New Blu-ray Reviews
Home- August 21, 2013
Roadie Blu-ray Movie
Shout Factory | 1980 | 106 min | Rated PG | Aug 20, 2013 | Jeffrey Kauffman
Bands make it rock, but the roadies make it roll! Meat Loaf stars as Travis Redfish in this"rollicking"(Variety) road film featuring incredible live performances by Alice Cooper, Blondie, Roy Orbison,Hank Williams Jr and Asleep at the Wheel
Comedy / Music
Off Limits Blu-ray Movie
Olive Films | 1953 | 90 min | Not rated | Aug 20, 2013 | Jeffrey Kauffman
No synopsis for this title.
Comedy
Hard Target Blu-ray Movie
Universal Studios | 1993 | 100 min | Rated BBFC: 18 | Aug 05, 2013 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
A woman hires a drifter as her guide through New Orleans in search of her father, who has gone missing. They discover a deadly game of cat and mouse behind his disappearance in the process.
Action / Crime / Mystery / Thriller / Martial arts
Epic 3D Blu-ray Movie
Deluxe Edition / Blu-ray 3D + Blu-ray + DVD + UV Digital Copy
20th Century Fox | 2013 | 102 min | Rated PG | Aug 20, 2013 | Casey Broadwater
When a teen age girl finds herself magically transported into this secret universe, she must band together with a rag-tag team of fun and whimsical characters in order to save their world…and ours.
Action / Adventure / Animation / Comedy / Family / Fantasy
Doctor Who: Spearhead from Space Blu-ray Movie
Warner Bros. | 1970 | 101 min | Not rated | Aug 13, 2013 | Kenneth Brown
Digitally remastered Doctor Who classic Spearhead from Space! Exile! The Time Lords have banished the newly regenerated Doctor to Earth. But the Doctor isn’t the only alien to have arrived.
Adventure / Drama / Sci-Fi
- August 20, 2013
No One Lives Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + DVD
Starz / Anchor Bay | 2012 | 86 min | Rated R | Aug 20, 2013 | Martin Liebman
The film follows a gang of ruthless highway killers who kidnap a wealthy couple traveling cross country only to shockingly discover that things are not what they seem.
Horror / Thriller
Cavalcade Blu-ray Movie
80th Anniversary / Fox Studio Classics / Blu-ray + DVD
20th Century Fox | 1933 | 112 min | Not rated | Aug 06, 2013 | Jeffrey Kauffman
English life from New Year's Eve 1899 until 1933 seen through the eyes of well-to-do Londoners Jane and Robert Marryot.
Drama / Epic
Simon Killer Blu-ray Movie
Masters of Cinema
Eureka Entertainment | 2012 | 106 min | Rated BBFC: 18 | Aug 26, 2013 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
The follow-up to Antonio Campos' critically acclaimed AFTERSCHOOL, SIMON KILLER is an erotic and and psychological portrait of Simon (Brady Corbet, MELANCHOLIA, MARTHA MARCY MAY MARLENE), a well-educated, handsome and seemingly sympathetic college graduate with just a hint of something off-putting enough to ignite a sense of concern. Recently heartbroken, Simon travels to Paris to clear his head. After several days of wandering aimlessly, Simon finds himself drawn into a sex parlor and has a sexual encounter with an exotic prostitute, Victoria (Mati Diop, 35 SHOTS OF RUM). The chemistry builds between the two until they find themselves in a serious relationship, one that leads to blackmail, betrayal and the ultimate revelation of Simon's true nature.
Drama / Mystery / Thriller
The Great Gatsby 3D Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray 3D + Blu-ray + DVD + UV Digital Copy
Warner Bros. | 2013 | 143 min | Rated PG-13 | Aug 27, 2013 | Kenneth Brown
An adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's highly acclamed novel set during the Roaring Twenties in 1922. Midwesterner Nick Carraway is lured into the lavish world of his millionaire neighbor, Jay Gatsby, on Long Island. Soon enough, however, Carraway will see through the cracks of Gatsby's nouveau riche existence, where obsession, madness, and tragedy await.
