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Killjoys: Season Five

· Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Format: DVD

The Killjoys' epic saga comes to a thrilling conclusion in the fifth and final season of the intergalactic sci-fi series. This season reunites our trio of intrepid bounty hunters - Dutch (Hannah John-Kamen) , John (Aaron Ashmore) and D'avin (Luke Macfarlane) - for more interplanetary...

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Hustlers

Lorene Scafaria · Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Format: DVD

Inspired by a true story, Hustlers follows Destiny (Constance Wu, Crazy Rich Asians) , a young stripper struggling to make ends meet. That is, until she meets Ramona (Jennifer Lopez) , the club's savvy top earner, who shows her the way toward making big bucks. But when the 2008...

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Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice

Robert Epstein, Jeffrey Friedman · Greenwich Entertainment
Format: DVD

Linda Ronstadt has been an icon for more than 50 years. Her extraordinary vocal range and ambition created unforgettable
songs across rock, pop, country, folk ballads, American standards, classic Mexican music and soul. As the most popular
female recording artist of the 1970s,...

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Doc Martin: Series 9

· Acorn Media
Format: DVD

All is not well for brilliant but boorish Dr. Martin Ellingham (Martin Clunes, Manhunt) as the hit British dramedy returns. To Martin's utter disgust, his medical practice remains under official scrutiny because of his pre-existing blood phobia, and he is forced to attend refresher...

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The Loudest Voice

· Showtime Ent.
Format: DVD

The seven-part limited series based on a best-selling book is about Roger Ailes, the founder of Fox News. Focusing primarily on the past decade in which Ailes arguably became the party's de facto leader, the series also touches on defining events in Ailes' life, including his experiences...

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Suits: Season Nine - Final Season

· Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Format: DVD

The final season of Suits picks up with Manhattan corporate law firm, Zane Specter Litt Wheeler Williams, facing uncertainty and change yet again after Robert Zane (Wendell Pierce) took the fall with the Bar Association to save Harvey (Gabriel Macht) . After his sacrifice, Samantha...

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Buttons: A Christmas Tale

Tim Janis · PARAMOUNT
Format: DVD

Buttons: A Christmas Tale is the magical, musical story that shows believing can be the greatest gift of all. Follow the heartwarming journey of two orphan girls whose only wish is to find a home for Christmas. With a little help from their guardian angels (screen legends Dick Van Dyke...

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Angel Has Fallen

Ric Roman Waugh · Lions Gate
Format: DVD

When there is an assassination attempt on US President Allan Trumbull, his trusted confidant, Secret Service Agent Mike Banning, is wrongfully accused and taken into custody. After escaping from capture, he becomes a man on the run and must evade his own agency and outsmart the FBI in order...

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Christmas Survival

· Gravitas Ventures
Format: DVD

Sisters, Miranda (Gemma Whelan, "Game of Thrones") , Lyla (Joely Richardson) and their families, come together for Christmas in this heart-warming holiday comedy. Over the span of three days chaos and hilarity wreak havoc on the family's holiday plans and ancient sibling...

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London Kills Series 2

Hugo Speer · Acorn Media
Format: DVD

London's elite murder squad is back as DI David Bradford (Hugo Speer, Father Brown) leads a team of detectives solving the city's worst crimes. But Bradford remains haunted by the disappearance of his wife, Sarah, months earlier. His forthright subordinate, DS Vivienne Cole (Sharon...

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Official Secrets

Gavin Hood · Paramount
Format: DVD

The incredible true story of the spy who defied her government to stop a war. In 2003, British intelligence specialist Katharine Gun received a memo with a shocking directive: collect blackmail worthy information on UN council members to force the vote for the invasion of Iraq. Unable...

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Blinded by the Light

Gurinder Chadha · WarnerBrothers
Format: DVD

From writer/director/producer Gurinder Chadha ("Bend It Like Beckham") comes the drama "Blinded by the Light," set to the inspiring music and lyrics of Bruce Springsteen's timeless songs.

