New Blu-ray Reviews
Home- February 16, 2023
Lupin the 3rd: Part I - The Classic Adventures Blu-ray Movie
Discotek Media | 1971-1972 | 529 min | Unrated | May 31, 2022 | Neil Lumbard
Hard-boiled, cocky, classy and silly. These words only begin to describe the amazing master thief Lupin the Third. With the help of some quick gunplay by his partner Jigen, Lupin takes on the world in elaborate heists, classic car chases, and nasty explosions. Fujiko, a buxom redhead with a penchant for betrayal, always gets tangled up in Lupin's capers. The stoic but swift swordsman Goemon is just as inclined to kill Lupin as he is to help him. And Lupin can never seem to lose the relentless Tokyo Police Inspector Zenigata. What sort of trouble will this band of misfits get into next?
Action / Adventure / Anime / Comedy / Crime / Comic book / Foreign
Giovanni's Island Blu-ray Movie
ジョバンニの島 / Jobanni no Shima
Shout Factory | 2014 | 102 min | Not rated | Feb 21, 2023 | Brian Orndorf
In the aftermath of the most devastating conflict mankind had ever experienced, the tiny island of Shikotan became part of the Sakhalin Oblast... and on the unhealed border in this remote corner of the world, friendship among children from two different countries timidly blossomed, striving to overcome language barriers and the waves of history.
Anime / Drama / History / Foreign
Villains Blu-ray Movie
Slipcover in Original Pressing
Gunpowder & Sky | 2019 | 90 min | Rated R | Nov 29, 2022 | Brian Orndorf
After a pair of amateur criminals break into a suburban home, they stumble upon a dark secret that two sadistic homeowners will do anything to keep from getting out.
Comedy / Horror / Thriller / Psychological thriller
- February 15, 2023
Stargirl: The Complete Second Season Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + Digital Copy
Warner Bros. | 2021 | 536 min | Rated TV-PG | Feb 08, 2022 | Neil Lumbard
Teenager Courtney Whitmore joins the Justice Society of America. Based on the character from DC Comics.
Action / Adventure / Fantasy / Sci-Fi / Comic book
The Magnificent Seven 4K Blu-ray Movie
Collector's Edition | Shout Select / 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray
Shout Factory | 1960 | 128 min | Not rated | Feb 21, 2023 | Dr. Stephen Larson
A bandit terrorizes a small Mexican farming village each year. Several of the village elders send three of the farmers into the United States to search for gunmen to defend them. They end up with 7, each of whom comes for a different reason. They must prepare the town to repulse an army of over 100 bandits who will arrive wanting food.
Action / Adventure / Drama / Thriller / Western
Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter Blu-ray Movie
Paramount Pictures | 1984 | 91 min | Rated R | Jan 10, 2023 | Martin Liebman
Hockey-masked Jason Voorhees is back, with a vengeance. Picking up directly where 'Part 3' left off, Jason leaves the hospital morgue and sets his sights on yet another group of young people near Crystal Lake.
Horror
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly Blu-ray Movie
Le scaphandre et le papillon / Blu-ray + Digital Copy
Paramount Pictures | 2007 | 112 min | Rated PG-13 | Jan 31, 2023 | Dr. Stephen Larson
Elle France editor Jean-Dominique Bauby, who, in 1995 at the age of 43, suffered a stroke that paralyzed his entire body, except his left eye. Using that eye to blink out his memoir, Bauby eloquently described the aspects of his interior world, from the psychological torment of being trapped inside his body to his imagined stories from lands he'd only visited in his mind.
Biography / Drama / Foreign
- February 14, 2023
Born to Fight Blu-ray Movie
Nato per combattere
Severin Films | 1989 | 1 Movie, 2 Cuts | 93 min | Not rated | Dec 13, 2022 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
Vietnam War veteran Sam Wood is a survivor of a vicious prison camp where he was brutally and painfully tortured before finally managing to escape. Then he returns to rescue his friends.
Action / Thriller / War
Bordertown: Season 3 Blu-ray Movie
Sorjonen
Kino Lorber | 2019-2020 | 609 min | Not rated | Jul 20, 2021 | Neil Lumbard
Detective Inspector Kari Sorjonen is one of the most respected officers at the National Bureau of Investigation in Finland when his wife barely survives brain cancer. Sorjonen then takes a new job, leading SECRI, the Serious Crime Unit in Lappeenranta and moves his family to the idyllic small town near the border of Russia for a more peaceful life. But life turns out to be less than peaceful there.
Crime / Drama / Mystery / Foreign
Snowpiercer: The Complete Second Season Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + Digital Copy
Warner Bros. | 2020-2021 | 440 min | Rated TV-MA | Nov 09, 2021 | Neil Lumbard
At the end of season one, the survivors of the revolution are trying to pick up the pieces and maintain a fragile peace amongst the now merged classes with Layton (Daveed Diggs) emerging as the train’s leader. Discovering Mr. Wilford (Sean Bean) is alive and headed their way on a rival train, Melanie (Jennifer Connelly) risks going outside to prevent him from invading Snowpiercer. While she’s out there, it’s revealed that Alexandra (Rowan Blanchard), Melanie’s daughter, who she thought had died, is alive and has become Wilford’s dedicated protegee. In season two, an entirely new power struggle emerges, causing a dangerous rift as people are divided between their loyalty to Layton and to Mr. Wilford, who has a new train, new technology and a game plan that keeps everyone guessing. While Layton battles Wilford for the soul of Snowpiercer, Melanie leads the charge on a shocking new discovery that could change the fate of humanity.
