New Blu-ray Reviews

The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad Blu-ray Movie  

Blu-ray + DVD + Digital Copy

Disney / Buena Vista | 1949 | 68 min | Rated G | Aug 12, 2014 | Kenneth Brown

Two stories. The Wind in the Willows: Concise version of Kenneth Grahame's story of the same name. J. Thaddeus Toad, owner of Toad Hall, is prone to fads, such as the newfangled motor car. This desire for the very latest lands him in much trouble with the wrong crowd, and it is up to his friends, Mole, Rat and Badger to save him from himself. - The Legend of Sleepy Hollow: Retelling of Washington Irving's story set in a tiny New England town. Ichabod Crane, the new schoolmaster, falls for the town beauty, Katrina Van Tassel, and the town Bully Brom Bones decides that he is a little too successful and needs "convincing" that Katrina is not for him

Animation / Family / Fantasy / Horror

Fun and Fancy Free Blu-ray Movie  

Disney / Buena Vista | 1947 | 73 min | Rated G | No Release Date | Kenneth Brown

Jiminy Cricket hosts two Disney animated shorts: "Bongo," about a circus bear escaping to the wild, and "Mickey and the Beanstalk," a take on the famous fairy tale.

Adventure / Animation / Family / Fantasy / Musical

Gamera vs. Guiron Blu-ray Movie  

Gamera tai Giron

Mill Creek Entertainment | 1969 | 82 min | Unrated | No Release Date | Martin Liebman

Two young boys sneak aboard a spaceship and find themselves whisked away to the mysterious planet Terra. There, they encounter Gamera's old foe Gyaos and two female aliens with a taste for human brains. Gamera must save the children and battle the new monster Guiron, whose entire body is a deadly living weapon.

Action / Fantasy / Sci-Fi / Foreign

Gamera vs. Jiger Blu-ray Movie  

Gamera tai Jaiga

Mill Creek Entertainment | 1970 | 83 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Martin Liebman

A giant creature attacks Japan during the World Fair and its up to Gamera to stop it. But the monster injects Gamera with its offspring and a research team must take a craft into Gamera's body to eliminate the parasite.

Action / Fantasy / Sci-Fi / Foreign

Gamera vs. Zigra Blu-ray Movie  

Gamera tai Jigura

Mill Creek Entertainment | 1971 | 88 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Martin Liebman

An alien woman from the planet Zigra and her spaceship creates a series of earthquakes around the globe. Two children at a marine park are caught in the crossfire as Gamera must combat the monster Zigra to save the earth.

Action / Fantasy / Sci-Fi / Foreign

Gamera: Super Monster Blu-ray Movie  

Uchu kaijû Gamera

Mill Creek Entertainment | 1980 | 92 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Martin Liebman

As a massive alien craft heads to Earth to do evil, three good and powerful superwomen befriend a young boy who has a special connection to Gamera, and old foes return to do battle one more time.

Action / Fantasy / Sci-Fi / Foreign

Gamera: Ultimate Collection Volume Two Blu-ray Movie  

Gamera tai Giron / Gamera tai Jaiga / Gamera tai Jigura / Uchu kaijû Gamera

Mill Creek Entertainment | 1969-1980 | 4 Movies | 343 min | Not rated | Apr 29, 2014 | Martin Liebman

Gamera vs. Guiron (1969), Gamera vs. Jiger (1970), Gamera vs. Zigra (1971), Gamera: Super Monster (1980): The last 4 films of Daiei Studios’ monster series Gamera are unleashed and available on Blu-ray for the first time! Your favorite giant turtle returns to Earth leaving no fire-spitting scene behind. Beautifully captured to their lavish original cuts, viewers can experience four-times the thrills of this legend sci-fi classic like they have never seen before!

Action / Fantasy / Sci-Fi / Foreign

Motel Hell Blu-ray Movie  

Collector's Edition / Blu-ray + DVD

Shout Factory | 1980 | 102 min | Rated R | Aug 12, 2014 | Jeffrey Kauffman

Farmer Vincent kidnaps unsuspecting travellers and is burying them in his garden. Unfortunately for his victims, they are not dead.

Horror / Dark humor

Cast a Giant Shadow Blu-ray Movie  

Kino Lorber | 1966 | 138 min | Not rated | Aug 26, 2014 | Jeffrey Kauffman

An American Army officer is recruited by the yet to exist Israel to help them form an army. He is disturbed by this sudden appeal to his jewish roots. Each of Israel's Arab neighbors has vowed to invade the poorly prepared country as soon as partition is granted. He is made commander of the Israeli forces just before the war begins.

Adventure / Drama / History / War

The Bankers of God: The Calvi Affair Blu-ray Movie  

RaroVideo U.S. | 2002 | 128 min | Not rated | Aug 05, 2014 | Brian Orndorf

This movie attempts to reconstruct the bankruptcy of the Banco Ambrosiano bank and its liaisons with the Vatican and the Masonry through the story of its president Roberto Calvi, notoriously found dead under the Blackfriars Bridge in London in June 1982.

