New Blu-ray Reviews

This Transient Life Blu-ray Movie  

無常 / Mujō

Arrow | 1970 | 143 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Jeffrey Kauffman

Near a remote Buddhist monastery, a young man falls in love with his sister and gets her pregnant. After a monk finds out, the young man becomes an assistant to a master sculptor, only to proceed to complicate matters with his affairs.

Drama / Erotic / Foreign

Mandala Blu-ray Movie  

Mandara / 曼陀羅

Arrow | 1971 | 132 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Jeffrey Kauffman

A savage work that explores human sexuality and its articulations with political stances and religion: Two couples of university students swap their partners, one, Yukiko and Shinichi experienced and one, Hirochi and Yasuko unmarried and first time in an isolated motel. Later, at the seaside one of them is attacked by two maniacs, who leave the husband unconscious and rape the woman. After the event that was supposed to be traumatic, the attacked couple find themselves interested in the two aggressors and the gratuitousness of their act, and goes to look for them in the surroundings of the motel. They discover that they are part of a sect that has sexual freedom and self-support as slogans. At first reluctant, but soon giving way, the couple end up joining the secret sect and isolate themselves from the world, but things get complicated when the other couple decides to look for them.

Drama / Erotic / Foreign

Poem Blu-ray Movie  

Uta / 哥

Arrow | 1972 | 119 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Jeffrey Kauffman

As a faithful young houseboy fully devotes himself to his spiritual duty, his teacher plans turning over his grandfather's mountain property to realtors for profit.

Drama / Foreign

Touchez Pas au Grisbi Blu-ray Movie  

Don't Touch the Loot

Kino Lorber | 1954 | 83 min | Not rated | Aug 13, 2019 | Dr. Svet Atanasov

An aging, world-weary gangster is double-crossed and forced out of retirement when his best friend is kidnapped and their stash of eight stolen gold bars is demanded as ransom.

Crime / Drama / Foreign

The Joker Blu-ray Movie    

Lethal Obsession / Der Joker

Subkultur Entertainment | 1987 | 97 min | Rated FSK-16 | Apr 05, 2019 | Dr. Svet Atanasov

Several known criminals already have been murdered by a professional killer, leaving no trace but the "ace" game card. The police suspects a new mob is trying to take over the district. The investigating police officer Jan is victimized by a bomb himself, when he's at his girlfriend Daniela's father's Italian restaurant. Although paralyzed and suspended from work, the tuff cop continues to investigate and takes revenge on the gangsters who did this to him.

Crime / Drama / Thriller / Foreign

Moonfleet Blu-ray Movie  

Warner Archive Collection

Warner Bros. | 1955 | 87 min | Not rated | Aug 13, 2019 | Randy Miller III

In 18th century Great Britain, a noble but penniless young boy, John Mohune, is sent by his dying mother to Moonfleet, to put himself under the protection of a certain Jeremy Fox. The boy discovers that Fox is both a former lover of his mother and the leader of a gang of smugglers. A strange friendship grows as this unlikely pair is drawn into dangerous adventures.

Adventure / Drama

Climax Blu-ray Movie  

Lionsgate Films | 2018 | 97 min | Rated R | May 28, 2019 | Jeffrey Kauffman

In the mid 90’s, 20 urban dancers join together for a three-day rehearsal in a closed-down boarding school located at the heart of a forest to share one last dance. They then make one last party around a large sangria bowl. Quickly, the atmosphere becomes charged and a strange madness will seize them the whole night. If it seems obvious to them that they have been drugged, they neither know by who nor why. And it’s soon impossible for them to resist to their neurosises and psychoses, numbed by the hypnotic and the increasing electric rhythm of the music. While some feel in paradise, most of them plunge into hell.

Drama / Horror / Music / Psychological thriller / Foreign

Wagner: Lohengrin Blu-ray Movie  

Deutsche Grammophon | 2018 | 208 min | Not rated | Jul 12, 2019 | Jeffrey Kauffman

No synopsis for this title.

Music / Foreign

Piranha Blu-ray Movie  

4K Remaster

Shout Factory | 1978 | 92 min | Rated R | Jun 11, 2019 | Dr. Stephen Larson

A secret government project involving the breeding of mutant piranhas, gets way out of hand when the piranhas are accidentally released into the lake of a nearby summer camp.

Horror / Sci-Fi

Port of Shadows Blu-ray Movie  

Le quai des brumes

Kino Lorber | 1938 | 91 min | Not rated | Aug 13, 2019 | Dr. Svet Atanasov

A military deserter finds love and trouble (and a small dog) in a smoky French port city.

