New Blu-ray Reviews
Home- October 01, 2019
A Bucket of Blood Blu-ray Movie
Olive Signature
Olive Films | 1959 | 66 min | Not rated | Sep 24, 2019 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
Walter Paisley, nerdy busboy at a Bohemian café, is jealous of the talent (and popularity) of its various artistic regulars. But after accidentally killing his landlady's cat and covering the body in plaster to hide the evidence, he is acclaimed as a brilliant sculptor - but his new-found friends want to see more of his work. Lacking any artistic talent whatsoever, Walter has to resort to similar methods to produce new work, and soon people start mysteriously disappearing...
Horror / Thriller / Dark humor
Ida Lupino: Filmmaker Collection Blu-ray Movie
Not Wanted / Never Fear / The Hitch-Hiker / The Bigamist
Kino Lorber | 1949-1953 | 4 Movies | 323 min | Not rated | Sep 24, 2019 | Neil Lumbard
See individual titles for their synopses.
Crime / Drama / Film-Noir / Romance / Thriller
The Bigamist Blu-ray Movie
Kino Lorber | 1953 | 80 min | Not rated | Sep 24, 2019 | Neil Lumbard
While away on business, Harry Graham hops a Hollywood tour bus. Sitting next to him is a tough-talking waitress, Phyllis Martin. He lights her cigarette and, a few more trips to Los Angeles later, Harry and Phyllis are wed. Back home in San Francisco, he and his wife, Eve, are trying to adopt a child. Harry noticeably hesitates before signing a release granting the agency permission to investigate their lives. The head of the agency, Mr. Jordan, senses that there is something amiss and decides to dig deeper. Harry is torn by his love and his desire to protect both women. Eve, though aloof, gives him a decent life. Phyllis, hardened by past disappointments, needs his love. Harry's situation becomes desperate as he tries to maintain his double life under the weight of Mr. Jordan's endless probing.
Drama / Film-Noir
The Hitch-Hiker Blu-ray Movie
Kino Lorber | 1953 | 71 min | Not rated | Sep 24, 2019 | Neil Lumbard
Inspired by the true-life murder spree of Billy Cook, The Hitch-Hiker is a tension-laden saga of two men on a camping trip who are held captive by a homicidal drifter who forces them, at gunpoint, to embark on a grim joyride across the Mexican desert.
Crime / Film-Noir / Thriller
Never Fear Blu-ray Movie
The Young Lovers
Kino Lorber | 1949 | 82 min | Not rated | Sep 24, 2019 | Neil Lumbard
Poised on the brink of stardom, dancer Carol Williams (Sally Forrest) is struck down by polio. Her fiance, Guy Richards (Keefe Brasselle), who is also her dancing partner and choreographer, quits his stage career to be able to attend to her needs. Carol becomes completely paralyzed, which leaves her feeling bitter, angry, and hopeless. Not until she meets a fellow hospital patient (Hugh O'Brian) and reaches out does Carol rediscover her will to live. Alternate title: "The Young Lovers".
Drama / Romance
Not Wanted Blu-ray Movie
Kino Lorber | 1949 | 91 min | Not rated | Sep 24, 2019 | Neil Lumbard
After a beautiful but unsophisticated girl is seduced by a worldly piano player and gives up her out-of-wedlock baby, her guilt compels her to kidnap another child.
Drama
Gremlins 4K Blu-ray Movie
4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray + Digital Copy
Warner Bros. | 1984 | 106 min | Rated PG | Oct 01, 2019 | Michael Reuben
When a man brings home an adorable creature from Chinatown as a Christmas present for his son Billy, the shopkeeper's sage advice -- no snacks after, no water, mood lighting only -- goes unheeded. As a result, devilish green creatures with a million vices take over the small town on Christmas Eve.
