Simple Chicken 65 Biryani Recipe

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Here is what you’ll need to make Simple Chicken 65 Biryani

Ingredients:
600 gm chicken (boneless)
1 tsp cooking oil
½ tsp salt
1 tsp garlic paste
1 tsp ginger paste
1½ tsp lemon juice
1½ tsp curry leaves (chopped)
½ tsp red chilli (kashmiri)
1 tsp cumin (roasted)
½ tsp pepper
1½ tbsp maida/ AP flour
1½ tbsp corn flour
1 cup onion (thinly sliced)
1 tsp ginger paste
¼ tsp turmeric
1 tsp kashmiri red chilli
1 tsp coriander
8-10 curry leaves
4 green chillies
4 tbsp plain yoghurt
½ tsp sugar
1 tsp garam masala
½ tsp salt
½ tsp ginger paste
1 tbsp salt
½ tsp shah jeera
2 cinnamon sticks (small)
2 bay leaves (small)
3 cardamom
4 cloves
2 cups basmati rice (soaked for 30 minutes)
3 tbsp fried onions
food color (optional)
coriander and mint (chopped)

Instructions:
1. Place the diced chicken pieces into a bowl, and drizzle cooking oil over followed by a sprinkle of salt.
2. Next, add garlic paste, ginger paste, lemon juice, curry leaves, kashmiri, cumin, pepper, AP flour and corn flour – mix all ingredients together using your hand, coating the chicken well.
3. Place the coated chicken pieces onto a pan, and fry until they become golden brown.
4. After this, add cooking oil to another different pan and add onions – fry until brown on medium high heat.
5. Add ginger paste, garlic paste, turmeric, kashmiri and coriander – stir well.
6. After a good mix, add curry leaves, green chillies and stir again.
7. Then, mix plain yoghurt and sugar together and place it into the pan – mix thoroughly.
8. Add garam masala, salt and then place the chicken pieces into the mixture.
9. Mix all the ingredients together well.
10. In a separate pan containing water, add salt, ginger paste, shah jeera, cinnamon sticks, bay leaves, cardamom and cloves – give a quick stir.
11. Add the basmati rice to the pan, stir, then cook for 5 minutes on high heat.
12. Using a siv, scoop the rice out of the pan and place into the pan containing the chicken – use a spatula to spread the rice out equally.
13. Sprinkle fried onions and coriander over the biryani. (You may also add food color).
14. Put the lid of the pan on, and cook for 15 minutes on low heat.
15. After 15 minutes, take the lid off and use a spatula to mix the biryani around.
16. Your perfect biryani is now ready to be served!

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Viewer Votes Ranking for the 2021-22 Network TV Shows – canceled + renewed TV shows

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Like it or not, network TV series typically live and die by their Nielsen ratings. Since most fans do not live in Nielsen households, the average person’s preferences aren’t taken into account, and that is frustrating. While we can’t change the system, we want to give you an outlet for your opinions, so we invite you to vote for your favorite 2021-22 network TV shows here. Which programs are the best or the worst? If it were up to you, which TV series would be cancelled and renewed?

ABC TV series this season (so far): America’s Funniest Home Videos, Big Sky, Celebrity Wheel of Fortune, The Conners, Dancing with the Stars, The Goldbergs, The Good Doctor, Grey’s Anatomy, Home Economics, A Million Little Things, The Rookie, Station 19, Supermarket Sweep, and The Wonder Years.

CBS TV series this season (so far): Blue Bloods, Bob ♥ Abishola, FBI, FBI: International, FBI: Most Wanted, Magnum PI, NCIS, NCIS: Hawai’i, The Neighborhood, Survivor, and SWAT.

The CW TV series this season (so far): Penn & Teller: Fool Us.

FOX TV series this season (so far): 9-1-1, Alter Ego, The Big Leap, Bob’s Burgers, Family Guy, The Great North, The Masked Singer, Our Kind of People, The Resident, and The Simpsons.

