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 THE KARATE KID
DIRECTOR: HARALD ZWART
Starring: Jaden Smith, Jackie Chan, Taraji P. Henson
When 12-year-old Dre Parker’s mother’s latest career move has landed him in China he is left with no friends in a strange land. Dre has nowhere to turn but maintenance man Mr. Han, who is secretly a master of kung fu. As Han teaches Dre that kung fu is not about punches and parries, but maturity and calm, Dre realizes that facing down the bullies will be the fight of his life When 12-year-old Dre Parker’s mother’s latest career move has landed him in China he is left with no friends in a strange land. Dre has nowhere to turn but maintenance man Mr. Han, who is secretly a master of kung fu. As Han teaches Dre that kung fu is not about punches and parries, but maturity and calm, Dre realizes that facing down the bullies will be the fight of his life.
GENRE: FAMILY DRAMA
FORMAT: DVD & BLU-RAY
RUNTIME: 141 MINS
RATED: PG
 THE EXORCIST: DIRECTOR’S CUT + THEATRICAL CUT – FIRST TIME ON BLU-RAY!
DIRECTOR: WILLIAM FRIEDKIN
Starring: Jason Miller, Max Von Sydow, Ellen Burstyn, Linda Blair
Controversial and popular from the moment it opened, The Exorcist marks its historic Blu-ray premiere in a 2-Disc Edition featuring Stunning Hi-Def Presentations of the Original 1973 Theatrical Version and the 2000 Extended Director’s Cut. The frightening and realistic tale of an innocent girl inhabited by a terrifying entity, her mother’s frantic resolve to save her and two priests – one doubt-ridden, the other a rock of faith – joined in battling ultimate evil always leaves viewers breathless. This greatest supernatural thriller of all time astonishes and unsettles like no other movie.
GENRE: HORROR
FORMAT: DVD & BLU-RAY
RUNTIME: 254 MINS
RATED: UR
 SPLICE
DIRECTOR: VINCENZO NATALI
Starring: Sarah Polley, Adrien Brody
Clive (Adrien Brody) and Elsa (Sarah Polley) are young, brilliant, and ambitious. The new animal species they engineered have made them rebel superstars of the scientific world. In secret, they introduce human DNA into the experiment. The result is something that is greater than the sum of its parts: a female animal-human hybrid that may be a step up on the evolutionary ladder. They think they may have created the perfect organism, until she makes a final shocking metamorphosis that could destroy them … and the rest of humanity.
GENRE: HORROR
FORMAT: DVD & BLU-RAY
RUNTIME: 107 MINS
RATED: R
 30 DAYS OF NIGHT: DARK DAYS
DIRECTOR: BEN KETAI
Starring: Kiele Sanchez, Rhys Coiro, Diora Baird, Harold Perrineau, Mia Kirshner
Almost a year has passed since Barrow, Alaska’s population was decimated by vampires. Stella, mourning her husband’s murder, has been travelling the world trying to convince others that vampires exist. When a group of lost souls offers her a chance to exact revenge upon the vampire queen, Stella joins their mission to stop evil from striking again.
GENRE: HORROR
FORMAT: DVD & BLU-RAY
RUNTIME: 92 MINS
RATED: R
 THE TROTSKY
DIRECTOR: JACOB TIERNEY
Starring: Jay Baruchel, Geneviève Bujold, Colm Feore, Jessica Paré, Saul Rubinek
Leon Bronstein is not your average Montreal West high school student. For one thing, none of his peers can claim to be the reincarnation of early 20th century Soviet iconoclast and Red Army hero, Leon Trotsky. When his father sends Leon to public school as punishment for starting a hunger strike at Papa’s clothing factory, Leon quickly lends new meaning to the term “student union”, determined as he is to live out his pre-ordained destiny to the fullest and change the world.
GENRE: COMEDY
FORMAT: DVD & BLU-RAY
RUNTIME: 120 MINS
RATED: NA
Find out what we had to say about The Trotsky.
 SISTERS
DIRECTOR: DOUGLAS BUCK
Starring: Jay Baruchel, Geneviève Bujold, Colm Feore, Jessica Paré, Saul Rubinek
Reporter Grace Collier (Chloe Sevigny, TV’s Big Love, American Psycho) witnesses a woman committing a bizarre murder in this disturbing shocker based on Brian De Palma’s 1973 classic. When police fail to find a corpse or any trace of the crime, Collier undertakes her own investigation that leads her to a mental asylum and the discovery of the mysterious woman’s once-conjoined twin. Stephen Rea also stars as the twins’ controlling and controversial doctor in a chilling look at the deep and sometimes psychotic bond between SISTERS.
