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Home- February 18, 2012
Beethoven: The Piano Concertos Nos. 1-5 Blu-ray Movie
C MAJOR | 2011 | 186 min | Rated BBFC: U | Jan 31, 2012 | Jeffrey Kauffman
Rudolf Buchbinder both conducts and plays the five Beethoven piano concertos.
Music
- February 17, 2012
Game of Thrones: The Complete First Season Blu-ray Movie
Discontinued
HBO | 2011 | 561 min | Rated TV-MA | Mar 06, 2012 | Kenneth Brown
Kings, queens, knights and renegades use schemes and swords to battle for the throne.
Action / Adventure / Drama / Fantasy / Epic
Fever Pitch Blu-ray Movie
20th Century Fox | 2005 | 103 min | Rated PG-13 | Jan 10, 2012 | Casey Broadwater
When relaxed and charming Ben Wrightman meets workaholic Lindsey Meeks she finds him sweet and charming, they hit it off and when it is winter Ben can spend every waking hour with Lindsey, but when summer comes around the corner Lindsey discovers Ben's obsession with the Boston Red Sox. She thinks it is perfect until everything goes downhill for them.
Comedy / Drama / Romance / Sport
Shallow Hal Blu-ray Movie
20th Century Fox | 2001 | 114 min | Rated PG-13 | Jan 10, 2012 | Casey Broadwater
Following the advice of his dying father, Hal dates only women who are physically beautiful. One day, however, he runs into self-help guru Tony Robbins, who hypnotizes him into recognizing only the inner beauty of women. Hal thereafter meets Rosemary, a grossly obese woman whom only he can see as a vision of loveliness. But will their relationship survive when Hal's equally shallow friend undoes the hypnosis?
Comedy / Romance / Imaginary
New Year's Concert Blu-ray Movie
Sony Music | 2012 | 119 min | Not rated | Feb 07, 2012 | Jeffrey Kauffman
The Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra performs the 2012 New Year’s Concert in the Golden Hall of the Musikverein in Vienna featuring waltzes, polkas and marches. This years event is conducted by Mariss Jansons for the second time. <br><br> The works featured this year are by members of the Strauss family, as well as Tchaikovsky, Joseph Hellmesburger Jr and Hans Christian Lumbye.
Music / Foreign
Ca$h Blu-ray Movie
Cash
Metrodome Video | 2008 | 102 min | Rated BBFC: 18 | Jan 30, 2012 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
A small-time con artist gets a shot at the heist of a lifetime when he teams up with one of Monte Carlo's most cunning criminals.
Comedy / Crime / Thriller / Foreign / Heist
Footloose Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + DVD + UV Digital Copy
Paramount Pictures | 2011 | 113 min | Rated PG-13 | Mar 06, 2012 | Martin Liebman
Ren MacCormack is transplanted from Boston to the small southern town of Bomont where he experiences a heavy dose of culture shock. A few years prior, the community was rocked by a tragic accident that killed five teenagers after a night out and Bomont's local councilmen and the beloved Reverend Shaw Moore responded by implementing ordinances that prohibit loud music and dancing. Not one to bow to...
Comedy / Drama / Musical / Romance / Teen
- February 16, 2012
The Big Picture Blu-ray Movie
L'Homme qui voulait vivre sa vie
Artificial Eye | 2010 | 115 min | Rated BBFC: 15 | Jan 09, 2012 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
Paul Exben is a success story - partner in one of Paris's most exclusive law firms, big salary, big house, glamorous wife and two sons straight out of a Gap catalog. But when he finds out that Sarah, his wife, is cheating on him with Greg Kremer, a local photographer, a rush of blood provokes Paul into a fatal error. Standing over the corpse of his wife's lover, Paul knows that his perfect life has gone for good. But by assuming the dead man's identity and fleeing for an isolated part of former Yugoslavia on the beautiful Adriatic coast, Paul gets another shot at being himself and, at last, seeing the big picture.
Drama / Thriller / Foreign
The Skin I Live In Blu-ray Movie
La piel que habito / Blu-ray + DVD
Sony Pictures | 2011 | 120 min | Rated R | Mar 06, 2012 | Martin Liebman
A brilliant plastic surgeon, haunted by past tragedies, creates a type of synthetic skin that withstands any kind of damage. His guinea pig: a mysterious and volatile woman who holds the key to his obsession.
Drama / Horror / Thriller / Foreign
Doctor Who: The Doctor, the Widow and the Wardrobe Blu-ray Movie
2011 Christmas Special
BBC | 2011 | 60 min | Rated TV-PG | Feb 14, 2012 | Kenneth Brown
It's Christmas Eve, 1938, when Madge Arwell comes to the aid of an injured Spaceman Angel as she cycles home. He promises to repay her kindness – all she has to do is make a wish. Three years later, a devastated Madge escapes war-torn London with her two children for a dilapidated house in Dorset. She is crippled with grief at the news her husband has been lost over the channel, but determined to give Lily and Cyril the best Christmas ever. The Arwells are surprised to be greeted by a madcap caretaker whose mysterious Christmas gift leads them into a magical wintry world. Here, Madge will learn how to be braver than she ever thought possible. And that wishes can come true...
