New Blu-ray Reviews

Adventure Time: The Complete Fifth Season Blu-ray Movie  

Blu-ray + UV Digital Copy

Warner Bros. | 2012-2014 | 600 min | Rated TV-PG | Jul 14, 2015 | Kenneth Brown

It's one crazy adventure after another for human boy, Finn, and his best friend, Jake, a 28-year old dog with magical powers. They're out to have the most fun possible and they sure do find it exploring the Land of Ooo! Whether it's saving Princess Bubblegum, battling zombie candy, taunting the Ice King or rocking out with Marceline the Vampire Queen, with Finn and Jake it's always ADVENTURE TIME!

Action / Adventure / Animation / Comedy / Family / Fantasy / Short / Dark humor / Imaginary / Surreal

The Couch Trip Blu-ray Movie  

Kino Lorber | 1988 | 97 min | Rated R | Aug 18, 2015 | Brian Orndorf

Dr. George Maitlin, a pompous radio self-help guru, is having his own personal mental breakdown. His lawyer puts in a call to a Cicero, IL, mental facility where the phone is answered by schizophrenic patient John Burns. Thinking Burns is a crony of Maitlin, Burns is offered the job of replacing Maitlin during his recovery. Of course, Burns accepts the job. Immediately jetted to Los Angeles, Burns meets panhandler Donald Becker at the airport. Burns takes to him immediately and they become fast friends. When Burns assumes command of the airwaves in Maitlin's place, his words of wisdom are so obvious and commonsensical that he is an overnight sensation. Meanwhile, in London, where Maitlin is convalescing, he gets wind of Burns' success. With renewed vigor and outrage, Maitlin leaves recovery and heads back to Los Angeles in an effort to recover his radio show.

Comedy

The People Under the Stairs Blu-ray Movie  

Collector's Edition

Shout Factory | 1991 | 102 min | Rated R | Aug 11, 2015 | Jeffrey Kauffman

Two adults and a juvenile burglar break into a house occupied by a homicidal couple and their captives.

Horror / Mystery / Thriller / Dark humor

Police Story: Lockdown Blu-ray Movie  

警察故事2013 / Police Story 2013

Well Go USA | 2013 | 110 min | Not rated | Aug 11, 2015 | Jeffrey Kauffman

A man looking for the release of a long-time prisoner takes a police officer, his daughter, and a group of strangers hostage.

Action / Crime / Drama / Martial arts / Foreign

I Am Chris Farley Blu-ray Movie  

Virgil Films & Entertainment | 2015 | 95 min | Not rated | Aug 11, 2015 | Michael Reuben

A documentary on the life of comedian Chris Farley.

Documentary

The Monster That Challenged the World Blu-ray Movie  

Kino Lorber | 1957 | 83 min | Not rated | Aug 11, 2015 | Brian Orndorf

An earthquake unleashes a giant mollusk in California's Salton Sea. The site is near a military base and the first victim is a navy skydiver testing parachutes and the two sailors sent to collect him from the water. Soon Naval Investigator Lt. Commander John Twillinger is on the case. They find the sailors' boat which is covered with a white goo. Soon Navy divers are looking for the missing men and recover a large round sac which they recover and sent the base lab. One of the divers is killed in an encounter with the creature and they think the crisis is over. They don't realize that the sac they transported to the lab is in fact the creature's egg and another mollusk hatches, this time on the base...

Horror / Sci-Fi

Walt Disney Animation Studios Short Films Collection Blu-ray Movie  

Blu-ray + DVD + Digital Copy

Disney / Buena Vista | 2000-2015 | 80 min | Not rated | Aug 18, 2015 | Kenneth Brown

A collection of 12 Disney short films.

Adventure / Animation / Comedy / Family / Short

Killing Zoe Blu-ray Movie    

Fabulous Films | 1993 | 97 min | Rated BBFC: 18 | Aug 03, 2015 | Dr. Svet Atanasov

An American safecracker named Zed is summoned to Paris by his childhood buddy, Eric to help pull a Bastille Day bank heist. Dreams of easy money quickly evaporate when the heist goes sour and Eric transforms into a psychotic, drug-crazed sociopath.

Crime / Drama / Thriller / Heist

Still of the Night Blu-ray Movie  

Kino Lorber | 1982 | 91 min | Rated PG | Aug 11, 2015 | Michael Reuben

A Manhattan psychiatrist probes a patient's murder and falls for the victim's mysterious mistress.

Crime / Drama / Mystery

Hell on Wheels: The Complete Fourth Season Blu-ray Movie  

Entertainment One | 2014 | 556 min | Rated TV-14 | Aug 11, 2015 | Jeffrey Kauffman

Set in the 1860s it centers on former confederate soldier Cullen Bohannan, whose quest for vengeance has led him to the Union Pacific Railroad's westward construction of the first Transcontinental Railroad.

