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Home- March 09, 2013
The Raven That Refused to Sing Blu-ray Movie
Steven Wilson
Kscope | 2012 | 90 min | Not rated | Feb 26, 2013 | Jeffrey Kauffman
No synopsis for this title.
Music
Judas Kiss Blu-ray Movie
Wolfe Video | 2011 | 94 min | Not rated | Nov 20, 2012 | Brian Orndorf
Failed filmmaker Zachary Wells is convinced by his best friend and hotshot director Topher into replacing him as a judge in their film school's annual festival. Zach's one-night stand with a student backfires when that student walks into an interview the next morning calling himself Danny Reyes, the name Zach went by when he attended the school. And Danny's film, "Judas Kiss," is a finalist in the competition Zach is judging. Zach's film, also "Judas Kiss," won the festival years before. As Zach scrambles for answers, a mysterious, chain-smoking campus tour guide, counsels him: "Change the kid's past, change your future." But how?
Drama / Sci-Fi
- March 08, 2013
Jackie Chan: Police Story / Police Story 2 Blu-ray Movie
Shout Factory | 1985-1988 | 2 Movies | 210 min | Rated PG-13 | Apr 16, 2013 | Jeffrey Kauffman
No synopsis for this title.
Action / Comedy / Crime / Thriller / Martial arts / Foreign
Police Story 2 Blu-ray Movie
Police Story II / Ging chaat goo si juk jaap
Shout Factory | 1988 | 121 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Jeffrey Kauffman
Having been demoted to a lowly traffic cop for his, unorthodox policing methods, officer Ka-Kui quits the force in protest. But it isn't long before he's back in action, racing the clock to stop a band of serial bombers and win back his much-put-upon girlfriend May.
Action / Comedy / Crime / Thriller / Martial arts / Foreign
Police Story Blu-ray Movie
Ging chat goo si
Shout Factory | 1985 | 101 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Jeffrey Kauffman
Ka-Kui, a Hong Kong police inspector, goes rogue to bring down a drug kingpin and protect the case's star witness from retribution.
Action / Comedy / Crime / Thriller / Martial arts / Foreign
Life of Pi 3D Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray 3D + Blu-ray + DVD + UV Digital Copy
20th Century Fox | 2012 | 123 min | Rated PG | Mar 12, 2013 | Casey Broadwater
A magical adventure story centering on Pi Patel, the precocious son of a zoo keeper. Dwellers in Pondicherry, India, the family decides to move to Canada, hitching a ride on a huge freighter. After a shipwreck, Pi finds himself adrift in the Pacific Ocean on a 26-foot lifeboat with a zebra, a hyena, an orangutan and a 450-pound Bengal tiger named Richard Parker, all fighting for survival. Based on the best-selling novel by Yann Martel.
Adventure / Drama / Surreal / Epic / Coming of age
Life of Pi Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + DVD + UV Digital Copy
20th Century Fox | 2012 | 123 min | Rated PG | Mar 12, 2013 | Casey Broadwater
A magical adventure story centering on Pi Patel, the precocious son of a zoo keeper. Dwellers in Pondicherry, India, the family decides to move to Canada, hitching a ride on a huge freighter. After a shipwreck, Pi finds himself adrift in the Pacific Ocean on a 26-foot lifeboat with a zebra, a hyena, an orangutan and a 450-pound Bengal tiger named Richard Parker, all fighting for survival. Based on the best-selling novel by Yann Martel.
Adventure / Drama / Surreal / Epic / Coming of age
Zero Dark Thirty Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + DVD + UV Digital Copy
Sony Pictures | 2012 | 157 min | Rated R | Mar 19, 2013 | Martin Liebman
A chronicle of the decade-long hunt for al-Qaeda terrorist leader Osama bin Laden after the 9/11 attacks, and his death at the hands of the Navy SEAL Team 6 in May, 2011.
Action / Drama / History / Thriller
The Devil's in the Details Blu-ray Movie
Image Entertainment | 2012 | 100 min | Rated R | Mar 12, 2013 | Michael Reuben
A veteran returns home and struggles with the adjustment to civilian life. Aided by a military psychiatrist, a former Navy SEAL, he is just getting his life together, when he is kidnapped by a cartel and forced to help them smuggle a cache of drugs and money across the border.
Crime / Thriller
- March 07, 2013
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + DVD + UV Digital Copy
Warner Bros. | 2012 | 169 min | Rated PG-13 | Mar 19, 2013 | Kenneth Brown
A curious Hobbit, Bilbo Baggins, journeys to the Lonely Mountain with a vigorous group of Dwarves to reclaim a treasure stolen from them by the dragon Smaug.
