New Blu-ray Reviews

Love at First Bite Blu-ray Movie  

Shout Factory | 1979 | 94 min | Rated PG | No Release Date | Jeffrey Kauffman

This vampire spoof has Count Dracula moving to New York to find his Bride, after being forced to move out of his Transylvanian castle. There with the aid of assistant Renfield, he stumbles through typical New York city life situations while pursuing Cindy Soundheim. But her boyfriend, Doctor Jeff Rosenberg, realizes she is under the influence of a vampire, and tries his bumbling best to convince police Lt Ferguson of what is going on, and to help him stop Dracula.

Comedy / Drama / Horror / Romance

Once Bitten Blu-ray Movie  

Shout Factory | 1985 | 94 min | Rated PG-13 | No Release Date | Jeffrey Kauffman

Once Bitten is a horror comedy that chronicles the attempts of a bloodthirsty female vampire living in modern day Los Angeles to find the three male virgins she needs every year to stay alive and young-looking. If she cannot do it by Halloween, she will surely die.

Comedy / Horror

Fellini Satyricon Blu-ray Movie  

Criterion | 1969 | 130 min | Rated R | Feb 24, 2015 | Dr. Svet Atanasov

The exploits of two pansexual young men—the handsome scholar Encolpius and his vulgar, insatiably lusty friend Ascyltus—as they move through a landscape of free-form pagan excess.

Drama / Fantasy / History / Foreign

Trophy Heads Blu-ray Movie  

Full Moon Features | 2014 | 88 min | Unrated | Jan 15, 2015 | Martin Liebman

An obsessed fan hunts down his favorite actresses.

Horror

Far from the Madding Crowd Blu-ray Movie  

Warner Archive Collection

Warner Bros. | 1967 | 171 min | Not rated | Feb 10, 2015 | Michael Reuben

A 19th Century Englishwoman inherits a farm and is loved by three very different men: a handsome and wayward soldier, a neighboring land owner and an ever-patient shepherd. From the novel by Thomas Hardy.

Drama / Romance / Period

Game of Thrones: The Complete Fourth Season Blu-ray Movie  

Blu-ray + UV Digital Copy

HBO | 2014 | 560 min | Rated TV-MA | Feb 17, 2015 | Kenneth Brown

Summers span decades. Winters can last a lifetime. And the struggle for the Iron Throne has begun. It will stretch from the south, where heat breeds plots, lusts and intrigues; to the vast and savage eastern lands; and all the way to the frozen north, where an 800-foot wall of ice protects the kingdom from the dark forces that lie beyond. Kings and queens, knights and renegades, liars, lords, and honest men...all will play the “Game of Thrones.”

Action / Adventure / Drama / Fantasy / Epic

Love & Basketball Blu-ray Movie  

Warner Bros. | 2000 | 125 min | Rated PG-13 | Feb 03, 2015 | Michael Reuben

Monica and Quincy spent their lives bonding over their mutual love of basketball, but something always got in the way of them being together. This time, Monica's not letting go so easily. It's just the two of them, one on one, and the stakes have never been higher.

Drama / Romance / Sport / Teen

Syncopation Blu-ray Movie  

Cohen Media Group | 1942 | 88 min | Not rated | Feb 10, 2015 | Jeffrey Kauffman

This musical chronicles the history of jazz music and features many of the most popular musical acts from the early 1940s, including Gene Krupa and Benny Goodman. The story centers on a trumpet player who falls for a young woman with an equal passion for music. Unfortunately, the girl is still grieving for her true-love whom she lost during the war. The trumpeter begins working to get the girl to trust her. He simultaneously tries to start a band. Songs include: "Goin' Up the River" (Dave Torbett, Leith Stevens), "You Made Me Love You" (Joseph McCarthy, James V. Monaco), "Only Worry for a Pillow," "Chicago Ragtime" (Stevens), "Under a Falling Star" (Rich Hall, Stevens, sung by Connie Boswell), and "Slave Market" (Hall Johnson).

Comedy / History / Music / Musical / Romance

Jimi: All Is by My Side Blu-ray Movie    

Curzon Film World | 2013 | 118 min | Rated BBFC: 15 | Jan 26, 2015 | Dr. Svet Atanasov

A drama based on Jimi Hendrix's pre-fame years.

Biography / Drama

The Best of Me Blu-ray Movie  

Tears of Joy Edition / Blu-ray + UV Digital Copy

20th Century Fox / Relativity | 2014 | 1 Movie, 2 Cuts | 117 min | Rated PG-13 | Feb 03, 2015 | Jeffrey Kauffman

A pair of former high school sweethearts reunite after many years when they return to visit their small hometown.