NBC TV series this season (so far): Chicago Fire, Chicago Med, Chicago PD, La Brea, Law & Order: Organized Crime, Law & Order: SVU, New Amsterdam, Ordinary Joe, and The Voice.

What do you think? Which network TV shows do you rate as wonderful, terrible, or somewhere between? If it were your call, which TV series would be cancelled or renewed for another season? Don’t forget to vote, and please share your thoughts, below.

The Vigorous Vulnerability of Robert Jones, Jr.’s Debut Novel The Prophets

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Photos by D’Ambrose Boyd.

This is Rough Draft, in which our favorite writers get to the bottom of their own craft. From preferred writing drinks to whether or not you really need to carry a notebook, we find out all the ways they beat writer’s block and get it done.

In this edition, we speak to Robert Jones, Jr. on the occasion of his dazzling debut The Prophets, a haunting and beautiful historical novel about Black queer love and the dangerous repercussions of claiming and relishing in that love. The novel, which was recently shortlisted (as of this morning!) for the prestigious National Book Award for fiction, tells the heart wrenching story of two enslaved men—Isaiah and Samuel—who fall in love on a Mississippi plantation in the Antebellum South. Below, Jones reflects on the importance of writing the truth, reads to us from his notebook, and tells us what’s on his writing playlist (Janet Jackson and Lil Nas X, to name a couple).

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JULIANA UKIOMOGBE: Congratulations on being shortlisted for the National Book Award! Where were you when you heard the news?

ROBERT JONES, JR: Thank you so much. I’m still in something of a daze. When the news came in, my husband and I were preparing to leave our home in Brooklyn for the amazing Provincetown Book Festival in Massachusetts. My phone started buzzing. My agent, publicist, and editor all called me at the same time. Family members and friends started calling and texting me, including my sister-friend and fellow longlister Honorée Fanone Jeffers. The National Book Foundation’s Twitter account tagged me in the announcement. I was in a state of utter disbelief, about to leave for this road trip and trying to pull myself together. I was in this loop of shouting, “Have mercy!” and “Thank you so much!”

UKIOMOGBE: The Prophets is said to “blend the lyricism of Toni Morrison with the vivid prose of Zora Neale Hurston.” Do those two writers inform your current work ?

JONES: Yes. Black women writers have had the most profound impact on my own writing. Theirs is the writing I connect with most because of the ways in which they deal with truths about the self and the world. Toni Morrison, Zora Neale Hurston, Alice Walker, Gloria Naylor, Gayl Jones, Octavia Butler, Edwidge Danticat, Kola Boof, and Ayana Mathis are some of the writers who have, in many ways, made it possible for me to write.

UKIOMOGBE: What were you hoping to achieve in writing The Prophets? What gaps were you trying to fill?

JONES: I was hoping to counter a pernicious lie about the nature of queerness/transness in Black people with the truth. It is often said, and carelessly repeated, that the reason Black people are queer is because slavery shattered our sense of righteousness and perverted us. The truth is that what we now call queerness/transness is as natural to human existence as breathing air, and Black queer/trans human beings have existed for as long as human beings have existed. What is, in fact, unnatural—and imposed by colonizing powers—is anti-queerness/anti-transness. I believed that if I wrote about this, not only could the truth be known, but I could give voice to the many real-life Black queer/trans people who have been erased, overlooked, or ignored in the cultural narrative.

UKIOMOGBE: What’s your ideal writing atmosphere? What gets you in the mood?

JONES: Above all, I need quiet. That’s probably why I find writing during the magic hour— three o’clock in the morning— to be optimal. Conversely, I also like writing while riding New York City public transit, and it doesn’t get noisier than that. Maybe it’s something about being surrounded by so many different people from so many different walks of life with so many different energies that inspires me. In terms of what gets me in the mood, I feel inspired to write when I witness or experience great joy or great sorrow.

UKIOMOGBE: What are your go-to writing snacks?

JONES: My snack choices are pretty boring. I like fruit, and I can’t resist a good, crunchy pickle.

UKIOMOGBE: Do you keep a notebook or journal?

