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Home- May 23, 2011
Chicago Cubs: The Heart & Soul of Chicago Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + DVD + Digital Copy
Questar | 2010 | 110 min | Not rated | May 31, 2011 | Jeffrey Kauffman
The Chicago Cubs are a way of life for the citizens of Chicago, and for their millions of fans across the country and around the world.
Documentary / Sport
Taps Blu-ray Movie
20th Century Fox | 1981 | 126 min | Rated PG | May 03, 2011 | Jeffrey Kauffman
When a fiercely devoted group of military school cadets learns that their school is being sold to real estate developers, they refuse to accept defeat.
Action / Drama / Teen
Murdoch Mysteries: Season 3 Blu-ray Movie
Acorn Media | 2010 | 624 min | Not rated | May 03, 2011 | Casey Broadwater
As seen on public television Based on novels by Maureen Jennings With a total of 25 Gemini® nominations to its credit, this sharp, sophisticated mystery series features Yannick Bisson (Sue Thomas: F.B.Eye) as William Murdoch, a Toronto police detective at the cutting edge of Victorian science. Together with a forward-thinking pathologist (Gemini® winner Hélène Joy, Durham County), he applies revolutionary criminology techniques to crack the toughest cases. This season finds Murdoch making the acquaintance of H.G. Wells, teaming up a second time with Nikola Tesla, investigating art forgery, and using the fledgling science of psychology to out the era’s most elusive murderers. Guest stars include Patrick McKenna (The Red Green Show), Lisa Faulkner (Murder in Suburbia), Ashley Leggat (Life with Derek), Sarah Gadon (Being Erica, Happy Town), Dmitry Chepovetsky (ReGenesis), and Peter Keleghan (The Newsroom)
Action / Crime / Mystery / Period
Heaven & Hell: Radio City Music Hall Live! Blu-ray Movie
Eagle Rock Entertainment | 2007 | 115 min | Rated PG | May 17, 2011 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
2007. Radio City Music Hall. Ronnie James Dio. Tony Iommi. Geezer Butler. Vinny Appice. Known collectively as Heaven & Hell. Their first U.S. show together in 15 years, this night was so transcendent, it spawned a tour, a studio album and plans for world domination but for the untimely death of Dio. Now, for the first time on Blu-Ray, that magical night—15 songs!—comes thrillingly to life.
Music
- May 22, 2011
Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Undead Blu-ray Movie
Indican | 2009 | 89 min | Not rated | Oct 05, 2010 | Kenneth Brown
Julian Marsh is an out-of-work ladies man who lands a job directing a bizarre adaption of Hamlet. After casting his best friend and his ex-girlfriend in the show, Julian finds himself in the middle of a two-thousand-year-old conspiracy that explains the connection between Shakespeare, the Holy Grail and some seriously sexy vampires. It turns out that the play was actually written by a master vampire named Theo Horace and it's up to Julian to recover the Grail in order to reverse the vampire's curse... If only being undead wasn't so much God-damned fun!
Comedy / Fantasy / Horror
Henri-Georges Clouzot's Inferno Blu-ray Movie
Inferno / L'enfer d'Henri-Georges Clouzot
Flicker Alley | 2009 | 100 min | Rated PG-13 | Apr 26, 2011 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
In 1964, director Henri-Georges Clouzot chose Romy Schneider, age 26, and Serge Reggiani, 42, to star in L'enfer (Inferno), an enigmatic and original project with an unlimited budget. Reggiani was to play Marcel Prieur, the manager of a modest hotel in provincial France who becomes possessed by the demons of jealousy. Intended to be a cinematic event upon its release, three weeks after shooting began on Inferno, things took a turn for the worse. The project was stopped, and the images, which were said to be incredible, would remain unseen...until now. Working closely with Clouzot's widow, Inès, Serge Bromberg reconstructs Clouzot's original vision, filling and explaining the gaps with new interviews, re-enactments and Clouzot's own notes and storyboards.
Documentary / Foreign
Boudu Saved from Drowning Blu-ray Movie
Boudu sauvé des eaux
Park Circus | 1932 | 86 min | Rated BBFC: PG | Apr 04, 2011 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
Boudu is a Parisian tramp who takes a suicidal plunge into the Seine, and is rescued by Monsieur Lestingois, a well-to-do bookseller with liberal ideas, who takes him home and tries to reconcile him with life and society. But Boudu is bored in this cosy little nest and uses his time to make trouble in the peaceful households around him.
Drama / Foreign
Marriage Italian Style Blu-ray Movie
Matrimonio all'italiana
Kino Lorber | 1964 | 101 min | Not rated | May 17, 2011 | Casey Broadwater
A woman who's had an ongoing affair with her lover for twenty years, feigns a serious illness to get him to marry her after finding out that he's fallen for a younger woman.
Comedy / Drama / Romance / Foreign
- May 21, 2011
Un balcon sur la mer Blu-ray Movie
A View of Love / Blu-ray + DVD
EuropaCorp | 2010 | 107 min | Not rated | Apr 20, 2011 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
Happily married with a daughter, Marc is a successful real estate agent in Aix-en-Provence. One day, he has an appointment with a woman to view a traditional country house. A few hours later, Marc finally puts a name to her face. It's Cathy, the girl he was in love with growing up in Oran, Algeria, in the last days of the French colonial regime. Marc hurries to her hotel. They spend the night together. Then she's gone again. And Marc's mother tells him Cathy never left Algeria. She was killed with her father in a bombing just before independence...
