New Blu-ray Reviews

Blue Bayou Blu-ray Movie  

Blu-ray + Digital Copy

Universal Studios | 2021 | 119 min | Rated R | Dec 21, 2021 | Dr. Stephen Larson

As a Korean-American man raised in the Louisiana bayou works hard to make a life for his family, he must confront the ghosts of his past as he discovers that he could be deported from the only country he has ever called home.

Drama

Vikings: Season 6, Volume 2 Blu-ray Movie  

Warner Bros. | 2020-2021 | 458 min | Rated TV-MA | Mar 15, 2022 | Jeffrey Kauffman

The adventures of a Ragnar Lothbrok: the greatest hero of his age. The series tells the saga of Ragnar's band of Viking brothers and his family as he rises to become King of the Viking tribes. As well as being a fearless warrior, Ragnar embodies the Norse traditions of devotion to the gods: legend has it that he was a direct descendant of Odin, the god of war and warriors.

Action / Adventure / Drama / History / War

The Godfather Trilogy 4K Blu-ray Movie  

The Godfather / The Godfather: Part II / The Godfather Coda: The Death of Michael Corleone / 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray + Digital Copy

Paramount Pictures | 1972-1990 | 3 Movies, 5 Cuts | 537 min | Rated R | Mar 22, 2022 | Martin Liebman

See individual titles for their synopses.

Crime / Drama / Melodrama / Epic / Period

The Godfather 4K Blu-ray Movie  

4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray + Digital Copy

Paramount Pictures | 1972 | 175 min | Rated R | Oct 11, 2022 | Martin Liebman

An epic tale of a 1940s New York Mafia family and their struggle to protect their empire from rival families as the leadership switches from the father to his youngest son.

Crime / Drama / Melodrama / Epic / Period

The Godfather: Part II 4K Blu-ray Movie  

4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray + Digital Copy

Paramount Pictures | 1974 | 201 min | Rated R | Oct 11, 2022 | Martin Liebman

Continuing saga of the Corleone family as they move to Nevada and make the casino business their major income source under the leadership of the increasingly paranoid and malevolent Michael, whose reign as the "Don" is juxtaposed against the parallel tale of his father's escape from Sicily as a young boy and his subsequent rise to power in New York's Lower East Side during the turn of the 20th century.

Crime / Drama / Epic / Period

The Godfather, Coda: The Death of Michael Corleone 4K Blu-ray Movie  

4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray + Digital Copy

Paramount Pictures | 1990 | 158 min | Rated R | Oct 11, 2022 | Martin Liebman

Michael Corleone, now in his 60s, seeks to free his family from crime and find a suitable successor to his empire. That successor could be fiery Vincent, but he may also be the spark that turn's Michael's hope of business legitimacy into an inferno of mob violence. This special director's cut includes a new beginning and ending, as well as changes to scenes, shots, and music cues. The resulting project reflects author Mario Puzo and director Francis Ford Coppola's original intentions for the film.

Crime / Drama

The Godfather: Part III 4K Blu-ray Movie  

4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray

Paramount Pictures | 1990 | 1 Movie, 2 Cuts | 162 min | Rated R | No Release Date | Martin Liebman

The story is set in 1979 when, before retiring, an aging Michael Corleone tries to go legitimate by entering respectable real estate and communications deals, but is slowly drawn back into the world of organized crime against his will.

Crime / Drama / Epic / Period

The Return of the Pink Panther Blu-ray Movie    

Imprint #106

Imprint | 1975 | 113 min | Rated ACB: G | Feb 23, 2022 | Dr. Svet Atanasov

This time the bumbling French detective Inspector Clouseau is reluctantly called back into service by Chief Inspector Dreyfus when someone swipes the infamous Pink Panther diamond from the museum in Lugash. The prime suspect is the smoothly aristocratic jewel thief Sir Charles Lytton, aka the Phantom.

Comedy / Crime / Family / Mystery

Supergirl: The Sixth and Final Season Blu-ray Movie  

Blu-ray + Digital Copy

Warner Bros. | 2021 | 848 min | Rated TV-PG | Mar 08, 2022 | Jeffrey Kauffman

Meet Kara Danvers, aka Kara Zor-El, who escaped the doomed planet Krypton at age 12 and was raised on Earth by her foster family, the Danverses. Years later, Kara lives in National City working for fierce taskmaster Cat Grant alongside her friends, IT technician Winslow "Winn" Schott and photographer James Olsen. But Kara's days of keeping her talents a secret are over when Hank Henshaw, head of a covert agency, enlists her to help protect the world from sinister threats.

Action / Drama / Sci-Fi / Comic book

The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm Blu-ray Movie  

Warner Archive Collection

Warner Bros. | 1962 | 140 min | Rated G | Mar 29, 2022 | Randy Miller III

The fictionalized lives of the story-telling Grimm brothers are brought to life in this all-star fantasy film. In the early nineteenth century, the brothers Wilhelm and Jacob Grimm are commissioned to write a family history for a local Duke. Reenactments of three of their stories including "The Dancing Princess", "The Cobbler and the Elves" and "The Singing Bone". Filmed in CINERAMA.

