New Blu-ray Reviews

North Face Blu-ray Movie  

Nordwand

Music Box Films | 2008 | 126 min | Unrated | Jun 25, 2013 | Jeffrey Kauffman

Set in 1936, centers around four mountain climbers who attempt to climb the north face of the Eiger Mountain in Switzerland and the tragic events that follow.

Adventure / Drama / History / Sport / Foreign

Venus and Vegas Blu-ray Movie  

Venus & Vegas

Image Entertainment | 2010 | 96 min | Rated R | Jun 25, 2013 | Michael Reuben

Eric agrees to join his buddies Stu and Alex when they discover the easy score of a lifetime--a boatload of casino chips sitting in a warehouse. The casino chips belong to Vegas mobster Frank Santino and just happen to be counterfeit. But Eric needs the score to win back his ex, Tara, and Stu needs it to please his girlfriend, Kristen.

Action / Comedy / Crime

Marketa Lazarová Blu-ray Movie  

Criterion | 1967 | 166 min | Not rated | Jun 18, 2013 | Dr. Svet Atanasov

Set during the transition from paganism to Christianity during the 13th century, the film focuses on the Kozlík family, a clan of brutal and superstitious pillagers who ravage the bleak medieval countryside on horseback. One-armed Adam and his brother Mikoláš violently abduct the virginal Marketa Lazarová, the daughter of a Kozlík rival, and hold her hostage, leading to a monumental battle and an unlikely romance.

Drama / History / Romance / Foreign

Simply Irresistible Blu-ray Movie  

Starz / Anchor Bay | 1999 | 96 min | Rated PG-13 | May 28, 2013 | Martin Liebman

A magical crab works wonders for a terrible chef's culinary skills, leading her towards the man of her dreams.

Comedy / Drama / Fantasy / Romance

Stoker Blu-ray Movie  

Blu-ray + UV Digital Copy

20th Century Fox | 2013 | 99 min | Rated R | Jun 18, 2013 | Casey Broadwater

Following her father Richard's death in an unexplained road accident, reclusive teenager India Stoker withdraws further into the quiet rural life she shares with her emotionally disturbed mother Evie. But her curiosity is stirred when her mysterious uncle Charlie, who she has never met, suddenly arrives unannounced. Told that the darkly charismatic Charlie will now be staying at the house, India's initial well-founded distrust of her uncle's motivations begins to waver as she finds herself becoming ever more deeply entranced by his sinister charms.

Drama / Horror / Mystery / Thriller / Psychological thriller / Coming of age

I'll Do Anything: Jackson Browne Live In Concert Blu-ray Movie  

Inside Recordings | 2012 | 105 min | Not rated | Jun 18, 2013 | Jeffrey Kauffman

Jackson Browne's I'LL DO ANYTHING Live In Concert features over 90 minutes of music from Jackson's entire body of work. Recorded during his 2012 Tour at the Paramount Theatre in Denver, CO, the release also features Sara Watkins, Sean Watkins, Tyler Chester, Fritz Lewak, and Val McCallum.

Music

Dead Souls Blu-ray Movie  

Shout Factory | 2012 | 92 min | Not rated | Jun 25, 2013 | Jeffrey Kauffman

Johnny Petrie learns on his 18th birthday that he was adopted after inheriting a farm in Maine. Eager to start a new life, Johnny leaves home so he can began afresh in this "new" dwelling. However, Johnny soon discovers that the farm, which has been abandoned for eighteen years since his natural family died, harbors a horrifying history about the deaths of said natural family.

Horror

Color of Night / Playing God Blu-ray Movie  

Double Feature

Mill Creek Entertainment | 1994-1997 | 2 Movies | 233 min | Rated R | Oct 23, 2012 | Michael Reuben

See individual titles.

Crime / Drama / Film-Noir / Mystery / Romance / Thriller / Erotic

Color of Night Blu-ray Movie  

Mill Creek Entertainment | 1994 | 139 min | Rated R | No Release Date | Michael Reuben

A psychiatrist is haunted by his failure with a suicidal patient. While on a break from his own practice, he visits a friend and colleague who, soon thereafter, is brutally murdered. Hunting for the killer, he finds himself taking over his colleague's therapy group and simultaneously entering into an intense romance with a mysterious beauty who appears and disappears without explanation.

Crime / Drama / Film-Noir / Mystery / Romance / Thriller / Erotic

Playing God Blu-ray Movie  

Mill Creek Entertainment | 1997 | 94 min | Rated R | No Release Date | Michael Reuben

Dr. Eugene Sands, an ex-surgeon lured into a dark underworld by a hip-but lethal-mob, finds himself caught in a web of murder and mayhem...and growing far too close to the top mobster's seductive mistress.

