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Home- July 15, 2020
Hollywood Story Blu-ray Movie
Mill Creek Entertainment | 1951 | 76 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Jeffrey Kauffman
HOLLYWOOD STORY takes aim at the darker side of the movie business. It stars Richard Conte as Larry O'Brien, a stage producer with dreams of being in the movie business, who decides to shoot a documentary about the mysterious death of a silent film director, only to find himself in danger of suffering the same fate. With cameos by silent film stars such as Helen Gibson and Francis X. Bushman, it is reminiscent of SUNSET BOULEVARD.
Crime / Drama / Film-Noir / Thriller
New Orleans Uncensored Blu-ray Movie
Mill Creek Entertainment | 1955 | 74 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Jeffrey Kauffman
A gritty crime thriller about a newly-discharged sailor who gets a job as a longshoreman in The Big Easy. He swiftly discovers mob corruption throughout the docks, and when a friend is killed by the gangsters, he convinces the police to let him go undercover and take matters into his own hands. Filmed on location on the docks and in the French Quarter.
Crime / Drama / Film-Noir
- July 14, 2020
Clueless Blu-ray Movie
25th Anniversary Edition / Blu-ray + Digital Copy
Paramount Pictures | 1995 | 97 min | Rated PG-13 | Jul 14, 2020 | Martin Liebman
A US West Coast teen lifestyle parody centered around Cher, a popular high school girl who spends her days playing match-maker, helping her friends with fashion choices, and looking for a boyfriend.
Comedy / Romance / Teen / Coming of age
Clueless Blu-ray Movie
25th Anniversary Edition / Blu-ray + Digital Copy
Paramount Pictures | 1995 | 97 min | Rated PG-13 | Jul 21, 2020 | Martin Liebman
A US West Coast teen lifestyle parody centered around Cher, a popular high school girl who spends her days playing match-maker, helping her friends with fashion choices, and looking for a boyfriend.
Comedy / Romance / Teen / Coming of age
Ultraman X: The Series + The Movie Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + Digital Copy
Mill Creek Entertainment | 2015-2016 | 2 Movies | 672 min | Not rated | Apr 21, 2020 | Martin Liebman
No synopsis for this title.
Action / Adventure / Family / Fantasy / Sci-Fi / Foreign
Ultraman X: The Movie Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + Digital Copy
Mill Creek Entertainment | 2016 | 72 min | Not rated | Apr 21, 2020 | Martin Liebman
When realty TV host Carlos Kurozaki breaks into a mysterious underground pyramid for a television event, he removes a special gem. . . and unwittingly releases a diabolical monster called Zaigorg! The evil creature wants Kurozaki's gem, so it spawns an army of giant kaijus to get it! It's up to the famous superheroes Ultraman X, Ultraman Tiga, and the one and only original Ultraman to stop the worldwide monster war!
Action / Adventure / Family / Fantasy / Foreign
Think Like a Dog Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + Digital Copy
Lionsgate Films | 2020 | 91 min | Rated PG | Jun 09, 2020 | Jeffrey Kauffman
When his science experiment goes awry, Oliver, a 12-year-old tech prodigy, forges a telepathic connection with his dog, Henry. This brings the two best friends even closer as they realize how much they have in common, like their love of pancakes! The duo join forces and use their unique perspectives on life to comically overcome complications of family and school. Their plan: teach everyone how to THINK LIKE A DOG. What breed is this dog?
Comedy / Drama / Family / Sci-Fi
The Prince Blu-ray Movie
El Príncipe
Artsploitation Films | 2019 | 96 min | Unrated | Jul 07, 2020 | Dr. Stephen Larson
A '70s-set homoerotic prison drama based on a low-circulated pulp novel, tracking the sexual, often-violent and eventually murderous experiences of 20-something narcissist Jaime.
Drama / Erotic / Foreign
The Specials Blu-ray Movie
20th Anniversary Limited Edition
La-La Land Entertainment | 2000 | 82 min | Rated R | Jul 14, 2020 | Jeffrey Kauffman
The Specials are superheroes who aren't... that super: finding themselves rated only the 7th best superhero team in the world, and crucially over-aware of their lacklustre performance in the all important world of merchandising. Eschewing any special effects or superhero sequences we see the lives behind the masks as The Weevil (Rob Lowe), Power Chick (Kelly Coffield), Deadly Girl (Judy Greer), The Strobe (Thomas Haden Church) and the rest of the team as they decide to launch a new line of action figures to resurrect their flagging fortunes.
