New Blu-ray Reviews

Taxi Blu-ray Movie  

Kino Lorber | 2015 | 81 min | Not rated | Mar 01, 2016 | Brian Orndorf

A day with a taxi driver in Teheran. A yellow cab is driving through the vibrant and colourful streets of Teheran. Very diverse passengers enter the taxi, each candidly expressing their views while being interviewed by the driver who is no one else but the director Jafar Panahi himself. His camera placed on the dashboard of his mobile film studio captures the spirit of Iranian society through this comedic and dramatic drive…

Drama / Foreign

Person of Interest: The Complete Fourth Season Blu-ray Movie  

Blu-ray + UV Digital Copy

Warner Bros. | 2014-2015 | 957 min | Rated TV-14 | Aug 11, 2015 | Martin Liebman

Although they've saved countless lives thanks to The Machine's omniscience, the team is still reeling from the devastating loss they experienced last season. Now, in Season Four, they face an uncertain future. With a second machine – Samaritan – now online, the members of the elusive team – Reese (Jim Caviezel) and Finch (Michael Emerson), along with lethal operative Shaw (Sarah Shahi), unpredictable cyber-hacker Root (Amy Acker) and homicide detective Fusco (Kevin Chapman) – are now targets themselves, hiding in plain sight. Facing unknown danger, the POI team must find a way to outsmart Samaritan, an all-seeing, all-powerful artificial intelligence that's self-governing, continually evolving and growing stronger every day. Meanwhile, former enemy Elias (Enrico Colantoni) now becomes a desperate ally in the fight against a new gang known as The Brotherhood.

Action / Crime / Drama / Mystery / Thriller

Labyrinth of Lies Blu-ray Movie  

Im Labyrinth des Schweigens / Blu-ray + UV Digital Copy

Sony Pictures | 2014 | 123 min | Rated R | Feb 16, 2016 | Martin Liebman

Germany, 1958. In those years, "Auschwitz" was a word that some people had never heard of, and others wanted to forget as quickly as possible. Against the will of his immediate superior, young prosecutor Johann Radmann begins to examine the case of a teacher who has recently been identified as a former Auschwitz guard. Radmann soon lands in a web of repression and denial, but also of idealization. He devotes himself with utmost commitment to his new task and is resolved to find out what really happened. He oversteps boundaries, falls out with friends, colleagues and allies, and is sucked deeper and deeper into a labyrinth of lies and guilt in his search for the truth. But what he ultimately brings to light will change the country forever.

Drama / History

Burt Bacharach: A Life in Song Blu-ray Movie  

Eagle Rock Entertainment | 2015 | 89 min | Not rated | Feb 26, 2016 | Jeffrey Kauffman

Live concert featuring music by singer-songwriter Burt Bacharach, recorded at London's Royal Festival Hall. Singers such as Rebecca Ferguson, Sophie Ellis-Bextor, Joss Stone and Alfie Boe, as well as Burt himself, perform some of his classic songs such as 'What the World Needs Now', 'Anyone Who Had a Heart' and 'Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head'.

Music

Mercy Street Blu-ray Movie  

PBS | 2016 | 322 min | Not rated | Feb 02, 2016 | Brian Orndorf

Follows the lives of two volunteer nurses on opposing sides of the Civil War - New England abolitionist Mary Phinney and Confederate supporter Emma Green.

Drama / Period

Victoria Blu-ray Movie  

Adopt Films | 2015 | 138 min | Not rated | Mar 08, 2016 | Brian Orndorf

A movie shot in a single take about Victoria, a runaway party girl, who's asked by three friendly men to join them as they hit the town. Their wild night of partying turns into a bank robbery.

Crime / Drama / Thriller / Foreign

Trumbo Blu-ray Movie  

Blu-ray + UV Digital Copy

Universal Studios | 2015 | 125 min | Rated R | Feb 16, 2016 | Martin Liebman

The successful career of Hollywood screenwriter, Dalton Trumbo, comes to an end when he's blacklisted in the 1940s for being a Communist.

Biography / Drama

Convergence Blu-ray Movie  

MPI Media Group | 2015 | 99 min | Not rated | Feb 09, 2016 | Michael Reuben

After suffering an explosion at the hands of a terrorist bomber, detective Ben Walls awakens in a hospital and is forced to remain inside the building at the behest of his Captain. As Ben navigates the hospital's alarmingly empty hallways, he soon finds himself hunted by a self-proclaimed avenging angel and haunted by apparitions whose deadly motives remain a mystery.

Action / Mystery / Thriller / Supernatural

Togetherness: The Complete First Season Blu-ray Movie  

Blu-ray + UV Digital Copy

HBO | 2015 | 212 min | Rated TV-MA | Feb 16, 2016 | Jeffrey Kauffman

No synopsis for this title.

