New Blu-ray Reviews

Insectula! Blu-ray Movie  

Adler & Associates Entertainment | 2015 | 101 min | Not rated | Oct 26, 2021 | Martin Liebman

Thirsting for blood and drawn to Earth by the CO2 pollution in its atmosphere, a giant alien mosquito monster wreaks havoc on the world. After losing a loved one to the monster, government agent Del pursues his own personal vendetta against the monster, while mad scientist Dr. Kempler is so captivated by the beast that he decides to help it cleanse the world of its pesky human inhabitants.

Comedy / Horror / Sci-Fi

BAKI: Season 1 - Complete Collection Blu-ray Movie  

Sentai Filmworks | 2018 | 650 min | Rated TV-MA | May 25, 2021 | Neil Lumbard

In the deadly underground world of no-holds-barred fighting, one name reigns supreme: Yujiro Hanma, aka "The Ogre," a legendary martial artist whose incredible strength, skill, and savage ferocity are so terrifying that even great nations fear him. Still, no man can stand at any pinnacle forever, and the Ogre's son, Baki, has trained his entire young life in order to achieve his dream of rising to the top. Unfortunately, the young fighter's escalating string of victories make him a target for the most ruthless of rivals, and an underground martial arts promoter warns him that five ultra-violent convicts are en route to Tokyo to eliminate Baki once and for all! Now, with the lives of his friends and classmates at stake, the young fighter must face his greatest challenges yet, both inside and outside of the ring!

Action / Anime / Martial arts / Comic book / Foreign

Lies and Deceit: Five Films by Claude Chabrol Blu-ray Movie  

Cop au Vin / Inspector Lavardin / Madame Bovary / Betty / Torment

Arrow | 1985-1994 | 5 Movies | 557 min | Not rated | Feb 22, 2022 | Jeffrey Kauffman

No synopsis for this title.

Crime / Drama / Mystery / Romance / Thriller / Foreign

Cop au Vin Blu-ray Movie  

Chicken with Vinegar / Poulet au vinaigre

Arrow | 1985 | 109 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Jeffrey Kauffman

In a small provincial French town, Dr. Morasseau, Mr. Lavoisier and butcher Filiol decide to create a significant estate business but Mrs. Cuno and her son Louis do not want to sell their house. Louis presumably provokes the death of Filiol.

Crime / Mystery / Thriller

Inspector Lavardin Blu-ray Movie  

Arrow | 1986 | 100 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Jeffrey Kauffman

No synopsis for this title.

Crime / Drama / Mystery

Madame Bovary Blu-ray Movie  

Arrow | 1991 | 143 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Jeffrey Kauffman

This film version closely follows Flaubert's novel and includes most of the famous scenes, such as the wedding, the ball, the agricultural fair, the operation on the clubfoot, and the opera in Rouen.

Drama / Romance / Foreign / Melodrama / Period

Betty Blu-ray Movie  

Arrow | 1992 | 104 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Jeffrey Kauffman

A beautiful, drunken, and promiscuous girl (Marie Trintignant) ends a disastrous evening at The Hole, a bar catering to the twisted and outcast. There she meets the recently widowed Laure (Stéphane Audran), an elegant retiree who lives alone in a luxury hotel. Laure takes Betty under her wing. Gradually, details of Betty's sad, sordid and, at times, sinister story of betrayal and self-destruction unfold in flashbacks as the women's relationship evolves into a lethal game of cat-and-mouse. Adapted from the novel by Georges Simenon, Betty shares many of the themes that made Chabrol's superb Les Biches (1968, starring Audran and Jean-Lous Trintignant) so erotically suspenseful...and Hitchcockian: The exchange of identity and guilt between two women of different ages, both in love with the same man.

Drama / Foreign

Torment Blu-ray Movie  

L'enfer

Arrow | 1994 | 102 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Jeffrey Kauffman

Forced to work extremely hard to keep things afloat, Paul begins hearing voices in his head questioning the choices he's made. He's convinced that his wife has been unfaithful and starts to see every male guest as a potential threat. What follows is Paul's downward spiral into the madness of deranged jealousy where he finally discovers that hell is not a state of mind - hell is himself.

Drama / Romance / Foreign

Annie Live! Blu-ray Movie  

Universal Studios | 2021 | 133 min | Not rated | Jan 18, 2022 | Martin Liebman

Annie, the beloved seven-time Tony Award-winning Broadway sensation, comes to life like never before in a live musical event starring Harry Connick, Jr., Nicole Scherzinger, Tituss Burgess, Megan Hilty and Taraji P. Henson, with newcomer Celina Smith in the title role of Annie. The iconic musical follows smart and spirited little orphan Annie, whose whole life changes when larger-than-life billionaire Daddy Warbucks takes her away from an orphanage run by the mean Miss Hannigan. One of Broadway's all-time biggest hits, the stage production features such popular songs as "Tomorrow" and "It's the Hard Knock Life," which are adored by generations of audiences around the world.

