New Blu-ray Reviews

Bachelor Party Blu-ray Movie  

20th Century Fox | 1984 | 105 min | Rated R | May 06, 2014 | Brian Orndorf

A outrageously funny look at Rick final moments of bachelorhood. Rick's worried fiancée, Debbie, dresses up in disguise and crashes the party to spy on her future husband. To complicate the night further, Debbie's father hires her ex-boyfriend to win back his daughter. It turns out to be an evening the soon-to-be bride and groom will never forget.

Comedy

Boardwalk Empire: The Complete Fourth Season Blu-ray Movie  

Blu-ray + UV Digital Copy

HBO | 2013 | 733 min | Rated TV-MA | Aug 19, 2014 | Kenneth Brown

Chronicles the life and times of Nucky Thompson, the undisputed ruler of Atlantic City, who was equal parts politician and gangster.

Crime / Drama / Period

Radio Days Blu-ray Movie  

Limited Edition to 3000 - SOLD OUT

Twilight Time | 1987 | 89 min | Rated PG | Jul 08, 2014 | Jeffrey Kauffman

A vignette-packed memory piece about growing up in Brooklyn in the 1940s, obsessed with the music, entertainment, and news of the wide world brought into every household via the magic of radio. A young Allen surrogate lives with his parents and extended family in the wind-swept Rockaway neighborhood, their daily routines spiced by the glamor, excitement, thrills and even occasional doses of grim reality coming to them over the airwaves.

Comedy / Music / Period / Coming of age

Dragonwolf Blu-ray Movie  

Well Go USA | 2012 | 121 min | Not rated | Jul 29, 2014 | Jeffrey Kauffman

The Devil's Cauldron, a city where depravity and violence has forged a society in which only the lethal and callous can survive, two young men who possess the intellect and ferocity to flourish, carve a name for themselves as the most efficient and unstoppable hit men. Side by side, these two brothers are the deadliest killers, feared by even the most evil criminals. But when a woman of rare beauty mysteriously enters the brother's lives she blinds them with her sweet promises and turns them against each other, resulting in an epic battle that threatens to bring the Devil's Cauldron to the brink of destruction.

Action

Monster High: Clawesome Double Feature Blu-ray Movie  

Escape from Skull Shores / Fright On! / Blu-ray + DVD + UV Digital Copy

Universal Studios | 2011-2012 | 2 Movies | 184 min | Not rated | Jul 01, 2014 | Martin Liebman

It's time to "fang out" with your favorite ghoulfriends in this frightfully fabulous double feature, straight from the latest scare-mester at Monster High! Everyone's ready for some monstrous fun in the sun during spring break in Escape from Skull Shores. But when they find themselves shipwrecked on a totally strange island, Frankie Stein is taken by a mysterious Beast... who may just need a little rescuing of his own! Then it's time to pull together all the student bodies when a meddling normie tries to drive a stake into the imperfectly perfect harmony of Monster High in Fright On! It's up to Frankie Stein, Clawdeen Wolf, Draculaura and their fangtastic friends to prove that the culture clash of fur and fang is no longer an issue for this scary-cool student body!

Animation

Monster High: Escape from Skull Shores Blu-ray Movie  

Universal Studios | 2012 | 46 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Martin Liebman

Several teenage monsters are abducted by a magician with mysterious motives.

Animation

Monster High: Fright On! Blu-ray Movie  

Universal Studios | 2011 | 46 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Martin Liebman

Monster High is the model high school for monster integration; a melting pot where all monsters can let their fangtastic freak flags fly! But when other monster schools are merged with Monster High, the balance is upset and the school is thrown into social chaos. Our ghouls find themselves up against a convincing normie, Administrator Van Helscream, who is determined to drive a stake into the harmony of the school and magnify old grievances in order to isolate and separate the monster groups. Frankie Stein, Clawdeen Wolf, Draculaura and their ghoulfriends can only cure his agenda of intolerance if they can prove that the culture clash of Fur and Fang is no longer an issue and restore the imperfectly perfect harmony of Monster High.