Drama / Romance

My Best Friend's Wedding Blu-ray Movie  

Blu-ray + UV Digital Copy

Sony Pictures | 1997 | 105 min | Rated PG-13 | Feb 03, 2015 | Martin Liebman

A 28-year-old woman, who years earlier made a pact with her closest male friend that if neither were married in ten years time they would marry one another, now faces the fact that the man is about to marry someone else. He asks her to be his "best man" and she agrees, going to the ceremony to break up the couple before they exchange their vows.

Comedy / Romance

Enemy Blu-ray Movie    

Curzon Film World | 2013 | 91 min | Rated BBFC: 15 | Feb 09, 2015 | Dr. Svet Atanasov

Jake Gyllenhall plays Adam, a university lecturer nearing the end of his relationship with girlfriend Mary. One night, when watching a film, Adam spots a minor actor who looks just like him. Consumed by the desire to meet his double, he obsessively tracks down the actor and engages him in a complex and dangerous struggle. Dark, gripping and pulsating with atmosphere, ‘Enemy’ is a haunting and provocative thriller based on the novel ‘The Double’ by Nobel laureate José Saramago.

Mystery / Thriller / Psychological thriller / Erotic / Surreal

Into the Woods Blu-ray Movie  

Stereo remaster

RLJ Entertainment | 1991 | 152 min | Not rated | Feb 10, 2015 | Michael Reuben

A baker and his wife journey into the woods in search of a cow, a red cape, a golden slipper and some yellow hair — all necessary to lift the curse that has kept them childless. They meet up with a cast of characters drawn from classic fairy tales in a modern re-imagining of those stories. From the original Broadway production of the musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and book by James Lapine.

Adventure / Comedy / Drama / Fantasy / Musical / Dark humor

Lust for Life Blu-ray Movie  

Warner Bros. | 1956 | 122 min | Not rated | Feb 03, 2015 | Michael Reuben

A semi-fictional account of the life of painter Vincent van Gogh, including his many personal struggles as he pursued his unique expression of color and form. Despite the approval of a few fellow artists, notably Paul Gauguin, with whom van Gogh had a famously contentious friendship, only Vincent's brother, Theo, remains steadfast in his support.

Biography / Drama

Nightcrawler Blu-ray Movie  

Blu-ray + DVD + UV Digital Copy

Universal Studios | 2014 | 118 min | Rated R | Feb 10, 2015 | Kenneth Brown

A young man stumbles upon the underground world of L.A. freelance crime journalism.

Crime / Drama / Film-Noir / Thriller

My Old Lady Blu-ray Movie  

Blu-ray + UV Digital Copy

Universal Studios | 2014 | 108 min | Rated PG-13 | Jan 27, 2015 | Martin Liebman

An American inherits an apartment in Paris that comes with an unexpected resident.

Comedy / Drama

Psych-Out Blu-ray Movie  

Extended Director's Cut

Olive Films | 1968 | 101 min | Not rated | Feb 17, 2015 | Jeffrey Kauffman

A deaf runaway arrives in San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury hippie district looking for her missing brother.

Drama / Music / Thriller

Intruders: Season 1 Blu-ray Movie  

BBC | 2014 | 360 min | Rated TV-14 | Dec 23, 2014 | Kenneth Brown

No synopsis for this title.

Mystery / Thriller

101 Dalmatians Blu-ray Movie  

Diamond Edition / Blu-ray + DVD + Digital Copy

Disney / Buena Vista | 1961 | 79 min | Rated G | Feb 10, 2015 | Kenneth Brown

Roger and Anita meet cute through their dalmatians, Pongo and Perdita. All is wedded bliss until Anita's old college chum, Cruella DeVil, who has a psychotic obsession with fur, catches sight of Pongo and Perdita's puppies and hatches a plot to steal all the dalmatian pups she can find to make an enormous fur coat. Soon, the puppies have been dognapped and Pongo must lead a heroic cast of animals to rescue the pups before it's too late.

Adventure / Animation / Comedy / Family

Ganja & Hess Blu-ray Movie    

Eureka Classics / Blu-ray + DVD

Eureka Entertainment | 1973 | 113 min | Rated BBFC: 18 | Jan 26, 2015 | Dr. Svet Atanasov

Dr. Hess Green, an archaeologist overseeing an excavation at the ancient civilization of Myrthia, is stabbed by his research assistant, who then commits suicide. When Hess wakes up, he finds that his wounds have healed, but he now has an insatiable thirst for blood. It turns out that the knife he was stabbed with carried ancient germs that have turned him into a vampire. Soon after, Hess meets his former assistant's wife, Ganja. Though Ganja is initially concerned about her missing husband, she soon falls for Hess. Though they are initially happy together, Ganja will eventually learn the truth about Hess, and about her husband. Will she survive the revelation? Will Hess?

Horror