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Home- June 14, 2016
U2: iNNOCENCE + eXPERIENCE Live in Paris Blu-ray Movie
Interscope | 2016 | 151 min | Not rated | Jun 10, 2016 | Brian Orndorf
U2 perform a rescheduled live show at the AccorHotels Arena in Paris, France in the aftermath of the November 13 Paris Attacks as part of the final shows of the European leg of their Innocence + Experience Tour.
Documentary / Music
Roland and Rattfink Blu-ray Movie
The DePatie-Freleng Collection
Kino Lorber | 1968-1971 | 107 min | Not rated | Jun 28, 2016 | Brian Orndorf
The cartoons concerned blond, good-looking, pacifist Roland and the many attempts by the evil, mustachioed Rattfink to ruin his good time.
Animation / Comedy / Family / Short
Sorceress Blu-ray Movie
Temptress
Synapse Films | 1995 | 89 min | Not rated | Jun 14, 2016 | Brian Orndorf
Larry's wife Erica loves her husband very much and would do nearly anything for him -- which takes on a whole new meaning when one discovers that she's a witch with a firm command of her darker powers. Larry is in line for a promotion, but instead the senior partnership is given to Howard (Edward Albert), and Erica is just as upset as you might imagine; using both her sexual allure and her magical powers, Erica takes her revenge on Howard, leaving him in a wheelchair. However, it seems that Howard's wife Amelia is also a witch, and she's not about to allow the crippling of Howard to go unpunished.
Horror / Thriller / Supernatural / Erotic
- June 13, 2016
The Brutes Blu-ray Movie
Mädchen: Mit Gewalt | Edition Deutsche Vita Nr. 4 / Blu-ray + DVD
Subkultur Entertainment | 1970 | 98 min | Rated FSK-16 | May 20, 2015 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
No synopsis for this title.
Drama / Thriller
Touched with Fire Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + UV Digital Copy
Lionsgate Films | 2015 | 110 min | Rated R | Jun 07, 2016 | Jeffrey Kauffman
When two poets with bipolar disorder meet in a treatment facility, their chemistry is instant and intense driving each other's mania to new heights. They pursue their passion which breaks outside the bounds of sanity, swinging them from fantastical highs to tormented lows until they ultimately must choose between sanity and love.
Drama / Romance
Woman on the Run Blu-ray Movie
Arrow Academy / Blu-ray + DVD
Arrow | 1950 | 78 min | Rated BBFC: PG | Jun 13, 2016 | Jeffrey Kauffman
Frank Johnson flees police after becoming an eyewitness to murder. He is pursued around scenic San Francisco by his wife, a reporter, the police, and... the real murderer.
Crime / Drama / Film-Noir
- June 12, 2016
The In-Laws Blu-ray Movie
Criterion | 1979 | 103 min | Rated PG | Jul 05, 2016 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
With his daughter about to marry, Manhattan dentist Sheldon Kornpett is getting in over his head. The groom's father Vince Ricardo (who may/may not be CIA) has been in over his head so long he may have lost it totally.
Action / Adventure / Comedy / Crime / Thriller
Sole Survivor Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + DVD
Mediumrare Entertainment | 1970 | 100 min | Rated BBFC: 15 | Mar 14, 2016 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
In 1960, the ruins of an American bomber were found in the Libyan desert, but the remains of the crew were never located. In Guerdon Trueblood's teleplay, the ghosts of a bomber crew hang around their derelict plane, awaiting the day that their bones will be recovered and given a decent burial. The sole survivor, navigator Russell Hamner, has in the intervening 25 years become a General. He joins an investigation team that has come across the wreckage, while the ghosts, headed by Major Devlin, plot to expose Hamner as a coward who deserted his post and left his crew mates to die.
Drama / Supernatural
- June 11, 2016
Tijuana Toads Blu-ray Movie
The DePatie-Freleng Collection
Kino Lorber | 1969-1972 | 108 min | Not rated | Jun 28, 2016 | Brian Orndorf
No synopsis for this title.
Animation / Short
Star Trek 4K Blu-ray Movie
4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray + UV Digital Copy
Paramount Pictures | 2009 | 127 min | Rated PG-13 | Jun 14, 2016 | Martin Liebman
The fate of the galaxy rests in the hands of bitter rivals. One, James Kirk, is a delinquent, thrill-seeking Iowa farm boy. The other, Spock, a Vulcan, was raised in a logic-based society that rejects all emotion. As fiery instinct clashes with calm reason, their unlikely but powerful partnership is the only thing capable of leading their crew through unimaginable danger, boldly going where no one has gone before. The human adventure has begun again.
Action / Adventure / Sci-Fi
Star Trek Into Darkness 4K Blu-ray Movie
IMAX / 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray + UV Digital Copy
Paramount Pictures | 2013 | 132 min | Rated PG-13 | Jun 14, 2016 | Martin Liebman
Captain Kirk and the crew of the U.S.S. Enterprise are called back to Earth after a devastating force from within their organization leaves the planet in chaos and Starfleet in pieces. Determined to settle the score, Kirk embarks on a manhunt with the rest of his crew to find the party responsible before their whole world is laid to waste.
Action / Adventure / Sci-Fi
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan Blu-ray Movie
Director's Cut | corrected disc has yellow UPC
Paramount Pictures | 1982 | 1 Movie, 2 Cuts | 117 min | Rated PG | Jun 07, 2016 | Martin Liebman
As Admiral James T. Kirk and Captain Spock monitor trainees at Starfleet Academy, another vessel from the United Federation of Planets is about to try out the planet-creating Genesis Device in a seemingly deserted portion of space. In the process, two of Kirk's officers are captured by Khan, an enemy Kirk thought he'd never see again. Once more, Kirk takes the Enterprise's helm, where he meets Khan's ship in an intergalactic showdown.
Action / Adventure / Sci-Fi
Invisible Invaders Blu-ray Movie
Kino Lorber | 1959 | 67 min | Not rated | Jul 12, 2016 | Brian Orndorf
Aliens, contacting scientist Adam Penner, inform him that they have been on the moon for twenty thousand years, undetected due to their invisibility, and have now decided to annihilate humanity unless all the nations of earth surrender immediately. Sequestered in an impregnable laboratory trying to find the aliens' weakness, Penner, his daughter, a no-nonsense army major and a squeamish scientist are attacked from outside by the aliens, who have occupied the bodies of the recently deceased...
Horror / Sci-Fi
Victoria Blu-ray Movie
Senator | 2015 | 139 min | Rated FSK-12 | Nov 20, 2015 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
A movie shot in a single take about Victoria, a runaway party girl, who's asked by three friendly men to join them as they hit the town. Their wild night of partying turns into a bank robbery.
Crime / Drama / Thriller / Foreign
Ballers: The Complete First Season Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + UV Digital Copy
HBO | 2015 | 358 min | Rated TV-MA | Jun 14, 2016 | Jeffrey Kauffman
No synopsis for this title.
Comedy / Drama / Sport
Gold Blu-ray Movie
Oro
Kino Lorber | 1934 | 120 min | Not rated | Jun 14, 2016 | Brian Orndorf
After his colleague and a mentor, Prof. Achenbach dies in a set-up accident, while trying to produce gold from the lead, Werner Holk seeks revenge. Meanwhile, a British millionaire suggests that Holk work on him on a similar project.
Crime / Sci-Fi / Foreign
- June 10, 2016
Biggles: Adventures in Time Blu-ray Movie
Odeon | 1986 | 92 min | Rated BBFC: PG | Jun 15, 2015 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
One minute the New Yorker advertising expert Jim Ferguson is at a business party -- the next he finds himself way back in 1917 in a plane fight during World War I. Mr. Raymond explains to him that he has a time-twin, to whom he's relocated in space and time whenever one of them is in trouble. So he has to help his twin, biplane pilot Biggles, in his attempt to destroy a German super weapon, that could win their war. Of course it's hard for Jim to explain his sudden disappearances to his fiance, Debbie.
Adventure / Family / Sci-Fi
The Ox-Bow Incident Blu-ray Movie
Kino Lorber | 1943 | 75 min | Not rated | Jul 12, 2016 | Brian Orndorf
Two drifters are passing through a Western town, when news comes in that a local farmer has been murdered and his cattle stolen. The townspeople, joined by the drifters, form a posse to catch the perpetrators. They find three men in possession of the cattle, and are determined to see justice done on the spot.
Crime / Drama / Western
They Were Expendable Blu-ray Movie
Warner Archive Collection
Warner Bros. | 1945 | 135 min | Not rated | Jun 07, 2016 | Michael Reuben
Supplies are dwindling. Troops are hopelessly outnumbered. But even in defeat there is victory. The defenders of the Philippines - including PT-boat skippers John Brickley and Rusty Ryan - will give the U.S. war effort time to regroup after the devastation of Pearl Harbor.
Drama / War
Zootopia 3D Blu-ray Movie
Ultimate Collector's Edition / Blu-ray 3D + Blu-ray + DVD + Digital Copy
Disney / Buena Vista | 2016 | 109 min | Rated PG | Jun 07, 2016 | Martin Liebman
In the animal city of Zootopia, a fast-talking fox who's trying to make it big goes on the run when he's framed for a crime he didn't commit. Zootopia's top cop, a self-righteous rabbit, is hot on his tail, but when both become targets of a conspiracy, they're forced to team up and discover even natural enemies can become best friends.
Adventure / Animation / Comedy / Family