Animation

Tarzan Blu-ray Movie  

Blu-ray + DVD + UV Digital Copy

Lionsgate Films | 2013 | 94 min | Rated PG | Feb 10, 2015 | Jeffrey Kauffman

Tarzan and Jane Porter face a mercenary army dispatched by the evil CEO of Greystoke Energies, a man who took over the company from Tarzan's parents, after they died in a plane crash.

Action / Adventure / Animation

Paris Blues Blu-ray Movie  

Kino Lorber | 1961 | 98 min | Unrated | Jul 29, 2014 | Jeffrey Kauffman

Two expatriate jazz musicians, one white and the other black, are living in Paris where racism is a non-issue. When they meet and fall in love with two young girls who are vacationing in France, they must decide whether to move back to America or stay in Paris.

Drama / Music / Romance

Cuban Fury Blu-ray Movie  

Entertainment One | 2014 | 98 min | Rated R | Jul 29, 2014 | Michael Reuben

Twenty-two years after a bullying incident robbed him of his shot at glory in the UK Junior Salsa Championships, overweight office worker Bruce Garrett finds his interest in salsa rekindled by the charms of his new American boss, Julia. Bruce, who shares his former passion for the dance floor. But Bruce's sleazy colleague Drew is also making a play for Julia. How can the self-doubting Bruce compete?

Comedy / Romance

The Professionals: MkI Blu-ray Movie    

Network | 1977-1978 | 657 min | Rated BBFC: 15 | Mar 31, 2014 | Dr. Svet Atanasov

All thirteen episodes from the first season of the classic 1970s crime series. Bodie and Doyle are two elite officers in the secretive CI5 service, a unit staffed by expert policemen, soldiers and special forces under the command of the formidable Cowley. In this series, a terrorist threatens to contaminate London's water supply, Bodie and Doyle masquerade as the bodyguards of a kidnap victim, and some former colleagues from Bodie's mercenary days arrive in London to pull off a daring bank robbery.

Action / Crime

Sabata Blu-ray Movie  

Ehi amico... c'è Sabata, hai chiuso!

Kino Lorber | 1969 | 106 min | Rated PG-13 | Jul 22, 2014 | Brian Orndorf

Several pillars of society have robbed an Army safe containing $100,000 so they can buy the land upon which the coming railroad will be built. But they haven't reckoned on the presence of the master gunslinger, Sabata.

Western

Toradora!: Complete Series Blu-ray Movie  

Premium Edition / Blu-ray + DVD

NIS America | 2008-2011 | 617 min | Rated PG-13 | Jul 01, 2014 | Jeffrey Kauffman

Due to his frightening appearance, Ryuji lives a rather unfortunate life. On the first day of his junior year of high school, he meets a strange girl named Taiga - better known as the Palm-top Tiger! Despite looking small and cute, she's extremely short-tempered, and nobody can stop her once she starts throwing punches. However, Ryuji learns a secret about Taiga that nobody else knows... The dragon and the tiger join forces to bring you a monolithic romantic comedy!

Anime / Comedy / Drama / Romance / Teen / Foreign

The Essential Jacques Demy Blu-ray Movie  

Blu-ray + DVD

Criterion | 1961-1982 | 6 Movies | 577 min | Not rated | Jul 22, 2014 | Dr. Svet Atanasov

See individual titles for their synopses.

Comedy / Drama / Family / Fantasy / Musical / Romance / Foreign / Melodrama

Age of Tomorrow Blu-ray Movie  

Asylum | 2014 | 90 min | Not rated | Jun 10, 2014 | Martin Liebman

Mankind must fight to survive as Earth is invaded by hostile UFOs bent on destroying the planet. As the epic battle wages on, astronauts sneak aboard the mothership where they discover a portal to the aliens' home world. They manage to alert Earth before they are brutally murdered. Left with no other choice, Earth sends an elite military team of science and combat specialists through the portal where they attempt to stop the invasion from the inside out. But is the battle already lost for humanity?

