New Blu-ray Reviews

American Gigolo: Season 1 Blu-ray Movie  

Paramount Pictures | 2022 | 403 min | Not rated | Feb 14, 2023 | Kenneth Brown

Julian Kaye, 15 years after being arrested for murder and struggling to find his footing in the modern-day Los Angeles sex industry, seeks the truth about the frame that sent him to prison all those years ago and also hoping to reconnect with his one true love, Michelle.

Drama

Lone Star Blu-ray Movie  

Criterion | 1996 | 135 min | Rated R | Jan 16, 2024 | Dr. Svet Atanasov

A modern-day sheriff of a Texas border county investigates a murder dating from his father's time as sheriff that no one wants to talk about.

Drama / Mystery / Western

Lone Star 4K Blu-ray Movie  

4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray

Criterion | 1996 | 135 min | Rated R | Jan 16, 2024 | Dr. Svet Atanasov

A modern-day sheriff of a Texas border county investigates a murder dating from his father's time as sheriff that no one wants to talk about.

Drama / Mystery / Western

The Expanse: The Complete Series Blu-ray Movie  

Universal Studios | 2015-2022 | 6 Seasons | 2828 min | Not rated | Nov 21, 2023 | Justin Dekker

200 years in the future, Earth, Mars, and the Asteroid Belt are on the edge of war. Welcome to The Expanse, the thrilling sci-fi series that begins with an investigation into one woman's disappearance, but becomes a star-spanning saga where an alien bioweapon could alter the evolution of humanity. Experience all six seasons of incredible action and interplanetary suspense in the acclaimed, Hugo Award-winning show as the Rocinante and its crew race across a colonized Solar System to combat the greatest conspiracy in human history.

Drama / Mystery / Sci-Fi

The Expanse: Season Six Blu-ray Movie  

Universal Studios | 2021-2022 | 292 min | Not rated | Nov 21, 2023 | Justin Dekker

Holden and the crew of the Rocinante fight alongside the Combined Fleet of Earth and Mars to protect the Inner Planets from Marco Inaros and his Free Navy’s campaign of death and destruction. Meanwhile, on a distant planet beyond the Rings, a new power rises.

Drama / Mystery / Sci-Fi

The Expanse: Season Five Blu-ray Movie  

Universal Studios | 2020 | 511 min | Not rated | Nov 21, 2023 | Justin Dekker

In different parts of the Solar System, the crew of the Rocinante and their allies confront the sins of their past, while Marco Inaros unleashes an attack that will alter the future of Earth, Mars, the Belt, and the worlds beyond the Ring.

Drama / Mystery / Sci-Fi

The Expanse: Season Four Blu-ray Movie  

Universal Studios | 2019 | 469 min | Not rated | Dec 15, 2020 | Justin Dekker

With the Ring Gates now open to thousands of new planets, a blood-soaked gold rush begins, igniting new conflicts between Earth, Mars and the Belt. Meanwhile, on one unexplored planet, the Rocinante crew gets caught in a violent clash between an Earth mining corporation and desperate Belter settlers as deadly new threats from the protomolecule emerge.

Drama / Mystery / Sci-Fi

Santa Claus: The Movie Blu-ray Movie    

Studio Canal | 1985 | 109 min | Rated BBFC: U | Nov 13, 2023 | Randy Miller III

The first half of this film, set hundreds of years ago, shows how the old man who eventually became Santa Claus was given immortality and chosen to deliver toys to all the children of the world. The second half moves into the modern era, in which Patch, the inventing elf, strikes out on his own and falls in with an evil toy manufacturer who wants to corner the market and eliminate Santa Claus.

Family / Fantasy / Holiday

Santa Claus: The Movie 4K Blu-ray Movie    

4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray

Studio Canal | 1985 | 109 min | Rated BBFC: U | Nov 13, 2023 | Randy Miller III

The first half of this film, set hundreds of years ago, shows how the old man who eventually became Santa Claus was given immortality and chosen to deliver toys to all the children of the world. The second half moves into the modern era, in which Patch, the inventing elf, strikes out on his own and falls in with an evil toy manufacturer who wants to corner the market and eliminate Santa Claus.

Family / Fantasy / Holiday

Penny Dreadful: City of Angels: Season One Blu-ray Movie  

Showtime Entertainment | 2020 | 591 min | Not rated | Sep 29, 2020 | Kenneth Brown

When a grisly murder shocks Los Angeles in 1938, Detective Tiago Vega and his partner Lewis Michener become embroiled in an epic story that reflects the rich history of the city.

Drama / Horror / Thriller / Supernatural / Period

The Sinister Dr. Orloff Blu-ray Movie  

El siniestro doctor Orloff | Standard Edition

Mondo Macabro | 1984 | 89 min | Not rated | Nov 14, 2023 | Dr. Svet Atanasov

The son of the infamous Dr. Orloff clashes with his father when he begins to stalk and dismember prostitutes in order to get parts to reanimate his dead mother.

Horror / Foreign

Battle Kaiju Series #1: Ultraman vs. Red King Blu-ray Movie  

Mill Creek Entertainment | 1966-2019 | 425 min | Not rated | Jun 27, 2023 | Martin Liebman

Every episode across all of the Ultraman Series that featuring various monsters across the franchise.

