New Blu-ray Reviews

Conan the Destroyer Blu-ray Movie  

Limited Edition

Arrow | 1984 | 101 min | Rated PG | Jan 30, 2024 | Jeffrey Kauffman

Conan, the swashbuckler, is promised that his dead love will be revived if he procures a magic crystal from a magic fortress. He gathers a fighter, a wizard and a thief to help him as he overcomes the perils on the way.

Action / Adventure / Fantasy / Comic book

Conan the Destroyer 4K Blu-ray Movie  

Limited Edition / 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray

Arrow | 1984 | 101 min | Rated PG | Jan 30, 2024 | Jeffrey Kauffman

Conan, the swashbuckler, is promised that his dead love will be revived if he procures a magic crystal from a magic fortress. He gathers a fighter, a wizard and a thief to help him as he overcomes the perils on the way.

Action / Adventure / Fantasy / Comic book

In Bloom + My Happy Family Blu-ray Movie  

Slipcover in Original Pressing / Grzeli nateli dgeebi + Chemi bednieri ojakhi

Big World Pictures | 2013-2017 | 2 Movies | 221 min | Not rated | Jan 30, 2024 | Kenneth Brown

Early ‘90s, in Tbilisi, the capital of the newly independent Georgia after the collapse of the Soviet Union. The country is facing violence, war on the Black Sea coast (Abkhazia) and vigilante justice that plague society. But for Eka and Natia, fourteen-year-old inseparable friends, life just unfolds―in the street, at school, with friends or Eka’s elder sister. Although they are already dealing with men’s dominance, early marriage and disillusioned love, for these two girls in bloom, life just goes on. Literature teacher Manana has been married for 25 years and lives in a three-bedroom flat in Tbilisi with her husband, parents, two adult children, and her son-in-law. But on the evening of her 52nd birthday, she announces to the surprise of her family that she wants to leave. When she actually packs her suitcase and leaves, the family is shocked and incredulous: Where is she going? What is the reason for the decision? She is past the age for a divorce and has what everyone would call a good husband. But Manana sticks to her decision and does something unheard of in Georgia’s patriarchal society: She moves into a small apartment to live on her own.

Drama / Foreign

My Happy Family Blu-ray Movie  

Chemi bednieri ojakhi

Big World Pictures | 2017 | 120 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Kenneth Brown

Literature teacher Manana has been married for 25 years and lives in a three-bedroom flat in Tbilisi with her husband, parents, two adult children, and her son-in-law. But on the evening of her 52nd birthday, she announces to the surprise of her family that she wants to leave. When she actually packs her suitcase and leaves, the family is shocked and incredulous: Where is she going? What is the reason for the decision? She is past the age for a divorce and has what everyone would call a good husband. But Manana sticks to her decision and does something unheard of in Georgia’s patriarchal society: She moves into a small apartment to live on her own.

Drama / Foreign

In Bloom Blu-ray Movie  

Grzeli nateli dgeebii

Big World Pictures | 2013 | 102 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Kenneth Brown

Early ‘90s, in Tbilisi, the capital of the newly independent Georgia after the collapse of the Soviet Union. The country is facing violence, war on the Black Sea coast (Abkhazia) and vigilante justice that plague society. But for Eka and Natia, fourteen-year-old inseparable friends, life just unfolds―in the street, at school, with friends or Eka’s elder sister. Although they are already dealing with men’s dominance, early marriage and disillusioned love, for these two girls in bloom, life just goes on.

Drama

The Sea Shall Not Have Them & Albert R.N.: Two British Wartime Classics Directed by Lewis Gilbert Blu-ray Movie  

Cohen Media Group | 1953-1954 | 2 Movies | 179 min | Not rated | Jan 23, 2024 | Jeffrey Kauffman

No synopsis for this title.

Drama / History / War

The Sea Shall Not Have Them Blu-ray Movie  

Cohen Media Group | 1954 | 91 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Jeffrey Kauffman

During the Second World War, Air Commodore Waltby is flying to Allied Command Headquarters with an attaché case packed with information that could stave off an invasion by Germany. Unfortunately, his plane is shot down and he and three colleagues are left drifting in a lifeboat in the North Sea - with the vital intelligence reports still not in the hands of Allied Command. As the Allied authorities direct the search, the four men are edging closer to death and the Germans are planning their assault.

