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The Expendables 1-4 4K Blu-ray Movie
4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray + Digital Copy
Lionsgate Films | 2010-2023 | 4 Movies | 435 min | Rated R | Nov 21, 2023 | Jeffrey Kauffman
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Action / Adventure / Thriller
Expend4bles Blu-ray Movie
Expendables 4 / Blu-ray + DVD + Digital Copy
Lionsgate Films | 2023 | 103 min | Rated R | Nov 21, 2023 | Jeffrey Kauffman
Armed with every weapon they can get their hands on and the skills to use them, The Expendables are the world's last line of defense and the team that gets called when all other options are off the table. But new team members with new styles and tactics are going to give "new blood" a whole new meaning.
Action / Adventure / Thriller
Expend4bles 4K Blu-ray Movie
Expendables 4 / 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray + Digital Copy
Lionsgate Films | 2023 | 104 min | Rated R | Nov 21, 2023 | Jeffrey Kauffman
Armed with every weapon they can get their hands on and the skills to use them, The Expendables are the world's last line of defense and the team that gets called when all other options are off the table. But new team members with new styles and tactics are going to give "new blood" a whole new meaning.
Action / Adventure / Thriller
Before Night Falls Blu-ray Movie
Warner Archive Collection
Warner Bros. | 2000 | 134 min | Rated R | Oct 24, 2023 | Randy Miller III
Episodic look at the life of Cuban poet and novelist, Reinaldo Arenas (1943-1990), from his childhood in Oriente province to his death in New York City.
Biography / Drama
Saw X Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + DVD + Digital Copy
Lionsgate Films | 2023 | 118 min | Rated R | Nov 21, 2023 | Jeffrey Kauffman
John Kramer (Tobin Bell) is back. The most disturbing installment of the Saw franchise yet explores the untold chapter of Jigsaw's most personal game. Set between the events of Saw I and II, a sick and desperate John travels to Mexico for a risky and experimental medical procedure in hopes of a miracle cure for his cancer—only to discover the entire operation is a scam to defraud the most vulnerable. Armed with a newfound purpose, the infamous serial killer returns to his work, turning the tables on the con artists in his signature visceral way through devious, deranged, and ingenious traps.
Crime / Drama / Horror
Saw X 4K Blu-ray Movie
4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray + Digital Copy
Lionsgate Films | 2023 | 118 min | Rated R | Nov 21, 2023 | Jeffrey Kauffman
John Kramer (Tobin Bell) is back. The most disturbing installment of the Saw franchise yet explores the untold chapter of Jigsaw's most personal game. Set between the events of Saw I and II, a sick and desperate John travels to Mexico for a risky and experimental medical procedure in hopes of a miracle cure for his cancer—only to discover the entire operation is a scam to defraud the most vulnerable. Armed with a newfound purpose, the infamous serial killer returns to his work, turning the tables on the con artists in his signature visceral way through devious, deranged, and ingenious traps.
Crime / Drama / Horror
Management of a Novice Alchemist: Complete Collection Blu-ray Movie
Sentai Filmworks | 2022 | 300 min | Rated TV-14 | Nov 28, 2023 | Neil Lumbard
Orphaned Sarasa Feed just graduated from the Royal Alchemist Academy and is now a full-fledged alchemist! She longs for a life of luxury, but there's only one place Sarasa can afford to set up shop - and her dilapidated new digs are way out in the sticks! Stuck in the middle of nowhere with a business to run and supplies to gather from a very dangerous natural world, Sarasa has her work cut out for her as she transmutes this bad location into a golden opportunity.
Adventure / Anime / Fantasy / Foreign
- November 19, 2023
The Last Picture Show 4K Blu-ray Movie
Director's Cut | includes both cuts of "Texasville" (1990) on BD / 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray
Criterion | 1971-1990 | 2 Movies, 3 Cuts | 277 min | Rated R | Nov 14, 2023 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
A group of 1950s high schoolers come of age in a bleak, isolated, atrophied West Texas town that is slowly dying, both culturally and economically.
Drama / Romance / Period / Coming of age
The Boys: Season 3 Blu-ray Movie
Sony Pictures | 2022 | 482 min | Rated TV-MA | Oct 24, 2023 | Kenneth Brown
A group of vigilantes set out to take down corrupt superheroes who abuse their superpowers.
Action / Comedy / Crime / Dark humor / Comic book
Full Body Massage Blu-ray Movie
Unearthed Films | 1995 | 1 Movie, 2 Cuts | 93 min | Not rated | Nov 14, 2023 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
Passions explode as a wealthy California gallery owner's regular masseur cancels and she is visited by a new man whose search for inner truth brings the two closer than they could have imagined.
