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  MVD Entertainment Group brings the 1977 Drive-In exploitation thriller COP KILLERS to Blu-ray in a nice sharp transfer with extras ported over from the 2006 Media Blasters DVD. From the folks who brought you FLESH GORDON, and featuring its star Jason Williams, this gritty flick follows two small-time drug smugglers looking to make one big score and retire, but a police ambush turns them into the titular wanted men as they dash to make the deal and get to the border in one piece. Get your copy now from Amazon at: https://amzn.to/4gH7wKY (As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.) Full review here:

  More martial arts mayhem from Eureka Entertainment with THE SWORD (1980), involving warring blade masters battling to be the best, with the prized being the titular cursed slicer! Get your copy now from Amazon at: https://amzn.to/49xV7GN (As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.) Full review here:

  A young Jackie Chan is featured in the 1973 Shaw Brothers erotic/comedic/dramatic/supernatural semi-anthology film FACETS OF LOVE, about the various goings-on over the years in a Chinese brothel. 88 Films' transfer is top-notch as usual, looking like the film was shot yesterday. Light extras, but nice to have a rarity like this in such a nice presentation. Get your copy now from Amazon at: https://amzn.to/40215MU (As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.) Full review here:

  Writer/Director/Star Jeff Daniel Phillips takes on a private eye job and finds himself CURSED IN BAJA (2024), a neo noir horror tale now on Blu-ray from Anchor Bay Entertainment. Get your copy now from Amazon at: https://amzn.to/3ZKkyQS (As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.) Full review here:

  From 88 Films comes the 1979 YOJIMBO-inspired martial arts ass-kicker THE KUNG FU INSTRUCTOR, with Ti Lung as a master of "Shaolin Pole" (ahem), who flees his village after the delicate balance between warring clans is upset, with the evil victors hot on his trail to learn his powerful technique. Another great transfer and killer Fu to be found in this one. Get your copy now from Amazon at: https://amzn.to/3ZsMhpm (As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.) Full review here:

Kit Parker Films and Sprocket Vault present CHARLEY CHASE AT HAL ROACH: THE LATE SILENTS: 1927, a 2-disc Blu-ray set that complies all surviving elements from the comedian's sort subjects from that year, featuring some familiar faces among the support players...Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Vernon Dent a pre-Our Gang Wheezer, and more. Fun stuff! Transfers vary in quality due to what was available, from razor sharp to dupey VHS, but most look great and present a moment when silent comedy was still thriving, along with some fun extras and running commentary for all Chase shorts. Get your copy now from Amazon at: https://amzn.to/4f8hW55 (As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.) Full review here:

  Eureka Entertainment brings Angela Mao's final film for Golden Harvest to Blu-ray, the ass-kicking, face-fisting, scorpion-tossing BROKEN OATH (1977), a Hong Kong remake of Japan's LADY SNOWBLOOD, in which Mao seeks revenge on those who brought her parents to a dark fate. Mao is outstanding in acting and action here, the transfer looks great, and a LOT of scorpions are flung. Get your copy now from Amazon at: https://amzn.to/4g80tuM (As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.) Full review here:

  MVD Entertainment Group brings (briefly infamous as the "Lowest Grossing Film Of All-Time") ZYZZYX ROAD (2006) to 4K UHD + Blu-ray, starring Katherine Heigl, Leo Grillo, and Tom Sizemore in a tale of deadly desert deviance just outside Las Vegas. Transfer looks great (apparently tweaked since its last disc release), and extras are fun and fascinating, digging deep into the film, its production and its brief infamy. Get your copy now from Amazon at: https://amzn.to/3D4qfSj (As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.) Full review here:

  Severin Films gives the world just what it needs in this moment of crisis...a 3-disc Blu-ray collection of some of Ed Wood's adult film work! HARD WOOD: THE ADULT FEATURES OF ED WOOD presents three films from the early 70s (plus a bonus Wood-penned film from 1963), starring such notables as Uschi Digard, Rene Bond, and John Holmes and their unique, talents, as well as the unique talents of writer and director Wood. It's early 70s smut with a touch of the bizarre, including a fistful of loops with subtitles written by Ed! Transfers are sharp and colorful and there are loads...of extras! Get your copy now from Amazon at: https://amzn.to/3D1D0Nc (As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.) Full review here:

  Hungry for apizza? You will be after watching Gorman Bechard's follow-up to his PIZZA: A LOVE STORY (2019) with the short documentary SLICE OF AMERICA: CHARRED IN THE FLORIDA SUN (2024), hitting DVD from What Were We Thinking Films, Inc.. New Haven pizza maven Colin Caplan travels to sunny Florida after hearing that New Haven-style apizza is being successfully served in an area not known for good pizza, and meets Fantini's New Haven Style Apizza owner Jimmy Fantin, and learns the story of how a former Frank Pepe Pizzeria Napoletana worker resurrected the skills he learned as a kid in Connecticut and brought a whole new taste to the Sunshine State. Super-fun short doc (and TV pilot) that will make you hungry for a slice, and for more adventures with Caplan and Bechard. Get your copy now from Amazon at: https://amzn.to/3DgWAVK (As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.) Full review here:

  Synapse Films brings THE BLOCK ISLAND SOUND (2020) to Blu-ray and 4K UHD this week in a sharp transfer with fun extras that illuminate this family affair helmed by The McManus Brothers and starring their sister, Michaela McManus. The story concern strange goings-on in a Massachusetts fishing town, with tons of fish washing up dead on shore, unexplainable phenomena on the water, and family members coming back from fishing expeditions not quite the same... Get your copy now from Amazon at: https://amzn.to/4ik20zC (As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.) Full review here:

  Anchor Bay Entertainment rises again with the disturbing puppet horror film ABRUPTIO (2023), featuring a voice cast including James Marsters, Sid Haig, Jordan Peele and Robert Englund. Unlike anything you've seen before, and well worth checking out. Get your copy now from Amazon at: https://amzn.to/4fLenD3 (As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.) Full review here:

  Arrow Video brings indie horror/sci-fi comedy THE LAST VIDEO STORE (2023) to Blu-ray in an extras-laded edition of this candy-colored ode to analog media and the days of 2-day rentals. Get your copy now from Amazon at: https://amzn.to/3ZbmBNP (As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.) Full review here:

  Radiance Films brings to Blu-ray the super-creepy DAIEI GOTHIC three-disc set, featuring a trio of unsettling Japanese ghost stories, including THE GHOST OF YOTSUYA (1959), THE SNOW WOMAN (1968) and THE BRIDE OF HADES (1968), all presented in gorgeous new transfers with illuminating extras exploring the films' creators and place in Japanese ghost story cinema history, as well as a hefty booklet. Great flicks to watch late at night in a dark, empty house. Get your copy now from Amazon at: https://amzn.to/3ViCosX (As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.) Full review here:

  Severin Films brings the French adult film Film Noir DON'T CHANGE HANDS (1975) to Blu-ray in a gorgeous transfer, with extras delving deeply into the filmmakers and cast behind this interestingly audacious attempt at a skin flick that's more class than crass. Get your copy now from Amazon at: https://amzn.to/3Ox4Ovk (As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.) Full review here: