New Blu-ray Reviews

The Time of Their Lives Blu-ray Movie  

Shout Factory | 1946 | 82 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Brian Orndorf

Two ghosts who were mistakenly branded as traitors during the Revolutionary War return to 20th century New England to retrieve a letter from George Washington which would prove their innocence.

Comedy / Fantasy / Romance

Little Giant Blu-ray Movie  

Shout Factory | 1946 | 91 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Brian Orndorf

Lou Costello plays a country bumpkin vacuum-cleaner salesman, working for the company run by the crooked Bud Abbott. To try to keep him under his thumb, Abbott convinces Costello that he's a crackerjack salesman. This comedy is somewhat like "The Time of Their Lives," in that Abbott and Costello don't have much screen time together and there are very few vaudeville bits woven into the plot.

Comedy

The Naughty Nineties Blu-ray Movie  

Shout Factory | 1945 | 76 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Brian Orndorf

When their captain is swindled out of his riverboat by a trio of gamblers, stage show star Abbott and his bumbling sidekick Costello must put things right.

Comedy / Crime / Romance

Here Come the Co-eds Blu-ray Movie  

Shout Factory | 1945 | 90 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Brian Orndorf

Bud and Lou head to campus and attempt to save Bixby College from closing down.

Comedy / Musical

In Society Blu-ray Movie  

Shout Factory | 1944 | 74 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Brian Orndorf

Two bumbling plumbers are hired by a socialite to fix a leak. A case of mistaken identity gets the pair an invitation to a fancy party and an entree into high society. As expected, things don't go too smoothly.

Comedy / Musical

Street People Blu-ray Movie  

Gli esecutori

Kino Lorber | 1976 | 92 min | Rated R | Nov 12, 2019 | Dr. Svet Atanasov

A Mafia boss is enraged when he is suspected of smuggling a heroin shipment into San Francisco. He dispatches his nephew, a hotshot Anglo-Sicilian lawyer, to identify the real culprit. The lawyer also enlists the aid of his best friend, a grand prix driver with an adventurous streak.

Action / Crime / Drama

The Goldfinch Blu-ray Movie  

Blu-ray + Digital Copy

Warner Bros. | 2019 | 149 min | Rated R | Dec 03, 2019 | Randy Miller III

A boy in New York is taken in by a wealthy Upper East Side family after his mother is killed in a bombing at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Drama

Eight Hours Don't Make a Day Blu-ray Movie  

Acht Stunden sind kein Tag

Criterion | 1972-1973 | 495 min | Not rated | Oct 09, 2018 | Jeffrey Kauffman

The interlocking stories of blue collar workers in 1970s Germany as they confront issues of the day, such as the unfairness of the work power structure, making ends meet and facing Germany's changing social mores.

Drama / Foreign

Winter Kills Blu-ray Movie  

Kino Lorber | 1979 | 97 min | Rated R | Nov 12, 2019 | Dr. Svet Atanasov

19 years after President Timothy Keegan was assassinated, his brother Nick discovers a dying man claiming to have been the gunman. While trying to avoid his wealthy and domineering father's attempts to control his actions, Nick follows the clues that have been handed to him. As he progresses, it becomes increasingly difficult to discern the real trails from the dead ends, and increasingly dangerous as unknown parties try to stop Nick from uncovering the truth.

Drama / Thriller

Vice Academy 1-3 Blu-ray Movie  

Vinegar Syndrome | 1989-1991 | 3 Movies | 271 min | Not rated | Nov 29, 2019 | Brian Orndorf

Following the trend of raunchy direct-to-video sex comedies popularized in the early to mid 80s, director Rick Sloane (Hobgoblins) decided to take his own stab at the sub-genre, creating the surprise hit franchise VICE ACADEMY in 1989. Featuring the comedic exploits of undercover female vice cops who go head-to-head with everything from smut film producers to arch villainesses with plans for sexual world domination, each film mixes T&A with broad slapstick humor and hijinks.

Comedy / Crime / Erotic

Vice Academy Blu-ray Movie  

Vinegar Syndrome | 1989 | 90 min | Not rated | Fall 2019 | Brian Orndorf

Two female cops go undercover to bust a porno ring.

Comedy / Crime / Erotic

Vice Academy Part 2 Blu-ray Movie  

Vinegar Syndrome | 1990 | 93 min | Not rated | Fall 2019 | Brian Orndorf

Two rookie cops pose as strippers to get the drop on a villainess plotting to spike L.A.'s water with aphrodisiacs.

