New Blu-ray Reviews

The Specials Blu-ray Movie  

20th Anniversary Limited Edition

La-La Land Entertainment | 2000 | 82 min | Rated R | Jul 14, 2020 | Jeffrey Kauffman

The Specials are superheroes who aren't... that super: finding themselves rated only the 7th best superhero team in the world, and crucially over-aware of their lacklustre performance in the all important world of merchandising. Eschewing any special effects or superhero sequences we see the lives behind the masks as The Weevil (Rob Lowe), Power Chick (Kelly Coffield), Deadly Girl (Judy Greer), The Strobe (Thomas Haden Church) and the rest of the team as they decide to launch a new line of action figures to resurrect their flagging fortunes.

Comedy / Comic book

A Quiet Place to Kill Blu-ray Movie  

Paranoia

Severin Films | 1970 | 96 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Dr. Svet Atanasov

A race-car driver whose life, both personal and professional, is in a rapid downfall is invited by her ex-husband's new wife to stay at their plush estate. The two women form a bond, and it's not long before their mutual dislike for the husband culminates into a plan to kill him. As it turns out, though, they're not alone in plotting murder.

Drama / Mystery / Thriller / Foreign

The Pillow Book Blu-ray Movie    

Indicator Series | Limited Edition

Powerhouse Films | 1996 | 125 min | Rated BBFC: 18 | Feb 24, 2020 | Jeffrey Kauffman

In contemporary Japan and Hong Kong, a successful model revives memories of her calligrapher father by having her lovers give her pleasure by writing on her body. An affair with an Englishman leads her to start writing herself, using others as her paper.

Drama / Romance

Bamboozled Blu-ray Movie  

Criterion | 2000 | 136 min | Rated R | Mar 17, 2020 | Jeffrey Kauffman

A frustrated African-American TV writer proposes a blackface minstrel show in protest, but to his chagrin it becomes a hit.

Comedy / Drama / Music

Sunday in New York Blu-ray Movie  

Warner Archive Collection

Warner Bros. | 1963 | 105 min | Not rated | May 19, 2020 | Randy Miller III

Fonda portrays a virginal miss who runs off from her fiance to the swingin' pad of her brother and then into the arms of a guy she meets on the 5th Avenue bus - all the while trying to decide if she'll say "yes" before she says "I do."

Comedy / Romance

Starfish Blu-ray Movie  

Blu-ray + CD

Altered Innocence | 2018 | 101 min | Not rated | Jul 14, 2020 | Brian Orndorf

A unique, intimate and honest portrayal of a girl grieving for the loss of her best friend. That just happens to take place on the day the world ends as we know it.

Drama / Horror / Sci-Fi

Lone Wolf McQuade Blu-ray Movie  

Scorpion Releasing | 1983 | 107 min | Rated PG | May 19, 2020 | Brian Orndorf

A legendary Texas Ranger is fierce with his gun - but lethal with his black belt! When his teenage daughter's life is threatened the job becomes personal.

Action / Crime / Thriller / Martial arts

Hair Blu-ray Movie  

Signature Edition

Olive Films | 1979 | 121 min | Rated PG | Jun 30, 2020 | Dr. Svet Atanasov

During the Vietnam war, a small time farm boy enlists in the army and encounters the New York City hippie subculture and he is rapidly indoctrinated into it.

Comedy / Drama / Musical

Force 10 from Navarone Blu-ray Movie  

Kino Lorber | 1978 | 126 min | Rated PG | Mar 17, 2020 | Dr. Svet Atanasov

A group of allied commandos, infiltrate Yugoslavia on a secret mission against the Third Reich.

Action / Drama / War

In Harm's Way Blu-ray Movie  

The Chinese Widow

Shout Factory | 2017 | 97 min | Not rated | Dec 04, 2018 | Dr. Stephen Larson

In the 1940s, the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor destroyed Americans' morale. The president of the United States, Franklin D. Roosevelt, decided to risk it all to bomb Tokyo, raising the public's hopes. Bombardment air crafts led by U.S lieutenant colonel Jimmy Doolittle took off from a massive aircraft carrier. However, after completing their missions, the bombardment air craft pilots had to bail out at the coastal areas near Zhejiang due to a shortage of fuel. A young pilot, Jack Turner, was saved by a young local widow named Ying, who risked her life as she hid the injured American pilot in her house. Despite not being able to communicate verbally, they fell for each other and a tear-jerking love story went on between the two.

