New Blu-ray Reviews

Chilly Scenes of Winter Blu-ray Movie  

Criterion | 1979 | 96 min | Rated PG | Mar 28, 2023 | Dr. Svet Atanasov

Charles is a Salt Lake City civil servant who loves (*LOVES*) Laura, a lovely housewife with a lovely step-daughter and an A-frame-selling, ex-quarterback husband named Ox. His roommate is "an unemployed jacket salesman," his mother is a spacey, laxative overdosing, overly eccentric basket-case, his perpetually happy sister finds love in the dorkiest of guys, his step-father has a jones for Turtle Wax and his boss asks him for advice about his Ivy League son's sexual problems.

Comedy / Drama / Romance

To Joy Blu-ray Movie  

Till glädje

Criterion | 1950 | 99 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Jeffrey Kauffman

Two violinists playing in the same orchestra fall in love and get married, but they can't get along.

Drama / Foreign

Doctor Who: William Hartnell - Complete Season Two Blu-ray Movie  

BBC | 1964-1965 | 975 min | Not rated | Mar 28, 2023 | Jeffrey Kauffman

In 1963 an old fashioned Police Call Box sat in a junk yard at 76 Totters Lane. An old man out and about exploring. A young girl wise beyond her years attending Coal Hill School. Two teachers become suspicious. Barbara and Ian suspect the girl is in trouble. They follow her home. The girl, Susan Foreman, vanishes into the junkyard. Barbara and Ian investigate. They discovered the Police Box. "It's alive!" says Ian, he feels a faint vibration coming from within. The girls grandfather returns. He confronts the two teachers who accuse him of holding the girl inside the Police Box. They hear her call out to him from inside. Barbara and Ian push their way in and discover a world they never thought possible.

Adventure / Drama / Sci-Fi

Primal Rage 4K Blu-ray Movie  

Rage - Furia primitiva / Slipcover in Original Pressing / 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray

Vinegar Syndrome | 1988 | 92 min | Rated R | Mar 28, 2023 | Brian Orndorf

A scientist at a Florida university inadvertantly creates a "rage virus" while performing experiments intended to restore dead brain tissue in baboons. When a journalist for the college paper breaks into the campus lab, he's bitten by one of the infected baboons; the virus soon spreads to a trio of rapists and a valley girl, all of whom go on killing sprees.

Horror / Sci-Fi / Thriller

GoldenEra Blu-ray Movie  

ETR Media | 2022 | 104 min | Not rated | Mar 28, 2023 | Brian Orndorf

GoldenEra is a documentary that tells the story of the creation and legacy of the video game GoldenEye 007 (1997) for the Nintendo 64.

Documentary

The Maltese Falcon 4K Blu-ray Movie  

4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray + Digital Copy

Warner Bros. | 1941 | 101 min | Not rated | Apr 04, 2023 | Randy Miller III

A gallery of high-living lowlifes will stop at nothing to get their sweaty hands on a jewel-encrusted falcon. Detective Sam Spade wants to find out why—and who will take the fall for his partner's murder.

Crime / Film-Noir / Mystery

Wild Strawberries Blu-ray Movie  

Smultronstället

Criterion | 1957 | 93 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Jeffrey Kauffman

Traveling to accept an honorary degree, Professor Isak Borg is forced to face his past, come to terms with his faults, and make peace with the inevitability of his approaching death.

Drama / Foreign

Groupie Blu-ray Movie  

Dark Force Entertainment | 2010 | 79 min | Not rated | Jun 21, 2022 | Dr. Svet Atanasov

When a mysterious groupie joins legendary cursed band, "The Dark Knights", a series of unexplained murders derails their comeback tour.

Crime / Mystery / Thriller

Chucky: Season Two Blu-ray Movie  

Universal Studios | 2023 | 383 min | Not rated | Mar 28, 2023 | Martin Liebman

Chucky is back! The notorious killer doll continues his onslaught of terror in Season Two of the hit horror series from franchise creator Don Mancini. This season finds Chucky (voiced by Brad Dourif) hellbent on exacting revenge against teens Jake (Zackary Arthur), Devon (Björgvin Arnarson) and Lexy (Alyvia Alyn Lind), as well as his ex Tiffany (voiced by Jennifer Tilly), after they successfully thwarted his murderous plot in Season One. While Jake and Devon encounter trouble as a couple at their new Catholic school, Chucky embarks on a whole new killing spree, crossing paths with familiar franchise faces along the way.

