New Blu-ray Reviews
Home- February 18, 2023
From Beyond 4K Blu-ray Movie
Slipcover in Original Pressing / 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray
Vinegar Syndrome | 1986 | 86 min | Unrated | Jan 24, 2023 | Brian Orndorf
Dr. Pretorius and his colleagues are working on a sensational experiment: by means of stimulation of the pineal gland, they want to open the human mind to higher dimensions. When the experiment succeeds, however, they are immediately attacked by terrible life forms, which apparently are floating around us all the time. When Dr. Pretorius is killed by one of them, Dr. Tillinghast is under suspect and thrown into the psycho ward due to his stories. Only the ambitious psychologist Dr. McMichaels believes him and wants to continue the experiment...
Horror / Sci-Fi
Black Adam 4K Blu-ray Movie
4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray + Digital Copy
Warner Bros. | 2022 | 125 min | Rated PG-13 | Jan 03, 2023 | Martin Liebman
Nearly 5,000 years after he was bestowed with the almighty powers of the Egyptian gods-and imprisoned just as quickly-Black Adam is freed from his earthly tomb, ready to unleash his unique form of justice on the modern world.
Action / Fantasy / Sci-Fi / Comic book
Super Bowl LVI Champions Los Angeles Rams Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + DVD
Cinedigm | 2022 | 74 min | Not rated | Mar 29, 2022 | Martin Liebman
RAM-TASTIC! The Los Angeles Rams have won the Vince Lombardi Trophy! With sideline sound and in-game wires that put you right in the action, award-winning cinematography, and pulse-pounding music, relive all the glory from the Rams’ outstanding season.
Young Sherlock Holmes Blu-ray Movie
Limited Edition / Blu-ray + Digital Copy
Paramount Pictures | 1985 | 109 min | Rated PG-13 | Jan 31, 2023 | Martin Liebman
Holmes and Watson meet while at boarding school and set about solving a series of bizarre murders.
Action / Adventure / Family / Mystery
Young Rock: Season Two Blu-ray Movie
Universal Studios | 2022 | 258 min | Not rated | Nov 08, 2022 | Martin Liebman
Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson’s hit coming-of-age comedy returns with more incredible stories from his formative years. Season Two of "Young Rock" continues to explore seminal chapters in Dwayne Johnson’s extraordinary life, from his early years growing up surrounded by wrestling icons in Hawaii, to his rebellious teen years navigating new surroundings in Nashville, to his early twenties playing in the Canadian Football League. Dwayne Johnson himself takes a look back on the memorable moments and remarkable people that helped shape him into the global superstar he is today.
Comedy
Chicago Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + Digital Copy
Paramount Pictures | 2002 | 113 min | Rated PG-13 | Feb 07, 2023 | Martin Liebman
At a time when crimes of passion result in celebrity headlines, nightclub sensation Velma Kelly and spotlight-seeking Roxie Hart both find themselves sharing space on Chicago's famed Murderess Row! They also share Billy Flynn, the town's slickest lawyer with a talent for turning notorious defendants into local legends. But in Chicago there's only room for one legend!
Comedy / Crime / Drama / Musical / Period
The Warriors Blu-ray Movie
Limited Edtion | Ultimate Director's Cut / Blu-ray + DVD + Digital Copy
Paramount Pictures | 1979 | 1 Movie, 2 Cuts | 94 min | Rated R | Dec 06, 2022 | Martin Liebman
A battle of gigantic proportions looms in the neon underground of New York City. The armies of the night number 100,000; they outnumber the police five to one; and tonight, they're all after the Warriors—a street gang blamed unfairly for a rival gang leader's death.
Action / Crime / Drama / Thriller
- February 17, 2023
Macumba Sexual Blu-ray Movie
Severin Films | 1983 | 80 min | Not rated | Nov 28, 2022 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
Princess Obongo, the Goddess of Unspeakable Lust, uses dark powers to ensnare a hapless couple of yuppies, so that she can imbue them with evil and conquer the world.
Horror / Erotic / Foreign
Galaxy Express 999: The TV Series Collection 03 - Terminus Blu-ray Movie
Episodes 77-113 / Eternal Wanderer Emeraldas / Can You Love Like a Mother? TV Specials
Discotek Media | 1980-1981 | 950 min | Unrated | Sep 29, 2020 | Neil Lumbard
The 999 enters the final stretch in the conclusion to this epic space story. Everything kicks off when Tetsuro is attacked aboard the train, only to be saved by a mysterious caped stranger. At the next stop, Tetsuro seeks out the Time Castle which is rumored to be ruled by the legendary Captain Harlock. Things take a turn for the weird the closer Tetsuro and Maetel get to their final destination, including a trip in a fourth-dimensional elevator and a collision with a Galaxy Express 999 from another timeline! After everything he's been through when the Galaxy Express 999 pulls into its final stop, will Tetsuro go through with his wish to get a mechanical body?
