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Home- March 14, 2023
The Legend of Fong Sai Yuk 2 Blu-ray Movie
The Legend 2 / Fang Shi Yu 2 / 方世玉續集
Ronin Flix | 1993 | 92 min | Rated R | No Release Date | Jeffrey Kauffman
Having failed a secret mission for the Red Flower Society, Chinese folk hero Fong Sai Yuk (Jet Li) must try to get his hands on a special document by wooing the governor's daughter, Man-Yin (Amy Kwok). This doesn't sit well with his fiancée, Ting Ting (Michelle Reis), or with his martial arts-master mother (Josephine Hsiao). Fong enters a martial arts competition, where he faces off against the villainous Yu (Chuen-Hua Chi) as he battles to restore the Ming Dynasty
Action / Adventure / Comedy / Martial arts / Foreign
The Road Home Blu-ray Movie
我的父亲母亲 / Wǒ de fů qīn mǔ qīn / Imprint #160
Imprint | 1999 | 89 min | Rated ACB: PG | Sep 28, 2022 | Randy Miller III
Prompted by the death of his father and the grief of his mother, a man recalls the story of how they met in flashback.
Drama / Romance / Foreign / Period
My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom! - Season One Blu-ray Movie
乙女ゲームの破滅フラグしかない悪役令嬢に転生してしまった…
Sentai Filmworks | 2020-2021 | 300 min | Rated TV-14 | Jan 04, 2022 | Neil Lumbard
Some people may treat life like a game, but when young noblewoman Catarina Claes accidentally bumps her head, she has a horrifying revelation. In a previous life, she was an avid otaku and game player, and the life Catarina is living is that of the villainess of the game FORTUNE LOVER… a character doomed to be either killed or exiled no matter how the game is played! Forewarned and forearmed with the multiple plots of the game in mind, Catarina sets out to re-code her fate. Can she not do what she would have done, befriend people she'd never befriend, and change her entire outlook on life? And will even that be enough to roleplay her way out of her destiny? She's literally in the game of her life in MY NEXT LIFE AS A VILLAINESS: ALL ROUTES LEAD TO DOOM!
Anime / Comedy / Fantasy / Romance / Supernatural / Foreign
Boogiepop Phantom: The Complete Series Blu-ray Movie
Collector's Edition
Anime Ltd | 2000 | 264 min | Rated BBFC: 15 | Feb 14, 2022 | Neil Lumbard
Five years ago, a string of grisly murders shook the city to its core. Now terror has returned, and this time it has a name: Boogiepop. Everyone knows about Boogiepop: death incarnate, she stalks the night in search of fresh victims. Meet her and you simply... vanish. In the darkness, glass shatters and time stands still... There’s something out there and it's coming closer. Are you safe?
Anime / Drama / Horror / Psychological thriller / Supernatural / Foreign
- March 13, 2023
Triangle of Sadness 4K Blu-ray Movie
4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray
Criterion | 2022 | 143 min | Rated R | Apr 25, 2023 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
A cruise for the super-rich sinks thus leaving survivors, including a fashion model celebrity couple, trapped on an island.
Comedy / Dark humor
Triangle of Sadness Blu-ray Movie
Criterion | 2022 | 143 min | Rated R | Apr 25, 2023 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
A cruise for the super-rich sinks thus leaving survivors, including a fashion model celebrity couple, trapped on an island.
Comedy / Dark humor
Attack Force Z Blu-ray Movie
Severin Films | 1981 | 94 min | Not rated | Mar 28, 2023 | Jeffrey Kauffman
The elite volunteers of Attack Force Z are assigned the difficult and dangerous task of locating and recovering a defecting Japanese government official. Set in the Sambalang Straits in the South Pacific during World War II.
Action / Drama / History
Silver Spoon: Complete Series 1&2 Blu-ray Movie
Limited Edition | Includes Season 1 & 2
Anime Ltd | 2013-2014 | 2 Seasons | 550 min | Rated BBFC: 12 | Jan 10, 2022 | Neil Lumbard
The only reason why Yugo Hachiken decided to attend the Oezo Agricultural High School (a.k.a Ezono) was simply because the school had a dormitory. Entering Ezono was a way for Yugo to run away from the stifling academic pressures in the city, however, it didn’t take long for him to realize that life is not that simple. Yugo is soon forced to face more hurdles in his new environment surrounded by all the farm animals and the magnificent Mother Nature. He also begins feeling a different kind of pressure as he deals with his classmates who, unlike him, all have a clear view of what they want for their futures. Even so, as Yugo overcomes one challenge after another at Ezono and deepens his bonds with his classmates, he begins to grow stronger both physically and mentally. This is a coming-of age story filled with sweat, tears, and literally a lot of dirt!
Anime / Nature / Comic book / Foreign / Coming of age
- March 12, 2023
Driven Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + Digital Copy
Universal Studios | 2018 | 114 min | Rated R | Oct 01, 2019 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
Intense thriller where politics, big business and narcotics collide, about a pilot busted for cocaine smuggling who sets up his neighbor, auto manufacturer John DeLorean, in a major drug sting operation.
Comedy / Crime / Drama
Air Force One 4K Blu-ray Movie
4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray + Digital Copy
Sony Pictures | 1997 | 125 min | Rated R | Mar 07, 2023 | Randy Miller III
When a terrorist group hijacks Air Force One and demands the release of a vicious tyrant, it's up to the U.S. President himself to stop them.