Drama / War

Albert R.N. Blu-ray Movie  

Break to Freedom

Cohen Media Group | 1953 | 88 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Jeffrey Kauffman

In this World War II drama based on true events, a group of British POWs suspects that there is a German spy in its midst after several escape attempts are foiled.

Drama / History / War

Impossible Object Blu-ray Movie    

Story of a Love Story | Indicator Series | Limited Edition

Powerhouse Films | 1973 | 1 Movie, 2 Cuts | 113 min | Rated BBFC: 15 | Jan 29, 2024 | Dr. Svet Atanasov

Harry is a married writer who has an affair with a woman whose husband knows that she is unfaithful. As a result of his work, Harry has trouble distinguishing between fantasy and reality leaving us to wonder whether the affair is real or just a figment of Harry's imagination.

Drama

Trolls Band Together 4K Blu-ray Movie  

Sing-Along Edition / 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray + Digital Copy

Universal Studios | 2023 | 92 min | Rated PG | Jan 16, 2024 | Justin Dekker

Poppy discovers that Branch was once part of a boy band, BroZone, with his brothers: Floyd, John Dory, Spruce and Clay. But when Floyd is kidnapped, Branch and Poppy embark on a journey to reunite the other brothers and rescue Floyd.

Animation / Comedy / Family / Fantasy / Musical

Trolls Band Together Blu-ray Movie  

Sing-Along Edition / Blu-ray + DVD + Digital Copy

Universal Studios | 2023 | 92 min | Rated PG | Jan 16, 2024 | Justin Dekker

Poppy discovers that Branch was once part of a boy band, BroZone, with his brothers: Floyd, John Dory, Spruce and Clay. But when Floyd is kidnapped, Branch and Poppy embark on a journey to reunite the other brothers and rescue Floyd.

Animation / Comedy / Family / Fantasy / Musical

Pootie Tang Blu-ray Movie  

Paramount Pictures | 2001 | 81 min | Rated PG-13 | Apr 27, 2021 | Randy Miller III

Lance Crouther stars as Pootie Tang, a crime fighting superhero and recording artist who speaks in an unintelligible gibberish that seems to be a combination of Ebonics and street slang. Despite his communication problem, Pootie is a hero to children, whom he attempts to protect from the evil Dick Lecter, a corporate fat cat out to corrupt America's youth with alcohol, tobacco, and junk food. Pootie also runs up against an artistic imitator and a sleazy recording executive.

Action / Comedy / Surreal

Conan the Barbarian Blu-ray Movie  

Limited Edition

Arrow | 1982 | 1 Movie, 3 Cuts | 130 min | Rated R | Jan 30, 2024 | Jeffrey Kauffman

Epic tale of child sold into slavery who grows into a man who seeks revenge against the warlord who massacred his tribe. Through the history of mankind, the times that are most recorded in mythology are those of great deeds and fantastic adventures. Such a time was the Hyborean Age and the story of Conan the Barbarian. Cimmerian Conan is captured after his parents' savage murder by raiding Vanir led by Thulsa Doom, head of the malignant snake-cult of Set. Fifteen years' agony, first chained to the Wheel of Pain grinding grain and then enslaved as a Pit Fighter, forge a magnificent body and indomitable spirit. Freed one day by his owner, Conan, with his companions Subotai the Mongol and Valeria, Queen of Thieves, sets forth upon his quest to learn "the riddle of steel" which his father prophesied would confer ultimate power, and to kill his enemy Thulsa Doom.

