New Blu-ray Reviews

Half a Chance Blu-ray Movie  

First Pressing / 1 Chance Sur 2

Kino Lorber | 1998 | 109 min | Not rated | Mar 18, 2025 | Dr. Svet Atanasov

Alice leaves prison after having served an eight month sentence for car theft. Her mother, who has just died, leaves her a cassette on which she admits to the mystery of her birth. Alice has never known her father. Twenty years before, her mother had loved two men. One of them is, unknowingly, her father. Alice goes off to find the two, but before discovering which is her father she gets them involved in an adventure.

Action / Adventure / Comedy / Drama / Foreign

Joker 4K Blu-ray Movie    

Collector's Edition / 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray

Warner Bros. | 2019 | 122 min | Rated 12 Interdit aux moins de 12 ans | Oct 02, 2024 | Randy Miller III

Failed comedian seeks connection as he walks the streets and begins a slow descent into madness.

Crime / Drama / Thriller / Dark humor / Psychological thriller / Comic book

Legends of the Dark King: A Fist of the North Star Story - Complete Collection Blu-ray Movie  

Ten no Haô: Hokuto no Ken Raô Gaiden

Sentai Filmworks | 2008 | 325 min | Rated TV-14 | Apr 15, 2025 | Neil Lumbard

Much has been written about the legendary Fist of the North Star. Yet before Ken claimed that title, there was another master, one of four adopted brothers trained in the art of the Divine Fist. This is the story of Raoh, Ken’s elder brother, who claimed the title King Of The Fist and set forth to conquer the brutal world of the post-apocalypse. Unlike Ken, however, Raoh was no hero. Instead, his journey is one of savagery and conquest, for Raoh, the only purpose of other men is to serve his will and witness the Legends of the Dark King!

Action / Anime / Comic book / Foreign

Shangri-La Frontier: Season 1, Part 1 Blu-ray Movie  

Crunchyroll, LLC | 2023 | 325 min | Rated TV-MA | Mar 04, 2025 | Neil Lumbard

Rakuro Hizutome devotes his entire life to beating crappy video games. One day, he decides to try a new god-tier game: Shangri-La Frontier. But he quickly learns just how difficult it is. Will his expert skills be enough to uncover its hidden secrets?

Action / Adventure / Anime / Foreign

Jujutsu Kaisen: Season 2 - Shibuya Incident Blu-ray Movie  

Limited Edition / Blu-ray + DVD

Crunchyroll, LLC | 2023 | 450 min | Rated TV-MA | Mar 18, 2025 | Neil Lumbard

On the fateful night of October 31st, a Curtain falls upon Shibuya. Geto and his cursed alliance are waiting to spring their trap when Gojo storms in, as Itadori and other Jujutsu Sorcerers gather outside the Curtain. Will humans or Curses laugh in the end?

Action / Anime / Thriller / Supernatural / Comic book / Foreign

Jujutsu Kaisen: Season 2 - Hidden Inventory/Premature Death Blu-ray Movie  

Blu-ray + DVD

Crunchyroll, LLC | 2023 | 125 min | Rated TV-MA | Feb 04, 2025 | Neil Lumbard

Before they were enemies, Gojo and Geto were classmates and friends. The two were tasked with protecting the Star Plasma Vessel, but this mission would set their destinies. Now in Shibuya, Gojo and the jujutsu sorcerers face the consequences of the past.

Action / Anime / Thriller / Supernatural / Comic book / Foreign

Chungking Express 4K Blu-ray Movie  

重慶森林 / Chung Hing sam lam / 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray

Criterion | 1994 | 102 min | Not rated | Apr 15, 2025 | Dr. Svet Atanasov

Two heartsick Hong Kong cops, both jilted by ex-lovers, cross paths at the Midnight Express take-out restaurant stand, where the ethereal pixie waitress Faye works.

Drama / Romance / Foreign

Mission: Impossible - Fallout 3D Blu-ray Movie    

Blu-ray 3D

Turbine Medien | 2018 | 147 min | Rated FSK-12 | Oct 31, 2024 | Neil Lumbard

Ethan Hunt and his IMF team, along with some familiar allies, race against time after a mission gone wrong.

Action / Adventure / Thriller

The 10th Victim Blu-ray Movie  

2K Restoration | La Decima Vittima

Kino Lorber | 1965 | 92 min | Not rated | Mar 25, 2025 | Dr. Svet Atanasov

It is the 21st Century, and society's lust for violence is satisfied by "The Big Hunt," an international game of legalized murder. But when the sport's two top assassins (Marcello Mastroianni and Ursula Andress) are pitted against each other, they find that love is the most dangerous game of all. As the world watches, the hunt is on. Who will become THE 10TH VICTIM?

Action / Sci-Fi / Thriller / Dark humor / Foreign

Bumblebee 3D Blu-ray Movie    

Blu-ray 3D

Turbine Medien | 2018 | 114 min | Rated FSK-12 | Dec 19, 2024 | Neil Lumbard

On the run in the year 1987, Bumblebee finds refuge in a junkyard in a small Californian beach town. Charlie (Hailee Steinfeld), on the cusp of turning 18 and trying to find her place in the world, discovers Bumblebee, battle-scarred and broken. When Charlie revives him, she quickly learns this is no ordinary, yellow VW bug.

