New Blu-ray Reviews

Prey Blu-ray Movie    

Indicator Series | Limited Edition

Powerhouse Films | 1977 | 85 min | Rated BBFC: 18 | No Release Date | Jeffrey Kauffman

The day after a weird green light is seen in the English sky, a strange young man stops at the country home of two lesbian housemates. It turns out that the man is an alien, and a hungry one.

Horror / Mystery / Sci-Fi

Terror Blu-ray Movie    

Indicator Series | Limited Edition

Powerhouse Films | 1978 | 84 min | Rated BBFC: 18 | No Release Date | Jeffrey Kauffman

Royal descendants feel the wrath of the curse of condemned witch Mad Dolly, who spews forth her prophecy while she is burned at the stake. The victims suffer death by having their heads removed in various fashions, getting their limbs caught in animal traps, knife wounds, and other methods of medieval torture.

Horror

Inseminoid Blu-ray Movie    

Horror Planet | Indicator Series | Limited Edition

Powerhouse Films | 1981 | 92 min | Rated BBFC: 15 | No Release Date | Jeffrey Kauffman

A group of scientists are working in a lab located on a distant planet. One of them, Sandy, is attacked, raped and impregnated by a monstrous creature. She then begins to stalk her colleagues one by one, killing them and drinking their blood.

Horror / Sci-Fi

Bloody New Year Blu-ray Movie    

Indicator Series | Limited Edition

Powerhouse Films | 1987 | 94 min | Rated BBFC: 15 | No Release Date | Jeffrey Kauffman

After capsizing their sailboat, five teenagers take refuge in an empty island hotel that is strangely decorated for New Years even though it is only July. Strange occurrences begin to happen to them one-by-one until they finally realize literally anything could happen...

Horror

My Gun Is Quick Blu-ray Movie  

Kino Lorber | 1957 | 91 min | Not rated | Mar 24, 2020 | Dr. Svet Atanasov

A private detective helps a prostitute being assaulted, and notices that she is wearing a very unique ring. She is later found murdered and there is no trace of the ring, which turns out to be part of a cache of jewelry stolen by the Nazis during World War II and smuggled out of France after the wary by an American army colonel. The private eye decides to try to find the ring, is hired by the former colonel to find the rest of the jewels, and runs up against a murderous French gang that is also looking for the jewels.

Crime / Drama / Film-Noir / Mystery

The Courier Blu-ray Movie  

Blu-ray + Digital Copy

Lionsgate Films | 2019 | 100 min | Rated R | Jan 21, 2020 | Brian Orndorf

This intense action-thriller unfolds in real time as two embattled souls fight for their lives. Academy Award® winner Gary Oldman stars as a vicious crime boss out to kill Nick, the lone witness set to testify against him. He hires a mysterious female motorcycle courier (Olga Kurylenko) to unknowingly deliver a poison-gas bomb to slay Nick, but after she rescues Nick from certain death, the duo must confront an army of ruthless hired killers in order to survive the night.

Action / Crime / Thriller

Murder in Greenwich Village Blu-ray Movie  

Sony Pictures | 1937 | 68 min | Not rated | Mar 24, 2020 | Brian Orndorf

A society girl is suspected of murdering an artist whose brother is a notorious racketeer. In her pursuit of an alibi, she inadvertently implicates a struggling advertisement photographer. Now they must keep up the appearance of being engaged as a bumbling detective snoops around, and their initial distaste for each other blossoms into romance.

Action / Comedy / Crime / Drama / Film-Noir / Mystery / Romance

Teenage Hitchhikers Blu-ray Movie  

Dark Force Entertainment | 1974 | 80 min | Rated R | May 12, 2020 | Dr. Svet Atanasov

Mouse and Bird are a couple of sassy and sexy young hitchhikers who embark on a cross country trip in search of freedom, excitement, and independence. The lovely ladies use their bodies as currency and encounter a diverse array of libidinous folks on their journey.

Comedy / Crime

The Gentlemen Blu-ray Movie  

Blu-ray + DVD + Digital Copy

Universal Studios | 2019 | 114 min | Rated R | Apr 21, 2020 | Martin Liebman

American expat Mickey Pearson has built a highly profitable marijuana empire in London. When word gets out that he’s looking to cash out of the business forever it triggers plots, schemes, bribery and blackmail in an attempt to steal his domain out from under him.

Action / Crime

The Gentlemen 4K Blu-ray Movie  

4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray + Digital Copy

Universal Studios | 2019 | 113 min | Rated R | Apr 21, 2020 | Martin Liebman

American expat Mickey Pearson has built a highly profitable marijuana empire in London. When word gets out that he’s looking to cash out of the business forever it triggers plots, schemes, bribery and blackmail in an attempt to steal his domain out from under him.