Adventure / Fantasy / Sci-Fi
Fort Apache Blu-ray Movie
Warner Bros. | 1948 | 128 min | Not rated | Feb 21, 2012 | Jeffrey Kauffman
The men at Fort Apache don't like their new commander. But they're duty-bound to obey, even when it means disaster.
Action / Adventure / Romance / Western
Robin of Sherwood: Set 2 Blu-ray Movie
Season 3 / Robin Hood
Acorn Media | 1986 | 681 min | Not rated | Feb 14, 2012 | Michael Reuben
Robin of Loxley is chosen by the mystical Herne the Hunter to become his 'son' and champion the oppressed. Gathering a band of comrades around him he fights a guerilla campaign against their Norman dictators, particularly the Sheriff of Nottingham and his deputy, Guy de Gisburne.
Action / Adventure / Drama / Fantasy
- February 15, 2012
Day of the Dead Blu-ray Movie
First Look Studios | 2008 | 86 min | Rated R | Dec 02, 2008 | Martin Liebman
Nick Cannon, Mena Suvari, and Ving Rhames star in this horror film based on the George A. Romero classic zombie film. A mysterious virus has infected the small town of Leadville, Colorado and the military is brought in to enforce a quarantine and stop the spread of the disease. As people perish, survivors realize that the virus is creating the walking dead who crave human flesh. Only a small number of people are immune to the virus and those few survivors must battle to fend off the infected zombies while trying to make it out of town alive.
Horror / Thriller
Day of the Dead 3D Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray 3D + Blu-ray
Millennium Media | 2008 | 86 min | Rated R | Feb 07, 2012 | Martin Liebman
Nick Cannon, Mena Suvari, and Ving Rhames star in this horror film based on the George A. Romero classic zombie film. A mysterious virus has infected the small town of Leadville, Colorado and the military is brought in to enforce a quarantine and stop the spread of the disease. As people perish, survivors realize that the virus is creating the walking dead who crave human flesh. Only a small number of people are immune to the virus and those few survivors must battle to fend off the infected zombies while trying to make it out of town alive.
Horror / Thriller
Vanya on 42nd Street Blu-ray Movie
Criterion | 1994 | 120 min | Not rated | Feb 28, 2012 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
New York actors rehearse Chekhov's "Uncle Vanya" in a rundown theater.
Comedy / Drama / Romance
War of the Arrows Blu-ray Movie
Choi-jong-byeong-gi Hwal / Blu-ray + DVD
Well Go USA | 2011 | 122 min | Rated R | Feb 21, 2012 | Jeffrey Kauffman
During Second Manchu invasion of Korea, one village is attacked by Manchurian soldiers. Manchurian kidnap Ja-in on her wedding day with her childhood sweetheart Seo-Goon. Her brother Nam-Yi defeats the enemy and save his sister and the other Korean victims with only one bow.
Action / History / War / Foreign
Blank City Blu-ray Movie
Kino Lorber | 2010 | 94 min | Not rated | Feb 21, 2012 | Casey Broadwater
During the punk rock stage in the late '70s, downtown New York experienced a wave of "Do it yourself" independent filmmaking.
Documentary
The Deadly Spawn Blu-ray Movie
Millennium Edition
Elite Entertainment | 1983 | 81 min | Rated R | Feb 07, 2012 | Brian Orndorf
Two campers in the New Jersey woods have their outdoor fun interrupted by the arrival of a meteorite crashing nearby. They go to investigate the crater, but are suddenly attacked and devoured by alien parasites who have hitched a ride to Earth. After finishing off the campers, the hungry space monsters head for a nearby town, where they make their domain in the basement of an old house soon begin polishing off one hapless inhabitant after another. Four young teenagers, plus one pre-teen boy, try to find a way to stop the angry space monsters before they reproduce and literally eat humanity.
Horror / Sci-Fi
- February 14, 2012
Johnny English Reborn Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + DVD + UV Digital Copy
Universal Studios | 2011 | 102 min | Rated PG | Feb 28, 2012 | Kenneth Brown
In his latest adventure, the most unlikely intelligence officer in Her Majesty's Secret Service must stop a group of international assassins before they eliminate a world leader and cause global chaos. In the years since MI-7's top spy vanished off the grid, he has been honing his unique skills in a remote region of Asia.
Action / Comedy
Ozzy Osbourne: God Bless Ozzy Osbourne Blu-ray Movie
Eagle Rock Entertainment | 2011 | 135 min | Rated R | Nov 15, 2011 | Jeffrey Kauffman
Ozzy Osbourne’s four-decade track record as a culturally relevant musical artist is unprecedented, but his personal struggles have been shrouded in myth and secrecy. Featuring never-before seen footage uncovered from the archives and interviews with Sir Paul McCartney, Tommy Lee, Henry Rollins, and others, God Bless Ozzy Osbourne is the first documentary to take viewers inside the mind and psyche of a legendary and timeless cultural figure.
Documentary / Music