New Blu-ray Reviews

Amagi Brilliant Park: Complete Collection Blu-ray Movie  

甘城ブリリアントパーク

Sentai Filmworks | 2014-2015 | 350 min | Rated TV-14 | Dec 17, 2024 (New Release) | Neil Lumbard

Amagi Brilliant Park’s mascots are ancient, its attractions are falling apart, and the rides are only thrilling because they’re deathtraps. Which, given that ABP’s secret purpose is to gather magic from attendees to keep the mythical creatures that run the park alive, is not good! With creditors about to foreclose and bulldozers lining up, the mythical residents’ last hope is student Seiya Kanie, who has the impossible task of bringing in 250,000 paying guests within three months! Fortunately, nothing’s completely impossible when you’ve got magic, scantily clad fairies, gun-toting sheep, and a PLAN to save Amagi Brilliant Park!

Anime / Comedy / Fantasy / Romance / Foreign

Attack on Titan: The Final Season - THE FINAL CHAPTERS - Part 3 Blu-ray Movie  

Limited Edition | 進撃の巨人 / Shingeki no Kyojin / Blu-ray + DVD

Crunchyroll, LLC | 2023 | 145 min | Rated TV-MA | Nov 26, 2024 | Neil Lumbard

Eren unleashes the rumbling with one desire in mind: destroy all enemies beyond Paradis. Standing against him is a band of misfits made of former enemies and allies. But no matter what they do to halt the destruction, Eren’s final act is preordained.

Action / Anime / Fantasy / Horror / Comic book / Foreign

Prey for Rock & Roll Blu-ray Movie  

Kino Lorber | 2003 | 104 min | Not rated | Nov 19, 2024 | Dr. Svet Atanasov

A journey of rock & roll legends to be... Jacki, Tracy, Faith and Sally are four struggling L.A. rockers who, after years of playing the Sunset Strip, are still waiting for their big break. Then they finally get the call. With the possibility of a record contract on the table, they quickly learn the price of fame and discover the hard truth about sex, drugs, and rock & roll.

Drama / Music

The Mean One Blu-ray Movie  

Cineverse | 2022 | 93 min | Unrated | Dec 17, 2024 (New Release) | Kenneth Brown

In a sleepy mountain town, a woman has her parents murdered and her Christmas stolen by a blood thirsty green figure in a red Santa suit. But when the ravenous creature begins to terrorize the town and threatens to ruin the holiday, she decides to trap and kill the monster.

Horror / Holiday

The Gingerdead Man Blu-ray Movie  

Full Moon Features | 2005 | 70 min | Not rated | Aug 13, 2024 | Kenneth Brown

Depending on one's point of view, Gary Busey either sinks or rises to new levels of crazed weirdness in this low-budget, gore-drenched Z-movie. Busey plays deranged murderer Millard Findlemeyer, who's sent to the electric chair by brave witness Sara Leigh after he murders her family. But his creepy, vengeful mother mixes his ashes into some homemade gingerbread mix, and when the mix winds up at the Leigh bakery, all it takes is a few drops of blood to trigger an ancient curse and bring Millard's soul to life in the form of an evil, homicidal pastry. Bloodshed ensues as Sara and her friends are forced to fight for their lives against this walking, talking, and stabbing (but oddly kind of adorable) gingerbread man.

Comedy / Horror

Bones and All 4K Blu-ray Movie  

4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray

Shout Factory | 2022 | 131 min | Rated R | Nov 26, 2024 | Dr. Stephen Larson

The story follows 16-year-old Maren Yearly on a cross-country as she searches through dark, unseen corners of America to find a father she's never met in an attempt to understand why she has killed a series of friends.

Drama / Horror / Romance

Legends of the Fall 4K Blu-ray Movie  

30th Anniversary / 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray + Digital Copy

Sony Pictures | 1994 | 133 min | Rated R | Dec 03, 2024 | Kenneth Brown

Tiring of the brutality of cavalry life, Colonel William Ludlow starts a new life with his family in the majestic mountains of Montana. While growing up, his three sons are inseparable, but as young men, passion, the butchery of WWI and personal tragedy intervene in their lives and shake the foundations of their family.

Drama / Romance / War / Western / Melodrama / Epic / Period

Mr. Lucky Blu-ray Movie  

Warner Archive Collection

Warner Bros. | 1943 | 100 min | Not rated | Dec 17, 2024 (New Release) | Randy Miller III

A gambler has plans to swindle money from a charity program, but starts to have second thoughts when he falls for a rich society girl.

