New Blu-ray Reviews

The Wild Robot Blu-ray Movie  

Collector's Edition / Blu-ray + Digital Copy

Universal Studios | 2024 | 102 min | Rated PG | Dec 03, 2024 | Justin Dekker

Follows the epic journey of a robot—ROZZUM unit 7134, “Roz” for short — that is shipwrecked on an uninhabited island and must learn to adapt to the harsh surroundings, gradually building relationships with the animals on the island and becoming the adoptive parent of an orphaned gosling.

Adventure / Animation / Drama / Family / Sci-Fi

Paradise Blu-ray Movie  

Fun City Editions | 1982 | 102 min | Rated R | Nov 12, 2024 | Brian Orndorf

Two teenagers living in the Victorian era are traveling from Baghdad to Damascus when their party is attacked and all of the adults are killed. After the two are taken prisoner by a sheik, they manage to escape, and alone in the desert they discover love, sex and how to survive.

Adventure / Drama / Romance / Teen

Heavenly Bodies Blu-ray Movie  

Fun City Editions | 1984 | 90 min | Rated R | Nov 12, 2024 | Brian Orndorf

A small "Dance-ercize" studio fights for its existence against the unscrupulous owner of a rival club. The conflict boils down to a "Dance Marathon" to settle the score.

Drama / Romance

Another You Blu-ray Movie    

Indicator Series

Powerhouse Films | 1991 | 94 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Dr. Svet Atanasov

George has been in a mental hospital for 3 years and is finally ready to go out into the real world again. Eddie Dash, a dedicated con-man, is supposed to keep him out of trouble, but when people begin to recognize George as the missing millionaire Abe, Eddie wants to take advantage of the situation.

Comedy / Crime

Sweethearts Blu-ray Movie  

Warner Archive Collection

Warner Bros. | 1938 | 114 min | Not rated | Nov 26, 2024 | Randy Miller III

The team behind a successful Broadway production tries to stop the married stars from transitioning to Hollywood.

Comedy / Musical / Mystery / Romance

The Addiction 4K Blu-ray Movie  

Limited Edition / 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray

Arrow | 1995 | 82 min | Not rated | Dec 10, 2024 | Jeffrey Kauffman

Kathleen Conklin was just a New York philosophy grad student attending college. While walking home one night she is dragged off the street and bitten by a strange woman. Soon Kathleen goes from being a normal student to being a vampire. Kathleen's need for blood is similar to a drug addict's need for drugs, and we watch as she goes from one fix to the next...

Drama / Horror

Mr. Smith Goes to Washington 4K Blu-ray Movie  

4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray

Sony Pictures | 1939 | 130 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Kenneth Brown

A newly appointed United States Senator fights against a corrupt political system.

Drama

Uranienborg Vokalensemble: Fred over jorden Blu-ray Movie  

Blu-ray + SACD

2L | 2024 | 60 min | Not rated | Nov 22, 2024 | Jeffrey Kauffman

Advent and Christmas are for many people a time for light and hope and warmth. Yet the world around us is cold and turbulent. Wars are being fought. People are fleeing from their homes. Children are dying. Thousands of people lack food and medicine. Our prayers are for peace. We sing "Beautiful is our Earth! Glorious is God's heaven!" as a protest song for peace and justice, the world being unjust.During Advent many of us are fond of the familiar and much-loved Christmas carols as we remember them from our childhood, and as they have been sung for generations. There are carols in these traditional arrangements on this album, but there are others in completely new arrangements, made specially for Uranienborg Vokalensemble and for this recording.Christmas can be a festival that intensifies our feelings - what is good seems even better, and what hurts feels even more painful. Perhaps we have lost someone close to us: can we then sing "Oh, Christmas, so cheerful"? We know that there are people who look forward to Christmas but at the same time dread it, and we believe that Kjetil Bjerkestrand's arrangement brings out this element of equivocation and irony. The birth of Jesus - this is the message of Christmas! - a birth that changed the world for ever. May your Christmas be peaceful!

Music

Stir Crazy Blu-ray Movie    

Indicator Series

Powerhouse Films | 1980 | 108 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Dr. Svet Atanasov

Skip and Harry are framed for a bank robbery and end up in a western prison. The two eastern boys are having difficulty adjusting to the new life until the warden finds that Skip has a natural talent for riding broncos with the inter-prison rodeo coming up.

Comedy / Crime

Trio Mediæval: Yule Blu-ray Movie  

Blu-ray + SACD

2L | 2024 | 65 min | Not rated | Nov 22, 2024 | Jeffrey Kauffman

The celebration of YULE in Northern Europe harks back to a transition from ancient Pagan Germanic culture to the more formal spirituality of the newer Christian rite. Christmas, as we mostly now call it, gave us hymns, processions and chants, and in between, silence in church. Yule meant a vibrant pre-Christian secularity, with feasting and dancing, the noise of instruments and decorating the house with holly, ivy and mistletoe as a tribute to the gods of earth and air. Much of the music on this album dates from an earlier time when in a throwback to Yule churches were decorated with Christmas greenery, and at home there would be carols sung round a burning Yule log, the two traditions side by side. But the songs on this album are contemporary performances, a matrix where acappella voices meet improvising instruments in a synthesis of secular and sacred.

