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New and Coming Releases: January 8, 2013.

   

This week's batch of DVDs brings a few controversial films/docs to the table, check out the whole list inside!

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New and Coming Releases: January 1, 2013.

   

It's a small series of holiday releases for this New Years Day. We hope you were too busy revelling to notice anyway! More great upcoming releases added, after the jump. 

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New and Coming Releases: December 11, 2012.

   

Action and intrigue abound in this week's new releases. So many great coming releases posted too - queue up for Looper, Cosmopolis, Pina, Wake in Fright, and much much more, inside! 

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New and Coming Releases: December 4, 2012.

   

December starts off strong with a fully fleshed out roundup of new DVDs for rent. Check out the all the goods after the jump. 

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New and Coming Releases: November 27, 2012.

    

It's another smaller releasing week for DVDs. Just a little lull before holiday season DVDs come 'atcha hard and strong! 

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New and Coming Releases: November 20, 2012.

   

A handful of new DVDs for rent this Tuesday to gobble down over the Thanksgiving Holiday - Happy T-Day everyone!

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New and Coming Releases: November 13, 2012.

   

Holiday decorations are already up at stores, and we've got a ridiculously strong slate of holiday rentals posted on our site this week. Queue 'em up early!

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The Life and Death of a Porno Gang

Reviewer: James Van Maanen
Ratings (out of five): **** 1/2

What was I expecting from this Balkans movie? Something in the way of the infamous A Serbian Film: lots of transgression and sex, adding up to mostly slick/sick exploitation. There is a lot of transgression and sex in The Life and Death of a Porno Gang, the Serbian film from writer/director Mladen Djordjevic, but by the finale of this amazing movie, it has risen so far above mere exploitation that I think the word will no longer cross your mind.

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The Forgiveness of Blood (Criterion)

Reviewer: Philip Tatler IV
Ratings (out of five): ** 1/2

Soon after eschewing socialism in the early ‘90s, Albania was one of the first countries to re-form a representative government. However, many Albanians returned to an older form of self-governance: the Kanun.

A set of moral laws dating back at least to the fifteenth century, the Kanun is essentially a ratification of common courtesies and basic principles, transcending political or religious affiliation. One of its more aberrant tenets is the Gjakmarrja, or blood feud.

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