New Blu-ray Reviews

Nikkatsu Diamond Guys: Volume 2 Blu-ray Movie  

Tokyo Mighty Guy / Danger Pays / Murder Unincorporated | Limited Edition of 3000 / Blu-ray + DVD

Arrow | 1960-1965 | 3 Movies | 251 min | Not rated | Jun 21, 2016 | Jeffrey Kauffman

No synopsis for this title.

Comedy / Crime / Foreign

Tokyo Mighty Guy Blu-ray Movie  

Arrow | 1960 | 79 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Jeffrey Kauffman

After mastering the art of French cuisine, young Jiro (Akira Kobayashi) returns to Japan and opens a restaurant in the busy streets of Ginza. His dashing looks, iconoclastic culinary skills, and charismatic character attracts not only women, but unwanted trouble. Things get personal when he finds out that a scandalous political figure is trying to take over his girlfriend's business.

Comedy / Crime / Foreign

Danger Pays Blu-ray Movie  

Blu-ray + DVD

Arrow | 1962 | 82 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Jeffrey Kauffman

One billion yen goes missing and Joe the Ace must find it before others take that opportunity away from him.

Action / Adventure / Comedy / Crime / Foreign

Murder Unincorporated Blu-ray Movie  

Blu-ray + DVD

Arrow | 1965 | 85 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Jeffrey Kauffman

When the mysterious “Joe of Spades” (Jo Shishido) executes one of the bosses of a powerful syndicate, his colleagues, fearing for their own lives, call on the services of assassin agency Murder Unincorporated to take care of the problem.

Comedy / Crime / Foreign

Now You See Me 4K Blu-ray Movie  

4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray + UV Digital Copy

Lionsgate Films | 2013 | 111 min | Rated PG-13 | May 31, 2016 | Jeffrey Kauffman

FBI agents track a team of illusionists who pull off bank heists during their performances and reward their audiences with the money.

Crime / Mystery / Thriller / Heist

Chisum Blu-ray Movie  

Warner Bros. | 1970 | 111 min | Rated G | Jun 07, 2016 | Michael Reuben

Cattle baron John Chisum joins forces with Billy the Kid and Pat Garrett to fight the Lincoln County land war.

Biography / Western

Chicago: Quadio Blu-ray Movie  

Blu-ray Audio

Rhino Music | 1969-1976 | 459 min | Not rated | Jun 17, 2016 | Jeffrey Kauffman

8 Chicago albums plus their Greatest Hits in High Resolution Stereo and original Quadraphonic mixes: Chicago Transit Authority, Chicago, Chicago III, Chicago V, Chicago VI, Chicago VII, Chicago VIII, Greatest Hits, Chicago X. This lavish celebration of the Windy City’s favorite band is housed in a rigid two-piece box, with every album presented in a replica sleeve promised to “replicate the original release down to the last detail, including mini-posters, and the iron-on that came with Chicago VIII.

Music

Hollywood in Vienna: The World of James Horner Blu-ray Movie  

Varèse Sarabande Video | 2013 | 93 min | Not rated | Jun 24, 2016 | Jeffrey Kauffman

No synopsis for this title.

Music

Hello, My Name is Doris Blu-ray Movie  

Sony Pictures | 2015 | 90 min | Rated R | Jun 14, 2016 | Martin Liebman

A self-help seminar inspires a sixty-something woman to romantically pursue her younger co-worker.

Comedy / Drama / Romance

Anomalisa Blu-ray Movie    

Artificial Eye | 2015 | 90 min | Rated BBFC: 15 | Jul 11, 2016 | Dr. Svet Atanasov

Charlie Kaufman's first stop-motion film about a man named Michael Stone, an author of books on the subject of customer service, who struggles with his inability to connect to people. One night, while on a routine business trip, he meets a woman who changes his world view.

