New Blu-ray Reviews
Home- October 30, 2024
Don't Change Hands Blu-ray Movie
Change pas de main / Slipcover in Original Pressing
Severin Films | 1975 | 92 min | Not rated | Oct 29, 2024 | Jeffrey Kauffman
A well-known woman politician receives a tape showing her son in a porno movie. She decides to hire a female detective to figure out who is trying to blackmail her.
Comedy / Drama / Thriller / Erotic
- October 29, 2024
Short Cut to Hell Blu-ray Movie
Kino Lorber | 1957 | 87 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Dr. Svet Atanasov
A professional hitman is hired by a friend to commit two murders. His friend pays him off in what turns out to be stolen money, and the police soon trace the money to him. On the run, he kidnaps the girlfriend of the police detective in charge of his pursuit and threatens to kill her unless the hunt is called off.
Crime / Drama / Film-Noir
Ferocious Fukasaku: Two Films by Kinji Fukasaku Blu-ray Movie
Wolves, Pigs and Men / Violent Panic: The Big Crash | Standard Edition
Film Movement | 1964-1976 | 2 Movies | 180 min | Not rated | Oct 29, 2024 | Jeffrey Kauffman
See individual films for synopses.
Action / Crime / Drama / Thriller / Foreign
Wolves, Pigs & Men Blu-ray Movie
狼と豚と人間 / Ōkami to buta to ningen
Film Movement | 1964 | 95 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Jeffrey Kauffman
A lonely gangster tries recruiting men to plunder a respected and powerful gang.
Action / Crime / Drama / Thriller / Foreign
Violent Panic: The Big Crash Blu-ray Movie
Great Collision / Boso panikku: Daigekitotsu / 暴走パニック 大激突
Film Movement | 1976 | 85 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Jeffrey Kauffman
Takashi, a bank robber, dreams of his final heist and escaping to Brazil. But in his way, stands a woman that loves him, his dead partner's brother, a corrupt cop, a motorcycle gang and every police officer in the Kanto region.
Action / Crime / Foreign
Trick 'r Treat 4K Blu-ray Movie
Limited Edition / 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray
Arrow | 2007 | 82 min | Rated R | Oct 29, 2024 | Jeffrey Kauffman
The doorbell rings, the cry goes out: Trick 'r Treat! But, wait. What's actually going on during this ghostly All Hallows' Eve? Something eerie and unexpected. Something splattered and spooky. Something that brings ghouls, vampires and werewolves into the night.
Comedy / Drama / Horror / Thriller / Dark humor / Holiday
The Crown: The Complete Sixth and Final Season Blu-ray Movie
Sony Pictures | 2023 | 531 min | Rated TV-MA | Sep 17, 2024 | Kenneth Brown
A relationship blossoms between Princess Diana and Dodi Fayed before a fateful car journey has devastating consequences. Prince William tries to integrate back into life at Eton in the wake of his mother?s death as the monarchy must ride the wave of public opinion. As she reaches her Golden Jubilee, the Queen reflects on the future of the monarchy with the marriage of Charles and Camilla and the beginnings of a new Royal fairytale in William and Kate
Biography / Drama / History / Romance / Foreign
- October 28, 2024
Guest House Paradiso Blu-ray Movie
Indicator Series | Limited Edition
Powerhouse Films | 1999 | 90 min | Rated BBFC: 15 | Aug 26, 2024 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
Richie and Eddie, a perverted loser and his alcoholic partner in crime, run the worst hotel in Britain: the Guest House Paradiso.
Comedy / Dark humor
Borderlands 4K Blu-ray Movie
4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray + Digital Copy
Lionsgate Films | 2024 | 101 min | Rated PG-13 | Oct 22, 2024 | Jeffrey Kauffman
Lilith, an infamous outlaw with a mysterious past, reluctantly returns to her home planet of Pandora to find the missing daughter of the universe’s most powerful S.O.B., Atlas. Lilith forms an alliance with an unexpected team – Roland, a former elite mercenary, now desperate for redemption; Tiny Tina, a feral pre-teen demolitionist; Krieg, Tina’s musclebound, rhetorically challenged protector; Tannis, the scientist with a tenuous grip on sanity; and Claptrap, a persistently wiseass robot. These unlikely heroes must battle alien monsters and dangerous bandits to find and protect the missing girl, who may hold the key to unimaginable power. The fate of the universe could be in their hands – but they’ll be fighting for something more: each other.
Action / Adventure / Comedy / Sci-Fi
The Mad Bomber Blu-ray Movie
The Police Connection
Severin Films | 1973 | 1 Movie, 2 Cuts | 91 min | Not rated | Oct 29, 2024 | Jeffrey Kauffman
William Dorn decides to get back at all the people he blames for the overdose death of his daughter and the break up of his marriage, so he decides to go on a bombing spree. His first target is his daughter's old high school, which he all but destroys. His next target is the mental hospital where his daughter was when she died and his final target is the feminist organization his ex-wife was a member of. However, during his attack on the hospital there are two people who witness this action, a creepy rapist named George Fromley and his victim, a young mute girl. When police detective Geronimo Minelli is assigned to the case he must find Fromley not only to keep him from striking again, but to keep him alive before the Dorn makes him his next victim.
Crime / Drama
- October 27, 2024
Pandora's Box Blu-ray Movie
Die Büchse der Pandora
Criterion | 1929 | 141 min | Not rated | Oct 15, 2024 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
The rise and inevitable fall of an amoral but naive young woman whose insouciant eroticism inspires lust and violence in those around her.
