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Cinema Guild | 2022 | 97 min | Not rated | Dec 12, 2023 | Dr. Stephen Larson

Filmmaker Byung-soo and his estranged daughter Jeong-su visit a building owned by Ms. Kim, share a meal, and meet others who live in the building. The same event is seemingly repeated several times in different variations. Byung-soo later begins a relationship with a woman in the building and moves into one of the apartments.

Drama

Polite Society Blu-ray Movie  

Blu-ray + Digital Copy

Universal Studios | 2023 | 103 min | Rated PG-13 | Jun 20, 2023 | Justin Dekker

Follows a bolshy school girl whose world is shaken after knowing that her big sister will give up on her dreams to get engaged, and she believes she must save her sister from the shackles of marriage by pulling off a wedding heist.

Action / Comedy

Doctor Who The Complete Second Series Blu-ray Movie  

Remastered

BBC | 2005-2006 | 646 min | Rated TV-PG | No Release Date | Jeffrey Kauffman

All 14 episodes from the second series of the relaunched sci-fi adventure drama, starring David Tennant as the latest incarnation of the legendary Time Lord. In this series, the tenth Doctor takes companion Rose Tyler (Billie Piper) to New Earth and struggles to overcome the effects of regeneration. In the opening Christmas episode London is deluged by Santa Claus impersonators and Christmas trees intent on malice. Mankind is threatened by a planetary invasion and there's only the Prime Minister to battle it out. The episodes are: 'The Christmas Invasion', 'New Earth', 'Tooth and Claw', 'School Reunion', 'The Girl in the Fireplace', 'Rise of the Cybermen', 'The Age of Steel', 'The Idiot's Lantern', 'The Impossible Planet', 'The Satan Pit', 'Love and Monsters', 'Fear Her', 'Army of Ghosts' and 'Doomsday'.

Adventure / Fantasy / Sci-Fi

Color Out of Space 4K Blu-ray Movie  

4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray

RLJ Entertainment | 2019 | 110 min | Not rated | Nov 14, 2023 | Randy Miller III

After a meteorite lands in the front yard of their farm, a family find themselves battling a mutant extraterrestrial organism.

Fantasy / Horror / Sci-Fi

Justice League: Crisis on Infinite Earths, Part One Blu-ray Movie  

Blu-ray + Digital Copy

Warner Bros. | 2024 | 93 min | Rated PG-13 | Jan 23, 2024 | Randy Miller III

The Anti-Monitor (the Monitor's evil counterpart) is released in the DC Multiverse and begins to destroy the different Earths that compose it. The Monitor attempts to recruit heroes from across the Multiverse, but is murdered.

Action / Adventure / Animation / Fantasy / Sci-Fi / Comic book

Justice League: Crisis on Infinite Earths - Part One 4K Blu-ray Movie  

Limited Edition / 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray + Digital Copy

Warner Bros. | 2024 | 93 min | Rated PG-13 | Jan 23, 2024 | Randy Miller III

The Anti-Monitor (the Monitor's evil counterpart) is released in the DC Multiverse and begins to destroy the different Earths that compose it. The Monitor attempts to recruit heroes from across the Multiverse, but is murdered.

Action / Adventure / Animation / Fantasy / Sci-Fi / Comic book

Slaughter in San Francisco Blu-ray Movie    

黄面老虎 / Huáng miàn lǎo hǔ / Yellow Faced Tiger | Eureka Classics | Limited Edition

Eureka Entertainment | 1974 | 1 Movie, 2 Cuts | 106 min | Rated BBFC: 18 | Feb 19, 2024 | Dr. Svet Atanasov

A Chinese-American cop, skilled in martial arts, battles the most powerful criminal gang in San Francisco that is responsible for the death of his partner. The film has retained several titles, Yellow Faced Tiger (Chinese: 黄面老虎; aka Slaughter in San Francisco, and two undefined titles which includes Chuck Norris Vs. The Karate Cop or Karate Cop in the United States) and is a 1974 Hong Kong martial arts action film starring Chuck Norris and Wong Tao. This was Norris's first starring role in a low budget Hong Kong picture.

Action / Drama / Martial arts

Charlie Victor Romeo 3D Blu-ray Movie  

Blu-ray 3D + Anaglyph 3D

Dekanalog | 2013 | 80 min | Not rated | Jan 30, 2024 | Kenneth Brown

A documentary derived entirely from 'Black Box' transcripts of six real-life major airline emergencies.

Documentary / Drama / History

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