New Blu-ray Reviews

The Fall Guy 4K Blu-ray Movie  

4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray + Digital Copy

Universal Studios | 2024 | 1 Movie, 2 Cuts | 146 min | Unrated | Jul 23, 2024 | Justin Dekker

Colt Seavers is a stuntman who left the business a year earlier to focus on both his physical and mental health. He's drafted back into service when the star of a mega-budget studio movie, which is being directed by his ex, goes missing.

Action / Comedy / Drama / Romance

The Linguini Incident Blu-ray Movie  

Director's Cut / Shag-O-Rama

MVD Visual | 1991 | 1 Movie, 2 Cuts | 98 min | Not rated | Jul 23, 2024 | Jeffrey Kauffman

A magic-obsessed New York waitress (Rosanna Arquette) is persuaded by a colorful group of characters to help her rob the restaurant where she works. Along the way, she falls in love with the eatery's bartender (David Bowie), who just so happens to be looking for someone who will make him a permanent resident of the U.S.

Comedy / Crime

Goku Midnight Eye: The Complete OVA Series Blu-ray Movie  

Discotek Media | 1989 | 103 min | Unrated | Oct 31, 2023 | Neil Lumbard

Goku lives by a simple rule: never get involved with women. But as a private detective in a futuristic Tokyo City, that’s easier said than done. Directed by Yoshiaki Kawajiri (Wicked City, Demon City Shin- juku) and written by Buichi Terasawa (Space Adventure Cobra), this classic anime features a pair of stories that delve into a sleek and sexy world, filled with deadly cyborgs and alluring demons. Goku’s cases take him into the heart of danger, whether it’s facing down a powerful and wealthy man who develops mass-murdering weap- ons, or a crazed experiment wielding ultimate power gone wrong. His one ace in the hole is his cybernetic left eye, which allows him to control any computer system in the world and gain information instantly. It’s his one edge over the bad guys--but even with it, Goku can never see into the hearts of the women who enter his life as quickly as they leave it.

Action / Anime / Drama / Sci-Fi / Thriller / Foreign

Helck: Complete Collection Blu-ray Movie  

Sentai Filmworks | 2023 | 600 min | Rated TV-14 | Aug 20, 2024 | Neil Lumbard

The tournament to replace the recently vanquished Demon Lord has begun, but overseer Vermilio suspects that one of the contestants, Helck, is not what he seems. Why? Because he’s human, just like the Hero who killed the last Demon Lord. Yes, the big brute claims to hate his own kind, but is he telling the truth? Or is this a sinister plot against demon kind? And even when Vermilio manipulates the games against him, Helck keeps winning, forcing her to become more personally involved in both the games and the mysteries surrounding its frontrunner. She must know. She must find out. What secrets lurk in the past of HELCK?

Action / Adventure / Anime / Comic book / Foreign

Dark Gathering: Complete Collection Blu-ray Movie  

Sentai Filmworks | 2023 | 625 min | Rated TV-MA | Jul 30, 2024 | Neil Lumbard

Keitaro hates ghosts, but much to his horror, they’re drawn to him like moths to a flame. After spending years as a shut-in to avoid spectral catastrophe, he finally musters the courage to rejoin society and get a part-time job as a tutor to the child prodigy Yayoi. Yayoi isn’t just an academic genius, though. She’s a talented psychic medium hell-bent on finding the malevolent spirit behind her mother’s disappearance, and she’s determined to drag ghost-magnet Keitaro into her terrifying world of grotesque supernatural phenomenon in DARK GATHERING.

