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Home- February 23, 2024
Patch Adams Blu-ray Movie
Universal Studios | 1998 | 115 min | Rated PG-13 | Aug 16, 2016 | Martin Liebman
Patch Adams (Robin Williams), a doctor who doesn't look, act or think like any doctor you've met before. For Patch, humor is the best medicine, and he's willing to do just about anything to make his patients laugh - even if it means risking his own career. Based on a true story.
Biography / Comedy / Drama
Ticket to Paradise 4K Blu-ray Movie
4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray + Digital Copy
Universal Studios | 2022 | 104 min | Rated PG-13 | Feb 13, 2024 | Justin Dekker
Two exes find themselves on a shared mission to stop their lovestruck daughter from making the same mistake they once made.
Comedy / Romance
Wonka Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + Digital Copy
Warner Bros. | 2023 | 116 min | Rated PG | Feb 27, 2024 | Randy Miller III
With dreams of opening a shop in a city renowned for its chocolate, a young and poor Willy Wonka discovers that the industry is run by a cartel of greedy chocolatiers.
Adventure / Comedy / Family / Musical
Wonka 4K Blu-ray Movie
4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray + Digital Copy
Warner Bros. | 2023 | 116 min | Rated PG | Feb 27, 2024 | Randy Miller III
With dreams of opening a shop in a city renowned for its chocolate, a young and poor Willy Wonka discovers that the industry is run by a cartel of greedy chocolatiers.
Adventure / Comedy / Family / Musical
Next Goal Wins Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + Digital Copy
Disney / Buena Vista | 2023 | 104 min | Rated PG-13 | Feb 27, 2024 | Jeffrey Kauffman
Adaptation of the 2014 British soccer documentary which follows Dutch coach Thomas Rongen who attempts the nearly impossible task of turning the American Samoa soccer team from perennial losers into winners.
Comedy / Sport
Tears to Tiara: Complete Collection Blu-ray Movie
Sentai Filmworks | 2009 | 650 min | Rated TV-PG | Feb 06, 2024 | Neil Lumbard
For dozens of generations, the legions of the Divine Empire seemed unstoppable, brutally tearing asunder nation after nation and subjugating their people. Then one of the Empire's power-hungry priests made the mistake of attempting to resurrect an ancient Demon Lord. Instead of binding Arawn as planned, the Demon Lord chose to rescue the intended sacrifice - the young high priestess Riannon - and formed an alliance with her potentially legendary brother Arthur and the Gael Clan. Now the Empire will reap the seeds of destruction they have sowed, as Demon, Human, Elf, and even Dragon join together in the battle of the complete master collection of TEARS TO TIARA!
Action / Adventure / Anime / Comedy / Fantasy / Foreign
Love Flops: Complete Collection Blu-ray Movie
Sentai Filmworks | 2022 | 300 min | Rated TV-MA | Jan 16, 2024 | Neil Lumbard
When the AI-based fortune teller that Asahi Kashiwagi watches predicts one morning that that he will meet a quintet of beautiful girls who will all fall in love with him, he naturally has a hard time believing it. And yet, by the end of the day, not only has he met five amazing young ladies who've all confessed their attraction, but Ilya Ilyukhin, Amelia Irving, Karin Istel, Aoi Izumisawa and Bai Mongfa have even been invited to live in his house! Is this real life, or is it just an otaku fantasy? The one thing Asahi knows is that there's something strangely familiar about all five girls, and he's got to get to the bottom of it!
Anime / Comedy / Romance / Foreign
Giant Beasts of Ars: Complete Collection Blu-ray Movie
Sentai Filmworks | 2023 | 300 min | Rated TV-14 | Jan 30, 2024 | Neil Lumbard
In a time of Myths and Gods, giant creatures created and ruled over the lands of Ars. Then the first men came to claim the lands for themselves. Now war reigns as the wrathful Beasts seek to destroy the invaders, whose champions, the Nagimori, fight using the untamed magic of their Kannagi partners. But when Jiro, a Nagimori who's lost his partner, comes across a young woman whose powers have just awakened, he learns that she is on the run from a mysterious laboratory with sinister connections. Though still in mourning, Jiro agrees to partner with Kumi and her friend Myaa, as together they seek to piece together the mystery behind their creation, and to confront the giant Beasts.
Action / Adventure / Anime / Fantasy / Sci-Fi / Foreign
I've Somehow Gotten Stronger When I Improved My Farm-Related Skills: Complete Collection Blu-ray Movie
Sentai Filmworks | 2022 | 300 min | Rated TV-PG | Feb 27, 2024 | Neil Lumbard
Farmer Al thought he was a typical farmer. Then he came across a group of adventurers fighting a dragon and somehow killed the monster with a carrot. Okay, that was implausible, but then he also rescued a princess. Maybe he's a less typical farmer, he thought? One thing is sure: Even though all he really wants is to farm, fate and the kingdom won't let him plow in peace. Now he has to deal with ghosts, evil gods, and even more dragons as he works in quests between the chores in, I've Somehow Gotten Stronger When I Improved My Farm-Related Skills!
Action / Adventure / Anime / Foreign
- February 22, 2024
Afire Blu-ray Movie
Roter Himmel
Criterion | 2023 | 103 min | Not rated | Feb 20, 2024 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
While vacationing by the Baltic Sea, writer Leon and photographer Felix are surprised to encounter Nadja, a mysterious young woman staying as a guest at the holiday home of Felix’s family. Nadja soon distracts Leon from finishing his latest novel, not only because of her passionate liaison with lifeguard Devid but also because her brutal honesty forces Leon to confront his artistic inadequacies. As Nadja and Leon grow closer, an encroaching forest fire threatens the group and pushes the writer to discover whether he can truly care for anything beyond himself.
