New Blu-ray Reviews

Clint Eastwood: The Universal Pictures 7-Movie Collection Blu-ray Movie  

Two Mules for Sister Sara / Joe Kidd / High Plains Drifter / Coogan's Bluff / The Beguiled / Play Misty for Me / The Eiger Sanction

Universal Studios | 1968-1975 | 7 Movies | 738 min | Rated R | May 05, 2015 | Brian Orndorf

See individual titles for their synopses

Action / Adventure / Crime / Drama / Mystery / Romance / Thriller / War / Western / Psychological thriller / Period

The Eiger Sanction Blu-ray Movie  

Universal Studios | 1975 | 129 min | Rated R | Nov 10, 2015 | Brian Orndorf

Jonathan Hemlock is an art history professor and collector who finances his hobby by performing the odd sanction (assassination) for an obscure government bureau. He is forced to take a case where he must find out which of the members of a mountain climbing team is the Russian killer he has been given as a target by joining an expedition to climb the treacherous Eiger.

Action / Adventure / Romance / Thriller

Play Misty for Me Blu-ray Movie  

Universal Studios | 1971 | 102 min | Rated R | Nov 10, 2015 | Brian Orndorf

A brief fling between a male disc jockey and an obsessed female fan takes a frightening, and perhaps even deadly turn when another woman enters the picture.

Crime / Drama / Psychological thriller

The Beguiled Blu-ray Movie  

Universal Studios | 1971 | 105 min | Rated R | Nov 10, 2015 | Brian Orndorf

During the Civil War, injured Yankee soldier John McBurney is rescued on the verge of death by a teenage girl from a southern boarding school. She manages to get him back to the school, and at first, the all-female staff and pupils are scared. As he starts to recover, one by one, he charms them, and the atmosphere becomes filled with jealousy and deceit.

Drama / Romance / War / Western / Period

Coogan's Bluff Blu-ray Movie  

Universal Studios | 1968 | 94 min | Rated R | Nov 10, 2015 | Brian Orndorf

Coogan, an Arizona cop, is sent to New York to collect a prisoner. Everyone in New York assumes Coogan is from Texas, much to his annoyance. To add to Coogan's problems the prisoner isn't ready, so he decides to cut a few corners. In the process the prisoner escapes, and Coogan is ordered home. Too proud to return home empty handed, Coogan sets out into the big city to recapture his prisoner.

Action / Crime / Drama / Thriller / Western

The McKenzie Break Blu-ray Movie  

Kino Lorber | 1970 | 107 min | Rated PG | May 12, 2015 | Brian Orndorf

During WW2, German POWs in Britain plot to escape from their prison camp in Scotland.

Action / Drama / War

Knights of Sidonia: Season 1 Blu-ray Movie  

シドニアの騎士

Sentai Filmworks | 2014 | 300 min | Rated TV-MA | Jun 09, 2015 | Kenneth Brown

A thousand years after the alien Gauna destroyed the Earth, a small remnant of humanity still fights on to survive, fleeing on the gargantuan asteroid-based spaceship Sidonia. But centuries of flight and warfare have changed mankind in incredible ways: genetic engineering has allowed humans to photosynthesize like plants, reproduction occurs through cloning, and a third gender has been created to balance the population. Even though it's been a century since the last encounter with the Gauna, military service is mandatory, with all those able enough enlisted to pilot the Garde robots that stand as Sidonia's front line of defense. For Nagate Tanikaze, whose grandfather secretly hid him in the forgotten bowels of the asteroid, it's a strange new world as he's forced to come to the surface and join the ranks of defenders. Yet his recruitment comes just in time, for the Gauna have suddenly reappeared, and what could be man's last battle will require every resource humanity has left. And what no one knows, yet, is that Nagate is not exactly what he seems, and a secret buried in his past may change the fate of all mankind!

Action / Anime / Sci-Fi / Comic book / Foreign

Knights of Sidonia: Season 1 Blu-ray Movie  

Limited Edition | シドニアの騎士 / Blu-ray + DVD

Sentai Filmworks | 2014 | 300 min | Rated TV-MA | Jun 09, 2015 | Kenneth Brown

A thousand years after the alien Gauna destroyed the Earth, a small remnant of humanity still fights on to survive, fleeing on the gargantuan asteroid-based spaceship Sidonia. But centuries of flight and warfare have changed mankind in incredible ways: genetic engineering has allowed humans to photosynthesize like plants, reproduction occurs through cloning, and a third gender has been created to balance the population. Even though it's been a century since the last encounter with the Gauna, military service is mandatory, with all those able enough enlisted to pilot the Garde robots that stand as Sidonia's front line of defense. For Nagate Tanikaze, whose grandfather secretly hid him in the forgotten bowels of the asteroid, it's a strange new world as he's forced to come to the surface and join the ranks of defenders. Yet his recruitment comes just in time, for the Gauna have suddenly reappeared, and what could be man's last battle will require every resource humanity has left. And what no one knows, yet, is that Nagate is not exactly what he seems, and a secret buried in his past may change the fate of all mankind!

