New Blu-ray Reviews
Home- October 02, 2019
The Juniper Tree Blu-ray Movie
Arbelos | 1990 | 79 min | Not rated | Sep 10, 2019 | Neil Lumbard
Margit and her older sister, Katla, flee their homeland after their mother is killed for practicing witchcraft. Needing a place to stay, Katla casts a spell over a young farmer named Jóhann which makes him fall in love with her.
Drama / Supernatural / Surreal
Doom Patrol: The Complete First Season Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + Digital Copy
Warner Bros. | 2019 | 777 min | Rated TV-MA | Oct 01, 2019 | Randy Miller III
Set after the events of TITANS, the Doom Patrol – consisting of Robotman, Negative Man, Elasti-Woman, and Crazy Jane, and led by Dr. Niles Caulder / Chief – receive a mission from Cyborg that they cannot ignore and will change their lives.
Action / Adventure / Comedy / Fantasy / Sci-Fi / Dark humor / Comic book
- October 01, 2019
The Dark Half Blu-ray Movie
Eureka Classics / Blu-ray + DVD
Eureka Entertainment | 1993 | 121 min | Rated BBFC: 18 | Oct 14, 2019 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
A writer's fictional alter-ego wants to take over his life...at any price.
Horror / Mystery
The Stand Blu-ray Movie
Stephen King's The Stand
Paramount Pictures | 1994 | 359 min | Not rated | Sep 24, 2019 | Martin Liebman
King's epic novel tells a story of a virus that escapes from a top-secret lab causing millions of deaths around the country.
Drama / Horror / Supernatural / Epic
Bloody Sect Blu-ray Movie
Secta Siniestra / Blu-ray + DVD
Vinegar Syndrome | 1982 | 86 min | Not rated | Sep 24, 2019 | Brian Orndorf
A young woman pregnant with the Anti-Christ is terrorized by a cult of satanists.
Horror / Foreign
Zombieland 4K Blu-ray Movie
10th Anniversary Edition / 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray + Digital Copy
Sony Pictures | 2009 | 88 min | Rated R | Oct 01, 2019 | Martin Liebman
A shy student trying to reach his family in Ohio, a gun toting tough guy trying to find the last Twinkie, and a pair of sisters trying to get to an amusement park join forces to travel across a zombie-filled America.
Action / Comedy / Horror / Dark humor
Itsy Bitsy Blu-ray Movie
Shout Factory | 2019 | 95 min | Not rated | Oct 01, 2019 | Brian Orndorf
Based on the centuries old poem, a family moves into a secluded mansion where they soon find themselves being targeted by an entity taking the form of a giant spider.
Fantasy / Horror / Mystery / Thriller
True Detective: The Complete Third Season Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + Digital Copy
HBO | 2019 | 485 min | Rated TV-MA | Sep 03, 2019 | Jeffrey Kauffman
The disappearance of a young Arkansas boy and his sister in 1980 triggers vivid memories and enduring questions for retired detective Wayne Hays, who worked the case 35 years before with partner Roland West.
Crime / Drama / Mystery / Thriller / Psychological thriller
The Gangster, the Cop, the Devil Blu-ray Movie
악인전 / Akinjeon
Well Go USA | 2019 | 110 min | Not rated | Oct 01, 2019 | Jeffrey Kauffman
A gangster and a cop teamed up to chase a serial killer for their own reasons.
Action / Crime / Drama / Foreign
Kase-san and Morning Glories Blu-ray Movie
あさがおと加瀬さん。
Sentai Filmworks | 2018 | 58 min | Rated TV-14 | Oct 22, 2019 | Neil Lumbard
A relationship is like a garden. It's hard, really hard, to plant the initial seeds. Once you've gone through the agonizing process of wondering if the other person even likes you, fought the fear that telling her could destroy everything, and made your confession, the most difficult part begins. Because you have to keep nurturing this wonderful new feeling to keep it growing. Not just in your own heart, but in hers. And since even the most beautiful rose can cut you to the bone with its thorns, who can you talk to for advice? Especially when you're both girls in high school? For shy Yamada and boyish Kase, time is running out. High school is coming to an end and they must make a choice: stay together and let their love grow, or separate and let it die.
Anime / Music / Romance / Comic book / Foreign
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