New Blu-ray Reviews
Home- February 13, 2015
Coppelion: The Complete Series Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + DVD
Viz Media | 2013 | 312 min | Rated TV-14 | Feb 03, 2015 | Kenneth Brown
No synopsis for this title.
Action / Anime / Sci-Fi / Foreign
52 Pick-Up Blu-ray Movie
Kino Lorber | 1986 | 110 min | Rated R | Feb 24, 2015 | Brian Orndorf
Harry Mitchell, an L.A. manufacturer with a fancy car, a nice house, and a wife running for city council, has his life overturned when three hooded blackmailers appear with a video tape of Harry and his young mistress. He's been set up, and they want $100,000. To protect his wife's political ambitions, Harry won't go to the police; instead, he shines them on and then doesn't pay. They up their demands, so he goes on the offensive, tracking them down and trying to turn one against the other. Their sociopathic leader, Alan, responds with violence toward the mistress and menace toward Harry's wife. Will Harry let up and pay off Alan or can he find some other solution?
Action / Crime / Drama / Thriller
- February 12, 2015
The Lookalike Blu-ray Movie
Well Go USA | 2014 | 100 min | Not rated | Feb 10, 2015 | Jeffrey Kauffman
Joe is a good guy who only started dealing drugs to pay off his father’s debts. So when his boss presents him with one last job, it’s his chance to make some serious cash before leaving "the life" for good. He’s got 24 hours to find a girl who looks like Sadie Hill - the object of obsession for crazy drug lord William Spinks. Spinks is willing to pay big money for the chance to spend the night with Sadie, but what he doesn’t know is that she’s dead. With the promise of enough money to solve all his problems, Joe and his younger brother Holt, set out to find the perfect candidate: a lookalike. But their shady plan propels them into a desperate quest where money is no longer the priority. They just want to get out alive.
Crime / Drama
Exit Speed Blu-ray Movie
Phase 4 Films | 2008 | 91 min | Rated R | Sep 08, 2009 | Martin Liebman
On Christmas Eve, ten passengers board a bus traveling across Texas. Most are heading for home, family and friends. Some are in search of new jobs. One, an Army deserter, is trying to stay a jump ahead of the Military Police. On an empty section of highway, the bus collides with a nomadic biker wired on crystal meth. When the passengers go to his aid, he opens fire on the bus. Terrified, the passengers set upon him and kill him. The murder is witnessed by eight other members of the biker's pack. The passengers flee on the bus with the bikers in pursuit. Forced off the road, the passengers take refuge in an abandoned wrecking yard. As they watch in horror, the bikers surround the place before sending one of their own to bring back the rest of the pack. While the remaining bikers launch probing attacks, the passengers rely on improvised weapons and sheer guts to mount a defense. Their numbers dwindling, the passengers realize they must do the unthinkable in order to survive.
Action / Thriller
Birdman Blu-ray Movie
Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) / Blu-ray + UV Digital Copy
20th Century Fox | 2014 | 119 min | Rated R | Feb 17, 2015 | Jeffrey Kauffman
A washed-up actor who once played an iconic superhero must overcome his ego and family trouble as he mounts a Broadway play in a bid to reclaim his past glory.
Comedy / Drama / Dark humor
The Soft Skin Blu-ray Movie
La peau douce
Criterion | 1964 | 118 min | Not rated | Mar 10, 2015 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
A celebrated literary scholar, seemingly happily married, embarks on an affair with a gorgeous stewardess, who is captivated by his charm and reputation.
Drama / Romance / Foreign
- February 11, 2015
The Official Review of the 2014 FIA Formula One World Championship Blu-ray Movie
Duke Video Distribution | 2014 | 319 min | Rated E | Jan 20, 2015 | Martin Liebman
Official Review of the 2014 FIA Formula One World Championship on spectacular blu-ray. Relive the fantastic highlights of an action-packed season.
Documentary / Sport
Nurse Jackie: Season Six Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + UV Digital Copy
Lionsgate Films | 2014 | 336 min | Rated TV-MA | Feb 10, 2015 | Jeffrey Kauffman
No synopsis for this title.
