New Blu-ray Reviews
Home- January 16, 2020
Maid in Manhattan Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + DVD
Mill Creek Entertainment | 2002 | 105 min | Rated PG-13 | Jan 14, 2020 | Martin Liebman
A struggling single mom who works at a posh Manhattan hotel and dreams of a better life for her and her young son meets a hotel guest and senatorial candidate who mistakes her for a wealthy socialite.
Comedy / Romance
Doctor Who: Colin Baker: Complete Season Two Blu-ray Movie
BBC | 1986 | 1 Movie, 2 Cuts | 450 min | Not rated | Dec 03, 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
Joker 4K Blu-ray Movie
4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray + Digital Copy
Warner Bros. | 2019 | 122 min | Rated R | Jan 07, 2020 | Martin Liebman
Failed comedian seeks connection as he walks the streets and begins a slow descent into madness.
Crime / Drama / Thriller / Dark humor / Psychological thriller / Comic book
- January 15, 2020
Farewell, Friend Blu-ray Movie
Adieu l'Ami / Honor Among Thieves
Kino Lorber | 1968 | 115 min | Not rated | Nov 19, 2019 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
Years after serving together in the French Foreign Legion, American soldier of fortune Franz Propp and French doctor Dino Barron are unexpectedly reunited under the most extraordinary circumstances. Hoping to help a friend who has embezzled some bonds, Barron tries to break into a safe in the dead of night. Sneaking into an underground vault he is surprised to discover that his old pal Propp is also on the premises, likewise intending to crack the safe, albeit for his own benefit. After a few awkward moments, a friendship develops between the two as they try to get out from the locked vault.
Crime / Thriller / Foreign
The Miracle Worker Blu-ray Movie
Eureka Classics
Eureka Entertainment | 1962 | 106 min | Rated BBFC: PG | Jan 27, 2020 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
The story of Anne Sullivan's struggle to teach the blind and deaf Helen Keller how to communicate.
Biography / Drama
Overcomer Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + DVD + Digital Copy
Sony Pictures | 2019 | 119 min | Rated PG | Dec 17, 2019 | Martin Liebman
The movie unpacks a pivotal issue in the life of students and adults alike.
Drama
The Angel Collection Blu-ray Movie
Angel / Avenging Angel / Angel III: The Final Chapter | SOLD OUT
Vinegar Syndrome | 1984-1988 | 3 Movies | 287 min | Rated R | Nov 28, 2019 | Brian Orndorf
See individual titles for their synopses.
Action / Crime / Thriller
Angel Blu-ray Movie
Vinegar Syndrome | 1984 | 93 min | Rated R | Mar 31, 2020 | Brian Orndorf
15 year-old Molly is the best in her class in high school. Nobody suspects that the model pupil earns her money at night: as prostitute "Angel" on Sunset Blvd. The well-organized separation of her two lives is shattered when two of her friends are slain by a necrophile serial killer. She's the only eye witness and becomes a target herself. The investigating Detective Andrews helps her, not only to survive, but also to query why she keeps on humiliating herself and to stop it.
Action / Crime / Thriller
Avenging Angel Blu-ray Movie
Vinegar Syndrome | 1985 | 94 min | Rated R | Mar 31, 2020 | Brian Orndorf
When Molly, former teen prostitute, learns that Lieutenant Andrews, the cop who got her off the streets, has been gunned down, she leaves her new life as an aspiring and ambitious law student to return to the neon glow and deserted back alleys of Hollywood as "Angel" to avenge his death.
Action / Crime / Thriller
Angel III: The Final Chapter Blu-ray Movie
Vinegar Syndrome | 1988 | 100 min | Rated R | Mar 31, 2020 | Brian Orndorf
Angel returns to the street in an effort to find her missing sister. And while undercover, she discovers that her sister is about to be sold into a white slavery ring run by a powerful madame. The clock is ticking as Angel must break up the slavery network before it's too late!
