New Blu-ray Reviews

Skin Blu-ray Movie  

Lionsgate Films | 2018 | 118 min | Rated R | Sep 24, 2019 | Brian Orndorf

A destitute young man, raised by racist skinheads and notorious among white supremacists, turns his back on hatred and violence to transform his life, with the help of a black activist and the woman he loves.

Drama

Candy Blu-ray Movie  

Shout Factory | 2006 | 108 min | Rated R | Dec 03, 2019 | Brian Orndorf

Dan, a charming but reckless young poet who has fallen in love with Candy, a beautiful young art student from a comfortable middle-class family who is attracted to the bohemian lifestyle that Dan has long since embraced. In order to get closer to Dan, Candy, whose previous drug use has been casually experimental, starts shooting up. Their passionate relationship then alternates between bursts of ecstatic oblivion and bouts of despair and self-destruction. Hooked as much on heroin as one another, their story becomes a love triangle -- a boy, a girl, and a drug.

Drama / Romance

Easy Rider 4K Blu-ray Movie    

50th Anniversary Edition / 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray

Sony Pictures | 1969 | 95 min | Rated BBFC: 18 | Dec 02, 2019 | Dr. Svet Atanasov

After scoring cocaine in Mexico, then re-selling it in California, two bikers set off on a cross-country trek to New Orleans.

Adventure / Drama

24 Hour Party People Blu-ray Movie  

MVD Visual | 2002 | 117 min | Rated R | Jun 25, 2019 | Jeffrey Kauffman

Beginning during the dawn of Factory Records--as Tony Wilson throws himself off a cliff for Granada TV--24 Hour Party People attempts to capture the essence of the ill-fated label which spawned Joy Division/New Order, The Happy Mondays and the venue that started modern Club Culture, the Hacienda in Manchester. Director Michael Winterbottom takes a very different approach to most music biographies, by making the film self-aware that it is a film and ironically looking at its own role within the history of the "Mad-chester" scene.

Biography / Comedy / Drama / Music / Period

Un flic Blu-ray Movie  

Dirty Money

Kino Lorber | 1972 | 98 min | Not rated | Nov 19, 2019 | Dr. Svet Atanasov

A Paris police chief discovers that his nightclub owner friend also leads a group of bank robbers. When he’s tipped off that the same robbers are planning a drug heist, the police chief races to defeat his two-faced friend. Meanwhile, the police chief has engaged in some double-crossing himself—by sharing the same woman with the man he calls his friend.

Action / Crime / Drama / Thriller / Foreign

Look Who's Talking Blu-ray Movie  

30th Anniversary Edition

Sony Pictures | 1989 | 96 min | Rated PG-13 | Dec 17, 2019 | Martin Liebman

After a single, career-minded woman is left on her own to give to birth to the child of a married man, she finds a new romantic chance in a cab driver. Meanwhile the point-of-view of the newborn boy is narrated through voice over.

Comedy / Family

Santana: Live at the US Festival 1982 Blu-ray Movie  

Shout Factory | 1982 | 80 min | Not rated | Sep 06, 2019 | Jeffrey Kauffman

Santana: Live at US Festival offers a tremendous performance from the legendary Carlos Santana, rivaling his set at Woodstock for its energy, excitement, and inspiring musicianship.

Music

Mommy & Mommy's Day Blu-ray Movie  

25th Anniversary Special Edition / Blu-ray + DVD

VCI | 1995-1997 | 2 Movies | 186 min | Not rated | Jan 21, 2020 | Jeffrey Kauffman

No synopsis for this title.

Horror / Mystery / Thriller

Mommy Blu-ray Movie  

VCI | 1995 | 89 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Jeffrey Kauffman

After twelve-year-old Jessica-Ann's teacher breaks her neck, Jessica-Ann starts suspecting her cold and overprotective mother as the killer.

Horror / Mystery / Thriller

Mommy's Day Blu-ray Movie  

Mommy 2

VCI | 1997 | 88 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Jeffrey Kauffman

A homicidal matriarch will let nothing stand in the way of a reunion with her daughter.

Horror / Mystery / Thriller

Return to Return to Nuke 'Em High a.k.a. Vol. 2 Blu-ray Movie  

Troma | 2017 | 85 min | Not rated | Nov 12, 2019 | Brian Orndorf

Return to Nuke 'Em High: Volume 2 is the continuation of Lloyd Kaufman's inspired two-part indie event film. Lauren and Chrissy, two lesbian lovers, must face and defeat the most corrupt and evil forces ever to descend upon Tromaville and the world!

