New Blu-ray Reviews

The Sweeney: Series Three Blu-ray Movie    

50th Anniversary Edition

Old Gold Media | 1976 | 662 min | Rated BBFC: 15 | Dec 01, 2025 | Dr. Svet Atanasov

“Get your trousers on, you're nicked!" Fifty years ago, The Sweeney bust open the door and exploded onto TV screens, forever changing the face of TV police drama. Detective Inspector Jack Regan (John Thaw) and Detective Sergeant George Carter (Dennis Waterman) of the Flying Squad had only one rule when it came to taking down London criminals - forget the rules! Audiences were blown away by this new depiction of the police as flawed and realistic characters willing and ready to bend the rules if it meant keeping the streets safe. In this groundbreaking first season, featuring a new 2025 restoration on Blu-ray in the original broadcast aspect ratio, The Sweeney take on kidnappers, hijackers, bank robbers and worse. This definitive collector's boxset includes two versions of the original Armchair Cinema episode Regan' that launched the series together with a heist's worth of special features and bonus materials. Now watch it and shut it!

Action / Crime / Drama

Alec Guinness: Masterpiece Collection 4K Blu-ray Movie  

Kind Hearts and Coronets / The Lavender Hill Mob / The Man in the White Suit / The Ladykillers | 4K / 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray

Kino Lorber | 1949-1955 | 363 min | Not rated | Nov 25, 2025 | Dr. Svet Atanasov

No synopsis for this title.

Comedy / Crime / Drama / Sci-Fi / Thriller / Dark humor / Heist

Kind Hearts and Coronets 4K Blu-ray Movie  

4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray

Kino Lorber | 1949 | 106 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Dr. Svet Atanasov

In the early twentieth century, young Louis Mazzini vows to take revenge on his family, the D'Ascoynes, when he learns how they disinherited his mother. Working his way into their trust, Louis begins to bump off his distant relatives one by one, but complications set in when Edith D'Ascoyne, the widow of his first victim, falls in love with him.

Comedy / Crime / Dark humor

Jurassic Park Trilogy Blu-ray Movie  

Limited Edition Steelbook 4K / 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray + Digital Copy

Universal Studios | 1993-2001 | 3 Movies | 405 min | Rated PG-13 | Jun 17, 2025 | Justin Dekker

See individual titles for their synopses.

Action / Adventure / Sci-Fi / Thriller

The Ladykillers 4K Blu-ray Movie  

4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray

Kino Lorber | 1955 | 91 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Dr. Svet Atanasov

A gang of thieves rent a room upstairs from an old woman, who thinks they're a musical band. Somehow, the woman inadvertently gets mixed up in their scheme without knowing it and then the gang must debate on whether to kill her or not, especially when they all like the poor old dame.

Comedy / Crime / Thriller

The Naked Gun Blu-ray Movie  

Blu-ray + Digital Copy

Paramount Pictures | 2025 | 85 min | Rated PG-13 | Nov 11, 2025 | Martin Liebman

Only one man has the particular set of skills… to lead Police Squad and save the world: Lt. Frank Drebin Jr.

Action / Comedy / Crime

The Naked Gun 4K Blu-ray Movie  

4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray + Digital Copy

Paramount Pictures | 2025 | 85 min | Rated PG-13 | Nov 11, 2025 | Martin Liebman

Only one man has the particular set of skills… to lead Police Squad and save the world: Lt. Frank Drebin Jr.

Action / Comedy / Crime

The Odd Job Blu-ray Movie  

Severin Films | 1978 | 88 min | Not rated | Aug 26, 2025 | Dr. Svet Atanasov

Arthur Harris is a happily-married man who returns from his job to discover that his wife Fiona is leaving him. Devastated, he gets really drunk and tries to commit suicide. After a few setbacks, he is trying to electrocute himself with a lamp when the doorbell rings. An odd man in a leather coat asks if there are any odd jobs that he can perform. Arthur hires the man to kill him. The next day his wife returns, but the man he hired is still trying to kill him.

Comedy

Re-Animator 4K Blu-ray Movie    

4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray

Second Sight | 1985 | 1 Movie, 2 Cuts | 86 min | Rated BBFC: 18 | Dec 15, 2025 | Randy Miller III

Herbert West is obsessed with the idea of bringing the dead back to life. Experimenting with a glowing green fluid, he successfully reanimates dead tissue. Unfortunately, the dead are uncontrollable and difficult to subdue.

Comedy / Horror / Sci-Fi / Dark humor

Frieren: Beyond Journey's End: Part 2 Blu-ray Movie  

Limited Edition | 葬送のフリーレン | Sousou no Frieren / Blu-ray + DVD

Crunchyroll, LLC | 2023-2024 | 300 min | Rated TV-14 | Oct 21, 2025 | Neil Lumbard

Frieren and Fern take a magic exam in order to enter the Northern Plateau. Not only is the test notorious for killing more people than it passes, it requires the one thing that can defeat even the most powerful elf: teamwork. May the era of humans begin.

