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Ladyworld Blu-ray Movie  

Slipcover in Original Pressing

Yellow Veil Pictures | 2018 | 93 min | Unrated | Jan 30, 2024 | Kenneth Brown

Eight teenage girls are trapped at an endless birthday party in the canyons after a massive ecological event. Cut off from civilization in a ruined & powerless house, the girls should organize but instead exploit each other's fears, devolving into a dynamic of manipulation & control.

Thriller

The Mysterious Castle in the Carpathians Blu-ray Movie  

Tajemství hradu v Karpatech / Slipcover in Original Pressing

Deaf Crocodile Films | 1981 | 98 min | Not rated | Jan 30, 2024 | Kenneth Brown

Count Felix Teleke of Tölöko, accompanied by his faithful valet Ignác during a stay in the Carpathians, comes across the trail of the count’s lost lover, opera singer Salsa Verde. They discover that the diva has been abducted by the fiendish baron Gorc of Gorceny, whose castle home is filled with the bizarre inventions of the mad scientist Orfanik.

Comedy / Foreign

The Surf Reality Movie of the Month Club Collection Blu-ray Movie  

Slipcover in Original Pressing

Art Label | 1991-1992 | 9 Movies | 482 min | Not rated | Jan 30, 2024 | Kenneth Brown

The New York underground performance art scene in the late 80's was teeming with unique talents. Enter Robert Prichard and Jennifer Babtist (both of Class of Nuke 'Em High), who decided that the madness happening nightly needed to be preserved on videotape, under the moniker of Surf Reality. At the same time, genre favorite Matt Mitler (The Mutilator, Deadtime Stories) was challenged to improvise a feature film in a single day. Prichard and Mitler, who were friends since high school, joined forces to shoot a series of one-day features on video, and so the Movie of the Month Club was born. This definitive collection features all of the tantalizing and gonzo Movie of the Month Club videos: Kid Scarface, Manic A Go Go, Dick and Jane Drop Acid and Die, I Was a Teenage Bride of Christ, Thrill Kill Video Club, Alien Sex Phone Psycho, Les Enfants Miserables, as well as the previously unfinished Turf of Savage Homicides, and the home video version of Matt Mitler's popular play, Macbeth, King of Scoutland, which wittily (and often irreverently) transplants Shakespeare's tragedy from Scotland to a scout camp.

Comedy / Other / Dark humor / Surreal

Spirited Away: Live on Stage Blu-ray Movie  

Shout Factory | 2022 | 1 Movie, 2 Cuts | 320 min | Not rated | Nov 14, 2023 | Neil Lumbard

A young girl named Chihiro finds herself trapped in a mysterious world inhabited by spirits and when her parents are turned into pigs, she must rescue them. The movie version of the stage production was filmed during the play’s 2022 run at the Imperial Theatre in Tokyo.

Adventure / Drama / Family / Fantasy / Foreign

Aoharu x Machinegun: Complete Collection Blu-ray Movie  

Sentai Filmworks | 2015 | 325 min | Rated TV-14 | Oct 18, 2022 | Neil Lumbard

Hotaru Tachibana has a strong sense of justice, a tendency to take matters personally, and a snappy masculine sense of style that makes many mistake her for a boy. So, when Hotaru believes that her new neighbor has taken advantage of a classmate and barges into his club, the inevitable gender confusion finds her being challenged to an air pellet gun duel… that an overconfident Hotaru soundly loses! However, unaware that "he" is, in fact, she, owner Masamune uses a hefty bill for damages to coerce the naturally talented Hotaru into joining his incomplete airsoft team. But the catch is - the team rules don't allow girls, forcing Hotaru to pretend to be one of the guys around Masamune and the other team member, erotic comic artist Toru, while she plays off her debt!

Anime / Comedy / Drama / Comic book / Foreign

Taisho Baseball Girls: Complete Collection Blu-ray Movie  

Taishō Yakyū Musume.

