New Blu-ray Reviews

Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story Blu-ray Movie  

Hard as Steel Ultimate Edition

Mill Creek Entertainment | 2007 | 1 Movie, 2 Cuts | 120 min | Unrated | Jan 16, 2024 | Martin Liebman

America loves Cox! Behind the music is the up-and-down-and-up-again story of a legend whose songs would change a nation. On his rock 'n' roll spiral, Cox sleeps with 411 women, marries three times, has 22 kids and 14 stepkids, stars in his own '70s TV variety show, collects friends ranging from Elvis to the Beatles to a chimp, and gets addicted to — and then kicks — every drug known to man... but despite it all, Cox grows into a national icon and eventually earns the love of a good woman — longtime backup singer Darlene.

Comedy / Music

Suzume Blu-ray Movie  

Limited Edition | Suzume no Tojimari | すずめの戸締まり / Blu-ray + DVD

Crunchyroll, LLC | 2022 | 121 min | Rated PG | Mar 12, 2024 | Neil Lumbard

Seventeen-year-old Suzume discovers a mysterious door in the mountains, and soon other doors begin appearing across Japan. As the doors open, they release disasters and destruction, and it's up to Suzume to close them again.

Action / Adventure / Anime / Fantasy / Mystery / Teen / Foreign / Surreal

Stephen King's The Shining Blu-ray Movie  

Shout Factory | 1997 | 273 min | Not rated | Mar 12, 2024 | Neil Lumbard

Jack Torrance and his family move into the sprawling, vacant Overlook Hotel to get away from it all. Away from the alcoholism that derails Jack's writing career. Away from the violent outbursts that mar Jack's past. But Jack's young son Danny knows better. He possesses a psychic gift called the shining — a gift the hotel's vile spirits desperately want. In the hands of Stephen King, the "dead" Overlook comes horrifyingly alive. Phantoms lurk, the message "redrum" appears with scary frequency and even garden topiary lurches into macabre existence in this atmospheric shocker scripted by King from his own novel and directed by ace King screen adapter Mick Garris.

Drama / Horror / Supernatural

The Devil's Brigade Blu-ray Movie  

Special Edition

Kino Lorber | 1968 | 132 min | Not rated | Jan 16, 2024 | Dr. Svet Atanasov

An American colonel takes on the task of melding a renegade group of U.S. and Canadian recruits into a crack team of commandos.

Action / Adventure / War

Child's Play 4K Blu-ray Movie  

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

Shout Factory | 2019 | 90 min | Rated R | Mar 19, 2024 | Neil Lumbard

A remake of the classic 1988 flick, a mother gives her son a toy doll for his birthday, unaware of its more sinister nature.

Horror / Thriller

Air Doll Blu-ray Movie  

空気人形 / Kûki ningyô / Slipcover in Original Pressing

Dekanalog | 2009 | 116 min | Not rated | Jun 28, 2022 | Dr. Stephen Larson

A life-size, inflatable sex doll suddenly comes to life one day. Without her owner knowing, she goes for a walk around town and falls in love with Junichi. She starts to date Junichi and gets a job at the same store where he works. Everything seems to be going perfectly for her until something unexpected happens.

Drama / Fantasy / Foreign

Black Mask Blu-ray Movie  

黑俠 | Hak hap | Eureka Classics | Limited Edition

Eureka Entertainment | 1996 | 1 Movie, 4 Cuts | 86 min | Not rated | Apr 23, 2024 | Jeffrey Kauffman

A survivor of a supersoldier project must fight his former comrades as a masked hero

Action / Adventure / Comedy / Crime / Sci-Fi / Thriller / Martial arts / Comic book / Foreign

Monk: The Complete Fifth Season Blu-ray Movie  

Kino Lorber | 2006-2007 | 686 min | Not rated | Mar 26, 2024 | Martin Liebman

It’s time to tidy up for another season with the marvelous Tony Shalhoub in all 16 fifth-season episodes of Monk, television’s freshest and funniest series. Gumshoe Adrian Monk would never actually have gum on his well-polished shoes: in addition to intellect and instinct, he also has obsessive-compulsive disorder. Though his eccentric traits bewilder his colleagues Natalie Teeger, Captain Stottlemeyer and Lieutenant Disher, Monk’s attention to detail keeps crime—and grime—off the streets. Follow the clues to Season Five of Monk, the quirky and original show TV Guide hails as “alternatively hilarious and touching,” featuring guest stars Brooke Adams, Sean Astin, Alice Cooper, Charles Durning, Dan Hedaya, Jennifer Lawrence, Sharon Lawrence, Chi McBride, Andy Richter, Stanley Tucci, Reginald VelJohnson, Steven Weber, Peter Weller and many more.

Comedy / Crime / Drama / Mystery

Doom Patrol: The Complete Fourth and Final Season Blu-ray Movie  

Warner Bros. | 2022-2023 | 586 min | Not rated | Apr 09, 2024 | Randy Miller III

Set after the events of Titans, the Doom Patrol – consisting of Robotman, Negative Man, Elasti-Woman, and Crazy Jane, and led by Dr. Niles Caulder / Chief – receive a mission from Cyborg that they cannot ignore and will change their lives.

