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Home- August 11, 2013
The Hot Spot / Killing Me Softly Blu-ray Movie
Shout Factory | 1990-2002 | 2 Movies | 230 min | Rated R | Aug 13, 2013 | Jeffrey Kauffman
See individual titles for their synopses.
Crime / Drama / Mystery / Romance / Thriller / Erotic / Heist
Killing Me Softly Blu-ray Movie
Shout Factory | 2002 | 100 min | Unrated | Aug 13, 2013 | Jeffrey Kauffman
A woman faces deadly consequences for abandoning her loving relationship with her boyfriend to pursue exciting sexual scenarios with a mysterious celebrity mountaineer.
Drama / Mystery / Romance / Thriller / Erotic
The Hot Spot Blu-ray Movie
Shout Factory | 1990 | 130 min | Rated R | Aug 13, 2013 | Jeffrey Kauffman
A loner moves in to a small Texas town, finds himself a job, and sets about plotting to rob the local bank.
Crime / Drama / Romance / Thriller / Erotic / Heist
Ishtar Blu-ray Movie
Director's Cut
Sony Pictures | 1987 | 105 min | Not rated | Aug 06, 2013 | Martin Liebman
Two terrible lounge singers get booked to play a gig in a Moroccan hotel but somehow become pawns in an international power play between the CIA, the Emir of Ishtar, and the rebels trying to overthrow his regime.
Adventure / Comedy / Musical
- August 10, 2013
The Lonely Wife Blu-ray Movie
Charulata
Artificial Eye | 1964 | 119 min | Rated BBFC: U | Aug 26, 2013 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
The lonely wife of a newspaper editor falls in love with her visiting cousin-in-law, who shares her love for literature.
Drama / Romance / Foreign
The Presidio Blu-ray Movie
Warner Bros. | 1988 | 97 min | Rated R | Aug 13, 2013 | Michael Reuben
A series of cross-jurisdictional murders forces a San Francisco police detective and his former Army commander to overcome their differences and work together. The biggest difference of all: the cop is dating the commander's daughter.
Action / Crime / Mystery / Thriller
Body Double Blu-ray Movie
Limited Edition to 3000 - SOLD OUT
Twilight Time | 1984 | 114 min | Rated R | Aug 13, 2013 | Jeffrey Kauffman
A young actor's obsession with spying on a beautiful woman who lives nearby leads to a baffling series of events with drastic consequences.
Film-Noir / Mystery / Thriller / Psychological thriller / Erotic
The Guillotines Blu-ray Movie
Xue Di Zi
Well Go USA | 2012 | 113 min | Rated R | Aug 13, 2013 | Jeffrey Kauffman
During the Manchurian-ruled Qing Dynasty, Emperor Yong Zheng established a secret assassination squad known as the Guillotines to eliminate all who opposed him. Once heavily favored by the Emperor, the Guillotines are deemed expendable once Emperor Qian Long ascends to the throne and adopts Western ideas and technology. To consolidate his power under a new regime, the Emperor continues to use the Guillotines to persecute the conquered Han Chinese in a reign of terror and oppression.
Action / Adventure / Martial arts / Foreign
The Damned Blu-ray Movie
Les Maudits
Cohen Media Group | 1947 | 105 min | Not rated | Aug 13, 2013 | Jeffrey Kauffman
Oslo, April 19th 1945, as the Third Reich is living its last day, a group of Nazis and sympathizers (a Wehrmacht general, an SS leader and his "assistant", an Italian industrialist and his wife who is also the general's lover, a French collaborator) board a submarine that will take them to South America, where they hope to find shelter. While they sail off the shores of liberated Royan they manage to kidnap a French doctor to have him look after a wounded passenger. Dr Guilbert will be forced to share the restricted space of the submarine with the fugitives. The atmosphere soon becomes unbreathable...
Drama / War
The Idolmaker Blu-ray Movie
Shout Factory | 1980 | 117 min | Rated PG | Aug 27, 2013 | Jeffrey Kauffman
Based on the life of rock promoter/producer Bob Marcucci, who discovered, among others, Frankie Avalon and Fabian.
