New Blu-ray Reviews

Satanic Panic Blu-ray Movie  

RLJ Entertainment | 2019 | 89 min | Not rated | Oct 22, 2019 | Brian Orndorf

A pizza delivery girl at the end of her financial rope has to fight for her life - and her tips - when her last order of the night turns out to be high society Satanists in need of a virgin sacrifice.

Comedy / Horror

Black Angel Blu-ray Movie  

Arrow Academy

Arrow | 1946 | 81 min | Not rated | Jan 28, 2020 | Jeffrey Kauffman

When a beautiful hard-boiled blackmailer is murdered in her swank apartment, there are any number of men who might have done it. There's Martin Blair, the drunken husband she's dumped; there's shady nightclub owner Marko; and there's Kirk Bennett, who was cheating on his wife with her. It's Bennett who was spotted at the crime scene, and it's his long-suffering wife, Catherine, who sets out to save him from being executed. Suspecting Marko, she teams up with Blair to perform in Marko's club and investigate. Suspense — and romance — follow as this murder mystery winds its way through a maze of clues to a surprise ending.

Crime / Film-Noir / Mystery

Body at Brighton Rock Blu-ray Movie  

Magnolia Pictures | 2019 | 87 min | Rated R | Jul 30, 2019 | Randy Miller III

A park ranger spends the night guarding a potential crime scene on a remote mountain trail.

Thriller

Doctor Who: Jon Pertwee: Complete Season Four Blu-ray Movie  

BBC | 1972-1973 | 650 min | Not rated | Oct 15, 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

The Returned: Season Two Blu-ray Movie  

Les Revenants

Music Box Films | 2012-2015 | 456 min | Not rated | Dec 17, 2019 | Jeffrey Kauffman

No synopsis for this title.

Drama / Mystery / Supernatural / Foreign

This Gun for Hire Blu-ray Movie  

Shout Factory | 1942 | 81 min | Not rated | May 14, 2019 | Dr. Stephen Larson

A hired killer dodges police while tracking down the enemy agents who tried to frame him.

Crime / Film-Noir / Mystery / Thriller

Marlene Dietrich & Josef von Sternberg at Paramount, 1930-1935 Blu-ray Movie    

Morocco / Dishonored / Shanghai Express / Blonde Venus / The Scarlet Empress / The Devil is a Woman | Indicator Series | Limited Edition

Powerhouse Films | 1930-1935 | 6 Movies | 542 min | Rated BBFC: 12 | Aug 26, 2019 | Dr. Svet Atanasov

MARLENE DIETRICH & JOSEF VON STERNBERG AT PARAMOUNT, 1930-1935

Adventure / Comedy / Drama / History / Romance / War / Melodrama / Period

Dishonored Blu-ray Movie    

Indicator Series

Powerhouse Films | 1931 | 91 min | Not rated | Aug 26, 2019 | Dr. Svet Atanasov

A widow is forced to turn to prostitution to support herself. Recruited by the Austrian Secret Service as a spy, she becomes an expert in ferreting out secrets about the enemy but meets her match in the form of a Russian agent named Kranau.

Drama / Romance / War

The Scarlet Empress Blu-ray Movie    

Indicator Series

Powerhouse Films | 1934 | 104 min | Rated BBFC: 12 | Aug 26, 2019 | Dr. Svet Atanasov

During the 18th century, German noblewoman Sophia Frederica, who would later become Catherine the Great, travels to Moscow to marry the dimwitted Grand Duke Peter, the heir to the Russian throne. Their arranged marriage proves to be loveless, and Catherine takes many lovers, including the handsome Count Alexei, and bears a son. When the unstable Peter eventually ascends to the throne, Catherine plots to oust him from power.

Drama / History / Romance / Melodrama / Period

Operation Petticoat Blu-ray Movie    

Eureka Classics / Blu-ray + DVD

Eureka Entertainment | 1959 | 120 min | Rated BBFC: U | Dec 02, 2019 | Dr. Svet Atanasov

World War 2 comedy about a submarine commander who finds himself stuck with a decrepit (and pink) sub, a con-man executive officer and a group of army nurses.

Comedy / Romance / War

Mad Love Blu-ray Movie  

Kino Lorber | 1995 | 93 min | Rated PG-13 | Dec 17, 2019 | Neil Lumbard

A love story of young college-bound teens on the verge of a breakdown.

