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Home- August 12, 2019
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales 4K Blu-ray Movie
4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray + Digital Copy
Disney / Buena Vista | 2017 | 129 min | Rated PG-13 | Oct 03, 2017 | Martin Liebman
Captain Jack Sparrow searches for the trident of Poseidon.
Action / Adventure / Comedy / Fantasy
The Haunting of Sharon Tate Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + Digital Copy
Lionsgate Films | 2019 | 94 min | Rated R | Jun 04, 2019 | Brian Orndorf
Pregnant with director Roman Polanski's child and awaiting his return from Europe, 26-year-old Hollywood actress Sharon Tate becomes plagued by visions of her imminent death.
Crime / Horror
The Harder They Come Blu-ray Movie
Collector's Edition
Shout Factory | 1972 | 2 Movies | 103 min | Rated R | Aug 20, 2019 | Brian Orndorf
Wishing to become a successful Reggae singer, a young Jamaican man finds himself tied to corrupt record producers and drug pushers.
Crime / Drama / Music
The Revolt of the Slaves Blu-ray Movie
La rivolta degli schiavi
Kino Lorber | 1960 | 102 min | Not rated | Dec 04, 2018 | Neil Lumbard
In this biblical drama, set during the waning years of the Roman Empire, the trouble begins as the Christians continue to be persecuted. The daughter of a wealthy patrician whips the stuffing out of a newly purchased Christian slave who stubbornly refuses to wrestle in the ring. Later the girl and the slave fall in love, and she comes to understand their plight. She then learns that some of her closest friends and relatives are closet Christians.
Adventure / Foreign / Epic
Alice, Sweet Alice Blu-ray Movie
Communion / Holy Terror
Arrow | 1976 | 1 Movie, 2 Cuts | 107 min | Rated R | Aug 06, 2019 | Jeffrey Kauffman
Who is the murderer behind the mask? Is sweet, 12-year-old Alice capable of killing her young sister minutes before she will receive her first holy communion? Or is it someone else with a vicious plan that is haunting her family? Watch in terror and suspense as Brooke Shields makes her film debut in this shocking thriller directed by Alfred Sole. Says Roger Ebert, "...Director Alfred Sole has a nice touch for the macabre, and there are some splendidly chilling scenes."
Horror / Mystery / Thriller
Brightburn Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + DVD + Digital Copy
Sony Pictures | 2019 | 91 min | Rated R | Aug 20, 2019 | Martin Liebman
What if a child from another world crash-landed on Earth, but instead of becoming a hero to mankind, he proved to be something far more sinister?
Drama / Horror / Mystery / Sci-Fi
High Life Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + Digital Copy
Lionsgate Films | 2018 | 113 min | Rated R | Jul 09, 2019 | Jeffrey Kauffman
Takes place beyond the solar system in a future that seems like the present. About a group of criminals who accept a mission in space to become the subjects of a human reproduction experiment. They find themselves in the most unimaginable situation after a storm of cosmic rays hit the ship.
Adventure / Drama / Mystery / Sci-Fi / Psychological thriller
- August 11, 2019
Le Doulos Blu-ray Movie
The Finger Man
Kino Lorber | 1962 | 109 min | Not rated | Jul 02, 2019 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
French new wave icon Jean-Paul Belmondo stars as Silien, a poker-faced crook who may or may not have squealed on newly sprung gangster Maurice Faugel (Serge Reggiani) in this ice-cool noir from the great Jean-Pierre Melville.
Crime / Thriller / Foreign
The Poison Rose Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + Digital Copy
Lionsgate Films | 2019 | 97 min | Rated R | Jun 25, 2019 | Brian Orndorf
John Travolta stars as Carson Phillips, an ex-football star turned PI, who's got a soft spot for a lady in distress. Like the classic tales spun by the masters, he takes on a routine missing persons case which slowly reveals itself to be a complex interwoven web of crimes, suspects and dead bodies. When he discovers his long lost daughter is the number one suspect, he races a ticking clock to save her, solve the murders, and uncover the town's dirty secrets.
Crime / Thriller
Assassinaut Blu-ray Movie
Epic Pictures | 2019 | 83 min | Unrated | Jul 30, 2019 | Brian Orndorf
In the near future, aliens have invaded Earth and declared a galactic war resulting in thousands of human casualties. To save Earth, a team of four teenage astronauts brave the alien wilderness of a distant planet to stop an assassin from changing the course of history forever.
