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Grease Collection Blu-ray Movie
Grease / Grease 2 / Grease: Live! / Blu-ray + UV Digital Copy
Paramount Pictures | 1978-2016 | 3 Movies | 356 min | Not rated | Apr 24, 2018 | Martin Liebman
See individual titles for their synopses.
Comedy / Drama / Musical / Romance / Teen / Coming of age
Grease 2 Blu-ray Movie
Paramount Pictures | 1982 | 114 min | Rated PG | No Release Date | Martin Liebman
Return to rockin' Rydell High for a whole new term! It's 1961, two years after the original Grease gang graduated, and there's a new crop of seniors - and new members of the coolest cliques on campus, the Pink Ladies and T-Birds. Michael Carrington is the new kid in school, but he's been branded a brainiac. Can he fix up an old motorcycle, don a leather jacket, avoid a rumble with the leader of the T-Birds, and win the heart of Pink Lady Stephanie Zinone? He's surely going to try!
Comedy / Drama / Musical / Romance
Grease: Live! Blu-ray Movie
Paramount Pictures | 2016 | 131 min | Rated TV-14 | No Release Date | Martin Liebman
Sandy and Danny fell in love over the summer, but they parted ways as school started and thought they would never see each other again. When school started, Danny was shocked to see that Sandy had transferred to his school and the two could be together again. But Danny's gang and a rival female gang are not going to make things easy at all. When a group of tough guys from a neighboring school get involved, Danny and Sandy are starting to think that they will never be together again. It takes everything Danny and Sandy can do to make their budding romance a reality.
Comedy / Musical / Romance / Coming of age
80s Overdrive: 6 Movie Collection Blu-ray Movie
The Legend of Billie Jean / Little Nikita / Hardbodies / Spring Break / Perfect / Private Resort
Mill Creek Entertainment | 1983-1988 | 6 Movies | 579 min | Not rated | Apr 03, 2018 | Martin Liebman
See individual titles for their synopses.
Action / Comedy / Crime / Drama / Romance / Thriller
Ramrod Blu-ray Movie
Arrow Academy
Arrow | 1947 | 95 min | Rated BBFC: PG | Mar 05, 2018 | Jeffrey Kauffman
A headstrong young woman defies the wishes of her father by ignoring the romantic advances of a powerful local landowner, instead deciding to run her own ranch with the help of a recovering alcoholic and his friend.
Action / Romance / Western
Early Man Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + DVD + UV Digital Copy
Lionsgate Films | 2018 | 89 min | Rated PG | May 22, 2018 | Jeffrey Kauffman
Set at the dawn of time, when prehistoric creatures and woolly mammoths roamed the earth, Early Man tells the story of Dug, along with sidekick Hognob as they unite his tribe against a mighty enemy Lord Nooth and his Bronze Age City to save their home.
Adventure / Animation / Comedy / Family / Fantasy / Period
- May 13, 2018
This Is Cinerama Blu-ray Movie
Deluxe Edition / Blu-ray
Flicker Alley | 1952 | 124 min | Rated G | May 15, 2018 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
Designed to introduce the Cinerama widescreen format, this film documents exciting events and beautiful scenery from around the world in the aforementioned format. Included is a thrilling rollercoaster ride from the now-defunct Rockaways' Playland in Queens, scenes from the opera "Aida," an up-close view of the Niagara Falls, a ride down the canals of Venice, and other scenes from around the world. The film also features narration from newscaster Lowell Thomas and an Academy Award--nominated score. Presented in Smilebox format for 16:9 screens on the Flicker Alley blu ray.
Documentary
Batman Ninja Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + DVD + Digital Copy
Warner Bros. | 2018 | 85 min | Rated PG-13 | May 08, 2018 | Dr. Stephen Larson
Batman, along with a number of his allies and adversaries, finds himself transplanted from modern Gotham City to feudal Japan.
Action / Animation / Anime / Crime / Comic book / Foreign
The Bloodthirsty Trilogy Blu-ray Movie
Arrow | 1970-1974 | 3 Movies | 245 min | Not rated | May 15, 2018 | Jeffrey Kauffman
See individual titles for their synopses.
Drama / Horror / Foreign
The Vampire Doll Blu-ray Movie
幽霊屋敷の恐怖 血を吸う人形 / Chi o suu ningyô
Arrow | 1970 | 71 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Jeffrey Kauffman
A young man goes missing after visiting his girlfriend’s isolated country home. His sister and her boyfriend trace him to the creepy mansion, but their search becomes perilous when they uncover a gruesome family history.