JONES: I don’t journal, but sometimes my personal essays double as journal entries. I do have a notebook with me at all times, and I keep it by my bed because sometimes I receive a thought while I’m dreaming, and I have to write it down immediately so I don’t lose it forever.

UKIOMOGBE: Can you open up to a random page of your notebook and read us a line from it?

JONES: “Liberation! Hope! Racism is so predictable.”

UKIOMOGBE: Do you prefer handwriting or typing?

JONES: I prefer handwriting because the flow from the ether, to my head, to my hand feels so natural. I’ve recently started writing in my notes app, although you should see the typos. Atrocious!

UKIOMOGBE: What’s your favorite quote?

JONES: “Incontestably, alas, most people are not, in action, worth very much; and yet, every human being is an unprecedented miracle. One tries to treat them as the miracles they are, while trying to protect oneself against the disasters they’ve become.” ― James Baldwin, No Name in the Street

UKIOMOGBE: Who’s on your writing playlist?

JONES: Janet Jackson, of course. Brandy. Tweet. Missy Elliott. Sade. Normani. Lil Nas X. Gladys Knight and the Pips. Stevie Wonder. Luther Vandross. Jeffrey Osborne. Ari Lennox. Ashford and Simpson. Amel Larrieux. Nas. Lauryn Hill. Stephanie Mills. Tinashe. Herbie Hancock. Robert Glasper.

UKIOMOGBE: What’s your favorite book to reread?

JONES: Toni Morrison’s Paradise. I find some new technique or revelation every time I return to it. It’s virtuosic.

UKIOMOGBE: How many drafts of one piece do you typically write?

JONES: Countless drafts. I usually write and rewrite over and over again until someone else—friend, editor, employer—tells me that it’s okay to let go of it.

UKIOMOGBE: Who’s your favorite screenwriter?

JONES: Radha Blank. She did a phenomenal job with The Forty-Year-Old Version. That’s some top-notch writing there. It made me laugh out loud and cry like a baby. It took my breath away. Phew!

UKIOMOGBE: Do you consider writing to be a spiritual practice?

JONES: Absolutely. It requires the same presence of mind, attention to one’s own interior world, mindfulness of one’s thoughts and actions, the same reverence and duty.

UKIOMOGBE: Which writers would you choose to have dinner with, living or dead?

JONES: All living: Gayl Jones, Alice Walker, Edwidge Danticat, Ayana Mathis, Kiese Laymon, De’Shawn Charles Winslow, Maurice Carlos Ruffin, Deesha Philyaw, Honorée Fanone Jeffers, Mateo Askaripour, Dawnie Walton, Cleyvis Natera, Danté Stewart, Marlon James, Alexander Chee, Isaac Fitzgerald, Reginald Dwayne Betts, Brian Broome, Kiley Reid, Cathy Park Hong, Chloe Benjamin, Min Jin Lee, and so many others that I’ve neglected to name.

UKIOMOGBE: What advice do you have for people who want to be better writers?

JONES: It seems to me that the best writers are the ones who can be honest about themselves and the world around them. Honesty, I think, challenges you and eventually elevates your craft. And I’m not talking about the self-flattering kind of honesty, where you’re only ever the hero in your own story. I’m talking about the kind that reveals you with the same rigor and vigor that it reveals others. That kind of vulnerability? I think it makes masterful writers.

UKIOMOGBE: What are some unconventional techniques you stand by?

JONES: I really like when narration recognizes its own errors and corrects them mid-story. I don’t find that to be “unreliable.” I like the willingness to say “I can’t and don’t know everything, but I’ll tell you what I can and do know, and leave the rest up to you, dear reader.”

UKIOMOGBE: Can great writing save the world?

JONES: I’m not sure. If it could, then Octavia Butler would have been heeded and we wouldn’t be suffering through catastrophic climate change, among other things. However, I do believe that great writing can certainly encourage the world to self-reflect. Maybe it can save itself.

