New Blu-ray Reviews

The Bride of Frankenstein 4K Blu-ray Movie  

4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray

Universal Studios | 1935 | 75 min | Not rated | Oct 03, 2023 | Martin Liebman

An acclaimed sequel to the original Frankenstein, the legendary monster now longs for a mate of his own, as the overly ambitious Dr. Frankenstein creates the bride. Bride of Frankenstein ranks as one of the finest films not only of the genre, but for all time.

Horror / Sci-Fi

Phantom of the Opera 4K Blu-ray Movie  

4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray + Digital Copy

Universal Studios | 1943 | 93 min | Not rated | Oct 03, 2023 | Martin Liebman

Pit violinist Claudin hopelessly loves rising operatic soprano Christine Dubois (as do baritone Anatole and police inspector Raoul) and secretly aids her career. But Claudin loses both his touch and his job, murders a rascally music publisher in a fit of madness, and has his face etched with acid. Soon, mysterious crimes plague the Paris Opera House, blamed on a legendary "phantom" whom none can find in the mazes and catacombs. But both of Christine's lovers have plans to ferret him out.

Drama / Musical / Romance

Creature from the Black Lagoon 4K + 3D Blu-ray Movie  

4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray 3D + Blu-ray

Universal Studios | 1954 | 79 min | Rated G | Oct 03, 2023 | Martin Liebman

In the early 1950s, a scientific expedition into the Amazon recovers a strange fossilized claw that could be a missing link between creatures that swim in the seas and those that walk on land. Once the fossil is examined, a larger, better-funded expedition is authorized to travel deep into the interior of the Amazon Basin to hopefully find more examples of the long dead creature. But as the expedition pushes deeper into the unexplored reaches of the great waterway, they come to the realization that "something" is watching their every move, stalking them... on the land, and in the water!

Adventure / Horror / Sci-Fi

Universal Classic Monsters: Icons of Horror Collection Vol. 2 4K Blu-ray Movie  

The Mummy / Bride of Frankenstein / Phantom of the Opera / Creature from the Black Lagoon / 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray 3D + Blu-ray + Digital Copy

Universal Studios | 1932-1954 | 4 Movies | 320 min | Not rated | Oct 11, 2022 | Martin Liebman

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Adventure / Drama / Fantasy / Horror / Musical / Romance / Sci-Fi

Sayonara, Zetsubou-Sensei: Season 1 Blu-ray Movie  

Right Stuf | 2007 | 300 min | Rated TV-14 | Apr 19, 2022 | Neil Lumbard

Nozomu Itoshiki is a teacher who's at the end of his rope. Literally. He's trying to hang himself from a beautiful cherry tree, when one of his students, a girl named Kafuka, butts in and saves his life. She can't help it, though. Kafuka is an abnormally cheerful girl who can only see the good in every situation. In fact, all of Nozomu's students are a bit odd. Chiri is a hyper-perfectionist, Matoi is a female stalker, Usui is a balding masochist, and the list goes on. Nozomu is supposed to be preparing these young men and women for the future – but since his idea of "preparing for the future" involves tying nooses and buying funeral plots, he might not be the best man for the job.

Anime / Comedy / Drama / Comic book / Foreign

He Said, She Said Blu-ray Movie  

Paramount Pictures | 1991 | 115 min | Rated PG-13 | Apr 26, 2022 | Neil Lumbard

Dan and Lorie are journalists working in the same office. More often than not they have opposing view of the issue in question. Deciding that this is hot stuff, a television producer gives them their own program (called "He Said, She Said") where they can give their opposing views on various issues.

Comedy / Romance

Soapdish Blu-ray Movie  

Paramount Pictures | 1991 | 97 min | Rated PG-13 | Apr 05, 2022 | Neil Lumbard

Life begins to imitate art with hilarious results when the backstage goings-on of a daytime soap opera begin to resemble one of its outrageous plots.

