New Blu-ray Reviews
Home- January 31, 2025
Orca 4K Blu-ray Movie
4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray
Kino Lorber | 1977 | 92 min | Rated PG | Jan 28, 2025 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
Neurotic whaler Nolan faces off with an enraged killer whale after he kills the whale's pregnant mate.
Adventure / Drama / Horror / Thriller
Orca Blu-ray Movie
4K Restoration | Orca: The Killer Whale
Kino Lorber | 1977 | 92 min | Not rated | Jan 28, 2025 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
Neurotic whaler Nolan faces off with an enraged killer whale after he kills the whale's pregnant mate.
Adventure / Drama / Horror / Thriller
Gator Blu-ray Movie
Includes "I Am Burt Reynolds"
Imprint | 1976 | 2 Movies | 116 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Dr. Svet Atanasov
Gator McKlusky had been just released from prison following the events of White Lightning and is living in the Okefenokee Swamp with his father and daughter. Federal agents know that he is still making moonshine with his father and Suzie and use this information to coerce him into assisting them to catch a corrupt politician.
Action / Crime / Drama
The Return Blu-ray Movie
Decal Releasing | 2024 | 116 min | Rated R | Jan 21, 2025 | Brian Orndorf
After 20 years away Odysseus decides to come back. The King has finally returned home but much has changed in his kingdom since he left to fight in the Trojan war.
History / Period
Keanu & Co. Blu-ray Movie
Slipcover in Original Pressing | One Step Away / Out of a Job / Running Scared
Canadian International Pictures | 1985 | 3 Movies | 85 min | Not rated | Jan 28, 2025 | Brian Orndorf
A troubled teen is on the verge of suspension from school and is subject to arrest for breaking and entering. Unless he can find a resolution, his only option seems to be life of street crime.
Crime / Drama / Short
The Invisible Raptor Blu-ray Movie
Well Go USA | 2023 | 113 min | Rated R | Feb 04, 2025 | Jeffrey Kauffman
An amusement park paleontologist and a hapless security guard team up to stop an invisible raptor from wreaking havoc on their small town.
Comedy
Food Wars!: Shokugeki no Soma - The Fifth Plate Blu-ray Movie
Limited Edition | Season 5
Sentai Filmworks | 2020 | 325 min | Rated TV-14 | Dec 10, 2024 | Neil Lumbard
The first semester of the second year is coming to a close, and finals have begun! It seems that Soma and his classmates have been dealt a recipe for disaster: in just three days, they must make at least 3 million yen (approximately 27 thousand dollars) at the restaurant they've been assigned. However, while other teams have been placed in restaurants that are already in operation, Soma's team receives a dilapidated property that must be restored first! But that's only a minor challenge compared to what comes next, as the top students from all levels of Totsuki compete to become one of the school's three representatives at BLUE, one of the world's most legendary culinary competitions! Tempers flare, surprise ingredients abound, and someone's sure to get burned in most heated cook off of all in the fifth and possibly final season of Food Wars!
Anime / Comedy / Teen / Erotic / Comic book / Foreign
Dragon Ball Super: Complete Series Blu-ray Movie
Crunchyroll, LLC | 2015-2018 | 3275 min | Rated TV-PG | Nov 05, 2024 | Neil Lumbard
After defeating Majin Buu, life is peaceful once again. However, new threats begin to loom one after another. From Beerus, the God of Destruction, to the resurrection of Frieza, foes from across time and space step up to face Goku and his friends.
Action / Anime / Comedy / Sci-Fi / Martial arts / Foreign
Dragon Ball Z: Seasons 1-9 Collection Blu-ray Movie
Crunchyroll, LLC | 1989-1996 | 9 Seasons | 7045 min | Rated TV-PG | Nov 05, 2024 | Neil Lumbard
Goku - the strongest fighter on the planet - is all that stands between humanity and villains from the darkest corners of space. Joined in battle by the Z Fighters, Goku travels to distant realms in search of the magic powers of the seven Dragon Balls!
Action / Adventure / Anime / Comedy / Fantasy / Sci-Fi / Martial arts / Comic book / Foreign
- January 30, 2025
Naruto: The Complete Series Blu-ray Movie
Limited Edition
Viz Media | 2002-2007 | 5 Seasons | 5060 min | Rated TV-14 | Jan 07, 2025 | Neil Lumbard
In another world, ninja are the ultimate power, and in the Village Hidden in the Leaves live the stealthiest ninja in the land. Twelve years earlier, the fearsome Nine-Tailed Fox terrorized the village and claimed many lives before it was subdued and its spirit sealed within the body of a baby boy. That boy, Naruto Uzumaki, has grown up to become a ninja-in-training who's more interested in pranks than in studying ninjutsu.. but Naruto is determined to become the greatest ninja ever!
