New Blu-ray Reviews

Chasing Papi Blu-ray Movie  

Starz / Anchor Bay | 2003 | 80 min | Rated PG | May 28, 2013 | Martin Liebman

Handsome advertising executive Tomas "Papi" Fuentes is truly, deeply in love... with three gorgeous women in three different cities.

Comedy / Romance

Temptation: Confessions of a Marriage Counselor Blu-ray Movie  

Blu-ray + UV Digital Copy

Lionsgate Films | 2013 | 111 min | Rated PG-13 | Jul 09, 2013 | Jeffrey Kauffman

A marriage counselor's personal and professional life becomes complicated after she enters into a relationship with one of her clients.

Drama / Mystery / Romance / Thriller

The Silence Blu-ray Movie  

Das letzte Schweigen

Music Box Films | 2010 | 119 min | Not rated | Jul 23, 2013 | Jeffrey Kauffman

A young girl who is brutalized and murdered on a hot summer day by Peer as his helpless friend Timo watches. The unresolved crime yields two decades of grief, guilt and obsession in the lives of everyone connected to the victim. But when a 13-year-old girl goes missing 23 years later—on the same day and the very same spot as the original murder—the police suspect that the same killer may have resurfaced.

Crime / Drama / Mystery / Thriller / Foreign

Olympus Has Fallen Blu-ray Movie  

Blu-ray + DVD + UV Digital Copy

Sony Pictures | 2013 | 120 min | Rated R | Aug 13, 2013 | Martin Liebman

Disgraced Secret Service agent finds himself trapped inside the White House in the wake of a terrorist attack.

Action / Thriller

Dying Young Blu-ray Movie  

Starz / Anchor Bay | 1991 | 111 min | Rated R | May 28, 2013 | Martin Liebman

After she discovers that her boyfriend has betrayed her, Hilary O'Neil is looking for a new start and a new job. She begins to work as a private nurse for a young man suffering from blood cancer.

Drama / Romance

Aerosmith: Rock for the Rising Sun Blu-ray Movie  

Eagle Rock Entertainment | 2014 | 95 min | Not rated | Jul 23, 2013 | Jeffrey Kauffman

Landing in Tokyo just 6 months after Fukushima, Aerosmith began the Japanese leg of their world tour in devastating circumstances. This film directed by Casey Patrick Tebo, documents both the performances and the band’s relationship with Japan. A love letter between the Japanese fans who were living under the umbrella of recent tragedy, and the band who simply, while after being warned not to go there, went to heal with the only medicine they could... the music. Featuring all of their hits including Love In An Elevator, Sweet Emotion and Walk This Way.

Music

New World Blu-ray Movie  

신세계

Well Go USA | 2013 | 134 min | Not rated | Jul 23, 2013 | Jeffrey Kauffman

An undercover police officer investigating a powerful Korean crime ring is torn between his duty to uphold the law, and his loyalty to the criminal who trusts him implicitly in this tense crime thriller. Under the watch of his superior Kang, devoted cop Ja-sung embarks on a clandestine mission to infiltrate the powerful "Gold Moon" crime syndicate. Eight years later, he's become part of the organization's inner circle by establishing a powerful bond with Jung Chung, the group's powerful second-in-command. When the head of the criminal outfit dies suddenly, however, the resulting internal power struggle threatens to destroy the syndicate, and dissolve the investigation. Now, Ja-sung must make a decision that will show where his true loyalties lie, and that could very well cost him his career, if he doesn't pay with his life, first.

Action / Crime / Thriller / Foreign

Conversation Piece Blu-ray Movie    

Violence et passion / Gruppo di famiglia in un interno

Gaumont | 1974 | 123 min | Rated U Tous publics | May 23, 2013 | Dr. Svet Atanasov

A retired American teacher leading a solitary life in a luxurious palazzo in Rome meets a lively marchesa and her companions, including her daughter and her lover. He rents them an apartment, and his quiet lifestyle is changed in a profound way by his colorful new tenants.

Drama

Smiley's People Blu-ray Movie  

Acorn Media | 1982 | 324 min | Not rated | Aug 06, 2013 | Michael Reuben

When a Russian émigré is found murdered on Hampstead Heath, Smiley is called out of retirement to exorcise some Cold War ghosts from his clandestine past.

Drama / Thriller

Midsomer Murders, Set 22 Blu-ray Movie  

Acorn Media | 2012 | 360 min | Not rated | Aug 06, 2013 | Michael Reuben

Homicide, blackmail, greed, and betrayal: just a taste of what goes on behind the well-trimmed hedges of Midsomer County. Inspired by the novels of Caroline Graham.

Crime / Drama / Mystery / Foreign

Graceland Blu-ray Movie  

Blu-ray + Digital Copy

Image Entertainment | 2012 | 84 min | Not rated | Jul 23, 2013 | Michael Reuben

A desperate father risks everything to save his kidnapped daughter.

