New Blu-ray Reviews
Home- July 07, 2021
Threshold Blu-ray Movie
Arrow | 2020 | 78 min | Not rated | Jul 06, 2021 | Jeffrey Kauffman
A woman persuades her estranged brother to accompany her on a cross-country road trip to break a curse.
Horror
- July 06, 2021
Head of State Blu-ray Movie
Paramount Pictures | 2003 | 95 min | Rated PG-13 | Apr 27, 2021 | Martin Liebman
Mays Gilliam is a Washington, D.C. neighborhood Alderman who is about to be redlined out of his job. But after the untimely death of the party forerunner, Gilliam is plucked from obscurity and thrust into the limelight as his party's nominee -- for President of the United States.
Comedy
Some Kind of Wonderful Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + Digital Copy
Paramount Pictures | 1987 | 95 min | Rated PG-13 | Jun 08, 2021 | Martin Liebman
A young tomboy, Watts, finds her feelings for her best friend, Keith, run deeper than just friendship when he gets a date with the most popular girl in school. Unfortunately, the girl's old boyfriend, who is from the rich section of town, is unable to let go of her, and plans to get back at Keith.
Comedy / Drama / Teen / Coming of age
Witching and Bitching Blu-ray Movie
Las brujas de Zugarramurdi
IFC Films | 2013 | 114 min | Not rated | May 18, 2021 | Jeffrey Kauffman
Two unemployed men (Mario Casas and Hugo Silva) commit a robbery and, fleeing persecution by the police (Nieto and Secun Pepón de la Rosa) and the ex-wife of one of them (Macarena Gómez), delve into the impenetrable forests of Navarre and fall into the clutches of a horde of crazed women that eat human flesh.
Comedy / Fantasy / Horror / Foreign
Stardust Blu-ray Movie
Shout Factory | 2020 | 109 min | Not rated | Jun 29, 2021 | Brian Orndorf
Stardust will chronicle the young David Bowie's first visit to the US in 1971 - a trip that inspired the invention of his iconic alter ego Ziggy Stardust.
Biography / Drama / Music
Hunter Hunter Blu-ray Movie
Shout Factory | 2020 | 93 min | Not rated | Jun 22, 2021 | Brian Orndorf
A fur trapper leaves his wife and daughter behind to kill a rogue wolf in the remote wilderness. But they soon become increasingly worried when a severely injured man shows up to disrupt their peaceful existence.
Horror / Thriller
Pretty in Pink Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + Digital Copy
Paramount Pictures | 1986 | 97 min | Rated PG-13 | Jun 08, 2021 | Martin Liebman
Andie is an outcast at her Chicago high school, hanging out either with her older boss, who owns the record store where she works, or her quirky classmate Duckie, who has a crush on her. When one of the rich and popular kids at school, Blane, asks Andie out, it seems too good to be true. As Andie starts falling for Blane, she begins to realizes that dating someone from a different social sphere is not easy.
Comedy / Drama / Romance / Teen / Coming of age
Ferris Bueller's Day Off Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + Digital Copy
Paramount Pictures | 1986 | 103 min | Rated PG-13 | Jun 08, 2021 | Martin Liebman
Ferris Bueller is a popular high school student living in an affluent Chicago suburb. After convincing his parents that he is truly sick, Ferris calls on his friend Cameron to join him for a day of hooky from school. Cameron agrees, reluctantly, because it means taking his father's prized classic 1961 red Ferrari 250 GT convertible. They pick up Ferris's girlfriend head for adventure in downtown Chicago—all the while trying to outsmart and outrun the dean of students who has become wise to Ferris' plan.
Comedy / Drama / Teen / Coming of age
Indiana Jones: 4-Movie Collection 4K Blu-ray Movie
Raiders / Temple of Doom / Last Crusade / Crystal Skull / 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray + Digital Copy
Paramount Pictures | 1981-2008 | 4 Movies | 482 min | Rated PG-13 | Nov 02, 2021 | Martin Liebman
See individual titles for their synopses. Raiders of the Lost Ark / Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom / Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade / Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
Action / Adventure / Supernatural / Period
Mortuary Blu-ray Movie
MVD Rewind Collection
MVD Visual | 1983 | 93 min | Rated R | Jul 06, 2021 | Jeffrey Kauffman
Convinced that her father's death was not accidental, a beautiful girl decides to investigate to find out the truth, aided by her boyfriend. Her sleuthing draws her to a local mortuary, where many secrets will be revealed.
Horror / Mystery / Thriller
Coherence Blu-ray Movie
Oscilloscope Pictures | 2013 | 89 min | Not rated | Jun 14, 2021 | Randy Miller III
On the night of an astronomical anomaly, eight friends at a dinner party experience a troubling chain of reality bending events. Part cerebral sci-fi and part relationship drama, COHERENCE is a tightly focused, intimately shot film that quickly ratchets up with tension and mystery.
