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Rock Hudson Collection Blu-ray Movie
Seminole / The Golden Blade / Bengal Brigade
Kino Lorber | 1953-1954 | 3 Movies | 255 min | Not rated | Dec 08, 2020 | Neil Lumbard
See individual titles for their synopses.
Adventure / History / War / Western
Bengal Brigade Blu-ray Movie
Kino Lorber | 1954 | 87 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Neil Lumbard
At the end of 1856, in Northeast India's Malakai Pass, British Colonial troops under the command of Captain Jeffrey Steven Claybourne are staging an attack on Indian rebels' position. The rebels are part of a major Indian uprising against the rule of the British East India Company which acts as a sovereign power on behalf of the British Crown. British colonial troops, formed with local recruits called Sepoys are divided between soldiers loyal to the British Crown and mutineers fighting against their former masters. Captain Claybourne has no reasons to be concerned with the loyalties of the Sepoys under his command. He is loved and respected by his soldiers, especially after he disobeys retreat orders and rushes to the aid of a doomed company of Sepoys which is caught in a meat-grinder during an ill-planned attack. Despite victory, the beloved captain is court-martialed for disobeying orders and cashiered out of the army.
Adventure / History / War
The Golden Blade Blu-ray Movie
Kino Lorber | 1953 | 81 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Neil Lumbard
After vowing to his dying father to help establish peace in his homeland, Harun travels to Baghdad where he meets gorgeous Princess Khairuzan and uncovers a gold sword that only he can wield. When the Caliph's scheming advisor, Jafar, concocts a plot for Khairuzan to marry his son, Hadi, it is up to humble Harun to prove his worth and save his royal love from a terrible marital fate. Filled with sword-fighting, romance and mystery, it is an unforgettable epic story of passion and loyalty.
Adventure
Seminole Blu-ray Movie
Kino Lorber | 1953 | 87 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Neil Lumbard
A calvary Lt. on trial for murder, recounts his efforts make peace with the Siminole Indian tribe, under an evil major.
Western
Dark Web: Cicada 3301 Blu-ray Movie
Lionsgate Films | 2020 | 104 min | Rated R | Mar 16, 2021 | Jeffrey Kauffman
Genius hacker Conner discovers Cicada 3301, an online treasure hunt that could be a recruiting tool for a secret society. Soon Conner, art-expert friend Avi, and secretive librarian Gwen are dashing from graffiti sites to ancient libraries to uncover real-world clues. But they must outrun aggressive NSA agents, also hot on the trail of Cicada, who want the glory for themselves.
Action / Drama / Thriller
Godzilla 4K Blu-ray Movie
4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray + Digital Copy
Warner Bros. | 2014 | 123 min | Rated PG-13 | Mar 23, 2021 | Randy Miller III
Ford Brody, a Navy bomb expert, has just reunited with his family in San Francisco when he is forced to go to Japan to help his estranged father, Joe. Soon, both men are swept up in an escalating crisis when Godzilla, King of the Monsters, arises from the sea to combat malevolent adversaries that threaten the survival of humanity. The creatures leave colossal destruction in their wake, as they make their way toward their final battleground: San Francisco.
Action / Adventure / Fantasy / Sci-Fi / Thriller
Runaway Train Blu-ray Movie
Kino Lorber | 1985 | 112 min | Rated R | Mar 16, 2021 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
Two escaped convicts and an innocent young woman are aboard a runaway train. They find themselves speeding towards certain disaster.
Action / Adventure / Drama / Thriller
Event Horizon Blu-ray Movie
Collector's Edition
Shout Factory | 1997 | 96 min | Rated R | Mar 23, 2021 | Dr. Stephen Larson
When a rescue crew investigates a spaceship that disappeared into a black hole and has now returned, things start to take an increasingly horrific turn.
Horror / Mystery / Sci-Fi / Thriller / Psychological thriller / Supernatural / Surreal
- March 17, 2021
Secrets & Lies Blu-ray Movie
Criterion | 1996 | 142 min | Not rated | Mar 30, 2021 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
After her adoptive parents die, a young black woman seeks out her natural birth mother only to discover her mother is white.
Comedy / Drama
The Ten Commandments 4K Blu-ray Movie
4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray + Digital Copy
Paramount Pictures | 1956 | 232 min | Rated G | Mar 30, 2021 | Martin Liebman
The life of Moses and his leading of the Israelites to the Promised Land.
Adventure / Drama / History / Epic
Reginald Denny Collection Blu-ray Movie
Kino Lorber | 1924-1926 | 3 Movies | 225 min | Not rated | Aug 25, 2020 | Neil Lumbard
Three Reginald Denny silent movies from the 1920s. The Reckless Age has him as an Insurance Agent; in Skinner's Dress Suit he plays a clerk; and What Happened To Jones as a bachelor on the night before his wedding.
