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New Port South Blu-ray Movie
Kino Lorber | 2001 | 95 min | Rated PG-13 | Nov 05, 2019 | Neil Lumbard
A group of teenagers wish to rebel against the administrators and teachers (the system) in their suburban Chicago high school called New Port South.
Drama
Diamantino Blu-ray Movie
Kino Lorber | 2018 | 96 min | Not rated | Sep 24, 2019 | Neil Lumbard
Diamantino, the world's premiere soccer star loses his special touch and ends his career in disgrace. Searching for a new purpose, the international icon sets on a delirious odyssey where he confronts neo-fascism, the refugee crisis, genetic modification, and the hunt for the source of genius.
Comedy / Drama / Fantasy / Foreign
Tamango Blu-ray Movie
Kino Lorber | 1958 | 99 min | Not rated | Oct 22, 2019 | Neil Lumbard
A Dutch slave captain, on a voyage to Cuba, faces a revolt fomented by a newly captured African slave, Tamango. The slaves capture the captain's mistress, forcing a showdown.
Drama / Foreign
Hymn: Sarah Brightman in Concert Blu-ray Movie
Eagle Rock Entertainment | 2018 | 98 min | Not rated | Nov 15, 2019 | Jeffrey Kauffman
No synopsis for this title.
Music
Our Hospitality Blu-ray Movie
Remastered
Kino Lorber | 1923 | 75 min | Not rated | Oct 15, 2019 | Neil Lumbard
Buster stars as a man who travels south in 1830's America to claim a family inheritance, only to find himself in the middle of a longtime family feud. Silent film.
Comedy / Family
RoboCop Blu-ray Movie
Limited Edition
Arrow | 1987 | 1 Movie, 3 Cuts | 102 min | Rated R | Nov 26, 2019 | Jeffrey Kauffman
In the not-too-distant future, a Detroit police officer returns as a powerful cyborg after being dismembered by a gang of thugs.
Action / Crime / Sci-Fi / Thriller
The 3-D Nudie-Cuties Collection 3D Blu-ray Movie
Adam and Six Eves 3D / The Bellboy and the Playgirls 3D | + Two 3-D shorts / Blu-ray 3D + Blu-ray
Kino Lorber | 1962 | 2 Movies | 154 min | Not rated | Oct 29, 2019 | Neil Lumbard
Includes the 3-D shorts Love for Sale (1953) in 1.37 and Beauty in 3rd Dimension (1951) in 1.78. See individual titles for their synopses.
Comedy / Erotic
The Bellboy and the Playgirls 3D Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray 3D + Blu-ray
Kino Lorber | 1962 | 94 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Neil Lumbard
Re-edited US version of the 2D feature Mit Eva Fing die Sünde an (1958), with new footage shot in 3D by future Hollywood big shot Coppola. A naive bellboy dreams of becoming a private eye and practices by spying on ‘suspicious’ characters in the hotel where he works, especially the beautiful young women (representatives of a famous lingerie firm) who parade around their rooms in various states of undress. Guess which scenes are in 3-D?!
Comedy / Erotic
Adam and Six Eves 3D Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray 3D + Blu-ray
Kino Lorber | 1962 | 60 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Neil Lumbard
A man prospecting for gold in the desert becomes lost and comes across six naked women.
Comedy / Erotic
Initial D Legend: Theatrical Collection Blu-ray Movie
Sentai Filmworks | 2014-2016 | 3 Movies | 180 min | Rated TV-14 | Sep 17, 2019 | Neil Lumbard
When an unplanned street duel launches tofu delivery driver Takumi Fujiwara into the world of high stakes street racing, the competition isn't going to know what hit them. The son of another legendary driver, the unassuming Takumi quickly becomes the downhill racing phenomenon to beat, with a line of challengers as long as the deadly Mt. Akina road itself! There's no time to blink. No chance to second guess your strategy. The streets of Japan become a deadly arena for an incredible battle where if you have everything under control, you're not moving fast enough! Hold onto your breath as the legendary series that introduced the sport of drift racing to the west is reinvented in a series of new feature films that will strip the surface from the blacktops in the NEW INITIAL D: LEGEND THEATRICAL COLLECTION!
