New Blu-ray Reviews

Rambo: Last Blood 4K Blu-ray Movie  

4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray + Digital Copy

Lionsgate Films | 2019 | 89 min | Rated R | Dec 17, 2019 | Jeffrey Kauffman

Vietnam War veteran John Rambo crosses the U.S.-Mexican border looking for the daughter of a friend and quickly finds himself up against one of Mexico’s most violent cartels.

Action / Adventure / Thriller

Rambo: Last Blood Blu-ray Movie  

Blu-ray + DVD + Digital Copy

Lionsgate Films | 2019 | 89 min | Rated R | Dec 17, 2019 | Jeffrey Kauffman

Vietnam War veteran John Rambo crosses the U.S.-Mexican border looking for the daughter of a friend and quickly finds himself up against one of Mexico’s most violent cartels.

Action / Adventure / Thriller

The Fly Blu-ray Movie  

Shout Factory | 1958 | 94 min | Not rated | Dec 10, 2019 | Dr. Stephen Larson

Scientist Andre Delambre becomes obsessed with his latest creation, a matter transporter. He has varying degrees of success with it. He eventually decides to use a human subject, himself, with tragic consequences. During the transference, his atoms become merged with a fly, which was accidentally let into the machine. He winds up with the fly's head and one of it's arms and the fly winds up with Andre's head and arm. Eventually, Andre's wife, Helene discovers his secret and must make a decision whether to let him continue to live like that or to do the unthinkable and euthanize him to end his suffering...

Horror / Sci-Fi / Thriller

The Gun Runners Blu-ray Movie  

Kino Lorber | 1958 | 83 min | Not rated | Nov 12, 2019 | Dr. Svet Atanasov

Sam Martin owns a charter boat in the Florida Keys. He also has a serious gambling problem and mounting debts. His wife, Lucy, and first mate, Harvey, have managed to keep him out of serious trouble. However, when Sam suddenly finds himself on the brink of bankruptcy, he resorts to helping crooked weapons dealer Hanagan smuggle guns into Cuba. But things get ugly for Sam when the scheme expands to include murder.

Crime / Drama

Gates of Heaven / Vernon, Florida Blu-ray Movie  

Criterion | 1978-1981 | 2 Movies | 138 min | Not rated | Mar 24, 2015 | Jeffrey Kauffman

See individual titles for their synopses.

Documentary

Gates of Heaven Blu-ray Movie  

Criterion | 1978 | 83 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Jeffrey Kauffman

A documentary about two pet cemeteries in Northern California and the people involved with them. The film details our relationships to our pets, each other, and ourselves.

Documentary

Vernon, Florida Blu-ray Movie  

Criterion | 1981 | 56 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Jeffrey Kauffman

The eccentric inhabitants of Vernon, Florida share various anecdotes and opinions.

Documentary

Escape from Women's Prison Blu-ray Movie  

Le evase - Storie di sesso e di violenze / Jailbirds

Severin Films | 1978 | 1 Movie, 2 Cuts | 95 min | Rated R | Apr 30, 2019 | Dr. Svet Atanasov

Four female convicts break out of prison, and during their escape they take hostage a bus full of young female tennis players. They drive the bus to the house of the judge who originally sent them to prison, where--since this is after all a women-in-prison picture--the hostages undergo various forms of physical and sexual abuse in various degrees of nudity.

Action / Crime / Drama / Erotic / Foreign

Blue Collar Blu-ray Movie  

Kino Lorber | 1978 | 114 min | Rated R | Dec 10, 2019 | Dr. Svet Atanasov

When Detroit auto workers Zeke, Jerry and Smokey find bills piling up and pressures bearing down, they decide to rob their corrupt union office. In a cruel twist, their small haul becomes a nightmare when the heist goes horribly wrong and their once-loyal friendship turns to fear, betrayal and murder.

Crime / Drama

Once Upon a Time in Hollywood Blu-ray Movie  

Blu-ray + DVD + Digital Copy

Sony Pictures | 2019 | 161 min | Rated R | Dec 10, 2019 | Randy Miller III

A story that takes place in Los Angeles in 1969, at the height of hippy Hollywood. The two lead characters are Rick Dalton, former star of a western TV series, and his longtime stunt double Cliff Booth. Both are struggling to make it in a Hollywood they don’t recognize anymore. But Rick has a new next-door neighbor, who may be a rising star…Sharon Tate.

Comedy / Drama / Thriller / Dark humor / Period

Acceleration Blu-ray Movie  

Cinedigm | 2019 | 85 min | Not rated | Dec 17, 2019 | Jeffrey Kauffman

A crime lord gives an operative one night to make up for double-crossing him by eliminating his long list of enemies.