The Isley Brothers " Floatin' On Your Love" Feat Angela Winbush, Lil' Kim , Sean"Puffy" , 112

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(Rare Video)1996, Angela Winbush was featured on the Isley Brothers’ (rejoined by brothers Ernie and Marvin) hit “Floatin’ On Your Love”, which was essentially a duet between Angela Winbush and Ron Isley. The song was later remixed by Sean “Puffy” Combs and featured guest vocals from Lil’ Kim and the group 112 in backgrounds. The video for it showcased Angela Winbush serenading Isley’s Mr. Biggs character.

Chico Debarge Live Part 2 "No Guarantee" & "One Love"

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Chico Debarge performing “No Guarantee” and ” One Love” on BET’s soundstage concert series.

AWARD-WINNING CHEF RAY GARCIA TO CRAFT NEW DINING EXPERIENCE AT THE MUSIC CENTER’S WALT DISNEY CONCERT HALL

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The Music Center and Levy announced a new partnership with acclaimed chef and native Angeleno Ray Garcia to create a new dining concept for the anchor restaurant space located in The Music Center’s Walt Disney Concert Hall on Grand Avenue in Downtown Los Angeles. Today’s announcement marks the introduction of several new food and beverage experiences that will roll out throughout the fall and winter of 2021 as part of a plan to reimagine dining at the nation’s third largest performing arts center.

Garcia draws his culinary inspiration for the new restaurant from the many cultures and neighborhoods that make up his native Los Angeles. The menu will spotlight fresh California ingredients and the preparations, independent spirit and heritage of the many communities of the most diverse county in the nation. The design concept for the new restaurant will be developed by Hagy Belzberg and Belzberg Architects with a new interior and an expansive, welcoming patio. More information will be shared during the coming months, with the restaurant slated to debut in January 2022.

“During the past 18 months, our team reexamined the role hospitality should play to complement our vision of deepening the cultural lives of all Angelenos,” said Rachel S. Moore, president and CEO of The Music Center. “Chef Ray Garcia understands how to use food to build bridges between cultures and communities. We are excited to partner with him as we welcome the return of our guests to The Music Center and look forward to introducing them to the distinctive culinary experiences that will await them in this new restaurant in one of L.A.’s most iconic buildings.”

Garcia has long been committed to elevating the food and beverage culture of Los Angeles. His restaurants Broken Spanish and BS Taqueria contributed to L.A.’s growing reputation as a culinary destination on an international level, and, in 2015, he was named Chef of the Year by Esquire magazine. Garcia’s latest venture, ¡VIVA!, recently opened at Resorts World Las Vegas. The Walt Disney Concert Hall restaurant will be a new, original concept that is unique to The Music Center.

“As a native Angeleno, I am thrilled to collaborate with The Music Center and bring focus to L.A.’s diversity at one of its largest cultural hubs,” shared Garcia about the coming-soon concept. “At our core, we look to connect people within their communities and celebrate L.A.’s range of cuisines, ingredients and traditions at the table and beyond.”

Hagy Belzberg and Belzberg Architects were the original designers of the space when Walt Disney Concert Hall opened in 2003. In addition to the main indoor dining room, expanded outdoor patio dining will also be a focus of the redesign.

“Having the opportunity to design a restaurant space twice is a dream for any architect, especially within such an iconic building. Working with Chef Ray, The Music Center, and Levy has been such an amazing experience and we’re very excited to reimagine and evolve the space into what we think will be a warm and inviting experience for all,” said Hagy Belzberg, Founding Principal, Belzberg Architects.

About Ray Garcia

As a native Angeleno, Ray Garcia draws his culinary inspiration from the city’s rich culture, Southern California’s produce and his classic training. At his restaurants Broken Spanish and BS Taqueria, he incorporated all of these things cooking bright, bold and ingredient-driven food that expressed a Mexican-American narrative. For this, he, his team and both restaurants received national recognition and overwhelming hometown support, including accolades and recognition from Esquire, USA Today, LA Weekly, Los Angeles Times and Los Angeles Magazine. Most notably, Garcia was recognized by Esquire magazine as Chef of the Year. His most recent restaurant, ¡VIVA!, recently opened at Resorts World Las Vegas.

