New Blu-ray Reviews
Home- January 22, 2015
The Drop Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + UV Digital Copy
20th Century Fox | 2014 | 106 min | Rated R | Jan 20, 2015 | Jeffrey Kauffman
Bob is the bartender at a drop bar, a location at which the city's criminals store their dirty money. His life is upended and the people he cares for endangered after thieves rob the bar.
Crime / Drama / Thriller
Bloodstone: Subspecies II Blu-ray Movie
Full Moon Features | 1993 | 87 min | Rated R | May 21, 2013 | Martin Liebman
Continuing after the first "Subspecies", a woman who has just become a vampire tries to escape the evil vampire, Radu, who seeks her as his love interest. But she has taken the vampire family's bloodstone, and now Radu must find her to get it back. While her sister comes to Romania to save her soul. It might be to late...
Fantasy / Horror / Thriller
Bloodlust: Subspecies III Blu-ray Movie
Full Moon Features | 1994 | 82 min | Rated R | May 21, 2013 | Martin Liebman
First there was SUBSPECIES (1991) a vampire flick actually filmed on location in Transylvania. This one concerned an attack by, and eventual subduing of, high-tech bloodsuckers. In BLOODSTONE: SUBSPECIES 2 (1993) surviving vampire Radu (Anders Hove), in concert with his repulsive mother, decimates the Rumanian countryside. The story is further elaborated upon in BLOODLUST 3: SUBSPECIES (aka BLOODLUST: SUBSPECIES 3). This time, Radu goes after Michelle (Denice Duff), who's successfully thwarted him in the past. Michelle learns that Radu's plans go far beyond Transylvania-he must be stopped for good!
Fantasy / Horror / Thriller
Kung Fu Jungle Blu-ray Movie
一個人的武林
Vicol Entertainment | 2014 | 100 min | Rated IIB | Dec 23, 2014 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
A martial arts instructor from the police force gets imprisoned after killing a man by accident. But when a vicious killer starts targeting martial arts masters, the instructor offers to help the police in return for his freedom.
Action / Crime / Thriller / Martial arts / Foreign
Once Upon a Time in Shanghai Blu-ray Movie
Da Shang Hai Tan Zhi Ma Yong Zhen / E Zhan
Well Go USA | 2014 | 91 min | Not rated | Jan 13, 2015 | Jeffrey Kauffman
Possessing unique martial arts skills since childhood, Ma Yongzhen (Philip Ng) travels from his hometown to Shanghai to seek a livelihood. There he meets rising overlord Lung Chat (Andy On). The two youth who both possess a dream quickly befriend each other and they become brothers after going through difficulties together. Since then, the two brothers have worked hard together, defeating numerous enemies, and took down the largest triad gang the Axe Gang in one swoop, which makes them renown throughout Shanghai. At the same time, Ma also got help from retired kung fu master, the Iron Leader (Sammo Hung), to fight their common enemy.
Action / Crime / Martial arts / Foreign
- January 21, 2015
Henry V Blu-ray Movie
Shout Factory | 1989 | 138 min | Rated PG-13 | Jan 27, 2015 | Jeffrey Kauffman
The gritty adaption of William Shakespeare's play about the English King's bloody conquest of France.
Drama / History / War
Night Train to Lisbon Blu-ray Movie
Treno Di Notte Per Lisbona
Academy 2 | 2013 | 111 min | Rated T | Nov 06, 2013 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
About an aging Swiss professor of classical languages who, after a chance encounter with a Portuguese woman, quits his job and travels to Lisbon in the hope of discovering the fate of a certain author, a doctor and poet who fought against Portuguese dictator Antonio de Oliveira Salazar.
Mystery / Romance / Thriller
Trancers II: The Return of Jack Deth Blu-ray Movie
Full Moon Features | 1991 | 88 min | Rated R | May 19, 2015 | Martin Liebman
It is Los Angeles, 1991. Jack Deth has become accustomed to life with his new wife, Lena, in the six years since they singed Whistler. Hap Ashby, a former pitcher for the California Angels, had gotten his life out of the gutter and made quite a fortune investing, which he uses to finance his collection of fire trucks, among other things. But life is about to become a little more difficult for Jack and the gang. Whistler's brother, E.D. Wardo, has gome back in time and has started a trancer farm under the organization known as GreenWorld. GreenWorld strives to 'clean up the world', but in reality they are kidnapping homeless people and mental patients to become 'tranced'. And they're after Hap, the ancestor of a future Council Member. Jack's quite ready to singe a few trancers, but he isn't expecting his dead wife to show up. Through the power of technology, Alice has been saved from death and sent back to 1991 to help Jack and stop Wardo. The tension mounts as Lena becomes more distraught by the thought of Jack leaving her for another woman, Hap slips back into his alcoholic habits to deal with the stress, and Jack realizes that when Alice returns to the future, she'll die the next day. But somehow, Jack'll find a way to fix everything. He always does.
Action / Sci-Fi
The Mule Blu-ray Movie
XLrator | 2014 | 103 min | Not rated | Jan 20, 2015 | Michael Reuben
A first time drug mule is caught by law enforcement.