Comedy

Come with Me My Love / Satan Was a Lady Blu-ray Movie  

Peekarama / Slipcover in Original Pressing

Vinegar Syndrome | 1975-1976 | 2 Movies | 145 min | Rated X | Nov 29, 2022 | Brian Orndorf

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Drama / Horror / Erotic

Come with Me My Love Blu-ray Movie  

Vinegar Syndrome | 1976 | 74 min | Rated X | Nov 29, 2022 | Brian Orndorf

In 1926, a man caught his wife in the arms of her lover, only to shoot them both, then himself, forcing his spirit to remain a ghostly prisoner in their apartment. 50 years later, a young woman who bears a striking resemblance to his deceased wife, moves into the same flat, only to be terrorized by the ghost who also sees fit to murder anyone he believes is competition for his new “love.”

Horror / Erotic

Satan Was a Lady Blu-ray Movie  

Vinegar Syndrome | 1975 | 70 min | Rated X | Nov 29, 2022 | Brian Orndorf

Terry has always been jealous of her sister Claudia, but pretends to be happy that she’s gotten engaged to Victor, with whom Terry has been having an affair. However, unknown to Claudia, she’s been set up as a pawn by those even closer to her in a bid to drive her insane.

Drama / Erotic

Jeepers Creepers: Reborn Blu-ray Movie  

Screen Media | 2022 | 88 min | Not rated | Nov 15, 2022 | Martin Liebman

The film unfolds as the Horror Hound festival holds its first ever event in Louisiana, where it attracts hundreds of geeks, freaks and die-hard horror fans from far and wide. Among them is fanboy Chase and his girlfriend Laine, who is forced to come along for the ride. But as the event approaches, Laine begins to experience unexplained premonitions and disturbing visions associated with the town’s past, and in particular, local legend/urban myth The Creeper. As the festival arrives and the blood-soaked entertainment builds to a frenzy, Laine believes that something unearthly has been summoned…and that she is at the center of it.

Horror / Mystery / Thriller

The Good House Blu-ray Movie  

Blu-ray + Digital Copy

Lionsgate Films | 2021 | 103 min | Rated R | Nov 22, 2022 | Jeffrey Kauffman

Life for New England realtor Hildy Good begins to unravel when she hooks up with an old flame of hers from New York.

Comedy / Drama / Romance

5-25-77 Blu-ray Movie  

MVD Visual | 2007 | 132 min | Not rated | Nov 22, 2022 | Jeffrey Kauffman

Alienated, hopeful-filmmaker Pat Johnson's epic story growing up in rural Illinois, falling in love, and becoming the first fan of the movie that changed everything.

Comedy / Drama

8 Mile 4K Blu-ray Movie  

20th Anniversary Limited Edition / 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray + Digital Copy

Universal Studios | 2002 | 111 min | Rated R | Nov 08, 2022 | Randy Miller III

No matter who we are, no matter where we live, we're all bound by borders. Many of us are content to live within these borders--others are simply forced to exist within them. But some of us need to break out, burst through, even if what is on the other side is both frightening and unknown. From this comes the tale of one young man's dilemma as he navigates his way through his colliding worlds. Set against Detroit's hip-hop scene in 1995, Jimmy Smith Jr., a young white rapper, struggles to find his voice. The people of Detroit know 8 Mile Road as the city's perimeter. It is also a psychological dividing line between urban and suburban, between black and white, between where Jimmy is and where he wants to be. Here, survival is key, and for many, the emotional life preserver is hip hop. In the absence of nurturing parents, Jimmy and his friends--cool and charasmatic Future, optimistic dreamer Sol, aspiring activist DJ Iz and slow but steady Cheddar Bob--have created their own family. Jimmy and his "crew" (Three One Third), live on hopes of getting their "big break" while struggling to eke out a living at their dead end day jobs. At night, they feed their dreams in the hip hop clubs where the city's best rappers battle each other with abusive rhymes that are wielded like weapons. Here, words are meant to wound and victory belongs to the quick-witted.

