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Home- February 21, 2015
Muscle Beach Party Blu-ray Movie
Olive Films | 1964 | 95 min | Not rated | Feb 17, 2015 | Jeffrey Kauffman
Local beach-goers find that their beach has been taken over by a businessman training a stable of body builders.
Comedy
- February 20, 2015
The Thin Blue Line Blu-ray Movie
Criterion | 1988 | 102 min | Not rated | Mar 24, 2015 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
A work of meticulous journalism and gripping drama, this documentary recounts the disturbing tale of Randall Dale Adams, a drifter who was charged with the murder of a Dallas police officer and sent to death row, despite evidence that he did not commit the crime.
Crime / Documentary / Drama / Mystery
WWE: The Destruction of the SHIELD Blu-ray Movie
WWE Studios | 2014 | 68 min | Rated TV-PG | Feb 17, 2015 | Martin Liebman
Follow a behind the scenes journey in the life of WWE’s newest and most prolific trio – The Shield, on their road to SummerSlam. They were the most dominant faction inside the ring, taking the entire WWE by storm. Now, the Hounds of Justice have disbanded, and roads now lead to SummerSlam. Witness the journeys of the three superstars- Seth Rollins, Dean Ambrose and Roman Reigns –from their humble beginnings en route to the biggest event of the summer! The program will include even more exclusive content than originally aired on the WWE Network, along with hours of The Shield’s greatest matches.
Sport
- February 19, 2015
The Remains of the Day Blu-ray Movie
20th Anniversary Edition | Sony Collector's Edition #19 / Blu-ray + UV Digital Copy
Sony Pictures | 1993 | 134 min | Rated BBFC: U | Oct 07, 2013 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
In post-World War I England, head butler Stevens has devoted his life entirely to service. With careful and unfailing devotion, he adheres to a system of old-fashioned propriety. His worldview is challenged and complicated by a vivacious housekeeper who falls in love with him and for whom he cares deeply, though he is unable to directly express it. Stevens must also quietly contend with the fact his master, Lord Darlington, is an influential, yet naïve gentleman under the spell of Nazi sympathizers.
Drama / Romance / Period
To Sir, with Love Blu-ray Movie
Limited Edition to 3000
Twilight Time | 1967 | 105 min | Not rated | Feb 10, 2015 | Jeffrey Kauffman
Unemployed engineer Mark Thackeray reluctantly takes a teaching job in a working-class London high school. His unruly students assume they'll easily gain the upper hand, but Thackeray has other ideas. Eventually he wins the students over, changing their lives -- and his -- in the process.
Drama / Teen
A Certain Scientific Railgun Blu-ray Movie
Season 1 / とある科学の超電磁砲 / Toaru Kagaku No Railgun / Blu-ray + DVD
FUNimation Entertainment | 2009 | 600 min | Rated TV-14 | Jan 20, 2015 | Jeffrey Kauffman
Misaka Mikoto, a middle-school girl with an amazing and highly-destructive ability to control electricity, is one of the top level espers in Academy City, a highly developed town populated by students with supernatural abilities. Mikoto, along with her three unique friends, encounter various strange phenomena and eccentric people through their action-packed adventures in this exciting scientific town.
Action / Anime / Drama / Sci-Fi / Supernatural / Comic book / Foreign
Animal Blu-ray Movie
Shout Factory | 2014 | 86 min | Not rated | Feb 17, 2015 | Jeffrey Kauffman
When plans for a weekend vacation hit a dead end, a group of close-knit friends find themselves stranded in unfamiliar territory.
Horror / Thriller
Dying of the Light Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + UV Digital Copy
Lionsgate Films | 2014 | 94 min | Rated R | Feb 17, 2015 | Jeffrey Kauffman
Veteran CIA agent Evan Lake has been ordered to retire. But when his protégé uncovers evidence that Lake's nemesis, the terrorist Banir, has resurfaced, Lake goes rogue, embarking on a perilous, intercontinental mission to eliminate his sworn enemy.
Action / Drama / Thriller
1969 Blu-ray Movie
Olive Films | 1988 | 95 min | Rated R | Feb 17, 2015 | Jeffrey Kauffman
Two friends, Ralph and Scott live in a small minded town at the onset of wide public dissatisfaction with the Vietnam war.
Drama / War
Whiplash Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + UV Digital Copy
Sony Pictures | 2014 | 107 min | Rated R | Feb 24, 2015 | Martin Liebman
A promising young drummer enrolls at a cut-throat music conservatory where his dreams of greatness are mentored by a vicious jazz band instructor who will stop at nothing to realize a student's potential.
Drama / Music / Psychological thriller
- February 18, 2015
Big Hero 6 Blu-ray Movie
Collector's Edition / Blu-ray + DVD + Digital Copy
Disney / Buena Vista | 2014 | 102 min | Rated PG | Feb 24, 2015 | Martin Liebman
Brilliant robotics prodigy Hiro Hamada finds himself in the grips of a criminal plot that threatens to destroy the fast-paced, high-tech city of San Fransokyo. With the help of his closest companion, a robot named Baymax, Hiro joins forces with a reluctant team of first-time crime fighters on a mission to save their city.
