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Home- July 18, 2018
The Magicians: Season Three Blu-ray Movie
Universal Studios | 2018 | 563 min | Rated TV-MA | Jul 10, 2018 | Martin Liebman
After being recruited to a secretive academy, a group of students discover that the magic they read about as children is very real-and more dangerous than they ever imagined.
Drama / Fantasy / Horror / Teen / Supernatural
Billy Budd Blu-ray Movie
Warner Bros. | 1962 | 123 min | Not rated | Jul 10, 2018 | Michael Reuben
It's 1797, and the English frigate Avenger sails wartime seas, ready to engage the French navy in the broadside-for-broadside of combat. But there's another warfare going on, a conflict aboard the king's ship. It's the battle of good versus evil, fought between the young Billy, an archetype of goodness, and the ship's the master-at-arms, who is efficient and cruel - especially to young Billy. Based on the novel by Herman Melville.
Adventure / Drama
Don't Grow Up Blu-ray Movie
Alone
Shudder | 2015 | 81 min | Rated R | Jul 03, 2018 | Michael Reuben
A group of youths can't face the thought of growing up because anyone who does becomes a rampaging zombie.
Drama / Horror / Sci-Fi
Rampage Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + DVD + UV Digital Copy
Warner Bros. | 2018 | 107 min | Rated PG-13 | Jul 17, 2018 | Martin Liebman
Primatologist Davis Okoye, a man who keeps people at a distance, shares an unshakable bond with George, the extraordinarily intelligent silverback gorilla who has been in his care since birth. But a rogue genetic experiment mutates this gentle ape into a raging creature of enormous size. To make matters worse, it’s soon discovered there are other similarly altered animals. As these newly created alpha predators tear across North America, destroying everything in their path, Okoye teams with a discredited genetic engineer to secure an antidote, fighting his way through an ever-changing battlefield, not only to halt a global catastrophe but also to save the fearsome creature who was once his friend.
Action / Adventure / Sci-Fi
Rampage 4K Blu-ray Movie
4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray + Digital Copy
Warner Bros. | 2018 | 108 min | Rated PG-13 | Jul 17, 2018 | Martin Liebman
Primatologist Davis Okoye, a man who keeps people at a distance, shares an unshakable bond with George, the extraordinarily intelligent silverback gorilla who has been in his care since birth. But a rogue genetic experiment mutates this gentle ape into a raging creature of enormous size. To make matters worse, it’s soon discovered there are other similarly altered animals. As these newly created alpha predators tear across North America, destroying everything in their path, Okoye teams with a discredited genetic engineer to secure an antidote, fighting his way through an ever-changing battlefield, not only to halt a global catastrophe but also to save the fearsome creature who was once his friend.
Action / Adventure / Sci-Fi
Rampage 4K Blu-ray Movie
4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray + Digital Copy
Warner Bros. | 2018 | 107 min | Rated PG-13 | Jul 17, 2018 | Martin Liebman
Primatologist Davis Okoye, a man who keeps people at a distance, shares an unshakable bond with George, the extraordinarily intelligent silverback gorilla who has been in his care since birth. But a rogue genetic experiment mutates this gentle ape into a raging creature of enormous size. To make matters worse, it’s soon discovered there are other similarly altered animals. As these newly created alpha predators tear across North America, destroying everything in their path, Okoye teams with a discredited genetic engineer to secure an antidote, fighting his way through an ever-changing battlefield, not only to halt a global catastrophe but also to save the fearsome creature who was once his friend.
Action / Adventure / Sci-Fi
- July 17, 2018
Birdman of Alcatraz Blu-ray Movie
Masters of Cinema / Blu-ray + DVD
Eureka Entertainment | 1962 | 147 min | Rated BBFC: PG | Aug 06, 2018 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
In 1912, the notorious and violent prisoner Robert Franklin Stroud is transferred to the Leavenworth Prison convicted for murdering a man. When a guard cancels the visit of his mother Elizabeth Stroud due to a violation of the internal rules, he stabs and kills the guard and goes to trial three times. He is sentenced to be executed by the gallows, but his mother appeals to President Woodrow Wilson that commutes his sentence to life imprisonment. However, the warden Harvey Shoemaker decides to keep Stroud in the solitary for the rest of his life. One day, Stroud finds a sparrow that has fallen from the nest on the yard and he raises the bird until it is strong enough to fly.
