New Blu-ray Reviews

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

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

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

A group of snowmobilers become trapped on a lake, and hole up in an abandoned camp. What they don't know is that the camp was once used by a satanic cult for its rituals, and is still infested by demons, who begin to kill off the group.

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

Alphaville Blu-ray Movie  

Alphaville, une étrange aventure de Lemmy Caution

Kino Lorber | 1965 | 99 min | Not rated | Jul 09, 2019 | Neil Lumbard

A US secret agent is sent to the distant space city of Alphaville where he must find a missing person and free the city from its tyrannical ruler.

Drama / Mystery / Romance / Sci-Fi / Thriller / Foreign

Troop Beverly Hills Blu-ray Movie  

30th Anniversary

Sony Pictures | 1989 | 105 min | Rated PG | Jul 23, 2019 | Martin Liebman

Phyllis Nefler, a soon to be divorced Beverly Hills society wife is determined to prove to her husband Freddy and herself that she can finish what she starts out to do. She soon realizes that being a Wilderness Girls' den mother to a troop of Beverly Hills-bred girls is not as easy as buying cookies.

Comedy / Family

Heroes Shed No Tears Blu-ray Movie  

英雄無淚 / The Sunset Warrior / Blast Heroes / Soldier Dogs

Film Movement | 1986 | 89 min | Rated R | Jun 25, 2019 | Neil Lumbard

Thai government hires group of Chinese mercenaries to capture powerful druglord from Golden Triangle. The mercenaries manage to capture the druglord, but his men are trying to set him free.

Action / Drama / War / Foreign

Léon Morin, Priest Blu-ray Movie  

Léon Morin, prêtre

Kino Lorber | 1961 | 128 min | Not rated | Jul 02, 2019 | Neil Lumbard

As the Germans take over France during World War II, widowed mother Barny becomes increasingly anxious about her half-Jewish daughter. She decides to hide the girl on a nearby farm and have her baptized as a cover. The ceremony reminds Barny of the absurdity of religion, and inspires her to pick a fight with parish priest Léon. She's surprised to learn that he shares a great many of her views, and the two begin a chaste yet deep relationship.

Drama / Foreign

Universal Horror Collection: Volume 2 Blu-ray Movie  

Murders in the Zoo / The Mad Ghoul / The Mad Doctor of Market Street / The Strange Case of Doctor Rx

Shout Factory | 1933-1943 | 4 Movies | 254 min | Not rated | Jul 23, 2019 | Brian Orndorf

See individual titles for their synopses.

Horror / Mystery / Thriller

The Strange Case of Doctor Rx Blu-ray Movie  

Shout Factory | 1942 | 66 min | Not rated | Jul 23, 2019 | Brian Orndorf

After five men previously acquitted of various criminal charges are murdered by a mysterious avenger known as Dr. Rx, police Inspector Hurd and Sergeant Sweeney ask private investigator Jerry Church to help them on the case. He takes the case after talking to Dudley Crispin, a brilliant attorney who had defended three of the murdered men. Crispin gains an acquittal for his latest client, Zarini, but the latter falls dead in the courtroom. Jerry marries Kit Logan, who becomes frightened and persuades Jerry to quit the case. He stays however after Ernie Paul, suspected of the Zarini murder, threatens to "get" him if he does not stay on and clear Paul. Dr. Rx captures Jerry and attempts to frighten him into insanity by strapping him on an operating table, and pretending to exchange the detective's brain for a gorilla.

Horror / Mystery

The Mad Doctor of Market Street Blu-ray Movie  

Shout Factory | 1942 | 60 min | Not rated | Jul 23, 2019 | Brian Orndorf

A mad scientist is forced to leave San Francisco when his experiments become known. He lands on a tropical island, takes control and terrorizes the local populace. The survivor of a shipwreck washes ashore on the island, sees what is happening and determines to free the natives from his rule.

Horror

The Mad Ghoul Blu-ray Movie  

Shout Factory | 1943 | 65 min | Not rated | Jul 23, 2019 | Brian Orndorf

A university chemistry professor experiments with an ancient Mayan gas on a medical student, turning the would-be surgeon into a murdering ghoul.

Horror

Murders in the Zoo Blu-ray Movie  

Shout Factory | 1933 | 62 min | Not rated | Jul 23, 2019 | Brian Orndorf

Millionaire Eric Gorman spends his time and money collecting a private menagerie of wild animals. When his bored younger wife begins seeking entertainment in the arms of other men, Eric becomes consumed with jealousy and unleashes his dangerous pets on her paramours.

Horror / Thriller