New Blu-ray Reviews

The Return of Count Yorga Blu-ray Movie  

Arrow | 1971 | 97 min | Rated R | No Release Date | Jeffrey Kauffman

As the title suggests, the deadly Count Yorga stages a dramatic comeback for this movie, with Robert Quarry again playing the dentally challenged fiend. Moving in next to a school doesn't improve the Count's education, but it does provide him with plenty of prey in the form of students and teachers, whom he can't wait to, uh, suck up to...

Horror

The Night of the Iguana Blu-ray Movie  

Warner Archive Collection

Warner Bros. | 1964 | 118 min | Not rated | Dec 06, 2022 | Randy Miller III

A defrocked Episcopal clergyman leads a bus-load of middle-aged Baptist women on a tour of the Mexican coast and comes to terms with the failure haunting his life.

Drama

Christmas in Paradise Blu-ray Movie  

Blu-ray + Digital Copy

Lionsgate Films | 2022 | 105 min | Rated PG | Nov 15, 2022 | Jeffrey Kauffman

Joanna's holiday is shattered when her sisters tell her that their dad has dumped, he isn't responding to any calls and disappeared to a Caribbean island. The sisters decide to go to save their father and bring him home for Christmas.

Comedy / Holiday

Film Noir: The Dark Side of Cinema VIII Blu-ray Movie  

Street of Chance / Enter Arsène Lupin / Temptation

Kino Lorber | 1942-1946 | 3 Movies | 244 min | Not rated | Jul 19, 2022 | Dr. Svet Atanasov

See individual titles for their synopses.

Crime / Drama / Film-Noir / Mystery / Thriller

Street of Chance Blu-ray Movie  

The Black Curtain

Kino Lorber | 1942 | 74 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Dr. Svet Atanasov

After an accident, a New York man with amnesia finds out the ugly truth about his real identity and past by interacting with people who seem to know him well.

Drama / Film-Noir / Mystery

Ghosts: Season One Blu-ray Movie  

Blu-ray + Digital Copy

Lionsgate Films | 2021-2022 | 376 min | Rated TV-14 | Nov 29, 2022 | Jeffrey Kauffman

Freelance writer Samantha (Rose McIver) and aspiring chef Jay (Utkarsh Ambudkar) throw both caution and money to the wind to leave NYC and convert a rundown country estate they inherited into a bed & breakfast — only to find that it’s inhabited by a close-knit, eclectic group of spirits of deceased former residents! Adding to the supernatural surprises, Samantha discovers that she can see and hear ghosts everywhere, including those with whom she now shares a home. Old-school haunting and oddball humor fuel this sharp-witted, quirky comedy series that gives new meaning to the real estate phrase, “It’s got great bones.”

Comedy / Supernatural

Temptation Blu-ray Movie  

Kino Lorber | 1946 | 98 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Dr. Svet Atanasov

Victorian melodrama, set in Egypt, where a down-on-her-luck courtesan (Oberon) snares a loving but naive Egyptologist (Brent), marries him and moves to Egypt. She quickly becomes bored and embarks on an affair with Mamhoud Baroudi (Korvin). She falls in love with him, and together, they plot to do away with her husband.

Drama / Film-Noir / Thriller

Attack of the 50 Ft. Woman Blu-ray Movie  

Warner Archive Collection

Warner Bros. | 1958 | 65 min | Not rated | Dec 06, 2022 | Randy Miller III

One woman – 25 pairs of shoes?!? It’s impossible not to have fun with this all-time kitsch classic which, as fans know, is actually about a very big woman with a very bad attitude. The woman is wealthy Nancy Archer, fresh from the loony bin and ticked off. Her rat of a husband has been at play while the feline’s away, putting the moves on Honey Parker and scheming about the day when Nancy’s fortune will be theirs. That day will never come – not after Nancy has an alien encounter that zaps her metabolism into overdrive. Soon, Nancy’s size matches her rage. She’ll prove big girls don’t cry; they get even.

Horror / Sci-Fi

Creepshow: Season 3 Blu-ray Movie  

RLJ Entertainment | 2022 | 294 min | Rated TV-MA | Dec 06, 2022 | Jeffrey Kauffman

The fictional Creepshow comic books come to life in this anthology series of terrifying tales hosted by the silent Creepshow ghoul.

Comedy / Fantasy / Horror / Dark humor / Supernatural

Pulp Fiction 4K Blu-ray Movie  

4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray + Digital Copy

Paramount Pictures | 1994 | 155 min | Rated R | Dec 06, 2022 | Martin Liebman

The lives of two mob hitmen, a boxer, a gangster and his wife, and a pair of diner bandits intertwine in four tales of violence and redemption.