Crime / Drama / Thriller

Primus: Sailing the Seas of Cheese Blu-ray Movie  

Blu-ray Audio / Blu-ray + CD

Interscope | 1991 | 46 min | Not rated | Jun 18, 2013 | Jeffrey Kauffman

No synopsis for this title.

Music

Code of Silence Blu-ray Movie  

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer | 1985 | 101 min | Rated R | Jul 17, 2012 | Brian Orndorf

A Chicago cop is caught in the middle of a gang war and corruption in his own department.

Action / Crime / Thriller

The Incredible Burt Wonderstone Blu-ray Movie  

Blu-ray + DVD + UV Digital Copy

Warner Bros. | 2013 | 100 min | Rated PG-13 | Jun 25, 2013 | Kenneth Brown

Steve Carell, Jim Carrey and Steve Buscemi star as magicians in this comedy from director Don Scardino. When ticket sales for double act Burt Wonderstone (Carell) and Anton Marvelton (Buscemi)'s Las Vegas stage show begin to dwindle due to new rival Steve Gray (Carrey), the duo pull out all the stops on a big trick. The stunt doesn't go to plan, however, and Anton moves to Cambodia, leaving Burt without a partner or a job. With help from his assistant, Jane (Olivia Wilde), and the magician who inspired him as a child, Rance Hanson (Alan Arkin), Burt tries to rediscover his passion for magic and reunite with Anton.

Comedy

The Producers Blu-ray Movie  

Collector's Edition / Blu-ray + DVD

Shout Factory | 1967 | 89 min | Rated PG | Jul 02, 2013 | Jeffrey Kauffman

Producers Max Bialystock and Leo Bloom make money by producing a sure-fire flop.

Comedy

Dark Command Blu-ray Movie  

Olive Films | 1940 | 94 min | Not rated | May 28, 2013 | Jeffrey Kauffman

When transplanted Texan Bob Seton arrives in Lawrence, Kansas he finds much to like about the place, especially Mary McCloud, daughter of the local banker. Politics is in the air however. ...

Western

Black Knight Blu-ray Movie  

Starz / Anchor Bay | 2001 | 96 min | Rated PG-13 | May 28, 2013 | Martin Liebman

A fast-talking maintenance worker is in for a royally rude awakening when an unfortunate moat mishap at the Medieval World theme park transports him back in time to 14th century England.

Adventure / Comedy / Fantasy

Hell's House Blu-ray Movie  

Kino Classics Remastered Edition

Kino Lorber | 1932 | 73 min | Not rated | Jun 18, 2013 | Casey Broadwater

Jimmy idolizes bootlegger Matt, and when he refuses to implicate his friend, he is sent to reform school. He befriends Shorty, a boy with a heart condition, and escapes to let the world know about the brutal conditions.

Drama

Of Human Bondage Blu-ray Movie  

Kino Classics Remastered Edition

Kino Lorber | 1934 | 83 min | Not rated | Jun 18, 2013 | Casey Broadwater

Abandoning artistic ambitions, sensitive and club-footed Philip Carey enrolls in medical school and falls in love with a waitress Mildred Rogers. She rejects him, runs off with a salesman and returns unmarried and pregnant. Philip gets her an apartment and they become engaged. Mildred runs off with another medical student. Philip takes her back again when she returns with her baby. She wrecks his apartment and burns the securities he needs to pay tuition. He gets a job as a salesman, has surgery on his foot, receives an inheritance, and returns to school where he learns Mildred is dying.

Drama / Romance

The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance Blu-ray Movie    

Paramount Pictures | 1962 | 123 min | Rated BBFC: U | Jun 03, 2013 | Dr. Svet Atanasov

A senator revisits the city he became famous. At a funeral for a mysterious man, the senator tells the story of how his paths crossed with this stranger and why a hero became forgotten by history.

Drama / Western

Upside Down 3D Blu-ray Movie  

Blu-ray 3D + Blu-ray

Millennium Media | 2012 | 108 min | Rated PG-13 | Jun 25, 2013 | Martin Liebman

Adam is an ordinary guy in an extraordinary universe. He lives humbly trying to make ends meet, but his romantic spirit holds on to the memory of a girl he met once upon a time from another world, an inverted affluent world with its own gravity, directly above but beyond reach… a girl named Eden. Their childhood flirtation becomes an impossible love. But when he catches a glimpse of grown up Eden on television, nothing will get in the way of getting her back… not even the laws of science.

Drama / Romance / Sci-Fi