New Blu-ray Reviews

Taoism Drunkard Blu-ray Movie  

Eureka Entertainment | 1984 | 95 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Jeffrey Kauffman

A Taoist priest is ordered to find a Cherry Boy to appease his temple's ancestors. The boy in question is a young man who lives with his grandmother, trying to protect a sacred writ from a bright red, snarling bad guy. And let's just say insanity follows!

Action / Comedy / Martial arts / Foreign

The Young Taoism Fighter Blu-ray Movie  

Yin yang qi bin

Eureka Entertainment | 1986 | 100 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Jeffrey Kauffman

When a Manchu prince named Kao is killed by his nemesis after 14 years of hiding, his young orphan friend and prodigy becomes allies with two strange sorcerers who teach him their craft in order to obtain revenge.

Action / Comedy / Martial arts

Confessions of a Pop Performer Blu-ray Movie    

Powerhouse Films | 1975 | 91 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Dr. Svet Atanasov

The further adventures of Timmy Lea in which he winds up performing in a pop group, causing him to be the object of affection for scores of adoring female fans.

Comedy / Music / Erotic

Bad Boys: Ride or Die 4K Blu-ray Movie  

4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray + Digital Copy

Sony Pictures | 2024 | 115 min | Rated R | Sep 24, 2024 | Kenneth Brown

After their late former Captain is framed, Lowrey and Burnett try to clear his name, only to end up on the run themselves.

Action / Comedy / Crime

Bad Boys: Ride or Die Blu-ray Movie  

Blu-ray + Digital Copy

Sony Pictures | 2024 | 116 min | Rated R | Sep 24, 2024 | Kenneth Brown

After their late former Captain is framed, Lowrey and Burnett try to clear his name, only to end up on the run themselves.

Action / Comedy / Crime

Blonde on a Bum Trip Blu-ray Movie  

Slipcover in Original Pressing

Distribpix | 1968 | 64 min | Not rated | Oct 29, 2024 | Brian Orndorf

A naive young college student, who is majoring in chemistry, is persuaded by her roommates and a would-be drug dealer to make LSD for them, and she winds up getting caught up in the "acid" lifestyle.

Drama

Mothers' Instinct Blu-ray Movie  

Decal Releasing | 2024 | 94 min | Not rated | Sep 17, 2024 | Brian Orndorf

Alice and Celine live a traditional lifestyle with successful husbands and sons of the same age. Life's perfect harmony is suddenly shattered after a tragic accident. Guilt, suspicion and paranoia combine to unravel their sisterly bond.

Thriller

The Mummy and the Curse of the Jackals Blu-ray Movie  

+ Angelica, the Young Vixen

Severin Films | 1969 | 2 Movies | 86 min | Not rated | Sep 24, 2024 | Jeffrey Kauffman

A mummy battles a jackal-man in Las Vegas.

Horror

The Shadow Boxing Blu-ray Movie  

The Spiritual Boxer Part 2 / Mao shan jiang shi quan / 茅山殭屍拳

88 Films | 1979 | 101 min | Not rated | Sep 24, 2024 | Jeffrey Kauffman

With his master is drunk again, Disciple Siu Chen gets hired for a religious Ceremony. Siu realises that posing as a fake spiritual Master could bring him a lot of money, so he calls himself “Master Siu” and pretends being possessed by different Gods. Finally he settles in a town suffering from the harsh rule of a local crime boss whose loansharking activities have put a lot of farmers in his debt. Confident in his 'powers', Master Siu stands up to the loanshark and his gang and teaches the people kung fu to defend themselves. When a pair of wanted outlaws come to town to help the crime boss, they expose Siu’s trickery and put him in a real bind.

Action / Comedy / Fantasy / Martial arts

The Bat Blu-ray Movie  

Roland West's The Bat

Undercrank Productions | 1926 | 86 min | Not rated | Oct 15, 2024 | Jeffrey Kauffman

The Bat, a master criminal terrorizing the city wearing a fearsome bat costume, sets his sinister sights on the eerie Fleming mansion. Within the walls of this spooky house, a bank robber has stashed $20,000 in stolen loot. Leasing the mansion is the wealthy Cornelia Van Gorder, along with her niece Dale. Dale's fiance, Brooks Bailey, a cashier at the bank, becomes the prime suspect in the robbery investigation. After the bank president is found dead, a group of houseguests search the mansion for clues to the whereabouts of the missing fortune and the identity of The Bat. They set a trap for the mysterious killer, but the master criminal manages to escape with the money...

Crime / Horror / Mystery / Thriller / Dark humor

The Ladykillers 4K Blu-ray Movie  

4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray

Kino Lorber | 1955 | 1 Movie, 2 Cuts | 91 min | Not rated | Sep 24, 2024 | Dr. Svet Atanasov

A gang of thieves rent a room upstairs from an old woman, who thinks they're a musical band. Somehow, the woman inadvertently gets mixed up in their scheme without knowing it and then the gang must debate on whether to kill her or not, especially when they all like the poor old dame.

