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Home- August 18, 2017
Black Sails: The Complete Fourth Season Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + UV Digital Copy
Lionsgate Films | 2017 | 596 min | Rated TV-MA | Aug 29, 2017 | Martin Liebman
Captain Flint and his pirates, twenty years prior to Robert Louis Stevenson's classic "Treasure Island".
Adventure / Drama / Period
The Taisho Trilogy: Three Films by Seijun Suzuki Blu-ray Movie
Zigeunerweisen / Kagero-za / Yumeji | Limited Edition / Blu-ray + DVD
Arrow | 1980-1991 | 3 Movies | 412 min | Not rated | Jul 04, 2017 | Jeffrey Kauffman
See individual titles for their synopses.
Drama / Fantasy / Horror / Mystery / Romance / Thriller / Foreign / Surreal
Zigeunerweisen Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + DVD + Digital Copy
Arrow | 1980 | 144 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Jeffrey Kauffman
In a seaside village of Japan during the 1920s, married professor Aochi (Toshiya Fujita) meets up with old friend Nakasono (Yoshio Harada), who's now a drifter accused of murder. Aochi manages to fight off the suspicion surrounding his buddy, but complications arise when they meet bereaved geisha Koine (Naoko Otani). Nakasono is immediately smitten. Aochi is attracted, but wants to stay faithful to his wife. Yet, over time, the mind games between all three escalate in a violently sexual way.
Horror / Mystery / Foreign
Kagero-za Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + DVD + Digital Copy
Arrow | 1981 | 140 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Jeffrey Kauffman
The inner workings of the human psyche are featured in this study of relationships between different leading characters. The action weaves around playwright Matsuzaki (Yusaku Matsuda) -- who is sleeping with Shinako (Michio Okusu), a married woman -- and his other "lover," Ine (Eriko Kasuda), a fairly corporeal spirit. The film is set in 1926, when cinema was silent -- and that era is evoked in Kagero-za.
Fantasy / Romance / Thriller / Foreign
Yumeji Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + DVD + Digital Copy
Arrow | 1991 | 128 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Jeffrey Kauffman
The life of Japanese artist and poet Yumeji Takehisa.
Drama / Foreign / Surreal
- August 17, 2017
Amsterdamned Blu-ray Movie
Collector's Edition | First Pressing / Blu-ray + DVD
Blue Underground | 1988 | 113 min | Rated R | Aug 29, 2017 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
A mysterious diver hiding in Amsterdam's canal system embarks on a rampage of gruesome murders, terrifying city officials and leaving few clues for the city's best detective, who doesn't suspect that both his new girlfriend and twelve-year-old daughter may be closer than he is to finding the killer.
Action / Crime / Horror / Foreign
Baywatch Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + DVD + UV Digital Copy
Paramount Pictures | 2017 | 1 Movie, 2 Cuts | 121 min | Rated R | Aug 29, 2017 | Martin Liebman
Devoted lifeguard Mitch Buchanan butts heads with a brash new recruit. Together, they uncover a local criminal plot that threatens the future of the Bay.
Action / Comedy
Baywatch 4K Blu-ray Movie
Extended Cut / 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray + UV Digital Copy
Paramount Pictures | 2017 | 1 Movie, 2 Cuts | 121 min | Unrated | Aug 29, 2017 | Martin Liebman
Devoted lifeguard Mitch Buchanan butts heads with a brash new recruit. Together, they uncover a local criminal plot that threatens the future of the Bay.
Action / Comedy
Broken Mile Blu-ray Movie
Gravitas Ventures | 2016 | 82 min | Unrated | Aug 15, 2017 | Michael Reuben
A man awakens in a woman's apartment, only to find her dead on the sofa. Panicked and desperate, he seeks the aid of a former girlfriend, while the dead woman's boyfriend pursues him seeking answers.
Crime / Drama / Thriller
Alien: Covenant 4K Blu-ray Movie
4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray + UV Digital Copy
20th Century Fox | 2017 | 122 min | Rated R | Aug 15, 2017 | Jeffrey Kauffman
The crew of a colony ship uncovers a threat beyond their imagination and must attempt a harrowing escape.
Adventure / Horror / Sci-Fi / Thriller
- August 16, 2017
Honey, I Blew Up the Kid Blu-ray Movie
Disney / Buena Vista | 1992 | 89 min | Rated PG | Jul 18, 2017 | Martin Liebman
The Szalinski family is back, this time hilarious disaster strikes when an experiment causes their new toddler son to grow many stories tall.
