New Blu-ray Reviews

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

Pet Sematary Blu-ray Movie  

Blu-ray + DVD + 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

Hedwig and the Angry Inch Blu-ray Movie  

Criterion | 2001 | 92 min | Rated R | Jun 25, 2019 | Dr. Svet Atanasov

After a botched sex-change operation, East German glam rocker Hansel becomes Hedwig and travels across the United States with a stage show, following her ex-boyfriend (and former bandmate) and telling her life story.

Comedy / Drama / Music / Musical

Cinderella 4K Blu-ray Movie  

Ultimate Collector's Edition / 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray + Digital Copy

Disney / Buena Vista | 2015 | 105 min | Rated PG | Jun 25, 2019 | Martin Liebman

The story of "Cinderella" follows the fortunes of young Ella whose merchant father remarries following the tragic death of her mother. Keen to support her loving father, Ella welcomes her new stepmother Lady Tremaine and her daughters Anastasia and Drizella into the family home. But, when Ella's father suddenly and unexpectedly passes away, she finds herself at the mercy of a jealous and cruel new family. Finally relegated to nothing more than a servant girl covered in ashes, and spitefully renamed Cinderella since she used to work in the cinders, Ella could easily begin to lose hope. Yet, despite the cruelty inflicted upon her, Ella is determined to honor her mother's dying words and to "have courage and be kind." She will not give in to despair nor despise those who abuse her. And then there is the dashing stranger she meets in the woods. Unaware that he is really a prince, not merely an employee at the Palace, Ella finally feels she has met a kindred soul.

Adventure / Drama / Family / Fantasy / Romance / Period

Korngold: Das Wunder der Heliane Blu-ray Movie  

Naxos | 2018 | 167 min | Not rated | Jun 14, 2019 | Jeffrey Kauffman

No synopsis for this title.

Music / Foreign

The Rolling Stones: Bridges to Bremen Blu-ray Movie  

Blu-ray + CD

Eagle Rock Entertainment | 1998 | 150 min | Not rated | Jun 21, 2019 | Jeffrey Kauffman

No synopsis for this title.

Music

King of Thieves Blu-ray Movie  

Blu-ray + Digital Copy

Lionsgate Films | 2018 | 109 min | Rated R | Mar 26, 2019 | Brian Orndorf

A crew of retired crooks pull off a major heist in London's jewelry district.

Crime / Drama

Universal Horror Collection: Volume 1 Blu-ray Movie  

The Black Cat / The Raven / The Invisible Ray / Black Friday

Shout Factory | 1934-1940 | 4 Movies | 276 min | Not rated | Jun 18, 2019 | Brian Orndorf

Horror icons Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi created some of the most memorable characters in cinematic history. Their unforgettable performances as Dracula and Frankenstein's monster terrified a generation of moviegoers and when these two legendary actors came together for a series of films in the 1930s, audiences could not get enough. This collection includes The Black Cat, The Raven, The Invisible Ray and Black Friday. See individual titles for their synopses.

Crime / Drama / Horror / Sci-Fi / Thriller

The Black Cat Blu-ray Movie  

The Vanishing Body

Shout Factory | 1934 | 66 min | Not rated | Jun 18, 2019 | Brian Orndorf

Honeymooning in Hungary, Joan and Peter Allison share their train compartment with Dr. Vitus Verdegast, a courtly but tragic man who is returning to the remains of the town he defended before becoming a prisoner of war for fifteen years. When their hotel-bound bus crashes in a mountain storm and Joan is injured, the travellers seek refuge in the home, built fortress-like upon the site of a bloody battlefield, of famed architect Hjalmar Poelzig. There, cat-phobic Verdegast learns his wife's fate, grieves for his lost daughter, and must play a game of chess for Allison's life...

Crime / Horror / Thriller

The Raven Blu-ray Movie  

Shout Factory | 1935 | 61 min | Not rated | Jun 18, 2019 | Brian Orndorf

A wealthy judge coaxes the brilliant but eccentric neurological surgeon Dr. Vollin, who also has an obsessive penchant for Edgar Allen Poe, out of retirement to save the life of his daughter, a dancer crippled and brain damaged in an auto wreck. Vollin restores her completely, but also envisions her as his "Lenore," and cooks up a scheme to kidnap the woman and torture and kill her fiance' and father in his Poe-inspired dungeon. To do his dirty work, Vollin recruits a wanted criminal, and turns him into a hideous monster to guarantee his subservience...

Horror / Thriller

The Invisible Ray Blu-ray Movie  

Shout Factory | 1936 | 79 min | Not rated | Jun 18, 2019 | Brian Orndorf

Visionary scientist Janos Rukh convinces a group of scientists and supporters to mount an expedition to the African continent to locate and study an ancient meteorite of great significance. He exposes himself to the highly toxic radiation of the meteorite, and while an antidote devised by Dr. Benet saves him from death by radiation poisoning, his naked touch causes instant death to others. Back in London, the benefits of the meteorite's controlled radiation offer Dr. Benet an opportunity to restore eyesight to the blind. The antidote's toxicity excites Prof. Rukh into paranoid rages as he seeks revenge against the members of his expedition, who he accuses of stealing his discovery for their own glory...

Horror / Sci-Fi / Thriller