Comedy / Crime / Thriller

The Ladykillers Blu-ray Movie  

4K Restoration

Kino Lorber | 1955 | 1 Movie, 2 Cuts | 91 min | Not rated | Sep 24, 2024 | Dr. Svet Atanasov

A gang of thieves rent a room upstairs from an old woman, who thinks they're a musical band. Somehow, the woman inadvertently gets mixed up in their scheme without knowing it and then the gang must debate on whether to kill her or not, especially when they all like the poor old dame.

Comedy / Crime / Thriller

Succession: The Complete Series Blu-ray Movie  

Warner Bros. | 2018-2023 | 4 Seasons | 2393 min | Not rated | Aug 27, 2024 | Jeffrey Kauffman

Power, politics, money...it's all in the family in Season 1 of this provocative, bitingly funny drama series about a highly dysfunctional dynasty. When aging, uber-wealthy patriarch Logan Roy (Brian Cox), CEO of one of the world's largest media and entertainment conglomerates, decides to retire, each of his four grown children follows a personal agenda that doesn't always sync with those of their siblings--or of their father. After Logan changes his mind about stepping down, he endures the often-childish bickering of his heirs while others in their orbit position themselves for a post-Logan world that seems imminent, though not predestined. Jeremy Strong, Kieran Culkin, Sarah Snook and Alan Ruck co-star as Logan's children; also with Hiam Abbass, Nicholas Braun and Matthew Macfadyen.

Drama

A Man on His Knees Blu-ray Movie  

Un uomo in ginocchio

Radiance Films | 1979 | 110 min | Not rated | Sep 24, 2024 | Jeffrey Kauffman

Nino, a regular working-class guy, finds that a hitman has been hired to kill him. He discovers that a wealthy woman has been kidnapped and that everyone who was involved in it is being killed off. However, Nino had nothing to do with the kidnapping and has to find out who has sent the killers and stop them before it's too late. (IMDB)

Crime / Thriller / Foreign

The Young Americans Blu-ray Movie    

Imprint | 1993 | 104 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Dr. Svet Atanasov

Scotland Yard calls in an American agent from the Drug Enforcement Agency to help nip a budding illegal drug cartel in London. It all begins when teens shoot down a prominent East End gangster. At the same time, a seemingly endless supply of cheap heroin begins showing up at rave clubs all over the city. With no real leads, the Yard sends for the Yankee John Harris. With the assistance of British policeman Edward Foster, Harris slowly descends into a crime-filled world in which street kids are used as pawns in a much bigger game involving international gangsters.

Crime / Drama

War of the Buttons Blu-ray Movie  

Warner Archive Collection

Warner Bros. | 1994 | 94 min | Rated PG | Aug 13, 2024 | Randy Miller III

War between two Irish youth gangs consists of removing and retrieving buttons from each other's clothing.

Adventure / Drama / Family

The Poetry of Lee Chang-Dong: Four Films Blu-ray Movie  

Film Movement | 1997-2010 | 4 Movies | 514 min | Not rated | Sep 24, 2024 | Jeffrey Kauffman

See individual titles for their synopses.

Drama / Romance / Foreign

Green Fish Blu-ray Movie  

초록 물고기 | 4K Restoration

Film Movement | 1997 | 111 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Jeffrey Kauffman

Having just been discharged from the military, Mak-dong is on the train home. As he leans out the train platform, Mi-ae, a beautiful woman in the car ahead of him, is also leaning out. Her pink scarf escapes from her and poignantly lands on Mak-dong's face, blinding him. As he goes back into the train car to return the scarf, he becomes embroiled in a fight with a group of thugs who are harassing Mi-ae. From the beginning, Mak-dong is entangled in a relationship that becomes his undoing.

Crime / Drama / Foreign

Peppermint Candy Blu-ray Movie  

박하사탕 | 4K Restoration

Film Movement | 1999 | 130 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Jeffrey Kauffman

Spring, 1999. On a railroad bridge overlooking an idyllic riverbank, Yong-ho faces an oncoming train. Distraught and beyond reason, he shouts "I'm going back!", right before the train takes his life. The film tracks, in reverse, the life path of how Yong-ho goes from youthful innocence with beauty and love to being a nasty, cruel and hateful man.

Drama / Foreign

Oasis Blu-ray Movie  

오아시스 | 4K Restoration

Film Movement | 2002 | 133 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Jeffrey Kauffman

Jong-du, a young man just out of prison for manslaughter, is a social misfit. When released, he calls on the family of the victim; they send him away, but not before he has seen Gong-ju, a young woman disabled severely by cerebral palsy. Both are abused by their families, and both are used by them as well. Although their relationship begins with Jong-du's criminal behavior, a friendship develops.

Drama / Romance / Foreign