Action / Anime / Sci-Fi / Comic book / Foreign

The Merchant of Four Seasons Blu-ray Movie  

Händler der vier Jahreszeiten

Criterion | 1971 | 89 min | Not rated | May 26, 2015 | Dr. Svet Atanasov

Hans is a street fruit peddler and born-loser. His choice of career upsets his bourgeois family, causing him to turn to drinking and violence. After recovering from a debilitating heart attack, his business finally begins to take off. However the more he becomes a credit to his family, the more depressed he becomes. One sociable day, while toasting his friends and family, he decides to drink himself to death.

Drama / Foreign

Jupiter Ascending 3D Blu-ray Movie  

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

Warner Bros. | 2015 | 128 min | Rated PG-13 | Jun 02, 2015 | Kenneth Brown

A young woman discovers her destiny as an heiress of intergalactic nobility and must fight to protect the inhabitants of Earth from an ancient and destructive industry.

Action / Adventure / Fantasy / Romance / Sci-Fi

Jupiter Ascending Blu-ray Movie  

Blu-ray + DVD + UV Digital Copy

Warner Bros. | 2015 | 127 min | Rated PG-13 | Jun 02, 2015 | Kenneth Brown

A young woman discovers her destiny as an heiress of intergalactic nobility and must fight to protect the inhabitants of Earth from an ancient and destructive industry.

Action / Adventure / Fantasy / Romance / Sci-Fi

Hot Tub Time Machine 2 Blu-ray Movie  

Hotter & Wetter Unrated Cut / Blu-ray + DVD + UV Digital Copy

Paramount Pictures | 2015 | 1 Movie, 2 Cuts | 99 min | Rated R | May 19, 2015 | Martin Liebman

A follow-up to the 2010 time travel comedy "Hot Tub Time Machine". When Lou finds himself in trouble, Nick and Jacob fire up the hot tub time machine in an attempt to get back to the past. But they inadvertently land in the future with Adam Jr. Now they have to alter the future in order to save the past... which is really the present.

Comedy / Sci-Fi

Peter Benchley's Creature Blu-ray Movie  

Olive Films | 1998 | 176 min | Not rated | May 19, 2015 | Jeffrey Kauffman

An amphibious shark-like monster terrorizes an abandoned secret military base and the people who live on the island it is located on. A marine biologist, as well as several other people, try to stop it before it is too late...

Horror / Sci-Fi / Thriller

Unearthly Stranger Blu-ray Movie    

Network | 1963 | 79 min | Rated BBFC: PG | Nov 03, 2014 | Dr. Svet Atanasov

TP91 is a secret and highly complex formula which will enable man to project himself through time and space; work in the field is conducted with the utmost security, using the finest scientific brains in the country. When Dr Munro succeeds in solving the first part of the formula, he is found dead before he is able to pass on the invaluable result, with the all-important paper bearing his calculations in ashes on his desk. His successor, government scientist Dr Mark Davidson, quickly senses that both he and his new wife are now in grave danger.

Sci-Fi

Thunderbirds: The Complete Series Blu-ray Movie  

Timeless Media Group | 1965-1966 | 2 Seasons | 1690 min | Not rated | Jun 09, 2015 | Jeffrey Kauffman

No synopsis for this title.

Action / Family / Sci-Fi

She Killed in Ecstasy Blu-ray Movie  

Sie tötete in Ekstase / Blu-ray + CD

Severin Films | 1971 | 80 min | Not rated | May 12, 2015 | Dr. Svet Atanasov

A young doctor kills himself after a medical committee terminates his research into human embryos, considering it too inhumane. His wife then seeks revenge on those who drove her husband to his death by luring each member of the committee into compromising situations and then killing them one by one.

Horror / Erotic / Foreign

Girlhood Blu-ray Movie  

Bande de filles

Strand Releasing | 2014 | 113 min | Not rated | May 19, 2015 | Brian Orndorf

For 16-year-old Marieme, life is like a succession of prohibitions. The neighborhood's censorship, boys ruling the roost, school's dead end. Her encounter with three liberated girls changes everything. They dance, fight back, talk loudly, laugh at everything. Marieme becomes Vic and joins the gang, to make the most of her youth.

Drama / Teen / Foreign / Coming of age

American Ninja Blu-ray Movie    

88 Films | 1985 | 96 min | Rated BBFC: 18 | Apr 27, 2015 | Dr. Svet Atanasov

In American Ninja, Michael Dudikoff plays American "GI Joe" who, based in the Philippines, gets hip to a crooked arms racket involving none other than the military itself. There's no end to the rib-cracking opportunities Dudikoff encounters as he knee-knocks his way through a host of bad guys, rescues a lady in distress, and ventures to thwart the thieving arms vendors.

Action / Crime / Drama / Martial arts

Thank Your Lucky Stars Blu-ray Movie  

Warner Archive Collection

Warner Bros. | 1943 | 127 min | Not rated | May 19, 2015 | Michael Reuben

A musical comedy centered on a star-studded Hollywood musical benefit show in support of the war effort.

Comedy / Musical

The Flying Deuces Blu-ray Movie  

Laurel & Hardy

VCI | 1939 | 69 min | Not rated | May 19, 2015 | Jeffrey Kauffman

Oliver is heartbroken when he finds that Georgette, the inkeeper's daughter he's fallen in love with, is already married to dashing Foreign Legion officer Francois...

Comedy