New Blu-ray Reviews
Home- January 05, 2022
Harold and Maude Blu-ray Movie
Paramount Presents #29 / Blu-ray + Digital Copy
Paramount Pictures | 1971 | 91 min | Rated PG | Dec 07, 2021 | Martin Liebman
Young, rich, and obsessed with death, Harold finds himself changed forever when he meets lively septuagenarian Maude at a funeral.
Comedy / Drama / Romance / Dark humor
Copshop Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + DVD + Digital Copy
Universal Studios | 2021 | 108 min | Rated R | Dec 07, 2021 | Martin Liebman
A small town police station becomes the unlikely battleground between a professional hitman, a smart female rookie cop and a double crossing conman who seeks refuge behind bars with no place left to run.
Action / Thriller
- January 04, 2022
Hawaii Blu-ray Movie
Sandpiper Pictures | 1966 | 161 min | Not rated | Dec 14, 2021 | Jeffrey Kauffman
They came to bring God, but instead they brought disease and destruction. The Rev. Abner Hale and his gentle wife, Jerusha, attempt to convert early 19th-century Hawaiian natives to Christianity...but find themselves ill-equipped to endure the unexpected tribulations of paradise. Surging with the excitement of windstorms, firestorms, shark attacks and magnificent island scenery...
Adventure / Drama
Young Man with a Horn Blu-ray Movie
Young Man of Music / Warner Archive Collection
Warner Bros. | 1950 | 112 min | Not rated | Dec 15, 2020 | Dr. Stephen Larson
Stars Kirk Douglas as a driven trumpet player who devotes his life to music, to the exclusion of almost everything else. Doris Day and Lauren Bacall are the women in his life; Harry James performed Douglas' tunes.
Biography / Drama / Music / Romance
The Ghost Ship / Bedlam Blu-ray Movie
Warner Archive Collection / Val Lewton Double Feature
Warner Bros. | 1943-1946 | 2 Movies | 149 min | Not rated | Oct 12, 2021 | Randy Miller III
Bedlam After getting a glimpse of the conditions at the St. Mary's of Bethlehem Asylum, known as "Bedlam," Nell Bowen (Anna Lee) is concerned that the patients are being mistreated. When she seeks to better the situation, the head of St. Mary's, George Sims (Boris Karloff), uses his political savvy to have Nell committed. Being within St. Mary's does not deter Nell, however, and she starts to turn the patients against Sims in a bid to violently oust him from power. The Ghost Ship Tom Merriam (Russell Wade) boards the freighter Altair in San Pedro, where he meets Capt. Will Stone (Richard Dix). During that first voyage, Tom begins to suspect that Stone is crazy, but he also learns that the crew is fiercely protective of him. When fellow sailor Louie (Lawrence Tierney) is killed in a freak accident, Merriam suspects Stone. However, he has no proof. As the killings continue, Tom decides to leave the ship, but the captain has other plans.
Drama / Horror / Mystery / Thriller
- January 03, 2022
The Midnight Story Blu-ray Movie
Kino Lorber | 1957 | 90 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Dr. Svet Atanasov
When a San Francisco priest is murdered a policeman who's a close friend starts an investigation.
Crime / Drama / Film-Noir / Mystery
Zeros and Ones Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + Digital Copy
Lionsgate Films | 2021 | 85 min | Rated R | Jan 04, 2022 | Jeffrey Kauffman
An American soldier stationed in Rome with the Vatican blown up, embarks on a hero's journey to uncover and defend against an unknown enemy threatening the entire world.
Thriller / War
- January 02, 2022
Slow Dancing in the Big City Blu-ray Movie
Scorpion Releasing | 1978 | 110 min | Rated PG | Nov 30, 2021 | Brian Orndorf
An aging out of shape reporter falls for a pretty but seriously ill ballerina.
Drama / Musical / Romance
1974: La Posesión de Altair Blu-ray Movie
Slipcase Edition Limited to 1,500 / Blu-ray + CD
Cauldron Films | 2016 | 82 min | Not rated | Oct 05, 2021 | Brian Orndorf
A newlywed couple disappeared in 1974, their 8mm tapes reveal one of the most horrifying events in Mexican history.
Horror / Mystery / Sci-Fi / Foreign
Dinner at Eight Blu-ray Movie
Warner Archive Collection
Warner Bros. | 1933 | 111 min | Not rated | Oct 26, 2021 | Randy Miller III
Affluent Millicent and Oliver Jordan throw a dinner for a handful of wealthy and/or well-born acquaintances, each of whom has much to reveal.
Comedy / Drama
Jack Frost 2: Revenge of the Mutant Killer Snowman Blu-ray Movie
MVD Rewind Collection
MVD Visual | 2000 | 93 min | Rated R | Dec 28, 2021 | Jeffrey Kauffman
Jack, the chiller killer is back and he's mad as hell! When a laboratory experiment goes horrifically awry, the crystal killer is resurrected. This time around, Jack can't be killed by fire, bullets, or even anti-freeze. With revenge on his mind, Jack sets out to finish off his nemesis, Sheriff Sam.
