New Blu-ray Reviews

Nashville Blu-ray Movie  

Paramount Presents #24 / Blu-ray + Digital Copy

Paramount Pictures | 1975 | 160 min | Rated R | Aug 10, 2021 | Martin Liebman

The lives of 24 major characters interweave during five days in the country music capital of the world.

Comedy / Drama / Music

Coogan's Bluff Blu-ray Movie  

Kino Lorber | 1968 | 93 min | Rated R | Aug 03, 2021 | Dr. Svet Atanasov

Coogan, an Arizona cop, is sent to New York to collect a prisoner. Everyone in New York assumes Coogan is from Texas, much to his annoyance. To add to Coogan's problems the prisoner isn't ready, so he decides to cut a few corners. In the process the prisoner escapes, and Coogan is ordered home. Too proud to return home empty handed, Coogan sets out into the big city to recapture his prisoner.

Action / Crime / Drama / Thriller / Western

Visiting Hours Blu-ray Movie  

Shout Factory | 1982 | 105 min | Rated R | Feb 18, 2014 | Dr. Stephen Larson

A crazed, women-hating killer attacks journalist Deborah Ballin. When he discovers that his attack didn't kill Deborah, he comes to the hospital to finish what he started.

Horror / Thriller

Three Fantastic Journeys by Karel Zeman Blu-ray Movie  

Journey to the Beginning of Time / Invention for Destruction / The Fabulous Baron Munchausen

Criterion | 1955-1961 | 3 Movies, 4 Cuts | 256 min | Not rated | Feb 25, 2020 | Neil Lumbard

See individual titles for their synopses.

Adventure / Family / Fantasy / Romance / Sci-Fi / Foreign

Invention for Destruction Blu-ray Movie  

Vynález zkázy / The Fabulous World of Jules Verne

Criterion | 1958 | 83 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Neil Lumbard

An eye-popping escapade revolving around a scientist and his doomsday machine—and the pirates who will stop at nothing to gain possession of it.

Adventure / Family / Fantasy / Sci-Fi / Foreign

Journey to the Beginning of Time Blu-ray Movie  

Cesta do pravěku / Theatrical and U.S. versions

Criterion | 1955 | 1 Movie, 2 Cuts | 88 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Neil Lumbard

In an awe-inspiring expedition back through time, four schoolboys behold landscapes and creatures that have long since vanished from the earth.

Adventure / Family / Foreign

Angel of Death Blu-ray Movie  

Full Moon Features | 1987 | 92 min | Not rated | Aug 10, 2021 | Jeffrey Kauffman

A Jewish commando unit hunting Nazi war criminals tracks down the infamous Dr. Josef Mengele in the jungle, and find that he is torturing nubile young virgins and performing horrible medical experiments on the locals. They prepare to battle their way past Mengele's hordes of fanatic Nazi bodyguards in order to get to him.

Action / Crime / Drama / Foreign

Clay Pigeons Blu-ray Movie  

Kino Lorber | 1998 | 104 min | Rated R | Jul 27, 2021 | Dr. Svet Atanasov

He has a firm handshake, a ready smile, and some strange ideas about friendship. His name is Lester Long and when the bodies start piling up he generously decides to share the blame. Now the F.B.I. has got the whole town under observation, and Lester has put his new friend Clay over a barrel. The only way for Clay to set things straight is to beat one twisted individual at his own game of deceit and double-crossing.

Comedy / Crime

Golden Arm Blu-ray Movie  

Utopia Distribution | 2020 | 91 min | Not rated | Jul 27, 2021 | Brian Orndorf

A tough lady trucker trains her wimpy best friend to compete in the National Ladies Arm Wrestling Championship.

Comedy / Sport

The Borrower Blu-ray Movie  

Shout Factory | 1991 | 91 min | Rated R | Aug 17, 2021 | Brian Orndorf

Aliens punish one of their own by sending him to earth. The alien is very violent, and when the body he occupies is damaged, he is forced to find another.

Comedy / Horror / Sci-Fi

Wonder Woman 1984 4K Blu-ray Movie  

4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray + Digital Copy

Warner Bros. | 2020 | 151 min | Rated PG-13 | Mar 30, 2021 | Neil Lumbard

Fast forward to the 1980s as Wonder Woman's next big screen adventure finds her facing two all-new foes: Max Lord and The Cheetah.

