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Home- January 23, 2014
The Fifth Estate Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + DVD + Digital Copy
Disney / Buena Vista | 2013 | 124 min | Rated R | Jan 28, 2014 | Kenneth Brown
Through the eyes of Daniel Domscheit-Berg, an early supporter and eventual colleague of Julian Assange, the film follows the heady, early days of Wikileaks to its abrupt end after a series of controversial and history changing info leaks. The website's overnight success brought instant fame to its principal architects, but as their power expanded across the globe, Daniel grew increasingly disillusioned with Julian's questionable tactics and ethics. The rift between the two friends became irreparable and their ideological differences tore them apart, but not before they revolutionized, for better and worse, the flow of information to news media and the world at large.
Biography / Crime / Drama
Instructions Not Included Blu-ray Movie
No se aceptan devoluciones / Blu-ray + UV Digital Copy
Lionsgate Films | 2013 | 122 min | Rated PG-13 | Jan 21, 2014 | Jeffrey Kauffman
Valentin is Acapulco’s resident playboy until a former fling leaves a baby on his doorstep and takes off without a trace. Valentin leaves Mexico for Los Angeles to find the baby’s mother, but only ends up finding a new home for himself and his newfound daughter, Maggie. An unlikely father figure, Valentin raises Maggie for six years, while also establishing himself as one of Hollywood’s top stuntmen to pay the bills, with Maggie acting as his on-set coach. As Valentin raises Maggie, she forces him to grow up too. But their unique and offbeat family is threatened when Maggie’s birth mom shows up out of the blue, and Valentin realizes he’s in danger of losing his daughter and his best friend.
Comedy / Foreign
Terraferma Blu-ray Movie
Cohen Media Group | 2011 | 88 min | Not rated | Jan 14, 2014 | Jeffrey Kauffman
A Sicilian family deals with the arrival of a group of immigrants on their island.
Drama / Foreign
- January 22, 2014
Treme: The Complete Series Blu-ray Movie
HBO | 2010-2013 | 4 Seasons | 2300 min | Rated TV-MA | Jan 28, 2014 | Kenneth Brown
All four seasons of the series, plus a 15th Blu-ray disc with exclusive special features.
Drama / Music / Period
Death on the Nile Blu-ray Movie
Studio Canal | 1978 | 140 min | Not rated | Jan 20, 2014 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot has a set of murder suspects on a boat in the Nile after a rich heiress is killed. Can he find the culprit before they reach port?
Crime / Drama / Mystery / Thriller / Period
Inspector Lewis: Series 5 Blu-ray Movie
Lewis: Series 6
PBS | 2012 | 368 min | Not rated | Sep 18, 2012 | Brian Orndorf
No synopsis for this title.
Crime / Drama / Mystery
The Prey Blu-ray Movie
La proie
Cohen Media Group | 2011 | 102 min | Rated R | Jan 21, 2014 | Jeffrey Kauffman
Franck Adrien is serving a prison sentence for robbery. When he learns that his wife is in financial difficulty he confides in his cellmate, Jean-Louis Maurel, the location of the booty of his last heist. Maurel is due to be released soon and Franck is certain that he can trust him to come to his wife’s rescue...
Action / Crime / Thriller / Foreign
Private Blu-ray Movie
Fallo! / Do It!
Cult Epics | 2003 | 91 min | Not rated | Jul 09, 2013 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
Tinto Brass - The maestro of Italian erotica is back! Lies, subterfuge, betrayal and mischief - FALLO! is a collection of six stories based on the joys of sexuality and the eroticism of a new generation of women.
Comedy / Erotic
The Postman Always Rings Twice Blu-ray Movie
Warner Bros. | 1981 | 121 min | Rated R | Jan 21, 2014 | Michael Reuben
The sensuous wife of a road stop proprietor and a drifter begin a steamy affair and conspire to murder her Greek husband.
Crime / Drama / Thriller
- January 21, 2014
Tess Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + DVD
Criterion | 1979 | 172 min | Not rated | Feb 25, 2014 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
A simple country girl is torn between the honest farmer who loves her and a corrupt nobleman.
Drama / Romance / Period
Nostalghia Blu-ray Movie
Kino Lorber | 1983 | 125 min | Not rated | Jan 21, 2014 | Casey Broadwater
At a spa in the Tuscan Hills, a Russian poet and musicologist, researching the life of an 18th century composer, meets a mysterious man who is convinced that the end of the world is nigh. The Russian, Andrei Gorchakov (Oleg Yankovsky), is asked to cross an ancient sulphur pool carrying a lighted candle as an act of faith. Tarkovsky's first film outside the USSR is full of personal and Christian symbols and works as a study of such themes as memory, melancholia and disenchantment with the material world.
