New Blu-ray Reviews
Home- February 27, 2024
Millennium Mambo Blu-ray Movie
千禧曼波 / Qian xi man bo
Metrograph Pictures | 2001 | 106 min | Rated R | Jun 27, 2023 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
Taipei. A voice off-camera looks back ten years to 2000, when Vicky was in an on-again off-again relationship with Hao-Hao. She's young, lovely, and aimless. He's a slacker. Cigarettes and alcohol fuel her nights. We see bits of her life: when Hao-Hao steals his father's Rolex and the police detain them; when she gets a job as a club hostess, where she meets Jack, who becomes her patron and protector; when Hao-Hao comes to the club, insisting on talking to her; when she visits Yubari, Japan, for its film festival in the dead of winter; when Jack must go to Japan to straighten out trouble caused by one of his acolytes. Does Vicky have any expectations? Does time simply pass?
Drama / Romance / Foreign
The Rock-afire Explosion Blu-ray Movie
Slipcover in Original Presisng
AGFA | 2008 | 72 min | Not rated | Mar 26, 2024 | Brian Orndorf
A cult fan-favorite documentary that explores the rise and fall of Showbiz Pizza Place, its animatronic rock band, and the origins of Chuck E. Cheese.
Documentary
Willy's Wonderland 4K Blu-ray Movie
Collector's Edition / 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray
Shout Factory | 2021 | 89 min | Not rated | Feb 13, 2024 | Brian Orndorf
A quiet drifter is tricked into a janitorial job at the now condemned Willy's Wonderland. The mundane tasks suddenly become an all-out fight for survival against wave after wave of demonic animatronics. Fists fly, kicks land, titans clash -- and only one side will make it out alive.
Comedy / Horror
Bo Widerberg's New Swedish Cinema Blu-ray Movie
The Baby Carriage / Raven's End / Elvira Madigan / Ådalen 31
Criterion | 1963-1969 | 4 Movies | 402 min | Not rated | Aug 22, 2023 | Jeffrey Kauffman
See individual titles for their synopses.
Drama / History / Romance / Foreign
The Baby Carriage Blu-ray Movie
Barnvagnen
Criterion | 1963 | 96 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Jeffrey Kauffman
A young factory worker finds her way toward independence as she weathers unexpected pregnancy, learns hard lessons from relationships with two very different men, and leaves behind the only home she has ever known.
Drama / Foreign
Raven's End Blu-ray Movie
Kvarteret Korpen
Criterion | 1963 | 101 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Jeffrey Kauffman
In the poor district of Raven's End, young Anders chases his dream of becoming a writer while growing increasingly disillusioned with the dead-end world that surrounds him: an alcoholic father, a toiling mother, and the ominous specter of Nazism.
Drama / Foreign
Elvira Madigan Blu-ray Movie
Criterion | 1967 | 91 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Jeffrey Kauffman
Bound by their all-consuming desire, a young circus tightrope walker and a lieutenant with a wife and children forsake everything to be together and escape to the countryside—only to see their lovers' idyll gradually give way to poverty and desperation.
Drama / Romance / Foreign
Ådalen 31 Blu-ray Movie
Adalen 31
Criterion | 1969 | 115 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Jeffrey Kauffman
In the industrial district of Ådalen, in the north of Sweden, a peaceful demonstration takes a tragic turn, leading to a historic general strike. Amid these events, the teenage Kjell experiences sacrifice and strife, love and loss, and the consequences of this shocking violence.
Drama / History / Romance / Foreign
- February 26, 2024
Honor Among Lovers Blu-ray Movie
Indicator Series | Limited Edition
Powerhouse Films | 1931 | 76 min | Rated BBFC: PG | Jan 15, 2024 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
Screen legends Claudette Colbert and Fredric March star in Honor Among Lovers, an intense romantic drama from trailblazing female director Dorothy Arzner. An office flirtation turns deadly when secretary Julia Traynor’s (Colbert) jealous husband Philip Craig (Monroe Owsley) questions the nature of her relationship with her former boss Jerry Stafford (March). This Pre-Code Hollywood classic features a star-studded supporting cast including Ginger Rogers, Charles Ruggles and Pat O’Brien.
