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Scanners II: The New Order / Scanners III: The Takeover Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + DVD
Shout Factory | 1991 | 2 Movies | 204 min | Rated R | Sep 10, 2013 | Jeffrey Kauffman
See individual titles for their synopses
Action / Horror / Sci-Fi / Holiday
Scanners III: The Takeover Blu-ray Movie
Scanner Force
Shout Factory | 1991 | 100 min | Rated R | Sep 10, 2013 | Jeffrey Kauffman
A young female scanner turns from a sweet young thing into a murderous, power-crazed villain after she takes an experimental drug developed by her father. Her brother, who is also a scanner, is the only one powerful enough to stop her.
Action / Horror / Sci-Fi
Scanners II Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + DVD
Shout Factory | 1991 | 104 min | Rated R | No Release Date | Jeffrey Kauffman
In this sequel to David Cronenberg's original classic, a corrupt, power-crazed police official has high ambitions and plans to use the telepathic power of Scanners to achieve his goal. With the aid of a scientist and a new drug, he believes he can control their minds to do his bidding, but a rogue Scanner has other plans.
Action / Horror / Sci-Fi / Holiday
The Sweet Hereafter Blu-ray Movie
De Beaux Lendemains
Artificial Eye | 1997 | 112 min | Rated BBFC: 15 | Sep 09, 2013 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
A small community is torn apart by a tragic accident which kills most of the town's children. A lawyer visits the victims' parents in order to profit from the tragedy by stirring up the their anger and launching a class action suit against anyone they can blame. The community is paralyzed by its anger and cannot let go. All but one young girl, left in a wheelchair after the accident, who finds the courage to lead the way toward healing.
Drama
Chasing Ice Blu-ray Movie
Special Edition
Cinedigm | 2012 | 75 min | Rated PG-13 | Sep 10, 2013 | Jeffrey Kauffman
Documentary showing the impact of climate change on the world's ice caps. The film follows National Geographic photojournalist James Balog, a former skeptic about climate change, as he uses time-lapse cameras to capture a record of the world's changing ice landscapes over a period of several years. Making his expedition by helicopter, canoe and dog sled across three continents, Balog gathers his seemingly irrefutable evidence of the melting ice caps in an attempt to convince those who continue to deny the effects of climate change.
Biography / Documentary
The Count of Monte Cristo / Man Friday Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + DVD
Timeless Media Group | 1975 | 2 Movies | 218 min | Not rated | Sep 10, 2013 | Jeffrey Kauffman
No synopsis for this title.
Adventure / Drama / History
Man Friday Blu-ray Movie
Timeless Media Group | 1975 | 115 min | Rated PG | Sep 10, 2013 | Jeffrey Kauffman
No synopsis for this title.
Adventure / Drama
The Count of Monte Cristo Blu-ray Movie
Timeless Media Group | 1975 | 103 min | Not rated | Sep 10, 2013 | Jeffrey Kauffman
A young officer, falsely imprisoned by his jealous "friends," escapes and uses a hidden treasure to exact his revenge.
Adventure / Drama / History
Da Vinci's Demons: The Complete First Season Blu-ray Movie
Starz / Anchor Bay | 2013 | 466 min | Rated TV-MA | Sep 03, 2013 | Martin Liebman
In a world where thought and faith are controlled, one man fights to set knowledge free. The secret history of Leonardo Da Vinci's tantalizing life reveals a portrait of a young man tortured by a gift of superhuman genius. He is a heretic intent on exposing the lies of religion. An insurgent seeking to subvert an elitist society. He finds himself in the midst of a storm that has been brewing for centuries. A conflict between truth and lies, religion and reason, past and future. His aspirations are used against him by the opposing forces of the time—luring him into a game of seduction where those who despise his intellect need him most.
Adventure / Drama / History / Period
Person of Interest: The Complete Second Season Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + DVD + UV Digital Copy
Warner Bros. | 2012-2013 | 964 min | Rated TV-14 | Sep 03, 2013 | Kenneth Brown
An ex-CIA hitman and a scientist team up to prevent crimes before they happen.
