New Blu-ray Reviews
Home- February 08, 2018
The Beast Must Die! Blu-ray Movie
Severin Films | 1974 | 93 min | Rated PG | Jan 16, 2018 | Jeffrey Kauffman
Tom Newcliffe, a rich businessman and expert hunter summons six guests to his huge country estate which he has rigged up with video cameras and a high-tech security system. He tells them and his surprised wife that they are all to stay over a weekend and that all of them will be kept on the estate during that weekend. For each guest, dead bodies have followed in their wake and the way that the dead have been murdered means that one of the guest is a werewolf and Tom has summoned his guests here to discover who it is and to hunt it down... The film has a clip at the beginning asking people in the audience to try to identify the werewolf and near the end there is a 30-second "Werewolf Break" for the audience to think over the evidence...
Horror / Mystery
The Vault of Amicus Blu-ray Movie
Severin Films | 2017 | 64 min | Not rated | Jan 16, 2018 | Jeffrey Kauffman
No synopsis for this title.
Documentary
Crossing the Bridge / Indian Summer Blu-ray Movie
Kino Lorber | 1992-1993 | 2 Movies | 201 min | Not rated | Feb 27, 2018 | Brian Orndorf
See individual titles for their synopses.
Comedy / Drama / Romance / Coming of age
Crossing the Bridge Blu-ray Movie
Kino Lorber | 1992 | 103 min | Rated R | No Release Date | Brian Orndorf
An off-screen narrator, Mort Golden, takes us back to winter around 1975, the year he was 21. He and his two buddies, Tim and Danny, have a fateful trip over the bridge from Detroit into Canada. The three of them are going nowhere in life, although Mort has thoughts of being a writer, while his mom wants him to go to college. He and his pals contemplate making a quick fortune transporting drugs over the border in their beat-up Buick, "the war wagon." Mort's also hopelessly in love with a girl he dated briefly a couple years before. With border inspectors, Tim's temper, and Danny's bottled up emotions, is there any way this can end well?
Comedy / Drama / Coming of age
Indian Summer Blu-ray Movie
Kino Lorber | 1993 | 98 min | Rated PG-13 | No Release Date | Brian Orndorf
A group of childhood friends, now in their thirties, reunite at Camp Tamakwa. Only a few of the original campers show up, but they still have a good time reminiscing. The people share experiences and grow while at the camp. They are dismayed to discover that the camp's owner, Unca Lou, is going to close the camp down.
Comedy / Drama / Romance
The Devil Within Her Blu-ray Movie
Sharon's Baby / I Don't Want to Be Born / It's Growing Inside Her
Scorpion Releasing | 1975 | 94 min | Rated R | Sep 08, 2017 | Brian Orndorf
There's something wrong with Lucy and Gino's little boy... born with what seems to be abnormal strength and an innate hatred of people, he appears to enjoy inflicting injury on others. Doctors are baffled, but a nun is convinced that the baby is possessed. Then events take such a murderous turn that few can afford to ignore the nun's warnings!
Horror
South Park: The Complete Sixth Season Blu-ray Movie
Paramount Pictures | 2002 | 375 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
- February 07, 2018
Daddy's Home 2 Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + DVD + UV Digital Copy
Paramount Pictures | 2017 | 100 min | Rated PG-13 | Feb 20, 2018 | Martin Liebman
Brad and Dusty must deal with their intrusive fathers during the holidays. A follow-up to the 2015 comedy "Daddy's Home."
Comedy / Family / Holiday
Daddy's Home 2 4K Blu-ray Movie
4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray + UV Digital Copy
Paramount Pictures | 2017 | 100 min | Rated PG-13 | Feb 20, 2018 | Martin Liebman
Brad and Dusty must deal with their intrusive fathers during the holidays. A follow-up to the 2015 comedy "Daddy's Home."
Comedy / Family / Holiday
- February 06, 2018
Belle Epoque Blu-ray Movie
Olive Films | 1992 | 110 min | Rated R | Jan 30, 2018 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
In 1931, a young soldier (Fernando) deserts from the army and falls into a country farm, where he is welcomed by the owner (Manolo) due to his political ideas. Manolo has four daughters (Rocio, Violeta, Clara and Luz). Fernando likes all of them and they like him, so he has to decide which one to love.
