New Blu-ray Reviews
Home- January 28, 2018
Fugitive Girls Blu-ray Movie
Five Loose Women | Limited Edition to 2,500 | Sexploitation Signature Series
Vinegar Syndrome | 1974 | 96 min | Rated R | Jan 30, 2018 | Brian Orndorf
Five inmates break out of a women's prison. Four of them are hardened convicts, but one is a girl who was convicted for a crime she didn't commit. As the authorities chase them down, the cons terrorize or kill anyone who gets in their way.
Action / Adventure / Crime
- January 27, 2018
Jamón Jamón Blu-ray Movie
Olive Films | 1992 | 95 min | Not rated | Jan 30, 2018 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
Jose Luis is an executive at his parents' underwear factory, where his girlfriend Sylvia works on the shop floor. When Sylvia falls pregnant, Jose Luis promises her that he will marry her, most likely against the wishes of his parents. Jose Luis' mother is determined to break her son's engagement to a girl from a lower-class family, and hires Raul, a potential underwear model and would-be bullfighter, to seduce Sylvia.
Comedy / Drama / Romance / Foreign
Crooked House Blu-ray Movie
Sony Pictures | 2017 | 115 min | Rated PG-13 | Jan 16, 2018 | Martin Liebman
Based on the novel by Agatha Christie, private detective Charles Hayward is invited to solve a gruesome crime where nobody is above suspicion, including Sophia, his client and former lover.
Crime / Drama / Mystery / Period
The Sword and the Claw Blu-ray Movie
Kiliç Aslan
AGFA | 1975 | 2 Movies | 110 min | Not rated | Jan 23, 2018 | Jeffrey Kauffman
When the king is murdered, his baby son and heir is hidden in the forest, where he is abducted and raised by a pride of lions. As an adult, he uses his beastly strength and claw-like hands to take revenge against the new king and his armies.
Action / Adventure / Comedy / War / Foreign
- January 26, 2018
10 Cloverfield Lane 4K Blu-ray Movie
4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray + UV Digital Copy
Paramount Pictures | 2016 | 104 min | Rated PG-13 | Jan 23, 2018 | Martin Liebman
After a catastrophic car crash, a young woman wakes up in a survivalist’s underground bunker, where he claims to have saved her from an apocalyptic attack that has left the outside world uninhabitable.
Adventure / Horror / Mystery / Sci-Fi / Thriller
Pacific Rim 4K Blu-ray Movie
4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray + UV Digital Copy
Warner Bros. | 2013 | 131 min | Rated PG-13 | Oct 04, 2016 | Martin Liebman
As a war between humankind and monstrous sea creatures wages on, a former pilot and a trainee are paired up to drive a seemingly obsolete special weapon in a desperate effort to save the world from the apocalypse.
Action / Adventure / Sci-Fi
Attack of the Killer Tomatoes! Blu-ray Movie
MVD Rewind Collection / Blu-ray + DVD
MVD Visual | 1978 | 83 min | Rated PG | Jan 23, 2018 | Jeffrey Kauffman
A group of scientists band together to save the world from mutated tomatoes that KILL!
Comedy / Horror
- January 25, 2018
Eyes of Laura Mars Blu-ray Movie
Indicator Series | Limited Edition
Powerhouse Films | 1978 | 103 min | Rated BBFC: 15 | Nov 20, 2017 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
New York's most controversial fashion photographer develops a disturbing ability to see through the eyes of a killer with terrifying clarity.
Horror / Mystery / Thriller
Better Call Saul: Season Three Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + UV Digital Copy
Sony Pictures | 2017 | 498 min | Rated TV-14 | Jan 16, 2018 | Martin Liebman
In Better Call Saul Season 3, Jimmy McGill (Golden Globe nominee Bob Odenkirk) takes a decisive step in his transformation into Breaking Bad's infamous criminal lawyer, Saul Goodman. When Chuck (Michael McKean) begins a legal vendetta against his younger brother, he pushes Jimmy's faltering moral compass to the limit. How far will Jimmy go to defend his law practice - and his fledgling romance with Kim (Rhea Seehorn)? Meanwhile, Mike (Jonathan Banks) searches for a mysterious adversary, leading him deep into the enigmatic criminal world of Gus Fring (Giancarlo Esposito).
Comedy / Crime / Drama / Dark humor
Goodbye Christopher Robin Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + DVD + Digital Copy
20th Century Fox | 2017 | 107 min | Rated PG | Jan 23, 2018 | Jeffrey Kauffman
A behind-the-scenes look at the life of author A.A. Milne and the creation of the Winnie the Pooh stories inspired by his son C.R. Milne.
Biography / Drama / Family / History
Geostorm 3D Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray 3D + Blu-ray + 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
- January 24, 2018
Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid Blu-ray Movie
Universal Studios | 1982 | 89 min | Rated PG | Dec 26, 2017 | Jeffrey Kauffman
Parodies of the '40s hard boiled detective genre, with a very clever conceit: weaving the plot and production design around memorable movie clips (The Killers, The Big Sleep, Double Indemnity, The Lost Weekend, White Heat, This Gun for Hire, Sorry, Wrong Number, Notorious). Cool Rigby Reardon tries solving an incomprehensible mystery with the assistance of Humphrey Bogart, James Cagney, Burt Lancaster, Fred MacMurray, Ingrid Bergman, and Ray Milland, among others.
Comedy / Crime / Film-Noir / Mystery / Thriller
Chasing the Dragon Blu-ray Movie
追龍 / Chui Lung / Blu-ray + DVD
Well Go USA | 2017 | 129 min | Not rated | Jan 23, 2018 | Jeffrey Kauffman
An illegal immigrant from Mainland China sneaks into corrupt British-colonized Hong Kong in 1963, transforming himself into a ruthless and emerging drug lord.
Biography / Crime / History / Martial arts / Foreign
Sinbad of the Seven Seas Blu-ray Movie
Kino Lorber | 1989 | 93 min | Rated PG-13 | Feb 06, 2018 | Brian Orndorf
Sinbad and his crew leap to the aid of a young prince who must battle an evil wizard for the hand of a beautiful princess.
Action / Adventure / Fantasy / Sci-Fi
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