Action / Adventure / Anime / Comedy / Fantasy / Martial arts / Comic book / Foreign
Candy Mountain Blu-ray Movie
Film Movement | 1987 | 91 min | Not rated | Jan 28, 2025 | Jeffrey Kauffman
A struggling musician sets out to find the legendary guitar maker Elmore Silk, with whom he hopes to strike a deal to make himself rich and famous.
Drama
Juror #2 Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + Digital Copy
Warner Bros. | 2024 | 114 min | Rated PG-13 | Feb 04, 2025 | Randy Miller III
Family man Justin Kemp who, while serving as a juror in a high profile murder trial, finds himself struggling with a serious moral dilemma...one he could use to sway the jury verdict and potentially convict-or free-the wrong killer.
Drama / Thriller
- January 29, 2025
Hustle Blu-ray Movie
Imprint | 1975 | 120 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Dr. Svet Atanasov
Phil Gaines is a bitter, cynical cop who investigates the case of a dead stripper/porno actress found on the beach. Gaines is experiencing a troubled relationship with a hooker, and things don't get any better when the dead girl's father launches his own investigation.
Crime / Drama / Film-Noir / Mystery / Thriller
Bang the Drum Slowly 4K Blu-ray Movie
4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray
Cinématographe | 1973 | 98 min | Rated PG | Jan 28, 2025 | Brian Orndorf
The story of the friendship between a star pitcher, wise to the world, and a half-wit catcher, as they cope with the catcher's terminal illness through a baseball season.
Drama / Sport
Rumours Blu-ray Movie
Decal Releasing | 2024 | 104 min | Rated R | Jan 21, 2025 | Brian Orndorf
The leaders of seven wealthy democracies get lost in the woods while drafting a statement on a global crisis, facing danger as they attempt to find their way out.
Dark humor
Tiger 24 Blu-ray Movie
Universal Studios | 2022 | 90 min | Not rated | Jan 31, 2023 | Justin Dekker
When a wild tiger kills men who enter his territory he is declared a man-eater and locked up in a zoo. This galvanizes massive social uproar and activists take their cause to the streets, online, up on to billboards and all the way to the Supreme Court.
Documentary
The Spanish Main Blu-ray Movie
Warner Archive Collection
Warner Bros. | 1945 | 100 min | Not rated | Dec 31, 2024 | Randy Miller III
Laurent van Horn is the leader of a band of Dutch refugees on a ship seeking freedom in the Carolinas, when the ship is wrecked on the coast of Cartagene, governed by Don Juan Alvardo, a Spanish ruler. Alvarado has Laurent thrown in prison, but the latter escapes, and five-years later is a pirate leader. He poses as the navigator on a ship in which Contessa Francesca, daughter of a Mexican noble, is traveling on her way to marry Alvarado, whom she has never seen. Laurent's pirates capture the ship and Francesca, in order to save another ship, gives her hand-in-marriage to Laurent, who sails her to the pirate hideout. This irks his jealous pirate comrades Anne Bonney and Captain Benjamin Black. They overpower Laurent and send Francesca to Alvarado, and then Mario du Billar, a trusted right-hand man, makes a deal to deliver Laurent to Alvarado.
Adventure / Drama
A Real Pain Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + Digital Copy
Disney / Buena Vista | 2024 | 90 min | Rated R | Feb 04, 2025 | Jeffrey Kauffman
Two cousins travel to Poland after their grandmother's death to see where they came from and end up joining a Holocaust tour.
Comedy / Drama
The Three Stooges Collection Blu-ray Movie
Sony Pictures | 1934-2000 | 4000 min | Not rated | Aug 13, 2024 | Kenneth Brown
No synopsis for this title.
Comedy / Family / Short
- January 28, 2025
Detroit 9000 Blu-ray Movie
Imprint #380
Imprint | 1973 | 107 min | Rated ACB: R18+ | No Release Date | Dr. Svet Atanasov
After a fundraiser for a black politician is robbed, Detroit police put two detectives, one white and one black, on the case, who try to work together under boiling political pressure. Originally marketed as a blaxploitation film, it had a resurgence as a limited theatrical re-release and on video, 25 years later, in October 1998.
Action / Crime / Drama