucklehead!

Dan Gutman

A.J. and the gang become part of the studio audience for a TV show whose host can’t seem to grow up!

AB CD 3 Discs 15795193 $25.99

AVAILABLE JUNE 13

Falling Out of Time

Margaret Peterson Haddix

AB CD 9 Discs 15792759 $44.99

AVAILABLE MAY 30

Running Out of Time, Book 2

Camp Sylvania

Julie Murphy

A summer camp story that takes a bite out of fat camp and diet culture.

AB CD 8 Discs 15795476 $44.99

AVAILABLE JUNE 6

Fall of the School for Good and Evil

Soman Chainani

AB CD 10 Discs 15792790 $44.99

Netflix original The School for Good and Evil now streaming

AVAILABLE MAY 2

Rise of the School for Good and Evil, Book 2

The Sea of Terror

Stuart Gibbs

AB CD 1 Disc 15472582 $21.99

AVAILABLE MAY 9

Once Upon a Tim, Book 3

The One and Only Ruby

Katherine Applegate

AB CD 6 Discs 15792321 $34.99

AVAILABLE MAY 2

The One and Only Ivan, Book 3

Treasure Hunters

The Greatest Treasure Hunt

James Patterson, Chris Grabenstein

AB CD 4 Discs 15811952 $39.99

AVAILABLE MAY 29

Treasure Hunters series finale

Only Only Marisol Rainey

Erin Entrada Kelly

AB CD 4 Discs 15792274 $29.99

AVAILABLE MAY 2

Maybe Marisol, Book 3

The Labors of Hercules Beal Gary D. Schmidt

A seventh grader is assigned to perform the Twelve Labors of Hercules in real life, and although the mythical role model performed these tasks by himself, Herc starts to see that he may not have to do it alone.

AB CD 9 Discs 15792729 $44.99

AVAILABLE MAY 23

The Shattered Horn

Erin Hunter

A new arc in Erin Hunter’s Bravelands series.

AB CD 9 Discs 15792609 $44.99

AVAILABLE MAY 2

In the Lives of Puppets

TJ Klune Action

AB CD 12 Discs

15382112 $63.99

AVAILABLE

APRIL 25

“Starred

Review: An epic quest of rescue and discovery…”

-Library Journal

Romantic Comedy

Curtis Sittenfeld

Humor

AB CD 8 Discs

15483502 $39.99

AVAILABLE

APRIL 25

Independence Square

Martin Cruz Smith

Historical Fiction

-Oprah Daily

Fire with Fire Candice Fox Suspense

AB CD 11 Discs

15549378 $59.99

AVAILABLE MAY 9

-James Patterson

One More Chance

Samantha Chase

Romance

AB CD 7 Discs

15684353 $47.99

AVAILABLE

APRIL 27

Band on the Run, Book 4

A timely and a uniquely personal mystery novel meets political thriller

Detective Arkaday Renko risks his life when he heads to Ukraine shortly before the Russian invasion to find an anti-Putin activist who has mysteriously disappeared.

AB CD 5 Discs 15472542 $32.99

AVAILABLE MAY 9

The Loner

Diana Palmer Romance

AB CD 9 Discs 15147601 $39.99

AVAILABLE

APRIL 25

A Long, Tall Texans Book

Stan Lee’s The Devil’s Quintet

The Shadow Society

Stan Lee, Jay Bonansinga

Sci-Fi

AB CD 9 Discs

15777480 $41.99

AVAILABLE MAY 9

The Devil’s Quintet, Book 2

All the Days of Summer

Nancy Thayer

Women’s Fiction

A moving novel that explores the complexity of family.

AB CD 9 Discs

15379958 $37.99

AVAILABLE MAY 2

The Ferryman

Justin Cronin

Suspense

AB CD 16 Discs

15342621 $49.99

AVAILABLE MAY 2

“...smart, sophisticated, and fun.”

“...non-stop, gripping thriller...”

The best new music from stage and screen Soundtracks Music

David LindsayAbaire & Jeanine

Tesori

Original Broadway Cast Recording

Ghostlight Records

Tony Award winner Victoria Clark stars as Kim, a bright and funny Jersey teen who happens to look like a 72-year-old lady. And yet her aging disease may be the least of her problems.

CD 15826647 $20.99 Parental Advisory

AVAILABLE MAY 19

Bear McCreary

God of War

Ragnarök

Original Score

Sony Classical

Known for his scores for the TV series Outlander and The Walking Dead, Bear McCreary’s soundtrack for the acclaimed video game has gone on to win an award for Best Score and Music from the Game Awards.

