New Blu-ray Reviews

Castle Rock: The Complete Second Season Blu-ray Movie  

Blu-ray + Digital Copy

Warner Bros. | 2019 | 484 min | Rated TV-MA | Jul 21, 2020 | Jeffrey Kauffman

Based on the stories of Stephen King, the series will intertwine characters and themes from the fictional town of Castle Rock.

Drama / Fantasy / Horror

Sukiyaki Western Django Blu-ray Movie  

Collector's Edition

MVD Visual | 2007 | 1 Movie, 2 Cuts | 98 min | Rated R | Jun 30, 2020 | Jeffrey Kauffman

During "The Genpei Wars" at the end of the 1100s, the Minamoto and Taira gangs face off in a town named Yuda, while a deadly gunman comes to the aid of the townsfolk.

Action / Western

Girl Crazy Blu-ray Movie  

Warner Archive Collection

Warner Bros. | 1943 | 99 min | Not rated | Jul 28, 2020 | Randy Miller III

Rich kid Danny Churchill has a taste for wine, women and song, but not for higher education. So his father ships him to an all-male college out West where there's not supposed to be a female for miles. But before Danny arrives, he spies a pair of legs extending out from under a stalled roadster. They belong to the Dean's granddaughter, Ginger Gray, who is more interested in keeping the financially strapped college open than falling for Danny's romantic line. At least at first...

Comedy / Musical / Romance

Split Second Blu-ray Movie    

Black Label 015 | Limited Edition

101 Films | 1992 | 1 Movie, 2 Cuts | 91 min | Rated BBFC: 18 | Jul 27, 2020 | Dr. Svet Atanasov

In a futuristic London, the rising sea levels mean that large areas are under feet of water. Hauer plays a cop who previously lost his partner to some strange creature. Now the creature is back and is after him.

Action / Crime / Horror / Sci-Fi / Thriller

Reefer Madness / Sex Madness Blu-ray Movie  

Forbidden Fruit: The Golden Age of the Exploitation Picture, Vol. 2

Kino Lorber | 1936-1938 | 2 Movies | 124 min | Not rated | Feb 25, 2020 | Neil Lumbard

See individual titles for their synopses.

Drama

Reefer Madness Blu-ray Movie  

Kino Lorber | 1936 | 66 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Neil Lumbard

Unabashed propaganda film on the perils of marijuana use. Clean-cut WASP couple Bill and Mary are innocent high school students who play tennis and drink tea on the back porch. Their friend Jimmy introduces them to a pot dealer named Jack, who invites Bill back to his den of inequity, where stoned ne'er-do-wells laugh fiendishly, dance, and play the piano. After one joint, Bill is hooked and his and Mary's lives begin to spin out of control.

Drama

Sex Madness Blu-ray Movie  

Kino Lorber | 1938 | 57 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Neil Lumbard

Philanthropist Paul Lorenz is one of the more public faces in the fight against behavior that spreads the many "social diseases", such as syphilis and gonorrhea. An example of such behavior is going to or performing in burlesque shows, which promotes casual sex. Indeed, many in the audience at one burlesque show in New York have only sex on their mind, including young unmarried couple James and Jane, office colleagues Peggy and Betty (Peggy who is trying to seduce Betty), and Paul Lorenz's son himself, Tom Lorenz, who is looking forward to an after show group sex party, which will include some of the girls from the show, such as Sheila Wayne, who has syphilis but treats it as casually as her sex. One of the show girls who won't be attending the party is Millicent Hamilton. From a small town, good girl Millicent's pre-engagement to her boyfriend Wendel Hope was interrupted when she won a beauty contest with a trip to New York. She found life in New York more difficult than she expected.

Drama

House of Hummingbird Blu-ray Movie  

벌새 / Beol-sae

Well Go USA | 2019 | 139 min | Not rated | Aug 04, 2020 | Jeffrey Kauffman

Seoul 1994, in the year the Seongsu Bridge collapsed, 14-year-old Eunhee wanders the city searching for love.

Drama / Foreign

The Man from the Alamo / They Came to Cordura Blu-ray Movie  

Mill Creek Entertainment | 1953-1959 | 2 Movies | 202 min | Not rated | May 12, 2020 | Martin Liebman

See individual titles for their synopses.

Adventure / Drama / History / War / Western

The Man from the Alamo Blu-ray Movie  

Mill Creek Entertainment | 1953 | 79 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Martin Liebman

During the war for Texas independence, one man leaves the Alamo before the end (chosen by lot to help others' families) but is too late to accomplish his mission, and is branded a coward. Since he cannot now expose a gang of turncoats, he infiltrates them instead. Can he save a wagon train of refugees from Wade's Guerillas?

