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The Last Flight

Gaumont | 2009 | 98 min | Not rated | Apr 22, 2010 | Dr. Svet Atanasov

A woman goes on a journey to find her husband after his plane disappears in the Sahara.

Drama / Foreign

Disgrace Blu-ray Movie  

Image Entertainment | 2008 | 119 min | Rated R | Apr 27, 2010 | Casey Broadwater

After an imprudent affair with a student, Cape Town professor David Lurie (John Malkovich) flees to his daughter's remote farm to escape the scandal, only to find tragedy when a trio of black youths brutally assaults them. But Lurie is forced to face apartheid's lasting repercussions when he discovers that one of the attackers is related to a trusted employee (Eriq Ebouaney) in this pensive drama based on J.M. Coetzee's novel.

Drama

Life Blu-ray Movie  

BBC / Narrated by David Attenborough

BBC | 2009 | 609 min | Not rated | Jun 01, 2010 | Kenneth Brown

'Life' is a Ten-part natural history series that explores the unusual and spectacular behaviour employed by the world's wildlife in order to survive. Filmed over four years and focusing each episode on a different wildlife group, the BBC series, shot in HD, employs the latest advances in filmmaking, travelling to every continent on Earth to record the dramatic, and at times bizarre, behaviour of the planet's wildlife.

Documentary / Nature

Escape from L.A. Blu-ray Movie  

Paramount Pictures | 1996 | 101 min | Rated R | May 04, 2010 | Martin Liebman

It's 16 years later and Snake Plissken is once again called in by the U.S. government to recover a potential doomsday device from Los Angeles.

Action / Sci-Fi / Thriller

Canyonlands Blu-ray Movie  

National Geographic | 2009 | 50 min | Not rated | Apr 06, 2010 | Jeffrey Kauffman

An intrepid team of National Geographic naturalists takes you deep inside Utah's wild and majestic Canyonlands National Park, one of America's least explored natural treasures. Using innovative technology, the team captures details never seen before. Among the highlights are pictographs by ancient cultures, their intricacy revealed by the team's infrared photography. The landscape's influence on our perception of the West is also examined.

Documentary / Nature

Walkabout Blu-ray Movie  

Criterion | 1971 | 101 min | Not rated | May 18, 2010 | Dr. Svet Atanasov

Following the suicide of their father, Mary and her younger brother Peter are left stranded in the blistering heat of the vast Australian outback. Facing exhaustion and starvation, their salvation comes when they cross paths with an Aboriginal boy on ‘walkabout’, a ritual in which he must leave his home and learn to survive off the land. He teaches them how to survive in the wilderness, but a clash of cultures leads to terrible and tragic consequences.

Adventure / Drama / Coming of age

The Karate Kid Blu-ray Movie  

Sony Pictures | 1984 | 127 min | Rated PG | May 11, 2010 | Martin Liebman

Daniel LaRusso arrives in Los Angeles from the east coast and faces the difficult task of making new friends. However, he becomes the object of bullying by Cobra Kai, a menacing gang of karate students, when he strikes up a relationship with Ali, the Cobra Kai leader's ex-girlfriend. Eager to fight back and impress his new girlfriend but afraid to confront the dangerous gang, Daniel asks his handyman Mr. Miyagi, whom he learns is a master of the martial arts, to teach him karate. Mr. Miyagi teaches Daniel that karate is a mastery over the self, mind, and body and that fighting is always the last answer to a problem. Under Mr. Miyagi's guidance, Daniel develops not only physical skills but also the faith and self-confidence to compete despite tremendous odds.

Action / Drama / Family / Sport / Martial arts

The Karate Kid II Blu-ray Movie  

Sony Pictures | 1986 | 113 min | Rated PG | May 11, 2010 | Martin Liebman

Daniel accompanies his wise and whimsical teacher, Mr. Miyagi, to his ancestral home in Okinawa. For the boy, it's a journey to an exotic new world offering new clues to his mentor's secret past. For Miyagi, it's an opportunity to see his father one last time and rekindle a romance with his childhood sweetheart. But Miyagi's return also re-ignites a bitter feud with long-time enemy, Sato - a feud that involves young Daniel in a brilliant collision of cultures and combat. Now, far away from the tournaments, the cheering crowds and the safety of home, Daniel will face his greatest challenge ever when teacher becomes student and the price of honor is life itself.

Action / Family / Romance / Sport / Martial arts

Hamlet Blu-ray Movie  

BBC | 2009 | 183 min | Not rated | May 04, 2010 | Kenneth Brown

David Tennant and Patrick Stewart star in this critically acclaimed production of Shakespeare’s masterpiece from Britain’s renowned Royal Shakespeare Company. No recent stage production in Britain has attracted the excitement and nearly unanimous critical praise as this Hamlet. Tennant's interpretation was recognized as defining the role for a generation, and Stewart’s complex Claudius won the Olivier award, Britain’s highest stage honor. In this specially-shot screen version, filmed on location rather than in the theater, Tennant and Stewart reprise their roles. Dynamic, exciting and contemporary, it breathes new life into Shakespeare's greatest play.

Drama

How the Earth Was Made Blu-ray Movie  

A&E Home Video | 2007 | 94 min | Not rated | May 26, 2009 | Casey Broadwater

With remarkable on-location footage and stunning special effects, this informative program from "The Continents" series traces the course of the Earth's evolution from a bubbling mass of molten rock to the hospitable planet we live on today. Cutting-edge scientific insight and interviews with prominent geologists will fire your imagination and ensure that you'll never look at the Earth in quite the same way again.

