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Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid Blu-ray Movie
Kino Lorber | 1982 | 89 min | Rated PG | Sep 21, 2021 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
Parodies of the '40s hard boiled detective genre, with a very clever conceit: weaving the plot and production design around memorable movie clips (The Killers, The Big Sleep, Double Indemnity, The Lost Weekend, White Heat, This Gun for Hire, Sorry, Wrong Number, Notorious). Cool Rigby Reardon tries solving an incomprehensible mystery with the assistance of Humphrey Bogart, James Cagney, Burt Lancaster, Fred MacMurray, Ingrid Bergman, and Ray Milland, among others.
Comedy / Crime / Film-Noir / Mystery / Thriller
Anatomy of a Murder 4K Blu-ray Movie
4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray
Sony Pictures | 1959 | 160 min | Not rated | Oct 12, 2021 Columbia Classics: Volume 2 4K | Martin Liebman
A small-town lawyer gets the case of a lifetime when a military man avenges an attack on his wife.
Crime / Drama / Mystery / Thriller
Oliver! 4K Blu-ray Movie
Columbia Classics / 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray
Sony Pictures | 1968 | 154 min | Rated G | Oct 12, 2021 Columbia Classics: Volume 2 4K | Martin Liebman
Experience the high-spirited adventures of Oliver Twist in this Oscar(r)-winning musical adaptation of Charles Dickens' classic tale! Young Oliver is an orphan who escapes the cheerless life of the workhouse and takes to the streets of 19th-Century London. He's immediately taken in by a band of street urchins, headed by the lovable villain, Fagin his fiendish henchman, Bill Sikes, and his loyal apprentice, The Artful Dodger. Through his education in the fine points of pick-pocketing, Oliver makes away with an unexpected treasure... a home and a family of his own.
Crime / Drama / Family / Musical / Period
Taxi Driver 4K Blu-ray Movie
Columbia Classics / 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray
Sony Pictures | 1976 | 114 min | Rated R | Oct 12, 2021 Columbia Classics: Volume 2 4K | Martin Liebman
A mentally unstable veteran works as a nighttime taxi driver in New York City, where the perceived decadence and sleaze fuels his urge for violent action.
Crime / Drama / Thriller / Psychological thriller
Stripes 4K Blu-ray Movie
Columbia Classics / TV Version on BD / 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray
Sony Pictures | 1981 | 1 Movie, 3 Cuts | 126 min | Rated R | Oct 12, 2021 Columbia Classics: Volume 2 4K | Martin Liebman
Thanks to a run of bad luck and go-nowhere jobs, John convinces Russell to join the army so they can get in shape, likening it to a health spa. Once in boot camp, wiseguy John tangles with his by-the-book Sgt. and becomes the unofficial leader for his platoon, made up mostly of other misfits and assorted losers. After somehow making it through graduation, they are given a special assignment but, thanks to John's romantic interest in a pretty MPO, the other men wind up behind the Iron Curtain until John, Russell, their dates and Sgt. Hulka make a daring rescue attempt in explosive style.
Comedy / War
Sense and Sensibility 4K Blu-ray Movie
Columbia Classics Collection / 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray
Sony Pictures | 1995 | 136 min | Rated PG | Oct 12, 2021 | Martin Liebman
When their father dies, by law his estate must pass to the eldest son from his first marriage, forcing his current wife and daughters to find somewhere more primitive to live. With their sudden loss of fortune, the sisters' chances of marriage seem doomed. Their well-intentioned suitors are trapped by the strict rules of a society obsessed with financial and social status and the conflicting laws of desire.
Comedy / Drama / Romance / Period
The Social Network 4K Blu-ray Movie
Columbia Classics / 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray
Sony Pictures | 2010 | 1 Movie, 2 Cuts | 120 min | Unrated | Oct 12, 2021 Columbia Classics: Volume 2 4K | Martin Liebman
A story about the founders of the social-networking website, Facebook.
Biography / Drama / History
Columbia Classics Collection: Volume 2 4K Blu-ray Movie
Limited Edition | Anatomy of a Murder / Oliver! / Taxi Driver / Stripes / Sense and Sensibility / The Social Network / 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray + Digital Copy
Sony Pictures | 1959-2010 | 6 Movies, 7 Cuts | 815 min | Not rated | Oct 12, 2021 | Martin Liebman
See individual titles for their synopses.
Biography / Comedy / Crime / Drama / Family / History / Musical / Mystery / Romance / Thriller / War / Psychological thriller / Period
True Romance Blu-ray Movie
Arrow | 1993 | 1 Movie, 2 Cuts | 121 min | Rated BBFC: 18 | Oct 18, 2021 | Jeffrey Kauffman
Runaway lovers Clarence and Alabama play a dangerous game when they come to possess a suitcase of mob contraband. They head for Los Angeles, where they'll sell the goods and begin a new life. But both sides of the law have other ideas.
Crime / Drama / Romance / Thriller / Dark humor
Columbia Noir #4 Blu-ray Movie
Walk a Crooked Mile / Walk East on Beacon! / Pushover / A Bullet is Waiting / Chicago Syndicate / The Brothers Rico | Indicator Series | Limited Edition
Powerhouse Films | 1948-1957 | 6 Movies | 543 min | Rated BBFC: 12 | Sep 27, 2021 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
Indicator’s ongoing series of Columbia Noir box sets returns with its fourth instalment, once again delving into the studio’s archives to select six films which plunge the viewer into a dark world of crime. Featuring Kim Novak, Fred MacMurray, Jean Simmons, Rory Calhoun, Abbe Lane, Louis Hayward, and Richard Conte – not to mention gangsters, G-men, foreign spies, criminals on the run, and corrupt cops – Columbia Noir #4 continues the series in fine style.
