New Blu-ray Reviews
Home- June 09, 2022
The Fabulous Baker Boys Blu-ray Movie
MVD Marquee Collection
MVD Visual | 1989 | 114 min | Rated R | Jun 07, 2022 | Jeffrey Kauffman
Brothers Jack and Frank Baker have been playing lounges as a piano duo for many years but decide they now need a female vocalist to keep the act going. They are lucky to come across Susie Diamond, who can really put a song over, and the act takes off. But when the relation between Susie and Jack - younger, less committed, but more talented than Frank - briefly becomes more than professional, tensions surface between all three.
Comedy / Drama / Music / Romance
- June 08, 2022
Raging Bull 4K Blu-ray Movie
4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray
Criterion | 1980 | 129 min | Rated R | Jul 12, 2022 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
The story of Jake LaMotta, a former middleweight boxing champion, whose reputation for tenacity and success in the ring was offset by his troubled domestic life: full of rage, jealousy, and suspicion—particularly towards his wife and manager/brother—which, in the end, left him destitute, alone, and seeking redemption.
Biography / Drama / Sport
Raging Bull Blu-ray Movie
Criterion | 1980 | 129 min | Rated R | Jul 12, 2022 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
The story of Jake LaMotta, a former middleweight boxing champion, whose reputation for tenacity and success in the ring was offset by his troubled domestic life: full of rage, jealousy, and suspicion—particularly towards his wife and manager/brother—which, in the end, left him destitute, alone, and seeking redemption.
Biography / Drama / Sport
For Me and My Gal Blu-ray Movie
Warner Archive Collection
Warner Bros. | 1942 | 104 min | Not rated | Jun 07, 2022 | Randy Miller III
Academy Award-winner Gene Kelly makes his film debut as a song and dance man who lures singer Judy Garland away from her vaudeville partner.
Musical / Romance / War
Ilya Muromets Blu-ray Movie
The Sword & the Dragon / Slipcover in Original Pressing
Deaf Crocodile Films | 1956 | 92 min | Not rated | Jun 28, 2022 | Brian Orndorf
Ilya is a cripple without the use of his legs. When he aids some weary travellers, they surprise him by giving him a potion that restores his legs. He immediately becomes powerful and sets off to prove himself to his King. Doing so, he fights the evil Tugars, a wind demon that looks like a cross between a goblin and The Noid, a zeppelin-like ambassador, and the evil Tugars. Ilya gets framed for a crime he didn't commit, then is freed, then finally dispatches the Tugars and their dragon.
Fantasy / Foreign
Almost Summer Blu-ray Movie
Scorpion Releasing | 1978 | 89 min | Rated PG | May 31, 2022 | Brian Orndorf
In this hilarious teen movie, Bobby DeVito (Kirby) is the “senior campaign strategist” in a highly contested high school student body presidential election. Christine Alexander (Purcell) is Bobby’s former girlfriend who’s almost guaranteed to win the election...because her opponent got suspended! To get even with Christine for breaking up with him, Bobby puts up an unknown candidate, Darryl Fitzgerald (Friedrich)—and the presidential race gets nasty!
Comedy
- June 07, 2022
The Virgin Suicides 4K Blu-ray Movie
4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray
Criterion | 1999 | 97 min | Rated R | Jul 05, 2022 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
The lives of an eclectic group of men who live in an affluent American suburb in the '70s are forever changed by their obsession with five doomed sisters.
Drama / Mystery / Romance / Teen / Period / Coming of age
Kinky Boots Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + Digital Copy
Paramount Pictures | 2005 | 107 min | Rated PG-13 | Jun 07, 2022 | Jeffrey Kauffman
A drag queen comes to the rescue of a man who, after inheriting his father's shoe factory, needs to diversify his product if he wants to keep the business afloat.
Comedy / Drama / Music
- June 06, 2022
The Raging Tide Blu-ray Movie
Kino Lorber | 1951 | 93 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Dr. Svet Atanasov
A San Francisco hood is rubbed out by rival Bruno Felkin, who himself reports the crime to Homicide Lieut. Kelsey in an alibi scheme which fails. To escape, he stows away on a fishing boat. At sea, skipper Hamil Linder receives Bruno kindly, teaching him fishing; Bruno enlists Hamil's wayward son Carl to tend his slot machines. Then Carl takes an interest in Bruno's girl Connie. Climax in a storm at sea.
Crime / Drama
Prince and the Revolution: Live Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + CD
Sony Music | 1985 | 116 min | Not rated | Jun 03, 2022 | Jeffrey Kauffman
Prince and the Revolution Live! is a live concert video by Prince and The Revolution. Released after the tour itself was complete, the video is a recording of the March 30, 1985 concert in Syracuse, New York.
Music
The Burning Sea Blu-ray Movie
Nordsjøen
Magnolia Pictures | 2021 | 115 min | Rated PG-13 | May 24, 2022 | Randy Miller III
An oil platform dramatically goes down on the Norwegian coast, and researchers try to find out what happened when they realize this is just the start of something even more serious.
