New Blu-ray Reviews
Home- June 22, 2015
Dog Soldiers Blu-ray Movie
Collector's Edition / Blu-ray + DVD
Shout Factory | 2002 | 105 min | Rated R | Jun 23, 2015 | Jeffrey Kauffman
During a routine training mission in the Scottish Highlands, a small squad of British soldiers find a wounded Special Forces captain and the bloody remains of his team. When the savage attackers return, the men are rescued by a zoologist, who identifies what hunts them as werewolves. Without transport or communications, the group is forced to retreat to a farmhouse to wait for the full moon to disappear at dawn.
Action / Horror
Sugar Hill Blu-ray Movie
Kino Lorber | 1974 | 91 min | Rated PG | Jun 23, 2015 | Brian Orndorf
When her boyfriend is brutally murdered, after refusing to be shaken down by the local gangsters running their protection racket, Sugar Hill, decides not to get mad, but BAD! Calling upon the help of aged voodoo queen Mama Maitresse, Sugar entreats her to call upon Baron Zamedi, the Lord of the Dead, for help in gaining a gruesome revenge. In exchange for her soul, the Dark Master raises up a zombie army to do her bidding. The bad guys who thought they were getting away clean are about to find out that they're DEAD wrong.
Action / Crime / Horror
- June 21, 2015
Needful Things Blu-ray Movie
Kino Lorber | 1993 | 121 min | Rated R | Jun 23, 2015 | Michael Reuben
Welcome to Castle Rock, Maine, a lovely place to live if you don't mind selling your soul! Sheriff Alan Pangborn has a devil of a problem: Suddenly all the residents of his sleepy little town are dying'to kill each other. But at least business is still booming, especially at a new antique store. The store's owner has something for everyone, and his prices are always reasonable: just one small favor oh, and, of course, eternal damnation!
Horror / Thriller / Supernatural
- June 20, 2015
Stay As You Are Blu-ray Movie
Così come sei
Cult Epics | 1978 | 105 min | Not rated | May 12, 2015 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
A May-December romance. Roué Giulio Marengo, a Roman landscape architect unhappy in his marriage, meets Francesca, a young and beautiful Florentine, and then learns she might be his daughter. He resolves to keep his hands off but can't seem to stay away, and she's eager for a lover who's a father figure. He's happy to be a kid, so he tries to find out who her father is; his wife knows something is up; his daughter, who's Francesca's age and is pregnant, encourages the affair. Should he tell Francesca his fears that it might be incest? If he tells her and she doesn't care, what next? And what of his wife, who still wants to be married? Francesca takes control.
Drama / Romance / Foreign
Pit Stop Blu-ray Movie
Code Red | 1969 | 91 min | Not rated | Jul 07, 2015 | Brian Orndorf
Grant Willard sponsors drivers in a "new" form of race car driving called The Figure Eight. The rise and fall of one such driver is the whole story behind PIT STOP.
Action / Drama / Sport
Tokyo Tribe Blu-ray Movie
トウキョウ トライブ / Tōkyō Toraibu
Eureka Entertainment | 2014 | 116 min | Rated BBFC: 18 | Jun 15, 2015 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
In an alternate Japan, territorial street gangs form opposing factions collectively known as the Tokyo Tribes. Merra, leader of the Wu-Ronz tribe of Bukuro crosses the line to conquer all of Tokyo. The war begins.
Crime / Drama / Musical
Gett: The Trial of Viviane Amsalem Blu-ray Movie
Music Box Films | 2014 | 115 min | Not rated | Jun 09, 2015 | Jeffrey Kauffman
In Israel there is neither civil marriage nor civil divorce. Only rabbis can legitimate a marriage or its dissolution. But this dissolution is only possible with full consent from the husband, who in the end has more power than the judges. Viviane Amsalem has been applying for divorce for three years. But her husband Elisha will not agree. His cold intransigence, Viviane's determination to fight for her freedom, and the ambiguous role of the judges shape a procedure in which tragedy vies with absurdity, and everything is brought out for judgment, apart from the initial request.
Drama
- June 19, 2015
The Forger Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + UV Digital Copy
Lionsgate Films | 2014 | 92 min | Rated R | Jun 23, 2015 | Jeffrey Kauffman
The world's best art forger makes a deal with a crime syndicate to get an early release from prison, but in return he must pull off an impossible heist - he must forge a painting by Claude Monet, steal the original from a museum, and replace it with a replica so perfect that no one will notice. He enlists the help of his father and son and together they plan the heist of their lives!
