New Blu-ray Reviews
Home- May 19, 2020
FLCL Alternative Blu-ray Movie
Warner Bros. | 2018 | 150 min | No Release Date | Neil Lumbard
FLCL: ALTERNATIVE hands the keys to a totally different team of young creators to redefine the meaning of "sequel." The series centers on the misadventures of 17-year-old Kana, a high school junior who spends her days hanging out with her besties, Mossan, Hijiri, and Pets.
Action / Anime / Comedy / Sci-Fi / Teen / Foreign
- May 18, 2020
Cisco Pike Blu-ray Movie
Indicator Series | Limited Edition
Powerhouse Films | 1971 | 94 min | Rated BBFC: 15 | May 25, 2020 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
Just released from prison for drug-dealing, Cisco Pike dreams of making a comeback. A once-famous rock singer, he finds his music contacts are more interested in his dope connections than his new songs.
Drama
Fantasy Island Blu-ray Movie
Unrated Edition / Blu-ray + Digital Copy
Sony Pictures | 2020 | 1 Movie, 2 Cuts | 109 min | Unrated | May 12, 2020 | Martin Liebman
The enigmatic Mr. Roarke makes the secret dreams of his lucky guests come true at a luxurious but remote tropical resort. But when the fantasies turn into nightmares, the guests have to solve the island's mystery in order to escape with their lives.
Adventure / Comedy / Horror / Mystery / Thriller
Emma. Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + DVD + Digital Copy
Universal Studios | 2020 | 124 min | Rated PG | May 19, 2020 | Martin Liebman
Handsome, clever, and rich, Emma Woodhouse is a restless queen bee without rivals in her sleepy little town. In this glittering satire of social class and the pain of growing up, Emma must adventure through misguided matches and romantic missteps to find the love that has been there all along.
Comedy / Drama / Romance / Period
Selena Blu-ray Movie
Warner Archive Collection
Warner Bros. | 1997 | 1 Movie, 2 Cuts | 134 min | Rated PG | May 19, 2020 | Randy Miller III
The true story of Selena Quintanilla Pérez, a Texas born tejano singer who rose from cult status to performing at the Astrodome, as well as having chart topping albums on the Latin music charts.
Biography / Drama / Music
3-D Rarities Volume II Blu-ray Movie
Includes El Corazón y la Espada / Blu-ray 3D
Flicker Alley | 1953 | 153 min | Not rated | Apr 07, 2020 | Neil Lumbard
3-D Rarities, Volume II spans over 40 years of international 3-D film production, and is appropriately presented in three segments. The first is a superb collection of short 3-D oddities, including the long-lost A Day in the Country; 3-D master Raymond Spottiswoode’s The Black Swan; Stereoscopic Anthropologist Hillary Hess’s presentation of Mid-Century Memories in Kodachrome Stereo; the mysterious Polaroid-filmed Games in Depth; a prologue for Frankenstein's Bloody Terror, a West German-Spanish coproduction originally filmed in Hi-Fi Stereo 70; and a trailer for the 1983 documentary The 3-D Movie, which serves as a brief historical showcase for a wide swath of classic 3-D films. Up next is the feature-length, historical romance/adventure from 1953: El Corazón y la Espada (aka The Heart and the Sword, aka The Sword of Granada). The first 3-D movie ever produced in Mexico, the original Spanish version of El Corazón y la Espada has not been viewed in its intended format since 1955. Scanned in 4K and restored frame-by-frame from the original left and right camera negatives, the film stars Cesar Romero (The Thin Man; Batman) and Katy Jurado (High Noon; Broken Lance), alongside a veritable who’s who of top Mexican actors of the time. Last but certainly not least is a special sampling of homemade stereoscopic photographs from silent film icon Harold Lloyd. Presented by Lloyd’s granddaughter, Suzanne Lloyd Hayes, these slides are choc-full of Hollywood stars, and many of the images have never been seen at all by the general public!
Action / Adventure / Documentary / Short / Foreign
The Sword of Granada 3D Blu-ray Movie
El Corazón y la Espada / The Heart and the Sword / The Naked Sword / Blu-ray 3D + Blu-ray
Flicker Alley | 1953 | 80 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Neil Lumbard
Don Pedro de Rivera, the rightful owner of a Spanish castle seeks to reclaim it from an occupying Moorish Caliph. Don Pedro’s accomplice is Juan Ponce de León, who intends to steal the "Rose of Granada," a rare gem owned by the Caliph, which supposedly contains a rare essence that ensures eternal youth.
Action / Adventure / History / Foreign
Jenny Blu-ray Movie
Kino Lorber | 1970 | 89 min | Not rated | Apr 14, 2020 | Neil Lumbard
An unwed mother-to-be marries a total stranger avoiding the draft. She now has a father for her child and he doesn't have to go to the Army. But this marriage-of-convenience leads to a romance between the two.
