New Blu-ray Reviews
Home- August 06, 2020
Unashamed: A Romance Blu-ray Movie
Kino Lorber | 1938 | 76 min | Unrated | No Release Date | Neil Lumbard
Rae Lane entices her workaholic boss to come to a nudist camp in the hopes of winning his heart. Things go swimmingly, until attractive and pert blond Barbara captures his attention.
Drama / Romance
Elysia: Valley of the Nude Blu-ray Movie
Kino Lorber | 1933 | 46 min | No Release Date | Neil Lumbard
A reporter is assigned to write a article on a nudist camp.
Drama
Hiroshima Blu-ray Movie
ひろしま / Arrow Academy
Arrow | 1953 | 104 min | Not rated | Jul 14, 2020 | Jeffrey Kauffman
The film shows the bombing of Hiroshima and the horrific aftermath following the detonation of an atomic bomb on humans for the first time in history.
Drama / History / War / Foreign
- August 05, 2020
The Tobacconist Blu-ray Movie
Der Trafikant
Menemsha Films | 2018 | 114 min | Not rated | Aug 25, 2020 | Jeffrey Kauffman
Based on the international bestseller by Robert Seethaler. A tender, heart-breaking story about one young man and his friendship with Sigmund Freud during the Nazi occupation of Vienna.
Drama / Foreign
The Tenant Blu-ray Movie
Le locataire
Shout Factory | 1976 | 126 min | Rated R | Jul 28, 2020 | Dr. Stephen Larson
A quiet and inconspicuous man rents an apartment in France where the previous tenant committed suicide, and begins to suspect his landlord and neighbors are trying to subtly change him into the last tenant so that he too will kill himself.
Drama / Horror / Mystery / Thriller / Psychological thriller / Surreal
Johnny Cool Blu-ray Movie
Scorpion Releasing | 1963 | 101 min | Not rated | May 19, 2020 | Jeffrey Kauffman
Criminals who betrayed a crime boss are in for a bloody revenge. A Sicilian mobster is in town to rub them out.
Action / Crime / Drama / Thriller
The Coming Convergence Blu-ray Movie
Ingenuity Films | 2017 | 102 min | Not rated | Mar 28, 2017 | Martin Liebman
Can we truly know the day of our demise? Jesus chastised religious leaders in ancient Jerusalem for not knowing the time of His first arrival. Will the prophesied "final generation" today make the same mistake? The Bible foretells that the end of days would be preceded by a sequence of global events that has never before occurred, but can this be proven? Through newly exposed geological and statistical evidence, a convergence of events has now been discovered that many believe finally prove the Tribulation is about to begin! This whistleblower film breaks the mold of what a documentary can be by pulling you deeper into the reality of the approaching apocalypse as you follow the story of a young girl (Erin Hawkins) that is living through the end of days. Her cinematic interruptions throughout the documentary act as a warning to the genuine reality humankind will soon face.
Documentary
- August 04, 2020
The Blacklist: The Complete Fifth Season Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + Digital Copy
Sony Pictures | 2017-2018 | 945 min | Not rated | Aug 14, 2018 | Martin Liebman
Former government agent turned international criminal Raymond "Red" Reddington has eluded capture for decades. One day, he abruptly surrenders to the FBI and agrees to help them capture terrorists under the condition he only communicate with Elizabeth Keen, an inexperienced profiler who just recently graduated from Quantico.
Crime / Drama / Mystery / Thriller
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
- August 03, 2020
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
- August 02, 2020
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