New Blu-ray Reviews
Home- February 17, 2015
The Tale of the Princess Kaguya Blu-ray Movie
かぐや姫の物語 / Kaguya-hime no Monogatari / Blu-ray + DVD
Universal Studios | 2013 | 138 min | Rated PG | Feb 17, 2015 | Kenneth Brown
In an idyllic rural setting an old bamboo cutter and his wife raise a tiny girl found nestled within a glowing bamboo stalk along with a fortune in gold. As she approaches adulthood the bamboo cutter uses the fortune to purchase a villa in the capital, buy himself a title and employ tutors to transform the country girl—now given the name Kaguya—into a refined woman. News of her beauty brings powerful and wealthy suitors who compete for her hand in marriage, culminating in a proposal from the emperor. All the while Kaguya wishes that she and her family could return to their former life and to be reunited with her sweetheart, Sutemaru. Sooner or later, though, her true origins will make their own claim upon her.
Anime / Drama / Family / Fantasy / Nature / Foreign / Coming of age
- February 16, 2015
A Day in the Country Blu-ray Movie
Partie de campagne
Criterion | 1946 | 41 min | Not rated | Feb 10, 2015 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
A tenderly comic idyll about a city family's picnic in the French countryside and the romancing of the mother and grown daughter by two local men.
Comedy / Drama / Romance / Short / Foreign
Cult of the Damned Blu-ray Movie
Angel, Angel, Down We Go
Kino Lorber | 1969 | 93 min | Rated R | Feb 17, 2015 | Brian Orndorf
Brace yourself for the maddest Hollywood story ever with this stylish, decadent look at what happens when the upper crust meets the down and dirty. Full-figured debutante Tara Nicole returns home to her former stag film star mother only to fall under the influence of a charismatic, dangerous rock singer and his way-out deviant band mates. CULT OF THE DAMNED (originally released as ANGEL, ANGEL, DOWN WE GO) is part horror, part pop musical, part black comedy, and all outrageous!
Crime / Drama
The Homesman Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + UV Digital Copy
Lionsgate Films | 2014 | 123 min | Rated R | Feb 17, 2015 | Jeffrey Kauffman
A claim jumper and a pioneer woman team up to escort three insane women from Nebraska to Iowa.
Drama / Western
Beach Blanket Bingo Blu-ray Movie
Olive Films | 1965 | 98 min | Not rated | Feb 17, 2015 | Jeffrey Kauffman
In the fourth of the highly successful Frankie and Annette beach party movies, a motorcycle gang led by Eric Von Zipper kidnaps singing star Sugar Kane managed by Bullets, who hires sky-diving surfers Steve and Bonnie from Big Drop for a publicity stunt. With the usual gang of kids and a mermaid named Lorelei.
Comedy
The Theory of Everything Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + DVD + UV Digital Copy
Universal Studios | 2014 | 123 min | Rated PG-13 | Feb 17, 2015 | Martin Liebman
A look at the relationship between the famous physicist Stephen Hawking and his wife.
Biography / Drama
Skating to New York Blu-ray Movie
Well Go USA | 2013 | 93 min | Rated PG-13 | Feb 17, 2015 | Jeffrey Kauffman
The coming-of-age journey of 5 teenage boys who leave their small, Canadian town behind and risk skating across Lake Ontario to New York on the coldest day of the year.
Drama / Sport
V/H/S: Viral Blu-ray Movie
Magnolia Pictures | 2014 | 81 min | Rated R | Feb 17, 2015 | Michael Reuben
Fame-obsessed teens unwittingly become stars of the next Internet sensation. A magician performs real magic—at a price. A scientist enters a parallel universe. And skateboarding teens find themselves playing first-person shooter with real zombies.
Horror / Thriller
- February 15, 2015
Rabid Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + DVD
Arrow | 1977 | 91 min | Rated BBFC: 18 | Feb 16, 2015 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
A young woman develops a taste for human blood after undergoing experimental plastic surgery, and her victims turn into rabid, bloodthirsty zombies who proceed to infect others, which turns into a citywide epidemic.
Horror
- February 14, 2015
Greatful Dead Blu-ray Movie
Gureitofuru deddo / グレイトフルデッド
Third Window Films | 2013 | 98 min | Rated BBFC: 18 | Jan 26, 2015 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
No synopsis for this title.
Horror / Foreign
Life Itself Blu-ray Movie
Magnolia Pictures | 2014 | 121 min | Rated R | Feb 17, 2015 | Michael Reuben
In 2013, we lost Roger Ebert, arguably the nation's most influential and popular film critic. Based on his memoir of the same name, Life Itself recounts Ebert's fascinating and flawed journey from politicized school newspaperman to Chicago Sun-Times movie critic to Pulitzer Prize winner to television household name. Along the way, he tries to overcome his alcoholism and finds lasting love relatively late in life.
