New Blu-ray Reviews

National Velvet Blu-ray Movie  

Warner Archive Collection

Warner Bros. | 1944 | 123 min | Rated G | Nov 16, 2021 | Randy Miller III

As long as young hearts endure, so will NATIONAL VELVET and movies like it. In her starmaking role, Elizabeth Taylor plays Velvet Brown, a wide-eyed adolescent who, assisted by her jockey pal (Mickey Rooney), trains Pie, a horse she won in a raffle, for the Grand National Steeplechase. Of course, no girl can ride in the National, can she? Yet Velvet, posing as a boy, assuredly does. Superbly directed by Clarence Brown, this exciting winner of two Academy Awards (one to Anne Revere as Velvet's mother) co-stars a young Angela Lansbury and veteran Donald Crisp. Plus the film has an off-screen postscript as winning as the onscreen finale: the studio gave Pie to Taylor after filming wrapped.

Drama / Family / Sport

Gomorrah: Season One Blu-ray Movie  

Gomorra - la serie

Kino Lorber | 2014 | 614 min | Not rated | Oct 26, 2021 | Dr. Svet Atanasov

The series focuses on the inside story of a fierce Neapolitan crime organization, told through the eyes of Ciro Di Marzio, the right hand of the clan's godfather, Pietro Savastanno.

Crime / Drama / Thriller / Foreign

The Dry Blu-ray Movie  

Image Entertainment | 2020 | 117 min | Rated R | Jan 18, 2022 | Randy Miller III

Federal Agent Aaron Falk returns to his home town after an absence of over twenty years to attend the funeral of his childhood friend, Luke, who allegedly killed his wife and child before taking his own life - a victim of the madness that has ravaged this community after more than a decade of drought. When Falk reluctantly agrees to stay and investigate the crime, he opens up an old wound - the death of 17- year-old Ellie Deacon. Falk begins to suspect these two crimes, separated by decades, are connected. As he struggles to prove not only Luke's innocence but also his own, Falk finds himself pitted against the prejudice towards him and and pent-up rage of a terrified community.

Crime / Drama / Mystery / Foreign

Tab Hunter Confidential Blu-ray Movie  

FilmRise | 2015 | 90 min | Not rated | Oct 19, 2021 | Jeffrey Kauffman

In the 1950s, Tab Hunter is number one at the box office and number one on the music charts. He is Hollywood's most sought-after star and America's boy next door. Natalie Wood, Debbie Reynolds and Sophia Loren are just a few of the actresses he is romantically linked to. Nothing, it seems, can damage Tab Hunter's career. Nothing, that is, except for the fact that Tab Hunter is secretly gay.

Biography / Documentary

Where the Red Fern Grows Blu-ray Movie  

MVD Marquee Collection

MVD Visual | 2003 | 86 min | Not rated | Dec 14, 2021 | Jeffrey Kauffman

Where the Red Fern Grows is the heartwarming and adventurous tale for all ages about a young boy and his quest for his own red-bone hound hunting dogs.

Adventure / Drama / Family

Bedtime Story Blu-ray Movie  

Kino Lorber | 1964 | 99 min | Not rated | Dec 14, 2021 | Dr. Svet Atanasov

A black comedy starring Marlon Brando, David Niven and Shirley Jones. The action takes place in a quiet but rich part of Southern France where Lawrence Jameson also know as 'The Prince' (David Niven) has been conning countless women out of their fortunes for years until the arrival of Freddy Benson (Marlon Brando) who has been working 'cheap cons' since he left the army. As Benson and Jameson clash, it is agreed that one of them must leave. To decide who, they arrange a wager to see who can win the next woman they see and extract $25,000 from her the quickest.

Comedy

Shawscope Volume One Blu-ray Movie  

King Boxer / The Boxer from Shantung / Five Shaolin Masters / Shaolin Temple / Mighty Peking Man / Challenge of the Masters / Executioners from Shaolin / Chinatown Kid / The Five Venoms / Crippled Avengers / Heroes of the East / Dirty Ho | Limited Edition / Blu-ray + CD

Arrow | 1972-1979 | 12 Movies | 1272 min | Not rated | Dec 28, 2021 | Jeffrey Kauffman

No synopsis for this title.

Action / Adventure / Comedy / Crime / Drama / Martial arts / Foreign / Period

King Boxer Blu-ray Movie  

Five Fingers of Death / Tian xia di yi quan

Arrow | 1972 | 104 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Jeffrey Kauffman

Promising young student Chao Chih-Hao is sent away to train under a new master in order that he may be able to win a martial arts tournament and thus prevent the local thugs from getting the power and prestige that would come were they to win it.

