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Home- November 01, 2023
Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + Digital Copy
Paramount Pictures | 2023 | 163 min | Rated PG-13 | Oct 31, 2023 | Martin Liebman
Ethan Hunt and his IMF team embark on their most dangerous mission yet: To track down a terrifying new weapon that threatens all of humanity before it falls into the wrong hands. With control of the future and the fate of the world at stake, and dark forces from Ethan's past closing in, a deadly race around the globe begins. Confronted by a mysterious, all-powerful enemy, Ethan is forced to consider that nothing can matter more than his mission – not even the lives of those he cares about most.
Action / Adventure / Thriller
Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One 4K Blu-ray Movie
4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray + Digital Copy
Paramount Pictures | 2023 | 163 min | Rated PG-13 | Oct 31, 2023 | Martin Liebman
Ethan Hunt and his IMF team embark on their most dangerous mission yet: To track down a terrifying new weapon that threatens all of humanity before it falls into the wrong hands. With control of the future and the fate of the world at stake, and dark forces from Ethan's past closing in, a deadly race around the globe begins. Confronted by a mysterious, all-powerful enemy, Ethan is forced to consider that nothing can matter more than his mission – not even the lives of those he cares about most.
Action / Adventure / Thriller
Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One 4K Blu-ray Movie
Limited Edition / 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray + Digital Copy
Paramount Pictures | 2023 | 163 min | Rated PG-13 | Oct 31, 2023 | Martin Liebman
Ethan Hunt and his IMF team embark on their most dangerous mission yet: To track down a terrifying new weapon that threatens all of humanity before it falls into the wrong hands. With control of the future and the fate of the world at stake, and dark forces from Ethan's past closing in, a deadly race around the globe begins. Confronted by a mysterious, all-powerful enemy, Ethan is forced to consider that nothing can matter more than his mission – not even the lives of those he cares about most.
Action / Adventure / Thriller
Le Mépris 4K Blu-ray Movie
Contempt / 60th Anniversary / 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray + Digital Copy
Lionsgate Films | 1963 | 103 min | Not rated | Oct 24, 2023 | Jeffrey Kauffman
A screenwriter finds his marriage falling apart as he attempts to start a film version of the "The Odyssey."
Drama / Foreign
The Last Voyage of the Demeter Blu-ray Movie
Collector's Edition / Blu-ray + DVD + Digital Copy
Universal Studios | 2023 | 119 min | Rated R | Oct 17, 2023 | Justin Dekker
Based on a single chapter, the Captain's Log, from Bram Stoker's classic 1897 novel "Dracula," the story is set aboard the Russian schooner, Demeter, which was chartered to carry private cargo—twenty-four unmarked wooden crates—from Carpathia to London. The film details the strange events that befell the doomed crew as they attempt to survive the ocean voyage, stalked each night by a terrifying presence on board the ship. When it finally arrived near Whitby Harbour, it was a derelict. There was no trace of the crew.
Horror
- October 31, 2023
Dr. Caligari Blu-ray Movie
Mondo Macabro | 1989 | 1 Movie, 2 Cuts | 88 min | Not rated | Jun 13, 2023 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
The granddaughter of an infamous doctor experiments with hormone and shock therapies at her asylum for the insane.
Comedy / Horror / Sci-Fi
The Dive Blu-ray Movie
RLJ Entertainment | 2023 | 91 min | Not rated | Oct 17, 2023 | Randy Miller III
Two sisters go diving at a beautiful, remote location. One of the sisters is struck by a rock, leaving her trapped 28 meters below. With dangerously low levels of oxygen and cold temperatures, it is up to her sister to fight for her life.
Adventure / Drama / Thriller
Drylongso Blu-ray Movie
Criterion | 1998 | 81 min | Not rated | Aug 29, 2023 | Jeffrey Kauffman
Observing the alarming rate at which the young Black men around her are dying—indeed, "becoming extinct," as she sees it—brash Oakland art student Pica begins preserving their existence in Polaroid snapshots, along the way forging a friendship with a gender nonconforming young woman, experiencing love and loss, and being drawn into the search for a serial killer who is terrorizing the city.
Drama
Witness Blu-ray Movie
Limited Edition
Arrow | 1985 | 112 min | Rated R | Oct 31, 2023 | Jeffrey Kauffman
A young Amish boy, visiting Philadelphia with his widowed mother, witnesses a murder. When the detective on the case discovers a police cover up, he realizes his, the boy's and the mother's lives are in jeopardy. He hides out in Amish country, living amongst the community and having to abide by their peaceful customs. Things get more complicated when he falls in love with the young widow. But, soon the idyllic life is shattered when the villains discover his whereabouts.
Drama / Romance / Thriller
Witness 4K Blu-ray Movie
Limited Edition / 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray
Arrow | 1985 | 112 min | Rated R | Nov 07, 2023 | Jeffrey Kauffman
A young Amish boy, visiting Philadelphia with his widowed mother, witnesses a murder. When the detective on the case discovers a police cover up, he realizes his, the boy's and the mother's lives are in jeopardy. He hides out in Amish country, living amongst the community and having to abide by their peaceful customs. Things get more complicated when he falls in love with the young widow. But, soon the idyllic life is shattered when the villains discover his whereabouts.