Biography / Crime / Drama / History / Thriller

Scooby-Doo! Frankencreepy Blu-ray Movie  

Blu-ray + DVD + UV Digital Copy

Warner Bros. | 2014 | 74 min | Not rated | Aug 19, 2014 | Kenneth Brown

Scooby-Doo and those "meddling kids" Shaggy, Fred, Daphne and Velma are back in this all-new original movie! Velma discovers she's inherited her great-great-uncle Dr. Von Dinkenstein’s cursed castle in the terrifying town of Transylvania…Pennsylvania, that is. Just when the Gang persuades Velma to go claim her inheritance, the ghost of Dinkenstein Castle blows up the Mystery Machine as a warning! Now the Crew must spring back into action, but this time it's personal! Who's responsible for the Dinkenstein monster? What family secret has Velma been hiding? Will Fred recover from the loss of his beloved Mystery Machine? Can any helpless snack survive Scooby and Shaggy's monster-sized appetites? This Scooby-Doo adventure has enough spooky fun to make the whole family come alive!

Animation

Hercules Blu-ray Movie  

Blu-ray + DVD + Digital Copy

Disney / Buena Vista | 1997 | 93 min | Rated G | Aug 12, 2014 | Kenneth Brown

The heavenly Hercules is stripped of his immortality and raised on Earth instead of Olympus, where he's forced to take on Hades and assorted monsters.

Adventure / Animation / Comedy / Family / Fantasy / Musical / Romance

Pioneer Blu-ray Movie    

Pionér

Arrow | 2013 | 111 min | Rated BBFC: 15 | Aug 04, 2014 | Dr. Svet Atanasov

In the early 80's, at the beginning of the Norwegian Oil Boom, the authorities aim to bring oil ashore from the North Sea through a pipeline from depths of 500 meters. A professional diver, Petter, obsessed with reaching the bottom of the Norwegian Sea, accepts the world's most dangerous mission. But a tragic accident changes everything. Petter is sent on a perilous journey where he loses sight of who's pulling the strings and gradually realizes that the risks to his life aren't just from the forces of nature.

Drama / Thriller / Foreign

Viva Las Vegas Blu-ray Movie  

50th Anniversary

Warner Bros. | 1964 | 85 min | Not rated | Aug 12, 2014 | Michael Reuben

A handsome race car driver and a beautiful swimming teacher sing, dance and fall in love in glittering Las Vegas.

Comedy / Musical / Romance

Hold Your Breath Blu-ray Movie  

#holdyourbreath

Asylum | 2012 | 86 min | Rated R | Jan 22, 2013 | Martin Liebman

There is an old wives' tale that you should hold your breath when passing by a cemetery lest an evil spirit rejected by both heaven and hell gets inside of you when you inhale. Someone in a carload of college kids on holiday doesn't hold his/her breath when driving by a graveyard, allowing the spirit of a recently executed serial killer to get inside him/her to begin a spree of body-jumping carnage.

Horror

Tarzan Blu-ray Movie  

Blu-ray + DVD + Digital Copy

Disney / Buena Vista | 1999 | 88 min | Rated G | Aug 12, 2014 | Kenneth Brown

The adventures of an orphaned infant raised by a family of gorillas and ultimately accepted as one of their own. As Tarzan matures into a young man with all the instincts of a jungle animal and the physical prowess of an athletic superstar, his life changes forever when he finally meets other humans, with whom he feels an immediate and irresistible bond.

Adventure / Animation / Drama / Family / Musical

Curtains Blu-ray Movie  

Synapse Films | 1983 | 89 min | Rated R | Jul 29, 2014 | Brian Orndorf

Six young actresses auditioning for a movie role at a remote mansion are targeted by a mysterious masked murderer.

Horror / Thriller

Without Warning Blu-ray Movie  

Blu-ray + DVD

Shout Factory | 1980 | 97 min | Rated R | Aug 05, 2014 | Jeffrey Kauffman

A group of teenagers heads out to the lake for a relaxing camping trip in the mountains, ignoring the warnings of the local truck stop owner. Things go terribly wrong when they run into an extraterrestrial who throws deadly discs that suck the blood out of their victims. The group heads back to the truck stop for help from the eclectic residents, including a crazy war veteran and determined hunter.

Horror / Sci-Fi

The Assassin Blu-ray Movie    

L'assassino / Arrow Academy / Blu-ray + DVD

Arrow | 1961 | 97 min | Rated BBFC: 12 | Jul 21, 2014 | Dr. Svet Atanasov

Wealthy antique dealer Nello Poletti is falsely accused of murdering his former mistress, who set him up in a life of luxury...

Crime / Thriller / Foreign

Short Peace Blu-ray Movie  

ショート・ピース

Sentai Filmworks | 2013 | 68 min | Rated TV-MA | Aug 05, 2014 | Jeffrey Kauffman

A traveler is confronted by spirits in an abandoned shrine; a story of honor and firefighting in ancient Japan; a white bear defends the royal family from a monstrous red demon; ragtag soldiers battle a robotic force in futuristic Japan.

Anime / Sci-Fi / Foreign