New Blu-ray Reviews

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

Chuck Berry Hail! Hail! Rock 'n' Roll Blu-ray Movie  

Shout Factory | 1987 | 120 min | Not rated | Nov 19, 2019 | Brian Orndorf

St. Louis, 1986. For Chuck Berry's 60th, Keith Richards assembles a pickup band of Robert Cray, Joey Spampinato, Eric Clapton, himself, and long-time Berry pianist Johnnie Johnson. Joined on stage by Etta James, Linda Ronstadt, and Julian Lennon, Berry performs his classic rock songs. His abilities as a composer, lyricist, singer, musician, and entertainer are on display and, in behind-the-scenes interviews, are discussed by Bo Diddley, Little Richard, Jerry Lee Lewis, Bruce Springstein, the Everly Brothers, Roy Orbison, and others. There's even a rarity for Berry, a rehearsal. Archival footage from the early 1950s and a duet with John Lennon round out this portrait of a master.

Biography / Documentary / Music

The World, the Flesh and the Devil Blu-ray Movie  

Warner Archive Collection

Warner Bros. | 1959 | 95 min | Not rated | Nov 12, 2019 | Randy Miller III

"Millions Flee from Cities! End of the World!" From a Manhattan skyscraper, Ralph Burton surveys the emptiness announced by that chilling newspaper headline. Nuclear doomsday has come. Ralph is sure he is the last person alive. Then a woman appears and the two form a cautious friendship that's threatened when a third survivor arrives. Unlike other post-apocalyptic thrillers from The Time Machine to I Am Legend, there are no external monsters to battle here.

Drama / Romance / Sci-Fi

Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw 4K Blu-ray Movie  

4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray + Digital Copy

Universal Studios | 2019 | 137 min | Rated PG-13 | Nov 05, 2019 | Martin Liebman

Lawman Luke Hobbs and outcast Deckard Shaw form an unlikely alliance when a cyber-genetically enhanced villain threatens the future of humanity.

Action / Adventure / Thriller

The Professor Blu-ray Movie  

Blu-ray + Digital Copy

Lionsgate Films | 2018 | 90 min | Rated R | Jul 09, 2019 | Jeffrey Kauffman

A college professor lives his life with reckless abandon after being diagnosed with a terminal illness.

Comedy / Drama

The Man Who Killed Don Quixote Blu-ray Movie  

Screen Media | 2018 | 133 min | Not rated | Jun 04, 2019 | Brian Orndorf

An advertising executive jumps back and forth in time between 21st century London and 17th century La Mancha, where Don Quixote mistakes him for Sancho Panza.

Adventure / Comedy / Drama

Shade Blu-ray Movie  

MVD Marquee Collection

MVD Visual | 2003 | 102 min | Rated R | Dec 17, 2019 | Jeffrey Kauffman

The hand is quicker than the eye in LA's underground gambling scene, hustlers get hustled and fortunes ride on every deal. Three small-time grifters devise a plan to beat the ultimate card mechanic - The Dean. But a seat at The Dean's table doesn't come cheap. Stuart Townsend (Queen of the Damned), Gabriel Byrne (The Usual Suspects), Thandie Newton (Mission: Impossible II), Jamie Foxx (Any Given Sunday), Melanie Griffith (Crazy in Alabama) and Sylvester Stallone (Cop Land) star in this stylish film where quick maneuvers and shady alliances keep you guessing until the last hand is revealed.

Crime / Thriller

Eastern Condors Blu-ray Movie    

東方禿鷹 / Dung fong tuk ying | Eureka Classics

Eureka Entertainment | 1987 | 1 Movie, 2 Cuts | 98 min | Rated BBFC: 18 | No Release Date | Dr. Svet Atanasov

To win their freedom, a group of hardened Asian convicts agree to go on a suicidal mission to Vietnam and destroy an abandoned ammunitions dump before the Vietcong discovers it.

Action / Comedy / War / Foreign / Period

Where'd You Go, Bernadette Blu-ray Movie  

Blu-ray + Digital Copy

20th Century Fox | 2019 | 109 min | Rated PG-13 | Nov 26, 2019 | Jeffrey Kauffman

After her anxiety-ridden mother disappears, 15-year-old Bee does everything she can to track her down, discovering her troubled past in the process.

Comedy / Drama / Mystery

Domino Blu-ray Movie  

Blu-ray + Digital Copy

Lionsgate Films | 2019 | 89 min | Rated R | Jul 30, 2019 | Jeffrey Kauffman

A Copenhagen police officer seeks justice for his partner's murder by a mysterious man.

Crime / Thriller