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Home- October 18, 2014
The Raven Blu-ray Movie
Shout Factory | 1963 | 86 min | Rated G | No Release Date | Jeffrey Kauffman
Two wizards dueling for magical supremacy is utterly bewitching!
Comedy / Fantasy / Horror / Supernatural
Dr. Phibes Rises Again! Blu-ray Movie
Shout Factory | 1972 | 90 min | Rated PG | No Release Date | Jeffrey Kauffman
The moon rises at a predestined angle and awakens the sleeping Dr. Phibes three years later. To his dismay, he finds his house has been demolished and his papyrus scrolls stolen, the scrolls he needs to find the Pharoah's Tomb in Egypt, where the River of Life flows. After identifying the source of the papyrus theft, he packs and leaves for Egypt with his assistant Vulnavia, still intent upon awakening his dead wife Victoria. The parties responsible for the theft of Phibes' scrolls suffer an attrition problem as Inspector Trout chases him across the world...
Horror / Thriller / Dark humor
Van Damme 5-Movie Action Pack Blu-ray Movie
Hard Target / The Quest / Street Fighter / Sudden Death / Lionheart / Blu-ray + UV Digital Copy
Universal Studios | 1990-1996 | 5 Movies | 512 min | Rated R | Oct 14, 2014 | Brian Orndorf
Jean-Claude Van Damme's work with Universal Studios from 1990-1996
Action / Adventure / Drama / Sci-Fi / Sport / Thriller / Martial arts
Hard Target Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + UV Digital Copy
Universal Studios | 1993 | 100 min | Rated R | Oct 13, 2015 | Brian Orndorf
A woman hires a drifter as her guide through New Orleans in search of her father, who has gone missing. They discover a deadly game of cat and mouse behind his disappearance in the process.
Action / Crime / Mystery / Thriller / Martial arts
Lionheart Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + UV Digital Copy
Universal Studios | 1990 | 105 min | Rated R | No Release Date | Brian Orndorf
Lyon Gaultier is a deserter in the Foreign Legion arriving in the USA entirely hard up. He finds his brother between life and death and his sister-in-law without the money needed to heal her husband and to maintain her child. To earn the money needed, Gaultier decides to take part in some very dangerous clandestine fights.
Action / Adventure / Drama / Sport
Sudden Death Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + UV Digital Copy
Universal Studios | 1995 | 111 min | Rated R | Oct 13, 2015 | Brian Orndorf
A disgraced former fireman takes on a group of terrorists holding the Vice President and others hostage during the seventh game of the NHL Stanley Cup finals.
Action / Drama / Thriller
Doctor Who: Deep Breath Blu-ray Movie
BBC | 2014 | 70 min | Rated TV-PG | Sep 09, 2014 | Kenneth Brown
When the newly regenerated doctor arrives in Victorian London, he finds a dinosaur rampant in the Thames and a spate of deadly spontaneous combustions.
Adventure / Fantasy / Sci-Fi
- October 17, 2014
The 'Burbs Blu-ray Movie
Limited Edition
Arrow | 1989 | 1 Movie, 2 Cuts | 102 min | Rated BBFC: 12 | Sep 15, 2014 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
An overstressed suburbanite and his paramilitaric neighbor struggle to prove their paranoid theory that the new family in town is a front for a cannibalistic cult.
Comedy / Mystery / Thriller / Dark humor
Mercenaries Blu-ray Movie
Asylum | 2014 | 89 min | Unrated | Oct 14, 2014 | Martin Liebman
A diplomatic official is captured and imprisoned while touring a war zone, so a team of elite female commandos is assembled to infiltrate a women's prison for a daring rescue.
Action / Adventure
The Hornet's Nest Blu-ray Movie
High Road | 2014 | 97 min | Rated R | Sep 09, 2014 | Martin Liebman
A career Journalist takes his son to the war zone in Afghanistan, covering U.S. Combat Troops on the front lines. What starts out as an effort to reconnect with his son, becomes a remarkable true story and fight for survival for all.
Action / Documentary / History / War
- October 16, 2014
PlayTime Blu-ray Movie
4K Restoration
Criterion | 1967 | 124 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Dr. Svet Atanasov
Clumsy Monsieur Hulot finds himself perplexed by the intimidating complexity of a gadget-filled Paris.
Comedy / Foreign
La Gifle Blu-ray Movie
The Slap
Gaumont | 1974 | 104 min | Not rated | Sep 03, 2014 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
No synopsis for this title.