Mystery / Sci-Fi / Thriller
- July 05, 2021
Bringing Up Baby Blu-ray Movie
Criterion | 1938 | 102 min | Not rated | Jul 06, 2021 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
Hoping to procure a million-dollar endowment from a wealthy society matron for his museum, a hapless palaeontologist finds himself entangled with a dizzy heiress as the manic misadventures pile up - a missing dinosaur bone, a leopard on the loose and plenty of gender-bending mayhem among them.
Comedy / Romance
48 Hrs. Blu-ray Movie
Remastered | Paramount Presents #19
Paramount Pictures | 1982 | 97 min | Rated R | Jul 06, 2021 | Martin Liebman
Jack Cates is a hard-nosed cop who is paired up with Reggie Hammond—a convict who is released from prison in Cates's custody for 48 hours in order to help Cates track down a pair of maniacal cop killers.
Action / Comedy / Crime
Another 48 Hrs. Blu-ray Movie
Remastered | Paramount Presents #20
Paramount Pictures | 1990 | 95 min | Rated R | Jul 06, 2021 | Martin Liebman
Jack Cates once again enlists the aid of ex-con Reggie Hammond—this time, to take down the Iceman, a ruthless drug lord operating in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Action / Comedy / Crime
- July 04, 2021
Shiva Baby Blu-ray Movie
Utopia Distribution | 2020 | 77 min | Not rated | Jul 27, 2021 | Brian Orndorf
At a Jewish funeral service with her parents, a college student runs into her sugar daddy.
Comedy
Human Nature Blu-ray Movie
Shout Factory | 2001 | 96 min | Rated R | Jun 22, 2021 | Brian Orndorf
A woman is in love with a man in love with another woman, and all three have designs on a young man raised as an ape.
Comedy / Drama
Super 8 4K Blu-ray Movie
10th Anniversary / 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray + Digital Copy
Paramount Pictures | 2011 | 112 min | Rated PG-13 | May 25, 2021 | Martin Liebman
During the summer of 1979, a group of friends witness a train crash and investigate subsequent unexplained events in their small town.
Adventure / Mystery / Sci-Fi / Thriller / Teen / Period / Coming of age
- July 03, 2021
Take This Job and Shove It Blu-ray Movie
Kino Lorber | 1981 | 100 min | Rated PG | Jun 15, 2021 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
The "Alison Group" has bought four beer breweries in difficulties. The young but rising top manager Frank Macklin is sent to reorganize one of them - the one which happens to be the main company in his home town. At first his old buddies are reluctant to have him as new boss, but since he can't save all of them from the severe changes, the climate soon changes. Then he learns that he increased the profit so much, that the his bosses have decided to resell his brewery profitably to an incompetent Texas oil millionaire.
Comedy
Crazy Mama / The Lady in Red Blu-ray Movie
Shout Factory | 1975-1979 | 2 Movies | 174 min | Rated R | May 05, 2026 | Brian Orndorf
Academy Award® winner* Cloris Leachman stars in Crazy Mama as Melba Stokes, a middle-aged woman who runs a California beauty parlor with her mother Sheba (Ann Sothern) and teenage daughter Cheryl (Linda Purl). When the shop is repossessed, the three ladies take a road trip which turns into a crime spree from California to the family home in Arkansas. Also starring Donny Most (Happy Days), Jim Backus (Rebel Without A Cause), and Stuart Whitman (The Longest Day), Crazy Mama was directed by Academy Award® winner** Jonathan Demme (The Silence Of The Lambs). Pamela Sue Martin stars as the infamous Lady in Red, Polly Franklin, whose red dress served as an identifying beacon for the FBI's murder of public enemy #1, John Dillinger (Robert Conrad) in Lewis Teague's The Lady In Red. From sweatshop to dime-a-dance hall, from prison to house of prostitution, Polly's journey brings her even closer to the gang-run crime world of the '30s ... until that fateful day when she met and fell in love with John Dillinger. Academy Award® winner+ Louise Fletcher (One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest) and Christopher Lloyd (Back To The Future) also star.
Action / Comedy / Crime / Drama / Romance
The Lady in Red Blu-ray Movie
Shout Factory | 1979 | 93 min | Rated R | May 16, 2021 | Brian Orndorf
Pamela Sue Martin stars in Lewis Teague's THE LADY IN RED as the infamous "Lady in Red" Polly Franklin, whose red dress serves as an identifying beacon for the FBI's murder of public enemy #1, John Dillinger. From sweatshop to dime-a-dance hall, from prison to house of prostitution, Polly's journey brings her ever closer to the gang-run crime world of the '30s — until that fateful day when she meets and falls in love with John Dillinger.
Action / Crime / Drama / Romance