Comedy / Drama / Romance
What Happened to Jones? Blu-ray Movie
Kino Lorber | 1926 | 70 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Neil Lumbard
No synopsis for this title.
Comedy / Romance
Skinner's Dress Suit Blu-ray Movie
Kino Lorber | 1926 | 70 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Neil Lumbard
No synopsis for this title.
Comedy
The Reckless Age Blu-ray Movie
Kino Lorber | 1924 | 70 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Neil Lumbard
No synopsis for this title.
Comedy / Drama
Perdita Durango Blu-ray Movie
Dance With the Devil
Severin Films | 1997 | 126 min | Not rated | Mar 30, 2021 | Jeffrey Kauffman
She's sexy, shameless and loves taking people to their limit. She's a dangerous young woman who dreams about a jaguar that licks her naked body and sleeps by her side. Her past is bathed in blood and weird passions. Now she's met the man of her wildest dreams. He's dark, tough and mysterious. He likes robbing banks, trafficking in corpses and spicing it all with voodoo rituals. Together, the duo sets off toward Mexico destined to become the most feared outlaws in the continent. With a pair of teenage hostages, this non-stop murderous road trip will take you on a bullet-riddled ride of sex, violence and high-octane evil.
Action / Crime / Horror / Dark humor / Erotic / Foreign
Perdita Durango 4K Blu-ray Movie
Dance with the Devil / 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray
Severin Films | 1997 | 126 min | Not rated | Mar 30, 2021 | Jeffrey Kauffman
She's sexy, shameless and loves taking people to their limit. She's a dangerous young woman who dreams about a jaguar that licks her naked body and sleeps by her side. Her past is bathed in blood and weird passions. Now she's met the man of her wildest dreams. He's dark, tough and mysterious. He likes robbing banks, trafficking in corpses and spicing it all with voodoo rituals. Together, the duo sets off toward Mexico destined to become the most feared outlaws in the continent. With a pair of teenage hostages, this non-stop murderous road trip will take you on a bullet-riddled ride of sex, violence and high-octane evil.
Action / Crime / Horror / Dark humor / Erotic / Foreign
- March 16, 2021
Irma Vep Blu-ray Movie
Criterion | 1996 | 99 min | Not rated | Apr 27, 2021 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
A Chinese movie actress, in France to star in a remake of "Les Vampires", finds petty intrigues and clashing egos on the set.
Comedy / Drama / Foreign
The Intrigue: The Films of Julia Crawford Ivers Blu-ray Movie
Kino Lorber | 1916 | 3 Movies | 197 min | Not rated | Mar 17, 2020 | Neil Lumbard
See individual titles for their synopses.
Drama
The Maya Deren Collection Blu-ray Movie
Kino Lorber | 1943-1985 | 8 Movies | 208 min | Not rated | Feb 25, 2020 | Neil Lumbard
Maya Deren is one of the most important American experimental filmmakers of all time and Kino Classics and Re:Voir are proud to present new 2K restorations of her essential work. Along with being a filmmaker, Deren was a choreographer, dancer, film theorist, poet, lecturer and photographer, and she brings all of these disciplines together in her dreamlike and ecstatic films. Her most famous and influential is Meshes of the Afternoon (1943), co-directed with Alexander Hammid, which depicts a surrealist slippage in reality as a woman’s home becomes a shifting landscape of beauty and menace. At Land (1944) is another psychogeographical journey where Deren washes up on a beach and encounters a multiplicity of selves. Also included are four 1940s dance films (A Study in Choreography for Camera, Ritual in Transfigured Time, Meditation on Violence, and The Very Eye of Night) in which, as Deren wrote, “I have attempted to place a dancer in limitless, cinemato-graphic space.” She and Hammid put felines through a similarly intimate process in The Private Life of a Cat (1947), which foresaw the future of cat videos. A different exploration of movement occurs in Divine Horsemen (1947-1951, 1979), a remarkable hour-long montage of footage that Deren shot of Haitian Voodoo ceremonies. Stan Brakhage called Maya Deren “the mother of us all.” The history of avant-garde film is unthinkable without her.
Documentary / Short / Surreal
Wings of the Hawk 3D Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray 3D + Blu-ray
Kino Lorber | 1953 | 81 min | Not rated | Feb 09, 2021 | Neil Lumbard
During the Mexican revolution of 1910, an American prospector gets involved with the revolutionaries after a corrupt Mexican official confiscates his mine.
Adventure / Romance / Western