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Wrath of the Titans Blu-ray Movie  

Arrow | 2012 | 99 min | Rated PG-13 | No Release Date | Jeffrey Kauffman

A decade after his heroic defeat of the monstrous Kraken, Perseus-the demigod son of Zeus-is attempting to live a quieter life as a village fisherman and the sole parent to his 10-year old son, Helius. Meanwhile, a struggle for supremacy rages between the gods and the Titans. Dangerously weakened by humanity's lack of devotion, the gods are losing control of the imprisoned Titans and their ferocious leader, Kronos, father of the long-ruling brothers Zeus, Hades and Poseidon. The triumvirate had overthrown their powerful father long ago, leaving him to rot in the gloomy abyss of Tartarus, a dungeon that lies deep within the cavernous underworld. Perseus cannot ignore his true calling when Hades, along with Zeus' godly son, Ares (Edgar Ramírez), switch loyalty and make a deal with Kronos to capture Zeus. The Titans' strength grows stronger as Zeus' remaining godly powers are siphoned...

Action / Adventure / Fantasy

When Titans Ruled the Earth 4K Blu-ray Movie  

Clash of the Titans 4K / Wrath of the Titans 4K | Limited Edition / 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray

Arrow | 2010-2012 | 2 Movies | 205 min | Rated PG-13 | Aug 20, 2024 | Jeffrey Kauffman

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Action / Adventure / Fantasy

Clash of the Titans 4K Blu-ray Movie  

4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray

Arrow | 2010 | 106 min | Rated PG-13 | No Release Date | Jeffrey Kauffman

Perseus is the son of the King of the Gods, Zeus, but is raised as a man. When Hades, the God of the underworld, threatens to seize power from Zeus, Perseus embarks on a life-threatening mission to defeat him. Joined by a group of brave warriors, Perseus is forced to battle beasts and demons in order to save his family, and will only succeed if he finally accepts and uses his power as a God.

Action / Adventure / Fantasy

Wrath of the Titans 4K Blu-ray Movie  

4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray

Arrow | 2012 | 99 min | Rated PG-13 | No Release Date | Jeffrey Kauffman

A decade after his heroic defeat of the monstrous Kraken, Perseus-the demigod son of Zeus-is attempting to live a quieter life as a village fisherman and the sole parent to his 10-year old son, Helius. Meanwhile, a struggle for supremacy rages between the gods and the Titans. Dangerously weakened by humanity's lack of devotion, the gods are losing control of the imprisoned Titans and their ferocious leader, Kronos, father of the long-ruling brothers Zeus, Hades and Poseidon. The triumvirate had overthrown their powerful father long ago, leaving him to rot in the gloomy abyss of Tartarus, a dungeon that lies deep within the cavernous underworld. Perseus cannot ignore his true calling when Hades, along with Zeus' godly son, Ares (Edgar Ramírez), switch loyalty and make a deal with Kronos to capture Zeus. The Titans' strength grows stronger as Zeus' remaining godly powers are siphoned...

Action / Adventure / Fantasy

Bill & Ted's Most Triumphant Trilogy 4K Blu-ray Movie  

4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray

Shout Factory | 1989-2020 | 3 Movies | 276 min | Rated PG | Aug 06, 2024 | Brian Orndorf

See individual titles for their synopses.

Adventure / Comedy / Music / Sci-Fi / Teen / Supernatural

Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey 4K Blu-ray Movie  

4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray

Shout Factory | 1991 | 94 min | Rated PG | Aug 06, 2024 | Brian Orndorf

A tyrant from the future creates evil android doubles of Bill and Ted and sends them back to eliminate the originals.

Adventure / Comedy / Supernatural

Bill & Ted Face the Music 4K Blu-ray Movie  

4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray

Shout Factory | 2020 | 92 min | Rated PG-13 | Aug 06, 2024 | Brian Orndorf

Two would-be rockers from San Dimas, California, were once told they'd save the universe during a time-traveling adventure, but find themselves as middle-aged dads still trying to crank out a hit song and fulfill their destiny.

Adventure / Comedy / Music / Sci-Fi / Supernatural

Run Lola Run 4K Blu-ray Movie  

25th Anniversary Edition | Lola rennt / 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray

Sony Pictures | 1998 | 80 min | Rated R | Jul 30, 2024 | Kenneth Brown

Beautiful, hip, and young, poor Lola has but 20 minutes to locate a missing bag containing 100,000 Deutsche marks or come up with the money some other way — if she can't, gangsters are going to kill her boyfriend. A pulse-raising race against time, the film employs a startling array of innovative techniques to present three separate scenarios, all departing from a single split-second decision Lola makes.

Action / Crime / Drama / Romance / Thriller / Foreign

Men Behind the Sun 2: Laboratory of the Devil Blu-ray Movie  

Hēi tài yáng 731 xù jí shā rén gōng chǎng / 黑太陽731系列：殺人工廠

Massacre Video | 1992 | 95 min | Unrated | Dec 19, 2023 | Justin Dekker

In the spring of 1935, Japan established a secret base, Unit 731 in Manchuria, where many innocent Chinese, Korean and Mongolian people were killed in grotesque experiments. An idealistic young doctor , Morishima, is horrified by the experiments being performed in the camp and when his fiancée arrives disguised as a Chinese prisoner he sets out to liberate the camp. A docudrama sequel to the notorious Men Behind the Sun, which pulls no punches when it comes to delivering the shocks!

