A strange visit one evening quickly spirals into paranoia, cosmic conspiracy, and an unraveling of reality itself.
Force Five [1981] [MVD Rewind Blu-Ray]
An elite force of martial arts commandos is sent to rescue a Senator’s daughter, caught up with a cult, with its own martial arts commandos, in Robert Clouse’s 1981 punch-em-up Force: Five, now on Blu-Ray via MVD Rewind.
Sherlock Holmes in Washington (1943)
When a British secret agent carrying confidential documents is abducted from a train traveling between New York City and Washington, DC, His Majesty’s government calls on Sherlock Holmes to travel across the Atlantic to locate the missing agent and retrieve the documents. Bringing along Dr. Watson, Holmes quickly unravels the mystery behind this disappearance while exposing a Fifth Column spy operation in the nation’s capital.
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Attack the Block (2011) [Black History Month]
A routine mugging on a dimly lit South London street quickly unravels into a chaotic night of survival.
Iphigenia [1977] [Radiance Film LE Blu-Ray]
In Michael Cacoyannis’s 1977 fantastic Greek tragedy adaptation Iphigenia, King Agamemnon is left with an impossible choice: sacrifice his daughter or fail to fulfill his family/national obligations to retrieve his sister-in-law Helen from Troy. Now on Blu-ray from Radiance Films.
Abar, The First Black Superman (1977) [Black History Month]
After moving into a bigoted neighborhood, a successful scientist finds his family in peril and gives a super serum to a local revolutionary, Abar, in hopes of salvation.
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Lookin’ Italian [1994] [Severin Films]
A reformed mafioso has to try to keep his wayward nephew, pre-Friends Matt LeBlanc, out of trouble in Guy Magar’s 1994 drama Lookin’ Italian.