New Blu-ray Reviews
Home- January 17, 2022
Whispers in the Dark Blu-ray Movie
Shout Factory | 1992 | 101 min | Rated R | Jan 11, 2022 | Brian Orndorf
A psychiatrist is helping a neurotic art gallery owner who has a submissive and very satisfying sexual relationship with her new lover, a domineering man with a violent streak. An airline pilot that the psychiatrist recently started dating turns out to be having an affair with the patient. When someone is murdered, the psychiatrist must decide whether the lover is a homicidal maniac or someone who loves her. Her mentor and his wife attempt to help her, but things aren't what they seem.
Drama / Mystery / Thriller
Splitting Heirs Blu-ray Movie
Retro VHS Collection
Mill Creek Entertainment | 1993 | 87 min | Rated PG-13 | Oct 19, 2021 | Martin Liebman
Two children are switched at birth, with one growing up as a pampered British Duke, while the true heir is raised by a humble Pakistani family. This mistaken-identity comedy details the chaos that follows when the rightful Duke discovers the truth and attempts to reclaim his throne.
Comedy
The Temp Blu-ray Movie
Shout Factory | 1993 | 97 min | Rated R | Jan 11, 2022 | Brian Orndorf
The Temp stars Timothy Hutton as an executive with a history of paranoia and jealousy. When his company is taken over by a large corporation, everyone scrambles and jockeys for position -- but Hutton finds himself rising to the top with the assistance of his temporary secretary. As rivals and foes start turning up dead, Hutton struggles to figure out if his madness is returning, or is his curvaceous secretary taking her job a little too seriously?
Drama / Thriller
- January 16, 2022
Hoffman Blu-ray Movie
Indicator Series | Limited Edition
Powerhouse Films | 1970 | 113 min | Rated BBFC: 15 | Jan 17, 2022 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
A businessman blackmails his pretty young secretary into spending the weekend with him.
Drama
Don't Go in the House Blu-ray Movie
The Burning / Op de Drempel van de Gruwel / La casa del terror / Pyromaniac / Maniac 2: Non andare in casa / Nie chodz do tego domu / Das Haus der lebenden Leichen
Severin Films | 1980 | 1 Movie, 3 Cuts | 82 min | Not rated | Feb 08, 2022 | Jeffrey Kauffman
A disturbed young man who was burned as a child by his sadistic mother stalks women with a flamethrower.
Horror
- January 15, 2022
The Great Escape 4K Blu-ray Movie
4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray
Kino Lorber | 1963 | 172 min | Not rated | Jan 11, 2022 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
Allied prisoners of war plan for several hundred of their number to escape from a German camp during World War II.
Adventure / Drama / History / War / Epic / Period
La Cage aux Folles II Blu-ray Movie
Code Red | 1980 | 101 min | Not rated | Nov 23, 2021 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
Nightclub owner Renato and his transvestite companion/lover Albin becoming involved with the local cops and foreign spies when Albin unwittingly gets his hands on a roll of stolen microfilm. The gay couple then hide out in Renato's native Italy, but find little peace there with their frequent bickering among themselves.
Comedy / Foreign
The Little Rascals Volume 4 Blu-ray Movie
The ClassicFlix Restorations
ClassicFlix | 1922-1938 | 218 min | Not rated | Jan 18, 2022 | Jeffrey Kauffman
Although aired on television in the 1950s under the popular Little Rascals brand, these comedy classics are presented in their original uncut "Our Gang" theatrical editions.
Comedy / Family
The Lover 4K Blu-ray Movie
L'Amant / 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray
Capelight Pictures | 1992 | 115 min | Unrated | Jan 25, 2022 | Randy Miller III
It is French Colonial Vietnam in 1929. A young French girl from a family that is having some monetary difficulties is returning to boarding school. She is alone on public transportation when she catches the eye of a wealthy Chinese businessman. He offers her a ride into town in the back of his chauffeured sedan, and sparks fly. Can the torrid affair that ensues between them overcome the class restrictions and social mores of that time? Based on the semi-autobiographical novel by Maugerite Duras.
Biography / Drama / Romance / Erotic / Foreign
A**holes Blu-ray Movie
Slipcover Edition Limited to 2,000
Circle Collective | 2017 | 74 min | Not rated | Dec 28, 2021 | Brian Orndorf
Adah and Aaron are sober drug addicts who meet in their psychoanalyst's waiting room. They have sex, discover they share an anal fetish, relapse on poppers, conjure a demon, and kill Adah's brother. When their faces turn into Assholes, Adah's parents stage a reality show intervention to get the couple sober again.
