New Blu-ray Reviews
Home- January 06, 2015
As Above, So Below Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + DVD + UV Digital Copy
Universal Studios | 2014 | 93 min | Rated R | Dec 02, 2014 | Kenneth Brown
In search of a lost treasure, a group of archaeologists enter the catacombs below Paris and encounter an evil presence.
Adventure / Horror / Thriller / Supernatural
- January 05, 2015
Coup de Tête Blu-ray Movie
Hothead
Gaumont | 1979 | 89 min | Rated U Tous publics | Nov 05, 2014 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
François Perrin plays football at the AS Trincamp. During a training session, he gets into a fight with Bertier, the team's star, and is ordered off the field. The club's boss, who is also a powerful businessman, takes advantage of the situation and sacks him... But Perrin's revenge will be sweet.
Comedy / Drama / Sport / Foreign
Supernova Blu-ray Movie
Shout Factory | 2000 | 91 min | Rated R | Jan 13, 2015 | Jeffrey Kauffman
Supernova is a science fiction thriller that chronicles the high-stakes adventures of a deep space hospital ship and its six member crew. When their vessel, the Nightingale 229, answers an emergency distress signal from a distant galaxy, the crew soon finds itself in danger from the mysterious young man they rescue, the alien artifact he smuggled aboard and the gravitational pull of a giant star about to go supernova -- the most massive explosion in the universe.
Horror / Sci-Fi / Thriller
Boyhood Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + DVD + UV Digital Copy
Paramount Pictures | 2014 | 165 min | Rated R | Jan 06, 2015 | Martin Liebman
Filmed over the course of 12 years with the same cast, "Boyhood" is the coming-of-age story of Mason, chronicling his life from early childhood to his arrival at college.
Drama / Coming of age
Looking: The Complete First Season Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + UV Digital Copy
HBO | 2014 | 240 min | Rated TV-MA | Jan 06, 2015 | Michael Reuben
All eight episodes from the first season of the HBO series following the trials and tribulations of three close friends living and loving in modern-day San Francisco.
Comedy / Drama / Romance
Mortal Kombat: Legacy II Blu-ray Movie
Warner Bros. | 2013 | 80 min | Rated TV-MA | Oct 14, 2014 | Kenneth Brown
The second season of Mortal Kombat Legacy webisodes.
Action / Crime / Fantasy / Other / Martial arts
ThunderCats: The Complete Series Blu-ray Movie
Warner Archive Collection
Warner Bros. | 2011-2012 | 572 min | Rated TV-PG | Nov 11, 2014 | Kenneth Brown
The ThunderCats are back! A generation after becoming beloved animation icons, the mighty survivors of Thundera returned for a bold, new re-imagining that mixed the best of the past with the boldness of the new. After the destruction of the cat civilization of Thundera by the evil Mumm-Ra, young Prince Lion-O leads a small band of survivors to safety. As the threats of Mumm-Ra ring in their ears, these determined cats know what they must do: find the Book of Omens. Using his powerful Sword of Omens, Lion-O guides his friends, facing vicious foes and making fantastic new allies while racing towards a showdown with Mumm-Ra. Now all 26 episodes are available in “sight beyond sight” 1080p HD on Blu-ray Disc as they were meant to be seen. So get ready to rip into the action with Lion-O, Tygra, Panthro, Snarf, Cheetara, Wily Kit, Wily Kat and hear the battle cry of “ThunderCats Ho!” once again, for the very first time!
Action / Adventure / Animation / Sci-Fi
- January 04, 2015
Joe Blu-ray Movie
Curzon Film World | 2013 | 121 min | Rated BBFC: 15 | Oct 06, 2014 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
Joe, a brooding ex-convict, meets and unexpectedly becomes friend and mentor to a 15-year-old drifter with an alcoholic, violent father. Before long, Joe is faced with the choice of redemption or ruin.
Drama / Thriller / Coming of age
Wetlands Blu-ray Movie
Feuchtgebiete
Strand Releasing | 2013 | 109 min | Not rated | Jan 13, 2015 | Brian Orndorf
Helen is a nonconformist teenage girl who maintains a conflictual relationship with her parents. Hanging out most of her time with her friend Corinna, with whom she breaks one social taboo after another, she uses sex as a way to rebel and break the conventional bourgeois ethic. After an intimate shaving accident, Helen ends up in the hospital where it doesn’t take long before she makes waves. But there she finds Robin, a male nurse who will sweep her off her feet...
Comedy / Drama / Teen / Dark humor / Erotic / Foreign / Coming of age
Shameless: The Complete Fourth Season Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + DVD + UV Digital Copy
Warner Bros. | 2014 | 642 min | Rated TV-MA | Dec 30, 2014 | Kenneth Brown
Meet the fabulously dysfunctional Gallagher family. Dad's a drunk, Mom split long ago, eldest daughter Fiona tries to hold the family together. Eldest son Philip (Lip) trades his physics tutoring skills for sexual favors from neighborhood girls. Middle son Ian is gay. Youngest daughter Debbie is stealing money from her UNICEF collection. Ten-year-old Carl is a budding sociopath and an arsonist, and toddler Liam is - well, he might actually be black, but nobody has a clue how.
