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Home- November 16, 2021
Moribito: Guardian of the Spirit - Complete Collection Blu-ray Movie
精霊の守り人
Sentai Filmworks | 2007 | 650 min | Rated TV-14 | Sep 29, 2020 | Neil Lumbard
Balsa the spearwoman is a wandering warrior, who takes on the task of saving lives, in atonement for a past sin. On her journey, she happens to save a prince, and is tasked with becoming his bodyguard. And he is going to need one, for his own father, the emperor, wants him dead.
Adventure / Anime / Drama / Fantasy / Foreign
- November 15, 2021
Outlaw Star: Complete Series Blu-ray Movie
Collector's Edition | 星方武侠アウトロースター / Blu-ray + DVD
FUNimation Entertainment | 1998 | 650 min | Rated TV-14 | Jun 13, 2017 | Neil Lumbard
This rollicking adventure takes place in the distant future, when interstellar space is divided among Pirates, the Space Forces, and Outlaws, who live by their personal codes. Self-proclaimed Outlaw Gene Starwind is a crack shot, a ferocious brawler, and a dashing ladies' man. But he suffers from a fear of space rooted in his troubled past. He lives on the two-bit planet Sentinel III with his friend and business partner Jim Hawking, a kid who looks a bit like Duo in Gundam Wing. Jim and Gene are drawn into a web of intrigue by the rebel pirate Hot Ice Hilda.
Action / Adventure / Anime / Sci-Fi / Foreign
Outlaw Star: Complete Series Blu-ray Movie
星方武侠アウトロースター / Blu-ray + DVD
FUNimation Entertainment | 1998 | 650 min | Rated TV-14 | Jun 13, 2017 | Neil Lumbard
Legend speaks of the Galactic Leyline, a treasure that offers the ultimate power of the universe to those who seek its glory. Utilizing the latest technology, a living starship has been built with the power to find the Galactic Leyline. By twist of fate, it has fallen into the hands of an outlaw, named Gene Starwind. Together with his team of bounty hunters, he will take to the stars and come to discover his fate.
Action / Adventure / Anime / Sci-Fi / Foreign
The Stand Blu-ray Movie
Paramount Pictures | 2020-2021 | 510 min | Not rated | Oct 05, 2021 | Martin Liebman
After the world is in ruins, due to a man-made plague, a battle of literally Biblical proportions ensues between the survivors.
Drama / Horror / Supernatural / Epic
Vanilla Sky Blu-ray Movie
Paramount Presents #27 | Remastered / Blu-ray + Digital Copy
Paramount Pictures | 2001 | 136 min | Rated R | Nov 16, 2021 | Martin Liebman
A successful publisher finds his life taking a turn for the surreal after a car accident with a jilted lover.
Mystery / Romance / Sci-Fi / Thriller / Psychological thriller / Surreal
Devi Blu-ray Movie
The Goddess
Criterion | 1960 | 93 min | Not rated | Oct 26, 2021 | Jeffrey Kauffman
A young woman's father-in-law begins to believe that she is a reincarnation of the goddess Kali, to whom he is strongly devoted. As she falls under the adoring eyes of other villagers, she begins to lose herself to the illusion.
Drama / Foreign
Mirage Blu-ray Movie
Kino Lorber | 1965 | 108 min | Not rated | Sep 10, 2019 | Jeffrey Kauffman
An accountant's memory suddenly becomes mixed up starting from the moment the building he is in has a power blackout. He is bewildered that he can't recall even simple particulars of his job and places he does remember don't exist. Believing he has some type of amnesia, he tries to backtrack what happened before the blackout. Aided by a rookie detective and confused by an old girl friend, he tries to make sense of inconsistent facts while people around him are being murdered.
Mystery / Thriller
The Last of Sheila Blu-ray Movie
Warner Archive Collection
Warner Bros. | 1973 | 119 min | Rated PG | Nov 09, 2021 | Randy Miller III
Composer Stephen Sondheim (SWEENEY TODD, INTO THE WOODS) and actor Anthony Perkins (PSYCHO) wrote this witty, complex thriller directed by Herbert Ross (STEEL MAGNOLIAS, THE GOODBY GIRL). A movie kingpin (James Coburn), whose wife Sheila was killed by a hit-and-run driver a year before, hosts a cruise aboard his sleek yacht. His guests are all friends (and some lovers) who may know more about Sheila's death than they're letting on (James Mason, Raquel Welch, Dyan Cannon, Richard Benjamin, Joan Hackett and Ian McShane). An elaborate murder game with Mediterranean ports-of-call is the itinerary. What unfolds is a mystery so intriguing, so cleverly plotted, even the title is a clue!
Drama / Mystery / Thriller / Dark humor / Psychological thriller
- November 14, 2021
Love & Basketball Blu-ray Movie
Criterion | 2000 | 126 min | Rated PG-13 | Sep 21, 2021 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
Monica and Quincy spent their lives bonding over their mutual love of basketball, but something always got in the way of them being together. This time, Monica's not letting go so easily. It's just the two of them, one on one, and the stakes have never been higher.
Drama / Romance / Sport / Teen
Ragtime Blu-ray Movie
Paramount Presents #28 / Blu-ray + Digital Copy
Paramount Pictures | 1981 | 1 Movie, 2 Cuts | 174 min | Rated PG | Nov 16, 2021 | Martin Liebman
A proud black musician rebels against racism in turn-of-the-century New York.
