New Blu-ray Reviews

Doctor Who: The Complete Seventh Series Blu-ray Movie  

BBC | 2011-2013 | 790 min | Rated TV-PG | Sep 24, 2013 | Kenneth Brown

Daleks? Dinosaurs on a spaceship? Interstellar cowboys? The long awaited, much talked-about seventh series features a wild array of new thrills-and dangers. While the eleventh Doctor continues his time-travelling adventures, it's the final farewell for Amy and Rory.

Adventure / Fantasy / Sci-Fi

V/H/S/2 Blu-ray Movie  

Unrated Theatrical and Rated Versions

Magnolia Pictures | 2013 | 1 Movie, 2 Cuts | 96 min | Not rated | Sep 24, 2013 | Michael Reuben

Searching for a missing student, two private investigators break into his house and find a collection of VHS tapes. Viewing the horrific contents of each cassette, they realize there may be dark motives behind the student's disappearance.

Horror / Thriller

Faces Blu-ray Movie  

Criterion | 1968 | 130 min | Rated R | No Release Date | Dr. Svet Atanasov

Richard and his wife, Maria, attempt to escape the anguish of their empty relationship in the arms of others.

Drama

Barabbas Blu-ray Movie  

Gaiam | 2012 | 216 min | Not rated | Sep 24, 2013 | Jeffrey Kauffman

Discover the powerful story of a man whose life was spared because of the crucifixion of Jesus Christ! Based on the novel by Nobel Prize-winner Par Lagerkvist, this sweeping epic is presented in a 4-part miniseries that was filmed on location in Tunisia.

Action / Drama / History / Epic

Drawing Flies Blu-ray Movie  

Anniversary Edition

Kino Lorber | 1996 | 76 min | Not rated | Sep 24, 2013 | Casey Broadwater

Donner and his roommates are out of money and about to get evicted from their home. As a diversion from their situation, he invites them to his uncle's cabin in the Canadian wilderness. They all go along, but soon learn that there is no cabin—Donner's really trying to find Sasquatch.

Comedy

In the House Blu-ray Movie  

Dans la maison

Cohen Media Group | 2012 | 105 min | Rated R | Sep 24, 2013 | Jeffrey Kauffman

Offbeat French drama from director François Ozon that explores the relationship between a literature student and the talented pupil whose gift for description he attempts to nurture. Germain (Fabrice Luchini) usually despairs about the quality of the creative writing his pupils produce so when he receives a piece from the previously unremarkable student Claude (Ernst Umhauer) that displays promise he is moved to pledge assistance to the boy. Complicating matters somewhat is the fact that Claude writes about the household of a friend whose mother (Emmanuelle Seigner) he has a crush on and whose mundane lives amuse him. As Germain offers Claude advice on how to improve the dramatic tension within his submissions, the line between fiction and reality begins to blur...

Drama / Mystery / Thriller / Dark humor / Psychological thriller / Foreign

Stromboli Blu-ray Movie  

Stromboli, terra di Dio / English and Italian Versions

Criterion | 1950 | 1 Movie, 2 Cuts | 107 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Dr. Svet Atanasov

A refugee marries a Sicilian fisherman but can't cope with the harshness of her new life.

Drama / Melodrama

The Medusa Touch Blu-ray Movie  

Blu-ray + DVD

Hen's Tooth Video | 1978 | 109 min | Rated PG | Oct 01, 2013 | Michael Reuben

London police are called to the apartment of murder victim John Morlar. As they investigate his death, they learn about a man who claimed to be responsible for numerous deaths and disasters due to supernatural powers -- and somehow he's still alive.

Horror / Thriller / Supernatural

Redemption Blu-ray Movie  

Hummingbird / Blu-ray + UV Digital Copy

Lionsgate Films | 2013 | 100 min | Rated R | Sep 24, 2013 | Jeffrey Kauffman

Home after a harrowing tour in Afghanistan and haunted by acts of violence committed during the war, Special Forces veteran Joseph Smith lives on the street before assuming the identity of another, wealthier man and trying to atone for his past sins by helping a nun who runs a soup kitchen. But when a close female friend is murdered, he must step into the light to find and punish those responsible.

Action / Crime / Drama / Thriller / War

Modern Family: The Complete Fourth Season Blu-ray Movie  

20th Century Fox | 2012-2013 | 516 min | Rated TV-PG | Sep 24, 2013 | Jeffrey Kauffman

A satirical look at three different families and the trials they face in each of their own uniquely comedic ways.

