New Blu-ray Reviews

Jaws 4K Blu-ray Movie  

45th Anniversary Edition / 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray + Digital Copy

Universal Studios | 1975 | 124 min | Rated PG | Jun 02, 2020 | Martin Liebman

When a seaside community finds itself under attack by a great white shark, three men embark on a quest to kill it before it strikes again.

Adventure / Horror / Thriller

Spartacus Blu-ray Movie  

Blu-ray + Digital Copy

Universal Studios | 1960 | 197 min | Rated PG-13 | Nov 05, 2019 | Martin Liebman

A slave leads a violent revolt against the Imperial Rome at its glorious height. Filmed in Technirama.

Adventure / Biography / Drama / History / Romance / War / Epic / Period

A League of Their Own 4K Blu-ray Movie  

Columbia Classics: Volume 1 / 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray + Digital Copy

Sony Pictures | 1992 | 128 min | Rated PG | Jun 16, 2020 | Martin Liebman

In a small town in Oregon, farm girls Dottie Hinson and Kit Keller are sisters who compete with each other, even over the little things. With so many young men overseas fighting the Axis, there is a danger that professional baseball will be shut down for the duration of the war. A well-known candy manufacturer, Walter Harvey, contrives the idea to create a professional baseball league for women; both the keep the sport alive and to make a buck or two. Dottie is recruited by a scout for this new league but refuses to go unless her sister is allowed on the team. These women, along with their team-mates, begin a journey that opens up a whole new world, far beyond that of the baseball diamond, lead by team manager, Jimmy Dugan, a washed-up star ruined by alcohol and angered and embarrassed to be the coach of a girl's team.

Comedy / Drama / Sport / Period

The Duellists Blu-ray Movie    

Imprint #04

Imprint | 1977 | 101 min | Rated ACB: M | May 27, 2020 | Dr. Svet Atanasov

Two officers in Napoleon's army violently confront each other in a series of duels. The duels begin as a reaction to a minor incident and escalate into a consuming passion that rules the lives of both men for a period of 30 years. Based on Joseph Conrad's story.

Drama / War / Period

Rad 4K Blu-ray Movie  

Slipcover in Original Pressing / 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray

Vinegar Syndrome | 1986 | 93 min | Rated PG | May 22, 2020 | Brian Orndorf

The story of one young man, Cru Jones, who has the intensity and desire to win a BMX race called Helltrack.

Drama / Sport

Gandhi 4K Blu-ray Movie  

Columbia Classics: Volume 1 / 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray + Digital Copy

Sony Pictures | 1982 | 191 min | Rated PG | Jun 16, 2020 | Martin Liebman

This acclaimed biographical drama presents major events in the life of Mohandas Gandhi (Ben Kingsley), the beloved Indian leader who stood against British rule over his country. Dedicated to the concept of nonviolent resistance, Gandhi is initially dismissed by English officials, including the influential Lord Irwin (John Gielgud), but eventually he and his cause become internationally renowned, and his gatherings of passive protest move India towards independence.

Biography / Drama / History / Epic / Period

Heading Home: The Tale of Team Israel Blu-ray Movie  

Menemsha Films | 2018 | 87 min | Not rated | May 05, 2020 | Jeffrey Kauffman

In this documentary, Team Israel is finally ranked among the world’s best in 2017, and they’re eligible to compete in the prestigious World Baseball Classic. Their line-up includes several Jewish American Major League players―Ike Davis, Josh Zeid and ex-Braves catcher Ryan Lavarnway. With their Mensch on the Bench mascot by their side, the team laughs, cries, and does much soul-searching as they discover the pride of representing Israel on the world stage. Following the film, we’ll be joined by guests to discuss Jewish athletes in film and how their lives and stories have been adapted for the big screen.

Documentary

My 20th Century Blu-ray Movie  

Az én XX. századom / My Twentieth Century

Kino Lorber | 1989 | 90 min | Not rated | Jun 09, 2020 | Dr. Svet Atanasov

Separated identical twins ride an Orient Express unaware of each other: a feminist anarchist and a hedonistic courtesan, living under the powder-keg Austro-Hungarian Monarchy. Separate families adopted the impoverished orphans. At the dawn of the 20th Century the double-blind experiment hits crescendo for Dora & Lili, born the evening Edison unveiled his incandescent bulb. In 1900, technology was accelerating, could women's rights and national self-determination keep pace?

Comedy / Drama / Sci-Fi

Funeral in Berlin Blu-ray Movie  

Paramount Pictures | 1966 | 102 min | Not rated | May 26, 2020 | Jeffrey Kauffman

Spy Harry Palmer is sent to East Berlin, where he is to extricate a Russian general who wants to defect. But the true situation turns out to be rather more complicated.

Drama / Thriller

Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb 4K Blu-ray Movie  

4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray + Digital Copy

Sony Pictures | 1964 | 95 min | Rated PG | Jul 06, 2021 | Martin Liebman

After a psychotic Air Force general unleashes an ingenious, foolproof and irrevocable scheme sending bombers to attack the Soviet Union, the U.S. President phones the Soviet premier in a desperate effort to save the world.

