New Blu-ray Reviews

The Reckoning Blu-ray Movie    

Indicator Series | Limited Edition / Blu-ray + DVD

Powerhouse Films | 1969 | 111 min | Rated BBFC: 12 | Aug 28, 2017 | Dr. Svet Atanasov

Michael Marler, a successful business man in London, is about to make his way to the top. The death of his father brings him - after 37 years - back to his hometown Liverpool, where he is confronted with his lost Irish roots. He finds out that his father died because of a fight with some anglo-saxon teddy boys. It becomes "a matter of honour" for him, to take his revenge without involving the British police.

Drama

Children of the Corn Blu-ray Movie  

Remastered

Arrow | 1984 | 92 min | Rated R | Oct 03, 2017 | Jeffrey Kauffman

A young couple is trapped in a remote town where a dangerous religious cult of children believe everyone over the age of 18 must be killed.

Horror / Thriller

Orgy of the Dead Blu-ray Movie  

Blu-ray + DVD

Vinegar Syndrome | 1965 | 91 min | Rated R | Sep 26, 2017 | Brian Orndorf

John and his girlfriend Shirley go in search of a cemetary in order to inspire John for writing his next horror story. After they crash the car, they wander into the graveyard and encounter the dancing dead, a full moon spectacle overseen by the Ruler of the Dark. Before long the couple is spotted and taken prisoner. Tied to stakes and forced to watch the dancing, they await their fate.

Fantasy / Horror / Erotic

Funny Bones Blu-ray Movie  

Kino Lorber | 1995 | 128 min | Rated R | Sep 19, 2017 | Brian Orndorf

Tommy Fawkes wants to be a successful comedian but his Las Vegas debut is a failure. He goes back to Blackpool, UK, where his father, also a comedian started and where he spent the summers of his childhood. He starts to search for a partner, a comic relief, with whom he can be famous.

Comedy / Drama

Festival Blu-ray Movie  

Criterion | 1967 | 98 min | Not rated | Sep 12, 2017 | Dr. Svet Atanasov

Before Woodstock, there was the Newport Folk Festival, which was established in 1959 as a counterpart to the local jazz festival. This documentary focuses on some of the festival's most memorable and influential years — 1963 through 1966 — and the footage captures performances from the likes of Joan Baez, Johnny Cash, Bob Dylan, and Pete Seeger, among others. The artists also ruminate on the roots of their sound and the enduring appeal, and importance, of folk music.

Documentary / Music

The Rolling Stones: From the Vault - Sticky Fingers Live at the Fonda Theatre Blu-ray Movie  

Blu-ray + CD

Eagle Rock Entertainment | 2015 | 87 min | Not rated | Sep 29, 2017 | Jeffrey Kauffman

No synopsis for this title.

Music

47 Meters Down Blu-ray Movie  

Blu-ray + DVD + UV Digital Copy

Lionsgate Films | 2017 | 89 min | Rated PG-13 | Sep 26, 2017 | Jeffrey Kauffman

Two sisters on Mexican vacation are trapped in a shark observation cage at the bottom of the ocean, with oxygen running low and great whites circling nearby, they have less than an hour of air left to figure out how to get to the surface.

Adventure / Drama / Horror / Thriller / Foreign

Slack Bay Blu-ray Movie  

Ma Loute

Kino Lorber | 2016 | 122 min | Not rated | Sep 12, 2017 | Brian Orndorf

Summer 1910. Several tourists have vanished while relaxing on the beautiful beaches of the Channel Coast. Infamous inspectors Machin and Malfoy soon gather that the epicenter of these mysterious disappearances must be Slack Bay, a unique site where the Slack river and the sea join only at high tide. There lives a small community of fishermen and other oyster farmers. Among them evolves a curious family, the Bréfort, renowned ferrymen of the Slack Bay, lead by the father nick-named "The Eternal", who rules as best as he can on his prankster bunch of sons, especially the impetuous Ma Loute, aged 18. Towering high above the bay stands the Van Peteghems' mansion. Every summer, this bourgeois family - all degenerate and decadent from inbreeding - stagnates in the villa, not without mingling during their leisure hours of walking, sailing or bathing, with the ordinary local people, Ma Loute and the other Bréforts. Over the course of five days, as starts a peculiar love story between Ma Loute...

Comedy / Dark humor / Foreign

Anthropophagous Blu-ray Movie    

Remastered Special Edition | The Italian Collection #07

88 Films | 1980 | 92 min | Rated BBFC: 18 | Aug 07, 2017 | Dr. Svet Atanasov

Tourists take a boat to a remote island, where they find that most of the people have disappeared, and something is stalking them. They find a hidden room in the big mansion on a hill, and an ancient diary, which gives them clues to the source of the terror - the Anthropophagus Beast...

Horror / Foreign

Close Encounters of the Third Kind 4K Blu-ray Movie  

40th Anniversary Edition / 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray + UV Digital Copy

Sony Pictures | 1977 | 1 Movie, 3 Cuts | 137 min | Rated PG | Sep 19, 2017 | Martin Liebman

After an encounter with UFOs, line worker Roy Neary feels undeniably drawn to an isolated area in the wilderness where something spectacular is about to happen.