Action / Drama / Horror / Foreign

House of Gucci 4K Blu-ray Movie  

4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray

Shout Factory | 2021 | 158 min | Rated R | Jul 30, 2024 | Brian Orndorf

The story of how Patrizia Reggiani, the ex-wife of Maurizio Gucci, plotted to kill her husband, the grandson of renowned fashion designer Guccio Gucci.

Biography / Drama / History

Stir Blu-ray Movie  

Severin Films | 1980 | 102 min | Not rated | Mar 26, 2024 | Dr. Svet Atanasov

Filmed in the Clare Valley, Gladstone and the Flinders Ranges in South Australia, this prison movie was inspired by the true life prison riot at Bathurst Jail in 1974 and its subsequent Royal Commission into New South Wales Prisons.

Action / Drama / Thriller

Orlando, My Political Biography Blu-ray Movie  

Orlando, ma biographie politique

Criterion | 2023 | 102 min | Not rated | Jun 25, 2024 | Jeffrey Kauffman

Virginia Woolf’s “Orlando” tells the story of a young man who grows up to become a 36-year-old woman. Almost a century after its publication, Paul B. Preciado speaks to Virginia Woolf to tell her that her fictional character has become a reality. The transition of Orlando’s body now lies at the root of all non-binary bodies and there are Orlandos all over the world. Through the authentic voices of other young bodies undergoing metamorphosis, Preciado retraces the stages of his personal transformation through a poetic journey in which life, writing, theory and image merge freely in the search for truth. Every Orlando, he says, is a transgender person who is risking his, her or their life on a daily basis as they find themselves forced to confront government laws, history and psychiatry, as well as traditional notions of the family and the power of multinational pharmaceutical companies. But if “male” and “female” are ultimately political and social fictions, Orlando, ma biographie politique shows us that change is no longer just about gender, but also about poetry, love and skin colour.

Documentary / Foreign

Ted Lasso: The Richmond Way Blu-ray Movie  

Warner Bros. | 2020-2023 | 3 Seasons | 1453 min | Not rated | Jul 30, 2024 | Randy Miller III

Follows US American Football coach Ted Lasso heading to the UK to manage a struggling London soccer team in the top flight of English football.

Comedy / Drama / Sport

China O'Brien 1 & 2 4K Blu-ray Movie  

Slipcover in Original Pressing / 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray

Vinegar Syndrome | 1990 | 2 Movies | 178 min | Rated R | Jun 25, 2024 | Brian Orndorf

No synopsis for this title.

Action / Crime / Martial arts

China O'Brien II 4K Blu-ray Movie  

4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray

Vinegar Syndrome | 1990 | 87 min | Rated R | May 24, 2024 | Brian Orndorf

This time China O'Brien has trouble with a dealer who puts a prize on her head because she had spoiled an important drug deal of his. But all the world's criminals will not be enough to catch up with China, one of the masters of the martial arts.

Action / Crime / Martial arts

China O'Brien 4K Blu-ray Movie  

4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray

Vinegar Syndrome | 1990 | 91 min | Rated R | May 24, 2024 | Brian Orndorf

China O'Brien; big city police woman; martial arts trainer, is forced to hand in her badge and head home to her father and the small town where she grew up. The peaceful town she knew is now struggling against the clutches of organized crime.

Action / Crime / Martial arts

Under Suspicion Blu-ray Movie    

Imprint | 2000 | 111 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Dr. Svet Atanasov

This remake of a 1981 French thriller chronicles the harrowing experience of Henry Hearst, a tax lawyer vacationing in San Juan, Puerto Rico, who discovers the body of a murdered 12-year-old and promptly becomes the main suspect. Local cops Victor Benezet and Detective Owens will stop at nothing to catch their man, and Hearst must convince them they're mistaken.

Crime / Drama

Halo: Season Two Blu-ray Movie  

Paramount Pictures | 2024 | 420 min | Not rated | Jul 23, 2024 | Martin Liebman

When the Covenant threatens mankind's greatest stronghold, Master Chief (Pablo Schreiber) and his elite team of Spartans embark on an epic journey to find the Halo and ensure humanity's survival...or guarantee their destruction. Also starring Charlie Murphy (Peaky Blinders), Natascha McElhone (The Crown), Bokeem Woodbine (Fargo), and featuring Jen Taylor (voice of Cortana in the Halo video game series).

Action / Sci-Fi

Halo: Season Two 4K Blu-ray Movie  

4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray

Paramount Pictures | 2024 | 420 min | Not rated | Aug 20, 2024 | Martin Liebman

Master Chief John-117 leads his team of elite Spartans against the alien threat known as the Covenant. In the wake of a shocking event on a desolate planet, John cannot shake the feeling that his war is about to change and risks everything to prove what no one else will believe – that the Covenant are preparing to attack humanity’s greatest stronghold. With the galaxy on the brink, John embarks on a journey to find the key to humankind’s salvation, or its extinction — the Halo.

Action / Sci-Fi

Halo: Season Two 4K Blu-ray Movie  

4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray

Paramount Pictures | 2024 | 420 min | Not rated | Jul 23, 2024 | Martin Liebman

Master Chief John-117 leads his team of elite Spartans against the alien threat known as the Covenant. In the wake of a shocking event on a desolate planet, John cannot shake the feeling that his war is about to change and risks everything to prove what no one else will believe – that the Covenant are preparing to attack humanity’s greatest stronghold. With the galaxy on the brink, John embarks on a journey to find the key to humankind’s salvation, or its extinction — the Halo.

Action / Sci-Fi