New Blu-ray Reviews

Castle Rock: The Complete First Season 4K Blu-ray Movie  

4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray + Digital Copy

Warner Bros. | 2018 | 500 min | Rated TV-MA | Jan 08, 2019 | Michael Reuben

Attorney Henry Deaver is called back to the town of Castle Rock, Maine -- where he was raised by foster parents -- after a mysterious death at Shawshank Prison reveals a secret prisoner with no name or history locked in a disused wing of the crumbling facility.

Drama / Fantasy / Horror

Creed II Blu-ray Movie  

Blu-ray + DVD + Digital Copy

Warner Bros. | 2018 | 130 min | Rated PG-13 | Mar 05, 2019 | Randy Miller III

Under the tutelage of Rocky Balboa, newly crowned light heavyweight champion Adonis Creed faces off against Viktor Drago, the son of Ivan Drago.

Action / Drama / Sport

Kolobos Blu-ray Movie  

Arrow | 1999 | 84 min | Not rated | Mar 12, 2019 | Jeffrey Kauffman

Five young individuals agree to live in a home and have their daily activities filmed. But soon the house is locked down and they each run into the murderous clutches of a faceless serial killer -- who may not be working alone.

Horror / Mystery / Thriller

Party Line Blu-ray Movie  

Blu-ray + DVD

Vinegar Syndrome | 1988 | 91 min | Rated R | Feb 26, 2019 | Brian Orndorf

A rich brother and sister are crazed killers. She lures men into her bed, and he attacks them and murders them. A detective is assigned to find the killers and bring them in.

Thriller

The Doctor Blu-ray Movie  

Kino Lorber | 1991 | 122 min | Rated PG-13 | Mar 05, 2019 | Brian Orndorf

Jack McKee is a doctor with it all: he's successful, he's rich, and he has no problems.... until he is diagnosed with throat cancer. Now that he has seen medicine, hospitals, and doctors from a patient's perspective, he realises that there is more to being a doctor than surgery and prescriptions.

Drama

Feral Blu-ray Movie  

Shout Factory | 2017 | 92 min | Not rated | Oct 02, 2018 | Martin Liebman

Students fight to survive a weekend in the woods.

Action / Drama / Horror / Thriller

A Star Is Born 4K Blu-ray Movie  

4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray + Digital Copy

Warner Bros. | 2018 | 136 min | Rated R | Feb 19, 2019 | Martin Liebman

A country-rock music star helps a young singer find fame, even as age and alcoholism send his own career into a downward spiral. An update of the classic rise and fall fable about the perils of hitting the big time in show business.

Drama / Music / Romance

Backbeat Blu-ray Movie  

Shout Factory | 1994 | 100 min | Rated R | Feb 19, 2019 | Dr. Stephen Larson

When the almost famous Beatles head for the seedy clubs of Hamburg in search of success, the band meets up with a group of trendy German beatniks. The then bass guitarist for the Beatles, Stuart Sutcliffe, falls in love with one of them, Astrid Kircherr. All the while the only thing his good friend from college, John Lennon, can do is watch. As time goes on though, Sutcliffe slowly realizes that he must come to a decision about whether to either pursue his life in rock 'n roll with John or his new life in Germany with Astrid.

Biography / Drama / Music

Double Dragon Blu-ray Movie  

MVD Rewind Collection / Blu-ray + DVD

MVD Visual | 1994 | 96 min | Rated PG-13 | Jan 22, 2019 | Jeffrey Kauffman

Evil meets its match in this daring martial arts adventure about two teen brothers out to stop an obsessed tycoon from finding both halves of a mystical talisman.

Action / Adventure / Comedy / Sci-Fi

Wacko Blu-ray Movie  

The Last Horror Show / Blu-ray + DVD

Vinegar Syndrome | 1982 | 87 min | Rated R | Feb 26, 2019 | Brian Orndorf

Designed as a spoof of slasher movies, this gory comedy is set in a town that more than a decade ago was home to the infamous lawnmower killer. Set just before the big Halloween soiree at the local high school, it follows officer Dick Harbinger as he desperately tries to convince the town that the dreaded mechanical reaper is about to return for more bloodshed and horror.

Comedy / Horror

The Real McCoy Blu-ray Movie  

Kino Lorber | 1993 | 105 min | Rated PG-13 | Feb 12, 2019 | Brian Orndorf

Karen McCoy is a thief who after getting caught is sent to prison for 6 years. After getting released she tries to see her son but her ex won't let her and tells her that he told their son she's dead. Karen's boss, Schmidt who left her in prison wants her to help him with a job. But she refuses. She tries to go straight but her parole officer makes things tough for her. Eventually she learns that Schmidt and her parole officer are working together to get her to do the job. When she still refuses, they grab her son. She then does the case work, one of Schmidt's people, Barker tries to help her.

