New Blu-ray Reviews

Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken! - Complete Collection Blu-ray Movie  

映像研には手を出すな！ / Eizōken ni wa Te o Dasu na!

Sentai Filmworks | 2020 | 300 min | Rated TV-14 | Jul 25, 2023 | Neil Lumbard

Midori Asakusa is obsessed with animation, but while she spends hours doodling and coming up with amazing ideas, she knows that it'll be difficult to produce animated films on her own. Fortunately, Sayaka Kanamori is more into planning and finances, and she's been thinking of ways to turn Midori's ideas into something practical and profitable. That's what friends are for, right? Still, for all their hopes and wishes, their future as the next animation wunderkinds is looking rather sketchy… until they meet Tsubame Mizusaki, who daydreams about becoming an animator, even though her parents have forbidden her from joining their school's anime club. Solution: form a new club focused on "motion pictures" and let the creativity flow! It won't always be easy, but once everyone's in "toon" together, who knows what might happen!

Anime / Comedy / Teen / Foreign

Tokyo Mew Mew New: Season 1 Collection Blu-ray Movie  

Sentai Filmworks | 2022 | 300 min | Rated TV-14 | Jul 18, 2023 | Neil Lumbard

Ichigo was hoping for a great first date. What she got was a literal disaster and an origin story! First she's hit with a ray that supplements her DNA with that of an Iriomote Cat (an endangered subspecies of leopard), and then they're attacked by a giant rat monster! With her date down, Ichigo finds herself using her new feline abilities to defeat the monster. Holy catgirl, she's a super heroine! But who gave her these powers and why? With her cat out of the bag, Ichigo must track down the mysterious Mew Project and help locate the other Mew Mew girls who've been given similar powers in order to fight off invading aliens! Geez, when is she going to have time to do her homework? Find out when the good girls go magically wild!

Action / Adventure / Anime / Comic book / Foreign

Eric Clapton: The Definitive 24 Nights Blu-ray Movie  

Blu-ray + CD

Reprise | 1991 | 358 min | Not rated | Jun 23, 2023 | Jeffrey Kauffman

24 Nights is a live album by Eric Clapton, compiled from 42 concerts performed at the Royal Albert Hall in London, England, in 1990 and 1991.

Documentary / Music

Infinite Storm Blu-ray Movie  

Decal Releasing | 2022 | 98 min | Rated R | Jun 14, 2022 | Martin Liebman

When a climber gets caught in a blizzard, she encounters a stranded stranger and must get them both down the mountain before nightfall.

Drama / Thriller

Upgrade 4K Blu-ray Movie  

4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray

Shout Factory | 2018 | 100 min | Rated R | Jul 04, 2023 | Martin Liebman

Set in the near future, technology controls nearly all aspects of life, but when Grey, a self-identified technophobe, has his world turned upside down, his only hope for revenge is an experimental computer chip implant called STEM.

Action / Sci-Fi / Thriller

71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance Blu-ray Movie  

71 Fragmente einer Chronologie des Zufall

Criterion | 1994 | 99 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Randy Miller III

71 scenes revolving around a recent immigrant, a couple that has just adopted a daughter, a college student, and a lonely old man.

Drama / Foreign

Benny's Video Blu-ray Movie  

Criterion | 1992 | 110 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Randy Miller III

A 14-year-old video enthusiast obsessed with violent films decides to make one of his own and show it to his parents, with tragic results.

Crime / Drama / Foreign

The Seventh Continent Blu-ray Movie  

Der siebente Kontinent

Criterion | 1989 | 109 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Randy Miller III

Georg and Anna are a bourgeois couple who quietly live with their daughter in Austria, though they dream of moving to Australia. Day by day, month by month, they are enervated by the dull and tedious nature of their existence before resolving to end their lives entirely.

Drama / Foreign

Michael Haneke: Trilogy Blu-ray Movie  

The Seventh Continent / Benny's Video / 71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance

Criterion | 1989-1994 | 3 Movies | 317 min | Not rated | Dec 06, 2022 | Randy Miller III

See individual titles for their synopses.

Crime / Drama / Foreign

The Manchurian Candidate 4K Blu-ray Movie  

4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray

Kino Lorber | 1962 | 126 min | Rated PG-13 | Jun 20, 2023 | Dr. Svet Atanasov

A U.S. Army hero returns to New York from Korea but has been mysteriously programmed by Communists to assassinate a presidential nominee. When his Army buddy becomes suspicious of the goings-on, he is on the trail to stop him.

Drama / Mystery / Thriller / Psychological thriller

Gunbuster: The Complete OVA Series Blu-ray Movie  

トップをねらえ! / Aim for the Top! GUNBUSTER

Discotek Media | 1988-1989 | 179 min | Unrated | May 30, 2023 | Neil Lumbard

2015: Earth's first faster-than-light ship, the Luxion, is lost, attacked by unidentified space monsters in the Perseus Arm. Six years later, Noriko Takaya, daughter of the Luxion's commander, enters the Okinawa Girls' Space Pilot High School, vowing to be a pilot and follow her father's trail to the stars. But is she prepared for the intense training to become a member of the elite Top Squadron? Noriko's fight has just begun and the fate of all humanity depends on her meeting the challenge!

