New Blu-ray Reviews
Home- August 16, 2018
Avengers: Age of Ultron 4K Blu-ray Movie
Cinematic Universe Edition / 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray + Digital Copy
Disney / Buena Vista | 2015 | 141 min | Rated PG-13 | Aug 14, 2018 | Martin Liebman
When Tony Stark tries to jumpstart a dormant peacekeeping program, things go awry and Earth’s Mightiest Heroes, including Iron Man, Captain America, Thor, The Incredible Hulk, Black Widow and Hawkeye, are put to the ultimate test as the fate of the planet hangs in the balance. As the villainous Ultron emerges, it is up to The Avengers to stop him from enacting his terrible plans, and soon uneasy alliances and unexpected action pave the way for an epic and unique global adventure.
Action / Adventure / Fantasy / Sci-Fi / Comic book
First Reformed Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + Digital Copy
Lionsgate Films | 2017 | 113 min | Rated R | Aug 21, 2018 | Jeffrey Kauffman
A former military chaplain is wracked by grief over the death of his son. Mary is a member of his church whose husband, a radical environmentalist, commits suicide, setting the plot in motion.
Drama / Thriller
- August 15, 2018
Teen Titans: The Judas Contract Blu-ray Movie
DC Universe Animated Original Movie #29 / Blu-ray + DVD + UV Digital Copy
Warner Bros. | 2017 | 84 min | Rated PG-13 | Apr 18, 2017 | Martin Liebman
Young psychopath, Tara Markov, is seduced and trained by Deathstroke to infiltrate the Teen Titans and to tear them apart from within.
Action / Adventure / Animation / Fantasy / Sci-Fi / Comic book
Lady Street Fighter Blu-ray Movie
w/ Revenge of the Street Fighter
AGFA | 1981 | 2 Movies | 73 min | Not rated | Aug 14, 2018 | Jeffrey Kauffman
Exotic Eastern European beauty, Linda Allen, flies in to Los Angeles to track down the evil mobsters who tortured and murdered her sister. Meanwhile, the mobsters are trying to find a tape with information that would be incriminating to them. Linda's investigation deals with a pimp who may be the murderer she is after, and a helpful FBI agent who may not be the crime hunter he pretends to be. Cunning and deadly she is, but will she be up to the tangled web of corruption, violence, and death she falls into?
Action / Crime
Walking Tall Blu-ray Movie
Special Edition
MVD Visual | 2004 | 86 min | Rated PG-13 | Aug 14, 2018 | Jeffrey Kauffman
Former U.S. soldier Chris Vaughn returns to his hometown to find it overrun by crime and corruption, which prompts him to clean house.
Action / Drama / Thriller
The Deer Hunter Blu-ray Movie
40th Anniversary Edition
Studio Canal | 1978 | 184 min | Rated BBFC: 18 | Aug 20, 2018 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
Three friends volunteer to serve in Vietnam, they fail to foresee the horrors that will encapsulate their future lives.
Drama / War / Melodrama
Marrowbone 4K Blu-ray Movie
The Secret of Marrowbone / 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray
Magnolia Pictures | 2017 | 110 min | Rated R | Aug 07, 2018 | Michael Reuben
A young man and his three younger siblings, who have kept secret the death of their beloved mother in order to remain together, are plagued by a sinister presence in the sprawling old country house in which they live.
Drama / Horror / Thriller
Never So Few Blu-ray Movie
Warner Bros. | 1959 | 124 min | Not rated | Aug 07, 2018 | Michael Reuben
Captain Tom Reynolds and his band of skilled O.S.S. operatives are in WWII Burma to assist the Kachin natives in their insurgence against the advancing Japanese Army. On a trip to headquarters in Calcutta, he meets an imperious beauty, Carla, and an unlikely romance blossoms -- but Reynolds must return to the fight.
Drama / War
- August 14, 2018
Police Story 2 Blu-ray Movie
警察故事續集 / Ging chaat goo si juk jaap | Eureka Classics
Eureka Entertainment | 1988 | 1 Movie, 3 Cuts | 121 min | Rated BBFC: 15 | No Release Date | Dr. Svet Atanasov
Having been demoted to a lowly traffic cop for his, unorthodox policing methods, officer Ka-Kui quits the force in protest. But it isn't long before he's back in action, racing the clock to stop a band of serial bombers and win back his much-put-upon girlfriend May.
Action / Comedy / Crime / Thriller / Martial arts / Foreign
Documentary Now!: Season One & Season Two Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + Digital Copy
Mill Creek Entertainment | 2015-2016 | 2 Seasons | 308 min | Rated TV-14 | Aug 14, 2018 | Martin Liebman
DOCUMENTARY NOW! parodies the current obsession with documentaries.
