New Blu-ray Reviews

Not an Artist Blu-ray Movie  

Slipcover in Original Pressing

Utopia Distribution | 2025 | 98 min | Unrated | Mar 25, 2025 | Brian Orndorf

In an exclusive artist-in-residency program overseen by an enigmatic patron (RZA), artists in turmoil face a make-or-break ultimatum: unlock their full creative potential or abandon art forever. Yet, the unexpected intrusion of an outsider (Matt Walsh) jeopardizes the program’s delicate balance.

Comedy

Street Trash Blu-ray Movie  

Slipcover in Original Pressing

Vinegar Syndrome | 2024 | 85 min | Not rated | Jan 28, 2025 | Brian Orndorf

A group of homeless misfits must fight for survival when they discover a plot to exterminate every homeless person in the city.

Horror / Dark humor

Den of Thieves: 2-Film Collection 4K Blu-ray Movie  

4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray + Digital Copy

Lionsgate Films | 2018-2025 | 2 Movies, 3 Cuts | 293 min | Rated R | Mar 04, 2025 | Jeffrey Kauffman

This collection of gritty crime-thrillers starring Gerard Butler and O’Shea Jackson Jr. blurs the lines between cops and criminals, friends and enemies. Presented in mint-condition 4K for the first time, and featuring Dolby Vision®, the Unrated Director’s Cut of Den of Thieves follows “Big Nick” O’Brien (Butler) and his elite unit of L.A. County Sheriffs – the Regulators – as they collide with the Outlaws, ex-military members with a seemingly impossible objective: robbing the Federal Reserve Bank of Los Angeles. Den of Thieves 2: Pantera, also in 4K with Dolby Vision,finds O’Brien hunting across Europe for Outlaw Donnie (Jackson), who’s caught up with the infamous Panther mafia and their plot to rob the world’s largest diamond exchange.

Action / Crime / Drama / Heist

Den of Thieves 4K Blu-ray Movie  

4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray + Digital Copy

Lionsgate Films | 2018 | 1 Movie, 2 Cuts | 149 min | Unrated | Mar 04, 2025 in Den of Thieves: 2-Film Collection | Jeffrey Kauffman

An elite unit of the LA County Sheriff's Dept. and the state's most successful bank robbery crew clash as the outlaws plan a seemingly impossible heist on the Federal Reserve Bank.

Action / Crime / Drama / Heist

Den of Thieves 2: Pantera 4K Blu-ray Movie  

4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray + Digital Copy

Lionsgate Films | 2025 | 144 min | Rated R | No Release Date | Jeffrey Kauffman

Big Nick is back on the hunt in Europe and closing in on Donnie, who is embroiled in the treacherous and unpredictable world of diamond thieves and the infamous Panther mafia, as they plot a massive heist of the world's largest diamond exchange.

Action / Crime / Drama / Heist

Yes: Close to the Edge Blu-ray Movie  

Blu-ray Audio | Super Deluxe Edition / Blu-ray + CD

Rhino Music | 1972 | 38 min | Not rated | Mar 07, 2025 | Jeffrey Kauffman

This offers an expanded edition featuring new 5.1 & stereo mixes, a new instrumental album mix, and much more, plus Roger Dean artwork, new sleeve notes, rare photos and archive material.

Music

Circus of Horrors 4K Blu-ray Movie  

4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray

Kino Lorber | 1960 | 92 min | Not rated | Nov 12, 2024 | Dr. Svet Atanasov

In 1947 England, a plastic surgeon must beat a hasty retreat to France when one of his patients has ghastly problems with her surgery. Once there, he operates on a circus owner's daughter, deformed by bombs from the war. Later he becomes the owner of the circus, and continues transforming disfigured women into the beautiful stars of his show.

Horror

Circus of Horrors Blu-ray Movie  

Kino Lorber | 1960 | 92 min | Not rated | Nov 12, 2024 | Dr. Svet Atanasov

In 1947 England, a plastic surgeon must beat a hasty retreat to France when one of his patients has ghastly problems with her surgery. Once there, he operates on a circus owner's daughter, deformed by bombs from the war. Later he becomes the owner of the circus, and continues transforming disfigured women into the beautiful stars of his show.

Horror

That Funny Feeling Blu-ray Movie  

Kino Lorber | 1965 | 93 min | Not rated | Jan 14, 2025 | Dr. Svet Atanasov

Sandra Dee stars as Joan Howell, a young and pretty maid-for-hire, who meets and begins dating wealthy New York City businessman Tom Milford (Bobby Darin). Embarrassed about taking him home to her tiny apartment, Joan brings Tom to a swanky apartment she cleans - not knowing it's really his place. Tom carries on the deception until Joan discovers who he really is and sets out to exact sweet feminine revenge.

