New Blu-ray Reviews

Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas 4K Blu-ray Movie  

Grinchmas Edition / 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray + UV Digital Copy

Universal Studios | 2000 | 105 min | Rated PG | Oct 17, 2017 | Martin Liebman

The curmudgeonly recluse Grinch, who hates Christmas, becomes annoyed with the out-of-control Christmas festivities in Whoville, the town lying below his cave dwelling on Mt. Crumpit. But after the Grinch conspires to deprive the Whos of their favorite holiday by sneaking into town on Christmas Eve to steal everything associated with the holiday, he learns that the spirit of Christmas goes much deeper than tinsel and toys.

Comedy / Family / Fantasy / Holiday

Acts of Vengeance Blu-ray Movie  

Blu-ray + UV Digital Copy

Lionsgate Films | 2017 | 86 min | Rated R | Nov 28, 2017 | Jeffrey Kauffman

A fast-talking lawyer transforms his body and takes a vow of silence, not to be broken until he finds out who killed his wife and daughter and has his revenge.

Action / Drama / Thriller

Sharknado 5: Global Swarming Blu-ray Movie  

Cinedigm | 2017 | 93 min | Not rated | Oct 03, 2017 | Martin Liebman

With much of the U.S. lying in ruins, the rest of the world braces for a global sharknado, Fin and his family must travel around the world to stop them.

Action / Comedy / Horror / Sci-Fi

Rememory Blu-ray Movie  

Blu-ray + UV Digital Copy

Lionsgate Films | 2017 | 111 min | Rated PG-13 | Nov 28, 2017 | Jeffrey Kauffman

Gordon Dunn, a famed scientific pioneer, is mysteriously found dead just after the unveiling of his newest work, a groundbreaking device able to extract, record and play a person's unfiltered memories. After his death, Gordon's reclusive wife, Carolyn, delves deeper into her own private world when a mysterious man shows up claiming to be from Gordon's past. With questionable motives he takes the machine and uses it to try and solve the mystery, beginning an investigation of memories that lead him down a path of guilt, grief, and betrayal to an unexpected answer.

Drama / Mystery / Sci-Fi

The Defiant Ones Blu-ray Movie  

Blu-ray + DVD

Universal Studios | 2017 | 261 min | Not rated | Nov 28, 2017 | Martin Liebman

The stories of Jimmy Iovine and Dr. Dre -- one the son of a Brooklyn longshoreman, the other straight out of Compton -- and their improbable partnership and surprising leading roles in a series of transformative events in contemporary culture.

Biography / Crime / Documentary

Funeral Parade of Roses Blu-ray Movie  

薔薇の葬列

Cinelicious Pics | 1969 | 105 min | Not rated | Nov 14, 2017 | Dr. Svet Atanasov

The trials and tribulations of Eddie and other transvestites in Japan.

Drama / Psychological thriller / Erotic / Foreign

The John Adams Edition Blu-ray Movie  

Blu-ray + CD

Berliner Philharmoniker Recordings | 2016-2017 | 296 min | Not rated | Nov 17, 2017 | Jeffrey Kauffman

No synopsis for this title.

Music

Code of Silence Blu-ray Movie  

Special Edition

Kino Lorber | 1985 | 101 min | Rated R | Dec 05, 2017 | Brian Orndorf

A Chicago cop is caught in the middle of a gang war and corruption in his own department.

Action / Crime / Thriller

The Indian Runner Blu-ray Movie  

Kino Lorber | 1991 | 127 min | Rated R | Oct 24, 2017 | Brian Orndorf

A Vietnam vet comes home to his small town and finds himself in conflict with rules that his brother has vowed to uphold.

Drama

Woodshock Blu-ray Movie  

Blu-ray + UV Digital Copy

Lionsgate Films | 2017 | 100 min | Rated R | Nov 28, 2017 | Jeffrey Kauffman

A woman falls deeper into paranoia after taking a deadly drug.

Drama / Thriller

The Ambassador Blu-ray Movie  

Kino Lorber | 1984 | 96 min | Rated R | Oct 03, 2017 | Brian Orndorf

An Amerian ambassador to Israel tries to bring peace to the Middle East, but his efforts are hampered when his wife has an affair with a PLO leader.

