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Prime Suspect 2 Blu-ray Movie
Acorn Media | 1992 | 213 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Michael Reuben
DCI Tennison's investigation of a racially charged murder is complicated by unanticipated developments in her personal life.
Crime / Drama / Mystery
Prime Suspect 3 Blu-ray Movie
Acorn Media | 1993 | 215 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Michael Reuben
Assigned to a vice squad, Tennison investigates the murder of a "rent boy".
Crime / Drama / Mystery
Prime Suspect 4: The Lost Child / Inner Circles / The Scent of Darkness Blu-ray Movie
Acorn Media | 1995 | 318 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Michael Reuben
In three separate cases, Tennison orchestrates a search for an abducted baby, follows a sex murder investigation into a hidden political scandal, and investigates series of brutal sex murders disturbingly similar to the pattern her first major case, suggesting that she may have convicted the wrong man.
Crime / Drama / Mystery
Prime Suspect 5: Errors of Judgement Blu-ray Movie
Acorn Media | 1996 | 210 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Michael Reuben
Tennison investigates a seemingly straightforward drug murder that she believes is linked to a smug crime boss.
Crime / Drama / Mystery
Prime Suspect 6: The Last Witness Blu-ray Movie
Acorn Media | 2003 | 205 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Michael Reuben
Tennison's investigation of the murder of a Bosnian refugee leads her to one, or possibly two, Serbian war criminals determined to silence the last witness to a massacre a decade before.
Crime / Drama / Mystery
Prime Suspect 7: The Final Act Blu-ray Movie
Acorn Media | 2006 | 192 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Michael Reuben
Approaching retirement, Tennison investigates the murder of a missing girl.
Crime / Drama / Mystery
At Any Price Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + UV Digital Copy
Sony Pictures | 2013 | 104 min | Rated R | Aug 27, 2013 | Martin Liebman
In the competitive world of modern agriculture, ambitious Henry Whipple wants his rebellious son Dean to help expand his family's farming empire. However, Dean has his sights set on becoming a professional race car driver. When a high-stakes investigation into their business is exposed, father and son are pushed into an unexpected crisis that threatens the family's entire livelihood.
Drama
Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye Blu-ray Movie
Olive Films | 1950 | 103 min | Not rated | Aug 27, 2013 | Jeffrey Kauffman
The legendary James Cagney (White Heat) in his final great gangster role. Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye offers Cagney at his nastiest. The star plays career criminal Ralph Cotter, a lowlife maniac who doesn’t care about anything except his next “kill.” After violently busting out from prison and murdering his partner, the cold-blooded mobster satisfies a pent-up lust for violence in an unstoppable and vicious crime-spree. Dirty cops, Inspector Charles Webber (Ward Bond) and Lieutenant John Reese (Barton MacLane) try to strong-arm the fascinating creep, but he turns the table on them and blackmails them with the help of a crooked lawyer, Keith ‘Cherokee’ Mandon (Luther Adler).
Crime / Drama / Film-Noir
Great White Shark: A Living Legend Blu-ray Movie
BBC | 2013 | 50 min | Rated BBFC: PG | Jul 23, 2013 | Kenneth Brown
In this presentation from BBC’s acclaimed Natural History Unit, Mike Rutzen, the world's foremost great white shark diver, follows great whites as they feed, at proximity never before achieved. Mike's unique ability to communicate with them using his body language allows him to swim amongst them unscathed. Mike explores why occasionally attack people. He also challenges the view that their feeding is unstructured and frenzied, to prove instead that they obey the subtle rules of a complex form of social hierarchy.
Documentary / Nature
Reality Blu-ray Movie
Oscilloscope Pictures | 2012 | 110 min | Not rated | Aug 13, 2013 | Casey Broadwater
A darkly comic look at Luciano, a charming and affable Italian fishmonger and family man whose sudden obsession with appearing on a reality show leads him down a rabbit hole of paranoia.
Comedy / Drama / Foreign
A Virgin Among the Living Dead Blu-ray Movie
La nuit des étoiles filantes
Redemption | 1973 | 1 Movie, 2 Cuts | 79 min | Not rated | Aug 20, 2013 | Casey Broadwater
A girl arrives from London to visit her estranged relatives in a remote castle for the reading of her father's will. After a while she discovers that they are all in fact dead and her decision to live with them turns into a nightmare. Unable to leave she's drawn into a macabre underworld through visions of nude satanic rituals and her own impending sacrifice...
