New Blu-ray Reviews
Home- August 20, 2024
Reborn as a Vending Machine, I Now Wander the Dungeon: Season 1 Blu-ray Movie
Jidou Hanbaiki ni Umarekawatta Ore wa Meikyuu wo Samayou
Crunchyroll, LLC | 2023 | 300 min | Rated TV-14 | Jul 23, 2024 | Neil Lumbard
Reincarnated as a vending machine, Boxxo can't move or speak more than his programmed phrases. But when a girl named Lammis brings him to her village, he'll learn how to make the most of his new life, dispensing nourishment and encouragement along the way.
Anime / Fantasy / Foreign
Overlord IV: Season Four Blu-ray Movie
Crunchyroll, LLC | 2022 | 325 min | Rated TV-MA | Oct 24, 2023 | Neil Lumbard
When a popular MMORPG is scheduled to be shut down permanently, veteran player Momonga refuses to log out. As NPCs begin to develop personalities and minds of their own he decides to put his skills to use as the game’s new overlord.
Action / Anime / Fantasy / Supernatural / Foreign
Why Raeliana Ended Up at the Duke's Mansion: The Complete Season Blu-ray Movie
Crunchyroll, LLC | 2023 | 300 min | Rated TV-14 | Jul 23, 2024 | Neil Lumbard
Rinko knows her fiancé will poison her. How? She was just reborn as a doomed character in a romance novel. To avoid a second death, she'll use her memory of the story to out-maneuver her enemies. Step one: blackmail the duke to be her new fiancé.
Anime / Drama / Fantasy / Thriller / Comic book / Foreign
- August 19, 2024
Twisted Blu-ray Movie
Kino Lorber | 2004 | 96 min | Rated R | Jul 30, 2024 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
"Ashley Judd is sensual and stunning"* as Jessica Sheppard, a San Francisco police inspector prowling the wharf for a serial killer whose victims all have one thing in common: her. The investigation becomes more and more twisted as her partner (Andy Garcia) behaves strangely, and the police commissioner (Samuel L. Jackson) is being asked to remove her from the investigation as she is a prime suspect. All the clues point to her and Jessica begins to suspect that she might be the killer she is looking for.
Crime / Drama / Mystery
Black Mass 4K Blu-ray Movie
4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray
Warner Bros. | 2015 | 122 min | Rated R | Aug 13, 2024 | Randy Miller III
The true story of Whitey Bulger, the most infamous violent criminal in the history of South Boston.
Biography / Crime / Drama
My Bloody Banjo Blu-ray Movie
Limited Edition
Refuse Films | 2015 | 1 Movie, 2 Cuts | 94 min | Rated BBFC: 18 | Apr 06, 2023 | Justin Dekker
Meet Peltzer Arbuckle, a meek and bullied office employee, humiliated by his megalomaniac boss, teasing colleagues and his cheating partner. Peltzer spends his days in misery, stuck in his own mundane, nightmarish reality. Once news about his embarrassing sexual accident makes it's way around the workplace, Peltzer decides to put up with his humiliation no more, and conjures up his childhood imaginary friend Ronnie. Peltzer's world is soon turned upside down, when Ronnie attempts to manipulate him to exact revenge on his tormenting co-workers in the most gruesome fashion. As the body count stacks up, Peltzer must ultimately decide whether to run away from his past or take control of his future, as he battles between sanity and madness, in this twisted tale of infidelity, revenge and snapped banjo strings.
Horror
The Instructor Blu-ray Movie
Slipcover in Original Pressing
Vinegar Syndrome | 1981 | 94 min | Not rated | Jul 30, 2024 | Brian Orndorf
The action never stops in this stunt-packed karate extravaganza of a black belt instructor who proves that his talents and expertise can be used to defend instead of destroy.
Action / Martial arts
Death to Smoochy Blu-ray Movie
Shout Factory | 2002 | 110 min | Rated R | Aug 20, 2024 | Brian Orndorf
Children's television star Rainbow Randolph is fired over a bribery scandal and replaced by Smoochy, an idealistic purple rhinoceros. When Randolph discovers that Smoochy is also having an affair with Randolph's ex-lover Nora, a top programming executive at the network, he plots his revenge.
Comedy / Crime / Thriller / Dark humor / Surreal
The Edge of the World Blu-ray Movie
Milestone | 1937 | 75 min | Not rated | Oct 17, 2023 | Dr. Stephen Larson
A way of life is dying on an Outer Hebridean island fishing port, but some of the inhabitants resist evacuating to the mainland.
