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Home- May 16, 2023
Moving On Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + Digital Copy
Lionsgate Films | 2022 | 85 min | Rated R | May 16, 2023 | Jeffrey Kauffman
Two estranged friends reunite to seek revenge on the petulant widower of their recently deceased best friend. Along the way, one of the women reunites with her great love as each woman learns to make peace with the past and each other.
Comedy
The Four Musketeers Blu-ray Movie
Vintage Classics
Studio Canal | 1974 | 107 min | Rated BBFC: 12 | May 08, 2023 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
D'Artagnan has become a Musketeer. Protestants hold La Rochelle, and the Queen loves Buckingham, who'll soon send ships to support the rebels. Richelieu enlists Rochefort to kidnap Constance, the Queen's go-between and D'Artagnan's love. The Cardinal uses the wily, amoral Milady de Winter to distract D'Artagnan. But soon, she is D'Artagnan's sworn enemy, and she has an unfortunate history with Athos as well. Milady goes to England to dispatch Buckingham; the Musketeers fight the rebels. Milady, with Rochefort's help, then turns to her personal agenda. Can D'Artagnan save Constance, defeat Rochefort, slip de Winter's ire, and stay free of the Cardinal? All for one, one for all.
Action / Adventure / Comedy / Romance
- May 15, 2023
The Three Musketeers 4K Blu-ray Movie
Vintage Classics / 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray
Studio Canal | 1973 | 107 min | Rated BBFC: 12 | May 08, 2023 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
The young D'Artagnan arrives in Paris with dreams of becoming a king's musketeer. He meets and quarrels with three men, Athos, Porthos, and Aramis, each of whom challenges him to a duel. D'Artagnan finds out they are musketeers and is invited to join them in their efforts to oppose Cardinal Richelieu, who wishes to increase his already considerable power over the king. D'Artagnan must also juggle affairs with the charming Constance Bonancieux and the passionate Lady De Winter, a secret agent for the cardinal.
Action / Adventure / Comedy / Romance
The Three Musketeers Blu-ray Movie
Vintage Classics
Studio Canal | 1973 | 105 min | Rated BBFC: 12 | May 08, 2023 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
The young D'Artagnan arrives in Paris with dreams of becoming a king's musketeer. He meets and quarrels with three men, Athos, Porthos, and Aramis, each of whom challenges him to a duel. D'Artagnan finds out they are musketeers and is invited to join them in their efforts to oppose Cardinal Richelieu, who wishes to increase his already considerable power over the king. D'Artagnan must also juggle affairs with the charming Constance Bonancieux and the passionate Lady De Winter, a secret agent for the cardinal.
Action / Adventure / Comedy / Romance
Backtrack Blu-ray Movie
Catchfire
Kino Lorber | 1990 | 1 Movie, 2 Cuts | 116 min | Rated R | Apr 25, 2023 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
An artist witnesses a Mafia hit and calls the police. At the police station she realizes that the Mafia has a man in the force, so she runs. Trailed by the police, who need her testimony, and a hit-man hired by the Mafia, she goes to Mexico, where eventually she meets the hit-man, who has become infatuated after studying her art and life to prepare for the hit.
Action / Comedy / Crime
The Son Blu-ray Movie
Sony Pictures | 2022 | 123 min | Rated PG-13 | Mar 28, 2023 | Dr. Stephen Larson
Peter as his busy life with new partner Emma and their baby is thrown into disarray when his ex-wife Kate turns up with their teenage son, Nicholas.
Drama
Five Women for the Killer Blu-ray Movie
5 donne per l'assassino
Vinegar Syndrome | 1974 | 100 min | Not rated | May 30, 2023 | Brian Orndorf
A reporter comes home from an overseas assignment to find his baby in the hospital and his wife dead.
Thriller / Foreign
The Civil Dead Blu-ray Movie
Slipcover in Original Pressing
Utopia Distribution | 2022 | 104 min | Not rated | Apr 25, 2023 | Brian Orndorf
Clay is a loner photographer who enjoys a mundane life with his artist wife Whitney in Los Angeles. Whitney advises Clay, who has been creatively stagnant and unemployed for months, to go out and be productive while she’s out of town and not to "just lay in the living room and drink beer." While taking photos out in a park, Clay happens upon his long-lost friend, Whit. After a night of catching up, Whit discloses an unsettling secret to Clay, which puts a strain on his marriage and causes him to question his own sanity.
Comedy / Dark humor
80 for Brady Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + Digital Copy
Paramount Pictures | 2023 | 98 min | Rated PG-13 | May 02, 2023 | Martin Liebman
A group of friends made it their life-long mission to go to the Super Bowl and meet NFL superstar Tom Brady.
