New Blu-ray Reviews
Home- April 30, 2016
Ran Blu-ray Movie
Version restaurée 4K
Studio Canal | 1985 | 160 min | Rated U Tous publics | Apr 12, 2016 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
Set in medieval Japan, an elderly warlord announces his intention to hand over his empire to his sons. A power struggle ensues between the heirs.
Action / Drama / War / Foreign / Epic / Period
Doris Day and Rock Hudson Romantic Comedy Collection Blu-ray Movie
Pillow Talk / Lover Come Back / Send Me No Flowers
Universal Studios | 1959-1964 | 3 Movies | 310 min | Not rated | Apr 19, 2016 | Jeffrey Kauffman
See individual titles for their synopses.
Comedy / Romance
Lover Come Back Blu-ray Movie
Universal Studios | 1961 | 107 min | Not rated | Apr 10, 2018 | Jeffrey Kauffman
A series of misunderstandings leaves an advertising executive with a campaign for a product which has not been invented yet while he romances his rival in the guise of its inventor.
Comedy / Romance
Send Me No Flowers Blu-ray Movie
Universal Studios | 1964 | 100 min | Not rated | Apr 10, 2018 | Jeffrey Kauffman
A hypochondriac thinks he's dying this time, and makes plans for his wife which she discovers and misunderstands.
Comedy / Romance
Desperate Hours Blu-ray Movie
La maison des otages
Carlotta Films | 1990 | 105 min | Not rated | Mar 09, 2016 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
An escaped con on the run from the law moves into a married couple's home and takes over their lives.
Crime / Drama / Thriller
- April 29, 2016
The Choice Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + DVD + UV Digital Copy
Lionsgate Films | 2016 | 111 min | Rated PG-13 | May 03, 2016 | Jeffrey Kauffman
Travis and Gabby first meet as neighbors in a small coastal town and wind up in a relationship that is tested by life's most defining events.
Drama / Romance
- April 28, 2016
The Revenant 4K Blu-ray Movie
4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray + UV Digital Copy
20th Century Fox | 2015 | 156 min | Rated R | Apr 19, 2016 | Jeffrey Kauffman
A man of many adventures, Hugh Glass goes West in 1822 in the employ of Captain Andrew Henry to do some profitable fur trapping. He is attacked by a bear, and badly injured. Miraculously, he survives, but the terrain makes it impossible to carry him back. Henry tries, but eventually hires two mercenaries to simply stand watch and bury him. They abandon Glass, alone and defenseless, but unfortunately for them, he recovers. He resolves to hunt down the men who abandoned him.
Adventure / Drama / Western / Period
In a Lonely Place Blu-ray Movie
Criterion | 1950 | 94 min | Not rated | May 10, 2016 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
A potentially violent screenwriter is a murder suspect until his lovely neighbor clears him.
Drama / Film-Noir / Mystery / Romance / Thriller
Mojin - The Lost Legend Blu-ray Movie
寻龙诀
Well Go USA | 2015 | 127 min | Not rated | May 03, 2016 | Jeffrey Kauffman
Based on the #1 Best-Selling Treasure Hunting Novel in China, MOJIN - THE LOST LEGEND brings to the screen an epic fantasy adventure about a trio of legendary grave robbers, the Mojin, who are enjoying the retired civilian life hawking goods on the mean streets of New York City, until they are propositioned by a shadowy and mysterious client. They accept the job and return to their roots, raiding the secrets and treasures of ancient tombs in China under the guise of an archaeology study.
Action / Adventure / Comedy / Fantasy / Romance / Thriller / Foreign / Period
- April 27, 2016
Where to Invade Next Blu-ray Movie
Starz / Anchor Bay | 2015 | 120 min | Rated R | May 10, 2016 | Martin Liebman
To learn what the USA can gain from other nations, Michael Moore playfully "invades" them to see what they have to offer.
Documentary
The 5th Wave Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + UV Digital Copy
Sony Pictures | 2016 | 112 min | Rated PG-13 | May 03, 2016 | Martin Liebman
16-year-old Cassie Sullivan tries to survive in a world devastated by the waves of an alien invasion that has already decimated the population and knocked mankind back to the Stone Age.
Adventure / Sci-Fi / Thriller / Teen
Son of Saul Blu-ray Movie
Saul fia / Blu-ray + UV Digital Copy
Sony Pictures | 2015 | 107 min | Rated R | Apr 26, 2016 | Martin Liebman
In the horror of 1944 Auschwitz concentration camp, prisoner sets out to give a child he mistook for his son a proper burial.
