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Home- September 29, 2017
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me Blu-ray Movie
includes "The Missing Pieces" (2014)
Criterion | 1992 | 135 min | Rated R | Oct 17, 2017 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
A young FBI agent disappears while investigating a murder miles from Twin Peaks that may be related to the future murder of Laura Palmer; the last week of the life of Laura Palmer is chronicled.
Crime / Drama / Mystery / Thriller / Psychological thriller / Surreal
Friday Night Lights: The Complete Series Blu-ray Movie
Mill Creek Entertainment | 2006-2011 | 5 Seasons | 3318 min | Rated TV-14 | Sep 26, 2017 | Martin Liebman
Football is god in small-town Texas, where the Dillon High School Panthers seem to be a shoo-in for the state championship for the first time in 15 years. So when Eric Taylor signs on as the team's new coach, the pressure to win is enormous. This critically acclaimed drama series follows Taylor's ups and downs with the Panthers -- and with his wife and teenage daughter.
Drama / Sport
Stone Cold Dead Blu-ray Movie
Kino Lorber | 1979 | 108 min | Rated R | Oct 03, 2017 | Brian Orndorf
Based on Hugh Garner's novel "Sin Sniper," this police drama follows Sergeant Boyd's police search to find the sniper who has been shooting hookers.
Crime / Thriller
Night of the Living Dead Blu-ray Movie
50th Anniversary Edition / Blu-ray + Digital Copy
Mill Creek Entertainment | 1968 | 96 min | Not rated | Oct 03, 2017 | Martin Liebman
A disparate group of individuals takes refuge in an abandoned house when corpses begin to leave the graveyard in search of fresh human bodies to devour.
Horror / Supernatural
My Cousin Rachel Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + DVD + UV Digital Copy
20th Century Fox | 2017 | 106 min | Rated PG-13 | Aug 29, 2017 | Jeffrey Kauffman
A young Englishman plots revenge against his mysterious, beautiful cousin, believing that she murdered his guardian. But his feelings become complicated as he finds himself falling under the beguiling spell of her charms.
Drama / Mystery / Romance / Period
- September 28, 2017
The Reckoning Blu-ray Movie
Indicator Series | Limited Edition / Blu-ray + DVD
Powerhouse Films | 1969 | 111 min | Rated BBFC: 12 | Aug 28, 2017 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
Michael Marler, a successful business man in London, is about to make his way to the top. The death of his father brings him - after 37 years - back to his hometown Liverpool, where he is confronted with his lost Irish roots. He finds out that his father died because of a fight with some anglo-saxon teddy boys. It becomes "a matter of honour" for him, to take his revenge without involving the British police.
Drama
Children of the Corn Blu-ray Movie
Remastered
Arrow | 1984 | 92 min | Rated R | Oct 03, 2017 | Jeffrey Kauffman
A young couple is trapped in a remote town where a dangerous religious cult of children believe everyone over the age of 18 must be killed.
Horror / Thriller
Orgy of the Dead Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + DVD
Vinegar Syndrome | 1965 | 91 min | Rated R | Sep 26, 2017 | Brian Orndorf
John and his girlfriend Shirley go in search of a cemetary in order to inspire John for writing his next horror story. After they crash the car, they wander into the graveyard and encounter the dancing dead, a full moon spectacle overseen by the Ruler of the Dark. Before long the couple is spotted and taken prisoner. Tied to stakes and forced to watch the dancing, they await their fate.
Fantasy / Horror / Erotic
Funny Bones Blu-ray Movie
Kino Lorber | 1995 | 128 min | Rated R | Sep 19, 2017 | Brian Orndorf
Tommy Fawkes wants to be a successful comedian but his Las Vegas debut is a failure. He goes back to Blackpool, UK, where his father, also a comedian started and where he spent the summers of his childhood. He starts to search for a partner, a comic relief, with whom he can be famous.
Comedy / Drama
- September 27, 2017
Festival Blu-ray Movie
Criterion | 1967 | 98 min | Not rated | Sep 12, 2017 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
Before Woodstock, there was the Newport Folk Festival, which was established in 1959 as a counterpart to the local jazz festival. This documentary focuses on some of the festival's most memorable and influential years — 1963 through 1966 — and the footage captures performances from the likes of Joan Baez, Johnny Cash, Bob Dylan, and Pete Seeger, among others. The artists also ruminate on the roots of their sound and the enduring appeal, and importance, of folk music.
Documentary / Music
The Rolling Stones: From the Vault - Sticky Fingers Live at the Fonda Theatre Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + CD
Eagle Rock Entertainment | 2015 | 87 min | Not rated | Sep 29, 2017 | Jeffrey Kauffman
No synopsis for this title.