Drama / Romance
Idlewild Blu-ray Movie
Universal Studios | 2006 | 121 min | Rated R | Jan 21, 2020 | Jeffrey Kauffman
A musical set in the Prohibition-era American South, where a speakeasy performer and club manager Rooster must contend with gangsters who have their eyes on the club while his piano player and partner Percival must choose between his love, Angel or his obligations to his father.
Crime / Drama / Musical / Romance
- May 17, 2020
Supernatural Blu-ray Movie
Kino Lorber | 1933 | 64 min | Not rated | Apr 07, 2020 | Neil Lumbard
SUPERNATURAL stars Hollywood legend Carole Lombard as a woman possessed by a murderer's dark soul. Roma, whose twin brother has recently been murdered, becomes easy prey for a corrupt medium who arranges a séance to conjure up the lost twin's supposedly troubled soul. Meanwhile, a murderess accused of strangling her lovers awaits her fate in the electric chair. Before she dies, she agrees to donate her body to a scientist for his unique life-after-death research. Eerily, the doctor's first experiment on the now-deceased woman occurs at precisely the same time as the séance. In an evil twist of fate, Roma becomes possessed by the murderess' wicked spirit. In a race against time, the doctor and Roma's fiancé struggle to undo the horrible curse in this inventive ghost story.
Horror / Thriller / Supernatural
The Limey Blu-ray Movie
Lionsgate Films | 1999 | 89 min | Rated BBFC: 18 | Apr 06, 2020 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
An extremely volatile and dangerous Englishman goes to Los Angeles to find the man he considers responsible for his daughter's death.
Crime / Drama / Mystery
Battling Butler Blu-ray Movie
Masters of Cinema
Eureka Entertainment | 1926 | 77 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Dr. Svet Atanasov
Based on the popular stage musical, Battling Butler stars Keaton as a pampered socialite who pretends to be a famed prizefighter in order to impress his girlfriend's bullying brothers.
Comedy / Western
Flashdance Blu-ray Movie
Remastered | Paramount Presents #4
Paramount Pictures | 1983 | 95 min | Rated R | May 19, 2020 | Martin Liebman
Alex Owens is a female dynamo: steel worker by day, exotic dancer by night. Her dream is to get into a real dance company, though, and with encouragement from her boss/boyfriend, she may get her chance. The city of Pittsburgh co-stars. What a feeling!
Drama / Music / Romance
Arkansas Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + DVD + Digital Copy
Lionsgate Films | 2020 | 115 min | Rated R | May 05, 2020 | Jeffrey Kauffman
Kyle and Swin live by the orders of an Arkansas-based drug kingpin named Frog, whom they've never met. But when a deal goes horribly wrong, the consequences are deadly.
Crime / Drama / Thriller
- May 16, 2020
An Inspector Calls Blu-ray Movie
Kino Lorber | 1954 | 80 min | Not rated | May 05, 2020 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
The Birling family are rich, pampered and complacent. It is 1912, and the shadow of the impending war has yet to fall across their lives. As they sit down to dinner one night, a knock at the door announces the arrival of Inspector Poole, who insists on questioning the family about the suicide of a young working-class woman.
Crime / Drama / Mystery
The Nude Bomb Blu-ray Movie
Kino Lorber | 1980 | 94 min | Rated PG | Dec 10, 2019 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
Maxwell Smart is recalled to duty to help fight a villian who threatens to detonate a weapon that destroys clothing.
Action / Adventure / Comedy / Fantasy
Arabian Adventure Blu-ray Movie
Kino Lorber | 1979 | 98 min | Rated G | May 28, 2019 | Dr. Stephen Larson
An evil magician seeks to gain power by obtaining a magic rose. A peasant boy and a Prince join forces to stop him.
Adventure / Family / Fantasy
Maleficent: Mistress of Evil 4K Blu-ray Movie
4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray + Digital Copy
Disney / Buena Vista | 2019 | 120 min | Rated PG | Jan 14, 2020 | Neil Lumbard
The complex relationship of Maleficent and Aurora continues to be explored as they face new threats to the magical land of the Moors.
Adventure / Family / Fantasy
Underwater Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + Digital Copy
20th Century Fox | 2020 | 95 min | Rated PG-13 | Apr 14, 2020 | Jeffrey Kauffman
Mysterious creatures terrorize crew members aboard a research station located seven miles below the surface of the ocean.
Action / Adventure / Drama / Horror / Thriller
Birds of Prey (And the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn) 4K Blu-ray Movie
4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray + Digital Copy
Warner Bros. | 2020 | 109 min | Rated R | May 12, 2020 | Randy Miller III
After splitting up with The Joker, Harley Quinn and three other female superheroes - Black Canary, Huntress and Renee Montoya - come together to save the life of a little girl from an evil crime lord.
Action / Adventure / Crime / Comic book