GENRE: THRILLER
FORMAT: DVD & BLU-RAY
RUNTIME: 92 MINS
RATED: R
 THE SECRET OF KELLS
DIRECTOR: TOMM MOORE, NORA TWOMEY
Starring: Evan Mc Guire, Mick Lally, Christen Mooney, Brendan Gleeson
Adventure, action and danger await 12-year-old Brendan, who must fight Vikings and a serpent god to find a crystal and complete the legendary Book of Kells. Brendan is hard at work with his uncle, helping to strengthen the abbey walls as protection against the Viking raids. But a new life of adventure begins with the arrival of Brother Aidan, a master illuminator who initiates Brendan into the art of illumination, awakening his hidden, but extraordinary, talents. In order to finish the magnificent book, Brendan has to overcome his deepest fears on a quest that will take him beyond the abbeys walls into the enchanted forest where dangerous mythical creatures hide. It is here that he meets the fairy Aisling, a mysterious young white wolf/girl, who will become his closest friend and helper. But with the terrifying Viking Hordes closing in, will Brendan succeed in his quest to illuminate the darkness and prove that enlightenment is the best fortification against barbarians?
GENRE: ANIMATION
FORMAT: DVD & BLU-RAY
RUNTIME: 75 MINS
RATED: NA
 BEAUTY & THE BEAST – FIRST TIME ON BLU-RAY!
DIRECTOR: GARY TROUSDALE, KIRK WISE
Starring: Paige O’Hara, Robby Benson, Angela Lansbury, Jerry Orbach
Set in and around a quaint French village during the late 18th century, Beauty and the Beast follows the fantastic adventures of Belle, a bright and beautiful young woman who finds escape from her ordinary life, and the advances of a boorish suitor, Gaston, by reading books. Meanwhile, off in a castle in the distance, a cruel young prince is cast under the spell of an enchantress who turns him into a tormented beast, while transforming his servants into animated household objects. In order to remove the curse, the Beast must discover a true love who will return his affection before the last petal falls from an enchanted rose. When Belle’s inventor father stumbles upon the Beast’s castle and is taken prisoner, Belle comes to the rescue and agrees to take her father’s place. With the help of the castle’s enchanted staff, she sees beneath the Beast’s exterior and discovers the heart and soul of a human prince.
GENRE: ANIMATION
FORMAT: DVD & BLU-RAY
RUNTIME: 90 MINS
RATED: G
 THE HUMAN CENTIPEDE
DIRECTOR: TOM SIX
Starring: Paige O’Hara, Robby Benson, Angela Lansbury, Jerry Orbach
THE HUMAN CENTIPEDE is an unconventional – and medically accurate — biological horror film that enthusiastically explores territory that few filmmakers dare to tread. When two pretty American girls go on a road trip in Europe, they end up alone at night in Germany with a broken car in the woods. They search for help and find an isolated villa, and awake the next day to find themselves trapped in a terrifying makeshift basement hospital. Their captor is the internationally respected Siamese twin surgeon Dr. Josef Heiter with a demented vision for humankind’s future existence. Dr. Heiter wants to remove human beings’ kneecaps so they have to exist on all fours and then surgically graft them mouth-to-anus to form a centipede chain. But when his victims give him more trouble than he expects – including unwanted attention from the authorities – Dr. Heiter is forced to decide whether to abandon his latest project, or protect it from the outside world – with their and his very lives, if necessary.
GENRE: HORROR
FORMAT: DVD & BLU-RAY
RUNTIME: 92 MINS
RATED: UR
Find out what we had to say about The Human Centipede.
 THE RIG
DIRECTOR: PETER ATENCIO
Starring: William Forsythe, Art LaFleur, Serah D’Laine
When a tropical storm forces an offshore drilling company to evacuate non-essential personnel from the “Charlie” oil rig, the small but experienced crew left behind settles in to ride out the storm. Isolated on the rig, their routine night is interrupted when a crew member goes missing and an extensive search proves futile. Slowly, they discover that a deadly creature is stalking the crew, eliminating them one by one. Surrounded by nothing but raging ocean with no hope of escape, the roughnecks must survive the stormy night with an unrelenting force of death hunting them down.
GENRE: HORROR
FORMAT: DVD
RUNTIME: NA
RATED: R
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