New Blu-ray Reviews

Frieren: Beyond Journey's End: Part 2 Blu-ray Movie  

Limited Edition | 葬送のフリーレン | Sousou no Frieren / Blu-ray + DVD

Crunchyroll, LLC | 2023-2024 | 300 min | Rated TV-14 | Oct 21, 2025 | Neil Lumbard

Frieren and Fern take a magic exam in order to enter the Northern Plateau. Not only is the test notorious for killing more people than it passes, it requires the one thing that can defeat even the most powerful elf: teamwork. May the era of humans begin.

Action / Adventure / Anime / Drama / Fantasy / Comic book / Foreign

Triumph of the Spirit Blu-ray Movie  

Kino Lorber | 1989 | 121 min | Rated R | Nov 12, 2024 | Dr. Svet Atanasov

Fact based story about a former Greek Olympic boxer who was taken as a prisoner during World war II and placed in the Auschwitz prison camp. There he was permitted to survive as long as he fought for the amusement of his captors. His father and brother were also held as insurance that he would continue to fight.

Biography / Drama / History / Sport / War

Cop or Hood Blu-ray Movie  

Flic ou voyou

Kino Lorber | 1979 | 107 min | Not rated | Oct 14, 2025 | Dr. Svet Atanasov

When a police commissioner is murdered in Nice, Stanislas Borowitz is assigned to track down and eliminate his killers. Very soon, he up against the notorious gangster chief Théo Musard, and his ruthless henchmen, which include senior members of the local police...

Action / Comedy / Crime / Drama / Thriller

The Killer 4K Blu-ray Movie  

Dip huet seung hung / Die xue shuang xiong / 喋血雙雄 / Hong Kong Cinema Classics #18 / 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray

Shout Factory | 1989 | 111 min | Not rated | Dec 02, 2025 | Dr. Stephen Larson

Chow Yun-Fat stars as an assassin with a code of honor, who agrees to one last job before quitting for good. When his bosses double-cross him, he must confront the mob in one of the most explosive showdowns in film history.

Action / Crime / Thriller / Foreign / Melodrama

Funny Things Happen Down Under Blu-ray Movie    

Umbrella Entertainment | 1965 | 1 Movie, 2 Cuts | 60 min | Rated ACB: G | Aug 06, 2025 | Neil Lumbard

A group of Australian schoolchildren discover a way to create rainbow-coloured goats for wool, hoping to make money for their clubhouse in the process.

Comedy / Musical

Plot of Fear 4K Blu-ray Movie    

E tanta paura | Indicator Series | Limited Edition / 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray

Powerhouse Films | 1976 | 98 min | Rated BBFC: 18 | Nov 24, 2025 | Dr. Svet Atanasov

A man is strangled by a female prostitute in his home at the same time as a woman is killed by a man with a spanner on an empty bus. In both cases the killer leaves an illustration from the children's book titled 'Shockheaded Peter'. The subsequent investigation leads to an exclusive club called Wildlife's Friends.

Crime / Mystery / Thriller / Foreign

Jarhead 4K Blu-ray Movie  

20th Anniversary Edition / 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray + Digital Copy

Universal Studios | 2005 | 123 min | Rated R | Dec 16, 2025 | Justin Dekker

Set during the Gulf War, the episodic tale follows Anthony Swofford (a.k.a. "Swoff"), a third-generation enlistee, from his sobering stint in boot camp to active duty, where he's sporting a sniper's rifle and a hundred-pound ruck sack on his back, while moving through Middle East deserts with no cover from the intolerable heat. As well, he advances with no protection from the Iraqi soldiers--and there's always a potential enemy sighting, just over the next horizon. Swoff and his fellow Marines sustain themselves on humor and camaraderie as they tread the blazing desert fields in a country they don't understand, against an enemy they can't see, for a cause they don't fully fathom.

Biography / Drama / War

Jarhead 4K Blu-ray Movie  

20th Anniversary / 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray + Digital Copy

Universal Studios | 2005 | 123 min | Rated R | Dec 09, 2025 | Justin Dekker

Set during the Gulf War, the episodic tale follows Anthony Swofford (a.k.a. "Swoff"), a third-generation enlistee, from his sobering stint in boot camp to active duty, where he's sporting a sniper's rifle and a hundred-pound ruck sack on his back, while moving through Middle East deserts with no cover from the intolerable heat. As well, he advances with no protection from the Iraqi soldiers--and there's always a potential enemy sighting, just over the next horizon. Swoff and his fellow Marines sustain themselves on humor and camaraderie as they tread the blazing desert fields in a country they don't understand, against an enemy they can't see, for a cause they don't fully fathom.

Biography / Drama / War

Samurai Jack: The Complete Series Blu-ray Movie  

Warner Bros. | 2001-2017 | 5 Seasons | 1364 min | Rated TV-14 | Jun 01, 2021 | Randy Miller III

No synopsis for this title.

Action / Adventure / Animation / Fantasy / Martial arts

Ted Lasso: The Richmond Way 4K Blu-ray Movie  

4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray

Warner Bros. | 2020-2023 | 3 Seasons | 1453 min | Not rated | Dec 02, 2025 | Randy Miller III

Follows US American Football coach Ted Lasso heading to the UK to manage a struggling London soccer team in the top flight of English football.