Comedy / Romance

The Miracle Woman Blu-ray Movie  

Sony Pictures | 1931 | 90 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Kenneth Brown

Sister Fallon, a young woman with a gift for religious oratory, gains fame through the efforts of an unsavory promoter who stages phony "faith healings" during her services. At first seduced by the money, she soon grows weary of the deception and tries to escape the racket, a situation that becomes a genuine trial by fire. Loosely inspired by the famous California evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson and Sinclair Lewis's novel ELMER GANTRY, THE MIRACLE WOMAN was one of Capra's few box office failures for Columbia Pictures, but it remains a fascinating expose of religious charlatans and phony faith healers.

Drama / Romance

Forbidden Blu-ray Movie  

Sony Pictures | 1932 | 85 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Kenneth Brown

On an ocean voyage, Lulu, a thrill-seeking, small-town librarian, enters into a carefree affair with Bob Grover, a lawyer with major political ambitions. Even though she learns that Grover has an invalid wife and will never leave her, Lulu continues to carry on their affair in private, despite the fact that she now has an illegitimate child to consider. When a newspaper editor threatens to expose the couple publicly, tragedy ensues. Capra's attempt to create a popular "women's picture" in the style of a Fannie Hurst soap opera like BACK STREET is made credible by the strong performances of Barbara Stanwyck, Adolphe Menjou and Ralph Bellamy.

Drama / Romance

Below Blu-ray Movie  

Kino Lorber | 2002 | 105 min | Rated R | Dec 17, 2024 (New Release) | Dr. Svet Atanasov

In 1943, the crew of the U.S.S. Tiger Shark, an American submarine in the Atlantic, rescues three survivors of a British hospital ship that came under German attack. One of the survivors, a nurse, raises tensions among the all-male crew from the moment she steps aboard. Commanding Officer Lieutenant Brice does his best to keep the unruly crew in line, but after suffering damage from a barrage of Nazi depth charges a series of increasingly spooky occurrences begin to rattle everybody aboard.

Horror / Thriller / War / Supernatural

Below 4K Blu-ray Movie  

4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray

Kino Lorber | 2002 | 105 min | Not rated | Dec 17, 2024 (New Release) | Dr. Svet Atanasov

In 1943, the crew of the U.S.S. Tiger Shark, an American submarine in the Atlantic, rescues three survivors of a British hospital ship that came under German attack. One of the survivors, a nurse, raises tensions among the all-male crew from the moment she steps aboard. Commanding Officer Lieutenant Brice does his best to keep the unruly crew in line, but after suffering damage from a barrage of Nazi depth charges a series of increasingly spooky occurrences begin to rattle everybody aboard.

Horror / Thriller / War / Supernatural

Black Lizard Blu-ray Movie  

Hak sik yik / Hei xi yi / 黑蜥蜴

Shout Factory | 1981 | 86 min | No Release Date | Neil Lumbard

No synopsis for this title.

Action / Mystery

Transformers One 4K Blu-ray Movie  

4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray + Digital Copy

Paramount Pictures | 2024 | 104 min | Rated PG | Dec 17, 2024 (New Release) | Martin Liebman

The untold origin story of Optimus Prime and Megatron, better known as sworn enemies, but once were friends bonded like brothers who changed the fate of Cybertron forever.

Action / Adventure / Animation / Fantasy / Sci-Fi

Legend of the Fox Blu-ray Movie  

Fei hu wai zhuan / 飛狐外傳

Shout Factory | 1980 | 128 min | No Release Date | Neil Lumbard

Chin Siu Ho plays a young man who believes himself to be an orphan. Until one rainy night when he and three different men find themselves taking shelter from the storm in the same place.

Action / Drama / Foreign

ZAZ: The Collection! 4K Blu-ray Movie  

4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray + Digital Copy

Paramount Pictures | 1980-1988 | 3 Movies | 251 min | Rated PG | Nov 19, 2024 | Martin Liebman

See individual titles for their synopses.

Action / Comedy / Crime / Romance

Airplane! 4K Blu-ray Movie  

4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray

Paramount Pictures | 1980 | 88 min | Rated PG | No Release Date | Martin Liebman

An ex-fighter pilot must take the controls of an airliner when the flight crew succumbs to food poisoning. Surely you can't be serious?

Comedy / Romance

Top Secret! 4K Blu-ray Movie  

4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray

Paramount Pictures | 1984 | 90 min | Rated PG | No Release Date | Martin Liebman

Parody of WWII spy movies in which an American rock and roll singer becomes involved in a Resistance plot to rescue a scientist imprisoned in East Germany.

Action / Comedy

The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! 4K Blu-ray Movie  

4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray + Digital Copy

Paramount Pictures | 1988 | 84 min | Rated PG-13 | No Release Date | Martin Liebman

Incompetent cop Frank Drebin has to foil an attempt to assassinate Queen Elizabeth II.

Comedy / Crime

Two Champions of Shaolin Blu-ray Movie  

Shao Lin yu Wu Dang / 少林與武當

Shout Factory | 1980 | 106 min | No Release Date | Neil Lumbard

No synopsis for this title.

Action