New Blu-ray Reviews

Childhood's End Blu-ray Movie  

Blu-ray + UV Digital Copy

Universal Studios | 2015 | 246 min | Not rated | Mar 01, 2016 | Martin Liebman

After peaceful aliens invade earth, humanity finds itself living in a utopia under the indirect rule of the aliens, but does this utopia come at a price?

Drama / Sci-Fi / Thriller

Pigs Blu-ray Movie  

Blu-ray + DVD

Vinegar Syndrome | 1973 | 81 min | Rated R | Mar 29, 2016 | Brian Orndorf

Lynn Hart is a disturbed young woman who escapes from a mental hospital where she was committed for killing her abusive father who raped her. Stealing a nurse's uniform and car, Lynn ends up in a small California town where she meets and shacks up with Zambrini, an old farmer who runs the local motel and roadside café. Zambrini also owns a group of pigs that he keeps in a pen behind his house who have somehow developed a taste for human flesh. When Lynn begins killing a number of men who remind her of her dead father, Zambrini helps her out by disposing of the bodies to the pigs. Investigating the disappearances, the local sheriff eventually becomes suspicious of Lynn's past and a private investigator, hired by the hospital to find her, slowly close in on Lynn.

Horror

Blue Ice Blu-ray Movie  

Blu-ray + DVD

Vinegar Syndrome | 1985 | 86 min | Rated X | Mar 29, 2016 | Brian Orndorf

A private detective is hired to find an ancient book. What he doesn't know is that the book has the power to turn any woman into a nymphomaniac, and that a group of Nazi scientists--who fled to the US after World War II--also want the book, and will do anything to get it.

War / Erotic

The Beat That My Heart Skipped Blu-ray Movie    

De battre mon coeur s'est arrêté

Artificial Eye | 2005 | 107 min | Rated BBFC: 15 | Mar 14, 2016 | Dr. Svet Atanasov

Twenty-eight-year-old Tom leads a life that might be termed as criminal. In doing so, he follows in the footsteps of his father, who made his money from dirty, and sometimes brutal, real estate deals. Tom is a pretty hard-boiled guy but also strangely considerate as far as his father is concerned. Somehow he appears to have arrived at a critical juncture in his life when a chance encounter prompts him to take up the piano and become a concert pianist, like his mother. He senses that this might be his final opportunity to take back his life. His piano teacher is a Chinese piano virtuoso who has recently come to live in France. She doesn't speak a lick of French so music becomes the only language they have in common.

Action / Crime / Drama / Music / Romance / Thriller / Foreign

Ender's Game 4K Blu-ray Movie  

4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray + UV Digital Copy

Lionsgate Films | 2013 | 114 min | Rated PG-13 | Mar 01, 2016 | Jeffrey Kauffman

70 years after a horrific alien war, an unusually gifted child is sent to an advanced military school in space to prepare for a future invasion.

Action / Adventure / Sci-Fi

We Are Twisted F***ing Sister! Blu-ray Movie  

Music Box Films | 2016 | 134 min | Not rated | Feb 23, 2016 | Jeffrey Kauffman

In their club days, Twisted Sister were the Grand Funk of Glam and the NY Dolls of Metal, channeling savage energy and wild humor into a sort of blue collar performance art, as they fought to escape the velvet noose of suburban bar-band superstardom.

Documentary

No Man's Woman Blu-ray Movie  

Olive Films | 1955 | 70 min | Not rated | Oct 27, 2015 | Jeffrey Kauffman

The police have five suspects after a rich man's scheming wife is found slain in her art studio.

Crime / Film-Noir / Mystery

Bicycle Thieves Blu-ray Movie  

Ladri di biciclette

Criterion | 1948 | 89 min | Not rated | Mar 29, 2016 | Dr. Svet Atanasov

In poverty-stricken postwar Rome, a man is on his first day of a new job that offers hope of salvation for his desperate family when his bicycle, which he needs for work, is stolen. With his young son in tow, he sets off to track down the thief.

Drama / Foreign

Legend Blu-ray Movie  

Blu-ray + UV Digital Copy

Universal Studios | 2015 | 132 min | Rated R | Mar 01, 2016 | Martin Liebman

Identical twin gangsters Ronald and Reginald Kray terrorize London during the 1950s and 1960s.

Crime / Thriller

X-Men: Days of Future Past 4K Blu-ray Movie  

4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray + UV Digital Copy

20th Century Fox | 2014 | 131 min | Rated PG-13 | Mar 01, 2016 | Michael Reuben

The X-Men, including Wolverine, must set aside old rivalries and travel in time to change the past to avert a future crisis which threatens the mutant population and the world.

Action / Adventure / Fantasy / Sci-Fi / Comic book / Period

Mozambique Blu-ray Movie  

Blue Underground | 1964 | 100 min | Not rated | Mar 29, 2016 | Dr. Svet Atanasov

An out-of-work and penniless American pilot is offered work in Mozambique and promptly becomes an unwitting pawn in a world of drug smuggling, kidnapping and murder.

