New Blu-ray Reviews

Brainscan Blu-ray Movie  

Mill Creek Entertainment | 1994 | 96 min | Rated R | No Release Date | Martin Liebman

A teenager is part of an interactive video game where he kills innocent victims. Later, the murders become real.

Horror / Sci-Fi

Mindwarp / Brainscan Blu-ray Movie  

Double Feature

Mill Creek Entertainment | 1992-1994 | 2 Movies | 185 min | Rated R | Jun 04, 2019 | Martin Liebman

See individual titles for their synopses.

Horror / Sci-Fi / Thriller

The Beach Bum Blu-ray Movie  

Blu-ray + Digital Copy

Universal Studios | 2019 | 95 min | Rated R | Jun 18, 2019 | Martin Liebman

A rebellious stoner named Moondog lives life by his own rules.

Comedy / Drama

The Illusionist Blu-ray Movie  

MVD Visual | 2006 | 109 min | Rated PG-13 | Jun 25, 2019 | Jeffrey Kauffman

Eisenheim is a stage magician who amazes the audiences of turn-of-the-century Vienna, drawing the attention of Crown Prince Leopold. When the Prince's intended, Sophie von Teschen, assists the magician onstage, Eisenheim and Sophie recognize each other from their childhoods -- and a dormant love affair is rekindled. As the clandestine romance continues, Chief Inspector Uhl is charged by Leopold to expose Eisenheim, and Eisenheim prepares to execute his greatest illusion yet.

Drama / Mystery / Romance / Period

We Die Young Blu-ray Movie  

Blu-ray + Digital Copy

Lionsgate Films | 2019 | 93 min | Rated R | Apr 09, 2019 | Brian Orndorf

The story takes place in the slums of Washington DC, a world ruled by violent gangs and ruthless drug dealers. We get to see what happens to the characters over the course of 24 hours. Lucas, a 14-year-old Hispanic boy, inducted since age 10 into the brutal gang life of a San Salvadorean neighborhood in Washington D.C., is determined that his 10-year-old brother Miguel won't follow the same path. When Daniel (an Afghanistan war veteran) comes into the neighborhood looking for drugs to escape his own reality, an unusual opportunity arises that can change their lives forever. With the help of Daniel, Lucas tries to flee his gang-lord mentor, Rincon.

Action / Crime / Thriller

Night of the Creeps Blu-ray Movie  

Collector's Edition

Shout Factory | 1986 | 1 Movie, 2 Cuts | 90 min | Rated R | Jun 25, 2019 | Brian Orndorf

A college couple in 1959, see an object plummet to Earth like a meteor. The boy accidentally swallows a space-slug that shoots out. In 1986, two freshmen roam the campus and stumble across the corpse of the boy who swallowed the space-slug. Once thawed out, the corpse comes to life.

Comedy / Horror / Sci-Fi / Thriller / Dark humor

Popeye the Sailor: The 1940s, Volume 2 Blu-ray Movie  

Warner Archive Collection / Paramount Technicolor cartoons

Warner Bros. | 1942-1957 | 107 min | Not rated | Jun 18, 2019 | Randy Miller III

122 cartoons starring Popeye the Sailor were produced by Paramount Pictures' Famous Studios (later known as Paramount Cartoon Studios) from 1942 to 1957, after Paramount took ownership of Fleischer Studios, which originated the Popeye cartoon series in 1933. All cartoons were one-reel in length (6 to 10 minutes). The first 14 shorts (You're a Sap, Mr. Jap through Cartoons Ain't Human) were in black-and-white. All remaining cartoons, beginning with Her Honor the Mare, were in color.

Animation / Comedy / Short / Comic book

The Trigger Effect Blu-ray Movie  

Mill Creek Entertainment | 1996 | 94 min | Rated R | No Release Date | Martin Liebman

When the lights go out and stay out for several days, suburbanites Matthew and Annie learn the hard way that man is "by nature" a predatory creature. Matthew's long-time friend, Joe, happens by on the second day and a rivalry between the two friends simmers as Annie cares for her sick baby. Rumors of looting spread throughout the neighborhood. No longer safe in their own home, they decide to drive to Annie's parents some 500 miles away. Before they reach their destination, more trouble comes their way when they stop to siphon gas from an abandoned car and discover the driver in the back seat... Is this what is meant by "man's inhumanity to man?

Drama / Thriller

Body Count Blu-ray Movie  

Mill Creek Entertainment | 1998 | 84 min | Rated R | No Release Date | Martin Liebman

A group of thieves attempt to rob an art gallery, but when plans backfire and one of the men winds up dead, the group head down south, running afoul of the law. Along the way, they meet up with a seductive con artist with ideas of her own.