Comedy / Crime / Erotic

Vice Academy Part 3 Blu-ray Movie  

Vinegar Syndrome | 1991 | 89 min | Not rated | Fall 2019 | Brian Orndorf

When rookie cops Candy and Holly are sent on their first big assignments, they must struggle to stop a gang of female convicts, led by the sinister Melanie, who is transformed into the mutated monster Malathion after a bout with some toxic waste.

Comedy / Crime / Erotic

Savage Dawn Blu-ray Movie  

Vinegar Syndrome Archive

Vinegar Syndrome | 1985 | 103 min | Not rated | Nov 29, 2019 | Brian Orndorf

A vicious biker gang takes over a small town in Arizona. A Vietnam War vet passing through town and a few locals with nothing to lose go to war with the gang's ruthless leader.

Action / Drama

Spookies Blu-ray Movie  

Slipcover #2 / SOLD OUT

Vinegar Syndrome | 1986 | 85 min | Not rated | Nov 29, 2019 | Brian Orndorf

Taking a wrong turn, travelers find themselves trapped in a mysterious house. One horror after another threatens them as the sorcerer who lives within needs sacrifices to give eternal life to his beautiful bride.

Horror

The Candy Snatchers Blu-ray Movie  

Slipcover Edition Limited to 4,000 | SOLD OUT / Blu-ray + DVD

Vinegar Syndrome | 1973 | 95 min | Not rated | Nov 29, 2019 | Brian Orndorf

16-year old Candy Philips is brutally abducted and buried alive in the hills of Southern California by a trio of amateur criminals hoping for a hasty ransom exchange. When Candy's father doesn't show at their agreed rendezvous, the threesome begin to grow anxious. Paranoia sets in; the kidnappers fear their meticulous plan is crumbling and begin a downward spiral into depravity, mutilation and cold-blooded murder with Candy helplessly trapped in the middle.

Crime / Horror / Thriller

Slaughterhouse-Five Blu-ray Movie  

Arrow | 1972 | 103 min | Rated R | Dec 03, 2019 | Jeffrey Kauffman

Billy Pilgrim is an ordinary World War II soldier with one major exception: he has mysteriously become unstuck in time. Billy goes on an uncontrollable trip back and forth from his birth in New York to life on a distant planet and back again to the horrors of the 1945 fire-bombing of Dresden.

Comedy / Drama / Fantasy / Sci-Fi / War

The Iron-Fisted Monk Blu-ray Movie    

三德和尚與舂米六 / Sān dé hé shàng yǔ chōng mǐ liù | Eureka Classics

Eureka Entertainment | 1977 | 93 min | Rated BBFC: 18 | No Release Date | Dr. Svet Atanasov

Husker (Sammo Hung) arduously undergoes grueling training and tests at Shaolin Temple with one thought on his mind: vengeance. He lives to avenge the death of his father, who was callously murdered by the ruthless Manchus. When a village girl is brutally raped by a cruel Manchu official, Husker teams up with the legendary Shaolin Monk Brother Tak to teach the villains a lesson and a bloody confrontation between the locals and the Manchus unfolds.

Action / Comedy / Martial arts / Foreign

The Tree of Wooden Clogs Blu-ray Movie  

L'albero degli zoccoli

Criterion | 1978 | 187 min | Not rated | Feb 14, 2017 | Jeffrey Kauffman

On a northern Italian farm in the late 19th century, a group of sharecroppers eke out a threadbare existence. A priest advises Batisti and his wife, Batistina, that their young son, Minec, should be formally educated, so they sacrifice his help in the fields and send him to school. When Minec's wooden shoe breaks one day, Batisti — in an act of desperation — puts the family's future at risk to replace the clog.

Drama / History / Foreign

Ultraman Orb Blu-ray Movie  

Series + Movie / ウルトラマンオーブ & 劇場版 ウルトラマンオーブ 絆の力、おかりします！ / Blu-ray + Digital Copy

Mill Creek Entertainment | 2016-2017 | 2 Seasons | 695 min | Not rated | Nov 19, 2019 | Martin Liebman

Ultraman Orb, a warrior of light, battles monsters and aliens threatening Earth.

Action / Sci-Fi / Foreign