Family / Musical / Comic book

Queen's Blade: Rebel Warriors Collection Blu-ray Movie  

Includes Queen's Blade: Beautiful Warriors / Queen's Blade: Rebellion

Sentai Filmworks | 2010-2012 | 2 Seasons | 480 min | Rated TV-MA | Jun 15, 2021 | Neil Lumbard

The Queen's Blade tournament may be over, but the stories of the feisty feminine fighters continue in a scintillating collection of bodice-ripping, chest heaving yarns that will leave you breathless! First, the surviving sword maidens scatter across the lands seeking fame and fortune! With that additional exposure, however, come new dangers: witches, tentacle monsters, and even each other! Then, when the once-noble Queen Claudette's ways seem to have turned to oppression and persecution, a new generation of warriors must take up their naked blades! Baring their fury in open rebellion, an unprecedented force of femme fatales come together with the goal of stripping the evil queen from her throne! If a heart of gold lurks in the breast of the noblest warriors, prepare to bear witness to a treasure trove of improbable magnitude!

Action / Adventure / Anime / Comedy / Fantasy / Erotic / Martial arts / Foreign

Fair Game Blu-ray Movie    

+ Not Quite Hollywood

Camera Obscura | 1986 | 86 min | Not rated | Oct 30, 2020 | Dr. Svet Atanasov

A young woman running a wildlife sanctuary in the Australian outback is in for trouble when she is confronted by three kangaroo hunters. Bored with killing kangaroos, they decide to kill the animals in the sanctuary, and when they see how attractive the owner is, they decide to have a little "fun" with her, too. Turns out that they may get a bit more "fun" than they bargained for.

Action / Horror / Thriller

Lipstick Blu-ray Movie  

Shout Factory | 1976 | 89 min | Rated R | Feb 15, 2022 | Brian Orndorf

A model is raped by her younger sister's teacher. He gets off on a technicality and proceeds to attempt to rape the younger sister.

Drama / Thriller

The Unknown Man of Shandigor Blu-ray Movie  

L'inconnu de Shandigor

Deaf Crocodile Films | 1967 | 96 min | Not rated | Feb 22, 2022 | Brian Orndorf

Herbert Von Krantz does whatever it takes to keep the wrong people from finding out about his groundbreaking invention that can incapacitate nuclear bombs.

Crime / Drama / Foreign

Sinistre Blu-ray Movie  

Saturn's Core Audio & Video | 1996 | 74 min | Not rated | Feb 22, 2022 | Brian Orndorf

Two bank robbers hole up at an abandoned house and are stalked by an evil force.

Horror

The Green Mile 4K Blu-ray Movie  

4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray + Digital Copy

Warner Bros. | 1999 | 189 min | Rated R | Feb 22, 2022 | Randy Miller III

Paul Edgecomb is the head of the block guards during the 1930s at the Cold Mountain Correctional Facility. Through his many years of watching men live and die, Paul's faith and sanity has deteriorated. He is assigned to watch over John Coffey, a giant man convicted of murdering two little girls. But John acts more like a child than a cold-hearted murderer. Edgecomb and other guards find themselves in a moral dilemma when they witness John accomplish healing miracles.

Crime / Drama / Mystery / Supernatural / Melodrama / Period

Love Affair Blu-ray Movie  

Criterion | 1939 | 89 min | Not rated | Feb 15, 2022 | Dr. Svet Atanasov

Chic strangers meet and fall in love aboard an ocean liner bound for New York. Though they are both involved with other people, they make a pact to reconnect six months later at the top of the Empire State Building—until the hand of fate throws their star-crossed affair tragically off course.

Comedy / Drama / Romance

Surf Nazis Must Die Blu-ray Movie  

Troma | 1987 | 81 min | Rated R | Feb 08, 2022 | Brian Orndorf

Feel the roar of monster waves, experience the passion of perverted romance. A courageous saga of a mother's undying devotion and her quest for justice becomes the tidal wave of action and destruction!

Action / Comedy / Drama / Horror

It's a Gift Blu-ray Movie  

Kino Lorber | 1934 | 69 min | Not rated | Nov 09, 2021 | Dr. Svet Atanasov

A henpecked New Jersey grocer makes plans to move to California to grow oranges, despite the resistance of his overbearing wife.

Comedy

Joan of Arc Blu-ray Movie  

Kino Lorber | 1948 | 145 min | Not rated | Mar 27, 2018 | Dr. Stephen Larson

During the Hundred Years' War, peasant girl Joan of Arc hears voices instructing her to save France from the English. Convinced that these unsummoned murmurings are divine messages from God, Joan consults the uncrowned Charles VII who, startled by the accuracy of her clairvoyance, assembles an army and installs her as its leader and spiritual guide. Her victorious forces reclaim much of their homeland from the English, but she herself falls into enemy hands.

Biography / Drama / History / War / Epic

Koko-di Koko-da Blu-ray Movie  

Dark Star Pictures | 2019 | 90 min | Not rated | Feb 22, 2022 | Brian Orndorf

As a couple goes on a trip to find their way back to each other, a sideshow artist and his shady entourage emerge from the woods, terrorizing them, luring them deeper into a maelstrom of psychological terror and humiliating slapstick.

Comedy / Fantasy / Horror / Foreign