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Cold War The Criterion Collection

· The Criterion Collection
Format: DVD

This sweeping, delirious romance begins in the Polish countryside, where Wiktor (Tomasz Kot) , a musician on a state-sponsored mission to collect folk songs, discovers a captivating young singer named Zula (Joanna Kulig, in a performance for the ages) . Over the next fifteen years,...

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Indian Horse

Stephen S. Campanelli · Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Format: DVD

Saul Indian Horse, an Ojibway boy, is torn from his family and committed to a residential school. At the school, Saul is denied the freedom to speak his language or embrace his heritage and is a witness to abuse by the people sworn to protect him. But Saul finds salvation in the unlikeliest...

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Handmaid's Tale, The: Season 3

Elisabeth Moss · Mgm (Video & DVD)
Format: DVD

After opting not to flee to Canada with her baby, June struggles to strike back against the regime despite overwhelming odds. Startling reunions, betrayals, and a journey to the terrifying heart of Gilead will force all of the characters to take a stand, guided by one defiant prayer:...

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47 Meters Down: Uncaged

Johannes Roberts · Lions Gate
Format: DVD

Four teen girls diving in a ruined underwater city quickly find themselves in a watery hell as their fun outing turns into heart-stopping fear when they learn they are not alone in the submerged caves. As they swim deeper into the claustrophobic labyrinth of caves they enter the territory...

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After the Wedding

Bart Freundlich · Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Format: DVD

Isabel (Michelle Williams) has dedicated her life to working with the children in an orphanage in Calcutta. Theresa (Julianne Moore) is the multimillionaire head of a media company who lives with her artist husband (Billy Crudup) and their twin boys in New York. When word...

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The Angry Birds Movie 2

Jason Sudeikis · Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Format: DVD

In The Angry Birds 2, the flightless angry birds and the scheming green piggies take their beef to the next level when a new threat emerges that puts both Bird and Pig Island in danger. Red (Jason Sudeikis) , Chuck (Josh Gad) , Bomb (Danny McBride) , and Mighty Eagle (Peter...

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Farewell, The

Awkwafina
Format: DVD

Chinese-born, U.S.-raised Billi reluctantly returns to Changchun to find that, although the whole family knows their beloved matriarch, Nai-Nai, has been given mere weeks to live, everyone has decided not to tell Nai Nai herself. To assure her happiness, they gather under the joyful...

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Fronteras

Kathy Lindboe · Lions Gate
Format: DVD

Reyes, a Hispanic Border Patrol agent, has his morals challenged when a life-threatening narcotic sweeps through the Southwest. Reyes finds himself in the gray area between right and wrong in this action-packed drama that tackles the immigration obstacles he faces every day. When a new task...

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Good Boys

Gene Stupnitsky · Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Format: DVD

Just how bad can one day get? The creative minds behind Superbad and Sausage Party take on sixth grade hard in this innocent yet raunchy comedy. 12-year-olds Max, Thor, and Lucas decide to skip school in an attempt to learn how to kiss in time for a kissing party. Their odyssey of epically...

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Line of Duty Series 5

Martin Compston · ACORN MEDIA
Format: DVD

Anti-Corruption Unit 12 (AC-12) face their most vicious adversary yet as the "most gripping and unpredictable drama on television" (Daily Star, UK) returns. Charged with investigating fellow police officers, AC-12's Superintendent Hastings (Adrian Dunbar, Blood) and his team...

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The Peanut Butter Falcon

Tyler Nilson, Mike Schwartz · Lions Gate
Format: DVD

An adventure story set in the world of a modern Mark Twain that begins when Zak, a young man with Down syndrome, runs away from a nursing home where he lives to chase his dream of becoming a professional wrestler and attending the wrestling school of the Salt Water Redneck. Through circumstances...

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The Art of Racing in the Rain

Milo Ventimiglia · 20th Century Fox
Format: DVD

Based on the bestselling novel by Garth Stein, this is a heartfelt tale narrated by a witty and philosophical dog named Enzo. Through his bond with his owner Denny, an aspiring Formula One racecar driver, Enzo has gained tremendous insight into the human condition and understands that...