Horror
Europa Europa Blu-ray Movie
Criterion | 1990 | 112 min | Not rated | Jul 09, 2019 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
As World War II splits Europe, sixteen-year-old German Jew Salomon is separated from his family after fleeing with them to Poland, and finds himself reluctantly assuming various ideological identities in order to hide the deadly secret of his Jewishness. He is bounced from a Soviet orphanage, where he plays a dutiful Stalinist, to the Russian front, where he hides in plain sight as an interpreter for the German army, and back to his home country, where he takes on his most dangerous role: a member of the Hitler Youth.
Drama / History / War / Foreign
Merrill's Marauders Blu-ray Movie
Warner Archive Collection
Warner Bros. | 1962 | 98 min | Not rated | Jul 23, 2019 | Randy Miller III
American brigadier-general Merrill commands a regiment in Burma during World War II. Surrounded on all sides by the Japanese, Merrill's Marauders nonetheless accomplish their objective-only to be ordered into another mission with barely a chance to breathe. Again and again this happens, and again and again the Marauders remain fiercely loyal to the dauntless Merrill.
Action / Adventure / Drama / War
Jefferson in Paris Blu-ray Movie
Kino Lorber | 1995 | 139 min | Rated PG-13 | Jul 30, 2019 | Dr. Stephen Larson
During one man's unforgettable visit to liberal and socially permissive France, he meets and falls in love with a worldly and mysterious woman! But when the alluring charms of another prove irresistible, he finds himself courting scandal in a heated triangle of passion and desire!
Biography / Drama / History / Romance
- August 10, 2019
Halloween 4K Blu-ray Movie
4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray + Digital Copy
Universal Studios | 2018 | 106 min | Rated R | Aug 11, 2019 | Martin Liebman
Four decades after escaping his Halloween night murder spree, a haunted Laurie Strode comes face to face once more with the masked psychopath Michael Myers.
Horror / Thriller
Crypto Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + Digital Copy
Lionsgate Films | 2019 | 105 min | Rated R | Jun 18, 2019 | Brian Orndorf
Crypto follows a young anti-money laundering agent named Martin tasked with investigating a tangled web of corruption and fraud in his remote New York hometown, where his father Martin Sr and brother Caleb are struggling to maintain their family farm in a changing economic landscape. Martin quickly finds himself enmeshed in a dangerous underworld populated by Katie, an art dealer with mysterious intentions, Earl, a crypto-currency enthusiast turned cyber-sleuth, and Ted, a corrupt accountant doing the bidding of ruthless clients.
Crime / Drama / Thriller
The Mummy's Revenge Blu-ray Movie
La venganza de la momia / SOLD OUT
Scorpion Releasing | 1975 | 1 Movie, 2 Cuts | 92 min | Not rated | Jul 22, 2019 | Brian Orndorf
Paul Naschy has a duel role as Amenhotep/Assad Bey, an ancient Egyptian mummified Pharaoh, and the high priest who brought him back to life. In order for Amenhotep to achieve immortality, Assad Bey has to kidnap nubile young virgins in Victorian London for blood sacrifices.
Horror / Foreign
The Curse of la Llorona Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + DVD + Digital Copy
Warner Bros. | 2019 | 93 min | Rated R | Aug 06, 2019 | Martin Liebman
Ignoring the eerie warning of a troubled mother suspected of child endangerment, a social worker and her own small kids are soon drawn into a frightening supernatural realm.
Horror / Mystery / Thriller / Supernatural
Poms Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + DVD + Digital Copy
Universal Studios | 2019 | 91 min | Rated PG-13 | Aug 06, 2019 | Martin Liebman
POMS is a comedy about a group of women who form a cheer leading squad at their retirement community, proving that you're never too old to 'bring it!'
Comedy
Fast Color Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + Digital Copy
Lionsgate Films | 2019 | 102 min | Rated PG-13 | Jul 16, 2019 | Jeffrey Kauffman
A woman is forced to go on the run when her superhuman abilities are discovered. Years after having abandoned her family, the only place she has left to hide is home.
Drama / Sci-Fi / Thriller
- August 09, 2019
Moon in Scorpio Blu-ray Movie
Scorpion Releasing | 1987 | 87 min | Rated R | Jul 30, 2019 | Brian Orndorf
A Vietnam vet with PTSD and his new wife are invited for their honeymoon aboard his war buddy's yacht along with a third war friend and their girlfriends. Soon, they are being slaughtered one-by-one by a mysterious gloved assailant with an unusual pronged murder weapon.
Drama / Horror / Mystery