Comedy / Drama

Spies Blu-ray Movie  

Spione

Kino Lorber | 1928 | 150 min | Not rated | Feb 23, 2016 | Dr. Svet Atanasov

Spies (Spione) was the first independent production of German "thriller" director Fritz Lang. The years-ahead-of-its-time plotline involves Russian espionage activity in London. The mastermind is Haghi (Rudolph Klein-Rogge), a supposedly respectable carnival sideshow entertainer. Heading the good guys is Agent 326 (Willy Fritsch), with the help of defecting Russian spy Sonya (Gerda Maurus). The film moves swiftly to several potential climaxes, each one more exciting than its predecessor. Haghi's ultimate demise is a superbly staged Pirandellian vignette. Anticipating Citizen Kane by a dozen years, director Lang dispenses with all transitional dissolves and fade-outs, flat-cutting territory from one scene to another. The film was co-scripted by Lang and his then-wife Thea Von Harbou.

Romance / Thriller / Foreign

Grandma Blu-ray Movie  

Sony Pictures | 2015 | 79 min | Rated R | Feb 09, 2016 | Martin Liebman

Self-described misanthrope Elle Reid has her protective bubble burst when her 18-year-old granddaughter, Sage, shows up needing help. The two of them go on a day-long journey that causes Elle to come to terms with her past and Sage to confront her future.

Comedy / Drama / Family

Sheba, Baby Blu-ray Movie  

Arrow | 1975 | 90 min | Not rated | Feb 09, 2016 | Dr. Svet Atanasov

A Chicago private detective returns back home to Louisville, Kentucky, to help her father fight mobsters.

Action / Crime / Drama / Thriller

A Mighty Wind Blu-ray Movie  

Warner Archive Collection

Warner Bros. | 2003 | 91 min | Rated PG-13 | Feb 09, 2016 | Michael Reuben

Mockumentary captures the reunion of 1960s folk trio the Folksmen as they prepare for a show at The Town Hall to memorialize a recently deceased concert promoter.

Comedy / Music

Estranged Blu-ray Movie  

Well Go USA | 2015 | 101 min | Not rated | Feb 16, 2016 | Jeffrey Kauffman

A woman returns home to her estranged family after a near-fatal accident, but begins to suspect something is not right.

Horror / Thriller

Love the Coopers Blu-ray Movie  

Blu-ray + DVD + UV Digital Copy

Lionsgate Films | 2015 | 107 min | Rated PG-13 | Feb 09, 2016 | Jeffrey Kauffman

When four generations of the Cooper clan come together for their annual Christmas Eve celebration, a series of unexpected visitors and unlikely events turn the night upside down, leading them all toward a surprising rediscovery of family bonds and the spirit of the holiday.

Comedy / Holiday

Paulette Blu-ray Movie  

Cohen Media Group | 2012 | 87 min | Rated R | Feb 09, 2016 | Jeffrey Kauffman

Paulette lives alone in a housing project in the Paris suburbs. With her meager pension, she can no longer make ends meet. One evening when she attends a curious traffic incident outside her building, Paulette sees the sign of destiny. She decides to start selling cannabis. After all, why should she not? Paulette was formerly pastry chef. Her gift for trade and cooking skills are assets towards finding original solutions in the conducting of her new business.

Comedy

Undercover Blues Blu-ray Movie  

Olive Films | 1993 | 90 min | Rated PG-13 | Nov 24, 2015 | Michael Reuben

A husband and wife team of ex-spies arrive in New Orleans on maternity leave with their baby girl. There they are hassled by muggers, the police and their FBI boss, who wants them to do just one more job.

Comedy / Crime

Edge of Seventeen Blu-ray Movie  

Strand Releasing | 1998 | 103 min | Not rated | Feb 02, 2016 | Brian Orndorf

A gay teen learns who he is, what he wants and all about love and sex in the 80's

Comedy / Drama / Romance / Period

A Lizard in a Woman's Skin Blu-ray Movie    

Le venin de la peur / Una lucertola con la pelle di donna / Blu-ray + DVD + CD

Le chat qui fume | 1971 | 103 min | Rated 16 Interdit aux moins de 16 ans | Oct 20, 2015 | Dr. Svet Atanasov

Carol Hammond is the daughter of a prominant English politician who keeps having recurring "nightmares" in which she makes love to a bisexual nympho who lives downstairs and conducts all-night LSD orgies. When the nocturnal wet dreams become murderous, the neighbor turns up dead, and Carol is the main suspect. Did she actually commit the murder she dreamt about? Is she being framed by her philandering husband? Did Carol actually make nightly visits downstairs aside from borrowing the occasional cup of sugar? How Did Carol's letter opener end up stuck in the dead neighbor's chest anyway? The complex plot unfolds amidst red herrings, outlandish dream sequences, lesbian hanky panky, and ominous close-ups of Carol's guilt-ridden facial expressions every time someone mentions the murder. All this takes place in swinging late-1960's London...

Horror / Mystery / Thriller / Foreign

The Keeping Room Blu-ray Movie  

Blu-ray + Digital Copy

Drafthouse Films | 2014 | 95 min | Rated R | Feb 02, 2016 | Michael Reuben

Left without men in the dying days of the American Civil War, three Southern women - two sisters and one African-American slave - must fight to defend their home and themselves from two rogue soldiers who have broken off from the fast-approaching Union Army.

Drama / History / Thriller