Crime / Drama / Thriller / Dark humor

Pulp Fiction 4K Blu-ray Movie  

Limited Edition / 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray + Digital Copy

Paramount Pictures | 1994 | 154 min | Rated R | Dec 06, 2022 | Martin Liebman

The lives of two mob hitmen, a boxer, a gangster and his wife, and a pair of diner bandits intertwine in four tales of violence and redemption.

Crime / Drama / Thriller / Dark humor

Bros Blu-ray Movie  

Collector's Edition / Blu-ray + DVD + Digital Copy

Universal Studios | 2022 | 115 min | Rated R | Nov 22, 2022 | Jeffrey Kauffman

Bros is a smart, swoony, and heartfelt comedy about two gay men and how hard it is to find another tolerable human being to go through life with.

Comedy / Romance

Entre Nous Blu-ray Movie  

Coup de foudre

Cohen Media Group | 1983 | 110 min | Rated PG | Nov 29, 2022 | Jeffrey Kauffman

In 1942 in occupied France, a Jewish refugee marries a soldier to escape deportation to Germany. Meanwhile a wealthy art student loses her first husband to a stray Resistance bullet; at the Liberation she meets an actor, gets pregnant, and marries him. Lena and Madeleine meet at their children's school in Lyon in 1952 and the intensity of their relationship strains both their marriages to the breaking point.

Biography / Drama / War / Foreign

Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari 4K Blu-ray Movie    

The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari | Masters of Cinema | Limited Edition / 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray

Eureka Entertainment | 1920 | 78 min | Rated BBFC: U | Dec 05, 2022 | Dr. Svet Atanasov

Francis recalls in his memory the horrible experiences he and his fiancée Jane recently went through. Francis and his friend Alan visit The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, an exhibit where the mysterious doctor shows the somnambulist Cesare, and awakens him for some moments from his death-like sleep. When Alan asks Cesare about his future, Cesare answers that he will die before dawn. The next morning Alan is found dead. Francis suspects Cesare of being the murderer, and starts spying on him and Dr. Caligari. The following night Cesare is going to stab Jane in her bed, but softens when he sees the beautiful woman, and instead of committing another murder, he abducts her. Francis pursues the fleeing Dr. Caligari, and sees him disappear into a madhouse, where he is sure he will find the truth behind all these mysterious events...

Horror / Thriller / Psychological thriller / Foreign / Surreal

Don't Worry Darling Blu-ray Movie  

Blu-ray + DVD + Digital Copy

Warner Bros. | 2022 | 123 min | Rated R | Nov 29, 2022 | Randy Miller III

A 1950s housewife living with her husband in a utopian experimental community begins to worry that his glamorous company may be hiding disturbing secrets.

Horror / Mystery / Thriller

Don't Worry Darling 4K Blu-ray Movie  

4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray + Digital Copy

Warner Bros. | 2022 | 123 min | Rated R | Nov 29, 2022 | Randy Miller III

A 1950s housewife living with her husband in a utopian experimental community begins to worry that his glamorous company may be hiding disturbing secrets.

Horror / Mystery / Thriller

Nightmare at Noon Blu-ray Movie  

Death Street USA

Arrow | 1988 | 96 min | Not rated | Dec 06, 2022 | Jeffrey Kauffman

Scientists poison the water supply of a small town, turning the residents into homicidal maniacs who kill each other and anybody who passes through.

Action / Horror / Sci-Fi

Warning Shot Blu-ray Movie    

Imprint #177

Imprint | 1967 | 100 min | Rated ACB: M | Oct 26, 2022 | Dr. Svet Atanasov

LAPD Sgt Tom Valens kills a man who pulls a gun on him during a stakeout. But when the dead man turns out to be a respected doctor with no criminal record and no gun is found, Valens is charged with manslaughter. Valens fights to clear his name, find the gun, and learn why the doctor was there.

Crime / Drama / Mystery

A Knife in the Head Blu-ray Movie  

Messer im Kopf

Cohen Media Group | 1978 | 108 min | Not rated | Nov 29, 2022 | Jeffrey Kauffman

One night when seeking his estranged wife, Hoffmann goes to the youth center where she works. The police are there rounding up radicals who frequent the center - Hoffmann runs into the building and ends up being shot in the head. He awakens with brain trauma, partially paralyzed and unable to speak. The police accuse him of stabbing an officer; the radicals herald him as an innocent victim of police brutality. During his slow recovery at the hospital, Hoffmann must piece together his life and struggle to remember the events of that night.

Drama / Foreign

North Dallas Forty Blu-ray Movie    

Imprint #173

Imprint | 1979 | 119 min | Rated ACB: M | Oct 26, 2022 | Dr. Svet Atanasov

A semi-fictional account of life as a professional football player in the NFL. Loosely based on the Dallas Cowboys team of the early 1970's.

Comedy / Drama / Sport