New on Blu-ray: OBEX (2025) Written, Directed by and Starring Albert Birney

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Product Description: In pre-internet 1987, Conor and his dog Sandy live a life of seclusion, lost in the slow-rendering graphics of early Macs and televisions aglow with late night horror movie marathons. But when he begins playing OBEX, a new and mysterious, state-of-the-art computer game, he finds himself trapped in a low-tech, but high-stakes analog hellscape as the line between reality and game blurs. Audacious and uncanny, writer-director Albert Birney's OBEX is a delightfully skewed lo-fi fantasy. Shot in striking black and white, this surreally nostalgic nightmare revisits the dawn of personal computing to reflect on the loneliness of our always-online present day.

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"OBEX" is an indie sci-fi film directed by Albert Birney ("Strawberry Mansion", "Sylvio") and written by Birney and Pete Ohs. The film stars Birney, Callie Hernandez and Frank Mosley. It premiered at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival, and opened in select theaters on January 9, 2026. On February 6, 2026 it was released on digital platforms.

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New on Blu-ray: SYLVIO (2017) Starring Sylvio Bernardi

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Product Description: Based on a series of avant-garde vines by creator Albert Birney, Sylvio is the story of Baltimore-based gorilla Sylvio Bernardi's rise and fall from local TV fame. Sylvio's droll 9-to-5 is interrupted when he is sent to collect the debt of a small talk show producer, and is mistaken for a juggling guest. The fallout of Sylvio's clumsy juggling is not just broken vases–the viewers fall in love with Sylvio's chaotic and destructive ape persona. As a result, Sylvio's personal preferences for tender puppetry and delicate stop motion are put at direct odds with the character he finds himself playing for his human viewers. As Sylvio's identity crisis mounts fantasy and reality poetically blur to reveal that he has been fighting the "beast" image for years. Sylvio is a downright lovely and absurdist cult classic that speaks to anyone who fails to live out their stereotype.

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DVD & Blu-ray: STRAWBERRY MANSION (2021) Starring Kentucker Audley & Penny Fuller

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Product Description: In 2035, our dreams are no longer our own–they’re infused with product placement and auditors assess unpaid taxes on our most private reveries. Beleaguered taxman James Preble (Kentucker Audley) arrives at a run-down house in the countryside for a routine audit and encounters Bella Isadora (Penny Fuller), a lifelong dreamer who remains resolutely analog, circumventing the surveillance state with VHS tapes and homemade headgear. As Preble works his way through Bella’s archive of the unconscious, he begins to fall in love with visions of her younger self (Grace Glowicki). But all is not well in dreamland as dangerous family secrets and a rogue’s gallery of blue demons and fried chicken pitchmen threaten to set the lovers’ paradise ablaze. Can Preble and Bella escape from the modern, monetized dreamscape and find refuge in Strawberry Mansion?

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