Adventure / Biography / Comedy / Drama / Family / Fantasy / Musical / Romance

Prisoners of the Ghostland Blu-ray Movie    

Elysian Film Group | 2021 | 103 min | Rated BBFC: 15 | Nov 15, 2021 | Dr. Svet Atanasov

A notorious criminal must break an evil curse in order to rescue an abducted girl who has mysteriously disappeared.

Action / Horror / Thriller

Poison Blu-ray Movie  

Kino Lorber | 1991 | 86 min | Not rated | Jun 29, 2021 | Dr. Stephen Larson

Three intercut stories about outsiders, sex and violence. In "Hero," Richie, at age 7, kills his father and flies away. After the event, a documentary in cheesy lurid colors asks what Richie was like and what led up to the shooting. In the black and white "Horror," a scientist isolates the elixir of human sexuality, drinks it, and becomes a festering, contagious murderer; a female colleague who loves him tries to help, to her peril. In "Homo," a prisoner in Fontenal prison is drawn to an inmate whom he knew some years before, at Baton juvenile institute, and whose humiliations he witnessed. This story is told in dim light, except for the bright flashbacks.

Drama

Delta Space Mission Blu-ray Movie  

Misiunea spatialã Delta

Deaf Crocodile Films | 1984 | 71 min | Not rated | Mar 29, 2022 | Brian Orndorf

The year is 3084, man settled interplanetary space, but space is still full of secrets - On a research mission to a newly discovered Galaxy heads the most advanced spaceship, Delta, operated by an extremely powerful electronic brain. Project Delta was conceived in order to establish a dialogue between intergalactic civilizations. Soon after an alien journalist, Alma, was allowed to board the spaceship, she and the captain noticed that the super-brain that controlled the ship could act by itself. No one, however, counts on the fact that this artificial super intelligence will want to explore the area of human emotions and feelings. Eventually, they realize that the journalist's beauty was the reason for the brain's odd behavior. She became its muse. The enamored machine becomes out of control and threatens all living things around them.

Animation / Sci-Fi / Foreign

Blood on Her Name Blu-ray Movie  

Yellow Veil Pictures | 2019 | 84 min | Not rated | Mar 29, 2022 | Brian Orndorf

A woman's panicked decision to cover up an accidental killing spins out of control when her conscience demands she return the dead man's body to his family.

Crime / Drama / Thriller

Dream a Little Dream Blu-ray Movie  

Blu-ray + Digital Copy

Lionsgate Films | 1989 | 115 min | Rated PG-13 | Mar 15, 2022 | Jeffrey Kauffman

An accident puts the consciousness of an elderly dream researcher into the body of a bratty teenager. The problem? The kid prefers dreamworld limbo to real life.

Comedy / Drama / Romance

Touch of Evil 4K Blu-ray Movie  

4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray

Kino Lorber | 1958 | 1 Movie, 3 Cuts | 111 min | Not rated | Mar 15, 2022 | Dr. Svet Atanasov

After a murder is committed in a small town right on the US-Mexico border a rogue cop from the US tries to frame his Mexican counterpart for it.

Crime / Film-Noir / Thriller / Psychological thriller

Love Jones Blu-ray Movie  

Criterion | 1997 | 109 min | Rated R | Mar 29, 2022 | Dr. Svet Atanasov

Darius Lovehall is a young black poet in Chicago who starts dating Nina Moseley, a beautiful and talented photographer. While trying to figure out if they've got a "love thing" or are just "kicking it," they hang out with their friend, talking about love and sex. Then Nina tests the strength of Darius' feelings and sets a chain of romantic complications into motion.

Drama / Romance

Shattered Blu-ray Movie  

Blu-ray + Digital Copy

Lionsgate Films | 2022 | 92 min | Rated R | Feb 22, 2022 | Jeffrey Kauffman

A rich divorcee Chris falls in love with a mysterious woman Sky where Chris, ex-wife and his child eventually gets trapped and a desperate fight for survival will most likely ensue.

Thriller

Hypnosis Blu-ray Movie  

Гипноз / Gipnoz

Altered Innocence | 2020 | 113 min | Not rated | Mar 29, 2022 | Brian Orndorf

Teenage Misha receives hypnotic treatment for sleepwalking from psychotherapist. Eventually, Misha becomes so dependent on the hypnologist that he is no longer able to distinguish reality from illusion.

Drama / Foreign

Sister Sister Blu-ray Movie  

Vinegar Syndrome | 1987 | 90 min | Not rated | Mar 29, 2022 | Brian Orndorf

In this chilling tale of the supernatural, sisters Charlotte and Lucy Bonnard live together in the gloomy Louisiana family mansion that they’ve turned into a guest house. But when a mysterious young man enters their lives, the sisters are forced to confront a dark past filled with forbidden passions and deadly secrets.

Drama / Mystery / Romance / Thriller