New Blu-ray Reviews
Home- January 20, 2020
Black and Blue Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + Digital Copy
Sony Pictures | 2019 | 108 min | Rated R | Jan 21, 2020 | Martin Liebman
Follows a rookie Detroit African-American female cop who stumbles upon corrupt officers who are murdering a drug dealer, an incident captured by her body cam. They pursue her through the night in an attempt to destroy the footage, but to make matters worse, they've tipped off a criminal gang that she's responsible for the dealer's death.
Action / Crime / Drama
Running with the Devil Blu-ray Movie
Quiver Films | 2019 | 101 min | Rated R | Jan 14, 2020 | Martin Liebman
An International Drug Kingpin sends two of his most highly regarded Assassins to investigate why shipments are being hijacked and over cut.
Crime / Drama / Thriller
Edge of the Axe Blu-ray Movie
Al filo del hacha
Arrow | 1988 | 91 min | Not rated | Jan 28, 2020 | Jeffrey Kauffman
An axe murderer terrorizes a small Northern California mountain community, while two young computer-obsessed adults attempt to solve the killings.
Horror / Mystery / Thriller
The Swan Princess Blu-ray Movie
25th Anniversary
Sony Pictures | 1994 | 89 min | Rated G | Oct 29, 2019 | Martin Liebman
Based on the classic "Swan Lake" follows the travails of Prince Derek and his pals, a frog, a turtle and a puffin, as they try to save Princess Odette from the evil wizard Rothbart.
Adventure / Animation / Comedy / Family / Fantasy / Musical / Romance
- January 19, 2020
Sweeney 2 Blu-ray Movie
Network | 1978 | 108 min | Rated BBFC: 18 | Feb 04, 2019 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
Second theatrical spin-off from the popular 1970's police series. Regan and Carter head a Flying Squad investigation into a series of bank raids by a team of well-armed villains who are flying in from the continent.
Action / Crime / Drama / Thriller
Depraved Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + DVD
Shout Factory | 2019 | 114 min | Not rated | Jan 07, 2020 | Brian Orndorf
A disillusioned field surgeon suffering from PTSD makes a man out of body parts and brings him to life in a Brooklyn loft.
Drama / Horror / Thriller
My Name Is Myeisha Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + DVD
Shout Factory | 2018 | 84 min | Not rated | Jan 28, 2020 | Brian Orndorf
My Name Is Myeisha is a hip-hop musical inspired by the 1998 police shooting of California teen Tyisha Miller (as well as countless other acts of police brutality against African American citizens) and adapted from the internationally acclaimed play, Dreamscape. At the moment of Myeisha's death at the hands of police, she guides us inside her mind and muses over the life she will be leaving behind, told through hip-hop, spoken word poetry, and dance.
Drama
The Fly Blu-ray Movie
Shout Factory | 1986 | 96 min | Rated R | Dec 10, 2019 | Dr. Stephen Larson
Seth Brundle, a brilliant but eccentric scientist attempts to woo investigative journalist Veronica Quaife by offering her a scoop on his latest research in the field of matter transportation, which against all the expectations of the scientific establishment have proved successful. Up to a point. Brundle thinks he has ironed out the last problem when he successfully transports a living creature, but when he attempts to teleport himself a fly enters one of the transmission booths, and Brundle finds he is a changed man.
Drama / Horror / Sci-Fi / Thriller
Wrestle Blu-ray Movie
Oscilloscope Pictures | 2018 | 96 min | Not rated | Jun 11, 2019 | Randy Miller III
Hoop Dreams goes to the mat in this intimate, coming-of-age documentary about four members of a high-school wrestling team at Huntsville’s J.O. Johnson High School, a longstanding entry on Alabama’s list of failing schools. Coached by teacher Chris Scribner, teammates Jailen, Jamario, Teague, and Jaquan each face challenges far beyond a shot at the State Championship: splintered family lives, drug use, teenage pregnancy, mental health struggles, and run-ins with the law threaten to derail their success on the mat and lock any doors that could otherwise open. Tough-love coach Scribner isn’t off the hook, either; he must come to terms with his own past conflicts while unwittingly wading into the complexities of race, class and privilege in the South. Director Suzannah Herbert and Co-Director Lauren Belfer captured over 650 hours of footage during the course of the team’s final season to create this closely observed, deeply affecting depiction of growing up disadvantaged in America today.
Documentary / Sport
- January 18, 2020
Teorema Blu-ray Movie
Criterion | 1968 | 99 min | Not rated | Feb 18, 2020 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
A mysterious stranger seduces the members of a wealthy Milanese family, precipitating an existential crisis in each of their lives.
