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Home- March 16, 2021
Seis Manos: Season 1 Blu-ray Movie
Viz Media | 2019 | 288 min | Rated TV-MA | Nov 17, 2020 | Neil Lumbard
No synopsis for this title.
Action / Animation / Crime / Drama / Fantasy
- March 15, 2021
The Choirboys Blu-ray Movie
Kino Lorber | 1977 | 119 min | Rated R | Mar 09, 2021 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
A group of Los Angeles cops decide to take off some of the pressures of their jobs by engaging in various forms of after-hours debauchery.
Comedy / Crime / Drama
Isle of the Dead Blu-ray Movie
Warner Archive Collection
Warner Bros. | 1945 | 71 min | Not rated | Mar 30, 2021 | Randy Miller III
On a lonely Greek island, a disparate group of people are in fear. Plague has come to the island making them virtual prisoners and then there is talk of the vorvolakas, a vampire-like creature that preys on the living. Among those trapped there is General Nikolas Pherides (Boris Karloff), nicknamed the Watchdog, who is taken aback when he is visits his wife's mausoleum only to find her grave empty. As several of those quarantined die from the plague, paranoia sets in creating a tense, fear-filled atmosphere...
Drama / Horror / Mystery / Thriller
The Queen Blu-ray Movie
Kino Lorber | 1968 | 66 min | Unrated | Jun 02, 2020 | Neil Lumbard
More than 40 years before RuPaul's Drag Race, this groundbreaking documentary about the 1967 Miss All-American Camp Beauty Pageant introduced audiences to the world of competitive drag. The film takes us backstage to kiki with the contestants as they rehearse, throw shade, and transform into their drag personas in the lead-up to the big event. Organized by pioneering LGBTQ+ icon and activist Flawless Sabrina, the competition boasted a star-studded panel of judges including Andy Warhol, Larry Rivers, and Terry Southern. But perhaps the most memorable moment occurs after the crowning ceremony: an epic diatribe by Crystal LaBeija, who would go on to form the influential House of LaBeija, heavily featured in Paris Is Burning (1990). A vibrant piece of queer history, The Queen can now be seen in full resplendence thanks to a new restoration from the original camera negative.
Documentary
The Day of the Beast Blu-ray Movie
Severin Films | 1995 | 103 min | Not rated | Mar 30, 2021 | Jeffrey Kauffman
A basque priest finds by means of a cabalistic study of the bible that the anti-Christ is going to be born on Christmas day in Madrid. Helped by a heavy-metal fan and by the showman of a TV esoteric program, he will try to invoke the devil to find out the place of birth and kill the baby.
Action / Comedy / Horror / Dark humor / Foreign
The Day of the Beast 4K Blu-ray Movie
El día de la Bestia / 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray
Severin Films | 1995 | 103 min | Not rated | Mar 30, 2021 | Jeffrey Kauffman
A basque priest finds by means of a cabalistic study of the bible that the anti-Christ is going to be born on Christmas day in Madrid. Helped by a heavy-metal fan and by the showman of a TV esoteric program, he will try to invoke the devil to find out the place of birth and kill the baby.
Action / Comedy / Horror / Dark humor / Foreign
Mario Ruspoli, Prince of the Whales Blu-ray Movie
Metrograph Pictures | 2011 | 79 min | Not rated | Jan 05, 2021 | Neil Lumbard
Mario Ruspoli was a photographer, writer, gastronomist, zoologist, jazz nut, student of prehistory, painting enthusiast, amateur entomologist, and an all-around adventurer, and all of these passions fed into the filmmaking activity of this prodigiously gifted documentarian. Ruspoli was born in Rome but a resident of Paris for much of his adult life, and the breadth of his curiosity and free-ranging intelligence was as great as that of his good friend Chris Marker, who wrote the commentary for Three Cheers for the Whale (1972), and the innovations that he introduced to nonfiction filmmaking are still due for proper recognition and appraisal.
Documentary / Foreign
Vanished: Left Behind: Next Generation Blu-ray Movie
Echolight Studios | 2016 | 88 min | Rated PG-13 | Nov 15, 2016 | Martin Liebman
When millions of people begin to disappear, Gabby, his sister, and their other companies will have to stick together for survival and to figure out what happened behind of an indescribable occurence.
Adventure
Suspiria 4K Blu-ray Movie
4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray
Koch Media | 2018 | 152 min | Rated FSK-16 | Apr 04, 2019 | Neil Lumbard
A young ballet dancer travels to a prestigious dance academy in Berlin in 1977, only to discover it is a front for something far more sinister and supernatural amidst a series of increasingly grisly murders.
