News
November 26, 2025
Thanksgiving Hours & MORVERN CALLAR
Hello Video Angels,
We want to let you all know we’ll be open regular hours on Thanksgiving Day, so stop by and pick up some videos after dinner tomorrow!
We’ll be back at Lola’s Madison Sidecar Lounge on Wednesday, December 10th with Lynne Ramsay’s MORVERN CALLAR (yes, it is a Christmas movie). Doors open at 6pm, the movie starts at 7pm. The Sidecar has been filling up quickly the last few screenings, so make sure you get there early to get a seat!
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November 12, 2025
LOOKING FOR MR. GOODBAR
Hello Video Angels,
Thanks to everyone who came out to our 40th anniversary celebrations over the weekend!
We’re not done with bringing you events this month, though. We’ll be back at the Bartell Community Theatre on Sunday, November 23rd with LOOKING FOR MR. GOODBAR at 5pm. See the late Diane Keaton in her most controversial role! Following the film, we’ll have a discussion with Dave Durbin about the film, 70s cinema, and the true events that inspired the novel and the movie.
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November 05, 2025
City Cast Madison
We’re featured in today’s City Cast Madison newsletter!
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October 22, 2025
Upcoming events
Join us one week from tonight (10/29) for PHANTOM OF THE PARADISE at Lola’s MadisonSidecar Lounge. Doors at 6pm, movie at 7pm. Brian De Palma’s horror phreakout music industry satire Faustian bargain/Dorian Grey with music by Paul Williams!
Four Star 40th is celebrating its 40th anniversary next month! On November 7th we’ll be at the Rigby Pub from 8pm to 11pm. We encourage all current and former Four Star staff and customers to come tell your stories from the store’s history. Former owners David Smith, Lisa Brennan, as well as the Co-op era owners will all be there! On November 8th, we’ll have some in-store celebration, including games with fabulous prizes, and in the evening DJ Ian Adcock will be spinning some tunes! Also, from November 7th to November 11th (the actual anniversary) we’ll be offering 40% off your first month’s subscription, 4-for-1 rentals, and 4-for-1 prices on used sale DVDs and VHS.
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in-store browsing and curbside
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Coming Attractions
1/20
Caught By The Tides (Criterion, DVD & Blu Ray)
Easy Digging
Emergent City
Fackham Hall
The Glassworker (4K Blu Ray only)
One Battle After Another (DVD & Blu Ray)
Orwell: 2+2=5
Roofman
Sense8 Seasons 1&2 (Blu Ray only)
Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere (Blu Ray only)
Wicked: For Good
1/13
Being Charlie
Cop (‘88)
Evangelion 1.11: You Are (Not) Alone (Blu Ray)
Evangelion 2.22: You Can (Not) Advance (Blu Ray)
Frankenstein Unbound
Handling The Undead (Blu Ray only)
Inflatable Sex Doll Of The Wastelands (Blu Ray only)
It’s Never Over Jeff Buckley
Men From The Gutter (Blu Ray only)
The Movie Orgy (Blu Ray only)
Northern Lights
Put Your Soul In Your Hand And Walk
Red Angel (Blu Ray only)
The Resurrection Of The Golden Wolf (Blu Ray only)
Route One/USA (Blu Ray only)
Sea Fog (Blu Ray only)
The Sorrow And The Pity (Blu Ray)
The Woman Chaser (Blu Ray only)
1/6
Adventure Time: The Complete Series
Another Winter (Blu Ray only)
Bullet In The Head (Blu Ray & 4K Blu Ray)
Corporate Seasons 1, 2 & 3
Dicannove
Iced (Blu Ray only)
Icefall
Ick
If I Had Legs I’d Kick You (DVD & Blu Ray)
Motorama
Plainclothes
Shelby Oaks
The Smashing Machine (Blu Ray only)
Tekkonkinkreet
To All A Goodnight
Tron: Ares
Video Violence & Video Violence Part 2 (Blu Ray only, 2 discs rented separately)
12/30
Alligator (Blu Ray & 4K Blu Ray)
Battle Of The Bulge: Wunderland
A Better Tomorrow Trilogy (A Better Tomorrow, A Better Tomorrow II, A Better Tomorrow III: Love And Death In Saigon)(Blu Ray & 4K Blu Ray, 6 discs rented separately)
A Big Bold Beautiful Journey (Blu Ray only)
Cowboy Who Season 1
The Films Of Hisayasu Sato Vol 2: An Aria On Gazes/ Love-Zero=Infinity (Blu Ray only)
Found Footage Festival Vol 11
Good Night and Good Luck: Live From Broadway
Hot Spring Shark Attack (Blu Ray only)
Mixed Blood (Blu Ray & 4K Blu Ray)
A New Leaf (Blu Ray & 4K Blu Ray)
Traumatika
Where To Land (Blu Ray only)
12/23
Agitator (Blu Ray only)
Angel’s Egg (Blu Ray & 4K Blu Ray)
The Black Phone 2
Bugonia (DVD & Blu Ray)
Crazylegs
Eleanor The Great
Jaws 3/Jaws 4: The Revenge
The Morning After (Blu Ray only)
Splendid Outing (Blu Ray only)
Stitch Head
Va Savoir (Blu Ray only, theatrical and extended cuts, 2 discs rented separately)
Who By Fire
12/16
An Autumn’s Tale (Blu Ray only)
David Byrne’s American Utopia (Criterion)
The Disappearance Of Haruhi Suzumiya (DVD & Blu Ray)
Flaming Brothers (Blu Ray only)
Kill The Jockey
The Killer (‘89 Blu Ray & 4K Blu Ray)
Kisapmata (Blu Ray only)
Lemonade Joe
Radical Japan: Cinema and State (The Catch, Death By Hanging/Yunbogi’s Diary, Diary Of A Shinjuku Thief, Boy ('69)/100 Years Of Japanese Cinema, The Man Who Left His Will On Film, The Ceremony, Dear Summer Sister)(Blu Ray only, 7 discs rented separately)
Romeo’s Blue Skies: The Complete Series (Blu Ray only, 3 discs rented separately)
Rubber’s Lover (Blu Ray only)
Somnium (Blu Ray only)
Spymate
Who Killed Teddy Bear? (Blu Ray & 4K Blu Ray)
Staff Picks
Lewis says:
I care about my mom, but I care about this movie more.
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Sean says:
Let's get these teen hearts beating faster, faster... Twisted mystery/drama reminiscent of David Lynch's Blue Velvet (released the same year and also starring Dennis Hopper), River's Edge takes you through the nine circles of teen hell. Killer soundtrack (Slayer, The Wipers, Agent Orange etc.) and Keanu Reeves wearing a denim vest over a leather jacket over a tie dye t-shirt.
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