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Christmas Everlasting

· Hallmark
Format: DVD

Lucy gets the best Christmas news ever when she learns she's made partner at her law firm. However, when her sister with special needs, Alice, passes away, Lucy must return home to learn the terms of her sister's eccentric will.

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A Godwink Christmas

Kimberley Sustad · Hallmark
Format: DVD

As Christmas approaches, Paula, a St. Louis antique appraiser, reluctantly accepts a marriage proposal from her boyfriend Daniel. Sensing her reticence, her Aunt Jane invites Paula to her Nantucket home. When Paula visits nearby Martha's Vineyard, she meets a charming inn owner, Gery,...

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Good Omens

Michael Sheen, David Tennant, Frances McDormand · BBC
Format: DVD

In the beginning and eleven years ago, two immortal beings decide that it might not be time to start an Apocalypse. Having followed the wrong boy for years, Aziraphale and Crowley must now try to locate the whereabouts of the real Antichrist. Perhaps the story of Agnes Nutter and her famous...

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A Joyous Christmas

Natalie Knepp · Hallmark
Format: DVD

A successful motivational speaker learns the true meaning of Christmas when she is rescued from a near fatal accident by a stranger. This close encounter leads her to discover that helping others is not only the key to true success, but just might lead her to finding true love. ...

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Kitchen, The

Andrea Berloff · WarnerBrothers
Format: DVD

Based on the Vertigo comic book series from DC Entertainment, the film stars Oscar nominee Melissa McCarthy, Tiffany Haddish and Elisabeth Moss as three 1978 Hell's Kitchen housewives whose mobster husbands are sent to prison by the FBI. Left with little but a sharp ax to grind, the ladies...

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My Adventures with Santa

Brian Skiba · Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Format: DVD

Starring Barbara Eden, Denise Richards and Patrick Muldoon, My Adventures with Santa is a heartfelt, fun-filled adventure that brings the magic of the holiday spirit to the whole family. Christmas in the Nolan household isn't what it used to be. Instead of a joyous family gathering,...

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Road to Christmas

Jessy Schram · Hallmark
Format: DVD

Los Angeles television producer Maggie Baker unwittingly falls for Danny Wise, the son and former producer of his mother's popular annual Christmas special Julia Wise Lifestyle. When Maggie's secret plan to reunite Danny and his two brothers with Julia during the live broadcast in Vermont...

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Rocky Mountain Christmas

Lindy Booth · Hallmark
Format: DVD

Sarah Davis heads to her uncle's struggling ranch to escape New York and the spotlight from a recent breakup. Returning home for the first time since her aunt passed, complications arise when Graham, an entitled Hollywood star, arrives at the ranch to prepare for his next film. As Sarah...

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Undercover Brother 2

Leslie Small · Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Format: DVD

The coolest spy in the game is back in this hilarious sequel starring Michael Jai White (Spawn, Mortal Kombat) and Vince Swann (50 Central) as his less-than-cool younger brother, Lionel. Way back in 2002, the brothers were hot on the heels of The Man, the leader of a racist,...

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10 Minutes Gone

Brian A. Miller · Vvs
Format: DVD

Crime boss Rex hires Frank and his crew to steal a priceless jewel stash, but the job goes wrong when someone tips off the cops. After Frank suffers a blow to the head, he wakes up to find the jewels are gone and no memory of his attacker. Now, Frank must confront his team members one by one to find...

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The lion king

Karen Gilchrist; Jeffrey Silver, (Producer); Jeff Nathanson; Jon Favreau; John Kani; All authors · WALT DISNEY STUDIOS HOME ENTERTAINMENT
Format: DVD

Disney's THE LION KING, directed by Jon Favreau, journeys to the African savanna, where a future king overcomes betrayal and tragedy to assume his rightful place on Pride Rock. Through pioneering filmmaking techniques, THE LION KING brings treasured characters to life in a whole new way....

