New Blu-ray Reviews

Computer Chess Blu-ray Movie    

Masters of Cinema / Blu-ray + DVD

Eureka Entertainment | 2013 | 92 min | Rated BBFC: 15 | Jan 20, 2014 | Dr. Svet Atanasov

Set over the course of a weekend tournament for chess software programmers thirty-some years ago, Computer Chess transports viewers to a nostalgic moment when the contest between technology and the human spirit seemed a little more up for grabs. We get to know the eccentric geniuses possessed of the vision to teach a metal box to defeat man, literally, at his own game, laying the groundwork for artificial intelligence as we know it and will come to know it in the future.

Comedy / Period

Falling Skies: The Complete Second Season Blu-ray Movie  

Blu-ray + Digital Copy

Warner Bros. | 2012 | 450 min | Rated TV-14 | Jun 04, 2013 | Kenneth Brown

The chaotic aftermath of an alien attack has left most of the world completely incapacitated. In the six months since the initial invasion, the few survivors have banded together outside major cities to begin the difficult task of fighting back. Each day is a test of survival as citizen soldiers work to protect the people in their care while also engaging in an insurgency campaign against the occupying alien force.

Action / Sci-Fi / Thriller

Night of the Demons Blu-ray Movie  

Collector's Edition / Blu-ray + DVD

Shout Factory | 1988 | 90 min | Not rated | Feb 04, 2014 | Jeffrey Kauffman

On the night of Halloween, 10 teens decide to go to a party at an abandoned funeral parlor. "Hull House", rumored to be built on an evil patch of land and underground stream, is the place. While starting the party, the teens gather around a big mirror to perform a séance... Big mistake. They awaken an evil force and find themselves trapped and taken over one by one. Now it's a battle for who can survive and cross over the stream before going to hell...

Comedy / Horror

Metallica Through the Never 3D Blu-ray Movie  

Blu-ray 3D + Digital Copy

Blackened Recordings | 2013 | 93 min | Rated R | Jan 28, 2014 | Kenneth Brown

Trip, a young roadie for Metallica, is sent on an urgent mission during the band's show. But what seems like a simple assignment turns into a surreal adventure.

Action / Music / Thriller / Surreal

Metallica Through the Never Blu-ray Movie  

Blackened Recordings | 2013 | 93 min | Rated R | Jan 28, 2014 | Kenneth Brown

Trip, a young roadie for Metallica, is sent on an urgent mission during the band's show. But what seems like a simple assignment turns into a surreal adventure.

Action / Music / Thriller / Surreal

Stop-Loss Blu-ray Movie  

Warner Bros. | 2008 | 112 min | Rated R | Feb 04, 2014 | Michael Reuben

Decorated Iraq war hero Sgt. Brandon King makes a celebrated return to his small Texas hometown, believing that his tour of duty is over. When the Army orders him back to Iraq under the fine print in his enlistment contract, the action tests everything he believes in.

Drama / War

Kiss of the Damned Blu-ray Movie    

Eureka Entertainment | 2012 | 95 min | Rated BBFC: 18 | Jan 27, 2014 | Dr. Svet Atanasov

Beautiful vampire Djuna tries to resist the advances of the handsome, human screenwriter Paolo, but eventually gives in to their passion. When her troublemaker sister Mimi unexpectedly comes to visit, Djuna's love story is threatened, and the whole vampire community becomes endangered.

Drama / Horror / Romance

The White Queen Blu-ray Movie  

Blu-ray + UV Digital Copy

Starz / Anchor Bay | 2013 | 587 min | Rated TV-MA | Feb 04, 2014 | Martin Liebman

Set against the iconic backdrop of the War of the Roses, The White Queen is a major new ten-hour adaptation of Philippa Gregory‘s vivid bestselling historical novel series The Cousin’s War, for BBC One. The White Queen is the thrilling story of the women caught up in the ongoing conflict for the throne – they are some of the most ruthless players in history and will stop at nothing to support their own causes and those of the ones they love. The White Queen is a stunningly rich tale of love and loss, seduction and deception, betrayal and murder, vibrantly woven through the stories of three different yet equally driven women, in their quest for power as they manipulate behind the scenes of history – Elizabeth Woodville, Margaret Beaufort and Anne Neville.

Drama / History / Epic / Period

It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World Blu-ray Movie  

Theatrical and Extended Versions / Blu-ray + DVD

Criterion | 1963 | 1 Movie, 2 Cuts | 198 min | Rated G | Jan 21, 2014 | Dr. Svet Atanasov

Just before he dies, a thief reveals to five strangers that he buried $350,000 in a park, kicking off a madcap dash to recover the dough.

Action / Adventure / Comedy / Crime / Epic

The Lady from Shanghai Blu-ray Movie  

TCM Vault Collection / Blu-ray + DVD

Sony Pictures | 1947 | 88 min | Not rated | Jan 27, 2014 | Jeffrey Kauffman

When unemployed Irishman Michael O'Hara saves Elsa Bannister from thugs, she obtains him a position on her invalid lawyer husband Arthur's yacht, as a deckhand. It soon becomes clear that Elsa has designs on O'Hara, and also wants her husband out of the way.