Crime / Drama / Film-Noir / Thriller / Western
- October 12, 2021
Walk a Crooked Mile Blu-ray Movie
Indicator Series
Powerhouse Films | 1948 | 91 min | Rated BBFC: 12 | No Release Date | Dr. Svet Atanasov
Director Gordon Douglas drew on mounting anti-Communist hysteria to create one of the first Cold War films - the tale of an FBI agent (Dennis O'Keefe) and a Scotland Yard detective (Louis Hayward) who must bust a spy ring working to infiltrate an atomic research facility. Producer Edward Small stood tall in a battle against FBI director J. Edgar Hoover to produce the film without interference, arguing the Bureau was fair game for fictionalization.
Crime / Drama / Film-Noir
Corridor of Mirrors Blu-ray Movie
Cohen Media Group | 1948 | 96 min | Not rated | Oct 19, 2021 | Jeffrey Kauffman
A man falls in love with a beautiful young woman and begins to suspect that he may have also loved her in a previous life.
Drama / Supernatural
Doctor Who: Sylvester McCoy: Complete Season One Blu-ray Movie
BBC | 1987 | 1 Movie, 4 Cuts | 700 min | Not rated | Sep 21, 2021 | Jeffrey Kauffman
In 1963 an old fashioned Police Call Box sat in a junk yard at 76 Totters Lane. An old man out and about exploring. A young girl wise beyond her years attending Coal Hill School. Two teachers become suspicious. Barbara and Ian suspect the girl is in trouble. They follow her home. The girl, Susan Foreman, vanishes into the junkyard. Barbara and Ian investigate. They discovered the Police Box. "It's alive!" says Ian, he feels a faint vibration coming from within. The girls grandfather returns. He confronts the two teachers who accuse him of holding the girl inside the Police Box. They hear her call out to him from inside. Barbara and Ian push their way in and discover a world they never thought possible.
Adventure / Drama / Sci-Fi
Santa Fe Trail Blu-ray Movie
Warner Archive Collection
Warner Bros. | 1940 | 109 min | Not rated | Sep 14, 2021 | Randy Miller III
The story of Jeb Stuart, his romance with Kit Carson Holliday, friendship with George Custer and battles against John Brown in the days leading up to the outbreak of the American Civil War.
Action / Adventure / Biography / Drama / History / Romance / War / Western
The Sparks Brothers Blu-ray Movie
2-Disc Special Edition
Universal Studios | 2021 | 145 min | Rated R | Sep 28, 2021 | Neil Lumbard
The Sparks Brothers is a 2021 music documentary film directed by Edgar Wright about Ron and Russell Mael, the creators of the pop and rock band Sparks.
Documentary / Music
- October 11, 2021
A Bullet Is Waiting Blu-ray Movie
Indicator Series
Powerhouse Films | 1954 | 82 min | Rated BBFC: 12 | No Release Date | Dr. Svet Atanasov
After crashing their small plane in the wilderness, a sheriff deputy and his prisoner take shelter at an isolated farm.
Crime / Drama / Film-Noir / Thriller / Western
Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers 4K Blu-ray Movie
Collector's Edition / 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray
Shout Factory | 1988 | 89 min | Rated R | Oct 05, 2021 | Brian Orndorf
A decade ago, he butchered 16 people trying to get to his sister. He was shot and incinerated, but still the entity that Dr. Sam Loomis calls "Evil on two legs" would not die. This time, Michael returns to Haddonfield for Jamie Lloyd – the orphaned daughter of Laurie Strode – and her babysitter Rachel. Can Loomis stop Michael before the unholy slaughter reaches his innocent young niece?
Horror / Thriller
Halloween II 4K Blu-ray Movie
Collector's Edition / 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray
Shout Factory | 1981 | 1 Movie, 2 Cuts | 93 min | Rated R | Oct 05, 2021 | Brian Orndorf
Dr. Loomis and Sheriff Brackett are again searching the dark streets for Micheal Myers but meanwhile Laurie Strode is taken to the Haddenfield Hospital where she is still not safe. Micheal, being shot by Dr. Loomis six times, is also still looming in the shadows hunting for her yet this time, there is a reason why he is after her.
Horror / Thriller
Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers 4K Blu-ray Movie
Collector's Edition / 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray
Shout Factory | 1989 | 97 min | Rated R | Oct 05, 2021 | Brian Orndorf
Because Hell would not have him, Michael Myers survived the mine explosion thought to have killed him. One year later, his traumatized young niece Jamie is horrified to discover she has a telepathic bond with her evil Uncle…and that Uncle Michael is on his way back to Haddonfield. But Dr. Loomis has a new plan to destroy The Boogey Man in his childhood home using Jamie as bait.
Horror / Thriller
Casanova, Last Love Blu-ray Movie
Dernier amour
Cohen Media Group | 2019 | 98 min | Not rated | Oct 12, 2021 | Jeffrey Kauffman
In the eighteenth century, Casanova, known for his taste for fun and play, arrived in London after having to go into exile. In this city of which he knows nothing, he meets several times a young courtesan, the Charpillon, which attracts him to the point of forgetting the other women. Casanova is ready to do anything to achieve her ends, but La Charpillon always escapes under the most diverse pretexts. She challenges him, she wants him to love her as much as he wants.
Drama / History / Romance / Foreign