New Blu-ray Reviews
Home- July 16, 2019
Cell 2455, Death Row Blu-ray Movie
Kit Parker Films | 1955 | 77 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Jeffrey Kauffman
A seriously disturbed misfit, Whit Whittier (William Campbell) begins a life of crime, culminating in sexual assault as the "Lover's Lane Bandit." Condemned to the gas chamber at San Quentin, Whit spends six years fighting his sentence, gradually winning the support and sometimes the respect of various legal experts.
Biography / Crime / Drama
5 Against the House Blu-ray Movie
Kit Parker Films | 1955 | 83 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Jeffrey Kauffman
Four college students visiting Reno witness a failed casino robbery. As they leave, a cop tells them that there is no way to rob a casino. One of the students decides to prove the cop wrong as a goof, planning to return the money in the end. But another student, a war veteran with a head injury, has other ideas about what to do with the cash.
Crime / Drama / Film-Noir / Heist
The Night Holds Terror Blu-ray Movie
Kit Parker Films | 1955 | 86 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Jeffrey Kauffman
A tense film noir based on a true story, with Kelly as a middle-class family man returning to his desert home after a business trip into LA. Hitch-hikers hold the man and his family when they discover he has a wealthy father. Police uncover their plan and come to the rescue.
Crime / Drama / Film-Noir / Thriller
New Orleans Uncensored Blu-ray Movie
Kit Parker Films | 1955 | 75 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Jeffrey Kauffman
A gritty crime thriller about a newly-discharged sailor who gets a job as a longshoreman in The Big Easy. He swiftly discovers mob corruption throughout the docks, and when a friend is killed by the gangsters, he convinces the police to let him go undercover and take matters into his own hands. Filmed on location on the docks and in the French Quarter.
Crime / Drama / Film-Noir
Footsteps in the Fog Blu-ray Movie
Kit Parker Films | 1955 | 90 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Jeffrey Kauffman
In early 1900's England, a beautiful maid tries to blackmail her master into romancing her when she discovers he poisoned his wife to death.
Drama / Film-Noir / Thriller
Spin a Dark Web Blu-ray Movie
Kit Parker Films | 1956 | 77 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Jeffrey Kauffman
British crime melodrama starring Domergue as the sister of a powerful London mobster who slowly seduces her lover, Patterson, into a life of crime. He goes along reluctantly, but when things turn homicidal he tries to back out. She won't let him.
Crime / Drama
Rumble on the Docks Blu-ray Movie
Kit Parker Films | 1956 | 83 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Jeffrey Kauffman
Jimmy Smigelski (James Darren) sides off against his own father when one of the local longshoreman’s protection racket’s goons takes him under his wing. Jimmy’s association with the gang brings him into fast company, and soon, Jimmy’s family, friends and girlfriend are afraid that Jimmy will go too far, and even become an accessory to murder.
Crime / Drama
The Erlprince Blu-ray Movie
Królewicz Olch
Altered Innocence | 2016 | 102 min | Not rated | Jul 23, 2019 | Brian Orndorf
The tale of an extraordinarily gifted young man and his ambitious and wondrous mother.
Drama / Foreign
The Last American Hero Blu-ray Movie
Der letzte Held Amerikas
Explosive Media | 1973 | 95 min | Rated FSK-16 | Mar 14, 2019 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
The true-life success story of stock-car champion Junior Johnson. As a child in North Carolina, Jackson stays one step ahead of reform school until his father is thrown in prison for moonshining. Seeing the error of his ways, Jackson begins to concentrate his driving skills, hoping to become a professional stock car racer to raise money to get his father released from jail. Jackson rises from the ranks into the highest rung of professional stock car racing, but Jackson finds his independent nature is compromised by the corporate realities of the professional sports world.
Action / Drama / Sport
Oh, Woe Is Me Blu-ray Movie
Hélas pour moi
Kino Lorber | 1993 | 95 min | Not rated | Jun 18, 2019 | Neil Lumbard
Romance about Simon Donnadieu and his decision to leave his ever-loving wife Rachel.
