New Blu-ray Reviews

Finally, Sunday Blu-ray Movie    

Vivement dimanche! / Confidentially Yours

Artificial Eye | 1983 | 111 min | Not rated | Oct 13, 2014 | Dr. Svet Atanasov

Claude Massoulier is murdered while hunting at the same place than Julien Vercel, an estate agent that knew him and whose fingerprints are found on Massoulier's car. As the police discovers that Marie-Christine Vercel, Julien's wife, was Massoulier's mistress, Julien is very suspected. But his secretary, Barbara Becker, while not quite convinced he is innocent, defends him and leads her private investigations...

Comedy / Crime / Mystery / Thriller / Foreign

Moebius Blu-ray Movie  

Film Movement | 2013 | 88 min | Not rated | Oct 28, 2014 | Michael Reuben

In this wordless film a wife fails to exact revenge on her cheating husband so instead takes it out on her son by cutting off his penis. Remorseful, the husband tries his best to make it up to his son.

Drama / Dark humor / Foreign / Surreal

Princess Mononoke Blu-ray Movie  

もののけ姫 / Mononoke-hime / Blu-ray + DVD

Disney / Buena Vista | 1997 | 133 min | Rated PG-13 | Nov 18, 2014 | Kenneth Brown

While fighting to save his village from the attack of a demon-god, Ashitaka comes in contact with it and is inflicted with a deadly curse. In his search for a cure he is forced to leave his village forever and journey to the forest inhabited by animal gods. There he finds himself in the middle of a war between the forest gods and a village led by Lady Eboshi.

Adventure / Anime / Drama / Fantasy / Foreign / Epic / Period

Ardennes Fury Blu-ray Movie  

Asylum | 2014 | 1 Movie, 2 Cuts | 87 min | Not rated | Nov 11, 2014 | Martin Liebman

As the Battle of the Bulge rages on, an American tank unit gets trapped behind Nazi lines. With just hours before the bombs of Operation Ardennes Fury fall, the tank's commander makes the risky decision to rescue an orphanage.

Action / War

Coming Home Blu-ray Movie  

Kino Lorber | 1978 | 128 min | Rated R | Nov 18, 2014 | Brian Orndorf

A woman, whose husband is fighting in Vietnam, falls in love with another man who suffered a paralyzing combat injury there.

Drama / Romance / War

Thunderbolt and Lightfoot Blu-ray Movie    

Le Canardeur

Carlotta Films | 1974 | 115 min | Rated U Tous publics | Nov 19, 2014 | Dr. Svet Atanasov

A big-time thief in hiding hooks up with a goofy young drifter. He then gets his old gang back together to organize a daring new heist.

Comedy / Crime / Drama / Heist

Astral City: A Spiritual Journey Blu-ray Movie  

Our Home: The Astral City

Strand Releasing | 2010 | 103 min | Not rated | Nov 18, 2014 | Brian Orndorf

The selfish Dr. André Luiz dies and awakes in a kind of limbo called "Umbral". After a painful and numb period in a gruesome swamp, he is rescued and brought to "Nosso Lar" (meaning "Our Home"), a spiritual city. He finds a place of harmony, where people live in peace, working for the good of humanity, for the self evolution and awaiting for reincarnation. Sooner André Luiz changes his behavior becoming a more self aware and altruist man.

Drama / Fantasy

Cinerama: Seven Wonders of the World Blu-ray Movie  

Blu-ray + DVD

Flicker Alley | 1956 | 121 min | Not rated | Nov 18, 2014 | Dr. Svet Atanasov

Lowell Thomas searches the world for natural and man made wonders and invites the audience to try to update the ancient Greek list of "Seven Wonders of the World."

Documentary / History

20,000 Days on Earth Blu-ray Movie  

Blu-ray + Digital Copy

Drafthouse Films | 2014 | 97 min | Not rated | Nov 18, 2014 | Michael Reuben

Nick Cave is among the most enigmatic figures in music and film. This hybrid drama/documentary features Cave as both subject and co-conspirator, exploring the history of his career and combining it with a staged depiction of how he spends his 20,000th day on Earth.

Documentary / Drama / Music

A Merry Friggin Christmas Blu-ray Movie  

Entertainment One | 2014 | 82 min | Rated PG-13 | Nov 25, 2014 | Martin Liebman

Boyd Mitchler and his family must spend Christmas with his estranged family of misfits. Upon realizing that he left all his son's gifts at home, he hits the road with his dad in an attempt to make the 8-hour round trip before sunrise.

Comedy / Holiday

As the Light Goes Out Blu-ray Movie  

救火英雄

Well Go USA | 2014 | 115 min | Not rated | Nov 18, 2014 | Jeffrey Kauffman

Whereas three old friends work together in a fire station in Hong Kong, a fire breaks out in a rundown residential block on Christmas' Eve, threatening to plunge the whole city into darkness if it spreads to a to a nearby power plant supplying natural gas. Politics, competition and distrust between the firemen of the Pillar Point Division are to be expected.

