New Blu-ray Reviews

I, Daniel Blake Blu-ray Movie  

Criterion | 2016 | 100 min | Rated R | Jan 16, 2018 | Dr. Svet Atanasov

Daniel Blake is a 59-year-old widowed carpenter who must rely on welfare after a recent heart attack leaves him unable to work. Despite his doctor's diagnosis, British authorities deny Blake's benefits and tell him to return to his job. As Daniel navigates his way through an agonizing appeal process, he begins to develop a strong bond with a destitute, single mother who's struggling to take care of her two children.

Drama

The Soldier Blu-ray Movie  

Codename: The Soldier

Kino Lorber | 1982 | 88 min | Rated R | Mar 27, 2018 | Brian Orndorf

The Russians steal a nuclear device and are stating that unless the Israelis pull out from the West bank, they will detonate it, which they have planted in an oil field and if it should go off; 50% of the World's oil will be contaminated. And the Israelis are unwilling to cooperate and the Americans knowing that they can't allow this are making preparations to force the Israelis off the West bank. The President then calls the Director of the CIA to do something about this. The Director assigns the agent who works outside the official channels codenamed the Soldier. He starts by trying to see if the Russians are indeed behind it but the Russians have him marked for termination. When he tries to contact the Director, the Russians placed a bomb in his office that leaves the soldier with no one but his team and the Israelis to help him.

Action / Adventure / Thriller

The Divine Order Blu-ray Movie  

Die göttliche Ordnung

Zeitgeist Films | 2017 | 96 min | Not rated | Mar 20, 2018 | Brian Orndorf

In 1971, a young housewife organizes the women of her town to petition for the right to vote.

Comedy / Drama / History / Foreign / Period

The Moderns Blu-ray Movie  

Collector's Edition

Shout Factory | 1988 | 126 min | Rated R | Sep 19, 2017 | Dr. Stephen Larson

In the Roaring Twenties, aspiring painter Nick Hart (Keith Carradine), a U.S. expat who has decamped to Paris, tries to scrape together a living. He has a talent for reproductions but his own work is not selling well, so he takes a job forging famous paintings for rich art patron Nathalie de Ville (Geraldine Chaplin). However, things get awkward when Hart's ex-wife, Rachel (Linda Fiorentino), shows up with her new husband, Bertram Stone (John Lone), who attempts to buy the counterfeits.

Comedy / Drama / Romance / Period

Jean-Luc Godard + Jean-Pierre Gorin: Five Films, 1968-1971 Blu-ray Movie  

Un film comme les autres / British Sounds / Le vent d'est / Lotte in Italia / Vladimir et Rosa | Limited Edition / Blu-ray + DVD

Arrow | 1968-1971 | 5 Movies | 456 min | Not rated | Feb 27, 2018 | Jeffrey Kauffman

See individual titles for their synopses.

Documentary / Drama / Foreign

Un film comme les autres Blu-ray Movie  

A Film Like Any Other

Arrow | 1968 | 100 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Jeffrey Kauffman

Workers on a car factory argue with revolutionary students.

Drama / Foreign

British Sounds Blu-ray Movie  

See You at Mao

Arrow | 1969 | 54 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Jeffrey Kauffman

Filmed in the UK in 1969 by Godard and the Dziga Vertov Group, the film represents an analysis of the status of women in a capitalist society and speculates about class consciousness and the need for political organization.

Documentary

Le vent d'est Blu-ray Movie  

Wind from the East

Arrow | 1970 | 95 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Jeffrey Kauffman

Described by its creators as a Marxist Western; however it is more a film about the making of a film, mixing elements of fact with fiction, or recreation with documentary.

Drama / Foreign

Lotte in Italia Blu-ray Movie  

Struggle in Italy

Arrow | 1971 | 62 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Jeffrey Kauffman

A revolutionary Italian woman falls prey to bourgeois ideology.

Drama / Foreign

Vladimir et Rosa Blu-ray Movie  

Vladimir and Rosa

Arrow | 1971 | 103 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Jeffrey Kauffman

In Godard and Gorin's free interpretation of the Chicago Eight trial, Judge Hoffman becomes Judge Himmler (who doodles notes on Playboy centerfolds), the Chicago Eight become microcosms of French revolutionary society, and Godard and Gorin play Lenin and Karl Rosa, respectively, discussing politics and how to show them through the cinema.

