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The Others Blu-ray Movie
Criterion | 2001 | 104 min | Rated PG-13 | Oct 24, 2023 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
While awaiting her husband’s return from war, Grace and her two young children live an unusually isolated existence behind the locked doors and drawn curtains of a secluded island mansion. When three mysterious servants arrive it becomes frighteningly clear that there is far more to this house than meets the eye.
Drama / Horror / Mystery / Thriller / Supernatural
The Others 4K Blu-ray Movie
4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray
Criterion | 2001 | 104 min | Rated PG-13 | Oct 24, 2023 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
While awaiting her husband’s return from war, Grace and her two young children live an unusually isolated existence behind the locked doors and drawn curtains of a secluded island mansion. When three mysterious servants arrive it becomes frighteningly clear that there is far more to this house than meets the eye.
Drama / Horror / Mystery / Thriller / Supernatural
Mommie Dearest Blu-ray Movie
Paramount Presents #17 / Blu-ray + Digital Copy
Paramount Pictures | 1981 | 129 min | Rated PG | Jun 01, 2021 | Kenneth Brown
Mommie Dearest, best selling memoir, turned motion picture, depicts the abusive and traumatic adoptive upbringing of Christina Crawford at the hands of her mother...screen queen Joan Crawford.
Biography / Drama
Richard Pryor Double Feature: Which Way Is Up? / The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars & Motor Kings Blu-ray Movie
Mill Creek Entertainment | 1976-1977 | 2 Movies | 206 min | Rated PG | Jul 11, 2023 | Kenneth Brown
The life and times of Richard Pryor.
Comedy / Sport
The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars & Motor Kings Blu-ray Movie
Mill Creek Entertainment | 1976 | 110 min | Rated PG | No Release Date | Kenneth Brown
In the world of 1930s Negro League baseball, a spirited team of renegade players travels around the Midwest looking for that one big score. Richard Pryor, Billy Dee Williams and James Earl Jones star as three barnstorming ballplayers who take on prejudice and their own League's unfair rules while stealing cars, food and home base - anything to prove that they're the best team around. It's a showdown of brains over booby traps and sportsmanship over racial segregation as Bingo Long's All-Stars swing their way to a winning season.
Comedy / Sport
Which Way Is Up? Blu-ray Movie
Mill Creek Entertainment | 1977 | 94 min | No Release Date | Kenneth Brown
Richard Pryor is playing three different roles here. The first being a poor orange picker named Leroy Jones who gets laid off when by mistake he joins the worker's union during one of their demonstrations. Afterwards he is forced to leave his wife and family behind which also includes Leroy's father (also played by Pryor) to go to Los Angeles. Leroy ends up working for the same company that fired him back home. He is a manager at the company but he is now distant from his former pals. He meets and falls in love with Vanetta who is a labor organizer which leaves him splitting time between his wife Annie Mae and Vanetta. When Leroy finds out that the Reverend Lenox Thomas (also played by Pryor) has got his wife pregnant while he was absent, he then make the moves on the reverend's wife.
Comedy
Junk Head Blu-ray Movie
Synergetic | 2017 | 101 min | Not rated | Aug 15, 2023 | Kenneth Brown
In a distant future world, humans have received longevity but lost their fertility, and are nearly extinct by population decline. The protagonist, a cyborg explorer, enters an underground world where artificially created species live. His mission is intended to research for their secrets of reproductivity. As the story goes on, it becomes gradually clear that the underground world is a kind of dystopia where dangerous monsters roam or ambush, and that the artificially created intelligent species developed a unique society.
Action / Adventure / Animation / Horror / Sci-Fi
Last and First Men Blu-ray Movie
Metrograph Pictures | 2020 | 72 min | Not rated | Aug 15, 2023 | Kenneth Brown
Two billion years ahead of us, a future race of humans finds itself on the verge of extinction. Almost all that is left in the world are lone and surreal monuments, beaming their message into the wilderness.
Sci-Fi / Foreign
Last and First Men Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + CD
Deutsche Grammophon | 2020 | 70 min | Not rated | Mar 27, 2020 | Kenneth Brown
Two billion years ahead of us, a future race of humans finds itself on the verge of extinction. Almost all that is left in the world are lone and surreal monuments, beaming their message into the wilderness.
Sci-Fi / Foreign
The Eminence in Shadow: Complete Collection Blu-ray Movie
陰の実力者になりたくて! / Kage no Jitsuryokusha ni Naritakute!
Sentai Filmworks | 2022-2023 | 500 min | Rated TV-MA | Oct 10, 2023 | Neil Lumbard
Cid doesn't want to be a flashy hero or a dastardly villain. He wants to operate in the shadows and pull the strings of society through wit and cleverness. So, when he's isekai'd to another world armed with magic powers (and an overactive imagination), he forms Shadow Garden, an underground organization that fights an evil cult he totally made up. But while Cid happily roleplays his favorite antihero tropes, little does he know Shadow Garden's recruits treat his every lie as gospel, and worse yet? That "fake" cult is actually real, and they're not happy his power fantasy just impeded their plan to gain ultimate power!
