New Blu-ray Reviews

Madame Bovary Blu-ray Movie  

Alchemy | 2014 | 119 min | Rated R | Aug 04, 2015 | Martin Liebman

Coveting sensuality and sophistication and bored with her husband, a simple country doctor, Emma Bovary pursues several extramarital relationships, including one with her long-term friend Leon, a man she perceives to be cosmopolitan. Her actions have destructive and tragic consequences.

Drama / Romance / Period

The Young Lions Blu-ray Movie  

Limited Edition to 3000 - SOLD OUT

Twilight Time | 1958 | 167 min | Not rated | Jun 09, 2015 | Jeffrey Kauffman

The destiny of three soldiers during World War II. The German officer Christian Diestl approves less and less of the war. Jewish-American Noah Ackerman deals with anti-Semitism at home and in the army while entertainer Michael Whiteacre transforms from playboy to hero.

Action / Drama / War

The Brokenwood Mysteries: Series 1 Blu-ray Movie  

Acorn Media | 2014 | 376 min | Not rated | Jul 07, 2015 | Michael Reuben

Det. Sr. Sergeant Mike Shepherd arrives on assignment in Brokenwood, a small New Zealand town where his new assistant is Detective Kristin Sims, a by-the-book investigator nearly 20 years younger than her boss's car. As Shepherd adapts to the slower pace of life away from the city, he soon discovers that Brokenwood is a place of secrets and suspicions. Everyone and everything is connected, and the serenity of the countryside can easily be shattered by violence and death.

Crime / Drama / Mystery

Contamination Blu-ray Movie    

Alien Contamination | Limited Edition / Blu-ray + DVD

Arrow | 1980 | 95 min | Rated BBFC: 15 | Jul 06, 2015 | Dr. Svet Atanasov

A ship pulls into New York Harbor with no one on board. The police find a cargo full of green pulsating eggs. Upon contact, the eggs explode spreading a green acid like substance that seeps into the skin and explodes. It is later discovered that the eggs are being manufactured in South America by a one-eyed Martian that grew from a tiny seed a former astronaut brought back from a expedition to Mars...

Horror / Sci-Fi

Ex Machina Blu-ray Movie  

Blu-ray + UV Digital Copy

Lionsgate Films | 2015 | 108 min | Rated R | Jul 14, 2015 | Jeffrey Kauffman

In the mountain retreat of a billionaire, a young man takes part in a strange experiment: testing artificial intelligence, housed in the body of a beautiful robot girl.

Drama / Sci-Fi / Thriller / Psychological thriller

Report to the Commissioner Blu-ray Movie  

Kino Lorber | 1975 | 112 min | Rated PG | Jul 07, 2015 | Brian Orndorf

Police officer Patty Butler, alias "Chicklet," is the live-in girlfriend of Thomas 'Stick' Henderson to gather evidence. Detective Bo Lockley is instructed to try to find her, not knowing she's also a cop.

Crime / Drama

House of Cards: The Complete Third Season Blu-ray Movie  

Blu-ray + UV Digital Copy

Sony Pictures | 2015 | 660 min | Rated TV-MA | Jul 07, 2015 | Kenneth Brown

Ruthless and cunning, Congressman Francis Underwood and his wife Claire stop at nothing to conquer everything. This wicked political drama penetrates the shadowy world of greed, sex, and corruption in modern D.C.

Drama / Dark humor

The Dovekeepers Blu-ray Movie  

Paramount Pictures | 2015 | 173 min | Rated TV-14 | Jun 30, 2015 | Martin Liebman

Based on Alice Hoffman's bestselling, critically acclaimed historical novel, The Dovekeepers is a four-hour limited event series from executive producers Roma Downey and Emmy Award winner Mark Burnett. Set in ancient Israel, the series features a group of extraordinary women whose lives intersect in a fight for survival at the siege of Masada. After being forced out of their homes in Jerusalem by the Romans in 70 C.E., 900 Jews were ensconced in a fortress at Masada, a mountain in the Judean desert, where they held out for months against the vast Roman armies. The project recounts the events from the perspective of a few extraordinary women who arrive at Masada with unique backstories, but a common bond for survival. Additionally, these women, who work together daily as dovekeepers, are each keeping substantial secrets.

Drama / History / Romance

Deranged Blu-ray Movie  

Kino Lorber | 1974 | 83 min | Unrated | Jul 07, 2015 | Brian Orndorf

This film chronicles the grisly exploits of a rural necrophiliac and murderer.

Crime / Horror / Thriller

Slow West Blu-ray Movie  

Blu-ray + UV Digital Copy

Lionsgate Films | 2015 | 84 min | Rated R | Jul 07, 2015 | Jeffrey Kauffman

A 16-year-old boy on a journey across 19th Century frontier America in search of the woman he loves, while accompanied by mysterious traveler Silas.

