New Blu-ray Reviews

Smiling Friends: The Complete First Season Blu-ray Movie  

Warner Bros. | 2020-2022 | 102 min | Rated TV-MA | Aug 29, 2023 | Randy Miller III

Pim and Charlie work for Smiling Friends Inc, a company whose only goal is to help people smile who are struggling to.

Animation / Comedy / Dark humor / Surreal

The Complete Story of Film Blu-ray Movie  

An Odyssey / A New Generation

Music Box Films | 2011-2021 | 2 Movies | 1123 min | Not rated | Aug 29, 2023 | Jeffrey Kauffman

No synopsis for this title.

Documentary

The Story of Film: An Odyssey Blu-ray Movie  

Music Box Films | 2011 | 956 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Jeffrey Kauffman

A comprehensive history of the medium and art of motion pictures.

Documentary

The Story of Film: A New Generation Blu-ray Movie  

Music Box Films | 2021 | 167 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Jeffrey Kauffman

Mark Cousins offers hope and optimism while he explores different movies and talks about how technology is changing the course of cinema in a new century and how Covid continues the process.

Documentary

Gay Purr-ee Blu-ray Movie  

Warner Archive Collection

Warner Bros. | 1962 | 85 min | Rated G | Aug 29, 2023 | Randy Miller III

Mouser Jaune-Tom & housecat Mewsette are living in the French countryside, but Mewsette wants to experience the refinement & excitement of Paris living. But upon arrival, she falls into the clutches of Meowrice. Jaune-Tom & his friend Robespierre set off to Paris to find her.

Adventure / Animation / Comedy / Family / Musical / Romance

Destry Blu-ray Movie  

Kino Lorber | 1954 | 96 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Dr. Svet Atanasov

A dishonest mayor and powerful criminal dominate a small western town. But when the town's sheriff dies under mysterious circumstances, Tom Destry, son of a famed gunman, is called in to put an end to the corruption.

Comedy / Drama / Western

Nefarious Blu-ray Movie  

Mill Creek Entertainment | 2023 | 98 min | Rated R | Aug 15, 2023 | Martin Liebman

On the day of his scheduled execution, a convicted serial killer gets a last minute court-ordered psychiatric evaluation. The killer surprises the psychiatrist with his claim that instead of trying to avoid his fate, he is in fact a demon who wants the execution to go forward... and further claims that before their brief time together is over, the doctor will commit three murders of his own.

Horror / Psychological thriller / Supernatural

The Sensual World of Black Emanuelle Blu-ray Movie  

Black Emanuelle / Black Emanuelle 2 / Emanuelle in Bangkok / Emanuelle in America / Emanuelle Around the World / Emanuelle and the Last Cannibals / Porno Nights of the World / Emanuelle and the Porno Nights of the World / Sister Emanuelle / Emanuelle and the White Slave Trade / Violence in a Women's Prison / Emanuelle in Prison / Black Cobra / Black Velvet / Emanuelle's Perverse Outburst / Porno Esotic Love / Divine Emanuelle / Emanuelle: Queen of the Desert / Amore Libero - Free Love / Emanuelle - A Woman From a Hot Country / Black Deep Throat / Porno Nights of the World N.2 / Inferno Rosso: Joe D'amato on the Road of Excess / Scandalous Emanuelle / Blu-ray + CD

Severin Films | 1974-2021 | 24 Movies, 27 Cuts | 2162 min | Not rated | Aug 29, 2023 | Jeffrey Kauffman

No synopsis for this title.

Action / Adventure / Crime / Documentary / Drama / Horror / Romance / Thriller / Erotic / Foreign

Black Emanuelle Blu-ray Movie  

Emanuelle nera

Severin Films | 1975 | 91 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Jeffrey Kauffman

In her first onscreen adventure, journalist/photographer Mae Jordan (known to her readers as "Emanuelle") travels to Africa on assignment. Questions of her own racial and sexual identity come to a head as she observes the troubled marriage of her hosts, Ann and Gianni Danieli. Matters are complicated further when Emanuelle finds herself in affairs with both of them, after which she flees Africa, only to be persued by Gianni, who had earlier rejected her and ridiculed her advances.

Drama / Erotic

Black Emanuelle nº 2 Blu-ray Movie  

Emanuelle nera nº 2 / The New Black Emanuelle

Severin Films | 1976 | 91 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Jeffrey Kauffman

An international supermodel is in a mental hospital, and her psychiatrist tries to draw out what traumatic experiences in her past contributed to put her there.

