New Blu-ray Reviews

Trolls 4K Blu-ray Movie  

4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray + Digital Copy

Universal Studios | 2016 | 92 min | Rated PG | Mar 10, 2020 | Martin Liebman

Lovable and friendly, the trolls love to play around. But one day, a mysterious giant shows up to end the party.

Adventure / Animation / Comedy / Family / Fantasy / Musical

Superman: Red Son Blu-ray Movie  

Blu-ray + DVD + Digital Copy

Warner Bros. | 2020 | 84 min | Rated PG-13 | Mar 17, 2020 | Randy Miller III

What if baby Kal-El's rocket landed, not in Kansas, but in the Soviet Union? That is the premise of this Elseworld's tale from DC Comics.

Action / Animation / Comic book

Ne Zha Blu-ray Movie  

哪吒之魔童降世 / Blu-ray + DVD

Well Go USA | 2019 | 110 min | Not rated | Mar 03, 2020 | Jeffrey Kauffman

The Primus extracts a Mixed Yuan Bead into a spirit bead and a demon bead. The spirit bead can be reincarnated in human to help King Zhou establish a new dynasty, the demon bead will create a devil and harm human. Ne Zha is the one who should be spirit bead hero but he becomes a devil incarnate, because the spirit bead and the demon bead is switched.

Animation / Comedy / Fantasy / Thriller / Martial arts / Foreign

Universal Horror Collection: Volume 4 Blu-ray Movie  

Night Key / Night Monster / The Climax / House of Horrors

Shout Factory | 1937-1946 | 4 Movies | 292 min | Not rated | Mar 17, 2020 | Brian Orndorf

Volume 4 of the Universal Horror Collection includes four tales of terror from the archives of Universal Pictures, the true home of classic horror. This collection includes such horror stars as Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, Lionel Atwill, and Rondo Hatton. Boris Karloff ignites the screen as an inventor who is kidnapped by a gang of burglars and forced to help them commit robberies in Night Key. Bela Lugosi stars in a creepy tale of strange characters, secret passages and a murderer who masters the art of "mind over matter" in Night Monster. In The Climax, Karloff is terrifying as a mad doctor whose insane jealousy over a beautiful opera singer may drive him to murder. A giant of a man is used as an instrument of evil by a mad sculptor in House Of Horrors.

Adventure / Crime / Drama / Film-Noir / Horror / Musical / Mystery / Romance / Thriller

Night Key Blu-ray Movie  

Shout Factory | 1937 | 68 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Brian Orndorf

Mild mannered David Mallory is an eccentric inventor who spent 20 years of his life perfecting a security system only to find himself taken advantage of once again by a former partner and his lawyer. Seeking revenge so that he can provide for his daughter, Mallory soon finds himself kidnapped by a gang of burglars and forced to help them commit robberies.

Crime / Thriller

Night Monster Blu-ray Movie  

Shout Factory | 1942 | 72 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Brian Orndorf

Dr. Lynn Harper, psychologist, has been called out to the old Ingston Mansion, in order to make an assessment of the sanity of Margaret Ingston. She claims to be sane, but she's clearly very disturbed. But then Dick Baldwin shows up on the scene, just when Dr. Lynne has been receiving thinly veiled threats from the inhabitants of the house. Three medical doctors have been invited out to the mansion as well; one by one the doctors are mysteriously murdered. Dick Baldwin must figure out who is doing the killings, and he must do so before whoever it is can kill his new love interest, Dr. Lynne Harper. But the only one he can trust is Kurt Ingston himself, since Ingston has no legs and can't have perpetrated these murders. And of course, Lynne might be wrong, Margaret may be very insane, and she might be the culprit...

Drama / Film-Noir / Horror / Mystery / Thriller

The Climax Blu-ray Movie  

Shout Factory | 1944 | 86 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Brian Orndorf

Dr. Hohner (Boris Karloff), the house physician at Vienna's Royal Theatre, secretly murders his opera star mistress. When new soprano Angela (Susanna Foster) arrives, her identical voice impels Hohner to hypnotize her, making her incapable of singing. The love of a composer (Turhan Bey) rids Angela of the doctor's evil influence, but Hohner - driven to insanity - now plots to silence the girl forever!

Horror / Musical / Thriller

House of Horrors Blu-ray Movie  

Shout Factory | 1946 | 66 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Brian Orndorf

An unsuccessful sculptor saves a madman named "The Creeper" from drowning. Seeing an opportunity for revenge, he tricks the psycho into murdering his critics.

Adventure / Crime / Horror / Romance / Thriller

Dangerous Cargo Blu-ray Movie  

Anomalo fortio

Mondo Macabro | 1977 | 90 min | Not rated | Feb 11, 2020 | Dr. Svet Atanasov

A pirate takes over a munitions ship, killing the captain, and when the crew mutinies and abandons ship, is left aboard with the captain's widow.