Sentai Filmworks | 2009 | 300 min | Rated TV-PG | Jan 18, 2022 | Neil Lumbard

The War To End All Wars was only the first World War, but the changes it made to the countries involved were staggering. In 1925, one year into the reign of Emperor Hirohito, Japan is re-inventing itself. The national pastime, baseball, however, remains exclusively the domain of males. Until an arrogant local player sneers that girls should become housewives rather than attending school, and teenage firebrands Koume and Akiko respond with the shocking move of forming their own baseball team! It's as scandalous as the new sailor suit school uniforms, but in a nation in which almost anything now seems possible, it may just be the start of something greater than any nine girls can imagine!

Anime / Comedy / Drama / Sport / Foreign / Period

Masaaki Yuasa: Five Films Blu-ray Movie  

Collector's Edition | MIND GAME / The Night is Short, Walk On Girl / Lu Over the Wall / Ride Your Wave / Inu-Oh

Shout Factory | 2004-2021 | 5 Movies | 501 min | Not rated | Dec 19, 2023 | Neil Lumbard

Widely regarded as one of the most imaginative and influential filmmakers working in animation today, Masaaki Yuasa has been compared to pioneers such as Tex Avery and Max Fleischer. He is one of contemporary anime's most prolific auteurs and has lent his humor and dynamism to genres as diverse as psychedelic thrillers, transcendent rock-operas and sweetly subversive teen romances. This set includes Masaaki Yuasa's five celebrated feature films – Mind Game (2004), The Night Is Short, Walk On Girl (2017), Lu Over The Wall (2017), Ride Your Wave (2019), and INU-OH (2021) – along with a host of never-before-seen bonus features and an original book celebrating the work of this one-of-a-kind storyteller. Features an exclusive bonus disc with special features!

Anime / Comedy / Drama / Family / Fantasy / Musical / Romance / Dark humor / Supernatural / Foreign / Surreal / Period

Running Scared Blu-ray Movie  

Special Edition

Kino Lorber | 1986 | 107 min | Rated R | Dec 12, 2023 | Dr. Svet Atanasov

Two Chicago police detectives who feel gun-shy about the danger of their jobs contemplate retirement in Florida. They just can't shake the allure of their work, especially when their pursuit of a notorious drug dealer turns personal.

Action / Comedy / Crime

A Bullet for the General Blu-ray Movie    

¿Quien sabe?

Cult Films | 1967 | 1 Movie, 2 Cuts | 118 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Dr. Svet Atanasov

El Chuncho's bandits rob arms from a train, intending to sell the weapons to Elias' revolutionaries. They are helped by one of the passengers, Bill Tate, and allow him to join them, unware he is an assassin working for the Mexican government.

Action / Western / Foreign

The YouTube Effect Blu-ray Movie  

Drafthouse Films | 2022 | 99 min | Unrated | Sep 05, 2023 | Kenneth Brown

In this eye-opening documentary, Alex Winter presents a thoughtful, troubling look at YouTube, a site with humble origins that has gone on to change how we experience the world.

Documentary

Please, Not Now! Blu-ray Movie  

La Bride sur le cou

Kino Lorber | 1961 | 89 min | Not rated | Jan 02, 2024 | Dr. Svet Atanasov

Sophie, a flighty young model, learns that her boyfriend is planning to leave her for another woman. Sophie resolves to either win him back or assassinate her rival. A handsome doctor (who happens to be falling for Sophie himself) assists her with the former plan so that she won't have to resort to the latter.

Comedy / Romance / Foreign

Blood Feast 4K Blu-ray Movie  

4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray

Synapse Films | 2016 | 99 min | Unrated | Jan 16, 2024 | Brian Orndorf

Fuad Ramses and his family have moved from the United States to France, where they run an American diner. Since business is not going too well, Fuad also works night shifts in a museum of ancient Egyptian culture. During these long, lonely nights he is repeatedly drawn to a statue representing the seductive ancient goddess ISHTAR. He becomes more and more allured by the goddess as she speaks to him in visions. Eventually he succumbs to her deadly charms. After this pivotal night, Fuad begins a new life, in which murder and cannibalism become his daily bread. He starts to prepare a ritual FEAST to honor his new mistress, a lavish affair dripping with BLOOD, organs, and intestines of human victims. As butchered bodies are heaped upon the Altar of Ishtar, Fuad slowly slips further into madness, until he is no more than the goddess's puppet; and she thirsts for the blood of Fuad's wife and daughter too.