Crime / Film-Noir / Mystery / Thriller / Dark humor

Barbie & Her Sisters in A Pony Tale Blu-ray Movie  

Blu-ray + DVD + UV Digital Copy

Universal Studios | 2013 | 75 min | Not rated | Oct 22, 2013 | Kenneth Brown

Barbie and her sisters set off on a Swiss adventure to the majestic Alps, where they are excited to spend the summer at a fun-filled riding academy! Barbie can't wait to find a new horse to bring back to Malibu. Stacie is super excited to prove she's an amazing equestrian. All Chelsea wants to do is ride the big horses, and Skipper... well let's just say she's more interested in writing about the great outdoors than experiencing it. The sisters' vacation gets off to a rocky start, but when Barbie discovers a mysterious wild horse in the woods, their visit becomes truly magical.

Animation / Family

Escape Plan Blu-ray Movie  

Blu-ray + DVD + UV Digital Copy

Summit Entertainment | 2013 | 116 min | Rated R | Feb 04, 2014 | Jeffrey Kauffman

Ray Breslin, the world's foremost authority on structural security, agrees to take on one last job: breaking out of an ultra-secret, high-tech facility called "The Tomb.” But when he is wrongly imprisoned, he must recruit fellow inmate Emil Rottmayer to help devise a daring, nearly impossible plan to escape from the most protected and fortified prison ever built.

Action / Mystery / Thriller

A Case of You Blu-ray Movie  

IFC Films | 2013 | 92 min | Rated R | Feb 04, 2014 | Michael Reuben

A young writer tries to impress a girl by studying her Facebook page and mimicking her interests, but when she falls for him, he fears that it's not really him she loves.

Comedy / Romance

Fruitvale Station Blu-ray Movie  

Blu-ray + DVD + UV Digital Copy

Starz / Anchor Bay | 2013 | 85 min | Rated R | Jan 14, 2014 | Martin Liebman

The true story of Oscar, a 22-year-old Bay Area resident, who crosses paths with friends, enemies, family, and strangers on the last day of 2008.

Biography / Drama

Witchboard Blu-ray Movie  

Shout Factory | 1986 | 98 min | Rated R | Feb 04, 2014 | Jeffrey Kauffman

When his girlfriend becomes dangerously obsessed with a ghost she contacted using a Ouija board, Jim reluctantly joins forces with her ex - his own estranged childhood best friend - to identify and exorcise the evil spirit.

Horror / Mystery / Thriller

Flavia the Heretic Blu-ray Movie  

Flavia, la monaca musulmana

Scorpion Releasing | 1974 | 101 min | Not rated | Jan 28, 2014 | Brian Orndorf

After a cult besieges her convent, a young nun goes with an army of Muslims to destroy the convent and kill who wronged her.

Drama / Horror

Wadjda Blu-ray Movie  

وجدة / Blu-ray + DVD

Sony Pictures | 2012 | 97 min | Rated PG | Feb 11, 2014 | Martin Liebman

A rebellious Saudi Arabian girl hatches a plan to get her hands on the bicycle she craves, in this coming-of-age tale. Living within a conservative suburb of Riyadh, fun-loving eleven-year-old Wadjda has her heart set on a green bicycle, so that she can beat the boys in their neighbourhood races. But when her mother forbids it, anticipating a reaction from a society that disapproves of women riding bicycles, an enterprising Wadjda decides to raise the money herself, by entering a local Qur'an-reading competition that's offering a cash prize.

Drama / Foreign / Coming of age

The Hurricane Blu-ray Movie  

Blu-ray + UV Digital Copy

Universal Studios | 1999 | 146 min | Rated R | Jan 07, 2014 | Michael Reuben

This film tells the story of Rubin "Hurricane" Carter, an African-American man who rose from a troubled youth to become a successful middleweight boxer. However, his life is shattered when he is accused of a triple murder, convicted and sentence to multiple life terms. Despite becoming a cause celebre and dogged efforts to prove his innocence through his autobiography, he remains imprisoned. Then, an African-American boy and his Canadian mentors read Carter's book and begin working for his exoneration.

Biography / Drama / Sport

Dracula 3D Blu-ray Movie  

Blu-ray 3D + Blu-ray

MPI Media Group | 2012 | 110 min | Not rated | Jan 28, 2014 | Casey Broadwater

Asia Argento stars in horror legend Dario Argento's sexy spin on the classic tale about the sharp-toothed count who craves human blood.

Drama / Horror / Romance / Thriller / Supernatural / Foreign / Period

The Poirot Collection Blu-ray Movie    

Murder on the Orient Express / Death on the Nile / Evil Under the Sun

Studio Canal | 1974-1982 | 3 Movies | 383 min | Rated BBFC: PG | Jan 20, 2014 | Dr. Svet Atanasov

Based on one of Agatha Christie's all time favourite crime heroes, Oscar Nominee Albert Finney and two-time Oscar winner Peter Ustinov take on the role of the nation's much loved Belgian detective Hercule Poirot.

Crime / Drama / Mystery / Thriller / Period