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Home- June 05, 2021
The Gambler Blu-ray Movie
Imprint #49
Imprint | 1974 | 111 min | Rated ACB: M | Jun 02, 2021 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
Axel Freed is an English professor in New York City whose severe gambling addiction spirals out of control, placing him deep in debt to the mob. Despite having a supportive family and girlfriend, he compulsively risks everything, seeking the ultimate high of losing and defying danger.
Crime / Drama
Birdy Blu-ray Movie
Mill Creek Entertainment | 1984 | 120 min | Rated R | No Release Date | Dr. Stephen Larson
After two friends return home from the Vietnam War one becomes mentally unstable and obsesses with becoming a bird.
Drama / War
Get Rich or Die Tryin' Blu-ray Movie
Paramount Pictures | 2005 | 116 min | Rated R | May 25, 2021 | Martin Liebman
Inner-city drug dealer Marcus, a man haunted by the absence of his father, turns away from his life of crime to focus on music after surviving a near-fatal shooting.
Biography / Crime / Drama / Music
Boogie Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + Digital Copy
Universal Studios | 2021 | 90 min | Rated R | Jun 01, 2021 | Martin Liebman
Set in contemporary New York City and follows a Chinese-American basketball phenom who struggles to balance the expectations of his immigrant family with his own dreams of becoming a player for the NBA.
Drama / Sport
The Great War of Archimedes Blu-ray Movie
アルキメデスの大戦 / Archimedes no Taisen
Well Go USA | 2019 | 130 min | Not rated | Jun 15, 2021 | Jeffrey Kauffman
In 1933, a young naval officer and math prodigy uncovers a conspiracy regarding the construction of Japanese warships for the ongoing World War 2.
Action / Drama / Mystery / War / Foreign
Embattled Blu-ray Movie
Shout Factory | 2020 | 117 min | Rated R | Jun 01, 2021 | Brian Orndorf
A son aspires to follow in his famous MMA father's footsteps, but along his journey must figure out how to break the abusive cycle, if possible, that his father has continued.
Action / Drama / Sport
The Nest Blu-ray Movie
Shout Factory | 2020 | 108 min | Rated R | May 18, 2021 | Brian Orndorf
Life for an entrepreneur and his American family begin to take a twisted turn after moving into a English country manor.
Drama
- June 04, 2021
Carole Lombard Collection II Blu-ray Movie
Hands Across the Table / Love Before Breakfast / The Princess Comes Across
Kino Lorber | 1935-1936 | 3 Movies | 224 min | Not rated | Apr 06, 2021 | Neil Lumbard
See individual titles for their synopses.
Comedy / Mystery / Romance
The Princess Comes Across Blu-ray Movie
Kino Lorber | 1936 | 76 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Neil Lumbard
A woman pretends to be royalty in order to get aboard a cruise ship.
Comedy / Mystery / Romance
Love Before Breakfast Blu-ray Movie
Kino Lorber | 1936 | 70 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Neil Lumbard
Madly in love with Kay Colby (Carole Lombard), wealthy businessman Scott Miller (Preston Foster) buys the oil company her fiancé Bill (Cesar Romero) works for and transfers him to Japan. Finally able to make his move, Scott woos the Park Avenue beauty until she finally agrees to be wed. However, when Kay claims she is only marrying him for his money, Scott breaks the engagement and brings back Bill so she can choose which suitor she loves the most.
Comedy
Hands Across the Table Blu-ray Movie
Kino Lorber | 1935 | 80 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Neil Lumbard
A loafer and a manicurist, both planning to marry money, meet and form an uneasy alliance.
Comedy / Romance
Carole Lombard Collection I Blu-ray Movie
Fast and Loose / Man of the World / No Man of Her Own
Kino Lorber | 1930-1932 | 3 Movies | 224 min | Not rated | Aug 04, 2020 | Neil Lumbard
See individual titles for their synopses.
Comedy / Crime / Drama / Romance
No Man of Her Own Blu-ray Movie
Kino Lorber | 1932 | 82 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Neil Lumbard
When New York con man Babe Stewart decides to lie low in a small town, he falls for a librarian seeking adventure and a way out of her predictable existence. Gambling on marriage, they head back to the city where Stewart tries to hide his former life from his new bride.
Comedy / Drama / Romance
Man of the World Blu-ray Movie
Kino Lorber | 1931 | 71 min | No Release Date | Neil Lumbard
A young American girl visits Paris accompanied by her fiancee and her wealthy uncle. There she meets and is romanced by a worldly novelist; what she doesn't know is that he is a blackmailer who is using her to get to her uncle.
Crime / Drama / Romance
Fast and Loose Blu-ray Movie
Kino Lorber | 1930 | 71 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Neil Lumbard
The Lenox family of Long Island, headed by Bronson and Carrie, is wealthy and respectful of tradition, but their children Bertie and Marion are more irreverent. When Bertie gets involved with a chorus girl, Alice O'Neil, and Marion falls in love with Henry Morgan, an auto mechanic, the family tries to intervene to prevent their children from marrying beneath themselves.
Comedy / Romance
Ladybug Ladybug Blu-ray Movie
Kino Lorber | 1963 | 82 min | Not rated | Dec 15, 2020 | Neil Lumbard
Staff and students at a rural school react to a warning of an imminent nuclear attack, not knowing whether it is real or a mistake.
Drama
Escape from Fort Bravo Blu-ray Movie
Warner Archive Collection
Warner Bros. | 1953 | 99 min | Not rated | May 18, 2021 | Randy Miller III
During the Civil War, a group of Confederates escapes from the Union POW camp at Fort Bravo but has to contend with the desert, the Mescalero Apaches and the pursuing Union troops.
Western
But I'm a Cheerleader Blu-ray Movie
Director's Cut
Lionsgate Films | 1999 | 91 min | Not rated | Jun 01, 2021 | Jeffrey Kauffman
Confident and opinionated, 17-year-old Megan is a high school student who has it all. She's popular, pretty, a model student, dates the captain of the football team and is a cheerleader. But she's also a vegetarian, likes Georgia O'Keefe and hates kissing her boyfriend, leading her horrified parents to conclude that she's... a lesbian! Their solution is to send Megan to True Directions, a "rehabilitation camp" run by homophobic counselor Mary Brown. At first, Megan resists "rehabilitation." Then she meets Graham, a sexy tomboy who shows her exactly what her "true direction" is.
Comedy / Drama / Teen / Coming of age
Smokey and the Bandit 4K Blu-ray Movie
4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray + Digital Copy
Universal Studios | 1977 | 96 min | Rated PG | Jun 01, 2021 | Martin Liebman
The Bandit is hired on to run a tractor trailer full of beer over county lines in hot pursuit by a pesky sheriff.
Action / Comedy / Crime
Scanner Cop 1 & 2 4K Blu-ray Movie
Limited Edition Slipcase & Slipcover / 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray
Vinegar Syndrome | 1994-1995 | 2 Movies | 190 min | Not rated | May 28, 2021 | Brian Orndorf
Sam Staziak, a rookie cop with the Los Angeles Police Department, is also a scanner.
Crime / Horror / Sci-Fi