Biography / Documentary
Open Windows Blu-ray Movie
Cinedigm | 2014 | 100 min | Not rated | Jan 27, 2015 | Jeffrey Kauffman
Nick is excited to discover that he's won a dinner date with his favorite actress, Jill Goddard. But when Jill refuses to honor the contest, her manager Chord makes an offer he can't refuse - the ability to view Jill secretly via computer. Nick begins watching the unknowing star on her webcam, not realizing that this decision will put both himself and Jill at risk as they enter a terrifying world of cat-and-mouse where nothing, and no one are as they seem.
Horror / Thriller
The Interview Blu-ray Movie
Freedom Edition / Blu-ray + UV Digital Copy
Sony Pictures | 2014 | 112 min | Rated R | Feb 17, 2015 | Martin Liebman
Dave Skylark and his producer Aaron Rapaport run the celebrity tabloid show "Skylark Tonight". When they land an interview with a surprise fan, North Korean dictator Jong-Un Kim, they are recruited by the CIA to assassinate him.
Action / Adventure / Comedy
Black Sunday Blu-ray Movie
AIP Cut
Kino Lorber | 1960 | 83 min | Unrated | Feb 24, 2015 | Brian Orndorf
A Bavarian princess, burned at the stake with her lover for being a witch, comes to life after three hundred years to enact the curse of revenge on her remaining family members.
Horror / Foreign
- February 13, 2015
Das Wilde Schaf Blu-ray Movie
Le mouton enragé / Love at the Top
Rough Trade | 1974 | 101 min | Rated FSK-16 | May 30, 2014 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
A cynical tragicomedy focusing on the different ways of love in the times of the sexual revolution. Nicholas Mallet, an inconspicuous and shy bank employee, one day successfully invites Marie-Paul, a young woman he hadn't known before, in the streets of Paris to a café and sleeps with her the next day. When he tells his surprised friend Claude about the incident, the disillusioned and handicapped writer develops a plan to control and manipulate Nicholas' life. First of all, he procures him to Roberte, a professor of philosophy's frustrated and bored wife.
Comedy / Drama / Romance / Foreign
The Phantom of the Opera Blu-ray Movie
Shout Factory | 1989 | 93 min | Rated R | Feb 17, 2015 | Jeffrey Kauffman
A darker version of the classic Gaston Leroux novel. A young soprano becomes the obsession of a horribly disfigured composer who has plans for those oppose himself or the young singer...
Drama / Horror
Caveman Blu-ray Movie
Olive Films | 1981 | 91 min | Rated PG | Feb 17, 2015 | Jeffrey Kauffman
Prehistoric life is tough for poor, lovesick Atouk (Starr). As the smallest and weakest caveman of his tribe, he is unable to win the heart of the beautiful Lana (Bach) and is banished from the cave by Lana's mate, Tonda (NFL star John Matuszak), the hulking chief of the tribe. Forced to wander the ancient wilderness, Atouk meets a variety of unlikely allies who, after hearing his story, want to help him get back in with his clan. And before Atouk knows it, he's the chief of his own tribe...of misfits! Leading his rag-tag band of oddballs into battle, Atouk has one mission in mind: to knock Tonda off his throne and carry Lana away...by her hair!
Comedy / Sci-Fi
The Purple Rose of Cairo Blu-ray Movie
Limited Edition to 3000 - SOLD OUT
Twilight Time | 1985 | 82 min | Rated PG | Jan 20, 2015 | Jeffrey Kauffman
In 1930s New Jersey, the quiet Cecilia escapes from her sad and tedious life, including an unfaithful husband, through the magic of movies. In a magical twist, a character in a film sees her through the screen, falls in love, and enters the real world to be with her. The ambitious actor who portrays the character comes to the small town to convince his creation to return through the screen.
Comedy / Fantasy / Romance
Rosewater Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + DVD + UV Digital Copy
Universal Studios | 2014 | 104 min | Rated R | Feb 10, 2015 | Martin Liebman
A journalist is detained in Iran for more than 100 days and brutally interrogated in prison.
Biography / Drama
How to Get Ahead in Advertising Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + DVD
Arrow | 1989 | 94 min | Rated BBFC: 15 | Feb 09, 2015 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
London advertising executive Dennis Bagley seems to have it all: a big house, a lovely wife and a flourishing career. But when he hits a dry spell and can't come up with a campaign for a new pimple cream, a very unusual boil appears on his shoulder. One day, the boil begins to talk -- but Bagley's the only one who can hear it.
Comedy / Fantasy