New Blu-ray Reviews

Cave-In! Blu-ray Movie  

Shout Factory | 1983 | 98 min | Not rated | Sep 12, 2023 | Brian Orndorf

A group of strangers become entrapped in a cave after it collapses. A fugitive among them claims a hostage as leverage for means of escape.

Action / Adventure / Drama

The Night the Bridge Fell Down Blu-ray Movie  

Shout Factory | 1983 | 194 min | Not rated | Sep 12, 2023 | Brian Orndorf

A man rushing his infant son to the hospital... a police officer pursuing a suspect... a middle-aged secretary... eloping lovebirds... a soon-to-be nun... a house painter. They have places to go, things to do and the best way to get to those places and do those things is to cross the Madison Bridge. But, just like that, there's a big problem. The bridge partially gives way, stranding nine people and threatening to collapse at any moment. There's another problem, too. A panicked, gun-wielding bank robber using the bridge as his escape route refuses to let rescuers draw near. Hollywood hitmaker Irwin Allen suspensefully spans the hours with the event--packed tale of THE NIGHT THE BRIDGE FELL DOWN!

Action / Drama / Thriller

Beyond the Poseidon Adventure Blu-ray Movie  

Includes 145m TV cut in SD

Shout Factory | 1979 | 1 Movie, 2 Cuts | 115 min | Rated PG | Sep 12, 2023 | Brian Orndorf

A monstrous tidal wave has left the luxury liner Poseidon capsized mid-ocean and its few survivors struggling to reach safety in an upside-down world. But THE POSEIDON ADVENTURE was only the thrilling start. You must go BEYOND THE POSEIDON ADVENTURE to complete the white-knuckle suspense. Under producer/director Irwin Allen, Michael Caine and Sally Field head an all-star cast caught in the crippled craft's flaming corridors and bursting bulwarks. Tug skipper Caine, first mate Karl Malden and passenger Field enter the foundering vessel hoping for salvage rights, miraculously finding more survivors. But others have come aboard, led by sinister Dr. Stefan Svevo (Telly Savalas). He wants a priceless cargo of plutonium - and will kill for his plunder!

Action / Adventure

When Time Ran Out... Blu-ray Movie  

Shout Factory | 1980 | 1 Movie, 2 Cuts | 109 min | Rated PG | Sep 12, 2023 | Brian Orndorf

An active volcano threatens a south Pacific island resort and its guests as a power struggle ensues between the property's developer and a drilling foreman.

Action / Adventure / Drama

Hanging by a Thread Blu-ray Movie  

Shout Factory | 1979 | 196 min | Not rated | Sep 12, 2023 | Brian Orndorf

A cable car turns into a perilous death trap when an electrical storm stalls the sightseeing tram 7,000 feet in the air. Buffeted by winds that hamper their rescue, eight suspended passengers face a deadly night of terror dangling helplessly while the tram's weakened cable slowly starts snapping, one thin wire at a time.

Adventure / Drama / Thriller

Fire! Blu-ray Movie  

Shout Factory | 1977 | 97 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Brian Orndorf

A convict starts a fire in a forest to cover his escape, but the fire goes out of control and threatens to destroy a small mountain community.

Action / Adventure / Drama / Nature

Flood! Blu-ray Movie  

Shout Factory | 1976 | 98 min | Not rated | Sep 12, 2023 | Brian Orndorf

After several weeks of heavy rainfall, the dam above Brownsville is ready to burst, but the town's mayor refuses to open its gates – paving the way for disaster.

Action / Adventure / Drama / Nature

Alice Cooper: Billion Dollar Babies Blu-ray Movie  

Quadio Blu-ray Audio

Rhino Music | 1973 | 41 min | Rated M | Jun 23, 2023 | Jeffrey Kauffman

Billion Dollar Babies is the sixth studio album by American rock band Alice Cooper, released in March 1973 by Warner Bros. Records. The album became the best selling Alice Cooper record at the time of its release, hit number one on the album charts in both the United States and the United Kingdom, and went on to be certified platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America. The album has been retrospectively praised by such critics as Robert Christgau, Greg Prato of AllMusic, and Jason Thompson of PopMatters, but The Rolling Stone Album Guide (2004) gave the album only two and a half stars.

Music

Days of Heaven 4K Blu-ray Movie  

4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray

Criterion | 1978 | 94 min | Rated PG | Dec 05, 2023 | Dr. Svet Atanasov

In 1910, a Chicago steelworker accidentally kills his supervisor, and he, his girlfriend, and his little sister flee to the Texas panhandle, where they find work harvesting wheat in the fields of a stoic farmer.