Action / Adventure / Fantasy / Comic book

Conan the Barbarian 4K Blu-ray Movie  

Limited Edition / 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray

Arrow | 1982 | 1 Movie, 3 Cuts | 129 min | Rated R | Jan 30, 2024 | Jeffrey Kauffman

Epic tale of child sold into slavery who grows into a man who seeks revenge against the warlord who massacred his tribe. Through the history of mankind, the times that are most recorded in mythology are those of great deeds and fantastic adventures. Such a time was the Hyborean Age and the story of Conan the Barbarian. Cimmerian Conan is captured after his parents' savage murder by raiding Vanir led by Thulsa Doom, head of the malignant snake-cult of Set. Fifteen years' agony, first chained to the Wheel of Pain grinding grain and then enslaved as a Pit Fighter, forge a magnificent body and indomitable spirit. Freed one day by his owner, Conan, with his companions Subotai the Mongol and Valeria, Queen of Thieves, sets forth upon his quest to learn "the riddle of steel" which his father prophesied would confer ultimate power, and to kill his enemy Thulsa Doom.

Action / Adventure / Fantasy / Comic book

The Offer Blu-ray Movie  

Paramount Pictures | 2022 | 542 min | Not rated | Nov 29, 2022 | Martin Liebman

Oscar-winning producer Albert S. Ruddy's never-before-revealed experiences of making The Godfather (1972).

Drama

The Mad Room Blu-ray Movie    

Imprint #260

Imprint | 1969 | 93 min | Rated ACB: R18+ | Oct 25, 2023 | Dr. Svet Atanasov

In this horror tale, Ellen Hardy shares a home with widow Gladys Armstrong. Ellen is engaged to marry Gladys' stepson, Sam Aller. Ellen receives word that her brother and sister are soon to be released from a mental institution and need a place to stay; Ellen asks Gladys if they can live with them, and Gladys agrees. But Ellen hasn't told Gladys the whole truth. It seems that the siblings were institutionalized because their parents were murdered, and it was widely believed that they were responsible (though their guilt in the crime could not be proven). Not long after the now-teenage brother and sister move in with Ellen and Gladys, Gladys finds out about their secret -- and she is soon discovered brutally murdered. The kids, however, both claim that they had nothing to do with Gladys' death, and that the other must have done it. In the meantime, Ellen has to dispose of the body without raising suspicion, but after Ellen buries the corpse in the garden, the dog digs up a severed hand, and now Ellen must make sure the dog doesn't give away her family's ugly secret.

Drama / Horror

Doctor Who Limited Edition New Who Collector's Set Blu-ray Movie  

Blu-ray 3D + Blu-ray

BBC | 2005-2022 | 22 Seasons | 8661 min | Not rated | Nov 21, 2023 | Jeffrey Kauffman

Celebrate the Doctor Who legacy with the Limited Edition New Who Years Blu-ray Collectors Set. With only 6,000 available, this set brings Thirteen Seasons, including the Specials, newly upscaled Seasons 1-4 and exclusive content from Russell T. Davies and David Tennant. Featuring a numbered Certificate of Authenticity and an Exclusive 60th Anniversary Five Figure Titan Set, this Blu-ray set is an essential for any Doctor Who fan.

Adventure / Fantasy / Sci-Fi

Mob Land Blu-ray Movie  

Blu-ray + DVD + Digital Copy

Lionsgate Films | 2023 | 111 min | Rated R | Oct 03, 2023 | Kenneth Brown

A desperate man robs a pill mill to dangerous results.

Action / Crime / Thriller

Doctor Who The Complete Fourth Series Blu-ray Movie  

Remastered

BBC | 2007-2008 | 683 min | Rated TV-PG | No Release Date | Jeffrey Kauffman

All 14 episodes from the fourth series of the relaunched BBC sci-fi adventure drama, starring David Tennant as the tenth Doctor and latest incarnation of the legendary Time Lord. In this series, the Doctor is joined by new companion Donna Noble (Catherine Tate) as the pair venture through time and space, visiting ancient Pompeii and the planet of the Ood while also meeting the mysterious River Song (Alex Kingston).

Adventure / Fantasy / Sci-Fi

Doctor Who The Complete Third Series Blu-ray Movie  

Remastered

BBC | 2006-2007 | 653 min | Rated TV-PG | No Release Date | Jeffrey Kauffman

Doctor Who is a British science fiction television programme produced by the BBC. The programme depicts the adventures of a time-travelling humanoid alien known as the Doctor who explores the universe in a sentient time machine called the TARDIS. Along with a series of companions, he faces a variety of foes while working to save civilizations, help people and right wrongs.

Adventure / Fantasy / Sci-Fi