New Blu-ray Reviews

City of Hope Blu-ray Movie  

Sony Pictures | 1991 | 129 min | Rated R | Apr 16, 2024 | Kenneth Brown

A third-generation Italian-American struggles to break free from his father's grasp. Meanwhile, the small New Jersey city he lives in is endangered by patronage and corrupt development plans.

Crime

Cleaners Blu-ray Movie  

Kani | 2019 | 78 min | Not rated | Feb 27, 2024 | Kenneth Brown

Different students from a high school cleaners group each deal with different pressures of being clean and pure while also discovering that the world is dirty and superficial to begin with.

Animation / Comedy / Drama / Foreign / Coming of age

Apocalypse Now 4K Blu-ray Movie  

4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray + Digital Copy

Lionsgate Films | 1979 | 1 Movie, 3 Cuts | 183 min | Rated R | Dec 17, 2024 | Jeffrey Kauffman

During the Vietnam War, a U.S. army captain is sent on a dangerous mission into Cambodia to assassinate a renegade colonel who has set himself up as a god among a local tribe.

Drama / War / Epic

You Never Can Tell Blu-ray Movie  

Kino Lorber | 1951 | 78 min | Not rated | Apr 09, 2024 | Dr. Svet Atanasov

Dick Powell stars as a hardboiled PI with a taste for kibble in the over-the-top screwball comedy You Never Can Tell. When an eccentric tycoon leaves six million dollars to his faithful dog King, trustee Ellen Hathaway is besieged by fortune hunters when they learn she's next to inherit. After the German Shepherd is poisoned and Ellen's accused of the crime, King's spirit is granted special permission to go back to earth in human form and help clear his Ellen's name. Returning as private eye Rex Shepherd and aided by a former racehorse named Goldie, King puts his nose to the ground in a dogged attempt to sniff out his killer's name.

Comedy / Crime / Fantasy

Shanks 4K Blu-ray Movie  

4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray

Cinématographe | 1974 | 93 min | Rated PG | Oct 29, 2024 | Brian Orndorf

A mute puppeteer uses a deceased scientist's invention to control dead bodies like puppets.

Fantasy / Horror

The Land That Time Forgot Blu-ray Movie  

Sandpiper Pictures | 1974 | 91 min | Rated PG | Dec 17, 2024 | Kenneth Brown

After a German U-Boat sinks their ship, several survivors manage to take control of the boat. Bowen Tyler is the son of an American shipbuilder and Captain Bradley an experienced seaman. After several tussles with the German crew, they find themselves on a strange island. There they find a place where several stages of Earth's evolution co-exist at the same time. As a result several types of humans are found as well as prehistoric dinosaurs. There are also active volcanoes which all add up to a challenge to survive.

Adventure / Fantasy / Sci-Fi

Ted 4K Blu-ray Movie  

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

Shout Factory | 2012 | 114 min | Unrated | Dec 10, 2024 | Brian Orndorf

John makes a Christmas miracle happen by bringing his one and only friend to life, his teddy bear. The two grow up together and John must then choose to stay with his girlfriend or keep his friendship with his crude and extremely inappropriate teddy bear, Ted.

Comedy / Imaginary

Nothing Is Sacred: Three Heresies by Luis Buñuel Blu-ray Movie    

Viridiana / The Exterminating Angel / Simon of the Desert | Limited Edition

Radiance Films | 1961-1965 | 3 Movies | 230 min | Rated BBFC: 15 | Dec 16, 2024 | Jeffrey Kauffman

No synopsis for this title.

Drama / Fantasy / Short / Dark humor / Foreign / Surreal

Viridiana Blu-ray Movie    

Limited Edition

Radiance Films | 1961 | 90 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Jeffrey Kauffman

Novice nun Viridiana does her utmost to maintain her Catholic principles, but her lecherous uncle and a motley assemblage of paupers force her to confront the limits of her idealism.

Drama / Dark humor / Foreign

The Exterminating Angel Blu-ray Movie    

El ángel exterminador | Limited Edition

Radiance Films | 1962 | 95 min | Rated BBFC: 12 | No Release Date | Jeffrey Kauffman

A group of high-society friends are invited to a mansion for dinner and find themselves inexplicably unable to leave.

