New Blu-ray Reviews

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows Blu-ray Movie  

Blu-ray + DVD + UV Digital Copy

Paramount Pictures | 2016 | 112 min | Rated PG-13 | Sep 20, 2016 | Martin Liebman

The Turtles return to save the city from a dangerous threat.

Action / Adventure / Comedy / Fantasy / Sci-Fi / Martial arts / Comic book

All the Way Blu-ray Movie  

Blu-ray + UV Digital Copy

HBO | 2016 | 132 min | Rated TV-14 | Sep 06, 2016 | Jeffrey Kauffman

Lyndon Johnson becomes the President of the United States in the chaotic aftermath of JFK's assassination and spends his first year in office fighting to pass the Civil Rights Act.

Biography / Drama / History

Styx: Live at the Orleans Arena Las Vegas Blu-ray Movie  

Eagle Rock Entertainment | 2014 | 94 min | Not rated | Sep 02, 2016 | Jeffrey Kauffman

Filmed during the massively successful 2014 Soundtrack of Summer Tour, Live at The Orleans Arena Las Vegas features Styx performing a career-spanning set list before a highly energized crowd. Styx performs such classics as “Too Much Time On My Hands”, “Renegade” and “Blue Collar Man”, where they are joined by Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Don Felder.

Music

What Happened, Miss Simone? Blu-ray Movie  

Blu-ray + CD

Eagle Rock Entertainment | 2015 | 102 min | Not rated | Sep 02, 2016 | Jeffrey Kauffman

Classically trained pianist, dive-bar chanteuse, black power icon and legendary recording artist, Nina Simone lived a life of brutal honesty, musical genius and tortured melancholy. In this epic documentary, director Liz Garbus interweaves never-before-heard recordings and rare archival footage together with Nina’s most memorable songs, to create an unforgettable portrait of one of the least understood, yet most beloved, artists of our time. What happpened, Miss Simone? uses recently unearthed audiotapes, recorded over the course of three decades, of Nina telling her life story to various interviewers and would-be biographers. From over 100 hours of these recordings, the film weaves together Nina’s narrative, told largely in her own words. Rare concert footage and archival interviews, along with diaries, letters, interviews with Nina’s daughter, Lisa Simone Kelly, friends and collaborators, along with other exclusive materials, make this the most authentic, personal and unflinching telling of the extraordinary life of one of the 20th century’s greatest recording artists.

Biography / Documentary / Music

Symptoms Blu-ray Movie  

Mondo Macabro | 1974 | 91 min | Rated R | May 10, 2016 | Dr. Svet Atanasov

José Ramón Larraz's dark and stylish film tells of a young woman who is invited by her friend to stay at her remote English country mansion. Events take a disturbing turn when a menacing ground-keeper interrupts their time together, and a woman's body is found in the mansion's lake.

Horror / Thriller / Psychological thriller

Money Monster Blu-ray Movie  

Blu-ray + UV Digital Copy

Sony Pictures | 2016 | 99 min | Rated R | Sep 06, 2016 | Martin Liebman

Lee Gates is a bombastic TV personality whose popular financial network show has made him the money wiz of Wall Street. But after he hawks a high tech stock that mysteriously crashes, an irate investor takes Gates, his crew, and his ace producer Patty Fenn hostage live on air. Unfolding in real time, Gates and Fenn must find a way to keep themselves alive while simultaneously uncovering the truth behind a tangle of big money lies.

Crime / Drama / Thriller

Road House Blu-ray Movie  

Collector's Edition

Shout Factory | 1989 | 114 min | Rated R | Sep 06, 2016 | Jeffrey Kauffman

A cool-headed bouncer (with an NYU philosphy degree and a gift for martial arts) is hired to calm an extra-rowdy midwestern tavern. Along the way he falls in love with a beautiful doctor, and runs up against the local kingpin.

Action / Crime / Drama / Romance / Thriller

Destiny Blu-ray Movie  

Der müde Tod

Kino Lorber | 1921 | 98 min | Not rated | Aug 30, 2016 | Dr. Stephen Larson

As a young couple stops and rests in a small village inn, the man is abducted by Death and is sequestered behind a huge doorless, windowless wall. The woman finds a mystic entrance and is met by Death, who tells her three separate stories set in exotic locales, all involving circumstances similar to hers. In each story, a woman, trying to save her lover from his ultimate tragic fate, fails. The young lady realizes the meaning of the tales and takes the only step she can to reunite herself with her lover...

Fantasy / Mystery / Foreign / Surreal

The Commitments Blu-ray Movie  

25th Anniversary Edition

RLJ Entertainment | 1991 | 118 min | Rated R | Aug 30, 2016 | Michael Reuben

The travails of Jimmy Rabbitte to form the "World's Hardest Working Band," The Commitments, and bring soul music to the people of Dublin, Ireland.

Comedy / Drama / Music

Love & Friendship Blu-ray Movie  

Sony Pictures | 2016 | 93 min | Rated PG | Sep 06, 2016 | Martin Liebman

Lady Susan Vernon takes up temporary residence at her in-laws' estate and, while there, is determined to be a matchmaker for her daughter Frederica -- and herself too, naturally.

