New Blu-ray Reviews

In the Heights 4K Blu-ray Movie  

4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray + Digital Copy

Warner Bros. | 2021 | 143 min | Rated PG-13 | Aug 31, 2021 | Randy Miller III

Based on the Broadway musical with music and lyrics by Lin-Manuel Miranda. The story is set over the course of three days, involving characters in the largely Hispanic-American neighborhood of Washington Heights in New York City.

Drama / Music / Musical

Fear the Walking Dead: The Complete Sixth Season Blu-ray Movie  

Blu-ray + Digital Copy

Lionsgate Films | 2020-2021 | 738 min | Rated TV-14 | Aug 31, 2021 | Martin Liebman

What did the world look like as it was transforming into the horrifying apocalypse depicted in "The Walking Dead"? This spin-off set in Los Angeles, following new characters as they face the beginning of the end of the world, will answer that question.

Drama / Horror / Supernatural / Melodrama

Whirlpool of Fate Blu-ray Movie  

The Girl of the Water / La Fille de l'eau

Kino Lorber | 1925 | 71 min | Not rated | Jul 20, 2021 | Neil Lumbard

After her father's death and her uncle having drunk all the inheritance, Virginia is left alone. She is accepted by a family of bohemians but a quarrel between the bohemians and the peasants coerce her to flee the peasants' riot. She is then helped by Raynal who falls in love with her but is too shy to tell her. Sheltered by his father, Virginia is robbed by her uncle of the money Raynal gave her to pay the bill in the village. He and his son then start to consider her a thief.

Drama / Romance / Foreign

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 4K Blu-ray Movie  

Magical Movie Mode / 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray + Digital Copy

Warner Bros. | 2001 | 152 min | Rated PG | Aug 17, 2021 | Neil Lumbard

Harry Potter is a ten-year-old orphan who has been living under the stairs in the house of his cruel and abusive aunt and uncle. But on his eleventh birthday, Harry receives a letter informing him that he has been accepted into Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, where he learns not only that his parents were wizards, but also that he is destined to become a powerful wizard himself. Along with his new friends Ron and Hermione, Harry hones his magical powers and uncovers the secret of the Sorcerer's stone, which leads him into a confrontation with the evil wizard who murdered his parents.

Adventure / Family / Fantasy / Mystery / Epic

The Oh, God! Collection Blu-ray Movie  

Shout Factory | 1977-1984 | 3 Movies | 289 min | Rated PG | Aug 24, 2021 | Brian Orndorf

When God appears to an assistant grocery manager as a good natured old man, the Almighty selects him as his messenger for the modern world.

Comedy / Fantasy

Oh, God! You Devil Blu-ray Movie  

Shout Factory | 1984 | 96 min | Rated PG | Aug 24, 2021 | Brian Orndorf

In the third and final film in the Oh, God! franchise, Bobby Shelton is a struggling musician who can't get a break, which bothers him all the more now that his wife, Wendy, is about to have a baby. Desperate and depressed, Bobby announces that he'd sell his soul to get ahead. Suddenly, Harry O. Tophat, Satan's earthly representative, appears and offers Bobby a deal -- seven years of unprecedented fame and fortune in exchange for his soul. Bobby cynically accepts and discovers that the devil is true to his word, but he finds that the trappings of fame and wealth are empty pleasures, and he loses Wendy along the way. When Bobby declares that he's made a horrible mistake, God, who has been watching over Bobby, offers to help get his soul back as the devil offers Bobby's place in eternity as the prize in a poker game.

Comedy / Fantasy

Oh, God! Book II Blu-ray Movie  

Shout Factory | 1980 | 94 min | Rated PG | Aug 24, 2021 | Brian Orndorf

In this mild sequel to the 1977 appearance of George Burns as God, the Heavenly Father shows up again, this time to talk to Tracy, a young girl whose earthly father is in the advertising business. God's intention is to promote himself among the children first. Tracy comes up with a way to further awareness of the Supreme Being with posters and graffiti that say "Think God." She and her classmates set out on this campaign, but Tracy ends up facing a phalanx of psychiatrists for talking to an invisible God. Being who He is, God decides to finally make an appearance for the benefit of everyone.

Comedy / Fantasy

Oh, God! Blu-ray Movie  

Shout Factory | 1977 | 98 min | Rated PG | Aug 24, 2021 | Brian Orndorf

An assistant grocery store manager is approached by God to help spread His message. Though reluctant at first, the man agrees and winds up in court for slandering a popular evangelist.

Comedy / Fantasy

Honky Tonk Freeway Blu-ray Movie  

Kino Lorber | 1981 | 107 min | Rated PG | May 25, 2021 | Dr. Svet Atanasov

Ticlaw, a small town in Florida, has only one attraction: a safari park. The government constructs a freeway that passes near Ticlaw, but decides not to put an exit into the town. The people of Ticlaw, leaded by it's Mayor, will do anything in order to convince the governor to alter the project.

