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Home- March 22, 2020
Beauty and the Beast 4K Blu-ray Movie
4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray + Digital Copy
Disney / Buena Vista | 2017 | 129 min | Rated PG | Mar 10, 2020 | Martin Liebman
Belle (Emma Watson), a bright, beautiful and independent young woman, is taken prisoner by a beast (Dan Stevens) in its castle. Despite her fears, she befriends the castle's enchanted staff and learns to look beyond the beast's hideous exterior, allowing her to recognize the kind heart and soul of the true prince that hides on the inside.
Family / Fantasy / Musical / Romance
Beauty and the Beast 4K Blu-ray Movie
4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray + Digital Copy
Disney / Buena Vista | 2017 | 129 min | Rated PG | Mar 10, 2020 | Martin Liebman
Belle (Emma Watson), a bright, beautiful and independent young woman, is taken prisoner by a beast (Dan Stevens) in its castle. Despite her fears, she befriends the castle's enchanted staff and learns to look beyond the beast's hideous exterior, allowing her to recognize the kind heart and soul of the true prince that hides on the inside.
Family / Fantasy / Musical / Romance
Night Passage Blu-ray Movie
Kino Lorber | 1957 | 90 min | Not rated | Mar 10, 2020 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
A fired railroad man is rehired and trusted to carry a 10,000 dollar payroll in secret, even though he is suspected of being connected to outlaws.
Western
Farewell, My Lovely Blu-ray Movie
Shout Factory | 1975 | 95 min | Rated R | No Release Date | Dr. Stephen Larson
This, the second adaptation of Raymond Chandler's novel, is much closer to the source text than the original - Murder, My Sweet (1944), which tended to avoid some of the sleazier parts of the plot - but still concerns private eye Philip Marlowe's attempts to locate Velma, a former dancer at a seedy nightclub and the girlfriend of Moose Malloy, a petty criminal just out of prison. Marlowe finds that once he has taken the case, events conspire to put him in dangerous situations, and he is forced to follow a confusing trail of untruths and double-crosses before he is able to locate Velma.
Crime / Mystery / Thriller
Casino Royale 4K Blu-ray Movie
4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray + Digital Copy
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer | 2006 | 1 Movie, 2 Cuts | 144 min | Unrated | Mar 17, 2020 | Martin Liebman
The newly-promoted 007's first mission takes him to Madagascar, the Bahamas and eventually Montenegro to face Le Chiffre, a ruthless financier under threat from his terrorist clientele, who is attempting to restore his funds in a high-stakes poker game at the Casino Royale.
Action / Adventure / Thriller
- March 21, 2020
The Giant Spider Invasion Blu-ray Movie
Remastered
Dark Force Entertainment | 1975 | 80 min | Not rated | Feb 13, 2020 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
A black hole hits North Wisconsin and opens a door to other dimensions. Giant 15 meter spiders emerge from it, who have an appetite for human flesh! Dr. Jenny Langer and Dr. Vance from the NASA try to save the world.
Horror / Sci-Fi
A Fistful of Dynamite Blu-ray Movie
Giù la testa / Duck, You Sucker
Kino Lorber | 1971 | 157 min | Rated PG | Mar 06, 2018 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
At the beginning of the Mexican Revolution in 1913, greedy bandit Juan Miranda and idealist John H. Mallory, an Irish Republican Army explosives expert on the lam from the British, fall in with a band of revolutionaries plotting to strike a national bank. When it turns out that the government has been using the bank as a hiding place for illegally detained political prisoners — who are freed by the blast — Miranda becomes a revolutionary hero against his will.
Action / Adventure / War / Western / Foreign
Dolittle Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + DVD + Digital Copy
Universal Studios | 2020 | 101 min | Rated PG | Apr 07, 2020 | Martin Liebman
A physician discovers that he can talk to animals.
Comedy / Family / Fantasy
Dolittle 4K Blu-ray Movie
4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray + Digital Copy
Universal Studios | 2020 | 101 min | Rated PG | Apr 07, 2020 | Martin Liebman
A physician discovers that he can talk to animals.
Comedy / Family / Fantasy
Dodsworth Blu-ray Movie
Warner Archive Collection
Warner Bros. | 1936 | 101 min | Not rated | Mar 24, 2020 | Randy Miller III
A retired auto manufacturer consents to a European vacation to please his vain wife, who is in denial about her age and uses the trip as a chance to flirt with other men.
Drama / Romance
Akira Kurosawa's Dreams Blu-ray Movie
夢 / Yume
Criterion | 1990 | 120 min | Rated PG | Nov 15, 2016 | Neil Lumbard
A collection of tales based upon the actual dreams of director Akira Kurosawa.
Drama / Fantasy / Foreign
Do or Die Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + Digital Copy
Mill Creek Entertainment | 1991 | 97 min | Rated R | Sep 17, 2019 | Dr. Stephen Larson
Hunted down by an almost endless wave of assassins, the Federal agents, Donna and Nicole, must stay alive to prevent an imminent crash of the American Stock Market.
