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Home- February 26, 2021
John Hughes: 5 Movie Collection Blu-ray Movie
Planes, Trains and Automobiles / Ferris Bueller’s Day Off / She’s Having a Baby / Pretty in Pink / Some Kind of Wonderful / Blu-ray + Digital Copy
Paramount Pictures | 1986-1988 | 5 Movies | 491 min | Rated PG-13 | Feb 23, 2021 | Brian Orndorf
See individual titles for their synopses.
Comedy / Drama / Romance / Teen / Holiday / Coming of age
Some Kind of Wonderful Blu-ray Movie
Paramount Pictures | 1987 | 95 min | Rated PG-13 | Feb 23, 2021 | Brian Orndorf
A young tomboy, Watts, finds her feelings for her best friend, Keith, run deeper than just friendship when he gets a date with the most popular girl in school. Unfortunately, the girl's old boyfriend, who is from the rich section of town, is unable to let go of her, and plans to get back at Keith.
Comedy / Drama / Teen / Coming of age
She's Having a Baby Blu-ray Movie
Paramount Pictures | 1988 | 106 min | Rated PG-13 | Feb 23, 2021 | Brian Orndorf
Jake and Kristy Briggs are newlyweds. Being young, they are perhaps a bit unprepared for the full reality of marriage and all that it (and their parents) expect from them.
Comedy / Drama / Romance
- February 25, 2021
The Allnighter Blu-ray Movie
Kino Lorber | 1987 | 95 min | Rated PG-13 | Feb 23, 2021 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
Molly, Val and Gina are graduating college, but on their final night, frustrations are aired. Molly is still looking for real love and Val is beginning to doubt if that is what she's found. Gina is too busy videotaping everything to really notice. When the final party at Pacifica College kicks off, things don't go exactly as planned.
Comedy / Romance
Good Burger Blu-ray Movie
Paramount Pictures | 1997 | 95 min | Rated PG | Feb 16, 2021 | Martin Liebman
Can fast-food counter dudes Ed (Kel Mitchell) and Dexter (Kenan Thompson) battle big business? That's the order of the day when Mondo Burger's high-tech hamburger haven opens across the street from the tiny Good Burger diner. Catch up with the gags as Ed and Dexter scramble to save their jobs and stop Mondo Burger's bid for fast-food domination!
Comedy / Family / Teen
Mousehunt Blu-ray Movie
Paramount Pictures | 1997 | 98 min | Rated PG | Feb 02, 2021 | Martin Liebman
Down-on-their luck brothers, Lars and Ernie Smuntz, aren’t happy with the crumbling old mansion they inherit… until they discover the estate is worth millions. Before they can cash in, they have to rid the house of its single, stubborn occupant: a tiny and tenacious mouse.
Comedy / Family / Dark humor
Mandabi Blu-ray Movie
Criterion | 1968 | 91 min | Not rated | Feb 16, 2021 | Jeffrey Kauffman
After jobless Ibrahima Dieng receives a money order for 25,000 francs from a nephew who works in Paris, news of his windfall quickly spreads among his neighbors, who flock to him for loans even as he finds his attempts to cash the order stymied in a maze of bureaucracy, and new troubles rain down on his head.
Drama / Foreign
Show Boat Blu-ray Movie
Warner Archive Collection
Warner Bros. | 1951 | 108 min | Not rated | Feb 23, 2021 | Randy Miller III
About life on a Mississippi riverboat tracks the hardships of Julie Laverne, a mulatto trying to pass for white while also following the course of a tumultuous love between a captain's daughter, Magnolia Hawks, and an itinerant gambler, Gaylord Ravenal.
Drama / Musical / Romance
- February 24, 2021
The Croods: A New Age Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + DVD + Digital Copy
Universal Studios | 2020 | 95 min | Rated PG | Feb 23, 2021 | Martin Liebman
The prehistoric Crood family is challenged by rival family the Bettermans, who claim to be better and more evolved.
Adventure / Animation / Comedy / Family / Fantasy
The Croods: A New Age 4K Blu-ray Movie
4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray + Digital Copy
Universal Studios | 2020 | 95 min | Rated PG | Feb 23, 2021 | Martin Liebman
The prehistoric Crood family is challenged by rival family the Bettermans, who claim to be better and more evolved.
Adventure / Animation / Comedy / Family / Fantasy
Horizon Line Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + Digital Copy
Universal Studios | 2020 | 92 min | Rated PG-13 | Feb 16, 2021 | Martin Liebman
A couple flying on a small plane to attend a tropical island wedding must fight for their lives after their pilot suffers a heart attack.
Thriller
Crazy Samurai: 400 vs. 1 Blu-ray Movie
Crazy Samurai Musashi / 狂武蔵 / Kyō Musashi
Well Go USA | 2020 | 91 min | Not rated | Mar 02, 2021 | Jeffrey Kauffman
When a master samurai arrives to duel the disgraced Yoshioka dojo, he walks into an ambush. In the world's first 77-minute, one-take action film sequence, Miyamoto Musashi (Tak Sakaguchi) fights for his life against 400 warriors, earning a place in history as the CRAZY SAMURAI MUSASHI.
