New Blu-ray Reviews

The Basher Box Blu-ray Movie  

The Prodigal Boxer / The Awaken Punch | 4K Restoration

VCI | 1972-1973 | 2 Movies | 191 min | Rated R | Apr 13, 2021 | Jeffrey Kauffman

No synopsis for this title.

Action / Drama / Martial arts / Foreign

The Prodigal Boxer Blu-ray Movie  

VCI | 1972 | 90 min | Rated R | No Release Date | Jeffrey Kauffman

A gifted but proud young martial arts student injures and kills an opponent. In retaliation , his father is killed. The young student vows revenge and begins to prepare for his epic face-off.

Martial arts / Foreign

The Awaken Punch Blu-ray Movie  

VCI | 1973 | 101 min | Rated R | No Release Date | Jeffrey Kauffman

Chung is a reformed professional fighter who has to hide his identity and take revenge on Black and White Fan, after they murder his family.

Action / Drama / Foreign

Fukushima 50 Blu-ray Movie  

フクシマフィフティ / Fukushimafifuti

Capelight Pictures | 2020 | 121 min | Not rated | Apr 13, 2021 | Randy Miller III

A tsunami is triggered when a magnitude 9.0 earthquake hits the Pacific Ocean near Japan. A plant manager risks everything and stays put to handle the pending disaster once a reactor begins to leak. He is in contact with the parent utility TEPCO. The Japanese army moves in. The Americans also show up to command the situation. The plant employees fight on.

Drama / Foreign

SEAL Team: Season One Blu-ray Movie  

Paramount Pictures | 2017-2018 | 939 min | Not rated | Mar 16, 2021 | Martin Liebman

SEAL Team is a new military drama that follows the professional and personal lives of the most elite unit of Navy SEALs as they train, plan and execute the most dangerous, high stakes missions our country can ask of them. Jason Hayes is the respected, intense leader of the Tier One team whose home life has suffered as a result of his extensive warrior's existence. His team includes his trusted confidant, Ray, the longest-tenured operator with whom Jason shares an ingrained shorthand, and Sonny, an exceptional, loyal soldier with a checkered past who still combats self-destructive tendencies. Undergoing additional rigorous training in the hope of joining Hayes' select unit is Clay Spenser, a young, multi-lingual second generation SEAL with insatiable drive and dedication. Vital to the team's success are CIA analyst Mandy Ellis, who has sacrificed everything in her drive to root out evil and take down terrorists, and Davis, a no-nonsense, take-charge logistics officer and unofficial den mother responsible for outfitting the team with the necessary gear for each mission. Deployed on clandestine missions worldwide at a moment's notice, and knowing the toll it takes on them and their families, this tight-knit SEAL team displays unwavering patriotism and fearless dedication even in the face of overwhelming odds.

Drama

Quick Change Blu-ray Movie  

Warner Archive Collection

Warner Bros. | 1990 | 88 min | Rated R | Apr 27, 2021 | Randy Miller III

Three thieves successfully rob a New York City bank, but making the escape from the city proves to be almost impossible.

Comedy / Crime / Heist

Jungle Trap Blu-ray Movie  

Run Coyote Run

AGFA | 2016 | 2 Movies | 72 min | Not rated | Mar 30, 2021 | Jeffrey Kauffman

In 1990, exploitation auteur James Bryan pulled out his video camera and made a decapitation-fueled horror movie about a jungle hotel haunted by kill-crazy ghosts in loincloths. The team at Bleeding Skull found it 26 years later and finished it.

Horror

History Is Made at Night Blu-ray Movie  

Criterion | 1937 | 97 min | Not rated | Apr 13, 2021 | Dr. Svet Atanasov

A wealthy divorcée falls for a charming Parisian, but her insanely jealous ex-husband will do anything to get her back.

Drama / Romance

Little Fugitive: The Collected Films of Morris Engel & Ruth Orkin Blu-ray Movie  

Kino Lorber | 1953-1968 | 4 Movies | 319 min | Not rated | Mar 09, 2021 | Neil Lumbard

See individual titles for their synopses.

Adventure / Drama / Family / Romance / Coming of age

I Need a Ride to California Blu-ray Movie  

Kino Lorber | 1968 | 83 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Neil Lumbard

Follows a group of hippies in Greenwich Village during the 60's revolution, centering on the story of a girl in the East Village neighborhood, exploring her various relationships with men, and her search for values of the time.