Drama / Fantasy / Dark humor / Foreign / Surreal

Simon of the Desert Blu-ray Movie    

Simón del desierto | Limited Edition

Radiance Films | 1965 | 45 min | Rated BBFC: 12 | No Release Date | Jeffrey Kauffman

Simon stands on top of a stone column in the middle of the desert and prays for six years, six weeks, and six days. In that time, he becomes something of a saint to his people, praised for his unwavering devotion and ability to perform grand miracles in God's name. Despite Simon's counsel and ceaseless penance on their behalf, his followers seem doomed to crumble to temptation. And Simon remains plagued by unrest, uncertainty, and the devil herself.

Drama / Short / Dark humor / Foreign

Solomon and Sheba Blu-ray Movie  

Sandpiper Pictures | 1959 | 142 min | Not rated | Aug 09, 2022 | Kenneth Brown

When David names his younger son as heir, his older son plots revenge. Filmed in Technirama

Drama / History / Romance / War

Black Eye Blu-ray Movie  

Warner Archive Collection

Warner Bros. | 1974 | 98 min | Rated PG | Dec 31, 2024 | Randy Miller III

Shep Stone is a private detective working in Los Angeles. When a walking cane is stolen from the funeral of a movie star, Stone's investigation sets him on a path that leads to the seedy world of pornography and religious cults.

Action / Crime / Drama / Thriller

The China Syndrome Blu-ray Movie  

Sony Pictures | 1979 | 122 min | Rated PG | Aug 20, 2024 | Kenneth Brown

While doing a report on energy sources, ambitious reporter Kimberly Wells witnesses a near-accident at a nuclear power plant. Attempting to publicize the incident, Wells soon finds herself entangled in an inquiry by a senior engineer at the plant into possible faults that the power company refuses to acknowledge.

Drama / Thriller

Yojimbo / Sanjuro 4K Blu-ray Movie  

4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray

Criterion | 1961-1962 | 2 Movies | 207 min | Not rated | Jan 07, 2025 | Dr. Svet Atanasov

See individual titles for their synopses.

Action / Crime / Drama / Thriller / Martial arts / Foreign / Period

Limbo 4K Blu-ray Movie  

智齒 / 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray

Capelight Pictures | 2021 | 118 min | Not rated | Oct 31, 2023 | Randy Miller III

Rookie policeman Will Ren and his partner, the veteran cop Cham Lau, are pursuing an obsessive and especially brutal murderer of women.

Crime / Drama / Foreign

Kin-dza-dza! Blu-ray Movie  

Кин-дза-дза! / Slipcover in Original Pressing

Deaf Crocodile Films | 1986 | 133 min | Unrated | May 28, 2024 | Kenneth Brown

Kin-dza-dza! represents a double entendre in terms parody and features dark and grotesque aspects of human diaspora which may be described as dystopian. It depicts a desert planet, depleted of its resources, home to an impoverished dog-eat-dog society with extreme inequality and oppression.

Comedy / Drama / Sci-Fi / Dark humor / Foreign

Left Right and Centre Blu-ray Movie  

Indicator Series #453 | Limited Edition

Powerhouse Films | 1959 | 93 min | Not rated | Nov 19, 2024 | Dr. Svet Atanasov

At the Earndale by-election natural history expert and TV personality Bob Wilcot for the Conservatives finds himself up against Billingsgate girl Stella Stoker for the socialists. Amateur politician against committed activist. But could it become boy-who-fancies-girl against girl-who-fancies-boy? The party agents are soon colluding against such a disaster.

Comedy / Romance

Here for Blood Blu-ray Movie  

Collector's Edition

Cinedigm | 2022 | 100 min | Not rated | Sep 24, 2024 | Kenneth Brown

In this throwback to '90s horror, a rowdy pro-wrestler, struggling to make ends meet, agrees to fill in as a last-minute replacement for his girlfriend’s well-paying babysitting job. Upon arriving at the secluded family home, he meets the precocious 10-year-old Grace. What starts off as a quiet night of pizza and video games quickly spirals into bloody, violent chaos as they find themselves fighting for their lives as they battle an evil cult.

Crackcoon Blu-ray Movie  

Collector's Edition

Cinedigm | 2023 | 90 min | Not rated | Oct 29, 2024 | Kenneth Brown

When a synthetically-altered street drug is discarded in the woods by a drug dealer during a car chase with police, the fallout proves nothing less than horrific when an innocent raccoon eats it, transforming it into a nightmarish killing machine straight from the bowels of hell. With unsuspecting campers, tourists, and residents of a mountain community all in close proximity to the epicenter, no one is safe from the monster's unrelenting rampage.

Comedy / Horror