Animation / Drama / Romance / Psychological thriller / Surreal

Eye in the Sky Blu-ray Movie  

Blu-ray + DVD + UV Digital Copy

Universal Studios | 2015 | 103 min | Rated R | Jun 28, 2016 | Martin Liebman

Colonel Katherine Powell, commander of a top-secret drone operation, discovers that terrorists are planning a suicide bombing. As American pilot Steve Watts is about to engage, a nine-year-old girl enters the kill zone, triggering an international dispute.

Drama / Mystery / Thriller / War

Rams Blu-ray Movie  

Cohen Media Group | 2015 | 93 min | Rated R | Jun 28, 2016 | Jeffrey Kauffman

In a remote Icelandic farming valley, two brothers who haven't spoken in 40 years have to come together in order to save what's dearest to them - their sheep.

Drama / Foreign

The Alien Factor Blu-ray Movie  

Amazon Exclusive / Signed | Limited Edition to 1000

Retromedia | 1978 | 80 min | Not rated | Jun 14, 2016 | Brian Orndorf

A spaceship containing specimens for an intergalactic zoo crashes on Earth near a small back woods town. The specimens escape, and soon town folk are turning up mutilated. Very low budget feature was the first for Baltimore filmmaker Don Dohler.

Horror / Sci-Fi

Back in the Day Blu-ray Movie  

Virgil Films & Entertainment | 2016 | 121 min | Not rated | Jun 28, 2016 | Michael Reuben

A young boxer is taken under the wing of a mob boss after his mother dies and his father is run out of town for being an abusive alcoholic.

Drama

Christina Blu-ray Movie  

Christina y la reconversión sexual

Intervision Picture Corp | 1984 | 92 min | Not rated | May 31, 2016 | Dr. Svet Atanasov

The world's most notorious heiress and bachelorette is kidnapped from the Italian countryside. Will she survive the ordeal?

Action / Adventure / Comedy / Erotic

Return of the Killer Tomatoes! Blu-ray Movie  

Arrow | 1988 | 98 min | Rated PG | Jun 28, 2016 | Jeffrey Kauffman

Crazy old Professor Gangreen has developed a way to make tomatoes look human for a second invasion.

Comedy / Horror / Sci-Fi

The New World Blu-ray Movie  

Extended, Theatrical, and First Cuts

Criterion | 2005 | 1 Movie, 3 Cuts | 172 min | Not rated | Jul 26, 2016 | Dr. Svet Atanasov

In 1607, three ships sailed across the Atlantic to the shores of what became known as Jamestown, Virginia. The arrival of these Europeans changed forever the history of the native people already living peacefully in this fertile land. Captain John Smith, a British mutineer facing execution who finds a new purpose--and a dangerous love--in this new land. Smith falls for the young and beautiful Pocahontas.

Adventure / Drama / History / Romance / War / Period

Absolution Blu-ray Movie  

Kino Lorber | 1978 | 96 min | Rated R | Jul 05, 2016 | Brian Orndorf

In one of the most compelling and riveting performances of his career, Richard Burton (Where Eagle's Dare, Cleopatra) portrays Father Goddard, an uncompromising but determined priest who unwittingly bemuse the victim of his own tyrannical behavior. Based on a true story, Anthony Schaeffer's startling psychological thriller is set in an English boy's school, where two students, Dai Bradley (Zulu Dawn, All Quiet on the Western Front) and Dominic Guardd (Ghandi, Lord of the Rings) topple over the edge of sanity into a psychotic realm of deadly games.

Drama / Mystery / Thriller / Psychological thriller

Cuba Blu-ray Movie  

Kino Lorber | 1979 | 122 min | Rated R | Jul 19, 2016 | Brian Orndorf

A British mercenary arrives in pre-Revolution Cuba to help train the corrupt General Batista's army against Castro's guerrillas while he also romances a former lover now married to an unscrupulous plantation owner.

Adventure / Romance / Thriller / War

Anesthesia Blu-ray Movie  

MPI Media Group | 2015 | 90 min | Rated R | Jun 21, 2016 | Michael Reuben

A violent incident provides a window into multiple lives of individuals seeking solace, connection, meaning or simply relief from pain.

Drama