New Blu-ray Reviews

Atroz Blu-ray Movie  

Blu-ray + DVD + CD

Unearthed Films | 2015 | 79 min | Not rated | Aug 16, 2016 | Jeffrey Kauffman

A woman has been brutally struck down by a car and its two occupants have been detained by the police. The unorthodox police chief decides to check out the assailants' car for himself and makes a gruesome discovery on a camcorder. The video recorder features the relentless torture and murder of a prostitute. The police decide to mete out some justice of their own — justice that would make most criminals cringe. By interrogating the perps, they discover more videotapes exposing even more sexually deviant torture and murder.

Crime / Horror / Foreign

The Flight of the Phoenix Blu-ray Movie    

Masters of Cinema

Eureka Entertainment | 1965 | 142 min | Rated BBFC: PG | Sep 12, 2016 | Dr. Svet Atanasov

After a plane crash in the Sahara, one of the survivors says he's an airplane designer and they can make a flyable plane from the wreckage.

Adventure / Drama

The Conjuring 2 Blu-ray Movie  

Blu-ray + UV Digital Copy

Warner Bros. | 2016 | 134 min | Rated R | Sep 13, 2016 | Michael Reuben

Lorraine and Ed Warren travel to north London to help a single mother raising four children alone in a house plagued by malicious spirits.

Horror / Supernatural / Period

The One and Only Blu-ray Movie  

Olive Films | 1978 | 98 min | Rated PG | Oct 27, 2015 | Dr. Svet Atanasov

1951: Andy Schmidt is in his last year of college. Taking life easy and always a saucy joke on his lips, he manages to win fellow student Mary's heart, although she's already otherwise engaged. But getting a job after college turns out much harder than he expected. Most directors take offense at his free interpretation of his roles. Desperate, he tries in wrestling. To avoid getting beaten up he stages the fights - and incidentally invents show-wrestling.

Comedy / Romance

Journey: Live in Manila Blu-ray Movie  

Blu-ray + CD

Eagle Rock Entertainment | 2009 | 145 min | Not rated | Sep 09, 2016 | Jeffrey Kauffman

On March 14, 2009, Journey returned to Arnel Pineda's homeland and introduced him as their newest lead singer to a crowd of nearly 30,000 at the Mall Of Asia Concert Grounds. By the time Journey made their way to Manila, more than 800,000 copies of Revelation had been sold and had been supported with sold-out shows all over the world. Track Listing: • "The Journeymajestic" • "Never Walk Away" • "Only the Young" • "Ask the Lonely" • "Stone in Lone" • "Keep On Runnin'" • "After All These Years" • "Change for the Better" • "Wheel in the Sky" • "Lights" • "Still They Ride" • "Open Arms" • "Mother, Father" • "Wildest Dream" • "When You Love a Woman" • "Separate Ways" • "What I Needed" • "Edge of the Blade" • "Where Did I Lose Your Love" • "Escape" • "Faithfully" • "Don't Stop Believin'" • "Anyway You Want It" • "Lovin', Touchin', Squeezin'" • "Turn Down the World Tonight" • "Be Good to Yourself"

Music

Hard Target 2 Blu-ray Movie  

Blu-ray + DVD + UV Digital Copy

Universal Studios | 2016 | 104 min | Rated R | Sep 06, 2016 | Martin Liebman

Retired mixed martial artist Wes “The Jailor” Baylor (Scott Adkins) can’t refuse a million-dollar purse he’s offered for one final bout in Myanmar. But when he arrives for the fight, he learns he’s been tricked into becoming the target of a human hunt. Carrying only water and a ruby-filled money belt for the last person standing, Wes must outsmart the heavily armed group that has paid to kill him. As he fights for his life in the treacherous jungle terrain, the hunters become the hunted.