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Shetland: Season Five

Douglas Henshall · BBC Home Entertainment
Format: DVD

Douglas Henshall returns as DI Jimmy Perez in the latest installment of this acclaimed long-running crime series inspired by Ann Cleeves' bestselling novels. When a severed human hand washes up in a Shetland beach, Perez and his team face a disturbing new investigation. The victim is identified...

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Wonder Woman: Bloodlines

· Warner Bros
Format: DVD

Part of the Dc Animated - Adult series. Witness the legendary origin of renowned Justice League member Wonder Woman as she fights for good with her sword and magic lasso. Equally strong in body, heart, and will, she makes it her mission to help a troubled young girl enlisted by a deadly...

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Night Hunter

David Raymond · Paramount
Format: DVD

A weathered lieutenant, his police force, and a local vigilante are all caught up in a dangerous scheme involving a recently arrested, troubled man who's linked to years of female abductions and murders.

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Dragon Ball Super: Part Nine

Sean Schemmel · Funimation
Format: DVD

The Tournament of Power rages on. The 2nd Universe's warriors of love are out for blood, Frieza makes his move, and Goku's attention turns to Jiren. Unflinching resolve faces immeasurable power, as Saiyan and Pride Trooper test each other's capabilities. But when Goku's stamina starts...

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Social Animals

Aya Cash · Paramount
Format: DVD

Zoe Crandle's life didn't exactly turn out the way she planned. She's facing eviction, her business is going under and she is resigned to a life of one-night stands. Just when it seems her whole world is unraveling, she meets Paul, a fellow loveable loser, and the pair have an instant...

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Vikings: Season 5 - Volume 2

· Mgm (Video & DVD)
Format: DVD

Season Five begins with Ivar the Boneless asserting his leadership over the Great Heathen Army, while Lagertha reigns as Queen of Kattegat. Iver's murder of his brother Sigurd sets the stage for vicious battles to come, as Ragnar's sons plot their next move after avenging their...

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Christmas coupon

Daniel Knudsen; Courtney Mathews; Aaron Noble · Crystal Creek Media
Format: DVD

After being fired from her job as an ice skating instructor, Alison Grant, a former figure skating champion, begins teaching a new skating class on a friend s frozen pond. Alison and her nieces hand out Christmas Coupons to attract additional students. On the first day of class her old high...

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Itsy Bitsy

Bruce Davison · Shout! Factory
Format: DVD

Kara, a private nurse and single mother, moves from the big city to the quiet countryside with her two children, 13-year-old Jesse and 8-year-old Cambria, to live with and take care of an elderly man. Things seem normal enough until they discover a mysterious old relic in the old man's...

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Spider in the Web

Eran Riklis · Lions Gate
Format: DVD

An aging spy is on one last mission to redeem his life and career before the clock runs out; but when a mysterious woman appears, and the lines of trust with his superiors begin to blur, Adereth realizes the hunter may become the hunted in a world of mirrors and deceit.

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The First King (Latin)

Matteo Rovere · Well Go Usa
Format: DVD

Romulus and Remus are two shepherds and loyal brothers who are destined to found the greatest empire the world has ever seen, but only one can rule. The journey to greatness is paved with blood, and the fate of the chosen one lies in the hands of their brother.

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Ken Burns: Country Music

n · PBS Distribution
Format: DVD

Ken Burns's eight-part, 16-hour documentary series, COUNTRY MUSIC, chronicles the history of a uniquely American art form, focusing on the biographies of the fascinating characters who created it. The film follows the evolution of country music from its diverse and humble origins as it emerged,...

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Lethal Weapon: Season 3

· Warner Archives
Format: DVD

Follow Detective Roger Murtaugh and the squad, Captain Avery, Scorsese, and Detective Sonya Bailey, working a crime-ridden beat in modern-day Los Angeles. The series also follows Murtaugh's family, including his wife, Trish, and children, Roger Jr. 'RJ' and Riana. In the third...

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