New Blu-ray Reviews

Hootie & the Blowfish: Cracked Rear View Blu-ray Movie  

Blu-ray Audio

Rhino Music | 1996 | 44 min | Not rated | Mar 29, 2024 | Jeffrey Kauffman

CRACKED REAR VIEW includes Dolby Atmos, Dolby 5.1 Surround Sound, and PCM 24/96 High Resolution Stereo mixes. The band’s 1994 debut was a No.1 smash in the U.S., where it’s been certified Double Diamond by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). The single “Let Her Cry” garnered a Grammy® Award in 1996 for Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals.

Music

Van Morrison: Moondance Blu-ray Movie  

Blu-ray Audio

Warner Records | 1970 | 39 min | Not rated | Dec 08, 2023 | Jeffrey Kauffman

No synopsis for this title.

Music

Paganini Blu-ray Movie  

Slipcover in Original Pressing

Vinegar Syndrome | 1989 | 1 Movie, 2 Cuts | 85 min | Not rated | May 28, 2024 | Brian Orndorf

Klaus Kinski believed that he lived through the same experiences as the legendary "devil violinist" Niccolò Paganini, who set all of nineteenth-century Europe into a frenzy and through whose personality Kinski offers an incredibly profound and honest insight into his own life; a life of extremities.

Biography / Drama / History / Erotic / Foreign

Gretel & Hansel 4K Blu-ray Movie  

4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray

Shout Factory | 2020 | 88 min | Rated PG-13 | May 21, 2024 | Brian Orndorf

A long time ago in a distant fairy tale countryside, a young girl leads her little brother into a dark wood in desperate search of food and work, only to stumble upon a nexus of terrifying evil.

Fantasy / Horror / Thriller / Supernatural / Period

The Lawyer Blu-ray Movie  

Special Edition

Kino Lorber | 1970 | 120 min | Not rated | May 21, 2024 | Dr. Svet Atanasov

An ambitious young defense lawyer tries to make it to the top with a small-town murder case that gets national media attention.

Drama

Thunderheart Blu-ray Movie  

Sony Pictures | 1992 | 119 min | Rated R | May 21, 2024 | Kenneth Brown

An FBI agent of Native-American descent is assigned to a troubled reservation in the Badlands in hopes that his heritage will gain the trust of the "traditional" Indians. Loosely based on events on the Pine Ridge Reservation in the 1970s.

Crime / Mystery / Thriller

The Vertical Ray of the Sun Blu-ray Movie  

Mùa hè chieu thang dung

Sony Pictures | 2000 | 112 min | Rated PG-13 | May 21, 2024 | Dr. Stephen Larson

With the brilliant Vietnamese summer as a setting Vertical Ray of the Sun is beautiful from beginning to end. The plot centers around three sisters, two of whom are happily married (or so it appears). The youngest sister is single and living with her cute older brother, whom she is desperately in love with. A second sister is married to a man who has another woman and child elsewhere whom he loves just as much as his wife -with a few conditions, she agrees to carry on with the marriage. The third sister and her husband are overjoyed to discover she is pregnant, and though he is tempted, her husband remains loyal to her. Charming, slow-paced, face value, family saga film.

Drama / Foreign

The Boys in Company C Blu-ray Movie  

Hen's Tooth Video | 1978 | 125 min | Rated R | Jan 17, 2012 | Martin Liebman

This war drama follows the lives of five young Marine inductees from their training in boot camp in 1967 through a tour in Vietnam in 1968 that quickly devolves into a hellish nightmare. Disheartened by futile combat, appalled by the corruption of their South Vietnamese ally, and constantly endangered by the incompetence of their own company commander, the young men find a possible way out of the war. They are told that if they can defeat a rival soccer team, they can spend the rest of their tour playing exhibition games behind the lines. But as they might have predicted, nothing in Vietnam is as simple as it seems.

Drama / War

'Round Midnight Blu-ray Movie  

Criterion | 1986 | 132 min | Rated R | Apr 26, 2022 | Jeffrey Kauffman

In the 1950s, Dale Turner, a gifted black saxophonist with a drinking problem, leaves behind New York and his estranged family and relocates to Paris. There he plays for a progressive, jazz-loving audience without being judged by his race, and ages quietly in peace. Not intending to turn away from his vices, Dale nonetheless becomes the project of a French fan who tries to help him fight his alcoholism, ultimately inspiring both Dale and his music.

Drama / Music

Bob Marley: One Love 4K Blu-ray Movie  

4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray + Digital Copy

Paramount Pictures | 2024 | 107 min | Rated PG-13 | May 28, 2024 | Martin Liebman

Celebrates the life and music of an icon who inspired generations through his message of love and unity. Discover Bob's powerful story of overcoming adversity and the journey behind his revolutionary music.

