New Blu-ray Reviews

Jeremy Blu-ray Movie  

Limited Edition

Fun City Editions | 1973 | 90 min | Rated PG | Mar 01, 2021 | Brian Orndorf

Shy cellist boy meets upperclassman ballet dancing girl at school. They experience first-time love, then happenstance pulls them apart.

Drama / Music / Romance

Rent-A-Pal Blu-ray Movie  

Shout Factory | 2020 | 108 min | Not rated | Mar 09, 2021 | Brian Orndorf

Set in 1990, a lonely bachelor named David (Brian Landis Folkins) searches for an escape from the day-to-day drudgery of caring for his aging mother (Kathleen Brady). While seeking a partner through a video dating service, he discovers a strange VHS tape called Rent-A-Pal. Hosted by the charming and charismatic Andy (Wil Wheaton), the tape offers him much-needed company, compassion, and friendship. But, Andy's friendship comes at a cost, and David desperately struggles to afford the price of admission.

Thriller

Operation Dumbo Drop Blu-ray Movie  

20th Anniversary Edition

Disney / Buena Vista | 1995 | 108 min | Rated PG | Apr 26, 2016 | Martin Liebman

To keep the loyalty of a native village during the Vietnam war, a US Army officer and his unit struggle to deliver it a live elephant.

Action / Adventure / Comedy / Drama / Family / War

The Don Is Dead Blu-ray Movie  

Kino Lorber | 1973 | 114 min | Rated R | Mar 09, 2021 | Dr. Svet Atanasov

After his mistress is savagely beaten, a Mafia leader goes after the killer with a bloody vengeance. Soon after the hunt begins, a gang war ensues.

Action / Crime / Drama / Thriller

Bordertown: Season 1 Blu-ray Movie  

Sorjonen

Kino Lorber | 2016 | 651 min | Not rated | Jan 26, 2021 | Neil Lumbard

Detective Inspector Kari Sorjonen is one of the most respected officers at the National Bureau of Investigation in Finland when his wife barely survives brain cancer. Sorjonen then takes a new job, leading SECRI, the Serious Crime Unit in Lappeenranta and moves his family to the idyllic small town near the border of Russia for a more peaceful life. But life turns out to be less than peaceful there.

Crime / Drama / Mystery / Foreign

The Last Warning Blu-ray Movie    

Masters of Cinema

Eureka Entertainment | 1928 | 78 min | Rated BBFC: PG | Feb 15, 2021 | Jeffrey Kauffman

A producer decides to reopen a theater, that had been closed five years previously when one of the actors was murdered during a performance, by staging a production of the same play with the remaining members of the original cast.

Horror / Mystery / Thriller

Black Sunday Blu-ray Movie    

Imprint #34

Imprint | 1977 | 143 min | Rated ACB: M | Feb 24, 2021 | Dr. Svet Atanasov

A powerful story of a terrorist group attempting to blow up a blimp hovering over the Super Bowl stadium with 80,000 people in attendance.

Action / Drama / Thriller

The Bad News Bears Blu-ray Movie    

Imprint #31

Imprint | 1976 | 102 min | Rated ACB: PG | Feb 24, 2021 | Brian Orndorf

First of a trilogy of films takes an unflinching look at the underbelly of little league baseball in Southern California. Former minor leaguer Morris Buttermaker is a lazy, beer swilling swimming pool cleaner who takes money to coach the Bears, a bunch of disheveled misfits who have virtually no baseball talent. Realizing his dilemma, Coach Buttermaker brings aboard girl pitching ace Amanda Whurlitzer, the daughter of a former girlfriend, and Kelly Leak, a motorcycle punk who happens to be the best player around. Brimming with confidence, the Bears look to sweep into the championship game and avenge an earlier loss to their nemesis, the Yankees.

Comedy / Family / Sport

SexWorld 4K Blu-ray Movie  

4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray + CD

Vinegar Syndrome | 1978 | 1 Movie, 2 Cuts | 91 min | Rated X | Feb 12, 2021 | Brian Orndorf

A bus tour takes its passengers to a place called SexWorld where they can live out their most secret desires during a weekend.

