New Blu-ray Reviews
Home- August 24, 2018
Led Zeppelin: How the West Was Won Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray Audio
Warner Music | 2003 | 148 min | Not rated | Mar 23, 2018 | Jeffrey Kauffman
Recorded June 25, 1972 at the L.A. Forum and June 27, 1972 at the Long Beach Arena.
Music
Woman Walks Ahead Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + Digital Copy
Lionsgate Films | 2017 | 101 min | Rated R | Aug 28, 2018 | Jeffrey Kauffman
The story follows Catherine Weldon, who moved from Brooklyn to the Standing Rock Reservation in Dakota Territory to help Sioux chieftain Sitting Bull keep the land for his people. Weldon wrote letters to the federal government on behalf of Sitting Bull and lived on the land for several years with her son.
Biography / Drama / History
- August 23, 2018
Pelle the Conqueror Blu-ray Movie
Pelle erobreren
Film Movement | 1987 | 150 min | Rated PG-13 | May 30, 2017 | Jeffrey Kauffman
The end of the 19th century. A boat filled with Swedish emigrants comes to the Danish island of Bornholm. Among them are Lasse and his son Pelle who move to Denmark to find work. They find employment at a large farm, but are treated as the lowest form of life. Pelle starts to speak Danish but is still harassed as a foreigner. But none of them wants to give up their dream of finding a better life than the life they left in Sweden.
Drama / Foreign / Coming of age
Higher Power 4K Blu-ray Movie
4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray
Magnolia Pictures | 2018 | 93 min | Rated R | Aug 14, 2018 | Michael Reuben
With his family's life at stake, Joseph Steadman finds himself the unwilling test subject of a maniacal scientist in a battle that could save the world, or destroy it.
Action / Sci-Fi / Thriller
Higher Power Blu-ray Movie
Magnolia Pictures | 2018 | 93 min | Rated R | Aug 14, 2018 | Michael Reuben
With his family's life at stake, Joseph Steadman finds himself the unwilling test subject of a maniacal scientist in a battle that could save the world, or destroy it.
Action / Sci-Fi / Thriller
- August 22, 2018
Bound Blu-ray Movie
Olive Signature
Olive Films | 1996 | 1 Movie, 2 Cuts | 109 min | Unrated | Aug 28, 2018 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
Tough ex-con Corky and her lover Violet concoct a scheme to steal millions of stashed mob money and pin the blame on Violet's crooked boyfriend Caesar.
Crime / Drama / Film-Noir / Thriller / Erotic / Heist
Book Club Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + DVD + Digital Copy
Paramount Pictures | 2018 | 104 min | Rated PG-13 | Aug 28, 2018 | Martin Liebman
Four lifelong friends have their lives forever changed after reading 50 Shades of Grey in their monthly book club.
Comedy
Sunday in the Country Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray
Screenbound Pictures | 1974 | 95 min | Rated BBFC: 15 | Jun 11, 2018 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
Three vicious thugs are on the run in rural America after robbing a local bank. They seek refuge at the home of a reclusive farmer, but he is prepared for their arrival and holds them at gunpoint. Unable to let them simply wait for the law, he decides to take them into his cellar and torture them a little before the police arrive.
Crime / Drama / Thriller
Lean on Pete Blu-ray Movie
Artificial Eye | 2017 | 121 min | Rated BBFC: 15 | Jul 09, 2018 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
Fifteen-year-old Charley Thompson arrives in Portland, Oregon with his single father Ray, both eager for a fresh start after a series of hard knocks. While Ray descends into personal turmoil, Charley finds acceptance and camaraderie at a local racetrack where he lands a job caring for an aging Quarter Horse named Lean on Pete. The horse's gruff owner Del Montgomery and his seasoned jockey Bonnie help Charley fill the void of his father's absence—until he discovers that Pete is bound for slaughter, prompting him to take extreme measures to spare his new friend's life. Charley and Pete head out into the great unknown, embarking on an odyssey across the new American frontier in search of a loving aunt Charley hasn't seen in years. They experience adventure and heartbreak in equal measure, but never lose their irrepressible hope and resiliency as they pursue their dream of finding a place they can call home.
Adventure / Drama / Sport / Coming of age
Piranha II: The Spawning Blu-ray Movie
Shout Factory | 1981 | 94 min | Rated R | Jul 31, 2018 | Dr. Stephen Larson
A scuba diving instructor, her biochemist boyfriend, and her police chief ex-husband try to link a series of bizarre deaths to a mutant strain of piranha fish whose lair is a sunken freighter ship off a Caribbean island resort.
