New Blu-ray Reviews

Other Music Blu-ray Movie  

Slipcover in Original Pressing

Factory25 | 2019 | 85 min | Not rated | May 31, 2022 | Brian Orndorf

Other Music was an influential and uncompromising New York City record store that was vital to the city’s early 2000s indie music scene. But when the store is forced to close its doors due to rent increases, the homogenization of urban culture, and the shift from CDs to downloadable and streaming music, a cultural landmark is lost. Through vibrant storytelling, the documentary captures the record store’s vital role in the musical and cultural life of the city, and highlights the artists whose careers it helped launch including Vampire Weekend, Animal Collective, Interpol, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, William Basinski, Neutral Milk Hotel, Sharon Van Etten, Yo La Tengo and TV On The Radio.

Documentary

Stiff Competition 4K Blu-ray Movie  

Peekarama / 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray

Vinegar Syndrome | 1985 | 95 min | Rated X | Apr 26, 2022 | Brian Orndorf

Athletes are gearing up for the annual "Suck Off" championship, a competition dedicated to crowning the woman with the best "oral technique." Top coach, Jeff, loses his star contender, The Mouth, after she quits mid-round during an exhibition match. Desperate for a new would-be star ‘athlete’ to compete for the world title, he finds the perfect candidate in the form of the shy and inexperienced Tammy. Realizing her tremendous potential, Jeff convinces her to begin a rigorous training process, but when reigning champion Cynthia Silkthroat, and her sleazy manager Jake the Snake, get wind of Tammy’s incredible abilities, they begin a sinister campaign to ensure she doesn’t win the coveted title…

Comedy / Erotic

CSI: Vegas - Season One Blu-ray Movie  

Paramount Pictures | 2021 | 429 min | Not rated | Apr 05, 2022 | Martin Liebman

A new threat has enshrouded the neon streets of Sin City, and it's going to take some familiar faces to stare it down. William Petersen and Jorja Fox return to the roles they made famous - and to the crime drama that made CBS history - in CSI: Vegas. Can they prevent the perpetrator from bringing down the whole CSI crime lab? Old friends meet new enemies - and the latest forensic techniques - in CSI: Vegas.

Crime

Blacklight Blu-ray Movie  

Blu-ray + DVD + Digital Copy

Universal Studios | 2022 | 105 min | Rated PG-13 | May 03, 2022 | Martin Liebman

Travis Block, a shadowy Government agent who specializes in removing operatives who's covers have been exposed, uncovers a deadly conspiracy within his own ranks that reaches the highest echelons of power.

Action / Mystery

Voices Blu-ray Movie  

Powerhouse Films | 1973 | 91 min | Not rated | Feb 22, 2022 | Dr. Svet Atanasov

After her young son accidentally drowns, a woman has a breakdown and is finally placed in a mental hospital. After her release, her husband takes her for a weekend at a secluded country mansion, hoping to help her recover. However, things at the mansion aren't quite what they seem to be, the couple begin to feel an uneasy and oppressive presence, and the mother starts to see things that may, or may not, be hallucinations.

Drama / Horror / Thriller

The Forbidden Door Blu-ray Movie  

Pintu Terlarang

Severin Films | 2009 | 115 min | Not rated | Mar 29, 2022 | Jeffrey Kauffman

As a successful young sculptor increasingly loses his grip on sanity, he imagines his wife, friends and family are all conspiring against him, begins filling his best-selling works with unspeakable human matter, becomes obsessed with brutal hidden-camera abuse videos, and inches inescapably closer towards the most horrific final act of all.

Horror / Mystery / Thriller / Foreign

Athena Blu-ray Movie  

Warner Archive Collection

Warner Bros. | 1954 | 96 min | Not rated | May 25, 2021 | Randy Miller III

If a suitor wants to win the heart of one of the seven Mulvain sisters, he’d better be ready to deadlift 300 lbs. and dine on shredded-parsnip soufflé. Combining the then-novel topic of physical fitness with Hollywood song and dance, Athena is an eat-your-veggies romantic romp highlighted by catchy Hugh Martin/Ralph Blane tunes and socko color cinematography.

Comedy / Drama / Musical / Romance

Grand Slam Blu-ray Movie  

Ad ogni costo

Kino Lorber | 1967 | 120 min | Rated PG | Apr 26, 2022 | Dr. Svet Atanasov

After retirement, Professor James Anders presents criminal Mark Milford an elaborate plan to rob a diamond company in Brazil with a crew of professionals. The men assemble in Rio de Janeiro and run in to an unanticipated problem: a new alarm system called Grand Slam 70.

