New Blu-ray Reviews

Hugo 4K + 3D Blu-ray Movie  

Limited Edition / 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray 3D + Blu-ray

Arrow | 2011 | 126 min | Rated PG | Jul 18, 2023 | Jeffrey Kauffman

Set in 1930s Paris, an orphan who lives in the walls of a train station is wrapped up in a mystery involving his late father and an automaton.

Adventure / Drama / Family / Mystery / Period

Cross of Iron 4K Blu-ray Movie    

4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray

Studio Canal | 1977 | 133 min | Rated BBFC: 18 | Jul 31, 2023 | Dr. Svet Atanasov

German officers and soldiers retreating from the disastrous Russian front engage in both camaraderie and bitter rivalries.

Action / Drama / War

Johnny Mnemonic: In Black and White Blu-ray Movie  

Sony Pictures | 1995 | 97 min | Rated R | Aug 16, 2022 | Martin Liebman

In a dystopian 2021, Johnny (Keanu Reeves) is a data trafficker who has an implant that allows him to securely store data too sensitive for regular computer networks. On one delivery run, he accepts a package that not only exceeds the implant's safety limits - and will kill him if the data is not removed in time - but also contains information far more important and valuable than he had ever imagined. On a race against time, he must avoid the assassins sent to kill him and remove the data before it, too, ends his life.

Action / Sci-Fi

At Dawn They Sleep Blu-ray Movie  

Slipcover in Original Pressing / Includes Movie Reap of Evil

Saturn's Core Audio & Video | 2000 | 2 Movies | 77 min | Not rated | Jul 25, 2023 | Brian Orndorf

Stephen and Ian are ruthless drug lords who are in the middle of a war with their rival Billy Rae Douglas. One night Stephen and Ian escort two girls home with them, who actually seem to be stranger than they are. The next morning they wake up and the girls are gone, and Stephen and Ian are not feeling so well and soon find out their lives have been changed forever. They find out that the girls were Angels that infected them with a vampire type virus. In exchange for immortality, Stephen and Ian along with the other hordes of Vampires, are to kill off the human race so that the Angels can take back what should have been theirs. The Vampires begin their slaughter until the Demon world steps in to put an end to the Angel's plans, for the Demons are satisfied with the way the three worlds co-exists.

Thriller

Funny Ha Ha Blu-ray Movie  

Slipcover in Original Pressing

Factory25 | 2002 | 90 min | Not rated | Jul 25, 2023 | Brian Orndorf

Marnie just graduated from college, drinks likes she's still in school, and is looking for a temporary job but a permanent boyfriend. She loves a guy who doesn't love her (?), ping-pongs between awkward romantic alternatives and even less suitable jobs.

Comedy / Drama

Violet Evergarden: The Movie Blu-ray Movie  

Crunchyroll, LLC | 2020 | 140 min | Rated TV-14 | May 30, 2023 | Neil Lumbard

After the aftermath of a war, a young girl who was used as a 'tool' for war learned to live. With the scars of burns, she goes back to her past to feel the true feelings of the Major's, "I love you."

Anime / Drama / Fantasy / Romance / Foreign

Violet Evergarden: The Movie 4K Blu-ray Movie  

4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray

Crunchyroll, LLC | 2020 | 140 min | Rated TV-14 | May 30, 2023 | Neil Lumbard

After the aftermath of a war, a young girl who was used as a 'tool' for war learned to live. With the scars of burns, she goes back to her past to feel the true feelings of the Major's, "I love you."

