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The Art of Self-Defense

Jesse Eisenberg · Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Format: DVD

Casey (Jesse Eisenberg) just can't seem to win. Attacked on the street, humiliated at his job and even emasculated by his dog, he joins a local karate dojo led by the enigmatic Sensei (Alessandro Nivola) to learn how to defend himself. In the midst of his training, Casey becomes...

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Brian Banks

Tom Shadyac · Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Format: DVD

The inspirational true story of Brian Banks (Aldis Hodge) , an All-American high school football star committed to USC who finds his life upended when he is wrongly convicted of a crime he didn't commit. Despite lack of evidence, Banks is railroaded through a broken justice system...

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Chernobyl

Various · HBO
Format: DVD

Epic five-part miniseries dramatizing the events surrounding the 1986 nuclear accident, as told through the stories of the brave men and women who made incredible sacrifices to save Europe from unimaginable disaster.

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Crawl

Alexandre Aja · Paramount
Format: DVD

When a hurricane hits her hometown, Haley ignores evacuation orders to search for her missing father. Finding him injured in the crawl space of their family home, the two become trapped by floodwaters. As time runs out to escape the storm, Haley and her father discover that the rising...

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Deadwood: The Movie

· HBO
Format: DVD

David Milch's epic drama returns as a feature film reuniting familiar characters in a brave new world where their once-lawless frontier settlement has grown into a town on the threshold of statehood and modernization.

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Donnybrook

Tim Sutton · Cinedigm
Format: DVD

Three desperate souls must fight their way out of a dead-end world in this bracing, gut-wrenching glimpse into America's dark underbelly. Earl (Jamie Bell, Billy Elliot) is a struggling father and ex-marine determined to make a better life for his family - no matter what it takes....

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Driven

Nick Hamm · Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Format: DVD

Inspired by true events, Driven is a wickedly comedic look at a bromance gone bad. Set in the opulence of early 1980s California, the story follows the meteoric rise of John DeLorean (Lee Pace) , and his iconic DeLorean Motor Company, through his friendship with...

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The Durrells in Corfu, Season 4

Keeley Hawes · PBS (Direct)
Format: DVD

The future's looking bright for the eccentric Durrells, as we catch up with their lives on the beautiful island of Corfu in the fourth and final season. Louisa's keeping busy by opening the doors of the family villa as a guest house, but with cousin Basil her only paying guest,...

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Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw

Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson · Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Format: DVD

Dwayne Johnson and Jason Statham return to their unforgettable roles as Hobbs and Shaw in this action-packed feature from the blockbuster Fast & Furious franchise! For years, hulking lawman Luke Hobbs (Johnson) and lawless outcast Deckard Shaw (Statham) have traded smack...

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Father Brown: S7

Various · BBC
Format: DVD

Father Brown cycles back on screen to solve more mysteries in the sleepy Cotswold village of Kembleford in this charming series based on the short stories by G K Chesterton.

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Framing John DeLorean

Alec Baldwin · Shout! Factory
Format: DVD

Money, power, politics, drugs, scandal, and fast cars. The incredible story of John DeLorean is the stuff of a Hollywood screenwriter's dreams. But who was the real John DeLorean? To some, he was a renegade visionary who revolutionized the automobile industry. To others, he was the ultimate...

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Luce

Julius Onah · Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Format: DVD

Luce is a smart psychological thriller that will leave audiences breathless. An all-star high school athlete and accomplished debater, Luce (Kelvin Harrison Jr.) is a poster boy for the new American Dream - as are his parents (Naomi Watts and Tim Roth) , who adopted him from a war-torn...

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Nightmare Cinema

Alejandro Brugués, Joe Dante, Mick Garris, Ryuhei Kitamura · Cinedigm
Format: DVD

Five strangers are drawn to an abandoned theater and forced to watch their deepest and darkest fears play out before them. Lurking in the shadows is the Projectionist, who preys upon their souls with his collection of disturbing films.

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Ophelia

Claire McCarthy · Shout! Factory
Format: DVD

One of the world's greatest dramas is turned on its head through a bold and new perspective in Ophelia. Set in medieval Denmark and spoken in a modern tongue with a poetic twist, it recalibrates the classic Shakespearean tragedy of "Hamlet" so that its unspoken, complex heroine...

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Red Joan

Judi Dench · Shout! Factory
Format: DVD

Joan Stanley (Judi Dench) is a widow living out a quiet retirement in the suburbs when, shockingly, the British Secret Service places her under arrest. The charge: providing classified scientific information - including details on the building of the atomic bomb - to the Soviet government...