Comedy / Drama / Romance / Foreign
The Blob Blu-ray Movie
Limited Edition to 5,000 | SOLD OUT
Twilight Time | 1988 | 95 min | Rated R | Oct 14, 2014 | Jeffrey Kauffman
Remake of the 1958 horror sci-fi about a deadly blob—which is the spawn of a secret government germ warfare project—that consumes everyone in its path. Teenagers try in vain to warn the townsfolk, who refuse to take them seriously, while government agents try to cover up the evidence and confine the creature...
Horror / Sci-Fi
Chinese Puzzle Blu-ray Movie
Casse-tęte chinois
Cohen Media Group | 2013 | 117 min | Rated R | Oct 14, 2014 | Jeffrey Kauffman
A 40-year-old father of two, still finds life very complicated. When the mother of his children moves to New York, he can't bear them growing up far away from him and so he decides to move there as well.
Comedy / Drama / Romance
- October 15, 2014
Yankee Doodle Dandy Blu-ray Movie
Warner Archive Collection
Warner Bros. | 1942 | 126 min | Not rated | Oct 14, 2014 | Michael Reuben
A musical portrait of composer/singer/dancer George M. Cohan. From his early days as a child-star in his family's vaudeville show up to the time of his comeback at which he received a medal from the president for his special contributions to the US, this is the life- story of George M. Cohan, who produced, directed, wrote and starred in his own musical shows for which he composed his famous songs.
Biography / Drama / Musical / Romance
Snowpiercer Blu-ray Movie
설국열차
Starz / Anchor Bay | 2013 | 126 min | Rated R | Oct 21, 2014 | Martin Liebman
After a failed experiment to stop global warming, a new ice age destroys most life on the planet. The only human survivors are the inhabitants of the Snowpiercer, a vast train traveling around the globe, powered by a sacred perpetual-motion engine. A rigid class system evolves on the train, with the poorest and hungriest imprisoned in the rear cars while others prospers and indulge at the front, but a revolution brews.
Action / Drama / Sci-Fi / Thriller / Comic book / Foreign
The Last Supper Blu-ray Movie
王的盛宴 / Wang De Sheng Yan
Cinedigm | 2012 | 116 min | Not rated | Oct 14, 2014 | Jeffrey Kauffman
After years of war that led to the establishment of the Han Dynasty, Emperor Liu Bang has become paranoid about conspirators around him and plagued by nightmares. In his nightmares, he begins to remember his rise to the throne, starting with his days as a peasant fighting the Qin ruler under the leadership of Xiang Yu. However, when Liu is suspected of betraying Xiang by entering the Qin Palace before his lord after their victory, Xiang's advisors conspire to kill Liu during a banquet at Hong Gate. Liu escapes and wins a brutal war with Xiang's forces, thanks to help from defected general Han Xin. However, Liu's victory prompts him to rethink the Hong Gate banquet and the events surrounding it.
Action / Drama / History / War / Martial arts / Foreign
Bach: Christmas Oratorio BWV 248 Blu-ray Movie
John Eliot Gardiner
EUROARTS | 1999 | 146 min | Not rated | Sep 30, 2014 | Jeffrey Kauffman
No synopsis for this title.
Music
Holiday Inn Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + UV Digital Copy
Universal Studios | 1942 | 1 Movie, 2 Cuts | 101 min | Not rated | Oct 07, 2014 | Jeffrey Kauffman
A retiring show song and dancer leaves showbiz to start up a New England country inn with the unique idea of being open only on national holidays. Conflicts arise when his former partner shows up and they fall for the same woman, and sparks fly -as do their feet - in a variety of inventive, holiday themed song-and-dance productions.
Comedy / Drama / Musical / Romance / Holiday
- October 14, 2014
Leprechaun: The Complete Movie Collection Blu-ray Movie
Leprechaun / Leprechaun 2 / Leprechaun 3 / Leprechaun 4: In Space / Leprechaun: In the Hood / Leprechaun: Back 2 tha Hood / Leprechaun: Origins / Blu-ray + UV Digital Copy
Lionsgate Films | 1992-2014 | 7 Movies | 640 min | Rated R | Sep 30, 2014 | Jeffrey Kauffman
See individual titles for their synopses
Action / Comedy / Fantasy / Horror / Music / Sci-Fi / Dark humor