Horror / Mystery / Erotic / Surreal
Peter Pan: Return to Never Land Blu-ray Movie
Peter Pan 2 | Special Edition / Blu-ray + DVD + Digital Copy
Disney / Buena Vista | 2002 | 72 min | Rated G | Aug 20, 2013 | Kenneth Brown
In London during World War II, Wendy comforts her children with stories about her youthful adventures with Peter Pan in the fantastic world of Neverland. Young Danny loves the stories and believes that they're real, but his older sister, Jane, isn't so certain. Jane soon discovers her mother is indeed telling the truth when she's kidnapped by the evil Captain Hook and spirited away to his lair in Neverland. Hook is still trying to capture his nemesis, Peter Pan, after all these years, and is certain he'll come to the rescue of his old friend, Wendy; however, Hook realizes too late that he's carried away Wendy's daughter instead. Peter comes to the aid of young Jane, but as they do battle with Hook, he realizes it will take some work before Jane will fit in with the Lost Boys.
Adventure / Animation / Family / Fantasy / Musical
The Awful Dr. Orlof Blu-ray Movie
Gritos en la noche / Screams in the Night
Redemption | 1962 | 90 min | Not rated | Aug 20, 2013 | Casey Broadwater
In 1912, five beautiful easy women are kidnapped and the efficient Inspector Tanner, who is engaged of Wanda Bronsky, is assigned to the case. The responsible for the abductions is Dr. Orloff, a former prison doctor, and his deformed assistant Morpho Lodner, who was a prisoner sentenced to death and revived by Dr. Orloff, that bring the women to the Hartog Castle to remove the skin of his victims to repair the face of his daughter that was burned in a fire. When Wanda decides to help her beloved fiancé to find the criminal, she becomes the next victim of Dr. Orloff. Now Inspector Tanner's last chance to find Dr. Orloff relies on the lead of the drunkard Jeannot...
Horror / Thriller
- August 22, 2013
Sudden Death Blu-ray Movie
Universal Studios | 1995 | 110 min | Rated BBFC: 18 | Aug 05, 2013 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
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
Q: The Winged Serpent Blu-ray Movie
Shout Factory | 1982 | 93 min | Rated R | Aug 27, 2013 | Jeffrey Kauffman
Classic cult monster-movie horror. When a number of New Yorkers are brutally decapitated while sunbathing on their tenement building roof, two NYPD detectives are assigned to solve the case. Meanwhile, paranoid jewel thief Jimmy Quinn (Michael Moriarty) flees a botched heist and hides out on the roof of the Chrysler Building, where he unwittingly discovers the nest of the huge dragon-like creature that has been responsible for the deaths. As Quinn bargains with the police for a financial reward for his information about the creature's nest, a mysterious Aztec cult in the city start making human sacrifices to call on the creature they believe is Quetzalcoatl, the Plumed Serpent. Can the police get the location of the nest before more people are killed? And, once there, can they destroy the monstrous creature?
Horror
The Walking Dead: The Complete Third Season Blu-ray Movie
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Starz / Anchor Bay | 2012-2013 | 688 min | Rated TV-MA | Aug 27, 2013 | Martin Liebman
The Walking Dead tells the story of the aftermath of a zombie apocalypse and follows a small group of survivors traveling across the United States in search of a new home away from the hordes of zombies. The group is led by Rick Grimes, who was a police officer in the old world. As their situation grows more and more grim, the group's desperation to survive pushes them to do almost anything to stay alive.
Drama / Horror / Thriller / Supernatural / Comic book / Melodrama
In Old Arizona Blu-ray Movie
Fox Studio Classics
20th Century Fox | 1928 | 99 min | Not rated | Jun 04, 2013 | Jeffrey Kauffman
A charming, happy-go-lucky bandit in old Arizona plays cat-and-mouse with the soldier trying to catch him while he romances a local beauty.
Romance / Western
Amour Blu-ray Movie
Sony Pictures | 2012 | 127 min | Rated PG-13 | Aug 20, 2013 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
Georges and Anne are in their eighties. They are cultivated, retired music teachers. Their daughter, who is also a musician, lives abroad with her family. One day, Anne has an attack. The couple's bond of love is severely tested.
Drama / Romance / Foreign
- August 21, 2013
Scorpions with the Berliner Philharmoniker: Moment of Glory Blu-ray Movie
Eagle Rock Entertainment | 2000 | 116 min | Rated Exempt | Jul 30, 2013 | Jeffrey Kauffman
A "reunion" concert of sorts, featuring the Scorpions biggest hits. Recorded at Hannover EXPO in June 2000, with Christian Kolonovits conducting the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra. The live performance was filmed to be released in VHS and Video CD in December 2000.
Music
Bee Gees: One Night Only Blu-ray Movie
Eagle Rock Entertainment | 1997 | 143 min | Rated Exempt | Jul 30, 2013 | Jeffrey Kauffman
1997 was an amazing year for the Bee Gees, inductions into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame plus Lifetime Achievement awards topped off by a 'One Night Only' concert at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, their only live concert that year and first US concert in nearly 10 years. This DVD sees the brothers Gibb performing over 30 of their greatest hits from the 60s, 70s, 80s and 90s and features a guest appearance with Celine Dion.
Music