New Blu-ray Reviews

Spontaneous Blu-ray Movie  

Paramount Pictures | 2020 | 102 min | Rated R | Feb 15, 2022 | Martin Liebman

A high school senior discovers that she and her classmates may explode at any moment.

Comedy / Fantasy / Romance / Sci-Fi / Teen

Ascendance of a Bookworm: Seasons 1&2 Blu-ray Movie  

Sentai Filmworks | 2019-2020 | 2 Seasons | 675 min | Rated TV-PG | Jan 26, 2021 | Neil Lumbard

When a sickly young girl suddenly becomes obsessed with inventing new things, her family and friends are all puzzled. "What has gotten into Myne?" they wondered, never dreaming that the answer is not a "What" but a "Who": Urano Motosu, a book-loving apprentice librarian who died in an earthquake in Tokyo who somehow found herself in Myne's body! And since Myne's world is still in a medieval stage, where books can only be owned by the elite, the new Myne intends to do everything she can to bring her beloved books to the masses in the time she has left. Unfortunately, that may not be very long, as Myne's body is still failing, and she may only have a short time left to achieve her lofty goals in ASCENDANCE OF A BOOKWORM!

Adventure / Anime / Comedy / Foreign

Clockstoppers Blu-ray Movie  

Paramount Pictures | 2002 | 94 min | Rated PG | Jan 25, 2022 | Martin Liebman

Scientist George Gibbs invents a mechanism that speeds up the molecules of any target, making it seem as though the rest of the world is frozen in time. When his son is zapped by the device, George must find a way to reverse the effects.

Action / Sci-Fi / Teen

Asura Cryin': Complete Collection Blu-ray Movie  

Maiden Japan | 2009 | 2 Seasons | 650 min | Rated TV-14 | Jul 16, 2019 | Neil Lumbard

No synopsis for this title.

Action / Anime / Comedy / Drama / Romance / Thriller / Foreign

Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins Blu-ray Movie  

Kino Lorber | 1985 | 121 min | Rated PG-13 | Feb 15, 2022 | Dr. Svet Atanasov

Sam Makin is a tough Brooklyn, New York City street cop and Vietnam-era Marine Corps veteran. He is unwillingly recruited as an assassin for a secret United States organization, CURE. The recruitment is through a bizarre method: his death is faked and he is given a new face and a new name. Rechristened "Remo Williams" (after the name and location of the manufacturer of the bedpan in Makin's hospital room), his face is surgically altered and he is trained to be a human killing machine by his aged, derisive and impassive Korean martial arts master Chiun.

Action / Adventure / Comedy / Crime / Romance / Thriller

Chernobyl 1986 Blu-ray Movie  

Chernobyl: Abyss / Чернобыль

Capelight Pictures | 2021 | 136 min | Not rated | Nov 02, 2021 | Dr. Svet Atanasov

Chernobyl is the first major Russian feature film about the aftermath of the explosion at the Chernobyl nuclear power station, when hundreds of people sacrificed their lives to clean up the site of the catastrophe, and to successfully prevent an even bigger disaster that could have turned a large part of the European continent into an uninhabitable exclusion zone. The unlikely hero of the film is Alexey, a fireman at the power station. He is accompanied by Valery, an engineer, and Boris, a military diver, on a perilous mission to drain water from a reservoir under the burning reactor. They have no time for proper planning; water in the flooded corridors they will have to traverse is getting hotter by the hour as the molten reactor core seeps ever closer. Prepared to sacrifice their own lives in order to prevent an even greater catastrophe, the three men descend into the depths of the reactor building.

Drama / History / Thriller / Foreign

Golden Time: Complete Collection Blu-ray Movie  

Sentai Filmworks | 2013-2014 | 600 min | Rated TV-14 | Dec 17, 2019 | Neil Lumbard

Getting lost wasn't how Tada Banri wanted to start his first day of law school, but making a friend of fellow student Mitsuo along the way sort of made up for it until Mitsuo's childhood friend and arranged future bride Kaga Koko appears and slaps Mitsuo with a bouquet of roses! Awkward. It's even more awkward to learn that Koko's now a fellow law student as well. However, "Awkward" is practically Banri's middle name, as he's suffering from a form of amnesia that's erased most of his memory since high school and he's becoming used to running into uncomfortable situations caused by actions he doesn't remember. Join one of the most star-crossed group of friends ever as they attempt to make sense of life, love and the legal system in GOLDEN TIME!

Anime / Comedy / Drama / Romance / Supernatural / Foreign

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