New Blu-ray Reviews

Bubba Ho-Tep 4K Blu-ray Movie  

Collector's Edition / 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray

Shout Factory | 2002 | 92 min | Rated R | Feb 07, 2023 | Brian Orndorf

Elvis Presley is still alive, now in his late sixties, but confined to a rest home in Texas. Here, he recounts how he escaped fame with the help of an impersonator—now left to wonder what could have been, all while trying to battle the "soul-sucking" mummy, Bubba Ho-Tep, who enters the rest home at night and consumes souls.

Comedy / Horror / Mystery

City on a Hill: The Complete Series Blu-ray Movie  

Showtime Entertainment | 2019-2022 | 1496 min | Rated TV-MA | Jan 24, 2023 | Martin Liebman

In the early 1990s, Boston was rife with violent criminals emboldened by local law enforcement agencies in which corruption and racism was the norm - and then it all changed in what was called the "Boston Miracle." In this fictional account, assistant district attorney Decourcy Ward comes from Brooklyn and forms an unlikely alliance with a corrupt yet venerated FBI veteran, Jackie Rohr. Together, they take on a family of armored car robbers in a case that grows to involve, and ultimately subvert, the entire criminal justice system of Boston.

Crime / Drama / Thriller

The Outfit Blu-ray Movie  

Blu-ray + Digital Copy

Universal Studios | 2022 | 105 min | Rated R | May 03, 2022 | Dr. Stephen Larson

The film follows Leonard, an English tailor who used to craft suits on London's world-famous Savile Row. But after a personal tragedy, he's ended up in Chicago, operating a small tailor shop in a rough part of town where he makes beautiful clothes for the only people around who can afford them: a family of vicious gangsters.

Crime / Drama

Programmed to Kill Blu-ray Movie  

The Retaliator

Kino Lorber | 1987 | 91 min | Rated R | Jan 17, 2023 | Dr. Svet Atanasov

A middle eastern female terrorist is captured by the CIA in Greece, after an attack on a marketplace. Transported back to the USA, the terrorist undergoes an operation where she is transformed into a cybernetic killing machine. Now the CIA have a secret weapon to send back to the Middle East, but how long can they control her?

Action / Sci-Fi

Armored Trooper Votoms: OVA Collection 2 Blu-ray Movie  

装甲騎兵ボトムズ

Maiden Japan | 2010-2011 | 4 Movies | 290 min | Rated TV-MA | Jul 23, 2019 | Neil Lumbard

The fires of war don’t create heroes, only legions of the wounded and the dead. For a pilot of an easily-destroyed VOTOMS unit, every foray into battle is one more calculated bet with your own life as the prize, another day of cheating death. When your commanding officers send you into a fight that can’t be won, or set goals that can only be achieved through massive sacrifice, then a decision has to be made. Are you going to be a hero? Or a survivor? The brutal realism of the acclaimed anime series returns, as men and machines are thrown into the meat grinder of war, in the epic second Original Video Animation collection of ARMORED TROOPER VOTOMS!

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

Two Films by Lois Weber Blu-ray Movie  

Sensation Seekers / A Chapter in her Life

Kino Lorber | 1923-1927 | 2 Movies | 154 min | Not rated | Apr 13, 2021 | Neil Lumbard

No synopsis for this title.

Drama / Romance / Foreign

Warm Bodies 4K Blu-ray Movie  

4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray + Digital Copy

Lionsgate Films | 2013 | 98 min | Rated PG-13 | Feb 07, 2023 | Jeffrey Kauffman

After a zombie epidemic, R (a highly unusual zombie) encounters Julie (a human survivor), and rescues her from a zombie attack. Julie sees that R is different from the other zombies, and as the two form a special relationship in their struggle for survival, R becomes increasingly more human – setting off an exciting, romantic, and often comical chain of events that begins to transform the other zombies and maybe even the whole lifeless world.

Comedy / Horror / Romance / Teen

Three Colors: Blue 4K Blu-ray Movie  

Trois couleurs: Bleu / 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray

Criterion | 1993 | 99 min | Rated R | No Release Date | Dr. Svet Atanasov

Julie is the lone survivor of an automobile crash that killed her husband, a famed composer, and their only child. Despondent, Julie attempts suicide, but she cannot bring herself to take her own life. Instead, she sets about starting over, purging all remnants of her former existence in an attempt to sever her ties to the past.

Drama / Music / Mystery / Foreign

Sensation Seekers Blu-ray Movie  

Kino Lorber | 1927 | 70 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Neil Lumbard

Sensation Seekers is a 1927 silent film romantic drama directed by Lois Weber, produced and distributed by Universal Pictures and starring Billie Dove. The film and a trailer survive.