Comedy / Family

WWE: SummerSlam 2013 Blu-ray Movie  

WWE Studios | 2013 | 169 min | Not rated | Sep 17, 2013 | Martin Liebman

WWE SummerSlam 2013 Pay-Per-View.

Sport

From Here to Eternity Blu-ray Movie  

Sony Pictures | 1953 | 118 min | Not rated | Oct 01, 2013 | Martin Liebman

Life and love on an army base in Hawaii days before the Pearl Harbor attacks.

Action / Adventure / Drama / Romance / War

The Pagemaster Blu-ray Movie  

20th Century Fox | 1994 | 80 min | Rated G | Aug 06, 2013 | Jeffrey Kauffman

Richard Tyler is a cowardly boy who buries himself in accident statistics. After entering a library one day to escape a storm, he finds himself swept away to a fantasy world where he is transformed into an animated illustration. There, he meets the Pagemaster, keeper of books and guardian of the written word. Richard must now make his way through various obstacles from literary classics in order to reach the library’s exit and return to the real world again.

Adventure / Animation / Comedy / Family / Fantasy / Coming of age

It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia: The Complete Season 8 Blu-ray Movie  

20th Century Fox | 2012 | 220 min | Rated TV-MA | Sep 03, 2013 | Jeffrey Kauffman

Step up to the bar with Mac, Dennis, Charlie, Dee, and Frank (Danny DeVito), the outrageously inappropriate gang at Paddy's pub, as they work together for a common cause...themselves.

Comedy / Dark humor

Bryan Ferry: Live in Lyon Blu-ray Movie  

Deluxe Edition with Book and Bonus CD / Blu-ray + CD

Eagle Rock Entertainment | 2011 | 99 min | Not rated | Sep 24, 2013 | Jeffrey Kauffman

No synopsis for this title.

Music

Shadows Blu-ray Movie  

Criterion | 1958 | 82 min | Rated PG | No Release Date | Dr. Svet Atanasov

The relationship between Lelia, a light-skinned black woman, and Tony, a white man, is put in jeopardy when Tony meets Lelia's darker-skinned jazz singer brother, Hugh, and discovers that her racial heritage is not what he thought it was.

Drama

Blood Blu-ray Movie  

Image Entertainment | 2012 | 92 min | Not rated | Sep 10, 2013 | Michael Reuben

Two police officer brothers who struggle to maintain their sense of morality while investigating a murder. With their father Lenny also an officer of the law in his heyday, policing seems to run in the veins of Joe and Chrissie Fairburn. However, when a young girl is discovered murdered - the most horrific crime to afflict the community in recent memory - the brothers face a stern test of their mettle.

Crime / Drama / Thriller / Foreign

Something in the Air Blu-ray Movie    

Après mai

Artificial Eye | 2012 | 122 min | Rated BBFC: 15 | Aug 26, 2013 | Dr. Svet Atanasov

In France, idealistic 18-year-old Gilles and his friends react to the cultural and social changes of the late 1960s and early 1970s.

Drama / Romance / Foreign / Coming of age

Star Trek: The Original Series - Origins Blu-ray Movie  

Paramount Pictures | 1966-1986 | 250 min | Not rated | Sep 10, 2013 | Martin Liebman

1-The Cage: The pilot that started it all and introduced Captain Pike and Spock<br><br> 2-Where No Man Has Gone Before: The first time Captain Kirk is seen at the helm of the Enterprise<br><br> 3-Space Seed: The debut of super villain, Khan<br><br> 4-Errand of Mercy: The crew's first encounter with the barbaric Klingons<br><br> 5-Trouble with Tribbles: The arrival of the cute and irresistible creatures

Action / Adventure / Sci-Fi

Foyle's War: Set 7 Blu-ray Movie  

Acorn Media | 2013 | 285 min | Not rated | Sep 24, 2013 | Michael Reuben

World War II is over, but the Cold War simmers in 1946. Christopher Foyle has retired from police work when Britain’s secret intelligence service, MI5, compels him to join its ranks. Relocated to London and reunited with his former colleague, newlywed Sam Wainwright, Foyle faces new—but no less deadly—threats in the world of spies and counterintelligence.

Crime / Drama / Period