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Home- January 19, 2025
Vixen Blu-ray Movie
Severin Films | 1968 | 71 min | Not rated | Jan 28, 2025 | Jeffrey Kauffman
Vixen is the nymphomaniacal spouse of a bush pilot who owns a fishing lodge in British Columbia. While her husband, Tom, is away, Vixen frolics in the woods with a Canadian Mountie and then returns to the lodge to tease her motorcyclist brother Jud and insult his black friend Niles, a draft dodger from the States.
Comedy / Drama / Erotic
Vixen 4K Blu-ray Movie
4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray
Severin Films | 1968 | 70 min | Not rated | Jan 28, 2025 | Jeffrey Kauffman
Vixen is the nymphomaniacal spouse of a bush pilot who owns a fishing lodge in British Columbia. While her husband, Tom, is away, Vixen frolics in the woods with a Canadian Mountie and then returns to the lodge to tease her motorcyclist brother Jud and insult his black friend Niles, a draft dodger from the States.
Comedy / Drama / Erotic
Ninja Terminator Blu-ray Movie
Limited Edition | includes The Uninvited Guest of the Star Ferry
Neon Eagle Video | 1984-1985 | 2 Movies | 180 min | Not rated | Apr 30, 2024 | Justin Dekker
Three martial-arts students search for the Golden Ninja Warrior, a statue reputed to have magic powers.
Action / Adventure
Cronos 4K Blu-ray Movie
4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray
Criterion | 1992 | 92 min | Not rated | Feb 25, 2025 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
Kindly antiques dealer Jesús Gris happens upon an ancient golden device in the shape of a scarab, and soon finds himself the possessor and victim of its sinister, addictive powers, as well as the target of a mysterious American named Angel.
Drama / Horror / Foreign
Ex Drummer Blu-ray Movie
Camera Obscura | 2007 | 105 min | Rated R | Jan 18, 2024 | Kenneth Brown
Three handicapped losers who form a band ask famous writer Dries to be their drummer. He joins the band and starts manipulating them.
Comedy / Crime / Drama / Dark humor
Opium and the Kung-Fu Master Blu-ray Movie
Lightning Fists of Shaolin / Hung kuen dai see / Hong quan da shi / 洪拳大師
Shout Factory | 1984 | 90 min | No Release Date | Neil Lumbard
Master Tie Qiao San is an honorable and respected kung fu master, one of the Ten Tigers of Kwantung. He's also developed a bit of a taste for Opium, though, and his habit is getting worse. Meanwhile, a bunch of villains want to get rich by opening an Opium house and getting the population hooked. Master Tie's pupil Gua Si is a bit of a hothead, but at least he can see that the Opium isn't doing his master (or anybody else) any good.
Action / Drama / Martial arts / Foreign / Period
Holy Flame of the Martial World Blu-ray Movie
Wu lin sheng huo ling / Mou lam sing foh ling / 武林聖火令
Shout Factory | 1983 | 90 min | No Release Date | Neil Lumbard
A brother and sister seek vengeance for the death of their parents.
Adventure / Comedy / Fantasy / Foreign
- January 18, 2025
Miracle Mile Blu-ray Movie
4K Restoration | Special Edition
Kino Lorber | 1988 | 88 min | Rated R | Dec 31, 2024 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
A young man meets and falls in love with a young woman at the La Brea Tar Pits in Los Angeles. This area is known as Miracle Mile, and the whole movie takes place there. They make a date, which he misses, and while he is searching for her, he accidentally finds out that we (the United States) are about to start a nuclear war with the Soviet Union. He frantically searches for her so that they can escape Los Angeles.
Action / Drama / Romance / Thriller
Shaolin Intruders Blu-ray Movie
Battle for Shaolin / Sam chong Siu Lam / San chuang Shao Lin / 三闖少林
Shout Factory | 1983 | 90 min | No Release Date | Neil Lumbard
Shaolin Temple becomes suspect when several clan leaders are robbed and killed by the deadly Shaolin Palm technique.
Action / Drama / Foreign
I Love Lucy: The Complete Series Blu-ray Movie
Includes Pilot and The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour
Paramount Pictures | 1951-1960 | 9 Seasons | 5397 min | Not rated | Nov 05, 2024 | Martin Liebman
In October 1951, Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz debuted the first episode of what was to become one of the best-loved and most watched TV shows of all time. Zany redhead Lucy and her Cuban bandleader husband Ricky Ricardo, along with their neighbors and comic foils Ethel and Fred Mertz (Vivian Vance and William Frawley), got into the most hilarious predicaments ever imaginable. Overflowing with notable guest stars and escapades that never lose their entertainment value, it's no wonder why everyone still loves Lucy. This must-own collection contains all the classic episodes from the six seasons of "I Love Lucy" (1951-1957) plus the iconic remastered "The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour "(1957-1960), and a newly colorized and never-before-released "Lucy and the Loving Cup" episode.
