New Blu-ray Reviews
Home- July 31, 2025
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World 4K Blu-ray Movie
4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray + Digital Copy
Disney / Buena Vista | 2003 | 138 min | Rated PG-13 | Aug 05, 2025 | Jeffrey Kauffman
Captain "Lucky" Jack Aubrey, renowned as a fighting captain in the British Navy, and ship's doctor Stephen Maturin are on board their ship, the H.M.S. Surprise, when they're suddenly attacked by a superior enemy. With the Surprise badly damaged and much of his crew injured, Aubrey is torn between duty and friendship as he pursues a high-stakes chase across two oceans, to intercept and capture his foe. It's a mission that can make his reputation -- or destroy Lucky Jack and his crew. In the course of the characters' epic journey, the movie travels the world -- from the coast of Brazil to the storm-tossed waters of Cape Horn, south through ice and snow, to the far side of the world, to the remote shores of The Galapagos Islands. Based on author Patrick O'Brian's series of Aubrey/Maturin novels, the story is set during the Napoleonic Wars.
Action / Adventure / Drama / History / War / Period
- July 30, 2025
Stolen Kisses 4K Blu-ray Movie
Baisers volés / 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray
Criterion | 1968 | 91 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Dr. Svet Atanasov
It is now 1968, and the mischievous and perpetually love-struck Antoine Doinel has been dishonorably discharged from the army and released onto the streets of Paris, where he stumbles into the unlikely profession of private detective and embarks on a series of misadventures.
Comedy / Drama / Romance / Foreign / Coming of age
The Last Match Blu-ray Movie
Standard Edition | L'ultima meta
Cauldron Films | 1991 | 94 min | Not rated | Feb 11, 2025 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
Somewhere on an island in the Caribbean a girl is imprisoned for owning drugs. As she is the daughter of a football team coach help is soon on the way: the entire team mounts an expedition to set her free.
Action
Four Sided Triangle 4K Blu-ray Movie
Limited Collector's Edition / 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray
Hammer Films | 1953 | 81 min | Rated BBFC: PG | Mar 31, 2025 | Justin Dekker
Bill and Robin, helped by their childhood friend, Lena, develop a "reproducer" which can exactly duplicate any object. Bill, crushed when Lena marries Robin, convinces her to allow him to duplicate her, so that he may have a copy of her for himself. The experiment, at first deemed a success, seems to have worked only too well as the duplicate, Helen, is such an exact copy that she also loves Robin, not Bill. Bill hopes to rectify the situation with another radical experiment.
Romance / Sci-Fi
Rolls Royce Baby Blu-ray Movie
Delirium Home Video | 1975 | 84 min | Not rated | Jul 15, 2025 | Justin Dekker
The "Rolls-Royce Baby" is an irresistible Erotic Diva who rides around in a Rolls-Royce in search for simulated sex with strangers. She is chauffeured by the great and multi-talented Eric.
Comedy / Erotic
Serenity 4K Blu-ray Movie
20th Anniversary Limited Edition / 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray + Digital Copy
Universal Studios | 2005 | 119 min | Rated PG-13 | Jul 22, 2025 | Justin Dekker
Captain Malcolm Reynolds, is a hardened veteran (on the losing side) of a galactic civil war, who now ekes out a living pulling off small crimes and transport-for-hire aboard his ship, Serenity. He leads a small, eclectic crew who are the closest thing he has left to family -- squabbling, insubordinate and undying loyal. When Mal takes on two new passengers -- a young doctor and his unstable, telepathic sister -- he gets much more than he bargained for. The pair are fugitives from the coalition dominating the universe, who will stop at nothing to reclaim the girl. The crew that was once used to skimming the outskirts of the galaxy unnoticed find themselves caught between the unstoppable military force of the Universal Alliance and the horrific, cannibalistic fury of the Reavers, savages who roam the very edge of space. Hunted by vastly different enemies, they begin to discover that the greatest danger to them may be on board Serenity herself.
Action / Adventure / Sci-Fi / Thriller
Cash Cow Blu-ray Movie
Cartuna | 2023 | 101 min | Not rated | Jul 29, 2025 | Jeffrey Kauffman
In the Fall of 2020, a financially struggling actor camps and explores early Mormon historical sites as he anxiously awaits national broadcast for his Domino's Pizza commercial.
Comedy / Documentary
Jon Anderson & The Band Geeks: Perpetual Change Live Blu-ray Movie
Frontiers Music | 2023 | 128 min | Rated Exempt | Mar 14, 2025 | Jeffrey Kauffman
Concert recording of the entire show by Jon Anderson and the Band Geeks at the Arcadia Theatre in St. Charles, Illinois on their August 2023 summer tour. Full track listing: Yours Is No Disgrace Perpetual Change Close To The Edge Heart Of The Sunrise Starship Trooper Awaken And You And I Your Move/ I’ve Seen All Good People Gates Of Delirium Roundabout
Music
- July 29, 2025
Sisi & I Blu-ray Movie
Film Movement | 2023 | 132 min | Not rated | Jul 29, 2025 | Jeffrey Kauffman
Empress Sisi of Austria from the point of view of her lady-in-waiting, Irma. Sisi traveled throughout Europe, mastered six languages, practiced high-performance sports and did not fit at all into the tight corset of the Viennese court.
