New Blu-ray Reviews
Home- August 29, 2018
The Great Smokey Roadblock Blu-ray Movie
The Last of the Cowboys
Code Red | 1977 | 105 min | Rated PG | Aug 14, 2018 | Brian Orndorf
While in the hospital, 60-year-old truck driver Elegant John Howard (Henry Fonda) gets his rig repossessed by the finance company. Deciding that it's time to make one last perfect cross-country run, he escapes from the hospital and steals back his truck. He further turns his back on the law by escorting a motley crew of people across the border as a favor to his old flame, bordello madam, Penelope Pearson (Eileen Brennan).
Comedy / Drama
- August 28, 2018
Ash vs Evil Dead: The Complete Third Season Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + Digital Copy
Lionsgate Films | 2017 | 278 min | Rated TV-MA | Aug 21, 2018 | Martin Liebman
Ash has spent the last 30 years avoiding responsibility, maturity and the terrors of the Evil Dead until a Deadite plague threatens to destroy all of mankind and Ash becomes mankind's only hope.
Action / Comedy / Fantasy / Horror / Dark humor / Supernatural
Ash vs Evil Dead: The Complete Third Season Blu-ray Movie
Limited Edition / Blu-ray + Digital Copy
Lionsgate Films | 2018 | 300 min | Rated TV-MA | Aug 21, 2018 | Martin Liebman
Ash has spent the last 30 years avoiding responsibility, maturity and the terrors of the Evil Dead until a Deadite plague threatens to destroy all of mankind and Ash becomes mankind's only hope.
Action / Comedy / Fantasy / Horror / Dark humor / Supernatural
DC Universe: 10th Anniversary Collection Blu-ray Movie
Limited and Numbered Edition
Warner Bros. | 2007-2017 | 30 Movies | 2339 min | Rated PG-13 | Nov 07, 2017 | Martin Liebman
See individual titles for their synopses.
Action / Adventure / Animation / Crime / Drama / Fantasy / Film-Noir / Horror / Sci-Fi / Short / Thriller / Supernatural / Comic book
Tucker: The Man and His Dream Blu-ray Movie
30th Anniversary Edition / Blu-ray + Digital Copy
Lionsgate Films | 1988 | 111 min | Rated PG | Aug 28, 2018 | Jeffrey Kauffman
The story of Preston Tucker, the maverick car designer and his ill fated challenge to the auto industry with his revolutionary car concept.
Biography / Drama
- August 27, 2018
El Sur Blu-ray Movie
Criterion | 1983 | 95 min | Not rated | Jun 19, 2018 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
The story of Estrella, a young girl living in northern Spain who is fascinated with the secrets of the south that are embodied in her father.
Drama / Romance / Foreign
Shot Blu-ray Movie
Death Shot / Blu-ray + DVD
Vinegar Syndrome | 1973 | 92 min | Not rated | Aug 28, 2018 | Brian Orndorf
Semi-urban detective duo Ross and Wilson have been charged with taking down local drug kingpin, Blasi. After busting a low-level pusher, they convince his girlfriend, Sheila, to start working for them as an undercover operative in exchange for avoiding prison. But as Ross finds himself becoming romantically interested in his new, perpetually spaced out informant, Blasi continues to strengthen his crime empire, setting his sights on even loftier, and deadlier, ambitions.
Action
Siberia Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + Digital Copy
Lionsgate Films | 2018 | 105 min | Rated R | Sep 18, 2018 | Jeffrey Kauffman
An American diamond merchant travels to Russia to sell rare blue diamonds of questionable origin. As the deal begins to collapse he falls into an obsessive relationship with a Russian cafe owner in a small Siberian town. As their passion builds, so does the treacherous world of the diamond trade from which he is unable to extricate himself. Both collide as the American man desperately looks for escape in a world with no exit.
Crime / Romance / Thriller
Oscar Blu-ray Movie
Kino Lorber | 1991 | 109 min | Rated PG | Sep 04, 2018 | Brian Orndorf
Angelo "Snaps" Provolone made his dying father a promise on his deathbed: he would leave the world of crime and become an honest businessman. Despite having no experience in making money in a legal fashion, Snaps sets about to keep his promise. He is faced with numerous problems: henchmen who know nothing but crime, the police who are convinced he is hatching a master plan, and Oscar, who has just got his daughter pregnant.