Biography / Drama
The Teenage Prostitution Racket Blu-ray Movie
Storie di vita e malavita
RaroVideo U.S. | 1975 | 115 min | Not rated | Mar 27, 2018 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
Young girls (13-20's) are drawn into the web of prostitution, where they are bought and sold like slaves.
Crime / Drama / Thriller / Erotic / Foreign
Super Troopers 2 Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + DVD + Digital Copy
20th Century Fox | 2018 | 99 min | Rated R | Jul 17, 2018 | Jeffrey Kauffman
When a border dispute arises between the U.S. and Canada, the Super Troopers are tasked with establishing a Highway Patrol station in the disputed area.
Comedy
- July 16, 2018
Isle of Dogs Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + DVD + Digital Copy
20th Century Fox | 2018 | 101 min | Rated PG-13 | Jul 17, 2018 | Jeffrey Kauffman
Set in Japan, Isle of Dogs follows a boy's odyssey in search of his dog.
Adventure / Animation / Comedy / Drama / Fantasy / Sci-Fi
Doom Asylum Blu-ray Movie
Arrow | 1987 | 79 min | Not rated | Jul 17, 2018 | Jeffrey Kauffman
A demented coroner uses autopsy equipment to kill off the teenagers who trespass on the long-abandoned asylum he inhabits. Filmed on location in an actual abandoned asylum.
Comedy / Horror
- July 15, 2018
Dietrich & von Sternberg in Hollywood Blu-ray Movie
Morocco / Dishonored / Shanghai Express / Blonde Venus / The Scarlet Empress / The Devil is a Woman
Criterion | 1930-1935 | 6 Movies | 542 min | Not rated | Jul 03, 2018 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
See individual titles for their synopses.
Adventure / Comedy / Drama / History / Romance / War / Melodrama / Period
Dishonored Blu-ray Movie
Criterion | 1931 | 91 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Dr. Svet Atanasov
A widow is forced to turn to prostitution to support herself. Recruited by the Austrian Secret Service as a spy, she becomes an expert in ferreting out secrets about the enemy but meets her match in the form of a Russian agent named Kranau.
Drama / Romance / War
Hana-Bi Blu-ray Movie
Fireworks / はなび
Film Movement | 1997 | 103 min | Not rated | Sep 19, 2017 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
A hard-boiled ex-cop, haunted by a troubled past and pushed to the edge by the shooting of his partner, confronts his demons in a ruthless quest for justice and redemption.
Crime / Drama / Romance / Thriller / Foreign
The Super Inframan Blu-ray Movie
中國超人 / Infra-Man / 88 Asia Collection #19
88 Films | 1975 | 88 min | Rated BBFC: 15 | Apr 23, 2018 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
Princess Dragon Mom and her mutant army have risen, and only Infra-Man can stop them.
Action / Sci-Fi
- July 14, 2018
Personal Problems Blu-ray Movie
Kino Lorber | 1980 | 170 min | Not rated | Jul 03, 2018 | Brian Orndorf
Johnnie Mae and Charles are a working-class African American couple in New York at the beginning of the 1980s. While reliant upon one another, the husband and wife have grown emotionally estranged and are each having relationships outside the marriage.
Drama
A Fantastic Woman Blu-ray Movie
Una mujer fantástica
Sony Pictures | 2017 | 104 min | Rated R | May 22, 2018 | Dr. Stephen Larson
After the death of her older boyfriend, Marina, a transgender woman, must face the suspicions and prejudices of his family, the police and hospital staff.
Drama / Foreign
Fire Birds Blu-ray Movie
Kino Lorber | 1990 | 87 min | Rated PG-13 | Jul 10, 2018 | Brian Orndorf
When an international enemy turns to high-tech weaponry, the U.S. Army enlists the aid of the Apaches - America's elite airborne task force specially trained for aerial assault. Flying the world's most advanced attack helicopters, these hot-shot Fire Birds battle an evasive foe - hovering, diving and dodging death on dangerous secret missions inside hostile territory.
Action / Adventure
Traffik Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + UV Digital Copy
Lionsgate Films | 2018 | 96 min | Rated R | Jul 17, 2018 | Jeffrey Kauffman
A couple off for a romantic weekend in the mountains are accosted by a bike gang. Alone in the mountains, Brea and John must defend themselves against the gang, who will stop at nothing to protect their secrets.
Thriller
- July 13, 2018
Blonde Venus Blu-ray Movie
Criterion | 1932 | 94 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Dr. Svet Atanasov
A nightclub singer becomes a playboy's mistress to support her son and ailing husband.
Drama