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Home- June 06, 2019
Trapped Alive Blu-ray Movie
Arrow | 1988 | 92 min | Not rated | Jun 04, 2019 | Jeffrey Kauffman
A sheriff's deputy, some escaped prisoners and two young girls find themselves trapped in a mine shaft where a cannibalistic mutant is hunting them for food.
Horror
- June 05, 2019
Her Smell Blu-ray Movie
Gunpowder & Sky | 2018 | 136 min | Rated R | May 24, 2019 | Brian Orndorf
A self-destructive punk rocker struggles with sobriety while trying to recapture the creative inspiration that led her band to success.
Drama / Music
Sinatra in Palm Springs: The Place He Called Home Blu-ray Movie
Shout Factory | 2018 | 92 min | Not rated | Jun 11, 2019 | Brian Orndorf
Palm Springs, a small desert oasis 100 miles east of Los Angeles, was Frank Sinatra's home for fifty years. During his brief yet turbulent marriage to Ava Gardner, Palm Springs was center stage. And for the rest of his life, the Rancho Mirage compound on Frank Sinatra Drive was the sanctuary he called "My Heaven." Palm Springs still feels the ghost of the legendary performer.
Documentary
The Buster Keaton Collection: Volume 1 Blu-ray Movie
The General / Steamboat Bill, Jr.
Cohen Media Group | 1926-1928 | 2 Movies | 150 min | Not rated | May 14, 2019 | Jeffrey Kauffman
No synopsis for this title.
Action / Adventure / Comedy / Drama / Family / Romance / War / Western
The General Blu-ray Movie
Cohen Film Collection
Cohen Media Group | 1927 | 79 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Jeffrey Kauffman
Johnnie loves two things: his train and the lovely Annabelle Lee. When the Civil War breaks out he enlists as a soldier, but it is decided that he is too valuable as an engineer. Annabelle thinks it is because he is a coward. When Union spies capture Johnnie with Annabelle on board, Johnnie "The General" must recue both his loves.
Action / Adventure / Comedy / Drama / Romance / War / Western
Steamboat Bill, Jr. Blu-ray Movie
Cohen Film Collection
Cohen Media Group | 1928 | 71 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Jeffrey Kauffman
The mild-mannered son of a steamboat captain caught in the middle of the bitter rivalry between his father and another Mississippi riverboat owner.
Action / Comedy / Drama / Family / Romance
Knife + Heart Blu-ray Movie
Un couteau dans le cœur
Altered Innocence | 2018 | 103 min | Not rated | Jun 04, 2019 | Brian Orndorf
Anne produces third-rate gay porn. After her editor and lover Lois leaves her, she tries to win her back by shooting her most ambitious film yet with her trusted, flaming sidekick Archibald. But one of her actors is brutally murdered and Anne gets caught up in a strange investigation that turns her life upside-down.
Drama / Romance / Thriller / Foreign
To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar Blu-ray Movie
Shout Factory | 1995 | 109 min | Rated PG-13 | May 28, 2019 | Brian Orndorf
After jointly winning a local drag queen pageant in New York City, Noxeema Jackson and Vida Boheme win the right and are given the round trip airfare to compete in the Drag Queen of America pageant in Hollywood, California. Noxeema sees herself as the next Dorothy Dandridge, who bucked the trend of most black American movie actresses of her time by never playing the slave house maid. Vida's style reflects her past of growing up in upper class suburban Pennsylvania. One of their fellow New York contestants, Chi-Chi Rodriguez, is a straight-talking but naive and inexperienced drag queen. Seeing that Chi-Chi needs some drag queen confidence (despite her bravada), Vida and a reluctant Noxeema decide to cash in their plane tickets and buy an older model Cadillac convertible and drive to Hollywood with Chi-Chi.
Comedy / Drama
- June 04, 2019
Mo' Money Blu-ray Movie
Mill Creek Entertainment | 1992 | 90 min | Rated R | No Release Date | Martin Liebman
Trying to get his act together, a con artist gets a job in a credit card company. He falls in love with a fellow employee, he steals a couple of cards, everything is going great. But soon, the chief of security drags him into the big leagues of criminals...
Comedy / Crime / Romance / Thriller
High School High Blu-ray Movie
Mill Creek Entertainment | 1996 | 85 min | Rated PG-13 | No Release Date | Martin Liebman
Richard Clark has just left the well-known Wellington Academy to teach at Marion Barry High School. Now, he will try to inspire the D-average students into making good grades and try to woo a fellow teacher.
Comedy
Mo' Money & High School High Blu-ray Movie
Mill Creek Entertainment | 1992-1996 | 2 Movies | 175 min | Not rated | Jun 04, 2019 | Martin Liebman
See individual titles.
Comedy / Crime / Romance / Thriller
Jury Duty Blu-ray Movie
Retro VHS Collection
Mill Creek Entertainment | 1995 | 88 min | Rated PG-13 | Jun 04, 2019 | Martin Liebman
When jobless Tommy Collins discovers that sequestered jurors earn free room and board as well as $5-a-day, he gets himself assigned to a jury in a murder trial. Once there, he does everything he can to prolong the trial and deliberations and make the sequestration more comfortable for himself.
Comedy
Lost in Space: Season One Blu-ray Movie
20th Century Fox | 2018 | 551 min | Rated TV-PG | Jun 04, 2019 | Jeffrey Kauffman
A remake of the 1960's sci-fi series about a family struggling for survival in outer space.
Adventure / Sci-Fi / Coming of age
They Shall Not Grow Old Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + DVD + Digital Copy
Warner Bros. | 2018 | 99 min | Rated R | May 07, 2019 | Randy Miller III
Using state-of-the-art technology to restore original archival footage that is more than a 100 years old, this documentary brings to life the people who can best tell the story of World War I: the men who were there. With materials from the BBC and Imperial War Museums’ archives, the voices of the men who fought recount the reality of war on the front line; their attitudes to the conflict; how they ate; slept and formed friendships, as well what their lives were like away from the trenches during periods of downtime.
Documentary / History / War
A Madea Family Funeral Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + DVD + Digital Copy
Lionsgate Films | 2019 | 109 min | Rated PG-13 | Jun 04, 2019 | Jeffrey Kauffman
A joyous family reunion becomes a hilarious nightmare as Madea and the crew travel to backwoods Georgia, where they find themselves unexpectedly planning a funeral that might unveil unsavory family secrets.
Comedy
Mountaintop Motel Massacre Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + DVD
Vinegar Syndrome | 1983 | 96 min | Rated R | Sep 24, 2019 | Brian Orndorf
After several years in an insane asylum, Evelyn, the keeper of the Mountaintop Motel, is released and resumes doing business. She kills her young charge out of anger, but convinces the police it was an accident - and pushed into insanity, she then proceeds to target her guests, first by releasing vermin into their rooms, but then by using her trusty sickle...
Horror
Satan's Slave Blu-ray Movie
Evil Heritage | Slipcover Edition Limited to 2,000 | SOLD OUT / Blu-ray + DVD
Vinegar Syndrome | 1976 | 90 min | Not rated | May 24, 2019 | Brian Orndorf
A young girl is caught up in a devil cult run by her evil uncle and cousin. She can trust no one and even people she thought were dead comes back to haunt her.
Horror
- June 03, 2019
Midas Run Blu-ray Movie
Kino Lorber | 1969 | 107 min | Rated M | May 21, 2019 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
A veteran secret service officer from Britain hijacks a government shipment of $15 million of gold out of an irritation for never being knighted.
Comedy / Crime / Drama / Romance
Greta Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + Digital Copy
Universal Studios | 2018 | 99 min | Rated R | May 28, 2019 | Martin Liebman
A young woman befriends a lonely widow when she returns the purse she left on the subway. But motherly affection soon gives way to obsession and stalking when the widow's secrets are revealed.
Horror / Thriller
Gloria Bell Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + Digital Copy
Lionsgate Films | 2018 | 102 min | Rated R | Jun 04, 2019 | Jeffrey Kauffman
A free-spirited woman in her 50s seeks out love at L.A. dance clubs.
Comedy / Drama / Romance