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Home- February 18, 2023
The Warriors Blu-ray Movie
Limited Edtion | Ultimate Director's Cut / Blu-ray + DVD + Digital Copy
Paramount Pictures | 1979 | 1 Movie, 2 Cuts | 94 min | Rated R | Dec 06, 2022 | Martin Liebman
A battle of gigantic proportions looms in the neon underground of New York City. The armies of the night number 100,000; they outnumber the police five to one; and tonight, they're all after the Warriors—a street gang blamed unfairly for a rival gang leader's death.
Action / Crime / Drama / Thriller
- February 17, 2023
Macumba Sexual Blu-ray Movie
Severin Films | 1983 | 80 min | Not rated | Nov 28, 2022 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
Princess Obongo, the Goddess of Unspeakable Lust, uses dark powers to ensnare a hapless couple of yuppies, so that she can imbue them with evil and conquer the world.
Horror / Erotic / Foreign
Galaxy Express 999: The TV Series Collection 03 - Terminus Blu-ray Movie
Episodes 77-113 / Eternal Wanderer Emeraldas / Can You Love Like a Mother? TV Specials
Discotek Media | 1980-1981 | 950 min | Unrated | Sep 29, 2020 | Neil Lumbard
The 999 enters the final stretch in the conclusion to this epic space story. Everything kicks off when Tetsuro is attacked aboard the train, only to be saved by a mysterious caped stranger. At the next stop, Tetsuro seeks out the Time Castle which is rumored to be ruled by the legendary Captain Harlock. Things take a turn for the weird the closer Tetsuro and Maetel get to their final destination, including a trip in a fourth-dimensional elevator and a collision with a Galaxy Express 999 from another timeline! After everything he's been through when the Galaxy Express 999 pulls into its final stop, will Tetsuro go through with his wish to get a mechanical body?
Adventure / Anime / Sci-Fi / Comic book / Foreign
Galaxy Express 999: The TV Series Collection 02 - Layover Blu-ray Movie
Episodes 40-76 / Can You Live Like a Warrior? TV Special
Discotek Media | 1979-1980 | 950 min | Unrated | Jul 28, 2020 | Neil Lumbard
Galaxy Express 999 is the name of a train which travels through space, beginning at Megalopolis Station on one end of the galaxy and ending at Andromeda on the other. But the Galaxy Express is more than just a train, it's also a metaphor for life itself, with passengers constantly boarding, debarking, and dreaming along the way.Tetsuro Hoshino is a youth who'll give anything to board the Three-Nine, including a promise to accompany a mysterious woman named Maetel all the way to Andromeda, the planet where, she tells him, he can get a free machine body to avenge the cruel death of his mother.
Adventure / Anime / Sci-Fi / Comic book / Foreign
Martin Scorsese's World Cinema Project, No. 4 Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + DVD
Criterion | 1939-1976 | 6 Movies | 601 min | Not rated | Sep 27, 2022 | Jeffrey Kauffman
See individual titles for their synopses.
Comedy / Drama / Musical / Foreign
Sambizanga Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + DVD
Criterion | 1972 | 97 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Jeffrey Kauffman
A young woman makes her way from the outskirts of Luanda toward the city's center looking for her husband after his arrest by the Portuguese authorities—an incident that ultimately helps to ignite an uprising.
Drama / Foreign
Prisioneros de la Tierra Blu-ray Movie
Prisoners of the Earth / Blu-ray + DVD
Criterion | 1939 | 86 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Jeffrey Kauffman
A group of desperate men are conscripted into indentured labor on a treacherous, disease-ridden yerba maté plantation under the control of the brutal foreman Köhner—a situation that boils over in an explosive act of rebellion led by the defiant Podeley, and made all the more tense by the fact that Köhner and Podeley love the same woman: Andrea, the sweet-spirited daughter of the camp’s doctor.
Drama / Foreign
Chess of the Wind Blu-ray Movie
شطرنج باد / Shatranj-e baad / Blu-ray + DVD
Criterion | 1976 | 99 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Jeffrey Kauffman
A web of greed, violence, and betrayal ensnares the heirs to a family fortune as they vie for control of their recently-deceased matriarch's estate.
Drama / Foreign
Muna Moto Blu-ray Movie
The Child of Another / Blu-ray + DVD
Criterion | 1975 | 89 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Jeffrey Kauffman
In a close-knit village in Cameroon, the rigid customs governing courtship and marriage mean that a deeply in love betrothed couple can be torn apart by the lack of a dowry and by another man's claiming of the young woman as his own wife—a rupture that sets the stage for a clash between a patriarchal society and a modern generation's determination to chart its own course.