Drama / War / Dark humor / Imaginary

Once Were Brothers: Robbie Robertson and The Band Blu-ray Movie  

Magnolia Pictures | 2019 | 100 min | Not rated | May 26, 2020 | Randy Miller III

It will tell the story of a group that went from backing up Bob Dylan to become one of the most influential groups of its era.

Biography / Documentary / History / Music

She Blu-ray Movie  

Kino Lorber | 1985 | 105 min | Not rated | Dec 03, 2019 | Dr. Svet Atanasov

In a post-apocalyptic wasteland, two villagers vow to rescue a woman who has been kidnapped by the evil warlord Nork. Their quest leads them to the domain of the barbarian goddess She, where women rule and men are slaves. They take She hostage and force her to guide them across a landscape populated by mutants, monsters, mad scientists and villains with psychic powers before they finally reach Nork's castle.

Action / Adventure / Comedy / Fantasy

Universal Horror Collection: Volume 5 Blu-ray Movie  

The Monster and the Girl / Captive Wild Woman / Jungle Woman / Jungle Captive

Shout Factory | 1941-1945 | 4 Movies | 250 min | Not rated | Jun 16, 2020 | Brian Orndorf

Volume 5 of the Universal Horror Collection includes four tales of terror from the archives of Universal Pictures, the true home of classic horror. A mobster's brain is transplanted into an ape who carries out his revenge in The Monster And The Girl. A mad scientist turns an ape into a beautiful, but deadly woman in Captive Wild Woman. Jungle Woman, the sequel to Captive Wild Woman, is an eerie thriller with all the danger of wild animals on the loose and a sexy killer on the prowl! And in Jungle Captive, a scientist has experimented on re-animating animals ... but now he has decided to go one step further and re-animate a human! See individual titles for their synopses.

Crime / Drama / Fantasy / Horror / Sci-Fi / Thriller

The Monster and the Girl Blu-ray Movie  

Shout Factory | 1941 | 65 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Brian Orndorf

A mad scientist creates a monster when he transplants the brain of an executed murderer into the body of an ape.

Crime / Drama / Horror / Thriller

Captive Wild Woman Blu-ray Movie  

Shout Factory | 1943 | 61 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Brian Orndorf

Dr. Sigmund Walters, an expert in glandular research, becomes convinced that his experiments involving lower animal species cannot succeed, so he arranges to have a very intelligent female gorilla kidnapped from the circus and brought to his lab. Using the glands of a patient and the brain of his faithful nurse, he performs transplant surgery on the intelligent simian. When the ape morphs into exotic and sexy Paula Dupree, the experiment seems to be s success. She even finds a place for herself at her old circus assisting lion tamer Fred Mason. Unfortunately when aroused by desire and jealousy over the affections of Mason, her delicate metabolism breaks down, and she regresses to her ape form...

Horror / Sci-Fi

Jungle Woman Blu-ray Movie  

Shout Factory | 1944 | 61 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Brian Orndorf

Paula the ape woman is alive and well, and running around a creepy old sanitarium run by the kindly Dr. Fletcher, also reverting to her true gorilla form every once in a while to kill somebody. A strong contender for the title of Universal's worst horror film of the 1940's.

Drama / Fantasy / Horror

Jungle Captive Blu-ray Movie  

Shout Factory | 1945 | 63 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Brian Orndorf

Once again, Paula Dupree, the Ape Woman, is brought back to life, this time by a mad scientist and his disfigured assistant, who also kidnaps his female lab assistant in order to have a female blood donor. By this time, Paula has brain damage from her experiences in the last film, so there's not much for her to do except wander around.

Horror / Sci-Fi

On a Clear Day You Can See Forever Blu-ray Movie  

Paramount Pictures | 1970 | 129 min | Rated G | May 26, 2020 | Jeffrey Kauffman

Daisy Gamble, an unusual woman who hears phones before they ring, and does wonders with her flowers, wants to quit smoking to please her fiancé, Warren. She goes to a doctor of hypnosis to do it. But once she's under, her doctor finds out that she can regress into past lives and different personalities, and he finds himself falling in love with one of them.

Comedy / Musical / Romance

The Wind Blu-ray Movie  

Arrow | 1986 | 92 min | Not rated | Apr 28, 2020 | Jeffrey Kauffman

A novelist is stalked by a psychopath one stormy night.

Horror / Thriller

Urban Cowboy Blu-ray Movie  

40th Anniversary Edition / Blu-ray + Digital Copy

Paramount Pictures | 1980 | 135 min | Rated PG | Jun 02, 2020 | Martin Liebman

By day, Bud Davis toils at a Texas oil refinery; at night, he trades his hard hat for a Stetson and heads to Gilley's, Houston's most popular nightclub.

Drama / Western