New Blu-ray Reviews
Home- January 15, 2015
Angry Video Game Nerd: The Movie Blu-ray Movie
Screenwave Media | 2014 | 115 min | Not rated | Dec 12, 2014 | Martin Liebman
The AVGN must overcome his phobia of the worst video game in the world to save his fans.
Action / Adventure / Comedy / Sci-Fi
- January 14, 2015
The Zero Theorem Blu-ray Movie
Well Go USA | 2013 | 107 min | Rated R | Jan 20, 2015 | Jeffrey Kauffman
A computer hacker's goal to discover the reason for human existence continually finds his work interrupted thanks to the Management; this time, they send a teenager and lusty love interest to distract him.
Drama / Mystery / Sci-Fi / Thriller
Demonic Toys Blu-ray Movie
Full Moon Features | 1992 | 83 min | Rated R | Jan 28, 2014 | Martin Liebman
A policewoman, her quarry and an innocent delivery boy become trapped in a haunted toy warehouse.
Comedy / Horror
The Two Faces of January Blu-ray Movie
Magnolia Pictures | 2014 | 97 min | Rated PG-13 | Jan 13, 2015 | Michael Reuben
1962. While sightseeing at the Acropolis in Athens, a glamorous American couple, the charismatic Chester MacFarland and his alluring younger wife, Colette, encounter Rydal, a young, Greek-speaking American who is working as a tour guide, scamming tourists on the side. Drawn to Colette's beauty and impressed by Chester's wealth and sophistication, Rydal gladly accepts their invitation to dinner. However, all is not as it seems with the MacFarlands, and Chester's affable exterior hides darker secrets.
Thriller
Genesis: Sum of the Parts Blu-ray Movie
Eagle Rock Entertainment | 2014 | 124 min | Not rated | Jan 13, 2015 | Jeffrey Kauffman
No synopsis for this title.
Documentary / Music
- January 13, 2015
Wooden Crosses Blu-ray Movie
Les croix de bois
Pathe Distribution | 1932 | 115 min | Rated U Tous publics | Nov 12, 2014 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
The young and patriotic student Demachy joins the French army in 1914 to defend his country. But he and his comrades soon experience the terrifying, endless trench war in Champagne, where more and more wooden crosses have to be erected for this cannon fodder.
Drama / War / Foreign
The Razor's Edge Blu-ray Movie
Fox Studio Classics
20th Century Fox | 1946 | 145 min | Not rated | Jan 13, 2015 | Jeffrey Kauffman
Tyrone Power and Gene Tierney bring renowned novelist W. Somerset Maugham's best-seller to life in this mesmerizing film classic which questions society's values. Narrated by onscreen observer Maugham (Herbert Marshall), this intriguing tale centers on a soul-searching World War I veteran (Power) who finds he cannot settle back into the world of the upper class. Shunning his planned marriage and career, he travels abroad to seek the meaning of life and causes his distraught fiancee (Tierney) to seek solace with another man (John Payne).
Adventure / Drama / Romance / Period
The Art of War Blu-ray Movie
Warner Bros. | 2000 | 117 min | Rated R | Jan 13, 2015 | Michael Reuben
Shaw is an operative for the United Nations' covert dirty-tricks squad, using espionage and quasi-ethical tactics to secure peace and cooperation. When a shipping container full of dead Vietnamese refugees turns up on the docks and China's ambassador is gunned down at a dinner celebrating a new trade agreement with China and the US, Shaw is framed for the murder and must evade the FBI and Triad gangsters to find out what is really going on.
Action / Thriller
- January 12, 2015
Jimi: All Is by My Side Blu-ray Movie
XLrator | 2013 | 118 min | Rated R | Jan 13, 2015 | Michael Reuben
A drama based on Jimi Hendrix's pre-fame years.
Biography / Drama
The Constant Gardener Blu-ray Movie
Universal Studios | 2005 | 129 min | Rated R | Jan 06, 2015 | Martin Liebman
A widower is determined to get to the bottom of a potentially explosive secret involving his wife's murder, big business, and corporate corruption.