Action / Thriller

Ad Astra 4K Blu-ray Movie  

4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray + Digital Copy

20th Century Fox | 2019 | 124 min | Rated PG-13 | Dec 17, 2019 | Jeffrey Kauffman

An Army Corps engineer searches across the galaxy for his father, who disappeared on a mission to find alien life 20 years ago.

Adventure / Drama / Mystery / Sci-Fi

Days of Wine and Roses Blu-ray Movie  

Warner Archive Collection

Warner Bros. | 1962 | 117 min | Not rated | Oct 29, 2019 | Michael Reuben

A San Francisco public-relations hotshot is a "social" drinker...who never stops socializing. His vivacious wife starts drinking to keep him company. They live for good times. But eventually good times turn bad.

Drama / Romance

Don't Bother to Knock Blu-ray Movie  

Shout Factory | 1952 | 76 min | Not rated | Dec 10, 2019 | Dr. Stephen Larson

An unstable young woman (Marilyn Monroe) attempts to commit suicide whilst working as a babysitter in a hotel. She is saved by a handsome airline pilot (Richard Widmark), who has just split up from the hotel's resident singer (Anne Bancroft in her film debut). From this unlikely beginning, a relationship develops which helps them both come to terms with their personal problems.

Drama / Film-Noir / Thriller

Don't Bother to Knock Blu-ray Movie  

Limited Edition to 3000

Twilight Time | 1952 | 76 min | Not rated | Mar 20, 2018 | Dr. Stephen Larson

An unstable young woman (Marilyn Monroe) attempts to commit suicide whilst working as a babysitter in a hotel. She is saved by a handsome airline pilot (Richard Widmark), who has just split up from the hotel's resident singer (Anne Bancroft in her film debut). From this unlikely beginning, a relationship develops which helps them both come to terms with their personal problems.

Drama / Film-Noir / Thriller

Ad Astra Blu-ray Movie  

Blu-ray + Digital Copy

20th Century Fox | 2019 | 124 min | Rated PG-13 | Dec 17, 2019 | Jeffrey Kauffman

An Army Corps engineer searches across the galaxy for his father, who disappeared on a mission to find alien life 20 years ago.

Adventure / Drama / Mystery / Sci-Fi

Tammy and the T-Rex Blu-ray Movie  

Blu-ray + DVD

Vinegar Syndrome | 1994 | 1 Movie, 2 Cuts | 91 min | Rated R | Jan 28, 2020 | Brian Orndorf

An evil scientist implants the brain of Michael, a murdered high school student, in an animatronic Tyrannosaurus. He escapes, wreaks vengeance on his high school tormentors and is reunited with his sweetheart Tammy. Together, the couple try to elude the mad scientist and the police and find a more appropriate vessel for Michael's brain.

Comedy / Sci-Fi

Delivery Boys Blu-ray Movie  

Scorpion Releasing | 1985 | 92 min | Rated R | Nov 19, 2019 | Brian Orndorf

In one of the last breakdancing movies of the mid-'80s, two competing breakdancing teams have their eye on a $10,000 prize in an upcoming contest. Three of the dancers on one team work as pizza delivery boys. Mean-spirited Spider (Mario van Peebles) from the opposing team convinces the gullible pizza boss that the three must be detained so they can't enter the contest. So one of the three is set up to make a delivery to a gorgeous woman who seduces him. The second is sent to a hospital where he's given new medicine that sidelines him for the rest of the day. And the third is sent to a gallery where he breaks a statue in an exhibition opening that evening and is forced to pose as the broken image, wearing only a fig leaf.

Comedy / Sport

The Story of Temple Drake Blu-ray Movie  

Criterion | 1933 | 71 min | Not rated | Dec 03, 2019 | Dr. Svet Atanasov

When a boozehound date strands her at a bootleggers' hideout, Temple Drake, the coquettish granddaughter of a respected small-town judge, is subjected to an act of nightmarish sexual violence and plunged into a criminal underworld that threatens to swallow her up completely.

Drama

Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle 3D Blu-ray Movie    

Blu-ray 3D + Blu-ray + UV Digital Copy

Sony Pictures | 2017 | 119 min | Rated BBFC: 12 | Apr 30, 2018 | Neil Lumbard

In a brand new Jumanji adventure, four high school kids discover an old video game console and are drawn into the game's jungle setting, literally becoming the adult avatars they chose. What they discover is that you don't just play Jumanji - you must survive it. To beat the game and return to the real world, they'll have to go on the most dangerous adventure of their lives, discover what Alan Parrish left 20 years ago, and change the way they think about themselves - or they'll be stuck in the game forever.

Action / Adventure / Comedy / Family / Fantasy