New Blu-ray Reviews

The Texas Chain Saw Massacre Blu-ray Movie  

40th Anniversary Edition

MPI Media Group | 1974 | 83 min | Rated R | Jun 08, 2018 | Martin Liebman

A tale of five friends en route to visit a grave in Texas who end up falling victim to a family of cannibalistic psychopaths.

Horror / Thriller / Dark humor

Under the Silver Lake Blu-ray Movie  

Lionsgate Films | 2018 | 139 min | Rated R | Jun 18, 2019 | Jeffrey Kauffman

Sam, an affable but aimless young man, becomes an unwitting detective who quickly finds himself in over his head as he investigates the mysterious disappearance of his beautiful neighbor, with whom he has fallen in love. As he combs through East Los Angeles searching for clues, he stumbles upon a larger, more sinister conspiracy than he ever imagined, involving billionaires, celebrities, urban myths, and even pop culture as we know it.

Crime / Mystery / Thriller / Surreal

The Scorpion King 4K Blu-ray Movie  

4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray + Digital Copy

Universal Studios | 2002 | 91 min | Rated PG-13 | Jun 18, 2019 | Martin Liebman

In the notorious city of Gomorrah, an evil ruler is determined to lay waste to all the nomadic peoples of the desert. The few remaining tribes, never natural allies, have to unite or perish. Knowing their enemy relies on the visions of a sorcerer, they hire a skilled assassin, Mathayus to eliminate the visionary. After infiltrating the enemy camp, Mathayus discovers that the sorcerer is in fact a beautiful woman. Rather than eliminate her, he takes her deep into the desert badlands, knowing that the ruler's henchman will stop at nothing to rescue her and bring her back. Seriously wounded in the ensuing battle, Mathayus must find the strength to lead his scrappy band of allies back to Gomorrah for a final confrontation.

Action / Adventure / Fantasy

The White Reindeer Blu-ray Movie    

Valkoinen peura / Masters of Cinema / Blu-ray + DVD

Eureka Entertainment | 1952 | 68 min | Rated BBFC: PG | Apr 08, 2019 | Dr. Svet Atanasov

A newly wed woman goes to the local shaman to get some help with her lovelife, but instead gets turned into a white reindeer vampire.

Drama / Fantasy / Horror / Foreign

Fatso Blu-ray Movie  

Shout Factory | 1980 | 93 min | Rated PG | Jun 25, 2019 | Brian Orndorf

Dominick DiNapoli has always been a big kid who loved eating. It was his favorite thing. Then his cousin dies from health complications due to a lack of exercise and improper diet. Antoinette, Dominick's sister, makes him promise to see a diet doctor and lose some weight. This is very hard for Dominick, but he tries. He also finds motivation when he meets Lydia, and he discovers a love that is more intense than his love of food. He spends so much time kissing and walking around with Lydia that he no longer eats as many unhealthy things, and he loses weight without even trying.

Comedy / Drama / Romance

Silent Hill Blu-ray Movie  

Collector's Edition

Shout Factory | 2006 | 126 min | Rated R | Jul 09, 2019 | Brian Orndorf

Rose, a desperate mother who takes her adopted daughter, Sharon, to the town of Silent Hill in an attempt to cure her of her ailment. After a violent car crash, Sharon disappears and Rose begins her desperate search to get her back. She descends into a fog of smoldering ash and into the center of the twisted reality of a town's terrible secret. Pursued by grotesquely deformed creatures and a townspeople stuck in permanent purgatory, Rose begins to uncover the truth behind the apocalyptic disaster that burned the town 30 years back. Dare to step inside the horrific town of Silent Hill, where darkness preys on every soul and Hell's creations await around every corner. But know that once you enter...there is no turning back.

Horror / Mystery / Thriller / Supernatural / Surreal

All the Colors of the Dark Blu-ray Movie  

Tutti i colori del buio / Blu-ray + CD

Severin Films | 1972 | 95 min | Rated R | Jan 29, 2019 | Dr. Svet Atanasov

Jane is a housewife plagued by nightmarish visions of her own bloody murder. To cure her hellish fantasies her bewitching neighbor, Mary, initiates Jane into a Satanic coven, but there the price for this brand of diabolical cure is murder — committed as a ritual sacrifice during an orgiastic black mass! Jane's chilling, repulsive nightmares have become true. Who is the blue-eyed, knife-wielding phantom stalking her and has she already witnessed her own death?

Horror / Mystery / Thriller / Foreign

After Blu-ray Movie  

Blu-ray + DVD + Digital Copy

Universal Studios | 2019 | 106 min | Rated PG-13 | Jul 09, 2019 | Martin Liebman

A young girl falls for a guy with a dark secret and the two embark on a rocky relationship. Based on the novel by Anna Todd.

Drama / Romance

The Tough Ones Blu-ray Movie  

Rome Armed to the Teeth / Roma a Mano Armata / Blu-ray + CD

Grindhouse Releasing | 1976 | 94 min | Rated R | Jul 09, 2019 | Dr. Svet Atanasov

A tough, violent cop who doesn't mind bending the law goes after a machine-gun-carrying, hunchbacked psychotic killer.

Action / Crime / Drama / Thriller / Foreign

Cinderella Blu-ray Movie  

Anniversary Edition | The Signature Collection | Limited Edition Filmmaker Gallery Book & Storybook / Blu-ray + DVD + Digital Copy

Disney / Buena Vista | 1950 | 74 min | Rated G | Jun 25, 2019 | Randy Miller III

Cinderella, treated as a slave by her selfish stepfamily, dreams of going to the Prince's ball. She gets her wish courtesy of her Fairy Godmother, who warns her to be home by midnight, or else...