Drama / Music / Period
Prisoners of the Ghostland 4K Blu-ray Movie
4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray
RLJ Entertainment | 2021 | 100 min | Not rated | Nov 16, 2021 | Randy Miller III
A notorious criminal must break an evil curse in order to rescue an abducted girl who has mysteriously disappeared.
Action / Horror / Thriller
Hacksaw Ridge 4K Blu-ray Movie
4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray + Digital Copy
Lionsgate Films | 2016 | 139 min | Rated R | Nov 02, 2021 | Jeffrey Kauffman
World War II American Army Medic becomes the first man in American history to receive the Medal of Honor without firing a shot.
Action / Biography / Drama / History / War
- November 13, 2021
The Pursuit of D.B. Cooper Blu-ray Movie
Kino Lorber | 1981 | 101 min | Rated PG | Oct 26, 2021 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
A speculation on the fate of the famous hijacker who parachuted with his ransom and disappeared in the mountains, has Cooper following a meticulous plan to disappear into anonymity despite the best efforts of a dogged cop.
Adventure / Crime / Thriller
Killer Party Blu-ray Movie
Shout Factory | 1986 | 92 min | Rated R | Oct 26, 2021 | Dr. Stephen Larson
It's April Fool's Day and the sisters of Sigma Alpha Pi have found the perfect place to throw a party: the abandoned fraternity house where a guillotined pledge lost his head in a hazing gone slightly awry.
Comedy / Horror
Who You Think I Am Blu-ray Movie
Celle que vous croyez
Cohen Media Group | 2019 | 102 min | Not rated | Nov 02, 2021 | Jeffrey Kauffman
Claire, a 50-year-old divorced teacher, creates a fake Facebook profile of a 24-year-old woman. She finds a photo of a pretty young brunette and uses it. She has created an entirely fictional character, but why?
Comedy / Drama / Foreign
- November 12, 2021
Shanghai Triad Blu-ray Movie
Yáo ā yáo, yáo dào wài pó qiáo / 摇啊摇，摇到外婆桥 / Imprint Collection #72
Imprint | 1995 | 108 min | No Release Date | Dr. Svet Atanasov
Shanghai, 1930. Mr. Tang, the godfather chief of the Tang family-run underground Green dynasty, controls the city's lucrative opium and prostitution trade. He has also acquired the services of Xiao Jinbao, the most beautiful prostitute-singer in Shanghai. Fourteen-year-old Tang Shuisheng has been recruited by his uncle to watch Xiao Jinbao. Ultimately, Shuisheng becomes the only person to whom she can talk openly and whose relationship with her is not motivated by power or greed. In secret, Xiao Jinbao has become the mistress of Song, the Greens' number two man, and together they conspire against Mr. Tang.
Crime / Drama / Foreign
Steel Dawn Blu-ray Movie
Collector's Series / Blu-ray + Digital Copy
Lionsgate Films | 1987 | 101 min | Rated R | Oct 26, 2021 | Jeffrey Kauffman
Nomad (Patrick Swayze), a new breed of warrior trained in the arts of swordsmanship and hand-to-hand combat, roams the vast desert wastelands in a post-nuclear age.
Action
The Laughing Dead Blu-ray Movie
Vinegar Syndrome | 1989 | 92 min | Unrated | Oct 26, 2021 | Brian Orndorf
Zombies, demons, and a mad doctor await a bus-load of folks looking for a tour of Aztec ruins. Father O'Sullivan is a Catholic priest who has lost his faith in God and who cannot forget the nun with whom he once had an affair (and a son). O'Sullivan serves as tour guide for archaeological student Cal, New Agers Wilbur and Clarisse Lemming, runaway Laurie, and tourists Dozois and Frost on a bus trip to Mexico. No one is more surprised than O'Sullivan when his love, Tessie, also boards the bus with her bratty son Ivan. In Mexico, Cal reveals his knowledge of a crucial ancient text, just in time for the Day of the Dead festivities. Meanwhile, evil Dr. Um-tzec is planning an apotheosis for himself that will culminate in his incarnation as the Death God, and what he needs to accomplish this is the hearts of sacrificial children ... lots and lots of hearts. While Father O'Sullivan grapples with the emotions of seeing Tessie again, he is approached by Dr. Um-tzec to perform an exorcism; but ...
Horror
Black Widow 4K + 3D Blu-ray Movie
ブラック・ウィドウ / 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray 3D + Blu-ray + Digital Copy
Disney / Buena Vista | 2021 | 134 min | Not rated | Oct 20, 2021 | Neil Lumbard
Natasha Romanoff aka Black Widow confronts the darker parts of her ledger when a dangerous conspiracy with ties to her past arises. Pursued by a force that will stop at nothing to bring her down, Natasha must deal with her history as a spy and the broken relationships left in her wake long before she became an Avenger.
Action / Adventure / Comic book
Black Widow 4K + 3D Blu-ray Movie
ブラック・ウィドウ / 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray 3D + Blu-ray + Digital Copy
Disney / Buena Vista | 2021 | 134 min | Not rated | Sep 15, 2021 | Neil Lumbard
Natasha Romanoff aka Black Widow confronts the darker parts of her ledger when a dangerous conspiracy with ties to her past arises. Pursued by a force that will stop at nothing to bring her down, Natasha must deal with her history as a spy and the broken relationships left in her wake long before she became an Avenger.
Action / Adventure / Comic book