The Arctic Convoy Blu-ray Movie  

Magnolia Pictures | 2023 | 94 min | Not rated | Oct 22, 2024 | Randy Miller III

In 1941, Hitler's war machine seems unstoppable. The Germans gain ground in the Soviet Union and the situation looks dire. To prevent further losses civilian merchant ships are gathered from across the world carrying war supplies from Iceland to Murmansk and Archangel under protection of Allied naval vessels to make the treacherous journey. 35 ships set off on what is supposed to be the safest convoy. However due to catastrophic mistakes by British intelligence the journey turns deadly for the men and ships. Caught at sea without defense or war experience, civilian sailors are now forced to fight for their lives against German air and naval forces as well as brutal Arctic temperatures. Only 12 ships made it to destination.

Action / Drama / War / Foreign

Fraggle Rock: Back to the Rock - Season One Blu-ray Movie  

Sony Pictures | 2022 | 376 min | Not rated | Nov 19, 2024 | Kenneth Brown

Welcome to the world of Jim Henson's Fraggle Rock: Back to the Rock! Just through a hole in the wall of Doc's workshop, you will find the magical underground home of the hilarious, musical, fun-loving Fraggles, industrious little Doozers, and giant lumbering Gorgs, not to mention an endless array of wondrous creatures that live in the tunnels and caves of Fraggle Rock! Packed with Fraggle-y comedy, exhilarating adventures, memorable songs, and celebrity guest stars like Daveed Diggs, Ed Helms, Cynthia Erivo, Patti LaBelle, Kenan Thompson, and Foo Fighters, Fraggle Rock: Back to the Rock explores the magic that happens when we celebrate and care for our interconnected world.

Never Let Go Blu-ray Movie  

Blu-ray + DVD + Digital Copy

Lionsgate Films | 2024 | 101 min | Rated R | Dec 03, 2024 | Jeffrey Kauffman

A family that has been haunted by an evil spirit for years. Their safety and their surroundings come into question when one of the children questions if the evil is real.

Horror / Psychological thriller

See No Evil, Hear No Evil Blu-ray Movie    

Indicator Series

Powerhouse Films | 1989 | 102 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Dr. Svet Atanasov

A blind man and a deaf man are mistakenly accused of murder and must work together to find the real killers.

Comedy / Crime

Nothing But a Man Blu-ray Movie  

Criterion | 1964 | 92 min | Not rated | Feb 20, 2024 | Justin Dekker

The film tells the story of Duff Anderson, an African-American railroad worker in the early 1960s who tries to maintain his respect in a racist small town near Birmingham, Alabama, after he marries the local preacher's daughter. In addition to dealing with oppression and discrimination, Anderson must also come to terms with his troubled relationship with his own father, a drunk who abandoned and rejected him.

Drama

The Mandalorian: The Complete Third Season 4K Blu-ray Movie  

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

Disney / Buena Vista | 2023 | 339 min | Rated TV-14 | Dec 03, 2024 | Jeffrey Kauffman

The journeys of the Mandalorian through the Star Wars galaxy continue. Once a lone bounty hunter, Din Djarin has reunited with Grogu. Meanwhile, the New Republic struggles to lead the galaxy away from its dark history. The Mandalorian will cross paths with old allies and make new enemies as he and Grogu continue their journey together.

Action / Adventure / Fantasy / Sci-Fi

Rush 4K Blu-ray Movie  

Shout Select / 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray

Shout Factory | 2013 | 123 min | Rated R | Nov 19, 2024 | Dr. Stephen Larson

This dramatic portrayal of the intense 1970s rivalry between race drivers Niki Lauda and James Hunt captures the contrasts between the two champions. While Hunt was a charming and handsome ladies' man, Lauda was a loner with a single goal: victory.

Action / Biography / Drama / Sport

Suspiria 4K Blu-ray Movie    

4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray

Imprint | 2018 | 152 min | Rated ACB: MA15+ | Dec 04, 2024 | Dr. Svet Atanasov

A young ballet dancer travels to a prestigious dance academy in Berlin in 1977, only to discover it is a front for something far more sinister and supernatural amidst a series of increasingly grisly murders.

Fantasy / Horror / Mystery / Thriller / Supernatural / Period

Through the Looking Glass 4K Blu-ray Movie  

Melusine / + Cherry Blossom BD / Retailer Slipcase Limited to 4000 Units / 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray

Vinegar Syndrome | 1972-1976 | 2 Movies | 92 min | Rated X | Oct 31, 2024 | Brian Orndorf

A rich socialite escapes her boring lifestyle when a ghost takes her to a sexual hell where anything goes.

Horror / Erotic

Loki: The Complete Second Season 4K Blu-ray Movie  

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

Disney / Buena Vista | 2023 | 297 min | Rated TV-14 | Dec 03, 2024 | Jeffrey Kauffman

In Marvel Studios' 'Loki,' the mercurial villain Loki resumes his role as the God of Mischief in a new series that takes place after the events of Avengers: Endgame.

Adventure / Fantasy / Sci-Fi / Thriller / Comic book