Drama / War

Father Goose Blu-ray Movie  

Signature Edition

Olive Films | 1964 | 117 min | Not rated | Nov 28, 2017 | Dr. Svet Atanasov

During WW2, a man persuaded to live on an isolated island and spot aircraft finds himself responsible for a teacher and several students, all female.

Adventure / Comedy / Romance / War

This World, Then the Fireworks Blu-ray Movie  

Kino Lorber | 1997 | 100 min | Rated R | Nov 14, 2017 | Brian Orndorf

Marty Lakewood is a reporter forced to leave Chicago and his family because he had uncovered too much police corruption. He returns to his small home town on the California coast to his ailing mother and prostitute sister, with whom he had an incestuous affair. Being short of money, he seduces a woman cop in order to sell her house.

Crime / Drama / Thriller

Annabelle: Creation Blu-ray Movie  

Blu-ray + DVD + UV Digital Copy

Warner Bros. | 2017 | 110 min | Rated R | Oct 24, 2017 | Jeffrey Kauffman

A dollmaker and his wife embed their daughter's spirit into a doll, only to realize it is a demon !

Horror / Thriller / Supernatural / Period

Jupiter Ascending 4K Blu-ray Movie  

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

Warner Bros. | 2015 | 128 min | Rated PG-13 | Oct 04, 2016 | Jeffrey Kauffman

A young woman discovers her destiny as an heiress of intergalactic nobility and must fight to protect the inhabitants of Earth from an ancient and destructive industry.

Action / Adventure / Fantasy / Romance / Sci-Fi

Julian Schnabel: A Private Portrait Blu-ray Movie  

Cohen Media Group | 2016 | 85 min | Not rated | Nov 07, 2017 | Jeffrey Kauffman

This documentary profiles painter and filmmaker Julian Schnabel, tracing his life from his upbringing in Brownsville, TX, to his reputation today as a widely acclaimed artist. The film includes footage from his archives, as well as interviews with Schnabel and his friends, family, and colleagues.

Documentary

Bat Pussy Blu-ray Movie  

bonus Robot Love Slaves

AGFA | 1973 | 2 Movies | 50 min | Rated X | Nov 21, 2017 | Jeffrey Kauffman

Bat Pussy, a female superhero, defends Gotham City from a middle-aged couple making a pornographic film.

Action / Comedy / Erotic / Comic book

Dawson City: Frozen Time Blu-ray Movie  

Kino Lorber | 2016 | 120 min | Not rated | Oct 31, 2017 | Brian Orndorf

This meditation on cinema’s past from Decasia director Bill Morrison pieces together the bizarre true history of a long-lost collection of 533 nitrate film prints from the early 1900s. Located just south of the Arctic Circle, Dawson City was settled in 1896 and became the center of the Canadian Gold Rush that brought 100,000 prospectors to the area. It was also the final stop for a distribution chain that sent prints and newsreels to the Yukon. The films were seldom, if ever, returned. The now-famous Dawson City Collection was uncovered in 1978 when a bulldozer working its way through a parking lot dug up a horde of film cans. Morrison draws on these permafrost-protected, rare silent films and newsreels, pairing them with archival footage, interviews, historical photographs, and an enigmatic score by Sigur Rós collaborator and composer Alex Somers. Dawson City: Frozen Time depicts the unique history of this Canadian Gold Rush town by chronicling the life cycle of a singular film collection through its exile, burial, rediscovery, and salvation.

Documentary / History

Center of My World Blu-ray Movie  

Die Mitte der Welt

Altered Innocence | 2016 | 115 min | Not rated | Oct 31, 2017 | Brian Orndorf

After a summer spent with his his best friend Kat to escape his family, Phil goes back to school and starts to question his feelings towards Nicholas, a new classmate.

Drama / Romance / Foreign

The Violent Years Blu-ray Movie  

AGFA | 1956 | 2 Movies | 65 min | Not rated | Nov 21, 2017 | Jeffrey Kauffman

Paula Parkins is the teenage daughter of wealthy parents whom don't seem to make time for her, so she looks for thrills as the leader of her all girl gang who steal, rob, and rape young men.

Crime / Film-Noir