Comedy / Crime
Downton Abbey: Season 5 Blu-ray Movie
Masterpiece Classic: Downton Abbey | Original UK Edition
PBS | 2014 | 533 min | Not rated | Jan 27, 2015 | Brian Orndorf
Covering the months from February to December 1924, Series 5 will continue some of the storylines established in Series 4, including Mary Crawley’s relationship with Anthony Foyle and Charles Blake, Tom Branson’s flirtation with Sarah Bunting, Edith Crawley’s pregnancy, and will explore the aftermath of Rose MacClare’s broken engagement with Jack Ross.
Drama / Romance / War / Period
- January 20, 2015
La Ciénaga Blu-ray Movie
The Swamp
Criterion | 2001 | 101 min | Not rated | Jan 27, 2015 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
A series of surreal moments and twisted family relationships is revealed as two large families spend a torpid summer together in a faded resort town in Northwest Argentina.
Comedy / Drama / Foreign
King Blu-ray Movie
The Martin Luther King Story
Olive Films | 1978 | 271 min | Not rated | Jan 27, 2015 | Jeffrey Kauffman
Starring Paul Winfield, Cicely Tyson and Ossie Davis, King is a riveting tale that appropriately honors a true legend. In 1950s/60s America, the civil rights movement found its leader in a Southern Baptist minister. Using lyrical eloquence, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., motivated masses of people - black and white - to demand equality by way of nonviolent protest. But in spite of his peaceful agenda, Dr. King was often the target of terrible violence. He was never swayed from his path, however; for by the time he was assassinated in 1968, Dr. King had already defined a dream that would change a nation forever.
Biography / Drama
Leviathan - The Last Defense: Complete Collection Blu-ray Movie
Sentai Filmworks | 2013 | 325 min | Rated TV-14 | Feb 03, 2015 | Jeffrey Kauffman
The land of Aquafall is a paradise, where life in all forms flourishes in peace and abundance. But when meteors rain down, each impact spawns hideous monsters sent by an enemy that wants to claim the green world for its own! Fortunately, the fairy Syrup is on guard and knows exactly what to do, and recruits an extraordinary team of young women to form the Aquafall Defenders. There's the incredibly strong Jormungand, the fire-conjuring Bahamut, and the water-bending Leviathan. Unfortunately none of them are ideal warrior material, and Syrup will have her work cut out for her when it comes to teaching them to work together. Even if they manage to survive and unite as a team, can three lone girls really turn the tide of an alien invasion? Well, it might help that they've all got a little bit of Dragon in them! The scales of fate will turn as the future of Aquafall hangs in the balance in LEVIATHAN ~ THE LAST DEFENSE!
Adventure / Anime / Comedy / Fantasy / Foreign
The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby Blu-ray Movie
Includes "Him", "Her", and "Them" Cuts
Starz / Anchor Bay | 2014 | 3 Movies | 123 min | Rated R | Feb 03, 2015 | Martin Liebman
A chronicle of a relationship's highs and lows as shown through the eyes of both lovers. He is a restaurant owner, and she has returned to her parents' home and college after a failed suicide attempt.
Drama / Romance
The Boxtrolls 3D Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray 3D + Blu-ray + DVD + UV Digital Copy
Universal Studios | 2014 | 97 min | Rated PG | Jan 20, 2015 | Kenneth Brown
Set in a fantasy version of 1850s London, a 12-year-old, who's grown up in an underground world beneath the city that is full of monsters, must find his way in the world when he moves to the surface to live like a normal boy.
Adventure / Animation / Comedy / Family / Fantasy / Imaginary
White Bird in a Blizzard Blu-ray Movie
Magnolia Pictures | 2014 | 91 min | Rated R | Jan 20, 2015 | Michael Reuben
In 1988, a teenage girl's life is thrown into chaos when her mother disappears.
Drama / Mystery / Thriller / Teen / Period / Coming of age
- January 19, 2015
Annabelle Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + DVD + UV Digital Copy
Warner Bros. | 2014 | 99 min | Rated R | Jan 20, 2015 | Kenneth Brown
A couple begin to experience terrifying supernatural occurrences involving a vintage doll shortly after their home is invaded by satanic cultists.
Horror / Supernatural / Period
An Autumn Afternoon Blu-ray Movie
秋刀魚の味 / Sanma no aji
Criterion | 1962 | 114 min | Not rated | Feb 17, 2015 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
Though the widower Shuhei has been living comfortably for years with his grown daughter, a series of events leads him to accept and encourage her marriage and departure from their home.
Drama / Foreign
The Remaining Blu-ray Movie
Sony Pictures | 2014 | 88 min | Rated PG-13 | Jan 27, 2015 | Martin Liebman
A supernatural thriller that addresses questions of life, love and belief against an apocalyptic backdrop. A group of close friends gather for a wedding, but the celebration is shattered by a series of cataclysmic events and enemies foretold by biblical end-times prophecies. The survivors face a horrifying, uncertain future as they scramble for safety, but as their world collapses around them in chaos and terror will they choose real life through faith, or just try to survive?
Horror / Thriller
Don't Look Now Blu-ray Movie
Criterion | 1973 | 110 min | Not rated | Feb 10, 2015 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
A married couple grieving the recent death of their young daughter are in Venice when they encounter two elderly sisters, one of whom is psychic and brings a warning from beyond.
Drama / Horror / Mystery / Thriller / Psychological thriller / Supernatural / Surreal