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Top Hits
New Foreign
Blink Twice (DVD, Thriller; Dir: Zoë Kravitz; Starring: Naomi Ackie, Channing Tatum, Alia Shawkat)
“When tech billionaire Slater King meets cocktail waitress Frida at his fundraising gala, he invites her to join him and his friends on a dream vacation on his private island. But despite the epic setting, beautiful people, ever-flowing champagne, and late-night dance parties, Frida can sense that there’s something sinister hiding beneath the island’s lush façade.” Read more…
Once Within a Time (DVD, Comedy; Dir: Godfrey Reggio/Jon Kane; Starring: Ella Acevedo, Aaron Kingsley Adetola, Brian Belott)
“Once Within a Time is an anarchic comedy told without words, a sensory feast to be felt through art and music. This multidisciplinary work shows us life on Earth as humanity clashes with the five fundamental elements—earth, air, water, fire, and money— headed towards a critical moment of choice between annihilation and redemption.” Read more…
A Love Song (Blu-ray, Romance; Dir: Max Walker-Silverman; Starring: Dale Dickey, Wes Studi, Michelle Wilson)
“Two childhood sweethearts, now both widowed, share a night by a lake in the mountains.” Read more…
Strange Darling (DVD, Thriller; Dir: JT Mollner; Starring: Willa Fitzgerald, Kyle Gallner, Madisen Beaty)
“Nothing is what it seems when a twisted one-night stand spirals into a serial killer’s vicious murder spree.” Read more…
Aftersun (Blu-ray, 2022, U.K.; Dir: Charlotte Wells; Starring: Paul Mescal, Frankie Corio, Celia Rowlson-Hall)
“Sophie reflects on the shared joy and private melancholy of a holiday she took with her father twenty years earlier. Memories real and imagined fill the gaps between miniDV footage as she tries to reconcile the father she knew with the man she didn’t.” Read more…
The Long Good Friday (Blu-ray, 1980, U.K.; Dir: John Mackenzie; Starring: Bob Hoskins, Helen Mirren, Paul Freeman)
“In the late 1970s, Cockney crime boss Harold Shand, a gangster trying to become a legitimate property mogul, has big plans to get the American Mafia to bankroll his transformation of a derelict area of London into the possible venue for a future Olympic Games. However, a series of bombings targets his empire on the very weekend the Americans are in town. Shand is convinced there is a traitor in his organization, and sets out to eliminate the rat in typically ruthless fashion.” Read more…
Roseland (DVD, 1977; Dir: James Ivory; Starring: Teresa Wright, Lou Jacobi, Don De Natale)
““Roseland” is made up of three stories, sometimes connecting, all set in the famed New York dance palace, and all having the same theme: finding the right dance partner.” Read more…
THX 1138 (Blu-ray, 1971; Dir: George Lucas; Starring: Robert Duvall, Donald Pleasence, Don Pedro Colley)
“People in the future live in a totalitarian society. A technician named THX 1138 lives a mundane life between work and taking a controlled consumption of drugs that the government uses to make puppets out of people. As THX is without drugs for the first time he has feelings for a woman and they start a secret relationship.” Read more…
Back Catalog
A Christmas Carol (Blu-ray/DVD, 1951; Dir: Brian Desmond Hurst; Starring: Alastair Sim, Jack Warner, Kathleen Harrison)
“Ebenezer Scrooge malcontentedly shuffles through life as a cruel, miserly businessman; until he is visited by three spirits on Christmas Eve who show him how his unhappy childhood and adult behavior has left him a selfish, lonely old man.” Read more…
Merchant Ivory (DVD, 2023; Dir: Stephen Soucy)
“The first definitive feature documentary to lend new and compelling perspectives on the partnership, both professional and personal, of director James Ivory, producer Ismail Merchant, and their primary associates, writer Ruth Prawer Jhabvala and composer Richard Robbins.” Read more…
New Cult
Fright (Blu-ray, 1971; Dir: Peter Collinson; Starring: Honor Blackman, Susan George, George Cole)
“Young babysitter Amanda arrives at the Lloyd residence to spend the evening looking after their young son. Soon after the Lloyds leave, a series of frightening occurrences in the gloomy old house have Amanda’s nerves on edge. The real terror begins, however, when the child’s biological father appears after recently escaping from a nearby mental institution.” Read more…
Scream for Help (Blu-ray, 1984; Dir: Michael Winner; Starring: Rachael Kelly, David Allen Brooks, Marie Masters)
“A teenaged girl discovers that her stepfather is trying to murder her and her mother, but when she tells people, no one will believe her.” Read more…
New Docs
Thunderbolt and Lightfoot (Blu-ray, 1974; Dir: Michael Cimino; Starring: Clint Eastwood, Jeff Bridges, George Kennedy)
“With the help of an irreverent young sidekick, a bank robber gets his old gang back together to organise a daring new heist.” Read more…
Topkapi (Blu-ray, 1964; Dir: Jules Dassin; Starring: Melina Mercouri, Peter Ustinov, Maximilian Schell)
“Arthur Simon Simpson is a small-time crook biding his time in Greece. One of his potential victims turns out to be a gentleman thief planning to steal the emerald-encrusted dagger of the Mehmed II from Istanbul’s Topkapi Museum.” Read more…
Heavenly Bodies (DVD, 1984; Dir: Lawrence Dane; Starring: Cynthia Dale, Richard Rebiere, Walter George Alton)
“A small dance studio fights for its existence against the unscrupulous owner of a rival club.” Read more…