Action / Adventure / Comedy

Satanic Panic Blu-ray Movie  

RLJ Entertainment | 2019 | 89 min | Not rated | Oct 22, 2019 | Brian Orndorf

A pizza delivery girl at the end of her financial rope has to fight for her life - and her tips - when her last order of the night turns out to be high society Satanists in need of a virgin sacrifice.

Comedy / Horror

Black Angel Blu-ray Movie  

Arrow Academy

Arrow | 1946 | 81 min | Not rated | Jan 28, 2020 | Jeffrey Kauffman

When a beautiful hard-boiled blackmailer is murdered in her swank apartment, there are any number of men who might have done it. There's Martin Blair, the drunken husband she's dumped; there's shady nightclub owner Marko; and there's Kirk Bennett, who was cheating on his wife with her. It's Bennett who was spotted at the crime scene, and it's his long-suffering wife, Catherine, who sets out to save him from being executed. Suspecting Marko, she teams up with Blair to perform in Marko's club and investigate. Suspense — and romance — follow as this murder mystery winds its way through a maze of clues to a surprise ending.

Crime / Film-Noir / Mystery

Body at Brighton Rock Blu-ray Movie  

Magnolia Pictures | 2019 | 87 min | Rated R | Jul 30, 2019 | Randy Miller III

A park ranger spends the night guarding a potential crime scene on a remote mountain trail.

Thriller

Doctor Who: Jon Pertwee: Complete Season Four Blu-ray Movie  

BBC | 1972-1973 | 650 min | Not rated | Oct 15, 2019 | Jeffrey Kauffman

In 1963 an old fashioned Police Call Box sat in a junk yard at 76 Totters Lane. An old man out and about exploring. A young girl wise beyond her years attending Coal Hill School. Two teachers become suspicious. Barbara and Ian suspect the girl is in trouble. They follow her home. The girl, Susan Foreman, vanishes into the junkyard. Barbara and Ian investigate. They discovered the Police Box. "It's alive!" says Ian, he feels a faint vibration coming from within. The girls grandfather returns. He confronts the two teachers who accuse him of holding the girl inside the Police Box. They hear her call out to him from inside. Barbara and Ian push their way in and discover a world they never thought possible.

Adventure / Drama / Sci-Fi

The Returned: Season Two Blu-ray Movie  

Les Revenants

Music Box Films | 2012-2015 | 456 min | Not rated | Dec 17, 2019 | Jeffrey Kauffman

No synopsis for this title.

Drama / Mystery / Supernatural / Foreign

This Gun for Hire Blu-ray Movie  

Shout Factory | 1942 | 81 min | Not rated | May 14, 2019 | Dr. Stephen Larson

A hired killer dodges police while tracking down the enemy agents who tried to frame him.

Crime / Film-Noir / Mystery / Thriller

Marlene Dietrich & Josef von Sternberg at Paramount, 1930-1935 Blu-ray Movie    

Morocco / Dishonored / Shanghai Express / Blonde Venus / The Scarlet Empress / The Devil is a Woman | Indicator Series | Limited Edition

Powerhouse Films | 1930-1935 | 6 Movies | 542 min | Rated BBFC: 12 | Aug 26, 2019 | Dr. Svet Atanasov

MARLENE DIETRICH & JOSEF VON STERNBERG AT PARAMOUNT, 1930-1935

Adventure / Comedy / Drama / History / Romance / War / Melodrama / Period

Dishonored Blu-ray Movie    

Indicator Series

Powerhouse Films | 1931 | 91 min | Not rated | Aug 26, 2019 | Dr. Svet Atanasov

A widow is forced to turn to prostitution to support herself. Recruited by the Austrian Secret Service as a spy, she becomes an expert in ferreting out secrets about the enemy but meets her match in the form of a Russian agent named Kranau.

Drama / Romance / War

The Scarlet Empress Blu-ray Movie    

Indicator Series

Powerhouse Films | 1934 | 104 min | Rated BBFC: 12 | Aug 26, 2019 | Dr. Svet Atanasov

During the 18th century, German noblewoman Sophia Frederica, who would later become Catherine the Great, travels to Moscow to marry the dimwitted Grand Duke Peter, the heir to the Russian throne. Their arranged marriage proves to be loveless, and Catherine takes many lovers, including the handsome Count Alexei, and bears a son. When the unstable Peter eventually ascends to the throne, Catherine plots to oust him from power.

Drama / History / Romance / Melodrama / Period