New Blu-ray Reviews

The Collingswood Story Blu-ray Movie  

Slipcase Edition Limited to 1,500

Cauldron Films | 2002 | 82 min | Not rated | Oct 05, 2021 | Brian Orndorf

My name is Rebecca. When I left for college, my ex, John, thought webcams would help us keep in touch. It does, but it also leads us to a dark secret when we meet and cam with Vera Madeline, an online psychic, who warns "rituals" are being performed in the house I moved into. Okay, like anyone out there should believe some online psychic.

Horror / Mystery / Thriller

The Dead Pit Blu-ray Movie  

Code Red | 1989 | 102 min | Rated R | Dec 14, 2021 | Brian Orndorf

A renegade doctor is shot dead and entombed with his fiendish experiments in the basement of an abandoned wing of a mental hospital. Twenty years later, a mysterious woman is admitted with amnesia, and her arrival is marked by an earthquake - which cracks the seal to the Dead Pit, freeing the evil doctor to continue his work.

Horror

The Browning Version Blu-ray Movie    

Imprint #82 #83

Imprint | 1951-1994 | 2 Movies | 187 min | Rated ACB: M | Oct 27, 2021 | Jeffrey Kauffman

Terence Rattigan’s powerful play “The Browning Version” about an unpopular schoolmaster who snatches a last shred of dignity from the collapse of his career and his marriage was critically applauded on its initial release in 1948. Time has only embellished its themes of loss, redemption, dignity, and the value of a life’s work which resonates today. Here presented for the first time in HD are both moving film adaptations.

Drama

The Browning Version Blu-ray Movie    

Imprint No 82

Imprint | 1951 | 90 min | Rated M | No Release Date | Jeffrey Kauffman

Forced by illness to retire from an English public school, icily reserved middle-aged schoolmaster Andrew Crocker-Harris reflects on the personal and professional failures which have earned him the contempt of his unfaithful wife and the derision of most of his pupils over the years.

Drama

The Browning Version Blu-ray Movie    

Imprint No 83

Imprint | 1994 | 97 min | Rated M | No Release Date | Jeffrey Kauffman

After teaching in a public school for twenty years, Crocker-Harris is being put out to pasture in a less stressful job teaching English to foreigners. Meanwhile, his home life is also falling apart: his wife is having an affair with the American chemistry teacher, who nevertheless admires Crocker-Harris for his dignity and decency. Through it all, Crocker-Harris hides his pain behind his stiff British reserve.

Drama

The Brass Bottle Blu-ray Movie  

Kino Lorber | 1964 | 87 min | Not rated | Dec 14, 2021 | Dr. Svet Atanasov

Comedy about the proverbial genie who comes out of a bottle (a table lamp in this instance) to serve his new master. The only problem is that instead of helping his master, the genie (Burl Ives) tends to get his master (Tony Randall) into more predicaments than he gets him out of.

Comedy / Fantasy

Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl 4K Blu-ray Movie  

4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray + Digital Copy

Disney / Buena Vista | 2003 | 143 min | Rated PG-13 | Jan 02, 2022 | Martin Liebman

When the Governor's daughter Elizabeth is kidnapped by a band of pirates, love-lorn Will Turner goes to her rescue. However, he needs help to get on board the pirates' ship, The Black Pearl, so he enlists Captain Jack Sparrow. But they are up against more than just sword-swinging pirates; the crew of the Black Pearl are cursed to spend their time between the living and the dead and only the blood of Elizabeth can break the curse.

Action / Adventure / Fantasy / Period

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