New Blu-ray Reviews
Home- January 15, 2014
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2 3D Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray 3D + Blu-ray + DVD + UV Digital Copy
Sony Pictures | 2013 | 95 min | Rated PG | Jan 28, 2014 | Martin Liebman
Flint Lockwood now works at The Live Corp Company for his idol Chester V. But he's forced to leave his post when he learns that his most infamous machine is still operational and is churning out menacing food-animal hybrids.
Animation / Comedy / Family / Fantasy / Sci-Fi
The Spectacular Now Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + UV Digital Copy
Lionsgate Films | 2013 | 95 min | Rated R | Jan 14, 2014 | Jeffrey Kauffman
Sutter Keely lives in the now. It's a good place for him. A high school senior, charming and self-possessed, he's the life of the party, loves his job at a men's clothing store, and has no plans for the future. A budding alcoholic, he's never far from his supersized, whiskey-fortified thirst-master cup. But after being dumped by his girlfriend, Sutter gets drunk and wakes up on a lawn with Aimee Finicky hovering over him. She's different: the "nice girl" who reads science fiction and doesn't have a boyfriend. While Amy has dreams of a future, Sutter lives in the impressive delusion of a spectacular now, yet somehow, they're drawn together.
Comedy / Drama / Romance / Teen
Sunrise Blu-ray Movie
Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans / Blu-ray + DVD
20th Century Fox | 1927 | 1 Movie, 2 Cuts | 94 min | Not rated | Jan 14, 2014 | Jeffrey Kauffman
A young farmer is tempted by the charms of a sophisticated city woman, who suggests to him that his dull wife might accidentally drown. He considers this plan, and imagines what his life might be like if he went to the big bad city.
Drama / Romance
The Lost Films of Herschell Gordon Lewis Blu-ray Movie
Linda and Abilene / Ecstasies of Women / Black Love / Blu-ray + DVD
Vinegar Syndrome | 1969-1971 | 3 Movies | 242 min | Rated X | Jan 08, 2013 | Brian Orndorf
'The Lost Films of H.G. Lewis' three previously thought lost sexploitation features from the acclaimed master of exploitation cinema. All three films have been restored in 2K from their original camera negatives and are being released on home video for the first time anywhere in the world!
Comedy / Drama / Western / Erotic
You're Next Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + DVD + UV Digital Copy
Lionsgate Films | 2011 | 94 min | Rated R | Jan 14, 2014 | Jeffrey Kauffman
When a gang of masked, ax-wielding murderers descend upon the Davison family reunion, the hapless victims seem trapped... until an unlikely guest of the family proves to be the most talented killer of all.
Horror / Thriller / Psychological thriller
- January 14, 2014
Il Bidone Blu-ray Movie
The Swindle / Masters of Cinema / Blu-ray + DVD
Eureka Entertainment | 1955 | 113 min | Rated BBFC: 12 | Dec 30, 2013 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
Three small-time conmen—the ageing Augusto, "Picasso", and Roberto—prey upon the poor and gullible for modest gains. However, once Augusto is unexpectedly reunited with his daughter, now struggling with her studies, the moral and emotional demands of his lifestyle begin to take their toll sooner than he had anticipated.
Comedy / Crime / Drama / Foreign
Enough Said Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + UV Digital Copy
20th Century Fox | 2013 | 93 min | Rated PG-13 | Jan 14, 2014 | Jeffrey Kauffman
A divorced woman who decides to pursue the man she's interested in learns he's her new friend's ex-husband.
Comedy / Drama / Romance
A.C.O.D. Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + UV Digital Copy
Paramount Pictures | 2013 | 88 min | Rated R | Jan 14, 2014 | Martin Liebman
A.C.O.D. follows a seemingly well-adjusted Adult Child of Divorce who is forced to revisit the chaos of his parents bitter divorce all over again after his younger brother decides to get married.
Comedy
A Chorus Line Blu-ray Movie
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer | 1985 | 118 min | Rated PG-13 | Jan 14, 2014 | Michael Reuben
Performers bare their souls during auditions for a Broadway musical.
Drama / Music / Musical
- January 13, 2014
The Following: The Complete First Season Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + DVD + UV Digital Copy
Warner Bros. | 2013 | 640 min | Rated TV-14 | Jan 07, 2014 | Kenneth Brown
Former FBI agent Ryan Hardy attempts to recapture serial killer Joe Carroll following the latter's escape from prison. Hardy soon discovers that the charismatic Carroll has surrounded himself with a group of like-minded individuals (which he met while teaching and while in prison), and turned them into a cult of fanatical killers.
Crime / Drama / Mystery / Thriller
Last Vegas Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + DVD + UV Digital Copy
Sony Pictures | 2013 | 105 min | Rated PG-13 | Jan 28, 2014 | Martin Liebman
Four best friends in their late-60's decide to escape retirement and throw a Las Vegas bachelor party for the only one of them who has remained single.