Action / Foreign
The Burning Sea 4K Blu-ray Movie
Nordsjøen / 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray
Magnolia Pictures | 2021 | 106 min | Rated PG-13 | May 24, 2022 | Randy Miller III
An oil platform dramatically goes down on the Norwegian coast, and researchers try to find out what happened when they realize this is just the start of something even more serious.
Action / Foreign
- June 05, 2022
Goo Goo Dolls: Grounded with the Goo Goo Dolls Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + CD
Cleopatra | 2020 | 90 min | Not rated | May 20, 2022 | Jeffrey Kauffman
Playing before a virtual crowd, the band plays a selection of their biggest hits, including "Iris" and "Slide."
- June 04, 2022
A Fistful of Dollars 4K Blu-ray Movie
Per un Pugno di Dollari / 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray
Kino Lorber | 1964 | 100 min | Rated R | May 31, 2022 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
A mysterious gunman has just arrived in San Miguel, a grim, dusty border town where two rival bands of smugglers are terrorizing the impoverished citizens. A master of the "quick-draw," the stranger soon receives offers of employment from each gang. But his loyalty cannot be bought; he accepts both jobs…and sets in motion a plan to destroy both groups of criminals, pitting one against the other in a series of brilliantly orchestrated set-ups, showdowns and deadly confrontations.
Action / Drama / Western / Period
Vive L'Amour Blu-ray Movie
愛情萬歲 / Ai qing wan sui
Film Movement | 1994 | 118 min | Not rated | Jun 14, 2022 | Jeffrey Kauffman
In the overpopulated metropolis of Taipei, two men and a woman literally circle each other. Mei-mei is a lonely real-estate agent who works long hours. One day she misplaces the keys to one of her vacant apartments. The young, hesitant, and gay Hsiao-kang, who sells funeral-urn space, takes the keys and happily takes to living surreptitiously in the apartment, unaware that Mei and the footloose, cocky Ah-jung also use the flat regularly.
Drama / Foreign
- June 03, 2022
Hero Blu-ray Movie
Ma Yong Zhen / Ma Wing Jing / 馬永貞
88 Films | 1997 | 97 min | Not rated | Jul 05, 2022 | Jeffrey Kauffman
Corey Yuen's remake of Chang Cheh's Boxer From Shantung sees Taiwanese Japanese heart-throb Takeshi Kaneshiro as Ma Wing-jing, a worker from Shantung who rises to the top of the Shanghai triad ladder.
Action / Drama / Foreign
Ziegfeld Girl Blu-ray Movie
Warner Archive Collection
Warner Bros. | 1941 | 132 min | Not rated | Jun 07, 2022 | Randy Miller III
An elevator operator, a wife of a struggling concert violinist, a born-in-a-trunk vaudevillian: they're three different women on three different paths of life, yet they soon share one dream: to become a 'Ziegfeld Girl'. Lana Turner, Hedy Lamarr and Judy Garland play the respective three trying for stardom in this sumptuous extravaganza. James Stewart adds to the star wattage, playing the jilted truck-driving beau of Turner's footlight diva. And legendary innovator Busby Berkeley brings his imaginative camerawork and pacing to numbers that include Garland's massively scaled and calypso-infused 'Minnie from Trinidad', plus a lavish showgirl-revue finale that reprises the rhapsodic 'You Stepped Out of a Dream'.
Drama / Musical / Romance
- June 02, 2022
Outside the Law Blu-ray Movie
Masters of Cinema
Eureka Entertainment | 1920 | 75 min | Rated BBFC: 12 | Jun 13, 2022 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
In this early collaboration with director Tod Browning (Dracula, Freaks), Lon Chaney delivers a dual performance of dramatic intensity starring as Ah Wing, a kind-hearted student of Confucian philosophy, and Black Mike Sylva, a murderous rake of the San Francisco underworld.
Crime / Romance / Thriller
The Alfred Hitchcock Classics Collection 4K Blu-ray Movie
Saboteur / Shadow of a Doubt / The Trouble with Harry / Marnie / Family Plot / 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray + Digital Copy
Universal Studios | 1942-1976 | 5 Movies | 567 min | Rated PG | May 10, 2022 | Martin Liebman
See individual titles for their synopses.
Comedy / Crime / Drama / Film-Noir / Mystery / Romance / Thriller / Dark humor / Psychological thriller
The Untouchables 4K Blu-ray Movie
35th Anniversary Edition / 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray + Digital Copy
Paramount Pictures | 1987 | 119 min | Rated R | May 31, 2022 | Martin Liebman
During Prohibition, Treasury agent Eliot Ness sets out to stop ruthless Chicago gangster Al Capone, and assembles a small, incorruptible team to help him.
Crime / Drama / History / Thriller / Period