Adventure / Drama / Western / Period

The January Man Blu-ray Movie  

Kino Lorber | 1989 | 97 min | Rated R | Aug 11, 2015 | Michael Reuben

A disgraced cop, the brother of the police commissioner, is reinstated to track down a serial killer who has terrorized the city for 11 months. While finding the killer, the cop falls in love with the mayor's daughter.

Action / Adventure / Comedy / Drama / Mystery / Thriller

War-Gods of the Deep Blu-ray Movie  

City in the Sea / The City under the Sea

Kino Lorber | 1965 | 84 min | Not rated | Aug 11, 2015 | Brian Orndorf

Very, very loosely based on Edgar Allan Poe's "City in the Sea", WAR-GODS OF THE DEEP starts off just right, with a stormy night and a huge old mansion by the sea. Set on the Cornish coast in 1903, the film features a group of people discovering an underwater society of smugglers who never age living in a lost underwater city along with their gill-man slaves...

Adventure / Fantasy / Sci-Fi

Under the Volcano Blu-ray Movie    

Odeon | 1984 | 107 min | Rated BBFC: 15 | Jul 20, 2015 | Dr. Svet Atanasov

Against a background of war breaking out in Europe and the Mexican fiesta Day of Death, we are taken through one day in the life of Geoffrey Firmin, a British consul living in alcoholic disrepair and obscurity in a small southern Mexican town in 1939. The Consul's self-destructive behaviour, perhaps a metaphor for a menaced civilization, is a source of perplexity and sadness to his nomadic, idealistic half-brother, Hugh, and his ex-wife, Yvonne, who has returned with hopes of healing Geoffrey and their broken marriage.

Drama

The Knick: The Complete First Season Blu-ray Movie  

Blu-ray + UV Digital Copy

HBO | 2014 | 509 min | Rated TV-MA | Aug 11, 2015 | Kenneth Brown

In 1900, the surgeons and nurses at the Knickerbocker Hospital in New York push the bounds of medicine in a time of extremely high mortality rates and zero antibiotics. Among them is Doctor John Thackery, a celebrated and courageous surgeon pioneering new methods in the field despite his secret cocaine dependency.

Drama / Period

Stromboli Blu-ray Movie    

Stromboli, terra di dio / Blu-ray

BFI Video | 1950 | 100 min | Rated BBFC: PG | No Release Date | Dr. Svet Atanasov

A refugee marries a Sicilian fisherman but can't cope with the harshness of her new life.

Drama / Melodrama

Toolbox Murders 2 Blu-ray Movie  

Coffin Baby

Shout Factory | 2013 | 84 min | Not rated | Aug 04, 2015 | Jeffrey Kauffman

Hollywood, California is turned upside down by a series of strange and horrific murders creating chaos and turmoil in tinsel town. One particular victim is kidnapped, held captive and subjected to witness the torture and murder of numerous other victims. It is by her will, strength, and faith that she must survive the ordeal. Her escape seems hopeless and only worsens when outside supernatural forces become more difficult to contend with than her captor...

Horror

The Water Diviner Blu-ray Movie  

Blu-ray + UV Digital Copy

Warner Bros. | 2014 | 111 min | Rated R | Jul 28, 2015 | Brian Orndorf

An Australian man travels to Turkey after the Battle of Gallipoli to try and locate his three missing sons. While staying at a hotel in Istanbul, he meets Ayshe, the hotel manager. And tries to find a way to Gallipoli.

Drama / War

Dig: Season One Blu-ray Movie  

Blu-ray + UV Digital Copy

Universal Studios | 2015 | 520 min | Not rated | Aug 11, 2015 | Martin Liebman

Peter, an FBI agent stationed in Jerusalem who, while investigating a murder of a young female archaeologist, uncovers a conspiracy 2000 years in the making.

Drama / Mystery / Thriller

Carla's Song Blu-ray Movie  

Limited Edition to 3000

Twilight Time | 1996 | 111 min | Not rated | May 12, 2015 | Jeffrey Kauffman

A politically inclined romance about a Glaswegian bus driver who meets and falls in love with a Nicaraguan refugee. Moved by her plight, he travels with her to a conflict-torn Nicaragua, searching for her former lover, who has disappeared in the chaos of that country’s savage civil war.

Drama / Romance / War

A Month in the Country Blu-ray Movie  

Limited Edition to 3000

Twilight Time | 1987 | 96 min | Rated PG | Jul 14, 2015 | Jeffrey Kauffman

A Month in the Country is the tale of a pair of emotionally wounded World War I veterans who find some respite in the beautiful Yorkshire countryside and in their supportive friendship. As they work, respectively, on the restoration of an ancient church mural and the possible unearthing of an archaeological treasure, they also encounter the local vicar’s young wife; between them, this trio reflects the many faces of love and longing.

Drama