Action / Thriller

The Everly Brothers: Harmonies from Heaven Blu-ray Movie  

+ Live 1968 DVD

Eagle Vision Media | 2016 | 59 min | Not rated | Sep 09, 2016 | Jeffrey Kauffman

Documentary which celebrates, over the period covering the end of the 1950s and the beginning of the 60s, the phenomenon of the Everly Brothers, arguably the greatest harmony duo the world has witnessed, who directly influenced the greatest and most successful bands of the 60s and 70s - the Beatles, the Stones, the Beach Boys and Simon & Garfunkel to name but a few. Don and Phil Everly's love of music began as children, encouraged by their father Ike. Little Donnie and Baby Boy Phil sang on Ike's early-morning radio shows in Iowa. After leaving school, the brothers moved to Nashville where, under the wing of Ike Everly's friend, the highly talented musician Chet Atkins, Don and Phil signed with Cadence Records. They exploded onto the music scene in 1957 with Bye Bye Love, written by Boudleaux and Felice Bryant. After Bye Bye Love came other hits, notably Wake Up Little Susie, followed by the worldwide smash hit All I Have to Do Is Dream and a long string of other great songs which also became hits. By 1960, however, the brothers were lured away from Cadence to Warner Bros with a $1,000,000 contract. Their biggest hit followed, the self-penned Cathy's Clown, which sold 8 million copies. Remaining at Warner Bros for most of the 60s, they had further success with Walk Right Back, So Sad and the King/Greenfield-penned track Crying in the Rain

Music

Marguerite Blu-ray Movie  

Blu-ray

Cohen Media Group | 2015 | 129 min | Rated R | Aug 02, 2016 | Jeffrey Kauffman

1921, the beginning of the Golden Twenties. Not far from Paris. It is party day at Marguerite Dumont’s castle. Like every year, an array of music lovers gathers around a great cause at the owner’s place. Nobody knows much about this woman except that she is rich and that her whole life is devoted to her passion: music. Marguerite sings. She sings wholeheartedly, but she sings terribly out of tune. In ways quite similar to the Castafiore, Marguerite has been living her passion in her own bubble, and the hypocrite audience, always coming in for a good laugh, acts as if she was the diva she believes she is. When a young, provocative journalist decides to write a rave article on her latest performance, Marguerite starts to believe even further in her talent. This gives her the courage she needs to follow her dream. Despite her husband’s reluctance, and with the help of a has-been divo, both funny and mean, she decides to train for her first recital in front of a crowd of complete strangers.

Drama

The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother Blu-ray Movie  

Kino Lorber | 1975 | 91 min | Rated PG | Sep 06, 2016 | Brian Orndorf

Sherlock Holmes' younger brother is annoyed that he has had to live in Sherlock's shadow for so long. When Sherlock goes to the continent, he sends a case to his brother who constantly tries with varying success, to imitate Sherlock's deductive and observational tricks.

Comedy / Crime / Musical

Haunted Honeymoon Blu-ray Movie  

Kino Lorber | 1986 | 84 min | Rated PG | Sep 06, 2016 | Brian Orndorf

Larry Abbot, speaker in the radio horror shows of Manhattan Mystery Theater wants to marry. For the marriage he takes his fiancée home to the castle where he grew up among his eccentric relatives. His uncle decides that he needs to be cured from a neurotic speech defect and exaggerated bursts of fear: he gives him a shock therapy with palace ghosts.

Comedy / Horror / Musical

The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll Blu-ray Movie  

Jekyll's Inferno / House of Fright

Mill Creek Entertainment | 1960 | 88 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Martin Liebman

Dr. Henry Jekyll is a bookish scientist who spends more time with his lab animals testing theories of alternate personalities than with his beautiful wife. Kitty Jekyll has given up trying to find any passion in her distant husband and is involved in an affair with one of Jekyll's old 'friends', Paul Allen, a weak slacker and wastrel who relies on Jekyll to pay his numerous gambling debts. After experimenting on himself, Jekyll transforms himself into the young, dynamic and self-confidant Edward Hyde. In his new character he befriends Allen, who has no idea of that this clean-cut, handsome playboy prone to outbursts of violence is really Jekyll. As Hyde, he encourages Allen to introduce him to the dark underbelly of London's night life. When he tries to seduce Allen's mistress, in reality his own wife, he is frustrated to find she prefers her decadent lover to him...

