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Home- August 19, 2019
Iron Man 2 4K Blu-ray Movie
4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray + Digital Copy
Disney / Buena Vista | 2010 | 124 min | Rated PG-13 | Aug 13, 2019 | Martin Liebman
With the world now aware of his dual life as the armored superhero Iron Man, billionaire inventor Tony Stark faces pressure from the government, the press, and the public to share his technology with the military. Unwilling to let go of his invention, Stark, along with Pepper Potts, and James "Rhodey" Rhodes at his side, must forge new alliances -- and confront powerful enemies.
Action / Adventure / Sci-Fi / Comic book
Iron Man 2 4K Blu-ray Movie
Limited Edition / 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray + Digital Copy
Disney / Buena Vista | 2010 | 124 min | Rated PG-13 | Aug 13, 2019 | Martin Liebman
With the world now aware of his dual life as the armored superhero Iron Man, billionaire inventor Tony Stark faces pressure from the government, the press, and the public to share his technology with the military. Unwilling to let go of his invention, Stark, along with Pepper Potts, and James "Rhodey" Rhodes at his side, must forge new alliances -- and confront powerful enemies.
Action / Adventure / Sci-Fi / Comic book
Iron Man 3 4K Blu-ray Movie
4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray + Digital Copy
Disney / Buena Vista | 2013 | 131 min | Rated PG-13 | Aug 13, 2019 | Martin Liebman
Marvel's "Iron Man 3" pits brash-but-brilliant industrialist Tony Stark/Iron Man against an enemy whose reach knows no bounds. When Stark finds his personal world destroyed at his enemy's hands, he embarks on a harrowing quest to find those responsible. This journey, at every turn, will test his mettle. With his back against the wall, Stark is left to survive by his own devices, relying on his ingenuity and instincts to protect those closest to him. As he fights his way back, Stark discovers the answer to the question that has secretly haunted him: does the man make the suit or does the suit make the man?
Action / Adventure / Sci-Fi / Comic book
Iron Man 3 4K Blu-ray Movie
Limited Edition / 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray + Digital Copy
Disney / Buena Vista | 2013 | 131 min | Rated PG-13 | Aug 13, 2019 | Martin Liebman
Marvel's "Iron Man 3" pits brash-but-brilliant industrialist Tony Stark/Iron Man against an enemy whose reach knows no bounds. When Stark finds his personal world destroyed at his enemy's hands, he embarks on a harrowing quest to find those responsible. This journey, at every turn, will test his mettle. With his back against the wall, Stark is left to survive by his own devices, relying on his ingenuity and instincts to protect those closest to him. As he fights his way back, Stark discovers the answer to the question that has secretly haunted him: does the man make the suit or does the suit make the man?
Action / Adventure / Sci-Fi / Comic book
The Walking Dead: The Complete Ninth Season Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + Digital Copy
Lionsgate Films | 2018-2019 | 751 min | Rated TV-MA | Aug 20, 2019 | Martin Liebman
The Walking Dead tells the story of the aftermath of a zombie apocalypse and follows a small group of survivors traveling across the United States in search of a new home away from the hordes of zombies. The group is led by Rick Grimes, who was a police officer in the old world. As their situation grows more and more grim, the group's desperation to survive pushes them to do almost anything to stay alive.
Drama / Horror / Thriller / Supernatural / Comic book / Melodrama
The Lion King Blu-ray Movie
The Signature Collection / 32-Page Storybook / Blu-ray + DVD + Digital Copy
Disney / Buena Vista | 1994 | 88 min | Rated G | Aug 29, 2017 | Randy Miller III
A young lion cub named Simba just can't wait to be king. But the sudden death of his father, Mufasa, and the treacherous actions of his Uncle Scar lead Simba into exile and ultimately on a hero's journey of self-discovery. Adopting the "hakuna matata" philosophy of his comical jungle guardians a warthog and a meerkat (Pumbaa and Timon) Simba eventually comes to terms with his destiny and returns home to Pride Rock to help put things right.
Adventure / Animation / Comedy / Family / Musical / Epic / Coming of age
Hunter Killer 4K Blu-ray Movie
4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray + Digital Copy
Lionsgate Films | 2018 | 122 min | Rated R | Jan 29, 2019 | Martin Liebman
An untested American submarine captain teams with U.S. Navy SEALs to rescue the Russian president, who has been kidnapped by a rogue general.
Action / Thriller
- August 18, 2019
Drive-In Delirium: With a Vengeance Blu-ray Movie
Umbrella Entertainment | 2019 | 388 min | Rated ACB: R18+ | Jul 03, 2019 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
Drive-In delirium is back - with a vengeance! This time delivering an adrenaline-fueled installment devoted to the high-speed chase and outer space! Locked and loaded with over 6 hours of handgun-happy vigilantes & badass babes of Blaxploitation, ultra-hip heists, spaghetti shoot 'em ups and bitumen burning post-apocalyptic carquakes (not to mention alien close encounters of the horny kind) - DRIVE-IN DELIRIUM: WITH A VENGEANCE is a two-fisted, take-no-prisoners high-def tactical assault that guarantees to make you feel lucky, punk! EXTRA FEATURES SON OF VHS DELIRIUM A BONUS 90 MINUTE SD TRAILER COMPILE
Akio Jissoji: The Buddhist Trilogy Blu-ray Movie
This Transient Life / Mandala / Poem
Arrow | 1970-1972 | 4 Movies, 5 Cuts | 394 min | Not rated | Aug 20, 2019 | Jeffrey Kauffman
See individual titles for their synopses.
