New Blu-ray Reviews
Home- December 09, 2023
Medicine for Melancholy Blu-ray Movie
Criterion | 2008 | 88 min | Not rated | Jun 20, 2023 | Kenneth Brown
Twenty-four hours in the tentative relationship of two young San Franciscans also dealing with the conundrum of being a minority in a rapidly gentrifying city.
Drama / Romance
- December 08, 2023
Mister Jerico Blu-ray Movie
Imprint | 1970 | 1 Movie, 2 Cuts | 85 min | Rated ACB: PG | Nov 29, 2023 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
Dudley Jerico sets out to rob corrupt millionaire Victor Rosso of his legendary Gemini diamond.
Adventure / Crime
The Police Academy Collection Blu-ray Movie
Shout Factory | 1984-1994 | 7 Movies | 611 min | Rated PG | Nov 21, 2023 | Brian Orndorf
The call went out. The recruits came in. No longer would police cadets have to meet standards of height, weight and other pesky requirements. Brains were optional, too. Can't spell IQ? Don't know the number for 911? No matter. Police Academy grads are ready to uphold law and disorder! Among the funniest and most memorable comedy series to ever spill wildly across the screen, the Police Academy films are an absolutely mandatory part of any film collection! And hey ... be careful out there.
Action / Comedy / Crime
Police Academy Blu-ray Movie
Shout Factory | 1984 | 96 min | Rated R | Nov 21, 2023 in The Police Academy Collection | Brian Orndorf
A group of good-hearted but incompetent misfits enter the police academy, but the instructors there are not going to put up with their pranks.
Comedy / Crime
Police Academy 2: Their First Assignment Blu-ray Movie
Shout Factory | 1985 | 87 min | Rated PG-13 | Nov 21, 2023 in The Police Academy Collection | Brian Orndorf
Mahoney and friends have graduated from the Police Academy and are issued with their first assignments. As before, their cheerfulness and devotion to duty outweighs any shortcomings, but are even they ready to do battle with a band graffiti daubing terrorists?
Action / Comedy / Crime
Police Academy 3: Back in Training Blu-ray Movie
Shout Factory | 1986 | 84 min | Rated PG | Nov 21, 2023 in The Police Academy Collection | Brian Orndorf
When police funding is cut, the Governor announces he must close one of the academies. To make it fair, the two police academies must compete against each other to stay in operation. Mauser persuades two officers in Lassard's academy to better his odds, but things don't quite turn out as expected...
Comedy / Crime
Police Academy 4: Citizens on Patrol Blu-ray Movie
Shout Factory | 1987 | 87 min | Rated PG | Nov 21, 2023 in The Police Academy Collection | Brian Orndorf
A new batch of recruits arrives at Police Academy, this time a group of civilian volunteers who have joined Commandant Lassard's new Citizens on Patrol program. Although the community relations project has strong governmental support, a disgusted Captain Harris is determined to see it fail.
Action / Comedy / Crime
Police Academy 5: Assignment Miami Beach Blu-ray Movie
Shout Factory | 1988 | 90 min | Rated PG | Nov 21, 2023 in The Police Academy Collection | Brian Orndorf
The old captain Lassard, chief of the police academy, goes to Florida to receive an award. In the city arrives also the cynic captain Harris who wants to take Lassard's job. Harris wants to place himself in a favourable light in front of the high military hierarchy but, at the airport, Lassard exchange his bag with another one...
Comedy / Crime
Police Academy 6: City Under Siege Blu-ray Movie
Shout Factory | 1989 | 84 min | Rated PG | Nov 21, 2023 in The Police Academy Collection | Brian Orndorf
Our favourite police men are called together to deal with a gang who rob banks and jewelers. Using their various talents as well as their extraordinary luck, the crooks stand no chance against our men and women wearing blue...
Comedy / Crime
Police Academy: Mission to Moscow Blu-ray Movie
Shout Factory | 1994 | 83 min | Rated PG | Nov 21, 2023 in The Police Academy Collection | Brian Orndorf
The Russian government hires the veterans of the Police Academy to help deal with the Mafia.