Comedy / Family / Romance
The Substance 4K Blu-ray Movie
4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray
MUBI | 2024 | 140 min | Rated R | Jan 21, 2025 | Kenneth Brown
A fading celebrity decides to use a black market drug, a cell-replicating substance that temporarily creates a younger, better version of herself.
Horror / Sci-Fi / Dark humor
Shaolin Prince Blu-ray Movie
Siu Lam chuen yan / Shao Lin chuan ren / 少林傳人
Shout Factory | 1982 | 93 min | No Release Date | Neil Lumbard
An eye-filling, mind-bending martial arts tale of two royal princes battling for the rightful recovery of the throne.
Action / Comedy / Martial arts / Foreign
An Eye for an Eye Blu-ray Movie
Xuč xǐ hóng huā tíng / Wai ngoh duk juen / 血洗洪花亭 - Vinegar Syndrome Archive
Vinegar Syndrome | 1990 | 93 min | Not rated | Sep 24, 2024 | Brian Orndorf
When Fung's cop boyfriend Tats puts her supposedly reformed triad father behind bars, her daughter Fung aims to rid the organization of it's dirty ties, but one of Fung's father chief goons Cheong in a deliciously over-the-top portrait of plans for a very hostile takeover. To ensure her cooperation, he rapes her, videotapes her naked the deed, and sells copies to his pals when he's whipping her, insulting her, killing her relatives, making her watch him have sex with hookers and reveling in her utter defenselessness but hotheaded partner Max Mok whose unrequited love for Fung, but doesn't fare much better when he goes above the law to get things done.
Action / Crime / Foreign
Abducted Blu-ray Movie
Slipcover in Original Pressing
Canadian International Pictures | 1986 | 91 min | Not rated | Nov 26, 2024 | Brian Orndorf
City girl Renee is enjoying a jog in the peace and quiet of the Canadian Rockies when she suddenly finds herself being chased by a crazed mountain man named Vern. Try as she might to escape, Vern soon catches her and takes her away to his remote cabin hideout. All may look lost for Renee, but Joe, his outdoorsman father, is determined to come to her rescue.
Drama / Thriller
Touch Blu-ray Movie
Snerting
Universal Studios | 2024 | 121 min | Rated R | Sep 24, 2024 | Justin Dekker
Soon after the break of the pandemic and realizing that his clock is ticking, Kristofer gets the urge to embark on a journey to try to find out what really happened when his Japanese girlfriend mysteriously vanished without a trace from London fifty years earlier.
Drama / Romance
Mother Blu-ray Movie
Criterion | 1996 | 104 min | Rated PG-13 | Aug 27, 2024 | Jeffrey Kauffman
A neurotic, twice divorced sci-fi writer moves back in with his mom to solve his personal problems.
Comedy / Drama
Mother 4K Blu-ray Movie
4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray
Criterion | 1996 | 104 min | Rated PG-13 | Aug 27, 2024 | Jeffrey Kauffman
A neurotic, twice divorced sci-fi writer moves back in with his mom to solve his personal problems.
Comedy / Drama
- January 17, 2025
Walk Like a Dragon Blu-ray Movie
Imprint #381
Imprint | 1960 | 95 min | Rated ACB: PG | Jan 24, 2025 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
California, 1870s. The cowboy Lincoln 'Linc' Bartlett finds out there's a slave auction of Chinese women in San Francisco and he intervenes and purchases the Chinese Kim Sung from the auction with the intent of setting her free. But it doesn't occur to Linc that setting her free isn't enough. Where is she going to go? Kim doesn't speak English and she's just going to be exploited by somebody else. Linc takes Kim home to serve as a housekeeper. Ma Bartlett Linc's mother, is not happy that a Chinese girl is living in her home, and even less happy when Kim and her son fall in love. Their affair also arouses the jealousy of Cheng Lu, a Chinese immigrant.
Western
Gut Pile Blu-ray Movie
Slipcover in Original Pressing
Saturn's Core Audio & Video | 1997 | 53 min | Not rated | Nov 26, 2024 | Brian Orndorf
While out hunting, Dan accidentally shoots another hunter. Rather than reporting the accident to the authorities, he chooses to bury the body and forget it ever happened. One year later, Dan returns to the same woods for a hunting trip with some friends. Their weekend starts out innocently enough, but while the guys are having fun, something is coming back to life in the woods--and it wants revenge!
Horror
Who Killed Teddy Bear 4K Blu-ray Movie
4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray
Cinématographe | 1965 | 94 min | Not rated | Nov 29, 2024 | Brian Orndorf
A busboy at a disco has sexual problems related to events in his childhood. He becomes obsessed with a disc jockey at the club, leading to obscene phone calls, voyeurism, trips to the porn shop and adult movie palace, and more! A police detective is similarly obsessed with sexual materials, leading him to become personally involved in the case.
Crime / Drama / Mystery