Action / Adventure / Sci-Fi

Transformers: Rise of the Beasts 3D Blu-ray Movie    

Aufstieg der Bestien / Blu-ray 3D

Turbine Medien | 2023 | 126 min | Rated FSK-12 | Dec 19, 2024 | Neil Lumbard

Set in the 1990s, Transformers: Rise of the Beasts will take audiences on an action-packed, globetrotting adventure as the Maximals, Predacons, and Terrorcons join the battle between the Autobots and Decepticons on Earth. Noah, a sharp young guy from Brooklyn, and Elena, an ambitious, talented artifact researcher, are swept up in the conflict as Optimus Prime and the Autobots face a terrifying new nemesis bent on their destruction named Scourge.

Action / Adventure / Sci-Fi

The Wolfman 4K Blu-ray Movie  

Collector's Edition / 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray

Shout Factory | 2010 | 1 Movie, 2 Cuts | 119 min | Unrated | Oct 22, 2024 | Neil Lumbard

Lawrence Talbot, a haunted nobleman, is lured back to his family estate after his brother vanishes. Reunited with his estranged father, Talbot sets out to find his brother... and discovers a horrifying destiny for himself. Talbot's childhood ended the night his mother died. After he left the sleepy Victorian hamlet of Blackmoor, he spent decades recovering and trying to forget. But when his brother's fiancée, Gwen Conliffe, tracks him down to help find her missing love, Talbot returns home to join the search. He learns that something with brute strength and insatiable bloodlust has been killing the villagers, and that a suspicious Scotland Yard inspector named Aberline has come to investigate.

Horror / Thriller / Period

Tales of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Season 1 Blu-ray Movie  

Paramount Pictures | 2024 | 271 min | Not rated | Nov 12, 2024 | Martin Liebman

Gear up for twice the Turtle Power with Tales of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, featuring two epic 6-episode story arcs that find Leo, Mikey, Raph, and Donnie facing greater challenges and even bigger baddies than they've ever encountered before!

Action / Animation / Comedy / Family / Martial arts / Comic book

The Cyclops Blu-ray Movie  

Warner Archive Collection

Warner Bros. | 1957 | 66 min | Not rated | Sep 25, 2018 | Randy Miller III

Susan Winter organizes an expedition deep into the wilds of Mexico hoping to find her aviator fiance after a plane crash. Instead they find bugs, giant lizards, mountains glowing with uranium, and a 25-foot-tall human beast with a single eye.

Horror / Sci-Fi

Queen of Outer Space Blu-ray Movie  

Queen of the Universe / Warner Archive Collection

Warner Bros. | 1958 | 80 min | Not rated | Sep 25, 2018 | Randy Miller III

Breaking news from space! The bad: an intrepid captain and his men have landed on a planet where males are outlawed. The good: some women there are eager to break the law. Botchino!

Adventure / Fantasy / Sci-Fi

Pinocchio 964 Blu-ray Movie    

ピノキオ√964 / Pinokio rûto kyû-roku-yon / Screams of Blasphemy | Limited Edition

88 Films | 1991 | 97 min | Rated BBFC: 15 | Mar 24, 2025 | Dr. Svet Atanasov

Pinocchio 964, lobotomised cyborg sex slave, is thrown out onto the street by his owners because of his inability to maintain an erection. He is befriended by a criminally insane, memory-wiped, homeless girl. Meanwhile, the corporate entity who manufactured and sold him plots to kill him because of his malfunction.

Horror / Other / Sci-Fi / Foreign

An Amorous Woman of Tang Dynasty Blu-ray Movie  

Tong chiu ho fong nui / Tang chao hao fang nv / 唐朝豪放女

88 Films | 1984 | 102 min | Not rated | Mar 25, 2025 | Jeffrey Kauffman

Rebellious Yu Yuan-gi becomes a Taoist priestess in order to avoid traditional roles designated to her as a woman by the society and focus on her studies and poetry. However, her trysts with both her maid and a ronin lead to trouble.

Drama / Romance / Erotic / Foreign / Period

The Betsy Blu-ray Movie    

Imprint #383

Imprint | 1978 | 125 min | Rated ACB: M | Mar 21, 2025 | Dr. Svet Atanasov

Loren Hardeman, Sr., a Midwestern automobile manufacturer, pins his future on The Betsy, a "wonder car" named after his granddaughter. The Betsy is designed to last practically forever, which doesn't rest well with the "planned obsolescence" mindset of the auto industry. Flashbacks cover his career from his 40s to the present, when he is in his 90s. Based on the novel by Harold Robbins.

Drama

Renfield 4K Blu-ray Movie  

4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray

Shout Factory | 2023 | 93 min | Rated R | Apr 01, 2025 | Dr. Stephen Larson

Having grown sick and tired of his centuries as Dracula's lackey, Renfield finds a new lease on life — and maybe even redemption — when he falls for feisty, perennially angry traffic cop Rebecca Quincy.

Action / Comedy / Horror

Tangerine Blu-ray Movie    

Limited Edition

Second Sight | 2015 | 88 min | Rated BBFC: 15 | Dec 19, 2022 | Randy Miller III

A working girl tears through Tinseltown on Christmas Eve, searching for the pimp who broke her heart.

Comedy / Drama / Holiday