New Blu-ray Reviews

Yellow Rose Blu-ray Movie  

Sony Pictures | 2019 | 94 min | Rated PG-13 | Jan 05, 2021 | Martin Liebman

Rose, an undocumented 17 year old Filipina, dreams of one day leaving her small Texas town to pursue her country music dreams. Her world is shattered when her mom suddenly gets picked up by Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Rose, facing this new realty, is forced to flee the scene, leaving behind the only life she knows, and embarks on a journey of self-discovery as she searches for a new home in the honky tonk world of Austin, Texas.

Drama / Music

The Road to Mother Blu-ray Movie  

Анаға апарар жол / Anaǵa aparar jol

Kino Lorber | 2016 | 130 min | Not rated | May 05, 2020 | Neil Lumbard

The story of several generations of a Kazakh family from the 1930s to the present time, the film traces the most momentous events in the history of Kazakhstan through war, separation and the determination of the clan to remain united.

Drama / History / War / Foreign

Sonja: The White Swan Blu-ray Movie  

Kino Lorber | 2018 | 113 min | Not rated | Aug 11, 2020 | Neil Lumbard

Sonja: The White Swan is the story about Sonja Henie, one of the world's greatest athletes and the inventor of modern figure skating, who decides to go to Hollywood in 1936 to become a movie star. Her first film breaks the box office by selling the most tickets in the world in 1937. She becomes one of richest women in her time, always surrounded by fans, lovers and family, never alone. As she gets older the spotlight is fading, but she refuses to quit. It all collapses when she falls, drunk on the slushy ice, in Rio de Janeiro.

Drama / Foreign

Momma's Man Blu-ray Movie  

Kino Lorber | 2008 | 95 min | Not rated | Sep 29, 2020 | Neil Lumbard

A man who has avoided his wife and child at home has a change of heart after an imposed stay in his own parents' loft.

Comedy / Drama

Earwig and the Witch Blu-ray Movie  

アーヤと魔女 / Āya to Majo / Blu-ray + DVD

Shout Factory | 2020 | 83 min | Rated PG | Apr 06, 2021 | Neil Lumbard

It follows an orphan girl, Earwig, who is adopted by a witch and comes home to a spooky house filled with mystery and magic.

Anime / Family / Fantasy / Foreign

The Bloodhound Blu-ray Movie  

Arrow | 2020 | 72 min | Not rated | Mar 23, 2021 | Jeffrey Kauffman

A visit to a wealthy and reclusive friend lands a young man in a world of fear and despair.

Horror / Mystery

The Great Leap Blu-ray Movie  

Kino Lorber | 1927 | 112 min | Not rated | Apr 07, 2020 | Neil Lumbard

A young Italian girl living in the Dolomites falls in love with a member of a tourist party skiing on the nearby mountains.

Adventure / Comedy / Foreign

Nightwing & Shadow of the Hawk Blu-ray Movie    

Eureka Classics

Eureka Entertainment | 1976-1979 | 2 Movies | 198 min | Rated BBFC: 15 | Mar 15, 2021 | Dr. Svet Atanasov

Nightwing: Are a wave of mysterious deaths on a Native American reservation being caused by killer vampire bats, or a curse from beyond the grave? Shadow of the Hawk: An ageing medicine man recruits his sceptical grandson to aid him in a spiritual battle against evil spirits and black magic.

Adventure / Horror

Shadow of the Hawk Blu-ray Movie    

Eureka Classics

Eureka Entertainment | 1976 | 92 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Dr. Svet Atanasov

The aging Indian medicine man Old Man Hawk (Chief Dan George) arrives in the city to request help of his grandson Mike (Jan-Michael Vincent), a successful business executive. Old Man Hawk is fighting a sorcerous war with the witch Dsonqua (Marianne Jones) who was executed two hundred years before and is now seeking revenge. Mike, who has no interest in the Indian ways, is reluctantly drawn in to helping. Joined by a woman journalist named Maureen (Marilyn Hassett), Mike agrees to drive his grandfather three hundred miles home. But along the way Dsonqua increases her efforts and summons magical forces to destroy them.

Adventure / Horror

Shatter Blu-ray Movie  

Shout Factory | 1974 | 90 min | Not rated | Apr 28, 2020 | Dr. Stephen Larson

Stuart Whitman is Shatter, an international hitman who is hiding out in Hong Kong after he has completed a contract out on an African leader. Shatter soon finds out that everyone wants him dead, including the crime syndicate, the cops and the brother of the African leader he killed. Shatter teams up with a kung fu expert (Ti Lung) to try to get the money that is owed to him. Various double crosses and fight scenes ensue.