Crime / Heist

Caligula and Messalina Blu-ray Movie  

Caligula et Messaline / Caligula's Perversions / Blu-ray + CD

Severin Films | 1981 | 1 Movie, 2 Cuts | 101 min | Not rated | Feb 22, 2022 | Jeffrey Kauffman

The seductive Messalina (Betty Roland) will stop at nothing to become the most powerful woman in Rome. Gaining the attention of the Emperor Caligula (Gino Turini), she soon finds herself at loggerheads with Agrippina (Francoise Blanchard) who has successfully plotted Caligula's downfall and is maneuvering her son Nero to become next Emperor of Rome. However Messalina is one step ahead and jumps into bed with Claudius (Vladimir Brajovic). But when Messalina becomes pregnant and it's clear that Claudius isn't the father, Agrippina seizes this as her opportunity to finally see Messalina treated as a mere slut of Rome.

Adventure / Biography / Drama / History / Horror / Erotic / Foreign

Bluebeard Blu-ray Movie  

Shout Factory | 1972 | 124 min | Rated R | Sep 08, 2021 | Brian Orndorf

Baron Kurt Von Sepper is an Austrian aristocrat who lives in austere obscurity in a large castle. He has just married his seventh wife, Anne, to whom he seems most ardently attached. One day, she finds a mysterious golden key which gives access to a secret passage where she finds Bluebeard's six previous wives. It is then that the Baron recounts to her the horrid and bizarre details of his past. It remains for Anne to fight for her survival and to avoid becoming just another beautiful frozen body.

Crime / Horror / Psychological thriller / Erotic

Death Wish II 4K Blu-ray Movie  

Slipcover in Original Pressing / 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray

Vinegar Syndrome | 1982 | 1 Movie, 2 Cuts | 92 min | Unrated | May 31, 2022 | Brian Orndorf

Architect Paul Kersey once again becomes a vigilante when he tries to find the five street punks who murdered his daughter and housekeeper, this time on the dark streets of Los Angeles.

Action / Crime / Drama / Thriller

Breakout Blu-ray Movie  

Kino Lorber | 1975 | 97 min | Rated PG | Apr 26, 2022 | Dr. Svet Atanasov

A bush pilot is hired for $50,000 to go to Mexico to free an innocent prisoner.

Action / Adventure / Drama

Sibyl Blu-ray Movie  

Music Box Selects

Music Box Films | 2019 | 101 min | Not rated | Mar 29, 2022 | Jeffrey Kauffman

A jaded psychotherapist returns to her first passion of becoming a writer.

Comedy / Drama / Foreign

Last Train from Gun Hill Blu-ray Movie    

Imprint #101

Imprint | 1959 | 95 min | Rated ACB: PG | Dec 29, 2021 | Dr. Svet Atanasov

A marshal tries to bring the son of an old friend, an autocratic cattle baron, to justice for the rape and murder of his wife.

Drama / Romance / Thriller / Western

Bloody Pit of Horror Blu-ray Movie  

Il boia scarlatto

Severin Films | 1965 | 86 min | Not rated | Feb 22, 2022 | Jeffrey Kauffman

This tale of torture and vengeance is based on the infamous writings of the Marquis de Sade. A group of photographers and models arrive at an Italian castle owned by a deranged ex-actor who is the reincarnation of the notorious medieval torturer, the Crimson Executioner. When he discovers that his ex-girlfriend is among the group, the enraged madman subjects them to his dungeon of torture...

Horror

The Osterman Weekend Blu-ray Movie    

Imprint #109

Imprint | 1983 | 1 Movie, 2 Cuts | 107 min | Rated ACB: M | Apr 06, 2022 | Dr. Svet Atanasov

The host of an investigative news show is convinced by the CIA that the friends he has invited to a weekend in the country are engaged in a conspiracy that threatens national security in this adaptation of the Robert Ludlum novel.

Action / Crime / Drama / Thriller

Dead Space Blu-ray Movie  

Shout Factory | 1991 | 1 Movie, 2 Cuts | 78 min | Not rated | Sep 08, 2021 | Brian Orndorf

A deadly virus attacks the crew of a Saturn space station.

Horror / Sci-Fi

The Cursed Blu-ray Movie  

Decal Releasing | 2021 | 111 min | Rated R | May 10, 2022 | Brian Orndorf

In the late 1800s, a man arrives in a remote country village to investigate an attack by a wild animal but discovers a much deeper and sinister force that has the manor and its townspeople in its grip.

Horror

Ode to Nothing Blu-ray Movie  

Oda sa wala

Kani | 2018 | 93 min | Not rated | Apr 26, 2022 | Brian Orndorf

Sonya, an old maid is about to give up on herself until one day, she meets a corpse in her family's embalming business that changes her life.

Drama / Foreign

House on the Edge of the Park Blu-ray Movie  

La casa sperduta nel parco / Blu-ray + CD

Severin Films | 1980 | 92 min | Not rated | Mar 29, 2022 | Jeffrey Kauffman

Two lowlife punks invite themselves to a party at a posh villa and after being taunted by their snobbish hosts, hold everybody hostage and subject them to various torture and mayhem.

Horror / Thriller / Foreign