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Home- December 15, 2012
Bill Cunningham New York Blu-ray Movie
Zeitgeist Films | 2010 | 84 min | Not rated | Dec 11, 2012 | Michael Reuben
A profile of 80+ New York Times photographer Bill Cunningham who, for decades, has been obsessively and inventively chronicling fashion trends for his Style section columns “On The Street” and “Evening Hours.”
Documentary
Babes in Toyland Blu-ray Movie
Disney / Buena Vista | 1961 | 106 min | Not rated | Dec 11, 2012 | Brian Orndorf
Mary Contrary is set to marry Tom Piper when he is kidnapped by Roderigo and Gonzorgo, two goons working for the evil Barnaby who wants to marry Mary for her inheritance.
Comedy / Family / Fantasy / Musical / Romance
- December 14, 2012
Premium Rush Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + UV Digital Copy
Sony Pictures | 2012 | 91 min | Rated PG-13 | Dec 21, 2012 | Martin Liebman
Dodging speeding cars, crazed cabbies, open doors, and eight million cranky pedestrians is all in a day's work for Wilee, the best of New York's agile and aggressive bicycle messengers. It takes a special breed to ride the fixie -- super lightweight, single-gear bikes with no brakes and riders who are equal part skilled cyclists and suicidal nutcases who risk becoming a smear on the pavement every time they head into traffic.
Action / Crime / Thriller
Tenchi Muyo!: Movie Collection Blu-ray Movie
Limited Edition | Tenchi Muyo in Love / Tenchi Muyo in Love 2 / The Daughter of Darkness / Blu-ray + DVD
FUNimation Entertainment | 1996-1999 | 3 Movies | 250 min | Rated TV-MA | Dec 18, 2012 | Jeffrey Kauffman
No synopsis for this title.
Action / Adventure / Anime / Comedy / Romance / Sci-Fi / Foreign
Tenchi Muyo in Love 2 Blu-ray Movie
Tenchi Forever!
FUNimation Entertainment | 1999 | 96 min | Not rated | Dec 18, 2012 | Jeffrey Kauffman
One day, Tenchi disappears in the forest near his house. Six months later, Ayeka and Ryoko locate Tenchi living in a city, but with a mysterious woman. What's more, Tenchi appears to have aged several years. Whenever Ayeka and Ryoko catch up to him, he disappears into thin air, apparently existing in a fabricated alternate dimension where he has no knowledge of his past. An attempt to rescue Tenchi from the mysterious woman is mounted by Ayeka, Ryoko, Washu and the others.
Action / Adventure / Anime / Romance / Sci-Fi / Foreign
Tenchi Muyo! Daughter of Darkness Blu-ray Movie
Tenchi the Movie 2: The Daughter of Darkness
FUNimation Entertainment | 1997 | 61 min | Not rated | Dec 18, 2012 | Jeffrey Kauffman
One hot summer day, a young girl suddenly appears in front of Tenchi claming the he's her papa! Everyone wonders who the mother could be, and this greatly upsets Ryoko, and she wants the new rival to leave. Lurking in the background, Yuzuha, the Demon of the World of Darkness, is about to get her revenge! So it begins, Tenchi must fight for his friends and Mayuka, daughter or not!
Action / Adventure / Anime / Comedy / Sci-Fi / Foreign
Tenchi Muyo in Love Blu-ray Movie
Tenchi the Movie
FUNimation Entertainment | 1996 | 95 min | Not rated | Dec 18, 2012 | Jeffrey Kauffman
Tenchi and co. find their existence unsettled by a time-travelling entity called Kain. Desiring revenge upon the Juraian emperor, Tenchi, Kain travels back in time to kill Tenchi's mother. Trying to preserve the timestream, Tenchi and friends follow him back. Unfortunately, Tenchi must also deal with the pain that seeing his mother causes him. Since she died in the future, seeing her alive in the past reopens his old wounds.
Adventure / Anime / Comedy / Romance / Sci-Fi / Foreign
Tess Blu-ray Movie
Limited Edition / Blu-ray + DVD
Pathe Distribution | 1979 | 171 min | Not rated | Dec 05, 2012 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
A simple country girl is torn between the honest farmer who loves her and a corrupt nobleman.
Drama / Romance / Period
- December 13, 2012
Pitch Perfect Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + DVD + UV Digital Copy
Universal Studios | 2012 | 112 min | Rated PG-13 | Dec 18, 2012 | Kenneth Brown
Beca, a freshman at Barden University, is cajoled into joining The Bellas, her school's all-girls singing group. Injecting some much needed energy into their repertoire, The Bellas take on their male rivals in a campus competition.