Comedy / Crime / Drama / Thriller

The Trigger Effect & Body Count Blu-ray Movie  

Mill Creek Entertainment | 1996-1998 | 2 Movies | 178 min | Rated R | Jun 04, 2019 | Martin Liebman

See individual titles for their synopses.

Comedy / Crime / Drama / Thriller

Arabesque Blu-ray Movie  

Universal Studios | 1966 | 105 min | Not rated | Jun 04, 2019 | Dr. Svet Atanasov

After being hired by an Arabian oil magnate to decipher a secret message, Oxford professor David Pollock (Gregory Peck) finds himself becoming romantically involved with his employer's attractive companion, Yasmin (Sophia Loren). The duo soon become involved in a deadly chase when they discover just what the secret message relates to.

Action / Adventure / Drama / Romance / Thriller

The Silent Partner Blu-ray Movie  

Kino Lorber | 1978 | 106 min | Rated R | Jun 18, 2019 | Dr. Svet Atanasov

An unassuming teller inadvertantly becomes entangled with a violent and disturbed bank robber. As his level of involvement increases, a perilous situation arises.

Crime / Drama / Thriller

Lifeforce Blu-ray Movie  

4K Remaster

Shout Factory | 1985 | 1 Movie, 2 Cuts | 116 min | Rated R | Aug 14, 2018 | Dr. Stephen Larson

A race of space vampires arrives in London and infects the populace, beginning an apocalyptic descent into chaos.

Horror / Sci-Fi / Thriller

Opportunity Knocks Blu-ray Movie  

Retro VHS Collection

Mill Creek Entertainment | 1990 | 101 min | Rated PG-13 | Jun 04, 2019 | Martin Liebman

Eddie and Lou are a couple of two-bit con men on the lam from a loan shark. They hide out in someone's house and they hear on the answering machine that (A) the owner of the house is out of the country for a month or two and (B) the housesitter supposed to watch the house for the absent owner won't be able to watch the house due to a new job in another part of the country. This provides for a pretty nifty arrangement for Eddie and Lou...until the relatives of the house owner drop by to visit. Eddie quickly adopts the guise of the person supposedly housesitting for the owner, and the shenanigans start from there.

Comedy

Portrait in Black Blu-ray Movie  

Kino Lorber | 1960 | 112 min | Not rated | May 28, 2019 | Neil Lumbard

After a married woman and her lover murder her cruel husband, they find themselves targeted by someone who is aware of their crime.

Crime / Drama / Film-Noir / Mystery / Thriller

Thirst Blu-ray Movie  

박쥐 / Bakjwi

Kino Lorber | 2009 | 135 min | Rated R | Jun 18, 2019 | Dr. Svet Atanasov

Through a failed medical experiment, a priest is stricken with vampirism and is forced to abandon his ascetic ways.

Drama / Horror / Romance / Dark humor / Supernatural / Erotic / Foreign

Madame X Blu-ray Movie  

Kino Lorber | 1966 | 100 min | Not rated | May 28, 2019 | Neil Lumbard

A woman married to a wealthy socialite is compromised by the accidental death of a man who had been romantically pursuing her, and is forced by her mother-in-law to assume a new identity to save the reputation of her husband and infant son. She wanders the world, trying to forget her heartbreak with the aid of alcohol and unsavory men, eventually returning to the city of her downfall, where she murders a blackmailer who threatens to expose her past. Amazingly, she is represented at her murder trial by her now adult son, who is a public defender. Hoping to continue to protect her son, she refuses to give her real name and is known to the court as the defendant, "Madame X."

Drama / Mystery / Thriller

Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles Blu-ray Movie  

Criterion | 1975 | 202 min | Not rated | May 09, 2017 | Jeffrey Kauffman

A lonely widowed housewife does her daily chores, takes care of her apartment where she lives with her teenage son, and turns the occasional trick to make ends meet. However, something happens that changes her safe routine.

Drama / Foreign

Veronica Guerin Blu-ray Movie  

Kino Lorber | 2003 | 98 min | Rated R | Jun 04, 2019 | Neil Lumbard

In the mid-1990s, Dublin was a war zone as the most dangerous and powerful drug lords fought for absolute control of the city. But their most fierce opponent was not the police, but rather unyielding Sunday Independent journalist Veronica Guerin.

Biography / Crime / Drama / Thriller

The Last Warning Blu-ray Movie  

Blu-ray + DVD

Flicker Alley | 1928 | 78 min | Not rated | Jun 04, 2019 | Neil Lumbard

A producer decides to reopen a theater, that had been closed five years previously when one of the actors was murdered during a performance, by staging a production of the same play with the remaining members of the original cast.

Horror / Mystery / Thriller