New Blu-ray Reviews
Home- August 22, 2017
Blackbeard's Ghost Blu-ray Movie
Disney / Buena Vista | 1968 | 107 min | Rated G | Jan 05, 2016 | Martin Liebman
Peter Ustinov stars as "Blackbeard" in this hilarious fantasy as the ghost of the legendary pirate Blackbeard. The once blackhearted scoundrel materializes in a small New England town, cursed to wander in limbo until he performs a good deed. He gets his chance when he decides to help a local college track team ... that hasn't a ghost of a chance of winning! Blackbeard finds himself full of team spirit, and dispensing his own brand of invisible coaching.
Comedy / Family / Fantasy
Sailor Moon R: The Movie Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + DVD
Viz Media | 1993 | 61 min | Rated TV-14 | Apr 18, 2017 | Martin Liebman
Long before Mamoru found his destiny with Usagi, he gave a single rose in thanks to a lonely boy who helped him recover from the crash that claimed his parents. This long-forgotten friend, Fiore, has been searching the galaxy for a flower worthy of that sweet gesture long ago. The mysterious flower he finds is beautiful, but has a dark side- it has the power to take over planets. To make matters worse, the strange plant is tied to an ominous new asteroid near Earth! Faced with an enemy blooming out of control, It’s up to Sailor Moon and the Sailor Guardians to band together, stop the impending destruction and save Mamoru!
Action / Anime / Comedy / Drama / Fantasy / Romance / Comic book / Foreign
The Love of a Woman Blu-ray Movie
L'amour d'une femme / Blu-ray + DVD
Arrow | 1953 | 104 min | Not rated | Aug 22, 2017 | Jeffrey Kauffman
Marie Prieur, a young doctor, decides to settle down on Ushant, a remote island belonging to Brittany. Little by little she manages to be accepted by the population. One day she meets André Lorenzi, a handsome engineer, and it is love at first sight. Life is wonderful for a while but André wants to marry her only if she remains at home. Despite her strong feelings for André, Marie refuses to give up her vocation and the two lovers part. Marie finds herself alone, with a broken heart.
Drama / Foreign
- August 21, 2017
The Stranger Blu-ray Movie
Olive Films | 1946 | 95 min | Not rated | Aug 29, 2017 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
Charles Rankin, a respected academic at a prominent Connecticut college seems to have the perfect life: a beautiful new wife; and a charming home in a small town that holds him in high esteem. Enter Mr. Wilson, a detective on the hunt for Nazi war criminal Franz Kindler. The appearance of Mr. Wilson threatens to reveal that underneath this idyllic veneer is a secret that could tear everything apart.
Crime / Drama / Film-Noir / Mystery
Whale Rider Blu-ray Movie
15th Anniversary Edition / Blu-ray + Digital Copy
Shout Factory | 2002 | 101 min | Rated PG-13 | Aug 22, 2017 | Dr. Stephen Larson
A contemporary story of love, rejection and triumph as a young Maori girl fights to fulfill a destiny her grandfather refuses to recognize.
Drama / Family / Coming of age
Boyka: Undisputed IV Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + UV Digital Copy
Universal Studios | 2016 | 90 min | Rated R | Aug 01, 2017 | Martin Liebman
In the fourth installment of the fighting franchise, Boyka is shooting for the big leagues when an accidental death in the ring makes him question everything he stands for.
Action / Martial arts
Tenement Blu-ray Movie
Game of Survival
Shriek Show | 1985 | 94 min | Not rated | Aug 08, 2017 | Brian Orndorf
A drug selling and violent street-gang terrorize the renters of a big trashy apartment-house.
Action / Crime / Horror / Thriller
Duel in the Sun Blu-ray Movie
Roadshow Edition
Kino Lorber | 1946 | 144 min | Not rated | Aug 15, 2017 | Brian Orndorf
When her father is hanged for shooting his wife and her lover, half-breed Pearl Chavez goes to live with distant relatives in Texas. Welcomed by Laura Belle and her elder lawyer son Jesse, she meets with hostility from the ranch-owner himself, wheelchair-bound Senator Jackson McCanles, and with lustful interest from womanizing, unruly younger son Lewt.
Drama / Romance / Western
- August 20, 2017
Mickey One Blu-ray Movie
Indicator Series | Limited Edition / Blu-ray + DVD
Powerhouse Films | 1965 | 93 min | Rated BBFC: 12 | Jul 24, 2017 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
Often described as a French New Wave film made in Hollywood, Arthur Penn's 1965 art movie enters the unsettlingly paranoid world of a nightclub comic on the run from the Mob. Having fooled around with the wrong blonde and gambled himself into an unpayable debt, an entertainer flees to Chicago, where he hides out and changes his name to Mickey One.