Drama / Romance / Foreign

A Chapter in Her Life Blu-ray Movie  

Kino Lorber | 1923 | 84 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Neil Lumbard

No synopsis for this title.

Drama / Foreign

The Captains Collection Blu-ray Movie  

Special Edition | Limited to 2,000 Copies

Shout Factory | 2011-2014 | 4 Movies | 360 min | Not rated | Oct 20, 2020 | Randy Miller III

A feature-length documentary that follows actor William Shatner through interviews with the other actors who have portrayed starship captains in five other incarnations of the Star Trek franchise. Shatner's subjects discuss their lives and careers before, during and after their tenure with Star Trek. They explore the pressures, stigmas and sacrifices that accompanied their roles and their larger careers.

Biography / Documentary / Sci-Fi / Foreign

The Return of Swamp Thing 4K Blu-ray Movie  

4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray

Lightyear | 1989 | 88 min | Rated PG-13 | Feb 07, 2023 | Jeffrey Kauffman

Swamp Thing is a hero of sorts, rescuing attractive horticulturist Abby from her stepfather, Dr. Arcane, whom she suspects is behind her mother's death.

Action / Comedy / Horror / Sci-Fi / Supernatural / Comic book

Take Out Blu-ray Movie  

Criterion | 2004 | 88 min | Not rated | Sep 13, 2022 | Dr. Svet Atanasov

An illegal Chinese immigrant falls behind on payments on an enormous smuggling debt. Ming Ding has only until the end of the day to come up with the money.

Drama / Foreign

Blue Steel Blu-ray Movie    

Imprint | 1990 | 102 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Dr. Svet Atanasov

A female rookie in the police force engages in a cat and mouse game with a pistol wielding psychopath who becomes obsessed with her.

Action / Crime / Drama / Thriller

Armored Trooper Votoms: Chirico's Return Blu-ray Movie  

Armored Trooper Votoms: Alone Again

Maiden Japan | 2011 | 50 min | Rated TV-MA | No Release Date | Neil Lumbard

The fight with the Martial Church had dire consequences, and Chirico now finds himself a wanderer. An encounter with a woman called Stevia leads to a reunion with old friends, but the homecoming must wait since war refuses to leave Chirico alone.

Action / Anime / Sci-Fi / Short / War / Foreign

Votoms Finder Blu-ray Movie  

Armored Trooper Votoms: Votoms Finder

Maiden Japan | 2010 | 40 min | Rated TV-MA | No Release Date | Neil Lumbard

Set in an alternate universe, VOTOMS Finder follows the exploits of Aki Renso, a Bottomer who daydreams of living in the utopian city of Top — and his dreams might become reality if he can rescue a Topper chairman’s daughter from her kidnappers!

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

Bergman Island Blu-ray Movie  

Criterion | 2021 | 113 min | Rated R | Jan 31, 2023 | Jeffrey Kauffman

An American filmmaking couple retreat to the island for the summer to each write screenplays for their upcoming films in an act of pilgrimage to the place that inspired Bergman. As the summer and their screenplays advance, the lines between reality and fiction start to blur against the backdrop of the Island's wild landscape.

Drama

The Razor's Edge Blu-ray Movie  

Sony Pictures | 1984 | 129 min | Rated PG-13 | Oct 18, 2022 | Brian Orndorf

When Larry Darrell returns from World War I disillusioned with Jazz Age values, he undertakes a quest which leads him to reject his rich fiancée and his superficial lifestyle to go search for truth in the Himalayas. But Larry learns that the path to enlightenment is as difficult as treading "the sharp edge of a razor" and returns to civilization, where he tastes life's dark side when he tries to save a hometown girl turned prostitute.

Drama / Romance / War

The Rainbow Boys Blu-ray Movie  

Slipcover in Original Pressing

Canadian International Pictures | 1973 | 90 min | Not rated | Dec 27, 2022 | Brian Orndorf

A grizzled old prospector, his occasional girlfriend, and a young transplant from Brooklyn head into the mountains of British Columbia on a three-wheeled motorcycle in order to find a long-lost stash of gold left there by the prospector's father decades earlier.

Adventure / Comedy / Drama

Armored Trooper Votoms: Case;Irvine Blu-ray Movie  

Maiden Japan | 2010 | 50 min | Rated TV-MA | No Release Date | Neil Lumbard

In another corner of the VOTOMS universe, Irvine is an AT mechanic who moonlights as a Battling pilot. Although he’s content with throwing matches for money, his talents draw the attention of the Battling agent Ishruna, and the sadistic pilot Paygun.

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