New Blu-ray Reviews

The League of Gentlemen Blu-ray Movie    

Network | 1960 | 113 min | Rated BBFC: PG | Jan 13, 2020 | Dr. Svet Atanasov

A disgruntled veteran recruits a group of disgraced collegues to perform a bank robbery with military precision.

Adventure / Comedy / Crime / Heist

Dad / I'm Not Rappaport Blu-ray Movie  

Mill Creek Entertainment | 1989-1996 | 2 Movies | 252 min | Rated PG | Jan 14, 2020 | Martin Liebman

See individual titles for their synopses.

Comedy / Drama

Dad Blu-ray Movie  

Mill Creek Entertainment | 1989 | 117 min | Rated PG | No Release Date | Martin Liebman

A busy, "always-on-the-run" executive learns during a meeting that his mother may be dying and rushes home to her side. He ends up being his father's caretaker and becomes closer to him than ever before. In the process, he teaches his father to be more independent which causes problems with the man's wife. Estranged from his own son, the executive comes to realize what has been missing in his own life.

Comedy / Drama

I'm Not Rappaport Blu-ray Movie  

Mill Creek Entertainment | 1996 | 136 min | Rated PG-13 | No Release Date | Martin Liebman

Two lively old-timers take on the modern world and its threats, which include forced retirement and senior citizens homes in this hilarious and charming story.

Comedy

Tex Avery Screwball Classics: Volume 1 Blu-ray Movie  

Warner Archive Collection

Warner Bros. | 1942-1957 | 138 min | Not rated | Feb 18, 2020 | Randy Miller III

There were several masters of animation during Hollywood's golden era. Of the top two geniuses, one created elaborate fairy tales and ornate feature-length fantasias -- the other guy was Tex Avery. He just wanted to make you laugh. After helping develop Porky Pig, Daffy Duck and Bugs Bunny for Warner Bros., Avery moved to MGM in 1941 to create a set of comedy masterpieces that defined a new slapstick style for animation.

Animation / Comedy / Short / Dark humor

Deadly Manor Blu-ray Movie  

Arrow | 1989 | 96 min | Not rated | Feb 18, 2020 | Jeffrey Kauffman

A group of teenagers take refuge in an old, deserted mansion. Soon the members of the group start turning up dead, and the teenagers realize that they're not alone in the mansion.

Horror

The House That Jack Built Blu-ray Movie  

Director's Cut

Shout Factory | 2018 | 1 Movie, 2 Cuts | 153 min | Not rated | Feb 04, 2020 | Brian Orndorf

USA in the 1970s. We follow the highly intelligent Jack over a span of 12 years and are introduced to the murders that define Jack's development as a serial killer. We experience the story from Jack's point of view, while he postulates each murder is an artwork in itself. As the inevitable police intervention is drawing nearer, he is taking greater and greater risks in his attempt to create the ultimate artwork. Along the way we experience Jack's descriptions of his personal condition, problems and thoughts through a recurring conversation with the unknown Verge - a grotesque mixture of sophistry mixed with an almost childlike self-pity and psychopathic explanations. The House That Jack Built is a dark and sinister story, yet presented through a philosophical and occasional humorous tale.

Crime / Drama / Horror / Psychological thriller / Period

Boyz n the Hood 4K Blu-ray Movie  

4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray + Digital Copy

Sony Pictures | 1991 | 112 min | Rated R | Feb 04, 2020 | Martin Liebman

A tale of three friends growing up together 'in the 'hood.' Half-brothers Doughboy and Ricky Baker are foils for each other's personality, presenting very different approaches to the tough lives they face. Ricky is the 'All-American' athlete, looking to win a football scholarship to USC and seeks salvation through sports, while 'Dough' succumbs to the violence, alcohol, and crime surrounding him in his environment, but maintains a strong sense of pride and code of honor. Between these two is their friend Tre, who is lucky to have a father, 'Furious' Styles, to teach him to have the strength of character to do what is right and to always take responsibility for his actions.

Crime / Drama / Coming of age

Boyz n the Hood 4K Blu-ray Movie  

4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray + Digital Copy

Sony Pictures | 1991 | 112 min | Rated R | Feb 04, 2020 | Martin Liebman

A tale of three friends growing up together 'in the 'hood.' Half-brothers Doughboy and Ricky Baker are foils for each other's personality, presenting very different approaches to the tough lives they face. Ricky is the 'All-American' athlete, looking to win a football scholarship to USC and seeks salvation through sports, while 'Dough' succumbs to the violence, alcohol, and crime surrounding him in his environment, but maintains a strong sense of pride and code of honor. Between these two is their friend Tre, who is lucky to have a father, 'Furious' Styles, to teach him to have the strength of character to do what is right and to always take responsibility for his actions.