Drama / Horror / Romance / Sci-Fi

The Gorgon Blu-ray Movie  

Mill Creek Entertainment | 1964 | 83 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Martin Liebman

When his father Professor Jules Heitz and brother Bruno die under mysterious circumstances, Paul Heitz travels to a small town to determine what is going on. It's the early 1900's and he finds villagers who are wary of strangers and apparently live in fear, particularly when there is a full moon. He hears of the legend of Megaera, a Gorgon so hideous that to look at her will turn you to stone. Of particular interest to him are Dr. Namaroff and his attractive assistant Carla Hoffman. Namaroff is obviously hiding something and is very possessive of Carla, who suffers from blackouts and memory loss. With the help of his mentor, Professor Karl Meister, Paul tries to unlock the secrets around them...

Fantasy / Horror / Mystery

Hammer Films Double Feature: The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll / The Gorgon Blu-ray Movie  

Mill Creek Entertainment | 1960-1964 | 2 Movies | 172 min | Not rated | Sep 06, 2016 | Martin Liebman

The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll (1960) Absorbed in research directed towards freeing the two natures of man, Dr. Jekyll degenerates in to Mr. Hyde, a vengeful maniac. While Hyde wants revenge against a gambler whom his wife is in love with, Dr. Jekyll, takes steps to do away with his evil self. The Gorgon (1964) In a rural village, a series of murders have been committed where each victim was turned into stone. A local professor investigates and finds an evil Gorgon haunting a nearby castle and in search of more victims.

Drama / Fantasy / Horror / Mystery / Romance / Sci-Fi

The Darkness Blu-ray Movie  

Blu-ray + UV Digital Copy

Universal Studios | 2016 | 92 min | Rated PG-13 | Sep 06, 2016 | Martin Liebman

A family returns from a Grand Canyon vacation with a supernatural presence in tow.

Horror / Thriller / Supernatural

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows 3D Blu-ray Movie  

Blu-ray 3D + Blu-ray + DVD + UV Digital Copy

Paramount Pictures | 2016 | 112 min | Rated PG-13 | Sep 20, 2016 | Martin Liebman

The Turtles return to save the city from a dangerous threat.

Action / Adventure / Comedy / Fantasy / Sci-Fi / Martial arts / Comic book

The Bodyguard Blu-ray Movie  

Well Go USA | 2016 | 99 min | Not rated | Sep 06, 2016 | Jeffrey Kauffman

A retired bodyguard who has settled into a corner of the world where China, Russia and North Korea meet as he suffers from early dementia finds a new friend in a young girl. When her life is threatened by her father's connection with a local crime lord, .the bodyguard must call upon his long forgotten skills to save her.

Action / Drama / Thriller / Martial arts / Foreign

Once Were Warriors Blu-ray Movie  

Film Movement | 1994 | 103 min | Rated R | Sep 06, 2016 | Michael Reuben

Jake Heke lives with his family in a tenement house for native Maori in the slums of Auckland. Despite his professions of love, Jake's anger and alcoholism results in terrifying erratic outbursts at his children and violent beatings of his wife, Beth. After Jake loses his job, each member of the Heke family is forced to face their own demons and the societal constraints that shackle native New Zealanders.

Drama

Night of the Living Deb Blu-ray Movie  

MPI Media Group | 2015 | 84 min | Not rated | Sep 06, 2016 | Michael Reuben

Following a drunken one-night-stand, mismatched strangers Deb and Ryan awaken to find their small town in the midst of a zombie apocalypse. Forced to trust each other, their walk of shame becomes a fight for survival.

Comedy / Horror

A Boy Named Charlie Brown Blu-ray Movie  

Paramount Pictures | 1969 | 86 min | Rated G | Sep 06, 2016 | Martin Liebman

Charlie Brown makes his way to the national spelling bee finals.

Animation / Comedy / Family / Comic book

The Transformers: The Movie Blu-ray Movie  

30th Anniversary Edition / Blu-ray + Digital Copy

Shout Factory | 1986 | 85 min | Rated PG | Sep 13, 2016 | Jeffrey Kauffman

In the year 2005, the Autobots and the Decepticons are still locked in battle, but a deadly new force enters the fray--a giant killer planet known as Unicron. The heroic Autobots must fight for their own survival and to save their home planet from destruction. A classic of 1980s animation, based on the popular TV series.

Action / Adventure / Animation / Family / Sci-Fi