New Blu-ray Reviews
Home- January 24, 2018
The Cemetery Club Blu-ray Movie
Kino Lorber | 1993 | 106 min | Rated PG-13 | Jan 16, 2018 | Brian Orndorf
This comedy with much Jewish humor is about the widows Doris, Ester and Lucille, who's husbands died one after another in just a few years. The 3 friends in their 50s react quite differently on the deaths. But they make it a habit to meet every year at the graves of their husbands and talk about perspectives in their lives.
Comedy
- January 23, 2018
Pom Poko Blu-ray Movie
平成狸合戦ぽんぽこ / Heisei Tanuki Gassen Ponpoko / Blu-ray + DVD
Shout Factory | 1994 | 119 min | Rated PG | Feb 06, 2018 | Dr. Stephen Larson
Faced with the destruction of their habitat due to the growth of Tokyo, a group of tanuki try to defend their homes. They decide to use their transforming talents to try to hold back the new development. Two of them, especially skilled at transforming, are sent to Shikoku to enlist the help of three sages. Meanwhile, the rest of them do their best to disrupt the construction site, at first causing accidents, and then actually haunting the site. However, the humans are very persistent, and soon the tanuki are forced to use more and more extreme measures to save their home.
Adventure / Anime / Comedy / Drama / Family / Fantasy / Supernatural / Foreign
The Killing of a Sacred Deer Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + Digital Copy
Lionsgate Films | 2017 | 119 min | Rated R | Jan 23, 2018 | Jeffrey Kauffman
A teenager's attempts to bring a brilliant surgeon into his dysfunctional family takes an unexpected turn.
Drama / Horror / Mystery / Dark humor / Psychological thriller / Surreal
- January 22, 2018
Attack Force Z Blu-ray Movie
Ozploitation Classics
Umbrella Entertainment | 1981 | 90 min | Rated ACB: M | Nov 01, 2017 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
The elite volunteers of Attack Force Z are assigned the difficult and dangerous task of locating and recovering a defecting Japanese government official. Set in the Sambalang Straits in the South Pacific during World War II.
Action / Drama / History
Geostorm Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + DVD + Digital Copy
Warner Bros. | 2017 | 109 min | Rated PG-13 | Jan 23, 2018 | Michael Reuben
A temperamental engineer heads into space to prevent climate-controlling satellites from creating a storm of epic proportions.
Action / Sci-Fi / Thriller
The Mirror Crack'd Blu-ray Movie
Vintage Classics
Studio Canal | 1980 | 101 min | Rated BBFC: PG | Oct 23, 2017 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
Excitement runs high when the feuding film stars Marina Rudd and Lola Brewster arrive in the sleepy English village of St Mary Mead, ready to begin work on a movie about Elizabeth I and Lady Jane Grey. But the experience quickly turns sour when an innocent bystander drops dead at a party after drinking a poisoned cocktail. Everyone assumes the drink was intended for Marina, but local resident Miss Marple has her doubts and begins to investigate.
Crime / Mystery / Thriller / Period
Cloverfield 4K Blu-ray Movie
4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray + UV Digital Copy
Paramount Pictures | 2008 | 85 min | Rated PG-13 | Jan 23, 2018 | Martin Liebman
A group of friends venture deep into the streets of New York on a rescue mission during a rampaging monster attack.
Action / Horror / Mystery / Sci-Fi / Thriller
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire 4K Blu-ray Movie
4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray + UV Digital Copy
Warner Bros. | 2005 | 157 min | Rated PG-13 | Nov 07, 2017 | Martin Liebman
When Harry Potter's name emerges from the Goblet of Fire, he becomes a competitor in a grueling battle for glory among three wizarding schools - the Triwizard Tournament. But since Harry never submitted his name for the Tournament, who did? Now Harry must confront a deadly dragon, fierce water demons and an enchanted maze only to find himself in the cruel grasp of He Who Must Not Be Named. In this fourth film adaptation of J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter series, everything changes as Harry, Ron and Hermione leave childhood forever and take on challenges greater than anything they could have imagined.
Adventure / Family / Fantasy / Mystery / Epic
Beyond Skyline Blu-ray Movie
Vertical Entertainment | 2017 | 107 min | Rated R | Jan 16, 2018 | Jeffrey Kauffman
A tough-as-nails detective embarks on a relentless pursuit to free his son from a nightmarish alien warship.