Anime / Drama / Fantasy / Romance / Foreign

Beverly of Graustark Blu-ray Movie  

Undercrank Productions | 1926 | 70 min | Not rated | Apr 12, 2022 | Jeffrey Kauffman

In the comedy "Beverly of Graustark", Marion Davies is an American co-ed whose cousin Oscar (Creighton Hale) is a Prince and heir to the throne of Graustark. In a twist of fate, she must switch places with him in order to prevent the conniving General Marlanax (Roy D'Arcy) from becoming King. Along the way, Beverly (as Oscar) meets goat-herd Dantan (Antonio Moreno), hires him as her bodyguard … and winds up falling for him. There are mistaken identities, intrigue, clothing swaps, a chase, a swordfight and more- and in the end Beverly winds up with the goat-herd, cousin Oscar becomes the new King, and there's a big fancy ball. Marking a stylistic shift from Marion Davies' earlier features, "Beverly of Graustark" – expertly directed by Sidney Franklin – is more akin to her 1928 rom-corns Show People and The Patsy.

Comedy / Romance

The Damned Don't Cry Blu-ray Movie  

Warner Archive Collection

Warner Bros. | 1950 | 103 min | Not rated | Jun 27, 2023 | Randy Miller III

It's a man's world. And Ethel Whitehead learns there's only one way for a woman to survive in it: Be as tempting as a cupcake and as tough as a 75-cent steak. Joan Crawford brings hard-boiled glamour and simmering passion to the role of Ethel, who moves from the wrong side of the tracks to a mobster's mansion to high society, one man at a time. Some of those men love her. Some use her. And one - a high-rolling racketeer - abuses her. When the racketeer murders his rival in Ethel's swanky living room, she flees a sure murder rap right back to the poverty she thought she had escaped. And this time there may not be a man to pick up the pieces of her shattered life.

Crime / Drama / Romance / Thriller

The Great Train Robbery Blu-ray Movie  

The First Great Train Robbery / Reissue

Kino Lorber | 1978 | 110 min | Rated PG | Jun 13, 2023 | Dr. Svet Atanasov

Victorian heist movie from writer-director Michael Crichton. Suave master-thief Edward Pierce comes up with a cunning plan to steal gold bullion from a moving railway car, but to pull it off he needs the help of his girlfriend Miriam, safecracker Agar, and the gymnastic Clean Willy. With his team assembled, Pierce begins to put his ingenious and wildly intricate plan into operation, but one false move and it could all come to nothing.

Adventure / Crime / Drama / Thriller / Heist

Fighting Back Blu-ray Movie  

Arrow | 1982 | 96 min | Rated R | Jul 04, 2023 | Jeffrey Kauffman

A Philadelphia shop owner has enough of the criminals' violence's and ravages. He organizes a patrol of civil people. It all starts to go wrong because his team's actions are taken as racial discrimination.

Action / Crime / Drama

Invaders from Mars Blu-ray Movie  

Standard Edition

Ignite Films | 1953 | 78 min | Not rated | Jul 11, 2023 | Jeffrey Kauffman

One night, young David McLean sees a spaceship crash into a nearby sandpit. His father goes to investigate, but comes back changed. Where once he was cheerful and affectionate, he's now sullen and snarlingly rude. Others fall into the sandpit and begin acting like him: cold, ill-tempered and conspiratorial. David knows that aliens are taking over the bodies of humans, but he'll soon discover there have been far more of these terrible thefts than he could have imagined. The young doom-monger finds some serious help in a lady doctor and a brilliant astronomer. Soon they meet the aliens: green creatures with insect-like eyes. These beings prove to be slaves to their leader: a large, silent head with ceaselessly shifting eyes and two tentacles on either side, each of which branches off into three smaller tentacles. It's up to the redoubtable earth trio to stop its evil plans.

Horror / Sci-Fi

Invaders from Mars 4K Blu-ray Movie  

Standard Edition / 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray

Ignite Films | 1953 | 78 min | Not rated | Jul 11, 2023 | Jeffrey Kauffman

One night, young David McLean sees a spaceship crash into a nearby sandpit. His father goes to investigate, but comes back changed. Where once he was cheerful and affectionate, he's now sullen and snarlingly rude. Others fall into the sandpit and begin acting like him: cold, ill-tempered and conspiratorial. David knows that aliens are taking over the bodies of humans, but he'll soon discover there have been far more of these terrible thefts than he could have imagined. The young doom-monger finds some serious help in a lady doctor and a brilliant astronomer. Soon they meet the aliens: green creatures with insect-like eyes. These beings prove to be slaves to their leader: a large, silent head with ceaselessly shifting eyes and two tentacles on either side, each of which branches off into three smaller tentacles. It's up to the redoubtable earth trio to stop its evil plans.

