New Blu-ray Reviews

Ernest & Célestine: A Trip to Gibberitia Blu-ray Movie  

Ernest et Célestine: Le voyage en Charabie

Shout Factory | 2022 | 80 min | Not rated | Jan 16, 2024 | Brian Orndorf

A new adventure takes Ernest and Celestine back to Ernest’s country, Gibberitia, to fix his broken violin. This exotic land is home to the best musicians on earth and music constantly fills the air with joy. However, upon arriving, our two heroes discover that all forms of music have been banned there for many years – and for them, a life without music is unthinkable. Along with their friends and a mysterious masked outlaw, Ernest and Celestine must try their best to bring music and happiness back to the land of bears.

Adventure / Animation / Family / Music / Foreign

Queen of Earth Blu-ray Movie  

Slipcover in Original Pressing

IFC Films | 2015 | 90 min | Rated BBFC: 15 | Jan 30, 2024 | Brian Orndorf

Two women who grew up together discover they have drifted apart when they retreat to a lake house together.

Drama / Psychological thriller

Cause for Alarm! Blu-ray Movie  

ClassicFlix | 1951 | 75 min | Not rated | Jan 16, 2024 | Jeffrey Kauffman

Ellen Brown's husband George descends into a dark world of dementia brought on by a heart condition. Convinced that his pretty wife and his doctor are plotting to kill him, George concocts a list of evidence along with a letter for the district attorney disclosing his suspicions. Unknowingly, she mails the incriminating letter.

Drama / Film-Noir / Thriller

Godland Blu-ray Movie  

Vanskabte Land

Criterion | 2022 | 143 min | Not rated | Nov 21, 2023 | Dr. Svet Atanasov

In the late 19th century, a young Danish priest travels to a remote part of Iceland to build a church and photograph its people. But the deeper he goes into the unforgiving landscape, the more he strays from his purpose, his mission and morality.

Drama / Foreign / Period

JFK 4K Blu-ray Movie  

Collector's Edition | Shout Select | Theatrical on BD / 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray

Shout Factory | 1991 | 1 Movie, 2 Cuts | 206 min | Rated R | Dec 19, 2023 | Dr. Stephen Larson

New Orleans District Attorney discovers there's more to the Kennedy assassination than the official story.

Crime / Drama / History / Mystery / Thriller / Epic / Period

Desperation Road Blu-ray Movie  

Blu-ray + DVD + Digital Copy

Lionsgate Films | 2023 | 123 min | Rated R | Nov 14, 2023 | Kenneth Brown

A woman and her young daughter are caught in the crossfire when whiskey, guns, and the desire for revenge violently intersect in a tough-and-tumble Mississippi town.

Action / Thriller

Rudy 4K Blu-ray Movie  

30th Anniversary / 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray + Digital Copy

Sony Pictures | 1993 | 1 Movie, 2 Cuts | 127 min | Unrated | Nov 14, 2023 | Martin Liebman

All his life, people have told Rudy he's not good enough, not smart enough, not big enough. But nothing can stop his impossible dream of playing football for Notre Dame. From the time he was a young boy, Rudy is determined to join the Fighting Irish. But his blue-collar family only laughs at his ambitions - they know Rudy will follow his father and brother to the local steel mill. And, for four long years after high school, he does just that. But some dreams won't die, as Rudy proves when he goes to heroic, occasionally hilarious, lengths to win admission to Notre Dame. Once there, he becomes a walk-on player, serving as little more than a human tackling dummy against the startling players. Bloodied but unbeaten, Rudy wins the respect of legendary coach Ara Parseghian and the other Irish players, who give him one shot at gridiron glory. Based on a true story.

Biography / Drama / Sport

King on Screen Blu-ray Movie  

Dark Star Pictures | 2022 | 1 Movie, 2 Cuts | 105 min | Not rated | Dec 26, 2023 | Brian Orndorf

In 1976, Brian de Palma directs Carrie, the first novel by Stephen King. Since, more than 50 directors adapted the master of horror's books, in more than 80 films and series, making him now, the most adapted author still alive in the world.

Documentary

Skateboard Blu-ray Movie  

Slipcover in Original Pressing

Factory25 | 1978 | 97 min | Rated PG | Jan 30, 2024 | Brian Orndorf

A Hollywood agent finds himself in debt to a powerful bookie. To make a fast buck, he creates a team of exceptionally talented skateboarders and enters them in a downhill race. If they win, they will get $20,000.

