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Blind Faith Blu-ray Movie  

Slipcover in Original Pressing

VHSHitfest | 1989 | 86 min | Not rated | Mar 26, 2024 | Brian Orndorf

No synopsis for this title.

Crime / Horror / War

I.S.S. Blu-ray Movie  

Decal Releasing | 2023 | 95 min | Rated R | Mar 12, 2024 | Brian Orndorf

When a world war event occurs on Earth, America and Russia, both nations secretly contact their astronauts aboard the ISS and give them instructions to take control of the station by any means necessary.

Sci-Fi / Thriller

Freelance Blu-ray Movie  

Relativity | 2023 | 109 min | Rated R | Mar 12, 2024 | Brian Orndorf

An ex-Special Forces operator takes a job to provide security for a journalist as she interviews a dictator, but a military coup breaks out in the middle of the interview, and they are forced to escape into the jungle where they must survive.

Action / Comedy

Commedia all'italiana: Three Films by Dino Risi Blu-ray Movie    

Il Vedovo / Il Mattatore / Il Sorpasso | Limited Edition

Radiance Films | 1959-1962 | 3 Movies | 303 min | Rated BBFC: 12 | Aug 21, 2023 | Jeffrey Kauffman

No synopsis for this title.

Comedy / Drama / Foreign

Il Vedovo Blu-ray Movie    

The Widower | Limited Edition

Radiance Films | 1959 | 91 min | Rated BBFC: PG | No Release Date | Jeffrey Kauffman

Alberto Nardi is a Roman businessman who fancies himself a man of great capabilities, but whose factory (producing lifts and elevators) teeters perennially on the brink of catastrophe. Alberto is married to a rich and successful businesswoman from Milan, Elvira Almiraghi who has a no-nonsense attitude and barely tolerates the attempts of her husband to keep his factory afloat with her money.

Comedy / Foreign

Il Mattatore Blu-ray Movie    

The Showman / Love and Larceny | Limited Edition

Radiance Films | 1960 | 103 min | Rated BBFC: PG | No Release Date | Jeffrey Kauffman

Gerardo, an aspiring actor, trying unsuccessfully to cross over from comedy to tragedy, is involved, due to his ability to mimic dialects of Italy, in a scam concocted by Lallo against a rich cloth-merchant.

Comedy / Foreign

Il Sorpasso Blu-ray Movie    

The Easy Life | Limited Edition

Radiance Films | 1962 | 108 min | Rated BBFC: 12 | No Release Date | Jeffrey Kauffman

A waggish, freewheeling bachelor and a straitlaced law student take a madcap trip from Rome to Tuscany.

Comedy / Drama / Foreign

Moon Garden Blu-ray Movie  

Oscilloscope Pictures | 2022 | 93 min | Not rated | Mar 05, 2024 | Kenneth Brown

A comatose five-year-old girl journeys through an industrial wonderland to find her way back to consciousness.

Drama / Fantasy / Horror

Decision to Leave 4K Blu-ray Movie  

헤어질 결심 / Heojil kyolshim / 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray

MUBI | 2022 | 138 min | Not rated | Oct 24, 2023 | Kenneth Brown

A detective investigating a man's death in the mountains meets the dead man's mysterious wife in the course of his dogged sleuthing.

Crime / Drama / Mystery / Romance / Thriller / Foreign

Picnic at Hanging Rock 4K Blu-ray Movie  

Director's Cut / 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray

Criterion | 1975 | 108 min | Not rated | Apr 09, 2024 | Dr. Svet Atanasov

On Valentine's Day 1900, three school girls and a school teacher go missing under mysterious circumstances during a trip to Hanging Rock in Victoria, Australia.

Drama / Mystery / Period

Red Stone Blu-ray Movie  

Cinedigm | 2021 | 97 min | Not rated | Jan 18, 2022 | Dr. Svet Atanasov

A dangerous hitman is tasked with hunting down a teenager who witnessed the murder of his older brother at the hands of a ruthless Southern crime lord. The hired gun must track down the boy before either the rival henchmen or the F.B.I. find him first. As the hours tick down, the hitman begins to question his deadly ways and must choose which side he belongs to.

Thriller

Creature from the Black Lagoon 4K + 3D Blu-ray Movie  

4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray 3D + Blu-ray + Digital Copy

Universal Studios | 1954 | 79 min | Rated G | Mar 05, 2024 | Justin Dekker

In the early 1950s, a scientific expedition into the Amazon recovers a strange fossilized claw that could be a missing link between creatures that swim in the seas and those that walk on land. Once the fossil is examined, a larger, better-funded expedition is authorized to travel deep into the interior of the Amazon Basin to hopefully find more examples of the long dead creature. But as the expedition pushes deeper into the unexplored reaches of the great waterway, they come to the realization that "something" is watching their every move, stalking them... on the land, and in the water!