Comedy / Drama / Fantasy / Romance / Foreign
The Neon Demon 4K Blu-ray Movie
4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray
Koch Media | 2016 | 118 min | Rated FSK-16 | Nov 10, 2016 | Neil Lumbard
When aspiring model Jesse moves to Los Angeles, her youth and vitality are devoured by a group of beauty-obsessed women who will take any means necessary to get what she has.
Drama / Horror / Mystery / Thriller
Space Station 4K Blu-ray Movie
IMAX Enhanced / 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray + Digital Copy
Mill Creek Entertainment | 2002 | 47 min | Not rated | Jul 09, 2019 | Martin Liebman
The first cinematic journey to the International Space Station (ISS), where audiences can experience for themselves life in zero gravity aboard the new station. The audience blasts off into space with the astronauts and cosmonauts from Florida's Kennedy Space Center and Russia's Baikonur Cosmodrome to rendezvous with their new home in orbit 220 miles above Earth. Space Station is a story of challenges, setbacks and triumphs and ultimately, the shared international victory of men and women whose dreams exceed the limits of life on this Earth.
Documentary / Nature / Short
Shazam! 4K Blu-ray Movie
4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray + Digital Copy
Warner Bros. | 2019 | 132 min | Rated PG-13 | Jul 16, 2019 | Martin Liebman
We all have a superhero inside us, it just takes a bit of magic to bring it out. In Billy Batson's case, by shouting out one word - SHAZAM! - this streetwise 14-year-old foster kid can turn into the adult superhero Shazam.
Action / Adventure / Comedy / Fantasy / Sci-Fi / Comic book
- July 15, 2019
Shazam! 4K Blu-ray Movie
4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray + Digital Copy
Warner Bros. | 2019 | 132 min | Rated PG-13 | Jul 16, 2019 | Randy Miller III
We all have a superhero inside us, it just takes a bit of magic to bring it out. In Billy Batson's case, by shouting out one word - SHAZAM! - this streetwise 14-year-old foster kid can turn into the adult superhero Shazam.
Action / Adventure / Comedy / Fantasy / Sci-Fi / Comic book
Breakthrough 4K Blu-ray Movie
4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray + Digital Copy
20th Century Fox | 2019 | 116 min | Rated PG | Jul 16, 2019 | Jeffrey Kauffman
When her 14-year-old son drowns in a lake, a faithful mother prays for him to come back from the brink of death and be healed.
Biography / Drama
Breakthrough Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + DVD + Digital Copy
20th Century Fox | 2019 | 116 min | Rated PG | Jul 16, 2019 | Jeffrey Kauffman
When her 14-year-old son drowns in a lake, a faithful mother prays for him to come back from the brink of death and be healed.
Biography / Drama
Quatermass 2 Blu-ray Movie
Enemy From Space
Shout Factory | 1957 | 85 min | Not rated | Jul 30, 2019 | Brian Orndorf
Professor Quatermass, trying to gather support for his Lunar colonisation project, is intrigued by mysterious traces that have been showing up.
Horror / Sci-Fi
Quatermass and the Pit Blu-ray Movie
Five Million Years to Earth
Shout Factory | 1967 | 98 min | Not rated | Jul 30, 2019 | Brian Orndorf
An alien spaceship is discovered buried beneath a London subway station, but it's protected by an energy field which unleashes a terrifying monster on the streets of the city.
Horror / Sci-Fi
- July 14, 2019
Charly Blu-ray Movie
Kino Lorber | 1968 | 115 min | Rated PG | Feb 05, 2019 | Neil Lumbard
Charly Gordon, a mentally challenged adult, gradually develops a genius-level IQ following experimental surgery. But Charley's personality changes are not all welcome, and when he learns that his increased intelligence may not last forever, he becomes despondent.
Drama / Sci-Fi
Okko's Inn Blu-ray Movie
若おかみは小学生！ / Waka Okami wa Shōgakusei! / Blu-ray + DVD
Shout Factory | 2018 | 94 min | Rated PG | Jul 02, 2019 | Neil Lumbard
After losing her parents in a car accident, Okko starts living in the countryside with her grandmother who runs a traditional Japanese inn. While she prepares to be the next owner of the inn, Okko can somehow see friendly ghosts.
Anime / Family / Fantasy / Foreign