Drama / History / Thriller / Foreign
The Zero Boys Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + DVD
Arrow | 1986 | 89 min | Not rated | Apr 26, 2016 | Jeffrey Kauffman
Steve (Daniel Hirsch), Larry (Tom Shell), and Rip (Jared Moses) are part of a paintball team known as "The Zero Boys". After winning a paintball tournament, they decide to celebrate. When the trio and their girlfriends take a leisure trip into the mountains, they stumble upon the most gruesome massacre in history. Blood-chilling screams lead the group to a deserted cabin, where they gradually discover the horrors of the killings and the evil causing it. Now the Zero Boys, armed with real weapons of their own, must do what comes best - destroy the enemy. The Zero Boys is a low-budget 1986 (direct-to-video) action-horror B-movie, written and directed by Nico Mastorakis.
Action / Horror / Thriller
99 Homes Blu-ray Movie
Broad Green Pictures | 2014 | 112 min | Rated R | Feb 09, 2016 | Brian Orndorf
A father struggles to get back the home that his family was evicted from by working for the greedy real estate broker who's the source of his frustration.
Drama / Thriller
- April 26, 2016
The Vincent Price Collection III Blu-ray Movie
Master of the World / Tower of London / Diary of a Madman / Cry of the Banshee / An Evening of Edgar Allan Poe
Shout Factory | 1961-1970 | 5 Movies | 420 min | Not rated | Feb 16, 2016 | Jeffrey Kauffman
See Individual titles for their synopses.
Adventure / Drama / History / Horror / Mystery / Sci-Fi / Thriller / Period
Master of the World Blu-ray Movie
Shout Factory | 1961 | 102 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Jeffrey Kauffman
Nineteenth-century government agent Strock hires Prudent, a munitions maker and balloon enthusiast, to help investigate the source of a mysterious voice that emanated from Pennsylvania's Great Eyrie. With Prudent's daughter Dorothy and her fiancé Philip, the pair flies over the mountain, only to be shot down and taken captive by Robur. Using his colossal airship Albatross, Robur plans to end world warfare by decimating any country that refuses to lay down its arms.
Adventure / Sci-Fi
Tower of London Blu-ray Movie
Shout Factory | 1962 | 80 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Jeffrey Kauffman
On the death of his brother King Edward IV, Richard of Gloucester conspires to get the throne for himself. The late King had two young sons, his heir, Edward V and the younger Prince Richard, but they are not of age and so names his other brother, Clarence as Lord Protector of the Realm. Gloucester soon kills his younger brother but is haunted by his ghost and what he has done. As he continues to kill those around him, Gloucester is haunted by those he has betrayed hearing voices and slowly descending into madness. He spreads rumors that the late King's two sons are illegitimate and therefore not eligible to ascend to the throne. He assassinates the young princes and is crowned King Richard III. The ghosts from his past have the final say however...
Drama / History / Horror / Thriller
Diary of a Madman Blu-ray Movie
Shout Factory | 1963 | 96 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Jeffrey Kauffman
Simon Cordier is a well-respected magistrate who visits a condemned prisoner, Louis Girot, just before the man's execution. Girot again pleads his innocence insisting that he has been taken over by a spirit that forced him to commit his crimes. Cordier doesn't believe him and the man suddenly dies. Cordier does however note a rapid change in his personality during their short interview. In the following days, Cordier must face a number of strange occurrences in his home. He begins to wonder if he is sleepwalking but is soon hearing voices and begins to wonder about his sanity. It's recommended to him that he take up sculpting, something he once had an interest in. He develops a relationship with Odette, a gold digger married to a struggling artist, but the evil, invisible spirit soon drives him to murder.
Horror
Cry of the Banshee Blu-ray Movie
Shout Factory | 1970 | 91 min | Rated R | No Release Date | Jeffrey Kauffman
Vincent Price is diabolical, commanding and "as brutally horrific as ever" (Motion Picture Exhibitor) as a corrupt English magistrate who leads a crusade to rid the countryside of witches...but doesn't mind accosting a few innocent wenches on his way! Murder, torture and titillation are just a few methods of interrogation in this lurid "witchcraft shocker" that pits evil against more evil in a duel to the death!
Horror / Period
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Blu-ray Movie
Warner Archive Collection
Warner Bros. | 1966 | 131 min | Not rated | May 03, 2016 | Michael Reuben
Martha and her professor husband, George, invite a younger couple for drinks after a faculty party.
Drama