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Home- July 27, 2025
The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill Blu-ray Movie
Kino Lorber | 2003 | 83 min | Not rated | Jul 15, 2025 | Jeffrey Kauffman
A homeless musician finds meaning to his life when he starts a friendship with dozens of parrots.
Documentary
- July 26, 2025
Ran 4K Blu-ray Movie
乱 | Limited Collector's Edition / 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray + CD
Studio Canal | 1985 | 161 min | Rated BBFC: 12 | Jul 21, 2025 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
Set in medieval Japan, an elderly warlord announces his intention to hand over his empire to his sons. A power struggle ensues between the heirs.
Action / Drama / War / Foreign / Epic / Period
Walkin' After Midnight: A Tribute to Patsy Cline Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + CD
Mercury Studios | 2024 | 66 min | Not rated | Jul 25, 2025 | Jeffrey Kauffman
No synopsis for this title.
Music
The Wind Will Carry Us Blu-ray Movie
باد ما را خواهد برد / Bad ma ra khahad bord
Criterion | 1999 | 118 min | Not rated | May 13, 2025 | Jeffrey Kauffman
The arrival of an engineer and his colleagues from Tehran in a remote village in Iranian Kurdistan. Assumed by the locals – with whom they form an ambivalent relationship – to be archaeologists or telephone engineers, the visitors’ behaviour and keen interest in the health of an ailing old woman seem strange and their true motives are shrouded in mystery.
Drama / Foreign
Rust Blu-ray Movie
Decal Releasing | 2024 | 140 min | Not rated | Jul 22, 2025 | Brian Orndorf
A boy left to fend for himself and his younger brother following their parents' deaths in 1880s Wyoming goes on the run with his long-estranged grandfather after he is sentenced to hang for the accidental killing of a local rancher.
Western
Danger: Diabolik Blu-ray Movie
4K Restoration
Kino Lorber | 1968 | 105 min | Rated PG-13 | Jul 22, 2025 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
Criminal mastermind drama set in the Swinging Sixties. Diabolik (John Philip Law) is a super thief who enjoys causing as much confusion and mayhem to the authorities as he can. Residing in an underground lair, where he plans his next moves accompanied by his voluptuous girlfriend, Diabolik soon incurs the wrath of other underworld figures who join forces with the police to try to catch him.
Action / Comedy / Crime / Comic book / Foreign
Scarecrow in a Garden of Cucumbers Blu-ray Movie
Slipcover in Original Pressing
AGFA | 1972-1976 | 2 Movies | 82 min | Not rated | Jul 29, 2025 | Brian Orndorf
No synopsis for this title.
Comedy / Drama / Fantasy / Music / Erotic
Danger: Diabolik 4K Blu-ray Movie
4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray
Kino Lorber | 1968 | 105 min | Rated PG-13 | Jul 22, 2025 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
Criminal mastermind drama set in the Swinging Sixties. Diabolik (John Philip Law) is a super thief who enjoys causing as much confusion and mayhem to the authorities as he can. Residing in an underground lair, where he plans his next moves accompanied by his voluptuous girlfriend, Diabolik soon incurs the wrath of other underworld figures who join forces with the police to try to catch him.
Action / Comedy / Crime / Comic book / Foreign
- July 25, 2025
Azrael Blu-ray Movie
Umbrella Entertainment | 2024 | 85 min | Rated ACB: MA15+ | Feb 05, 2025 | Neil Lumbard
In a world in which no one speaks, a devout female-led community hunts down a young woman who has escaped her imprisonment. Recaptured by its ruthless leaders, Azrael is due to be sacrificed to pacify an ancient evil deep within the surrounding wilderness—but she has other ideas.
Action / Horror / Thriller
Small Soldiers 4K Blu-ray Movie
4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray + Digital Copy
Paramount Pictures | 1998 | 110 min | Rated PG-13 | Jul 22, 2025 | Martin Liebman
When missile technology is used to enhance toy action figures, it quickly goes wrong as the toys spring to life and start taking their battle directives seriously.