Horror

It Came from Outer Space 4K + 3D Blu-ray Movie  

Universal Essentials Collection / 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray 3D + Blu-ray + Digital Copy

Universal Studios | 1953 | 80 min | Rated G | Oct 03, 2023 | Justin Dekker

A spaceship crashes in the Arizona desert and aliens pretend to be nearby townspeople to repair their craft undiscovered.

Horror / Sci-Fi

It Came from Outer Space 4K + 3D Blu-ray Movie  

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

Universal Studios | 1953 | 80 min | Rated G | Oct 03, 2023 | Justin Dekker

A spaceship crashes in the Arizona desert and aliens pretend to be nearby townspeople to repair their craft undiscovered.

Horror / Sci-Fi

Special Ops: Lioness: Season One Blu-ray Movie  

Paramount Pictures | 2023 | 352 min | Not rated | Jan 23, 2024 | Martin Liebman

A young Marine is recruited by the CIA to befriend the daughter of a terrorist group in order to bring down the organization from within.

Action / Drama / Thriller

Monk: The Complete Second Season Blu-ray Movie  

Kino Lorber | 2003-2004 | 700 min | Not rated | Dec 19, 2023 | Martin Liebman

Television’s favorite defective detective returns to solve a new batch of baffling mysteries with his trademark wit, wisdom…and hand wipes. Join the outstanding Tony Shalhoub as the quirky obsessive-compulsive detective in all 16 brilliantly funny second-season episodes of the widely acclaimed series Monk. Accompanied by his loyal (and infinitely patient) assistant (Bitty Schram) and the San Francisco police force (Ted Levine and Jason Gray-Stanford), Adrian Monk and his unconventional methods may just be what’s needed to crack some of the city’s most puzzling and unusual cases. Join “TV’s most original sleuth ever” (Los Angeles Times) along with guest stars Kathy Baker, Rosalind Chao, Gary Cole, Tim Curry, Lolita Davidovich, Rachel Dratch, Glenne Headly, Leslie Jordan, Jane Lynch, Andrew McCarthy, Tony Plana, Sarah Silverman, Danny Trejo, Rainn Wilson and many more—including John Turturro as Monk’s estranged, agoraphobic brother!

Comedy / Crime / Drama / Mystery

Sinner: The Secret Diary of a Nymphomaniac Blu-ray Movie  

Le journal intime d'une nymphomane / Kino Cult #4

Kino Lorber | 1973 | 87 min | Not rated | Dec 19, 2023 | Dr. Svet Atanasov

Linda Vargas picks up Ortiz in a bar where she works in a lesbian show with María Toledano. She seduces him, phones the police and kills herself. Ortiz is held on suspicion of her murder. Ortiz's wife, Rosa, visits a friend of Linda's, the Countess Anna de Monterey, who tells her how Linda went into a spiral of sex and drugs after being assaulted by Ortiz as a young girl at a fairground. Linda became the Countess's lover, then had a disastrous love affair with Alberto, the Countess' boyfriend. Rosa also meets María, who holds Linda's diary, where she relates how a fake doctor turned her away from drugs and into a nymphomaniac.

Drama / Erotic / Foreign

The Invincible Fist Blu-ray Movie  

Tie shou wu qing / 鐵手無情

Shout Factory | 1969 | 99 min | No Release Date | Neil Lumbard

A heroic bounty hunter, his partner and their men are desperately searching for a band of brutal robbers operating around the area, oblivious to the fact the gang is operating right under their noses.

Action / Drama / Foreign

Killer Darts Blu-ray Movie  

Zhui hun biao / Chui wan biu / 追魂鏢

Shout Factory | 1968 | 88 min | No Release Date | Neil Lumbard

Liu Wen-lung's home is attacked by bandits led by Chou Chao. Liu's wife was killed, but his son Yu-long was saved by a faithful servant by hiding in a well.

Action / Drama / Martial arts / Foreign

Diary of a Hitman Blu-ray Movie  

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer | 1991 | 90 min | Rated R | Jun 20, 2023 | Dr. Svet Atanasov

Hitman Dekker is on his last job, out to kill the wife of his client, but he starts to waver. The longer he takes to do the job, the more difficult it becomes.

Crime / Drama