Drama / Romance

Kaili Blues Blu-ray Movie  

路边野餐 / Lù biān yě cān

Grasshopper Film | 2015 | 110 min | Unrated | Apr 25, 2017 | Neil Lumbard

Chen, a preoccupied doctor working in a small clinic in the rain-drenched city of Kaili, decides to fulfill his late mother’s wish and sets off on a journey to look for his brother’s abandoned child. His partner in the clinic, a lonely old lady, asks him to also find her former lover, giving him a photograph, a shirt, and a music cassette. On the way, Chen passes through a mysterious town where distinctions between past, present, and future appear to slip away.

Drama / Mystery / Foreign

Fragment of an Empire Blu-ray Movie  

Blu-ray + DVD

Flicker Alley | 1929 | 110 min | Not rated | Aug 09, 2019 | Neil Lumbard

A story of a man who loses his memory during the First World War, regains it 10 years after the Russian Revolution and returns home to a new and alien St. Petersburg.

Drama / Foreign

Playing God Blu-ray Movie  

Kino Lorber | 1997 | 94 min | Rated R | Dec 10, 2019 | Dr. Svet Atanasov

Dr. Eugene Sands, an ex-surgeon lured into a dark underworld by a hip-but lethal-mob, finds himself caught in a web of murder and mayhem...and growing far too close to the top mobster's seductive mistress.

Crime / Drama / Thriller

IceMan Blu-ray Movie  

Kino Lorber | 1984 | 101 min | Rated PG | Dec 10, 2019 | Neil Lumbard

HE'S 40,000 YEARS OLD. Deep within an Arctic glacier they found him, preserved by a miracle of nature, brought back to life by a miracle of science. Now medical science wants to exploit him in the name of research. One man wants to stop them...in the name of humanity. But he'll need more than a miracle to survive...he'll need a friend.

Drama / Sci-Fi

Paradise Blu-ray Movie  

Kino Lorber | 1991 | 111 min | Rated PG-13 | Dec 17, 2019 | Neil Lumbard

Lily and Ben Reed, a young couple torn apart by a family tragedy. It would take a miracle to rekindle their love and a miracle arrives in the form of a summer guest - Willard Young played by Elijah Wood.

Drama / Coming of age

Midaq Alley Blu-ray Movie  

El callejón de los milagros

Film Movement | 1995 | 144 min | Not rated | Nov 06, 2018 | Neil Lumbard

The story of people in one Mexico City neighborhood and the connections among them: Don Ru, the owner of the local pub; Eusebia, his wife; Chava, his son, and Abel, his friend, who emigrate to the USA in search of fortune; Susanita, the single landtender always dreaming of marrying a good man; Guicho, the pub's employee, who extracts the money when Don Ru is not there and finally marries Susanita; Alma, the pretty girl of Abel's dreams, who becomes a luxury prostitute while he's away; Jimmy, the handsome young man Don Ru becomes infatuated with; and others. Based on the Nobel Prize-winning novel by Naguib Mahfouz.

Drama / Foreign

Spettacolo Blu-ray Movie  

Grasshopper Film | 2017 | 91 min | Unrated | Mar 13, 2018 | Neil Lumbard

Once upon a time, villagers in a tiny hill town in Tuscany came up with a remarkable way to confront their issues: they turned their lives into a play. Every summer, their piazza became their stage and residents of all ages played a part – the role of themselves. Monticchiello’s annual tradition has attracted worldwide attention and kept the town together for 50 years, but with an aging population and a future generation more interested in Facebook than farming, the town’s 50th–anniversary performance just might be its last. Spettacolo tells the story of Teatro Povero di Monticchiello, interweaving episodes from its past with its modern-day process as the villagers turn a series of devastating blows into a new play about the end of their world.

Documentary / Foreign

The Queen of Spades Blu-ray Movie  

Kino Lorber | 1949 | 95 min | Not rated | Oct 15, 2019 | Neil Lumbard

An army officer has become obsessed with playing cards. Convinced that an elderly countess possesses the secret of winning every game, the young officer’s obsession leads him into a satanic world of madness, mayhem and murder, where death is only the beginning.

Drama / Horror / Period

Devil's Revenge Blu-ray Movie  

Special Edition / Blu-ray + CD

Cleopatra | 2019 | 90 min | Not rated | Oct 15, 2019 | Jeffrey Kauffman

John Brock is a down-on-his-luck archaeologist who returns from an expedition to the caves of rural Kentucky after unsuccessfully trying to locate a mysterious relic that his family has sought for generations. Upon his return, John starts to see dream-like visions of a ferocious bird-like creature from ancient folklore. John soon learns that the cave he came into contact with on his last expedition was indeed the cave that contains the relic and also a portal to Hell and a place of worship for the Occult. John discovers that the only way to stop the increasingly realistic visions is to go back to the cave with his family, find the relic once and for all, and destroy it.

Horror