Comedy / Romance

The Sales Girl Blu-ray Movie  

Khudaldagch ohin

Film Movement | 2021 | 123 min | Not rated | Jan 28, 2025 | Jeffrey Kauffman

Studious Saruul covers for her roommate at a basement sex shop run by the alluring, grumpy Katya, who takes Saruul under her wing and shows the young woman that there's more than just studying, and that sex is fun, healthy, and empowering.

Comedy / Foreign

Humanoids from the Deep 4K Blu-ray Movie  

4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray

Shout Factory | 1980 | 1 Movie, 2 Cuts | 80 min | Not rated | Feb 18, 2025 | Dr. Stephen Larson

Something horrendous is happening in the sleepy fishing village of Noyo. An aquaculture experiment has gone very wrong and the results—fishlike humanoids—are rising from the sea to spawn their vengeance.

Horror

Idiot's Delight Blu-ray Movie  

Warner Archive Collection

Warner Bros. | 1939 | 107 min | Not rated | Aug 13, 2024 | Randy Miller III

They first meet in Omaha. They meet again years later at the Swiss border, and at the edge of World War II. Clark Gable stars as smalltime hoofer Harry Van, with Norma Shearer as his one-time honey Irene, now passing herself off as a Russian aristocrat and clinging to the arm of a munitions baron.

Comedy / Drama / Musical

The Power of Myth Blu-ray Movie  

Film Movement | 1988 | 288 min | Not rated | Mar 04, 2025 | Jeffrey Kauffman

Conversations between mythologist Joseph Campbell and Bill Moyers.

Documentary

My Girl 4K Blu-ray Movie  

4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray + Digital Copy

Sony Pictures | 1991 | 102 min | Rated PG | Feb 25, 2025 | Kenneth Brown

Vada Sultenfuss is obsessed with death. Her mother is dead, and her father runs a funeral parlor. She is also in love with her English teacher, and joins a poetry class over the summer just to impress him.

Drama / Family / Romance / Teen

Houseboat Blu-ray Movie  

Kino Lorber | 1958 | 110 min | Not rated | Jan 28, 2025 | Dr. Svet Atanasov

Tom Winston, a widower, is trying to understand and raise three precocious children alone. He gets a little unexpected help from Cinzia...

Comedy / Drama / Family / Romance

Moana 2 Blu-ray Movie  

Blu-ray + DVD + Digital Copy

Disney / Buena Vista | 2024 | 100 min | Rated PG | Mar 18, 2025 | Jeffrey Kauffman

After receiving an unexpected call from her wayfinding ancestors, Moana journeys to the far seas of Oceania and into dangerous, long-lost waters for an adventure unlike anything she has ever faced.

Adventure / Animation / Musical

Moana 2 4K Blu-ray Movie  

4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray + Digital Copy

Disney / Buena Vista | 2024 | 100 min | Rated PG | Mar 18, 2025 | Jeffrey Kauffman

After receiving an unexpected call from her wayfinding ancestors, Moana journeys to the far seas of Oceania and into dangerous, long-lost waters for an adventure unlike anything she has ever faced.

Adventure / Animation / Musical

Riddick 4K Blu-ray Movie  

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

Shout Factory | 2013 | 1 Movie, 2 Cuts | 127 min | Unrated | Dec 10, 2024 | Neil Lumbard

Betrayed by his own kind and left for dead on a desolate planet, Riddick fights for survival against alien predators and becomes more powerful and dangerous than ever before. Soon bounty hunters from throughout the galaxy descend on Riddick only to find themselves pawns in his greater scheme for revenge. With his enemies right where he wants them, Riddick unleashes a vicious attack of vengeance before returning to his home planet of Furya to save it from destruction.

Action / Adventure / Sci-Fi / Thriller

Hurricane Polymar Blu-ray Movie  

Discotek Media | 2017 | 108 min | Not rated | May 28, 2024 | Neil Lumbard

Live action film adaptation based on 1975's Hurricane Polymar.

Action / Adventure / Anime / Crime / Sci-Fi

Kamikaze Girls Blu-ray Movie  

下妻物語 / Shimotsuma Monogatari / Shimotsuma Story

Discotek Media | 2004 | 102 min | Unrated | Feb 27, 2024 | Neil Lumbard

17-year-old Momoko Ryugasaki is a bit of an oddball, a rococo Lolita whose idyllic dreams of 18th Century Versailles clash sharply with her isolated existence in the Ibaraki hinterlands. She wears her version of what she thinks people wore there at that time and dreams of being able to get away from her boring life. Momoko's father makes his living selling counterfeit brand-name clothes, but when he gets on the wrong side of some bad people, he has to flee to the countryside. Momoko decides to escape from her boredom, and to make some money by selling the last of her father's dodgy stock. When a chance encounter brings Momoko together with head-butting biker chick Ichigo, the quest for a mysterious embroiderer sets the unlikely friends off on an explosive, pachinko-studded series of adventures in which the odd couple lurch into situations both comic and dangerous.

Adventure / Comedy / Fantasy / Teen / Foreign