Comedy / Fantasy / Horror / Dark humor
- January 01, 2022
Stingray Blu-ray Movie
Director's Cut
Dark Force Entertainment | 1978 | 105 min | Unrated | Nov 23, 2021 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
Lonigan and his partner Tony, two drug dealers, shoot two cops who attempt to set them up, and run away with a million bucks and the drugs, which they stash in a red Corvette Stingray in a used car lot. When they attempt to recover their stash with their leader, Abigail, they find out that two happy-go-lucky dudes, Elmo and Al, have bought the car. They quickly pursue the two along with the police who think that the car's new owners are the criminals.
Action / Comedy / Crime
Jack Frost Blu-ray Movie
MVD Rewind Collection
MVD Visual | 1997 | 89 min | Not rated | Dec 28, 2021 | Jeffrey Kauffman
He's got ice in his veins and he's giving cold-blooded a whole new meaning...his name is Jack Frost. After five years of terror and 38 bodies in five states, serial killer Jack is on his way to execution. But a freak accident with a truckload of genetic material in the middle of a snowstorm mutates Jack into a killer snowman. Now only an army can stop the slayride of terror from this frosty monster with icicle fangs. Hell has just frozen over...he's the abominable Jack Frost.
Comedy / Horror / Dark humor / Supernatural / Holiday
The Collingswood Story Blu-ray Movie
Slipcase Edition Limited to 1,500
Cauldron Films | 2002 | 82 min | Not rated | Oct 05, 2021 | Brian Orndorf
My name is Rebecca. When I left for college, my ex, John, thought webcams would help us keep in touch. It does, but it also leads us to a dark secret when we meet and cam with Vera Madeline, an online psychic, who warns "rituals" are being performed in the house I moved into. Okay, like anyone out there should believe some online psychic.
Horror / Mystery / Thriller
The Dead Pit Blu-ray Movie
Code Red | 1989 | 102 min | Rated R | Dec 14, 2021 | Brian Orndorf
A renegade doctor is shot dead and entombed with his fiendish experiments in the basement of an abandoned wing of a mental hospital. Twenty years later, a mysterious woman is admitted with amnesia, and her arrival is marked by an earthquake - which cracks the seal to the Dead Pit, freeing the evil doctor to continue his work.
Horror
- December 31, 2021
The Browning Version Blu-ray Movie
Imprint #82 #83
Imprint | 1951-1994 | 2 Movies | 187 min | Rated ACB: M | Oct 27, 2021 | Jeffrey Kauffman
Terence Rattigan’s powerful play “The Browning Version” about an unpopular schoolmaster who snatches a last shred of dignity from the collapse of his career and his marriage was critically applauded on its initial release in 1948. Time has only embellished its themes of loss, redemption, dignity, and the value of a life’s work which resonates today. Here presented for the first time in HD are both moving film adaptations.
Drama
The Browning Version Blu-ray Movie
Imprint No 82
Imprint | 1951 | 90 min | Rated M | No Release Date | Jeffrey Kauffman
Forced by illness to retire from an English public school, icily reserved middle-aged schoolmaster Andrew Crocker-Harris reflects on the personal and professional failures which have earned him the contempt of his unfaithful wife and the derision of most of his pupils over the years.
Drama
The Browning Version Blu-ray Movie
Imprint No 83
Imprint | 1994 | 97 min | Rated M | No Release Date | Jeffrey Kauffman
After teaching in a public school for twenty years, Crocker-Harris is being put out to pasture in a less stressful job teaching English to foreigners. Meanwhile, his home life is also falling apart: his wife is having an affair with the American chemistry teacher, who nevertheless admires Crocker-Harris for his dignity and decency. Through it all, Crocker-Harris hides his pain behind his stiff British reserve.
Drama
- December 30, 2021
The Brass Bottle Blu-ray Movie
Kino Lorber | 1964 | 87 min | Not rated | Dec 14, 2021 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
Comedy about the proverbial genie who comes out of a bottle (a table lamp in this instance) to serve his new master. The only problem is that instead of helping his master, the genie (Burl Ives) tends to get his master (Tony Randall) into more predicaments than he gets him out of.
Comedy / Fantasy
Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl 4K Blu-ray Movie
4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray + Digital Copy
Disney / Buena Vista | 2003 | 143 min | Rated PG-13 | Jan 02, 2022 | Martin Liebman
When the Governor's daughter Elizabeth is kidnapped by a band of pirates, love-lorn Will Turner goes to her rescue. However, he needs help to get on board the pirates' ship, The Black Pearl, so he enlists Captain Jack Sparrow. But they are up against more than just sword-swinging pirates; the crew of the Black Pearl are cursed to spend their time between the living and the dead and only the blood of Elizabeth can break the curse.
Action / Adventure / Fantasy / Period