Drama / Romance / Thriller / Foreign
Rookie Blue: The Complete First Season Blu-ray Movie
Entertainment One | 2010 | 545 min | Not rated | May 31, 2011 | Jeffrey Kauffman
Training's over. Life begins.
Crime / Drama
Samurai Champloo: Complete Series Blu-ray Movie
サムライチャンプルー / Anime Classics
FUNimation Entertainment | 2004-2005 | 650 min | Rated TV-MA | May 24, 2011 | Jeffrey Kauffman
Mugen is a fierce animal-like warrior with a unique Bboying (break-dance) inspired fighting style. Jin has a more traditional style but don’t think of this as a weakness because his skills are amazing. The two contrasting samurai warriors are far from friends, yet their separate paths seem to cross anyways. Mugen is wandering aimlessly through the city when he stumbles upon a teahouse where he meets Jin and Fuu (A ditzy waitress, but don‘t think she doesn‘t have anything hidden up her sleeves). Fuu convinces them both to come with her in search of a mysterious samurai that smells like sunflowers and their journey begins. This modernized hip-hop tale breaks the barriers of the common, historical, samurai anime.
Action / Adventure / Anime / Comedy / Drama / Dark humor / Foreign / Period
Happy Gilmore Blu-ray Movie
Universal Studios | 1996 | 92 min | Rated PG-13 | Jun 07, 2011 | Kenneth Brown
A rejected hockey player puts his skills to the golf course to save his grandmother's house.
Comedy / Romance / Sport
- May 20, 2011
Point Blank Blu-ray Movie
À bout portant
Gaumont | 2010 | 84 min | Rated U Tous publics | Apr 05, 2011 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
A couple's lives are turned upside down when the woman is kidnapped and her boyfriend must negotiate her release.
Action / Crime / Thriller / Foreign
Ice Road Truckers: Deadliest Roads Season 1 Blu-ray Movie
A&E Home Video | 2010 | 450 min | Not rated | May 24, 2011 | Jeffrey Kauffman
Fans of Ice Road Truckers take note of this History Channel offering. Ride along side of these brave drivers as they tackle some the most dangerous roads on earth in brutal weather conditions.
Documentary
The Misfits Blu-ray Movie
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer | 1961 | 125 min | Not rated | May 10, 2011 | Casey Broadwater
A sexy divorcée falls for an over-the-hill cowboy who is struggling to maintain his romantically independent lifestyle in early-sixties Nevada.
Comedy / Drama / Romance / Western
The Other Woman Blu-ray Movie
Love and Other Impossible Pursuits
IFC Films | 2009 | 102 min | Rated R | May 17, 2011 | Casey Broadwater
Emilia is a Harvard law school graduate and a newlywed, having just married Jack, a high-powered New York lawyer, who was her boss -- and married -- when she began working at his law firm. Unfortunately, her life takes an unexpected turn when they lose their newborn daughter. Emilia struggles through her grief to connect with her new stepson William, but perhaps the most difficult obstacle of all for Emilia is trying to cope with the constant interferences of William's mother, her husband's angry, jealous ex-wife, Carolyn.
Drama
Beethoven: Symphonies 4 & 7 / Coriolan Overture Blu-ray Movie
Vladimir Jurowski
Ideale Audience | 2010 | 89 min | Not rated | May 31, 2011 | Jeffrey Kauffman
This all Beethoven program brings together two lesser known symphonies and the Coriolan Overture, performed in Paris on period instruments by the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment.
Music
When Rome Ruled Blu-ray Movie
National Geographic | 2010 | 270 min | Not rated | Mar 29, 2011 | Jeffrey Kauffman
National Geographic's 6-part series reveals ancient Rome's hidden treasures and untold stories.
Documentary
Au revoir Taipei Blu-ray Movie
Yi Ye Taibei / 一頁台北
Panorama | 2010 | 85 min | Rated IIA | Mar 18, 2011 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
Kai sits in a bookstore every night studying French books in hopes of visiting his girlfriend in Paris. Instead, he catches the attention of shop worker Susie. One night, gangster Brother Bao, offers Kai the money to go to Paris under the condition that Kai transports some "cargo" for him. The night before he leaves, Kai runs into Susie at the night market just as the police and various shady characters all go after Kai for his mysterious cargo.
Drama / Romance / Foreign
- May 19, 2011
Sanctum Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + Digital Copy
Universal Studios | 2011 | 109 min | Rated R | Jun 07, 2011 | Kenneth Brown
Master diver Frank McGuire has explored the South Pacific's deep underground Esa'ala Caves for months. But when his exit is cut off in a flash flood during a hurricane, Frank's team—including his 17-year-old son Josh and financier Carl Hurley—are forced to radically alter plans. With dwindling supplies, the crew must navigate an underwater labyrinth to make it out. The unavoidable question: Can they survive?
Action / Adventure / Drama / Thriller