Adventure / Comedy / Family / Imaginary
Hopalong Cassidy: The Legacy Collection Volume One Blu-ray Movie
ClassicFlix | 1935 | 183 min | Not rated | Jul 29, 2025 | Jeffrey Kauffman
Hopalong Cassidy (William Boyd) together with his beautiful silver horse, Topper, and his sidekick Red Connors (Edgar Buchanan), right wrongs and punish the bad guys.
Western
Hop-a-Long Cassidy Blu-ray Movie
ClassicFlix | 1935 | 60 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Jeffrey Kauffman
An evil ranch foreman tries to provoke a range war by playing two cattlemen against each other while helping a gang to rustle the cattle. Each cattleman blames the other for missing cattle. With the help of Bill Cassidy (Hop-along, because of an earlier bullet wound) and Johnny Nelson, the warring cattlemen join forces to do in the outlaws.
Western
The Eagle's Brood Blu-ray Movie
ClassicFlix | 1935 | 61 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Jeffrey Kauffman
When the outlaw El Toro saves Hoppy's life, Hoppy agrees to find his missing grandson.
Western
Bar 20 Rides Again Blu-ray Movie
ClassicFlix | 1935 | 61 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Jeffrey Kauffman
Cattle rustler Nevada dreams of living like an emperor in the West. Hoppy and the Bar 20 boys aim to put an end to his dream.
Western
Melinda Blu-ray Movie
Warner Archive Collection
Warner Bros. | 1972 | 109 min | Rated R | Jul 29, 2025 | Randy Miller III
When a supercool DJ finds his girlfriend murdered, he decides to go after her killer . . . unaware that he is taking on the entire mob. Now, He discovers that his best friend is indirectly responsible for the brutal slaying and that the motive was to conceal an assassination conspiracy in this martial arts blaxploitation feature.
Action / Crime / Drama
- July 24, 2025
Sands of the Kalahari Blu-ray Movie
4K Restoration
Kino Lorber | 1965 | 119 min | Not rated | Jul 15, 2025 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
A chartered plane crashes in a remote African desert after colliding with a swarm of locusts. It’s not the harsh surroundings or the vicious baboons that the survivors have to worry about, but a fellow crazed passenger.
Adventure
The Wiz 4K Blu-ray Movie
First Pressing UPC: 715515314213; Second Pressing UPC: 715515324915 / 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray
Criterion | 1978 | 134 min | Rated G | Jun 10, 2025 | Jeffrey Kauffman
Modern update of 'The Wizard of Oz' with Diana Ross as Dorothy leading her gang of no-gooders to the disco chic city of New York.
Adventure / Family / Fantasy / Musical
Afro Samurai: The Complete Series Blu-ray Movie
Director's Cut | Season 1 & Afro Samurai: Resurrection
Crunchyroll, LLC | 2007-2009 | 2 Movies | 220 min | Rated TV-MA | Nov 12, 2024 | Neil Lumbard
First, in Afro Samurai, Afro seeks revenge on those who slaughtered his father and heads to the mountain where destiny awaits. The saga continues in Afro Samurai: Resurrection, when he’s pulled back into the game by a beautiful and deadly woman from his past.
Action / Adventure / Anime / Drama / Martial arts / Comic book
The Emu War Blu-ray Movie
Umbrella Entertainment | 2023 | 72 min | Rated ACB: MA15+ | Sep 04, 2024 | Neil Lumbard
Based on the infamous Great Emu War of 1932, a rag tag platoon of soldiers are driven into a brutal and bloody battle against Australia's deadliest flightless beasts.
Action / Comedy
Afro Samurai: Resurrection Blu-ray Movie
Director's Cut
Crunchyroll, LLC | 2009 | 90 min | Rated TV-MA | Oct 22, 2024 | Neil Lumbard
When his father's body is stolen from its grave, Afro takes up his sword again to tear through an army of deadly foes led by a sadistic leader.
Action / Adventure / Anime / Martial arts