New Blu-ray Reviews
Home- October 05, 2013
House of Wax 3D Blu-ray Movie
Includes Mystery of the Wax Museum in SD / Blu-ray 3D + Blu-ray
Warner Bros. | 1953 | 88 min | Not rated | Oct 01, 2013 | Kenneth Brown
Professor Henry Jarrod is a true artist whose wax sculptures are lifelike. He specializes in historical tableau's such a Marie Antoinette or Joan of Arc. His business partner, Matthew Burke, needs some of his investment returned to him and pushes Jarrod to have more lurid exposes like a chamber of horrors.
Crime / Horror / Mystery / Thriller
Guest Wife Blu-ray Movie
Olive Films | 1945 | 90 min | Not rated | Sep 24, 2013 | Jeffrey Kauffman
Christopher Price, a small-town bank executive, continues to be loyal to and idolize his boyhood friend, Joseph Jefferson Parker, a famous war correspondent. But Chris's wife, Mary, is none to fond of Joe and tired of her husband's idolizing. On the eve of the Price's second-honeymoon trip to New York City, Joe arrives and tells Chris that he needs someone to pose as his wife in order to fool his boss in NYC, who thinks Joe got married to an overseas woman while on an assignment. Chris pushes Mary into posing as Joe's wife. In New York, this leads to many complications and misunderstandings, with Mary finally deciding to teach Chris and Joe a lesson by making them believe she is in love with Joe.
Comedy / Romance
The Big Parade Blu-ray Movie
Warner Bros. | 1925 | 151 min | Not rated | Oct 01, 2013 | Michael Reuben
The idle son of a rich businessman joins the army when the U.S.A. enters World War One. He is sent to France, where he becomes friends with two working-class soldiers. He also falls in love with a Frenchwoman, but has to leave her to move to the frontline.
Drama / War
Night Train to Terror Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + DVD
Vinegar Syndrome | 1985 | 93 min | Rated R | Oct 08, 2013 | Brian Orndorf
God and Satan are on a train discussing the fate of three individuals. The stories of the people in question are told in a trio of very strange vignettes.
Horror
Only God Forgives Blu-ray Movie
Starz / Anchor Bay | 2013 | 90 min | Rated R | Oct 22, 2013 | Martin Liebman
Lying low in Bangkok ten years after killing a cop, Julian runs a Thai boxing club as a cover for his family's drugs business. But when his brother kills a local prostitute, and is then slain in retribution, Julian's mother Jenna arrives in the city demanding that he track down the killer and mete out revenge. After learning that the man responsible is a retired police officer and lone dispenser of justice known as 'The Angel of Vengeance', Julian, confident of success, sets out to find him, little realising what he has taken on.
Action / Crime / Drama / Thriller
- October 04, 2013
They Live Blu-ray Movie
Umbrella Entertainment | 1988 | 94 min | Rated ACB: M | Oct 02, 2013 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
A drifter discovers a pair of sunglasses that allow him to wake up to the fact that aliens have taken over the Earth.
Action / Horror / Sci-Fi / Thriller
North America Blu-ray Movie
Gaiam | 2013 | 329 min | Rated TV-PG | Oct 01, 2013 | Jeffrey Kauffman
North America: where civilization collides with untamed wilderness. Just feet beyond our own back yards rages a spectacle we rarely see. Step into this hidden world teaming with life - across impossible mountains and endless deserts. Dive into unexplored forests and crash into rugged coasts. Unforgiving, brutal, yet achingly beautiful.
Documentary / Nature
Fantastic Voyage Blu-ray Movie
Fox Studio Classics
20th Century Fox | 1966 | 101 min | Rated PG | Oct 08, 2013 | Jeffrey Kauffman
A diplomat is nearly assassinated. In order to save him, a submarine is shrunken to microscopic size and injected into his blood stream with a small crew. Problems arise almost as soon as they enter the bloodstream.
Adventure / Sci-Fi
Chucky: The Complete Collection Blu-ray Movie
Child's Play / Child's Play 2 / Child's Play 3 / Bride of Chucky / Seed of Chucky / Curse of Chucky / Blu-ray + UV Digital Copy
Universal Studios | 1988-2013 | 6 Movies, 7 Cuts | 535 min | Rated R | Oct 08, 2013 | Kenneth Brown
See individual titles for their synopses.
Comedy / Horror / Mystery / Thriller
Child's Play 2 Blu-ray Movie
Universal Studios | 1990 | 84 min | Rated R | Aug 28, 2018 | Kenneth Brown
Chuckie's back as the doll possessed by the soul of a serial killer, butchering all who stand in his way of possessing the body of a boy.
