New Blu-ray Reviews
Home- October 22, 2019
The Crimson Kimono Blu-ray Movie
Kit Parker Films | 1959 | 81 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Jeffrey Kauffman
Writer-director-producer Samuel Fuller's fascinating thriller about two L.A. cops, one Caucasian and one Japanese-American, who fall into an interracial love triangle with the woman they are protecting from a killer. While a deadly hunt for a stripper's murderer ensues, this film takes a daring look at interracial romance at a time when it was still a hot-button issue.
Crime / Drama / Film-Noir / Mystery / Romance / Thriller
Man on a String Blu-ray Movie
Ten Years a Counterspy
Kit Parker Films | 1960 | 93 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Jeffrey Kauffman
No synopsis for this title.
Action / Crime / Drama / Thriller
Shanghai Express Blu-ray Movie
Indicator Series
Powerhouse Films | 1932 | 82 min | Not rated | Aug 26, 2019 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
A beautiful temptress re-kindles an old romance while trying to escape her past during a tension-packed train journey.
Adventure / Drama / Romance
- October 21, 2019
To Hell and Back Blu-ray Movie
Umbrella Entertainment | 1955 | 106 min | Rated PG | Sep 04, 2019 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
World War II hero Audie L. Murphy (1924-1971), one of the most decorated soldier in American history, portrays himself in this action classic based on his 1949 autobiography. With Murphy re-creating his own actions and movements in key battles, this devastating chronicle of war follows Murphy and his buddies from North Africa to Berlin, with the war hero performing Herculean deeds on the battlefield.
Action / Biography / War
Morocco Blu-ray Movie
Indicator Series
Powerhouse Films | 1930 | 92 min | Rated BBFC: U | Aug 26, 2019 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
Jaded cabaret singer Mademoiselle Amy Jolly falls for Tom Brown, a devil-may-care private in the French Foreign Legion. After Tom overhears the wealthy man-of-the-world Monsieur La Bessier propose to Amy, he accepts a dangerous assignment, convinced that he cannot can give the beautiful chanteuse the life she wants. All proves fair in love and war, however, and Amy must decide which man she truly loves.
Drama / Romance
The Omen Blu-ray Movie
The Omen Collection Deluxe Edition Version / Remastered
Shout Factory | 1976 | 111 min | Rated R | Oct 22, 2019 | Dr. Stephen Larson
U.S. ambassador switches his wife's baby with another when their child is stillborn. As the boy grows up, his father begins to suspect the boy is evil and must be destroyed.
Horror / Mystery / Thriller / Supernatural
Covergirl Blu-ray Movie
Scorpion Releasing | 1984 | 93 min | Rated R | Oct 22, 2019 | Brian Orndorf
A young girl enters the modeling industry wanting to becoming "the face of the '80s."
Drama / Romance
Talking Walls Blu-ray Movie
Scorpion Releasing | 1987 | 83 min | Rated R | Oct 22, 2019 | Brian Orndorf
A sociology student films sexual encounters in a motel for his thesis, and falls in love with a French girl in the process.
Drama
Hellboy 4K Blu-ray Movie
15th Anniversary Edition / 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray + Digital Copy
Sony Pictures | 2004 | 1 Movie, 2 Cuts | 132 min | Rated PG-13 | Oct 15, 2019 | Martin Liebman
A demon raised from infancy after being conjured by and rescued from the Nazis, grows up to become a defender against the forces of darkness.
Action / Adventure / Fantasy / Sci-Fi / Comic book
Don't Be Afraid of the Dark Blu-ray Movie
Warner Archive Collection
Warner Bros. | 1973 | 74 min | Not rated | Oct 22, 2019 | Randy Miller III
A neurotic housewife named Sally and her business exec husband move into Sally's family house, a spooky two story Victorian mansion. When Sally starts the redecorating along with her pompous decorator she comes across a locked room in the house. After arguing with the handyman who insists she should leave the room locked, she finally gets the key. But once she opens her father's old study and has the bricks from the fireplace removed, strange things begin to happen. Sally begins to see small creatures everywhere, but no one will believe her. Her husband dismisses her as neurotic and her friend thinks Sally may be losing her mind. But things take a deadly serious turn when the decorator trips at the top of the stairs and falls to his death. Sally sees a rope lying across the place where he tripped, but when she picks it up to take it, a horrifying little creature pulls it from her grasp. Is she crazy? Or has Sally released demons in the house, demons her father summoned?
Horror
Godzilla: King of the Monsters 3D Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray 3D + Blu-ray + Digital Copy
Warner Bros. | 2019 | 132 min | Rated PG-13 | Aug 27, 2019 | Neil Lumbard
Members of the crypto-zoological agency Monarch face off against a battery of god-sized monsters, including the mighty Godzilla, who collides with Mothra, Rodan, and his ultimate nemesis, the three-headed King Ghidorah. When these ancient super-species-thought to be mere myths-rise again, they all vie for supremacy, leaving humanity's very existence hanging in the balance.