Garcia originally set out to become a lawyer. However, after graduating from UCLA with degrees in political science and business economics, he paved a new path by enrolling at the California School of Culinary Arts. His first job was at the Peninsula Beverly Hills, a five-star and five-diamond hotel with a revered fine dining program. He would further his training with and seek mentorship from chefs like Douglas Keane of Cyrus. During this time, restraint in technique and a deep respect for the integrity of his ingredients became intrinsic, no more evident than from his six-year tenure at FIG in Santa Monica.

He has been consistently recognized for philosophies on environmental stewardship and commitment to responsible farming and food production, honored with StarChefs “Rising Star” Award for Sustainability in 2010. In 2014, Ray took home the title of “King of Porc” at Cochon 555, an event celebrating the heritage breed pig.

About The Music Center

The Music Center convenes artists, communities and ideas with the goal of deepening the cultural lives of every resident in Los Angeles County. The $70 million non-profit performing arts organization has two divisions: TMC Arts and TMC Ops. TMC Arts, The Music Center’s programming engine, provides year-round programming inside The Music Center’s four theatres, on Jerry Moss Plaza, outside at Grand Park—a 12-acre adjacent green space—in schools and other locations all over Los Angeles County and on a digital platform called The Music Center Offstage. TMC Arts presents world-class dance with Glorya Kaufman Presents Dance at The Music Center, free and low-cost public concerts and events, as well as live and digital K–12 arts education programs, workshops, performances, interactive experiences and special events. TMC Ops manages the theatres, the Plaza and Grand Park, which comprise $2 billion in county assets, on behalf of the County of Los Angeles. The Music Center is also home to four renowned resident companies—Center Theatre Group, Los Angeles Master Chorale, LA Opera and LA Phil. For more information, visit musiccenter.org. Follow The Music Center on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter @MusicCenterLA.

About Levy

The disruptor in defining hospitality at the most-recognized cultural, entertainment, and sports destinations, Levy is recognized as the market leader and most critically acclaimed hospitality company in its industry. With restaurant roots, Levy has created many of the country’s defining dining experiences, from Michelin Star fine dining, to waterfront social gathering spots, and elevated casual neighborhood restaurants. Twice named one of the 10 most innovative companies in sports by Fast Company magazine and one of the top three Best Employers for Diversity in America by Forbes, Levy’s diverse portfolio includes iconic cultural destinations and music venues, award-winning restaurants, major sports and entertainment venues, and convention centers; as well as the Super Bowl, Grammy Awards, US Open Tennis Tournament, Kentucky Derby, and NHL, MLB, NBA, NFL, and MLS All-Star Games. For more, visit www.levyrestaurants.com or follow us on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.

5 Hollywood Disaster Movies Based On True Events

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5 Hollywood Disaster Movies Based On True Events

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Nothing is more engadging than a movie based on a true event or story, but when its based on a true “historical disaster” it can be like watching a movie and a documtary in one. But just how close to the truth are they? and what is the real story behind the movie. Well here are five movies that where inspired by real disasters. From ‘The 33’, based on the Chilena mining disaster, to ‘Everest’, a film based on the 1996 Mount Everest Disaster. Sit back and enjoy the video.
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This $20 Vitamin C Serum Has 56,000+ Five-Star Reviews on Amazon

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It’s such a great product, Amazon shoppers can’t get enough. Here’s what reviewers are saying:

“My search for an amazing serum is finally over. I just purchased my third bottle and I am hooked! My skin looks flawless and I have been getting so many compliments about how great I look. My skin glows as if I just walked out of a spa treatment. A little goes a long way, ad the bottle usually last me about three and a half months. Thank you for his amazing product!”

“I am a 43-year-old wife, mom of teen girls, and middle school math teacher. That equals stress on my skin. I also live in Texas (read: sun damage). I do take care of my skin, but lately it has been less than perfect. Two weeks of using this serum, and my 17-year-old tells me I look like I am in my 20s rather than 30s. Fine lines are going away. Acne scars fading. Pigmentation evening out. Even my neck and jawline are smoother. Now my husband wants some for his ‘dad neck.’ Will definitely reorder. Oh, and despite my sensitive skin, I use it on my actual eyelids without any irritation at all.”