Documentary / History / Nature

Berlioz: Les Troyens Blu-ray Movie  

Opus Arte | 314 min | Apr 27, 2010 | Jeffrey Kauffman

No synopsis for this title.

Music

Leap Year Blu-ray Movie  

Universal Studios | 2010 | 100 min | Rated PG | May 04, 2010 | Kenneth Brown

When Anna's (Amy Adams) four-year anniversary to her boyfriend passes without an engagement ring, she decides to take matters into her own hands. Inspired by an Irish tradition that allows women to propose to men on Leap Day, Anna follows Jeremy (Adam Scott) to Dublin to propose to him. But after landing on the wrong side of Ireland, she must enlist the help of the handsome and carefree local Declan (Matthew Goode) to get her across the country. Along the way, they discover that the road to love can take you to very unexpected places.

Comedy / Romance

Invictus Blu-ray Movie  

Blu-ray + DVD + Digital Copy

Warner Bros. | 2009 | 134 min | Rated PG-13 | May 18, 2010 | Kenneth Brown

The film tells the inspiring true story of how Nelson Mandela joined forces with the captain of South Africa's rugby team to help unite their country. Newly elected President Mandela knows his nation remains racially and economically divided in the wake of apartheid. Believing he can bring his people together through the universal language of sport, Mandela rallies South Africa's rugby team as they make their historic run to the 1995 Rugby World Cup Championship match

Drama / History / Sport

Ole Bull: Violin Concertos Blu-ray Movie  

Blu-ray Audio / Blu-ray + SACD

2L | 2010 | Not rated | Apr 27, 2010 | Jeffrey Kauffman

No synopsis for this title.

Music

Battleship Potemkin Blu-ray Movie  

Броненосец Потёмкин / Bronenosets Potyomkin

Kino Lorber | 1925 | 72 min | Not rated | Apr 20, 2010 | Casey Broadwater

Odessa, 1905. Enraged with the deplorable conditions on board the armored cruiser Potemkin and raising the red flag of revolution, the sailors' revolt becomes the rallying point for a Russian populace ground under the boot hells of the Czar's Cossacks. When ruthless White Russian cavalry arrives to crush the rebellion on the sandstone Odessa Steps, the most famous and most quoted film sequence in cinema history is born.

Drama / History / War / Foreign / Period

Legion Blu-ray Movie  

Blu-ray + Digital Copy

Sony Pictures | 2010 | 100 min | Rated R | May 11, 2010 | Martin Liebman

At a remote desert truck stop, the fate of the world will be decided. Evil's armies are amassing. Armed and united by the Archangel Michael, a group of strangers become unwitting soldiers on the frontlines of the Apocalypse. Their mission: protect a waitress and her sacred unborn child from the relentless, bloody siege of the demonic legion.

Action / Fantasy / Horror / Thriller / Supernatural

The Jackal Blu-ray Movie  

Blu-ray/DVD Combo

Universal Studios | 1997 | 124 min | Rated R | Apr 27, 2010 | Kenneth Brown

The FBI's Deputy Director must stop the Jackal, a ruthless professional killer, before he makes his next assassination. He teams up with a female Russian officer and an imprisoned IRA terrorist in a global race against the clock to stop the Jackal before he strikes.

Action / Adventure / Crime / Thriller

The Last Emperor Blu-ray Movie    

Optimum Home Entertainment | 1987 | 1 Movie, 2 Cuts | 164 min | Rated BBFC: 15 | Apr 19, 2010 | Dr. Svet Atanasov

The life of Emperor Pu Yi, who took the throne at age three, in 1908, before witnessing decades of cultural and political upheaval, within and without the walls of the Forbidden City.

Biography / Drama / History / Epic / Period

Preacher's Kid Blu-ray Movie  

Warner Bros. | 2009 | 110 min | Rated PG-13 | May 04, 2010 | Kenneth Brown

Angie is the daughter of a stern but loving bishop, whose attraction to the hunky star of a traveling gospel show takes her on the road…and into romance, heartbreak and the realization that happiness may lie in the home she left behind.

Drama

The Protector Blu-ray Movie  

ต้มยำกุ้ง / Tom yum goong

Vivendi Visual Entertainment | 2005 | 1 Movie, 2 Cuts | 111 min | Rated R | Apr 06, 2010 | Jeffrey Kauffman

Kham's life is turned upside down when an international mafia syndicate, based in Australia, captures his two beloved elephants and smuggles them thousands of kilometers away to Sydney. The two elephants are far more than mere animals to Kham and his father; they are part of his family and were being prepared to be presented as a token of devotion to his Majesty the King of Thailand. The only way Kham can possibly save the animals is by venturing into a foreign land for the first time. Taking on a mafia group to rescue two elephants from a foreign country presents a huge challenge, even for a martial arts master like Kham. Despite the help of Sergeant Mark, a Thai police Sergeant based in Australia, and Pla, a Thai girl forced into modern day slavery, the going gets tough. They must take on the ruthless gang of Madame Rose, whose henchmen include Johnny, a Vietnamese thief and martial arts expert, and the hulking TK. Kham has no choice but to risk his own life for the animals he loves.

Action / Crime / Drama / Thriller / Martial arts / Foreign