Drama / Romance / Thriller
- October 30, 2023
Mad City Blu-ray Movie
Warner Archive Collection
Warner Bros. | 1997 | 115 min | Rated PG-13 | Oct 31, 2023 | Randy Miller III
Sam Baily, upset over losing his job, takes a natural history museum hostage. Max Brackett, journalist, is in the museum when this occurs, and gets the scoop. The story spreads nation wide, and soon it is all anyone talks about. The story itself is the news, not the reason why or the real people behind it.
Crime / Drama
Richard Wright: Wet Dream Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray Audio / 2023 Remix by Steven Wilson
Parlophone | 1978 | 47 min | Not rated | Sep 29, 2023 | Jeffrey Kauffman
No synopsis for this title.
Music / Foreign
- October 29, 2023
Silent Rage Blu-ray Movie
88 Films | 1982 | 100 min | Rated BBFC: 18 | Nov 27, 2023 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
Dan Stevens is the sheriff of a small Texas town who checks out a disturbance which turns to murder. The killer is still in the house and he tries to kill Dan, but Dan stops him and arrests him. The killer attempts to flee, but is shot and killed and is taken to a medical institute. Three doctors, led by Dr. Philip Spires, operates on the killer and brings him back to life using a formula that the three doctors made and the killer is made indestructable. Dr. Tom Halman tries to terminate the killer, but he and his wife are killed. After the two remaining doctors are killed, the killer goes after Dr. Halman's sister Alison, and it's up to Sheriff Dan Stevens to stop him.
Action / Horror / Thriller
The House by the Cemetery Blu-ray Movie
Quella villa accanto al cimitero | Limited Edition
Arrow | 1981 | 86 min | Rated BBFC: 18 | Oct 09, 2023 | Jeffrey Kauffman
The plot revolves around a series of murders taking place in a New England home - a home which happens to be hiding a particularly gruesome secret within its basement walls.
Horror / Supernatural / Foreign
The House by the Cemetery 4K Blu-ray Movie
Quella villa accanto al cimitero | Limited Edition / 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray
Arrow | 1981 | 86 min | Rated BBFC: 18 | Oct 09, 2023 | Jeffrey Kauffman
The plot revolves around a series of murders taking place in a New England home - a home which happens to be hiding a particularly gruesome secret within its basement walls.
Horror / Supernatural / Foreign
Knight Chills Blu-ray Movie
Slipcover in Original Pressing
Saturn's Core Audio & Video | 2001 | 82 min | Rated PG-13 | Sep 26, 2023 | Brian Orndorf
When a young man falls victim to the pitfalls of unrequited love for one of his fellow role-players, he is thrown into despair and takes his own life. For his former high school teacher and game master and the rest of the players, this is only the start of their despair as one by one a mysterious black knight strikes them down. It is the ultimate adventure as his former antagonist, strives to not only come to grips with what should be impossible but to also...stay alive.
Horror
Visitors from the Arkana Galaxy Blu-ray Movie
Gosti iz galaksije / Slipcover in Original Pressing
Deaf Crocodile Films | 1981 | 89 min | Unrated | Sep 26, 2023 | Brian Orndorf
Robert is a SF writer, who realizes that he can make his thoughts material. Because of that, a group of aliens arrives to Earth. Their leader is Andra, who shows affection for Robert, which does not please his girlfriend, Biba. A monster, Mumu, has arrived together with the visitors from space.
Comedy / Horror / Sci-Fi
- October 28, 2023
Red Dragon 4K Blu-ray Movie
4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray
Kino Lorber | 2002 | 125 min | Rated R | Oct 24, 2023 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
Ex-FBI agent Will Graham is an expert investigator who quit the Bureau after almost losing his life in the process of capturing the elusive Dr. Hannibal Lecter. Years later, after a series of particularly grisly murders, Graham reluctantly agrees to come out of retirement and assist in the mysterious case. But he soon realizes that the best way to catch this killer, known as the Tooth Fairy, is to find a way to get inside the killer's mind. And the closest thing to that would be to probe the mind of another killer who is equally brilliant and twisted. For Graham, that means confronting his past and facing his former nemesis, the now-incarcerated Dr. Lecter.
Crime / Drama / Thriller / Psychological thriller
- October 27, 2023
My Big Fat Greek Wedding 3 Blu-ray Movie
Collector's Edition / Blu-ray + DVD + Digital Copy
Universal Studios | 2023 | 91 min | Rated PG-13 | Oct 31, 2023 | Martin Liebman
From writer and director Nia Vardalos, the worldwide phenomenon My Big Fat Greek Wedding is coming back to theaters with a brand-new adventure. Join the Portokalos family as they travel to a family reunion in Greece for a heartwarming and hilarious trip full of love, twists and turns. Opa!
Comedy / Romance
Blue Beetle Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + Digital Copy
Warner Bros. | 2023 | 127 min | Rated PG-13 | Oct 31, 2023 | Randy Miller III
Recent college grad Jaime Reyes returns home full of aspirations for his future, only to find that home is not quite as he left it. As he searches to find his purpose in the world, fate intervenes when Jaime unexpectedly finds himself in possession of an ancient relic of alien biotechnology: the Scarab. When the Scarab suddenly chooses Jaime to be its symbiotic host, he is bestowed with an incredible suit of armor capable of extraordinary and unpredictable powers, forever changing his destiny as he becomes the Super Hero Blue Beetle.
Action / Adventure / Sci-Fi / Comic book