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Home- June 14, 2021
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom 4K Blu-ray Movie
4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray + Digital Copy
Paramount Pictures | 1984 | 118 min | Rated PG | Jun 06, 2023 | Martin Liebman
Dashing, whip-wielding archaeologist-adventurer Indiana Jones is joined by comely chanteuse Willie and a 12-year-old sidekick named Short Round. Together they search for a mystical stone stolen from an Indian community and stumble upon a dangerous Thuggee cult. Exotic locales, wild chases, death-defying cliffhangers, last-minute rescues, screaming damsels, and tribal sacrifices are the order of the day as the threesome attempt to acquire the stolen stone.
Action / Adventure / Supernatural / Period
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade 4K Blu-ray Movie
4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray + Digital Copy
Paramount Pictures | 1989 | 127 min | Rated PG-13 | Jun 06, 2023 | Martin Liebman
When Dr. Henry Jones Sr. suddenly goes missing while pursuing the Holy Grail, eminent archaeologist Indiana Jones must follow in his father's footsteps and stop the Nazis from reaching the legendary sacred chalice.
Action / Adventure / Supernatural / Period
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull 4K Blu-ray Movie
4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray + Digital Copy
Paramount Pictures | 2008 | 122 min | Rated PG-13 | Jun 06, 2023 | Martin Liebman
Indiana Jones' newest adventure begins in the desert Southwest in 1957 — the height of the Cold War. Indy and his sidekick Mac have barely escaped a close scrape with nefarious Soviet agents on a remote airfield. Now, Professor Jones has returned home to Marshall College — only to find things have gone from bad to worse. His close friend and dean of the college explains that Indy's recent activities have made him the object of suspicion, and that the government has put pressure on the university to fire him. On his way out of town, Indiana meets rebellious young Mutt, who carries both a grudge and a proposition for the adventurous archaeologist: If he'll help Mutt on a mission with deeply personal stakes, Indy could very well make one of the most spectacular archaeological finds in history — the Crystal Skull of Akator, a legendary object of fascination, superstition and fear.
Action / Adventure / Supernatural / Period
The Douglas Sirk Collection I Blu-ray Movie
To New Shores / La Habanera
Kino Lorber | 1937 | 2 Movies | 199 min | Not rated | May 11, 2021 | Neil Lumbard
No synopsis for this title.
Drama / History / Foreign / Melodrama / Period
La Habanera Blu-ray Movie
Kino Lorber | 1937 | 98 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Neil Lumbard
Trapped in Puerto Rico, a beautiful young Swede (Zarah Leander) is torn between her passionate, but mildly abusive South American oligarch husband and her longing for her European homeland.
Drama / History / Foreign / Melodrama / Period
To New Shores Blu-ray Movie
Zu neuen Ufern
Kino Lorber | 1937 | Not rated | No Release Date | Neil Lumbard
No synopsis for this title.
Drama / Foreign
The Delicious Little Devil Blu-ray Movie
Kino Lorber | 1919 | 65 min | Not rated | Apr 06, 2021 | Neil Lumbard
A poor hat-check girl loses her job and is forced to get a job as a dancer at a roadhouse. There she falls in love with the son of a rich businessman. The boy's father, believing her to be after the family's money, determines to embarrass her and show his son what she really is.
Comedy / Drama
The Reason I Jump Blu-ray Movie
Kino Lorber | 2020 | 82 min | Not rated | May 11, 2021 | Neil Lumbard
Based on the book by Naoki Higashida this immersive film explores the experiences of nonspeaking autistic people around the world.
Documentary
Iron Girl: Final Wars Blu-ray Movie
Switchblade Pictures | 2019 | 90 min | Rated TV-MA | Apr 06, 2021 | Neil Lumbard
Chris may have survived the Apocalypse, but there are still plenty of threats from the past lurking in the ruins of civilization… and now one of them is actively looking for her! At least, that's how it seems when she encounters Joe, a member of the resistance who is trying to discover why the artificial intelligence known as JUDA has been sending out murderous cyborgs with a certain heroine as their target! Even more unnerving is the fact that a mysterious young girl Sara has been having dreams calling to Chris for help… even though the two of them have never met! And if killer cyborgs alone aren't terrifying enough, JUDA has doubled their lethality by equipping their resurrected warriors with the latest in sword technology in Iron Girl: Final Wars!
Action / Foreign
Children of Divorce Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + DVD
Flicker Alley | 1927 | 72 min | Not rated | Dec 06, 2016 | Neil Lumbard
A young flapper tricks her childhood sweetheart into marrying her. He really loves another woman, but didn't marry her for fear the marriage would end in divorce, like his parents'. Complications ensue.
Drama / Romance
- June 13, 2021
Columbia Noir #3 Blu-ray Movie
Johnny O'Clock / The Dark Past / Convicted / Between Midnight and Dawn / The Sniper / City of Fear | Indicator Series | Limited Edition
Powerhouse Films | 1947-1959 | 6 Movies | 519 min | Rated BBFC: 15 | May 17, 2021 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
For the third volume in our ongoing Columbia Noir series, we return once again to the studio’s archives for a sextet of films which brings together some of the great names of film noir – including Dick Powell, Lee J Cobb, Nina Foch, William Holden, Edmond O’Brien, Dorothy Malone, Glenn Ford, Broderick Crawford, Marie Windsor, and Vince Edwards – in stories of psychoanalysis and cynicism, racketeers and radioactivity, casinos and killing sprees, and cops and convicts.
