New Blu-ray Reviews

Yours, Mine & Ours Blu-ray Movie  

Paramount Pictures | 2005 | 88 min | Rated PG | Feb 02, 2021 | Martin Liebman

A widowed Coast Guard Admiral and a widow handbag designer fall in love and marry, much to the dismay of her 10 and his 8 children.

Comedy / Family / Romance

Captain Newman, M.D. Blu-ray Movie  

Kino Lorber | 1963 | 126 min | Not rated | Jan 05, 2021 | Neil Lumbard

In 1944, Capt. Josiah J. Newman is the doctor in charge of Ward 7, the neuropsychiatric ward, at an Army Air Corps hospital in Arizona. The hospital is under-resourced and Newman scrounges what he needs with the help of his inventive staff, especially Cpl. Jake Leibowitz. The military in general is only just coming to accept psychiatric disorders as legitimate and Newman generally has 6 weeks to cure them or send them on to another facility. There are many patients in the ward and his latest include Colonel Norville Bliss who has dissociated from his past; Capt. Paul Winston who is nearly catatonic after spending 13 months hiding in a cellar behind enemy lines; and 20 year-old Cpl. Jim Tompkins who is severely traumatized after his aircraft was shot down. Others come and go, including Italian prisoners of war, but Newman and team all realize that their success means the men will return to their units and combat.

Comedy / Drama / War

In the Mood for Love Blu-ray Movie  

花樣年華 | Faa yeung nin wa | Remastered

Criterion | 2000 | 99 min | Rated PG | No Release Date | Dr. Svet Atanasov

Hong Kong, 1962: Chow Mo-wan and Su Li-zhen move into neighboring apartments on the same day. Their encounters are formal and polite—until a discovery about their spouses creates an intimate bond between them.

Drama / Romance / Foreign / Melodrama / Period

Tales from the Crypt Presents: Bordello of Blood Blu-ray Movie  

Collector's Edition

Shout Factory | 1996 | 87 min | Rated R | Oct 20, 2015 | Jeffrey Kauffman

Madam Lilithand her luscious cohorts run a most unusual bordello on the edge of town. They don't just take your money for services rendered - they bleed their customers dry! But wisecracking private eye Rafe Guttman is on the case, and soon he must battle not only a den of scantily clad vampiresses, but also the Reverend Jimmy Current a slick televangelist with an all-powerful talisman.

Comedy / Horror / Dark humor / Supernatural

Jetsons: The Movie Blu-ray Movie  

Kino Lorber | 1990 | 82 min | Rated G | Feb 16, 2021 | Neil Lumbard

George Jetson is forced to uproot his family when Mr. Spacely promotes him to take charge of a new factory on a distant planet.

Animation / Comedy / Family / Sci-Fi

John Hughes: 5 Movie Collection Blu-ray Movie  

Planes, Trains and Automobiles / Ferris Bueller’s Day Off / She’s Having a Baby / Pretty in Pink / Some Kind of Wonderful / Blu-ray + Digital Copy

Paramount Pictures | 1986-1988 | 5 Movies | 491 min | Rated PG-13 | Feb 23, 2021 | Brian Orndorf

See individual titles for their synopses.

Comedy / Drama / Romance / Teen / Holiday / Coming of age

Some Kind of Wonderful Blu-ray Movie  

Paramount Pictures | 1987 | 95 min | Rated PG-13 | Feb 23, 2021 | Brian Orndorf

A young tomboy, Watts, finds her feelings for her best friend, Keith, run deeper than just friendship when he gets a date with the most popular girl in school. Unfortunately, the girl's old boyfriend, who is from the rich section of town, is unable to let go of her, and plans to get back at Keith.

Comedy / Drama / Teen / Coming of age

She's Having a Baby Blu-ray Movie  

Paramount Pictures | 1988 | 106 min | Rated PG-13 | Feb 23, 2021 | Brian Orndorf

Jake and Kristy Briggs are newlyweds. Being young, they are perhaps a bit unprepared for the full reality of marriage and all that it (and their parents) expect from them.

Comedy / Drama / Romance

The Allnighter Blu-ray Movie  

Kino Lorber | 1987 | 95 min | Rated PG-13 | Feb 23, 2021 | Dr. Svet Atanasov

Molly, Val and Gina are graduating college, but on their final night, frustrations are aired. Molly is still looking for real love and Val is beginning to doubt if that is what she's found. Gina is too busy videotaping everything to really notice. When the final party at Pacifica College kicks off, things don't go exactly as planned.

Comedy / Romance

Good Burger Blu-ray Movie  

Paramount Pictures | 1997 | 95 min | Rated PG | Feb 16, 2021 | Martin Liebman

Can fast-food counter dudes Ed (Kel Mitchell) and Dexter (Kenan Thompson) battle big business? That's the order of the day when Mondo Burger's high-tech hamburger haven opens across the street from the tiny Good Burger diner. Catch up with the gags as Ed and Dexter scramble to save their jobs and stop Mondo Burger's bid for fast-food domination!

