New Blu-ray Reviews

Avalanche Blu-ray Movie  

Kino Lorber | 1978 | 94 min | Rated PG | Sep 16, 2014 | Brian Orndorf

The vacationers at a winter wonderland struggle to survive after an avalanche of snow crashes into their ski resort. Their holiday then turns into a game of survival.

Action / Drama

Dominion: Prequel to the Exorcist Blu-ray Movie  

Warner Bros. | 2005 | 116 min | Rated R | Sep 23, 2014 | Michael Reuben

In 1947 at an archaeological dig in Africa, Father Lankester Merrin has his first encounter with demonic forces.

Drama / Horror / Thriller / Supernatural

Brute Force Blu-ray Movie    

Arrow Academy / Blu-ray + DVD

Arrow | 1947 | 98 min | Rated BBFC: 12 | Sep 15, 2014 | Dr. Svet Atanasov

At a tough penitentiary, prisoner plans to rebel against a power-mad chief guard.

Crime / Drama / Film-Noir

Neighbors Blu-ray Movie  

Blu-ray + DVD + UV Digital Copy

Universal Studios | 2014 | 97 min | Rated R | Sep 23, 2014 | Kenneth Brown

A couple with a newborn baby face unexpected difficulties after they are forced to live next to a fraternity house.

Comedy

Flesh + Blood Blu-ray Movie  

Flesh and Blood

Kino Lorber | 1985 | 128 min | Rated R | Sep 16, 2014 | Brian Orndorf

A band of medieval mercenaries take revenge on a noble lord who decides not to pay them by kidnapping the betrothed of the noble's son. As the plague and warfare cut a swathe of destruction throughout the land, the mercenaries hole up in a castle and await their fate.

Action / Adventure / Drama / Period

Taras Bulba Blu-ray Movie  

Kino Lorber | 1962 | 122 min | Rated PG | Sep 23, 2014 | Jeffrey Kauffman

A spectacular tale of conflict and passion in a savage era!

Action / Adventure / Drama / History

Heatstroke Blu-ray Movie  

Phase 4 Films | 2014 | 92 min | Not rated | Aug 26, 2014 | Martin Liebman

On a family trip in the African desert, a research scientist unintentionally travels off course and is brutally murdered by an arms dealer. His girlfriend is put to the ultimate survival test as she attempts to evade the killers and protect his teenage daughter.

Thriller

Seizure Blu-ray Movie  

Scorpion Releasing | 1974 | 94 min | Rated PG | Sep 09, 2014 | Brian Orndorf

Jonathan Frid portrays a horror novelist who has a recurring nightmare about three figures out of his book who terrorize him and his family and friends during a weekend of fun. Then the dream becomes reality and it never ends...

Horror

WWE: The Best of Sting Blu-ray Movie  

WWE Studios | 2014 | 430 min | Rated TV-PG | Sep 23, 2014 | Martin Liebman

"Sting: The Ultimate Collection" chronicles Sting's entire career from his Mid-South days as part of the Blade-Runners (with Ultimate Warrior) through his last WCW match vs. Ric Flair on the very last episode of WCW Monday Nitro (3/26/01). The video features more than two dozen matches in total, many never before released on DVD or Blu-ray. This includes a combination of well-known memorable matches, as well as some fairly obscure matches including encounters with Vader, Cactus Jack, Hulk Hogan, and Ric Flair. In addition, packages throughout the title will help tell the story of Sting's career evolution.

Sport

Ghost in the Shell Blu-ray Movie  

攻殼機動隊 | 25th Anniversary Edition

Starz / Anchor Bay | 1995 | 83 min | Not rated | Sep 23, 2014 | Martin Liebman

Set in the year 2029 and following World Wars III and IV, a Japanese-led Asian block dominates world affairs. The alliance maintains its international supremacy through its elite security force whose cybernetically enhanced operatives tackle an array of hi-tech terrorists and other threats to international security. These augmented agents can "ghost hack" (i.e., download their consciousness) via the now omnipresent internet into other machines and human/machine cross breeds. Major Motoko Kusanagi, a cybernetically augmented female agent, has been tracking a virtual entity known as the Puppet Master with her crack squad of security agents. The shape-shifting Puppet Master, a rogue creation of a rival agency of the security apparatus, has concluded that it is a life form in its own right, "born in sea of information," and requested political asylum and true physical existence in defiance of its creators.

Action / Anime / Mystery / Sci-Fi / Thriller / Comic book / Foreign

Che! Blu-ray Movie  

Limited Edition to 3000

Twilight Time | 1969 | 96 min | Rated PG | Sep 09, 2014 | Jeffrey Kauffman

Biography of Argentinian revolutionary Ernesto "Che" Guevara, who helped Fidel Castro in his struggle against the corrupt Batista regime, eventually resulting in the overthrow of that government and Castro's taking over of Cuba. The film covers Guevara's life from when he first landed in Cuba in 1956 to his death in an ambush by government troops in the mountains of Bolivia in 1967.