Drama / Foreign
Cat People Blu-ray Movie
Collector's Edition
Shout Factory | 1982 | 119 min | Rated R | Jan 21, 2014 | Jeffrey Kauffman
A young woman's sexual awakening brings horror when she discovers her urges transform her into a monstrous black leopard.
Drama / Fantasy / Horror / Romance / Thriller
Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa Blu-ray Movie
Studio Canal | 2013 | 90 min | Rated BBFC: 15 | Dec 02, 2013 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
Occupying a career stasis-defining role as a mid-morning DJ on North Norfolk Digital Radio, Alan Partridge's hopes for one last shot at the big time suffer a severe setback when it emerges that his employers have been taken over by a giant media conglomerate. Alan soon finds himself back in the spotlight, however, when newly-sacked fellow DJ Pat Farrell returns to the studio with a shotgun and begins taking hostages. Called in by the police to act as a hostage negotiator, can Britain's most famous Toblerone addict turn the tables and finally save the day?
Comedy
Raise the Titanic Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + DVD
Shout Factory | 1980 | 115 min | Rated PG | Jan 21, 2014 | Jeffrey Kauffman
An American special agent and group of experts embark upon an exciting and chilling underwater race against the Russians to salvage the Titanic and its vital defence cargo seventy years after the tragedy of its sinking. Adapted from Clive Cussler’s international best-selling novel.
Action / Drama / Thriller
In a World... Blu-ray Movie
Sony Pictures | 2013 | 93 min | Rated R | Jan 21, 2014 | Martin Liebman
An underachieving vocal coach is motivated by her father, the king of movie-trailer voice-overs, to pursue her aspirations of becoming a voiceover star. Amidst pride, sexism and family dysfunction, she sets out to change the voice of a generation.
Comedy
Blue Jasmine Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + UV Digital Copy
Sony Pictures | 2013 | 98 min | Rated PG-13 | Jan 21, 2014 | Martin Liebman
Woody Allen writes and directs this comedy drama starring Cate Blanchett, Alec Baldwin and Sally Hawkins. Broke and suffering from a nervous breakdown, housewife Jasmine (Blanchett) travels from New York to San Fransisco to stay with her sister Ginger (Hawkins). The ensemble cast also features Louis C.K., Andrew Dice Clay, Peter Sarsgaard and Bobby Cannavale.
Comedy / Drama
Never Sleep Again: The Elm Street Legacy Blu-ray Movie
Image Entertainment | 2010 | 239 min | Not rated | Jan 21, 2014 | Michael Reuben
A retrospective documentary on The Nightmare on Elm Street series, featuring interviews with many of the actors, directors, writers, producers and crew who created the films.
Documentary / Horror
Downton Abbey: Season 4 Blu-ray Movie
Masterpiece Classic: Downton Abbey | Original UK Edition
PBS | 2013 | 534 min | Not rated | Jan 28, 2014 | Brian Orndorf
From the sinking of the Titanic to the end of the First World War, the secure and ordered world of the beloved estate is rocked as the lives of the inhabitants of Downton Abbey are shaped by intrigue, crisis and romance. Season one sets a lavish stage of beautiful scenery and architecture, and a class structure rigid yet just beginning to give way at the beginning of the 20th century, and of the Great War. Season two picks up two years later, in 1916, as the war rages on over Europe, and grand Downton Abbey has been converted into a convalescent hospital for wounded veterans of the brutal combat. In season 3 the Great War is over and a long-awaited engagement is on, but all is not tranquil at Downton Abbey as wrenching social changes, romantic intrigues, and personal crises grip the majestic English country estate.
Drama / Romance / War / Period
- January 20, 2014
Man in the Dark 3D Blu-ray Movie
Limited Edition - SOLD OUT / Blu-ray 3D + Blu-ray
Twilight Time | 1953 | 67 min | Not rated | Jan 22, 2014 | Jeffrey Kauffman
A thug is convicted and undergoes experimental brain surgery to remove criminal element in his brain. The operation wipes out all memory of his past life, including where he stashed the loot.
Crime / Drama / Film-Noir / Thriller
The Doors: R-Evolution Blu-ray Movie
Eagle Rock Entertainment | 2013 | 72 min | Not rated | Jan 21, 2014 | Jeffrey Kauffman
Combining early TV appearances with their own music films, it illustrates how The Doors evolved from the constraints of late sixties television to a point where they had the creative input and power to shape how they were portrayed on screen. Throughout the unique charisma and talent of The Doors comes across, whether it be on a lightweight pop show or on a film created from their own imaginations, along with some of the most influential music ever made.
Music