Crime / Drama / Romance / Foreign
That Guy Dick Miller Blu-ray Movie
Slipcover in Original Pressing / Bonus Film: Starhops
Dekanalog | 2014 | 2 Movies | 91 min | Not rated | Oct 29, 2024 | Brian Orndorf
Dick Miller is the last of the great American character actors. Whether sharing the screen with Nicholson, DeNiro, Schwarzenegger or The Ramones, Dick has been stealing scenes since his screen debut in 1955. He has worked with some of the great directors: Scorsese, Corman, Fuller, Dante, Cameron, Demme and more. Every moviegoer knows his face, but few know his name and even fewer know his story - an aspiring writer turned accidental actor. For the first time, Dick Miller has allowed filmmakers incredible access to his life and home for this funny and unexpected story. Joining him are the directors, producers, co-stars and friends who have helped make him Hollywood's leading "that guy".
Biography / Documentary
Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey II Blu-ray Movie
Shout Factory | 2024 | 93 min | Not rated | Oct 08, 2024 | Brian Orndorf
Deep within the 100-Acre-Wood, a destructive rage grows as Winnie-the-Pooh, Piglet, Owl, and Tigger find their home and their lives endangered after Christopher Robin revealed their existence. Not wanting to live in the shadows any longer, the group decides to take the fight to the town of Ashdown, home of Christopher Robin, leaving a bloody trail of death and mayhem in their wake. Winnie and his savage friends will show everyone that they are deadlier, stronger, and smarter than anyone could ever imagine and get their revenge on Christopher Robin, once and for all.
Horror / Thriller
Bathing Beauty Blu-ray Movie
Warner Archive Collection
Warner Bros. | 1944 | 101 min | Not rated | Sep 24, 2024 | Randy Miller III
A contrived misunderstanding leads to the breakup of a songwriter and his fiancée. She returns to work as a gym teacher at an all-girls school, but a legal loophole allows the man to enroll as one of her students.
Comedy / Musical
Dogra Magra Blu-ray Movie
ドグラ・マグラ
Radiance Films | 1988 | 109 min | Not rated | Oct 29, 2024 | Jeffrey Kauffman
A young man kills his bride on the day of his marriage and goes insane. He wakes up in an asylum with no memory, left in the hands of two mysterious doctors who relate his condition with his biological identity.
Horror / Mystery / Sci-Fi / Foreign
The Rachel Papers Blu-ray Movie
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer | 1989 | 95 min | Rated R | Dec 19, 2023 | Dr. Stephen Larson
Charles is in control of his life; he is about to finish 6th form college and start at Oxford. He is 19 and wants an 'older' woman before he turns 20. Enter the beautiful Rachel, and Charles puts his 'master-of-seduction' routines into top gear. Things, however, get complicated: Charles has a string of exes and a weird brother-in-law; Rachel has a boyfriend named Deforest; and Charles' father has a mistress.
Comedy / Drama / Romance / Teen
- October 26, 2024
Borderlands Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + DVD + Digital Copy
Lionsgate Films | 2024 | 101 min | Rated PG-13 | Oct 22, 2024 | Jeffrey Kauffman
Lilith, an infamous outlaw with a mysterious past, reluctantly returns to her home planet of Pandora to find the missing daughter of the universe’s most powerful S.O.B., Atlas. Lilith forms an alliance with an unexpected team – Roland, a former elite mercenary, now desperate for redemption; Tiny Tina, a feral pre-teen demolitionist; Krieg, Tina’s musclebound, rhetorically challenged protector; Tannis, the scientist with a tenuous grip on sanity; and Claptrap, a persistently wiseass robot. These unlikely heroes must battle alien monsters and dangerous bandits to find and protect the missing girl, who may hold the key to unimaginable power. The fate of the universe could be in their hands – but they’ll be fighting for something more: each other.
Action / Adventure / Comedy / Sci-Fi
Borderlands 4K Blu-ray Movie
4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray + Digital Copy
Lionsgate Films | 2024 | 101 min | Rated PG-13 | Oct 22, 2024 | Jeffrey Kauffman
Lilith, an infamous outlaw with a mysterious past, reluctantly returns to her home planet of Pandora to find the missing daughter of the universe’s most powerful S.O.B., Atlas. Lilith forms an alliance with an unexpected team – Roland, a former elite mercenary, now desperate for redemption; Tiny Tina, a feral pre-teen demolitionist; Krieg, Tina’s musclebound, rhetorically challenged protector; Tannis, the scientist with a tenuous grip on sanity; and Claptrap, a persistently wiseass robot. These unlikely heroes must battle alien monsters and dangerous bandits to find and protect the missing girl, who may hold the key to unimaginable power. The fate of the universe could be in their hands – but they’ll be fighting for something more: each other.
Action / Adventure / Comedy / Sci-Fi
Cuckoo Blu-ray Movie
Decal Releasing | 2024 | 102 min | Rated R | Oct 22, 2024 | Brian Orndorf
Chased by a mysterious woman, 17-year-old Gretchen, who just moved with her family to an alpine resort after her mother’s death, must uncover a conspiracy to save herself and her sister.
Horror / Mystery / Thriller
In a Violent Nature Blu-ray Movie
RLJ Entertainment | 2024 | 94 min | Not rated | Oct 22, 2024 | Brian Orndorf
The enigmatic resurrection, rampage, and retribution of an undead monster in a remote wilderness.
Horror / Thriller