Adventure / Horror / Sci-Fi

The Draughtsman's Contract Blu-ray Movie  

40th Anniversary 4K Restoration

Zeitgeist Films | 1982 | 108 min | Not rated | Jun 13, 2023 | Dr. Stephen Larson

In an apparently idyllic 17th century Wiltshire, an ambitious draughtsman is commissioned by the wife of an aristocrat to produce twelve drawings of her husband’s estate and negotiates terms to include sexual favours from his employer. But when a corpse is dragged from the moat, the draughtsman’s drawings may reveal more than he realised.

Comedy / Drama / Mystery / Dark humor / Period

V/H/S/Triple Feature Blu-ray Movie  

V/H/S/94 /V/H/S/99 / V/H/S/85

RLJ Entertainment | 2021-2023 | 3 Movies | 317 min | Not rated | Mar 05, 2024 | Randy Miller III

V/H/S/94 (2021 R 1h43m) After the discovery of a mysterious VHS tape, a brutish police swat team launch a high-intensity raid on a remote warehouse, only to discover a sinister cult compound whose collection of pre-recorded material uncovers a nightmarish conspiracy. V/H/S/99 (2022 Not Rated 1h49m) V/H/S/99 harkens back to the final punk rock analog days of VHS, while taking one giant leap forward into the hellish new millennium. In V/H/S/99, a teenager's home video leads to a series of horrifying revelation V/H/S/85 (2023 TV-MA 1h50m) Sixth installment in the found-footage V/H/S franchise. Unveiled through a made-for-TV documentary, five tales of found footage horror emerge to take viewers on a terrifying journey into the grim underbelly of the 1980s.

Horror / Thriller

V/H/S/85 Blu-ray Movie  

RLJ Entertainment | 2023 | 111 min | Not rated | Feb 27, 2024 | Randy Miller III

An ominous broadcast brings viewers forgotten nightmares of the 1980s: a disaster recovery crew unleashes the wrath of an ancient god; a lake that brings the dead back to life; a performance art piece makes contact with a creature from the beyond; an all-guns-out undead bloodbath, and a disturbing vision of videotaped murders.

Horror / Thriller

Aim for the Ace: Another Match Blu-ray Movie  

Aim for the Ace 2 / Ace wo Nerae! 2

Discotek Media | 1988 | 300 min | Unrated | Nov 28, 2023 | Neil Lumbard

Three years has passed since the events of the first series. Hiromi continued training with her coach and became Japan's junior champion. Their common profits have also contributed to the coach being chosen as the first trainer of the Japanese Selection of Tennis and is arranged to head a trip with the youngest members of the team to USA. The relation between Hiromi and its trainer is narrower at personal level but it exceeds the teacher-student bond with great difficulty.

Action / Anime / Drama / Romance / Sport / Foreign

Mountains of the Moon Blu-ray Movie    

Imprint #291

Imprint | 1990 | 136 min | Rated ACB: PG | Feb 28, 2024 | Dr. Svet Atanasov

The story of Captain Richard Francis Burton's and Lt. John Hanning Speke's expedition to find the source of the Nile river in the name of Queen Victoria's British Empire. The film tells the story of their meeting, their friendship emerging amidst hardship, and then dissolving after their journey.

Adventure / Drama / History

My Life as Inukai-san's Dog: Complete Collection Blu-ray Movie  

Sentai Filmworks | 2023 | 168 min | Rated TV-MA | Feb 13, 2024 | Neil Lumbard

What if you were sitting in the rain and an attractive female classmate took you home for a bath together? It might be some guys fantasy, but there's one detail that turns it into a nightmare for Pochita… he's been transformed into a dog! Now he's locked up with a beautiful girl with a scary dog fixation, and he can only bark for help. As he struggles to unravel what's happened to him, he also learns way too much about Inukai and her friends' private quirks than his now-canine brain can handle in MY LIFE AS INUKAI-SAN'S DOG!

Anime / Comedy / Erotic / Comic book / Foreign

Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon? - Season 4 Part 2 Blu-ray Movie  

Sentai Filmworks | 2023 | 275 min | Rated TV-MA | Jan 09, 2024 | Neil Lumbard

Despite recruiting assistance from other Familias, the Hestia Familia's mission to the lowest level of the Dungeon they have ever been to is perched on the brink of disaster. Not only is the team shattered and split, but something is wrong with the Dungeon, as monsters are appearing on levels where they've never appeared before. As a battered Bell and Ryu are pursued across the 37th floor by the monstrous Juggernaut, the rest of the team faces off with the dangerous Amphisbaena on the 27th floor in a battle that not all may survive. The pressure keeps mounting and danger lurks around every tunnel corner!

Action / Adventure / Anime / Fantasy / Romance / Foreign

The President's Analyst Blu-ray Movie  

Special Edition

Kino Lorber | 1967 | 103 min | Not rated | Mar 12, 2024 | Dr. Svet Atanasov

At first, Dr. Sidney Schaefer feels honored and thrilled to be offered the job of the President's Analyst. But then the stress of the job and the paranoid spies that come with a sensitive government position get to him, and he runs away.

Comedy / Drama / Thriller