New Blu-ray Reviews

Superstars: The Documentary Blu-ray Movie  

MVD Visual | 2020 | 93 min | Not rated | Aug 10, 2021 | Jeffrey Kauffman

In 1972, director Norman Jewison took a group of young actors, singers and dancers to war-torn Israel to shoot the film adaptation of the hit rock opera Jesus Christ Superstar. Filming on location and walking in the footsteps of the actual Biblical characters that they were portraying not only made an impact on these performers but on audiences worldwide who still watch annually and love this cinematic presentation. The documentary contains original archival footage shot during the movie's production along with historical interviews with the cast. This extended version contains current interviews with the cast reflecting on personal moments in the filming and its impact on their lives. This is their story - in their own words from 1972 and now.

Documentary

Jagged Edge Blu-ray Movie    

Indicator Series | Limited Edition

Powerhouse Films | 1985 | 108 min | Rated BBFC: 18 | Aug 30, 2021 | Dr. Svet Atanasov

When a wealthy publishing magnate is accused of murdering his heiress wife, a high powered attorney is called in to defend him. She succeeds and the two fall in love. Then she grows suspicious that she helped acquit a guilty man.

Crime / Mystery / Romance / Thriller

Peter Rabbit 2: The Runaway Blu-ray Movie  

Blu-ray + DVD + Digital Copy

Sony Pictures | 2021 | 93 min | Rated PG | Aug 24, 2021 | Martin Liebman

Thomas and Bea are now married and living with Peter and his rabbit family. Bored of life in the garden, Peter goes to the big city, where he meets shady characters and ends up creating chaos for the whole family.

Adventure / Animation / Comedy / Family / Fantasy

Peter Rabbit 2: The Runaway 4K Blu-ray Movie  

4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray + Digital Copy

Sony Pictures | 2021 | 93 min | Rated PG | Aug 24, 2021 | Martin Liebman

Thomas and Bea are now married and living with Peter and his rabbit family. Bored of life in the garden, Peter goes to the big city, where he meets shady characters and ends up creating chaos for the whole family.

Adventure / Animation / Comedy / Family / Fantasy

Habit Blu-ray Movie  

Blu-ray + Digital Copy

Lionsgate Films | 2021 | 81 min | Rated R | Aug 24, 2021 | Jeffrey Kauffman

A street smart party girl gets mixed up in a violent drug deal and finds a possible way out by masquerading as a Nun.

Action / Comedy / Drama

One Crazy Summer Blu-ray Movie  

Warner Archive Collection

Warner Bros. | 1986 | 93 min | Rated PG | Aug 10, 2021 | Randy Miller III

With a name like Hoops McCann, he's bound to get that basketball scholarship after high school, right? Wrong! What Hoops really wants to do is write and illustrate a love story. To help him find his way, his friend George invites Hoops to come with him and his sister to spend the summer on Nantucket. The friends Crazy Summer begins when they pickup Cassandra on the way--she's being chased by a motorcycle gang. From here on in, it only gets crazier. Once on the island, Hoops and George, along with George's island friends the Stork twins and Ack-Ack (son of a marine), must help Cassandra save her grandfather's house from the greedy Beckersted Family. Along the way, Hoops must find a way to write his cartoon love story - and maybe a real one of his own.

Comedy / Romance

The Lamp Blu-ray Movie  

The Outing | Slipcover Edition Limited to 5,000

Vinegar Syndrome | 1987 | 92 min | Rated R | Jul 27, 2021 | Brian Orndorf

An ancient genie is released from a lamp when thieves ransack an old woman's house. They are killed and the lamp is moved to a museum to be studied. The curator's daughter is soon possessed by the genie and invites her friends to spend the night at the museum, along with some uninvited guests. The genie kills them off in an attempt to fulfill her ultimate wish.

Horror / Supernatural

Through the Fire Blu-ray Movie  

The Gates of Hell Part II - Dead Awakening / Slipcover in Original Pressing

Vinegar Syndrome | 1988 | 1 Movie, 2 Cuts | 88 min | Not rated | Aug 31, 2021 | Brian Orndorf

A young woman asks a policeman to help her find her missing sister. They find a medallion, sought after by some worshipers of demon Moloch, a beast that may be invoked and wreaks havoc, but can only be stopped with the amulet.

Horror

Beasts of No Nation Blu-ray Movie  

Criterion | 2015 | 137 min | Not rated | Aug 31, 2021 | Dr. Svet Atanasov

A drama based on the experiences of Agu, a child soldier fighting in the civil war of an unnamed African country.

Drama / War

A Life at Stake Blu-ray Movie  

The Film Detective | 1955 | 76 min | Not rated | Sep 07, 2021 | Jeffrey Kauffman

An architect embroiled in an adulterous affair suspects that he is marked for murder. Building designer Edward Shaw has been making time with Doris, his business partner's wife. After being pressured by the couple to take out a hefty life insurance policy, he narrowly escapes death in a strange, nearly fatal accident. Doris' own sister, Madge, divulges that Doris' first husband had dies under mysterious circumstances, and Shaw even tells the police of his suspicions. Torn between his fear of death and his lust for Doris, Shaw nonetheless agrees to meet his lover in a mountaintop cabin. When her cuckolded husband finally appears at the door, hard-drinking Doris brings a gun into the picture, and death arrives shortly thereafter.

Drama / Film-Noir

In the Heights Blu-ray Movie  

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

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