Comedy / Drama
Poker Night Blu-ray Movie
XLrator | 2014 | 105 min | Not rated | Feb 10, 2015 | Michael Reuben
When you become a detective in Warsaw, Indiana, you go to Poker Night, where you play against some of the best cops in the business, who tell you stories about their time on the job. After new Detective Stan Jeter leaves the game, he is caught by a vicious psychopath and locked in a basement, where he must match wits against his captor.
Action / Crime / Thriller
Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + Digital Copy
Disney / Buena Vista | 2014 | 81 min | Rated PG | Feb 10, 2015 | Kenneth Brown
Alexander wakes up with gum in his hair, and things just get worse as his day progresses.
Comedy / Family
Atlantis: Season Two Part One Blu-ray Movie
BBC | 2014 | 270 min | Not rated | Feb 10, 2015 | Kenneth Brown
Jason begins in contemporary Britain but is soon sucked into a vortex and transported back to the city of Atlantis. Thrust into a time and place he thought only existed in stories, he finds himself becoming firm friends with the legendary Pythagoras and Hercules. Alongside his new found friends, Jason sets out on a series of adventures to understand more about his mysterious past and to discover his true destiny. Along the way he meets, befriends and fights many famous figures from Greek mythology in a series that combines action and humor, romance and mythology, spectacle and surprise.
Adventure / Fantasy
- February 10, 2015
Force Majeure Blu-ray Movie
Turist
Magnolia Pictures | 2014 | 120 min | Rated R | Feb 10, 2015 | Michael Reuben
A Swedish family travels to the French Alps to enjoy a few days of skiing. During a lunch at a mountainside restaurant, an avalanche turns everything upside down. The anticipated disaster fails to occur, and yet the family's world has been shaken to its core.
Drama / Dark humor / Foreign
Fear Clinic Blu-ray Movie
Starz / Anchor Bay | 2014 | 95 min | Rated R | Feb 10, 2015 | Martin Liebman
A doctor works to cure patients suffering from crippling phobias by placing them inside his invention, which induces and controls hallucinations.
Horror
Il Était une fois un flic... Blu-ray Movie
Flic Story
Gaumont | 1971 | 96 min | Rated U Tous publics | Jun 04, 2014 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
No synopsis for this title.
Comedy / Crime / Foreign
Brotherhood of Blades Blu-ray Movie
绣春刀
Well Go USA | 2014 | 111 min | Not rated | Feb 10, 2015 | Jeffrey Kauffman
Set in the final years of the Ming Dynasty, as three members of the secret military police tasked by the emperor to hunt down the powerful eunuch who runs another branch of the secret imperial police. However, the three men's loyalties are sorely tested when one of them makes a choice that would embroil them into a dangerous conspiracy.
Action / Romance / Martial arts / Foreign / Period
The World Made Straight Blu-ray Movie
Millennium Media | 2015 | 119 min | Not rated | Feb 17, 2015 | Martin Liebman
In a rural Appalachian community haunted by the legacy of a Civil War massacre, a rebellious young man struggles to escape the violence that would bind him to the past.
Drama
Laggies Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + UV Digital Copy
Lionsgate Films | 2014 | 99 min | Rated R | Feb 10, 2015 | Jeffrey Kauffman
A woman stuck in permanent adolescence lies to her fiancé about going on a retreat and spends the time hanging out with friends instead.
Drama
The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming Blu-ray Movie
Kino Lorber | 1966 | 126 min | Unrated | Feb 10, 2015 | Jeffrey Kauffman
Without hostile intent, a Soviet sub runs aground off New England. Men are sent for a boat, but many villagers go into a tizzy, risking bloodshed.
Comedy / War
- February 09, 2015
Kiss Me, Stupid Blu-ray Movie
Olive Films | 1964 | 125 min | Not rated | Feb 17, 2015 | Jeffrey Kauffman
A jealous piano teacher Orville Spooner sends his beautiful wife, Zelda, away for the night while he tries to sell a song to a famous nightclub singer Dino, who is stranded in town.
Comedy / Romance
Love at First Bite / Once Bitten Blu-ray Movie
Shout Factory | 1979-1985 | 2 Movies | 190 min | Rated PG-13 | Feb 10, 2015 | Jeffrey Kauffman
No synopsis for this title.
Comedy / Drama / Horror / Romance