New Blu-ray Reviews
Home- October 17, 2013
Plunder Road Blu-ray Movie
Olive Films | 1957 | 72 min | Not rated | Sep 24, 2013 | Jeffrey Kauffman
On a dark rainy night, five men stage a well-planned U.S. Mint train robbery and walk away with ten million in gold bullion. To throw the cops off the track, the gang split up the massive haul into three concealed truckloads and go off to three different directions hoping for a perfect getaway.
Crime / Drama / Film-Noir / Heist
Royal Space Force: The Wings of Honnêamise Blu-ray Movie
王立宇宙軍 オネアミスの翼 / Ōritsu Uchūgun: Oneamisu no Tsubasa
Maiden Japan | 1987 | 125 min | Rated TV-MA | Oct 29, 2013 | Jeffrey Kauffman
One of the most acclaimed films in Japanese anime, The Winds of Honneamise tells the story of a group of would-be astronauts on a planet that is not Earth, but not unlike Earth. While an eager young pilot named Shilo dreams of making his nation's space program a success, his leaders are not sure of the project's viability, and shortages of money and technical know-how threaten to keep space flights on the ground. Will Shilo and his friends buck the odds and take their ship to other worlds?
Action / Adventure / Anime / Drama / Sci-Fi / Thriller / Foreign
Race for the Yankee Zephyr Blu-ray Movie
Treasure of the Yankee Zephyr / Ein Teufelskerl
Ascot Elite Home Entertainment | 1981 | 105 min | Rated FSK-12 | Jul 23, 2013 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
Barney, Sally, and Gibbie set off across New Zealand on a search for the Yankee Zephyr, a WWII US Navy cargo plane containing a shipment of valuable medals and fifty million dollars in gold bullion. But they soon realize they are not alone on their quest. Ruthless businessman Theo Brown and his gang of armed bodyguards are on their trail and they will do anything to get their hands on the gold first. Now, Barney, Sally, and Gibbie must fend for their lives and escape their deadly enemies. Prepare for a hair-raising action-packed adventure as these two groups race to find the Yankee Zephyr.
Action / Adventure / Comedy
- October 16, 2013
Yuruyuri Happy Go Lily: Season 1 Blu-ray Movie
Premium Edition
NIS America | 2011 | 288 min | Rated PG-13 | Sep 03, 2013 | Jeffrey Kauffman
Right after starting middle school, Akari Akaza joins the Amusement Club, whose only other members are her two childhood friends Kyoko Toshino and Yui Funami. Chinatsu Yoshikawa, Akari's classmate, becomes the fourth member after falling head over heels for Yui. The Amusement Club meets at the abandoned tea ceremony room and has no clear purpose, leaving the girls to do whatever they want. More often than not, Kyoko stirs up some wild scheme to get everyone in trouble as a means to pass the time and experience the ideal middle school life!
Anime / Comedy / Romance / Teen / Comic book / Foreign
Drug War Blu-ray Movie
毒戰
Well Go USA | 2012 | 107 min | Rated R | Oct 15, 2013 | Jeffrey Kauffman
Police captain Zhang partners with a drug lord named Timmy Choi after he is arrested. To avoid the death penalty, Choi agrees to reveal information about his partners who operate a cocaine ring.
Action / Crime / Drama / Thriller / Foreign
Jumper 3D Blu-ray Movie
Lenticular Slipcover / Blu-ray 3D + Blu-ray
20th Century Fox | 2008 | 88 min | Rated PG-13 | Oct 15, 2013 | Jeffrey Kauffman
A young man, born with the uncanny ability to teleport instantly to any place on Earth, is thrust into the midst of an ancient war.
Action / Adventure / Sci-Fi / Thriller
Weird Science Blu-ray Movie
1980s Best of the Decade / Blu-ray + UV Digital Copy
Universal Studios | 1985 | 94 min | Rated PG-13 | Oct 15, 2013 | Brian Orndorf
A nerdy computer whiz and his best friend create the perfect woman. Like a computer-generated fairy godmother, the duo's out-of-this-world creation guides the pair through the pleasures and pitfalls of adolescence.
Comedy / Romance / Sci-Fi / Teen / Coming of age
Anger Management: Volume Two Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + UV Digital Copy
Lionsgate Films | 2012-2013 | 506 min | Rated TV-MA | Oct 15, 2013 | Jeffrey Kauffman
The hilarious hit comedy ANGER MANAGEMENT is back! Starring award winning actor, Charlie Sheen, Anger Management Volume 2 follows Charlie Goodman, a non-traditional therapist specializing in anger management. He has a successful private practice, holding sessions with his group of primary patient regulars each week, as well as performing pro bono counseling for an inmate group at a state prison. His life is complicated by his relationships with his own therapist and best friend, his ex-wife whose positive outlook but poor life- choices frustrate Charlie, their 15 year-old daughter who has OCD, and of course, his interfering and meddlesome father, Martin.
Comedy
The Conjuring Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + DVD + UV Digital Copy
Warner Bros. | 2013 | 112 min | Rated R | Oct 22, 2013 | Kenneth Brown
Based on a true story, it tells the horrifying tale of how paranormal investigators were called upon to help a family terrorized in a secluded farmhouse.
