New Blu-ray Reviews

Countdown: Armageddon Blu-ray Movie  

Countdown: Jerusalem

Echo Bridge Entertainment | 2009 | 92 min | Not rated | May 18, 2010 | Martin Liebman

The countdown has begun... Around the world, mysterious natural events are wreaking havoc on the planet. No one can explain them. Alison, an L.A. reporter, has witnessed the bizarre earthquakes and tornadoes firsthand. And when her young daughter disappears, she discovers she's part of an unfolding plot that threatens all of humanity.

Sci-Fi / Thriller

Escape from New York Blu-ray Movie  

Collector's Edition

Shout Factory | 1981 | 99 min | Rated R | Apr 21, 2015 | Jeffrey Kauffman

Manhattan Island has been turned into a maximum security prison, a plane carrying the US president goes down there. An anti-hero is entrusted with the task of rescuing him.

Action / Crime / Sci-Fi / Thriller

Last Days in Vietnam Blu-ray Movie  

American Experience: Last Days in Vietnam

PBS | 2014 | 1 Movie, 2 Cuts | 98 min | Not rated | Apr 28, 2015 | Brian Orndorf

During the chaotic final weeks of the Vietnam War, the North Vietnamese Army closes in on Saigon as the panicked South Vietnamese people desperately attempt to escape. On the ground, American soldiers and diplomats confront the same moral quandary: whether to obey White House orders to evacuate U.S. citizens only--or to risk treason and save the lives of as many South Vietnamese citizens as they can.

Documentary / History / War

Les Grandes personnes Blu-ray Movie    

Time Out for Love

Gaumont | 1961 | 96 min | Rated U Tous publics | Feb 25, 2015 | Dr. Svet Atanasov

No synopsis for this title.

Drama / Foreign

Night Train Murders Blu-ray Movie    

L'ultimo treno della notte / Last Stop on the Night Train | The Italian Collection #01

88 Films | 1975 | 94 min | Rated BBFC: 18 | Mar 30, 2015 | Dr. Svet Atanasov

A pair of psychotic hoodlums and an equally demented nymphomaniac woman terrorize two young girls on a train trip from Germany to Italy.

Horror / Thriller / Foreign / Holiday

Paddington Blu-ray Movie  

Blu-ray + DVD + UV Digital Copy

Starz / Anchor Bay | 2014 | 95 min | Rated PG | Apr 28, 2015 | Martin Liebman

A young Peruvian bear with a passion for all things British travels to London in search of a home. Finding himself lost and alone at Paddington Station, he begins to realize that city life is not all he had imagined.

Comedy / Family

A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night Blu-ray Movie  

دختری در شب تنها به خانه می‌رود / Dokhtari dar šab tanhâ be xâne miravad

Kino Lorber | 2014 | 101 min | Not rated | Apr 21, 2015 | Brian Orndorf

In the Iranian ghost-town Bad City, a place that reeks of death and loneliness, the townspeople are unaware they are being stalked by a lonesome vampire.

Drama / Fantasy / Horror / Foreign

The Gambler Blu-ray Movie  

Blu-ray + DVD + UV Digital Copy

Paramount Pictures | 2014 | 111 min | Rated R | Apr 28, 2015 | Martin Liebman

A literature professor with a gambling problem runs afoul of gangsters.

Crime / Drama / Thriller

Maps to the Stars Blu-ray Movie  

Blu-ray + UV Digital Copy

Universal Studios | 2014 | 112 min | Rated R | Apr 14, 2015 | Martin Liebman

Havana Segrand is a mature actress struggling for work that her agent can't provide. Dr. Stafford Weiss is a famed TV self-help guru with an A-list celebrity clientele. Christina is Stafford’s wife and has her work cut out managing the life and career of their disaffected child-star son, who has just been released from rehab at the age of 13. Unbeknownst to Christina and Stafford, however, another member of the Weiss family has arrived in town – their shunned daughter, just released from the psych ward where she was being treated for criminal pyromania, who is ready for a fresh start. As more details emerge about the reasons for their daughter’s incarceration, Havana delves deeper into her own problems as she tries to confront the abuse she experienced as a child.

Drama / Dark humor / Psychological thriller

Mr. Turner Blu-ray Movie  

Sony Pictures | 2014 | 150 min | Rated R | May 05, 2015 | Martin Liebman

An exploration of the last quarter century of the great, if eccentric, British painter J.M.W. Turner's life.

Biography / Drama

The Woman in Black 2: Angel of Death Blu-ray Movie  

Blu-ray + UV Digital Copy

20th Century Fox / Relativity | 2014 | 98 min | Rated PG-13 | Apr 14, 2015 | Jeffrey Kauffman

40 years after the first haunting at Eel Marsh House, a group of children evacuated from WWII London arrive, awakening the house's darkest inhabitant.

Drama / Horror / Thriller / Supernatural

Long Weekend Blu-ray Movie  

Synapse Films | 1978 | 92 min | Unrated | Apr 14, 2015 | Brian Orndorf

When a suburban couple go camping for the weekend at a remote beach, they discover that nature isn't in an accommodating mood.