Action / Crime / Drama

Brooklyn Blu-ray Movie  

Blu-ray + UV Digital Copy

20th Century Fox | 2015 | 111 min | Rated PG-13 | Mar 15, 2016 | Jeffrey Kauffman

The profoundly moving story of Eilis Lacey, a young Irish immigrant navigating her way through 1950s Brooklyn. Lured by the promise of America, Eilis departs Ireland and the comfort of her mother’s home for the shores of New York City. The initial shackles of homesickness quickly diminish as a fresh romance sweeps Eilis into the intoxicating charm of love. But soon, her new vivacity is disrupted by her past, and Eilis must choose between two countries and the lives that exist within.

Drama / Romance / Period

The Expendables 3 4K Blu-ray Movie  

4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray + UV Digital Copy

Lionsgate Films | 2014 | 126 min | Rated PG-13 | Mar 01, 2016 | Jeffrey Kauffman

The Expendables come face-to-face with a ruthless arms trader who is making it his mission to kill them all.

Action / Adventure / Thriller

The Fall: Series 2 Blu-ray Movie  

Acorn Media | 2014 | 403 min | Not rated | Mar 01, 2016 | Michael Reuben

London-based detective Stella Gibson, working with the police in Belfast, continues the hunt for an elusive serial killer. Meanwhile, the killer, Paul Spector, attempts to manage the personal fallout from the events of the first series.

Crime / Drama / Thriller / Psychological thriller

Rocco and His Brothers Blu-ray Movie    

Rocco e i suoi fratelli / Masters of Cinema

Eureka Entertainment | 1960 | 178 min | Rated BBFC: 15 | Mar 14, 2016 | Dr. Svet Atanasov

Having recently been uprooted to Milan, Rocco and his four brothers each look for a new way in life when a prostitute comes between Rocco and his brother Simone.

Crime / Drama / Sport / Foreign

Coming Home Blu-ray Movie  

归来 / Gui Lai

Sony Pictures | 2014 | 109 min | Rated PG-13 | Mar 08, 2016 | Martin Liebman

Lu Yanshi and Feng Wanyu are a devoted couple forced to separate when Lu is arrested and sent to a labor camp as a political prisoner, just as his wife is injured in an accident. Released during the last days of the Cultural Revolution, he finally returns home only to find that his beloved wife has amnesia and remembers little of her past. Unable to recognize Lu, she patiently waits for her husband's return. A stranger alone in the heart of his broken family, Lu Yanshi determines to resurrect their past together and reawaken his wife's memory.

Drama / Romance / Foreign / Period

Gesualdo: Death for 5 Voices Blu-ray Movie  

Il Complesso Barocco; Gesualdo Consort of London, Werner Herzog

Arthaus Musik | 1995 | 60 min | Not rated | Feb 26, 2016 | Jeffrey Kauffman

Bearing all the hallmarks of filmmaker Werner Herzog's eccentric and original talent, this atmospheric documentary tells the chilling story of the sixteenth-century composer Don Carlo Gesualdo, Prince of Venosa, one embracing sexual excess, ghastly murder and obsession. Filmed on location in Italy, it explores both his musical legacy and the extraordinary influence his tormented life has continued to exert on some of those whose lives have crossed his path.

Music

Manhattan: Season Two Blu-ray Movie  

Blu-ray + UV Digital Copy

Lionsgate Films | 2015 | 492 min | Rated TV-14 | Mar 08, 2016 | Jeffrey Kauffman

Set against the backdrop of the greatest clandestine race against time in the history of science with the mission to build the world's first atomic bomb in Los Alamos, New Mexico. Flawed scientists and their families attempt to co-exist in a world where secrets and lies infiltrate every aspect of their lives.

Drama

Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine Blu-ray Movie  

Magnolia Pictures | 2015 | 128 min | Rated R | Mar 15, 2016 | Michael Reuben

This documentary portrait examines the founder and face of Apple Computer, seeking to unravel the mystery of Jobs's ability both to innovate and to create unparalleled loyalty among Apple's customers and fans.

Biography / Documentary

Sun, Sand and Sweat: 4-Movie Collection Blu-ray Movie  

Private Resort / Hardbodies / Spring Break / Perfect

Mill Creek Entertainment | 1983-1985 | 4 Movies | 392 min | Rated R | Mar 15, 2016 | Brian Orndorf

Adam Stern (Perry Lang) and Nelson Dalby, Jr. (David Knell) are naive college students who have come to Fort Lauderdale for Spring Break. Due to a mix-up at their motel, the boys end up in the same room with Stu (Paul Land) and O. T. (Steve Bassett), a pair of experienced guys from New York. Stu and O. T. coach the boys on the finer points of seduction—with mixed results—and all the guys band together to help the nice owner of their sleazy hotel; all the while, Nelson tries to outwit his stepfather, a politician who sends his campaign workers to track the boy down to rein him in and ruin Spring Break!

Comedy / Drama / Romance