Action / Crime / Drama / Film-Noir / Thriller
Convicted Blu-ray Movie
Indicator Series
Powerhouse Films | 1950 | 91 min | Rated BBFC: PG | No Release Date | Dr. Svet Atanasov
During a barroom brawl, Joe Hufford (Glenn Ford) accidentally kills the son of a powerful, prominent man. The district attorney, George Knowland (Broderick Crawford), wins a manslaughter conviction, despite having doubts about the defendant's guilt. Joe is sent to prison, and George, who eventually becomes the warden there, hopes to get him released. But Joe gets so immersed in the culture and codes of the jailhouse that he finds it difficult to believe in his own innocence.
Action / Crime / Drama / Film-Noir
Circus of Horrors Blu-ray Movie
Shout Factory | 1960 | 92 min | Not rated | Sep 10, 2019 | Dr. Stephen Larson
In 1947 England, a plastic surgeon must beat a hasty retreat to France when one of his patients has ghastly problems with her surgery. Once there, he operates on a circus owner's daughter, deformed by bombs from the war. Later he becomes the owner of the circus, and continues transforming disfigured women into the beautiful stars of his show.
Horror
Baphomet Blu-ray Movie
Cleopatra | 2021 | 71 min | Not rated | May 14, 2021 | Jeffrey Kauffman
The Richardson family celebrates their 28-year-old daughter's pregnancy in Northern California. The celebration is interrupted when a Satanic cult member, Aksel Brandr, pays them an unexpected visit. Aksel, on behalf of the cult's leader Henrik Brandr, offers to pay the family a large sum for ownership of their land. Jacob Richardson, the father, rejects the offer due to the priceless sentimental value of their home. Henrik and his cult, displeased, begin to put devastating curses on the Richardsons, trying to force them off their land - even if it means murdering them. After suffering unexplainable tragedies, the Richardsons seek help from Marybeth, a white witch high priestess. They soon discover a terrible secret about their home, revealing why it is so valuable to the cult. They realize they must protect their property from the cult at all costs, and a violent battle between good and evil ensues.
Horror / Thriller
Walking the Edge Blu-ray Movie
Standard Edition
Fun City Editions | 1985 | 94 min | Rated R | Jun 29, 2021 | Brian Orndorf
Jason Walk is a part-time cabbie and small-time numbers runner on the seedy fringes of Hollywood. But when he accidentally helps a woman kill the drug dealers who murdered her son, he finds himself hunted through a deadly underworld of pimps, players and sadistic killers. As the violence hits closer, Jason hits back with a plan that puts him far out of his league and dangerously close to the edge.
Action / Crime / Drama
- June 12, 2021
Horizons West Blu-ray Movie
Kino Lorber | 1952 | 81 min | Not rated | May 11, 2021 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
Two brothers (Robert Ryan, Rock Hudson) end up on opposite sides of the law in post-Civil War Texas.
Western
The Legend of Hei Blu-ray Movie
罗小黑战记 / Luo Xiaohei Zhan Ji / Blu-ray + DVD
Shout Factory | 2019 | 102 min | Not rated | May 11, 2021 | Brian Orndorf
In bustling human world, various of goblins live peacefully with mankind. Luo Xiao-Hei, the cat demon, begins his journey of wandering because his forest home is destroyed. With sympathetic goblin partners and earnest human master appearing one after another, Hei is in the dilemma of which side will be his true attribution.
Action / Adventure / Animation / Foreign
A Ghost Waits Blu-ray Movie
Arrow | 2020 | 79 min | Not rated | May 04, 2021 | Jeffrey Kauffman
A man's job requires him to clean a house, which turns out to be haunted. In the course of trying to exorcise the ghost, he falls in love with her.
Comedy / Horror / Romance
- June 11, 2021
Le Magnifique Blu-ray Movie
The Magnificent One / The Man from Acapulco
Kino Lorber | 1973 | 95 min | Not rated | Jun 08, 2021 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
A French author's neighbor becomes his lover in a spy-novel fantasy.
Action / Comedy / Fantasy / Romance / Foreign
Giants and Toys Blu-ray Movie
巨人と玩具 / Kyojin to gangu
Arrow | 1958 | 95 min | Not rated | May 11, 2021 | Jeffrey Kauffman
As a new recruit to the marketing department of World Caramel, fresh-faced graduate Nishi is eager to impress his ambitious and hard-nosed boss Goda, even if it strains his relationships with his college friend Yokoyama and budding love interest Masami, who work at the rival companies of Giant and Apollo. With World's lead over its competitors slipping badly, the two spot a chance to get back in the race in the shape of the pretty but unsophisticated 18-year-old, Kyoko. Goda and Nishi get to work polishing this rough diamond as their new campaign girl, but as the three rival confectionery companies pitch themselves into an all-out advertising war that spills out onto the streets of Tokyo as it escalates to ludicrous extremes, Kyoko's newfound fame starts going to her head.
Comedy / Drama / Foreign