Horror / Mystery / Thriller / Dark humor

Smiles of a Summer Night Blu-ray Movie  

Sommarnattens leende

Criterion | 1955 | 109 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Jeffrey Kauffman

A trio of couples meet at a country estate for a weekend vacation, but there, under the idyllic summer moonlight, a series of swapping interludes ensues.

Comedy / Romance / Foreign

Crisis Blu-ray Movie  

Kris

Criterion | 1946 | 93 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Jeffrey Kauffman

Urban beauty-shop proprietress Miss Jenny arrives in an idyllic rural town one morning to whisk away her eighteen-year-old daughter, Nelly, whom she abandoned as a child, from the loving woman who has raised her. Once in Stockholm, Nelly receives a crash course in adult corruption and wrenching heartbreak.

Drama / Romance / Foreign

Drifting Dragons: Complete Collection Blu-ray Movie  

空挺ドラゴンズ

Sentai Filmworks | 2020 | 300 min | Rated TV-14 | Apr 12, 2022 | Neil Lumbard

Dragons may be huge flying leviathans, but their colossal bodies are also treasure troves of valuable oils and enough succulent flesh to feed small villages. So, even though it's incredibly dangerous, the profession of draking is still profitable enough for the crews of airships like the Quin Zaza to risk their lives in the deadly pursuit of the airborne behemoths. The mortality rate can be high, however, and the Zaza's newest recruit, Takita, will have to learn the ins and outs of her lethal new vocation quickly, even as her reckless crewmate Mika seems determined to set the worst possible example. That leaves it up the rest of the Quin Zaza crew to keep the new rookie on the right side of the food chain as they pursue the deadliest catch of all!

Adventure / Anime / Fantasy / Comic book / Foreign

Wanted 4K Blu-ray Movie  

4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray

Shout Factory | 2008 | 110 min | Rated R | Mar 28, 2023 | Neil Lumbard

A young office worker learns that he is the son of a assassin and that he shares his father's superhuman killing abilities.

Action / Crime / Fantasy / Thriller / Comic book

Assassin Blu-ray Movie    

Indicator Series

Powerhouse Films | 1973 | 82 min | Rated BBFC: 15 | No Release Date | Dr. Svet Atanasov

A government assassin is sent to kill a government official who might be leaking its secrets.

Drama / Thriller

Forced Entry Blu-ray Movie  

Collector's Edition

Dark Force Entertainment | 1976 | 1 Movie, 2 Cuts | 83 min | Rated R | Jun 21, 2022 | Dr. Svet Atanasov

Horror/thriller about a psychotic mechanic whose history of childhood abuse at the hands of his mother leads to murderous rage against women. When he ends up falling for one of his potential victims, the terrified but resourceful woman manages to manipulate his amorous feelings so she can escape.

Horror / Thriller

The Exorcist III 4K Blu-ray Movie  

Collector's Edition | + Director's Cut on BD / 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray

Shout Factory | 1990 | 1 Movie, 2 Cuts | 110 min | Not rated | Mar 28, 2023 | Dr. Stephen Larson

Fifteen years after Regan's exorcism, a police lieutenant hunts a cruel serial killer, whose murders involve torture, decapitation, and the desecration of religious icons.

Horror / Mystery / Thriller / Supernatural

The Prince and the Showgirl Blu-ray Movie  

Warner Archive Collection

Warner Bros. | 1957 | 117 min | Rated PG | Mar 14, 2023 | Randy Miller III

Elsie Marina, a second-rate hoofer living in a theatrical boarding house in Brixton, is plucked from the chorus to entertain the Regent of Carpathia for the evening and ultimately smooths his rough edges.

Comedy / Romance

Ran 4K Blu-ray Movie  

乱 / 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray + Digital Copy

Lionsgate Films | 1985 | 162 min | Rated R | Nov 16, 2021 | Jeffrey Kauffman

Set in medieval Japan, an elderly warlord announces his intention to hand over his empire to his sons. A power struggle ensues between the heirs.

Action / Drama / War / Foreign / Epic / Period

Babylon 4K Blu-ray Movie  

4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray + Digital Copy

Paramount Pictures | 2022 | 189 min | Rated R | Mar 21, 2023 | Martin Liebman

Set in Hollywood during the transition from silent films to talkies, focusing on a mixture of historical & fictional characters.

Drama / Period

Black Panther 4K Blu-ray Movie  

4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray

Disney / Buena Vista | 2018 | 134 min | Rated PG-13 | Feb 07, 2023 | Martin Liebman

T'Challa, after the death of his father, the King of Wakanda, returns home to the isolated, technologically advanced African nation to succeed to the throne and take his rightful place as king.

Action / Adventure / Drama / Fantasy / Sci-Fi / Comic book