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On Oct. 7, 1985, Lynette Woodard, who captained the gold-medal winning U.S. Olympic women’s basketball team in 1984, had the great distinction of becoming the first female player for the Harlem Globetrotters, remarking that she “got chills” when she heard the news. She beat out nine other finalists for the honor.

On Oct. 8, 2009, two people died of heat stroke and more than a dozen others had to be hospitalized for dehydration and other medical issues following a botched sweat lodge ceremony near Sedona, Ariz., at a five-day retreat run by motivational speaker and author James Arthur Ray. A third participant died nine days later.

On Oct. 9, 1942, Chicago bootlegger Roger “The...

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This film from Lionsgate will open exclusively in theaters and on IMAX screens on Friday, Sept. 27.

For decades, Francis Ford Coppola has been following the beat of his own drummer, from commercially successful ventures like The Godfather series, Apocalypse Now, The Outsiders and Bram Stoker’s Dracula, to smaller and more intimate films including The Conversation. For the past 20 years, he’s been working on even more unique and esoteric independent projects like Youth Without Youth and Tetro, which have garnered a variety of responses. If you’ve read the papers recently, then you may be aware that his latest venture is...

Welcome to another look at some of the highlights arriving on 4K Ultra HD, Blu-ray and DVD. This is a slower week, but there are still a couple of notable pictures coming your way. So, if you can’t make it out to the movies this week, or need to stay indoors for a few days, be sure to give one of these titles a try!

BIG NEW RELEASES!



CALIGULA: THE ULTIMATE CUT: Curiously enough, one of the week’s biggest releases is a film that was shot 48 years ago. In 1976, Tinto Brass shot an expensive biopic written by Gore Vidal about the Roman emperor Caligula.



It begins during his childhood when the title character’s family is murdered. He survives and over time slowly rises in...