Horror / Sci-Fi

Golgo 13 Blu-ray Movie    

ゴルゴ13 / Gorugo sātīn | Eureka Classics

Eureka Entertainment | 1973 | 104 min | Rated BBFC: 12 | Jul 17, 2023 | Dr. Svet Atanasov

Golgo 13 is assigned to murder a man named Boss Goa.

Action / Crime / Thriller / Foreign

The Strangler Blu-ray Movie  

Shout Factory | 1964 | 89 min | Not rated | Jun 06, 2023 | Dr. Stephen Larson

Leo Kroll is a mother-fixated lab technician who collects dolls. He is also a serial killer, responsible for the strangulation deaths of several nurses.

Horror

The Adam Rifkin Film Festival Blu-ray Movie  

Slipcover in Original Pressing

Dekanalog | 2023 | 122 min | Not rated | Jun 27, 2023 | Brian Orndorf

In 1975 a young Adam Rifkin commandeered his father’s super 8 camera and gradually turned his home in a quiet Chicago suburb into his own private backlot. His penchant for the gleefully irreverent was present long before he carved his own idiosyncratic path through the film industry, and this woozy, unblinking gaze at the American dream. These anarchic, never-before released shorts chart the director’s growth from from his very first film at the age of 8, to the final short right before his very first Hollywood feature at the tender age of 21.

Comedy

Shame Blu-ray Movie  

Schande / Slipcover in Original Pressing

Umbrella Entertainment | 1988 | 94 min | Rated R | Jul 25, 2023 | Brian Orndorf

Asta Cadell, a lawyer traveling through the Australian Outback on holiday, stops in a small Western Australian town after her motorcycle breaks down and shacks up with Tim Curtis, the local mechanic, while fixing it. She then becomes involved in helping Curtis' teenage daughter, Lizzie, who has been recently date-raped by Danny Fiske, the son of a wealthy, well-known citizen and his gang. Asta persuades Lizzie to press charges against Danny, but the local population becomes determined to keep the incident a secret at any cost and soon Asta and the Curtis family's lives are in danger.

Drama / Foreign

The Old Man and the Sea Blu-ray Movie  

Warner Archive Collection

Warner Bros. | 1958 | 86 min | Not rated | Jun 27, 2023 | Randy Miller III

An old Cuban fisherman's dry spell is broken when he hooks a gigantic fish that drags him out to sea.

Adventure / Drama

Extra Terrestrial Visitors Blu-ray Movie  

Los nuevos extraterrestres / The Pod People / The New Extraterrestrials / Tales of Trumpy / The Return of E.T. / The Unearthling / Blu-ray + CD

Severin Films | 1983 | 84 min | Not rated | Jun 27, 2023 | Jeffrey Kauffman

A young boy in the woods discovers a lovable alien...or is it?

Sci-Fi / Foreign

Alien from the Abyss Blu-ray Movie  

Alien from the Deep / Alien degli abissi

Severin Films | 1989 | 91 min | Not rated | Jun 27, 2023 | Jeffrey Kauffman

An environmental activist teams and a reclusive snake farmer encounter a horrible new life form while attempting to expose a high profile chemical company that's been dumping toxic sludge into an active volcano. The owners of the corrupt corporation thought that the jungle would be the perfect cover for their shady dealings, but nature is about to strike back. Just as the two fearless explorers uncover the evidence they need to bring the company down, a new life form born of magma and biohazardous material emerges to teach mankind the dangers of toying with Mother Nature.

Horror / Sci-Fi / Foreign