New Blu-ray Reviews

The English Teacher Blu-ray Movie  

Cinedigm | 2013 | 93 min | Rated R | Sep 03, 2013 | Jeffrey Kauffman

An English teacher's life is disrupted when a former student returns to her small town after failing as a playwright in New York.

Comedy / Drama

Revolution: The Complete First Season Blu-ray Movie  

Blu-ray + DVD + UV Digital Copy

Warner Bros. | 2012-2013 | 860 min | Rated TV-14 | Sep 03, 2013 | Kenneth Brown

A group of revolutionaries must battle a governing dictatorial militia 15 years after an instantaneous global shutdown of all electronic devices known as the Blackout.

Action / Adventure / Drama / Sci-Fi

Slacker Blu-ray Movie  

Criterion | 1990 | 101 min | Not rated | Sep 17, 2013 | Dr. Svet Atanasov

A day in the life of a loose-knit Austin, Texas, subculture populated by eccentric and overeducated young people.

Comedy / Drama

Prince of Darkness Blu-ray Movie  

Collector's Edition

Shout Factory | 1987 | 102 min | Rated R | Sep 24, 2013 | Jeffrey Kauffman

A research team finds a mysterious cylinder in a deserted church. If opened, it could mean the end of the world.

Horror / Thriller / Supernatural

Spartacus: War of the Damned - The Complete Third Season Blu-ray Movie  

Starz / Anchor Bay | 2013 | 440 min | Rated TV-MA | Sep 03, 2013 | Martin Liebman

Torn from his homeland and the woman he loves, Spartacus, a Thracian warrior captured by Romans, is enslaved into a gladiator training school owned by Batiatus and his wife Lucretia. He is forced to fight daily for his life against deadly foes, under the brutal whip of trainer Doctore. Against all odds, Spartacus' rebellious instincts, his intense love for his wife Sura and his powerful fighting skills drive him to win a series of near-impossible battles - setting in motion a revolution against the tyranny of Rome. To survive, he must become more than a man, more than a gladiator. He must become a legend.

Action / Adventure / Biography / Drama / History / Epic / Period

The Theatre Bizarre Blu-ray Movie  

Image Entertainment | 2011 | 114 min | Not rated | Sep 03, 2013 | Michael Reuben

Down a seedy city street in her neighborhood, young Enola Penny is obsessed with what appears to be a long abandoned theatre. One night, she sees that the front door is slightly ajar and impulsively decides to sneak inside. But there in the dark, decrepit auditorium, a show unlike any other unfolds before her eyes. Its host is an eerie human puppet named Peg Poett who will introduce Penny to six tales of the bizarre ...

Horror

High School DxD: Complete Series Blu-ray Movie  

Limited Edition / Blu-ray + DVD

FUNimation Entertainment | 2012 | 300 min | Rated TV-MA | Aug 20, 2013 | Jeffrey Kauffman

A war between heaven and hell is raging on Earth - and a hot mess of hormonal fury is raging in Issei's pants. The guy is dying to get some action. Which is funny, since his first date ever turns into a winged monster and tries to kill him. Fortunately, ridiculously curvy redhead Rias comes to his rescue. She's president of The Occult Research Club, a club that doesn't actually research the occult. They ARE the occult - and Rias is a Devil. Rias takes Issei as a more-than-willing slave and begins training him to use magic in battle against the Fallen Angels, the long-time enemies of Devils everywhere. If Issei can improve his mystical skills, he'll be able to help his hotter-than-hell master and her scorching supernatural schoolgirl friends defeat their foes. Even better, he might end up with a few sexy slaves of his own.

Action / Anime / Comedy / Fantasy / Romance / Supernatural / Erotic / Foreign

Escape from Zahrain Blu-ray Movie  

Olive Films | 1962 | 96 min | Not rated | Sep 17, 2013 | Jeffrey Kauffman

A hunted revolutionary leads a rag tag group of individuals through the desert in an attempt to elude security forces and escape the fictitious Arab country of Zahrain.

Action / Adventure / Drama

K-ON! The Movie Blu-ray Movie  

映画 けいおん!

Sentai Filmworks | 2011 | 110 min | Rated TV-14 | May 21, 2013 | Kenneth Brown

Graduation time is finally here, but the girls of the Sakuragaoka Girl's High Light Music Club aren't going to let the end of high school be the end of all they've built together. First, though, they have to keep a promise to take a trip together, and like everything else they do, they're not doing it halfway. So it's time to hop on the double decker bus and go around the world as the band heads for the birthplace of the British Invasion: the United Kingdom. On the way, they have to solve that one last big puzzle that's been vexing them: what to get for their underclassman rhythm guitarist Azusa, who will be taking over the club once they don their caps and gowns and leave Sakuragaoka for the last time.

Anime / Comedy / Music / Teen / Comic book / Foreign

Kon-Tiki Blu-ray Movie  

Blu-ray + DVD

Starz / Anchor Bay | 2012 | 1 Movie, 2 Cuts | 119 min | Rated PG-13 | Aug 27, 2013 | Dr. Svet Atanasov

The true story about legendary explorer Thor Heyerdahl and his epic crossing of the Pacific on a balsa wood raft in 1947.