Anime / Fantasy / Horror / Supernatural / Comic book / Foreign

The Demon Sword Master of Excalibur Academy: Complete Collection Blu-ray Movie  

Sentai Filmworks | 2023 | 300 min | Rated TV-14 | Aug 13, 2024 | Neil Lumbard

1000 years ago, Leonis Death Magnus, the King of the Undead, sealed himself in suspended animation with a plan to be reborn and re-marshal his demonic armies anew. Instead, he awakens to a world where magic has changed, a new race of monsters terrorizes the planet, and he’s now a 10-year-old boy. Fortunately, his beautiful “rescuers” think he’s a normal lad with amnesia and decide to send him to an elite magical school… which is the perfect place to give those plans for world conquest a serious rethink as he poses as The Demon Sword Master of Excalibur Academy!

Action / Anime / Fantasy / Foreign

Columbo: The Return Blu-ray Movie  

Kino Lorber | 1989-2003 | 3 Seasons | 2233 min | Not rated | Jul 16, 2024 | Dr. Svet Atanasov

Columbo is the landmark series that set the standard for the murder-mystery genre. The original run ended in 1978, but the series triumphantly returned in 1989 with an older and wiser Columbo! Remastered in 4K by NBCUniversal, Columbo: The Return includes the final 24 episodes of this enduring classic on Blu-ray! Starring Peter Falk in his award-winning role as the cigar-chomping, trenchcoat-wearing police lieutenant.

Crime / Drama / Mystery

The Double Crossers Blu-ray Movie  

鬼計雙雄 / Guǐ jì shuāng xióng / Eureka Classics

Eureka Entertainment | 1976 | 1 Movie, 2 Cuts | 93 min | Not rated | Jul 23, 2024 | Jeffrey Kauffman

Detective Lung is investigating the murder of his father and discovers his father belonged to a syndicate of smugglers. He finds out the murderer used to be his father’s business partner and that he’s now living in Hong Kong under a new name (Wang). Lung tries to lure Wang to Bali where he hopes to get his revenge.

Action / Foreign

Captain Phillips 4K Blu-ray Movie  

4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray + Digital Copy

Sony Pictures | 2013 | 134 min | Rated PG-13 | Jul 16, 2024 | Kenneth Brown

The true story of the 2009 hijacking by Somali pirates of the U.S.-flagged MV Maersk Alabama, the first American cargo ship to be hijacked in two hundred years.

Biography / Crime / Drama / Thriller

The Crippled Masters Blu-ray Movie  

Tian can di que / 天殘地缺

Film Masters | 1979 | 91 min | Not rated | Jul 23, 2024 | Jeffrey Kauffman

Two men skilled in the arts of Kung-Fu are betrayed by their master and crippled for life, one left with no arms and the other with no legs. Despite their obvious disadvantages, they learn to combine their martial arts skills and seek revenge against the evil master.

Action / Drama

Invasion of the Body Snatchers 4K Blu-ray Movie  

4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray

Kino Lorber | 1956 | 1 Movie, 2 Cuts | 80 min | Not rated | Jul 16, 2024 | Dr. Svet Atanasov

Mistaken for insane, a man arrives in San Francisco to inform the world that strange aliens have arrived on earth to overtake human life.

Horror / Sci-Fi

Spy x Family: Season One - Part One Blu-ray Movie  

Blu-ray + DVD

Crunchyroll, LLC | 2022 | 300 min | Rated TV-14 | Jun 13, 2023 | Neil Lumbard

Secret agent Twilight has a difficult mission - become a family man! Maintaining cover will be tricky, but he’s not the only one with secrets. His wife happens to be an assassin, and his daughter is a telepath. Welcome to a world of intrigue and parenting.

Action / Anime / Comedy / Comic book / Foreign

The Quintessential Quintuplets: Season 2 Blu-ray Movie  

Crunchyroll, LLC | 2021 | 300 min | Rated TV-14 | Jul 19, 2022 | Neil Lumbard

Futaro already has his hands full with the quintuplets, but when his first love shows up out of nowhere, things get even more complicated. From costumes to competition, how each of the sisters tries to win him over may just seal their fate—and his!