Horror / Supernatural / Period
The Black Waters of Echo's Pond Blu-ray Movie
Starz / Anchor Bay | 2009 | 93 min | Rated R | Sep 10, 2013 | Martin Liebman
Nine friends take a holiday at a Victorian home on a private island and uncover a game that when played brings out the worst in each of them. Jealously, greed, hatred, lust, all of the things they keep buried deep inside themselves rise to the surface and come to a boil. The Black Waters of Echo's Pond shows those who look into it what they want to see... but what you want to see isn't always the truth.
Fantasy / Horror
Nothing Left to Fear Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + DVD
Starz / Anchor Bay | 2013 | 100 min | Rated R | Oct 08, 2013 | Martin Liebman
A family's journey toward a better life is interrupted by an unstable man of the cloth.
Horror / Supernatural
- October 15, 2013
I Married a Witch Blu-ray Movie
Criterion | 1942 | 74 min | Not rated | Oct 08, 2013 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
Many centuries after cursing the male descendants of the Salem puritan who sent her to the stake, a charmingly vengeful sorceress finds herself drawn to one of them—a prospective governor about to marry a spoiled socialite.
Comedy / Fantasy / Romance
Stuck on You Blu-ray Movie
Starz / Anchor Bay | 2003 | 119 min | Rated PG-13 | Oct 01, 2013 | Martin Liebman
Conjoined twins from Martha's Vineyard move to Los Angeles so that one of them can pursue an acting career.
Comedy
The Haunting Blu-ray Movie
Warner Bros. | 1963 | 112 min | Rated G | Oct 15, 2013 | Michael Reuben
Dr. John Markway, an anthropologist with an interest in psychic phenomena, takes two specially selected women to Hill House, a reportedly haunted mansion. Eleanor, a lonely, eccentric woman with a supernatural event in her past, and the bold Theodora, who has ESP, join John and the mansion's heir, cynical Luke. They are immediately overwhelmed by strange sounds and events, and Eleanor comes to believe the house is alive and speaking directly to her.
Drama / Horror / Mystery / Thriller / Psychological thriller / Supernatural
Shrek the Musical Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + DVD + UV Digital Copy
DreamWorks | 2013 | 130 min | Rated PG | Oct 15, 2013 | Jeffrey Kauffman
The greatest fairy tale never told comes to life in a whole new way in this Broadway musical adaptation of the hit movie Shrek.
Comedy / Family / Fantasy / Musical
The Stranger Blu-ray Movie
Kino Lorber | 1946 | 95 min | Not rated | Oct 15, 2013 | Casey Broadwater
Charles Rankin, a respected academic at a prominent Connecticut college seems to have the perfect life: a beautiful new wife; and a charming home in a small town that holds him in high esteem. Enter Mr. Wilson, a detective on the hunt for Nazi war criminal Franz Kindler. The appearance of Mr. Wilson threatens to reveal that underneath this idyllic veneer is a secret that could tear everything apart.
Crime / Drama / Film-Noir / Mystery
The Heat Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + DVD + UV Digital Copy
20th Century Fox | 2013 | 1 Movie, 2 Cuts | 120 min | Rated R | Oct 15, 2013 | Jeffrey Kauffman
Uptight FBI special agent Sarah Ashburn is paired with testy Boston cop Shannon Mullins in order to take down a ruthless drug lord. The hitch: neither woman has ever had a partner -- or a friend for that matter.
Action / Comedy / Crime
Necessary Evil: Super-Villains of DC Comics Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + UV Digital Copy
Warner Bros. | 2013 | 99 min | Not rated | Oct 25, 2013 | Kenneth Brown
The feature-length documentary explores the thin line between right and wrong, the nature of evil and how super-villains can reflect society's dark side as well as our own personal fears. It also attempts to uncover the reasons why comic book fans are so fascinated by the very characters they hope to see defeated. The film focuses on DC Comics' most terrifying villains, including The Joker, Lex Luthor, Bane, Black Adam, Black Manta, Catwoman, Darkseid, Deathstroke, Doomsday, General Zod, Sinestro, the Suicide Squad, and others.
Documentary / Comic book
- October 14, 2013
Exploding Sun Blu-ray Movie
Sonar Entertainment | 2013 | 176 min | Not rated | Oct 15, 2013 | Martin Liebman
An experimental spacecraft collides with the sun, threatening Earth.
Sci-Fi
100 Bloody Acres Blu-ray Movie
Music Box Films | 2012 | 90 min | Not rated | Oct 22, 2013 | Jeffrey Kauffman
100 Bloody Acres is the story of brothers Reg and Lindsay Morgan's struggling organic blood and bone fertiliser business. The use of dead car crash victims in their product has been a huge boon to business, but it's been months since their last find and an important new customer is waiting on a delivery. When Reg Morgan (Damon Herriman), the junior partner in the business, comes across two guys and girl stranded on a remote country road, he sees a radical solution to their supply problems, and a way of finally gaining the respect of his bossy big brother, Lindsay (Angus Sampson). But things don't quite go to plan when Reg starts to fall for Sophie... They're not psycho killers, they're just small business operators!
Comedy / Horror / Dark humor