Action / Martial arts / Foreign

The Boxer from Shantung Blu-ray Movie  

Arrow | 1972 | 130 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Jeffrey Kauffman

Leaving the poverty of his life in Shantung to seek fortune in Shanghai, The Boxer is instead drawn into a world of corruption, gang warfare and evil... Where his only protection is his famed fighting technique.

Action / Crime / Drama / Martial arts / Foreign / Period

Five Shaolin Masters Blu-ray Movie  

5 Masters of Death

Arrow | 1974 | 109 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Jeffrey Kauffman

Five students escape from the destruction of their beloved Shaolin Temple...now each must take revenge and train in their own seperate fighting styles...they will become The Five Shaolin Masters!!

Action / Adventure / Martial arts / Foreign

Shaolin Temple Blu-ray Movie  

Shǎo lín sì / 少林寺

Arrow | 1976 | 117 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Jeffrey Kauffman

The Shaolin Temple begins to accept outside students seeking to learn the superior techniques of the Shaolin kung fu, amidst some bad omens foretelling the future of the Temple.

Action / Adventure / Martial arts / Foreign

The Mighty Peking Man Blu-ray Movie  

Goliathon

Arrow | 1977 | 90 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Jeffrey Kauffman

A greedy Hong Kong businessman captures a 50-foot-tall ape from the Himalayas and puts it on display, but it escapes and goes on a rampage.

Action / Adventure / Foreign

Challenge of the Masters Blu-ray Movie  

Liu A-Cai yu Huang Fei-Hong

Arrow | 1976 | 95 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Jeffrey Kauffman

Teenager Wong Fei-hung is sent to train in the art of hung gar kung fu from his father's teacher, Luk Ah-choy. With training complete, Wong must fight an assassin and regain the honor of his school.

Action / Drama / Martial arts / Foreign

Executioners from Shaolin Blu-ray Movie  

The Executioners of Death / Hong Xi Guan

Arrow | 1977 | 108 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Jeffrey Kauffman

After the destruction of the Temple, a Shaolin disciple devotes years to mastering Tiger style in order to defeat the martial arts master who killed his teacher. His wife, a Crane style specialist, has a feeling one style won't be enough.

Action / Martial arts / Foreign

Chinatown Kid Blu-ray Movie  

Arrow | 1977 | 117 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Jeffrey Kauffman

A martial artist living with his grandfather is stricken with poverty and dreams of a better life. He has to leave Hong Kong after getting into trouble, so he moves to San Francisco, where his superior kung fu leads him back into trouble.

Action / Drama / Foreign

The Five Venoms Blu-ray Movie  

The Five Deadly Venoms / 五毒 / Wu du

Arrow | 1978 | 102 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Jeffrey Kauffman

The sixth and final disciple of a dying martial arts master is instructed to find the master's five former disciples, each specializing in their own unique kung fu style, and defeat any evil ones amongst them.

Action / Martial arts / Foreign / Period

Crippled Avengers Blu-ray Movie  

Return of the 5 Deadly Venoms

Arrow | 1978 | 100 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Jeffrey Kauffman

Three men who have been physically disabled by a vindictive martial arts master and his physically-disabled son ally together and learn kung fu from an elderly martial-artist and his mentally-disabled pupil, so they can avenge themselves.

Action / Martial arts / Foreign

Heroes of the East Blu-ray Movie  

Arrow | 1978 | 100 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Jeffrey Kauffman

A Chinese man marries a Japanese woman through an arranged marriage and manages to insult all of her martial arts family by issuing a challenge to her that is misinterpreted by the others. He must then prove his worth through a series of duels with the seven Japanese martial artists who come to meet the challenge.

Action / Comedy / Martial arts / Foreign

Dirty Ho Blu-ray Movie  

Lan tou He

Arrow | 1979 | 103 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Jeffrey Kauffman

The eleventh son of the Qing emperor, who's a kung fu master, is visiting Canton incognito. While there, he meets a loudmouth thief who he takes under his wing, while assassins sent by his fourth brother threaten his life.

Action / Comedy / Martial arts / Foreign

Damnation Blu-ray Movie  

Kárhozat

Arbelos | 1988 | 121 min | Not rated | Dec 14, 2021 | Dr. Svet Atanasov

A lonely barfly falls in love with a married bar singer.

Crime / Drama / Romance / Foreign