Comedy / Crime
Bram Stoker's Shadowbuilder Blu-ray Movie
Shadow Builder / MVD Rewind Collection
MVD Visual | 1998 | 101 min | Rated R | Aug 28, 2018 | Jeffrey Kauffman
A demon is summoned to take the soul of a young boy, who has the potential to become a saint. If the demon succeeds, it will open a doorway to Hell, blazing a terrifying trail of destruction, possession and mayhem and destroy humanity. Now the fate of the world hinges on the final outcome of a renegade priest's battle with the soul eating SHADOWBUILDER.
Action / Horror / Thriller
Zama Blu-ray Movie
Strand Releasing | 2017 | 115 min | Not rated | Aug 07, 2018 | Brian Orndorf
Based on the novel by Antonio Di Benedetto written in 1956, on Don Diego de Zama, a Spanish officer of the seventeenth century settled in Asunción, who awaits his transfer to Buenos Aires.
Drama / Foreign
The Hunt for Red October 4K Blu-ray Movie
4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray + Digital Copy
Paramount Pictures | 1990 | 135 min | Rated PG | Oct 05, 2021 | Martin Liebman
A new, technologically-superior Soviet sub, the Red October, is heading for the U.S. coast under the command of Marko Ramius. The U.S. government thinks Ramius is planning to attack, but C.I.A. analyst Jack Ryan has a different idea. He thinks Ramius is planning to defect, but he has only a few hours to find him and prove it, because the Russian naval and air forces are trying to find him, too.
Action / Adventure / Drama / Thriller / War
Patriot Games 4K Blu-ray Movie
4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray
Paramount Pictures | 1992 | 117 min | Rated R | No Release Date | Martin Liebman
When CIA analyst Jack Ryan thwarts an IRA assassination, a renegade faction targets him and his family for revenge.
Action / Crime / Drama / Thriller
Clear and Present Danger 4K Blu-ray Movie
4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray + Digital Copy
Paramount Pictures | 1994 | 141 min | Rated PG-13 | Jun 06, 2023 | Martin Liebman
CIA analyst Jack Ryan is drawn into an illegal war fought by the US government against a Colombian drug cartel.
Action / Drama / Thriller
The Sum of All Fears 4K Blu-ray Movie
4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray
Paramount Pictures | 2002 | 124 min | Rated PG-13 | No Release Date | Martin Liebman
CIA analyst must stop the plans of a Neo-Nazi faction to detonate a nuclear weapon at a football game in the U.S.
Action / Drama / Thriller
Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit 4K Blu-ray Movie
4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray + Digital Copy
Paramount Pictures | 2014 | 106 min | Rated PG-13 | Feb 21, 2023 | Martin Liebman
Jack Ryan, an ex-Marine, New York-based financial analyst and undercover CIA spy, uncovers a Russian plot to finance a terrorist attack designed to collapse the U.S. economy. Ryan must race against time to save America and his wife.
Action / Drama / Thriller
Jack Ryan: 5-Film Collection 4K Blu-ray Movie
4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray + Digital Copy
Paramount Pictures | 1990-2014 | 5 Movies | 620 min | Aug 21, 2018 | Martin Liebman
The Hunt for Red October 4K / Patriot Games 4K / Clear and Present Danger 4K / The Sum of All Fears 4K / Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit 4K See individual titles for their synopses.
Action / Adventure / Crime / Drama / Thriller / War
Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice Blu-ray Movie
Ultimate Edition / Blu-ray + UV Digital Copy
Warner Bros. | 2016 | 1 Movie, 2 Cuts | 182 min | Rated R | Oct 31, 2017 | Martin Liebman
Fearing the actions of a god-like super hero left unchecked, Gotham City’s own formidable, forceful vigilante takes on Metropolis’s most revered, modern-day savior, while the world wrestles with what sort of hero it really needs. And with Batman and Superman at war with one another, a new threat quickly arises, putting mankind in greater danger than it’s ever known before.
Action / Adventure / Fantasy / Sci-Fi / Comic book
- August 25, 2018
Carbon Copy Blu-ray Movie
Shout Factory | 1981 | 92 min | Rated PG | May 15, 2018 | Dr. Stephen Larson
A white corporate executive is surprised to discover that he has a black teen-age son who can't wait to be adopted into the almost-exclusively-white community of San Marino, California.
Comedy
- August 24, 2018
Casualties of War Blu-ray Movie
Sony Pictures | 1989 | 114 min | Rated R | Aug 14, 2018 | Martin Liebman
The true story of a group of U.S. soldiers, and their battle-scarred sergeant who takes his problems out on a new squad member during the war in Vietnam.
Adventure / Drama / War