Drama

Weddings and Babies Blu-ray Movie  

Kino Lorber | 1958 | 81 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Neil Lumbard

Photographer struggles to make enough money to marry his fiancee, who is starting to believe he's delaying their marriage deliberately.

Drama / Romance

Lovers and Lollipops Blu-ray Movie  

Kino Lorber | 1956 | 82 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Neil Lumbard

Ann, an attractive widowed New York model, lives in an apartment with her daughter Peggy. The courtship of Ann by visiting engineer Larry, and accompanying misadventures, are seen alternately from their and Peggy's viewpoint. Filmed realistically at many New York locations.

Drama / Romance

Chasing Valentine Blu-ray Movie  

IndieCan Entertainment | 2015 | 87 min | Rated CA: 14 | Mar 23, 2021 | Dr. Stephen Larson

Unable to get over the tragic loss of the love of his life and stuck with a day job of editing adult videos, Chase meets an unlikely ally, Valentine - a call girl who works under the various personas she has created for herself. Is Chase ready to uncover Valentine's dark secrets?

Drama / Thriller

Patrick Still Lives Blu-ray Movie  

Patrick vive ancora

Severin Films | 1980 | 92 min | Not rated | Oct 27, 2020 | Jeffrey Kauffman

A bedridden psycho is able to receive evil "vibrations" from hardened criminals and use them for his telekinetic powers.

Crime / Drama / Horror / Erotic

In God We Trust Blu-ray Movie  

Gimme That Prime Time Religion

Kino Lorber | 1980 | 97 min | Rated PG | Mar 16, 2021 | Dr. Svet Atanasov

Raised in a Trappist monastery, the innocent Brother Ambrose sets out to find money to save the bankrupt monastery. His education in worldliness is provided by a hooker. He eventually petitions G.O.D. for the cash.

Comedy

Captain Kronos: Vampire Hunter Blu-ray Movie  

Shout Factory | 1974 | 91 min | Rated R | Apr 14, 2020 | Dr. Stephen Larson

A master swordsman and former soldier and his hunchbacked assistant hunt vampires.

Adventure / Horror

Castle of the Creeping Flesh Blu-ray Movie  

Im Schloß der blutigen Begierde | Appointment with Lust | Standard Edition

Severin Films | 1968 | 84 min | Not rated | Feb 23, 2021 | Jeffrey Kauffman

In an ancient castle, a mad scientist is trying to revive his dead daughter by an operation, but there are certain body parts he needs that he can't get. His problem is solved when a group of drunken party-goers stumble into his castle.

Horror / Erotic

Honor Killing Blu-ray Movie  

Troma | 2018 | 67 min | Not rated | Feb 09, 2021 | Brian Orndorf

When a young woman is brutally attacked, she seeks the aid of her own flesh and blood, but her Father has other plans for her - a bullet to her head. Now she lives, lives for vengeance. You can't keep a good woman down.

Action

The Big Bust-Out Blu-ray Movie  

Io monaca... per tre carogne e sette peccatrici

Shout Factory | 1972 | 71 min | Rated R | Mar 30, 2021 | Brian Orndorf

Seven beautiful women in a high security prison set the stage for a big bust out.

Action / Thriller / Foreign

The Revenge of Frankenstein Blu-ray Movie    

Frankensteins Rache / Limited Mediabook Cover A

Anolis Entertainment | 1958 | 90 min | Rated FSK-16 | Apr 30, 2021 | Jeffrey Kauffman

Having escaped death by the guillotine, Dr. Frankenstein relocates to Carlsbruck. There, as Dr. Victor Stein, he successfully establishes himself as a physician with a large practice and a hospital for the poor. After three years however he is recognized by Dr. Hans Kleve but rather than expose him, the young doctor wants to join him in his research. Frankenstein has resumed his experiments and is on the verge of re-animating a body he has constructed using the brain of Fritz, the deformed assistant who helped him escape from his death sentence. The operation goes quite well and Fritz is quite pleased with his new body. An encounter with a drunken hospital attendant however sends him on the run. As his mind and his body deteriorates, he publicly reveals the good Doctor's true identity...

Horror / Sci-Fi