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Recently Ordered Feature Films
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Captive State
After 10 years of extraterrestrial occupation, residents of Chicago must decide whether to continue to live under alien rule or support the resistance. When young Gabriel Drummond joins the insurgency, he soon finds himself under careful scrutiny from a shadowy figure who's trying to crush the rebellion and its plans for freedom.
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Columbus
When a renowned architecture scholar falls suddenly ill during a speaking tour, his son Jin finds himself stranded in Columbus, Indiana, a small Midwestern city celebrated for its many significant modernist buildings. Jin strikes up a friendship with Casey, a young architecture enthusiast who works at the local library. As their intimacy develops, Jin and Casey explore both the town and their own conflicted emotions.
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The Kid Brother
Harold Hickory, a feeble boy in an otherwise brawny family, is known for being clever--and getting into trouble. After inviting the lovely carnival worker Mary Powers into his home, Hickory discovers that a large sum of money entrusted to his father, the sheriff, has gone missing. In this slapstick tale of mystery, Hickory must think fast in order to clear his family name, even if it means facing the strongman Sandoni.
This new Criterion edition of the 1927 classic features a new 4k digital transfer, interviews, and other special features.
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The Vault
Two estranged sisters hatch a scheme to rob a bank to save their brother. The heist begins smoothly, but mayhem soon ensues when the defiant manager sends them to a basement-level vault where something truly evil dwells.
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New Release Television Shows
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Black Lightning
As a younger man, Jefferson Pierce donned the suit of a vigilante and protected the streets of his city, but he believed he'd left those days in the past. He learns that life doesn't always work out as planned when his daughter, Jennifer -- a star student who is determined to achieve justice at any cost -- gets recruited by a street gang. In order to protect his family, Jefferson sees no choice but to once again become Black Lightning.
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Arrow: the Complete Seventh Season
When presumed-dead billionaire playboy Oliver Queen returns home to Starling City after five years stranded on a remote island in the Pacific, he hides the changes the experience had on him. At night he dons the alter ego of Arrow and works to right the wrongs of his family and restore the city to its former glory.
Season 7 features the crossover episode Elseworlds Part 2, in which Arrow and the Flash head to Gotham City after having somehow switched bodies.
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The Flash: Season 5
When a particle accelerator heralded as a world-changing invention causes an explosion, it creates a freak storm and Barry Allen is struck by lightning. He awakes from a coma nine months later with the power of superspeed. When he learns that others who have gained powers use them for evil, he dedicates himself to protecting the innocent, while still trying to solve the older mystery.
Season Five feature the crossover episode Elseworlds Part 1.
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Game of Thrones: Season 8
The eighth and final season of the long-running HBO series based on George R.R. Martin's medieval fantasy series A Song of Ice and Fire. It's the depiction of two powerful families -- kings and queens, knights and renegades, liars and honest men -- playing a deadly game for control of the Seven Kingdoms of Westeros, and to sit atop the Iron Throne.
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I Am the Night
Directed by Patty Jenkins ("Wonder Woman," "Monster"), I Am the Night is inspired by true events, telling the tale of teenager Fauna Hodel, who was given away at birth. The mystery of Fauna's origin has never greatly affected her, until one day she discovers something that makes her question everything. An investigation leads Fauna to reporter Jay Singletary, and together they follow a trail that ends at the doorstep of infamous gynecologist Dr. George Hodel, a man involved in some of Hollywood's darkest debauchery, and possibly, its most infamous unsolved crime.
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Orange Is The New Black: Season 6
Piper Chapman is a public relations executive with a career and a fiance when her past suddenly catches up to her. In her mid-30s she is sentenced to spend time in a minimum-security women's prison in Connecticut for her association with a drug runner 10 years earlier. This Netflix original series is based on the book of the same title. Forced to trade power suits for prison orange, Chapman makes her way through the corrections system and adjusts to life behind bars, making friends with the many eccentric, unusual and unexpected people she meets.
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Outlander: Season 4
After serving as a British Army nurse in World War II, Claire Randall is enjoying a second honeymoon in Scotland with husband Frank, an MI6 officer looking forward to a new career as an Oxford historian. Suddenly, Claire is transported to 1743 and into a mysterious world where her freedom and life are threatened. To survive, she marries Jamie Fraser, a strapping Scots warrior with a complicated past and a disarming sense of humor. A passionate relationship ensues, and Claire is caught between two vastly different men in two inharmonious lives. Outlander is adapted from the best-selling books by Diana Gabaldon.
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Shameless: The Complete Ninth Season
Oscar-nominated actor William H. Macy stars as Frank Gallagher, a single father of six who spends much of his free time drinking at bars. The Gallagher children -- led by oldest daughter Fiona (Emmy Rossum), who takes on much of the child-rearing responsibility due to her mother's absence -- manage to raise themselves in spite of Frank's lack of parenting and unusual parenting style when he does choose to act like a father.
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