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Home- October 12, 2017
Orphan Black: Season Five Blu-ray Movie
BBC | 2017 | 440 min | Rated TV-MA | Sep 12, 2017 | Jeffrey Kauffman
Orphan Black follows Sarah, an outsider and orphan whose life changes dramatically after witnessing the suicide of a woman who looks just like her.
Action / Drama / Sci-Fi / Thriller
- October 11, 2017
Le Samouraï Blu-ray Movie
Criterion | 1967 | 105 min | Rated PG | Nov 14, 2017 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
After carrying out a hit on a nightclub owner, hitman Jef Costello discovers a witness to the killing. Before he can act, he is arrested in a sweep of suspects. Released after the witness fails to come forward, Costello goes from being the hunter to the hunted.
Crime / Drama / Film-Noir / Mystery / Thriller / Foreign
The Doors: The Singles Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray Audio / Blu-ray + CD
Rhino Music | 1967-1971 | 44 min | Not rated | Sep 15, 2017 | Jeffrey Kauffman
This collection spotlights every single, and B-side, the band released, all gathered together for the first time. This 2CD/1Blu-ray release also includes four "Mono Radio Versions" of some of the band’s biggest hits, such as "Hello, I Love You" and "Touch Me," which have never been made available anywhere after being sent to radio around their original release. It also includes high-resolution quadrophonic mixes of the 1973 compilation The Best Of The Doors on Blu-ray for the first time.
Music
The Old Dark House Blu-ray Movie
Cohen Media Group | 1932 | 72 min | Not rated | Oct 24, 2017 | Jeffrey Kauffman
Seeking shelter from a pounding rainstorm in a remote region of Wales, several travellers are admitted to a gloomy, foreboding mansion belonging to the extremely strange Femm family. Trying to make the best of it, the guests must deal with their sepulchral host, Horace Femm and his obsessive, malevolent sister Rebecca. Things get worse as the brutish manservant Morgan gets drunk, runs amuck and releases the long pent-up brother Saul, a psychotic pyromaniac who gleefully tries to destroy the residence by setting it on fire...
Horror / Dark humor
- October 10, 2017
Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger Blu-ray Movie
Indicator Series / 1rst Pressing master 5037899069912 Ltd Ed numbers 1-4000 / Blu-ray + DVD
Powerhouse Films | 1977 | 113 min | Rated BBFC: U | Jun 26, 2017 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
Sinbad must deliver a prince transformed into a monkey to the lands of the Ademaspai to restore him to his human form in time for his coronation. On the way he must contend with the evil witch Zenobia, her son and their magic, and several nasty-looking Ray Harryhausen beasties.
Action / Adventure / Drama / Family / Fantasy
The Beguiled Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + DVD + UV Digital Copy
Universal Studios | 2017 | 93 min | Rated R | Oct 10, 2017 | Martin Liebman
A Union soldier is held captive in a Confederate girl boarding school, and begins to con himself to each of their hearts.
Drama / Romance / Thriller / War / Melodrama / Period
Armed Response Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + UV Digital Copy
Lionsgate Films | 2017 | 93 min | Rated R | Oct 10, 2017 | Jeffrey Kauffman
A team of highly trained operatives find themselves trapped inside an isolated military compound after its artificial intelligence is suddenly shut down. The crew begins to experience strange and horrific phenomena as they attempt to uncover what killed the previous team.
Action / Horror / Thriller
A Fish Called Wanda Blu-ray Movie
Remastered
Arrow | 1988 | 108 min | Rated R | Oct 10, 2017 | Jeffrey Kauffman
In London, four very different people team up to commit armed robbery, then try to doublecross each other for the loot.
Comedy / Crime / Dark humor / Heist
Electric Dreams Blu-ray Movie
Second Sight | 1984 | 96 min | Rated BBFC: PG | Aug 07, 2017 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
An artificially intelligent PC and his human owner find themselves in a romantic rivalry over a woman.
Comedy / Drama / Music
The Green Slime Blu-ray Movie
Warner Bros. | 1968 | 90 min | Rated G | Oct 10, 2017 | Michael Reuben
After destroying a huge asteroid that was on a rapid collision course with Earth, a group of astronauts discover they have accidentally returned to their space station with an alien slime creature that feeds on radiation and can reproduce rapidly from its own blood.
