New Blu-ray Reviews
Home- December 01, 2018
Windtalkers Blu-ray Movie
Ultimate Edition | MVD Marquee Collection
MVD Visual | 2002 | 1 Movie, 2 Cuts | 154 min | Unrated | Nov 13, 2018 | Jeffrey Kauffman
Marine Joe Enders is assigned to protect Ben Yahzee, a Navajo code talker, the Marines' new secret weapon, but if Yahzee should fall into enemy hands, he's to protect the code at all costs. Against the backdrop of the horrific Battle of Saipan, when capture is imminent, Enders is forced to make a decision: if he can't protect his fellow Marine, can he bring himself to kill him to protect the code?
Action / Drama / War
True Stories Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + CD
Criterion | 1986 | 89 min | Rated PG | Nov 27, 2018 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
Director David Byrne takes an outside-looking-in glance at Texas and Texans in True Stories. Casting himself as the protagonist/narrator, Byrne adopts what he thinks is "standard" western garb and drives his red convertible into the small town of Virgil. Here he observes the town's preparations for celebrating Texas' sesquicentennial, taking time out to introduce us to several of the local oddballs. Swoosie Kurtz plays Miss Rollings, the Laziest Woman in the World; Alix Elias is The Cute Woman, who decorates her home in the most hideously "sweet" manner imaginable; John Goodman is talent-contest entrant Louis Fyne, who harbors dreams of being a C&W star; Spalding Gray is Earl Culver, a vegetable-obsessed civic leader; Jo Harvey Allen is The Lying Woman; and so it goes.
Comedy / Musical / Surreal
Maniac Blu-ray Movie
Sony Pictures | 1963 | 86 min | Not rated | Nov 20, 2018 | Martin Liebman
An American painter has an affair with a bar owner in a French village and agrees to help her murderer husband escape from a prison for the criminally insane.
Crime / Mystery / Thriller
- November 30, 2018
Robin and Marian Blu-ray Movie
Sony Pictures | 1976 | 107 min | Rated PG | Nov 20, 2018 | Martin Liebman
Robin Hood, aging none too gracefully, returns exhausted from the Crusades to woo and win Maid Marian one last time.
Adventure / Drama / Romance
Dick Blu-ray Movie
Sony Pictures | 1999 | 95 min | Rated PG-13 | Nov 06, 2018 | Martin Liebman
Two high school girls wander off during a class trip to the White House and meet President Richard Nixon. They become the official dog walkers for Nixon’s dog Checkers, and become his secret advisors during the Watergate scandal.
Comedy
- November 29, 2018
Vendetta Blu-ray Movie
Shout Factory | 1986 | 90 min | Rated R | Nov 13, 2018 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
Tough-as-nails stuntwoman Laurie Collins (Karen Chase, Private School) purposely commits a crime to land herself in the same prison as the murderous gang that killed her sister. Now on the inside, Laurie is finally able to settle the score! With the help of her cellmate, Laurie infiltrates the circle of terror – a ruthless mob made up of inmates and guards. What Laurie does to this mob is no accident ... it's justice!
Action / Crime / Drama / Thriller
Young Guns II Blu-ray Movie
Sony Pictures | 1990 | 104 min | Rated PG-13 | Nov 20, 2018 | Martin Liebman
Billy "The Kid" and his gang is wanted by the law, and when "Doc" Scurlock and Chavez are captured, Billy has to save them. They escape and set south for Mexico. "Let's hire a thief to catch one", John S. Chisum said, so he paid Pat Garrett, one of Billy's former partners, $1000 for the killing of William H. Bonney aka Billy "The Kid".
Action / Adventure / Western
The Last Supper Blu-ray Movie
Sony Pictures | 1995 | 92 min | Rated R | Nov 20, 2018 | Martin Liebman
In the heartland of Iowa, five grad school liberals share a house, a left wing outlook, and Sunday suppers filled with conversation and social criticism. But when a redneck trucker threatens one of their own, he inadvertently puts them on the radical road to serial murder.
Comedy / Crime / Drama / Thriller / Dark humor
Learning to See: The World of Insects Blu-ray Movie
Special Edition
FilmRise | 2016 | 69 min | Not rated | Nov 13, 2018 | Jeffrey Kauffman
Follow one man’s transformational journey to find the Amazon's strangest creatures. In the early 90s, Robert Oelman left his career in psychology to pursue photography. On his journeys through the Amazon Basin, he began taking striking photographs of undiscovered insects. After twenty years of traveling, searching and photographing, his quest culminated with a New York City gallery showing.