Drama / Music

8 Mile 4K Blu-ray Movie  

20th Anniversary Edition / 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray + Digital Copy

Universal Studios | 2002 | 110 min | Rated R | Nov 08, 2022 | Randy Miller III

No matter who we are, no matter where we live, we're all bound by borders. Many of us are content to live within these borders--others are simply forced to exist within them. But some of us need to break out, burst through, even if what is on the other side is both frightening and unknown. From this comes the tale of one young man's dilemma as he navigates his way through his colliding worlds. Set against Detroit's hip-hop scene in 1995, Jimmy Smith Jr., a young white rapper, struggles to find his voice. The people of Detroit know 8 Mile Road as the city's perimeter. It is also a psychological dividing line between urban and suburban, between black and white, between where Jimmy is and where he wants to be. Here, survival is key, and for many, the emotional life preserver is hip hop. In the absence of nurturing parents, Jimmy and his friends--cool and charasmatic Future, optimistic dreamer Sol, aspiring activist DJ Iz and slow but steady Cheddar Bob--have created their own family. Jimmy and his "crew" (Three One Third), live on hopes of getting their "big break" while struggling to eke out a living at their dead end day jobs. At night, they feed their dreams in the hip hop clubs where the city's best rappers battle each other with abusive rhymes that are wielded like weapons. Here, words are meant to wound and victory belongs to the quick-witted.

Drama / Music

Rollerball 4K Blu-ray Movie  

4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray

Shout Factory | 1975 | 125 min | Rated R | Nov 22, 2022 | Brian Orndorf

In a futuristic society where corporations have replaced countries, the violent game of Rollerball is used to control the populace by demonstrating the futility of individuality.

Action / Sci-Fi / Sport

Frank & Penelope Blu-ray Movie  

Mill Creek Entertainment | 2022 | 100 min | Rated R | Aug 16, 2022 | Dr. Svet Atanasov

A tale of love and violence when a man on his emotional last legs finds a savior seductively dancing in a run-down strip club. And a life most certainly headed off a cliff suddenly becomes redirected - as everything is now worth dying for.

Crime / Thriller

Happy Birthday to Me Blu-ray Movie  

Kino Lorber | 1981 | 111 min | Rated R | Oct 18, 2022 | Dr. Svet Atanasov

Girl student wants to be part of the school’s most popular clique. But somebody has begun killing the group’s members. Could a deadly accident from her past be connected to the brutal killings?

Horror / Mystery / Thriller

Hiruko the Goblin Blu-ray Movie  

Standard Edition

Mondo Macabro | 1991 | 89 min | Unrated | Feb 08, 2022 | Neil Lumbard

A school was built on one of the Gates of Hell, behind which hordes of demons await the moment they will be free to roam the Earth. Hiruko is a goblin sent to Earth on a reconnaissance mission. He beheads students in order to assemble their heads on the demons' spider-like bodies. Hieda, an archaeology professor, and Masao, a haunted student, investigate the gory deaths and eventually battle Hiruko.

Action / Comedy / Fantasy / Horror / Foreign

Ken Jacobs Collection, Vol. 1 Blu-ray Movie  

Kino Lorber | 1955-2021 | 433 min | Not rated | Jul 27, 2021 | Neil Lumbard

Ken Jacobs is one of the most wildly creative and influential film artists and teachers in the history of the medium, and Kino Classics is proud to present this two-disc selection from his vast body of work (additional titles will be available digitally via Kino Now). Jacobs, born in Brooklyn, NY in 1933, studied Abstract Expressionism with Hans Hofmann before turning to filmmaking – where he became a prolific member of the underground scene, along with contemporaries Jonas Mekas, Jack Smith, and Stan Brakhage. His early films use NYC as a poetic landscape (Orchard Street) and as a setting for Smith’s carnivalesque performances (Little Stabs at Happiness and Blonde Cobra – both preserved by Anthology Film Archives). Jacobs then started experimenting with found footage, expanding a five-minute fragment of Billy Bitzer’s Tom, Tom, the Piper’s Son to feature length (restored in 2K by Museum of Modern Art), and went on to embrace digital tools - using stroboscopic effects to turn silent shorts and Victorian stereoscopic photographs into mind-expanding 3D investigations (Capitalism: Child Labor). He continues to push the boundaries of the art form – as you can see with his hypnotically abstract Movie That Invites Pausing (2021). In addition to his landmark films, which have been honored by the American Film Institute, the Guggenheim Foundation, and the Rockefeller Foundation, Jacobs (along with his wife Flo) founded the free film school Millennium Film Workshop, and he also helped create SUNY Binghamton’s experimental Department of Cinema in 1969, where he became a Distinguished Professor and influenced generations of artists and scholars.

Documentary / Other / Short / Surreal