Drama / Horror / Sci-Fi
The Hidden Blu-ray Movie
Warner Bros. | 1987 | 97 min | Rated R | Oct 03, 2017 | Michael Reuben
There's a power-mad space slug slithering among (and through) the innocent citizens of L.A., and it's up to a hardboiled cop and a detective from way up north to stop it in this wonderfully straight-faced sci-fi action flick.
Action / Crime / Horror / Sci-Fi
Waiting for Guffman Blu-ray Movie
Warner Bros. | 1996 | 84 min | Rated R | Sep 26, 2017 | Michael Reuben
Blaine, Missouri may be small, but Corky St. Clair always dreams big. Determined to get back to the lights of Broadway, he's created "Red, White and Blaine", a musical celebration of the burg's 150th anniversary. Stagestruck townsfolk pin their hopes of being discovered on Corky's hilariously hapless theater production...and on reports that big-time talent scout Mort Guffman will be in the audience.
Comedy
- October 09, 2017
Berlin Syndrome Blu-ray Movie
Artificial Eye | 2017 | 116 min | Rated BBFC: 15 | Oct 02, 2017 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
A passionate holiday romance leads to an obsessive relationship, when an Australian photojournalist wakes one morning in a Berlin apartment and is unable to leave.
Drama / Horror / Mystery / Psychological thriller
Daredevil: The Complete Second Season Blu-ray Movie
Disney / Buena Vista | 2016 | 701 min | Rated TV-MA | Aug 22, 2017 | Martin Liebman
A blind lawyer with his other senses superhumanly enhanced fights crime as a costumed superhero.
Action / Adventure / Crime / Sci-Fi / Comic book
Jeff Beck: Live at the Hollywood Bowl Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + CD
Eagle Rock Entertainment | 2017 | 97 min | Not rated | Oct 06, 2017 | Jeffrey Kauffman
In the summer of 2016, Jeff Beck celebrated 50 years of his musical career with a special concert at the famous Hollywood Bowl. The setlist reached back to his first recordings with The Yardbirds in 1966 and came right up to date with tracks from his most recent album “Loud Hailer.” As the evening progressed he was joined by many of the great musicians he has collaborated with over the years including Billy F. Gibbons, Buddy Guy, Jimmy Hall, Jan Hammer, Beth Hart and Steven Tyler. The show climaxed with the guests all joining forces for an exhilarating encore performance of “Purple Rain” in tribute to Prince, who had passed away a couple of months before the concert.
Music
T-Men Blu-ray Movie
Special Edition
ClassicFlix | 1947 | 92 min | Not rated | Oct 10, 2017 | Jeffrey Kauffman
U.S. agents infiltrate a deadly counterfeiting ring.
Crime / Drama / Film-Noir
- October 08, 2017
The Bridge on the River Kwai 4K Blu-ray Movie
60th Anniversary Edition / 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray + UV Digital Copy
Sony Pictures | 1957 | 161 min | Rated PG | Oct 03, 2017 | Martin Liebman
Allied commandos are dispatched deep inside the Burmese jungle to blow up a strategic bridge built by British POWs.
Drama / History / War / Epic
Bram Stoker's Dracula 4K Blu-ray Movie
25th Anniversary Edition / 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray + UV Digital Copy
Sony Pictures | 1992 | 127 min | Rated R | Oct 03, 2017 | Martin Liebman
A young English lawyer, Jonathan Harker, is sent to a gloomy village in eastern Europe. He is captured and imprisoned by the undead vampire Dracula, who travels to London, inspired by a photograph of Harker's betrothed, Mina Murray. In Britain, Dracula begins a reign of seduction and terror, draining the life from Mina's closest friend, Lucy Westenra. Lucy's friends gather together to try to drive away Dracula and rescue Mina.
Drama / Fantasy / Horror / Romance / Thriller / Supernatural / Period
Rawhead Rex Blu-ray Movie
Kino Lorber | 1986 | 90 min | Unrated | Oct 17, 2017 | Brian Orndorf
Ireland will never be the same after Rawhead Rex, a particularly nasty demon, is released from his underground prison by an unwitting farmer. The film follows Rex's cross country rampage, while a man struggles to stop it.
Horror / Thriller
- October 07, 2017
Spider Blu-ray Movie
Zirneklis
Mondo Macabro | 1991 | 98 min | Not rated | Sep 12, 2017 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
A young girl enters into the world of dangerous dreams – full of sex and evil…
Horror / Erotic / Foreign