New Blu-ray Reviews

Mean Guns Blu-ray Movie  

MVD Rewind Collection

MVD Visual | 1997 | 110 min | Rated R | Apr 09, 2024 | Jeffrey Kauffman

A crime syndicate puts 100 of its enemies in an empty prison, provides them with weapons and tells them that the last three to survive will get $10 million.

Action / Crime / Thriller

Black Panther 4K Blu-ray Movie  

Mondo X Series #42 / 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray + Digital Copy

Disney / Buena Vista | 2018 | 134 min | Rated PG-13 | Apr 02, 2024 | Jeffrey Kauffman

T'Challa, after the death of his father, the King of Wakanda, returns home to the isolated, technologically advanced African nation to succeed to the throne and take his rightful place as king.

Action / Adventure / Drama / Fantasy / Sci-Fi / Comic book

The Lavender Hill Mob 4K Blu-ray Movie    

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

Studio Canal | 1951 | 81 min | Rated BBFC: U | Apr 22, 2024 | Dr. Svet Atanasov

Holland, a shy retiring man, dreams of being rich and living the good life. Faithfully, for 20 years, he has worked as a bank transfer agent for the delivery of gold bullion. One day he befriends Pendlebury, a maker of souvenirs. Holland remarks that, with Pendlebury's smelting equipment, one could forge the gold into harmless-looking toy Eiffel Towers and smuggle the gold from England into France. Soon after, the two plant a story to gain the services of professional criminals Lackery and Shorty. Together, the four plot their crime, leading to unexpected twists and turns.

Comedy / Crime / Heist

Bite the Bullet Blu-ray Movie    

Imprint #237

Imprint | 1975 | 132 min | Rated ACB: PG | Dec 17, 2025 | Dr. Svet Atanasov

A group of ex-rough riders, an ex-prostitute and a gunfighter enter a horse race in the desert.

Action / Adventure / Western

Domestic Disturbance Blu-ray Movie  

Paramount Pictures | 2001 | 89 min | Rated PG-13 | Aug 09, 2022 | Martin Liebman

Frank Morrison is dubious when his often-deceitful son alleges that his new stepfather is a callous killer. But Frank soon begins to sense the boy is telling the truth.

Drama / Thriller

Roommates Blu-ray Movie  

Quality-X / Blu-ray + CD

Vinegar Syndrome | 1982 | 89 min | Rated X | Feb 28, 2024 | Brian Orndorf

This is a serious attempt to look into the lives of three different woman that come together as roommates in New York. Each of them were attempting to step out of their old, abused selves and start new lives. Although they try to support each other's goals, their old lives creep back into their work, relationships, and apartment. They meet abusive men just as before. However, this time, each is affected differently. One falls back into her old ways, one finds her dream, and the third manages to keep an even keel, only to end up looking for two new roommates to start over again.

Erotic / Melodrama

Venomous Blu-ray Movie  

Shout Factory | 2001 | 97 min | Rated PG-13 | Mar 26, 2024 | Brian Orndorf

Mutant snakes survived a terrorist attack on a government laboratory, and they now threaten the town of Santa Mira Springs, California. Seismic activity has brought snakes to the surface, where residents are being bitten. Victims can transmit the virus to healthy persons. The military puts the town under quarantine. Local physicians try to control the epidemic, while the military is primarily concerned with keeping the virus a secret.

Action / Drama / Horror

Carrie 4K Blu-ray Movie  

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

Shout Factory | 2013 | 100 min | Rated R | Mar 19, 2024 | Dr. Stephen Larson

A sheltered high school girl unleashes her newly developed telekinetic powers after she is pushed too far by her peers.

Drama / Horror / Teen / Psychological thriller / Supernatural / Coming of age

They Drive by Night Blu-ray Movie  

Warner Archive Collection

Warner Bros. | 1940 | 95 min | Not rated | Mar 26, 2024 | Randy Miller III

Two brothers struggle as wildcat truck drivers; one comes to harm, the other is accused of his friend's murder.

Crime / Drama / Film-Noir / Romance / Thriller

Foghat: Slow Ride Live in Concert Blu-ray Movie  

Cleopatra | 1999 | 78 min | Not rated | Apr 05, 2024 | Jeffrey Kauffman

Slow Ride: Live in Concert gives us undistilled Foghat, recorded and filmed live over two months in Texas in 1999, shortly before frontman Dave Peverett's premature death at the age of 56. The power and drive of these classic songs come ringing through and are a celebration of Foghat's vision and talent, many years since the band exploded onto the world in 1970.

Music

The Contender Blu-ray Movie  

Giant Interactive | 2000 | 127 min | Rated R | Mar 26, 2024 | Kenneth Brown

The vice president is dead, and as the president makes his choice for a replacement, a secret contest of wills is being waged by a formidable rival. When Senator Laine Hanson is nominated as the first woman in history to hold the office, hidden agendas explode into a battle for power.