Action / Adventure / Anime / Drama / Sci-Fi / War / Foreign

Angel Cop: Complete OVA Series Blu-ray Movie  

エンゼルコップ | Remastered Version

Discotek Media | 1989-1994 | 176 min | Unrated | Feb 22, 2022 | Neil Lumbard

Japan is under attack. A group of violent terrorists, known as the Red May, have launched a wave of bombings and murder across Tokyo, threatening the stability of the entire country. In response, the government calls in the Special Security Force, an elite law enforcement division with the authorization to use any methods necessary to protect public safety. As the Red May continue their assault, the SSF unleash their deadliest weapon: Angel, a woman whose beauty is matched only by her skill in combat. But Angel soon learns that the situation is far more complex and dangerous than she first thought. The terrorists are dying before she can get to them, ripped apart by some ferocious and inexplicable force... someone else is after the Red May, someone with the power to destroy anything or anyone in their way - including Angel and her team! As the mystery deepens and the body count rises, a lethal government conspiracy is brought to light. What is the mysterious "H-file"? And will Angel live long enough to find out?

Action / Anime / Crime / Sci-Fi / Foreign

Le Mepris 4K Blu-ray Movie    

Contempt / Vintage World Cinema / 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray

Studio Canal | 1963 | 103 min | Rated BBFC: 15 | Jun 26, 2023 | Dr. Svet Atanasov

A screenwriter finds his marriage falling apart as he attempts to start a film version of the "The Odyssey."

Drama / Foreign

Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret. Blu-ray Movie  

Blu-ray + DVD + Digital Copy

Lionsgate Films | 2023 | 105 min | Rated PG-13 | Jul 11, 2023 | Jeffrey Kauffman

When her family moves from the city to the suburbs, 11-year-old Margaret navigates new friends, feelings, and the beginning of adolescence.

Drama

I Am Weekender Blu-ray Movie    

Films by WIZ and Chloé Raunet

BFI Video | 1992 | 75 min | Rated BBFC: 15 | Jun 19, 2023 | Dr. Svet Atanasov

No synopsis for this title.

Music

Mickey & Friends: 10 Classic Shorts - Volume 2 Blu-ray Movie  

Disney100 / Blu-ray + DVD + Digital Copy

Disney / Buena Vista | 1935-1952 | 82 min | Not rated | Apr 04, 2023 | Jeffrey Kauffman

Celebrate 100 magical years of Disney with this collectible compilation of animated shorts! Mickey and his friends embark on 10 hilarious, madcap adventures that include Mr. Duck Steps Out, Winter Storage, Pluto's Party, Pluto and the Gopher, Mickey's Trailer, Pluto's Sweater, Boat Builders, Tugboat Mickey, The Band Concert and Lonesome Ghosts.

Animation / Comedy / Short

Dangerous When Wet Blu-ray Movie  

Warner Archive Collection

Warner Bros. | 1953 | 95 min | Not rated | Jun 27, 2023 | Randy Miller III

A young woman enters a contest to be the first to swim the English Channel.

Comedy / Musical / Romance

Castle Town Dandelion: The Complete Series Blu-ray Movie  

Essentials / Blu-ray + Digital Copy

FUNimation Entertainment | 2015 | 300 min | Rated TV-PG | Apr 02, 2019 | Neil Lumbard

Akane, a princess with the power to control gravity, competes against her eight super powered siblings for a spot on the throne. The catch? Each would-be ruler will be monitored 24/7 by hundreds of video cameras that broadcast their every move nationwide. As the royal siblings live their lives, their subjects will watch and eventually vote for a winner. But with privacy out the window, will the camera-shy Akane be able to keep her cool?

Anime / Comedy / Drama / Comic book / Foreign

Onipan!: Complete Collection Blu-ray Movie  

Sentai Filmworks | 2022 | 150 min | Rated TV-14 | May 16, 2023 | Neil Lumbard

Remember those cartoon character-based undergarments that kids used to wear? How many of those brightly colored sets were sold in the hope that they might actually grant someone super powers? And what if they actually could? Three young Japanese Oni are about to answer that question when they're transformed into human girls and transferred into a normal high school as part of a plan to ease relations between humans and demons! How? Because when extra-large problems arise, they can don special tiger-striped underpants… Oni-Pants… that let them transform and use special Oni abilities to make brief work of the issue! Of course, with great underwear comes great responsibilities (and the danger of accidental Mooning while in senshi mode), but if someone has to wear the big girl undies, then the future's foundation will hopefully be fundamentally secure!

Anime / Comedy / Sci-Fi / Foreign

Requiem for a Heavyweight Blu-ray Movie  

Mill Creek Entertainment | 1962 | 95 min | Not rated | Feb 21, 2023 | Dr. Svet Atanasov

After suffering a knockout against Cassius Clay, it´s the final bell for Mountain Rivera. A fight doctor confirms one more punch for the washed-up heavyweight and he could become permanently disabled. Reluctantly but with but with the support of his faithful trainer and a kindly employment counselor Rivera tries to land a job outside the ring. But his calculating manager Maish has other plans for Rivera.

Drama / Sport