Action / Adventure / Comedy / Fantasy / Sci-Fi / Dark humor / Comic book

Dogfight Blu-ray Movie  

Criterion | 1991 | 94 min | Rated R | Apr 30, 2024 | Dr. Svet Atanasov

Director Nancy Savoca tackles tough material in the battle of the sexes, late-teen division, and makes it bitterly moving. River Phoenix plays one of a group of youngish marines on the verge of shipping out to Southeast Asia in 1963 San Francisco. On their last night in port, they decide to hold a "dogfight": a contest to see who can get the ugliest girl to go out with him. Phoenix winds up with a pudgy waitress (Lili Taylor), who has dreams of being like her hero, Joan Baez. As he draws her out, he finds himself intrigued by the self-contained world she has created for herself and by the time he gets her to the dance he is regretting his decision--but is too macho to pull out.

Drama / Romance / War

Monolith Blu-ray Movie  

Well Go USA | 2022 | 94 min | Rated R | Apr 23, 2024 | Jeffrey Kauffman

A headstrong journalist whose investigative podcast uncovers a strange artifact, an alien conspiracy, and the lies at the heart of her own story.

Mystery / Sci-Fi / Thriller

The Cat and the Canary Blu-ray Movie  

Masters of Cinema

Eureka Entertainment | 1927 | 86 min | Not rated | Apr 23, 2024 | Jeffrey Kauffman

Rich old Cyrus West's relatives are waiting for him to die so they can inherit. But he stipulates that his will be read 20 years after his death. On the appointed day his expectant heirs arrive at his brooding mansion. The will is read and it turns out that Annabelle West, the only heir with his name left, inherits, if she is deemed sane. If she isn't, the money and some diamonds go to someone else, whose name is in a sealed envelope. Before he can reveal the identity of her successor to Annabelle, Mr. Crosby, the lawyer, disappears. The first in a series of mysterious events, some of which point to Annabelle in fact being unstable...

Drama / Horror / Mystery / Romance

The Ring Collection 4K Blu-ray Movie  

The Ring / The Ring Two / Rings / 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray

Shout Factory | 2002-2017 | 3 Movies, 4 Cuts | 345 min | Unrated | Mar 19, 2024 | Neil Lumbard

See individual titles for their synopses.

Drama / Horror / Mystery / Thriller / Supernatural

Rings 4K Blu-ray Movie  

4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray

Shout Factory | 2017 | 102 min | Rated PG-13 | No Release Date | Neil Lumbard

Julia becomes worried about her boyfriend, Holt, when he explores the dark urban legend of a mysterious video said to kill the watcher seven days after viewing. She sacrifices herself to save her boyfriend and in doing so makes a horrifying discovery: there is a "movie within the movie" that no one has ever seen before.

Drama / Horror / Mystery / Supernatural

The Ring Two 4K Blu-ray Movie  

4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray

Shout Factory | 2005 | 1 Movie, 2 Cuts | 128 min | Unrated | No Release Date | Neil Lumbard

6 months after the incidents involving the lethal videotape, new clues prove that there is a new evil lurking in the darkness.

Horror / Mystery / Supernatural

The Ring 4K Blu-ray Movie  

4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray

Shout Factory | 2002 | 115 min | Rated PG-13 | No Release Date | Neil Lumbard

A journalist must investigate a mysterious videotape which seems to cause the death of anyone one week to the day after they view it.

Horror / Mystery / Thriller / Supernatural

The United States of Insanity Blu-ray Movie  

Slipcover in Original Pressing

ETR Media | 2021 | 99 min | Not rated | Apr 30, 2024 | Brian Orndorf

The story of controversial rap duo Insane Clown Posse (ICP), their fans, and their ongoing struggle with the FBI in a landmark case that may be a bellwether of change for First Amendment rights in America.

Biography / Documentary / Music

A Man Called Hero Blu-ray Movie  

Jung wa ying hong / Zhōng huá yīng xióng / 中華英雄

Vinegar Syndrome | 1999 | 116 min | Not rated | Feb 27, 2024 | Brian Orndorf

After a simple initiation ceremony, Hero goes home with excited but he finds his parent was killed. What had happened was, Gian took a group of foreigners to Hero's parents and forced them to hand over the Red Sword, their family treasure. In order to take revenge, Hero kills the foreigners. Thereafter, he wants by the police and signs up to be a coal miner in America.......

Action / Adventure / Drama / Martial arts / Foreign

Peeping Tom 4K Blu-ray Movie  

4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray

Criterion | 1960 | 101 min | Not rated | May 14, 2024 | Dr. Svet Atanasov

A frank exploration of voyeurism and violence, Michael Powell's extraordinary film is the story of a psychopathic cameraman - his childhood traumas, sexual crises, and murderous revenge as an adult. Reviled by critics upon its initial release for its deeply unsettling subject matter, the film has since been hailed as a masterpiece.

Mystery / Thriller / Psychological thriller

Peeping Tom Blu-ray Movie  

Criterion | 1960 | 101 min | Not rated | May 14, 2024 | Dr. Svet Atanasov

A frank exploration of voyeurism and violence, Michael Powell's extraordinary film is the story of a psychopathic cameraman - his childhood traumas, sexual crises, and murderous revenge as an adult. Reviled by critics upon its initial release for its deeply unsettling subject matter, the film has since been hailed as a masterpiece.

Mystery / Thriller / Psychological thriller