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Home- December 12, 2024
Yokohama BJ Blues Blu-ray Movie
ヨコハマＢＪブルース | Yokohama BJ burûsu | Limited Edition
Radiance Films | 1981 | 112 min | Not rated | Dec 17, 2024 | Jeffrey Kauffman
When his police detective best friend is killed, down-at-heel private eye and part-time blues singer BJ gets the blame. He must start his own investigation to clear his name, but what he uncovers is a tangled web involving crooked cops, drug-dealing gangsters, the city’s underground gay and biker scenes, and even his own past.
Crime / Drama / Mystery / Thriller / Foreign
The Forge Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + Digital Copy
Sony Pictures | 2024 | 123 min | Rated PG | Dec 03, 2024 | Kenneth Brown
Isaiah Wright still has to mature. After graduating from high school without any plans for the future, Isaiah receives a push to start making better life decisions. God's plan for him is far greater than he could have ever imagined.
Drama
- December 11, 2024
Madness Blu-ray Movie
Vacanze per un Massacro
RaroVideo U.S. | 1980 | 85 min | Not rated | Sep 17, 2024 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
An escaped convict plays the occupants of a remote home against one another for his own sadistic pleasure while searching for the loot he buried there following a previous robbery.
Crime / Drama / Thriller / Foreign
Stir of Echoes 4K Blu-ray Movie
4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray + Digital Copy
Lionsgate Films | 1999 | 99 min | Not rated | Dec 17, 2024 | Jeffrey Kauffman
Tom Witzky is a blue-collar worker, a family man, the most ordinary guy in the world...who is about to be plunged into a shattering encounter with another world. And it doesn't matter that Tom doesn't believe in the supernatural. Because something supernatural has started to believe in Tom. After he is hypnotized at a neighborhood party, Tom changes. He sees things he can't explain and hears voices he can't ignore. As the horrific visions intensify, Tom realizes they are pieces of a puzzle, echoes of a crime calling out to be solved. But when his otherworldly nightmares begin coming true, Tom wants out. He desperately tries to rid himself of his eerie, unwanted powers—only to be seized by an irresistible compulsion to dig deeper and deeper into the mystery that is consuming his life. When at last he unearths the truth, it will draw him into the long-buried secret of a ghastly crime, a vengeful spirit...and the lethal price of laying that spirit to rest.
Crime / Horror / Mystery / Thriller / Psychological thriller / Supernatural
Rock 'n' Roll High School 4K Blu-ray Movie
45th Anniversary Edition / 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray
Shout Factory | 1979 | 2 Movies | 93 min | Rated PG | Dec 10, 2024 | Brian Orndorf
Vince Lombardi High School has quite a reputation: it's the wildest, most rockin' high school around! That is, until a thug of a principal, Miss Togar, comes along and tries to make the school a totalitarian state. With the help of the Ramones, the students of Vince Lombardi battle Miss Togar's iron-fisted rule and take their battle to a truly rockin' conclusion!
Comedy / Musical / Teen
Infinite Santa 8000 Blu-ray Movie
Synapse Films | 2013 | 102 min | Not rated | Nov 12, 2024 | Brian Orndorf
In a post-apocalyptic world 1000 years after war, famine and greed ended humanity, mutants, scum and robo-people fight to survive. Santa is now a killer.
Action / Animation / Horror / Sci-Fi
Joker: Folie à Deux 4K Blu-ray Movie
4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray + Digital Copy
Warner Bros. | 2024 | 138 min | Rated R | Dec 17, 2024 | Randy Miller III
Arthur Fleck is institutionalized at Arkham awaiting trial for his crimes as Joker. While struggling with his dual identity, Arthur not only stumbles upon true love, but also finds the music that's always been inside him.
Crime / Drama / Musical / Thriller / Dark humor / Psychological thriller / Comic book
Joker: Folie à Deux 4K Blu-ray Movie
4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray + Digital Copy
Warner Bros. | 2024 | 138 min | Rated R | Dec 17, 2024 | Randy Miller III
Arthur Fleck is institutionalized at Arkham awaiting trial for his crimes as Joker. While struggling with his dual identity, Arthur not only stumbles upon true love, but also finds the music that's always been inside him.
Crime / Drama / Musical / Thriller / Dark humor / Psychological thriller / Comic book
Joker: Folie à Deux Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + Digital Copy
Warner Bros. | 2024 | 138 min | Rated R | Dec 17, 2024 | Randy Miller III
Arthur Fleck is institutionalized at Arkham awaiting trial for his crimes as Joker. While struggling with his dual identity, Arthur not only stumbles upon true love, but also finds the music that's always been inside him.
