Bird on a Wire seemed to have the ingredients for a fun action-comedy with the starpowers, especially for 1990, of both Mel Gibson and Goldie Hawn, however despite their individual charms they really didn’t share great chemistry.
Elvira’s Haunted Hills was the long-anticipated sequel to Elvira: Mistress of the Dark that saw the return of Cassandra Peterson returning to the role she has played, and still does, for so many years. The Blu-ray is released by Shout Factory and came out October 6th.
The Pursuit of D.B. Cooper is an exaggerated telling of the infamous skyjacking true story and stars Treat Williams in the titular role and Robert Duvall as the man in, well, pursuit.
Kung Fu: The Complete First Season arrives on Blu-ray and DVD from Warner Bros. Home Entertainment on November 2nd and stars Olivia Liang.
The Colony arrives on Blu-ray and DVD from Lionsgate. This science-fiction drama-thriller stars Nora Arnezeder, Iain Glen and Sarah-Sofie Boussnina.
Mad Love, starring Peter Lorre, Frances Drake, Colin Clive and Ted Healy, arrived on Blu-ray on October 19th from Warner Bros.’s Archive Collection and includes a new HD transfer and comes with an audio commentary and trailer.
Dinner at Eight comes to Blu-ray from the Warner Archive Collection and stars Marie Dressler, John Barrymore, Wallace Beery, Jean Harlow and Lionel Barrymore.
Children of the Damned debuts on Blu-ray courtesy of the Warner Archive Collection receiving a new video restoration and stars Ian Hendry, Alan Badel, Barbara Ferris and Alfred Burke. The Blu-ray was released on October 26th.
Needle in a Timestack is a sci-fi romantic drama featuring Leslie Odom Jr., Freida Pinto, Cynthia Erivo and Orlando Bloom. The Blu-ray and DVD was released on October 19th.
The Spider Woman Strikes Back is not a sequel to the Sherlock Holmes story but features the same actress in Gale Sondergaard credited as a different character. The Blu-ray from Kino Lorber comes out on November 2nd.
The Amazing Mr. X is a film noir thriller-horror that is in the public domain however gets a proper transfer versus poorly sourced releases in the past. The film stars Turhan Bey, Lynn Bari and Cathy O’Donnell.
The Suicide Squad might not hit the levels of something like Guardians of the Galaxy (still an MCU favorite of mine), but it does take the material in the right direction when compared with Ayer’s 2016 original with a better story and characterization.
Kull the Conqueror, originally conceived as a third Conan movie before Arnold Schwarzenegger passed on the role, stars Kevin Sorbo, Tia Carrere and Ian Thomas Griffith, arriving on Blu-ray from Mill Creek Entertainment.
The Protégé isn’t quite as good compared to Anna but I still was consistently entertained even with some of the flaws, which were overcome thanks to solid direction from Martin Campbell and a good core cast with Michael Keaton, Maggie Q and Samuel L. Jackson.
The Flash: The Complete Seventh Season arrives on Blu-ray and DVD October 12 from Warner Bros. and includes deleted scenes, two featurettes and a gag reel.