Action / Comedy / Crime
Aquarela Blu-ray Movie
Sony Pictures | 2018 | 90 min | Rated PG | Nov 12, 2019 | Kenneth Brown
Water is the main protagonist, seen in all its great and terrible beauty. Mountains of ice move and break apart as if they had a life of their own. Kossakovsky's film travels the world, from the precarious frozen waters of Russia's Lake Baikal and Miami in the throes of Hurricane Irma, to Venezuela's mighty Angel Falls in order to paint a portrait of this fluid life force in all its glorious forms. Fragile humans experience life and death, joy and despair in the face of its power.
Documentary
The Watermelon Woman Blu-ray Movie
Criterion | 1996 | 84 min | Not rated | Jul 11, 2023 | Kenneth Brown
Cheryl is a video-store clerk and aspiring director whose interest in forgotten Black actresses leads her to investigate an obscure 1930s performer known as the Watermelon Woman.
Drama
R.I.P.D. 2: Rise of the Damned Blu-ray Movie
Universal Studios | 2022 | 103 min | Rated PG-13 | Nov 15, 2022 | Kenneth Brown
Set in the American West of 1876, 'R.I.P.D.2: Rise of the Damed' is a spiritual sequel to 2013's 'R.I.P.D.' Sheriff Roy Pulsipher isn't too thrilled about finding himself dead after a shoot out with a notorious outlaw gang, but he does get a second chance to return to earth after being recruited by the R.I.P.D. (Rest In Peace Department.). But avenging his own murder may have to take a back seat to saving the world when a gateway to hell is opened in the old mining town of Red Creek threatening not only the locals... but all of humanity itself.
Action / Comedy / Fantasy / Western / Supernatural / Comic book
In Love and War Blu-ray Movie
Warner Archive Collection
Warner Bros. | 1996 | 114 min | Rated PG-13 | Nov 14, 2023 | Randy Miller III
Reporter Ernest Hemingway is an ambulance driver in Italy during World War I. While bravely risking his life in the line of duty, he is injured and ends up in the hospital, where he falls in love with his nurse, Agnes von Kurowsky.
Biography / Drama / Romance / War
In Dreams Blu-ray Movie
Paramount Pictures | 1999 | 100 min | Rated R | Feb 15, 2022 | Kenneth Brown
Claire Cooper's peaceful family life takes a chilling turn when a mysterious serial killer invades her seemingly idyllic New England town and starts haunting her dreams with dark clues to his next deadly moves.
Horror / Mystery / Thriller / Psychological thriller / Surreal
A Disturbance in the Force: How the Star Wars Holiday Special Happened Blu-ray Movie
Giant Interactive | 2023 | 91 min | Unrated | Dec 05, 2023 | Kenneth Brown
Investigating the infamous The Star Wars Holiday Special (1978) with the behind-the-scenes story of how it got made.
Documentary
- December 07, 2023
Casino Raiders Blu-ray Movie
至尊無上 / Zhì zūn wú shàng/Ji juen mo seung | Eureka Classics
Eureka Entertainment | 1989 | 125 min | Rated BBFC: 18 | Dec 11, 2023 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
Law and Chan are gamblers and friends. Forced into a battle with the Yakuza, How far will friendship go? A high stakes card game will settle it all.
Action / Crime / Foreign
Titanic 4K Blu-ray Movie
Collector's Edition / 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray + Digital Copy
Paramount Pictures | 1997 | 195 min | Rated PG-13 | Dec 05, 2023 | Martin Liebman
A seventeen-year-old aristocrat falls in love with a kind but poor artist aboard the luxurious, ill-fated R.M.S. Titanic.
Adventure / Drama / History / Romance / Melodrama / Epic / Period
Titanic 4K Blu-ray Movie
4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray + Digital Copy
Paramount Pictures | 1997 | 195 min | Rated PG-13 | Dec 05, 2023 | Martin Liebman
A seventeen-year-old aristocrat falls in love with a kind but poor artist aboard the luxurious, ill-fated R.M.S. Titanic.
Adventure / Drama / History / Romance / Melodrama / Epic / Period
The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara Blu-ray Movie
Sony Pictures | 2003 | 107 min | Rated PG-13 | Nov 14, 2023 | Kenneth Brown
Documentary about Robert McNamara, Secretary of Defense in the Kennedy and Johnson Administrations, who subsequently became president of the World Bank. The documentary combines an interview with Mr. McNamara discussing some of the tragedies and glories of the 20th Century, archival footage, documents, and an original score by Philip Glass.
Documentary / War