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Home- December 08, 2022
Adaptation. 4K Blu-ray Movie
4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray + Digital Copy
Sony Pictures | 2002 | 115 min | Rated R | Dec 06, 2022 | Martin Liebman
Screenwriter Charlie Kaufman is hired to adapt "The Orchid Thief," a nonfiction book by Susan Orlean about an eccentric orchid breeder, John Laroche, but he becomes completely blocked. Meanwhile, Charlie's happy-go-lucky twin brother, Donald, dashes off a potboiler thriller based on multiple personality disorder. As Charlie continues to struggle, we see Laroche and Orlean in flashbacks, but past and present converge, as Charlie "writes himself" into his screenplay, and he and Donald begin to collaborate.
Comedy / Drama / Dark humor / Surreal
- December 07, 2022
The Trial 4K Blu-ray Movie
60th Anniversary Restoration / 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray
Studio Canal | 1962 | 119 min | Rated BBFC: PG | Nov 21, 2022 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
Brilliantly capturing the opressive paranoia of Franz Kafka's classic novel, Orson Welles' THE TRIAL is the story of the young clerk, Josef K., who is arrested. All without ever knowing his crime. Welles filmed this baroque work of genius in a deserted belle epoque railway station in Paris. The strange setting perfectly captured the bizarre and nightmarish world of Kafka's mythical totalitarian state.
Drama / Thriller / Surreal
The Ballad of the Sad Cafe Blu-ray Movie
Cohen Media Group | 1991 | 101 min | Not rated | Dec 06, 2022 | Jeffrey Kauffman
The Ballad of the Sad Café, based on the Carson McCullers novella and Edward Albee play, is both a grotesque black comedy and a prime slice of "Southern Gothic," set in a poverty-stricken rural community dominated by the curious, androgynous character of Miss Amelia. A forceful personality with a mysterious past, she runs the town's only café and controls the locals through distribution of her own secretly brewed "hooch." But Miss Amelia's eccentric existence is threatened with the arrival of a hunchbacked dwarf, who claims kinship with her, and reappearance of the husband she rejected on their wedding night.
Drama / Mystery / Dark humor
- December 06, 2022
Dream Lover Blu-ray Movie
Sandpiper Pictures | 1993 | 103 min | Rated R | Nov 01, 2022 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
Ray is young, charming, successful and the owner of a prosperous architect company. However, he has recently gone through a very painful divorce. His friends try to cheer him up by showing him the positive sides of being single but for Ray marriage and stability is just too important. But when he meets Lena his gloom is quickly forgotten. She is beautiful, sensual, mysterious and he is drawn to her like a moth to a candle. They marry quickly, have their first child and Ray lives in a total bliss. But then strange incidents occur which shed some light on Lena's background. Ray slowly realizes that he hardly knows anything about her at all. Who has he really married?
Drama / Mystery / Thriller
Casque d'Or 4K Blu-ray Movie
Golden Marie / Vintage World Cinema / 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray
Studio Canal | 1952 | 99 min | Rated BBFC: PG | Nov 28, 2022 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
Classic French underworld drama set in Paris at the turn of the century. When Georges Manda (Serge Reggiani) falls for Marie (Simone Signoret), he faces the wrath of her boyfriend, the petty crook Roland (William Sabatier). Gang boss Felix (Claude Dauphin) who secretly lusts after Marie, orders the two to fight it out for her hand, hoping to eliminate his love rival. When his boyhood friend is subsequently framed for the murder, Georges, not realising Felix's involvement, does the decent thing and turns himself in to the police. The tragedy is complete when Georges discovers Felix's role in his downfall, escapes from custody, and kills Felix.
Crime / Drama / Romance / Foreign
Alienoid Blu-ray Movie
외계+인 1부 / Oegye+in 1bu
Well Go USA | 2022 | 143 min | Not rated | Dec 06, 2022 | Jeffrey Kauffman
The door of time opens between the swordsman who wants to seize the legendary divine sword at the end of the Goryeo Dynasty and those who chase after an alien prisoner imprisoned in a human body in 2022.
Action / Fantasy / Sci-Fi / Foreign
South Park: Post COVID Blu-ray Movie
Paramount Pictures | 2021 | 122 min | Not rated | Dec 06, 2022 | Martin Liebman
What happened to the children who lived through the Pandemic? Stan, Kyle, Cartman and Kenny survived but will never be the same POST COVID. If Stan, Kyle and Cartman could just work together, they could go back in time to make sure Covid never happened and save Kenny's life. In SOUTH PARK: POST COVID: THE RETURN OF COVID, traveling back to the past seems to be the easy answer until they meet Victor Chaos.
Animation / Comedy / Drama / Mystery / Sci-Fi / Dark humor
- December 05, 2022
A Heart in Winter Blu-ray Movie
Un coeur en hiver
Kino Lorber | 1992 | 105 min | Not rated | Sep 24, 2019 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
Beautiful violin virtuoso Camille has two obsessions: the music of Ravel, and a friend of her husband's who crafts violins. But his heart seems to be as cold as her playing is passionate.
Drama / Music / Romance / Foreign
Train to Busan 4K Blu-ray Movie
부산행 / Busanhaeng / 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray
Well Go USA | 2016 | 118 min | Not rated | Nov 29, 2022 | Jeffrey Kauffman
While a zombie virus breaks out in South Korea, passengers struggle to survive on the train from Seoul to Busan.