Drama / Romance / Melodrama / Period
The Great Gatsby Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + DVD + UV Digital Copy
Warner Bros. | 2013 | 143 min | Rated PG-13 | Aug 27, 2013 | Kenneth Brown
An adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's highly acclamed novel set during the Roaring Twenties in 1922. Midwesterner Nick Carraway is lured into the lavish world of his millionaire neighbor, Jay Gatsby, on Long Island. Soon enough, however, Carraway will see through the cracks of Gatsby's nouveau riche existence, where obsession, madness, and tragedy await.
Drama / Romance / Melodrama / Period
Epic Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + DVD + UV Digital Copy
20th Century Fox | 2013 | 102 min | Rated PG | Aug 20, 2013 | Casey Broadwater
When a teen age girl finds herself magically transported into this secret universe, she must band together with a rag-tag team of fun and whimsical characters in order to save their world…and ours.
Action / Adventure / Animation / Comedy / Family / Fantasy
Hell on Wheels: The Complete Second Season Blu-ray Movie
Entertainment One | 2012 | 430 min | Rated TV-14 | Jul 16, 2013 | Jeffrey Kauffman
Set in the 1860s it centers on former confederate soldier Cullen Bohannan, whose quest for vengeance has led him to the Union Pacific Railroad's westward construction of the first Transcontinental Railroad.
Adventure / Drama / Western / Period
- August 19, 2013
Moneyball Blu-ray Movie
Mastered in 4K / Blu-ray + UV Digital Copy
Sony Pictures | 2011 | 133 min | Rated PG-13 | Jul 16, 2013 | Martin Liebman
The story of Billy Beane and his controversial yet successful run as general manager of the Oakland A's.
Biography / Drama / Sport
No Place On Earth Blu-ray Movie
Magnolia Pictures | 2012 | 83 min | Rated PG-13 | Aug 20, 2013 | Michael Reuben
A cave exploration in Ukraine leads to the unearthing of a story of World War II survivors who once found shelter in the same cave.
Documentary / Drama / War
Tower of Evil Blu-ray Movie
Scorpion Releasing | 1972 | 89 min | Rated R | Aug 06, 2013 | Brian Orndorf
A group of experienced archeologists are searching for an old and mystic Phoenician treasure when they are surprised by a series of mysterious murders...
Horror / Mystery / Supernatural
The Other Guys Blu-ray Movie
Mastered in 4K / Blu-ray + UV Digital Copy
Sony Pictures | 2010 | 107 min | Rated PG-13 | May 14, 2013 | Martin Liebman
Two mismatched New York City detectives seize an opportunity to step up like the city's top cops whom they idolize -- only things don't quite go as planned.
Action / Comedy / Crime
Santana and McLaughlin: Invitation to Illumination Blu-ray Movie
Eagle Rock Entertainment | 2011 | 136 min | Not rated | Aug 20, 2013 | Jeffrey Kauffman
No synopsis for this title.
Music
Graham Parker & The Rumour: This Is Live Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + DVD
Shout Factory | 2012 | 55 min | Not rated | Aug 20, 2013 | Jeffrey Kauffman
No synopsis for this title.
Music
On the Double Blu-ray Movie
Olive Films | 1961 | 94 min | Not rated | Aug 20, 2013 | Jeffrey Kauffman
American GI Ernie Williams, admittedly weak-kneed, has an uncanny resemblance to British Colonel MacKenzie. Williams, also a master of imitation and disguise, is asked to impersonate the Colonel, ostensibly to allow the Colonel to make a secret trip East. What Williams is not told is that the Colonel has recently been a target of assassins. After the Colonel's plane goes down, the plan changes and Williams maintains the disguise to confuse the Nazis about D-Day.
Comedy / War
Killing Season Blu-ray Movie
Millennium Media | 2013 | 91 min | Rated R | Aug 20, 2013 | Martin Liebman
Deep in the Appalachian mountains, a reclusive American military veteran Bejamin Ford and a European tourist Emil Kovac strike up an unlikely friendship. But when the tourist's true intentions come to light, what follows is a tense battle across some of America's most forbidding landscape proving the old adage: the purest form of war is one-on-one.
Action / Drama / Thriller