New Blu-ray Reviews
Home- February 09, 2024
The Questor Tapes Blu-ray Movie
Kino Lorber | 1974 | 96 min | Not rated | Dec 05, 2023 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
Project Questor is the brainchild of the genius Dr. Vaslovik: he developed plans to build an android super-human. Although he has disappeared and half of he programming tape was erased in the attempt to decode it, his former colleagues continue the project and finally succeed in creating Questor. However, Vaslovik seems to have installed a secret program in Questor's brain: He flees and starts to search for Vaslovik. Since half of his knowledge is missing, he needs the help of Jerry Robinson, who is now suspected of having stolen the android.
Adventure / Drama / Sci-Fi
BLUELOCK: Season 1 Part 1 Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + DVD
Crunchyroll, LLC | 2022 | 300 min | Rated TV-14 | Nov 14, 2023 | Neil Lumbard
Isagi Yoichi dreams of winning the World Cup for Japan, so when he’s invited to join the team’s experimental new training program, he decides to put it all on the line. Three hundred high school players come to compete, but only one can come out on top.
Anime / Drama / Sport / Thriller / Teen / Comic book / Foreign
In Fabric Blu-ray Movie
Lionsgate Films | 2018 | 118 min | Rated R | Feb 11, 2020 | Kenneth Brown
In Fabric is a haunting ghost story set against the backdrop of a busy winter sales period in a department store and follows the life of a cursed dress as it passes from person to person, with devastating consequences.
Comedy / Horror / Romance
- February 08, 2024
My Dress-Up Darling: The Complete Season Blu-ray Movie
Limited Edition / Blu-ray + DVD
Crunchyroll, LLC | 2022 | 300 min | Rated TV-14 | Nov 07, 2023 | Neil Lumbard
Afraid of judgment, Wakana Gojo hides his love of crafting hina dolls. Marin Kitagawa is the opposite, boldly loving her obsessions. Their worlds collide when she shares her secret. Now, they’re learning about cosplay and falling in love! It’s totes adorbs!
Anime / Comedy / Romance / Comic book / Foreign
The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + DVD + Digital Copy
Lionsgate Films | 2023 | 157 min | Rated PG-13 | Feb 13, 2024 | Jeffrey Kauffman
A young Coriolanus is the last hope for his failing lineage, the once-proud Snow family that has fallen from grace in a post-war Capitol. With his livelihood threatened, Snow is reluctantly assigned to mentor Lucy Gray Baird, a tribute from the impoverished District 12. But after Lucy Gray’s charm captivates the audience of Panem, Snow sees an opportunity to shift their fates. With everything he has worked for hanging in the balance, Snow unites with Lucy Gray to turn the odds in their favor. Battling his instincts for both good and evil, Snow sets out on a race against time to survive and reveal if he will ultimately become a songbird or a snake.
Action / Adventure / Fantasy / Sci-Fi / Teen
The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes 4K Blu-ray Movie
4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray + Digital Copy
Lionsgate Films | 2023 | 157 min | Rated PG-13 | Feb 13, 2024 | Jeffrey Kauffman
A young Coriolanus is the last hope for his failing lineage, the once-proud Snow family that has fallen from grace in a post-war Capitol. With his livelihood threatened, Snow is reluctantly assigned to mentor Lucy Gray Baird, a tribute from the impoverished District 12. But after Lucy Gray’s charm captivates the audience of Panem, Snow sees an opportunity to shift their fates. With everything he has worked for hanging in the balance, Snow unites with Lucy Gray to turn the odds in their favor. Battling his instincts for both good and evil, Snow sets out on a race against time to survive and reveal if he will ultimately become a songbird or a snake.
Action / Adventure / Fantasy / Sci-Fi / Teen
Khartoum Blu-ray Movie
Sandpiper Pictures | 1966 | 136 min | Not rated | Nov 01, 2022 | Kenneth Brown
After an Egyptian army, commanded by British officers, is destroyed in a battle in the Sudan in the 1880's, the British government is in a quandary. It does not want to commit a British military force to a foreign war but they have a commitment to protect the Egyptians in Khartoum. They decide to ask General Charles "Chinese" Gordon, something of a folk hero in the Sudan as he had cleared the area of the slave trade, to arrange for the evacuation. Gordon agrees but also decides to defend the city against the forces of the Mahdi - the expected one - and tries to force the British to commit troops. Filmed in Anamorphic 70mm.
Adventure / Drama / History / War
Salvador Blu-ray Movie
Sandpiper Pictures | 1986 | 122 min | Not rated | May 31, 2022 | Kenneth Brown
A sleazy, boozing journalist decides to go to Central America and cover the war there, but finds himself in a more dangerous situation than he ever expected.
Biography / Drama / History / Thriller / War
- February 07, 2024
The Purple Rose of Cairo Blu-ray Movie
Sandpiper Pictures | 1985 | 82 min | Rated PG | Oct 18, 2022 | Kenneth Brown
In 1930s New Jersey, the quiet Cecilia escapes from her sad and tedious life, including an unfaithful husband, through the magic of movies. In a magical twist, a character in a film sees her through the screen, falls in love, and enters the real world to be with her. The ambitious actor who portrays the character comes to the small town to convince his creation to return through the screen.
Comedy / Fantasy / Romance
The Marvels Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + Digital Copy
Disney / Buena Vista | 2023 | 105 min | Rated PG-13 | Feb 13, 2024 | Jeffrey Kauffman
Carol Danvers gets her powers entangled with those of Kamala Khan and Monica Rambeau, forcing them to work together to save the universe.
Action / Adventure / Fantasy / Sci-Fi / Comic book
The Marvels 4K Blu-ray Movie
4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray + Digital Copy
Disney / Buena Vista | 2023 | 105 min | Rated PG-13 | Feb 13, 2024 | Jeffrey Kauffman
Carol Danvers gets her powers entangled with those of Kamala Khan and Monica Rambeau, forcing them to work together to save the universe.
Action / Adventure / Fantasy / Sci-Fi / Comic book
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