CD 15777121 $22.99

AVAILABLE MAY 5

Thomas Newman

A Man Called Otto Original Motion Picture Score

DECCA

Along with a score by 15-time Academy Award nominee Thomas Newman, this soundtrack includes the song Til You’re Home by Rita Wilson and Sebastian Yatra.

CD 15726552 $18.99

AVAILABLE MAY 19

Blood, Sweat & Tears

What the Hell Happened to Blood, Sweat & Tears?

Original Soundtrack

Omnivore Recordings

Pop/Rock

Music from the documentary by John Scheinfeld. Features 10 previously unissued live recordings from 1970 recorded in Yugoslavia, Romania, and Poland.

CD 15785156 $16.99

Six Live on Opening Night

Original Broadway Cast Recording

6 Music Ltd

Artists: Courtney Mack, Keirsten Nicole Hodgens

Includes performances from the cast of the Tony Award-winning musical, as well as a bonus track showcasing the show’s alternate performers.

CD 15621556 $14.99

AVAILABLE MAY 5

Bryan Adams

Pretty Woman

Th e Musical

BMG Rights Management (US)

LLC

Based on the classic 1990 romantic comedy, this award-winning musical features songs written by Bryan Adams and Jim Vallance. This album sees Adams performing the music from the show.

CD 15813291 $16.99

AVAILABLE MAY 12

Original Broadway Cast Recording

Concord Theatricals.

Artists: Christian Borle, J. Harrison Ghee

Featuring a swinging score by Tony and Grammy Award winners Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman, the rollicking musical is based on the classic MGM film Some Like It Hot, starring Marilyn Monroe.

CD 15813323 $15.99

AVAILABLE AUGUST 18

“A pretty perfect cast recording.”

-Broadway World

Brandy Clark

Brandy Clark

Warner Records

Country

Guest Artists: Brandi Carlile, Lucius

CD

15813292 $12.99

Parental Advisory

AVAILABLE MAY 19

Produced by Brandi Carlile

Staff Picks Music

Includes the smash hit I’m Good (Blue)

Bebe Rexha Bebe

Warner Records Pop/Rock

Guest Artists: Snoop Dogg, Dolly Parton

The album is about love–not just loving others, but loving yourself too. Each song is a representation of different seasons in Bebe’s life and letting go of perfection. It also features the new single Heart Wants What It Wants.

CD 15833207 $11.99 Parental Advisory

AVAILABLE APRIL 28

Alison Goldfrapp

The Love Invention

Fire Talk Records

Pop/Rock

CD

15799930 $18.99

AVAILABLE

MAY 12

Solo debut from the electronic pop singer

Ashnikko

Weedkiller

Warner Records

Pop/Rock

Guest Artists: Daniela Lalita, Ethel Cain

CD

15788097 $12.99

Parental Advisory

AVAILABLE JUNE 2

A bold, genre-blending sound

Bailey Zimmerman Religiously. The Album. Warner Music Nashville • Country

CD 15821958 $12.99

AVAILABLE

MAY 12

New album from the rising country star

Jackson Dean Greenbroke

Big Machine Country

CD 15809994 $10.99

AVAILABLE JUNE 2

Old-school, gritty outlaw country

Samantha Fish & Jesse Dayton

Death Wish Blues

Rounder Records Blues

CD

15752641 $12.99

AVAILABLE MAY 19

Pushes the limits of the blues

Jenny Lewis

Joy’All

Blue Note Pop/Rock

CD 15826648 $13.99

Parental Advisory

AVAILABLE JUNE 9

A new chapter for the singer-songwriter

A Peacock original now available for the first time on DVD

Starring: Pete Davidson, Kaley Cuoco, Deborah S. Craig

When Sheila and Gary meet, it’s love at first sight. Turns out, their magical date wasn’t fate at all: Sheila’s got a time-traveling tanning bed hidden inside a nail salon, and they’ve been falling in love over and over again.

NR 89 min. (2022) Comedy

DVD 15704008 $17.99

A 33-track rock opera

Martha’s Music • Pop/Rock

The highly anticipated 12th studio album from the Smashing Pumpkins is a three-act rock opera. It also serves as the sequel to 1995’s Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness and 2000’s Machina/ Machine of God.

CD 15483391 $21.99

AVAILABLE MAY 5