Action / Thriller / Western

The Road Within Blu-ray Movie  

Well Go USA | 2014 | 100 min | Rated R | Jul 07, 2015 | Jeffrey Kauffman

Vincent, a young man suffering from Tourette Syndrome. His mother dies so his estranged father, Robert, is forced to step in. However, Robert's running for political office and doesn't want his son on the campaign trail - so Robert puts Vincent in a clinic that's run by the unconventional Dr. Mia Rose. Once there, Vincent falls in love with an anorexic woman named Marie. Together, they steal Dr. Rose's car, and end up having to kidnap his OCD roommate, Alex, when he threatens to tell on them. With Robert and Dr. Rose in hot pursuit, Vincent, Marie and Alex go on a life changing road trip to deliver the ashes of his mother to the ocean.

Comedy / Drama

For the Emperor Blu-ray Movie  

Hwangjereul Wihayeo

Well Go USA | 2014 | 104 min | Not rated | Jul 07, 2015 | Jeffrey Kauffman

Former baseball player Yi Hwan lost everything over match fixing. At his lowest point, he meets loan shark Sang Ha who sits atop a crime empire. Sang Ha takes Yi Hwan under his wings and into his organization where Yi Hwan quickly rises the ranks with his fists. Yi Hwan falls in love with bar owner Yeon Soo but when she mysteriously disappears, Yi Hwan suspects Sang Ha has something to do with it.

Action / Crime / Erotic / Comic book / Foreign

The Unwanted Blu-ray Movie  

Kino Lorber | 2015 | 96 min | Not rated | Jul 14, 2015 | Brian Orndorf

A young drifter arrives in a rural town seeking the whereabouts of the mother she never knew. When she becomes sexually involved with an emotionally fragile waitress, she exposes the secret of her mother's disappearance and incites the wrath of the girl's overprotective father.

Drama / Horror

Virtuosity Blu-ray Movie  

Warner Bros. | 1995 | 106 min | Rated R | Jul 07, 2015 | Michael Reuben

The Law Enforcement Technology Advancement Centre (LETAC) has developed SID version 6.7: a Sadistic, Intelligent, and Dangerous virtual reality entity which is synthesized from the personalities of more than 150 serial killers. LETAC would like to train police officers by putting them in VR with SID, but they must prove the concept by using prisoners as test subjects. One such prisoner is ex-cop Parker Barnes. When SID manages to inject his personality into a nano-machine android, it appears that Barnes might be the only one who can stop him.

Action / Sci-Fi / Thriller

Zazie dans le Métro Blu-ray Movie    

Gaumont | 1960 | 93 min | Rated U Tous publics | Jun 10, 2015 | Dr. Svet Atanasov

A girl causes chaos on the streets of Paris after she runs away from her transvestite uncle.

Comedy / Fantasy / Foreign

The Salt of the Earth Blu-ray Movie  

Le Sel de la Terre / Blu-ray + DVD

Sony Pictures | 2014 | 110 min | Rated PG-13 | Jul 14, 2015 | Martin Liebman

The discovery of pristine territories, of wild fauna and flora, and of grandiose landscapes as part of a huge photographic project which is a tribute to the planet's beauty.

Biography / Documentary

Valerie and Her Week of Wonders Blu-ray Movie  

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Criterion | 1970 | 77 min | Not rated | Jun 30, 2015 | Dr. Svet Atanasov

Valerie, a young teenage girl who lives with her grandmother, feels the first stirring of sexual awareness when a carnival parade comes to town. Eagle, a young man, presents her with a pair of magic earrings. Her fantasy adventures begin when she imagines she is the daughter of a bishop with a hideous visage. Her grandmother becomes a vampire. She pretends to be dead when a priest tries to rape her by swallowing one of the earrings. The line between dreams and reality is blurred in this surreal psychological fantasy.

Drama / Fantasy / Imaginary / Foreign / Surreal / Coming of age

Robot Jox Blu-ray Movie  

Shout Factory | 1989 | 85 min | Rated PG | Jul 07, 2015 | Jeffrey Kauffman

In a future world where war has been outlawed, international disputes are settled in a single winner-takes-all fight between two of the ultimate killing machines. Massive, menacing and made-to-destroy, these human-piloted combat 'bots square off to determine global supremacy. But when tragedy strikes during a crucial battle and treacherous espionage raises the stakes, will veteran robowarrior Achilles walk away from the game for good… or take his revenge against his rival pilot, the homicidal Alexander?

Action / Sci-Fi

The Cell Blu-ray Movie  

Warner Bros. | 2000 | 109 min | Rated R | Jul 07, 2015 | Michael Reuben

An FBI agent persuades a social worker, who is adept with a new experimental technology, to enter the mind of a comatose serial killer in order to learn where he has hidden his latest kidnap victim.

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

Truck Turner Blu-ray Movie  

Kino Lorber | 1974 | 91 min | Rated R | Jul 07, 2015 | Brian Orndorf

Truck is a bounty hunter who gets a job to track down a guy named Gator. When he and his partner find him, a chase ensues and Gator is killed. This makes Gator's woman, Dorinda, very angry and she puts a hit on Truck. The man who agrees to kill Truck is named Blue. The question is whether Truck can survive with Blue and his gang on his trail.

Action / Crime / Thriller