Action / Adventure / Horror / Sci-Fi
Jigsaw 4K Blu-ray Movie
4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray + UV Digital Copy
Lionsgate Films | 2017 | 92 min | Rated R | Jan 23, 2018 | Jeffrey Kauffman
Bodies are turning up around the city, each having met a uniquely gruesome demise. As the investigation proceeds, evidence points to one man: John Kramer. But how can this be? The man known as Jigsaw has been dead for over a decade.
Horror / Thriller
Jigsaw Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + DVD + UV Digital Copy
Lionsgate Films | 2017 | 92 min | Rated R | Jan 23, 2018 | Jeffrey Kauffman
Bodies are turning up around the city, each having met a uniquely gruesome demise. As the investigation proceeds, evidence points to one man: John Kramer. But how can this be? The man known as Jigsaw has been dead for over a decade.
Horror / Thriller
- January 21, 2018
Borg vs McEnroe Blu-ray Movie
Borg McEnroe
Artificial Eye | 2017 | 108 min | Rated BBFC: 15 | Jan 22, 2018 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
The story of the 1980s tennis rivalry between the placid Björn Borg and the volatile John McEnroe.
Drama / Sport / Foreign
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban 4K Blu-ray Movie
4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray + UV Digital Copy
Warner Bros. | 2004 | 142 min | Rated PG | Nov 07, 2017 | Martin Liebman
Harry and his friends Ron and Hermione return for their third year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, where the teenagers are forced to face their darkest fears as they confront a dangerous escaped prisoner and the equally foreboding Dementors, who are sent there to protect them.
Adventure / Family / Fantasy / Mystery / Epic
Class of 1999 Blu-ray Movie
Lionsgate Films | 1990 | 96 min | Rated R | Jan 30, 2018 | Jeffrey Kauffman
The time is the future and youth gang violence is so high that the areas around some schools have become "free fire zones," into which not even the police will venture. When Miles Langford, the principal of Kennedy High School, decides to take his school back from the gangs, robotics specialist Dr. Robert Forrest provides "tactical education units." These human-like androids have been programmed to teach and are supplied with weapons to discipline problems. These kids will get a lesson... in staying alive!
Action / Horror / Sci-Fi
Angie Blu-ray Movie
Kino Lorber | 1994 | 107 min | Rated R | Feb 06, 2018 | Brian Orndorf
Two best friends, Angie and Tina, are young, working class women from Bensonhurst, Brooklyn. When Angie decides to have a baby without marrying the father, everyone in town has something to say about it.
Comedy / Drama / Romance
The Aviator Blu-ray Movie
Kino Lorber | 1985 | 96 min | Rated PG | Feb 06, 2018 | Brian Orndorf
Based on a novel by Ernest Gann and set in 1928, this movie features Christopher Reeve as Edgar Anscombe, a mail biplane pilot running a route between the states of Washington and Nevada, when he is obliged to accept Tillie Hansen as a passenger. After they take off, an accident occurs and although the dueling pair survive the crash, they are hard put to survive for long in the desolate mountains full of hungry wolves.
Adventure / Drama
Yor, the Hunter from the Future Blu-ray Movie
Il mondo di Yor
Mill Creek Entertainment | 1983 | 89 min | Rated PG | Jan 16, 2018 | Martin Liebman
Yor, an extremely blond prehistoric warrior, comes to question his origins, particularly with regard to a mysterious medallion he wears. When he learns of a desert goddess who supposedly wears the same medallion, Yor decides that he must find her and learn his true identity. Along the way, he encounters ape-men, dinosaurs, and a strange futuristic society.
Adventure / Drama / Fantasy / Sci-Fi / Foreign
- January 20, 2018
Death Laid an Egg Blu-ray Movie
La morte ha fatto l'uovo / Blu-ray + DVD
Cult Epics | 1968 | 86 min | Not rated | Nov 28, 2017 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
A love triangle develops between three people who run a high tech chicken farm. It involves Anna (who owns the farm), her husband Marco (who kills prostitutes in his spare time) and Gabriella (the very beautiful secretary). Marco continues to kill as jealousy becomes more prevalent on the farm.
Thriller / Foreign
The 3 Worlds of Gulliver Blu-ray Movie
Indicator Series / Blu-ray + DVD
Powerhouse Films | 1960 | 99 min | Rated BBFC: U | Oct 02, 2017 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
After being shipwrecked, a man finds himself on an island inhabited by tiny people, who soon make plans for him.
Adventure / Family / Fantasy
Thank You for Your Service Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + DVD + Digital Copy
Universal Studios | 2017 | 109 min | Rated R | Jan 23, 2018 | Martin Liebman
A look at how Post Traumatic Stress Disorder affects American servicemen and women returning home from war.
Biography / Drama / War