Adventure / Anime / Sci-Fi / Comic book / Foreign
Galaxy Express 999: The TV Series Collection 02 - Layover Blu-ray Movie
Episodes 40-76 / Can You Live Like a Warrior? TV Special
Discotek Media | 1979-1980 | 950 min | Unrated | Jul 28, 2020 | Neil Lumbard
Galaxy Express 999 is the name of a train which travels through space, beginning at Megalopolis Station on one end of the galaxy and ending at Andromeda on the other. But the Galaxy Express is more than just a train, it's also a metaphor for life itself, with passengers constantly boarding, debarking, and dreaming along the way.Tetsuro Hoshino is a youth who'll give anything to board the Three-Nine, including a promise to accompany a mysterious woman named Maetel all the way to Andromeda, the planet where, she tells him, he can get a free machine body to avenge the cruel death of his mother.
Adventure / Anime / Sci-Fi / Comic book / Foreign
Martin Scorsese's World Cinema Project, No. 4 Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + DVD
Criterion | 1939-1976 | 6 Movies | 601 min | Not rated | Sep 27, 2022 | Jeffrey Kauffman
See individual titles for their synopses.
Comedy / Drama / Musical / Foreign
Sambizanga Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + DVD
Criterion | 1972 | 97 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Jeffrey Kauffman
A young woman makes her way from the outskirts of Luanda toward the city's center looking for her husband after his arrest by the Portuguese authorities—an incident that ultimately helps to ignite an uprising.
Drama / Foreign
Prisioneros de la Tierra Blu-ray Movie
Prisoners of the Earth / Blu-ray + DVD
Criterion | 1939 | 86 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Jeffrey Kauffman
A group of desperate men are conscripted into indentured labor on a treacherous, disease-ridden yerba maté plantation under the control of the brutal foreman Köhner—a situation that boils over in an explosive act of rebellion led by the defiant Podeley, and made all the more tense by the fact that Köhner and Podeley love the same woman: Andrea, the sweet-spirited daughter of the camp’s doctor.
Drama / Foreign
Chess of the Wind Blu-ray Movie
شطرنج باد / Shatranj-e baad / Blu-ray + DVD
Criterion | 1976 | 99 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Jeffrey Kauffman
A web of greed, violence, and betrayal ensnares the heirs to a family fortune as they vie for control of their recently-deceased matriarch's estate.
Drama / Foreign
Muna Moto Blu-ray Movie
The Child of Another / Blu-ray + DVD
Criterion | 1975 | 89 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Jeffrey Kauffman
In a close-knit village in Cameroon, the rigid customs governing courtship and marriage mean that a deeply in love betrothed couple can be torn apart by the lack of a dowry and by another man's claiming of the young woman as his own wife—a rupture that sets the stage for a clash between a patriarchal society and a modern generation's determination to chart its own course.
Drama / Foreign
Two Girls on the Street Blu-ray Movie
Két lány az utcán / Blu-ray + DVD
Criterion | 1939 | 79 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Jeffrey Kauffman
Upwardly mobile working women—one a musician in an all-girl band, the other a bricklayer—join forces as they both try to make it in Budapest, supporting each other through changing economic fortunes, the advances of lecherous men, and the highs and heartbreaks of love.
Comedy / Drama / Foreign
Kalpana Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + DVD
Criterion | 1948 | 152 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Jeffrey Kauffman
An ambitious dancer is determined to open a cultural center devoted to breathing new life into India's traditional artistic forms; meanwhile, the obvious adoration between him and his lead dancer arouses the jealousy of his enterprising companion.
Drama / Musical / Foreign
The Texas Chain Saw Massacre 4K Blu-ray Movie
4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray
MPI Media Group | 1974 | 83 min | Rated R | Feb 28, 2023 | Randy Miller III
A tale of five friends en route to visit a grave in Texas who end up falling victim to a family of cannibalistic psychopaths.
Horror / Thriller / Dark humor
The Texas Chain Saw Massacre 4K Blu-ray Movie
4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray
MPI Media Group | 1974 | 83 min | Rated R | Feb 28, 2023 | Randy Miller III
A tale of five friends en route to visit a grave in Texas who end up falling victim to a family of cannibalistic psychopaths.
Horror / Thriller / Dark humor
- February 16, 2023
Braddock: Missing in Action III Blu-ray Movie
2K Restoration
Kino Lorber | 1988 | 103 min | Rated R | Jan 17, 2023 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
James Braddock once again returns to Vietnam, 12 years after the end of the war, to rescue his thought-dead Vietnamese wife and son, and a group of Amerasian orphans held in another prison camp presided over by a sadistic Vietnamese general whom was one of those that tortured Braddock during his stay in a similar prison camp just a few years earlier.
Action / Adventure / Drama / Thriller / War / Martial arts