New Blu-ray Reviews
Home- January 30, 2015
Before I Go to Sleep Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + UV Digital Copy
20th Century Fox | 2014 | 92 min | Rated R | Jan 27, 2015 | Jeffrey Kauffman
Christine Lucas wakes every day with no knowledge of who she is or who the man is sleeping next to her. As she tries to piece together her life using a video journal she has been keeping, the few people around her offer confusing information and conflicting memories.
Drama / Mystery / Psychological thriller
LEGO DC Comics Super Heroes: Justice League vs. Bizarro League Blu-ray Movie
with LEGO Batzarro Mini-Figure / Blu-ray + DVD + UV Digital Copy
Warner Bros. | 2015 | 49 min | Rated TV-Y7-FV | Feb 10, 2015 | Kenneth Brown
Justice League vs Bizarro League - Batman has joined the just formed Justice League in order to keep tabs on Superman, a mistrust that is complicated by Superman’s bad (but well meaning) clone Bizarro and his creation of the Bizarro League, but an even bigger threat forces the two Leagues to join forces.
Action / Adventure / Animation / Family / Fantasy / Sci-Fi / Comic book
- January 29, 2015
Starry Eyes Blu-ray Movie
MPI Media Group | 2014 | 96 min | Not rated | Feb 03, 2015 | Michael Reuben
A hopeful young starlet uncovers the ominous origins of the Hollywood elite and enters into a deadly agreement in exchange for fame and fortune.
Horror
The Weapon Blu-ray Movie
Olive Films | 1956 | 80 min | Not rated | Jan 20, 2015 | Jeffrey Kauffman
A boy finds a gun in the rubble of a destroyed building that turns out to be a clue in a ten-year-old murder case.
Thriller
Get on Up Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + DVD + UV Digital Copy
Universal Studios | 2014 | 139 min | Rated PG-13 | Jan 06, 2015 | Martin Liebman
A chronicle of James Brown's rise from extreme poverty to become one of the most influential musicians in history.
Biography / Drama / Music
Pork Chop Hill Blu-ray Movie
Olive Films | 1959 | 97 min | Not rated | Jan 27, 2015 | Jeffrey Kauffman
Grim story of one of the major battles of the Korean War. While negotiators are at work in Panmunjom trying to bring the conflict to a negotiated end, Lt. Joe Clemons is ordered to launch an attack and retake Pork Cop Hill. It's tough on the soldiers who know that the negotiations are under way and no one wants to die when they think it will all soon be over. The hill is of no particular strategic military value but all part of showing resolve during the negotiations. Under the impression that the battle has been won, battalion headquarters orders some of the men withdrawn when in fact they are in dire need of reinforcements and supplies. As the Chinese prepare to counterattack and broadcast propaganda over loudspeakers, the men prepare for what may be their last battle.
Action / Drama / War
Kill the Messenger Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + DVD + UV Digital Copy
Universal Studios | 2014 | 112 min | Rated R | Feb 10, 2015 | Kenneth Brown
A reporter becomes the target of a vicious smear campaign that drives him to the point of suicide after he exposes the CIA's role in arming Contra rebels in Nicaragua and importing cocaine into California. Based on the true story of journalist Gary Webb.
Biography / Crime / Drama / Mystery / Thriller
- January 28, 2015
The Judge Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + DVD + UV Digital Copy
Warner Bros. | 2014 | 141 min | Rated R | Jan 27, 2015 | Kenneth Brown
A successful lawyer returns to his hometown for his mother's funeral only to discover that his estranged father, the town's judge, is suspected of murder.
Drama
Christine Blu-ray Movie
Sony Pictures | 1983 | 110 min | Rated FSK-16 | Oct 02, 2014 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
Geeky student falls for Christine, a rusty 1958 Plymouth Fury, and becomes obsessed with restoring her to former glory.
Drama / Horror / Mystery / Teen / Supernatural
Emancipation Road Blu-ray Movie
Mill Creek Entertainment | 2014 | 354 min | Not rated | Jan 06, 2015 | Martin Liebman
From The Creators Of The Best-Selling Documentary Series "Up From Slavery"... A 7-Part Compelling Journey Through America's Greatest Saga. In 1860, the nation founded upon an idea that all men are created equal and endowed by their creator with the inalienable rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness had as many as four hundred thousand slave-owners and almost four million slaves. By denying these rights to more than twelve percent of its population, America would soon pay with the blood of a generation. The story of African Slavery in America started with the first permanent English Colony in the 17th century... and ended with the Civil War. But those two hundred and fifty years of struggle were just the beginning. The beginning of a journey down the long Emancipation Road...