Comedy / Drama / Romance / Period

Hammer Films Double Feature: The Revenge of Frankenstein / The Curse of the Mummy's Tomb Blu-ray Movie  

Mill Creek Entertainment | 1958-1964 | 2 Movies | 171 min | Unrated | Sep 06, 2016 | Martin Liebman

The Revenge of Frankenstein (1958) Peter Cushing reprises his famous role as Baron Victor Frankenstein in this horror classic. Rescued from the guillotine by his devoted crippled assistant Fritz, the Baron relocates and becomes Dr. Stein. Under the guise of charity work, he continues his gruesome experiments, this time transplanting Fritz's brain into his latest creation: a normal, healthy body. The Curse of the Mummy's Tomb (1964) An American showman and financier disrupts the coffin of a mummified pharoah and finds it empty. The mummy has escaped to fulfill the dreadful prophesy and exact a violent and bloody revenge on all those who defiled his final resting place.

Horror / Sci-Fi / Thriller

The Revenge of Frankenstein Blu-ray Movie  

Mill Creek Entertainment | 1958 | 90 min | Unrated | No Release Date | Martin Liebman

Having escaped death by the guillotine, Dr. Frankenstein relocates to Carlsbruck. There, as Dr. Victor Stein, he successfully establishes himself as a physician with a large practice and a hospital for the poor. After three years however he is recognized by Dr. Hans Kleve but rather than expose him, the young doctor wants to join him in his research. Frankenstein has resumed his experiments and is on the verge of re-animating a body he has constructed using the brain of Fritz, the deformed assistant who helped him escape from his death sentence. The operation goes quite well and Fritz is quite pleased with his new body. An encounter with a drunken hospital attendant however sends him on the run. As his mind and his body deteriorates, he publicly reveals the good Doctor's true identity...

Horror / Sci-Fi

The Curse of the Mummy's Tomb Blu-ray Movie  

Mill Creek Entertainment | 1964 | 80 min | Unrated | No Release Date | Martin Liebman

When British archaeologists disturb the tomb of Ra, they have to deal with a curse that condemns anyone involved to death. The American showman who paid for the expedition, Alexander King, insists in taking the precious artifacts to London for an exhibition even though he could have left them for the local authorities who were prepared to pay a hefty price for them. As a result they not only have to face the curse but the wrath of Egyptians who have vowed have the precious find returned. When King finally has his first public showing, he finds that the sarcophagus is empty, the mummy having been taken or -more ominously- come to life to seek revenge...

Horror / Thriller

Equals Blu-ray Movie  

Blu-ray + UV Digital Copy

Lionsgate Films | 2015 | 101 min | Not rated | Sep 06, 2016 | Jeffrey Kauffman

A futuristic love story set in a world where emotions have been eradicated.

Drama / Romance / Sci-Fi

Supergirl: The Complete First Season Blu-ray Movie  

Blu-ray + UV Digital Copy

Warner Bros. | 2015-2016 | 877 min | Rated TV-PG | Aug 09, 2016 | Michael Reuben

Meet Kara Danvers, aka Kara Zor-El, who escaped the doomed planet Krypton at age 12 and was raised on Earth by her foster family, the Danverses. Years later, Kara lives in National City working for fierce taskmaster Cat Grant alongside her friends, IT technician Winslow "Winn" Schott and photographer James Olsen. But Kara's days of keeping her talents a secret are over when Hank Henshaw, head of a covert agency, enlists her to help protect the world from sinister threats.

Action / Drama / Sci-Fi / Comic book

Beyond the Valley of the Dolls Blu-ray Movie  

Criterion | 1970 | 109 min | Rated NC-17 | Sep 27, 2016 | Dr. Svet Atanasov

An all-girl rock band comes to Hollywood with the intentions of making it big. As they fall under the spell of a well-connected music producer and experience a world filled with sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll, they learn that fame and success comes at a price.

Comedy / Drama / Music / Erotic / Melodrama

Wild in the Streets Blu-ray Movie  

Olive Films | 1968 | 94 min | Rated R | Aug 16, 2016 | Dr. Svet Atanasov

A young man gains significant political influence as the leader of a counterculture rock band with his rallying cry of voting rights for teenagers.

Comedy / Drama / Music

Me Before You Blu-ray Movie  

Blu-ray + UV Digital Copy

Warner Bros. | 2016 | 110 min | Rated PG-13 | Aug 30, 2016 | Michael Reuben

A girl in a small English village forms an unlikely bond with a quadriplegic man for whom she is caring.

Drama / Romance

The Last Reef: Cities Beneath the Sea 4K + 3D Blu-ray Movie  

4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray 3D + Blu-ray + Digital Copy

Shout Factory | 2012 | 40 min | Not rated | Sep 13, 2016 | Jeffrey Kauffman

A global journey to explore the undeniable connection of our cities on land to the vibrant parallel world beneath the sea. Flying across iridescent tropical reefs, brushing through a cloud of a million jellyfish, and swimming along sub-arctic seawalls pulsating with anemones and crustaceans - and considering what it would mean if one of these wonderlands were to become the last reef.

Documentary / Short

The Last Reef: Cities Beneath the Sea Blu-ray Movie  

IMAX / Blu-ray + Digital Copy

Shout Factory | 2012 | 40 min | Not rated | Sep 13, 2016 | Jeffrey Kauffman

A global journey to explore the undeniable connection of our cities on land to the vibrant parallel world beneath the sea. Flying across iridescent tropical reefs, brushing through a cloud of a million jellyfish, and swimming along sub-arctic seawalls pulsating with anemones and crustaceans - and considering what it would mean if one of these wonderlands were to become the last reef.

Documentary / Short