Documentary / Nature
Downfall Blu-ray Movie
Der Untergang | Collector's Edition
Shout Factory | 2004 | 155 min | Rated R | Mar 13, 2018 | Dr. Stephen Larson
Traudl Junge, the final secretary for Adolf Hitler, tells of the Nazi dictator's final days in his Berlin bunker at the end of WWII.
Biography / Drama / History / War / Foreign
Sudden Fury Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + DVD
Vinegar Syndrome | 1975 | 92 min | Not rated | Dec 11, 2018 | Brian Orndorf
Fred, a psychotic would-be entrepreneur hopes to convince his wife Janet to invest in a shady land deal. When his wife refuses, the couple continue their violent argument while driving through the Ontario backwoods. When their car crashes, Janet is seriously injured, but Fred leaves the scene, hoping that his wife won't last the night. But she is saved by an ingenuous good samaritan.
Crime / Drama / Thriller
Beware My Brethren Blu-ray Movie
The Fiend / Blu-ray + DVD
Vinegar Syndrome | 1972 | 92 min | Rated R | Nov 23, 2018 | Brian Orndorf
Led by a sinister minister, a controlling religious sect called the Brethren has taken control of widow Birdy Wemys, sending her unstable son, Kenny, into a spiraling descent into madness and murder. No woman is safe when Kenny's religious mania overpowers him and leads to a rampage of carnage and chaos!
Horror
Crazy Rich Asians Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + DVD + Digital Copy
Warner Bros. | 2018 | 121 min | Rated PG-13 | Nov 20, 2018 | Michael Reuben
American-born Chinese economics professor Rachel Chu accompanies her boyfriend to Singapore for his best friend's wedding only to get thrust into the lives of Asia's rich and famous. She discovers that her boyfriend comes from a wealthy family with a dark past and that every woman wants him. Based on the novel by Kevin Kwan.
Comedy / Romance
- November 28, 2018
The Serpent's Egg Blu-ray Movie
Special Edition
Arrow | 1977 | 114 min | Rated R | Dec 04, 2018 | Jeffrey Kauffman
After his brother inexplicably commits suicide, unemployed Jewish-American circus performer Abel Rosenberg is stuck in Berlin with his sister-in-law, Manuela, a cabaret singer. Desperate circumstances lead to the pair taking jobs at a medical facility run by Professor Hans Vergerus, who also offers to give them shelter. However, the clinic turns out be a very sinister place, and soon the lives of Abel and Manuela are in serious jeopardy.
Drama / Mystery / Thriller
Mission: Impossible - Fallout Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + DVD + Digital Copy
Paramount Pictures | 2018 | 147 min | Rated PG-13 | Dec 04, 2018 | Martin Liebman
Ethan Hunt and his IMF team, along with some familiar allies, race against time after a mission gone wrong.
Action / Adventure / Thriller
Mission: Impossible - Fallout 4K Blu-ray Movie
4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray + Digital Copy
Paramount Pictures | 2018 | 147 min | Rated PG-13 | Dec 04, 2018 | Martin Liebman
Ethan Hunt and his IMF team, along with some familiar allies, race against time after a mission gone wrong.
Action / Adventure / Thriller
- November 27, 2018
The Virgin Spring Blu-ray Movie
Jungfrukällan
Criterion | 1960 | 91 min | Not rated | Jun 26, 2018 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
After brutally attacking a young woman, a group of men unknowing seek food and shelter from her parents, setting the stage for revenge.
Crime / Drama / Thriller / Foreign
Gosford Park Blu-ray Movie
Arrow Academy
Arrow | 2001 | 137 min | Rated R | Nov 27, 2018 | Jeffrey Kauffman
The lives of upstairs guest and downstairs servants at a party in 1932 in a country house in England as they investigate a murder involving one of them.
Drama / Mystery / Period
The Matrix 4K Blu-ray Movie
4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray + Digital Copy
Warner Bros. | 1999 | 136 min | Rated R | Oct 30, 2018 | Martin Liebman
A computer hacker named Neo joins a group of rebels dedicated to fighting the machines upon learning the truth about his present reality.
Action / Adventure / Sci-Fi / Thriller / Martial arts / Surreal / Epic
The Matrix Reloaded 4K Blu-ray Movie
4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray + Digital Copy
Warner Bros. | 2003 | 138 min | Rated R | Oct 30, 2018 | Martin Liebman
Neo, Morpheus, Trinity, and the rest of their crew continue to battle the machines that have enslaved the human race in the Matrix. Now, more humans are waking up out of the matrix and attempting to live in the real world. As their numbers grow, the battle moves to Zion, the last real-world city and center of human resistance.
Action / Adventure / Sci-Fi / Thriller / Martial arts / Surreal / Epic