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Escape from Tomorrow (2013)
dir. Randy Moore
DVD will be available everywhere, while Best Buy has exclusive rights to the Blu-ray release.
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The most provocative film from the 2013 Sundance Film Festival, ESCAPE FROM TOMORROW should not exist, and yet it does. Like nothing you've ever seen, Randy Moore's directorial debut is a bold and ingenious trip into the happiest place on earth. An epic battle begins when a middle-aged American husband and father of two learns that he has lost his job. Keeping the news from his nagging wife and wound-up children, he packs up the family and embarks on a full day of park hopping amid enchanted castles and fairy tale princesses. Soon, the manufactured mirth of the fantasy land around him begins to haunt his subconscious. An idyllic family vacation quickly unravels into a surrealist nightmare of paranoid visions, bizarre encounters, and an obsessive pursuit of a pair of sexy teenage Parisians. Chillingly shot in black and white, Escape From Tomorrow dissects the mythology of artificial perfection while subversively attacking our culture's obsession with mass entertainment.
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Il Sorpasso (The Criterion Collection) (1962)
dir. Dino Risi
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The ultimate Italian road comedy, Il sorpasso stars the unlikely pair of Vittorio Gassman (Big Deal on Madonna Street) and Jean-Louis Trintignant (Z) as, respectively, a waggish, free-wheeling bachelor and the bookish law student he takes on a madcap trip from Rome to rural Southern Italy. An unpredictable journey that careers from slapstick to tragedy, this film, directed by Dino Risi (the original Scent of a Woman), is a wildly entertaining commentary on the pleasures and consequences of the good life. A holy grail of commedia all'italiana, Il sorpasso is so fresh and exciting that one can easily see why it has long been adored in Italy.
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The Legend of Hercules (2014)
dir. Renny Harlin
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Long ago a tormented soul named Hercules walked the earth. Being the son of Zeus was a curse. He received nothing but suffering his entire life because of it. After twelve arduous tasks and the loss of his family, he turned his back on the gods finding his only solace in the heat of battle. Over the years he forged an alliance with six other like minded rogues. Their only bond was their love of battle and the presence of death. This motley crew never questions where, why or for whom they fight, just the amount paid for their bloody labor. Now the King of Thrace has hired these mercenaries to train his men to become the greatest army of all time.
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The Best Offer (2013)
dir. Giuseppe Tornatore
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From the director of Cinema Paradiso comes a romantic thriller with a playful side that proves love is worth bidding on at any price. When a mysterious heiress asks famed but unscrupulous art appraiser and auctioneer Virgil Oldman (Academy Award winner Geoffrey Rush) to evaluate her late parents collection yet remains forever unseen behind closed doors, it ignites a spark of curiosity in the normally austere Virgil that soon grows into an all-out obsession. Before long everything in Virgil s carefully constructed life threatens to come apart as he delves even further into the world of intrigue surrounding his enigmatic employer. Co-starring Donald Sutherland (The Hunger Games) and Jim Sturgess (Cloud Atlas), director Giuseppe Tornatore’s THE BEST OFFER is a unique take on a seemingly doomed romance from one of cinema’s greatest artists.
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Bad Country (2014)
dir. Chris Brinker
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Baton Rouge police detective Bud Carter (Willem Dafoe) must team up with notorious contract killer Jesse Weiland (Matt Dillon) to catch the mob boss (Tom Berenger) who put a price on Weiland's head for turning informant. Neal McDonough and Amy Smart co-star.
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Labor Day (2013)
dir. Jason Reitman
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Depressed single mom Adele and her son Henry offer a wounded, fearsome man a ride. As police search town for the escaped convict, the mother and son gradually learn his true story as their options become increasingly limited. Stars Kate Winslet, Josh Brolin, Tobey Maguire/
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Gloria (2013)
dir. Sebastián Lelio
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A story set in Santiago and centered on Gloria, a free-spirited older woman, and the realities of her whirlwind relationship with a former naval officer whom she meets out in the clubs.
