New Blu-ray Reviews
Home- January 15, 2021
Stretch Blu-ray Movie
Kino Lorber | 2014 | 95 min | Rated R | Jan 12, 2021 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
Comedy thriller following Stretch, a down on his luck limo driver with a substantial gambling debt, who is given one night to pay back the money he owes to his bookie or face the consequences. Desperate to find some high-paying clients, Stretch enlists the help of Charlie, the sympathetic employee of a rival business. His latest client, an eccentric and wealthy young playboy, offers to pay off his debt in return for some favors. How far will Stretch go to repay the bookie?
Action / Comedy / Crime / Thriller
After the Thin Man Blu-ray Movie
Warner Archive Collection
Warner Bros. | 1936 | 112 min | Not rated | Jan 26, 2021 | Randy Miller III
Nick investigates the case of a missing man and later a murder that is connected to Nora's family.
Comedy / Crime / Mystery / Romance
Swans: Where Does a Body End? Blu-ray Movie
MVD Visual | 2019 | 161 min | Not rated | Sep 11, 2020 | Jeffrey Kauffman
The worldview of Michael Gira, through his life as a globetrotter and his four decades leading Swans, a group that he founded in the noisy and iconoclastic New York underground of the early '80s and that keeps reinventing itself today.
Documentary / Foreign
Fatman Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + Digital Copy
Paramount Pictures | 2020 | 100 min | Rated R | Jan 26, 2021 | Martin Liebman
Santa Claus must contend with a hitman sent from a disappointed child.
Action / Comedy / Fantasy / Thriller / Holiday
Sons of Denmark Blu-ray Movie
Danmarks sønner / Montage Pictures / Blu-ray + DVD
Eureka Entertainment | 2019 | 119 min | Not rated | Feb 17, 2020 | Jeffrey Kauffman
One year after a major bomb attack in Copenhagen radicalisation around the country has intensified and ethnic tensions are running high. The next parliamentary election is near, and the extremely nationalist politicial leader Martin Nordahl is set for a landslide victory. 19-year old Zakaria gets involved in a radical organisation, where he forms a bond with Ali. The two men cannot agree with the current state of the country, which is turning on its own citizens because of their migration background, and decide to act. However, they are both just tools in the hands of people with power. As the men try to make their mark, their brotherhood will be tested and their actions will have grave consequences on their lives.
Drama / Thriller / Foreign
- January 14, 2021
Buried Alive Blu-ray Movie
Kino Lorber | 1990 | 93 min | Rated PG-13 | Jan 12, 2021 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
Clint is an every day working man whose wife Joanna is having an affair with a doctor. They plot to kill him and get the insurance money. Only trouble the drug overdose they give him doesn't kill him. Lucky for Clint he's buried in a cheap wooden box and he unburies himself. Just remember, Hell hath no fury like a man buried alive!
Horror / Thriller
Relaxer Blu-ray Movie
Limited Edition | Includes Buzzard
Anti-Worlds | 2014-2019 | 2 Movies | 91 min | Rated BBFC: 18 | Feb 24, 2020 | Jeffrey Kauffman
No synopsis for this title.
Comedy / Dark humor
Relaxer Blu-ray Movie
Anti-Worlds | 2019 | 91 min | Not rated | Feb 24, 2020 | Jeffrey Kauffman
With the impending Y2K apocalypse fast approaching, Abbie is faced with the ultimate challenge - the unbeatable level 256 on Pac-Man - and he can't get off the couch until he conquers it. A survival story set in a living room.
Dark humor
Buzzard Blu-ray Movie
Anti-Worlds | 2014 | 97 min | Not rated | Feb 24, 2020 | Jeffrey Kauffman
Marty is a caustic, small-time con artist drifting from one scam to the next. When his latest ruse goes awry, mounting paranoia forces him from his lousy small town temp job to the desolate streets of Detroit with nothing more than a pocket full of bogus checks, a dangerously altered Nintendo Power Glove, and a bad temper. Albert Camus meets Freddy Krueger in BUZZARD, a hellish and hilarious riff on the struggles of the American working class.
Comedy
Becky Sharp Blu-ray Movie
Kino Lorber | 1935 | 85 min | Not rated | Apr 16, 2019 | Dr. Stephen Larson
Becky and Amelia are girls at school together, but Becky is from a "show biz" family, or in other words, very low class. Becky manages to insinuate herself in Amelia's family and gets to know all their friends. From this possibly auspicious beginning, she manages to ruin her own life, becoming sick, broke, and lonely, and also ruins the lives of many other "loved ones". The first full color, 3-strip Technicolor film.