Drama / Erotic

Emanuelle in Bangkok Blu-ray Movie  

Emanuelle nera: Orient reportage

Severin Films | 1976 | 92 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Jeffrey Kauffman

Emmanuelle is sent to Bangkok on a journalism assignment. While there, she embarks on her own exploration of the secrets of sensual pleasure. While learning much, she also reveals several secrets of her own.

Drama

Emanuelle in America Blu-ray Movie  

Severin Films | 1977 | 100 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Jeffrey Kauffman

An American journalist travels throughout the world in search of a good story by joining a modern-day harem and traveling to Venice to see what really goes on at diplomatic parties. While trying to expose a corrupt government official, Emanuelle stumbles upon a group that uses kidnapped girls to make and sell snuff films. A brush with death leaves Emanuelle wondering if it is perhaps time to hang up her camera for good.

Erotic / Foreign

Emanuelle Around the World Blu-ray Movie  

Emanuelle - Perché violenza alle donne? / The Degradation of Emanuelle

Severin Films | 1977 | 97 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Jeffrey Kauffman

Famous undercover journalist Emanuelle teams with her friend Cora Norman to uncover a white slave ring that traffics in women kidnapped from various locales around the world. Her investigations leaves plenty of time, however, for globe-trotting and bed-hopping. As each lead turns up bad, Emanuelle begins to wonder if she can ever put an end to this horrible slavery ring.

Adventure / Crime / Drama / Thriller / Erotic

Emanuelle and the Last Cannibals Blu-ray Movie  

Emanuelle e gli ultimi cannibali

Severin Films | 1977 | 93 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Jeffrey Kauffman

While doing undercover work in a mental hospital, Emanuelle discovers a girl who seems to have been raised by a tribe of amazonian cannibals. Intrigued, Emanuelle and friends travel deep into the Amazon jungle, where they find that the supposedly extinct tribe of cannibals is still very much alive, and Emanuelle and her party are not welcome visitors.

Adventure / Horror / Erotic / Foreign

Porno Nights of the World Blu-ray Movie  

Notti porno nel mondo

Severin Films | 1977 | 91 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Jeffrey Kauffman

Faux documentary.

Erotic

Emanuelle and the Porno Nights of the World Blu-ray Movie  

Emanuelle e le porno notti nel mondo n. 2

Severin Films | 1978 | 85 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Jeffrey Kauffman

Faux documentary.

Erotic

Sister Emanuelle Blu-ray Movie  

Suor Emanuelle

Severin Films | 1977 | 90 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Jeffrey Kauffman

Renouncing her "sinful" past, Emanuelle has entered a convent and has dedicated herself to a life of service. Enter Monika, the free-spirited, free-loving daughter of a wealthy Baron. Emanuelle is charged with keeping Monika in line, but when the young girl's wild ways bring back memories of her own sensual past, Emanuelle begins questioning her own religious and sexual identity. Advances from an escaped killer who is hiding in the convent serve to complicate matters further.

Drama / Erotic / Foreign

Emanuelle and the White Slave Trade Blu-ray Movie  

La via della prostituzione

Severin Films | 1978 | 88 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Jeffrey Kauffman

While attempting to interview an elusive gangster, photojournalist Emanuelle notices a man pushing a girl in a wheelchair through the airport. Later, in another country she sees the same man and the girl up and walking. Intrigued, she does a bit of investigating and uncovers an organization dealing in the buying and selling of young women. She goes undercover into the organization but finds that getting out again could cost her her career...and her life.

Drama / Foreign

Violence in a Women's Prison Blu-ray Movie  

Sensual World of Black Emanuelle Edition

Severin Films | 1982 | 99 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Jeffrey Kauffman

Planning to expose the corrupt practices of a woman's prison, Emanuelle goes undercover as an inmate. She is shocked by the guard's brutal treatment of the inmates, but she never gets a chance to report these horrors. When her actual identity is revealed, she finds herself on the receiving end of even worse.

Action / Thriller / Foreign

Emanuelle in Prison Blu-ray Movie  

Women's Prison Massacre / Emanuelle Escapes from Hell

Severin Films | 1983 | 89 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Jeffrey Kauffman

Emanuelle, a reporter, comes just a little too close to exposing a corrupt official, and is sent to prison on trumped-up charges. In the prison, the inmates are constantly humiliated and tortured by the prison staff. Overly affectionate prisoners are forced underwater, while others are obliged to look on. Emanuelle finds an enemy in the deranged Albina, who "runs the prison." For the pleasure of the warden, Emanuelle and Albina are forced to fight each other with knives. Bad becomes worse when four men awaiting execution escape and take over the prison. Gore flows like water.

Action / Drama / Erotic