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The Selfish Giant (2013)
dir. Clio Barnard
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Thirteen-year-old Arbor and his best friend Swifty are part of society’s outcasts, excluded from the social dynamic of both their school and their neighborhood. Forced into searching for and selling scrap metal to help feed their families, the boys come across fellow misfit Kitten (Sean Gilder, Shameless), a local scrap dealer and yard owner. Hoping to gain an extra edge in their on-the-fringes occupation, both boys attempt to win Kitten’s favor Swifty by obsequiousness, Arbor by emulation. But the hardened Kitten seems to have no compassion for the youths who are yet so much like him, and the healthy competition between the two boys soon escalates until a wedge that threatens to end their friendship is driven between them. That is until a tragic event brings all three together in a way none of them ever thought possible. Echoing the unfettered depiction of British working class life of Ken Loach, director Clio Barnard’s THE SELFISH GIANT is a contemporary take on the Oscar Wilde fable about the virtue of being one’s self in the face of overwhelming adversity.
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Art Machine (2012)
dir. Doug Karr
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This electric drama follows Declan Truss, a child prodigy painter who, by seventeen, is fighting mental exhaustion and pressure to produce something new. With a pushy mother and the pressures of an impending show bearing down upon him, Declan's world opens up when he chances upon a group of rebellious artistic freethinkers in Brooklyn.
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These Birds Walk (2013)
dirs. Omar Mullick, Bassam Tariq
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In Karachi, Pakistan, a runaway boy's life hangs on one critical question: where is home? The streets, an orphanage, or with the family he fled in the first place? Simultaneously heart-wrenching and life-affirming, THESE BIRDS WALK documents the struggles of these wayward street children and the samaritans looking out for them in this ethereal and inspirational story of resilience.
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The Rocket (2013)
dir. Kim Mordaunt
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A boy who is believed to bring bad luck leads his family (and a couple of ragged misfits) through Laos to find a new home. After a calamity-filled journey through a land scarred by war, the boy builds a giant rocket to prove he's not cursed and to enter the most lucrative but dangerous competition of the year: a rocket festival.
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Locker 13 (2014)
dirs. Bruce Dellis, Matthew Mebane, Jason Marsden, Adam Montierth, Donovan Montierth
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A thriller anthology feature film, in the style of "The Twilight Zone", revolving around a mysterious locker 13.
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Devil’s Due (2014)
dirs. Tyler Gillett, Matt Bettinelli-Olpin
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A young couple's blessed event turns into their worst nightmare in one of the most terrifying horror films ever conceived! After a mysterious night on their honeymoon, Zach and Samantha McCall find themselves dealing with an earlier-than-planned pregnancy. While recording everything on video for posterity, Zach notices odd behavior in his wife, which they initially attribute to nerves, although it soon becomes evident that the disturbing changes to Samantha's body and mind have a much more sinister origin. All will suffer...but who will survive?
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Dead Shadows (2012)
dir. David Cholewa
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Dead Shadows tells the terrifying story of Chris (Fabian Wolfrom), whose parents were brutally killed 11 years ago, on the same day that the Halley’s comet could be seen from earth. Tonight, a new comet is appearing and everyone in Chris’s building is getting ready for a party to celebrate the event. As the night falls, Chris discovers that people are starting to act strangely. They are becoming disoriented and violent and it doesn’t take long before they begin to mutate into something far beyond recognition! In a fight for survival, Chris tries to escape from his building with the help of a gun-toting tenant (John Fallon - Death Race, Saw II) but will they make it out alive?
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Our Vinyl Weighs a Ton: This Is Stones Throw Records (2014)
dir. Jeff Broadway
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For the last 20 years, the groundbreaking label, Stones Throw Records has earned its reputation of being one of the most original and influential labels in the world. Our Vinyl Weighs A Ton weaves together rare concert footage, never-before-seen archival material, inner-circle home video and photographs and in-depth interviews with the artists who put Stones Throw Records on the map. OUR VINYL WEIGHS A TON gives an exclusive look into the label's left-of-center artists, history, culture and global following.
OUR VINYL WEIGHS A TON features original music by Madlib and exclusive interviews with Peanut Butter Wolf, Kanye West, Common, Mike D, ?uestlove, Talib Kweli, Tyler, The Creator, Earl Sweatshirt, Ariel Pink, Flying Lotus, Geoff Barrow, A-Trak, J Rocc, Dam-Funk, Mayer Hawthorne, and other members of the Stones Throw Family.
Blu-ray contains bonus material with extended interviews and outtakes and comes with Bonus CD containing 5 new Madlib tracks, catalog highlights and new unreleased music.
