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Home- March 14, 2012
Battle Royale: The Complete Collection Blu-ray Movie
Starz / Anchor Bay | 2000-2003 | 2 Movies, 3 Cuts | 369 min | Not rated | Mar 20, 2012 | Martin Liebman
With school children all over the country growing increasingly delinquent, the Japanese government takes decisive action and introduces the Battle Royale Act. The Act sets forth a plan whereby a class will be chosen at random and flown to a remote island, where each student will then be given a weapon and set loose to fight their classmates, each student knowing that only one of their number will be allowed to leave the island alive. When Class B of Zentsuji Middle School are chosen to take part in the massacre, the different students quickly take sides against each other, but Shuya and Noriko form an alliance and try to weather it through together.
Action / Drama / Thriller / Teen / Dark humor / Foreign
Mozart: Die Zauberflote Blu-ray Movie
Teatro alla Scala, MIlan
Opus Arte | 2011 | 172 min | Not rated | Feb 24, 2012 | Jeffrey Kauffman
From the Queen of the Night's vocal pyrotechnics to Papageno's chirpy birdsongs, The Magic Flute is one of Mozart's most charming and engaging operas. However, its fairytale surface conceals the mysteries of an initiation ritual and a multi-layered plot, packed with allegories to fire up the imagination. This celebrated production by artist William Kentridge joyfully bursts onto the stage of Teatro alla Scala in Milan, featuring the dazzling Russian coloratura Albina Shagimuratova as the Queen of the Night, and Italian bass Alex Esposito as Papageno, one of the most sought after artists of his generation.
Music
Scooby-Doo! Music of the Vampire Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + DVD + UV Digital Copy
Warner Bros. | 2012 | 78 min | Not rated | Mar 13, 2012 | Kenneth Brown
When Daphne becomes the star of a vampire film, the production is thrown into chaos by a real vampire, forcing the Scooby-Doo to investigate who's behind this monstrous mayhem.
Animation / Comedy / Family / Mystery
Born to Race Blu-ray Movie
Born 2 Race
Arc Entertainment | 2011 | 99 min | Rated PG-13 | Feb 28, 2012 | Michael Reuben
Born To Race is the story of Danny Krueger, a rebellious young street racer on a collision course with trouble. After an accident at an illegal street race, he is sent to a small town to live with his estranged father, a washed up NASCAR racer. When Danny decides to enter the NHRA High School Drags, he's forced to seek his father's help in taking down the local hot shot.
Action / Teen
Wallace & Gromit's World of Invention Blu-ray Movie
Lionsgate Films | 2010 | 176 min | Not rated | Mar 13, 2012 | Jeffrey Kauffman
From Aardman Animations, beloved British inventor Wallace and his loyal friend Gromit return to the television screen in Wallace & Gromit's World of Invention six-part series. The six-part BBC1 TV series features Wallace introducing viewers to a number of amazing, real-world contraptions.
Animation / Comedy / Documentary
Wizards Blu-ray Movie
35th Anniversary Edition
20th Century Fox | 1977 | 81 min | Rated PG | Mar 13, 2012 | Casey Broadwater
Avatar is the kindly, eccentric sorcerer-ruler of Montagar, a rainbow paradise inhabited by elves and fairies. Avatar's evil brother Blackwolf dominates Scortch, a bleak land of goblins and wraiths. When the power-hungry Blackwolf attacks Montagar, Avatar, accompanied only by a spirited young woman and a courageous elf, must enter the darkness of Scortch to save his world.
Action / Adventure / Animation / Fantasy / Sci-Fi
We Need to Talk About Kevin Blu-ray Movie
Artificial Eye | 2011 | 112 min | Rated BBFC: 15 | Feb 27, 2012 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
A smart, educated mother tries to come to terms with the aftermath of her 15-year-old son's killing spree.
Drama / Thriller / Psychological thriller
- March 13, 2012
The Descendants Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + DVD + Digital Copy
20th Century Fox | 2011 | 115 min | Rated R | Mar 13, 2012 | Casey Broadwater
Matt King is an indifferent husband and father of two girls, living in Hawaii, who is forced to re-examine his past and embrace his future when his wife suffers a boating accident. The event makes him try to re-connect with his daughters while he wrestles with a decision to sell the family's land handed down from Hawaiian royalty and missionaries.
Comedy / Drama
Ef: A Tale of Melodies - Complete Collection Blu-ray Movie
Sentai Filmworks | 2008 | 300 min | Rated TV-MA | Mar 20, 2012 | Jeffrey Kauffman
Shuichi Kuze's been spending time with Mizuki Hayama, and as they've been getting to know each other, they've been growing closer. Sadly, Kuze discovers that he's contracted a fatal illness and decides to break all romantic ties for the little time left to him. Before he can break things off, however, Mizuki tells him that she loves him. Will her declaration change Kuze's mind? In another city, in the not-so-distant past, Yuu Himura meets a girl who seems to know him, but he doesn't know her. Soon enough, he remembers Yuko Amamiya, a girl he met long ago, and begins to rediscover the depth of their feelings for each other. Will Yuko's love reach across time to find her true love once and for all? Kuze and Mizuki, Yu and Yuko... Intertwining fate, tragic, bittersweet and beautiful.
