New Blu-ray Reviews
Home- July 28, 2018
Taking Care of Business Blu-ray Movie
Kino Lorber | 1990 | 108 min | Rated R | Jul 31, 2018 | Brian Orndorf
Jimmy Dworski is a criminal serving the last 48 hours of a jail sentence. He wins a couple of baseball tickets by calling a radio quiz show. With help of other inmates, he escapes to go watch the game. When by chance he finds the Filofax of executive Spencer Barns who loses it while traveling on a business weekend. Jimmy finds cash, credit cards and the key to a big mansion. He jumps on the opportunity and starts posing as Barns. While the real Barnes is trying to find his Filofax he gets in all sorts of trouble. How will things turn out when the two finally meet?
Comedy / Sport
- July 27, 2018
Graduation Blu-ray Movie
Bacalaureat
Criterion | 2016 | 128 min | Rated R | May 22, 2018 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
Left only with a dented idealism, his weathered self-esteem and a dead-end relationship with his melancholic wife, Dr. Romeo Aldea is a caring father of good intentions who is determined to see his only daughter succeed and leave once and for all from their bleak town.
Drama / Foreign
- July 26, 2018
Firestarter Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + DVD
Plan B Entertainment | 1984 | 115 min | Rated BBFC: 15 | Jun 25, 2018 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
A couple who participated in a potent medical experiment gain telekinetic ability and then have a child who is pyrokinetic.
Horror / Sci-Fi / Thriller
Breaking In Blu-ray Movie
Unrated Director's Cut / Blu-ray + DVD + Digital Copy
Universal Studios | 2018 | 1 Movie, 2 Cuts | 88 min | Unrated | Aug 07, 2018 | Martin Liebman
A woman fights to protect her family during a home invasion.
Thriller
Battle Girl High School Blu-ray Movie
バトルガール ハイスクール
Sentai Filmworks | 2017 | 300 min | Rated TV-14 | Jul 24, 2018 | Martin Liebman
No synopsis for this title.
Action / Anime / Sci-Fi / Foreign
Counterpart: The Complete First Season Blu-ray Movie
Lionsgate Films | 2018 | 547 min | Not rated | Jul 31, 2018 | Jeffrey Kauffman
A UN employee discovers the agency he works for is hiding a gateway to a parallel dimension.
Drama / Sci-Fi / Thriller
Overboard Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + DVD + Digital Copy
Lionsgate Films | 2018 | 112 min | Rated PG-13 | Jul 31, 2018 | Jeffrey Kauffman
A spoiled, wealthy yacht owner is thrown overboard and becomes the target of revenge from his mistreated employee. A remake of the 1987 comedy.
Comedy / Romance
Another WolfCop Blu-ray Movie
WolfCop II
RLJ Entertainment | 2017 | 79 min | Not rated | Jul 03, 2018 | Michael Reuben
Alcoholic werewolf cop Lou Garou springs into action when an eccentric businessman with evil intentions seduces Woodhaven's residents with a new brewery and hockey team in this outrageous horror-comedy sequel.
Comedy / Horror
- July 25, 2018
Ready Player One 4K Blu-ray Movie
4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray + Digital Copy
Warner Bros. | 2018 | 140 min | Rated PG-13 | Jul 24, 2018 | Martin Liebman
When the creator of a virtual reality world called the OASIS dies, he releases a video in which he challenges all OASIS users to find his Easter Egg, which will give the finder his fortune. Wade Watts finds the first clue and starts a race for the Egg, with the help (and sometimes competition) of his OASIS pals, Aech and Art3mis. They are opposed by ruthless corporate giant IOI, whose chief, Sorrento, will stop at nothing to capture control of the OASIS to exploit it for profit.
Action / Adventure / Sci-Fi
Black Panther 4K Blu-ray Movie
4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray + Digital Copy
Disney / Buena Vista | 2018 | 134 min | Rated PG-13 | May 15, 2018 | Martin Liebman
T'Challa, after the death of his father, the King of Wakanda, returns home to the isolated, technologically advanced African nation to succeed to the throne and take his rightful place as king.
Action / Adventure / Drama / Fantasy / Sci-Fi / Comic book
Sunset Society Blu-ray Movie
7" vinyl + / Blu-ray + DVD + CD
Cleopatra | 2018 | 89 min | Not rated | Jul 24, 2018 | Jeffrey Kauffman
Welcome to the world of the Sunset Society, a secret organization in Hollywood where parties are held, musicians gather and blood flows freely! Ace (Lemmy from "Motorhead") is the head vampire in charge who likes to keep the fun going while keeping the profile low. However, due to a few rebels in his midst, humans are starting to catch on to his vampire ways.
Horror
Beyond Re-Animator Blu-ray Movie
Lionsgate Films | 2003 | 96 min | Rated R | Jul 24, 2018 | Jeffrey Kauffman
The third RE-ANIMATOR film finds Dr. Herbert West (Jeffrey Combs) getting out of jail after fourteen years for inadvertently killing a young girl as a result of one of his experiments. During his time on the inside, West continued to perfect his methods on rats. When a young doctor who is aware of West's discoveries, becomes the new prison M.D., he asks West to help him on a project he is working on. Before long, dead bodies are being reanimated left and right, and the prison walls are running red with blood...!