Action / Adventure / Animation / Family / Fantasy / Sci-Fi / Comic book
Ten Seconds to Hell Blu-ray Movie
Kino Lorber | 1959 | 93 min | Not rated | Feb 24, 2015 | Brian Orndorf
At the end of the Second World War six German ex-soldiers return to Berlin and set up as a bomb disposal group. The pressure of the dangerous work starts to affect them, the more so as they have agreed to pool half their pay so that if only one survives he takes it all. Casualties and friction are inevitable, and having to handle British 1000lb bombs seems particularly bad news.
Action / Drama / War
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Blu-ray Movie
10th Anniversary Edition
Warner Bros. | 2005 | 115 min | Rated PG | Mar 03, 2015 | Brian Orndorf
An eccentric chocolatier, Willy Wonka, long isolated from his own family, Wonka launches a worldwide contest to select an heir to his candy empire. Five lucky children, including Charlie, a good-hearted boy from a poor family who lives in the shadow of Wonka's extraordinary factory, draw golden tickets from Wonka chocolate bars and win a guided tour of the legendary candy-making facility that no outsider has seen in 15 years. Dazzled by one amazing sight after another, Charlie is drawn into Wonka's fantastic world in this astonishing and enduring story.
Adventure / Comedy / Family / Fantasy / Musical
How to Murder Your Wife Blu-ray Movie
Olive Films | 1965 | 118 min | Not rated | Feb 17, 2015 | Jeffrey Kauffman
A man who has set up the perfect lifestyle for himself makes the mistake of marrying while drunk... and his fantasies of murder are used against him.
Comedy
- February 17, 2015
No Tears for the Dead Blu-ray Movie
U-neun nam-ja / 우는 남자
CJ Entertainment | 2014 | 116 min | Not rated | Feb 17, 2015 | Michael Reuben
Gon, a Korean raised in America, is a professional hitman who is usually flawless in taking out his targets. On his latest assignment, though, Gon makes the terrible mistake of killing an innocent young girl. Overcome by regret, guilt and shame, Gon no longer wants to kill for a living, but his boss orders him to go to Korean -- to eliminate the dead child's mother.
Action / Crime / Drama / Thriller / Foreign
My Left Eye Sees Ghosts Blu-ray Movie
Ngo joh aan gin diy gwai / 我左眼見到鬼
Kam & Ronson Enterprises | 2002 | 98 min | Rated IIA | Aug 09, 2011 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
May Ho marries a successful businessman named Daniel only seven days after meeting him on holiday. Unfortunately, soon thereafter Daniel dies in a scuba diving accident. All the money from Daniel's will may give May a luxurious life, but in reality she lives in solitude without any sense of direction. One night she suffers a near fatal car accident while driving drunk. A naughty ghost named Ken comes to save May's life and a strange thing happens: May's left eye has the ability to see ghosts!
Comedy / Horror / Romance / Foreign
Dumb and Dumber To Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + DVD + UV Digital Copy
Universal Studios | 2014 | 110 min | Rated PG-13 | Feb 17, 2015 | Martin Liebman
Twenty years after their last adventure, good-hearted yet dimwitted best friends, Harry and Lloyd, head out in search for one of their long lost children in the hope of gaining a new kidney.
Comedy
Ben-To: Complete Series Blu-ray Movie
Limited Edition / Blu-ray + DVD
FUNimation Entertainment | 2011 | 300 min | Rated TV-14 | Feb 03, 2015 | Jeffrey Kauffman
Every day an epic struggle rages in grocery stores across Japan-the battle for half-priced bento boxes! Once the discount stickers go on, ravenous brawlers start throwing punches in a knockdown, drag-out war over who gets to take home the cheap eats. When a young, broke high school student named Sato joins the Half-Priced Food Lovers Club, he proves to be a rising talent in the world of insane food fights. But does he have what it takes to become the king of clearance cuisine? From the director of Black Cat comes a very different type of hunger games. Welcome to the world of Ben-To, where chopsticks are lethal weapons, the supermarket is a battleground, and there's nothing more delicious than a deep-fried win.
Action / Anime / Comedy / Erotic / Martial arts / Foreign
Stormy Weather Blu-ray Movie
Limited Edition to 3000 - SOLD OUT
Twilight Time | 1943 | 78 min | Not rated | Feb 10, 2015 | Jeffrey Kauffman
The relationship between an aspiring dancer and a popular songstress provides a retrospective of the great African American entertainers of the early 1900s.
Music / Musical / Romance
St. Vincent Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + UV Digital Copy
Starz / Anchor Bay | 2014 | 102 min | Rated PG-13 | Feb 17, 2015 | Martin Liebman
A young boy whose parents just divorced finds an unlikely friend and mentor in the misanthropic, bawdy, hedonistic, war veteran who lives next door.
Comedy / Drama