Drama / War / Foreign

Marriage Story Blu-ray Movie  

Criterion | 2019 | 137 min | Not rated | Jul 21, 2020 | Brian Orndorf

A stage director and his actor wife struggle through a grueling, coast-to-coast divorce that pushes them to their personal and creative extremes.

Comedy / Drama / Romance

The Gates of Hell Blu-ray Movie  

City of the Living Dead / Paura nella città dei morti viventi / SOLD OUT

Scorpion Releasing | 1980 | 93 min | Not rated | Jun 02, 2020 | Brian Orndorf

The Seven Gates of Hell have been torn open, a reporter and a psychic race to close the portals of the damned.

Horror / Supernatural / Foreign

The Lady Eve Blu-ray Movie  

Criterion | 1941 | 93 min | Not rated | Jul 14, 2020 | Dr. Svet Atanasov

A trio of classy card sharks targets the socially awkward heir to brewery millions for his money, till one of them falls in love with him.

Comedy / Romance

Trolls World Tour 4K Blu-ray Movie  

Dance Party Edition / 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray + Digital Copy

Universal Studios | 2020 | 94 min | Rated PG | Jul 07, 2020 | Martin Liebman

Poppy and Branch discover that there are six different troll tribes scattered over six different lands. Each tribe is also devoted to six different kinds of music -- funk, country, techno, classical, pop and rock. When rockers Queen Barb and King Thrash set out to destroy the other music, Poppy and Branch embark on a daring mission to unite the trolls and save the diverse melodies from becoming extinct.

Animation / Comedy / Family / Fantasy / Musical

Transformers: The Last Knight 4K Blu-ray Movie  

4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray + UV Digital Copy

Paramount Pictures | 2017 | 154 min | Rated PG-13 | Sep 26, 2017 | Martin Liebman

Optimus Prime discovers that his home planet, Cybertron, is now a dead planet, which he comes to find he was responsible for killing. He finds a way to bring the planet back to life, but in order to do so he needs to find an artifact, and that artifact is on Earth.

Action / Adventure / Sci-Fi

Street Survivors: The True Story of the Lynyrd Skynyrd Plane Crash Blu-ray Movie  

Blu-ray + DVD + CD

Cleopatra | 2020 | 90 min | Not rated | Jun 30, 2020 | Jeffrey Kauffman

In 1977, a plane carrying Southern rock legends Lynyrd Skynyrd mysteriously runs out of gas mid-air en route to a concert, crashing into a dangerous Louisiana swamp while killing several of the band members, crew and both pilots. Street Survivors: The True Story of The Lynyrd Skynyrd Plane Crash tells the story thru one of the survivors, drummer Artimus Pyle, who not only survived the fatal crash (that claimed the life of the band's founder and front man Ronnie Van Zant amongst others), but who also bravely pulled the remaining survivors out of the plane wreckage before staggering towards the nearest farmhouse in rural Louisiana to seek help.

Biography

L' Innocente Blu-ray Movie  

The Innocent

Film Movement | 1976 | 129 min | Rated R | Jul 14, 2020 | Jeffrey Kauffman

Tullio Hermil is a chauvinist aristocrat who flaunts his mistress to his wife, but when he believes she has been unfaithful he becomes enamored of her again.

Drama / Romance / Foreign

Primal Scream Blu-ray Movie  

Dark Force Entertainment | 1987 | 90 min | Rated R | Apr 24, 2018 | Dr. Svet Atanasov

In the future, a private detective tries to stop a large corporation from mining an element whose side effects include igniting human flesh and destroying internal body parts.

Sci-Fi / Thriller

Death Warrant Blu-ray Movie  

Scorpion Releasing | 1990 | 89 min | Rated R | Jul 07, 2020 | Brian Orndorf

The Canadian policeman Louis Burke is assigned in a jail to investigate in some murders of prisoners and jailors

Action / Crime / Drama

3:15 Blu-ray Movie  

Scorpion Releasing | 1986 | 85 min | Rated R | Jul 08, 2020 | Brian Orndorf

Violent crime is routine, organized drug trade runs rampant in the face of powerless authority, and a vicious street gang holds dominion with a savage reign of terror. Welcome to Lincoln High! Here "the Cobras" rule the school and everyone in it - everyone except for Jeff Hanna. Once the most feared member of the Cobras, Hanna got sick of fighting and got out of the gang for good. But now, the Cobras have brutalized his newfound girlfriend and threatened to kill him for his disloyalty. It's time for one final fight. It's time for one more showdown after the school day ends. It's time for someone to die. It's 3:15.

Crime / Drama / Thriller