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Spider-Man: Far From Home

Tom Holland
Format: DVD

Peter Parker returns for the next chapter of the Spider-Man: Homecoming series! Our friendly neighborhood superhero decides to join his best friends Ned, MJ, and the rest of the gang on a European vacation. However, Peter's plan to leave super heroics behind for a few weeks is quickly...

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Storm Boy

Shawn Seet · Cinedigm
Format: DVD

Based on the beloved book, "Storm Boy" is a highly emotional tale of a young boy growing up on the beautiful but uninhabited coastline of Southern Australia who unexpectedly rescues and then raises three orphaned pelicans.

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Stuber

Kumail Nanjiani, · 20th Century Fox
Format: DVD

When a mild-mannered Uber driver named Stu picks up a passenger who turns out to be a cop hot on the trail of a brutal killer, he's thrust into a harrowing ordeal where he desperately tries to hold onto his wits, his life, and his five-star rating.

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Veronica Mars Season One (2019)

Michael Lehmann · Warner Home Video
Format: DVD

Spring breakers are getting murdered in Neptune, thereby decimating the seaside town's tourist industry. After Mars Investigations is hired by the parents of one of the victims to find their son's killer, Veronica is drawn into an eight-episode mystery that pits the enclave's...

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When Calls the Heart: A Call from the Past

Erin Krakow · Cinedigm
Format: DVD

Elizabeth gets to know Lucas better when he surprises her with a grand gesture. However, his past comes back to haunt him, and Elizabeth must choose between him and Mountie Nathan at the Founders' Day Festival dance.

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The White Crow

Ralph Fiennes; Ade?le Exarchopoulos; Oleg Ivenko; Sergei Polunin; Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (Firm), · Sony Pictures Classics
Format: DVD

Capturing the raw physicality and brilliance of Rudolf Nureyev, whose escape to the West stunned the world at the height of the Cold War. With his magnetic presence, Nureyev emerged as ballet's most famous star, a wild and beautiful dancer limited by the world of 1950s Leningrad....

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Murdoch Mysteries: Series 12

Hélène Joy · ACORN MEDIA
Format: DVD

Detective Murdoch and his team tackle cases involving a seemingly invisible man, the political killing of a French diplomat, a possible alien invasion, and one of their own suspected of murder. Along the way, they encounter the greatest minds of the time, including architect Frank Lloyd...

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Star Trek: Discovery Season 2

· PARAMOUNT
Format: DVD

After answering a distress signal from the U.S.S. Enterprise, the U.S.S. Discovery welcomes aboard Captain Christopher Pike (Anson Mount) and begins a new mission to investigate the meaning behind seven mysterious red signals. Michael Burnham (Sonequa Martin-Green) grapples with...

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Yellowstone: Season Two

Kevin Costner · PARAMOUNT
Format: DVD

Amid shifting alliances, unsolved murders, open wounds, and hard-earned respect, Dutton family patriarch John Dutton is determined to protect his ranch and his family's legacy by any means necessary.

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Discovery Of Witches: Series 1

· Acorn Media
Format: DVD

Diana Bishop, historian and witch, accesses Ashmole 782 and knows she must solve its mysteries. She is offered help by the enigmatic Matthew Clairmont, but he's a vampire and witches should never trust vampires.

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Fosse/Verdon: the Complete First Season

· Twentieth Century Fox Television
Format: DVD

Bob Fosse is a visionary filmmaker and one of theater's most influential choreographers and directors. Gwen Verdon is the greatest Broadway dancer of all time. Fosse/Verdon will tell the story of these two brilliant, complicated individuals - the love they shared, the art they created,...

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Echo in the Canyon

Andrew Slater · Greenwich Ent
Format: DVD

Echo In The Canyon celebrates the explosion of popular music that came out of LA s Laurel Canyon in the mid-60s as folk went electric and The Byrds, The Beach Boys, Buffalo Springfield and The Mamas and the Papas gave birth to the California Sound. 1965-67 was a moment when bands came...

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American Horror Story: Apocalypse

Sarah Paulson · 20th Century Fox
Format: DVD

After a nuclear apocalypse, the world's chosen elite survive in secure Outposts created by the mysterious Cooperative. On the American West Coast, Ms. Wilhemina Venable and Ms. Miriam Mead run Outpost Three with an iron fist. The unexpected arrival of Michael Langdon, a Cooperative...

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Game of Thrones: S8

Peter Dinklage · HBO
Format: DVD

Part of the Game of Thrones series. An adaptation of author George R.R. Martin's Song of Ice and Fire, a medieval fantasy about power struggles among the Seven Kingdoms of Westeros. This set contains the eighth and final season of the HBO hit series.

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