04-09-24
Top Hits
Back Catalog
A Killer Among Friends (DVD, 1992; Dir: Charles Robert Carner; Starring: Patty Duke, Tiffani Thiessen, Margaret Welsh)
“A teenage girl disappears and later turns up drowned, with a log across her back. Three years later, a former friend comes forward with some answers.” Read more…
Finestkind (DVD, Crime; Dir: Brian Helgeland; Starring: Ben Foster, Toby Wallace, Jenna Ortega)
”Finestkind boasts powerful performances from leads Toby Wallace and Ben Foster as the two make for a convincing case of the family bonds that tie together two souls looking for peace from within.” Read more…
Night Swim (DVD, Horror; Dir: Bryce McGuire; Starring: Wyatt Russell, Kerry Condon, Amélie Hoeferle)
”Forced into early retirement by a degenerative illness, former baseball player Ray Waller moves into a new house with his wife and two children. He hopes that the backyard swimming pool will be fun for the kids and provide physical therapy for himself. However, a dark secret from the home’s past soon unleashes a malevolent force that drags the family into the depths of inescapable terror.” Read more…
Lisa Frankenstein (Blu-ray/DVD, Comedy; Dir: Zelda Williams; Starring: Kathryn Newton, Liza Soberano, Jenna Davis)
”A little too enamored of its own references, this teen horror-comedy feels a bit misshapen but still delivers some light fun.” Read more…
The Breaking Ice (DVD, 2023, China; Dir: Anthony Chen; Starring: Dongyu Zhou, Haoran Liu, Chuxiao Qu)
“In cold wintry Yanji, a city on China’s northern border, young urbanite Haofeng, visiting from Shanghai, feels lost and adrift. By chance, he goes on a tour led by Nana, a charming tour guide who instantly fascinates him. She introduces him to Xiao, a personable but frustrated restaurant worker. The three bond quickly over a drunken weekend. Confronting their individual traumas, their frozen desires slowly thaw as they seek to liberate themselves from an icy world.” Read more…
New Docs
Plan C (DVD, 2023; Dir: Tracy Doz Tragos)
“A hidden grassroots organization doggedly fights to expand access to abortion pills across the United States keeping hope alive during a global pandemic and the fall of Roe v. Wade.” Read more…
New Cult
The Minus Man (Blu-ray, 1999; Dir: Hampton Fancher; Starring: Owen Wilson, Sheryl Crow, Dwight Yoakam)
“When the quiet and amiable Vann Siegert drifts into town, no one suspects the evil that lies beneath the surface. Despite his easy charm, Vann is merely a reflection of what those he encounters want him to be. Soon, as locals start to disappear, it becomes clear that an eerie subtraction is at work in the sleepy hamlet.” Read more…
Stand and Deliver (Blu-ray, 1988; Dir: Ramón Menéndez; Starring: Edward James Olmos, Estelle Harris, Lou Diamond Phillips)
“Jaime Escalante is a mathematics teacher in a school in a hispanic neighbourhood. Convinced that his students have potential, he adopts unconventional teaching methods to try and turn gang members and no-hopers into some of the country’s top algebra and calculus students.” Read more…
New Foreign
The Teachers’ Lounge (DVD, 2023, Germany; Dir: Ilker Çatak; Starring: Leonie Benesch, Anne-Kathrin Gummich, Rafael Stachowiak)
“When one of her students is suspected of theft, teacher Carla Nowak decides to get to the bottom of the matter. Caught between her ideals and the school system, the consequences of her actions threaten to break her.” Read more…
The Strangler (DVD, 1970; Dir: Paul Vecchiali; Starring: Jacques Perrin, Julien Guiomar, Eva Simonet)
“Émile targets women he believes are too depressed to go on living. As multiple victims fall to his suffocating white scarf, an inspector resorts to unorthodox methods to get him with the assistance of a potential victim.” Read more…