Some will kill to have it. He will kill to protect it.
Director: Alvert and Allen Hughes
Denzel Washington, Gary Oldman, Jennifer Beals, Tom Waits
A post-apocalyptic tale, in which a lone man fights his way across America in order to protect a sacred book that holds the secrets to saving humankind. Trailer
Action - DVD and Blu-Ray
Right and Wrong no longer exist
Director: Gregor Jordan
Samuel L. Jackson, Carrie-Anne Moss, Michael Sheen
A psychological thriller centered around a black-ops interrogator and an FBI agent who press a suspect terrorist into divulging the location of three nuclear weapons sets to detonate in the U.S. Trailer
Drama, Thriller, Action, Suspense - DVD and Blu-Ray
Did you ever wish for the impossible?
Director: Mark Steven Johnson
Kristen Bell, Josh Duhamel, Angelica Huston, Will Arnett
Beth is a young, ambitious New Yorker who is completely unlucky in love. However, on a whirlwind trip to Rome, she impulsively steals some coins from a reputed fountain of love, and is then aggressively pursued by a band of suitors. Trailer
Comedy, Romance - DVD and Blu-Ray
Every "Revolution" Needs A Leader
Director: Miguel Arteta
Michael Cera, Portia Doubleday, Jean Smart, Steve Buscemi
While his trailer trash parents teeter on the edge of divorce, Nick Twisp sets his sights on dream girl Sheeni Saunders, hoping that she'll be the one to take away his virginity. Trailer
Comedy, Drama, Romance - DVD and Blu-Ray
When your computer's already your best friend... why not go all the way?
Director: Cameron Labine
Tyler Labine, Sonja Bennett, Geoff Gustafson
A moody romantic comedy exploring fetishism, addiction and love in the information age. Trailer
Comedy, Drama, Independent - DVD
There's an art to going home without going crazy.
Director: Mitchell Lichtenstein
Parker Posey, Demi Moore, Rip Torn, Ellen Barkin
Jayne and Laura are about to take on the first man they just might not be able to handle: their seventy-something-year-old father Joe. Dutiful daughters returning to the house they grew up in, Jayne and Laura are forced to take a closer look at their own not-so-perfect lives while dodging childhood memories. Laura suspects that Joe needs full-time care, but Jayne hopes that their father's condition isn't that serious. Joe is still singing and playing his old guitar, and the lively widower even has a new "ladyfriend," shameless and sassy Shelly. But as the visible moments of their father's impending senility increase, so do the dysfunctional family dynamics. Tensions flare as the close sisters must also juggle their own very different lives - Laura's busy schedule as an environmentalist and mother of two small children, and Jayne, desperate to finally have a baby with her workaholic art-dealing husband Jackson. Their adventures back home are not without magic, mischief and mayhem, and even a search for buried treasure in the backyard! Any tears that Jayne and Laura might shed will be happy ones. Trailer
Comedy Drama - DVD and Blu-Ray
Director: Adam Elliot
Toni Collette, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Eric Bana
A tale of friendship between two unlikely pen pals: Mary, a lonely, eight-year-old girl living in the suburbs of Melbourne, and Max, a forty-four-year old, severely obese man living in New York. Trailer
Claymation, Comedy, Drama - DVD and Blu-Ray
Director: Jim Jarmusch
Masatoshi Nagase, Youki Kudoh, Joe Strummer
Three stories are connected by a Memphis hotel and the spirit of Elvis Presley. Trailer
USA/Japan. In English and Japanese - DVD - Criterion Collection
Shiranui Kengyo
Director: Kazuo Mori
Toru Abe, Shintaro Katsu, Mieko Kondo
Before he portrayed the legendary blind swordsman, Zatoichi, Shintaro KATSU played Suganoichi, a blind court masseur with a dark side. An outcast since birth, he learned from a young age that the only way to get ahead was to take advantage of others. Now an expert con-artist with a heart of coal, Suganoichi is on a vile quest for power, and everyone else will suffer along the way!(B/W) - Foreign, Japanese - Subtitled - DVD
Anthony Valentine, Christopher Strauli
Most people know A.J. Raffles only as a gentleman of leisure and a top-rated cricketer, but he is also "the amateur Cracksman"
British Television - DVD (New to DVD and replace our VHS)
Nature's Grave aka Long Weekend (2008)Mother nature has a dark side.