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Seduced and Abandoned (2014)
dir. James Toback
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In May 2012, Oscar nominees director James Toback and actor Alec Baldwin worked their way through the Cannes Film Festival in an attempt to secure financing for a proposed film, a political-erotic Middle Eastern adventure inspired by Bernardo Bertolucci's Last Tango In Paris. As they dashed around - hopeful against all odds -- Toback filmed the hilarious and revealing proceedings, from pitches to billionaires, studio moguls, producers, and international sales financiers, to intimate encounters with major movie stars and iconic directors whose passion for movies proves it's still possible to transcend the madness. Seduced and Abandoned is a cinematic romp capturing the tug-of-war between the dream of creating pure art and the reality of modern movie commerce.
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Approved for Adoption (2012)
dir. Jung Henin
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This remarkable animated doc traces the unconventional upbringing of the filmmaker Jung Henin, one of thousands of Korean children adopted by Western families after the end of the Korean War. It is the story of a boy stranded between two cultures. The filmmaker tells his story using his own animation intercut with snippets of super-8 family footage and archival film. The result is an animated memoir like no other: clear-eyed and unflinching, humorous and wry, and above all, inspiring in the capacity of the human heart.
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Up the Junction (1968)
dir. Peter Collinson
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Based on Nell Dunn's iconic tale of life in London's swinging sixties, Up the Junction is a memorable slice of British cinema starring Suzy Kendall (Tales That Witness Madness) as Polly and Dennis Waterman (TV's The Sweeney) as her hard-up boyfriend, Pete. The tale is of a bored, young party girl who decides to cast off her affluent Chelsea lifestyle to move to the industrialized ghetto of Battersea. In search of realism, Polly takes a factory job where she befriends sisters Rube (Adrienne Posta) and Sylvie (Maureen Lipman) and moves into a rundown apartment in the area. She soon discovers the seedier side of life in an impoverished world of crime, desperation and questionable morality-a side of life that everyone but Polly is desperately trying to leave behind. This beautiful and haunting film was directed by cult-filmmaker Peter Collinson (Innocent Bystanders, The Italian Job).
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Hallucination Strip (1975)
dir. Lucio Marcaccini
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Lucio Marcaccini's only film, HALLUCINATION STRIP is a psychedelic trip with a social commentary. Bed Cort in his debut performance, plays Massimo Monaldi, a student involved in political protests and juvenile delinquency. When Massimo steals a valuable tobacco box, he quickly becomes tangled in a dangerous web between the police and the mafia. Culminating in an extended and elaborately choreographed party sequence, underscored with an excellent soundtrack by Alberto Verrecchia, HALLUCINATION STRIP excels with its not-so-subtle mix of sex, drugs, religion, politics and corruption.
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Mr. Selfridge: The Complete Second Season (2013)
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Much has changed since Selfridges first opened its doors. Five years on from series one, Europe is on the brink of war and London is enjoying one last defiant period of hedonism and decadence. Having rocked the retail world with his pioneering new store, Mr. Selfridge (Emmy Award-winning actor Jeremy Piven) now has his sights set on joining the establishment and rebuilding his family life. His desperate attempts to win back estranged wife Rose (Frances O Connor) are hindered by her friendship with Delphine Day, the daring and extravagant owner of a fashionable London nightclub. Tensions are also running high on the shop floor as Agnes is back from Paris, chic and successful. Not everyone is thrilled by her newfound confidence and by the sudden reappearance of her old ally Henri Leclair, who has mysteriously returned from America.
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You, Me & Them: Series 1 (2013)
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True love. At first you have eyes only for each other…but before long, both your families are watching you, too. This sparkling British comedy follows a May-December romance between free spirit Lauren (Eve Myles, Torchwood, Little Dorrit) and young-at-heart divorced grandfather Ed (Anthony Head, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Dancing on the Edge).
The age gap isn’t Lauren and Ed’s only challenge. They face the disapproval of Lauren’s parents, who are practically Ed’s contemporaries, and her skeptical older sister, who’s got a chaotic family of her own. On the other side, they endure Ed’s down-on-his-luck, live-in brother; his irresponsible grandson; and most vexing of all, his narcissistic, delusional ex-wife (Lindsay Duncan, Rome), who has moved into the house next door and plots to win her “Eddie Bear” back. With sharp writing and impeccable comic performances, You, Me & Them takes a lighthearted look at the merger of two complex, opinionated, and meddlesome families.
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Hill Street Blues: The Complete Series (1981)
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For the first time ever, the complete series of Steven Bochco’s landmark drama Hill Street Blues has arrived on DVD. Originally broadcast on NBC from 1981 to 1987, these 144 episodes represent compelling and groundbreaking television at its finest.