Action / Adventure / Anime / Drama / Fantasy / Comic book / Foreign

Triumph of the Spirit Blu-ray Movie  

Kino Lorber | 1989 | 121 min | Not rated | Nov 12, 2024 | Dr. Svet Atanasov

Fact based story about a former Greek Olympic boxer who was taken as a prisoner during World war II and placed in the Auschwitz prison camp. There he was permitted to survive as long as he fought for the amusement of his captors. His father and brother were also held as insurance that he would continue to fight.

Biography / Drama / History / Sport / War

Cop or Hood Blu-ray Movie  

Flic ou voyou

Kino Lorber | 1979 | 107 min | Not rated | Oct 14, 2025 | Dr. Svet Atanasov

When a police commissioner is murdered in Nice, Stanislas Borowitz is assigned to track down and eliminate his killers. Very soon, he up against the notorious gangster chief Théo Musard, and his ruthless henchmen, which include senior members of the local police...

Action / Comedy / Crime / Drama / Thriller

The Killer 4K Blu-ray Movie  

Dip huet seung hung / Die xue shuang xiong / 喋血雙雄 / Hong Kong Cinema Classics #18 / 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray

Shout Factory | 1989 | 111 min | Not rated | Dec 02, 2025 | Dr. Stephen Larson

Chow Yun-Fat stars as an assassin with a code of honor, who agrees to one last job before quitting for good. When his bosses double-cross him, he must confront the mob in one of the most explosive showdowns in film history.

Action / Crime / Thriller / Foreign / Melodrama

Funny Things Happen Down Under Blu-ray Movie    

Umbrella Entertainment | 1965 | 1 Movie, 2 Cuts | 60 min | Rated ACB: G | Aug 06, 2025 | Neil Lumbard

A group of Australian schoolchildren discover a way to create rainbow-coloured goats for wool, hoping to make money for their clubhouse in the process.

Comedy / Musical

Plot of Fear 4K Blu-ray Movie    

E tanta paura | Indicator Series | Limited Edition / 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray

Powerhouse Films | 1976 | 98 min | Rated BBFC: 18 | Nov 24, 2025 | Dr. Svet Atanasov

A man is strangled by a female prostitute in his home at the same time as a woman is killed by a man with a spanner on an empty bus. In both cases the killer leaves an illustration from the children's book titled 'Shockheaded Peter'. The subsequent investigation leads to an exclusive club called Wildlife's Friends.

Crime / Mystery / Thriller / Foreign

Jarhead 4K Blu-ray Movie  

20th Anniversary Edition / 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray + Digital Copy

Universal Studios | 2005 | 123 min | Rated R | Dec 16, 2025 | Justin Dekker

Set during the Gulf War, the episodic tale follows Anthony Swofford (a.k.a. "Swoff"), a third-generation enlistee, from his sobering stint in boot camp to active duty, where he's sporting a sniper's rifle and a hundred-pound ruck sack on his back, while moving through Middle East deserts with no cover from the intolerable heat. As well, he advances with no protection from the Iraqi soldiers--and there's always a potential enemy sighting, just over the next horizon. Swoff and his fellow Marines sustain themselves on humor and camaraderie as they tread the blazing desert fields in a country they don't understand, against an enemy they can't see, for a cause they don't fully fathom.

Biography / Drama / War

Jarhead 4K Blu-ray Movie  

20th Anniversary / 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray + Digital Copy

Universal Studios | 2005 | 123 min | Rated R | Dec 09, 2025 | Justin Dekker

Set during the Gulf War, the episodic tale follows Anthony Swofford (a.k.a. "Swoff"), a third-generation enlistee, from his sobering stint in boot camp to active duty, where he's sporting a sniper's rifle and a hundred-pound ruck sack on his back, while moving through Middle East deserts with no cover from the intolerable heat. As well, he advances with no protection from the Iraqi soldiers--and there's always a potential enemy sighting, just over the next horizon. Swoff and his fellow Marines sustain themselves on humor and camaraderie as they tread the blazing desert fields in a country they don't understand, against an enemy they can't see, for a cause they don't fully fathom.

Biography / Drama / War

Samurai Jack: The Complete Series Blu-ray Movie  

Warner Bros. | 2001-2017 | 5 Seasons | 1364 min | Rated TV-14 | Jun 01, 2021 | Randy Miller III

No synopsis for this title.

Action / Adventure / Animation / Fantasy / Martial arts

Ted Lasso: The Richmond Way 4K Blu-ray Movie  

4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray

Warner Bros. | 2020-2023 | 3 Seasons | 1453 min | Not rated | Dec 02, 2025 | Randy Miller III

Follows US American Football coach Ted Lasso heading to the UK to manage a struggling London soccer team in the top flight of English football.

Comedy / Drama / Sport

Burden of Dreams Blu-ray Movie  

Criterion | 1982 | 96 min | Not rated | Nov 11, 2025 | Dr. Svet Atanasov

German director Werner Herzog begins work on his 1982 epic "Fitzcarraldo" but soon runs into serious setbacks, from casting problems to his own stubborn refusal to use special effects. After having to reshoot much of the film because the lead actor was recast, his crew must then haul an old-fashioned steamboat over a mountain using manpower alone. With a resolve bordering on insanity, Herzog struggles to realize his vision, vowing to see the film completed — even if it leads to his undoing.

Documentary