Action / Crime / Thriller
Doctor Cyclops Blu-ray Movie
Kino Lorber | 1940 | 78 min | Not rated | Jan 07, 2020 | Neil Lumbard
A mad scientist working in the South American jungle miniaturizes his colleagues when he feels his megalomania is threatened.
Adventure / Drama / Horror / Sci-Fi
Britt-Marie Was Here Blu-ray Movie
Britt-Marie var här
Cohen Media Group | 2019 | 97 min | Not rated | Jan 14, 2020 | Jeffrey Kauffman
Britt-Marie, 63-years-old, has just left a 40-year-old marriage and her long life as a housewife. Being told she is a nagging, passive-aggressive aunt, the new, only job in small-town Borg will be quite challenging. The small town of Borg has no pride left except the young soccer team, and Britt-Marie's new job is to coach them. This is the start of a journey filled with struggles and challenges but also warmth and love.
Drama / Foreign
The Slasher Blu-ray Movie
Cosh Boy
Kino Lorber | 1953 | 75 min | Not rated | Jan 07, 2020 | Neil Lumbard
Amongst the bomb-sites and dark alleys of postwar London Roy Walsh and his gang of juvenile delinquents waylay and rob old ladies. Without parental control from his war-widowed doting mother, Welsh, already on probation, drifts into more and more devious and serious offences.
Crime / Drama
- January 14, 2020
Emanuelle in America Blu-ray Movie
Mondo Macabro | 1977 | 100 min | Not rated | Nov 12, 2019 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
An American journalist travels throughout the world in search of a good story by joining a modern-day harem and traveling to Venice to see what really goes on at diplomatic parties. While trying to expose a corrupt government official, Emanuelle stumbles upon a group that uses kidnapped girls to make and sell snuff films. A brush with death leaves Emanuelle wondering if it is perhaps time to hang up her camera for good.
Erotic / Foreign
The Boat Is Full Blu-ray Movie
Das Boot ist voll
Kino Lorber | 1981 | 103 min | Not rated | Dec 17, 2019 | Neil Lumbard
A ragtag band of exiles from Germany sneak into Switzerland seeking asylum. They are allowed to stay at an isolated inn as long as they pretend to be a family. In order to maintain this deception they must communicate with a young French-speaking boy, who cannot understand the rest of the German-speaking refugees. They must impress upon him the importance of remaining silent, or else their plan, and their lives, could fall apart.
Drama / Foreign
It: Chapter Two 4K Blu-ray Movie
4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray + Digital Copy
Warner Bros. | 2019 | 169 min | Rated R | Dec 10, 2019 | Martin Liebman
In the sleepy town of Derry, Pennywise returns 27 years later to torment the grown-up members of the Losers' Club, who have long since drifted apart from one another.
Horror / Supernatural
Sliding Doors Blu-ray Movie
Collector's Edition
Shout Factory | 1998 | 99 min | Rated PG-13 | Jan 21, 2020 | Randy Miller III
A London woman's love life and career both hinge, unknown to her, on whether or not she catches a train. We see it both ways, in parallel.
Comedy / Drama / Romance / Imaginary
Angel Eyes Blu-ray Movie
Sony Pictures | 2001 | 103 min | Rated R | Jan 28, 2020 | Martin Liebman
A mysterious man is drawn to a feisty female police officer and a unusual relationship ensues, as not everything is as it seems.
Drama / Romance / Thriller
A Sunday in the Country Blu-ray Movie
Un Dimanche à la campagne
Kino Lorber | 1984 | 94 min | Rated G | Dec 17, 2019 | Neil Lumbard
In France, before WWI. As every Sunday, an old painter living in the country is visited by his son Gonzague, coming with his wife and his three children. Then his daugther Irene arrives. She is always in a hurry, she lives alone and does not come so often... An intimist chronicle in which what is not shown, what is guessed, is more important than how it looks, dealing with what each character expects of life.
Drama / Foreign / Period
Rambo: Last Blood 4K Blu-ray Movie
4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray + Digital Copy
Lionsgate Films | 2019 | 89 min | Rated R | Dec 17, 2019 | Martin Liebman
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