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Home- June 13, 2018
Tomb Raider Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + DVD + UV Digital Copy
Warner Bros. | 2018 | 118 min | Rated PG-13 | Jun 12, 2018 | Michael Reuben
Lara Croft is the fiercely independent daughter of an eccentric adventurer who vanished when she was scarcely a teen. Now 21, and working as a London bike courier, Lara is driven to solve the puzzle of her father's mysterious death. Leaving behind everything she knows, she searches for her father’s last-known destination: a fabled tomb on a mythical island that might be somewhere off the coast of Japan.
Action / Adventure / Fantasy / Thriller
Pacific Rim: Uprising Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + DVD + Digital Copy
Universal Studios | 2018 | 111 min | Rated PG-13 | Jun 19, 2018 | Martin Liebman
Jake Pentecost, son of Stacker Pentecost, reunites with Mako Mori to lead a new generation of Jaeger pilots, including rival Lambert and 15-year-old hacker Amara, against a new Kaiju threat.
Action / Sci-Fi
Pacific Rim: Uprising 4K Blu-ray Movie
4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray + Digital Copy
Universal Studios | 2018 | 111 min | Rated PG-13 | Jun 19, 2018 | Martin Liebman
Jake Pentecost, son of Stacker Pentecost, reunites with Mako Mori to lead a new generation of Jaeger pilots, including rival Lambert and 15-year-old hacker Amara, against a new Kaiju threat.
Action / Sci-Fi
- June 12, 2018
Dragon Inn Blu-ray Movie
龍門客棧 / Long men kezhan
Criterion | 1967 | 112 min | Not rated | Jul 10, 2018 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
In the mid-Ming dynasty, a loyal and upright Minister Yu is accused and killed by the evil and powerful eunuch Cao. Yu's children are sentenced to exile to the border Dragon Gate. Cao sends several assassins to kill Yu's children on their way, yet failed. Cao then sends killers of East Chamber, the espionage agency. The righteous swordsman Xiao and Yu's former staffs come to Dragon Inn to rescue Yu's children. The two groups have many fights there. Then Cao himself comes to have a fierce fight with Xiao and others.
Action / Adventure / Martial arts / Foreign / Period
Trouble Is My Business Blu-ray Movie
Random Media | 2018 | 113 min | Not rated | Jun 05, 2018 | Martin Liebman
Detective Roland Drake falls for two sisters from the Montemar family. One woman is dead and the other wants to kill him. Passion, murder, and betrayal. Just another day at the office.
Action / Adventure / Crime / Mystery / Thriller
I Can Only Imagine Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + DVD + UV Digital Copy
Lionsgate Films | 2018 | 110 min | Rated PG | Jun 12, 2018 | Jeffrey Kauffman
The inspiring and unknown true story behind MercyMe's beloved, chart topping song that brings ultimate hope to so many is a gripping reminder of the power of true forgiveness.
Drama / Family
Orange Is the New Black: Season Five Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + UV Digital Copy
Lionsgate Films | 2017 | 725 min | Rated TV-MA | Jun 12, 2018 | Jeffrey Kauffman
The story of Piper Chapman, a woman in her thirties who is sentenced to fifteen months in prison after being convicted of a decade-old crime of transporting money to her drug-dealing girlfriend.
Biography / Comedy / Drama / Dark humor
- June 11, 2018
Miracles Blu-ray Movie
Kino Lorber | 1986 | 87 min | Rated PG | Jun 26, 2018 | Brian Orndorf
Jean and Roger decide to divorce after 10 years, but 12 hours later, they're together again by accident. Their cars collide, swerving to miss Juan, the jaywalking jewel thief who decides to cash in on the crash. The ex-couple are kidnapped, shot at, cast adrift, mistaken for smugglers and even survive a plane crash. But the toughest torture these two endure is being trapped together.
Comedy
Double Lover Blu-ray Movie
L'amant double
Cohen Media Group | 2017 | 107 min | Not rated | Jun 19, 2018 | Jeffrey Kauffman
Chloé, a fragile young woman, falls in love with her psychoanalyst, Paul. A few months later she moves in with him, but soon discovers that her lover is concealing a part of his identity.
Drama / Romance / Thriller / Erotic / Foreign
The Mimic Blu-ray Movie
장산범 / Jang-san-beom
Well Go USA | 2017 | 100 min | Not rated | Jun 12, 2018 | Jeffrey Kauffman
The Jangsan Tiger, who mimics human voices to lure them close, encounters a family affected by the creature.
