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Home- February 23, 2023
The Rolling Stones: GRRR! Live! Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + CD
Mercury | 2012 | 142 min | Not rated | Feb 10, 2023 | Jeffrey Kauffman
The Rolling Stones celebrated their golden anniversary in 2012 & 2013 by embarking on the 50 & Counting Tour, a 30-show itinerary for North America and Europe. On December 15, 2012, the band took the stage at Newark, New Jersey’s Prudential Center for the final of 4 shows in the New York area. Featuring guest spots from The Black Keys, Gary Clark Jr, Lady Gaga, John Mayer, Bruce Springsteen, and Mick Taylor, the concert proved to be one of the most memorable shows in the band’s history.
Music
Naomi: The Complete Series Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + Digital Copy
Warner Bros. | 2022 | 547 min | Not rated | Aug 23, 2022 | Neil Lumbard
When a supernatural event shakes her hometown to the core, Naomi tries to uncover its origins. What she discovers will challenge everything we believe about our heroes.
Action / Adventure / Drama / Comic book
Batwoman: The Third and Final Season Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + Digital Copy
Warner Bros. | 2021-2022 | 545 min | Rated TV-14 | Jul 12, 2022 | Neil Lumbard
Season Two saw Ryan Wilder step into her power to take on the mantle of Batwoman and expose Gotham City's institutional injustice. Now Ryan must lead the Bat Team in stopping the next wave of villains, who were created by weapons lost in the Gotham River during the finale... and she'll have to do it with Alice by her side. As a new generation of Rogues torments Gotham, Batwoman and Alice find themselves working together to stop them. Their predicament means Alice will become and unofficial (and deeply resented) member of the Bat Team, threating to upend the team's existing dynamics.
Action / Adventure / Crime / Drama / Comic book
- February 22, 2023
Creature with the Atom Brain Blu-ray Movie
Mill Creek Entertainment | 1955 | 69 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Martin Liebman
Several years earlier gangster Frank Buchanan was deported to his native Italy through the efforts of law enforcement authorities and rival gangsters who inform on him. While in Europe he meets scientist Wilhelm Steigg, who has perfected a method of reanimating dead people and controlling their behavior with oral commands. Buchanan underwrites Steigg's experiments and uses his technology to wreak revenge on his enemies. Unfortunately radioactive poisoning is a by-product of the process, and authorities use radiation detecting devices like Geiger counters to pinpoint the source of the sinister plot...
Crime / Horror / Sci-Fi / Thriller
It Came from Beneath the Sea Blu-ray Movie
Mill Creek Entertainment | 1955 | 79 min | Not rated | Dec 16, 2008 | Martin Liebman
Submarine commander Pete Mathews (Kenneth Tobey) and scientists Lesley Joyce (Faith Domergue) and John Carter (Donald Curtis) battle an angry sea monster driven from the depths of the ocean by anH-bomb explosion. In search of non-contaminated food, this tentacled tyrant counts among its victims a fishing trawler and its passengers, a family sunning at the beach, several San Francisco skyscrapers and even the Golden Gate Bridge.
Horror / Sci-Fi
20 Million Miles to Earth Blu-ray Movie
Mill Creek Entertainment | 1957 | 82 min | Not rated | Dec 04, 2007 | Martin Liebman
When an American spaceship crash-lands off the coast of Sicily, a rescue team discovers that the crew has brought back a gelatinous mass that soon hatches and evolves into a strange bi-ped creature which increases in size rapidly. Soon 20-feet tall, the creature rampages through Rome before being destroyed as it seeks refuge in the Colosseum.
Horror / Sci-Fi
The 30 Foot Bride of Candy Rock Blu-ray Movie
Mill Creek Entertainment | 1959 | 75 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Martin Liebman
In one of his rare performances without Bud Abbott, Lou Costello plays a delivery boy who invents a machine which turns his girlfriend into a giantess.
Comedy / Sci-Fi
Sci-Fi from the Vault: 4 Classic Films Blu-ray Movie
Creature with the Atom Brain / It Came From Beneath the Sea / 20 Million Miles to Earth / The 30 Foot Bride of Candy Rock
Mill Creek Entertainment | 1955-1959 | 4 Movies | 303 min | Not rated | Feb 21, 2023 | Martin Liebman
No synopsis for this title.
Comedy / Crime / Horror / Sci-Fi / Thriller
Missing in Action Trilogy Blu-ray Movie
Kino Lorber | 1984-1988 | 3 Movies | 300 min | Rated R | Jan 17, 2023 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
See individual titles for their synopses.
