New Blu-ray Reviews
Home- May 27, 2018
Jurassic Park Collection 4K Blu-ray Movie
25th Anniversary Edition | Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom Movie Money / 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray + Digital Copy
Universal Studios | 1993-2015 | 4 Movies | 474 min | Rated PG-13 | May 22, 2018 | Martin Liebman
See individual titles for their synopses.
Action / Adventure / Sci-Fi / Thriller
The Strangers: Prey at Night Blu-ray Movie
Unrated / Blu-ray + DVD + Digital Copy
Universal Studios | 2018 | 1 Movie, 2 Cuts | 86 min | Not rated | Jun 12, 2018 | Martin Liebman
A vacation turns macabre when three masked strangers return to menace a family visiting a trailer park in this sequel to the disquieting horror shocker.
Horror
- May 26, 2018
Cold Turkey Blu-ray Movie
Olive Films | 1971 | 102 min | Rated PG-13 | May 29, 2018 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
Hoping for positive publicity, a tobacco company offers $25 million to any American town that quits smoking for 30 days. Amidst a media frenzy, Eagle Rock, Iowa accepts the challenge while the company's PR man tries to sabotage the effort.
Comedy
Little Women Blu-ray Movie
PBS | 2017 | 185 min | Rated TV-PG | May 22, 2018 | Brian Orndorf
Dramatisation of Louisa May Alcott's novel about the lives of the four March sisters during the American Civil War as they learn to navigate love, loss and the trials of growing up.
Drama
Her Name Was Lisa Blu-ray Movie
Standard Edition
Vinegar Syndrome | 1979 | 88 min | Rated X | May 29, 2018 | Brian Orndorf
Shown in flashbacks by those who now show remorse at her at her funeral, a photographer invites a prostitute to pose for him. They sleep once and he treats her fair, but both his publisher and a stranger woman called Carmen lead to her degradation and untimely demise.
Drama / Erotic
Family Values: Three Films by Hirokazu Kore-eda Blu-ray Movie
I Wish / Like Father, Like Son / After the Storm | Arrow Academy | Limited Edition / Blu-ray + DVD
Arrow | 2011-2016 | 3 Movies | 366 min | Rated BBFC: PG | Feb 19, 2018 | Jeffrey Kauffman
See individual titles for their synopses.
Drama / Foreign
I Wish Blu-ray Movie
奇跡 / Kiseki / Blu-ray + DVD
Arrow | 2011 | 128 min | Rated BBFC: PG | No Release Date | Jeffrey Kauffman
12-year-old Koichi, who has been separated from his brother Ryunosuke due to his parents' divorce, begins to believe that the new bullet train service will create a miracle when the first trains pass each other at top speed.
Drama / Foreign
Like Father, Like Son Blu-ray Movie
そして父になる / Soshite chichi ni naru / Blu-ray + DVD
Arrow | 2013 | 121 min | Rated BBFC: PG | No Release Date | Jeffrey Kauffman
Would you choose your natural son, or the son you believed was yours after spending 6 years together? Kore-eda Hirokazu, the globally acclaimed director of "Nobody Knows", "Still Walking" and "I Wish", returns to the big screen with another family - a family thrown into torment after a phone call from the hospital where the son was born... Ryota has earned everything he has by his hard work, and believes nothing can stop him from pursuing his perfect life as a winner. Then one day, he and his wife, Midori, get an unexpected phone call from the hospital. Their 6-year-old son, Keita, is not 'their' son - the hospital gave them the wrong baby. Ryota is forced to make a life-changing decision, to choose between 'nature' and 'nurture.'
Drama / Foreign
After the Storm Blu-ray Movie
海よりもまだ深く / Umi yori mo mada fukaku / Blu-ray + DVD
Arrow | 2016 | 117 min | Rated BBFC: PG | No Release Date | Jeffrey Kauffman
Dwelling on his past glory as a prize-winning author, Ryota wastes the money he makes as a private detective on gambling and can barely pay child support. After the death of his father, his aging mother and beautiful ex-wife seem to be moving on with their lives. Renewing contact with his initially distrusting family, Ryota struggles to take back control of his existence and to find a lasting place in the life of his young son.
Drama / Foreign
It's Alive Trilogy Blu-ray Movie
It's Alive / It Lives Again / It's Alive III: Island of the Alive
Shout Factory | 1974-1987 | 3 Movies | 277 min | Not rated | May 15, 2018 | Dr. Stephen Larson
See individual titles for their synopses.