Action / Adventure / Fantasy / Epic
Chronicle of a Summer Blu-ray Movie
Chronique d'un été
Criterion | 1961 | 91 min | Not rated | Feb 26, 2013 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
Filmmaker-anthropologist Jean Rouch and sociologist Edgar Morin interview a group of Paris residents in the summer of 1960, revealing the hopes and dreams of a wide array of people.
Documentary / Foreign
Grave Encounters 2 Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + DVD
New Video Group | 2012 | 99 min | Not rated | Mar 12, 2013 | Jeffrey Kauffman
A film student who is obsessed with the movie Grave Encounters sets out with his friends to visit the psychiatric hospital depicted in the original film.
Horror
Les Misérables Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + DVD + UV Digital Copy
Universal Studios | 2012 | 158 min | Rated PG-13 | Mar 22, 2013 | Jeffrey Kauffman
An adaptation of the successful stage musical based on Victor Hugo's classic novel set in 19th-century France, in which a paroled prisoner named Jean Valjean seeks redemption.
Drama / Musical / Romance / Melodrama / Period
The Hunchback of Notre Dame / The Hunchback of Notre Dame II Blu-ray Movie
2 Movie Collection / Blu-ray + DVD
Disney / Buena Vista | 1996-2002 | 2 Movies | 159 min | Rated G | Mar 12, 2013 | Kenneth Brown
The Hunchback of Notre Dame: A deformed bellringer must assert his independence from a vicious government minister in order to help his friend, a gypsy dancing girl. The Hunchback of Notre Dame II: Now that Frollo is gone, Quasimodo rings the bell with the help of his new friend and Esmeralda's and Phoebus' little son, Zephyr. But when Quasi stops by a traveling circus owned by evil magician Sarousch, he falls for Madellaine, Sarouch's assistant. But greedy Sarousch forces Madellaine to help him steal the Cathedral's most famous bell.
Animation / Comedy / Drama / Family / Musical / Period
Willow Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + DVD
20th Century Fox | 1988 | 126 min | Rated PG | Mar 12, 2013 | Casey Broadwater
When young Willow Ufgood finds an abandoned baby, he is suddenly thrust into an adventure filled with magic and danger. According to an ancient prophecy, the sacred child is destined to end the reign of the evil sorceress Queen Bavmorda. Now, with only a single swordsman at his side, Willow must overcome the forces of darkness that threaten to destroy anyone who stands in the Queen's way!
Adventure / Fantasy / Romance
- March 06, 2013
The Hunchback of Notre Dame Blu-ray Movie
Disney / Buena Vista | 1996 | 91 min | Rated G | No Release Date | Kenneth Brown
A deformed bellringer must assert his independence from a vicious government minister in order to help his friend, a gypsy dancing girl.
Animation / Drama / Family / Musical / Period
The Hunchback of Notre Dame II Blu-ray Movie
Disney / Buena Vista | 2002 | 66 min | Rated G | No Release Date | Kenneth Brown
Now that Frollo is gone, Quasimodo rings the bell with the help of his new friend and Esmeralda's and Phoebus' little son, Zephyr. But when Quasi stops by a traveling circus owned by evil magician Sarousch, he falls for Madellaine, Sarouch's assistant. But greedy Sarousch forces Madellaine to help him steal the Cathedral's most famous bell.
Animation / Comedy / Family
From Beyond Blu-ray Movie
Collector’s Edition / Blu-ray + DVD
Shout Factory | 1986 | 86 min | Unrated | Mar 26, 2013 | Martin Liebman
Dr. Pretorius and his colleagues are working on a sensational experiment: by means of stimulation of the pineal gland, they want to open the human mind to higher dimensions. When the experiment succeeds, however, they are immediately attacked by terrible life forms, which apparently are floating around us all the time. When Dr. Pretorius is killed by one of them, Dr. Tillinghast is under suspect and thrown into the psycho ward due to his stories. Only the ambitious psychologist Dr. McMichaels believes him and wants to continue the experiment...
Horror / Sci-Fi
A New Life Blu-ray Movie
Olive Films | 1988 | 104 min | Rated PG-13 | Feb 26, 2013 | Jeffrey Kauffman
Steve Giardino, an abrasive workaholic Wall Streeter, and his wife Jackie divorce after twenty-six years of marriage and find themselves thrust back into the dating world in middle age and in search of a new life.
Comedy
Lady for a Night Blu-ray Movie
Olive Films | 1942 | 87 min | Not rated | Feb 26, 2013 | Jeffrey Kauffman
Gambling boat operator Jenny Blake throws over her gambler beau Jack Morgan in order to marry into high society. When her husband is killed in an attempt on her life, she is charged with his murder.
Drama / Musical / Romance