Action / Adventure / Drama / Thriller / War / Martial arts
Flesh and Fury Blu-ray Movie
Kino Lorber | 1952 | 83 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Dr. Svet Atanasov
A deaf boxer is exploited by a gold-digging blonde
Drama / Sport
Double Target Blu-ray Movie
Severin Films | 1987 | 102 min | Not rated | Dec 13, 2022 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
After several American and British military personnel are killed in suicide attacks throughout southeast Asia, the U.S. begins to suspect a plot by the Vietnam government. To uncover the truth, the U.S. army calls upon a former commando who is looking for his long-lost son in Vietnam. While his military commanders want to see the commando succeed in his mission, his political overseers have a different set of plans.
Action / Adventure / War / Foreign
The Molly Maguires Blu-ray Movie
Paramount Pictures | 1970 | 124 min | Rated PG | Dec 13, 2019 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
Sean Connery stars as Jack Kehoe, leader of a militant workers group, in this account of the Irish-American coal miners' struggle against the exploitative working practices of their bosses. Kehoe's men - the Molly Maguires - are unafraid of using violence and intimidation to achieve their ends, and they pose enough threat to the bosses that the latter respond by sending undercover detective James McParlan (Richard Harris) to infiltrate their organisation. However, McParlan is a working class Irish immigrant himself and he soon begins to question where his true allegiances lie.
Drama / History
The Old Way Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + Digital Copy
Lionsgate Films | 2022 | 95 min | Rated R | Feb 21, 2023 | Jeffrey Kauffman
An old gunslinger and his daughter must face the consequences of his past, when the son of a man he murdered years ago arrives to take his revenge.
Action / Drama / Western
The Inspection Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + Digital Copy
Lionsgate Films | 2022 | 95 min | Rated R | Feb 21, 2023 | Jeffrey Kauffman
A young, gay Black man, rejected by his mother and with few options for his future, decides to join the Marines, doing whatever it takes to succeed in a system that would cast him aside.
Drama
Training Day 4K Blu-ray Movie
4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray + Digital Copy
Warner Bros. | 2001 | 122 min | Rated R | Feb 28, 2023 | Randy Miller III
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
Cat's Eye: The Complete First Season Blu-ray Movie
Discotek Media | 1983-1984 | 830 min | Unrated | Apr 26, 2022 | Neil Lumbard
The 3 Kisugi sisters, Rui, Hitomi and Ai run the Cat's Eye Cafe. They are the daughters of Michael Heinz, a painter who mysteriously disappeared in the seventies. In order to find out what happened to him, they steal each item of their father's collection from their new various owners. They send out cards labeled "Cat's Eye" to the police warning them every time they plan a theft, but still manage to escape. Inspector Toshio Utsumi, in charge of the Cat's Eye case, happens to be Hitomi's boyfriend which proves very helpful for the girls, but creates obvious problems for Hitomi's conscience.
Action / Anime / Comedy / Foreign
Carole & Tuesday: Complete Collection Blu-ray Movie
Sentai Filmworks | 2019 | 600 min | Rated TV-MA | Dec 20, 2022 | Neil Lumbard
It's not easy being an orphaned refugee, especially when you're not on the planet where you were born, but Carole Stanley still has big ambitions. However, while she dreams of forging a career in music, something isn't quite right yet. There's a spark that's missing. Tuesday Simmons has lived a life of comfort, so no one expects it when the shy young woman suddenly runs off to another city, taking little more than her beloved guitar and a need to perform with her. When they meet, Tuesday's spark ignites Carole's fire, and their musical ambitions begin burning anew. Achieving their dreams will be hard in a world where music is created by AIs, but if they don't give up, soon all the worlds will know the name Carole and Tuesday!
Anime / Drama / Music / Foreign
- February 21, 2023
Missing in Action 2: The Beginning Blu-ray Movie
4K Restoration
Kino Lorber | 1985 | 96 min | Rated R | Jan 17, 2023 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
Set in the early 1980s it shows the capture of Colonel Braddock in the Vietnam war, his captivity in a brutal prison camp and his plans to escape.
Action / Drama / War / Martial arts
Sergeant Ryker Blu-ray Movie
Kino Lorber | 1968 | 86 min | Not rated | Jan 03, 2023 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
During the Korean War Sergeant Paul Ryker is accused of defecting to Communist China and then returning to his unit as a spy.He's court-martialed and sentenced to death but his attorney believes Ryker's innocent and asks for a new trial.
Drama / War
The Outer Limits: Season Two Blu-ray Movie
Kino Lorber | 1964-1965 | 872 min | Not rated | Sep 20, 2022 | Jeffrey Kauffman
Misused inventions, interplanetary communication, and warped time peculiarities permeate this 1960s science fiction anthology program.
Fantasy / Horror / Sci-Fi / Supernatural