Comedy
In the Heat of the Night Blu-ray Movie
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer | 1967 | 110 min | Not rated | Jan 14, 2014 | Michael Reuben
An African American police detective is asked to investigate a murder in a racially hostile southern town.
Crime / Drama / Film-Noir / Mystery / Thriller
- January 12, 2014
La Fièvre monte a El Pao Blu-ray Movie
Fever Mounts at El Pao / Blu-ray + DVD
Pathe Distribution | 1959 | 100 min | Rated U Tous publics | Dec 04, 2013 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
In remote El Pao, the island's unseen leader governs from afar while thousands of prisoners labor endlessly constructing the local plantation. Governor Vargas is shockingly assassinated by Lt. García who blames it on Ramón Vászquez, the governor's aide. His reasoning is Vászquez's affair with the governor's wife Inés. As the newly elected governor, Vasquez must reconcile his liberal politics with the oppressive dogma of the ex-dictator. Meanwhile Alejandro Gual, a military leader, tries to usurp Garcia's power and to turn Inés against her lover.
Drama / Foreign
Carrie Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + DVD + UV Digital Copy
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer | 2013 | 1 Movie, 2 Cuts | 100 min | Rated R | Jan 14, 2014 | Michael Reuben
A sheltered high school girl unleashes her newly developed telekinetic powers after she is pushed too far by her peers.
Drama / Horror / Teen / Psychological thriller / Supernatural / Coming of age
- January 11, 2014
Nous irons tous au paradis Blu-ray Movie
Pardon Mon Affaire, Too! / We Will All Meet in Paradise
Gaumont | 1977 | 112 min | Rated U Tous publics | Nov 14, 2013 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
Having fortuitously discovered a photograph in which Marthe embraces someone unknown, clothed with a chequed jacket, Étienne Dorsay becomes jealous, and imagines various stratagems to identify the lover. In the meantime, Étienne and his friends acquire a weekend house for a very low price.
Comedy / Romance / Foreign
The Wicker Man Blu-ray Movie
The Final Cut
Lionsgate Films | 1973 | 94 min | Unrated | Jan 07, 2014 | Jeffrey Kauffman
A Police sergeant travels to a remote Scottish island in search of a missing girl whom the townsfolk claim never existed. Stranger still are the rites that take place there.
Drama / Horror / Musical / Mystery / Thriller
We Are What We Are Blu-ray Movie
Entertainment One | 2013 | 105 min | Rated R | Jan 07, 2014 | Jeffrey Kauffman
American re-imagining of the 2010 Mexican horror film of the same name. The reclusive Parker family headed by ailing patriarch Frank have a dark and macabre family secret. While grieving for their mother, Iris and Rose are left to care for their father and younger brother Rory as well as take responsibility for attending to their horrific familial custom. As a storm hits the small town where the family live, a number of gruesome discoveries by the local authorities lead them to the door of the Parkers and ever closer to the ancestral secret they work so hard to maintain.
Crime / Drama / Horror / Thriller
The Virginian Blu-ray Movie
Cinedigm | 2014 | 94 min | Rated PG-13 | Jan 07, 2014 | Jeffrey Kauffman
Trace Adkins (The Lincoln Lawyer), Ron Perlman (TV's "Sons of Anarchy") and Brendan Penny (Ring Of Fire) star in this gritty and riveting re-imagining of the classic Western saga. Raised by powerful cattle baron Judge Henry (Perlman), South, aka "The Virginian" (Adkins), lives his life as a ranch enforcer with bravery and steely determination. When a big-city writer (Penny) raises questions about the fierce treatment of rustlers, South is quick to defend the brutal realities of the "Code of the West." But as he looks deeper into the latest string of rustling and finds his convictions questioned by a pretty new schoolteacher (Victoria Pratt, Mutant X), South begins to wonder if the Judge had ulterior motives in raising him to a life of bloodshed and violence in this explosive, action-loaded epic on the open range.
Western
Polar Bears 3D: Ice Bear Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray 3D + Blu-ray
Universal Studios | 2013 | 50 min | Rated PG | Nov 12, 2013 | Kenneth Brown
The polar bear is the Arctic's biggest predator on ice... but what happens to the "ice bear" when there's no ice? Featuring breathtaking 3D cinematography shot over 12 months in the Canadian Arctic, and capturing rarely-seen behaviour, Polar Bears 3D: Ice Bear, is an enthralling and captivating look at their changing world.
Documentary / Nature
- January 10, 2014
Big Trouble in Little China Blu-ray Movie
Arrow | 1986 | 100 min | Rated BBFC: 15 | Dec 16, 2013 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
A rough-and-tumble trucker helps rescue his friend's fiance from an ancient sorcerer in a battle beneath Chinatown.
Action / Adventure / Comedy / Fantasy / Supernatural / Martial arts