Drama / Romance / Period

Black Sabbath Blu-ray Movie  

AIP Cut | 60th Anniversary

Kino Lorber | 1963 | 92 min | Not rated | Oct 24, 2023 | Dr. Svet Atanasov

A trio of atmospheric horror tales about: A woman terrorized in her apartment by phone calls from an escaped prisoner from her past; a Russian count in the early 1800's who stumbles upon a family in the countryside trying to destroy a particularly vicious line of vampires; and a 1900-era nurse who makes a fateful decision while preparing the corpse of one of her patients - an elderly medium who died during a seance...

Horror / Foreign

Scrooged 4K Blu-ray Movie  

35th Anniversary Edition / 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray + Digital Copy

Paramount Pictures | 1988 | 101 min | Rated PG-13 | Nov 07, 2023 | Martin Liebman

A contemporary comedy based on Charles Dickens' novel "A Christmas Carol," focusing on a television executive who decides to exploit the holidays to boost ratings.

Comedy / Dark humor / Supernatural / Holiday

A Haunting in Venice Blu-ray Movie  

Blu-ray + Digital Copy

Disney / Buena Vista | 2023 | 103 min | Rated PG-13 | Nov 28, 2023 | Jeffrey Kauffman

Celebrated sleuth Hercule Poirot, now retired and living in self-imposed exile in Venice, reluctantly attends a Halloween séance at a decaying, haunted palazzo. When one of the guests is murdered, the detective is thrust into a sinister world of shadows and secrets.

Crime / Drama / Mystery / Period

Deep Fear Blu-ray Movie  

Gravitas Ventures | 2023 | 84 min | Rated PG | Nov 07, 2023 | Martin Liebman

Deep Fear, is an intense and visceral survival thriller with a mix of storms, drug traffickers and great white sharks.

Action / Thriller

Burning Paradise Blu-ray Movie    

火燒紅蓮寺 / Huǒ shāo hóng lián sì | Eureka Classics

Eureka Entertainment | 1994 | 105 min | Rated BBFC: 18 | May 29, 2023 | Dr. Svet Atanasov

An exotic, legendary battle between the forces of good and evil comes to life as the celebrated disciples of the Shaolin Temple -- monks who practice a lethal and spiritual form of martial arts -- fight the evil followers of China's Manchu rulers.

Action / Adventure / Fantasy / Martial arts / Foreign

Jefferson Starship: Red Octopus Blu-ray Movie  

Quadio Blu-ray Audio

Rhino Music | 1975 | 42 min | Not rated | Jun 23, 2023 | Jeffrey Kauffman

Red Octopus is the second album by American rock band Jefferson Starship, released on Grunt Records in 1975. Certified double platinum by RIAA in 1995, it is the best-selling album by any incarnation of Jefferson Airplane and its spin-off groups.

Music

Man's Favorite Sport? Blu-ray Movie  

Kino Lorber | 1964 | 120 min | Not rated | Mar 15, 2022 | Dr. Svet Atanasov

A fishing-equipment salesman is persuaded to participate in a big fishing tournament-even though he hates the outdoors and has never caught a fish in his entire life!

Comedy / Romance

The Buster Keaton Collection: Volume 5 Blu-ray Movie  

Three Ages / Our Hospitality

Cohen Media Group | 1923 | 2 Movies | 139 min | Not rated | Nov 07, 2023 | Jeffrey Kauffman

See individual titles for their synopses.

Comedy / Family

Three Ages Blu-ray Movie  

Cohen Media Group | 1923 | 64 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Jeffrey Kauffman

This hilariously inventive satire of D.W. Griffith's INTOLERANCE follows the age-old story of misadventures on the road to finding love, retold in three separate eras, a structure that cleverly allowed Keaton to recut the film into three separate shorts if it failed as a feature.

Comedy

Our Hospitality Blu-ray Movie  

Cohen Media Group | 1923 | 75 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Jeffrey Kauffman

Buster stars as a man who travels south in 1830's America to claim a family inheritance, only to find himself in the middle of a longtime family feud. Silent film.

Comedy / Family

A Maple Valley Christmas Blu-ray Movie  

Cineverse | 2022 | 84 min | Not rated | Oct 24, 2023 | Martin Liebman

Erica is a rancher who has spent her whole life working the family farm with her mother and sister. When Aaron arrives and disrupts her plans, she starts to question what it is she actually wants.