New Blu-ray Reviews
Home- February 07, 2024
Radio Days Blu-ray Movie
Sandpiper Pictures | 1987 | 89 min | Rated PG | Oct 18, 2022 | Kenneth Brown
A vignette-packed memory piece about growing up in Brooklyn in the 1940s, obsessed with the music, entertainment, and news of the wide world brought into every household via the magic of radio. A young Allen surrogate lives with his parents and extended family in the wind-swept Rockaway neighborhood, their daily routines spiced by the glamor, excitement, thrills and even occasional doses of grim reality coming to them over the airwaves.
Comedy / Music / Period / Coming of age
Wild Bill Blu-ray Movie
Sandpiper Pictures | 1995 | 98 min | Not rated | Dec 20, 2022 | Kenneth Brown
The early career of legendary lawman Wild Bill Hickock is telescoped and culminates in his relocation in Deadwood and a reunion with Calamity Jane.
Action / Biography / Western
Big Night Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + Digital Copy
Paramount Pictures | 1996 | 109 min | Rated R | Jan 31, 2023 | Kenneth Brown
A failing Italian restaurant run by two brothers gamble on one special night to try to save the business.
Drama
Saving Grace Blu-ray Movie
Warner Archive Collection
Warner Bros. | 2000 | 93 min | Not rated | Dec 12, 2023 | Randy Miller III
A small-town English widow, facing financial troubles after her husband's suicide, turns to agriculture of an illegal kind.
Comedy / Crime
- February 06, 2024
The Frightened Woman Blu-ray Movie
The Laughing Woman | Femina ridens | Restored Edition
Shameless | 1969 | 90 min | Rated BBFC: 18 | Jan 08, 2024 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
A rich and sadistic man, who enjoys degrading women as part of elaborate S&M games, abducts a female journalist. She is subjected to his unpleasant games but soon begins subverting him.
Thriller / Foreign
The Strangler Blu-ray Movie
Altered Innocence | 1970 | 96 min | Not rated | Feb 27, 2024 | Kenneth Brown
Unhappy women are being murdered by Emile (Jacques Perrin), a psychotic young man suffering from the delusion that his acts are mercy killings. The detective (Julien Guiomar) assigned to track down the killer resorts to seriously unorthodox and even unethical methods to get his man. In one instance, he impersonates a psychologist on a TV show he and Emile appear on together and attempts to provoke Emile into revealing himself.
Drama
Mean Girls Blu-ray Movie
So Fetch! Limited Edition / Blu-ray + Digital Copy
Paramount Pictures | 2004 | 97 min | Rated PG-13 | Sep 27, 2022 | Martin Liebman
Teenage Cady Heron was educated in Africa by her scientist parents. When her family moves to the suburbs of Illinois, Cady finally gets to experience public school and gets a quick primer on the cruel, tacit laws of popularity that divide her fellow students into tightly knit cliques. She unwittingly finds herself in the good graces of an elite group of cool students dubbed "the Plastics," but Cady soon realizes how her shallow group of new friends earned this nickname.
Comedy / Romance / Teen / Coming of age
Kindergarten Cop 4K Blu-ray Movie
4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray
Kino Lorber | 1990 | 112 min | Rated PG-13 | Jan 23, 2024 | Martin Liebman
A tough cop must pose as a kindergarten teacher in order to locate a dangerous criminal's ex-wife, who may hold the key to putting him behind bars.
Comedy / Crime / Thriller
Silent Night 4K Blu-ray Movie
4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray + Digital Copy
Lionsgate Films | 2023 | 104 min | Rated R | Jan 30, 2024 | Jeffrey Kauffman
An ordinary father heads into the criminal underworld to avenge his young son’s death.
Action
Faithless Blu-ray Movie
Warner Archive Collection
Warner Bros. | 1932 | 77 min | Not rated | Jan 30, 2024 | Randy Miller III
The great Tallulah Bankhead stars as wealthy Carol Morgan, a giddy heiress who spurns the affections of Bill Wade (Robert Montgomery) because he earns a mere $20,000 a year. But when Morgan loses her fortune in the Depression, rather than accepting the man who truly loves her, she becomes the mistress of a still-wealthy, abusive man she does not love. Based on the novel "Tinfoil" by Mildred Cram.
Drama
Paths of Glory 4K Blu-ray Movie
Masters of Cinema / 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray
Eureka Entertainment | 1957 | 88 min | Rated BBFC: PG | Feb 26, 2024 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
A World War I French colonel goes head-to-head with the army's ruthless top brass when his men are accused of cowardice after being unable to carry out an impossible mission.