Biography / Drama / History / Foreign
Tahara Blu-ray Movie
Film Movement | 2020 | 82 min | Not rated | Jul 29, 2025 | Jeffrey Kauffman
A queer, coming-of-age drama set in Rochester, NY about an anxious teen girl who is manipulated into a romantic encounter with her best friend during the funeral service of their former Hebrew school classmate.
Drama
- July 28, 2025
The Blood of Fu Manchu 4K Blu-ray Movie
4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray
Blue Underground | 1968 | 94 min | Not rated | Jul 29, 2025 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
In his remote jungle hideout, the evil Fu Manchu has discovered a deadly poison in a "lost city" in the Amazonian jungle that affects only men. Women can become carriers of the "kiss of death" by being bitten by venomous snakes. The poison causes blindness and ultimetly followed six weeks later by death. Using mind control, he aims the women at Nayland Smith and other key people with political influence. This done, this halts them in preventing them from interfering with his own ambitions to prepare millions of "doses" and spread them around the world's major cities and capitals in a plan to gain world domination.
Adventure / Crime / Foreign
Room 666 / Room 999 Blu-ray Movie
Criterion | 1982-2023 | 2 Movies | 134 min | Not rated | May 13, 2025 | Jeffrey Kauffman
See individual titles for their synopses.
Documentary / Short / Foreign
Room 666 Blu-ray Movie
Chambre 666
Criterion | 1982 | 45 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Jeffrey Kauffman
During the '35th Cannes International Film Festival' (14th-26th May 1982), German director Wim Wenders asked a sample of 15 film directors from around the world to get, each one at a time, into the same hotel room to answer in solitude the same question about the future of cinema, while they were filmed with a 16mm camera and recorded with a Nagra sound recorder.
Documentary / Short
Room 999 Blu-ray Movie
Chambre 999
Criterion | 2023 | 89 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Jeffrey Kauffman
Forty years after Wim Wenders asked leading filmmakers at the 1982 Cannes Film Festival to offer their thoughts on the future of cinema in his documentary Room 666, Lubna Playoust poses the same question—“Is cinema a language about to get lost, an art about to die?”—to a new generation of directors. Utilizing the same minimalist, fixed camera format as Wenders, Playoust invites thirty directors who attended the 2022 festival—including Claire Denis, David Cronenberg, Lynne Ramsay, Asghar Farhadi, James Gray, and Wenders himself—to give their unfiltered perspectives on the state of the industry. Touching on upheavals in the technology, distribution, and economics of filmmaking as well as on larger questions of politics and culture, their answers provide a thought-provoking exploration of the meaning and relevance of cinema in the twenty-first century.
Documentary / Foreign
Carnal Knowledge Blu-ray Movie
Criterion | 1971 | 98 min | Rated R | Jul 22, 2025 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
The film traces the sexual and emotional confusion of two men from their Amherst College days in the fifties through the Kennedy sixties...
Comedy / Drama
Carnal Knowledge 4K Blu-ray Movie
4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray
Criterion | 1971 | 98 min | Rated R | Jul 22, 2025 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
The film traces the sexual and emotional confusion of two men from their Amherst College days in the fifties through the Kennedy sixties...
Comedy / Drama
- July 27, 2025
The Little Things 4K Blu-ray Movie
4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray
Warner Bros. | 2021 | 128 min | Rated R | Jul 08, 2025 | Randy Miller III
Kern County Deputy Sheriff Joe Deacon is sent to Los Angeles for what should have been a quick evidence-gathering assignment. Instead, he becomes embroiled in the search for a serial killer who is terrorizing the city.
Crime / Thriller
The Demon Disorder Blu-ray Movie
Collector's Edition
Umbrella Entertainment | 2024 | 85 min | Rated ACB: MA15+ | Sep 04, 2024 | Neil Lumbard
Tells the story of Graham, Jake and Phillip Reilly and their deceased father. Their pasts collide when a family secret is discovered, leading their father's garage to become the site of revenge from beyond the grave.
Horror
The Moogai Blu-ray Movie
Umbrella Entertainment | 2024 | 86 min | Rated ACB: M | Mar 05, 2025 | Neil Lumbard
A young Aboriginal couple brings home their second baby. What should be a joyous time takes a sinister turn, as the baby's mother starts seeing a malevolent spirit she is convinced is trying to take her baby.
Horror
The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill Blu-ray Movie
Kino Lorber | 2003 | 83 min | Not rated | Jul 15, 2025 | Jeffrey Kauffman
A homeless musician finds meaning to his life when he starts a friendship with dozens of parrots.
Documentary