Sci-Fi / Erotic

Promising Young Woman Blu-ray Movie  

Blu-ray + Digital Copy

Universal Studios | 2020 | 113 min | Rated R | Mar 16, 2021 | Martin Liebman

A former graduate student feigns being drunk so that men will bring her home with them.

Crime / Drama / Thriller / Dark humor

Waxworks Blu-ray Movie    

Das Wachsfigurenkabinett / Masters of Cinema

Eureka Entertainment | 1924 | 82 min | Rated BBFC: PG | Nov 09, 2020 | Jeffrey Kauffman

A wax museum hires a writer to give the sculptures stories. The writer imagines himself and the museum owner's daughter in the stories.

Fantasy / Horror / Foreign

Gorillas in the Mist Blu-ray Movie  

Retro VHS Collection

Mill Creek Entertainment | 1988 | 129 min | Rated PG-13 | Mar 09, 2021 | Martin Liebman

The story of Dian Fossey, a scientist who came to Africa to study the vanishing mountain gorillas, and later fought to protect them.

Biography / Drama

Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia Blu-ray Movie  

First Pressing

Kino Lorber | 1974 | 112 min | Rated R | Mar 09, 2021 | Dr. Svet Atanasov

An American bartender and his prostitute girlfriend go on a road trip through the Mexican underworld to collect a $1 million bounty on the head of a dead gigolo.

Action / Crime / Drama / Western

Rad Blu-ray Movie  

Mondo X Series #46 / Blu-ray + Digital Copy

Mill Creek Entertainment | 1986 | 93 min | Rated PG | Mar 16, 2021 | Martin Liebman

The story of one young man, Cru Jones, who has the intensity and desire to win a BMX race called Helltrack.

Drama / Sport

PG: Psycho Goreman Blu-ray Movie  

RLJ Entertainment | 2020 | 95 min | Not rated | Mar 16, 2021 | Randy Miller III

After unearthing a gem that controls an evil monster looking to destroy the Universe, a young girl and her brother use it to make him do their bidding.

Comedy / Sci-Fi

Straight on Till Morning Blu-ray Movie  

Shout Factory | 1972 | 96 min | Not rated | Sep 17, 2019 | Dr. Stephen Larson

A timid, withdrawn woman meets a man she believes is finally the love of her life, unaware that he is a vicious serial killer.

Thriller / Psychological thriller

My Girl / My Girl 2 Blu-ray Movie  

Mill Creek Entertainment | 1991-1994 | 2 Movies | 201 min | Rated PG | Mar 09, 2021 | Martin Liebman

See individual titles for their synopses.

Comedy / Drama / Family / Romance / Teen

My Girl Blu-ray Movie  

Mill Creek Entertainment | 1991 | 102 min | Rated PG | No Release Date | Martin Liebman

Vada Sultenfuss is obsessed with death. Her mother is dead, and her father runs a funeral parlor. She is also in love with her English teacher, and joins a poetry class over the summer just to impress him.

Drama / Family / Romance / Teen

My Girl 2 Blu-ray Movie  

Mill Creek Entertainment | 1994 | 99 min | Rated PG | No Release Date | Martin Liebman

Vada Sultenfuss has a holiday coming up, and an assignment: to do an essay on someone she admires and has never met. She decides she wants to do an assignment on her mother, but quickly realizes she knows very little about her. She manages to get her father to agree to let her go to LA to stay with her Uncle Phil and do some research on her mother.

Comedy / Drama / Family / Romance / Teen

The Babe Blu-ray Movie  

Retro VHS Collection

Mill Creek Entertainment | 1992 | 115 min | Rated PG | Mar 09, 2021 | Martin Liebman

The Babe is a biopic of George Herman 'Babe' Ruth. The film follows his seemingly bi-polar life from being abandoned by his father at an orphanage, to the discovery of his tremendous home-run hitting ability and finally to his later days. Several items from his legend are included (whether true or not) including: His calling of of a home run, the promise to a dying youngster to hit two home runs in a game that day, and the quote that he had a better year than the president.

Biography / Drama / History / Sport