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Home- February 05, 2021
The Little Prince Blu-ray Movie
Le petit prince / Blu-ray + Digital Copy
Paramount Pictures | 2015 | 107 min | Rated PG | Feb 09, 2021 | Martin Liebman
From Mark Osborne comes the first-ever animated feature film adaptation of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's iconic masterpiece, The Little Prince. At the heart of it all is The Little Girl, who's being prepared by her mother for the very grown-up world in which they live - only to be interrupted by her eccentric, kind-hearted neighbor, The Aviator. The Aviator introduces his new friend to an extraordinary world where anything is possible. A world that he himself was initiated into long ago by The Little Prince. It's here that The Little Girl's magical and emotional journey into her own imagination - and into the universe of The Little Prince - begins. And it's where The Little Girl rediscovers her childhood and learns that ultimately, it's human connections that matter most, and that what's truly essential can only be seen with the heart.
Adventure / Animation / Drama / Family / Foreign
The El Duce Tapes Blu-ray Movie
Arrow | 2019 | 104 min | Not rated | Feb 09, 2021 | Jeffrey Kauffman
Between appearing in supporting roles in General Hospital and local TV commercials, Ryan Sexton spent the early 90s documenting the life and art of El Duce, lead singer of the notorious shock rock band The Mentors. Famous for taking the stage in black executioner hoods, the band spent a few moments in the national spotlight after some of their most offensive lyrics were denounced on the floor of the US Senate. 25 years later, David Lawrence and Rodney Ascher dive into the long unseen VHS footage searching for clues about who El Duce really was, how much of his disturbing persona was for real, and what an act built around a cartoonish sense of violent misogyny can tell us about our own time and place.
Biography / Documentary / Music
The Alienist: Season One Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + Digital Copy
Warner Bros. | 2018 | 471 min | Rated TV-MA | Sep 10, 2019 | Randy Miller III
Crime reporter, John Moore, meets with psychologist, Dr. Laszlo Kreizler, to investigate a serial killer in New York during the late 19th century.
Crime / Drama / Mystery / Psychological thriller / Period
- February 04, 2021
Columbia Noir #2 Blu-ray Movie
Framed / 711 Ocean Drive / The Mob / Affair in Trinidad / Tight Spot / Murder by Contract | Indicator Series | Limited Edition
Powerhouse Films | 1947-1958 | 6 Movies | 547 min | Rated BBFC: PG | Feb 15, 2021 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
Our second Columbia Noir box set takes a dive once more into the studio’s archives and the world of film noir – a world of undercover detectives (The Mob) and emotionless hitmen (Murder by Contract), a world where film is inspired by real-life criminal activities (Tight Spot, based loosely on Virginia Hill’s testimony against Bugsy Siegel) and real-life criminal activities are inspired by film (711 Ocean Drive, which attracted the unwanted attention of mobsters), and a world where Glenn Ford finds himself unwittingly embroiled in murder – twice (Framed, Affair in Trinidad).
Crime / Drama / Film-Noir / Mystery / Thriller
Tight Spot Blu-ray Movie
Indicator Series
Powerhouse Films | 1955 | 96 min | Not rated | Feb 15, 2021 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
A district attorney springs former model Sherry Conley from prison and tries to pressure her to testify against a powerful mobster she knew through close mutual acquaintances. Tension mounts as the court day approaches and Sherry begins to fear for her life despite 24-hour police protection in her sequestered apartment.
Crime / Drama
Greenland Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + DVD + Digital Copy
Universal Studios | 2020 | 120 min | Rated PG-13 | Feb 09, 2021 | Martin Liebman
To save his family from a catastrophic end of times, a man embarks on a risky quest to locate the last hope for salvation and witness the worst of mankind in the battle for survival.
Action / Thriller
Lovecraft Country: The Complete First Season Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + Digital Copy
Warner Bros. | 2020 | 610 min | Rated TV-MA | Feb 16, 2021 | Jeffrey Kauffman
A search for a missing father turns into an otherworldly trip. Based on the 2016 novel by Matt Ruff, this HBO drama series follows Korean war vet Atticus Freeman (Jonathan Majors) as he joins his friend Letitia (Jurnee Smollett) and his Uncle George (Courtney B. Vance) on a journey across 1950s Jim Crow America in search of his father (Michael Kenneth Williams). What follows is a struggle to survive and overcome both the racist terrors of white America and the terrifying monsters that could be ripped from an H.P. Lovecraft paperback.
Drama / Horror / Mystery
Sputnik Blu-ray Movie
Спутник
Shout Factory | 2020 | 114 min | Not rated | Feb 09, 2021 | Brian Orndorf
USSR, 1983. Soviet cosmonaut Konstantin Veshnyakov brings an alien creature back to earth… concealed within his own body. In a secret laboratory situated in a military base closed off from the rest of the country, neurophysiologist Tatiana Klimova tries her best to save the cosmonaut from the alien monster. Meanwhile, she discovers that she feels much more than just a professional interest in her patient.