Action / Sci-Fi / Thriller

Age of Dinosaurs Blu-ray Movie  

Asylum | 2013 | 88 min | Not rated | May 07, 2013 | Martin Liebman

Dinosaurs are unleashed on modern-day Los Angeles.

Action / Sci-Fi

Une Chambre en Ville Blu-ray Movie  

A Room in Town / Blu-ray + DVD

Criterion | 1982 | 94 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Dr. Svet Atanasov

A young woman wishes to leave her brutish husband for an earthy steelworker, though he is involved with another. Unbeknownst to the girl, the object of her affection boards with her no-nonsense baroness mother.

Drama / Musical / Romance / Foreign

Problem Children Are Coming From Another World, Aren't They: Complete Collection Blu-ray Movie  

Sentai Filmworks | 2013 | 275 min | Rated TV-14 | Jul 29, 2014 | Jeffrey Kauffman

On the world known as Little Garden, factions and communities compete for power via Gift Games, in which individuals with unusual abilities are set against each other. But where there are winners, there are also losers, and the group called the “No Names” has been so devastated in their conflicts with the Demon Lords that almost all of their 120 remaining members are still children! For surviving leaders Jin and Black Rabbit there seems to be only one hope: Bring in outside recruits and gamble that their new abilities will somehow reverse the tide! Of course, Earth-born Izayoi, Asuka and Yo don’t know any of this when they accept the invitation to come to Little Garden, nor do they know how dangerous the games actually are. Fortunately, all three are far more formidable than anyone can imagine. Still, before they can win the games, they’ll have to learn how to work together and with the other No Names, and time is rapidly running out! The supernatural and the paranormal collide as the ultimate battle for power begins in PROBLEM CHILDREN ARE COMING FROM ANOTHER WORLD, AREN’T THEY?

Action / Adventure / Anime / Comedy / Fantasy / Foreign

ZZ Top: Live at Montreux 2013 Blu-ray Movie  

Eagle Rock Entertainment | 2013 | 81 min | Not rated | Jul 22, 2014 | Jeffrey Kauffman

With an unchanged line-up stretching back to 1969 and global album sales in excess of 50 million, ZZ Top continue to delight fans around the world with brilliant live concerts and great music. The band has made a number of visits to Montreux over the years and this concert from the 2013 Festival is undoubtedly one of their finest live performances. The set list blends tracks from early seventies albums such as Tres Hombres and Fandango through their eighties blockbuster period with Eliminator and Afterburner and up to their most recent release and return to their blues roots with La Futura . The middle section of the concert features a jazz-blues tribute to the late Montreux Festival founder Claude Nobs with guest appearances by Mike Flanigin on Hammond Organ and Van Wilks on guitar. ZZ Top, the lil ol band from Texas , are rocking the blues as strongly as ever!

Music

Trancers Blu-ray Movie  

Full Moon Features | 1984 | 77 min | Rated PG-13 | Nov 18, 2014 | Martin Liebman

Jack Deth is a trooper in Angel City, circa 2247, mopping up the last of the disciples of the Martin Whistler. Whistler uses his psychic power to 'trance' those with weak minds and force them to obey his every desire. Whistler had been thought to be dead by now, but he's alive and well, and in the year 1985. Whistler's plan - to hunt down the ancestors of the City Council. With the Council disbanded, nothing is to stop Whistler from controlling the city. That's where Jack Deth fits in. Jack is sent back in time by inhabiting the body of his ancestor. The only problem is that Whistler's ancestor is a police detective, and he's begun trancing people back in 1985. With the help of Lena, a strong-minded punk rock girl, he must find and protect Hap Ashby, a former baseball pitcher now living on Skid Row, and face Whistler in a final confrontation.

Action / Sci-Fi