The multitude of secrets and strangeness of an enigmatic, but everywhere and known to all, figure of LA’s punk scene is explored in Dave Markey’s insanely engaging 2025 documentary, Secret Lives of Bill Bartell, now on Blu-ray from MVD Visual.
Author Archives: Bob Foster
She Shoots Straight [1990] [88 Films Blu-Ray]
A newly married police officer and her fellow cop-sisters-in-law take down a Vietnamese cartel in the explosive action flick She Shoots Straight, out now on Blu-Ray from 88 Films.
Force Five [1981] [MVD Rewind Blu-Ray]
An elite force of martial arts commandos is sent to rescue a Senator’s daughter, caught up with a cult, with its own martial arts commandos, in Robert Clouse’s 1981 punch-em-up Force: Five, now on Blu-Ray via MVD Rewind.
Iphigenia [1977] [Radiance Film LE Blu-Ray]
In Michael Cacoyannis’s 1977 fantastic Greek tragedy adaptation Iphigenia, King Agamemnon is left with an impossible choice: sacrifice his daughter or fail to fulfill his family/national obligations to retrieve his sister-in-law Helen from Troy. Now on Blu-ray from Radiance Films.
Lookin’ Italian [1994] [Severin Films]
A reformed mafioso has to try to keep his wayward nephew, pre-Friends Matt LeBlanc, out of trouble in Guy Magar’s 1994 drama Lookin’ Italian.
Westworld [1973] [Arrow LE 4K UHD & Blu-Ray]
The wonders of a special amusement park where one can let out their wildest dreams of the Wild West go astray when a technical malfunction leads to murders in the original 1973 Westworld, written and directed by Michael Crichton. Now on a new 4k UHD/Blu-ray from Arrow Video.
Excalibur [1981] [Arrow 4k UHD/Blu-Ray]
Arrow gives John Boorman’s 1981 Arthurian epic Excalibur a Holy Grail for physical media collectors in a gorgeous new 4kUHD/Blu-Ray (you can finally SEE what happens!), bursting at the seams with 17 hours of material.