The best films concentrate STAR-A Comedy About Rebel Dj at sea to the new comedy from the creators of Super Troopers, here's a look at what comes out this week on DVD.
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Yellow Submarine [Blu-ray] $22.19 The Beatles’ classic 1968 animated feature film, Yellow Submarine, has been digitally restored. Currently out of print, the film has been restored in 4K digital resolution for the first time by Paul Rutan Jr. and his team of specialists at Triage Motion Pictures…. |
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Yellow Submarine $14.99 The Beatles’ classic 1968 animated feature film, Yellow Submarine, has been digitally restored. Currently out of print, the film has been restored in 4K digital resolution for the first time by Paul Rutan Jr. and his team of specialists at Triage Motion P… |
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Labyrinth [Blu-ray] $7.45 Sarah (a teenage Jennifer Connelly) rehearses the role of a fairy-tale queen, performing for her stuffed animals. She is about to discover that the time has come to leave her childhood behind. In real life she has to baby-sit her brother and contend with parents who don’t understand her at all. Her petulance leads her to call the goblins to take the baby away, but when they actually do, she realiz… |
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Battle Royale: The Complete Collection [Blu-ray] $24.99 Battle Royale II (2003), the high-intensity follow-up to the 2000 cult actioner, finds a new group of Japanese schoolkids-turned-warriors being sent to the island base of the anti-government group “Wild Seven,” made up of survivors of previous Battle Royales. The rookie fighters are given 72 hours to eliminate the rebels…or die trying. Shugo Oshinari, Ai Maeda, Tatsuya Fujiwara star. Along with … |
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Battle Royale [Blu-ray] $14.96 Lord of the Flies meets Asian action cinema in director Kinji Fukasaku’s violent and controversial thriller. In a strife-torn future Japan, 42 ninth-grade students are abducted by the government and taken to a remote island. There, under the new “Battle Royale” law, the teens are fitted with explosive collars, armed, and forced to fight each other to the death, with the last one alive allowed to r… |
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Godzilla (The Criterion Collection) [Blu-ray] $24.41 Atomic testing in the Pacific awakens a gigantic reptilian creature dubbed Godzilla off the coast of Japan and sends the monstrous menace on a rampage across Tokyo and its environs. Director Ishiro Honda’s “kaiju” classic spawned innumerable sequels; Akihiko Hirata, Takashi Shimura, Momoko Kochi, and Haru Nakajima star. Includes the original Japanese release “Gojira” and the 1956 re-dubbed America… |
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Tora! Tora! Tora! [Blu-ray Book] $9.59 “Sir, there’s a large formation of planes coming in from the north, 140 miles, 3 degrees east.” “Yeah? Don’t worry about it.” This is just one of the many mishaps chronicled in Tora! Tora! Tora! The epic film shows the bombing of Pearl Harbor from both sides in the historic first American-Japanese coproduction: American director Richard Fleischer oversaw the complicated production (the Japanese se… |
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The Secret World of Arrietty $16.99 The Secret World of Arrietty is a remake of the magical fairy tale The Borrowers, as seen through the keen, imaginative eye of Japanese writer Hayao Miyazaki. The American version of this delicately, richly animated film is that rarest of children’s movies–one that is a deeply engaging experience for adults as well. The visuals and graphics are gasp-inducing, yet never over the top or too showy. … |
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Thank God It’s Friday $6.67 Remember disco? The disparate group of people whose lives collide on the dance floor of a hot nightclub where a wild Friday night dance contest is being held sure do. Among them are an aspiring singer (Donna Summer), a pair of high school girls (Terri Nunn and Valerie Landsburg) who are in it for the prize money, and the club’s smarmy owner (Jeff Goldblum). With Debra Winger, Chick Vennera, and Th… |
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Studio Ghibli 8 Long Ponyo Plush Doll $44.95 8″ long Ponyo plush doll, a genuine licensed products made by Sun Arrow Co., imported from Japan…. |