Horror / Sci-Fi / Thriller / Foreign
- February 03, 2021
Murder by Contract Blu-ray Movie
Indicator Series
Powerhouse Films | 1958 | 80 min | Not rated | Feb 15, 2021 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
Vince Edwards stars as a hired assassin whose latest "assignment" is about to testify against the mob. But this particular target is not so easy to get at. So he waits...and waiting gives the assassin what he needs least: time to think.
Crime / Drama
Elysium 4K Blu-ray Movie
4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray + Digital Copy
Sony Pictures | 2013 | 110 min | Rated R | Feb 09, 2021 | Martin Liebman
In 2154, the very wealthy live on a man-made space station while the rest of the population resides on a ruined Earth, a man takes on a mission that could bring equality to the polarized worlds.
Action / Drama / Sci-Fi / Thriller
Capone Blu-ray Movie
Vertical Entertainment | 2020 | 104 min | Rated R | Jul 21, 2020 | Brian Orndorf
The 47-year old Al Capone, after 10 years in prison, starts suffering from dementia, and comes to be haunted by his violent past.
Biography / Crime / Drama
Baby Doll Blu-ray Movie
Warner Archive Collection
Warner Bros. | 1956 | 115 min | Rated R | Feb 16, 2021 | Randy Miller III
Times are tough for cotton-miller Archie but at least he has his child-bride, who'll soon be his wife in title and truth. The one-year agreement keeping them under the same roof - yet never in the same bed - is about to end. But a game with a sly business rival is about to begin. In Baby Doll, as in A Streetcar Named Desire, director Elia Kazan and writer Tennessee Williams broke new ground - earning condemnation by the then-powerful Legion of Decency. They earned laurels too: four Academy Award nominations, Golden Globe Awards for Baker and Kazan and a British Academy Award for Wallach. Watch this funny, steamy classic that, as Leonard Maltin's Movie Guide proclaims, "still sizzles."
Drama
Jack the Ripper Blu-ray Movie
Standard Edition
Severin Films | 1959 | 1 Movie, 2 Cuts | 85 min | Not rated | Jan 15, 2019 | Jeffrey Kauffman
A serial killer is murdering women in the Whitechapel district of London. An American policeman is brought in to help Scotland Yard solve the case.
Crime / Horror / Mystery / Thriller
- February 02, 2021
Elizabethtown Blu-ray Movie
Paramount Presents #14 / Blu-ray + Digital Copy
Paramount Pictures | 2005 | 124 min | Rated PG-13 | Feb 09, 2021 | Martin Liebman
During an outrageous memorial for a Southern patriarch, an unexpected romance blooms between a young woman and man.
Comedy / Drama
Ammonite Blu-ray Movie
Universal Studios | 2020 | 118 min | Rated R | Jan 12, 2021 | Jeffrey Kauffman
1840s England, an infamous fossil hunter and a young woman sent to convalesce by the sea develop an intense relationship, altering both of their lives forever.
Biography / Drama / Romance / Foreign / Period
Forgotten Gialli: Volume 2 Blu-ray Movie
Limited Edition of 5,000 | The French Sex Murders / Girl in Room 2A / My Dear Killer | SOLD OUT
Vinegar Syndrome | 1972-1974 | 3 Movies | 277 min | Not rated | Nov 27, 2020 | Brian Orndorf
With the giallo at its peak in the early 70s, it seemed that every filmmaker working in Italy was vying to make one and put their unique creative stamp on this highly popular genre. Presented here are a trio of early 70s gialli, all directed by filmmakers who had never made one before - or after - and all presenting wildly different approaches to the genre’s most prevalent trappings, ranging from deliriously sleazy, to high camp, to unwaveringly grim and sombre.
Crime / Horror / Mystery / Thriller / Foreign
The Girl in Room 2A Blu-ray Movie
La casa della paura
Vinegar Syndrome | 1974 | 86 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Brian Orndorf
A sadistic killer cult kidnaps and sacrifices beautiful women. A young girl, just paroled from prison, moves into a strange house and appears to be the cult's next victim.
Horror / Mystery / Thriller / Foreign
French Sex Murders Blu-ray Movie
Casa d'appuntamento
Vinegar Syndrome | 1972 | 91 min | Not rated | Early 2020 | Brian Orndorf
A man is accused of killing his favorite prostitute in a French brothel. He's tried and sentenced to death. He tries to escape but dies during pursuit. Soon, people connected to the case are killed one by one.
Horror / Mystery / Thriller / Foreign
My Dear Killer Blu-ray Movie
Mio caro assassino
Vinegar Syndrome | 1972 | 100 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Brian Orndorf
A mysterious decapitation leads Inspector Peretti into a case of blackmail, deceit and the unsolved kidnapping of a young girl.
Crime / Horror / Mystery / Thriller / Foreign
- February 01, 2021
Affair in Trinidad Blu-ray Movie
Indicator Series
Powerhouse Films | 1952 | 98 min | Not rated | Feb 15, 2021 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
A nightclub singer and her brother-in-law try to find her husband's killer.
Crime / Drama / Film-Noir / Mystery / Thriller