Drama / Romance
Dangerous Waters Blu-ray Movie
Brainstorm Media | 2023 | 111 min | Rated PG-13 | Jan 16, 2024 | Kenneth Brown
A sailing holiday spirals out of control when a teenage daughter uncovers the dark past of her mother's new boyfriend.
Thriller
Wonka 4K Blu-ray Movie
4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray + Digital Copy
Warner Bros. | 2023 | 116 min | Rated PG | Feb 27, 2024 | Randy Miller III
With dreams of opening a shop in a city renowned for its chocolate, a young and poor Willy Wonka discovers that the industry is run by a cartel of greedy chocolatiers.
Adventure / Comedy / Family / Musical
- February 25, 2024
Leviathan 4K Blu-ray Movie
4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray
Kino Lorber | 1989 | 98 min | Rated R | Feb 20, 2024 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
Perched on the hull of a wrecked Soviet freighter, a team of deep-sea miners—led by head oceanographer Steven Beck—comes face-to-face with a mutant creature that's the product of a failed genetic experiment. As Beck's crew members begin to disappear one by one, the flesh-eating monster lurks below the surface—and the divers left alive are scared to death.
Adventure / Horror / Mystery / Sci-Fi / Thriller
Leviathan Blu-ray Movie
4K Restoration
Kino Lorber | 1989 | 98 min | Rated R | Feb 20, 2024 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
Perched on the hull of a wrecked Soviet freighter, a team of deep-sea miners—led by head oceanographer Steven Beck—comes face-to-face with a mutant creature that's the product of a failed genetic experiment. As Beck's crew members begin to disappear one by one, the flesh-eating monster lurks below the surface—and the divers left alive are scared to death.
Adventure / Horror / Mystery / Sci-Fi / Thriller
Contagion 4K Blu-ray Movie
4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray + Digital Copy
Warner Bros. | 2011 | 106 min | Rated PG-13 | Feb 27, 2024 | Randy Miller III
Illustrates the worst-case scenario of a global viral pandemic as people become severely ill and harried doctors struggle to contain the disease.
Drama / Mystery / Sci-Fi / Thriller / Psychological thriller
The Moon Blu-ray Movie
더 문 / Deo mun
Well Go USA | 2023 | 129 min | Not rated | Feb 27, 2024 | Jeffrey Kauffman
A man is left in space due to an unfortunate accident while another man on Earth struggles to bring him back safely.
Drama / Sci-Fi / Foreign
- February 24, 2024
The Wages of Fear 4K Blu-ray Movie
Le salaire de la peur / 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray
BFI Video | 1953 | 153 min | Rated BBFC: 12 | Feb 19, 2024 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
In a squalid South American oil town, four desperate men sign on for a suicide mission to drive trucks loaded with nitroglycerin over a treacherous mountain route. As they ferry their explosive cargo to a faraway oil fire, each bump and jolt tests their courage, their friendship, and their nerves.
Action / Adventure / Drama / Thriller / Psychological thriller / Foreign
Black Tight Killers Blu-ray Movie
Ore ni sawaru to abunaize
Radiance Films | 1966 | 87 min | Not rated | Feb 27, 2024 | Jeffrey Kauffman
A military photographer takes a cute stewardess out to dinner where she is promptly kidnapped. Deciding that he has fallen in love with the girl, our "hero" decides to investigate her kidnapping himself.
Action / Foreign
- February 23, 2024
The Last Castle 4K Blu-ray Movie
4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray
Kino Lorber | 2001 | 131 min | Rated R | Feb 20, 2024 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
A court-martialed general rallies together 1,200 inmates to rise against a corrupt and sadistic warden.
Action / Drama / Thriller / War
Darkman 4K Blu-ray Movie
Collector's Edition / 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray
Shout Factory | 1990 | 96 min | Rated R | Feb 20, 2024 | Brian Orndorf
A brilliant scientist left for dead returns to exact revenge on the people who burned him alive.
Action / Crime / Horror / Sci-Fi / Thriller / Dark humor
The Terminal Man Blu-ray Movie
Shout Factory | 1974 | 104 min | Rated PG | Feb 06, 2024 | Brian Orndorf
An epileptic computer programmer undergoes a surgical procedure in which electrodes are planted in his brain and a miniature computer is inserted into his chest. Rather than curing him, though, the malfunctioning electrodes render him dangerous and violent.
Sci-Fi / Thriller