Comedy / Music / Romance / Teen
Tenchi Muyo!: OVA Collection Blu-ray Movie
Limited Edition: The Complete Series / Blu-ray + DVD
FUNimation Entertainment | 1992-1995 | 405 min | Rated TV-MA | Dec 18, 2012 | Jeffrey Kauffman
Tenchi is an average guy with extraordinarily bad luck! And to make matters worse, he just accidentally freed the ravishing space pirate Ryoko after 700 years of captivity! Now, attractive alien girls from across the galaxy are about to make his life more outrageous than ever imaginable! Can he survive the romantic entanglements of living with five lovely ladies - and unlock the secrets of his mysterious ancestry? Find out in the anime that launched a thousand harems!
Adventure / Anime / Comedy / Sci-Fi / Foreign
Total Recall Blu-ray Movie
Extended Director's Cut / Blu-ray + UV Digital Copy
Sony Pictures | 2012 | 1 Movie, 2 Cuts | 130 min | Rated PG-13 | Dec 18, 2012 | Martin Liebman
A factory worker, Douglas Quaid, begins to suspect that he is a spy after visiting Rekall - a company that provides its clients with implanted fake memories of a life they would like to have led - goes wrong and he finds himself on the run.
Action / Adventure / Sci-Fi / Thriller
The Blue Lagoon Blu-ray Movie
Limited Edition to 3000 - SOLD OUT
Twilight Time | 1980 | 105 min | Rated R | Dec 11, 2012 | Jeffrey Kauffman
A boy and girl are shipwrecked on an uninhabited tropical island. With no adults to guide them the two make a simple life together unaware that sexual maturity will eventually intervene.
Adventure / Drama / Romance / Coming of age
Hard Core Logo/Hard Core Logo 2 Blu-ray Movie
Video Service Corp. | 1996-2011 | 2 Movies | 186 min | Rated R | Nov 20, 2012 | Jeffrey Kauffman
No synopsis for this title.
Comedy / Music
Hard Core Logo 2 Blu-ray Movie
Video Service Corp. | 2011 | 94 min | Not rated | Nov 20, 2012 | Jeffrey Kauffman
Bruce the filmmaker returns to his documentary roots by following a troubled singer.
Comedy / Music
Hard Core Logo Blu-ray Movie
Video Service Corp. | 1996 | 92 min | Not rated | Nov 20, 2012 | Jeffrey Kauffman
A group of washed-up Canadian punk rockers get back together for a road trip in memory of a dear friend who was supposedly shot, or so rumors imply. As they travel, they ignore the underlying psychological darkness within each other.
Comedy / Music
- December 12, 2012
Gate of Hell Blu-ray Movie
地獄門 / Jigokumon / Masters of Cinema / Blu-ray + DVD
Eureka Entertainment | 1953 | 89 min | Rated BBFC: PG | Dec 03, 2012 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
In the midst of epic, violent intrigue in twelfth-century Japan, an imperial warrior falls for a lady-in-waiting; after he discovers she is married, he becomes frenzied in his attempts to win her love.
Drama / History / Romance / War / Foreign / Period
Heavyweights Blu-ray Movie
Disney / Buena Vista | 1995 | 100 min | Rated PG | Dec 11, 2012 | Brian Orndorf
Plump kids are lured into joining a posh fat camp with the promise of quick weight loss and good times, only to find that the facility is a woodland hellhole run by a psycho ex-fitness instructor.
Comedy / Drama / Family
Santa Claus Conquers the Martians Blu-ray Movie
Remastered Edition
Kino Lorber | 1964 | 81 min | Not rated | Dec 04, 2012 | Casey Broadwater
Santa Claus has safely returned to Earth after being kidnapped by Martians. Pia Zadora (eight years old) plays the part of one of the Martian children in this exciting tale of Santa against the universe...or at least, Mars.
Comedy / Family / Fantasy / Sci-Fi / Holiday
Beloved Infidel Blu-ray Movie
Limited Edition to 3000 - SOLD OUT
Twilight Time | 1959 | 123 min | Not rated | Dec 11, 2012 | Jeffrey Kauffman
In 1936, the witty columnist Sheilah Graham meets the decadent writer F. Scott Fitzgerald, and they immediately fall in love, but their relationship is affected by his drinking problem.
Drama / Romance
eXistenZ Blu-ray Movie
Echo Bridge Entertainment | 1999 | 97 min | Rated R | Dec 04, 2012 | Martin Liebman
A game designer on the run from assassins must play her latest virtual reality creation with a marketing trainee to determine if the game has been damaged.
Horror / Sci-Fi / Thriller / Imaginary / Surreal