Action / Anime / Fantasy / Foreign
Lupin III: Dragon of Doom Blu-ray Movie
Discotek Media | 1994 | 90 min | Unrated | Aug 25, 2020 | Neil Lumbard
The Lupin gang is once again dragged onto a wild treasure hunt! This time, the objective is a mysterious, small dragon statue that even Goemon's steel-rendering blade Zantetsuken cannot cut. The artifact, which once eluded even Lupin the Third's esteemed grandfather, rests deep undersea inside the infamous Titanic, and is the key to unlocking the mystery of Zantetsuken's almighty strength. A wealthy gangster, Lupin, and Goemon all want the statue for themselves!
Action / Anime / Comedy / Foreign
Lupin the 3rd: Bye, Bye Lady Liberty Blu-ray Movie
Discotek Media | 1989 | 96 min | Unrated | Jun 26, 2018 | Neil Lumbard
To erase his criminal records, Lupin must steal the Ultravirus file.
Action / Adventure / Anime / Comedy / Crime / Foreign
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Shrek the Third 4K Blu-ray Movie
4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray + Digital Copy
Universal Studios | 2007 | 92 min | Rated PG | Sep 12, 2023 | Martin Liebman
When his new father-in-law King Harold falls ill, Shrek is seen as the heir to the land of Far, Far Away. Not one to give up his beloved swamp, Shrek recruits his friends Donkey and Puss in Boots to install the rebellious Artie as the new king. Princess Fiona, however, rallies a band of royal girlfriends to fend off a coup d'etat by the jilted Prince Charming.
Adventure / Animation / Comedy / Family / Fantasy
Fall 4K Blu-ray Movie
4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray + Digital Copy
Lionsgate Films | 2022 | 107 min | Unrated | Sep 19, 2023 | Jeffrey Kauffman
For best friends Becky and Hunter, life is all about conquering fears and pushing limits. But after they climb 2,000 feet to the top of a remote, abandoned radio tower, they find themselves stranded with no way down. Now Becky and Hunter's expert climbing skills will be put to the ultimate test as they desperately fight to survive the elements, a lack of supplies, and vertigo-inducing heights.
Action / Thriller
Past Lives Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + Digital Copy
Lionsgate Films | 2023 | 106 min | Rated PG-13 | Sep 19, 2023 | Jeffrey Kauffman
Nora and Hae Sung, two deeply connected childhood friends, are wrest apart after Nora's family emigrates from South Korea. 20 years later, they are reunited for one fateful week as they confront notions of love and destiny.
Drama / Romance
Harley Quinn: The Complete Third Season Blu-ray Movie
Warner Bros. | 2022 | 260 min | Rated TV-MA | Sep 05, 2023 | Randy Miller III
HARLEY QUINN follows Harley Quinn's adventures after she breaks up with the Joker, including receiving help from Poison Ivy and others to become a member of the Legion of Doom.
Action / Animation / Comedy / Crime / Comic book
After Dark, My Sweet Blu-ray Movie
Kino Lorber | 1990 | 114 min | Rated R | Sep 12, 2023 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
When a couple of conniving lowlifes hatch a plot to kidnap the scion of a wealthy local family, they pick the wrong man to carry out the job: Kid Collins, a disturbed ex-boxer on the lam from a mental institution.
Crime / Drama / Mystery / Thriller
It Takes Two Blu-ray Movie
Kino Lorber | 1988 | 79 min | Rated PG-13 | Sep 05, 2023 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
In Texas, the naive Travis Rogers quits his job to marry his beloved Stephanie "Stephi" Lawrence and work with his father-in-law. However he decides to buy a car with his US$ 5,000.00 savings in Dallas before the wedding. He goes to a car dealer and the sexy saleswoman Jonni Tigersmith convinces him to buy an expensive fully-loaded Lamborghini-type car after the test drive. But soon Travis finds that his car is a piece of junk. When Jonni sees the car, she has an argument with her crooked boss since it is not the test drive car and is fired together with the mechanic. She meets Travis and they have one night stand. They team up with the mechanic and decide to retrieve the car he bought. Meanwhile Stephi is waiting for travel for the rehearsals and finally for the wedding. Will Travis marry Stephi or stay with Jonni?
Comedy / Romance
Lupin III: The Elusiveness of the Fog Blu-ray Movie
Discotek Media | 2007 | 90 min | Unrated | Apr 27, 2021 | Neil Lumbard
On the ocean floor, Lupin is once again seeking a treasure hoping to get on Fujiko's good side. As Zenigata chases them on sea and land, people around the gang begin to vanish mysteriously. The fog rolls in and Mamo Kyosuke appears in a burst of light; he claims to be from the future and seeks revenge on Lupin III for what Lupin XIII has done to him. Mamo hurls Lupin, Jigen, Goemon, and Zenigata 500 years into the past; as two warring factions fight over a legendary shrine dedicated to time travel, Lupin must find a way to survive the past to ensure his future.
Anime / Foreign
Cardcaptor Sakura Movie 2: The Sealed Card Blu-ray Movie
Discotek Media | 2000 | 82 min | Unrated | Jul 31, 2018 | Neil Lumbard
All of the Clow Cards have been captured, and Sakura Kinomoto, the new Master of the Cards, is preparing to play the lead in the play for the town festival. However, a new evil force is causing mysterious events all over Tomoeda, including the disappearance of Sakura's cards. With Syaoran's help, Sakura must figure out the cause of these events, and save her town.
Adventure / Anime / Comedy / Fantasy / Mystery / Romance / Foreign