Biography / Drama / Music

Bob Marley: One Love Blu-ray Movie  

Blu-ray + Digital Copy

Paramount Pictures | 2024 | 104 min | Rated PG-13 | May 28, 2024 | Martin Liebman

Celebrates the life and music of an icon who inspired generations through his message of love and unity. Discover Bob's powerful story of overcoming adversity and the journey behind his revolutionary music.

Biography / Drama / Music

Welcome Home, Roxy Carmichael Blu-ray Movie    

Via Vision Entertainment | 1990 | 96 min | Rated ACB: PG | Apr 17, 2024 | Dr. Svet Atanasov

To lonely high school outsider Dinky Bossetti (Winona Ryder), Clyde, Ohio, seemed like the dullest place on Earth...until Roxy Carmichael announced she was coming back to town. Fifteen years ago, Roxy ditched this little town and went on to become rich and famous. She left behind a trail of broken hearts - most notably that of Denton Webb (Jeff Daniels), a local contractor who's never quite gotten over his first wild love. He alone knows that Roxy gave birth to a baby that she abandoned in her quest for stardom. When the adopted Dinky learns this secret, she begins to suspect that she is Roxy's long-lost child. Now, Dinky intends to seek out her real mother and claim her heritage...no matter what the consequences might be.

Comedy / Drama / Teen

American Hustle 4K Blu-ray Movie  

10th Anniversary / 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray + Digital Copy

Sony Pictures | 2013 | 138 min | Rated R | May 21, 2024 | Kenneth Brown

A fictional film set in the seductive world of one of the most stunning scandals to rock our nation, American Hustle tells the story of brilliant con man Irving Rosenfeld, who along with his equally cunning British partner and lover Sydney Prosser is forced to work for a wild unhinged FBI agent Richie DiMaso. DiMaso pushes them into a world of Jersey powerbrokers and mafia that's as dangerous as it is enchanting. Renner is Carmen Polito, the passionate, volatile, New Jersey political operator caught between the con-artists and Feds. Irving's unpredictable wife Rosalyn could be the one to pull the thread that brings the entire world crashing down.

Comedy / Crime / Drama / Period

Into the Blue Blu-ray Movie  

Capelight Pictures | 2005 | 106 min | Rated PG-13 | May 28, 2024 | Randy Miller III

When two sexy young divers who dream of finding hidden treasure take some friends on an extreme sport adventure, the last thing they expect to see below the shark-infested waters is a legendary pirate ship rumored to contain millions of dollars in gold. But their incredible good fortune is short-lived, as a ruthless gang of deadly criminals gets word of what they have uncovered. The discovery of a lifetime could just cost the treasure hunters their lives, in the exciting new thriller from the director of Blue Crush.

Action / Adventure / Crime / Thriller

Kung Fu Panda 4 Blu-ray Movie  

Collector's Edition / Blu-ray + DVD + Digital Copy

Universal Studios | 2024 | 94 min | Rated PG | May 28, 2024 | Justin Dekker

After Po is tapped to become the Spiritual Leader of the Valley of Peace, he needs to find and train a new Dragon Warrior, while a wicked sorceress plans to re-summon all the master villains whom Po has vanquished to the spirit realm.

Action / Adventure / Animation / Comedy / Fantasy / Martial arts

Kung Fu Panda 4 4K Blu-ray Movie  

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

Universal Studios | 2024 | 94 min | Rated PG | May 28, 2024 | Justin Dekker

After Po is tapped to become the Spiritual Leader of the Valley of Peace, he needs to find and train a new Dragon Warrior, while a wicked sorceress plans to re-summon all the master villains whom Po has vanquished to the spirit realm.

Action / Adventure / Animation / Comedy / Fantasy / Martial arts

The Man from Toronto Blu-ray Movie  

Blu-ray + Digital Copy

Sony Pictures | 2022 | 110 min | Rated PG-13 | Jun 13, 2023 | Justin Dekker

The world's deadliest assassin and New York's biggest screw-up are mistaken for each other at an Airbnb rental.

Action / Comedy

Midnight Desires Blu-ray Movie  

Quality X / Slipcover Limited to 3000 Copies

Vinegar Syndrome | 1976 | 73 min | Rated X | Apr 29, 2024 | Brian Orndorf

Four friends on a weekend getaway to Long Island are siting around a fireplace and each relates a sexual fantasy that he or she has had for a long time but kept secret.

Drama / Erotic

Brooklyn 45 Blu-ray Movie  

Slipcover in Original Pressing

Shudder | 2023 | 93 min | Not rated | May 14, 2024 | Brian Orndorf

Five military veterans, best friends since childhood, gather together to support their troubled host, and the metaphoric ghosts of their past become all-too-literal.

Drama / Horror / Supernatural

The Best of The Doors Blu-ray Movie  

Dolby Atmos Blu-ray Audio

Rhino Music | 2000 | 91 min | Not rated | Jul 12, 2024 | Jeffrey Kauffman

All mixed by The Doors’ original engineer Bruce Botnick.

Music