Action / Drama

Venus Wars Blu-ray Movie  

Limited Edition / ヴイナス戦記

Sentai Filmworks | 1989 | 105 min | Rated TV-14 | Feb 23, 2021 | Neil Lumbard

When an ice comet slammed into the planet Venus, terraforming its toxic atmosphere into one capable of sustaining human life, mankind's dream of colonizing other worlds became a reality. Unfortunately for the colonists, Venus isn't the paradise they'd dreamed of. As crops fail and competition for resources intensifies, hostilities grow until the two inhabited continents stand on the brink of war. Reporter Susan Sommers arrives in the capital of Aphrodia just as Ishtar attacks and only the intervention of Hiro Seno and his Battle Bike team saves her from certain death… but now Aphrodia is under Ishtar's control and Sue, Hiro, and his teammates find themselves on the run! However, their unique skill at Battle Bike, which combines motorcycle racing with roller derby, may just prove to be the secret weapon Aphrodia needs to win the Venus Wars.

Action / Anime / Sci-Fi / Comic book / Foreign

The Love of Jeanne Ney Blu-ray Movie  

Die Liebe der Jeanne Ney

Kino Lorber | 1927 | 106 min | Not rated | Apr 21, 2020 | Neil Lumbard

In the Crimea, the Reds and the Whites aren't done fighting, and Jeanne discovers that the man she loves is a Bolshevik (when he kills her father). Penniless, she returns to Paris where she works for her uncle. Soon after, her lover Andreas is in France to organize the sailors in Toulon. So also is a thief, traitor, and libertine, Khalibiev, who wants to seduce Jeanne. His schemes, Jeanne and Andreas's naivete, and a lost diamond bring the lovers to the brink of tragedy.

Drama / Romance / Foreign

Lorenzo's Oil Blu-ray Movie  

Kino Lorber | 1992 | 129 min | Rated PG-13 | Jul 28, 2020 | Neil Lumbard

A boy develops a disease so rare that nobody is working on a cure, so his father decides to learn all about it and tackle the problem himself.

Drama

Isadora Blu-ray Movie  

Kino Lorber | 1968 | 140 min | Rated PG | Jun 16, 2020 | Neil Lumbard

A biography of the dancer Isadora Duncan, the 1920s dancer who forever changed people's ideas of ballet. Her nude, semi-nude, and pro-Soviet dance projects as well as her attitudes on free love, debt, dress, and lifestyle shocked the public of her time.

Biography / Drama / Music / Romance

Beanpole Blu-ray Movie  

Дылда / Dylda

Kino Lorber | 2019 | 137 min | Not rated | Jun 02, 2020 | Neil Lumbard

1945, Leningrad. WWII has devastated the city, demolishing its buildings and leaving its citizens in tatters, physically and mentally. Two young women search for meaning and hope in the struggle to rebuild their lives amongst the ruins.

Drama / Foreign / Period

Tesnota: Closeness Blu-ray Movie  

Теснота

Kino Lorber | 2017 | 123 min | Not rated | Jun 02, 2020 | Neil Lumbard

The film is based on a true story. In 1998 at Nalchik, in the north of Russian Caucasus, 24-year-old Ilana works in her father’s garage to help him make ends meet. One evening, her extended family and friends gather to celebrate the engagement of her younger brother David. Later that night, the young couple is kidnapped, and a ransom demand delivered.

Drama / Psychological thriller / Foreign / Period

The Toll Blu-ray Movie  

Blu-ray + Digital Copy

Lionsgate Films | 2020 | 81 min | Not rated | Mar 30, 2021 | Jeffrey Kauffman

A socially awkward driver and a weary passenger try to make it to their destination while being haunted by a supernatural threat.

Thriller / Foreign

Doctor X Blu-ray Movie  

Warner Archive Collection

Warner Bros. | 1932 | 1 Movie, 2 Cuts | 76 min | Not rated | Apr 20, 2021 | Randy Miller III

The New York newspapers have dubbed him "The Moon Killer". He stalks the streets at night, strangling and cannibalizing men and women. There have been six victims so far, and the police believe that a scientist at the Academy of Surgical Research is responsible. Is it Dr. Wells, Dr. Haines, Dr. Rowitz, Dr. Duke or is it Dr. Xavier ("Dr. X"), who runs the academy? Dr. X's young and lovely daughter will be instrumental in solving the crime, as will the hysterical maid and the sinister butler. Our trip through this morbid tale is guided by the wisecracking reporter who will find himself toe-tagged, gassed, tossed around and generally manhandled before the mystery is solved...

Horror / Thriller

Pinocchio Blu-ray Movie  

Samuel Goldwyn Films | 2019 | 125 min | Rated PG-13 | Mar 16, 2021 | Brian Orndorf

When a magical piece of wood falls into his hands, Geppetto carves from it his greatest creation, Pinocchio, a puppet wondrously bestowed with life. Pinocchio's dreams of becoming a real boy are complicated by his misadventures among a host of otherworldly creatures - a fox- and-cat bandit duo, an asthmatic dogfish, a talking cricket, and others - until he meets a kind blue-haired fairy, whose only wish is to make his dreams come true.

Adventure / Family / Fantasy / Foreign / Coming of age

Nightbeast Blu-ray Movie  

Troma | 1982 | 81 min | Rated R | Feb 23, 2020 | Brian Orndorf

A creature from outer space crash lands in a small town and starts killing people.

Horror / Sci-Fi