New Blu-ray Reviews

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

Slumber Party Massacre Blu-ray Movie  

Shout Factory | 2021 | 87 min | Not rated | Feb 01, 2022 | Brian Orndorf

Dana, daughter of the only survivor of a bloody massacre in 1993, is going on a weekend trip with her friends. After their car breaks down in the very same town where her mother once fought the Driller Killer, Dana and her friends must come face-to-face with the psychotic serial killer who has haunted her mother’s life for the past 30 years.

Horror

Mad Max: The Road Warrior 4K Blu-ray Movie  

Corrected Disc / Mad Max 2 / 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray + Digital Copy

Warner Bros. | 1981 | 95 min | Rated R | Feb 01, 2022 | Randy Miller III

In an apocalyptic future, Max helps a small band of survivors who are losing their struggle to protect an oil refinery under siege by a band of savage marauders.

Action / Adventure / Sci-Fi / Thriller

The Flight of the Phoenix Blu-ray Movie  

Criterion | 1965 | 142 min | Not rated | Mar 22, 2022 | Dr. Svet Atanasov

After a plane crash in the Sahara, one of the survivors says he's an airplane designer and they can make a flyable plane from the wreckage.

Adventure / Drama

Mae West in Hollywood Blu-ray Movie    

Night After Night / She Done Him Wrong / I'm No Angel / Belle of the Nineties / Goin' to Town / Klondike Annie / Go West Young Man / Every Day's a Holiday / My Little Chickadee / The Heat's On | Indicator Series | Limited Edition

Powerhouse Films | 1932-1982 | 10 Movies | 770 min | Rated BBFC: 12 | Dec 13, 2021 | Jeffrey Kauffman

No synopsis for this title.

Biography / Comedy / Drama / History / Musical / Romance / Western

Night After Night Blu-ray Movie    

Powerhouse Films | 1932 | 73 min | Rated BBFC: PG | No Release Date | Jeffrey Kauffman

A successful ex-boxer buys a high-class speakeasy and falls for a rich society girl, who doesn't know about his past. Complications ensue when some ex-girlfriends from his boxing days show up.

Drama

She Done Him Wrong Blu-ray Movie    

Powerhouse Films | 1933 | 66 min | Rated BBFC: PG | No Release Date | Jeffrey Kauffman

Romantic comedy starring Mae West and Cary Grant. Lou (West) is a singer working at the Gay Nineties saloon owned by Gus Jordan (Noah Beery). In order to keep Lou by his side, Gus plies her with diamonds. What she doesn't know is that Gus actually traffics in prostitution and runs a counterfeiting ring to help finance her expensive gifts. Lou has her share of male admirers who she keeps at arm's length. But the tough woman soon finds her heart melting for a handsome young man, Capt. Cummings (Grant), who works for the local city mission.

Comedy / Drama / History / Musical / Romance

I'm No Angel Blu-ray Movie    

Powerhouse Films | 1933 | 87 min | Rated BBFC: PG | No Release Date | Jeffrey Kauffman

Mae West stars as dancer and lion tamer Tira in this romantic comedy. Short of cash, Tira starts performing ever more dangerous stunts until her circus builds up an exciting reputation. But when she meets handsome Jack Clayton (Cary Grant), Tira ends up suing him for breach of contract after their relationship breaks up. Only when Clayton lets her win the case does she realise that she truly loves him.

Comedy / Musical / Romance

Belle of the Nineties Blu-ray Movie    

Powerhouse Films | 1934 | 73 min | Rated BBFC: PG | No Release Date | Jeffrey Kauffman

Western comedy starring Mae West. Ruby Carter (West) is a cabaret singer working in Mississippi. In a man's world, Ruby has little trouble surviving on her own terms, resisting the attentions of a deluge of lecherous men. Instead, she reserves her affections for a boxer called The Tiger Kid (Roger Pryor).

Comedy / Musical / Western

Goin' to Town Blu-ray Movie    

Powerhouse Films | 1935 | 74 min | Rated BBFC: PG | No Release Date | Jeffrey Kauffman

Former dance hall queen Cleo Borden, newly rich, falls for and pursues an upper-crust Englishman.

Comedy / Musical

Klondike Annie Blu-ray Movie    

Powerhouse Films | 1936 | 80 min | Rated BBFC: PG | No Release Date | Jeffrey Kauffman

Set in the Gold Rush of the 1890s. Beautiful Rose Carlton (Mae West), a "kept" woman of the wealthy and possessive Chan Lo, escapes San Francisco's Chinatown on a ship bound for Alaska's gold rush territory. The ship's captain, Bull Brackett (Victor McLaglen), instantly falls for Rose but she is distracted by her new cabinmate, Sister Annie Alden (Helen Jerome Eddy). Exchanging philosophies,the unlikely pair develop a meaningful friendship before Sister Annie becomes sick and dies. Meanwhile, Bull learns Rose is wanted for murder but tells her he will standby her. Rose, in desperation, changes identities with her deceased friend and, once in Alaska, is inspired to a new calling. It's West at her best as she brings the immoral townspeople to their knees with her unconventional style of evangelism in this spirited tale of divine transformation.

Comedy / Musical

Go West Young Man Blu-ray Movie    

Powerhouse Films | 1936 | 82 min | Rated BBFC: U | No Release Date | Jeffrey Kauffman

A movie star, stranded in the country, trifles with a young man's affections.

Every Day's a Holiday Blu-ray Movie    

Powerhouse Films | 1937 | 80 min | Rated BBFC: U | No Release Date | Jeffrey Kauffman

Mae West plays Peaches O'Day, a con artist who can sell anything, including the Brooklyn Bridge.

Comedy

My Little Chickadee Blu-ray Movie    

Powerhouse Films | 1940 | 83 min | Rated BBFC: 12 | No Release Date | Jeffrey Kauffman

Western written by and starring Mae West and W.C. Fields. When Flower Belle Lee (West) is accused of having a relationship with a mysterious Masked Bandit, she is forced to leave her home town, Little Bend and move to Greasewood City. On the train she meets Cuthbert J. Twillie (Fields), a con man who conspires with Flower to fake a marriage in order to gain 'respectability'. When the pair arrive in Greasewood City, Twillie, by chance, becomes sheriff of the town. But the man who appointed him, town boss Jeff Badger (Joseph Calleia), has an ulterior motive.

Comedy / Western