Drama / Horror
Merrily We Live Blu-ray Movie
ClassicFlix | 1938 | 95 min | Not rated | Aug 28, 2018 | Jeffrey Kauffman
Hilarious farce concerns a dizzy socialite with a penchant for hiring ex-cons and bums to help tend to her family's needs. After an unshaven writer shows up at her door asking to use the phone, she mistakenly believes him to be a tramp and gives him a job working as a servant. Quickly, her new employee uses his life skills to get the household in order as he falls for her eldest daughter. Constance Bennett, Brian Aherne, Ann Dvorak, Billie Burke star. 90 min. Standard; Soundtrack: English.
Comedy
Deadpool 2 4K Blu-ray Movie
Super Duper $@%!#& Cut / 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray + Digital Copy
20th Century Fox | 2018 | 1 Movie, 2 Cuts | 134 min | Unrated | Aug 21, 2018 | Jeffrey Kauffman
Foul-mouthed mutant mercenary Wade Wilson (aka Deadpool) brings together a team of fellow mutant rogues to protect a young boy with supernatural abilities from the brutal, time-traveling cyborg Cable.
Action / Adventure / Comedy / Fantasy / Sci-Fi / Dark humor / Martial arts / Comic book
- August 21, 2018
The Wizard Blu-ray Movie
Universal Studios | 1989 | 100 min | Rated PG | May 15, 2018 | Martin Liebman
A boy and his brother run away from home and hitch cross country with the help of a girl they meet to compete in the ultimate video game championship.
Adventure / Comedy / Drama / Family / Romance / Sport / Coming of age
Upgrade Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + Digital Copy
Universal Studios | 2018 | 100 min | Rated R | Aug 28, 2018 | Martin Liebman
Set in the near future, technology controls nearly all aspects of life, but when Grey, a self-identified technophobe, has his world turned upside down, his only hope for revenge is an experimental computer chip implant called STEM.
Action / Sci-Fi / Thriller
Deadpool 2 Blu-ray Movie
Super Duper $@%!#& Cut / Blu-ray + Digital Copy
20th Century Fox | 2018 | 1 Movie, 2 Cuts | 134 min | Rated R | Aug 21, 2018 | Jeffrey Kauffman
Foul-mouthed mutant mercenary Wade Wilson (aka Deadpool) brings together a team of fellow mutant rogues to protect a young boy with supernatural abilities from the brutal, time-traveling cyborg Cable.
Action / Adventure / Comedy / Fantasy / Sci-Fi / Dark humor / Martial arts / Comic book
La Belle et la Bęte Blu-ray Movie
Beauty and the Beast
BFI Video | 1946 | 95 min | Rated BBFC: PG | Aug 06, 2018 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
When a merchant is told he must die for picking a rose from the garden of a mysterious beast, his beautiful, courageous daughter Belle offers to take his place. The Beast falls in love with Belle and proposes marriage on a nightly basis, but she refuses, having already promised her hand to a handsome young prince. Eventually, however, Belle finds herself drawn to the repellent but strangely fascinating Beast.
Drama / Fantasy / Romance / Foreign
- August 20, 2018
Mohsen Makhmalbaf: The Poetic Trilogy Blu-ray Movie
Gabbeh / The Silence / The Gardener | Arrow Academy | Limited Edition
Arrow | 1996-2012 | 3 Movies | 238 min | Not rated | Aug 28, 2018 | Jeffrey Kauffman
No synopsis for this title.
Drama / Mystery / Romance / Foreign
Gabbeh Blu-ray Movie
Arrow | 1996 | 75 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Jeffrey Kauffman
An elderly couple go about their routine of cleaning their gabbeh (a intricately-designed rug), while bickering gently with each other. Magically, a young woman appears, helping the two clean the rug. This young woman belongs to the clan whose history is depicted in the design of the gabbeh, and the rug recounts the story of the courtship of the young woman by a stranger from the clan.
Drama / Mystery / Romance / Foreign
The Silence Blu-ray Movie
Arrow | 1998 | 76 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Jeffrey Kauffman
The Silence tells of Khorshid, a young blind boy from Tajikistan who earns rent money for his family by tuning rare instruments but becomes enraptured by the sonorous music he hears on his way to work each day.
Foreign
The Gardener Blu-ray Movie
Arrow | 2012 | 87 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Jeffrey Kauffman
Filmmaker Mohsen Makhmalbaf and his son, Maysam, explore the Baha'i faith, a religion which is forbidden in their native Iran.
Foreign