Action / Foreign
- February 23, 2021
Panther Squad Blu-ray Movie
Full Moon Features | 1984 | 77 min | Rated R | Jan 15, 2020 | Brian Orndorf
A squad of female mercenaries take on an organization called Space Clean, which is dedicated to stopping space exploration.
Action / Adventure / Crime
A Call to Spy Blu-ray Movie
Shout Factory | 2019 | 124 min | Rated PG-13 | Feb 16, 2021 | Brian Orndorf
In the beginning of WWII, with Britain becoming desperate, Churchill orders his new spy agency -- the Special Operations Executive (SOE) -- to recruit and train women as spies. Their daunting mission: conduct sabotage and build a resistance. SOE's "spymistress," Vera Atkins (Stana Katic), recruits two unusual candidates: Virginia Hall (Sarah Megan Thomas), an ambitious American with a wooden leg, and Noor Inayat Khan (Radhika Atpe), a Muslim pacifist. Together, these women help to undermine the Nazi regime in France, leaving an unmistakable legacy in their wake. Inspired by true stories.
Biography / Drama / Thriller
Shogun's Joy of Torture Blu-ray Movie
Arrow | 1968 | 96 min | Not rated | Feb 23, 2021 | Jeffrey Kauffman
The Joy of Torture is an anthology that is made up of three separate stories that all intersect: The first segment is about Shinza who was hurt while working when a log hit him on the head, and now sister Mitsu is forced to give herself to her brother's boss Mr. Mino in order to help pay for Shinza's doctor bills. The second segment is about the arrival of mother Reiho and her servant Rintoku at the Jukuin monastery. The monastery is located near a temple inhabited by priests and one day when one of them named Shunkei runs by Reiho he arouses something inside of her. The final segment is about a tattoo artist named Horicho who has just given Kimicho his greatest tattoo to date. While showing his work off to a group of people, a man named Lord Nambera walks by mocking the tattoo and its lack of realism.
Drama / Horror / Foreign / Period
Continental Divide Blu-ray Movie
Kino Lorber | 1981 | 103 min | Rated PG | Dec 01, 2020 | Neil Lumbard
Ernie Souchak (John Belushi) is a celebrated Chicago Sun-Times columnist famous for his blistering political exposes. While his controversial reporting has earned him the respect of his editor, Howard McDermott (Allen Goorwitz) and the admiration of a legion of fans, it also earns him a trip to the hospital following a run-in with some disgruntled thugs. Suggesting he leave the city for a while, McDermott sends Ernie to the Rockies to interview renowned ornithologist Nell Porter (Blair Brown) who studies the habits of the endangered American bald eagle. It's a case of loathe at first sight when the chain-smoking, big city Souchak meets the reclusive nature-lover Porter! But despite their differences, Souchak's trip west soon turns into a fun-filled romantic adventure as these two trek through the mountains at the top of the world along the Continental Divide!
Comedy / Romance
Alice Guy Blaché Vol. 2: The Solax Years Blu-ray Movie
Kino Lorber | 1911-1914 | 251 min | Not rated | Mar 17, 2020 | Neil Lumbard
A collection of short films from filmmaker Alice Guy-Blaché produced during the Solax years.
Drama
The Return of the Musketeers Blu-ray Movie
Kino Lorber | 1989 | 103 min | Rated PG | Dec 08, 2020 | Neil Lumbard
It's 1649: Mazarin hires the impoverished D'Artagnan to find the other musketeers: Cromwell has overthrown the English king, so Mazarin fears revolt, particularly from the popular Beaufort. Porthos, bored with riches and wanting a title, signs on, but Aramis, an abbé, and Athos, a brawler raising an intellectual son, assist Beaufort in secret. When they fail to halt Beaufort's escape from prison, the musketeers are expendable, and Mazarin sends them to London to rescue Charles I. They are also pursued by Justine, the avenging daughter of Milady de Winter, their enemy 20 years ago. They must escape England, avoid Justine, serve the Queen, and secure Beauford's political reforms.
Action / Adventure
Diary of a Mad Housewife Blu-ray Movie
Kino Lorber | 1970 | 95 min | Rated R | Dec 15, 2020 | Neil Lumbard
A housewife with an abusive husband has an affair with a writer.
Comedy / Drama
- February 22, 2021
Days of Being Wild Blu-ray Movie
阿飛正傳 / Ah fei zing zyun / Theatrical and Alternate versions
Criterion | 1990 | 1 Movie, 2 Cuts | 95 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Dr. Svet Atanasov
A band of wayward twenty-somethings—including a disaffected playboy searching for his birth mother, a lovelorn woman hopelessly enamored with him, and a policeman caught in the middle of their turbulent relationship—pull together and push apart in a cycle of frustrated desire.
Drama / Romance / Foreign