Action / Adventure / Biography / Drama / History / Foreign / Epic

Creepshow 2 Blu-ray Movie  

Image Entertainment | 1987 | 90 min | Rated R | Sep 03, 2013 | Michael Reuben

Three tales of terror: a vengeful wooden Native American, a monstrous blob in a lake, and a hitchhiker who wants revenge...and will not die!

Animation / Horror / Thriller / Dark humor / Supernatural / Comic book

Jon Lord: Concerto for Group and Orchestra Blu-ray Movie  

Blu-ray + CD

Eagle Rock Entertainment | 2012 | 48 min | Not rated | Sep 03, 2013 | Jeffrey Kauffman

No synopsis for this title.

Music

The Extraordinary Adventures of Adèle Blanc-Sec Blu-ray Movie  

Director's Cut | Les Aventures Extraordinaires d’Adèle Blanc-Sec / Blu-ray + DVD + Digital Copy

Shout Factory | 2010 | 107 min | Not rated | Oct 01, 2013 | Jeffrey Kauffman

Adèle Blanc-Sec is a cynical novelist of popular fiction, who turns to investigative journalism as her research and subsequent adventures reveal further details of the mystical world of crime in Paris during the years before and after World War I.

Action / Adventure / Comedy / Family / Fantasy / Mystery / Supernatural / Comic book / Foreign

Castle Freak Blu-ray Movie  

Full Moon Features | 1995 | 95 min | Unrated | Aug 20, 2013 | Brian Orndorf

A troubled couple and their blind daughter come to Italy to visit a 12th Century castle they've inherited. Soon they are plagued by unexplained noises, mysteriously broken objects, and the daughter's claims of an unknown nocturnal visitor to her bedroom. When the housekeeper and a local prostitute are discovered savagely murdered in the castle's dungeon, John must unlock the castle's secret to save himself from jail and his family from the castle's secret inhabitant...

Drama / Horror / Mystery / Thriller

Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls Blu-ray Movie  

Warner Bros. | 1995 | 94 min | Rated PG-13 | Sep 03, 2013 | Michael Reuben

Ace Ventura is back in an all-new adventure. This time an explorer named, Fulton Greenwall, gives him a new case in Africa to find the sacred bat of the Wachati and Wachootoo Tribes. It's up to Ace to find the sacred bat before the two tribes fight a savage war!

Action / Adventure / Comedy / Mystery

Van Gogh Blu-ray Movie    

Masters of Cinema

Eureka Entertainment | 1991 | 159 min | Rated BBFC: 15 | Sep 30, 2013 | Dr. Svet Atanasov

In late spring, 1890, Vincent moves to Auvers-sur-Oise, near Paris, under the care of Dr. Gachet, living in a humble inn. Fewer than 70 days later, Vincent dies from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. We see Vincent at work, painting landscapes and portraits. His brother Theo, wife Johanna, and their baby visit Auvers. Vincent is playful and charming, engaging the attentions of Gachet’s daughter Marguerite (who’s half Vincent’s age), a young maid at the inn, Cathy a Parisian prostitute, and Johanna. Shortly before his death, Vincent visits Paris, quarrels with Theo, disparages his own art and accomplishments, dances at a brothel, and is warm then cold toward Marguerite.

Biography / Drama / Foreign

Golgo 13: Complete Collection Blu-ray Movie  

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Sentai Filmworks | 2008-2009 | 1250 min | Rated TV-MA | Sep 17, 2013 | Jeffrey Kauffman

His targets never see it coming and he's never caught. If there's a witness to the kill, that poor SOB winds up dead too. People say he's a ghost. A machine. A monster. He's Golgo 13, the most feared assassin in the world, the professional's professional, the killer of killers.

Action / Anime / Crime / Drama / Thriller / Comic book / Foreign

Death Hunt Blu-ray Movie  

Timeless Media Group | 1981 | 97 min | Rated R | Aug 20, 2013 | Jeffrey Kauffman

Canada 1931: The unsociable trapper Johnson lives for himself in the ice-cold mountains near the Yukon river. During a visit in the town he witnesses a dog-fight. He interrupts the game and buys one of the dogs - almost dead already - for $200 against the owner's will. When the owner Hasel complains to Mountie Sergeant Millen, he refuses to take action. But then the loathing breeder and his friends accuse Johnson of murder. So Millen, although sympathetic, has to try to take him under arrest - but Johnson defends his freedom in every way possible.

Action / Adventure / Crime / Thriller

The Unseen Blu-ray Movie  

Scorpion Releasing | 1980 | 92 min | Rated R | Aug 20, 2013 | Brian Orndorf

A trio of female reporters find themselves staying overnight in a house occupied by a hostile 'being' known only as The Unseen.

Horror / Thriller

Cockneys vs. Zombies Blu-ray Movie  

Shout Factory | 2012 | 88 min | Not rated | Sep 03, 2013 | Jeffrey Kauffman

Andy and Terry are determined to save their grandad Ray's care home by robbing a bank. But when they break into a 350-year-old underground vault, the gang of robbers realise they've bitten off more than they can chew when they unleash a zombie army. With the undead looking for their next meal, the gang, led by Katy, must rescue the old folks, all the while battling their way to freedom with their hard-earned dosh.

Comedy / Horror