Western

They Came to Cordura Blu-ray Movie  

Mill Creek Entertainment | 1959 | 123 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Martin Liebman

An army major, himself guilty of cowardice, is asked to recommended soldiers for the Congressional Medal of Honor during the Mexican Border Incursion of 1916.

Adventure / Drama / History / War / Western

Liz and the Blue Bird Blu-ray Movie  

リズと青い鳥 / Blu-ray + DVD

Shout Factory | 2018 | 90 min | Not rated | Mar 05, 2019 | Dr. Stephen Larson

Mizore Yoroizuka and Nozomi Kasaki are a pair of best friends in their final year of high school. They're both obsessed with the school's brass band club. With Mizore on the oboe and Nozomi on the flute, they spend their days in happiness, until the club begins to practice songs inspired by the fairy tale Liz und ein Blauer Vogel - "Liz and the Blue Bird". Immersed in this story, Mizore and Nozomi begin to realize that there may be no such thing as being together forever.

Anime / Drama / Music / Romance / Teen / Foreign / Coming of age

12 Monkeys: Season Four Blu-ray Movie  

Universal Studios | 2018 | 482 min | Not rated | Aug 14, 2018 | Martin Liebman

No synopsis for this title.

Adventure / Drama / Mystery / Sci-Fi / Thriller

Shanghai Triad Blu-ray Movie  

摇啊摇，摇到外婆桥

Film Movement | 1995 | 108 min | Rated R | Aug 04, 2020 | Jeffrey Kauffman

Shanghai, 1930. Mr. Tang, the godfather chief of the Tang family-run underground Green dynasty, controls the city's lucrative opium and prostitution trade. He has also acquired the services of Xiao Jinbao, the most beautiful prostitute-singer in Shanghai. Fourteen-year-old Tang Shuisheng has been recruited by his uncle to watch Xiao Jinbao. Ultimately, Shuisheng becomes the only person to whom she can talk openly and whose relationship with her is not motivated by power or greed. In secret, Xiao Jinbao has become the mistress of Song, the Greens' number two man, and together they conspire against Mr. Tang.

Crime / Drama / Foreign

Pride and Prejudice Blu-ray Movie  

Warner Archive Collection

Warner Bros. | 1940 | 118 min | Not rated | Jul 28, 2020 | Randy Miller III

Elizabeth Bennett, a spirited and independent young woman, is the subject of her mother’s obsessive goal to marry off her five daughters to the wealthiest gentlemen available. But Mrs Bennett’s plan is compromised with the arrival of the proud and enigmatic Mr Darcy, as he and Lizzie embark on one of the most famous romances in history. Based on the novel by Jane Austen.

Drama / Romance / Period

Apocalypto Blu-ray Movie  

Samuel Goldwyn Films | 2006 | 138 min | Rated R | Jul 28, 2020 | Brian Orndorf

A mythic action-adventure set 600 years ago against the turbulent end times of the once great Mayan civilization. When his idyllic existence is brutally disrupted by a violent invading force, a man is taken on a perilous journey to a world ruled by fear and oppression where a harrowing end awaits him. Through a twist of fate and spurred by the power of his love for his woman and his family he will make a desperate break to return home and to ultimately save his way of life.

Action / Adventure / Drama / Foreign / Epic / Period

The Shakedown Blu-ray Movie  

Kino Lorber | 1929 | 70 min | Not rated | Jul 28, 2020 | Dr. Svet Atanasov

No synopsis for this title.

Action / Comedy / Crime / Sport

Graveyard Shift Blu-ray Movie  

Shout Factory | 1990 | 86 min | Rated R | Jul 28, 2020 | Brian Orndorf

In a very old textile mill, with a serious rat infestation, the workers discover a horrifying secret deep in the basement.

Horror / Thriller / Supernatural

Mom and Dad / Sex Hygiene Blu-ray Movie  

Forbidden Fruit: The Golden Age of the Exploitation Picture, Vol. 1

Kino Lorber | 1945 | 97 min | Not rated | Feb 25, 2020 | Neil Lumbard

When a high school girl gets pregnant and the boyfriend dies, the sex-ed teacher shows her a film about childbirth and the dangers of venereal disease.

Drama

The Complete Lenzi/Baker Giallo Collection Blu-ray Movie  

Orgasmo / So Sweet... So Perverse / A Quiet Place to Kill / Knife of Ice / Blu-ray + CD

Severin Films | 1969-1972 | 4 Movies | 369 min | Not rated | Jul 07, 2020 | Dr. Svet Atanasov

See individual titles for their synopses.

Drama / Horror / Musical / Mystery / Thriller / Foreign