Comedy / Drama / Sport
Convoy Busters Blu-ray Movie
Cauldron Films | 1978 | 101 min | Not rated | May 16, 2023 | Jeffrey Kauffman
In Rome, a vagrant finds the body of a teen girl, her throat professional slashed. Police inspector Olmi uses his brutal and violent methods to follow a trail that leads him toward high government officials. When his methods leave an innocent bystander dead, the corrupt officials have an excuse to get Olmi transferred to a coastal town where the pace is slow and he has time for a romantic dalliance. Soon, Olmi discovers that fishing isn't the only local occupation, and out comes his gun and his ruthless tactics of investigation.
Action / Crime
Looney Tunes Collector's Choice: Volume 1 Blu-ray Movie
Warner Archive Collection
Warner Bros. | 1930-1969 | 142 min | Not rated | May 30, 2023 | Randy Miller III
The characters of Looney Tunes get themselves into crazy situations.
Animation / Comedy / Family / Short
Shanghai Joe Blu-ray Movie
My Name Is Shanghai Joe / The Fighting Fist of Shanghai Joe / To Kill or to Die / The Dragon Strikes Back / Il mio nome è Shangai Joe / Blu-ray + CD
Cauldron Films | 1973 | 101 min | Not rated | May 16, 2023 | Jeffrey Kauffman
A Chinese immigrant, recently arrived in America, fights to free Mexican slaves from their cruel master.
Action / Drama / Western / Foreign
- May 14, 2023
The Rules of the Game 4K Blu-ray Movie
La règle du jeu / 1959 Reconstructed Version / 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray
Criterion | 1939 | 106 min | Not rated | Jun 06, 2023 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
A weekend at a marquis' country château lays bare some ugly truths about a group of haut bourgeois acquaintances.
Comedy / Drama / Romance / Foreign
Here Is My Heart Blu-ray Movie
Universal Studios | 1934 | 77 min | Not rated | Aug 23, 2022 | Neil Lumbard
Popular singer Jasper Jones (Bing Crosby) is known to many but not to the woman he wants to meet most… Russian Princess Alexandra (Kitty Carlisle). While in the French Riviera, Jasper pretends to be a penniless waiter to get closer to the princess in an attempt to win her affections.
Comedy / Musical
Thunder on the Hill Blu-ray Movie
Universal Studios | 1951 | 84 min | Not rated | Aug 23, 2022 | Neil Lumbard
A convicted murderer is being transported to Norwich for execution when a flood strands her and her guards at a convent hospital. During her stay, a nun becomes convinced of her innocence and sets out to find the real killer.
Crime / Drama / Film-Noir / Mystery / Romance
- May 13, 2023
The Big Bus Blu-ray Movie
Kino Lorber | 1976 | 89 min | Rated PG | Apr 25, 2023 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
A wonderful spoof of disaster films, The Big Bus is about the world's first nuclear-powered bus—a 75-ton monster on 32 enormous wheels—and its maiden journey from New York to Denver. Jockeying the world's greatest bus, of course, is the world's greatest bus driver. His copilot is given to sudden blackouts and has a penchant for driving on the shoulders of the road. A pair of evildoers vow to destroy the bus at the outset, thus providing hilarious suspense.
Action / Comedy
L.A. Wars Blu-ray Movie
MVD Rewind Collection
MVD Visual | 1994 | 92 min | Not rated | May 16, 2023 | Jeffrey Kauffman
When the war on the streets becomes personal, no one is safe. Guzman, a small-time drug lord, takes on Giovanni, the biggest Mafia boss in L.A., igniting a war.
Action / Drama
They Live 4K Blu-ray Movie
4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray
Shout Factory | 1988 | 94 min | Rated R | Jan 17, 2023 | Randy Miller III
A drifter discovers a pair of sunglasses that allow him to wake up to the fact that aliens have taken over the Earth.
Action / Horror / Sci-Fi / Thriller
Torch Singer Blu-ray Movie
Kino Lorber | 1933 | 71 min | Not rated | Oct 26, 2021 | Neil Lumbard
When Sally Trent can no longer support her illegitimate child, she puts her daughter up for adoption and pursues a career as a torch singer. Under the name Mimi Benton, she soon climbs to fame as a sexy nightclub singer and attempts to find her daughter through a children's radio show.
Drama / Musical / Romance
The Haunting of Julia 4K Blu-ray Movie
Collector's Edition | Full Circle / 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray
Shout Factory | 1977 | 97 min | Rated R | Apr 18, 2023 | Neil Lumbard
Bereaved mother Julia flees her controlling husband Magnus, re-establishing herself in an old house in leafy West London. Yet she finds herself haunted by apparitions of a ghostly blonde-haired child, sending her on a strange journey of self-discovery - with dreadful consequences.
Horror / Thriller