Director: Jamie Blanks
James Caviezel, Claudia Karvan
Hoping to put the spark back into their relationship, Peter (Jim Caviezel) and Marcia take a camping trip that quickly turns a fight for their marriage into a horrific battle for their lives. They unknowingly stumble onto an untouched beach that doesn’t take kindly to the human intruders. Shocking and terrifying, Nature's Grave is a disturbing glimpse of Mother Nature's dark side. Trailer - Horror, Drama, Thriller - DVD
Order of Chaos (2010)
The Chaos Theory
Director: Vince Vieluf
Rhys Coiro, Milo Ventimiglia, Mimi Rogers
In a world of no absolutes, right and wrong is just a matter of perspective.
Thriller - DVD
Party Down (2009)
Adam Scott, Ken Marino, Ryan Hansen, Martin Starr
A group of actors move to LA to make it big, but end up working as caterers. Trailer
Comedy, TV serie - DVD
The Horseman (2008)Director: Steven Kastrissios
Peter Marshall, Caroline Marohasy, Brad McMurray
He can't bring his daughter back, but he can send her killers to hell. Trailer
Melbourne Underground Film Festival: won Best Film and Best Director.
Foreign, Australian, Thriller - DVD
Come closer...
Director: John Carl Buechler
Noah Hathaway, Michael Moriarty, Shelley Hack
A wicked troll king in search of a mystical ring that will return him to his human form invades a San Francisco apartment complex where a powerful witch lives.
Comedy, Horror, Fantasy, San Francisco - DVD
Director: Jeffrey Bloom
Louise Fletcher, Victoria Tennant
They have come to a house where secrets are kept....where the future is haunted by the past.....where the innocent live in the shadow of sin.....where a dark legacy awaits to destroy all who defy it....
Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller - DVD
Director: Philippe Mora
Christopher Walken, Lindsay Crouse
On December 26th, 1985, Whitley Strieber had a dream. Weeks later, he discovered his family had the same dream. Months later, he made the most shocking discovery of his life. Now, you will discover it. Trailer
Biography, Drama, Sci-Fi, Horror, Thriller - DVD
Director: Kevin Tenney
Corey Haim, Todd Allen, Ami Dolenz
A college student and his friends try to thwart a deranged war veteran's plan to poison the city's water supply
Action - DVD
Director: Francis Veber
Pierre Richard, Gerard Depardieu
A dedicated private eye searches for a businessman's daughter in Mexico, but the case is complicated and very funny. This is comedy at its best.
Foreign, French, Comedy - DVD (replace our VHS)
My Mother's Courage (1995)
Mutters Courage
Director: Michael Verhoeven
Georges Tabori, Pauline Collins, Ulrich Tukur
The deportation of 4000 Jews from Budapest to Auschwitz in July 1944, as told by George Tabori. this haunting and at times humorous film recounts how his mother’s simple act of quiet defiance evaded her deportation to Auschwitz - and certain death. Movie won 3 awards.
Foreign, German, Drama - DVD
Director: Harry Hook
Balthazar Getty, Chris Furrh,
Stranded on an island, a group of schoolboys degenerate into savagery
Drama, Adventure, Thriller - DVD (replace our VHS)
A single-mom cop who brooks no nonsense at home or on the job.
When strangers ask Janine Lewis what she does for a living, she tells them, "crisis management." And she’s not kidding. As detective chief inspector, she supervises a squad of cops investigating some of Manchester’s most brutal, highly publicized crimes. As a single mom, she wrestles with soccer practices, field trips, and schoolwork for her four children. She handles her daily crises with energy and aplomb, protecting her kids as well as the detectives under her command with a fierce maternal affection.