Comedy / Fantasy / Horror / Holiday
- September 30, 2019
Pledge Night Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + DVD
Vinegar Syndrome | 1990 | 86 min | Not rated | Sep 24, 2019 | Brian Orndorf
It's hazing season at Phi Up and the boys are up to all sorts of nasty pranks on their hapless pledges, in between regular bouts of 'wetting their whistles' at the campus watering hole...with some of the area's beautiful sorority babes. But this is going to be one literal 'hell week' as they unwittingly unleash the spirit of Acid Sid, an unfortunate pledge who was accidentally dissolved in acid during a hazing prank gone wrong some 20 years earlier. As the helpless frat boys and pledges fall victim to Sid's wrath and seemingly indestructible towering zombie corpse, it's up to the stragglers to figure out how to kill someone who's been dead for two decades, or die trying.
Horror
Annabelle Comes Home Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + DVD + Digital Copy
Warner Bros. | 2019 | 106 min | Rated R | Oct 08, 2019 | Martin Liebman
Determined to keep Annabelle from wreaking more havoc, demonologists Ed and Lorraine Warren bring the possessed doll to the locked artifacts room in their home, placing her "safely" behind sacred glass and enlisting a priest's holy blessing. But an unholy night of horror awaits as Annabelle awakens the evil spirits in the room, who all set their sights on a new target-the Warrens' ten-year-old daughter, Judy, and her friends.
Horror / Mystery / Thriller / Supernatural
Spider-Man: Far from Home 4K Blu-ray Movie
Limited Edition / 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray + Digital Copy
Sony Pictures | 2019 | 129 min | Rated PG-13 | Oct 01, 2019 | Martin Liebman
After the events of Avengers: Endgame, Peter Parker and his friends go on summer vacation to Europe and there Peter finds himself trying to save his friends against a villain known as Mysterio.
Action / Adventure / Fantasy / Sci-Fi / Comic book
Brothers in Arms Blu-ray Movie
Gravitas Ventures | 2018 | 89 min | Not rated | Oct 23, 2018 | Martin Liebman
Charlie Sheen narrates, as cast and crew share their personal experiences making the Academy Award winning film, Platoon. This non-union, low budget, independent film was cast almost exclusively with young, unknown actors making their first film. Together they share their first hand accounts of the grueling boot camp, Oliver Stone's "unique" directing style, and the brutal filming conditions that together forged their eternal brotherhood.
Documentary
The Great Waldo Pepper Blu-ray Movie
Shout Factory | 1975 | 108 min | Rated PG | Sep 24, 2019 | Brian Orndorf
Set during 1926–1931, the movie stars Robert Redford as a disaffected World War I veteran pilot who missed the opportunity of proving himself during the war, and who now works to reinvent his past by barnstorming.
Drama / Period
In Celebration Blu-ray Movie
Kino Lorber | 1975 | 131 min | Rated PG | Aug 27, 2019 | Jeffrey Kauffman
In their tiny house in a Yorkshire mining town, God-fearing and hard-working Mr. and Mrs. Shaw (Bill Owen and Constance Chapman) welcome their sons home to celebrate the couple's fortieth wedding anniversary. But with each son's arrival, more and more of the Shaw's model blue collar family facade begins to chip away. Middle son Colin's (James Bolam) engagement has placed him on the path to a loveless marriage. Barely shouldering the burdens of his shattered artistic aspirations and his own family, Steven, the baby (Brian Cox), is on the threshold of a nervous breakdown. But the toaster tossed into this already scalding theatrical bath is Alan Bates as eldest son Andrew. As father, mother and brothers futilely try to hide the truth from themselves and each other, Bates' Andrew tears into the Shaw family's carefully maintained fictions with animal fury and all too human bitterness.
Drama
The Beatles: Abbey Road Blu-ray Movie
Anniversary Super Deluxe Edition | Blu-ray Audio / Blu-ray + CD
Apple | 1969 | 48 min | Not rated | Sep 27, 2019 | Jeffrey Kauffman
No synopsis for this title.