Adventure / Anime / Comedy / Romance / Comic book / Foreign

KamiKatsu: Working for God in a Godless World - The Complete Season Blu-ray Movie  

Crunchyroll, LLC | 2023 | 300 min | Rated TV-MA | May 07, 2024 | Neil Lumbard

Reborn in a godless world, Yukito helps unite a village of outcasts until the empire comes knocking. To save the day, he summons his past-life god, Mitama, who’s only as powerful as her follower count. Can they convert enough people to save the country?

Anime / Comedy / Fantasy / Comic book / Foreign

Summoned to Another World for a Second Time: The Complete Season Blu-ray Movie  

Summoned to Another World... Again?

Crunchyroll, LLC | 2023 | 300 min | Rated TV-14 | Jul 09, 2024 | Neil Lumbard

Setsu is just your average teen…except he was once the hero of a magical world! In the realm of Eclaire, he and his party brought peace until a trap sent him back to the real world. Now years later, war is looming, and Setsu is needed once again.

Action / Adventure / Anime / Comedy / Fantasy / Foreign

Fear in the Night Blu-ray Movie  

Dynasty of Fear / Honeymoon of ... Fear

Shout Factory | 1972 | 94 min | Rated PG | Aug 27, 2019 | Dr. Stephen Larson

Recovering from a recent nervous breakdown, a young woman (Judy Geeson of TO SIR, WITH LOVE) moves with her new husband (Ralph Bates of DR. JEKYLL AND SISTER HYDE) to a rural boarding school where she meets the academy’s peculiar headmaster (the legendary Peter Cushing) and his lusty wife (Joan Collins). But when the unstable newlywed is repeatedly stalked and assaulted by a mysterious one-armed man, her terror escalates to a frenzy of madness and murder …or does it? If she can survive one night of unbearable fear, then the morning promises an even more shocking surprise… Also known as DYNASTY OF FEAR, this little-seen 1972 chiller was produced, directed and co-written by veteran Hammer master Jimmy Sangster (HORROR OF FRANKENSTEIN, LUST FOR A VAMPIRE) and delivers a wild ride full of twists, jolts and a deliciously nasty surprise ending in the classic DIABOLIQUE tradition.

Mystery / Thriller

Macbeth Blu-ray Movie  

Special Edition

Kino Lorber | 1948 | 1 Movie, 2 Cuts | 107 min | Not rated | Jun 25, 2024 | Dr. Svet Atanasov

In fog-dripping, barren and sometimes macabre settings, 11th-century Scottish nobleman Macbeth is led by an evil prophecy and his ruthless yet desirable wife to the treasonous act that makes him king.

Drama / History / War / Period

Deer Camp '86 Blu-ray Movie  

Mill Creek Entertainment | 2022 | 85 min | Rated R | Jul 09, 2024 | Martin Liebman

In the fall of 1986, six knuckleheads from Detroit travel north to partake in the annual tradition of deer hunting. But something horrific has been awakened and the hunters become the hunted.

Comedy / Horror / Thriller

The Mandela Effect Blu-ray Movie  

Gravitas Ventures | 2019 | 80 min | Not rated | Feb 04, 2020 | Martin Liebman

A man becomes obsessed with a phenomenon where facts and events have been collectively misremembered by thousands of people. Believing it to be the symptom of something larger, his search for answers brings him to the brink of insanity when a startling revelation forces him to make a difficult decision that, if he is right, could have consequences for the entire world. Starring Charlie Hofheimer, Aleksa Palladino, Robin Lord Taylor, and Clarke Peters

Drama / Sci-Fi / Thriller

Trash Blu-ray Movie  

Trash: A Esperança Vem do Lixo / Blu-ray + UV Digital Copy

Universal Studios | 2014 | 114 min | Rated R | Nov 17, 2015 | Martin Liebman

The story follows three boys in a third world country who scrape a living by picking through trash. One day they find a leather bag, the contents of which plunge them into a terrifying adventure, pitting their wits against corruption and authority to right a wrong.

Adventure / Crime / Drama / Mystery / Thriller / Foreign / Coming of age