New Blu-ray Reviews

Saga: Spin It Again - Live in Munich Blu-ray Movie  

Eagle Rock Entertainment | 2012 | 117 min | Not rated | Nov 05, 2013 | Jeffrey Kauffman

No synopsis for this title.

Music

George Thorogood & The Destroyers: Live at Montreux Blu-ray Movie  

Eagle Rock Entertainment | 2013 | 80 min | Not rated | Nov 19, 2013 | Jeffrey Kauffman

No synopsis for this title.

Music

The Horror Show Blu-ray Movie  

House III / Blu-ray + DVD

Shout Factory | 1989 | 95 min | Rated R | Nov 26, 2013 | Jeffrey Kauffman

Detective Lucas McCarthy finally apprehends "Meat Cleaver Max" and watches the electric chair execution from the audience. But killing Max Jenke only elevated him to another level of reality. Now Lucas' family is under attack, his sanity in question, and his house haunted. Aided by a disreputable college professor, can Lucas reclaim his mind, house, and family?

Horror

Bach: Christmas Oratorio Blu-ray Movie  

EUROARTS | 2012 | 145 min | Unrated | Sep 24, 2013 | Jeffrey Kauffman

No synopsis for this title.

Music

Battle of the Year Blu-ray Movie  

Blu-ray + UV Digital Copy

Sony Pictures | 2013 | 110 min | Rated PG-13 | Dec 10, 2013 | Martin Liebman

With the help of their demanding coach, a celebrated American breakdancing team travels to France to try to win the world championship competition in this exhilarating drama. Along the way, they struggle to gain acceptance for their sport.

Drama / Music

Saving General Yang Blu-ray Movie  

忠烈楊家將

Well Go USA | 2013 | 102 min | Not rated | Dec 10, 2013 | Jeffrey Kauffman

The story of the Yang's has been eulogized for hundreds of years in the Chinese society. It details the exploits of the Yang military family, recounting the unflinching loyalty of the Yang family heirs. The plot places focus on how the seven sons of the Yang family fought as one to rescue their father.

Action / Adventure / History / Foreign / Epic

The Paradise: Season One Blu-ray Movie  

BBC | 2012 | 471 min | Not rated | Nov 12, 2013 | Kenneth Brown

Set amidst the Victorian splendor of Britain's first department store, The Paradise is a rags-to-riches story of a young girl who falls in love with the intoxicating charms of the modern world. As Denise finds her feet as a lowly shop girl, she must navigate her way through power struggles, intrigues and affairs. When the shop's dashing and reckless owner, John Moray, spots her talents she knows she can use this opportunity to rise to great things. Through sexy, episodic stories driven by romance and glamour, this series creates a world as colorful and captivating as the silks on display in the store. This is a love story, a story of ambition and progress, with a mysterious, dark secret at its heart.

Drama / Period

The Lone Ranger Blu-ray Movie  

Blu-ray + DVD + Digital Copy

Disney / Buena Vista | 2013 | 149 min | Rated PG-13 | Dec 17, 2013 | Kenneth Brown

Native American spirit warrior Tonto recounts the untold tales that transformed John Reid, a man of the law, into a legend of justice.

Action / Adventure / Western

Touchy Feely Blu-ray Movie  

Magnolia Pictures | 2013 | 88 min | Rated R | Dec 10, 2013 | Michael Reuben

A massage therapist is unable to do her job when stricken with a mysterious and sudden aversion to bodily contact. Meanwhile, her uptight brother's foundering dental practice receives new life when clients seek out his healing touch.

Drama

Muse: Live at Rome Olympic Stadium Blu-ray Movie  

Blu-ray + CD

Warner Music | 2013 | 96 min | Not rated | Dec 03, 2013 | Jeffrey Kauffman

Live performance by British rock band Muse at the Stadio Olimpico, Rome. Filmed in front of an audience of more than 60,000 people on 6th July 2013. The first concert film ever to be filmed in 4K, a format soon to be adopted by Hollywood as standard for all blockbuster films.

Music

Big Blu-ray Movie  

25th Anniversary Edition / Blu-ray + DVD

20th Century Fox | 1988 | 1 Movie, 2 Cuts | 104 min | Rated PG | Dec 10, 2013 | Jeffrey Kauffman

Through a carnival wishing machine, a 12-year-old boy is transferred into the body of a 30-year-old man.