Drama / Romance / War
- January 13, 2021
My Science Project Blu-ray Movie
Kino Lorber | 1985 | 95 min | Rated PG | Dec 08, 2020 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
Michael and Ellie break into a military junkyard to find a science project for Michael's class, and discover a strange glowing orb which absorbs electricity. When the orb begins to blend past, present, and future, its up to Michael and Ellie to stop the orb and save mankind.
Action / Adventure / Comedy / Sci-Fi
Batman: Soul of the Dragon Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + Digital Copy
Warner Bros. | 2021 | 83 min | Rated R | Jan 26, 2021 | Randy Miller III
Batman, Bronze Tiger, Lady Shiva, and Richard Dragon join forces when they come to realize that they share a common acquaintance. The Martial Arts Master that trained them has been missing for a number of years and under mysterious circumstances. When a cursed relic resurfaces, the mystery of their dead master re-opens and Batman and his former classmates must face-off in the ultimate test of their Martial Arts kills to gain control of this dangerous relic.
Action / Adventure / Animation / Comic book
Batman: Soul of the Dragon 4K Blu-ray Movie
4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray + Digital Copy
Warner Bros. | 2021 | 83 min | Rated R | Jan 26, 2021 | Randy Miller III
Batman, Bronze Tiger, Lady Shiva, and Richard Dragon join forces when they come to realize that they share a common acquaintance. The Martial Arts Master that trained them has been missing for a number of years and under mysterious circumstances. When a cursed relic resurfaces, the mystery of their dead master re-opens and Batman and his former classmates must face-off in the ultimate test of their Martial Arts kills to gain control of this dangerous relic.
Action / Adventure / Animation / Comic book
Castle in the Sky Blu-ray Movie
天空の城ラピュタ / Tenkû no Shiro Rapyuta / Blu-ray + DVD
Shout Factory | 1986 | 125 min | Rated PG | Dec 15, 2020 | Neil Lumbard
A girl named Sheeta falls out of the sky and lands in Pazu's arms. Soon after a gang of air pirates led by Dola, as well as a mysterious man named Muska, are on their tails. The chase leads them to a floating castle that once belonged to an ancient race of people.
Adventure / Anime / Family / Fantasy / Romance / Imaginary / Foreign
Watermelon Man Blu-ray Movie
Indicator Series | Limited Edition
Powerhouse Films | 1970 | 100 min | Rated BBFC: 15 | May 25, 2020 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
A white insurance salesman, Jeff Gerber, gets the surprise of his life when he wakes up and discovers that his skin now resembles a black man's. In day-to-day life, he soon finds himself the victim of discriminatory practices—the same kinds of behaviors that, ironically, he had once used on black people himself. As his wife leaves him and all attempts to explain and reverse the phenomenon fail, Jeff comes to accept and even profit from his new status.
Comedy / Drama
- January 12, 2021
Spirited Away Blu-ray Movie
千と千尋の神隠し / Sen to Chihiro no Kamikakushi / Blu-ray + DVD
Shout Factory | 2001 | 125 min | Rated PG | Dec 15, 2020 | Neil Lumbard
On their way to their new home, a young girl, Chihiro, and her parents stumble into what appears to be an abandoned theme park. But all is not as it seems, as the theme park is a bath-house for the spirits, and not a place where humans are welcome. Chihiro must fend for herself and rescue her parents, as they have been turned to pigs as punishment for eating the food meant for the gods.
Adventure / Anime / Family / Fantasy / Supernatural / Foreign / Surreal
Three Films by Luis Buñuel Blu-ray Movie
Criterion | 1972-1977 | 3 Movies | 308 min | Not rated | Jan 05, 2021 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
See individual titles for their synopses.
Comedy / Drama / Fantasy / Romance / Dark humor / Erotic / Foreign / Surreal
Accepted Blu-ray Movie
Mill Creek Entertainment | 2006 | 93 min | Rated PG-13 | Jan 19, 2021 | Martin Liebman
A high school slacker who's rejected by every school he applies to opts to create his own institution of higher learning, the South Harmon Institute of Technology, on a rundown piece of property near his hometown.
Comedy / Teen
The Phantom of Liberty Blu-ray Movie
Le fantôme de la liberté
Criterion | 1974 | 103 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Dr. Svet Atanasov
A series of surreal sequences that critique morality and society in a stream of consciousness style.
Comedy / Drama / Dark humor / Foreign / Surreal
Ultraman Taro: The Complete Series Blu-ray Movie
ウルトラマンタロウ / Blu-ray + Digital Copy
Mill Creek Entertainment | 1973-1974 | 1351 min | Not rated | Jan 12, 2021 | Martin Liebman
No synopsis for this title.
Action / Sci-Fi / Thriller / Foreign