New Blu-ray Reviews
Home- July 04, 2021
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
Crazy Mama Blu-ray Movie
Shout Factory | 1975 | 80 min | Rated PG | May 16, 2021 | Brian Orndorf
Cloris Leachman is 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 threeladies take a road trip from California to the family home in Arkansas that turns into a crime spree.
Action / Comedy / Crime / Drama
- July 02, 2021
The Monster Collection Blu-ray Movie
The Frankenstein Complex / Phil Tippett: Mad Dreams and Monsters / 12 hours of Bonus Features
Music Box Films | 2015-2019 | 2 Movies | 190 min | Not rated | Jul 13, 2021 | Jeffrey Kauffman
No synopsis for this title.
Documentary
The Frankenstein Complex Blu-ray Movie
Creature Designers: The Frankenstein Complex
Music Box Films | 2015 | 107 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Jeffrey Kauffman
From King Kong to Avatar, from Star Wars to The Lord of the Rings, movie creatures have never been more popular as they are today. Yet the art of creating monsters for the big screen is as old as cinema itself.
Documentary
Phil Tippett: Mad Dreams and Monsters Blu-ray Movie
Music Box Films | 2019 | 80 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Jeffrey Kauffman
MAD DREAMS AND MONSTERS explores the legacy and creations of Phil Tippett, groundbreaking stop-motion animator, designer and filmmaker who has given life to iconic movie creatures throughout his amazing career, from STAR WARS to STARSHIP TROOPERS.
Documentary
Space Jam 4K Blu-ray Movie
4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray + Digital Copy
Warner Bros. | 1996 | 87 min | Rated PG | Jul 06, 2021 | Randy Miller III
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
The Secret World of Arrietty Blu-ray Movie
借りぐらしのアリエッティ / Kari-gurashi no Arietti / Blu-ray + DVD
Shout Factory | 2010 | 95 min | Rated G | Jun 22, 2021 | Neil Lumbard
Sho moves into his great aunt's house and soon discovers the presence of tiny people, the Borrowers, living there. A 14-year-old Borrower named Arrietty strives to prove herself by helping her father gather materials that her family needs from Sho's new home. However, Arrietty and Sho meet, breaking the rule that humans must not know about the Borrowers' existence. As Sho and Arrietty's relationship develops, human interference endangers the Borrowers' lives. Arrietty and Sho work together to try and protect the Borrowers' way of life.
Adventure / Anime / Family / Fantasy / Foreign
Major Dundee Blu-ray Movie
Limited Edition
Arrow | 1965 | 1 Movie, 2 Cuts | 122 min | Rated PG-13 | Jun 29, 2021 | Jeffrey Kauffman
An obsessive Union officer leads a squad of Rebel prisoners, ex-slaves and criminals into Mexico to hunt down a band of murdering Apaches.
Adventure / War / Western
- July 01, 2021
La Piscine Blu-ray Movie
The Swimming Pool / French and English versions
Criterion | 1969 | 1 Movie, 2 Cuts | 124 min | Rated PG | Jul 20, 2021 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
A blissed-out summer holiday on the Côte d'Azur is interrupted by the arrival of an old acquaintance and his eighteen-year-old daughter—unleashing a gathering tidal wave of sexual tension, jealousy, and sudden violence.
Crime / Drama / Romance / Foreign
The Wind Rises Blu-ray Movie
風立ちぬ / Kaze Tachinu / Blu-ray + DVD
Shout Factory | 2013 | 127 min | Rated PG-13 | Jun 22, 2021 | Neil Lumbard
Inspired by the aesthetics of design and the freedom of flying, Jiro Horikoshi pursues a life dedicated to the creation of a beautiful aircraft. He labors from his childhood, filled with dreams of engineering, to adulthood as he creates an elegant, flightworthy plane—the Mitsubishi A6M Zero—that eventually is used for something quite different than he expected: war.
Anime / Drama / Fantasy / History / Romance / War / Comic book / Foreign / Period
Maleficent 3D Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray 3D + Blu-ray
Disney / Buena Vista | 2014 | 97 min | Rated BBFC: PG | Oct 20, 2014 | Neil Lumbard
Driven by revenge and a fierce desire to protect the lands over which she presides, the scorned fairy Maleficent places a cruel curse upon the human king's newborn daughter, Aurora. As she grows and comes of age, Aurora is caught in the center of the dangerous conflict between the forest kingdom she has grown to love and the human kingdom which is to be her legacy. Maleficent realizes Aurora may hold the key to peace in the land and is forced into bold action which may change both of their worlds forever.
Adventure / Family / Fantasy / Romance
Mr. Vampire Blu-ray Movie
殭屍先生 / Geung see sin sang / Eureka Classics
Eureka Entertainment | 1985 | 98 min | Rated BBFC: 15 | Jul 20, 2020 | Neil Lumbard
The planned reburial of a village elder goes awry as the corpse resurrects into a hopping, bloodthirsty vampire, threatening mankind. Therefore, a Taoist Priest and his two disciples attempt to stop the terror.
Action / Comedy / Fantasy / Martial arts / Foreign
Sink the Bismarck! Blu-ray Movie
Eureka Classics
Eureka Entertainment | 1960 | 98 min | Rated BBFC: U | Mar 11, 2019 | Neil Lumbard
Chronicles the breakout of the Bismarck during the early days of World War Two. Seen both from the point of view of the many naval vessels on both sides and from the central headquarters of the British where the search for the battleship was controlled.
Action / Adventure / War
Here Are the Young Men Blu-ray Movie
Well Go USA | 2020 | 96 min | Not rated | Jun 29, 2021 | Jeffrey Kauffman
Dublin teenagers Matthew, nihilistic Rez, and the deranged Kearney, leave school to a social vacuum of drinking and drugs, falling into shocking acts of transgression.
Drama
The Hands of Orlac Blu-ray Movie
Orlacs Hände / Masters of Cinema
Eureka Entertainment | 1924 | 1 Movie, 2 Cuts | 93 min | Rated BBFC: PG | Jun 14, 2021 | Neil Lumbard
Orlac is a world famous pianist. One day he is badly hurt in a big train wreck. He is in danger of losing his both hands so his wife begs the doctors to save them. They eventually manage to transplant his hands with those of another deceased person. After his recovery Orlac discovers that there is something seriously wrong with his new pair of hands-it is as if they had a will of their own. But Orlac doesn't know that they actually belonged to a dangerous murderer...
Crime / Horror / Mystery
- June 30, 2021
The Unhealer Blu-ray Movie
Shout Factory | 2020 | 93 min | Not rated | Jun 08, 2021 | Dr. Stephen Larson
A bullied teenager gains the means to fight back when a botched faith healing bestows supernatural, shamanistic powers upon him. When his lifelong tormentors pull a prank that causes the death of someone he loves, the teen uses his newfound abilities for revenge and goes on a bloody rampage to settle the score.
Sci-Fi / Thriller