New Blu-ray Reviews
Home- November 07, 2023
Double Trouble Blu-ray Movie
Warner Archive Collection
Warner Bros. | 1967 | 92 min | Not rated | Oct 31, 2023 | Randy Miller III
Superstar Elvis Presley stars as an American rock singer who becomes involved with a European teen heiress.
Comedy / Music / Musical / Romance
Prince and The New Power Generation: Diamonds and Pearls Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray Audio
Warner Music | 1991 | 66 min | Not rated | Dec 01, 2023 | Jeffrey Kauffman
Prince Album
Music
- November 06, 2023
Blast of Silence Blu-ray Movie
1.85:1 and 1.33:1 aspect ratio presentations
Criterion | 1961 | 77 min | Not rated | Dec 05, 2023 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
A hired killer from Cleveland has a job to do on a second-string mob boss in New York. But a special girl from his past, and a fat gun dealer with pet rats, each gets in his way.
Crime / Drama / Film-Noir / Thriller / Holiday
The Doom Generation Blu-ray Movie
Strand Releasing | 1995 | 83 min | Not rated | Sep 26, 2023 | Dr. Stephen Larson
Jordan White and Amy Blue, two troubled teens, pick up an adolescent drifter, Xavier Red. Together, the threesome embark on a sex- and violence-filled journey through an America of psychos and convenience stores.
Crime / Teen / Dark humor / Surreal
Dark Winds: Season 2 Blu-ray Movie
RLJ Entertainment | 2023 | 287 min | Not rated | Oct 24, 2023 | Randy Miller III
In Season 2, Lt. Joe Leaphorn reunites with Jim Chee, his former deputy turned private eye when their separate cases bring them together in pursuit of the same suspect. They find themselves in the high desert of Navajo Country chasing a killer who's turned his sights on them to protect a secret that rips open old wounds and challenge Leaphorn's moral and professional code.
Drama / Thriller
- November 05, 2023
Cry, the Beloved Country Blu-ray Movie
Vintage Classics
Studio Canal | 1951 | 95 min | Rated BBFC: PG | Oct 09, 2023 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
Set in a little village in the scorched valley of Ixopo, the story revolves around the family of Reverend Stephen Kumalo. The Reverend's son, Absalom, has disappeared and his sister, Gertrude, is ill in Johannesburg. Kumalo leaves his poor village with his life savings in order to go to Johannesburg to try to persuade his sister and son to come home but while there he finds his son has been accused of the murder of the son of a farmer. As both fathers suffer, they slowly become friends.
Drama
Cinematic Sorceress: The Films of Nina Menkes Blu-ray Movie
The Great Sadness of Zohara / Magdalena Viraga / Queen of Diamonds / The Bloody Child / Phantom Love / Dissolution
Arbelos | 1983-2010 | 6 Movies | 400 min | Not rated | Feb 07, 2023 | Jeffrey Kauffman
Cinematic Sorceress: The Films of Nina Menkes, a generous six film collection highlighting the legendary American auteur’s career in path-breaking narrative filmmaking on the occasion of the theatrical release of her latest documentary Brainwashed: Sex-Camera-Power!
Drama / Short / Coming of age
The Great Sadness of Zohara Blu-ray Movie
Arbelos | 1983 | 38 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Jeffrey Kauffman
A young, orthodox Jewish woman is alienated from her Jerusalem community and drawn into the world of spirit. Surrounded by dark sounds of the "Other Side," she moves into remote and increasingly desolate regions of Arab lands. Her journey, like a mystical quest through her own inner landscapes, culminates in her return to Jerusalem. There, indelibly marked, she confronts her deeper loneliness and a devastating sense of exile.
Short
Magdalena Viraga Blu-ray Movie
Arbelos | 1986 | 90 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Jeffrey Kauffman
The inner life of a prostitute imprisoned for killing her pimp.
Drama
Queen of Diamonds Blu-ray Movie
Arbelos | 1991 | 77 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Jeffrey Kauffman
Revolves around the life of an alienated blackjack dealer.
Drama
The Bloody Child Blu-ray Movie
Arbelos | 1996 | 86 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Jeffrey Kauffman
A man is discovered digging a grave for his wife in the middle of the desert, and is arrested for her murder.
Drama / Coming of age
Phantom Love Blu-ray Movie
Arbelos | 2007 | 87 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Jeffrey Kauffman
A surreal psychodrama about a young woman trapped within a suffocating family.
Drama
Dissolution Blu-ray Movie
Hitparkut / התפרקות
Arbelos | 2010 | 88 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Jeffrey Kauffman
The moral collapse and first glimmer of redemption of a young, morose Israeli Jew.
Drama
Warhorse One Blu-ray Movie
Well Go USA | 2022 | 126 min | Rated R | Nov 07, 2023 | Jeffrey Kauffman
While conducting a rescue mission to evacuate a group of missionaries out of a village in Afghanistan during the U.S. military withdraw of 2021, a SEAL Team helicopter is shot down by a group of insurgents. Master Chief Richard Mirko is thrown from the wreckage and emerges the sole survivor. While Mirko continues his search for the missionaries, he finds a 5-year-old and vows to save her.
Action / Drama / War
- November 04, 2023
The Challenge Blu-ray Movie
Special Edition
Kino Lorber | 1982 | 110 min | Rated R | Oct 31, 2023 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
A down-and-out American boxer becomes involved in a feud between two Japanese brothers.
Action / Drama / Martial arts
Downwind Blu-ray Movie
Gravitas Ventures | 2023 | 97 min | Not rated | Oct 24, 2023 | Martin Liebman
Hiroshima. Nagasaki. Mercury, Nevada? The latter was the site for the testing of 928 large-scale nuclear weapons from 1951 to 1992. Martin Sheen narrates this harrowing exposé of the United States' disregard for everyone living downwind.
Documentary / History
- November 03, 2023
An Act of Murder Blu-ray Movie
Indicator Series
Powerhouse Films | 1948 | 91 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Dr. Svet Atanasov
A hard-line judge is tempted toward mercy-killing by his wife's terminal cancer.
Film-Noir
American Ninja 2: The Confrontation Blu-ray Movie
Special Edition
Kino Lorber | 1987 | 90 min | Rated R | Oct 31, 2023 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
On a remote Caribbean island, Army Ranger Joe Armstrong investigates the disappearance of several marines, which leads him to The Lion, a super-criminal who has kidnapped a local scientist and mass-produced an army of mutant Ninja warriors.
Action / Drama
Hellraiser: Quartet of Torment Blu-ray Movie
Hellraiser / Hellbound: Hellraiser II / Hellraiser III: Hell on Earth / Hellraiser IV: Bloodline | Limited Edition
Arrow | 1987-1996 | 4 Movies, 6 Cuts | 376 min | Rated BBFC: 18 | Oct 23, 2023 | Jeffrey Kauffman
See individual titles for their synopsis.
Fantasy / Horror / Sci-Fi / Thriller
Hellraiser Blu-ray Movie
4K Restoration
Arrow | 1987 | 93 min | Rated BBFC: 18 | No Release Date | Jeffrey Kauffman
Evil Julia helps her lover, Frank, come back to the mortal world from hell. Because Frank has used the Lament Configuration box to taste pleasures outside the normal realm of human sensation, freeing him from hell unleashes Pinhead and a menagerie of demons (cenobites) back unto earth.
Fantasy / Horror / Thriller