Horror / Sci-Fi
- May 25, 2018
Smash Palace Blu-ray Movie
Arrow | 1981 | 108 min | Rated R | May 29, 2018 | Jeffrey Kauffman
Al Shaw retires from auto racing to take over his father's garage in rural New Zealand. His cosmopolitan wife, Jacqui, is happy that he's no longer risking his life on the Grand Prix circuit, but she quickly becomes bored in their small town. She takes up with a local policeman and announces that she's leaving Al and bringing their daughter, Georgie, with her. Al, in desperation, decides to kidnap Georgie and head further out into the frontier.
Drama
Deadly Daphne's Revenge Blu-ray Movie
Limited Edition of 1,500 | SOLD OUT / Blu-ray + DVD
Vinegar Syndrome | 1987 | 90 min | Not rated | May 25, 2018 | Brian Orndorf
A young hitchhiker is picked up by four drunken hunters, one of whom rapes her. A tough prosecutor has all four of the men indicted for the crime, which results in a suicide and a murder-for-hire plot.
Drama / Horror
Pets Blu-ray Movie
Submission [Slipcover/Ed Exclusive on Retailer Limited to 2000] / Blu-ray + DVD
Vinegar Syndrome | 1973 | 102 min | Not rated | May 25, 2018 | Brian Orndorf
A despicable, whip-wielding villain lords over a harem of imprisoned young beauties in this sleazy exploitation drama. At least the cruel master gets what's coming to him when his "Pets" band together and develop a plan to fight for their freedom.
Drama
- May 24, 2018
Intimate Lighting Blu-ray Movie
Intimní osvětlení
Second Run | 1965 | 74 min | Rated BBFC: PG | May 07, 2018 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
One of the most important films of the Czech New Wave 60s, which was ranked among the top ten domestic films of all time. The feature debut by screenwriter and director Ivan Passer. It is his only feature-length film shot in Czechoslovakia. In this original sad comedy in a small town two classmates encounter each other again after 10 years - both musicians: one is a member of the regional symphony orchestra, the other became the director of the local music school puts family villa, playing at funerals...
Comedy / Drama / Foreign
Fury 4K Blu-ray Movie
4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray + UV Digital Copy
Sony Pictures | 2014 | 135 min | Rated R | May 22, 2018 | Martin Liebman
A tank commander makes tough decisions as he and his crew fight their way across Germany in WWII.
Action / Drama / History / War / Period
Black Venus Blu-ray Movie
Vénus noire
Arrow | 2010 | 162 min | Not rated | May 22, 2018 | Jeffrey Kauffman
The story of Saartjes Baartman, a Black domestic who, in 1808, left Southern Africa, then ruled by Dutch settlers, for Europe, following her boss Hendrick Caesar , hoping to find fame and fortune there. Once in London her master turned manager does nothing but exhibit her as a freak in a phony and humiliating carnival show. After a series of troubles caused by their act, Caesar, Saartje and their new friend, bear-tamer Réaux, head for Paris where once again, and against her will, she has to mimic savagery and expose her body, first in carnivals, then in the aristocratic salons of Paris, later on among the libertines and finally in brothels where she ends up being a prostitute. In the meantime, French anatomists will have taken an interest in her unusual anatomy (enormous buttocks and labia) only to declare her the missing link from ape to man. In 1815, aged only 27, she dies alone, of a combination of pneumonia and venereal disease.
Drama / History / Foreign
- May 23, 2018
Problem Child 2 Blu-ray Movie
Universal Studios | 1991 | 91 min | Rated PG-13 | May 15, 2018 | Martin Liebman
Ben Healy and his son Junior Healy move from Cold River, Illinois to Mortville, Oregon, a quiet, peaceful community, apparently as a way to start their lives all over again.
Comedy / Family
La Chinoise Blu-ray Movie
Arrow Academy
Arrow | 1967 | 96 min | Rated BBFC: PG | Apr 23, 2018 | Jeffrey Kauffman
A small group of French students are studying Mao, trying to find out their position in the world and how to change the world to a Maoistic community using terrorism.
Drama / Dark humor / Foreign
Game Night Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + DVD + Digital Copy
Warner Bros. | 2018 | 100 min | Rated R | May 22, 2018 | Michael Reuben
A group of friends who meet regularly for game nights find themselves trying to solve a murder mystery.
Action / Comedy / Crime / Mystery
It's Alive III: Island of the Alive Blu-ray Movie
Shout Factory | 1987 | 95 min | Rated R | May 15, 2018 | Dr. Stephen Larson
The mutant babies have been placed by court order on a deserted island. Appalled by the cycnicism and exploitation of the children by the legal system and the media, the man responsible for them leads an expedition to the island to free them.
Horror