Action / Thriller
The Double Exposure of Holly Blu-ray Movie
Slipcover in Original Pressing
Vinegar Syndrome | 1976 | 75 min | Rated X | Feb 22, 2023 | Brian Orndorf
When a New York lawyer realizes that he is the latest in a long line of Holly's discarded lovers he decides to get even with her. In order to blackmail her, he gets a gangster to secretly film Holly with her new lover in their hotel room.
Crime / Erotic
Hitman Hart: Wrestling with Shadows Blu-ray Movie
Slipcover in Original Pressing / Includes - The Life and Death of Owen Hart
Canadian International Pictures | 1998 | 2 Movies | 94 min | Not rated | Mar 28, 2023 | Brian Orndorf
Gain incredible behind-the-scenes access to the widely popular World Wrestling Federation with this straight-forward documentary, which profiles legendary professional wrestler Bret Hart and his shocking betrayal by WWF owner Vince McMahon. Captured during Hart's final year with the organization, this dramatic portrait also explores his challenging childhood experiences growing up as the son of wrestler Stu Hart.
Documentary / Sport
The Whale Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + Digital Copy
Lionsgate Films | 2022 | 117 min | Rated R | Mar 14, 2023 | Jeffrey Kauffman
A reclusive English teacher suffering from severe obesity attempts to reconnect with his estranged teenage daughter for one last chance at redemption.
Drama
The Seventh Seal 4K Blu-ray Movie
Det sjunde inseglet / 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray
Criterion | 1957 | 97 min | Not rated | Apr 18, 2023 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
Disillusioned and exhausted after a decade of battling in the Crusades, a knight encounters Death on a desolate beach and challenges him to a fateful game of chess.
Drama / Imaginary / Foreign / Surreal
Magic Knight Rayearth: The Complete Series Blu-ray Movie
Limited Edition
Anime Ltd | 1994-1995 | 1176 min | Rated BBFC: 15 | Aug 29, 2022 | Neil Lumbard
Hikaru Shidou, Umi Ryuuzaki, and Fuu Hououji are three regular high school girls. While on a field trip to the Tokyo Tower, the three girls’ minds are on anything but different worlds filled with magic and wonder. That is, until Princess Emeraude, the Pillar of Cephiro, cries out for the Magic Knights to save her world - and that just happens to be those three! The girls must learn to control the magic they suddenly possess, drive back the monsters that plague the land, revive the Rune Gods that have been sealed away, and then fight against the High Priest Zagato, who has kidnapped Princess Emeraude. It’s the only way they can return home, for willpower influences Cephiro, and it is the Princess’s will that the three girls become the Magic Knights of legend, and save her world.
Action / Adventure / Anime / Comedy / Fantasy / Sci-Fi / Teen / Comic book / Foreign
Welcome to the Ballroom: Complete Collection Blu-ray Movie
Anime Ltd | 2017 | 625 min | Rated BBFC: 12 | Apr 18, 2022 | Neil Lumbard
Middle school student Tatara Fujita is a young man living a directionless existence - desperate to change and find a true calling to pursue though he is, there’s simply nothing in his life to provide the spark that he needs to ignite his passions. All of this changes one day when Tatara spots a fellow student entering the door of the Ogasawara Dance Studio. Saved from bullies by a cool, calm and collected stranger, the next thing Tatara knows he’s dragged into the studio for an impromptu trial and is transfixed by a whole new world - a world of supreme confidence borne from an upright posture… of almost inhuman body movements and gyrations… of talented dancers shouting out to the world to look at them. There’s no doubting Tatara’s determination to look good on the dance floor, but does he have what it takes to make a name for himself in the cut-throat realm of professional ballroom dancing? With professional and personal rivalries to deal with, and a cornucopia of new demands both mental and physical providing plenty of new challenges, it’s going to take more than sheer will to reach the heights of the competitive ballroom scene. As he makes friends and mentors along the way, Tatara soon learns that it takes far more than two to tango.
Anime / Music / Foreign
- March 11, 2023
Training Day 4K Blu-ray Movie
4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray + Digital Copy
Warner Bros. | 2001 | 122 min | Rated R | Feb 28, 2023 | Martin Liebman
A rookie cop spends his first day as a Los Angeles narcotics officer with a rogue detective who isn't what he appears to be.
Action / Crime / Drama / Thriller
The Long Wait 4K Blu-ray Movie
4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray
ClassicFlix | 1954 | 94 min | Not rated | Mar 21, 2023 | Jeffrey Kauffman
An amnesiac finally learns his true identity...as a murder suspect. And he doesn't even know whether he is guilty.
Crime / Drama / Film-Noir
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever 4K Blu-ray Movie
Talokán / 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray + Digital Copy
Disney / Buena Vista | 2022 | 161 min | Rated PG-13 | Feb 07, 2023 | Martin Liebman
The people of Wakanda fight to protect their home from intervening world powers as they mourn the death of King T'Challa.
Action / Adventure / Fantasy / Sci-Fi / Comic book
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever 4K Blu-ray Movie
Wakanda / 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray + Digital Copy
Disney / Buena Vista | 2022 | 161 min | Rated PG-13 | Feb 07, 2023 | Martin Liebman
The people of Wakanda fight to protect their home from intervening world powers as they mourn the death of King T'Challa.
Action / Adventure / Fantasy / Sci-Fi / Comic book