New Blu-ray Reviews

Star Trek: Discovery - Season Two Blu-ray Movie  

Paramount Pictures | 2019 | 710 min | Not rated | Nov 12, 2019 | Martin Liebman

After answering a distress signal from the USS Enterprise, the USS Discovery welcomes aboard Captain Christopher Pike and begins a new mission to investigate the meaning behind seven mysterious red signals.

Action / Adventure / Drama / Sci-Fi

Star Trek: Discovery - Season Two Blu-ray Movie  

Paramount Pictures | 2019 | 710 min | Not rated | Nov 12, 2019 | Martin Liebman

After answering a distress signal from the USS Enterprise, the USS Discovery welcomes aboard Captain Christopher Pike and begins a new mission to investigate the meaning behind seven mysterious red signals.

Action / Adventure / Drama / Sci-Fi

Toto: 40 Tours Around the Sun Blu-ray Movie  

Eagle Rock Entertainment | 2018 | 141 min | Not rated | Nov 15, 2019 | Jeffrey Kauffman

2018 was a banner year and the 40th Anniversary for TOTO who celebrated the occasion by embarking on their longest world tour in years. The band performed for hundreds of thousands of fans across Europe and North America, as their level of global critical mass reached new heights largely fueled by a rediscovery of favorites from their beloved repertoire.

Music

La Marseillaise Blu-ray Movie  

The Marseillaise

Kino Lorber | 1938 | 135 min | Not rated | Oct 29, 2019 | Neil Lumbard

An historical epic set during the French revolution, follows a battalion of citizen soldiers as they gather together to stop aristocratic rule and take down Louis XVI and his foreign-born queen, Marie Antoinette.

Drama / History / Foreign

Eegah Blu-ray Movie  

Special Edition | Limited to 1,500 copies

The Film Detective | 1962 | 90 min | Not rated | Nov 26, 2019 | Randy Miller III

A teenage girl driving through the desert is confronted by a huge Neanderthal-like man and she returns to the city to share her story with her explorer father and her boyfriend. When her father doesn’t return from searching for the creature, the girl and her boyfriend head out to the desert to find him and the girl is taken hostage along with her father. It’s up to the efforts of the boyfriend to rescue the father and daughter before the caveman can make the girl his mate.

Adventure / Comedy / Fantasy / Sci-Fi

Hit the Ice Blu-ray Movie  

Shout Factory | 1943 | 82 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Brian Orndorf

Two newspaper photographers get mixed up with gangsters at a ski resort.

Comedy / Crime / Musical

It Ain't Hay Blu-ray Movie  

Shout Factory | 1943 | 80 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Brian Orndorf

Adaptation of the Damon Runyon story 'Princess O'Hara', in which the horse of a street vendor is replaced by a racehorse.

Comedy

Who Done It? Blu-ray Movie  

Shout Factory | 1942 | 77 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Brian Orndorf

Two dumb soda jerks dream of writing radio mysteries. When they try to pitch an idea at a radio station, they end up in the middle of a real murder when the station owner is killed during a broadcast.

Comedy / Mystery

Pardon My Sarong Blu-ray Movie  

Shout Factory | 1942 | 84 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Brian Orndorf

A pair of bus drivers accidentally steal their own bus. With the company issuing a warrant for their arrest, they tag along with a playboy on a boat trip that finds them on a tropical island, where a jewel thief has sinister plans for them.

Adventure / Comedy / Crime / Musical

Ride 'Em Cowboy Blu-ray Movie  

Shout Factory | 1942 | 86 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Brian Orndorf

Two peanut vendors at a rodeo show get in trouble with their boss and hide out on a railroad train heading west. They get jobs as cowboys on a dude ranch, despite the fact that neither of them knows anything about cowboys, horses, or anything else.

Comedy / Musical / Western

Keep 'Em Flying Blu-ray Movie  

Shout Factory | 1941 | 86 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Brian Orndorf

When a barnstorming stunt pilot decides to join the air corps, his two goofball assistants decide to go with him. Since the two are Abbott & Costello, the air corps doesn't know what it's in for.

Comedy

Hold That Ghost Blu-ray Movie  

Shout Factory | 1941 | 86 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Brian Orndorf

Two bumbling service station attendants are left as the sole beneficiaries in a gangster's will. Their trip to claim their fortune is sidetracked when they are stranded in a haunted house along with several other strangers.

