New Blu-ray Reviews

Fifty Shades of Black Blu-ray Movie  

Blu-ray + UV Digital Copy

Universal Studios | 2016 | 92 min | Rated R | Apr 19, 2016 | Martin Liebman

A parody of Fifty Shades of Grey.

Comedy

Mystery Date Blu-ray Movie  

Olive Films | 1991 | 97 min | Rated PG-13 | Feb 16, 2016 | Dr. Svet Atanasov

Tom's in love with the cute house sitter next door. He's too shy but his older brother visits and helps Tom with the first date. Things don't go as planned.

Comedy

Veep: The Complete Fourth Season Blu-ray Movie  

Blu-ray + UV Digital Copy

HBO | 2015 | 281 min | Rated TV-MA | Apr 19, 2016 | Jeffrey Kauffman

Former Senator Selina Meyer has accepted the call to serve as Vice President of the United States. The job is nothing like she imagined and everything she was warned about. 'Veep' follows Meyer and her staff as they attempt to make their mark and leave a lasting legacy, without getting tripped up in the day-to-day political games that define Washington.

Comedy

Exposed Blu-ray Movie  

Blu-ray + UV Digital Copy

Lionsgate Films | 2016 | 93 min | Rated R | Mar 29, 2016 | Jeffrey Kauffman

After witnessing a miracle, a young Latina woman experiences strange things as a police detective searches for the truth behind his partner's death.

Crime / Drama / Mystery / Thriller

Losing Ground Blu-ray Movie  

Milestone | 1982 | 86 min | Not rated | Apr 05, 2016 | Michael Reuben

Sara Rogers, a professor of philosophy, is writing a dissertation on the nature of “ecstatic” experience in art and religion. Her husband, Victor, is a painter of abstract canvases who finds his eye drawn to people and landscapes. When the couple rents a country house for the summer, the intellectual and emotional boundaries defining their world begin to shift, as Victor turns to painting realistic pictures featuring a local girl, while Sara agrees to act in a film made by one of her students.

Comedy / Drama

Love Is a Verb Blu-ray Movie  

MPI Media Group | 2014 | 57 min | Not rated | Apr 19, 2016 | Michael Reuben

An examination of the global movement of progressive Muslims inspired by the teachings of Turkish preacher Fethullah Gulen.

Documentary

American Horror Project Vol. 1 Blu-ray Movie  

The Witch Who Came from the Sea / Malatesta’s Carnival of Blood / The Premonition / Blu-ray + DVD

Arrow | 1973-1976 | 3 Movies | 251 min | Rated R | Feb 23, 2016 | Jeffrey Kauffman

Everyone knows the classic American horror titles: Night of the Living Dead, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre and A Nightmare on Elm Street, to name but a few. But we want to tell you a different story: a story of the unsung heroes of stars-and-stripes terror, films that have remained on the fringes of the genre either through lack of availability or else sheer obscurity. This is where American Horror Project comes in. Volume One of this series presents three tales of violence and madness from the 1970s. Malatesta’s Carnival of Blood (Christopher Speeth, 1973) sees a family arrive at a creepy, dilapidated fairground in search of their missing son, only to find themselves at the mercy of the cannibalistic ghouls lurking beneath the park. Meanwhile, The Witch Who Came from the Sea (Matt Cimber, 1976), stars Millie Perkins (The Diary of Anne Frank) as a young woman whose bizarre and violent fantasies start to bleed into reality – literally. Lastly, every parent’s worst nightmare comes true in The Premonition (Robert Allen Schnitzer, 1976), a tale of psychic terror in which five-year-old Janie is snatched away by a strange woman claiming to be her long-lost mother.

Drama / Horror / Sci-Fi / Thriller / Psychological thriller / Surreal

The Witch Who Came from the Sea Blu-ray Movie  

Blu-ray + DVD

Arrow | 1976 | 88 min | Rated R | Feb 23, 2016 | Jeffrey Kauffman

A disturbed woman is haunted by memories of childhood abuse, which culminates in a murder spree.

Drama / Horror / Thriller / Psychological thriller

The Premonition Blu-ray Movie  

Arrow | 1976 | 94 min | Rated PG | Feb 23, 2016 | Jeffrey Kauffman

This Thriller/horror movie tells the tale of a young girl who is terrified that her insane mother will take her away from her beloved foster mother. One day, the crazed real mother attempts to contact the girl at school, but her foster mother has a premonition and gets there in time to protect the girl. Eventually though, the real mother and her boy friend, a carnival clown, succeed and takes her away, leaving the bereaved foster parents to enlist the assistance of a parapsychologist to help them interpret the foster mother's terrifying dreams and psychic connection to the girl and find her before it is too late.

Horror / Sci-Fi / Thriller / Psychological thriller

Malatesta's Carnival of Blood Blu-ray Movie  

Blu-ray + DVD

Arrow | 1973 | 74 min | Not rated | Feb 23, 2016 | Jeffrey Kauffman

The Norris family get jobs working at a seedy old carnival as a cover for searching for their missing son who disappeared after visiting said carnival. Eccentric manager Mr. Blood turns out to be a vampire while the evil owner Malatesta rules over a gaggle of ghastly ghouls who watch silent movies when they aren't feasting on human flesh.