Comedy / Drama / Dark humor
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me Blu-ray Movie
Paramount Pictures | 1992 | 135 min | Rated R | No Release Date | Kenneth Brown
A young FBI agent disappears while investigating a murder miles from Twin Peaks that may be related to the future murder of Laura Palmer; the last week of the life of Laura Palmer is chronicled.
Crime / Drama / Mystery / Thriller / Psychological thriller / Surreal
- January 03, 2015
Dominion: Season One Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + UV Digital Copy
Universal Studios | 2014 | 382 min | Rated TV-MA | Dec 23, 2014 | Kenneth Brown
Follows the perilous journey of a rebellious young soldier who discovers he's the unlikely savior of humanity.
Action / Drama / Fantasy / Horror / Sci-Fi
The Identical Blu-ray Movie
Cinedigm | 2014 | 106 min | Rated PG | Jan 13, 2015 | Jeffrey Kauffman
In 1936, William and Helen Hemsley welcome identical twin boys into the world. But their joy is quickly tempered by a sobering realization; how could they give these children any kind of a life beyond the desperate poverty that haunted many families in the midst of the Great Depression? When evangelist Reece Wade reveals that he and his wife Louise cannot have children, William feels the Lord's prompting to give them one of the infant boys. Both brothers are born with passion, drive and awesome musical talent, but take very separate, yet converging paths. Drexel Hemsley rises like a comet and changes the music world forever. His adopted brother, Ryan Wade struggles to find the purpose for his life. All the way into manhood he wrestles with pleasing Reverend Wade, his loving but controlling father, who is convinced his son Ryan is called into the ministry.
Drama
The Falcon and the Snowman Blu-ray Movie
Kino Lorber | 1985 | 131 min | Rated R | Jan 13, 2015 | Brian Orndorf
They were best friends from the best of families. Then they committed a crime against their country and became the two most wanted men in America.
Biography / Crime / Drama
- January 02, 2015
The Palm Beach Story Blu-ray Movie
Criterion | 1942 | 88 min | Not rated | Jan 20, 2015 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
Tom and Gerry Jeffers are a married couple in a strained relationship due to their financial difficulties. In an effort to help Tom, a struggling architect, Gerry decides to get a divorce and marry a wealthier man who could fund Tom's projects.
Comedy / Romance
Dinosaur 13 Blu-ray Movie
Director's Cut / Blu-ray + UV Digital Copy
Lionsgate Films | 2014 | 95 min | Rated PG | Jan 06, 2015 | Jeffrey Kauffman
When Paleontologist Peter Larson and his team from the Black Hills Institute of Geological Research made the world's greatest dinosaur discovery in 1990, they knew it was the find of a lifetime; the largest, most complete T. rex ever found. But during a ten-year battle with the U.S. government, powerful museums, Native American tribes, and competing paleontologists, they found themselves not only fighting to keep their dinosaur but fighting for their freedom as well.
Documentary
SexWorld / Blu-ray + DVD + CD Blu-ray Movie
SOLD OUT & OOP / Blu-ray + DVD + CD
Vinegar Syndrome | 1978 | 1 Movie, 2 Cuts | 91 min | Rated X | Jan 13, 2015 | Brian Orndorf
A bus tour takes its passengers to a place called SexWorld where they can live out their most secret desires during a weekend.
Sci-Fi / Erotic
An Adventure in Space and Time Blu-ray Movie
Doctor Who Docudrama / Includes 'An Unearthly Child' Bonus DVD / Blu-ray + DVD
BBC | 2013 | 87 min | Not rated | May 27, 2014 | Kenneth Brown
A dramatic re-telling of the creation of the television series Doctor Who in 1963, travel back in time to witness the dramatic birth of Doctor Who. Actor William Hartnell felt trapped by a succession of tough-guy roles. Wannabe producer Verity Lambert was frustrated by the TV industry’s glass ceiling. Both of them were to find unlikely hope and unexpected challenges in the form of a Saturday afternoon drama, time travel and monsters! Allied with a brilliant creative team, they went on to introduce the world to the longest running science fiction series ever, currently in its 50th year and counting.
Biography / Drama
We Are the Best! Blu-ray Movie
Vi är bäst
Magnolia Pictures | 2013 | 102 min | Not rated | Sep 23, 2014 | Michael Reuben
Inspired by DIY culture and infused with a spirit of rebellion, three Swedish girls decide to form a punk band in the 1980s, even though they possess no musical instruments and are told the genre is dead.
Comedy / Drama / Music / Comic book / Foreign / Coming of age
- January 01, 2015
The Girl Hunters Blu-ray Movie
Limited Edition of 2000
Scorpion Releasing | 1963 | 97 min | Not rated | Oct 21, 2014 | Brian Orndorf
Legendary detective Mike Hammer has spent seven years in an alcoholic funk after the supposed death of his secretary, Velda. He is brought back to the land of the living by his old friendly enemy, police lieutenant Pat Chambers.
Crime / Drama / Film-Noir / Mystery / Thriller