Drama / Foreign

Basket Case Blu-ray Movie  

Limited Edition

Arrow | 1982 | 91 min | Not rated | Feb 27, 2018 | Jeffrey Kauffman

Duane Bradley always carries a wicker basket with him. It contains Belial, the mutant conjoined twin that was removed from Duane's side and left for dead when they were born. The two brothers are still connected telepathically, and have come to New York City to take revenge on the surgeons who separated them.

Comedy / Horror

Downsizing Blu-ray Movie  

Blu-ray + DVD + UV Digital Copy

Paramount Pictures | 2017 | 135 min | Rated R | Mar 20, 2018 | Martin Liebman

A social satire in which a guy realizes he would have a better life if he were to shrink himself.

Comedy / Drama / Sci-Fi

Downsizing 4K Blu-ray Movie  

4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray + UV Digital Copy

Paramount Pictures | 2017 | 135 min | Rated R | Mar 20, 2018 | Martin Liebman

A social satire in which a guy realizes he would have a better life if he were to shrink himself.

Comedy / Drama / Sci-Fi

Real Genius Blu-ray Movie  

Choice Collection

Sony Pictures | 1985 | 106 min | Rated PG | May 02, 2017 | Martin Liebman

Teenage geniuses deal with their abilities while developing a laser.

Comedy / Romance / Sci-Fi / Teen

Into the Badlands: The Complete Second Season Blu-ray Movie  

Blu-ray + UV Digital Copy

Lionsgate Films | 2017 | 448 min | Rated TV-MA | Mar 13, 2018 | Martin Liebman

A mighty warrior and a young boy search for enlightenment in a ruthless territory controlled by feudal barons.

Action / Adventure / Drama / Martial arts

South Park: The Complete Eleventh Season Blu-ray Movie  

Paramount Pictures | 2007 | 312 min | Not rated | Dec 19, 2017 | Martin Liebman

Misadventures of four irreverent grade-schoolers in the quiet, dysfunctional town of South Park, Colorado.

Animation / Comedy / Dark humor

Knightfall: Season One Blu-ray Movie  

Blu-ray + UV Digital Copy

Lionsgate Films | 2017 | 473 min | Rated TV-14 | Mar 13, 2018 | Jeffrey Kauffman

The Knights Templar were the most powerful, wealthy and mysterious military order of the Middle Ages, entrusted with protecting Christianity’s most prized relic—the Holy Grail—and harboring secrets capable of great destruction. KNIGHTFALL goes deep into the clandestine world of this legendary brotherhood of warrior monks. From their battles in the Holy Land, to their complex relationship with the King of France, to the betrayal that would ultimately lead to their tragic dissolution, the story of the Knights Templar has never been fully told until now.

Action / Adventure / Drama / History / Epic / Period

Faces Places Blu-ray Movie  

Visages villages

Cohen Media Group | 2017 | 89 min | Rated PG | Mar 06, 2018 | Jeffrey Kauffman

Director Agnès Varda and photographer and muralist JR journey through rural France and form an unlikely friendship.

Documentary / Foreign

Birdman of Alcatraz Blu-ray Movie  

Olive Films | 1962 | 147 min | Not rated | Feb 27, 2018 | Dr. Svet Atanasov

In 1912, the notorious and violent prisoner Robert Franklin Stroud is transferred to the Leavenworth Prison convicted for murdering a man. When a guard cancels the visit of his mother Elizabeth Stroud due to a violation of the internal rules, he stabs and kills the guard and goes to trial three times. He is sentenced to be executed by the gallows, but his mother appeals to President Woodrow Wilson that commutes his sentence to life imprisonment. However, the warden Harvey Shoemaker decides to keep Stroud in the solitary for the rest of his life. One day, Stroud finds a sparrow that has fallen from the nest on the yard and he raises the bird until it is strong enough to fly.

Biography / Drama

American Gothic Blu-ray Movie  

Shout Factory | 1988 | 89 min | Rated R | Dec 19, 2017 | Brian Orndorf

When six young friends fly off on a weekend getaway and suddenly find themselves with engine trouble, they have no choice but to land on a remote American island. Looking for shelter, they are grateful when they meet Ma and Pa and their children - an eccentric family still living in the 1920s backwoods. But what begins as simple hospitality becomes a terrifying race for survival when one by one the friends start disappearing, dying horrible deaths. Fleeing the outside world many years ago, the family have created an island domain, where all strangers are sinners - and the killing has never stopped.

Horror