New Blu-ray Reviews

Sword Art Online: Box Set I Blu-ray Movie  

Aincrad / Blu-ray + CD

Aniplex | 2012 | 175 min | Rated 13+ | Aug 13, 2013 | Jeffrey Kauffman

In the year 2022, a next-generation game known as "Nerve Gear" has been developed, making Full Dives into a virtual dimension possible. "Nerve Gear": The world's first true VRMMORPG. One player, Kirito, immerses himself in its virtual world. But Akihiko Kayaba, the developer of SAO, proclaims the game to be inescapable unless all levels are cleared. And in this world, "Game Over" is equivalent to death in the real world.

Action / Adventure / Anime / Fantasy / Romance / Sci-Fi / Foreign

Stalag 17 Blu-ray Movie  

Warner Bros. | 1953 | 121 min | Not rated | Oct 08, 2013 | Michael Reuben

A cynical serviceman in a World War II POW camp has to prove he's not an informer.

Comedy / Drama / War

The Purge Blu-ray Movie  

Blu-ray + DVD + UV Digital Copy

Universal Studios | 2013 | 85 min | Rated R | Oct 08, 2013 | Kenneth Brown

In a crime-ridden future when overtaxed cops let murder and other crimes rule the streets one night a year, someone's knocking at James Sandin's door. Tormented by an unknown thrill-killer, Sandin makes a desperate stand to save his wife and family.

Horror / Sci-Fi / Thriller

Love Actually Blu-ray Movie  

10th Anniversary Edition | US Version / Blu-ray + DVD + UV Digital Copy

Universal Studios | 2003 | 135 min | Rated R | Oct 15, 2013 | Kenneth Brown

Everywhere you look, love is causing chaos. From the bachelor Prime Minister of the United Kingdom who, on his first day at 10 Downing Street, falls in love with the girl who brings him his tea, to a hopeless sandwich delivery guy who doesn't think he has a chance with the girls in the U.K., so he heads for Wisconsin. From aging rock stars, to a stony headmistress, to a monolingual Portuguese housemaid, love arrives in many forms, shapes and sizes. Here, ten separate -- but intertwining -- stories of love all lead up to a big climax on Christmas Eve, proving that love is the driving force in all of these people's lives.

Comedy / Drama / Romance / Holiday

Berlin Job Blu-ray Movie  

St George's Day / Blu-ray + DVD

Cinedigm | 2012 | 109 min | Not rated | Oct 08, 2013 | Jeffrey Kauffman

Follows two infamous London gangsters, Mickey Mannock and Ray Collishaw. Both men are top of the food chain when their world is turned upside down as they lose a shipment of the Russian Mafia's cocaine.

Action / Crime / Thriller

Static 3D Blu-ray Movie  

Blu-ray 3D + Blu-ray + DVD

Cinedigm | 2012 | 90 min | Not rated | Oct 08, 2013 | Jeffrey Kauffman

A couple facing marital problems after losing their child finds their life together further complicated by a mysterious visitor.

Drama / Horror / Mystery / Thriller

Much Ado About Nothing Blu-ray Movie  

Blu-ray + UV Digital Copy

Lionsgate Films | 2012 | 107 min | Rated PG-13 | Oct 08, 2013 | Jeffrey Kauffman

Stunning new vision of Shakespeare's classic comedy. When Leonato, the Governor of Messina, is visited by his friend Don Pedro, he is accompanied by two of his officers: Benedick and Claudio. Claudio falls for Leonato's daughter Hero, while Benedick verbally spars with Beatrice, the governor's niece. A series of comic and tragic events help keep the two couples from truly finding happiness—but then again, perhaps love may prevail in the end!

Comedy / Drama / Romance

WWE: Payback 2013 Blu-ray Movie  

WWE Studios | 2013 | 169 min | Rated TV-PG | Oct 15, 2013 | Martin Liebman

WWE Payback 2013 Pay-Per-View.

Sport

Airplane II: The Sequel Blu-ray Movie  

Warner Bros. | 1982 | 84 min | Rated PG | Oct 08, 2013 | Michael Reuben

There's a mad bomber on board, the first lunar shuttle is about to self-destruct, the engines aren't working and - worst of all - the flight crew discovers they are completely out of coffee! It's the high-flying lunacy of AIRPLANE! all over again as Robert Hays and Julie Hagerty fly totally out of the ozone to re-create their hilarious original roles. The crew of crazies includes Peter Graves, Lloyd Bridges, William Shatner, Chad Everett, Sonny Bono, Raymond Burr and many others. Can Hays save the day again - without caffeine? Fasten your seatbelt for a ride you'll never forget - AIRPLANE II: THE SEQUEL.