Action / Adventure / Fantasy / Sci-Fi / Thriller
- October 20, 2019
Häxan Blu-ray Movie
includes 1968's "Witchcraft Through the Ages" version
Criterion | 1922 | 1 Movie, 2 Cuts | 106 min | Not rated | Oct 15, 2019 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
A series of dramatic vignettes exploring the scientific hypothesis that the witches of the Middle Ages suffered the same hysteria as turn-of-the-century psychiatric patients.
Documentary / Fantasy / Horror / Supernatural / Foreign
The Fate of Lee Khan Blu-ray Movie
迎春閣之風波 / Yíng chūn gé zhī fēng bō | Masters of Cinema / Blu-ray + DVD
Eureka Entertainment | 1973 | 105 min | Rated BBFC: 12 | Oct 21, 2019 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
Lee Khan, a high official under Mongolian Emperor Yuan of the Yuan dynasty (year 1366) procures the battle map of the Chinese rebel Chu Yuan-chang's army. Rebel spies, aided by treachery within Khan's ranks, strive to corner him in an inn.
Action / Drama / Martial arts / Foreign / Period
Ultraman: The Complete Series Blu-ray Movie
ウルトラマン / Blu-ray + Digital Copy
Mill Creek Entertainment | 1966-1967 | 988 min | Not rated | Oct 15, 2019 | Martin Liebman
When the world is threatened by alien invaders and giant prehistoric monsters, there is only one agency equipped to handle the situation, The Science Patrol, an ultra-sophisticated police force equipped with high-tech weaponry and spacecrafts. Led by Captain Muramatsu, the team defends the planet from the unknown. Unbeknownst to the team, one of their members, Hayata, has the ability to transform himself into the giant superhero from Nebula M7B, Ultraman, when all their weaponry and skills can't stop their foes.
Action / Adventure / Fantasy / Sci-Fi / Supernatural / Foreign
Ultraman: The Complete Series Blu-ray Movie
ウルトラマン / Blu-ray + Digital Copy
Mill Creek Entertainment | 1966-1967 | 988 min | Not rated | Oct 15, 2019 | Martin Liebman
When the world is threatened by alien invaders and giant prehistoric monsters, there is only one agency equipped to handle the situation, The Science Patrol, an ultra-sophisticated police force equipped with high-tech weaponry and spacecrafts. Led by Captain Muramatsu, the team defends the planet from the unknown. Unbeknownst to the team, one of their members, Hayata, has the ability to transform himself into the giant superhero from Nebula M7B, Ultraman, when all their weaponry and skills can't stop their foes.
Action / Adventure / Fantasy / Sci-Fi / Supernatural / Foreign
Dumbo 3D Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray 3D + Blu-ray
Disney / Buena Vista | 2019 | 112 min | Rated BBFC: PG | Jul 29, 2019 | Neil Lumbard
A young elephant, whose oversized ears enable him to fly, helps save a struggling circus, but when the circus plans a new venture, Dumbo and his friends discover dark secrets beneath its shiny veneer.
Family / Fantasy
- October 19, 2019
The Blob Blu-ray Movie
Collector's Edition
Shout Factory | 1988 | 95 min | Rated R | Oct 29, 2019 | Dr. Stephen Larson
Remake of the 1958 horror sci-fi about a deadly blob—which is the spawn of a secret government germ warfare project—that consumes everyone in its path. Teenagers try in vain to warn the townsfolk, who refuse to take them seriously, while government agents try to cover up the evidence and confine the creature...
Horror / Sci-Fi
American Gods: Season Two Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + Digital Copy
Lionsgate Films | 2019 | 427 min | Rated TV-MA | Aug 20, 2019 | Jeffrey Kauffman
No synopsis for this title.
Drama / Fantasy / Mystery / Supernatural
Brother Can You Spare a Dime? Blu-ray Movie
VCI | 1975 | 103 min | Rated PG | Aug 27, 2019 | Jeffrey Kauffman
A nostalgic look back at the Great Depression with contemporary archival footage and film clips picturing James Cagney as an American Everyman.
Documentary
- October 18, 2019
My Favorite Year Blu-ray Movie
Warner Archive Collection
Warner Bros. | 1982 | 92 min | Rated PG | Sep 17, 2019 | Michael Reuben
Benjy Stone, junior writer on a popular 1950s TV comedy/variety series, is assigned to keep guest star Alan Swann out of trouble during rehearsals and deliver him sober to the live telecast. Swann’s drunken antics make him a handful, and the show has other problems to contend with, including a mercurial star, a fractious writers room and a notorious gangster, Karl Rojeck, who threatens violence if the star doesn’t stop making fun of him on air.
Comedy