Horror / Thriller

Tokyo Ravens: Season 1 - Part 1 Blu-ray Movie  

東京レイヴンズ / Tōkyō Reivunzu | Limited Edition / Blu-ray + DVD

FUNimation Entertainment | 2013 | 300 min | Rated TV-14 | Apr 07, 2015 | Kenneth Brown

Tokyo Ravens is the story of an ordinary high school boy from a not-so-ordinary family. Hautora was born into an ancient clan of onmyouji known for their mastery of all things occult. Unfortunately, he didn’t inherit the magical ability to see spirit energy, so he was doomed to live a normal life. At least, that is, until a mysterious girl from Harutora’s past returns to alter the course of his future!

Action / Anime / Comedy / Fantasy / Romance / Supernatural / Foreign

Exotica Blu-ray Movie    

Blu-ray + DVD

Alliance | 1994 | 103 min | Rated CA: 18 | Jun 19, 2012 | Dr. Svet Atanasov

The 'Exotica' is a nightclub on the outskirts of Toronto, where Eric, DJ and MC, watches nightly as his ex-girlfriend Christina performs. Watches jealously, especially as far as the extra attentions regular customer Francis garners are concerned. Thomas, meanwhile and erstwhile, goes through a series of, um, interesting situations involving his pet shop, a gruff taxi-sharing stranger, unexpected tickets to the opera and smuggled eggs of a rare bird. Multiple story lines unfold in a splendid tangle of cutbacks, forward and backward references and recurring themes, all woven around the Exotica, its customers and employees. A calm roller-coaster ride of a movie, visually and intriguingly and emotionally moving. O, and the sound track is notable, too.

Drama / Mystery

Vengeance of an Assassin Blu-ray Movie  

Well Go USA | 2014 | 90 min | Not rated | Apr 14, 2015 | Jeffrey Kauffman

The Assassins' Code - Stick to the mission. Never take your eyes off the target. Show no mercy. Natee became a killer for one reason- to discover who killed his parents. As he gets closer to uncovering a secret network of power and corruption, he's double-crossed on a job, making him a target and putting everyone he loves in danger. Betrayed, exposed, and hunted by the deadliest killers in the business, now Natee has a new code. Be faster. Stronger. Hit harder. Survive.

Action / Martial arts / Foreign

Enter the Dangerous Mind Blu-ray Movie  

Well Go USA | 2013 | 88 min | Not rated | Apr 14, 2015 | Jeffrey Kauffman

A reclusive American composer with an online following has a tentative romance with a beautiful social worker.

Drama / Psychological thriller

From the Dark Blu-ray Movie  

MPI Media Group | 2014 | 90 min | Not rated | Apr 14, 2015 | Michael Reuben

A couple on a trip through the Irish countryside find themselves hunted by a creature who only attacks at night.

Horror

Woman of Straw Blu-ray Movie  

Kino Lorber | 1964 | 122 min | Not rated | Apr 14, 2015 | Brian Orndorf

"Woman of Straw" is an old-fashioned thriller from the respected British producer-director team of Michael Relph and Basil Dearden. This handsomely coloured exercise is the kind of pseudo-Victorian suspenser that Alfred Hitchcock indulged in long ago. Here, the filmmakers are telling the one about the sexy nurse and the sinister secretary who connive to do away with a crusty old millionaire for his inheritance. The eminent Shakespearean veteran, Sir Ralph Richardson, plays the rich ogre, confined to a wheelchair by the contrivance of the plot. Mr. Connery does his personable best in a part that requires him to play a murderous madman. Gina Lollobrigida as the nurse, is the most irresistible of females.

Crime / Drama / Thriller

The Man with the Iron Fists 2: The Sting of the Scorpion Blu-ray Movie  

Unrated / Blu-ray + DVD + UV Digital Copy

Universal Studios | 2014 | 1 Movie, 2 Cuts | 90 min | Unrated | Apr 14, 2015 | Kenneth Brown

Thaddeus (RZA) is back in this explosive action adventure inspired by kung fu classics. A reluctant villager joins forces with a mysterious outsider to fight off powerful evil forces, both earthly and otherworldly, in a 19th century Chinese mining town. When a stranger, Thaddeus, is found badly wounded near the village, miner Li Kung (Dustin Nguyen) and his wife Ah Ni (Eugenia Kang) offer him refuge. As he heals, he becomes entrenched in a conflict that pits the townsfolk against the evil Master Ho (Carl Ng), his nefarious Beetle Clan and the terrifying Lord Pi (Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa). With Thaddeus at his side, the mild-mannered Kung transforms into a deadly warrior in this martial arts epic.

Action / Martial arts

Freezing Vibration: Season 2 Blu-ray Movie  

Blu-ray + DVD

FUNimation Entertainment | 2013 | 300 min | Rated TV-MA | Apr 21, 2015 | Kenneth Brown

Satellizer el Bridget and some of the most powerful – and desirable – Pandoras in the world are summoned to a secret base in the wilds of Alaska. These gorgeous warriors arrive primed for battle, but they soon discover the true purpose for their presence: to assist the clandestine Chevalier organization in forging a new breed of soldier - E-Pandoras!

Action / Anime / Sci-Fi / Erotic / Comic book / Foreign