Action / Drama / Sci-Fi / Thriller / Comic book
Poker Face Blu-ray Movie
Screen Media | 2022 | 95 min | Not rated | Jan 10, 2023 | Martin Liebman
A tech billionaire who gathers his childhood friends to his estate for what turns into a high stakes game of poker. Those friends have a love hate relationship with the host, a master game-player/planner, and he has concocted an elaborate scheme designed to bring a certain justice to all of them. However, Jake finds himself re-thinking his strategy when his mansion is overtaken by a dangerous home invader whose previous jobs have all ended in murder and arson.
Thriller
Two Films by Marguerite Duras Blu-ray Movie
India Song / Baxter, Vera Baxter
Criterion | 1975-1977 | 2 Movies | 214 min | Not rated | Feb 28, 2023 | Randy Miller III
See individual titles for their synopses.
Drama / Music / Foreign
India Song Blu-ray Movie
Criterion | 1975 | 119 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Randy Miller III
Within the insular walls of a lavish, decaying embassy in 1930s India, the French ambassador's wife staves off ennui through affairs with multiple men—with the overpowering torpor broken only by a startling eruption of madness.
Drama / Foreign
Baxter, Vera Baxter Blu-ray Movie
Criterion | 1977 | 95 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Randy Miller III
Ensconced in a sprawling rental villa, the world-weary Vera Baxter receives visits from two women, including a mysterious stranger to whom she recounts a shocking story about her marriage, the way she lives, and the reasons for her malaise.
Drama / Music / Foreign
- February 13, 2023
The Big Gundown Blu-ray Movie
La resa dei conti | Limited Edition | Indicator Series
Powerhouse Films | 1966 | 1 Movie, 3 Cuts | 110 min | Rated BBFC: 15 | Feb 13, 2023 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
Jonathan Corbett is a gunman so brave to have eliminated all the bandits of Texas. For this he is proposed for the candidacy to the Senate of the United States. In exchange he has only to support the construction of one railway line. Only after he accepts does he come to know that the Mexican Cuchillo has raped and killed a 12 year old girl. Corbett leaves on a long manhunt during which he gets to know his adversary better and discovers a variation on the crime for which the accused Cuchillo may not be as guilty as he first thought.
Action / Western / Foreign
I'm Quitting Heroing: Complete Collection Blu-ray Movie
Sentai Filmworks | 2022 | 325 min | Rated TV-14 | Jan 24, 2023 | Neil Lumbard
After defeating the Demon King, former hero Leo Demonheart is learning that he was just a little too good at what he did, to the point that many now suspect that his real goal was to become the Demon King himself. Which, given that his name is Demonheart and he was created as part of a secret project, is perhaps not as far-fetched as it sounds, but now nobody wants to employ him, and a former hero has still got to eat. So, he applies for a job with the Demon King Echidna herself... but she doesn't want him either. Fortunately, some of her subordinates are more appreciative of his skills, and if he wears a disguise, he might just get away with becoming the new bad boy on the block!
Action / Adventure / Anime / Foreign
F.P.1 Doesn't Answer Blu-ray Movie
F.P.1 antwortet nicht
Kino Lorber | 1932 | 1 Movie, 2 Cuts | 114 min | Not rated | Aug 10, 2021 | Neil Lumbard
A spectacular German science fiction film in the tradition of Metropolis (1927) and Gold (1934), F.P. 1 Doesn’t Answer dramatizes the creation of a massive floating airport serving as a way station between four continents. Hans Albers (The Man Who Was Sherlock Holmes) stars as Ellissen, a dashing pilot who helps pursuade an heiress (Sybille Schmitz, Vampyr) to fund the visionary project. When communication with Floating Platform 1 is mysteriously interrupted, Ellissen risks his life to investigate its disappearance. Produced just as the Nazi government was taking control of the German film industry, F.P.1 was writer Kurt Siodmak’s last film before emigrating to England and eventually America, where (as Curt Siodmak) he would write The Ape, The Wolf Man, Donovan’s Brain, and many other classic Hollywood horrors). It was also the last pre-war German film of Peter Lorre (M, The Maltese Falcon), who costars as a sly photojournalist. This special edition includes both the restored German-language version of F.P.1 Doesn’t Answer as well as the English-language version, Secrets of F.P.1, featuring Conrad Veidt (The Man Who Laughs). Special Features: -The complete English-language version, Secrets of F.P.1, starring Conrad Veidt, Jill Esmond, and Leslie Fenton -Audio commentary by film historian Eddie von Mueller
Adventure / Sci-Fi / Foreign
Love on the Ground Blu-ray Movie
L'amour par terre
Cohen Media Group | 1984 | 176 min | Not rated | Feb 14, 2023 | Jeffrey Kauffman
A play within a play within a play within a play. Actors perform a play in a house, an audience member invites them to work in his own home improvising a play around his own life. The line between fiction and reality blurs.
Comedy / Drama / Fantasy / Mystery
- February 12, 2023
Eugenie 4K Blu-ray Movie
De Sade '70 / Marquis De Sade's Philosophy in the Boudoir / 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray
Blue Underground | 1970 | 91 min | Not rated | Feb 21, 2023 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
An innocent girl goes to spend the weekend on an island with a woman and her brother, but soon she finds herself entangled in a web of dream-like sexual experiments.
Drama / Horror / Erotic
Kakuriyo: Bed & Breakfast for Spirits - The Complete Series Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + Digital Copy
FUNimation Entertainment | 2018-2019 | 2 Seasons | 650 min | Rated TV-14 | Oct 13, 2020 | Neil Lumbard
Aoi is swept away to the hidden realm when a handsome ogre lord comes to take her as his wife! He claims that she must pay back her grandfather’s debt, but Aoi’s not willing to give her hand over so easily and makes a deal to work at the Tenjin-ya.
Anime / Comedy / Fantasy / Romance / Supernatural / Foreign