Award-winning actress Caroline Quentin (Jonathan Creek, Men Behaving Badly) portrays Janine with the perfect combination of toughness and tenderness. And Ian Kelsey (Casualty) brings a subtle vulnerability to his role as DI Richard Mayne, the lead detective on Janine’s team. These tense, tightly plotted mysteries show the everyday trials and triumphs of a woman balancing career and family - TV serie - DVD
Director: Julia Sweeney
Quentin Tarantino, Julia Sweeney
Julia Sweeney tells the viewers the monologue about the hard time in her life when her brother fought with cancer and she was also diagnosed with a rare form of cancer. Written by Anonymous
Stand Up Comedy - DVD
Bigger and Blackerer (2010)
David Cross
Stand Up Comedy - DVD
Omnibus - The Legendary Historic TV Broadcasts
Hosted by Alastair Cooke, Omnibus was a monumental series, featuring diverse live broadcasts on science, the arts and the humanities. This historic collection includes seven episodes featuring lectures, performances and master classes from the legendary conductor and composer Leonard Bernstein. Includes: Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony (1954), The World of Jazz (1955), The Art of Conducting (1955), American Musical Comedy (1956), Introduction to Modern Music (1957), The Music of Johann Sebastian Bach (1957) and What Makes Opera Grand? (1958).
Documentary, Music - DVD
Double Headed Eagle (1973)
Hitler's rise to power 1918-1933
Director: Lutz Becker
Documentary, War - DVD
On June 22nd 1941 three German Army Groups launched a surprise attack on Soviet Russia. The most barbaric and brutal struggle in history was about to be played out to the death. History is always written by the victors, but this documentary focuses on the other side of the coin. This 3 DVD and book set shows the war in Russia from the German experience, a powerful study of that titanic conflict as seen through contemporary German newsreels and told in the words of the men who fought and died for Hitler. Each DVD traces the fate of the three army troops which began the campaign and follows the course of this vicious campaign as the optimism of Barbarossa inexorably rolls on.
Documentary, Germany, War - DVD
The Universe of Keith Haring (2008)
Director: Christina Clausen
A portrait of New York artist Keith Haring
Documentary, Art - DVD
Director: Anders ostergaard
Using smuggled footage, this documentary tells the story of the 2007 protests in Burma by thousands of monks.
Nominated for the 2010 Oscar (Won by The Cove). Won 7 awards and 3 nominations.
Documentary, War - DVD
Mystery Gorillas & Search for Great Apes (2010)
National Geographic
Documentary, Animals, Nature - DVD
Director: Daryl Wein
Explores the life of Richard Berkowitz, a revolutionary gay S&M sex worker turned AIDS activist in the 1980s, whose incomparable contribution to the invention of safe sex has has never been aptly credited. Documentary, Gay.
Won Best Documentary at the Grand Jury Award 2008 - DVD
Directed by Christian Karim Chrobog
Hip-hop star Emmanuel Jal returns to Sudan where he served as a child soldier.
Won 5 awards including Best Documentary at the Bergen International Film Festival 2008
Documentary, War, Hip-Hop, Africa - DVD
Director: Chris Smith
From the acclaimed director of American Movie, this portrait of radical thinker Michael Ruppert, a police officer turned independent reporter who predicted the current financial crisis in his self-published newsletter.
Documentary - DVD
Hosted by Daniel Gilbert
How can we all live happier, more fulfilling lives? THIS EMOTIONAL LIFE explores ways we can improve our social relationships, learn to cope with problems like depression and anxiety, and become more positive and resilient individuals. Host Daniel Gilbert, Harvard psychologist and best-selling author of Stumbling on Happiness, talks with experts about the latest scientific understanding of our emotions and how we can find support for the issues we all face. Each episode weaves together scientific perspectives with the compelling personal stories of ordinary people, complemented by insight from celebrities like Chevy Chase, Larry David, Alanis Morissette, John Leguizamo, Katie Couric, and Richard Gere, among many others. Documentary, Inspirational - DVD
It will be better tomorrow (2005)
Directors: Michael W. Dean and Kenneth Shiffrin
An exploration into the life and art of the renowned author of "Last Exit To Brooklyn" and "Requiem For A Dream."