Biography / Drama / History

Meteor Blu-ray Movie  

Kino Lorber | 1979 | 107 min | Rated PG | Sep 16, 2014 | Brian Orndorf

After a collision with a comet, a nearly 8km wide piece of the asteroid "Orpheus" is heading towards Earth. If it hits it will cause an incredible catastrophe which will probably extinguish mankind. To stop the meteor NASA wants to use the illegal nuclear weapon satellite "Hercules" but discovers soon that it doesn't have enough fire power. Their only chance to save the world is to join forces with the USSR who have also launched such an illegal satellite.

Action / Sci-Fi / Thriller

The Last of the Unjust Blu-ray Movie  

Le dernier des injustes

Cohen Media Group | 2013 | 220 min | Rated PG-13 | Sep 23, 2014 | Jeffrey Kauffman

A place: Theresienstadt. A unique place of propaganda which Adolf Eichmann called the "model ghetto", designed to mislead the world and Jewish people regarding its real nature, to be the last step before the gas chamber. A man: Benjamin Murmelstein, last president of the Theresienstadt Jewish Council, a fallen hero condemned to exile, who was forced to negotiate day after day from 1938 until the end of the war with Eichmann, to whose trial Murmelstein wasn't even called to testify. Even though he was without a doubt the one who knew the Nazi executioner best. More than twenty-five years after Shoah, Claude Lanzmann's new film reveals a little-known yet fundamental aspect of the Holocaust, and sheds light on the origins of the "Final Solution" like never before.

Documentary

Jack and the Cuckoo-Clock Heart Blu-ray Movie  

Jack et la mécanique du coeur / Blu-ray + DVD + Digital Copy

Shout Factory | 2013 | 93 min | Rated PG | Oct 07, 2014 | Jeffrey Kauffman

Edinburgh, late 19th century. Little Jack is born on a day so cold that his heart remains frozen. Madeleine the midwife replaces his heart with a cuckoo-clock. It will work, as long as Jack follows the rules, mainly not falling in love. But his encounter with a fiery-eyed girl singing on a street corner and his decision to chase after her will test the resistance of his makeshift heart to the breaking point.

Adventure / Animation / Drama / Foreign

The Flu Blu-ray Movie    

Flu | 감기 | CJ 035 | First Press Limited Edition

CJ Entertainment | 2013 | 121 min | Rated KMRB: 15+ | Dec 19, 2013 | Dr. Svet Atanasov

A group of illegal immigrants travel from Hong Kong to South Korea in a container. However, when the container arrives, the Korean smugglers discover that all of them are dead except for one, a carrier of a deadly strain of avian flu. The survivor escapes, spreading the flu throughout the city in hours. Soon, thousands are infected and dying within 36 hours. To contain the virus, the government quarantines the entire suburb. Among those trapped in the city are rescue worker Ji Koo (Jang Hyuk) and virologist Dr. Kim In Hae (Soo Ae), who met just before the outbreak. When Dr. Kim suspects her daughter of contracting the virus, she works with Ji Koo to find a cure.

Action / Drama / Sci-Fi / Foreign

The Slave Blu-ray Movie  

Scacco alla regina / Check to the Queen / Blu-ray + DVD

Mondo Macabro | 1969 | 99 min | Unrated | Sep 09, 2014 | Dr. Svet Atanasov

Pasquale Festa Campanile's erotic drama The Slave centers on Silvia, a wealthy young woman with a serious fetish for being dominated. She hires an actress always up for a hefty paycheck to indulge her darkest desires, but as the two spend time alone in Rome the relationship develops unexpectedly

Drama / Thriller / Erotic

Exorcist II: The Heretic Blu-ray Movie  

Warner Bros. | 1977 | 118 min | Rated R | Sep 23, 2014 | Michael Reuben

It's four years after 12 year old Regan was possessed by Pazuzu...and supposedly exorcised of the demon. Recovering from the effects of personally hosting evil, Regan is still plagued by memories of those horrific events. A Vatican investigator discovers that the evil in Regan, apparently exorcised, is only dormant.

Horror / Supernatural

Destroy All Monsters Blu-ray Movie  

怪獣総進撃 / Kaijû sôshingeki

Tokyo Shock | 1968 | 89 min | Not rated | Sep 02, 2014 | Brian Orndorf

Female aliens take control of Earth's monsters and begin using them to destroy the human race.

Action / Fantasy / Sci-Fi / Foreign

Distant Drums Blu-ray Movie  

Olive Films | 1951 | 101 min | Not rated | Sep 23, 2014 | Jeffrey Kauffman

Navy Lieutenant Tufts accompanies scout Quincy Wyatt into the Everglades to rout the Seminole Indians who are threatening the early settlers in Florida. When the command is forced to run, Wyatt and Seminole Chief Oscala square off in an exciting climax.

Action / Western

Thunder and the House of Magic 3D Blu-ray Movie  

Blu-ray 3D + Blu-ray + DVD + Digital Copy

Shout Factory | 2013 | 85 min | Not rated | Sep 30, 2014 | Jeffrey Kauffman

Thunder, an abandoned young cat seeking shelter from a storm, stumbles into the strangest house imaginable, owned by an old magician and inhabited by a dazzling array of automatons and gizmos.

Adventure / Animation / Comedy / Family / Fantasy