Comedy / Drama / Romance / Foreign / Epic
Monk: The Complete Third Season Blu-ray Movie
Kino Lorber | 2004 | 689 min | Not rated | Jan 30, 2024 | Martin Liebman
TV’s most brilliant sleuth is back, and he’s ready to battle any crime…as long as it doesn’t involve germs, heights or other people! Emmy winner Tony Shalhoub returns to 16 third-season episodes of the fresh, funny and quirky series Monk. Rejoin Adrian Monk, the defective detective, who must overcome his obsessive-compulsive disorder and investigate the death of his wife, Trudy. Still hoping to be reinstated in the San Francisco Police Department, Monk continues to use his intelligence, photographic memory and ever-present hand wipes to take on some daunting opponents, including the Mafia, the FBI and a possibly murderous chimpanzee. Monk’s back on the case and better than ever in this hilarious third season that features Traylor Howard as Monk’s new assistant, Natalie Teeger, along with guest stars Brooke Adams, James Brolin, Carmen Electra, Rosemary Forsyth, Philip Baker Hall, Glenne Headly, Mako, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Niecy Nash, Nick Offerman, Judge Reinhold, Mykelti Williamson, rockers Korn and many more.
Comedy / Crime / Drama / Mystery
The Retaliators Blu-ray Movie
Quiver Films | 2021 | 97 min | Not rated | Feb 21, 2023 | Kenneth Brown
An upstanding pastor uncovers a dark and twisted underworld as he searches for answers surrounding his daughter's brutal murder.
Horror / Thriller
Wolfman's Got Nards Blu-ray Movie
Gravitas Ventures | 2018 | 88 min | Not rated | Oct 27, 2020 | Martin Liebman
This heartfelt documentary explores the power of cult film told through the lens of the 1987 classic The Monster Squad and the impact it has on fans, cast and crew, and the industry.
Documentary / Horror
Casino Blu-ray Movie
Remastered Edition
Universal Studios | 1995 | 178 min | Rated R | Dec 12, 2023 | Justin Dekker
In early 1970s Las Vegas, low-level mobster Sam “Ace” Rothstein gets tapped by his bosses to head the Tangiers Casino. At first, he’s a great success in the job, but over the years, problems with his loose-cannon enforcer Nicky Santoro, his ex-hustler wife Ginger, her con artist ex Lester Diamond, and a handful of corrupt politicians put Sam in ever-increasing danger.
Crime / Drama / Melodrama / Epic / Period
I, the Executioner Blu-ray Movie
みな殺しの霊歌 / Minagoroshi no reika | Limited Edition
Radiance Films | 1968 | 91 min | Rated BBFC: 18 | Jan 29, 2024 | Jeffrey Kauffman
Police investigators investigate the link between a serial killer's machinations and a young man who committed suicide under murky circumstances.
Drama / Foreign
Lasse Thoresen: Lyden av Arktis Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray Audio / Blu-ray + SACD + Digital Copy
2L | 2022 | 65 min | Not rated | Sep 13, 2022 | Jeffrey Kauffman
The Sound of the Arctic is an acoustic atlas: a musical expedition that reaches as far into the Earth’s interior as it does into our minds and souls. It stands both as a multi-dimensional cultural and historical fable and as an environmental statement — with a breadth that envelops hope, beauty and nature’s untamed forces, beginning with the Arctic wind’s warning whisper, and ending with humankind’s inevitable apocalypse. This work makes one hopeful, anxious, fascinated, frightened and humble, and grateful for the Earth — irrespective of where one might live or be.
Music
Beverly Hills Cop III 4K Blu-ray Movie
30th Anniversary Edition / 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray + Digital Copy
Paramount Pictures | 1994 | 104 min | Rated R | Feb 20, 2024 | Martin Liebman
Axel Foley, while investigating a car theft ring, comes across something much bigger than that: the same men who shot his boss are running a counterfeit money ring out of a theme park in Los Angeles.
Action / Comedy / Crime / Thriller
Gremlin Blu-ray Movie
Uncork'd Entertainment | 2017 | 89 min | Not rated | Nov 21, 2017 | Kenneth Brown
A man receives a mysterious box containing a terrible secret, a creature that will kill everyone else in his family unless he passes it on to someone he loves to continue its never-ending circulation.
Horror
The Great Ziegfeld Blu-ray Movie
Warner Archive Collection
Warner Bros. | 1936 | 186 min | Not rated | Dec 12, 2023 | Randy Miller III
In a biopic "suggested by romances and incidents in the life of America's greatest showman, Florenz Ziegfeld Jr.", the film follows Ziegfeld's career from small-time sideshow barker to creator of the famous Ziegfeld Follies, the collection of singing, dancing, and comedy vaudeville acts that launched the careers of such luminaries as Fanny Brice, Ray Bolger and Harriet Hoctor--all of whom play themselves in the film.
Biography / Drama / Musical
The Laughing Woman Blu-ray Movie
The Frightened Woman | Femina ridens | Standard Edition
Mondo Macabro | 1969 | 90 min | Not rated | Feb 08, 2022 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
A rich and sadistic man, who enjoys degrading women as part of elaborate S&M games, abducts a female journalist. She is subjected to his unpleasant games but soon begins subverting him.
Thriller / Foreign