- Sometimes to really live... you have to die a few times -
Documentary, Biography, Drug Addiction, Literature - DVD
Director: Marlon Riggs
Angela Davis, Marlon Riggs, Bell Hooks
BLACK IS... BLACK AIN'T is an unabashedly frank look at black identity in America. In his final project before losing his battle with AIDS, acclaimed director Marlon Riggs challenges the traditional definition of blackness while issuing a ringing call to African-Americans to celebrate diversity within the community.
A powerful and intelligent critique of racism, sexism, and homophobia, the film trains a bright spotlight on the exclusiveness and rigidity of the black institutions of family, church, and community.
Winner of the Sundance Film Festival's Director's Trophy, BLACK IS... BLACK AIN'T is embracing and at moments mystical (New York Times).
Documentary, African American, Independent, Gay - DVD
The Fred Korematsu Story (2000)
Director: Eric Paul Fournier
Rosa Parks, Fred Korematsu, Bill Clinton
In 1942, Fred Korematsu was an average 23-year-old California native working as a shipyard welder. But when he refused to obey Executive Order 9006, which sent 120,000 Americans of Japanese ancestry into internment camps, he became something extraordinary--a civil rights champion. Award-winning director Eric Paul Fournier follows Korematsu’s story from the moment he first resisted confinement to the hard-won victory he finally achieved 39 years later, with the help of a new generation of Japanese-American activists seeking vindication and the assurance that such a terrible injustice would never occur again. Winner of 2 Emmy Award.
Documentary, Japanese American, War - DVD
Painters Painting (1973)
Director: Emile de Antonio
A candid history of the New York art scene, 1940-1970
Documentary, Art, New York - DVD
The modernism of Julius Shulman (2008)
Director: Eric Bricker
isual Acoustics celebrates the life and career of Julius Shulman, the world's greatest architectural photographer, whose images brought modern architecture to the American mainstream. Shulman, who passed away this year, captured the work of nearly every modern and progressive architect since the 1930s including Frank Lloyd Wright, Richard Neutra, John Lautner and Frank Gehry. His images epitomized the singular beauty of Southern California's modernist movement and brought its iconic structures to the attention of the general public. This unique film is both a testament to the evolution of modern architecture and a joyful portrait of the magnetic, whip-smart gentleman who chronicled it with his unforgettable images. Written by Owens/Rothschild - Twice Winner of the Audience Award 2008 & 2009
Documentary, Music - DVD
Salsa Dancing Guide for Beginners
f you are ready to introduce yourself to the world of dance or simply improve your existing skills, the Learn to Dance series offers easy-to-follow coaching as never before.
With up to four different camera angles focusing on the specific movements of each dance, learning the most famous and popular dance steps has never been easier. Featuring hours of instructional footage, Learn to Dance Salsa will help you achieve those dynamic results that will have you dancing like a star.
Instruction by Elder Sanchez: One of the most respected Salsa instructors in Europe, Elder Sanchez established Salsateca Dance School, a leading Salsa teaching school in London, England. Elder received the UK Salsa Lifetime Achievement Award in 2002 from the UK International Salsa Congress in recognition of his "outstanding contribution to the growth of Salsa in the UK through his excellent instruction, promotion and inspirational dancing."
Dance, How-to - DVD
Seth MacFarlane
Go where no Family Guy fan has gone before with Family Guy Volume 8 with uncensored and extended episodes and loaded with outrageous extras only available on DVD.
TV serie, Animation, Comedy - DVD
Director: Thierry Schiel
Who's afraid of giants and dragons when you've got love and a couple of magical mischief-makers on your side? In a magical land, the brave knight Tristan and the beautiful Princess Isolde meet and fall in love. The evil schemes of envious Baron Ganelon threaten their love, but they'll get by with a little help from their friends-the wiley, wood-sprite Puck and a feisty fairy called Teazle.
Animation, Family - DVD