Action / Crime / Foreign

Abigail Blu-ray Movie  

Well Go USA | 2019 | 110 min | Not rated | Mar 17, 2020 | Jeffrey Kauffman

A young girl Abigail lives in a city whose borders were closed many years ago because of an epidemic of a mysterious disease. Abby's father was one of the sick - and he was taken when she was six years old. Going against the authorities to find her father, Abby learns that her city is actually full of magic. And she discovers in herself extraordinary magical abilities.

Adventure / Family / Fantasy / Foreign

The Witch: Subversion Blu-ray Movie  

Manyeo

Well Go USA | 2018 | 126 min | Not rated | Mar 10, 2020 | Jeffrey Kauffman

A high school student with amnesia tries to uncover what has happened to her. All leading her into deeper troubles ultimately revealing a darkness she could not have imagined.

Action / Mystery / Sci-Fi / Foreign

Some Girls Do Blu-ray Movie    

Network | 1969 | 93 min | Rated BBFC: PG | Feb 17, 2020 | Dr. Svet Atanasov

A series of unexplainable accidents befall the people and companies responsible for developing the world's first supersonic airliner (SST1). A British agent is sent to investigate and with the help of another agent uncovers a plot masterminded by Carl Petersen who stands to gain eight million pounds if the aircraft is not ready by a certain date. The evil Petersen has developed a number of "robots" (actually rather beautiful girls with "electronic brains") to help him sabotage the SST1 project by means of "infrasound" (extreme low frequency sound waves) which can be directed at people or objects with devastating results.

Action / Adventure / Comedy

Leave Her to Heaven Blu-ray Movie  

Criterion | 1945 | 110 min | Not rated | Mar 24, 2020 | Dr. Svet Atanasov

A writer meets a young socialite on board a train. The two fall in love and are married soon after, but her obsessive love for him threatens to be the undoing of both them and everyone else around them.

Drama / Film-Noir / Thriller

Angel of Mine Blu-ray Movie  

Blu-ray + Digital Copy

Lionsgate Films | 2019 | 98 min | Rated R | Oct 22, 2019 | Brian Orndorf

A woman grieving over the death of her daughter loses grip of reality when she begins to think her girl may still be alive.

Drama / Thriller

Masked and Anonymous Blu-ray Movie  

Shout Factory | 2003 | 107 min | Rated PG-13 | Mar 10, 2020 | Brian Orndorf

A singer, whose career has gone on a downward spiral, is forced to make a comeback to the performance stage for a benefit concert.

Comedy / Drama / Music / Musical / Surreal

Scenes from a Marriage Blu-ray Movie  

Scener ur ett äktenskap / Television and U.S. Theatrical versions

Criterion | 1973 | 1 Movie, 2 Cuts | 300 min | Rated R | Sep 04, 2018 | Jeffrey Kauffman

A chronicle of the many years of love and turmoil that bind Marianne and Johan, tracking their relationship as it progresses through a number of successive stages: matrimony, infidelity, divorce, and subsequent partnerships.

Drama / Foreign

Beau Brummell Blu-ray Movie  

Warner Archive Collection

Warner Bros. | 1954 | 113 min | Not rated | Mar 10, 2020 | Randy Miller III

An unlikely friendship between Captain Beau Brumell and the Prince of Wales leads the dandy Brummell into lofty circles, royal intrigue, and into the arms of lovely Lady Patricia.

Biography / Drama

Pray for the Wildcats Blu-ray Movie  

Kino Lorber | 1974 | 93 min | Not rated | Mar 03, 2020 | Dr. Svet Atanasov

Three ad agency executives are pressured into taking a motorbike trip to Baja by a big-ticket client. Along the way, the client is spurned by a young woman whose boyfriend sticks up for her. The client later disables their van, leading to their deaths in the desert. When the executives piece together what has happened, it leads to a showdown.

Thriller

A Dry White Season Blu-ray Movie  

Criterion | 1989 | 107 min | Rated R | Dec 11, 2018 | Jeffrey Kauffman

Ben du Toit is a schoolteacher who always has considered himself a man of caring and justice, at least on the individual level. When his gardener's son is brutally beaten up by the police at a demonstration by black school children, he gradually begins to realize his own society is built on a pillar of injustice and exploitation.

Drama / Thriller

A Bug's Life 4K Blu-ray Movie  

4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray + Digital Copy

Disney / Pixar | 1998 | 95 min | Rated G | Mar 03, 2020 | Martin Liebman

A colony of ants is threatened by a gang of grass hoppers led by the evil Hopper. Flik, a common ant and a misfit, has an uncommon vision when he tries to rise to heroic proportions by enlisting a band of circus fleas to help him defend his colony from the grasshoppers.

Adventure / Animation / Comedy / Family