Horror / Sci-Fi / Dark humor
Windrider Blu-ray Movie
MVD Rewind Collection
MVD Visual | 1986 | 92 min | Rated R | Jul 24, 2018 | Jeffrey Kauffman
Stewart ''P.C.'' Simpson lives in a magnificent beachfront home with his wealthy father and indulges his passion or windsurfing on a daily basis. His father may fault him for not working at a regular job, but he can appreciate his son's remarkable abilities on the waves. When P.C. meets a beautiful rock singer, a love affair begins. As the romance blooms, sport, friends and an upcoming championship become secondary. When several setbacks occur on the road to the competition, will P.C. wipeout completely, or sail to victory?
Drama / Romance
Supergirl Blu-ray Movie
Warner Bros. | 1984 | 125 min | Not rated | Jul 24, 2018 | Michael Reuben
When she loses her city's vital power supply, Kryptonian Kara follows it to Earth in the hopes of retrieving it. Although gifted with powers like her cousin Superman, Kara struggles to defeat the evil Selena, who now controls the mighty object. To fit into her new surroundings, Kara disguises herself as high school student Linda Lee and says that she's Clark Kent's cousin.
Action / Adventure / Fantasy / Romance / Sci-Fi / Comic book
- July 24, 2018
Howards End Blu-ray Movie
25th Anniversary | 4K Restoration Edition
Via Vision Entertainment | 1992 | 142 min | Rated ACB: G | Jul 04, 2018 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
Margaret Schlegel is a flighty yet compassionate middle-class intellectual whose friendship with the dying wife of rich capitalist Henry Wilcox commences an intricately woven tale of money, love, and death that encompasses the country's highest and lowest social echelons.
Drama / Romance / Melodrama / Period
Ready Player One 4K Blu-ray Movie
4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray + Digital Copy
Warner Bros. | 2018 | 140 min | Rated PG-13 | Jul 24, 2018 | Martin Liebman
When the creator of a virtual reality world called the OASIS dies, he releases a video in which he challenges all OASIS users to find his Easter Egg, which will give the finder his fortune. Wade Watts finds the first clue and starts a race for the Egg, with the help (and sometimes competition) of his OASIS pals, Aech and Art3mis. They are opposed by ruthless corporate giant IOI, whose chief, Sorrento, will stop at nothing to capture control of the OASIS to exploit it for profit.
Action / Adventure / Sci-Fi
Someone's Watching Me! Blu-ray Movie
High Rise
Shout Factory | 1978 | 1 Movie, 2 Cuts | 97 min | Not rated | Aug 07, 2018 | Dr. Stephen Larson
Lauren Hutton stars as stylish career girl Leigh Michaels, who lives in an ultra-modern, glassed-in high rise apartment. Leigh's relatively tranquil existence is shattered when she begins receiving disturbing phone calls -- and ostentatious gifts -- from a man living in the high-rise next to hers. Despite the increasingly threatening tone of her mystery caller, Leigh is unable to get any help from the police, simply because there's no real evidence that she's in danger.
Horror / Mystery / Thriller
Operation Red Sea Blu-ray Movie
红海行动 / Hong hai xing dong / Blu-ray + DVD
Well Go USA | 2018 | 139 min | Not rated | Jul 24, 2018 | Jeffrey Kauffman
Famed action director Dante Lam returns with this explosive follow-up to his 2016 box office smash OPERATION MEKONG. When a terrorist plot to obtain nuclear materials is hidden under the cover of a violent coup, only the Chinese Navy's elite Jiaolong Assault Team have the deadly skill and precision needed to take on the situation.
Action / Drama / War / Foreign
- July 23, 2018
The Navigator: A Medieval Odyssey Blu-ray Movie
Arrow | 1988 | 92 min | Not rated | Jul 24, 2018 | Jeffrey Kauffman
A young boy in 14th century Cumbria (north of England) keeps getting visions he cannot explain. His village has so far been spared from the black death, but the villagers fear its imminent arrival. With the boy as their guide, a group set out to dig a hole to the other side of the world, so as to fulfil the visions and save the village. At the 'other side' is 20th century New Zealand!
Action / Adventure / Drama / Fantasy / Mystery / Sci-Fi / Thriller / Foreign / Period
- July 22, 2018
A Matter of Life and Death Blu-ray Movie
Criterion | 1946 | 104 min | Rated PG | Jul 24, 2018 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
Returning home from a bombing mission over Germany, Royal Air Force squadron leader Peter Carter survives a jump from his burning plane without a parachute. Due to the incompetence of an angel, Carter escapes his appointment with death, which causes great consternation in Heaven. To further complicate matters, Carter falls helplessly in love with an American radio operator. Caught in the nether world between Earth and the next life, Carter must plead his case before a heavenly tribunal.
Drama / Fantasy / Romance / War