New Blu-ray Reviews
Home- July 29, 2019
Play Dead Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + DVD
Vinegar Syndrome | 1983 | 86 min | Not rated | Jul 30, 2019 | Brian Orndorf
Hester Ramsey lives in a cavernous old house, with only her pet Rottweiler, Greta, to keep her company. Bitter and alone, Hester blames her estranged sister for stealing away her one true love, Sam, decades earlier. Following her sister’s death, Hester begins to plot a diabolical revenge, using her knowledge of the black arts to place a spell on her dog, and then gifting the satanic beast to her grief stricken niece, Audrey. Soon, those closest to Audrey begin to get bumped off by her newly cursed pet in a series of increasingly violent ‘accidents,’ as Hester seeks to kill off all of her surviving family and leave Audrey to take the blame. A low key Texas lensed supernatural thriller that was produced by a construction company, Peter Wittman’s PLAY DEAD, mixes Southern melodrama and a smattering of T&A, alongside its requisite bloodshed and occult tinged twists. Given only a scant theatrical release before being dumped to video, Vinegar Syndrome brings this regional sleeper to Blu-ray, newly restored in 2k from its original 35mm interpositive.
Drama / Horror
The Great Northfield Minnesota Raid Blu-ray Movie
Shout Factory | 1972 | 91 min | Rated PG | Jul 09, 2019 | Brian Orndorf
The gangs of Jesse James and Cole Younger join forces for a bungled robbery of the bank in Northfield, MN.
Drama / Western
The Island Blu-ray Movie
一出好戏 / Yi chu hao xi
Well Go USA | 2018 | 134 min | Not rated | Jul 30, 2019 | Jeffrey Kauffman
A cataclysmic event causes a man, who dreams of winning the lottery, to become stranded on an island with his co-workers.
Comedy / Drama / Dark humor / Foreign
Long Shot Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + DVD + Digital Copy
Lionsgate Films | 2019 | 125 min | Rated R | Jul 30, 2019 | Jeffrey Kauffman
A political journalist tries to hook up with his old babysitter, who now holds an important government position.
Comedy / Romance
L' Eau a la Bouche Blu-ray Movie
A Game for Six Lovers / Blu-ray + DVD
Cinetrove International | 1960 | 89 min | Not rated | Jun 18, 2019 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
Miléna is living in her grandmother's baroque château when the rich lady dies. The lawyer Miguel, who had a previous relationship with Miléna, insists the other two grandchildren, Fifine and her brother Jean-Paul, visit the château for the reading of the will, even though they have been estranged from the family at an early age. However Robert, who had been living with Fifine in an open relationship, arrives and impersonates Jean-Paul. Robert falls for Fifine's cousin Miléna while Fifine has designs on Miguel. In the meantime, the butler César is focusing his lecherous intentions on Prudence, the maid he had just hired.
Comedy / Romance / Foreign
The Buster Keaton Collection: Volume 2 Blu-ray Movie
Sherlock Jr. / The Navigator
Cohen Media Group | 1924 | 2 Movies | 111 min | Not rated | Jul 09, 2019 | Jeffrey Kauffman
No synopsis for this title.
Action / Comedy / Romance
Sherlock Jr. Blu-ray Movie
Cohen Film Collection
Cohen Media Group | 1924 | 45 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Jeffrey Kauffman
A movie projectionist who daydreams himself into the movies he is showing and merges with the figures and the backgrounds on the screen. While dreaming he is Conan Doyle's master detective, he snoops out brilliant discoveries.
Action / Comedy / Romance
The Navigator Blu-ray Movie
Cohen Film Collection
Cohen Media Group | 1924 | 66 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Jeffrey Kauffman
Two spoiled rich people find themselves trapped on an empty passenger ship.
Action / Comedy
- July 28, 2019
A Blonde in Love Blu-ray Movie
Loves of a Blonde / Lásky jedné plavovlásky
Second Run | 1965 | 81 min | Rated BBFC: 15 | Jul 29, 2019 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
A factory manager in rural Czechoslovakia bargains with the army to send men to the area, to boost the morale of his young female workers, deprived of male company since the local boys have been conscripted. The army sends reservists, mostly married middle-aged men - and the local beauty Andula, spurns those bold enough to try to win her, for the jazz pianist, newly come from Prague to perform. He seduces her and impresses her, telling her "most women are round, like guitars but you are a guitar by Picasso". Staying the night with him causes a lecture on a young woman's honour at her hostel so she throws over her other suitors and makes her way to Prague to find the young man. His protective Mamma and weary Pappa are not pleased when she arrives on the doorstep with her suitcase.
Comedy / Drama / Foreign / Coming of age
- July 27, 2019
The Pink Ladies Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + DVD
Vinegar Syndrome | 1979 | 77 min | Rated X | Jul 30, 2019 | Brian Orndorf
The second explicit directorial effort from exploitation filmmaker Roger Watkins, THE PINK LADIES follows the lives and fantasies of four Long Island housewives...and their husbands...and their lovers. As fantasy and reality collide, THE PINK LADIES are whisked into an ever stranger sensual dreamworld where secret desires, and secret lovers, intermix, leading to surprise revelations for all. Mixing light comedy with touches of low key surrealism, director Roger Watkins weaves a sensual tableau that simultaneously satirizes suburban sexual mores while exploring the hidden pleasures that even the most seemingly chaste housewives and businessmen can't help but enjoy. With an all star cast of Samantha Fox (Her Name Was Lisa), Robin Byrd (The Robin Byrd Show), Christine DeShaffer (Fantasm Comes Again), Kandi Barbour (Ultra Flesh), Robert Kerman (Cannibal Holocaust) and Vanessa Del Rio (The Dancers), Vinegar Syndrome brings this under-seen X rated rarity to Blu-ray, newly restored in 2k from its original camera negative and fully uncut.