Drama / War
Islands in the Stream Blu-ray Movie
Imprint #287
Imprint | 1977 | 104 min | Rated ACB: PG | Dec 27, 2023 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
After a parade of top-heavy blockbusters (Papillon, Nicholas and Alexandra), director Franklin J. Schaffner retreats, like the Hemingway character of the film, to peaceful tropical serenity in Islands in the Stream (based on Ernest Hemingway's posthumously published novel). George C. Scott plays the rich, but world-weary writer Thomas Hudson, living on Bimini in the Bahamas, where he carouses, drinks, and fishes to his heart's content. Invading Hudson's paradise is a parade of the sons of his ex-wives. His oldest son Tom succeeds in getting closer to his father, but the bonding comes to a halt as ripples from the encroaching conflagration of World War II intrude upon Hudson's retreat.
Drama / War
Dogs Don't Wear Pants Blu-ray Movie
Koirat eivät käytä housuja
Yellow Veil Pictures | 2019 | 105 min | Not rated | Feb 27, 2024 | Kenneth Brown
Juha has lost his wife in a drowning accident. Years after he still feels numb and unable to connect with people. Meeting Mona, a dominatrix, changes everything.
Drama / Foreign
- February 05, 2024
Whitney Houston: I Wanna Dance with Somebody Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + Digital Copy
Sony Pictures | 2022 | 144 min | Rated PG-13 | Feb 28, 2023 | Martin Liebman
The joyous, emotional and heart-breaking celebration of the life and music of Whitney Houston, the greatest female R&B pop vocalist of all time.
Biography / Drama / Music
The Sting of Death Blu-ray Movie
死の棘 / Shi no toge
Radiance Films | 1990 | 114 min | Not rated | Feb 06, 2024 | Jeffrey Kauffman
Period drama set in the 1950's about a couple isolating themselves from the outside world as they attempt to salvage their faltering marriage, no matter what the costs, after the husband has an affair.
Drama / Foreign
Scarlet Street 4K Blu-ray Movie
4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray
Kino Lorber | 1945 | 102 min | Not rated | Jan 30, 2024 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
When a man in mid-life crisis befriends a young woman, her venal fiancé persuades her to con him out of some of the fortune she thinks he has.
Drama / Film-Noir
Scarlet Street Blu-ray Movie
4K Restoration
Kino Lorber | 1945 | 103 min | Not rated | Jan 30, 2024 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
When a man in mid-life crisis befriends a young woman, her venal fiancé persuades her to con him out of some of the fortune she thinks he has.
Drama / Film-Noir
The Prophecy 3: The Ascent 4K Blu-ray Movie
4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray
Vinegar Syndrome | 2000 | 84 min | Rated R | No Release Date | Kenneth Brown
As the War in Heaven and on Earth continues, Pyriel, the Angel of Genocide, rises to power intending to destroy all of mankind. The only one who stands in his way is Danyael the offspring of an angel and a human woman. However, Danyael is unaware of his purpose until he runs into Gabriel. He has previously become human himself and is acting as Danyael's secret guardian. Now, the fate of the world hangs in the balance as Danyael sets out to confront Pyriel and fulfill his prophesied destiny!
Horror / Thriller
The Prophecy II: God's Army 4K Blu-ray Movie
4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray
Vinegar Syndrome | 1998 | 87 min | Rated R | No Release Date | Kenneth Brown
Gabriel once again returns to Earth. This time he has come to prevent the birth of a child conceived between the angel Danyael and a human woman, Valerie. A brutal war begins after Danyael attacks and kills several members of the army of angels that Gabriel has summoned. Gabriel resurrects and recruits the assistance of a teenage girl, Izzy, who has just committed suicide. Together they engage Danyael and his angel followers in a battle that rages on into the Garden of Eden!
Fantasy / Horror / Thriller
The Prophecy 4K Blu-ray Movie
4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray
Vinegar Syndrome | 1995 | 98 min | Rated R | No Release Date | Kenneth Brown
Tommy Dagget wanted to be a priest, but lost his faith and became a cop instead. When a physiologically abnormal individual is found murdered and a copy of Tommy Dagget's learned treatise on angels is discovered on the crime scene, he's assigned to investigate. What he uncovers is a literal war of angels. The archangel Gabriel has come to Earth to collect a soul hidden in the body of a little girl which will end the stalemated war in Heaven, and the former priest has to put a stop to him.
Horror / Mystery / Thriller / Supernatural