Horror / Foreign
Lake of Dracula Blu-ray Movie
呪いの館 血を吸う眼 / Noroi no yakata: Chi o suu me
Arrow | 1971 | 82 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Jeffrey Kauffman
A young girl suffers a terrifying nightmare of a vampire with blazing golden eyes. Eighteen years later, the dream is revealed to be a hellish prophecy when a strange package containing an empty coffin mysteriously turns up at a nearby lake.
Horror / Foreign
Evil of Dracula Blu-ray Movie
Chi o suu bara
Arrow | 1974 | 87 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Jeffrey Kauffman
A professor takes up a new post at an all-girls school, only to discover the school’s principal conceals a dark secret and the pupils are in grave danger.
Drama / Horror / Foreign
Tanaka-Kun Is Always Listless: Complete Collection Blu-ray Movie
田中くんはいつもけだるげ
Sentai Filmworks | 2016 | 300 min | Rated TV-PG | Jan 30, 2018 | Martin Liebman
This unconventional, surrealist comedy follows an exhausted high school boy who, despite multiple attempts from his friends, still manages to spectacularly... sleep. Much to the chagrin of the energetic (at times bossy) Ohta, Tanaka is often found in a blissful state of lethargy, possessing the ability to doze off in any situation, especially in mid-sentence!
Anime / Comedy / Comic book / Foreign
- May 12, 2018
Breakheart Pass Blu-ray Movie
Eureka Classics / Blu-ray + DVD
Eureka Entertainment | 1975 | 95 min | Rated BBFC: PG | May 21, 2018 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
A mysterious prisoner is on a train that races through the Rocky Mountains on a classified mission. But one by one, the passengers are being murdered!
Mystery / Western
- May 11, 2018
Trigger, Jr. Blu-ray Movie
Kino Lorber | 1950 | 66 min | Not rated | Apr 17, 2018 | Brian Orndorf
Roy Rogers and his traveling Western show decide to rest at the ranch of Col. Harkrider, who once co-owned the carnival with Roy's father. The colonel's daughter, Kay, hopes that the visiting performers will reinvigorate her father, and that he will again go out with the circus. But Roy and friends are suddenly called into action when bad guy Manson releases a killer horse into the herds of area ranchers.
Western
Hope and Glory Blu-ray Movie
Olive Films | 1987 | 113 min | Rated PG-13 | Apr 24, 2018 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
A young boy called Bill grows up in London during the blitz of World War II.
Comedy / Drama / History / Romance / War / Coming of age
The Boneyard Blu-ray Movie
Code Red | 1991 | 93 min | Rated R | Apr 24, 2018 | Brian Orndorf
Children turned into zombies wreak havoc in a coroner's building with just a burned-out psychic, an experienced cop and two coroners to stop the madness.
Fantasy / Horror
Thank God It's Friday Blu-ray Movie
40th Anniversary Edition
Mill Creek Entertainment | 1978 | 89 min | Rated PG | May 01, 2018 | Martin Liebman
Thank God It's Friday captures the disco era in all of its naive glory. Multiple storylines twine through an enormous nightclub: Two underage girls desperately want in so they can enter a dance contest; the club's owner, Tony, makes a bet with his D.J. that he can woo a beautiful married woman -- whose uptight husband ends up taking drugs and loosening up more than he ever expected; a klutzy girl gets ditched by her best friend and flounders around the club looking for love; and an aspiring singer pleads with the D.J. to let her sing. It ends up being a pretty honest snapshot of the disco era.
Comedy / Music
Freaky Friday Blu-ray Movie
Disney / Buena Vista | 2003 | 97 min | Rated PG | Mar 27, 2018 | Martin Liebman
A remake of the 1976 Disney comedy where a mother and her daughter switch bodies for one Friday.
Comedy / Family / Teen
Captain Corelli's Mandolin Blu-ray Movie
Universal Studios | 2001 | 129 min | Rated R | Apr 17, 2018 | Martin Liebman
Dr. Iannis and his beautiful daughter, Pelagia, live an idyllic life on the Greek island of Cephallonia -- that is, until Italian forces occupy it during World War II and Capt. Corelli is placed in the Iannis home as a boarder. Corelli and Pelagia are quickly smitten with each other. But when the Nazis arrive, he must fight to liberate the island from the real enemy.
Drama / Romance / War