Action / Crime / Drama / Mystery / Thriller
- September 09, 2013
Frankenstein's Army Blu-ray Movie
MPI Media Group | 2013 | 84 min | Rated R | Sep 10, 2013 | Casey Broadwater
Toward the end of World War II, Russian soldiers pushing into eastern Germany stumble across a secret Nazi lab, one that has unearthed and begun experimenting with the journal of one Dr. Victor Frankenstein. The scientists have used the legendary Frankenstein's work to assemble an army of super-soldiers stitched together from the body parts of their fallen comrades -- a desperate Hitler's last ghastly ploy to escape defeat.
Horror / Sci-Fi / Supernatural / Period
The Bird with the Crystal Plumage Blu-ray Movie
L'uccello dalle piume di cristallo
VCI | 1970 | 96 min | Rated R | Sep 10, 2013 | Jeffrey Kauffman
An American expatriate in Rome attempts to unmask a serial killer he witnessed in the act of an attempted murder - and is now hunting him and his girlfriend.
Horror / Mystery / Thriller / Psychological thriller / Foreign
Scooby-Doo! Stage Fright Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + DVD + UV Digital Copy
Warner Bros. | 2013 | 78 min | Not rated | Aug 20, 2013 | Kenneth Brown
The windy city is home to the hit TV show, Talent Star, in which songwriting duo Fred and Daphne are finalists with some high hopes. Not to be left out, Scooby and Shaggy have a secret act in the works, which they are betting will take the contest by storm. Unlucky for them, the competition is frightful at this talent contest as the show is being broadcast from an opera house with a history of horrors and a particularly vengeful phantom that has cursed the show's production. From costume changin' chases to collecting creepy clues, the show must go on.
Adventure / Animation / Comedy / Supernatural
Jennifer 8 Blu-ray Movie
Warner Bros. | 1992 | 125 min | Rated R | Sep 10, 2013 | Michael Reuben
A big-city cop, John Berlin, from L.A. moves to a small-town police force and immediately finds himself investigating a murder. Using theories rejected by his colleagues, John meets an attractive, young blind woman named Helena. Meanwhile, a serial killer is on the loose and only John knows it.
Crime / Drama / Mystery / Thriller
Voyage of the Damned Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + DVD
Timeless Media Group | 1976 | 158 min | Rated PG | Sep 24, 2013 | Jeffrey Kauffman
This is the true story of the voyage of MS St. Louis carrying hundreds of German Jews from Nazi Germany that seemingly no nation is willing to save from certain doom.
Drama / War
The Big City / The Coward Blu-ray Movie
মহানগর / Mahanagar | কাপুরুষ / Kapurush
Criterion | 1963-1965 | 2 Movies | 136 min | Not rated | Aug 20, 2013 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
Set in contemporary Kolkata, the film follows the personal triumphs and frustrations of Arati, who decides, despite the initial protests of her bank-clerk husband, to take a job to help support their family.
Drama / Romance / Foreign
- September 08, 2013
The House of Seven Corpses Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + DVD
Severin Films | 1974 | 88 min | Rated PG | Aug 13, 2013 | Jeffrey Kauffman
A director is filming on location in a house where seven murders were committed. The caretaker warns them not to mess with things they do not understand (the murders were occult related), but the director wants to be as authentic as possible and has his cast re-enact rituals that took place in the house thus summoning a ghoul from the nearby cemetery to bump the whole film crew off one by one.
Horror
Open Road Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + UV Digital Copy
Universal Studios | 2013 | 86 min | Not rated | May 21, 2013 | Brian Orndorf
Where will the road take her? Angie is a free spirit living on her own terms and occasionally waitressing to make money. But when she makes connections with a drifter, a handsome cop, and his sister , she finds herself torn between her life of absolute freedom and being tied to people who care about her. Beautifully filmed and acted, it's an inspiring film about love in all its many forms.
Drama / Coming of age
Black Lagoon: Roberta's Blood Trail Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + DVD
FUNimation Entertainment | 2010-2011 | 169 min | Rated TV-MA | Aug 06, 2013 | Kenneth Brown
A Japanese businessman, captured by modern-day pirates, is written off and left for dead by his company. Tired of the corporate life, he opts to stick with the mercenaries that kidnapped him, becoming part of their gang.
Action / Anime / Comic book / Foreign
Marathon Man Blu-ray Movie
Warner Bros. | 1976 | 125 min | Rated R | Sep 10, 2013 | Michael Reuben
A graduate history student is unwillingly trapped in a killing game of intrigue involving a Nazi fugitive.
Action / Crime / Drama / Thriller / Psychological thriller