Drama / Erotic / Foreign
This Transient Life Blu-ray Movie
無常 / Mujō
Arrow | 1970 | 143 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Jeffrey Kauffman
Near a remote Buddhist monastery, a young man falls in love with his sister and gets her pregnant. After a monk finds out, the young man becomes an assistant to a master sculptor, only to proceed to complicate matters with his affairs.
Drama / Erotic / Foreign
Mandala Blu-ray Movie
Mandara / 曼陀羅
Arrow | 1971 | 132 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Jeffrey Kauffman
A savage work that explores human sexuality and its articulations with political stances and religion: Two couples of university students swap their partners, one, Yukiko and Shinichi experienced and one, Hirochi and Yasuko unmarried and first time in an isolated motel. Later, at the seaside one of them is attacked by two maniacs, who leave the husband unconscious and rape the woman. After the event that was supposed to be traumatic, the attacked couple find themselves interested in the two aggressors and the gratuitousness of their act, and goes to look for them in the surroundings of the motel. They discover that they are part of a sect that has sexual freedom and self-support as slogans. At first reluctant, but soon giving way, the couple end up joining the secret sect and isolate themselves from the world, but things get complicated when the other couple decides to look for them.
Drama / Erotic / Foreign
Poem Blu-ray Movie
Uta / 哥
Arrow | 1972 | 119 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Jeffrey Kauffman
As a faithful young houseboy fully devotes himself to his spiritual duty, his teacher plans turning over his grandfather's mountain property to realtors for profit.
Drama / Foreign
- August 17, 2019
Touchez Pas au Grisbi Blu-ray Movie
Don't Touch the Loot
Kino Lorber | 1954 | 83 min | Not rated | Aug 13, 2019 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
An aging, world-weary gangster is double-crossed and forced out of retirement when his best friend is kidnapped and their stash of eight stolen gold bars is demanded as ransom.
Crime / Drama / Foreign
The Joker Blu-ray Movie
Lethal Obsession / Der Joker
Subkultur Entertainment | 1987 | 97 min | Rated FSK-16 | Apr 05, 2019 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
Several known criminals already have been murdered by a professional killer, leaving no trace but the "ace" game card. The police suspects a new mob is trying to take over the district. The investigating police officer Jan is victimized by a bomb himself, when he's at his girlfriend Daniela's father's Italian restaurant. Although paralyzed and suspended from work, the tuff cop continues to investigate and takes revenge on the gangsters who did this to him.
Crime / Drama / Thriller / Foreign
- August 16, 2019
Moonfleet Blu-ray Movie
Warner Archive Collection
Warner Bros. | 1955 | 87 min | Not rated | Aug 13, 2019 | Randy Miller III
In 18th century Great Britain, a noble but penniless young boy, John Mohune, is sent by his dying mother to Moonfleet, to put himself under the protection of a certain Jeremy Fox. The boy discovers that Fox is both a former lover of his mother and the leader of a gang of smugglers. A strange friendship grows as this unlikely pair is drawn into dangerous adventures.
Adventure / Drama
Climax Blu-ray Movie
Lionsgate Films | 2018 | 97 min | Rated R | May 28, 2019 | Jeffrey Kauffman
In the mid 90s, 20 urban dancers join together for a three-day rehearsal in a closed-down boarding school located at the heart of a forest to share one last dance. They then make one last party around a large sangria bowl. Quickly, the atmosphere becomes charged and a strange madness will seize them the whole night. If it seems obvious to them that they have been drugged, they neither know by who nor why. And its soon impossible for them to resist to their neurosises and psychoses, numbed by the hypnotic and the increasing electric rhythm of the music. While some feel in paradise, most of them plunge into hell.
Drama / Horror / Music / Psychological thriller / Foreign
Wagner: Lohengrin Blu-ray Movie
Deutsche Grammophon | 2018 | 208 min | Not rated | Jul 12, 2019 | Jeffrey Kauffman
No synopsis for this title.
Music / Foreign
Piranha Blu-ray Movie
4K Remaster
Shout Factory | 1978 | 92 min | Rated R | Jun 11, 2019 | Dr. Stephen Larson
A secret government project involving the breeding of mutant piranhas, gets way out of hand when the piranhas are accidentally released into the lake of a nearby summer camp.
Horror / Sci-Fi
- August 15, 2019
Port of Shadows Blu-ray Movie
Le quai des brumes
Kino Lorber | 1938 | 91 min | Not rated | Aug 13, 2019 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
A military deserter finds love and trouble (and a small dog) in a smoky French port city.
Crime / Drama / Romance / Foreign / Melodrama
Touch of Death Blu-ray Movie
Quando Alice ruppe lo specchio
RaroVideo U.S. | 1988 | 86 min | Not rated | Aug 06, 2019 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
A moody, middle-aged gigolo kills off women after he gets bored with dating them and uses their body parts for trophies and for consumption.
Comedy / Crime / Horror / Foreign