Comedy / Crime / Horror / Supernatural

In the Navy Blu-ray Movie  

Shout Factory | 1941 | 86 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Brian Orndorf

In this rollicking nautical musical comedy, Abbott and Costello are two sailors bound for duty on the high seas. They befriend singing star Dick Powell, who has ditched the limelight for a quiet enlisted life, and must help him evade an ambitious reporter intent on using his new identity for her big story. To complicate matters even further, Pomeroy (Costello) has fallen for Patty, one of The Andrews Sisters, and puts on a charade to impress her. The action starts with a dance hall brawl and ends with Pomeroy playing captain of the battleship.The hilarious highjinks are punctuated by fabulous musical numbers, making IN THE NAVY a classic entertainment treasure!

Comedy / Musical / War

Buck Privates Blu-ray Movie  

Shout Factory | 1941 | 84 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Brian Orndorf

Comedy legends Bud Abbott and Lou Costello cemented their place in film history with the hilarious wartime comedy classic BUCK PRIVATES. After spending years on stage in burlesque and on radio perfecting classic routines such as "Who's on First?," the duo transitioned to motion pictures at Universal in 1940. In their first leading roles, Bud and Lou play con artists who accidentally enlist in the U/S.Army to avoid going to jail. Making matters worse, their no-nonsense drill sergeant turns out to be the cop who tried to arrest them! Featuring classic routines such as "Drill," "Dice Game" and "You're Forty, She's Ten," the film also starred the popular singing group The Andrews Sisters performing the Academy Award-nominated song "Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy." Following the success of BUCK PRIVATES, Bud and Lou made an astounding 26 more movies at Universal leaving a legacy of laughter that will be treasured forever.

Comedy / Musical / War

One Night in the Tropics Blu-ray Movie  

Shout Factory | 1940 | 83 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Brian Orndorf

Jim "Lucky" Moore (Allan Jones), an insurance salesman, comes up with a novel policy for his friend, Steve (Robert Cummings): a 'love insurance policy', that will pay out $1-million if Steve does not marry his fiancée, Cynthia (Nancy Kelly). The upcoming marriage is jeopardized by Steve's ex-girlfriend, Mickey (Peggy Moran), and Cynthia's disapproving Aunt Kitty. The policy is underwritten by a nightclub owner, Roscoe (William Frawley), who sends two enforcers - Abbott and Costello - to ensure that the wedding occurs as planned. Everyone involved in the situation winds up sailing or flying to San Marcos (a fictional South American country), where another complication arises, when Lucky falls for Cynthia. Lucky winds up marrying Cynthia, but Roscoe does not have to pay the $1-million because Steve ends up marrying Mickey.

Comedy / Musical

Woman Chasing the Butterfly of Death Blu-ray Movie  

The Girl with the Butterfly Tattoo / Killer Butterfly / Salin nabireul jjonneun yeoja / 살인나비를 쫓는 여자

Mondo Macabro | 1978 | 117 min | Not rated | Oct 22, 2019 | Neil Lumbard

A dour student, Young-gul, crosses paths with an elderly book salesman obsessed with Hitler and Nietzsche, a two-thousand year-old female corpse, and a mad scientist. Young-gul wants to commit suicide but the book salesman insists the human will even overcome biological death. Young-gul tests this by trying to kill him. Later the corpse comes to life in the hope that Young-gul will impregnate her.

Drama / Fantasy / Horror / Mystery / Sci-Fi / Foreign

Jake Speed Blu-ray Movie  

Arrow | 1986 | 105 min | Rated PG | Dec 03, 2019 | Jeffrey Kauffman

Jake Speed is the lead character in some of the biggest page-turners of the 1940s. When a young girl is kidnapped and her sister begs the real-life Speed for help, he must find a way to be as gallant as the book hero whose creation he's inspired.

Action / Adventure / Comedy

Cappella Romana: Lost Voices of Hagia Sophia Blu-ray Movie  

Blu-ray + CD

Cappella Romana | 2019 | 80 min | Not rated | Nov 29, 2019 | Jeffrey Kauffman

No synopsis for this title.

Documentary / Music

Hitchhike to Hell Blu-ray Movie  

Arrow | 1977 | 88 min | Rated R | Nov 19, 2019 | Jeffrey Kauffman

Howard is a mild-mannered young man who drives a truck for a commercial laundry. He's also a mother-obsessed psycho who picks up young female hitchhikers, rapes them and kills them. As the bodies start piling up, the police finally begin to investigate.

The Mountain Blu-ray Movie  

Kino Lorber | 2018 | 106 min | Not rated | Nov 12, 2019 | Neil Lumbard

The story of a young man who, after losing his mother, goes to work with a doctor specializing in lobotomies and therapies.

Drama