Action / Horror / Thriller / Foreign
Run Lola Run 4K Blu-ray Movie
Lola Rennt / 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray
Sony Pictures | 1998 | 80 min | Rated R | No Release Date | Martin Liebman
Beautiful, hip, and young, poor Lola has but 20 minutes to locate a missing bag containing 100,000 Deutsche marks or come up with the money some other way — if she can't, gangsters are going to kill her boyfriend. A pulse-raising race against time, the film employs a startling array of innovative techniques to present three separate scenarios, all departing from a single split-second decision Lola makes.
Action / Crime / Drama / Romance / Thriller / Foreign
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon 4K Blu-ray Movie
臥虎藏龍 / Wo hu cang long / 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray
Sony Pictures | 2000 | 120 min | Rated PG-13 | No Release Date | Martin Liebman
Two master warriors are faced with their greatest challenge when the treasured Green Destiny sword is stolen. A young aristocrat prepares for an arranged marriage, but soon reveals her superior fighting talents and her deeply romantic past. As each warrior battles for justice, they come face to face with their worst enemy - and the inescapable, enduring power of love.
Action / Adventure / Drama / Romance / Martial arts / Foreign / Epic / Period
SLC Punk! 4K Blu-ray Movie
4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray
Sony Pictures | 1998 | 98 min | Rated R | No Release Date | Martin Liebman
In the early 1980s Stevo and Heroin Bob are the only two dedicated punks in conservative Salt Lake City.
Comedy / Drama / Coming of age
The Celluloid Closet 4K Blu-ray Movie
4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray
Sony Pictures | 1996 | 101 min | Rated R | No Release Date | Martin Liebman
A documentary surveying the various Hollywood screen depictions of homosexuals and the attitudes behind them throughout the history of North American film.
Drama / History
The Devil's Backbone 4K Blu-ray Movie
El espinazo del diablo / 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray
Sony Pictures | 2001 | 107 min | Rated R | No Release Date | Martin Liebman
Set during the final week of the Spanish Civil War, the film tells the tale of a twelve-year-old boy who, after his freedom-fighting father is killed, is sent to a haunted rural orphanage full of terrible secrets.
Drama / Fantasy / Horror / Mystery / Thriller / Supernatural / Foreign / Coming of age
The City of Lost Children 4K Blu-ray Movie
La cité des enfants perdus / 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray
Sony Pictures | 1995 | 112 min | Rated R | No Release Date | Martin Liebman
On a futuristic oil rig, a man has aged prematurely because he has lost the ability to dream. To reverse the aging process, he kidnaps children from the local harbor town so that he can steal their dreams.
Adventure / Drama / Fantasy / Sci-Fi / Foreign / Surreal
Orlando 4K Blu-ray Movie
4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray
Sony Pictures | 1992 | 93 min | Rated PG-13 | No Release Date | Martin Liebman
Orlando is a youthful English nobleman, a favorite of Queen Elizabeth I, who defies the laws of nature with surprising results. Immortal and highly imaginative, he undergoes a series of extraordinary transformations, including changing from a man to a woman. The transformations illustrate the complexity of the eternal war between the sexes.
Drama / Romance / Period
Volver 4K Blu-ray Movie
4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray
Sony Pictures | 2006 | 121 min | Rated R | No Release Date | Martin Liebman
Set in Spain, this is a generational story of three women: a good mother who is desperately in love with a man who is far from being a saint; a young mother carrying a hard life upon her shoulders; and an illegal hairdresser whose shop is the meeting point for all the neighborhood gossips.
Drama / Dark humor / Foreign
Synecdoche, New York 4K Blu-ray Movie
4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray
Sony Pictures | 2008 | 123 min | Rated R | No Release Date | Martin Liebman
Theater director Caden Cotard is mounting a new play. His life catering to suburban blue-hairs at the local regional theater in Schenectady, New York is looking bleak. His wife Adele has left him to pursue her painting in Berlin, taking their young daughter Olive with her. Worried about the transience of his life, he leaves his home behind. He gathers an ensemble cast into a warehouse in New York City, hoping to create a work of brutal honesty. He directs them in a celebration of the mundane, instructing each to live out their constructed lives in a growing mockup of the city outside. The years rapidly fold into each other, and Caden buries himself deeper into his masterpiece, but the textured tangle of real and theatrical relationships blurs the line between the world of the play and that of Caden's town deteriorating reality.
Comedy / Drama / Dark humor / Surreal
Still Alice 4K Blu-ray Movie
4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray
Sony Pictures | 2014 | 101 min | Rated PG-13 | No Release Date | Martin Liebman
Alice Howland, happily married with three grown children, is a renowned linguistics professor who starts to forget words. When she receives a devastating diagnosis, Alice and her family find their bonds tested.
Drama
Call Me by Your Name 4K Blu-ray Movie
4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray
Sony Pictures | 2017 | 132 min | Rated R | No Release Date | Martin Liebman
Summer of 1983, Northern Italy. An American-Italian is enamored by an American student who comes to study and live with his family. Together they share an unforgettable summer full of music, food, and romance that will forever change them.
Drama / Romance / Coming of age