Comedy / Drama / Family / Romance / Imaginary / Coming of age

The Stone Roses: Made of Stone Blu-ray Movie  

MVD Visual | 2013 | 97 min | Not rated | Dec 03, 2013 | Casey Broadwater

A documentary concerning the reunion of the iconic English band the Stone Roses. A product of the Manchester music scene of the late 1980s and early '90s, the Stone Roses earned critical praise with their self-titled debut album and followed with a second album in 1994 before disbanding two years later. Fifteen years later, the band announced their reunion and plans of a world tour as well as a potential third album. In this documentary, renowned British film director and long-term Stone Roses fan Shane Meadows follows the group as they prepare for the tour. Meadows enjoys in-depth access, and the result is insight into the past, present, and future of the band.

Biography / Documentary / Music

Grey Gardens Blu-ray Movie  

includes "The Beales of Grey Gardens" (2006)

Criterion | 1975-2006 | 2 Movies | 95 min | Rated PG | Dec 10, 2013 | Dr. Svet Atanasov

Mrs. Edith Bouvier Beale and her daughter Edie, aunt and first cousin of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, live in a world of their own behind the brambles that surround their decaying 28-room East Hampton mansion. A five-week shoot resulted in 50 hours of footage.

Documentary

Jayne Mansfield's Car Blu-ray Movie  

Starz / Anchor Bay | 2012 | 122 min | Rated R | Dec 10, 2013 | Martin Liebman

Alabama; 1969: The death of a clan's estranged wife and mother brings together two very different families. Do the scars of the past hide differences that will tear them apart, or expose truths that could lead to unexpected collisions?

Drama

Kick-Ass 2 Blu-ray Movie  

Blu-ray + DVD + UV Digital Copy

Universal Studios | 2013 | 103 min | Rated R | Dec 17, 2013 | Jeffrey Kauffman

The costumed high school hero Kick-Ass returns, this time with a group of normal citizens who have been inspired to fight crime in costume. Meanwhile, the Red Mist plots an act of revenge that will affect everyone Kick-Ass knows.

Action / Comedy / Crime / Teen / Dark humor / Martial arts / Comic book

The Rutles Anthology Blu-ray Movie  

The Rutles: All You Need Is Cash BD + The Rutles 2: Can't Buy Me Lunch DVD / Blu-ray + DVD

MVD/VSC | 1978 | 2 Movies | 76 min | Not rated | Dec 03, 2013 | Jeffrey Kauffman

Documentary about the biggest British Pop Group in history.

Comedy / Music

Post Tenebras Lux Blu-ray Movie  

Strand Releasing | 2012 | 115 min | Not rated | Dec 10, 2013 | Brian Orndorf

An evocative portrait of a Mexican's struggles to live away from the mainstream. Deciding to leave the rat race behind, rich industrialist Juan along with his wife Natalia and two children, relocate to start anew in a seemingly rural idyll. But Juan soon finds that country life has its own problems as he struggles to cope with being an outsider in his new community, allied with the pressures that raising a young family exerts on his already strained marriage.

Drama / Other / Foreign

Doctor Who: The Day of the Doctor 3D Blu-ray Movie  

50th Anniversary Special / Blu-ray 3D + Blu-ray + DVD

BBC | 2013 | 79 min | Rated TV-PG | Dec 10, 2013 | Kenneth Brown

In 2013, something terrible is awakening in London's National Gallery; in 1562, a murderous plot is afoot in Elizabethan England; and somewhere in space an ancient battle reaches its devastating conclusion.

Adventure / Drama / Mystery / Sci-Fi

Adore Blu-ray Movie  

Perfect Mothers / Blu-ray + UV Digital Copy

Paramount Pictures | 2013 | 111 min | Rated R | Dec 10, 2013 | Martin Liebman

Lil and Roz are two lifelong friends, having grown up together as neighbors in an idyllic beach town. As adults, their sons have developed a friendship as strong as that which binds their mothers. One summer, all four are confronted by simmering emotions that have been mounting between them, and each find unexpected happiness in relationships that cross the bounds of convention.

Drama

Futurama: Volume 8 Blu-ray Movie  

20th Century Fox | 2013 | 286 min | Rated TV-14 | Dec 10, 2013 | Jeffrey Kauffman

Pizza boy Philip J. Fry is accidentally cryogenically frozen and awakens 1,000 years later in the 31st century. With no way back, he lands a job at Planet Express, an interplanetary delivery service, and tries to make sense of his new life with his co-worker friends: his 160-year old boss; a beautiful, Cyclopian mutant; a human-sized crustacean; a Rastafarian bureaucrat; a rich, spoiled intern and an alcoholic, sociopathic robot.

Animation / Comedy / Sci-Fi