Drama / Fantasy / Horror / Foreign
- June 10, 2018
The Defiant Ones Blu-ray Movie
Eureka Classics / Blu-ray + DVD
Eureka Entertainment | 1958 | 97 min | Rated BBFC: U | Jun 11, 2018 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
Joker Jackson and Noah Cullen are two convicts on the run. Escaping from a Southern work gang, the two men are bound together by an unbreakable iron chain and separated by an unbridled hatred towards each other. Relentlessly pursued by a posse and bloodhounds, they put aside their differences to survive. But when a lonely woman breaks their chain and deliberately sends Cullen to certain death, Jackson must decide what's more important: saving Cullen...or saving himself.
Crime / Drama / Thriller
Jack the Giant Killer Blu-ray Movie
Kino Lorber | 1962 | 1 Movie, 2 Cuts | 94 min | Not rated | Jun 12, 2018 | Brian Orndorf
A farm boy turned knight must protect a princess from the schemes of an evil wizard.
Adventure / Family / Fantasy / Musical
How Do I Love Thee? Blu-ray Movie
Kino Lorber | 1970 | 109 min | Rated PG | May 15, 2018 | Brian Orndorf
A professor recalls his atheistic father, devoted mother, and his father's blowzy mistress.
Comedy / Drama
Death Wish Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + DVD + Digital Copy
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer | 2018 | 107 min | Rated R | Jun 05, 2018 | Michael Reuben
A mild-mannered father is transformed into a killing machine after his family is torn apart by a violent act.
Action / Crime / Drama
- June 09, 2018
Iron Monkey Blu-ray Movie
少年黃飛鴻之鐵馬騮 / Siu nin Wong Fei Hung chi: Tit ma lau | Eureka Classics
Eureka Entertainment | 1993 | 90 min | Rated BBFC: 12 | Jun 18, 2018 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
In a desperate and unjust land, where government corruption rules the day, only one man has the courage to challenge the system and fight back. They call him Iron Monkey. Under the shadow of night, in the silence before dawn, he fights to give hope to the poor and the oppressed. Although no one knows his name and no one knows where he comes from, his heroism has made him a living legend to the people and a wanted man to the powers that be. Unable to capture this elusive Robin Hood through normal avenues, the ruthless government devises a plan: force a nationally renowned master fighter into service by taking his beloved and only son hostage. The mandate is simple, track down the Iron Monkey if he ever wants to see his boy again. But when the Iron Monkey's identity and true intentions are revealed to him, the tables turn, and these two great men, one known and one masked, join forces to take down the evil empire and reclaim the rights of the common people.
Action / Crime / Martial arts / Foreign
- June 08, 2018
Bull Durham Blu-ray Movie
Criterion | 1988 | 108 min | Rated R | Jul 10, 2018 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
Crash Davis is a perennial Minor Leaguer assigned to the Durham Bulls, a hapless team with a long tradition of mediocrity. There he tutors a young, dim-witted pitching prodigy, Nuke LaLoosh in the ways of baseball, life, and love. Each strikes up a romance with Annie, the team's "mascot" who takes it upon herself to sleep with a new player every season.
Comedy / Drama / Romance / Sport
Game of Thrones: The Complete First Season 4K Blu-ray Movie
4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray + Digital Copy
HBO | 2011 | 561 min | Rated TV-MA | Jun 05, 2018 | Jeffrey Kauffman
Summers span decades. Winters can last a lifetime. And the struggle for the Iron Throne has begun. It will stretch from the south, where heat breeds plots, lusts and intrigues; to the vast and savage eastern lands; and all the way to the frozen north, where an 800-foot wall of ice protects the kingdom from the dark forces that lie beyond. Kings and queens, knights and renegades, liars, lords, and honest men...all will play the “Game of Thrones.”
Action / Adventure / Drama / Fantasy / Epic
Dirty Grandpa 4K Blu-ray Movie
+ Unrated Version on BD / 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray + UV Digital Copy
Lionsgate Films | 2016 | 110 min | Unrated | Jun 12, 2018 | Jeffrey Kauffman
Right before his wedding, an uptight guy is tricked into driving his grandfather, a perverted former Army general, to Florida for spring break.
Comedy / Dark humor
Love, Simon 4K Blu-ray Movie
4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray + Digital Copy
20th Century Fox | 2018 | 109 min | Rated PG-13 | Jun 12, 2018 | Jeffrey Kauffman
A young gay teen takes a novel approach to coming out to his classmates.
Comedy / Drama / Romance / Teen / Coming of age
- June 07, 2018
Man of la Mancha Blu-ray Movie
Shout Factory | 1972 | 129 min | Rated PG | Apr 25, 2017 | Dr. Stephen Larson
This musical version of Don Quixote is framed by an incident allegedly from the life of its author, Miguel de Cervantes. Don Quixote is the mad, aging nobleman who embarrasses his respectable family by his adventures. Backed by his faithful sidekick Sancho Panza, he duels windmills and defends his perfect lady Dulcinea (who is actually a downtrodden whore named Aldonza).
Adventure / Comedy / Drama / Musical