Adventure / Drama / Sci-Fi / Thriller

Close Encounters of the Third Kind 4K Blu-ray Movie  

40th Anniversary Edition | Gift Set / 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray + UV Digital Copy

Sony Pictures | 1977 | 1 Movie, 3 Cuts | 137 min | Rated PG | Sep 19, 2017 | Martin Liebman

After an encounter with UFOs, line worker Roy Neary feels undeniably drawn to an isolated area in the wilderness where something spectacular is about to happen.

Adventure / Drama / Sci-Fi / Thriller

Shameless: The Complete Seventh Season Blu-ray Movie  

Warner Bros. | 2016-2017 | 650 min | Rated TV-MA | Sep 26, 2017 | Jeffrey Kauffman

Meet the fabulously dysfunctional Gallagher family. Dad's a drunk, Mom split long ago, eldest daughter Fiona tries to hold the family together. Eldest son Philip (Lip) trades his physics tutoring skills for sexual favors from neighborhood girls. Middle son Ian is gay. Youngest daughter Debbie is stealing money from her UNICEF collection. Ten-year-old Carl is a budding sociopath and an arsonist, and toddler Liam is - well, he might actually be black, but nobody has a clue how.

Comedy / Drama / Dark humor

Trip with the Teacher Blu-ray Movie  

Blu-ray + DVD

Vinegar Syndrome | 1975 | 90 min | Rated R | Sep 26, 2017 | Brian Orndorf

A teacher and her class of female students take a class trip to the desert. Their bus breaks down, and they find themselves terrorized by a gang of psycho bikers.

Drama / Horror

Killer Barbys Blu-ray Movie  

Redemption | 1996 | 90 min | Not rated | Sep 26, 2017 | Brian Orndorf

While driving on tour late night through a lonely road in the countryside of Spain, the van of the punk band "Killer Barbys" has an accident and breaks down. A creepy old man invites the group to spend the night in the castle of Countess Von Fledermaus and presents himself as her secretary Arkan. Arkan explains that the mechanic is located 62 km far from the location and he tells that the Countess loves youths. Flavia, Rafa and Mario accept the invitation but Billy and Sharon stay shagging in the van. When the musicians meet the Countess, they find that she is the ancient artist Olga Luchan and they question how she could keep so young. But sooner they discover that the Countess needs blood of young people to keep her beauty.

Horror / Foreign

Don't Torture a Duckling Blu-ray Movie  

Non si sevizia un paperino / Blu-ray + DVD

Arrow | 1972 | 105 min | Not rated | Oct 03, 2017 | Jeffrey Kauffman

A reporter and a young woman try to solve a series of child killings in rural Italy.

Horror / Mystery / Thriller / Foreign

Lola Blu-ray Movie    

Vintage World Cinema

Studio Canal | 1981 | 113 min | Rated BBFC: 15 | Jul 03, 2017 | Dr. Svet Atanasov

Germany in the autumn of 1957: Lola, a seductive cabaret singer–prostitute, exults in her power as a tempter of men, but she wants more—money, property, and love. Pitting a corrupt building contractor against the new straight-arrow building commissioner, Lola launches an outrageous plan to elevate herself in a world where everything—and everyone—is for sale.

Drama / Romance / Foreign

Psychos in Love Blu-ray Movie  

Blu-ray + DVD

Vinegar Syndrome | 1987 | 86 min | Rated R | Sep 26, 2017 | Brian Orndorf

Joe (Carmine Capobianco) was a lonely psychotic killer. After all, it's tough to find the right woman when you re compelled to murder them after a few dates. When Kate (Debi Thibeault) walked into Joe's bar, she seemed perfect. She was gorgeous, she hated grapes. But each of them had a terrible secret: they were killers. Is that the kind of thing you can risk telling the one you love? They shared passion, they shared laughter, they shared a few little murders. But then they met Herman, a local plumber and part-time cannibal, and he wanted bodies. Kate and Joe are two young lovers just trying to make ends meet. And everyone they meet, meets the end pretty quickly. It s not Ozzie and Harriet, but it's Psychos in Love!

Comedy / Horror / Dark humor

Take the Money and Run Blu-ray Movie  

Kino Lorber | 1969 | 85 min | Rated PG | Oct 10, 2017 | Brian Orndorf

An incompetent criminal becomes the subject of a documentary.

Comedy / Crime / Heist

Suspect Blu-ray Movie  

30th Anniversary Edition

Mill Creek Entertainment | 1987 | 122 min | Rated R | Sep 12, 2017 | Martin Liebman

When a Supreme Court justice commits suicide and his secretary is found murdered, all signs point to Carl Anderson, a homeless veteran who's deaf and mute. But the public defender assigned to his case soon begins to believe Anderson may be innocent.

Crime / Drama / Thriller

Leonard Part 6 Blu-ray Movie  

Mill Creek Entertainment | 1987 | 85 min | Rated PG | Sep 12, 2017 | Martin Liebman

A secret agent is called out of retirement to save the world from an evil genius.

Action / Comedy / Sci-Fi