Action / Comedy / Drama

Spirit Untamed Blu-ray Movie  

Blu-ray + DVD + Digital Copy

Universal Studios | 2021 | 88 min | Rated PG | Aug 31, 2021 | Martin Liebman

Lucky Prescott's life is changed forever when she moves from her home in the city to a small frontier town and befriends a wild mustang named Spirit.

Adventure / Animation / Family

Space Jam 4K Blu-ray Movie    

Titans of Cult / 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray

Warner Bros. | 1996 | 88 min | Rated BBFC: PG | Jul 05, 2021 | Martin Liebman

The Nerdlucks, a gang of space creatures, have been dispatched by their boss to kidnap Bugs Bunny and his Looney Tunes cohorts. Bugs challenges the aliens to a basketball tournament: if the Looney Tunes win, they'll remain on Earth. Bugs knows he needs some serious help, but basketball's best players are all having their skills "absorbed" by the aliens. Of course, there's a baseball player he happens to know...

Adventure / Animation / Comedy / Family / Sci-Fi / Sport

Labyrinth 4K Blu-ray Movie  

35th Anniversary Edition / 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray + Digital Copy

Sony Pictures | 1986 | 101 min | Rated PG | Aug 17, 2021 | Martin Liebman

Fifteen-year-old Sarah is so resentful of her baby brother Toby that she hopes he will just disappear. Her dream becomes reality when goblins kidnap the boy--but Sarah unexpectedly finds herself horrified by the loss. In order to retrieve him, she has to reach the center of the fantastical labyrinth where the wicked Goblin King has imprisoned the lad. But the task is easier said than done, for the maze is filled with strange creatures and mind-bending puzzles that confuse the girl.

Adventure / Family / Fantasy / Musical

No One Heard the Scream Blu-ray Movie  

Nadie oyó gritar

Severin Films | 1973 | 92 min | Not rated | Aug 24, 2021 | Jeffrey Kauffman

A high-class call girl witnesses her neighbor disposing of his wife's body. The man kidnaps her and forces her to help him. An unexpected relationship develops.

Thriller / Foreign

The Gang / Three Men to Kill Blu-ray Movie  

Cohen Media Group | 1977-1980 | 2 Movies | 197 min | Not rated | Aug 31, 2021 | Jeffrey Kauffman

No synopsis for this title.

Action / Crime / Drama / Foreign

Le Gang Blu-ray Movie  

The Gang

Cohen Media Group | 1977 | 103 min | Not rated | Early 2016 | Jeffrey Kauffman

In 1945, as World War Two comes to a close, five small time crooks unite to form a gang. After several bold robberies they become notorious. The police attempt to stop their crime spree with little success, but how long will their luck last?

Crime / Drama / Foreign

Three Men to Kill Blu-ray Movie  

Trois hommes à abattre

Cohen Media Group | 1980 | 93 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Jeffrey Kauffman

After helping a victim of an auto accident, not realizing that the man has actually been shot, a professional poker player has his life turned upside down, now that the killers are after him.

Action / Crime / Drama / Foreign

Sound and Fury Blu-ray Movie  

Slipcover Edition Limited to 1,100

Altered Innocence | 1988 | 96 min | Not rated | Jul 27, 2021 | Brian Orndorf

This drama depicts the misery of neglected children in big cities. 13 years old Bruno is of a good family, but since the death of his grandmother he spends most of his time alone, in a phantasy world, while his mother is away at work. But then he befriends the violent Jean-Roger...

Drama / Foreign

The Time Guardian Blu-ray Movie  

Kino Lorber | 1987 | 88 min | Rated PG | Jul 20, 2021 | Brian Orndorf

In the distant future, the human race nears extinction and a new race of beast-like creatures rule the earth. The few surviving people live in the City, a huge protected construction with the ability to travel in both space and time. The City travels back to our time to save humanity.

Action / Romance / Sci-Fi / Thriller

Captain Clegg Blu-ray Movie    

Night Creatures / Indicator Series

Powerhouse Films | 1962 | 1 Movie, 2 Cuts | 82 min | Rated BBFC: 12 | Jun 28, 2021 | Dr. Svet Atanasov

Captain Collier arrives in an English coastal town with his band of navy men to investigate reports of illegal smuggling and bootlegging, only to find that he must also investigate reports of "Marsh Phantoms," being said to ride on phantom horses through the marshes spreading terror to any who encounter them. The Captain suspects that the local vicar is hiding something as well.

Adventure / Drama / Horror / Mystery

The Dark Blu-ray Movie  

MVD Rewind Collection

MVD Visual | 1979 | 91 min | Rated R | Aug 24, 2021 | Jeffrey Kauffman

An alien mutilator stalks and kills human prey during the night.

Horror / Sci-Fi