Action / Anime / Sport / Comic book / Foreign
Initial D: Legend 3 - Dream Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + DVD
Sentai Filmworks | 2016 | 60 min | Rated TV-14 | Jun 12, 2018 | Neil Lumbard
Mt. Akina's new downhill racing hero Fujiwara Takumi prepares for the final showdown against Red Sun's unbeaten leader and Akagi's fastest driver, Takahashi Ryosuke.
Action / Anime / Sport / Comic book / Foreign
Initial D: Legend 2 - Racer Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + DVD
Sentai Filmworks | 2015 | 60 min | Rated TV-14 | Mar 13, 2018 | Neil Lumbard
The leader of rival group Myogi NightKids, Takeshi Nakazato, wants to challenge the now infamous Takumi Fujiwara in a race down Akina. As Takumi questions his identity as a racer, he finds that, there's more to lose than just a simple race.
Action / Anime / Sport / Comic book / Foreign
Initial D: Legend 1 - Awakening Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + DVD
Sentai Filmworks | 2014 | 60 min | Rated TV-14 | Dec 05, 2017 | Neil Lumbard
The wheels are set in motion as Koichiro Iketani of the Akina Speedstars witnesses a mysterious driver outmaneuver and beat rival Keisuke Takahashi of Akagi RedSuns. In the high-paced world of street racing, Takumi shakes it up with an extraordinary racing style as the Speedstars and the RedSuns go head to head on Mount Akina.
Action / Anime / Sport / Comic book / Foreign
- November 18, 2019
Return to Macon County Blu-ray Movie
Kino Lorber | 1975 | 89 min | Rated PG | Nov 12, 2019 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
In 1958, two teenagers take their pride and joy, a hopped-up Chevy, and start a cross-country journey to enter it in the National Championship drag races in California. Along the way they hook up with a pretty but dingy waitress who quits her job and hops in their car--and turns out to be more trouble than they thought--drag-race a gang of town punks who lose to to them and then accuse them of cheating, and come up against a local cop who is obsessed with putting these two "juvenile delinquents" in jail.
Drama
The Bad and the Beautiful Blu-ray Movie
Warner Archive Collection
Warner Bros. | 1952 | 118 min | Not rated | Nov 19, 2019 | Randy Miller III
An unscrupulous movie producer uses an actress, a director, and a writer to achieve success.
Drama / Romance
Savage Blu-ray Movie
Xue bao / 雪暴
Well Go USA | 2018 | 113 min | Not rated | Dec 03, 2019 | Jeffrey Kauffman
Buried by treacherous conditions at the top of Mt. Baekdu, a policeman must brave the extreme weather until his transfer comes through. When a group of thieves stumbles into the station in search of safe shelter, both sides must fight for survival in this stylish action-packed thriller.
Action / Crime / Drama / Foreign
- November 17, 2019
Road Games Blu-ray Movie
Collector's Edition
Shout Factory | 1981 | 101 min | Rated PG | Nov 12, 2019 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
A truck driver plays a cat-and-mouse game with a mysterious serial killer who uses a young female hitchhiker as bait to lure victims on a desolate Australian highway.
Drama / Mystery / Thriller
I Was Monty's Double Blu-ray Movie
Hell, Heaven or Hoboken / Vintage Classics
Studio Canal | 1958 | 101 min | Rated BBFC: U | Jun 10, 2019 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
Based on a true story. During WWII, a British actor impersonates Field Marshal Montgomery in order to confuse German intelligence. The actual actor who played the role in WWII (M.E. Clifton James) portrays both himself and Montgomery in the movie.
Drama / History / War
Prophecy Blu-ray Movie
Shout Factory | 1979 | 103 min | Rated PG | Nov 26, 2019 | Brian Orndorf
Doctor Robert Verne and his wife travel to Maine to investigate the effects that a lumber mill is having on the environment. What they find is a cavalcade of wildlife mutations and an even more frightening series of grisly human deaths. A research expedition led by a local Native American uncovers the reign of terror of a large and very angry mutant bear...
Horror / Sci-Fi
The Wild Pear Tree Blu-ray Movie
Ahlat Ağacı
Cinema Guild | 2018 | 188 min | Not rated | Oct 22, 2019 | Brian Orndorf
An aspiring writer returns to his native village, where his father's debts catch up to him.
Drama / Foreign