Action / Adventure / Fantasy / Sci-Fi / Comic book / Period

Back to the Future: The Ultimate Trilogy 4K Blu-ray Movie    

Plutonium Case Collector’s Edition / 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray

Universal Studios | 1985-1990 | 3 Movies | 343 min | Rated BBFC: PG | May 31, 2021 | Neil Lumbard

When teenager Marty McFly is blasted to 1955 in the DeLorean time machine created by the eccentric Doc Brown, he finds himself mixed up in a time-shattering chain reaction that could vaporize his future - and leave him trapped in the past.

Adventure / Comedy / Family / Sci-Fi / Western / Teen / Period / Coming of age

It Happened at the World's Fair Blu-ray Movie  

Warner Archive Collection

Warner Bros. | 1963 | 105 min | Not rated | Jun 22, 2021 | Randy Miller III

Mike and Danny fly a crop duster, but because of Danny's gambling debts, a local sheriff seizes it. Trying to earn money, they hitch-hike to the World's Fair in Seattle. While Danny tries to earn money playing poker, Mike takes care of a small girl, Sue-Lin, whose Uncle Walter has disappeared. Being a ladies' man, he also finds the time to court a young nurse, Diane.

Comedy / Musical / Romance

Step by Step Blu-ray Movie  

Warner Archive Collection

Warner Bros. | 1946 | 62 min | Not rated | Jul 20, 2021 | Randy Miller III

Johnny, an ex-Marine, and Evelyn, a chance acquaintance, find themselves caught up in a plot involving Nazi spies in California.

Crime / Drama / Film-Noir / Mystery / Romance / Thriller

Original Cast Album: "Company" Blu-ray Movie  

Criterion | 1970 | 53 min | Not rated | Aug 17, 2021 | Jeffrey Kauffman

A chronicle of the intense 18-hour recording session of celebrated composer Stephen Sondheim's landmark musical "Company," which features the original 1970 Broadway cast members.

Documentary / Music / Musical

One Dark Night Blu-ray Movie  

MVD Rewind Collection

MVD Visual | 1982 | 89 min | Rated PG | Aug 24, 2021 | Jeffrey Kauffman

As part of an initiation into a club called the Sisters, a young girl must spend the night in a mausoleum.

Horror / Supernatural

Crossed Swords Blu-ray Movie  

The Prince and the Pauper | + the 121-Minute International Cut from SD

Kino Lorber | 1977 | 108 min | Rated PG | Mar 23, 2021 | Dr. Svet Atanasov

This star-studded twist on Mark Twain's classic social satire is a great flick for the whole family. When a commoner bumps into the Prince (and future King) of Wales and they decide to make a switch of clothes as a practical joke, they are unexpectedly separated and forced to take on the other's life.

Adventure / Comedy / Drama

Scars of War: Vietnam 4-Movie Collection Blu-ray Movie  

Casualties of War / Alamo Bay / Birdy / Summertree

Mill Creek Entertainment | 1971-1989 | 4 Movies | 421 min | Rated R | May 04, 2021 | Dr. Stephen Larson

Casualties of War - During the Vietnam War, a soldier finds himself the outsider of his own squad when they unnecessarily kidnap a female villager. Birdy - After two friends return home from the Vietnam War one becomes mentally unstable and obsesses with becoming a bird. Alamo Bay - A despondent Vietnam veteran in danger of losing his livelihood is pushed to the edge when he sees Vietnamese immigrants moving into the fishing industry in a Texas bay town. Summertree – An aspiring musician tries to be a role model to a troubled youngster and has an affair with a nurse whose husband is fighting in the Vietnam War. When he is called up for military service himself, he decides to flee to Canada, creating tension with his father.

Action / Adventure / Drama / Romance / War

A Return to Salem's Lot Blu-ray Movie  

Shout Factory | 1987 | 101 min | Rated R | Aug 24, 2021 | Brian Orndorf

The terrifying tale of Salem's Lot continues in the shocking and satirical A Return To Salem's Lot! Beneath the quaint, picture-perfect exterior of a small New England community lurks an unsettling, undead evil: vampires. When fresh blood comes to town in the form of amoral anthropologist Joe Weber and his son Jeremy, the vampires employ the father to document their story. But when the stakes are raised, Joe must take on the hellish horde or lose his son ... and his soul.

Horror

Havoc Blu-ray Movie  

Shout Factory | 2005 | 92 min | Not rated | Aug 10, 2021 | Brian Orndorf

They were done with playing it safe. When Allison (Anne Hathaway) and Emily (Bijou Phillips) leave their rich, affluent neighbourhood for a joyride through East L.A they gain a glimpse of a dangerous landscape involving drugs, sex and gang brutality. As their fear quickly turns to infatuation, Allison and Emily find themselves seduced by a dark and dangerous world and in a situation they may not be able to get out of.

Crime / Drama / Coming of age