Comedy / Drama / Sport

Burden of Dreams Blu-ray Movie  

Criterion | 1982 | 96 min | Not rated | Nov 11, 2025 | Dr. Svet Atanasov

German director Werner Herzog begins work on his 1982 epic "Fitzcarraldo" but soon runs into serious setbacks, from casting problems to his own stubborn refusal to use special effects. After having to reshoot much of the film because the lead actor was recast, his crew must then haul an old-fashioned steamboat over a mountain using manpower alone. With a resolve bordering on insanity, Herzog struggles to realize his vision, vowing to see the film completed — even if it leads to his undoing.

Documentary

Burden of Dreams 4K Blu-ray Movie  

4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray

Criterion | 1982 | 96 min | Not rated | Nov 11, 2025 | Dr. Svet Atanasov

German director Werner Herzog begins work on his 1982 epic "Fitzcarraldo" but soon runs into serious setbacks, from casting problems to his own stubborn refusal to use special effects. After having to reshoot much of the film because the lead actor was recast, his crew must then haul an old-fashioned steamboat over a mountain using manpower alone. With a resolve bordering on insanity, Herzog struggles to realize his vision, vowing to see the film completed — even if it leads to his undoing.

Documentary

The American Revolution Blu-ray Movie  

PBS | 2025 | 698 min | Rated TV-PG | Nov 18, 2025 | Brian Orndorf

The American Revolution was at once a war for independence, a war of conquest, a civil war, and a world war, fought by neighbors on American farms and between global powers an ocean or more away. It impacted millions from Vermont’s Green Mountains to the swamps of South Carolina, from Indian Country to the Iberian Peninsula. In defeating the British Empire and giving birth to a new nation, the American Revolution turned the world upside-down. Thirteen colonies on the Atlantic Coast united in rebellion, won their independence, and established a republic that still endures. The American Revolution, will present the story of the men and women of the Revolutionary generation, their humanity in victory and defeat, and the crisis that they lived through.

Documentary / History

American Pie 4K Blu-ray Movie  

Limited Edition / 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray + Digital Copy

Universal Studios | 1999 | 1 Movie, 2 Cuts | 95 min | Not rated | Sep 30, 2025 | Justin Dekker

Jim is your average healthy re-blooded virgin -- he's desperate to "make it" with a woman. The stakes are raised when his parents catch him with his pants down watching porno films in his bedroom, his one experience with a beautiful exchange student turns into an online disaster and his friends make a pact that by the day of their high school graduation, none of them will be virgins. Pressure's on, but will Jim rise to the occasion?

Comedy / Romance / Teen / Coming of age

American Pie 4K Blu-ray Movie  

4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray + Digital Copy

Universal Studios | 1999 | 1 Movie, 2 Cuts | 95 min | Not rated | Sep 30, 2025 | Justin Dekker

Jim is your average healthy re-blooded virgin -- he's desperate to "make it" with a woman. The stakes are raised when his parents catch him with his pants down watching porno films in his bedroom, his one experience with a beautiful exchange student turns into an online disaster and his friends make a pact that by the day of their high school graduation, none of them will be virgins. Pressure's on, but will Jim rise to the occasion?

Comedy / Romance / Teen / Coming of age

Hearts of Darkness 4K Blu-ray Movie  

4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray + Digital Copy

Lionsgate Films | 1991 | 96 min | Rated R | Dec 09, 2025 | Jeffrey Kauffman

In the late 1970s, as renegade filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola struggles to complete an epic allegory of the Vietnam War, "Apocalypse Now," his wife, Eleanor, films his daily travails with a camera of her own. The documentary based on her footage details the difficulties of the large production -- from weather-related delays in the Philippines to star Martin Sheen's heart attack while filming -- and it provides unprecedented behind-the-scenes clips of one of Hollywood's most-acclaimed films.

Documentary

Southpaw 4K Blu-ray Movie  

4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray + Digital Copy

Lionsgate Films | 2015 | 123 min | Rated R | Dec 09, 2025 | Jeffrey Kauffman

A boxer fights his way to the top, only to find his life falling apart around him.

Action / Drama / Sport

French Noir Collection II Blu-ray Movie  

Rhine Virgin / The Beast is Loose / Trapped by Fear / The Passion of Slow Fire

Kino Lorber | 1953-1961 | 4 Movies | 381 min | Not rated | Nov 25, 2025 | Dr. Svet Atanasov

No synopsis for this title.

Crime / Drama / Mystery / Foreign

Rhine Virgin Blu-ray Movie  

La Vierge du Rhin

Kino Lorber | 1953 | 89 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Dr. Svet Atanasov

Reported missing in 1940, Jacques Ledru comes back to Strasbourg as Martin Schmidt. He tracks down his wife Genevieve, but she's remarried and has taken the head of his shipping company. She and her husband will do anything to get rid of Jacques and keep his company.

Crime / Drama / Foreign

Battle Royale 4K Blu-ray Movie  

25th Anniversary Edition | バトル・ロワイアル | Batoru rowaiaru / 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray + Digital Copy

Lionsgate Films | 2000 | 1 Movie, 2 Cuts | 121 min | Not rated | Dec 09, 2025 | Jeffrey Kauffman

With school children all over the country growing increasingly delinquent, the Japanese government takes decisive action and introduces the Battle Royale Act. The Act sets forth a plan whereby a class will be chosen at random and flown to a remote island, where each student will then be given a weapon and set loose to fight their classmates, each student knowing that only one of their number will be allowed to leave the island alive. When Class B of Zentsuji Middle School are chosen to take part in the massacre, the different students quickly take sides against each other, but Shuya and Noriko form an alliance and try to weather it through together.

Action / Drama / Thriller / Teen / Dark humor / Foreign