Drama / Mystery / Romance / Thriller
- January 11, 2015
Adua e le compagne Blu-ray Movie
Adua and her Friends
RaroVideo U.S. | 1960 | 129 min | Unrated | Jan 20, 2015 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
When a brothel closes because of new laws, four of the prostitutes decide to go into business running a restaurant. They discover they cannot escape their past.
Comedy / Drama / Foreign
My Left Foot Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + UV Digital Copy
Lionsgate Films | 1989 | 103 min | Rated R | Jan 13, 2015 | Jeffrey Kauffman
The true story of the artist, writer and cerebral palsy sufferer Christy Brown, based on his own book. It recounts the many problems he faced growing up in his native Ireland, and charts the ways in which he developed the use of his left foot - the only limb over which he had any control - to achieve success as an artist. Oscars were won by Daniel Day-Lewis (playing the adult Brown) and Brenda Fricker (playing Brown's mother).
Biography / Drama
Buffalo Bill and the Indians, or Sitting Bull's History Lesson Blu-ray Movie
Kino Lorber | 1976 | 124 min | Rated PG | Dec 09, 2014 | Brian Orndorf
A cynical Buffalo Bill hires Sitting Bull to exploit him and his add credibility to the distorted view of history presented in his Wild West Show.
Comedy / Western
Jessabelle Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + UV Digital Copy
Lionsgate Films | 2014 | 90 min | Rated PG-13 | Jan 13, 2015 | Jeffrey Kauffman
A young woman recuperating at her father's run-down home after a tragic accident soon encounters a terrifying presence with a connection to her long-deceased mother.
Horror / Thriller
The Houses October Built Blu-ray Movie
RLJ Entertainment | 2014 | 91 min | Not rated | Jan 06, 2015 | Michael Reuben
Beneath the fake blood and cheap masks of countless haunted house attractions across the country, there are whispers of truly terrifying alternatives. Looking to find an authentic, blood-curdling good fright for Halloween, five friends set off on a road trip in an RV to track down these underground Haunts.
Horror
- January 10, 2015
The Offence Blu-ray Movie
Kino Lorber | 1973 | 112 min | Rated R | Dec 02, 2014 | Brian Orndorf
After 20 years what Detective-Sergeant Johnson has seen and done is destroying him.
Crime / Drama / Thriller / Psychological thriller
Sacred Journeys with Bruce Feiler Blu-ray Movie
PBS | 2014 | 328 min | Not rated | Jan 06, 2015 | Brian Orndorf
Join best-selling author and adventurer Bruce Feiler as he travels with American pilgrims to India for the largest gathering of humanity for religious purposes.
Documentary
Gone Girl Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + UV Digital Copy
20th Century Fox | 2014 | 149 min | Rated R | Jan 13, 2015 | Jeffrey Kauffman
With his wife's disappearance having become the focus of an intense media circus, a man sees the spotlight turned on him when it's suspected that he may not be innocent.
Crime / Drama / Mystery / Thriller / Psychological thriller
The Longest Week Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + UV Digital Copy
20th Century Fox | 2014 | 86 min | Rated PG-13 | Jan 06, 2015 | Jeffrey Kauffman
Affluent and aimless, Conrad Valmont lives a life of leisure in his parent's prestigious Manhattan Hotel. In the span of one week, he finds himself evicted, disinherited, and... in love.
Comedy / Drama
Spione Blu-ray Movie
Spies / Masters of Cinema / Blu-ray + DVD
Eureka Entertainment | 1928 | 150 min | Rated BBFC: PG | Nov 24, 2014 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
Spies (Spione) was the first independent production of German "thriller" director Fritz Lang. The years-ahead-of-its-time plotline involves Russian espionage activity in London. The mastermind is Haghi (Rudolph Klein-Rogge), a supposedly respectable carnival sideshow entertainer. Heading the good guys is Agent 326 (Willy Fritsch), with the help of defecting Russian spy Sonya (Gerda Maurus). The film moves swiftly to several potential climaxes, each one more exciting than its predecessor. Haghi's ultimate demise is a superbly staged Pirandellian vignette. Anticipating Citizen Kane by a dozen years, director Lang dispenses with all transitional dissolves and fade-outs, flat-cutting territory from one scene to another. The film was co-scripted by Lang and his then-wife Thea Von Harbou.
Romance / Thriller / Foreign