Adventure / Drama / Thriller / Foreign

Patlabor The Mobile Police: Collection 1 Blu-ray Movie  

機動警察パトレイバー / The Television Series

Maiden Japan | 1989-1990 | 300 min | Rated TV-14 | Jul 16, 2013 | Jeffrey Kauffman

Giant Robots, sociopaths, madmen waving guns: these aren’t just the problems the Mobile Police have to deal with every day, these ARE the Mobile Police. But in a world where giant robots called Labors are frequently used for criminal purposes, the boys and girls in blue have to face things that are even bigger and scarier.

Action / Anime / Comedy / Foreign

Shell Blu-ray Movie    

Verve Pictures | 2012 | 91 min | Rated BBFC: 15 | Jul 08, 2013 | Dr. Svet Atanasov

Shell is a 17-year-old woman who lives and works at a petrol station in the desolate Scottish Highlands. Apart from the occasional customers who call by for fuel, and a few regulars who acknowledge and catch up with her, Shell's only company is her reserved and softly spoken father Pete (Joseph Mawle), to whom she is devoted. A young girl trying to find her place in the world, she is on the cusp of womanhood, struggling to re-imagine her role within her own family and life in general. Pete, meanwhile, is damaged goods. He still keenly feels the absence of his wife, who ran away when Shell was four, while his connection with his daughter is both difficult and disturbing. An assured debut feature starring Joseph Mawle and newcomer Chloe Pirrie, Shell marks the arrival of Scottish writer-director Scott Graham as a distinctive new voice in British cinema.

Drama

Twixt Blu-ray Movie  

Blu-ray + UV Digital Copy

20th Century Fox | 2011 | 88 min | Not rated | Jul 23, 2013 | Casey Broadwater

Writer Hall Baltimore, in career decline, comes to a small town during a book tour, and becomes involved in the murder investigation of a young girl. In a dream, he is approached by a youthful ghost named V, whose connection to the murder is unclear.

Horror / Thriller / Surreal

Welcome to the Punch Blu-ray Movie  

MPI Media Group | 2013 | 99 min | Rated R | Jul 23, 2013 | Casey Broadwater

Former criminal Jacob Sternwood is forced to return to London from his Icelandic hideaway when his son is involved in a heist gone wrong. This gives detective Max Lewinsky one last chance to catch the man he has always been after. As they face off, they start to uncover a deeper conspiracy they both need to solve in order to survive.

Action / Crime / Mystery / Thriller / Heist

WUSA Blu-ray Movie  

Olive Films | 1970 | 115 min | Rated PG-13 | Jul 23, 2013 | Jeffrey Kauffman

Paul Newman plays a jaded disc-jockey who offers his services to WUSA, a right-wing hate station broadcasting from New Orleans. While struggling with his own apathy, he starts spreading hateful messages perpetrated by Pat Hingle, a power-mad master of WUSA. Joanne Woodward plays a working girl who arrives in town the same day as Newman and falls for the alcoholic disc-jockey.

Drama

Once Is Not Enough Blu-ray Movie  

Jacqueline Susann's Once Is Not Enough

Olive Films | 1975 | 121 min | Rated R | Jul 23, 2013 | Jeffrey Kauffman

January (Deborah Raffin), daughter of movie producer Mike Wayne (Kirk Douglas), returns to New York, only to find her father married to Deidre (Alexis Smith), the fifth richest woman in the world. Jealous January resents her father and cannot accept the moral codes of this new world, finding only frustration. She gets a job with Gloss Magazine and falls in love with Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Tom Colt (David Janssen), whose virile prose and celebrated fistfights turn out to be a compensation for his physical inadequacies. Her Stepmother Dee wants her to marry David Milford (George Hamilton), a wolf-about-town, who's having an affair with the reclusive retired movie star, Karla (Melina Mercouri), who in turn is carrying on a lesbian affair with Dee. Brenda Vaccaro co-stars as the man-crazy editor of the fashion magazine.

Drama / Romance / Melodrama

Perfect Friday Blu-ray Movie    

Network | 1970 | 97 min | Rated BBFC: 12 | Jun 17, 2013 | Dr. Svet Atanasov

Lord Nicholas Dorset and his beautiful wife Britt live entirely beyond their means, while their timid bank manager Mr Graham has long envied his customers' wealth. Having devised an apparently foolproof plan to rob his own bank, Mr Graham decides that Nicholas and Britt's desperate financial situation makes them his ideal accomplices.

Comedy / Crime

Summer and Smoke Blu-ray Movie  

Olive Films | 1961 | 118 min | Not rated | Jul 23, 2013 | Jeffrey Kauffman

Plain, repressed spinster falls for a dashing young medical student, but he prefers the wilder life, until it's too late.

Drama

Peggy Sue Got Married Blu-ray Movie  

Image Entertainment | 1986 | 103 min | Rated PG-13 | Jul 30, 2013 | Michael Reuben

A 43-year-old mother and housewife facing divorce is thrust back in time when she attends a high-school reunion.

Comedy / Drama / Fantasy / Romance