New Blu-ray Reviews
Home- February 07, 2023
Summer Ghost Blu-ray Movie
サマーゴースト
Shout Factory | 2021 | 40 min | Not rated | Nov 01, 2022 | Neil Lumbard
Tomoya, Aoi, and Ryo are high school students who met online. An urban legend speaks of a "summer ghost," a spirit girl who appears when fireworks are set off. Tomoya cannot live the life he envisioned for himself. Aoi cannot find her place in the world. Ryo has his once shining future suddenly pulled away. Each has their own reason for needing to meet the summer ghost. On a summer night when life and death cross paths, where will each of their emotions take them?
Anime / Drama / Mystery / Short / Supernatural / Foreign
- February 06, 2023
Three Colors: White 4K Blu-ray Movie
Trois couleurs: Blanc / 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray
Criterion | 1994 | 92 min | Rated R | No Release Date | Dr. Svet Atanasov
Karol Karol is an expatriate Polish hairdresser whose French wife divorces him after just six months of marriage because of his impotency. Penniless and devoid of his passport, Karol must journey back to Poland by hiding in a trunk. Upon his return, he slowly begins amassing a considerable fortune, ultimately hatching a perverse plot for revenge.
Comedy / Drama / Mystery / Romance / Foreign
Alice in Borderland: Complete Collection Blu-ray Movie
Sentai Filmworks | 2014-2015 | 75 min | Rated TV-MA | Dec 21, 2021 | Neil Lumbard
Ryohei Arisu is bored with life. Nothing is new or exciting, and playing games is the only relief from the endless monotony of a seemingly pointless existence. If only, he wishes, he could be someplace else… a different world… where things were more exciting. Then Ryohei and his friends, Daikichi and Chota, see what seems to be an incredibly powerful firework in the sky, brighter than any shooting star, and when they can see again, they discover that they're in an entirely new reality. Unfortunately, as they quickly learn, while this new world is, indeed, far more exciting, it's also incredibly dangerous. Trapped in a post-apocalyptic environment where the only way to survive is to compete in a series of increasingly deadly games, Ryohei and his friends have no choice except to adapt or perish!
Action / Anime / Fantasy / Thriller / Supernatural / Comic book / Foreign
Mickey & Minnie: 10 Classic Shorts - Volume 1 Blu-ray Movie
Disney100 / Blu-ray + DVD + Digital Copy
Disney / Buena Vista | 1928-1947 | 83 min | Not rated | Feb 07, 2023 | Martin Liebman
Celebrate 100 magical years of Disney with this collection of animated shorts! With new introductions by Mickey & Minnie, these 10 wonderful stories include such classics as the iconic Steamboat Willie, where Mickey Mouse first appeared, Brave Little Tailor, Hawaiian Holiday, On Ice, and six more delightful stories!
Animation / Comedy
Honk for Jesus. Save Your Soul. Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + Digital Copy
Universal Studios | 2022 | 103 min | Rated R | Nov 01, 2022 | Martin Liebman
In the aftermath of a huge scandal, Trinity Childs, the first lady of a prominent Southern Baptist Mega Church, attempts to help her pastor-husband, Lee-Curtis Childs, rebuild their congregation.
Comedy
Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + Digital Copy
Universal Studios | 2022 | 116 min | Rated PG | Sep 06, 2022 | Brian Orndorf
A new adaptation of Paul Gallico's much-loved novel about a cleaning lady in 1950s London who falls in love with an haute couture dress by Christian Dior and decides to gamble everything for the sake of this folly.
Drama
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
- February 05, 2023
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
- February 04, 2023
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
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
- February 03, 2023
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