Anime / Comedy / Drama / Romance / Foreign
Mardock Scramble: The First Compression Blu-ray Movie
Director's Cut | マルドゥック・スクランブル 圧縮
Sentai Filmworks | 2010 | 1 Movie, 2 Cuts | 70 min | Rated TV-MA | Mar 13, 2012 | Jeffrey Kauffman
To stop the unstoppable you need the irresistible. To kill the unkillable, you need someone for whom death no longer has a meaning. And to catch the perfect serial killer, you need the one person who knows his methods the best... his last victim! Murdered and reborn, no longer human, the female cyborg Balot exists for only one reason: to track down the man who killed her and bring him to justice. But can even the ultimate hybrid between ghost and machine take down a monster who wipes his own memory... especially when his partner already has her in his sights? The future will be painted blood red as vengeance hit the streets!
Action / Anime / Drama / Sci-Fi / Thriller / Erotic / Foreign
Happy Feet Two 3D Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray 3D + Blu-ray + DVD + UV Digital Copy
Warner Bros. | 2011 | 100 min | Rated PG | Mar 13, 2012 | Kenneth Brown
Mumble the penguin has a problem: his son Erik, who is reluctant to dance, encounters The Mighty Sven, a penguin who can fly! Things get worse for Mumble when the world is shaken by powerful forces, causing him to brings together the penguin nations and their allies to set things right.
Animation / Comedy / Family / Musical
Boca Blu-ray Movie
Boca do Lixo
Universal Studios | 2010 | 98 min | Rated BBFC: 15 | Feb 13, 2012 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
Adapted from his autobiography, the film recounts the story of Hiroito, The King of Boca do Lixo (a region in downtown São Paulo of the fifties where various nightclubs, strip joints, prostitution, bars, and drugs can be found). Hiroito was a well born bohemian and at the age of 21 was accused for the murder of his father, who was violently stabbed over 40 times with a razor. Hiroito was not charged, however two months after the death of his father, Hiroito bought two guns and moved to Boca do Lixo and became one of the most dangerous criminals of the region.
Action / Crime / Drama / Foreign
The Killing: The Complete First Season Blu-ray Movie
20th Century Fox | 2011 | 591 min | Rated TV-14 | Mar 13, 2012 | Casey Broadwater
Following a shocking murder, the lives of the police, suspects and victim's family are intricately woven together in this "spellbinding" (TV Guide) series starring Mireille Enos and Joel Kinnaman.
Crime / Drama / Mystery / Thriller
- March 12, 2012
American Wedding Blu-ray Movie
American Pie 3 | Unrated + Theatrical / Blu-ray + DVD + UV Digital Copy
Universal Studios | 2003 | 1 Movie, 2 Cuts | 104 min | Unrated | Mar 13, 2012 | Michael Reuben
The third film in the American Pie series deals with the wedding of Jim and Michelle and the gathering of their families and friends, including Jim's old friends from high school and Michelle's little sister.
Comedy / Romance / Teen
American Pie Blu-ray Movie
Unrated + Theatrical / Blu-ray + DVD + Digital Copy
Universal Studios | 1999 | 1 Movie, 2 Cuts | 95 min | Rated R | Mar 13, 2012 | Kenneth Brown
Jim is your average healthy re-blooded virgin -- he's desperate to "make it" with a woman. The stakes are raised when his parents catch him with his pants down watching porno films in his bedroom, his one experience with a beautiful exchange student turns into an online disaster and his friends make a pact that by the day of their high school graduation, none of them will be virgins. Pressure's on, but will Jim rise to the occasion?
Comedy / Romance / Teen / Coming of age
The Search for One-Eye Jimmy Blu-ray Movie
Kino Lorber | 1994 | 85 min | Rated R | Mar 06, 2012 | Casey Broadwater
While working on a documentary on his old neighborhood, a young film school graduate shifts the focus of his production onto the disappearance of a local resident and the strange characters who are conducting the search to find him.
Comedy
Carlos Kleiber: Traces to Nowhere Blu-ray Movie
Arthaus Musik | 2010 | 72 min | Not rated | Feb 28, 2012 | Jeffrey Kauffman
Soloists: Plácido Domingo, Brigitte Fassbaender, Otto Schenk, Veronika Kleiber<br> Director: Eric Schulz<br><br> The documentary “Traces to Nowhere” represents the first film dedicated to the enigmatic personality of the conductor. The film follows in the traces of Kleiber’s final journey and, by means of the recollections of friends and other companions – including the first and only interview with his sister Veronika – portrays a manas renowned for his difficult personality as his brilliant work.
Documentary / Music
La Grande Illusion Blu-ray Movie
StudioCanal Collection / Grand Illusion
Studio Canal | 1937 | 114 min | Rated U Tous publics | Feb 21, 2012 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
During the First World War, two French soldiers are captured and imprisoned in a German P.O.W. camp. Several escape attempts follow until they are sent to a seemingly impenetrable fortress which seems impossible to escape from.
Drama / War / Foreign
- March 11, 2012
She's the One Blu-ray Movie
Filmmakers Signature Series
20th Century Fox | 1996 | 96 min | Rated R | Sep 18, 2012 | Michael Reuben
Brooklyn-born Mickey drives a cab, while his brother Francis makes a fortune on Wall Street. Three years ago, Mickey disappeared after a bad break-up with his fiancée, Heather. Meanwhile, Francis seems to have settled down with a beautiful wife, Renee, but lately he's fallen for another woman: his brother's ex, Heather. Things get really interesting after Mickey marries Hope, a hopeless romantic, following a whirlwind courtship -- and then, just by chance, Heather gets into his cab.
Comedy / Romance
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + DVD + UV Digital Copy
Sony Pictures | 2011 | 158 min | Rated R | Mar 20, 2012 | Martin Liebman
Journalist is aided in his search for a woman who has been missing for 40 years by young computer hacker.
Crime / Drama / Mystery / Thriller