Action / Drama / Foreign

Jeff Beck: Live in Tokyo Blu-ray Movie  

Eagle Rock Entertainment | 2014 | 92 min | Not rated | Nov 25, 2014 | Jeffrey Kauffman

Jeff Beck is undeniably one of the world’s greatest guitar players. Technically brilliant, he is renowned for pushing musical boundaries and has excelled across many different genres from rock and jazz to pop and blues.

Music

Only Angels Have Wings Blu-ray Movie  

TCM Vault Collection

Turner Home Entertainment | 1939 | 121 min | Not rated | Nov 24, 2014 | Jeffrey Kauffman

Howard Hawks directs Cary Grant, Jean Arthur and Rita Hayworth in this classic story of a group of fearless pilots who fly cargo planes over the Andes and live in close quarters along an oft-fogbound little airstrip. However, their world is suddenly invaded by a stranded showgirl.

Adventure / Drama / Romance

Penny Dreadful: The Complete First Season Blu-ray Movie  

Paramount Pictures | 2014 | 437 min | Rated TV-MA | Oct 14, 2014 | Kenneth Brown

In Victorian London, figures such as explorer Sir Malcolm Murray, American gunslinger Ethan Chandler, enigmatic medium Vanessa Ives, and others combat supernatural forces. Murray is searching for his adult daughter, now a vampire, and hopes to cure her.

Drama / Horror / Supernatural / Period

Flaming Star Blu-ray Movie  

Limited Edition

Twilight Time | 1960 | 92 min | Not rated | Nov 11, 2014 | Jeffrey Kauffman

Sam Burton's second wife Neddy is Indian, their son Pacer a half-breed. As struggle starts between the whites and the Kiowas, the Burton family is split between loyalties.

Drama / Western

Log Horizon: Collection 1 Blu-ray Movie  

Sentai Filmworks | 2013 | 325 min | Rated TV-14 | Nov 25, 2014 | Jeffrey Kauffman

Elder Tales has become a global phenomenon, immersing millions of players in its online fantasy world. However, something goes wrong with the twelfth expansion pack. Eight year veteran Shiroe and 30,000 other players suddenly find themselves trapped in the game’s no longer fictional universe! Except it’s not even exactly the game they knew: things are in different places, the portals don’t work, and if a gamer was playing an avatar who wasn’t a physical match for their real self… well, let’s just say that everyone who’s been playing is going to have to make some serious adjustments to their new world view. Add to that the fact that the former Non-Player-Characters are now self-aware and working towards their own ends. This collision of the Elder Tale people and players with seemingly impossible skills, abilities, and knowledge promises to be cataclysmic. Get ready for heroes to rise and new legends to be forged as Shiroe and fellow players Naotsugu and Akatsuki discover what happens when sword and sorcery becomes real in LOG HORIZON!

Action / Adventure / Anime / Comedy / Fantasy / Foreign

The Killers Blu-ray Movie    

Arrow Academy

Arrow | 1946 | 103 min | Rated BBFC: PG | Dec 08, 2014 | Dr. Svet Atanasov

An insurance investigator uncovers a string of crimes when he tries to find a murdered boxer's beneficiary.

Crime / Drama / Film-Noir / Mystery / Thriller

A Madea Christmas Blu-ray Movie  

Blu-ray + UV Digital Copy

Lionsgate Films | 2013 | 100 min | Rated PG-13 | Nov 25, 2014 | Jeffrey Kauffman

Madea dispenses her unique form of holiday spirit on rural town when she's coaxed into helping a friend pay her daughter a surprise visit in the country for Christmas.

Comedy / Drama / Holiday

Caged Animal Blu-ray Movie  

The Wrath of Cain

Phase 4 Films | 2010 | 84 min | Rated R | Dec 07, 2010 | Martin Liebman

A former kingpin of the streets, Miles Cain Skinner, is doing life in prison. He is feared and respected among the inmates. When Cain’s nemesis Redfoot is transferred to the same prison, Cain’s wrath is unleashed in a savage showdown with no surrending, no retreating, no mercy.

Action

Sam Whiskey Blu-ray Movie  

Kino Lorber | 1969 | 97 min | Rated PG-13 | Nov 11, 2014 | Brian Orndorf

Sam Whiskey is an all-round talent, but when the attractive widow Laura offers him a job, he hesitates: he shall salvage gold bars, which Laura's dead husband stole recently, from a sunken ship and secretly bring them back to the mint before they are missed. But how shall he manage to get several hundred pounds of gold into the mint without anyone noticing?

Comedy / Western