Comedy / Drama / Romance
The Show Blu-ray Movie
Shout Factory | 2020 | 115 min | Not rated | Nov 23, 2021 | Brian Orndorf
A man's search for a stolen artifact leads him to the haunted town filled with Voodoo gangsters, masked adventurers, Depression-era private eyes and violent chiaroscuro women.
Drama / Fantasy / Film-Noir / Mystery / Supernatural / Surreal
- January 14, 2022
Lady in a Cage Blu-ray Movie
Shout Factory | 1964 | 95 min | Not rated | Dec 21, 2021 | Brian Orndorf
A Lady (Olivia De Havilland) gets trapped inside a home elevator after the electricity goes out. During a hot summer day, while she presses a button inside the elevator to summon help from the alley, she unknowingly attracts looters who in turn try hurting her and steal all her personal belongings.
Drama / Horror / Thriller
Straight Shooting & Hell Bent: Two Films by John Ford Blu-ray Movie
Masters of Cinema
Eureka Entertainment | 1917-1918 | 2 Movies | 115 min | Rated BBFC: PG | Apr 19, 2021 | Jeffrey Kauffman
No synopsis for this title.
Western
Straight Shooting Blu-ray Movie
Masters of Cinema
Eureka Entertainment | 1917 | 62 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Jeffrey Kauffman
Cattleman Flint cuts off farmer Sims' water supply. When Sims' son Ted goes for water, one of Flint's men kills him. Cheyenne is sent to finish off Sims, but finding the family at the newly dug grave, he changes sides.
Western
Hell Bent Blu-ray Movie
Masters of Cinema
Eureka Entertainment | 1918 | 50 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Jeffrey Kauffman
A cowboy must save his girlfriend from captivity and then cross the desert on foot with a single waterhole on the way.
Western
- January 13, 2022
The Gift Blu-ray Movie
Imprint #90
Imprint | 2000 | 111 min | Rated ACB: MA15+ | Dec 08, 2021 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
A woman with extrasensory perception is asked to help find a young woman who has disappeared.
Crime / Drama / Horror / Mystery / Thriller / Psychological thriller / Supernatural
The Piano 4K Blu-ray Movie
4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray
Criterion | 1993 | 121 min | Not rated | Jan 25, 2022 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
In 1851, Ada, a mute Scotswoman, travels to colonial New Zealand to wed a man she does not know, with her precocious daughter Flora and beloved piano in tow. When her cold and practical husband, the landowner Stewart, refuses to transport the piano to their rural home, Ada hesitantly agrees to a sexual relationship with a neighbor, the intense George, in order to retrieve and gain access to the instrument.
Drama / Romance / Period
Halloween Kills Blu-ray Movie
Extended Cut / Blu-ray + DVD + Digital Copy
Universal Studios | 2021 | 1 Movie, 2 Cuts | 109 min | Not rated | Jan 11, 2022 | Martin Liebman
Minutes after Laurie Strode, her daughter Karen, and granddaughter Allyson left masked monster Michael Myers caged and burning in Laurie's basement, Laurie is rushed to the hospital with life-threatening injuries, believing she finally killed her lifelong tormentor. But when Michael manages to free himself from Laurie's trap, his ritual bloodbath resumes. As Laurie fights her pain and prepares to defend herself against him, she inspires all of Haddonfield to rise up against their unstoppable monster.
Horror / Thriller
Halloween Kills 4K Blu-ray Movie
4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray + Digital Copy
Universal Studios | 2021 | 1 Movie, 2 Cuts | 109 min | Rated R | Jan 11, 2022 | Martin Liebman
Minutes after Laurie Strode, her daughter Karen, and granddaughter Allyson left masked monster Michael Myers caged and burning in Laurie's basement, Laurie is rushed to the hospital with life-threatening injuries, believing she finally killed her lifelong tormentor. But when Michael manages to free himself from Laurie's trap, his ritual bloodbath resumes. As Laurie fights her pain and prepares to defend herself against him, she inspires all of Haddonfield to rise up against their unstoppable monster.
Horror / Thriller
Take Me Out to the Ball Game Blu-ray Movie
Warner Archive Collection
Warner Bros. | 1949 | 93 min | Not rated | Jul 20, 2021 | Randy Miller III
The Wolves baseball team gets steamed when they find they've been inherited by one K.C. Higgins, a suspected "fathead" who intends to take an active interest in running the team. But K.C. turns outs to be a beautiful woman who really knows her baseball. Second baseman Dennis Ryan promptly falls in love. But his playboy roommate Eddie O'Brien has his own notions about how to treat the new lady owner and some unsavory gamblers have their own ideas about how to handle Eddie.
Comedy / Musical / Romance / Sport