Music
47 Meters Down Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + DVD + UV Digital Copy
Lionsgate Films | 2017 | 89 min | Rated PG-13 | Sep 26, 2017 | Jeffrey Kauffman
Two sisters on Mexican vacation are trapped in a shark observation cage at the bottom of the ocean, with oxygen running low and great whites circling nearby, they have less than an hour of air left to figure out how to get to the surface.
Adventure / Drama / Horror / Thriller / Foreign
Slack Bay Blu-ray Movie
Ma Loute
Kino Lorber | 2016 | 122 min | Not rated | Sep 12, 2017 | Brian Orndorf
Summer 1910. Several tourists have vanished while relaxing on the beautiful beaches of the Channel Coast. Infamous inspectors Machin and Malfoy soon gather that the epicenter of these mysterious disappearances must be Slack Bay, a unique site where the Slack river and the sea join only at high tide. There lives a small community of fishermen and other oyster farmers. Among them evolves a curious family, the Bréfort, renowned ferrymen of the Slack Bay, lead by the father nick-named "The Eternal", who rules as best as he can on his prankster bunch of sons, especially the impetuous Ma Loute, aged 18. Towering high above the bay stands the Van Peteghems' mansion. Every summer, this bourgeois family - all degenerate and decadent from inbreeding - stagnates in the villa, not without mingling during their leisure hours of walking, sailing or bathing, with the ordinary local people, Ma Loute and the other Bréforts. Over the course of five days, as starts a peculiar love story between Ma Loute...
Comedy / Dark humor / Foreign
- September 26, 2017
Anthropophagous Blu-ray Movie
Remastered Special Edition | The Italian Collection #07
88 Films | 1980 | 92 min | Rated BBFC: 18 | Aug 07, 2017 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
Tourists take a boat to a remote island, where they find that most of the people have disappeared, and something is stalking them. They find a hidden room in the big mansion on a hill, and an ancient diary, which gives them clues to the source of the terror - the Anthropophagus Beast...
Horror / Foreign
Close Encounters of the Third Kind 4K Blu-ray Movie
40th Anniversary Edition / 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray + UV Digital Copy
Sony Pictures | 1977 | 1 Movie, 3 Cuts | 137 min | Rated PG | Sep 19, 2017 | Martin Liebman
After an encounter with UFOs, line worker Roy Neary feels undeniably drawn to an isolated area in the wilderness where something spectacular is about to happen.
Adventure / Drama / Sci-Fi / Thriller
Close Encounters of the Third Kind 4K Blu-ray Movie
40th Anniversary Edition | Gift Set / 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray + UV Digital Copy
Sony Pictures | 1977 | 1 Movie, 3 Cuts | 137 min | Rated PG | Sep 19, 2017 | Martin Liebman
After an encounter with UFOs, line worker Roy Neary feels undeniably drawn to an isolated area in the wilderness where something spectacular is about to happen.
Adventure / Drama / Sci-Fi / Thriller
Shameless: The Complete Seventh Season Blu-ray Movie
Warner Bros. | 2016-2017 | 650 min | Rated TV-MA | Sep 26, 2017 | Jeffrey Kauffman
Meet the fabulously dysfunctional Gallagher family. Dad's a drunk, Mom split long ago, eldest daughter Fiona tries to hold the family together. Eldest son Philip (Lip) trades his physics tutoring skills for sexual favors from neighborhood girls. Middle son Ian is gay. Youngest daughter Debbie is stealing money from her UNICEF collection. Ten-year-old Carl is a budding sociopath and an arsonist, and toddler Liam is - well, he might actually be black, but nobody has a clue how.
Comedy / Drama / Dark humor
Trip with the Teacher Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + DVD
Vinegar Syndrome | 1975 | 90 min | Rated R | Sep 26, 2017 | Brian Orndorf
A teacher and her class of female students take a class trip to the desert. Their bus breaks down, and they find themselves terrorized by a gang of psycho bikers.
Drama / Horror
Killer Barbys Blu-ray Movie
Redemption | 1996 | 90 min | Not rated | Sep 26, 2017 | Brian Orndorf
While driving on tour late night through a lonely road in the countryside of Spain, the van of the punk band "Killer Barbys" has an accident and breaks down. A creepy old man invites the group to spend the night in the castle of Countess Von Fledermaus and presents himself as her secretary Arkan. Arkan explains that the mechanic is located 62 km far from the location and he tells that the Countess loves youths. Flavia, Rafa and Mario accept the invitation but Billy and Sharon stay shagging in the van. When the musicians meet the Countess, they find that she is the ancient artist Olga Luchan and they question how she could keep so young. But sooner they discover that the Countess needs blood of young people to keep her beauty.
Horror / Foreign
- September 25, 2017
Don't Torture a Duckling Blu-ray Movie
Non si sevizia un paperino / Blu-ray + DVD
Arrow | 1972 | 105 min | Not rated | Oct 03, 2017 | Jeffrey Kauffman
A reporter and a young woman try to solve a series of child killings in rural Italy.
Horror / Mystery / Thriller / Foreign