Action / Crime

Sweet Bird of Youth Blu-ray Movie  

Warner Archive Collection

Warner Bros. | 1962 | 120 min | Not rated | Apr 28, 2020 | Randy Miller III

Drifter Chance Wayne returns to his hometown after many years of trying to make it in the movies. With him is a faded film star he picked up along the way, Alexandra Del Lago. While trying to get her help to make a screen test, he also finds the time to meet his former girlfriend Heavenly, the daughter of the local politician Tom 'Boss' Finley, who more or less forced him to leave the town many years ago.

Drama

The Salt of the Earth Blu-ray Movie    

Le Sel de la Terre / O Sal da Terra

Artificial Eye | 2014 | 130 min | Rated BBFC: 15 | Sep 14, 2015 | Jeffrey Kauffman

The discovery of pristine territories, of wild fauna and flora, and of grandiose landscapes as part of a huge photographic project which is a tribute to the planet's beauty.

Biography / Documentary

Me and You and Everyone We Know Blu-ray Movie  

Criterion | 2005 | 92 min | Not rated | Apr 28, 2020 | Dr. Svet Atanasov

Christine Jesperson is a struggling artist and cab driver who uses her talents and imagination to draw her dreams and objects of desire. One such object is Richard Swersey, a newly-single father of two boys who is hoping for amazing things, yet panics upon meeting the captivating Christine. But in a world where the mundane is transcendent and people seek meaningful connections despite the risk, anything magical can happen.

Comedy / Drama

Downtown 81 Blu-ray Movie  

Metrograph Pictures | 2000 | 72 min | Not rated | Mar 24, 2020 | Neil Lumbard

After being released from the hospital, the artist Jean Michel Basquiat wanders around Manhattan trying to sell art to make money and find a place to stay.

Comedy / Drama / Musical

The Flame of New Orleans Blu-ray Movie  

Kino Lorber | 1941 | 79 min | Not rated | Mar 31, 2020 | Neil Lumbard

Countess Claire Ledoux has only one thing on her mind – to marry a man of means. Ledoux's engagement to Charles Giraud appears to be smooth seas ahead… until Captain Robert Latour storms into town and takes the wind out of her sails. Though it takes fainting spells and double identities to delay and disguise the truth, the Countess discovers that the greatest treasure of all – a heart of gold – is worth more than a pot of it.

Adventure / Comedy

The Ugly Duckling Blu-ray Movie  

Sony Pictures | 1959 | 84 min | Not rated | Feb 18, 2020 | Brian Orndorf

Henry Jeckle was always the outsider, a bungling and awkward buffoon, relegated to waiting for his invitation to participate in life that never arrived: until he discovers a medical formula developed by a dead uncle, which claimed to turn 'a man of timid disposition into a bold, fearless dragon'. Taking a draught of the elixir Henry is transformed into suave, sophisticated and highly desirable Teddy Hyde. Armed with his new persona, Teddy is ready to face the world; but is Henry ready for the consequences?

Comedy / Crime

Knives and Skin Blu-ray Movie  

Blu-ray + DVD

Shout Factory | 2019 | 112 min | Not rated | Apr 07, 2020 | Brian Orndorf

"Knives and Skin" is a mystical teen noir that follows a young girl's disappearance in the rural Midwest and its effect on teens and parents.

Drama

Gardens of Stone Blu-ray Movie    

Indicator Series | Limited Edition

Powerhouse Films | 1987 | 111 min | Rated BBFC: 15 | Jan 21, 2019 | Jeffrey Kauffman

A poignant look at stateside military life during the Vietnam War.

Drama / Romance / War

First Name: Carmen Blu-ray Movie  

Prénom Carmen

Kino Lorber | 1972-1983 | 2 Movies | 85 min | Not rated | Jun 18, 2019 | Dr. Stephen Larson

First Name: Carmen tells the parallel stories of a quartet rehearsing Beethoven and a group of young people robbing a bank, supposedly to get the funds to make a film.

Comedy / Crime / Drama / Music / Romance / Foreign

Bluebeard's Eighth Wife Blu-ray Movie  

Kino Lorber | 1938 | 85 min | Not rated | Mar 31, 2020 | Dr. Svet Atanasov

Screen legends Claudette Colbert and Gary Cooper star in the classic screwball comedy Bluebeard's Eighth Wife directed by Ernst Lubitsch. Set on the French Riviera, the charming daughter (Colbert) of a destitute aristocrat (Edward Everett Horton) catches the eye of a dashing millionaire (Gary Cooper). After a brief courtship, she accepts his marriage proposal, only to find out on their wedding day that he has been down the aisle before - seven times! Determined to teach him a lesson, she makes a mockery of their matrimony in a variety of side-splitting situations.

Comedy / Romance