Action / Adventure / Sci-Fi

Count Dracula 4K Blu-ray Movie  

Nachts, wenn Dracula erwacht / El Conde Drácula 4K / w/ Drácula Barcelona on BD / 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray + CD

Severin Films | 1970-2017 | 2 Movies | 186 min | Not rated | Nov 28, 2023 | Jeffrey Kauffman

Infamous Spanish horror director Jesús Franco created this surprisingly low-key and faithful adaptation of the Bram Stoker novel. Christopher Lee, who played the same role in Britain's Hammer Films, does a first-rate job as the undead Transylvanian count with a thirst for blood. Frederick Williams is Harker, the young lawyer who travels to the count's castle and winds up a prisoner, while Dracula goes off to London to seduce his wife, Mina (Maria Rohm). Soledad Miranda plays Lucy, Dracula's first victim, and Klaus Kinski is an unusually underplayed Renfield...

Documentary / Horror / Foreign

Django 4K Blu-ray Movie    

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

Cult Films | 1966 | 1 Movie, 2 Cuts | 90 min | Rated BBFC: 15 | Dec 11, 2023 | Dr. Svet Atanasov

Django is a lone stranger who roams the West dragging a coffin filled with chaos towards a destiny ruled by vengeance.

Action / Western / Foreign

Blood Simple 4K Blu-ray Movie  

4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray

Criterion | 1984 | 96 min | Not rated | Jan 09, 2024 | Dr. Svet Atanasov

When Marty, the owner of a Texas backwoods bar, hires a man to kill his cheating wife and her boyfriend, he opens a door into the criminal world that he'll never be able to shut. The sleazy hit man decides instead to shoot Marty, thereby collecting his unearned fee and eliminating the only person who could implicate him — or so he thinks.

Crime / Drama / Film-Noir / Thriller

The Golden Swallow Blu-ray Movie  

Jin yan zi / 金燕子

Shout Factory | 1968 | 109 min | No Release Date | Neil Lumbard

Golden Swallow (Pei-pei Cheng) is living peacefully with her "friend" ('Lo Lieh' ) by a waterfall. She has seemingly given up her death-dealing ways but soon she is accused of going on a bloody rampage against an evil clan. As it turns out, the actual culprit is an old beau named Silver Roc ('Jimmy Wang Yu' ) who is impersonating her to draw her out into the open. A complicated love triangle develops as her affections are torn between the two men while all three must also deal with the evil kungfu clan.

Action / Adventure / Romance / Martial arts / Foreign

The Thundering Sword Blu-ray Movie  

Shen jian zhen jiang hu / San kim jan kong woo / 神劍震江湖

Shout Factory | 1967 | 95 min | No Release Date | Neil Lumbard

A clan sends out two of their members to retrieve a powerful sword to prevent its misuse. Along the way they encounter a skilled swords-woman who is also after the sword. A complex love tragedy develops when she falls in love with one of the men and thoughtlessly wounds the other. Though the sword is found it becomes secondary to the love story and the guilt of the woman over her hasty and violent actions towards her lovers clan.

Action / Adventure / Foreign

The Assassin Blu-ray Movie  

Da ci ke / 大刺客

Shout Factory | 1967 | 117 min | No Release Date | Neil Lumbard

Nieh Cheng is a two-armed swordsman who is also a Wei Empire patriot. Inside the Han Empire, Han Kuei who comes from the royal family, is actually assumed full power and he wants to eliminate loyal officer Yen Sui.

Action / Adventure / Foreign / Period

Inside the Mind of Coffin Joe Blu-ray Movie  

At Midnight I’ll Take Your Soul / This Night I’ll Possess Your Corpse / The Strange World of Coffin Joe / Awakening of the Beast / The End of Man / When the Gods Fall Asleep / The Strange Hostel of Naked Pleasures / Hellish Flesh / Hallucinations of a Deranged Mind / Embodiment of Evil | Limited Edition

Arrow | 1964-2008 | 11 Movies | 937 min | Not rated | Jan 16, 2024 | Jeffrey Kauffman

No synopsis for this title.

Comedy / Drama / Horror / Psychological thriller / Supernatural / Foreign / Surreal

At Midnight I'll Take Your Soul Blu-ray Movie  

À Meia-Noite Levarei Sua Alma

Arrow | 1964 | 84 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Jeffrey Kauffman

In a small town, the creepy and violent gravedigger Zé do Caixão is feared by the locals. Zé do Caixão lives with Lenita, who can not deliver a son to him. Obsessed to have a son, Zé do Caixão harasses Terezinha de Oliveira, who is the fiancée of his friend Antônio de Andrade, and kills Lenita with a spider simulating an accident. Then he drowns Antônio and rapes Terezinha expecting to have a baby with her. Terezinha commits suicide but does not accuse Zé do Caixão in his letter. When Dr. Rodolfo decides to request another autopsy of Antônio, Zé do Caixão burns him to death. The inspector Barretos can not prove that Zé do Caixão is the killer, but on the Day of the Dead, the local gypsy warns him that the dead will take his soul to hell.

Horror / Foreign / Surreal