Erotic
Hellmaster Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + DVD
Vinegar Syndrome | 1992 | 1 Movie, 2 Cuts | 96 min | Not rated | Jul 30, 2019 | Brian Orndorf
A psychotic college professor uses unwitting students as laboratory rats, injecting them with a drug that mutates them into gory killers.
Horror
Death in the Garden Blu-ray Movie
La mort en ce jardin
Kino Lorber | 1956 | 104 min | Not rated | Jul 23, 2019 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
Amid a revolution in a South American mining outpost, a band of fugitives are forced to flee for their lives into the jungle. Starving, exhausted, and stripped of their old identities, they wander desperately lured by one deceptive promise of salvation after another.
Adventure / Drama / Foreign
Ordeal by Innocence Blu-ray Movie
Kino Lorber | 1984 | 90 min | Rated PG-13 | Jun 18, 2019 | Dr. Stephen Larson
Donald Sutherland stars in this 1984 film based on the novel by Agatha Christie. Dr Arthur Calgary (Sutherland) returns home from an expedition and goes looking for a hitchhiker whom he gave a lift to two years previously in order to return the man's address book. He discovers the man has been executed for his mother's murder and, furthermore, the address book which he is returning could have proved the hitcher's innocence. So who is the real murderer?
Mystery / Thriller
- July 26, 2019
Missing Link Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + DVD + Digital Copy
20th Century Fox | 2019 | 94 min | Rated PG | Jul 23, 2019 | Jeffrey Kauffman
The charismatic Sir Lionel Frost (voiced by Hugh Jackman) considers himself to be the world's foremost investigator of myths and monsters. The trouble is none of his small-minded high-society peers seems to recognize this. Sir Lionel's last chance for acceptance by the adventuring elite rests on traveling to America's Pacific Northwest to prove the existence of a legendary creature. A living remnant of Man's primitive ancestry. The Missing Link.
Adventure / Animation / Comedy / Family
Critters Attack! Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + DVD + Digital Copy
Warner Bros. | 2019 | 89 min | Rated R | Jul 23, 2019 | Brian Orndorf
20-year-old Drea reluctantly takes a job babysitting for a professor of a college she hopes to attend. Struggling to entertain the professor's children, Drea takes them on a hike, unaware that mysterious alien critters have crash-landed and started devouring every living thing they encounter.
Horror / Sci-Fi / Dark humor
Mascara Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + DVD
Vinegar Syndrome | 1983 | 83 min | Rated X | Jul 30, 2019 | Brian Orndorf
A sexual drama of uncommon depth, ‘Mascara’ is one of the best sex films of director Henri Pachard’s career. Shot in 1983, the film stars Lisa DeLeeuw in one of her best roles ever, playing a lonely young woman who spends her days in the secretarial pool and her nights looking for lust in all the wrong places. After a particularly disappointing one night stand, Lisa decides to see how the other half lives. She finds a mentor in high-priced call girl Lee Carroll, and starts spending her night engaged in some pay-for-play passion of her own. Lisa indulges her every erotic appetite, whether it’s taking on two guys at once or experiencing lesbian lust in the arms of a sultry siren. Things quickly get a bit heady for Lisa and she starts to wonder whether a life devoted purely to sensual pleasure is such a great thing after all.
Drama / Erotic
- July 25, 2019
Titans: The Complete First Season Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + Digital Copy
Warner Bros. | 2018 | 528 min | Rated TV-MA | Jul 16, 2019 | Martin Liebman
A team of young superheroes led by Nightwing (formerly Batman's first Robin) form to combat evil and other perils.
Action / Adventure / Drama / Fantasy / Sci-Fi / Comic book
The Chill Factor Blu-ray Movie
Demon Possessed
Arrow | 1993 | 86 min | Not rated | Jul 16, 2019 | Jeffrey Kauffman
The Exorcist meets the Winter Olympics in this tale of demonic possession and snowbound slashing from director Christopher Webster, producer of Hellraiser and Hellraiser II: Hellbound. For a group of young couples, a snowmobiling trip turns into a waking nightmare when one of their number is thrown from their vehicle and knocked unconscious. Seeking refuge in a nearby abandoned summer camp, the group find themselves holed up in a cabin filled with bizarre and ominous religious artefacts. As night falls, the discovery of a Ouija board amidst the dusty relics awakens a terrifying evil.
Horror / Sci-Fi / Thriller
Mumford Blu-ray Movie
Kino Lorber | 1999 | 112 min | Rated R | Jul 16, 2019 | Neil Lumbard
When a would-be psychologist, curiously named Dr. Mumford comes to the idyllic town of the same name, and offers his talent for listening and a disarming frankness, the town's quirkiest citizens scramble for a seat on his couch.
Comedy / Drama
Killing Eve: Season 2 Blu-ray Movie
BBC | 2019 | 360 min | Not rated | Jun 18, 2019 | Randy Miller III
A security operative hunts for an assassin. Based on the Villanelle novellas by Luke Jennings.
Thriller / Dark humor