Drama / Musical / Romance
Hands of the Ripper Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + DVD
Synapse Films | 1971 | 85 min | Not rated | Jul 09, 2013 | Brian Orndorf
An infant girl, Anna, watches as her father, the infamous "Jack the Ripper," brutally murders her mother. Years later, young Anna is now under the care of a fake psychic and has been forced into prostitution. At the end of a seance one evening, a woman is mysteriously killed. Dr. John Pritchard suspects Anna is the murderer but cannot understand how she could do this unspeakable act. Using new Freudian psychoanalysis techniques, Pritchard experiments on Anna and discovers a shocking secret. The spirit of the "Ripper" is alive and well, and may be possessing his own daughter! Can this evil be stopped before it's too late?
Horror / Mystery / Thriller
Silver Streak Blu-ray Movie
Starz / Anchor Bay | 1976 | 114 min | Rated PG | Aug 06, 2013 | Martin Liebman
On a long-distance train trip, a man finds romance but also finds himself in danger of being killed, or at least pushed off the train.
Action / Comedy / Crime / Romance / Thriller
- August 09, 2013
Diaz: Don't Clean Up This Blood Blu-ray Movie
Diaz
Universal Studios | 2012 | 121 min | Rated BBFC: 15 | Jun 10, 2013 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
Director Daniele Vicari's dramatic reconstruction of the bloody police raid against the activists and journalists sheltering in the Arnando Diaz School in Genoa at the end of the 2001 G8 summit. With the local authorities at the time allowing the police carte blanche in how to deal with any demonstrators on the ground, the film traces the stories of those caught up in the actual events, as a force of over 300 riot police, determined to show the 'lefties' who's in charge, set about their quarry in a viciously brutal night-time raid.
Crime / Drama / History / Thriller / Foreign
Emperor Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + UV Digital Copy
Lionsgate Films | 2012 | 106 min | Rated PG-13 | Aug 13, 2013 | Jeffrey Kauffman
As the Japanese surrender at the end of WWII, General Douglas MacArthur assigns the task of investigating whether Emperor Hirohito should be hanged as a war criminal to a younger staff General Bonner Fellers. Influencing his recommendation is his quest to find Aya, an exchange student he met years earlier in the U.S. All this must be done within ten days when MacArthur must decide on the Emperor's fate!
Drama / History / War
Betty Boop: The Essential Collection: Volume 1 Blu-ray Movie
Olive Films | 1932-1937 | 99 min | Not rated | Aug 20, 2013 | Jeffrey Kauffman
No synopsis for this title.
Animation / Musical / Short
The Extraordinary Adventures of Adèle Blanc-Sec Blu-ray Movie
Les Aventures Extraordinaires d’Adèle Blanc-Sec / Blu-ray + DVD + Digital Copy
Shout Factory | 2010 | 105 min | Rated PG | Aug 13, 2013 | Jeffrey Kauffman
Adèle Blanc-Sec is a cynical novelist of popular fiction, who turns to investigative journalism as her research and subsequent adventures reveal further details of the mystical world of crime in Paris during the years before and after World War I.
Action / Adventure / Comedy / Family / Fantasy / Mystery / Supernatural / Comic book / Foreign
Girls: The Complete Second Season Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + DVD + UV Digital Copy
HBO | 2013 | 593 min | Rated TV-MA | Aug 13, 2013 | Michael Reuben
Four 20-something women in New York try to figure out what they want from life, from men, from themselves and from each other.
Comedy
Pain & Gain Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + DVD + UV Digital Copy
Paramount Pictures | 2013 | 130 min | Rated R | Aug 27, 2013 | Martin Liebman
A pair of knucklehead bodybuilders in Florida get caught up in an extortion ring and a kidnapping scheme that goes terribly wrong.
Action / Comedy / Crime / Dark humor
Storm Surfers 3D Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray 3D + Blu-ray
XLrator | 2013 | 95 min | Not rated | Aug 06, 2013 | Kenneth Brown
A 3D adventure into the world of big wave surfing with Aussie tow-surfing legend Ross Clarke-Jones and two-time World Champion Tom Carroll.
Documentary / Sport
- August 08, 2013
My Favorite Spy Blu-ray Movie
Olive Films | 1951 | 94 min | Not rated | Aug 20, 2013 | Jeffrey Kauffman
When a suave international spy on an important mission gets captured, the government substitutes a look-alike burlesque comedian to finish the job.
Adventure / Comedy / Crime