Drama / Thriller

Colt .45: The Complete Series Blu-ray Movie  

Warner Archive Collection

Warner Bros. | 1957-1960 | 3 Seasons | 1875 min | Rated TV-G | Mar 12, 2024 | Randy Miller III

In the American West of the 1870s, Christopher Colt works undercover on a special assignment for the U.S. Army Intelligence Corps to combat the lawlessness on the young country's frontier. Using the guise of salesman for his family's arms manufacturing company, Colt travels alone, bringing law to the dangerous West at the barrel of his family's signature weapon—the Colt .45.

Action / Western

Phase IV 4K Blu-ray Movie  

4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray

Vinegar Syndrome | 1974 | 1 Movie, 2 Cuts | 84 min | Not rated | Feb 27, 2024 | Brian Orndorf

Desert ants suddenly form a collective intelligence and begin to wage war on the desert inhabitants. It is up to two scientists and a stray girl they rescue from the ants to destroy them. But the ants have other ideas.

Horror / Sci-Fi / Thriller

Out of Darkness Blu-ray Movie  

Decal Releasing | 2024 | 88 min | Rated R | Mar 26, 2024 | Brian Orndorf

In the Old Stone Age, a disparate gang of early humans band together in search of a new land. But when they suspect a malevolent, mystical being is hunting them down, the clan are forced to confront a danger they never envisaged.

Horror / Thriller

Monster Blu-ray Movie  

怪物

Well Go USA | 2023 | 127 min | Rated PG-13 | Apr 09, 2024 | Jeffrey Kauffman

A mother demands answers from teacher when her son begins acting strangely.

Drama / Thriller / Foreign

Tokyo Decadence Blu-ray Movie    

トパーズ / Topâzu

88 Films | 1992 | 113 min | Rated BBFC: 18 | Jan 29, 2024 | Dr. Svet Atanasov

A submissive hooker goes about her trade, suffering abuse at the hands of Japanese salarymen and Yakuza types. She's unhappy about her work, and is apparently trying to find some sort of appeasement for the fact that her lover has married.

Drama / Erotic / Foreign

Major League 4K Blu-ray Movie  

35th Anniversary Edition / 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray + Digital Copy

Paramount Pictures | 1989 | 107 min | Rated R | Apr 02, 2024 | Martin Liebman

She’s beautiful, smart, goal-oriented, and she just inherited the Cleveland Indians. Unfortunately, she wants to move the franchise to Miami, and a losing season is her only ticket to Florida. So she signs the wildest gang of screwballs that ever spit tobacco. They’re handsome, but they’re hopeless! Her catcher is a washed-up womanizer who struck out in life. Her ace pitcher is a punked-out crazy who struck out with the law. And her third baseman is more concerned fielding endorsements than grounders. Throw in a busload of other misfits and you’ve got yourself a hilarious line-up that’s destined for disaster! Or is it?

Comedy / Sport

Major League 4K Blu-ray Movie  

35th Anniversary Limited Edition / 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray + Digital Copy

Paramount Pictures | 1989 | 107 min | Rated R | Apr 02, 2024 | Martin Liebman

She’s beautiful, smart, goal-oriented, and she just inherited the Cleveland Indians. Unfortunately, she wants to move the franchise to Miami, and a losing season is her only ticket to Florida. So she signs the wildest gang of screwballs that ever spit tobacco. They’re handsome, but they’re hopeless! Her catcher is a washed-up womanizer who struck out in life. Her ace pitcher is a punked-out crazy who struck out with the law. And her third baseman is more concerned fielding endorsements than grounders. Throw in a busload of other misfits and you’ve got yourself a hilarious line-up that’s destined for disaster! Or is it?

Comedy / Sport

PAX - Ensemble 96 & Current Saxophone Quartet Blu-ray Movie  

Blu-ray Audio / Blu-ray + SACD + Digital Copy

2L | 2024 | 50 min | Not rated | Apr 05, 2024 | Jeffrey Kauffman

PAX is a concept in which music, lyrics and the sacred space of the cathedral energize each other in these performances of new works by Norwegian composers who all approach the theme of peace with their own individual reflections and interpretations. The music is composed specifically to be performed and recorded as an immersive experience.

Music

Fear City Blu-ray Movie    

Black Label 034 | Limited Edition

101 Films | 1984 | 1 Movie, 2 Cuts | 97 min | Rated BBFC: 18 | Mar 18, 2024 | Dr. Svet Atanasov

In New York City, a psycho killer is stalking and randomly slashing and killing strippers working in various nightclubs. Matt Rossi is a former boxer trying to escape his past whom is currently employed at a talent agency which caters exotic dancers to the mafia-controlled strip clubs all over Manhattan. Matt and his business partner, Nicky, are relentlessly dogged by Al Wheeler, a persistent police detective on the case of the murdered strippers, and hoping to find something to nail both Matt and Nicky on. Matt is trying to reconcile with his former flame, Loretta, whom also works as a dancer and has a off-again, on-again drug problem. With the police constantly hounding them, and under pressure from his mob boss and other bosses to do something, Matt must somehow face his inner demons to find the killer before he strikes again.

Crime / Drama / Mystery / Thriller