Fantasy / Horror / Mystery / Thriller / Supernatural / Period
The Other Side of the Mountain / The Other Side of the Mountain 2 Blu-ray Movie
Kino Lorber | 1975-1978 | 2 Movies | 202 min | Rated PG | Feb 23, 2021 | Neil Lumbard
No synopsis for this title.
Drama
The Other Side of the Mountain: Part 2 Blu-ray Movie
Kino Lorber | 1978 | 100 min | Rated PG | No Release Date | Neil Lumbard
The Other Side of the Mountain, Part 2 continues to tell the soul-stirring true story of an Olympic contender who will not stop reaching for the stars even after she is crippled in a skiing accident. The courageous Jill Kinmont returns to her childhood home where she fights off the memories of her ill-fated past and is reintroduced to the power of love by a sensitive trucker.
Drama
The Other Side of the Mountain Blu-ray Movie
Kino Lorber | 1975 | 103 min | Rated PG | No Release Date | Neil Lumbard
The Other Side of the Mountain is the inspirational true story of Olympic hopeful Jill Kinmont. Kinmont, an up-and-coming world-class skier, faces her greatest challenge when she is left paralyzed from the neck down after a tragic accident during a pre-Olympic competition in the 1950s.
Drama
War of the Worlds 4K Blu-ray Movie
15th Anniversary Edition / 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray + Digital Copy
Paramount Pictures | 2005 | 116 min | Rated PG-13 | Mar 02, 2021 | Martin Liebman
An alien invasion threatens the future of humanity. The catastrophic nightmare is depicted through the eyes of one American family fighting for survival.
Action / Adventure / Sci-Fi / Thriller
Léon: The Professional 4K Blu-ray Movie
4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray + Digital Copy
Sony Pictures | 1994 | 1 Movie, 2 Cuts | 133 min | Unrated | Dec 01, 2020 | Martin Liebman
A corrupt Drug Enforcement Administration boss and his thugs murder Mathilda's family in a drug deal gone awry. Orphaned by the massacre, Mathilda is forced to take shelter in the apartment of a neighbor, Léon, whom she knows only slightly. He's a loner and first generation immigrant, who also happens to be a professional hitman. He's never had reason to care about anybody and she has no one else to turn to. Together they form a makeshift bond that will forever change both their lives.
Action / Crime / Drama / Thriller / Melodrama
A Goofy Movie Blu-ray Movie
Disney / Buena Vista | 1995 | 78 min | Rated G | Apr 23, 2019 | Martin Liebman
Max Goof's embarrassing dad Goofy is taking him to a cross-country road trip for a fishing vacation at Lake Destiny, Idaho. Goofy went to the same place with his father when he was Max's age. This vacation is Max's worst nightmare, and it couldn't have happened at a worse time- his original plan was to escort his dream date Roxanne to her friend Stacey's end-of-year-party to see a Powerline concert in Los Angeles on a big-screen TV. But Goofy refuses to let Max skip out on the vacation, so Max has no choice but to cancel the date with Roxanne.
Adventure / Animation / Comedy / Family / Musical
Babylon Berlin: Seasons 1 & 2 Blu-ray Movie
Kino Lorber | 2017-2018 | 2 Seasons | 762 min | Rated TV-MA | Oct 27, 2020 | Neil Lumbard
No synopsis for this title.
Crime / Drama / History / Thriller / Foreign
Grizzly II: Revenge Blu-ray Movie
Gravitas Ventures | 1983 | 74 min | Not rated | Jan 08, 2021 | Martin Liebman
All hell breaks loose when a giant Grizzly, reacting to the slaughter of Grizzlies by poachers, attacks at a massive big-band rock concert in the National Park.
Horror / Music / Thriller
The Legend of Korra: The Complete Series Blu-ray Movie
Paramount Pictures | 2012-2014 | 4 Seasons | 1213 min | Rated TV-Y7-FV | Mar 16, 2021 | Martin Liebman
This hit Nickelodeon series follows the events of "Avatar: The Last Airbender". The next Avatar, a waterbender from the Southern Water Tribe named Korra, journeys to Republic City to master Airbending, as well as make a name for herself and stop a rising threat from a group of revolutionaries known as the Equalists.
Action / Adventure / Animation / Family / Fantasy
Crossfire Blu-ray Movie
Warner Archive Collection
Warner Bros. | 1947 | 86 min | Not rated | Mar 16, 2021 | Randy Miller III
One of the first Hollywood films to explore bigotry follows the story of three World War II soldiers who become suspects in the murder of a Jewish hotel guest.
Crime / Drama / Film-Noir / Mystery
- March 14, 2021
The Undoing Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + Digital Copy
Warner Bros. | 2020 | 332 min | Rated TV-MA | Mar 23, 2021 | Jeffrey Kauffman
Life for a a successful therapist in New York begins to unravel on the eve of publishing her first book.
Drama