Adventure / Comedy / Family / Sci-Fi
Prizzi's Honor Blu-ray Movie
Kino Lorber | 1985 | 130 min | Rated R | Aug 29, 2017 | Brian Orndorf
The Prizzi family's principal hit man, Charley (Jack Nicholson), is about to discover that he and his new bride (Kathleen Turner) share more than just body heat: They're both cold-blooded assassins, and their next job is to ice each other! Now Charley must choose which contract to honor the one to his wife or the one on his wife.
Comedy / Crime / Drama
Alien: Covenant Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + DVD + UV Digital Copy
20th Century Fox | 2017 | 122 min | Rated R | Aug 15, 2017 | Jeffrey Kauffman
The crew of a colony ship uncovers a threat beyond their imagination and must attempt a harrowing escape.
Adventure / Horror / Sci-Fi / Thriller
Ash vs Evil Dead: The Complete Second Season Blu-ray Movie
Lionsgate Films | 2016 | 288 min | Not rated | Aug 22, 2017 | Martin Liebman
Ash has spent the last 30 years avoiding responsibility, maturity and the terrors of the Evil Dead until a Deadite plague threatens to destroy all of mankind and Ash becomes mankind's only hope.
Action / Comedy / Fantasy / Horror / Dark humor / Supernatural
- August 15, 2017
Once Upon a Time: The Complete Sixth Season Blu-ray Movie
Disney / Buena Vista | 2016-2017 | 946 min | Rated TV-PG | Aug 15, 2017 | Martin Liebman
Brace yourself for a high-stakes, game-changing leap of tested faith, twisted fate and tantalizing fantasy in ABC’s Once Upon a Time: The Complete Sixth Season. Bonus features include The Storybrooke Songbook: Inside the Musical Episode, Audio Commentary, The Fairest Bloopers of Them All and Deleted Scenes. After Regina crushes the heart of her Dark Half, it appears Storybrooke will finally enjoy an era of tranquility. But this reprieve is short-lived when the Evil Queen reemerges and wreaks a level of havoc and terror that makes her previous cruelties pale by comparison. Desperate to right her counterpart’s wrongs, Regina fights the ultimate battle against her nemesis, but can one survive if the other is destroyed? Meanwhile, Gold’s attempt to win back Belle before their child is born has heartbreaking consequences; Snow and David face a new, even more insidious curse; and just as Emma begins to envision a happy ending with Hook, she discovers she’s destined, as the Savior, to die at the hands of a sword-wielding assassin – unless she can somehow change her fate.
Adventure / Fantasy / Romance / Imaginary / Supernatural
Night Moves Blu-ray Movie
Warner Archive Collection
Warner Bros. | 1975 | 100 min | Rated R | Aug 15, 2017 | Michael Reuben
Cut-rate private eye Harry Moseby finds himself caught in a labyrinth of mendacity and murder. Hired to locate the runaway daughter of faded Hollywood actress Arlene Iverson, Harry heads to the Florida Keys, where what he considered a run-of-the-mill case turns into something much more. Meanwhile, his marriage is slowly disintegrating.
Crime / Film-Noir / Mystery / Thriller
Barton Fink Blu-ray Movie
Kino Lorber | 1991 | 117 min | Rated R | Aug 22, 2017 | Brian Orndorf
In 1941, New York intellectual playwright Barton Fink comes to Hollywood to write a Wallace Beery wrestling picture. Staying in the eerie Hotel Earle, Barton develops severe writer's block. His neighbor, jovial insurance salesman Charlie Meadows, tries to help, but Barton continues to struggle as a bizarre sequence of events distracts him even further from his task.
Drama / Film-Noir / Dark humor / Surreal
Son of Paleface Blu-ray Movie
Kino Lorber | 1952 | 95 min | Not rated | Aug 29, 2017 | Brian Orndorf
Junior Potter returns to claim his father's gold, which is nowhere to be found. "Mike" is the luscious head of a gang of thieves, and Roy Barton is the federal marshal hot on her trail.
Comedy / Romance / Western
Everything, Everything Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + DVD + UV Digital Copy
Warner Bros. | 2017 | 97 min | Rated PG-13 | Aug 15, 2017 | Michael Reuben
A teenager who's lived a sheltered life due to immunodeficiency falls for the boy who moves in next door.
Drama / Romance / Teen
Re-Animator Blu-ray Movie
Limited Edition | Remastered
Arrow | 1985 | 1 Movie, 2 Cuts | 86 min | Not rated | Aug 08, 2017 | Jeffrey Kauffman
Herbert West is obsessed with the idea of bringing the dead back to life. Experimenting with a glowing green fluid, he successfully reanimates dead tissue. Unfortunately, the dead are uncontrollable and difficult to subdue.
Comedy / Horror / Sci-Fi / Dark humor