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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

Brothers Till We Die Blu-ray Movie    

La banda del gobbo / The Italian Collection #57

88 Films | 1978 | 98 min | Rated BBFC: 18 | Feb 24, 2020 | Dr. Svet Atanasov

Vincenzo 'hunchback' plans a robbery on a armored police van with his gang. Once the job is done, his gang try to kill him and absconds with the loot. Vincenzo hides in the sewers before looking up his friend Monezza who the police later interrogate for his involvement with vincenzo. Meanwhile, Vincenzo is getting revenge on his gang by killing them off one at the time in his various brutal ways.

Action / Thriller / Foreign

Murder by Death Blu-ray Movie  

Shout Factory | 1976 | 95 min | Rated PG | Dec 18, 2018 | Dr. Stephen Larson

The world's greatest detectives have been invited to dinner. But when murder is on the menu, who will make it to dessert?

Comedy / Crime / Mystery / Thriller

Jumanji: The Next Level 4K Blu-ray Movie  

4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray + Digital Copy

Sony Pictures | 2019 | 123 min | Rated PG-13 | Mar 17, 2020 | Martin Liebman

A team of friends return to Jumanji to rescue one of their own but discover that nothing is as they expect. The players need to brave parts unknown, from arid deserts to snowy mountains, in order to escape the world's most dangerous game.

Action / Adventure / Comedy / Family

Beauty and the Beast Blu-ray Movie  

Blu-ray + DVD + Digital Copy

Disney / Buena Vista | 2017 | 129 min | Rated PG | Jun 06, 2017 | 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

Mysterious Object at Noon Blu-ray Movie    

ดอกฟ้าในมือมาร / Dokfa nai meuman

Second Run | 2000 | 85 min | Rated BBFC: PG | Apr 25, 2016 | Jeffrey Kauffman

A film crew travels from the Thai countryside to Bangkok, asking the people they encounter along the way to continue a story about a handicapped boy and his teacher.

Documentary / Drama / Mystery / Foreign / Surreal

A Fistful of Dynamite Blu-ray Movie    

Giù la testa / Duck, You Sucker! | Masters of Cinema

Eureka Entertainment | 1971 | 1 Movie, 2 Cuts | 157 min | Rated BBFC: 15 | May 11, 2020 | 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

Beauty and the Beast 4K Blu-ray Movie  

The Signature Collection / 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray + Digital Copy

Disney / Buena Vista | 1991 | 85 min | Rated G | Mar 10, 2020 | Martin Liebman

In a quaint French village during the late 18th century, Belle, a bright and beautiful young woman, finds escape from her ordinary life, and the advances of a boorish suitor, Gaston, by reading books. Meanwhile, off in a castle in the distance, a cruel young prince is cast under the spell of an enchantress who turns him into a tormented beast, while transforming his servants into animated household objects. In order to remove the curse, the Beast must discover a true love who will return his affection before the last petal falls from an enchanted rose. When Belle’s inventor father stumbles upon the Beast’s castle and is taken prisoner, Belle comes to the rescue and agrees to take her father’s place. With the help of the castle’s enchanted staff, she sees beneath the Beast’s exterior and discovers the heart and soul of a human prince.

Adventure / Animation / Family / Fantasy / Musical / Romance

Beauty and the Beast 4K Blu-ray Movie  

The Signature Collection / 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray + Digital Copy

Disney / Buena Vista | 1991 | 85 min | Rated G | Mar 10, 2020 | Martin Liebman

In a quaint French village during the late 18th century, Belle, a bright and beautiful young woman, finds escape from her ordinary life, and the advances of a boorish suitor, Gaston, by reading books. Meanwhile, off in a castle in the distance, a cruel young prince is cast under the spell of an enchantress who turns him into a tormented beast, while transforming his servants into animated household objects. In order to remove the curse, the Beast must discover a true love who will return his affection before the last petal falls from an enchanted rose. When Belle’s inventor father stumbles upon the Beast’s castle and is taken prisoner, Belle comes to the rescue and agrees to take her father’s place. With the help of the castle’s enchanted staff, she sees beneath the Beast’s exterior and discovers the heart and soul of a human prince.

Adventure / Animation / Family / Fantasy / Musical / Romance

War and Peace Blu-ray Movie  

Война и мир / Voyna i mir

Criterion | 1965-1967 | 423 min | Not rated | Jun 25, 2019 | Neil Lumbard

The fates of three souls—the blundering, good-hearted Pierre; the heroically tragic Prince Andrei; and the radiant, tempestuous Natasha—collide amid the tumult of the Napoleonic Wars. Filmed in 70mm.

Drama / History / Romance / War / Foreign / Epic

Munster, Go Home! Blu-ray Movie  

Shout Factory | 1966-1981 | 2 Movies | 96 min | Not rated | Mar 31, 2020 | Brian Orndorf

The laughs begin when Herman moves the family to an English estate he inherited.

Comedy / Family / Horror / Sci-Fi

Gemini Man 3D Blu-ray Movie    

Blu-ray 3D + Blu-ray

Paramount Pictures | 2019 | 113 min | Rated FSK-12 | Feb 13, 2020 | Neil Lumbard

The story an older NSA agent who is trying to retire. He’s marked for death and learns that the man out to kill him is a younger cloned version of himself. Native 60fps (60Hz) movie with native 4K.

Action / Drama / Sci-Fi