Comedy / Family / Teen

Mousehunt Blu-ray Movie  

Paramount Pictures | 1997 | 98 min | Rated PG | Feb 02, 2021 | Martin Liebman

Down-on-their luck brothers, Lars and Ernie Smuntz, aren’t happy with the crumbling old mansion they inherit… until they discover the estate is worth millions. Before they can cash in, they have to rid the house of its single, stubborn occupant: a tiny and tenacious mouse.

Comedy / Family / Dark humor

Mandabi Blu-ray Movie  

Criterion | 1968 | 91 min | Not rated | Feb 16, 2021 | Jeffrey Kauffman

After jobless Ibrahima Dieng receives a money order for 25,000 francs from a nephew who works in Paris, news of his windfall quickly spreads among his neighbors, who flock to him for loans even as he finds his attempts to cash the order stymied in a maze of bureaucracy, and new troubles rain down on his head.

Drama / Foreign

Show Boat Blu-ray Movie  

Warner Archive Collection

Warner Bros. | 1951 | 108 min | Not rated | Feb 23, 2021 | Randy Miller III

About life on a Mississippi riverboat tracks the hardships of Julie Laverne, a mulatto trying to pass for white while also following the course of a tumultuous love between a captain's daughter, Magnolia Hawks, and an itinerant gambler, Gaylord Ravenal.

Drama / Musical / Romance

The Croods: A New Age Blu-ray Movie  

Blu-ray + DVD + Digital Copy

Universal Studios | 2020 | 95 min | Rated PG | Feb 23, 2021 | Martin Liebman

The prehistoric Crood family is challenged by rival family the Bettermans, who claim to be better and more evolved.

Adventure / Animation / Comedy / Family / Fantasy

The Croods: A New Age 4K Blu-ray Movie  

4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray + Digital Copy

Universal Studios | 2020 | 95 min | Rated PG | Feb 23, 2021 | Martin Liebman

The prehistoric Crood family is challenged by rival family the Bettermans, who claim to be better and more evolved.

Adventure / Animation / Comedy / Family / Fantasy

Horizon Line Blu-ray Movie  

Blu-ray + Digital Copy

Universal Studios | 2020 | 92 min | Rated PG-13 | Feb 16, 2021 | Martin Liebman

A couple flying on a small plane to attend a tropical island wedding must fight for their lives after their pilot suffers a heart attack.

Thriller

Crazy Samurai: 400 vs. 1 Blu-ray Movie  

Crazy Samurai Musashi / 狂武蔵 / Kyō Musashi

Well Go USA | 2020 | 91 min | Not rated | Mar 02, 2021 | Jeffrey Kauffman

When a master samurai arrives to duel the disgraced Yoshioka dojo, he walks into an ambush. In the world's first 77-minute, one-take action film sequence, Miyamoto Musashi (Tak Sakaguchi) fights for his life against 400 warriors, earning a place in history as the CRAZY SAMURAI MUSASHI.

Action / Foreign

Panther Squad Blu-ray Movie  

Full Moon Features | 1984 | 77 min | Rated R | Jan 15, 2020 | Brian Orndorf

A squad of female mercenaries take on an organization called Space Clean, which is dedicated to stopping space exploration.

Action / Adventure / Crime

A Call to Spy Blu-ray Movie  

Shout Factory | 2019 | 124 min | Rated PG-13 | Feb 16, 2021 | Brian Orndorf

In the beginning of WWII, with Britain becoming desperate, Churchill orders his new spy agency -- the Special Operations Executive (SOE) -- to recruit and train women as spies. Their daunting mission: conduct sabotage and build a resistance. SOE's "spymistress," Vera Atkins (Stana Katic), recruits two unusual candidates: Virginia Hall (Sarah Megan Thomas), an ambitious American with a wooden leg, and Noor Inayat Khan (Radhika Atpe), a Muslim pacifist. Together, these women help to undermine the Nazi regime in France, leaving an unmistakable legacy in their wake. Inspired by true stories.

Biography / Drama / Thriller

Shogun's Joy of Torture Blu-ray Movie  

Arrow | 1968 | 96 min | Not rated | Feb 23, 2021 | Jeffrey Kauffman

The Joy of Torture is an anthology that is made up of three separate stories that all intersect: The first segment is about Shinza who was hurt while working when a log hit him on the head, and now sister Mitsu is forced to give herself to her brother's boss Mr. Mino in order to help pay for Shinza's doctor bills. The second segment is about the arrival of mother Reiho and her servant Rintoku at the Jukuin monastery. The monastery is located near a temple inhabited by priests and one day when one of them named Shunkei runs by Reiho he arouses something inside of her. The final segment is about a tattoo artist named Horicho who has just given Kimicho his greatest tattoo to date. While showing his work off to a group of people, a man named Lord Nambera walks by mocking the tattoo and its lack of realism.

Drama / Horror / Foreign / Period