Animation / Family / Fantasy / Musical / Romance

The Monolith Monsters Blu-ray Movie  

Shout Factory | 1957 | 77 min | Not rated | Jun 18, 2019 | Brian Orndorf

Rocks from a meteor which grow when in contact with water threaten a sleepy Southwestern desert community.

Horror / Sci-Fi

Mutual Appreciation Blu-ray Movie  

Arbelos | 2005 | 109 min | Rated R | Jun 11, 2019 | Brian Orndorf

Alan is a musician who leaves a busted-up band for New York, and a new musical voyage. He tries to stay focused and fends off all manner of distractions, including the attraction to his good friend's girlfriend.

Comedy

Hotel Mumbai Blu-ray Movie  

Blu-ray + DVD + Digital Copy

Universal Studios | 2018 | 124 min | Rated R | Jun 18, 2019 | Martin Liebman

Hotel Mumbai tells the astonishing true story of the victims and survivors of the devastating attacks on Mumbai in 2008.

Crime / Drama / History / Thriller

Mia and the White Lion Blu-ray Movie  

Mia et le lion blanc / Blu-ray + DVD

Shout Factory | 2018 | 98 min | Rated PG | Jul 02, 2019 | Brian Orndorf

A young girl from London moves to Africa with her parents where she befriends a lion cub.

Adventure / Drama / Family

Jonny Quest: The Complete Original Series Blu-ray Movie  

Warner Archive Collection

Warner Bros. | 1964-1965 | 572 min | Not rated | Jun 11, 2019 | Randy Miller III

TV's first animated action-adventure series is about to take you on a breathless ride. All 26 episodes charting the fantastic exploits of brave and brainy 11-year-old Jonathan Quest are yours in a 3-disc set. Unlike the outrageous fantasy plots of cartoons that preceded it, Jonny Quest drew on science and detective-style logic to solve mysteries and apprehend sophisticated villains. Viewers were transported to exotic locales as Jonny's dad, Dr. Benton Quest, tackled each new government assignment, aided by ex-agent "Race" Bannon, Indian boy Hadji, family bulldog Bandit... and, of course, his fearless son Jonny.

Action / Adventure / Animation / Family

Jacques Brel Is Alive and Well and Living in Paris Blu-ray Movie  

Kino Lorber | 1975 | 98 min | Rated PG | Jun 19, 2018 | Jeffrey Kauffman

JACQUES BREL... transforms the beloved 35-song stage revue into an infectious film that showcases both Brel's breadth and the audacity of 70's filmmaking. Director Denis Heroux utilizes everything from puppetry to location photography to shepherd Brel's music far beyond the proscenium-bound horizon. Working from the surreal imagery and concrete emotions in which Brel laced his lyrics, songwriter Mort Shuman transforms Brel's French chansons into lushly romantic yet unsentimental English language versions. Shuman, Elly Stone and Joe Masiell give voice to Brel's tangos and boleros in an explosion of settings that are inexhaustibly imaginative and intimate.

Drama / Music / Musical

Galileo Blu-ray Movie  

Kino Lorber | 1975 | 145 min | Rated PG | Jun 25, 2019 | Jeffrey Kauffman

Challenged by a new student, tutor and theorist Galileo co-opts emerging telescope technology and discovers irrefutable proof of the heretical notion that the earth is not the center of the universe. But in a rigid society ruled by an uneasy alliance of aristocracy and clergy already undermined by the Plague and the Reformation, science is a threat and enlightenment is a luxury. Faced with either death at the hands of the Inquisition or recantation to a hypocritical but all-powerful Papacy, Galileo must choose between his own life and the restless scientific curiosity that he has spurned family, friends, and wealth to pursue.

Biography / Drama / History

A Delicate Balance Blu-ray Movie  

Kino Lorber | 1973 | 133 min | Rated PG | May 07, 2019 | Jeffrey Kauffman

Agnes and Tobias are a middle-aged couple whose friends, Harry and Edna, arrive seeking refuge from an unknown terror. Their arrival shatters the fragile equilibrium of the household, as does the arrival of Agnes and Tobias' daughter, returning home after the collapse of her fourth marriage, and the running caustic commentary from Claire, Agnes' ever-present alcoholic sister. Based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning play by Edward Albee.

Drama

Pet Sematary 4K Blu-ray Movie  

4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray + Digital Copy

Paramount Pictures | 2019 | 101 min | Rated R | Jul 09, 2019 | Martin Liebman

Louis Creed, his wife Rachel and their two children Gage and Ellie move to a rural home where they are welcomed and enlightened about the eerie 'Pet Sematary' located near their home. After the tragedy of their cat being killed by a truck, they resort to burying it in the mysterious pet sematary which is definitely not as it seems as it proves to the Creeds that a pet isn't just for life..

Horror / Thriller

Lost in the Stars Blu-ray Movie  

Kino Lorber | 1974 | 97 min | Rated G | Jun 25, 2019 | Jeffrey Kauffman

LOST IN THE STARS transforms Alan Paton's "Cry the Beloved Country" into a tragic and beautiful film musical unlike any you've ever seen. Gilded by Kurt Weill's lucid lyrics and powerful music, and guided by Daniel Mann's sensitive direction, this one-of-a-kind film is both a heartbreaking indictment of a cruel society and a poetic testament to the millions of forgotten lives ground beneath the heel of apartheid. Brock Peters is Stephen Kumalo, a black South African minister searching Johannesburg for his son, Absalom. But Kumalo's unwavering faith is put to the test when he finds Absalom in jail facing a capital murder charge. Absalom's reunion and reconciliation with his father, his jailhouse marriage to his pregnant sweetheart Irina (Melba Moore), and his heroic determination to tell the truth no matter the cost set the stage for a tragic climax of both epic proportion and documentary immediacy.

Drama / Musical