“I began using this product April of 2018. I love this product so much. If you are of a darker complexion and suffer from hyperpigmentation, I would definitely recommend this product. It’s been a life saver.”

“I’ve used this at night for 30 days. I didn’t do a before/after, but I can honestly say that when my kid took a picture of me the other day, it looked like he added a filter. Literally my skin looks ridiculously better. I’m 40. I grew up a beach baby and live in Las Vegas now. I’m in the sun daily. I swear on 37 Bibles that this stuff has easily taken off 10 years from my face. Literally.”

“I bought this product about a month ago and I use it at least once a day, sometimes twice. I started noticing a difference in my skin within a week! For the record, I have terrible skin. It’s red, blotchy, uneven, and on top of that I would get terrible breakouts. This product has helped a lot! It helped to reduce the redness of my breakouts within a few days of using it, and I’m convinced that it has also helped prevent more breakouts.”

“This product saved my skin. I’ve been struggling with acne for year. I get a new pimple almost every day and it seemed like there was never a time I didn’t have a pimple on my face. I’ve tried all different types of moisturizers and cleansers. Nothing worked. However, I bought this serum on a whim. OMG, guys. Literally my face stopped flaring within three days. I was pimple-free for more than 48 hours (a new record). Blemishes have faded drastically, and I have no active breakouts. This hasn’t happened in years. I truly and honestly think it is due to this product. If you are hesitant, don’t be. Buy it!”

If you’re looking for more must-have Amazon finds, check out this $9 lash serum that has over 52,000 five-star reviews.

OUR SEPTEMBER READS IN REVIEW & OUR ANTICIPATED OCTOBER READS

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Our weekend read is a rom-com from one of our favourite authors, and it’s ONLY 99c/77p to Pre Order!.
Kayley Loring always manages to reduce us into a fit of giggles whilst swooning and fanning ourselves at the same time. Her books are funny, romantic, sweet, sexy and her characters always warm our hearts. Kayley’s books are our happy place! If you haven’t read any of this author’s wonderful books, you really have to check them out!

An actor, a model, and a younger man walk into a therapist’s office… They’re all Dylan Brodie. It’s only funny if you aren’t the single mom therapist he can’t stop flirting with.
This is the second book in the Brodie Brothers Series. We loved Owen’s book in Funny Business (check out our review here), and Dylan’s story is giving us some serious 5 star vibes! We are loving it so far!
. A serial dater meets his match in his single Mum love interest! The banter and the group texts between the brothers and their parents are hilarious!
Pre Order here for only 99c/77p! Price to rise on release day 7th October.

Want to know which books are on our TBR’s for October?
There’s a real mixed bag awaiting us on our Kindles, and we can’t wait to lose ourselves in them all!
Check them out below and click on the Pre Order links for more details.

✿Kiss of a Blade (No Mercy Series #4) by Lea Griffiths – We can’t wait to get back into this addictive world!! Pre Order
✿Fable of Happiness (Fable of Happiness Trilogy #3) by Pepper Winters – this fabulously dark! Pre Order
✿Attachment Theory (The Brodie Brothers #2) by Kayley Loring – our current fabulous read! Pre Order
✿Bring Me Home by Nicola Haken – one of our most anticipated reads! We know this will tear our hearts to pieces.
✿Boyfriend (Moo U Hockey) by Sarina Bowen – We know this author will deliver a fabulous hockey romance! Pre Order
✿The Lost Fisherman (Fisherman Duet #2) by Jewel E Ann – Our next and most anticipated read! Pre Order
✿The Lilac Cadillac by Jane Harvey-Berrick – An epic love story in the time of war. Pre Order
✿The Book Boyfriend by Carina Rose – This rom-com sounds like the perfect escape! Pre Order

Week of October 5 New Releases

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Welcome to ComingSoon’s week of October 5 new releases column. We’ve highlighted this week’s 4K, Blu-ray, Digital HD, and DVD releases below. Click each highlighted title to purchase through Amazon or other retailers.