Crime / Drama / Romance / Foreign / Melodrama

Touch of Death Blu-ray Movie  

Quando Alice ruppe lo specchio

RaroVideo U.S. | 1988 | 86 min | Not rated | Aug 06, 2019 | Dr. Svet Atanasov

A moody, middle-aged gigolo kills off women after he gets bored with dating them and uses their body parts for trophies and for consumption.

Comedy / Crime / Horror / Foreign

The Inland Sea Blu-ray Movie  

Criterion | 1991 | 57 min | Not rated | Aug 13, 2019 | Neil Lumbard

In 1971, author and film scholar Donald Richie published a poetic travelogue about his explorations of the islands of Japan's Inland Sea, recording his search for traces of a traditional way of life as well as his own journey of self-discovery. Twenty years later, filmmaker Lucille Carra undertook a parallel trip inspired by Richie's by-then-classic book, capturing images of hushed beauty and meeting people who still carried on the fading customs that Richie had observed.

Documentary

The Spanish Princess Blu-ray Movie  

Lionsgate Films | 2019 | 455 min | Rated TV-MA | Aug 13, 2019 | Jeffrey Kauffman

The beautiful Spanish princess, Catherine of Aragon, navigates the royal lineage of England with an eye on the throne.

Drama / History / Epic

Venom 3D Blu-ray Movie    

Blu-ray 3D + Blu-ray

Sony Pictures | 2018 | 112 min | Rated FSK-12 | Feb 14, 2019 | Neil Lumbard

Journalist Eddie Brock is trying to take down Carlton Drake, the notorious and brilliant founder of the Life Foundation. While investigating one of Drake's experiments, Eddie's body merges with the alien Venom -- leaving him with superhuman strength and power. Twisted, dark and fueled by rage, Venom tries to control the new and dangerous abilities that Eddie finds so intoxicating.

Action / Sci-Fi / Thriller / Comic book

Captain Marvel 3D Blu-ray Movie    

Blu-ray 3D + Blu-ray

Disney / Buena Vista | 2019 | 123 min | Rated BBFC: 12 | Jul 15, 2019 | Neil Lumbard

Carol Danvers becomes one of the universe's most powerful heroes when Earth is caught in the middle of a galactic war between two alien races.

Action / Adventure / Fantasy / Comic book

1984 Blu-ray Movie  

Criterion | 1984 | 111 min | Rated R | Jul 23, 2019 | Dr. Svet Atanasov

In a totalitarian future society, a man, whose daily work is re-writing history, tries to rebel by falling in love.

Drama / Sci-Fi

Easy Living Blu-ray Movie  

Kino Lorber | 1937 | 88 min | Not rated | Jul 23, 2019 | Neil Lumbard

Jean Arthur and Ray Milland shine in this screwball comedy written by Academy Award winner Preston Sturges. Mary Smith (Arthur) is a poor working girl who literally has a fortune dropped in her lap when a wealthy financier (Edward Arnold) tosses a sable coat out a window and it lands on her. Everyone automatically assumes she's his mistress, and soon her fairytale-like rags-to-riches lifestyle threatens a very real romance with an inept writer (Milland). It's a "delightful comedy" (Leonard Maltin's Classic Movie Guide) full of misunderstandings that showcases high-society slapstick at its best!

Comedy / Romance

High Noon Blu-ray Movie    

Masters of Cinema | Limited Edition

Eureka Entertainment | 1952 | 85 min | Rated BBFC: U | Sep 16, 2019 | Dr. Svet Atanasov

A retired Marshal must defend his town from a revengeful villain.

Drama / Thriller / Western

Hello Again Blu-ray Movie  

Kino Lorber | 1987 | 96 min | Rated PG | Jul 16, 2019 | Neil Lumbard

Housewife Lucy Chadman comes to an untimely end while nibbling on a chicken ball... but says Hello Again when her wacky, mystical sister Zelda brings her back from the great beyond.

Comedy / Fantasy / Romance

Shadow 4K Blu-ray Movie  

影 / Ying / 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray

Well Go USA | 2018 | 116 min | Not rated | Aug 13, 2019 | Jeffrey Kauffman

Set during China's Three Kingdom's era (AD 220-280). The story of a great king and his people, who will be expelled from their homeland and will aspire to claim it. The king, violent and ambitious, of mysterious methods and motives; his general, a visionary who yearns to win the final battle but needs to prepare his plans in secret; the women of the palace, who struggle to find redemption in a world where they have no place; and a commoner called "Lord of all the world", will be the characters around who turn the inexorable forces of this story.

Action / Drama / Martial arts / Foreign / Period