Comedy / Documentary
Rocketman Blu-ray Movie
20th Anniversary Edition
Disney / Buena Vista | 1997 | 94 min | Rated PG | Feb 27, 2018 | Martin Liebman
Though he's a wiz with computers, accident-prone astro-nut Fred Randall (Harland Williams) is the last guy on Earth you'd want on the first manned mission to Mars. But as bad luck and poor timing would have it, that's exactly what happens.
Comedy / Family / Sci-Fi
National Lampoon's Van Wilder 4K Blu-ray Movie
4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray + UV Digital Copy
Lionsgate Films | 2002 | 94 min | Unrated | Aug 14, 2018 | Jeffrey Kauffman
Van Wilder is a 7th-year student who has no plans to graduate. Life is good for Van; he's got a coed in every closet and a party to go to every night. His slick reputation even catches the eye of sexy Gwen Pearson, an on-campus reporter determined to expose the naked truth behind his wild exterior. When Gwen enters his life and his father stops paying for his tuition, could Van's days as the king of Coolidge College be over?
Comedy / Romance / Teen / Coming of age
- August 13, 2018
Puppet on a Chain Blu-ray Movie
Limited Edition - 1,000 copies
Scorpion Releasing | 1970 | 98 min | Rated PG | Mar 24, 2016 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
Drug search of a American narcotics agent leads to an island castle. Him and his partner run into serious trouble when they try to gain access to the forbidden site.
Action / Crime / Thriller / Foreign
To Hell and Back: The Kane Hodder Story Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + DVD
Epic Pictures | 2017 | 109 min | Not rated | Jul 13, 2018 | Brian Orndorf
To Hell and Back: The Kane Hodder Story is the harrowing story of a stuntman overcoming a dehumanizing childhood filled with torment and bullying in Sparks, Nevada. After surviving a near-death burn accident, he worked his way up through Hollywood, leading to his ultimate rise as Jason Voorhees in the Friday the 13th series and making countless moviegoers forever terrified of hockey masks and summer camp. Featuring interviews with cinema legends, including Bruce Campbell (Ash vs. Evil Dead), Robert Englund (Freddy Krueger), and Cassandra Peterson (Elvira: Mistress of the Dark), To Hell and Back peels off the mask of Kane Hodder, cinema's most prolific killer, in a gut-wrenching, but inspiring, documentary. After decades of watching Kane Hodder on screen, get ready to meet the man behind the mask in To Hell and Back - an uniquely human story about one of cinema's most vicious monsters.
Documentary
S.F. Brownrigg Grindhouse Double Feature Blu-ray Movie
Don't Open the Door / Don't Look in the Basement / Blu-ray + DVD
VCI | 1973-1974 | 2 Movies | 185 min | Rated R | Aug 14, 2018 | Jeffrey Kauffman
See individual titles for their synopses.
Horror / Thriller
Don't Look in the Basement Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + DVD
VCI | 1973 | 89 min | Rated R | No Release Date | Jeffrey Kauffman
In Stephens Sanitarium, therapy has been replaced by torture and necrophilia. By allowing each patient to act out his psychosis, the director believes that he can cure insanity. The doctor becomes the victim of his own experiment when he is brutally murdered by an inmate. Charlotte, a young nurse practiced in experimental psychology, joins the shrinking staff, but nothing can prepare her for the gruesome scenes that await her at the asylum. Under the guidance of the new director, the stronger patients prey on the weak, as they plunge deeper into madness. Charlotte's attempt to help turns into a fight for survival as the most violent and demented inmate emerges to take control of the entire hospital...
Horror / Thriller
Don't Open the Door Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + DVD
VCI | 1974 | 85 min | Rated R | No Release Date | Jeffrey Kauffman
In this horror movie, a dutiful grand-daughter goes home to take care of her elderly grandmother. Once there, she finds herself trapped inside the house with a homicidal maniac.
Horror / Thriller
Cradle Will Rock Blu-ray Movie
Kino Lorber | 1999 | 132 min | Rated R | Aug 07, 2018 | Brian Orndorf
From high society to life on the streets, director Tim Robbins brings Depression-era New York City to vivid life. A time when da Vincis are given to millionaires who help fund the Mussolini war effort. And Nelson Rockefeller commissions Mexican artist Diego Rivers to paint the lobby of Rockefeller Center. A time when a young Orson Welles and a troupe of passionate actors risk everything to perform the infamous musical "The Cradle Will Rock."
Drama / History / Musical
How to Talk to Girls at Parties Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + Digital Copy
Lionsgate Films | 2017 | 102 min | Rated R | Aug 14, 2018 | Jeffrey Kauffman
An alien touring the galaxy breaks away from her group and meets two young inhabitants of the most dangerous place in the universe: the London suburb of Croydon.
Comedy / Music / Romance
The Death of Superman 4K Blu-ray Movie
4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray + Digital Copy
Warner Bros. | 2018 | 81 min | Rated PG-13 | Aug 07, 2018 | Martin Liebman
Superman battles an insurmountable foe named Doomsday.
Action / Animation / Comic book