Crime / Drama / Musical / Thriller / Dark humor / Psychological thriller / Comic book
Platinum Blonde 4K Blu-ray Movie
4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray
Sony Pictures | 1931 | 90 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Kenneth Brown
A young woman from a very rich family impulsively marries a reporter, but each assumes the other is the one whose lifestyle must change
Comedy / Romance
- December 10, 2024
First Love Blu-ray Movie
Kino Lorber | 1977 | 92 min | Rated R | Oct 01, 2024 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
Two college students are swept into the passion of love until he finds out that she is involved with an older, married man. Based on the short story, "Sentimental Education."
Drama / Romance
Aguirre, the Wrath of God 4K Blu-ray Movie
Aguirre, der Zorn Gottes / 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray
Shout Factory | 1972 | 94 min | Not rated | Dec 03, 2024 | Dr. Stephen Larson
Gonzalo Pizarro orders a small Spanish expedition of forty men to search for El Dorado, leaving the mountains of Peru and going down the Amazon river in search of gold and wealth. Soon, they come across great difficulties and Don Aguirre, a ruthless man who cares only about riches, becomes their leader. But will his quest lead them to "the golden city", or to certain destruction?
Adventure / Biography / Drama / History / Foreign
Transformers One 4K Blu-ray Movie
4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray + Digital Copy
Paramount Pictures | 2024 | 104 min | Rated PG | Dec 17, 2024 | Martin Liebman
The untold origin story of Optimus Prime and Megatron, better known as sworn enemies, but once were friends bonded like brothers who changed the fate of Cybertron forever.
Action / Adventure / Animation / Fantasy / Sci-Fi
The Rolling Stones: Welcome to Shepherd's Bush Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + CD
Mercury Studios | 1999 | 94 min | Not rated | Dec 06, 2024 | Jeffrey Kauffman
On June 8, 1999, The Rolling Stones returned to their old London stomping grounds for a hometown club show at Shepherd’s Bush Empire ahead of two sold-out dates at 70,000-capacity Wembley Stadium. Twenty-five years later, that secret gig has been immortalized via the new concert film and live album Welcome To Shepherd’s Bush.
Music
The Rolling Stones: Welcome to Shepherd's Bush 4K Blu-ray Movie
4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray
Mercury Studios | 1999 | 94 min | Not rated | Dec 06, 2024 | Jeffrey Kauffman
On June 8, 1999, The Rolling Stones returned to their old London stomping grounds for a hometown club show at Shepherd’s Bush Empire ahead of two sold-out dates at 70,000-capacity Wembley Stadium. Twenty-five years later, that secret gig has been immortalized via the new concert film and live album Welcome To Shepherd’s Bush.
Music
Alfred Hitchcock: The Iconic Film Collection 4K Blu-ray Movie
Rear Window / To Catch a Thief / Vertigo / North by Northwest / Psycho / The Birds | 4K / 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray + Digital Copy
Universal Studios | 1954-1963 | 6 Movies | 666 min | Not rated | Nov 26, 2024 | Justin Dekker
An oversized book-style release collecting six of Alfred Hitchcock's films in 4K.
Action / Adventure / Crime / Drama / Film-Noir / Horror / Mystery / Romance / Thriller / Psychological thriller / Heist
Men of War Blu-ray Movie
MVD Rewind Collection
MVD Visual | 1994 | 103 min | Rated R | Dec 10, 2024 | Jeffrey Kauffman
A former Special Ops soldier leads a group of mercenaries to an island in the South China Sea: their mission is obtain the rights to the unusual treasure that the island beholds.
Action / Drama / Thriller
Little Women 4K Blu-ray Movie
30th Anniversary / 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray + Digital Copy
Sony Pictures | 1994 | 118 min | Rated PG | Nov 19, 2024 | Kenneth Brown
With their father away fighting in the Civil War, Jo, Meg, Beth and Amy grow up with their mother in somewhat reduced circumstances. They are a close family who inevitably have their squabbles and tragedies. But the bond holds even when, later, men friends start to become a part of the household.
Drama / Family / Romance / Period / Coming of age
The Last Video Store Blu-ray Movie
Limited Edition
Arrow | 2023 | 79 min | Rated R | Dec 10, 2024 | Jeffrey Kauffman
A young woman who is unknowingly in possession of a legendary "cursed tape" takes a collection of old video tapes to a video store. She and the store owner re-awake its curse, which leads to the release of a raft of cinematic villains.
Comedy / Horror
- December 09, 2024
Alien: Romulus 4K Blu-ray Movie
4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray + Digital Copy
Disney / Buena Vista | 2024 | 119 min | Rated R | Dec 03, 2024 | Jeffrey Kauffman
While scavenging the deep ends of a derelict space station, a group of young space colonizers come face to face with the most terrifying life form in the universe.
Horror / Sci-Fi / Thriller