Movies on Blu-ray/DVD

Escape Room: Tournament of Champions
The sequel to the box-office hit psychological thriller that terrified audiences around the world. In this installment, six people unwittingly find themselves locked in another series of escape rooms, slowly uncovering what they have in common to survive…and discovering they’ve all played the game before.

Fried Barry
Barry is a drug-addled degenerate who, after yet another bender, gets abducted by aliens. Barry takes a backseat as his alien visitor assumes control of his body and takes it for a joyride through Cape Town. What follows is an onslaught of drugs, sex and violence as Barry’s alien tourist enters the weird and wonderful world of humankind.

Naked Singularity
An idealistic NYC public defender – John Boyega, burned out by the system and on the brink of disbarment, teams up with a former client – Olivia Cooke who draws him into a high-stakes heist, all while the universe is collapsing around them.

Night of the Animated Dead
In this dark, animated retelling of the 1968 cult classic Night of the Living Dead, bloodthirsty zombies suddenly begin amassing everywhere. Check out our interviews with stars Josh Duhamel and Dulé Hill.

Space Jam: A New Legacy
Welcome to the Jam! When NBA champion and cultural icon LeBron James and his young son Dom are trapped in a digital space by a rogue A.I., LeBron must get them home safe by leading Bugs, Lola Bunny and the whole gang of notoriously undisciplined Looney Tunes to victory over the A.I.’s digitized champions on the court: a powered‐up roster of NBA and WNBA stars as you’ve never seen them before. It’s Tunes versus Goons in the highest‐stakes challenge of his life, that will redefine LeBron’s bond with his son and shine a light on the power of being yourself. The ready‐for‐action Tunes destroy convention, supercharge their unique talents and surprise even “King” James by playing the game their own way.

Criterion Corner

Onibaba
Kaneto Shindo’s classic film features a high-definition digital restoration, 2001 audio commentary featuring Shindo and actors Kei Sato and Jitsuko Yoshimura, plus on-location footage and a 2003 interview.

Reissues

Halloween 4K
On a black and unholy Halloween night years ago, little Michael Myers brutally slaughtered his sister in cold blood. For the last fifteen years, the people of Haddonfield have rested easily, knowing that Michael was safely locked away in a mental hospital … until tonight. Michael has escaped and he will soon return to the same quiet neighborhood to relive his grisly murder again. For this is a night of evil. Tonight is Halloween.

Halloween II 4K
Picking up exactly where the first film left off, Halloween II follows the same ill-fated characters as they encounter the knife-wielding maniac they left for dead in the first film. The inhuman Michael Myers is still very much alive and out for more revenge as he stalks the deserted halls of the Haddonfield hospital. As he gets closer to his main target, Dr. Loomis (Donald Pleasence) discovers the chilling mystery behind the crazed psychopath’s actions. Written by John Carpenter and Debra Hill, Halloween II is a spine-tingling dark ride into the scariest night of the year.

Halloween III: Season of the Witch 4K
A murder-suicide in a northern Californian hospital leads to an investigation by the on-call doctor, which reveals a plot by an insane toymaker to kill as many people as possible on October 31st through an ancient Celtic ritual and deadly Halloween masks.

Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers 4K
The fourth installment in the Halloween franchise follows the unstoppable psychopath Michael Myers returning to his hometown once again on Oct 31st, this time to kill his niece. Donald Pleasence returns also as Michael’s psychiatrist who is hellbent on stopping him.

Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers 4K
After lying in a coma for a year, Michael Myers awakens and stalks his way back to his hometown with the intent again on killing his niece, Jamie (Danielle Harris), who has been confined to a mental institution since Michael’s last attempt to slay her. Suspecting a psychic link between Michael and Jamie, psychiatrist Dr. Sam Loomis (Donald Pleasence) attempts to stop Michael’s latest rampage.