Horror / Thriller / Psychological thriller / Surreal

The Lady in the Van Blu-ray Movie  

Sony Pictures | 2015 | 104 min | Rated PG-13 | Apr 19, 2016 | Martin Liebman

Alan Bennett’s big-screen comedic adaptation of his own memoir and stage play. Bennett’s story is based on the true story of Miss Shepherd, a woman of uncertain origins who “temporarily” parked her van in Bennett’s London driveway and proceeded to live there for 15 years. What begins as a begrudged favor becomes a relationship that will change both their lives.

Biography / Drama / Period

Jane Got a Gun Blu-ray Movie  

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Starz / Anchor Bay | 2015 | 98 min | Rated R | Apr 26, 2016 | Martin Liebman

After her outlaw husband returns home shot with eight bullets and barely alive, Jane reluctantly reaches out to an ex-lover who she hasn't seen in over ten years to help her defend her farm when the time comes that her husband's gang eventually tracks him down to finish the job.

Action / Drama / Western

The Naked Island Blu-ray Movie  

裸の島 / Hadaka no shima

Criterion | 1960 | 97 min | Not rated | May 17, 2016 | Dr. Svet Atanasov

The film depicts a small family, a husband and wife and two sons, struggling to get by on a tiny island in the Seto Inland Sea, over the course of a year. They are the island's only occupants, and survive by farming. They must repeatedly carry the water for their plants and themselves in a row boat from a neighboring island...

Drama / Foreign

Jackie Robinson Blu-ray Movie  

Ken Burns

PBS | 2016 | 228 min | Rated TV-PG | Apr 12, 2016 | Brian Orndorf

Jackie Robinson rose from humble origins to cross baseball's color line and become one of the most beloved men in America. Featuring intimate and revealing interviews with his family and rarely seen photographs and film footage.

Biography / Documentary / Sport

Ip Man 3 Blu-ray Movie  

Well Go USA | 2015 | 105 min | Rated PG-13 | Apr 19, 2016 | Jeffrey Kauffman

When a band of brutal gangsters led by a crooked property developer make a play to take over the city, Master Ip is forced to take a stand.

Action / Martial arts / Foreign

The Lady in the Car with Glasses and a Gun Blu-ray Movie  

Magnolia Pictures | 2015 | 95 min | Not rated | Apr 12, 2016 | Michael Reuben

A beautiful, perplexing and headstrong secretary struggles with her sanity when a last-minute work assignment and an impromptu trip to the seaside turn nightmarish.

Drama / Thriller / Psychological thriller / Foreign

Horse Money Blu-ray Movie    

Cavalo Dinheiro

Second Run | 2014 | 105 min | Rated BBFC: 12 | Mar 28, 2016 | Dr. Svet Atanasov

The time is now, a numbing and timeless present of hospital stays, bureaucratic questioning, and wandering through remembered spaces... and suddenly it is also then, the mid '70s and the time of Portugal's Carnation Revolution, when Ventura got into a knife fight with his friend Joaquim.

Drama / Foreign / Surreal

Shadows in an Empty Room Blu-ray Movie  

Blazing Magnum / Una Magnum Special per Tony Saitta

Kino Lorber | 1976 | 99 min | Rated R | Apr 12, 2016 | Brian Orndorf

An Ottawa police captain searches for the person who poisoned his sister, who was attending the university in Montreal. So desperate is he for revenge that he begin to use his own brutal methods to find the killer. Soon he discovers that not everything is what he thought it was.

Action / Crime / Drama / Mystery / Thriller

Heroes Reborn: Event Series Blu-ray Movie  

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Universal Studios | 2015-2016 | 556 min | Not rated | Apr 12, 2016 | Martin Liebman

Experience the epic 13-episode event series, Heroes Reborn, from Tim Kring, the creator of the global phenomenon, Heroes. Kring creates a wildly imaginative and thrilling new volume in the Heroes universe featuring a host of new characters with startling powers. After a massive terrorist attack in Odessa, Texas, evolved humans are blamed for the tragic event, forcing them into hiding or on the run from those seeking retribution. The conflict between humans and evolved humans - dubbed "Evos" - escalates into all out civil warfare. Timely, thought-provoking, and startling inventive, Heroes Reborn recaptures the magic of the original series and lays the foundation for the next volume in the Heroes mythology.

Fantasy

The Expanse: Season One Blu-ray Movie  

Blu-ray + UV Digital Copy

Universal Studios | 2015-2016 | 427 min | Not rated | Apr 05, 2016 | Martin Liebman

A police detective in the asteroid belt, the first officer of an interplanetary ice freighter and an earth-bound United Nations executive slowly discover a vast conspiracy that threatens the Earth's rebellious colony on the asteroid belt.

Drama / Mystery / Sci-Fi