Horror / Thriller
Child's Play 3 Blu-ray Movie
Universal Studios | 1991 | 90 min | Rated R | Aug 28, 2018 | Kenneth Brown
Years after being destroyed in a doll factory fire, a resurrected Chucky wreaks havoc when he is mailed to his young foe's coed military school.
Horror / Thriller
Bride of Chucky Blu-ray Movie
Universal Studios | 1998 | 89 min | Rated R | Aug 28, 2018 | Kenneth Brown
Chucky hooks up with another murderous doll, the bridal gown-clad Tiffany, for a Route 66 murder spree with their unwitting hosts, two eloping high-school graduates.
Comedy / Horror / Thriller
Seed of Chucky Blu-ray Movie
Unrated and Fully Extended
Universal Studios | 2004 | 87 min | Unrated | Aug 28, 2018 | Kenneth Brown
The killer doll is back! Glen is the orphan doll offspring of the irrepressible devilish-doll-come-to-life Chucky and his equally twisted bride Tiffany. When production starts on a movie detailing the urban legend of his parents' lethal exploits, Glen heads for Hollywood where he brings his bloodthirsty parents back from the dead. The family dynamics are far from perfect as Chucky and Tiffany go Hollywood and get rolling on a new spree of murderous mayhem--much to gentle Glen's horror. Chucky can't believe that his child doesn't want to walk in his murdering footsteps, and star-struck Tiffany can't believe that the movie will star her favorite actress, Jennifer Tilly, who soon becomes an unwitting hostess to this new family in more ways than one.
Comedy / Horror / Thriller
Curse of Chucky Blu-ray Movie
Unrated / Blu-ray + DVD + UV Digital Copy
Universal Studios | 2013 | 1 Movie, 2 Cuts | 97 min | Unrated | Oct 08, 2013 | Kenneth Brown
Nica is grieving over the gruesome suicide of her mother when her domineering older sister Barb arrives with her young family in tow to help settle their mother’s affairs. As the sisters butt heads over Nica’s plans for the future, Barb’s young daughter comforts herself with a grinning, red-haired talking doll named Chucky that recently arrived mysteriously in the mail. A string of brutal murders begins to terrorize the household and Nica suspects the doll may hold the key to the bloodshed. What she doesn’t know is that Chucky has a personal score to settle. He’s determined to finish a job he started more than 20 years earlier, and this time he’s going to see it through to the bloody and shocking end.
Horror / Thriller
La Notte Blu-ray Movie
Criterion | 1961 | 122 min | Not rated | Oct 29, 2013 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
A novelist and his frustrated wife confront their alienation from each other and the achingly empty bourgeois Milan circles in which they travel.
Drama / Foreign
Laurence Anyways Blu-ray Movie
Breaking Glass | 2012 | 161 min | Not rated | Oct 08, 2013 | Brian Orndorf
A drama that charts ten years in the relationship of a male-to-female transsexual's relationship with her lover.
Drama / Romance
- October 03, 2013
The Croods Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + DVD + UV Digital Copy
20th Century Fox | 2013 | 99 min | Rated PG | Oct 01, 2013 | Martin Liebman
After their cave is destroyed, a caveman family must trek through an unfamiliar fantastical world with the help of an inventive boy.
Adventure / Animation / Comedy / Family / Fantasy
The Croods 3D Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray 3D + Blu-ray + DVD + UV Digital Copy
20th Century Fox | 2013 | 99 min | Rated PG | Oct 01, 2013 | Martin Liebman
After their cave is destroyed, a caveman family must trek through an unfamiliar fantastical world with the help of an inventive boy.
Adventure / Animation / Comedy / Family / Fantasy
Glee: The Complete Fourth Season Blu-ray Movie
20th Century Fox | 2012-2013 | 964 min | Rated TV-PG | Oct 01, 2013 | Jeffrey Kauffman
A high-school Spanish teacher becomes the director of the school's Glee club, hoping to restore it to its former glory.
Comedy / Drama / Musical / Romance / Teen
Arrow: The Complete First Season Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + DVD + UV Digital Copy
Warner Bros. | 2012-2013 | 972 min | Rated TV-14 | Sep 17, 2013 | Kenneth Brown
After a violent shipwreck, billionaire playboy Oliver Queen was missing and presumed dead for five years before being discovered alive on a remote island in the Pacific. When he returns home to Starling City, his loved ones welcome him home, but they sense Oliver has been changed by his ordeal on the island. While Oliver hides the truth about the man he's become, he desperately wants to make amends for the actions he took as the boy he was. As Oliver reconnects with those closest to him, he secretly creates the persona of Arrow - a vigilante to right the wrongs of his family, fight the ills of society, and restore Starling City to its former glory.
Action / Adventure / Crime / Drama / Mystery / Sci-Fi / Comic book