The Hunt For Red October 4K
Based on Tom Clancy’s bestseller, directed by John McTiernan (Die Hard) and starring Sean Connery and Alec Baldwin, The Hunt For Red October seethes with high-tech excitement and sweats with the tension of men who hold Doomsday in their hands. A new technologically superior Soviet nuclear sub, the Red October, is heading for the U.S. coast under the command of Captain Marko Ramius (Connery). The American government thinks Ramius is planning to attack. A lone CIA analyst (Baldwin) has a different idea: he thinks Ramius is planning to defect, but he has only a few hours to find him and prove it – because the entire Russian naval and air commands are trying to find him, too. The hunt is on!

Universal Classic Monsters Icons of Horror Collection 4K
Includes Dracula, Frankenstein, The Invisible Man, and The Wolf Man.

New On Digital HD

American Insurrection
Check out an exclusive clip. Out October 8. After a powerful militia seizes control of the U.S., a group of friends attempt to escape the escalating violence and oppression. They must move undetected as their only hope is to cross a heavily guarded border. But as the militia closes in, the friends will need to do whatever it takes to survive in this suspenseful action-thriller.

Crazy About You
Jake is dumped, fired, and humiliated. To win back his ex, he embarks on a hilariously wild charity stunt by walking up the western coast of Australia. Throughout his journey, he braves unforgiving elements, wild dogs, and jellyfish, all the while learning to fall in love with life itself in this laugh out loud comedy.

Check out an exclusive clip from the film starring Angus McLaren, Natasha Liu Bordizzo, Megan Smart, and John Cleese.

South of Heaven
Out October 8. After serving twelve years for armed robbery, Jimmy gets an early parole. Upon his release from prison he vows to give Annie, his childhood love, now dying from cancer, the best year of her life. The best last year of her life. If only life were that simple…

Survive the Game
Out October 8. Bruce Willis (Pulp Fiction) and Chad Michael Murray (“Riverdale”) star in this explosive crime-thriller. When cop David (Willis) is injured in a drug bust gone wrong, his partner, Cal, pursues the two criminals who shot him to a remote farm owned by troubled vet Eric (Murray). As Cal and Eric plot their defense, more of the gang arrives — along with a wounded David — and, outnumbered, the three heroes must use stealth, smarts, and marksmanship to take down the drug-dealing mob.

TV on Blu-ray and DVD

C3: Cube Cursed Curious
Featuring all 12 episodes and OVA on two Blu-ray discs. After receiving a mysterious cube in the mail, Highschooler Haruaki wakes to find it transformed into a girl named Fear—who’s stealing his snacks! But once he learns of her curse, he agrees to help lift it—and keep the evil forces that pursue her at bay.

Golden Kamuy Season 3
After an intense battle, Asirpa is captured by Ogata’s group, and Sugimoto joins forces with the 7th Division to search for her. Now, only she can solve the mystery surrounding the Ainu gold. Will the two reunite as they enter a land of extreme cold?

Ms. Fisher’s Modern Murder Mysteries, Series 2
In 1960s Melbourne, private eye Peregrine Fisher tackles her biggest mysteries yet, but her courtship with noble detective James Steed faces a crossroads.

Nakaimo – My Little Sister Is Among Them
This Blu-ray set includes all 12 episodes and the OVA.

The Nevers, Season 1 Part 1
The hit HBO series comes to Blu-ray.

The Stand
When a killer plague wipes out 99% of the world’s population, the embattled survivors struggle to make their way in a post-apocalyptic reality. This 2020 adaptation of Stephen King’s The Stand frames the eternal battle between good and evil, as embodied by the peaceful prophet Mother Abagail (Academy Award winner Whoopi Goldberg) and the menacing presence Randall Flagg (Emmy Award winner Alexander Skarsgård), and closes with a new coda written by Stephen King himself.

Tamayomi: The Baseball Girls – The Complete Season
Freshman pitcher Yomi Takeda vowed to hang up her glove, but after reuniting with a long-lost friend, her passion for baseball is reignited. Together, with the help of their loveable ragtag teammates, they’ll try to win the national championship.

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