Crime / Drama / Thriller / Heist
A MusiCares Tribute to Carole King Blu-ray Movie
Shout Factory | 2014 | 60 min | Not rated | Jun 23, 2015 | Jeffrey Kauffman
No synopsis for this title.
Music
3:10 to Yuma Blu-ray Movie
3H10 pour Yuma
Carlotta Films | 1957 | 92 min | Rated U Tous publics | Jun 24, 2015 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
A mild-mannered cattle rancher takes on the task of shepherding a captured outlaw to the train that will deliver him to prison.
Drama / Thriller / Western
The Cat Returns Blu-ray Movie
猫の恩返し / Neko no Ongaeshi / Blu-ray + DVD
Disney / Buena Vista | 2002 | 76 min | Rated G | Jun 16, 2015 | Kenneth Brown
Haru-chan, a normal girl in a normal town, saves a strange cat carrying a present from being overrun by a truck. In return she's going to receive lots of favors, including marriage to the crown prince of Cat Kingdom. As she finds that a bit too much, she gets into contact with the Cat Business Office. Together with CBO's owner, the Baron, she enters the Cat Kingdom to try and prevent her marriage.
Adventure / Animation / Anime / Comedy / Family / Fantasy / Romance / Comic book / Foreign
- June 18, 2015
Cowboy Blu-ray Movie
Cow-boy
Carlotta Films | 1958 | 92 min | Rated U Tous publics | Jun 24, 2015 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
A Chicago hotel clerk who dreams of becoming a cowboy gets his chance when a cattle rancher staying at the hotel offers him a job.
Western
Survivor Blu-ray Movie
Alchemy | 2015 | 96 min | Rated PG-13 | Jun 23, 2015 | Martin Liebman
A State Department employee newly posted to the American embassy in London is charged with stopping terrorists from getting into the U.S. That puts her right in the line of fire and she is targeted for death and framed for crimes. Discredited, she is forced to go on the run while she tries to clear her name and stop a large-scale terrorist attack set for New Year's Eve in Times Square.
Action / Thriller
Workaholics: Season Five Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + UV Digital Copy
Paramount Pictures | 2014-2015 | 286 min | Not rated | Jun 23, 2015 | Martin Liebman
No synopsis for this title.
Comedy
Beyond the Reach Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + UV Digital Copy
Lionsgate Films | 2014 | 95 min | Rated R | Jun 16, 2015 | Jeffrey Kauffman
A high-rolling corporate shark and his impoverished young guide play the most dangerous game during a hunting trip in the Mojave Desert in this lean, mean cat-and-mouse thriller.
Thriller
- June 17, 2015
Milano Calibro 9 Blu-ray Movie
Caliber 9 / Blu-ray + DVD
Arrow | 1972 | 102 min | Rated BBFC: 15 | Jun 15, 2015 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
Just out of prison, ex-con Ugo Piazza meets his former employer, a psychopathic gangster Rocco who enjoys sick violence and torture. Both the gangsters and the police believe Ugo has hidden $300,000 that should have gone to an American drug syndicate boss.
Action / Crime / Drama / Thriller / Foreign
Deadlier Than the Male Blu-ray Movie
Network | 1967 | 98 min | Rated BBFC: 12 | Jun 08, 2015 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
Tough-as-nails investigator Drummond gets to the bottom of an oil executive's murder and finds out that a bevy of beautiful bikini-clad assassins are working for a ruthless crime lord.
Adventure / Crime
The Lazarus Effect Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + UV Digital Copy
20th Century Fox / Relativity | 2015 | 83 min | Rated PG-13 | Jun 16, 2015 | Jeffrey Kauffman
A group of medical students discover a way to bring dead patients back to life.
Horror / Sci-Fi / Thriller
The Strain: The Complete First Season Blu-ray Movie
Premium Collector's Edition
20th Century Fox | 2014 | 596 min | Rated TV-MA | Jun 09, 2015 | Jeffrey Kauffman
Dr. Ephraim "Eph" Goodweather, the gifted head of the Center for Disease Control's canary team in New York City, and his team are called upon to investigate a mysterious, rapidly-spreading virus reminiscent of an ancient and evil strain of vampirism. As the strain spreads, Eph, his team, an enigmatic Holocaust survivor, and an assembly of regular people wage a desperate war for the fate of humanity itself.
Drama / Horror / Sci-Fi / Thriller
- June 16, 2015
Run All Night Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + DVD + UV Digital Copy
Warner Bros. | 2015 | 114 min | Rated R | Jun 16, 2015 | Kenneth Brown
An aging hitman is forced to take on his brutal former boss to protect his estranged son and his family.
Action / Crime / Drama / Thriller