Drama / History / Romance
The Mexico Trilogy 4K Blu-ray Movie
El Mariachi BD / Desperado 4K+BD / Once Upon a Time in Mexico BD | Limited Edition / 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray
Arrow | 1992-2003 | 3 Movies | 287 min | Rated R | Aug 27, 2024 | Jeffrey Kauffman
See individual titles for their synopses.
Action / Crime / Thriller / Western / Dark humor
El Mariachi Blu-ray Movie
Arrow | 1992 | 81 min | Rated R | No Release Date | Jeffrey Kauffman
A traveling mariachi is mistaken for a murderous criminal and must hide from a gang bent on killing him.
Action / Crime / Foreign
Desperado 4K Blu-ray Movie
4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray
Arrow | 1995 | 104 min | Rated R | No Release Date | Jeffrey Kauffman
Former musician and gunslinger El Mariachi arrives at a small Mexican border town after being away for a long time. His past quickly catches up with him and he soon gets entangled with the local drug kingpin Bucho and his gang.
Action / Crime / Thriller / Western / Dark humor
Once Upon a Time in Mexico Blu-ray Movie
Arrow | 2003 | 102 min | Rated R | No Release Date | Jeffrey Kauffman
Hitman "El Mariachi" becomes involved in international espionage involving a psychotic CIA agent and a corrupt Mexican general.
Action / Crime / Thriller / Dark humor
Chucky: Season Three Blu-ray Movie
Universal Studios | 2023-2024 | 359 min | Not rated | Aug 13, 2024 | Justin Dekker
Chucky Season 3 sends Chucky to the White House where he lives with the president and his family. Tiffany Valentine survives Chucky's attack but goes to prison for murder and is given the death penalty, leading her to scheme up an escape plan via voodoo.
Horror / Mystery / Thriller / Dark humor
Repo Man 4K Blu-ray Movie
Theatrical (4K/BD) and Television (BD) Versions / 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray
Criterion | 1984 | 1 Movie, 2 Cuts | 92 min | Rated R | Sep 03, 2024 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
A down-and-out young punk gets a job working with a seasoned repo man, but what awaits him in his new career is a series of outlandish adventures revolving around aliens, the CIA, and a most-wanted '64 Chevy.
Crime / Drama / Sci-Fi / Thriller / Dark humor
The Great Okinawa Yakuza War Blu-ray Movie
沖縄やくざ戦争 / Okinawa Yakuza sensô
Shout Factory | 1976 | 96 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Neil Lumbard
Set in Okinawa 1971, one year before the return of power to the mainland, this film highlights the bloody battle of Okinawa Yakuza gangsters versus mainland system.
Action / Crime / Drama / Foreign
Karate Warriors Blu-ray Movie
子連れ殺人拳 / Kozure Satsujin Ken / Killing Fist and Child
Shout Factory | 1976 | 89 min | Rated R | No Release Date | Neil Lumbard
A karate fighter and a samurai join opposing gangs to take them down from the inside.
Action / Drama / Martial arts / Foreign / Coming of age
13 Steps of Maki: The Young Aristocrats Blu-ray Movie
若い貴族たち 13階段のマキ / Young Nobility: Maki's 13 Steps
Shout Factory | 1975 | 78 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Neil Lumbard
Maki is the leader of a female gang that fights for justice, but she is taken and sent to a sadistic women's prison.
Action / Crime / Drama / Martial arts / Foreign
The Defensive Power of Aikido Blu-ray Movie
激突！合気道 / Gekitotsu! Aikidô
Shout Factory | 1975 | 82 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Neil Lumbard
An action movie that illustrates the struggle of Morihei Ueshiba who was born in a farming family in Wakayama on his way of pursuing the heart of martial arts until he finally created his own well-polished Aikido.
Action / History / Foreign
- August 18, 2024
Scooby-Doo! and the Witch's Ghost/Scooby-Doo! and the Alien Invaders Blu-ray Movie
Warner Archive Collection
Warner Bros. | 1999-2000 | 2 Movies | 139 min | Not rated | Aug 13, 2024 | Randy Miller III
In Scooby-Doo and the Witch's Ghost, Mystery Inc. meets a famous horror writer, Ben Ravencroft, who invites them to go back to his hometown for the Autumn Fest, where they learn that one of Ben's ancestors was a witch who is apparently haunting the city. In Scooby-Doo and the Alien Invaders, the gang gets stranded in a remote Southwestern desert town that is full of eccentric people, UFO sightings and other strange occurrences. Upon investigation they uncover a sinister plan, while Shaggy and Scooby find an unlikely match in hippie nature photographer Crystal and her dog Amber.
Animation / Comedy / Family / Mystery / Supernatural / Surreal