Action / Adventure / Comedy / Thriller / Erotic
Death in Venice Blu-ray Movie
Morte a Venezia
Criterion | 1971 | 131 min | Not rated | Feb 19, 2019 | Neil Lumbard
A fastidious composer reeling from a disastrous concert, Gustav von Aschenbach travels to Venice to recover. There, he is struck by a vision of pure beauty in the form of a young boy, his infatuation developing into an obsession even as rumors of a plague spread through the city.
Drama
Hammer Volume Four: Faces of Fear Blu-ray Movie
The Revenge of Frankenstein / The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll / Taste of Fear / The Damned | Indicator Series | Limited Edition
Powerhouse Films | 1958-1962 | 4 Movies, 7 Cuts | 355 min | Rated BBFC: 15 | Nov 25, 2019 | Jeffrey Kauffman
No synopsis for this title.
Drama / Horror / Mystery / Romance / Sci-Fi / Thriller
The Revenge of Frankenstein Blu-ray Movie
Indicator Series
Powerhouse Films | 1958 | 1 Movie, 2 Cuts | 90 min | Rated BBFC: 12 | Jul 19, 2021 | Jeffrey Kauffman
Having escaped death by the guillotine, Dr. Frankenstein relocates to Carlsbruck. There, as Dr. Victor Stein, he successfully establishes himself as a physician with a large practice and a hospital for the poor. After three years however he is recognized by Dr. Hans Kleve but rather than expose him, the young doctor wants to join him in his research. Frankenstein has resumed his experiments and is on the verge of re-animating a body he has constructed using the brain of Fritz, the deformed assistant who helped him escape from his death sentence. The operation goes quite well and Fritz is quite pleased with his new body. An encounter with a drunken hospital attendant however sends him on the run. As his mind and his body deteriorates, he publicly reveals the good Doctor's true identity...
Horror / Sci-Fi
The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll Blu-ray Movie
Jekyll's Inferno / House of Fright | Indicator Series
Powerhouse Films | 1960 | 88 min | Rated BBFC: 15 | Nov 25, 2019 | Jeffrey Kauffman
Dr. Henry Jekyll is a bookish scientist who spends more time with his lab animals testing theories of alternate personalities than with his beautiful wife. Kitty Jekyll has given up trying to find any passion in her distant husband and is involved in an affair with one of Jekyll's old 'friends', Paul Allen, a weak slacker and wastrel who relies on Jekyll to pay his numerous gambling debts. After experimenting on himself, Jekyll transforms himself into the young, dynamic and self-confidant Edward Hyde. In his new character he befriends Allen, who has no idea of that this clean-cut, handsome playboy prone to outbursts of violence is really Jekyll. As Hyde, he encourages Allen to introduce him to the dark underbelly of London's night life. When he tries to seduce Allen's mistress, in reality his own wife, he is frustrated to find she prefers her decadent lover to him...
Drama / Horror / Romance / Sci-Fi
Taste of Fear Blu-ray Movie
Scream of Fear / Indicator Series
Powerhouse Films | 1961 | 1 Movie, 2 Cuts | 82 min | Rated BBFC: 12 | Nov 25, 2019 | Jeffrey Kauffman
After narrowly surviving an accident in which she nearly drowned, the wheelchair bound Penny Appleby returns home to live with her widowed step-mother Jane on the French Riviera. She begins to question her sanity after several times seeing her father's corpse around the house and its grounds, and enlists the help of the friendly chauffeur Bob while attending Doctor Gerrard acts in a suitably sinister manner. No one is who they seem in this tale of intrigue and suspense...
Horror / Mystery / Thriller
The Damned Blu-ray Movie
These Are the Damned / Indicator Series
Powerhouse Films | 1962 | 1 Movie, 3 Cuts | 95 min | Rated BBFC: 12 | Nov 25, 2019 | Jeffrey Kauffman
In England, a young American falls in love with the sister of a sadistic and lecherous motorcycle gang leader who despises the American. The couple takes refuge from the gang leader's harassment in a cave where they discover a group of children, who are the result of an experiment by a scientist seeking to develop a race of humans capable of surviving an atomic blast.
Drama / Horror / Sci-Fi / Thriller
Transylvania 6-5000 Blu-ray Movie
Kino Lorber | 1985 | 94 min | Rated PG | Feb 11, 2020 | Neil Lumbard
Two reporters travel to a strange castle in Transylvania to investigate the apparent reappearance of Frankenstein, and encounter such kooky creatures as the sensitive Wolfman, the horny Vampiress Odette, as well as a whole cast of other weirdos.
Comedy / Horror
Heartbeeps Blu-ray Movie
Kino Lorber | 1981 | 78 min | Rated PG | Feb 11, 2020 | Neil Lumbard
Two household robots run away and try to start a family.
Action / Adventure / Comedy / Family / Fantasy / Sci-Fi