’Let s be careful out there, ’ advises Sgt. Esterhaus every morning at roll call. And as the officers and detectives at the Hill Street station house patrol their city’s streets, they must indeed maintain a careful balance between serving their citizens and inciting hostility from criminal elements. Yet as dangerous as their precinct is, the men and women of Hill Street often find that their biggest battles involve protecting themselves from the Public Defender’s office, self-serving bureaucrats and each other.
An incredible ensemble cast (including Daniel J. Travanti, Veronica Hamel, Bruce Weitz, Dennis Franz and Betty Thomas) and sharp, layered writing helped make Hill Street Blues the most acclaimed and influential series of its day. The winner of 26 Emmy Awards (including four for Outstanding Drama Series) and a mainstay on any roll call of the greatest television shows of all time, Hill Street Blues: The Complete Series is unquestionably a must-have for any fan of engrossing and classic television.
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Father Brown: The Complete Collection (1974)
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Heaven help the murderer who crosses paths with G.K. Chesterton’s cassocked crime-solver, Father Brown (Kenneth More, The Forsyte Saga). Despite his absentminded air, the kindly priest always manages to confound criminals with his inescapable logic and keen understanding of the human condition. Often joined by his friend, thief-turned-private-investigator Hercule Flambeau (Dennis Burgess, Truman at Potsdam), Father Brown unravels devious schemes in 1920s England.
More plays the title role with “clearly defined perfection” (The New York Times) in this classic British series that conveys all the charm, cleverness, and suspense of Chesterton’s detective stories in one complete collection. Seen on PBS’s Mystery!
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Cuticle Detective Inaba: The Complete Collection (2013)
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In a world where half-human, half-animal chimeras live and work alongside normal people, there are sure to be a few bad apples in the bunch. Unfortunately, criminals that are only half-human means there are often non-human clues that leave the police stumped. That's where lone wolf detective Hiroshi Inaba comes in. He's literally part wolf and has the amazing ability to extract critical information just by examining or tasting a sample of someone's hair! Of course, that ability has also resulted in Inaba having a little bit of a hair fetish, but that doesn't seem to be a problem for his two assistants. Well, at least the cross-dressing one isn't complaining much. And it's nothing compared to the strange tastes of Inaba's nemesis, the omnivorous, half-goat crime boss Don Valentino, who has an appetite for green legal tender instead of tender young greens! Inaba's sworn to cut Valentino out of the criminal flock before the Don can wolf down more ill-gotten dough, but he's going to have to chew his way through a lot of evidence to get his goat. Can sheer dogged detective work put the baaaaad guys behind bars? Find out in CUTICLE DETECTIVE INABA!
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Godzilla: The Complete Animated Series (1998)
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A fast-paced animated adventure pitting humanity against a new generation of giant monsters!
After helping take down Godzilla, biologist Dr. Nick Tatopoulos (voice of Ian Ziering) stumbles upon his hatchling, who bonds with the scientist as a parental figure. Recruiting his own environmentally-directed research outfit HEAT (Humanitarian Environmental Analysis Team) Nick sets out to study not only this new generation, but also to investigate the increasing reports of monsters of all types and other environmental anomalies menacing the Earth. Each exciting episode is a pulse-pounding monster-hunt driven by Nick s team accompanied by their 300-foot giant reptile as they travel the globe defending humankind against mutant threats.
The entire 40 episode series is available together for the first time, including 2 UNAIRED episodes!
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Mazinger Z: TV Series Vol. 1 (1972)
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This collection contains the first 46 episodes of the TV series completely uncut. Koji Kabuto's grandfather has discovered two resources which can save humanity. Photon Light Energy and the ultra-impregnable alloy Chogokin Z. However, Dr. Kabuto's research is abruptly cut off, when the evil Dr. hell sends his trusted lieutenant, the bisected Baron Ashura, to assassinate him! Koji, now orphaned along with his younger brother Shiro, swear revenge using Dr. Kabuto's last and greatest invention: the super robot Mazinger Z.
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Jim Gaffigan: Obsessed
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Jim Gaffigan is back with a brand new hour long comedy special. Gaffigan's infectious style brings you to tears as he talks about everyday scenarios that you can relate to. As one of the top comedians out today, he continues to raise the bar with new material and of course, some bacon.
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Dump the DVD
Notable releases finally on Blu-ray.
than i was expecting.