New Blu-ray Reviews
Home- January 06, 2022
My Salinger Year Blu-ray Movie
Shout Factory | 2020 | 101 min | Rated R | Nov 09, 2021 | Dr. Stephen Larson
A college grad takes a clerical job working for the literary agent of the renowned, reclusive writer J.D. Salinger.
Drama
Red Angel Blu-ray Movie
赤い天使 / Akai tenshi
Arrow | 1966 | 95 min | Not rated | Jan 18, 2022 | Jeffrey Kauffman
When Sakura Nishi is dispatched in 1939 to a ramshackle field hospital in Tientsin, the frontline of Japan's war with China, she and her colleagues find themselves fighting a losing battle tending to the war-wounded and emotionally shellshocked soldiers while assisting head surgeon Dr. Okabe conduct an unending series of amputations. As the Chinese troops close in, she finds herself increasingly drawn to Okabe who, impotent to stall the mounting piles of cadavers, has retreated into his own private hell of morphine addiction.
Drama / Romance / War / Foreign
Her Smell Blu-ray Movie
Slipcase & Slipcover Edition Limited to 2,000
Gunpowder & Sky | 2018 | 136 min | Rated R | Dec 28, 2021 | Brian Orndorf
A self-destructive punk rocker struggles with sobriety while trying to recapture the creative inspiration that led her band to success.
Drama / Music
- January 05, 2022
Spencer Blu-ray Movie
Decal Releasing | 2021 | 117 min | Rated R | Jan 11, 2022 | Brian Orndorf
The marriage of Princess Diana and Prince Charles has long since grown cold. Though rumors of affairs and a divorce abound, peace is ordained for the Christmas festivities at the Queen's Sandringham Estate. There's eating and drinking, shooting and hunting. Diana knows the game. But this year, things will be profoundly different.
Biography / Drama / History
Because of You Blu-ray Movie
Kino Lorber | 1952 | 95 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Dr. Svet Atanasov
A female ex-con falls in love and hesitates to reveal her past.
Drama / Film-Noir / Romance
Shock Blu-ray Movie
Schock / Beyond the Door II
Arrow | 1977 | 93 min | Not rated | Jan 18, 2022 | Jeffrey Kauffman
A couple is terrorized in their new house haunted by the vengeful ghost of the woman's former husband who possesses her young son.
Horror
2021 World Series Champions: Atlanta Braves Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + DVD
Shout Factory | 2021 | 89 min | Not rated | Dec 14, 2021 | Martin Liebman
For Hank Aaron. For Phil Niekro. For Braves Country. The Atlanta Braves are 2021 World Series champions, proving that it is anyone's game once the Postseason begins by taking down the Houston Astros in a 6-game Fall Classic. The official World Series from Major League Baseball.
Documentary / Sport
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