Drama / Mystery / Foreign / Surreal
Le Petit Soldat Blu-ray Movie
The Little Soldier
Criterion | 1963 | 88 min | Not rated | Jan 21, 2020 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
A controversial account of a French army deserter caught between rival political factions.
Drama / War / Foreign
Assignment Terror Blu-ray Movie
Los monstruos del terror
Scorpion Releasing | 1970 | 87 min | Not rated | Nov 26, 2019 | Brian Orndorf
Aliens from a dying world plot to conquer earth by praying on man's superstitions. Bringing two dead scientists (Michael Rennie and Karin Dor) back to life, they use their knowledge to re-animate various earth monsters, including the werewolf Waldemar Daninsky, Frankenstein's monster (both played by Jacinto Molina), the mummy Tao-Tet, and the vampire Count de Meirhoff.
Horror / Sci-Fi / Foreign
Very Bad Things Blu-ray Movie
Shout Factory | 1998 | 101 min | Rated R | Jan 28, 2020 | Brian Orndorf
Kyle and four friends are white suburbanites who set off for a debauched night in Las Vegas before Kyle gets married. But things go badly wrong when a prostitute is skewered on a coat hook as she entertains one of the pals, Michael. Yuppie Robert keeps his head, and goes so far as to murder a security guard who threatens to discover their little accident. The next step is to dismember and bury the bodies and then to return to LA and pretend nothing happened. Of course, guilt and nerves set in and outrageous steps are needed to keep a lid on things. But nothing -- absolutely nothing -- is going to stand between bride-to-be Laura and her trip down the aisle.
Crime / Thriller / Dark humor
- January 17, 2020
Buffet Froid Blu-ray Movie
Cold Cuts
Kino Lorber | 1979 | 95 min | Not rated | Nov 12, 2019 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
Anarchic and hilarious thriller stars Gerard Depardieu as a death-obsessed drifter drawn into an absurd murder plot featuring a bureaucrat who plans his own assassination, a missing knife that turns up in a subway rider's belly, and a killer who's afraid of the dark. Surreal direction from Bertrand Blier; Bernard Blier, Michel Serrault also star.
Comedy / Crime / Foreign
The Pumpkin Eater Blu-ray Movie
Shout Factory | 1964 | 118 min | Not rated | Dec 10, 2019 | Dr. Stephen Larson
Harold Pinter pens this 'portrait of a bad marriage' drama based on the novel by Penelope Mortimer. Despite her unwillingness to stop having children, Jo Armitage (Anne Bancroft), a thrice-married mother of several children by different fathers, is not exactly cut out for motherhood. Inflicting her existing brood on her third husband, screenwriter Jake (Peter Finch), does little to cement their marriage, and Jake's serial infidelities eventually lead a depressed and isolated Jo to a complete breakdown.
Drama / Family
Sprinter Blu-ray Movie
Special Edition
FilmRise | 2018 | 114 min | Not rated | Jan 21, 2020 | Jeffrey Kauffman
A boy separated from his mother who has moved to the U.S. for a better life, is set to be Jamaica's next track-and-field sensation.
Drama / Sport
The Mysterious Mr. M Blu-ray Movie
VCI | 1946 | 225 min | Not rated | Nov 12, 2019 | Jeffrey Kauffman
An evil scientist known as "Mr. M." uses a drug he has developed called "hypnotreme" to help steal submarine equipment. Federal agent Grant Farrell is dispatched to find the mysterious villain and stop his nefarious plans.
Adventure
Piranhas Blu-ray Movie
La paranza dei bambini
Music Box Films | 2019 | 105 min | Not rated | Jan 14, 2020 | Jeffrey Kauffman
A gang of teenage boys stalk the streets of Naples armed with hand guns and AK-47s to do their mob bosses' bidding.
Crime / Drama / Foreign
The Jungle Book 4K Blu-ray Movie
4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray + Digital Copy
Disney / Buena Vista | 2016 | 105 min | Rated PG | Jan 14, 2020 | Randy Miller III
An orphan boy is raised in the Jungle with the help of a pack of wolves, a bear and a black panther.
Adventure / Drama / Family / Fantasy
- January 16, 2020
The Addams Family Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + DVD + Digital Copy
Universal Studios | 2019 | 87 min | Rated PG | Jan 21, 2020 | Martin Liebman
Members of the mysterious and spooky Addams family -- Gomez, Morticia, Pugsley, Wednesday, Uncle Fester and Grandma -- are readily preparing for a visit from their even creepier relatives. But trouble soon arises when shady TV personality Margaux Needler realizes that the Addams' eerie hilltop mansion is standing in the way of her dream to sell all the houses in the neighborhood.
Animation / Comedy / Family / Fantasy / Horror / Comic book