Drama
The Scarlet Letter Blu-ray Movie
Special Edition
Film Masters | 1934 | 69 min | Not rated | Nov 21, 2023 | Jeffrey Kauffman
In the seventeenth century, in Massachusetts, a young woman is forced to wear a scarlet "A" on her dress for bearing a child out of wedlock.
Drama / History / Music / Romance
R.E.M. - Up Blu-ray Movie
25th Anniversary Deluxe Edition / Blu-ray + CD
Craft Recordings | 1998 | 60 min | Not rated | Nov 10, 2023 | Jeffrey Kauffman
Album plus Uptake, Daysleeper, Lotus, At My Most Beautiful performance and music videeos, and the This Way Up press kit.
Music
Fascination Blu-ray Movie
Limited Edition | Indicator Series
Powerhouse Films | 1979 | 80 min | Unrated | Oct 24, 2023 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
This erotic horror film, set in 1905, tells the story of a thief who seeks refuge in a castle owned by two women, Eva and Elizabeth. The women are seductive and teasing, but turn out to be part of a vampiric cult of blood-drinking aristocrats.
Horror / Erotic / Foreign
Jujutsu Kaisen: Season 1, Part 2 Blu-ray Movie
Limited Edition / Blu-ray + CD
Viz Media | 2020 | 288 min | Rated TV-MA | Oct 31, 2023 | Neil Lumbard
Jujutsu High is about to host its Kyoto Sister School Exchange Event—an annual competition of Tokyo and Kyoto Jujutsu High campuses. Fushiguro, Kugisaki, and second-years Maki, Toge, and Panda meet up to greet Todo and the other Kyoto students on arrival. Sparks immediately start to fly when Gojo rushes in late to the meetup and starts handing out the souvenirs he brought from his business trip overseas.
Action / Anime / Thriller / Supernatural / Comic book / Foreign
Naruto Shippuden: Set 1 Blu-ray Movie
Episodes 1-27
Viz Media | 2007 | 650 min | Rated TV-14 | Oct 17, 2023 | Neil Lumbard
Naruto returns to the Village Hidden in the Leaves a little bit older and a whole lot stronger! And just in the nick of time too, as the diabolical Akatsuki are on the move! Their first target is the now Kazekage of the Village Hidden in the Sand, the mighty Gaara. Then Granny Chiyo and Sakura fight for their lives in a desperate battle against a terrifying Akatsuki named Sasori! This master of puppets fights from afar with his macabre marionettes!
Action / Adventure / Anime / Comedy / Drama / Martial arts / Comic book / Foreign
- November 18, 2023
Fascination 4K Blu-ray Movie
Limited Edition | Indicator Series / 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray
Powerhouse Films | 1979 | 80 min | Unrated | Oct 24, 2023 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
This erotic horror film, set in 1905, tells the story of a thief who seeks refuge in a castle owned by two women, Eva and Elizabeth. The women are seductive and teasing, but turn out to be part of a vampiric cult of blood-drinking aristocrats.
Horror / Erotic / Foreign
The Way We Were 4K Blu-ray Movie
50th Anniversary / 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray + Digital Copy
Sony Pictures | 1973 | 1 Movie, 2 Cuts | 123 min | Rated PG | Oct 17, 2023 | Kenneth Brown
Two desperate people have a wonderful romance, but their political views and convictions drive them apart.
Drama / Romance
Messiah of Evil Blu-ray Movie
Dead People | Limited Edition
Radiance Films | 1974 | 90 min | Not rated | Oct 24, 2023 | Jeffrey Kauffman
One hundred years ago, a demonic priest from Hell passed through a seaside town, carrying a blood-crazed contagion that reduced all the good citizens to mindless, cannibal zombies. Following a frenzied, flesh-eating orgy, the dark priest walked straight into the sea, promising to return a century later to lead a new zombie apocalypse. This time around, the vile contagion precedes him. As spaced-out followers gather on the beach, awaiting their master's return, the town is already in the grip of a carnivorous epidemic of madness. When innocent young Arletty comes to town searching for her missing father, she realizes too late that the demon priest of the "blood moon" is coming for her...
Horror / Supernatural / Surreal
Cube Blu-ray Movie
Terror Vision | 2021 | 108 min | Unrated | Jul 14, 2023 | Neil Lumbard
A group of strangers wake in a mysterious room inscribed with an unfamiliar code. Looking for ways to escape, they discover the room is riddled with lethal traps, and as fear and distrust swirl around them, the group must work together to survive.
Horror / Sci-Fi / Thriller / Foreign
Whisper of the Heart Blu-ray Movie
Capelight Pictures | 2022 | 114 min | Not rated | Jun 20, 2023 | Neil Lumbard
A 24-year-old Shizuku has given up her dreams as a novelist, but works hard at the children's book publishing company as an editor. On the other hand, Seiji still follows his dream abroad, even as the distance between him and Shizuku grows ever more.
Drama / Romance / Foreign