Documentary
World for Ransom Blu-ray Movie
Olive Films | 1954 | 82 min | Not rated | Jan 20, 2015 | Jeffrey Kauffman
An adventurer joins a plot to kidnap a scientist who knows the secret of the hydrogen bomb.
Adventure / Crime / Drama / Film-Noir / Thriller
Cheek to Cheek: Live Blu-ray Movie
Tony Bennett and Lady Gaga
Universal Music | 2014 | 75 min | Not rated | Jan 20, 2015 | Jeffrey Kauffman
Tony Bennett & Lady Gaga: Cheek To Cheek LIVE! features a handpicked selection of jazz standards performed by Tony Bennett and Lady Gaga from their critically acclaimed #1 album Cheek To Cheek. Filmed on July 28, 2014, at Jazz at Lincoln Center's Frederick P. Rose Hall, the special evening aired as part of the PBS Arts Fall Festival 2014 on THIRTEEN's Great Performances.
Music
- January 27, 2015
Justice League: Throne of Atlantis Blu-ray Movie
DC Universe Animated Original Movie #22 / Blu-ray + DVD + UV Digital Copy
Warner Bros. | 2015 | 72 min | Rated PG-13 | Jan 27, 2015 | Kenneth Brown
In the aftermath of Justice League:War, the world is at peace or so it seems. When Atlantis attacks the Metropolis for the death of their king. But the Queen has diffrent plans and requires the Justice League to find her lost son. But while they search for him, Atlantian troops; lead by Ocean Master, continue their assault. Who will win?
Action / Adventure / Animation / Fantasy / Sci-Fi / Comic book
Le Pont du Nord Blu-ray Movie
Kino Lorber | 1981 | 128 min | Not rated | Feb 17, 2015 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
Marie is a claustrophobic ex-con who, shortly after wandering into Paris, encounters the wild and potentially troubled young woman Baptiste. Baptiste accompanies Marie on her quest to solve the mystery behind the contents of her former lover's suitcase.
Comedy / Drama / Foreign
The Pit and the Pendulum Blu-ray Movie
Full Moon Features | 1991 | 97 min | Rated R | Apr 30, 2013 | Martin Liebman
In the quest to save souls, the Spanish inquisition will stop at nothing and knows no boundaries for its evil. Under the direction of Torquemada the Grand Inquisitor of Spain, a young baker’s wife named María is falsely accused of witchcraft and dragged before the Inquisition and the Cardinal. Torquemada is enchanted by María’s beauty and subjects her and her husband Antonio to heinous tortures hoping to prove that his own desires for her are a result of her magic, and that she has “bewitched him”. With the help of Esmeralda, María’s cellmate and confessed witch, María must find the power to save her husband Antonio from Torquemada’s ultimate machine of torture: the inevitable, razor sharp pendulum poised over the inescapable pit of hell
Horror
Why Don't You Play in Hell? Blu-ray Movie
Jigoku de naze warui
Drafthouse Films | 2013 | 130 min | Not rated | Jan 27, 2015 | Michael Reuben
A renegade film crew becomes embroiled with a yakuza clan feud.
Action / Comedy / Crime / Drama / Foreign
- January 26, 2015
Every Man for Himself Blu-ray Movie
Sauve qui peut (la vie)
Criterion | 1980 | 88 min | Not rated | Feb 03, 2015 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
A look at the sexual and professional lives of three people—a television director, his ex-girlfriend, and a prostitute.
Drama / Foreign
Finding Fęla Blu-ray Movie
Kino Lorber | 2014 | 120 min | Not rated | Jan 13, 2015 | Brian Orndorf
A look at the life and music of Nigerian singer Fela Kuti.
Biography / Documentary / History / Music
Young Ones Blu-ray Movie
Screen Media | 2014 | 100 min | Rated R | Jan 13, 2015 | Brian Orndorf
Set in a near future when water has become the most precious and dwindling resource on the planet, one that dictates everything from the macro of political policy to the detailed micro of interpersonal family and romantic relationships. The land has withered into something wretched. The dust has settled on a lonely, barren planet. The hardened survivors of the loss of Earth's precious resources scrape and struggle.
Action / Drama / Sci-Fi
Jean de Florette / Manon of the Spring Blu-ray Movie
Shout Factory | 1986 | 2 Movies | 233 min | Rated PG | Jan 27, 2015 | Jeffrey Kauffman
No synopsis for this title.
Drama / Romance