Crime / Drama
Kill Switch Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + UV Digital Copy
Lionsgate Films | 2017 | 91 min | Rated R | Aug 22, 2017 | Jeffrey Kauffman
In a future world, a physicist's experiment to harness unlimited energy goes wrong. Chased by drones and soldiers, Will Porter must race through an imploding world and retrieve the Redivider box to save his family…and all of humanity!
Sci-Fi
The Great Fire Blu-ray Movie
PBS | 2014 | 240 min | Not rated | Nov 03, 2015 | Martin Liebman
The Great Fire of London raged for four days in 1666, making over 70,000 of the city's 80,000 inhabitants homeless. From King Charles II and Samuel Pepys to Thomas Farriner, The King's Baker in whose premises the fire began, witness the chaos of a city imploding, and the fear and rumors of treachery that took hold.
Drama
- August 19, 2017
2017 NBA Champions Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + DVD
Team Marketing | 2017 | 54 min | Not rated | Aug 15, 2017 | Martin Liebman
Re-live the Warriors’ championship run from the first day of training through their historic win at the 2017 NBA Finals. This is the amazing, first-hand story of the 2016-17 Golden State Warriors and an unforgettable season to believe.
Sport
Déjà Vu Blu-ray Movie
Olive Films | 1985 | 95 min | Rated R | Jun 27, 2017 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
While researching the life of an actress who perished in a mysterious fire in the 1920s, Michael discovers that she bore an uncanny resemblance to his bride-to-be, Maggie. But his suspicions about the similarities can't prepare him for the truth when the spirit of the actress begins to possess Maggie in an attempt to bring the curtain down on those who caused her death!
Drama
Treasure Island Blu-ray Movie
65th Anniversary Edition
Disney / Buena Vista | 1950 | 96 min | Rated PG | Nov 10, 2015 | Martin Liebman
The treasure seeking adventures of young Jim Hawkins and pirate captain Long John Silver.
Adventure / Family
Experiment in Terror Blu-ray Movie
Indicator Series | Limited Edition / Blu-ray + DVD
Powerhouse Films | 1962 | 123 min | Rated BBFC: 12 | Apr 24, 2017 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
A woman is terrorized by a man with an asthmatic voice who plans to use her to steal $100,000 from the bank where she works.
Crime / Mystery / Thriller
- August 18, 2017
Black Sails: The Complete Fourth Season Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + UV Digital Copy
Lionsgate Films | 2017 | 596 min | Rated TV-MA | Aug 29, 2017 | Martin Liebman
Captain Flint and his pirates, twenty years prior to Robert Louis Stevenson's classic "Treasure Island".
Adventure / Drama / Period
The Taisho Trilogy: Three Films by Seijun Suzuki Blu-ray Movie
Zigeunerweisen / Kagero-za / Yumeji | Limited Edition / Blu-ray + DVD
Arrow | 1980-1991 | 3 Movies | 412 min | Not rated | Jul 04, 2017 | Jeffrey Kauffman
See individual titles for their synopses.
Drama / Fantasy / Horror / Mystery / Romance / Thriller / Foreign / Surreal
Zigeunerweisen Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + DVD + Digital Copy
Arrow | 1980 | 144 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Jeffrey Kauffman
In a seaside village of Japan during the 1920s, married professor Aochi (Toshiya Fujita) meets up with old friend Nakasono (Yoshio Harada), who's now a drifter accused of murder. Aochi manages to fight off the suspicion surrounding his buddy, but complications arise when they meet bereaved geisha Koine (Naoko Otani). Nakasono is immediately smitten. Aochi is attracted, but wants to stay faithful to his wife. Yet, over time, the mind games between all three escalate in a violently sexual way.
Horror / Mystery / Foreign
Kagero-za Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + DVD + Digital Copy
Arrow | 1981 | 140 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Jeffrey Kauffman
The inner workings of the human psyche are featured in this study of relationships between different leading characters. The action weaves around playwright Matsuzaki (Yusaku Matsuda) -- who is sleeping with Shinako (Michio Okusu), a married woman -- and his other "lover," Ine (Eriko Kasuda), a fairly corporeal spirit. The film is set in 1926, when cinema was silent -- and that era is evoked in Kagero-za.
Fantasy / Romance / Thriller / Foreign
Yumeji Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + DVD + Digital Copy
Arrow | 1991 | 128 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Jeffrey Kauffman
The life of Japanese artist and poet Yumeji Takehisa.
Drama / Foreign / Surreal