Crime / Drama / Thriller / Heist

Suppose They Gave a War and Nobody Came? Blu-ray Movie  

Kino Lorber | 1970 | 112 min | Rated PG | Mar 19, 2019 | Dr. Svet Atanasov

Brian Keith, Ernest Borgnine, Suzanne Pleshette and Tony Curtis head a "first-rate cast" (Motion Picture Herald) in this "sharp, amusing" (The New York Times) comedy that pits the fed-up brass of an Army base against the fired-up citizens of a nearby town! In an effort to shore up a shaky truce between civilians and base personnel, three hapless Army buddies find themselves appointed "community public relations officers." Unfortunately, Sergeant Shannon Gambroni's (Curtis) idea of community relations includes pursuing and wooing Ramona (Pleshette), a sexy waitress whom Sheriff Harve (Borgnine) considers his personal property. And when ammo and amour finally clash in an outrageous battle royal, who will ultimately surrender?

Comedy

Green Book Blu-ray Movie  

Blu-ray + DVD + Digital Copy

Universal Studios | 2018 | 130 min | Rated PG-13 | Mar 12, 2019 | Martin Liebman

A working-class Italian-American bouncer becomes the driver of an African-American classical pianist on a tour of venues through the 1960s American South.

Biography / Comedy / Drama / Period

Green Book 4K Blu-ray Movie  

4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray + Digital Copy

Universal Studios | 2018 | 130 min | Rated PG-13 | Mar 12, 2019 | Martin Liebman

A working-class Italian-American bouncer becomes the driver of an African-American classical pianist on a tour of venues through the 1960s American South.

Biography / Comedy / Drama / Period

Sgt. Will Gardner Blu-ray Movie  

Blu-ray + DVD

Cinedigm | 2019 | 125 min | Not rated | Feb 19, 2019 | Jeffrey Kauffman

Will Gardner tells the story about Iraq War veteran Will Gardner (Max Martini) who is suffering from a traumatic brain injury (TBI) he sustained during a bombing that he and his platoon suffered while in combat. His injuries make it difficult for him to reintegrate into society so after a series of setbacks, he goes on a spirited motorcycle journey across America to pick up pieces of his life lost since combat. Martini (13 Hours, Captain Phillips) also penned the script and directs the film.

Action / Adventure / Drama / War

The Lonely Lady Blu-ray Movie  

Shout Factory | 1983 | 1 Movie, 2 Cuts | 92 min | Rated R | Jun 13, 2017 | Dr. Svet Atanasov

Jerilee Randall, a simple schoolgirl living in San Fernando, dreams of becoming a famous writer. While at a party, she meets the son of a famous screenwriter. The son invites her over to his house; she accepts. They drive away with some other people, and that night, she is assaulted by one of the son's friends with a garden hose. The "friend" is interrupted in his assault by screenwriter Walter Thornton, who arrives in time to save her from an even more disgusting fate. Walter's rescue of Jerilee begins a friendship between the two, and before you know it, the two fall in love. They marry. Their marriage falls apart when Jerilee's script rewrites actually improve one of Walter's screenplays and he feels one-upped. Jerilee then goes through affair after sordid affair in her attempt to write her own screenplay and get it produced.

Drama

Death Wish 4: The Crackdown Blu-ray Movie    

Umbrella Entertainment | 1987 | 99 min | Rated R | No Release Date | Dr. Svet Atanasov

Architect/vigilante Paul Kersey takes on the members of a vicious Los Angeles drug cartel to stop the flow of drugs after his girlfriend's daughter dies from an overdose.

Action / Crime / Drama

Phantom Lady Blu-ray Movie  

Arrow | 1944 | 87 min | Not rated | Mar 05, 2019 | Jeffrey Kauffman

A beautiful secretary risks her life to try to find the elusive woman who may prove her boss didn't murder his selfish wife.

Crime / Drama / Film-Noir / Mystery

The Standoff at Sparrow Creek Blu-ray Movie  

RLJ Entertainment | 2018 | 89 min | Not rated | Mar 05, 2019 | Randy Miller III

A former cop-turned-militia man investigates a shooting at a police funeral.

Crime / Drama / Thriller

Cry of the City Blu-ray Movie  

Kino Lorber | 1948 | 95 min | Not rated | Nov 15, 2016 | Dr. Svet Atanasov

Two childhood best friends take divergent paths; one becomes a cop, and the other a cop-killer. The killer must grapple with confessing to a murder he did not commit in order to save his girlfriend from being framed for the crime.

Crime / Drama / Film-Noir