Music
Pan's Labyrinth 4K Blu-ray Movie
El Laberinto del Fauno / 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray + Digital Copy
Warner Bros. | 2006 | 119 min | Rated R | Oct 01, 2019 | Randy Miller III
In the aftermath of the Spanish Civil War, Ofelia and her ailing mother arrive at the post of her mother’s new husband, a sadistic army officer, in the Spanish countryside. As Ofelia’s mother lies immobilized in anticipation of her forthcoming child, and her high-ranking stepfather attempts to fulfill his orders of crushing a nearby guerrilla uprising, the young girl ventures into an elaborate stone labyrinth presided over by the mythical faun Pan. Convinced by Pan that she is a legendary lost princess, Ofelia sets off on a quest to complete three dangerous tasks and reclaim her kingdom and immortality.
Drama / Fantasy / Horror / Thriller / Imaginary / Foreign / Surreal / Period
Muriel, or the Time of Return Blu-ray Movie
Muriel ou le temps d'un retour
Criterion | 1963 | 117 min | Not rated | Jul 19, 2016 | Neil Lumbard
Delphine Seyrig stars as an antique shop owner and widow in Boulogne-sur-Mer, whose past comes back to haunt her when a former lover reenters her life. Meanwhile, her stepson is tormented by his own ghosts, related to his service in France’s recently ended war in Algeria.
Drama / Foreign
- September 29, 2019
101 Dalmatians Blu-ray Movie
The Signature Collection / Blu-ray + DVD + Digital Copy
Disney / Buena Vista | 1961 | 79 min | Rated G | Sep 24, 2019 | Martin Liebman
Roger and Anita meet cute through their dalmatians, Pongo and Perdita. All is wedded bliss until Anita's old college chum, Cruella DeVil, who has a psychotic obsession with fur, catches sight of Pongo and Perdita's puppies and hatches a plot to steal all the dalmatian pups she can find to make an enormous fur coat. Soon, the puppies have been dognapped and Pongo must lead a heroic cast of animals to rescue the pups before it's too late.
Adventure / Animation / Comedy / Family
101 Dalmatians Blu-ray Movie
The Signature Collection / Blu-ray + DVD + Digital Copy
Disney / Buena Vista | 1961 | 79 min | Rated G | Sep 24, 2019 | Martin Liebman
Roger and Anita meet cute through their dalmatians, Pongo and Perdita. All is wedded bliss until Anita's old college chum, Cruella DeVil, who has a psychotic obsession with fur, catches sight of Pongo and Perdita's puppies and hatches a plot to steal all the dalmatian pups she can find to make an enormous fur coat. Soon, the puppies have been dognapped and Pongo must lead a heroic cast of animals to rescue the pups before it's too late.
Adventure / Animation / Comedy / Family
The Mad Adventures of Rabbi Jacob Blu-ray Movie
Les aventures de Rabbi Jacob
Film Movement | 1973 | 100 min | Rated G | Sep 10, 2019 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
In this French comedy, Louis de Funès stars as Victor Pivert, a hopelessly bigoted man. Victor loves people, as long as they're Caucasian, French, and Catholic. But when it comes to foreigners, Victor draws the line. His ultimate nightmare becomes a reality the day of his daughter's wedding, when he stumbles across a group of Arab revolutionaries and is forced into hiding as a rabbi. Gerard Oury's film features an onslaught of hilarious chase sequences.
Comedy / Foreign
The Santa Clause: 3-Movie Collection Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + Digital Copy
Disney / Buena Vista | 1994-2006 | 3 Movies | 293 min | Rated PG | Sep 10, 2019 | Martin Liebman
Celebrate the holidays with all three Disney Santa Clause adventures in one spectacular collection! Christmas gets a little nuttier when Scott Calvin (Tim Allen) unknowingly inherits the role of legendary St. Nick. His ordinary life snowballs into a hysterical series of crazy events as he fills out the Santa suit, meets Mrs. Claus, and faces his ultimate test against the mischievous Jack Frost!
Comedy / Drama / Family / Fantasy / Holiday