Comedy / Comic book
- July 13, 2020
A Quiet Place to Kill Blu-ray Movie
Paranoia
Severin Films | 1970 | 96 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Dr. Svet Atanasov
A race-car driver whose life, both personal and professional, is in a rapid downfall is invited by her ex-husband's new wife to stay at their plush estate. The two women form a bond, and it's not long before their mutual dislike for the husband culminates into a plan to kill him. As it turns out, though, they're not alone in plotting murder.
Drama / Mystery / Thriller / Foreign
The Pillow Book Blu-ray Movie
Indicator Series | Limited Edition
Powerhouse Films | 1996 | 125 min | Rated BBFC: 18 | Feb 24, 2020 | Jeffrey Kauffman
In contemporary Japan and Hong Kong, a successful model revives memories of her calligrapher father by having her lovers give her pleasure by writing on her body. An affair with an Englishman leads her to start writing herself, using others as her paper.
Drama / Romance
Bamboozled Blu-ray Movie
Criterion | 2000 | 136 min | Rated R | Mar 17, 2020 | Jeffrey Kauffman
A frustrated African-American TV writer proposes a blackface minstrel show in protest, but to his chagrin it becomes a hit.
Comedy / Drama / Music
Sunday in New York Blu-ray Movie
Warner Archive Collection
Warner Bros. | 1963 | 105 min | Not rated | May 19, 2020 | Randy Miller III
Fonda portrays a virginal miss who runs off from her fiance to the swingin' pad of her brother and then into the arms of a guy she meets on the 5th Avenue bus - all the while trying to decide if she'll say "yes" before she says "I do."
Comedy / Romance
Starfish Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + CD
Altered Innocence | 2018 | 101 min | Not rated | Jul 14, 2020 | Brian Orndorf
A unique, intimate and honest portrayal of a girl grieving for the loss of her best friend. That just happens to take place on the day the world ends as we know it.
Drama / Horror / Sci-Fi
Lone Wolf McQuade Blu-ray Movie
Scorpion Releasing | 1983 | 107 min | Rated PG | May 19, 2020 | Brian Orndorf
A legendary Texas Ranger is fierce with his gun - but lethal with his black belt! When his teenage daughter's life is threatened the job becomes personal.
Action / Crime / Thriller / Martial arts
- July 12, 2020
Hair Blu-ray Movie
Signature Edition
Olive Films | 1979 | 121 min | Rated PG | Jun 30, 2020 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
During the Vietnam war, a small time farm boy enlists in the army and encounters the New York City hippie subculture and he is rapidly indoctrinated into it.
Comedy / Drama / Musical
- July 11, 2020
Force 10 from Navarone Blu-ray Movie
Kino Lorber | 1978 | 126 min | Rated PG | Mar 17, 2020 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
A group of allied commandos, infiltrate Yugoslavia on a secret mission against the Third Reich.
Action / Drama / War
In Harm's Way Blu-ray Movie
The Chinese Widow
Shout Factory | 2017 | 97 min | Not rated | Dec 04, 2018 | Dr. Stephen Larson
In the 1940s, the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor destroyed Americans' morale. The president of the United States, Franklin D. Roosevelt, decided to risk it all to bomb Tokyo, raising the public's hopes. Bombardment air crafts led by U.S lieutenant colonel Jimmy Doolittle took off from a massive aircraft carrier. However, after completing their missions, the bombardment air craft pilots had to bail out at the coastal areas near Zhejiang due to a shortage of fuel. A young pilot, Jack Turner, was saved by a young local widow named Ying, who risked her life as she hid the injured American pilot in her house. Despite not being able to communicate verbally, they fell for each other and a tear-jerking love story went on between the two.
Drama / War / Foreign
Marriage Story Blu-ray Movie
Criterion | 2019 | 137 min | Not rated | Jul 21, 2020 | Brian Orndorf
A stage director and his actor wife struggle through a grueling, coast-to-coast divorce that pushes them to their personal and creative extremes.
Comedy / Drama / Romance
The Gates of Hell Blu-ray Movie
City of the Living Dead / Paura nella cittŕ dei morti viventi / SOLD OUT
Scorpion Releasing | 1980 | 93 min | Not rated | Jun 02, 2020 | Brian Orndorf
The Seven Gates of Hell have been torn open, a reporter and a psychic race to close the portals of the damned.
Horror / Supernatural / Foreign