Crime / Drama / Coming of age

Once Upon a Time in Hollywood 4K Blu-ray Movie  

4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray + Digital Copy

Sony Pictures | 2019 | 161 min | Rated R | Dec 10, 2019 | Martin Liebman

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

First Love Blu-ray Movie  

初恋 / Hatsukoi / Blu-ray + DVD

Well Go USA | 2019 | 108 min | Not rated | Feb 11, 2020 | Jeffrey Kauffman

A young boxer and a call girl get caught up in a drug-smuggling scheme over the course of one night in Tokyo.

Action / Crime / Romance / Foreign

Last Christmas Blu-ray Movie  

Blu-ray + DVD + Digital Copy

Universal Studios | 2019 | 102 min | Rated PG-13 | Feb 04, 2020 | Martin Liebman

Kate is a young woman subscribed to bad decisions. Her last date with disaster? That of having accepted to work as Santa's elf for a department store. However, she meets Tom there. Her life takes a new turn. For Kate, it seems too good to be true.

Comedy / Romance / Holiday

Father Hood Blu-ray Movie  

Kino Lorber | 1993 | 95 min | Rated PG-13 | Oct 08, 2019 | Dr. Svet Atanasov

Deadbeat dad kidnaps his kids from the bus to an abusive foster home and they go on a run. The cops are after them, they bicker constantly and his idea of a way out is grim, yet this dangerous ride might just turn them into a family.

Adventure / Comedy / Drama

Reservation Road Blu-ray Movie  

Mill Creek Entertainment | 2007 | 2 Movies | 102 min | Rated R | Jan 14, 2020 | Dr. Stephen Larson

On a warm September evening, Ethan Learner, his wife Grace, and their daughter Emma are attending a recital. Their 10-year-old son Josh is playing cello. On the way home, they all stop at a gas station on Reservation Road. There, in one terrible instant, Josh is taken from them forever. That same evening, Dwight Arno and his 11-year-old son Lucas are attending a baseball game. Dwight cherishes his time spent with Lucas. Driving his son back to his ex-wife, Dwight heads toward his fateful encounter at Reservation Road. The accident happens so fast that Lucas is all but unaware, whereas Ethan--the only witness--is all too aware when a panicked Dwight speeds away. The police are called, and an investigation begins. Haunted by the tragedy, both fathers react in unexpected ways. As a reckoning looms, the two fathers are forced to make the hardest choices of their lives.

Crime / Drama / Thriller

Hot Dog... The Movie Blu-ray Movie  

Unrated Producer's Cut

Synapse Films | 1984 | 98 min | Unrated | Feb 25, 2020 | Brian Orndorf

A hopeful young American hot-dogger goes pole-to-pole with an arrogant Austrian pro on the slopes as the pro's ex-girlfriend sets her eyes on the new blood.

Comedy / Romance / Sport

The Slumber Party Massacre Blu-ray Movie  

Limited Edition

Shout Factory | 1982 | 76 min | Rated R | Jan 28, 2020 | Brian Orndorf

An eighteen-year-old high school girl is left at home by her parents and she decides to have a slumber party. There is friction between some of the invited guests and the new girl, who is better at basketball than they, so the new girl decides to stay at home (which is conveniently across the street from the host's house). Meanwhile, a murderer of five people with a propensity for power tools has escaped and is at large, and eventually makes his way to the party, where the guests begin experiencing an attrition problem, with only the new girl to help them

Horror / Thriller

A Raisin in the Sun Blu-ray Movie  

Criterion | 1961 | 128 min | Not rated | Sep 25, 2018 | Jeffrey Kauffman

A substantial insurance payment could mean either financial salvation or personal ruin for a poor black family.

Drama

Behind the Door Blu-ray Movie  

Blu-ray + DVD

Flicker Alley | 1919 | 71 min | Not rated | Apr 04, 2017 | Jeffrey Kauffman

A German-American naval officer takes revenge against the German submarine commander who brutalized his wife.

Drama / War

Two on a Guillotine Blu-ray Movie  

Warner Archive Collection

Warner Bros. | 1965 | 107 min | Not rated | Jan 28, 2020 | Randy Miller III

After the disappearance of her mother Melinda and untimely death of her father, a famous stage magician nicknamed "Duke", Cassie Duquesne is granted a sizeable inheritance under one condition: she must spend seven nights in his spooky mansion. With a fearless young reporter at her side, Cassie braves terrors that could be the work of evil spirits. Or are they illusions dreamed up by Cassie's dear, demented dad?

Horror / Mystery

Holiday Blu-ray Movie    

Limited Edition

Anti-Worlds | 2018 | 93 min | Rated BBFC: 18 | Feb 24, 2020 | Dr. Svet Atanasov

A love triangle featuring the trophy girlfriend of a petty drug lord, caught up in a web of luxury and violence in a modern dark gangster tale set in the beautiful port city of Bodrum on the Turkish Riviera.

Crime / Drama / Foreign