Drama / Foreign
Two Girls on the Street Blu-ray Movie
Két lány az utcán / Blu-ray + DVD
Criterion | 1939 | 79 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Jeffrey Kauffman
Upwardly mobile working women—one a musician in an all-girl band, the other a bricklayer—join forces as they both try to make it in Budapest, supporting each other through changing economic fortunes, the advances of lecherous men, and the highs and heartbreaks of love.
Comedy / Drama / Foreign
Kalpana Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + DVD
Criterion | 1948 | 152 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Jeffrey Kauffman
An ambitious dancer is determined to open a cultural center devoted to breathing new life into India's traditional artistic forms; meanwhile, the obvious adoration between him and his lead dancer arouses the jealousy of his enterprising companion.
Drama / Musical / Foreign
The Texas Chain Saw Massacre 4K Blu-ray Movie
4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray
MPI Media Group | 1974 | 83 min | Rated R | Feb 28, 2023 | Randy Miller III
A tale of five friends en route to visit a grave in Texas who end up falling victim to a family of cannibalistic psychopaths.
Horror / Thriller / Dark humor
The Texas Chain Saw Massacre 4K Blu-ray Movie
4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray
MPI Media Group | 1974 | 83 min | Rated R | Feb 28, 2023 | Randy Miller III
A tale of five friends en route to visit a grave in Texas who end up falling victim to a family of cannibalistic psychopaths.
Horror / Thriller / Dark humor
- February 16, 2023
Braddock: Missing in Action III Blu-ray Movie
2K Restoration
Kino Lorber | 1988 | 103 min | Rated R | Jan 17, 2023 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
James Braddock once again returns to Vietnam, 12 years after the end of the war, to rescue his thought-dead Vietnamese wife and son, and a group of Amerasian orphans held in another prison camp presided over by a sadistic Vietnamese general whom was one of those that tortured Braddock during his stay in a similar prison camp just a few years earlier.
Action / Adventure / Drama / Thriller / War / Martial arts
Lupin the 3rd: Part I - The Classic Adventures Blu-ray Movie
Discotek Media | 1971-1972 | 529 min | Unrated | May 31, 2022 | Neil Lumbard
Hard-boiled, cocky, classy and silly. These words only begin to describe the amazing master thief Lupin the Third. With the help of some quick gunplay by his partner Jigen, Lupin takes on the world in elaborate heists, classic car chases, and nasty explosions. Fujiko, a buxom redhead with a penchant for betrayal, always gets tangled up in Lupin's capers. The stoic but swift swordsman Goemon is just as inclined to kill Lupin as he is to help him. And Lupin can never seem to lose the relentless Tokyo Police Inspector Zenigata. What sort of trouble will this band of misfits get into next?
Action / Adventure / Anime / Comedy / Crime / Comic book / Foreign
Giovanni's Island Blu-ray Movie
ジョバンニの島 / Jobanni no Shima
Shout Factory | 2014 | 102 min | Not rated | Feb 21, 2023 | Brian Orndorf
In the aftermath of the most devastating conflict mankind had ever experienced, the tiny island of Shikotan became part of the Sakhalin Oblast... and on the unhealed border in this remote corner of the world, friendship among children from two different countries timidly blossomed, striving to overcome language barriers and the waves of history.
Anime / Drama / History / Foreign
Villains Blu-ray Movie
Slipcover in Original Pressing
Gunpowder & Sky | 2019 | 90 min | Rated R | Nov 29, 2022 | Brian Orndorf
After a pair of amateur criminals break into a suburban home, they stumble upon a dark secret that two sadistic homeowners will do anything to keep from getting out.
Comedy / Horror / Thriller / Psychological thriller
- February 15, 2023
Stargirl: The Complete Second Season Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + Digital Copy
Warner Bros. | 2021 | 536 min | Rated TV-PG | Feb 08, 2022 | Neil Lumbard
Teenager Courtney Whitmore joins the Justice Society of America. Based on the character from DC Comics.
Action / Adventure / Fantasy / Sci-Fi / Comic book
The Magnificent Seven 4K Blu-ray Movie
Collector's Edition / 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray
Shout Factory | 1960 | 128 min | Not rated | Feb 21, 2023 | Dr. Stephen Larson
A bandit terrorizes a small Mexican farming village each year. Several of the village elders send three of the farmers into the United States to search for gunmen to defend them. They end up with 7, each of whom comes for a different reason. They must prepare the town to repulse an army of over 100 bandits who will arrive wanting food.
Action / Adventure / Drama / Thriller / Western
Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter Blu-ray Movie
Paramount Pictures | 1984 | 91 min | Rated R | Jan 10, 2023 | Martin Liebman
Hockey-masked Jason Voorhees is back, with a vengeance. Picking up directly where 'Part 3' left off, Jason leaves the hospital morgue and sets his sights on yet another group of young people near Crystal Lake.
Horror