Comedy / Drama / Sport

Monk: The Complete First Season Blu-ray Movie  

Kino Lorber | 2002 | 563 min | Not rated | Nov 28, 2023 | Martin Liebman

All 13 Season One episodes, newly restored in 4K! He’s ingenious, he’s phobic, he’s obsessive-compulsive. Emmy and Golden Globe Award winner Tony Shalhoub (Barton Fink, TV’s The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel) is sublimely hysterical in Monk, the show that critics call “fresh, exciting and utterly original” (Chicago Tribune). Adrian Monk’s offbeat antics have made him unfit for duty but he’s back as a San Francisco police consultant to help out on their most baffling cases. The brilliant but neurotic Monk is now fighting crime as well as his abnormal fears of germs, heights, crowds, and virtually everything else known to man in “the best detective show to come along in decades” (New York Post). Co-starring Bitty Schram (A League of Their Own), Jason Gray-Stanford (A Beautiful Mind), and Ted Levine (The Silence of the Lambs) with guest stars Brooke Adams, Gail O’Grady, Adam Arkin, Tim Daly, Garry Marshall, Kevin Nealon, Willie Nelson, Amy Sedaris, Stephen McHattie, and many more.

Comedy / Crime / Drama / Mystery

RoboDoc: The Creation of RoboCop Blu-ray Movie    

Special Edition

Kaleidoscope Entertainment | 2023 | 298 min | Rated BBFC: 15 | Dec 18, 2023 | Randy Miller III

A fan-funded documentary exploring the making of RoboCop (1987), the sequels, and its 30-year legacy.

Documentary

The Marsh King's Daughter Blu-ray Movie  

Blu-ray + DVD + Digital Copy

Lionsgate Films | 2023 | 108 min | Rated R | Jan 02, 2024 | Jeffrey Kauffman

A woman seeks out revenge against the man who kidnapped her mother.

Crime / Drama / Mystery / Thriller

The Burglar Blu-ray Movie    

Imprint | 1957 | 90 min | Rated ACB: M | No Release Date | Dr. Svet Atanasov

This little-known crime thriller stars Dan Duryea as a cunning jewel thief who targets the mansion of a wealthy evangelist as his final career heist.

Crime / Drama / Film-Noir / Thriller

Hail Caesar Blu-ray Movie  

MVD Rewind Collection

MVD Visual | 1994 | 97 min | Not rated | Dec 12, 2023 | Jeffrey Kauffman

Caesar is a would-be rock star. But for now, he works at a pencil eraser factory. Soon he falls in love with the owner's daughter. In order to get her, he bets with the old man that he can make a hundred thousand dollars in six months.

Comedy

Nanny Blu-ray Movie  

Criterion | 2022 | 99 min | Not rated | Oct 31, 2023 | Randy Miller III

Aisha, an immigrant nanny piecing together a new life in New York City while caring for the child of an Upper East Side family, is forced to confront a concealed truth that threatens to shatter her precarious American Dream.

Horror / Thriller

The Devil's Girls 4K Blu-ray Movie    

Inn of the Gruesome Dolls / Das Rasthaus der grausamen Puppen | Edition Deutsche Vita #19 Cover A / 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray

Subkultur Entertainment | 1967 | 97 min | Rated FSK-12 | Oct 20, 2023 | Dr. Svet Atanasov

Rogue couple Betty Williams and Bob Fishman attempt to rob a jewelry store in Glasgow. The plan fails and a policeman is killed.

Crime / Drama / Foreign

Black Hawk Down 4K Blu-ray Movie  

4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray + Digital Copy

Sony Pictures | 2001 | 1 Movie, 2 Cuts | 152 min | Unrated | Nov 07, 2023 | Martin Liebman

Elite U.S. soldiers drop into Somalia to capture two lieutenants of a warlord, finding themselves in a battle with a large force of Somalis.

Action / Drama / History / War

OSS 117: Five Film Collection Blu-ray Movie  

OSS 117 Is Unleashed / Panic in Bangkok / Mission For a Killer / Mission to Tokyo / Double Agent

Kino Lorber | 1963-1968 | 5 Movies | 530 min | Not rated | Feb 06, 2024 | Jeffrey Kauffman

No synopsis for this title.

Action / Adventure / Crime / Drama / Thriller / Foreign

OSS 117 Is Unleashed Blu-ray Movie  

OSS 117 se déchaîne

Kino Lorber | 1963 | 103 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Jeffrey Kauffman

During a scuba diving in Corsica, an American agent disappears. The Secret Service sends Hubert Bonisseur de la Bath to investigate and report.

Action / Adventure / Foreign

OSS 117: Panic in Bangkok Blu-ray Movie  

Banco à Bangkok pour OSS 117 / Shadow of Evil

Kino Lorber | 1964 | 118 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Jeffrey Kauffman

Hubert Bonisseur de la Bath, aka secret agent OSS 117, sets out to stop an evil scientist about to unleash a virulent biological strain on the world that he developed during experiments on rats.

Action / Adventure / Foreign