Comedy / Sci-Fi

Squirm Blu-ray Movie    

Blu-ray + DVD

Arrow | 1976 | 93 min | Rated BBFC: 15 | Sep 23, 2013 | Dr. Svet Atanasov

At the beginning of the film, we learn from one of the characters that earthworms can be called to the surface with electricity, but somehow it turns them into vicious flesh-eaters. Sure enough, a storm that night causes some power lines to break and touch the ground, drawing millions of man-eating worms out of the earth, and into town where they quickly start munching on the locals...

Horror

Delete Blu-ray Movie  

Sonar Entertainment | 2011 | 176 min | Not rated | Sep 10, 2013 | Martin Liebman

Delete imagines a disaster in our all-too-fragile digital world where the web becomes dangerously self-aware with one systematic purpose, to destroy mankind. Faced with possible extinction, there is only one way out - create a second artificial intelligence, just as alive, just as intelligent and just as dangerous.

Action / Sci-Fi / Thriller

Ain't In It For My Health: A Film About Levon Helm Blu-ray Movie  

Kino Lorber | 2010 | 85 min | Not rated | Oct 08, 2013 | Casey Broadwater

Shot during the course of two-plus years, Ain't In It For My Health focuses in on the four-time Grammy winner and Rock and Roll Hall of Fame member's creative process at work on his comeback album.

Documentary / Music

3 Films by Roberto Rossellini Starring Ingrid Bergman Blu-ray Movie  

Stromboli / Europe '51 / Journey to Italy

Criterion | 1950-1954 | 3 Movies, 5 Cuts | 302 min | Not rated | Sep 24, 2013 | Dr. Svet Atanasov

See individual titles for their synopses.

Drama / Romance / Melodrama

Journey to Italy Blu-ray Movie  

Viaggio in Italia / Voyage to Italy

Criterion | 1954 | 86 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Dr. Svet Atanasov

Katherine and Alex, wealthy and sophisticated, drive to Naples to dispose of a deceased uncle's villa. There is a coolness in their relationship, and aspects of Naples contribute to the strain. She remembers a poet who loved her and died in the war; although she did not love him, the memory underscores romance's absence from her life now. She tours the museums of Naples and Pompeii, immersing herself in the Neapolitan fascination with the dead and noticing how many women are pregnant while he idles on Capri, flirting with women, but refraining from adultery. With her, he is sarcastic; with him, she is critical. They contemplate divorce. Will this foreign couple find insight and direction in Italy?

Drama / Romance / Melodrama

American Horror Story: Asylum Blu-ray Movie  

20th Century Fox | 2012-2013 | 554 min | Rated TV-MA | Oct 08, 2013 | Jeffrey Kauffman

Set in 1964, American Horror Story: Asylum takes us into a Church-run haven for the criminally insane, ruled with an iron fist by Sister Jude (Jessica Lange), a nun with a troubled past. Inside this locked down facility, danger lurks around every corner. From Nazis and serial killers, to mutants and aliens, no one is safe inside these walls.

Drama / Horror / Mystery / Thriller / Psychological thriller / Erotic / Period

Untold History of the United States Blu-ray Movie  

Oliver Stone's

Warner Bros. | 2012-2013 | 796 min | Not rated | Oct 15, 2013 | Kenneth Brown

As people from the United States, do we really know and understand our shared and complicated history? How do we recall the small details and forgotten players that influenced some of the biggest events from the United States of America’s past? Will our children actually get the whole story from reading history books? And how will it affect the future of our country?

Documentary / History

Europa Report Blu-ray Movie  

Magnolia Pictures | 2013 | 90 min | Rated PG-13 | Oct 08, 2013 | Michael Reuben

A crew of international astronauts are sent on a private mission to Jupiter's fourth moon.

Sci-Fi / Thriller

After Earth Blu-ray Movie  

Blu-ray + DVD + UV Digital Copy

Sony Pictures | 2013 | 100 min | Rated PG-13 | Oct 08, 2013 | Martin Liebman

A crash landing leaves Kitai Raige and his father Cypher stranded on Earth, 1,000 years after events forced humanity's escape. With Cypher injured, Kitai must embark on a perilous journey to signal for help.

Action / Adventure / Sci-Fi

Bones: The Complete Eighth Season Blu-ray Movie  

20th Century Fox | 2012-2013 | 1041 min | Rated TV-14 | Oct 08, 2013 | Jeffrey Kauffman

Dr. Temperance Brennan and Special Agent Seeley Booth in more mystery, murder, and mayhem.

Comedy / Crime / Drama / Mystery / Romance

Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea Blu-ray Movie  

Fox Studio Classics

20th Century Fox | 1961 | 105 min | Rated PG | Oct 08, 2013 | Jeffrey Kauffman

Admiral Nelson takes a brand new atomic submarine through its paces. When the Van Allen radiation belt catches fire, the admiral must find a way to beat the heat or watch the world go up in smoke.

Adventure / Sci-Fi