Comedy / Drama / Romance / Foreign
Hammer Horror: The Warner Bros. Years Blu-ray Movie
Limited Edition of 1000
Diabolique Films | 2017 | 101 min | Not rated | Feb 13, 2018 | Jeffrey Kauffman
The untold story of Hammer at Warner Bros, and the relationship that produced some of the British company's finest films.
Documentary
Extraordinary Mission Blu-ray Movie
Fei Fan Ren Wu / Lie Ying / 非凡任務
Crimson Forest Films | 2017 | 117 min | Not rated | Feb 06, 2018 | Jeffrey Kauffman
Police officer Lin Kai is assigned to be an undercover in a drug cartel.
Action / Crime / Thriller / Foreign
LBJ Blu-ray Movie
Sony Pictures | 2016 | 97 min | Rated R | Feb 06, 2018 | Martin Liebman
LBJ centers on the political upheaval that Vice President Johnson faced when he was thrust into the presidency at the hands of an assassin's bullet in November 1963. With political battles on both sides of the aisle, Johnson struggles to heal a nation and secure his presidency by passing Kennedy's historic Civil Rights Act.
Biography / Drama / History
- February 05, 2018
Reset Blu-ray Movie
Fatal Countdown: Reset / 逆时营救
Well Go USA | 2017 | 105 min | Not rated | Feb 06, 2018 | Jeffrey Kauffman
When her son is kidnapped, the inventor of a time machine teams up with multiple versions of her future self to rescue him.
Action / Sci-Fi / Thriller / Foreign
- February 04, 2018
Young Mr. Lincoln Blu-ray Movie
Criterion | 1939 | 100 min | Not rated | Jan 09, 2018 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
A fictionalized account of the early life of the American president as a young lawyer facing his greatest court case.
Biography / Drama
A Bad Moms Christmas Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + DVD + Digital Copy
Universal Studios | 2017 | 105 min | Rated R | Feb 06, 2018 | Martin Liebman
Amy, Carla and Kiki struggle to cope when their respective mothers visit for the holidays.
Comedy / Holiday
Earth: One Amazing Day 4K Blu-ray Movie
4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray
BBC | 2017 | 90 min | Rated TV-G | Jan 23, 2018 | Michael Reuben
From BBC Earth Films, the studio that brought you Earth, comes the sequel - Earth: One Amazing Day, an astonishing journey revealing the awesome power of the natural world. Over the course of one single day, we track the sun from the highest mountains to the remotest islands to exotic jungles. Breakthroughs in filmmaking technology bring you up close with a cast of unforgettable characters. Told with humour, intimacy and a jaw-dropping sense of cinematic splendour, Earth: One Amazing Day highlights how every day is filled with more wonders than you can possibly imagine- until now.
Documentary / Family / Nature
Day of the Dead: Bloodline Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + UV Digital Copy
Lionsgate Films | 2018 | 91 min | Rated R | Feb 06, 2018 | Jeffrey Kauffman
A small group of military personnel and survivalists dwell in an underground bunker as they seek to find a cure in a world overrun by zombies.
Action / Horror
Queen of the Desert Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + DVD
Shout Factory | 2015 | 128 min | Rated PG-13 | Sep 26, 2017 | Dr. Stephen Larson
A chronicle of Gertrude Bell's life, a traveler, writer, archaeologist, explorer, cartographer, and political attaché for the British Empire at the dawn of the twentieth century.
Biography / Drama / History / Romance
- February 03, 2018
House Blu-ray Movie
ハウス / Hausu | Masters of Cinema
Eureka Entertainment | 1977 | 88 min | Rated BBFC: 15 | Feb 12, 2018 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
A schoolgirl travels with six classmates to her ailing aunt's creaky country home and comes face-to-face with evil spirits, a demonic house cat, a bloodthirsty piano, and other ghoulish visions.
Fantasy / Horror / Dark humor / Supernatural / Foreign / Surreal