New Blu-ray Reviews
Home- May 06, 2013
The Hoax Blu-ray Movie
Echo Bridge Entertainment | 2006 | 116 min | Rated R | Mar 10, 2013 | Michael Reuben
In the early 1970s, author Clifford Irving, with accomplice Richard Suskind, attempts to pull off one of the greatest media scams of the century. He writes a fake biography of reclusive billionaire Howard Hughes, claiming that Hughes commissioned it, and sells the book to publishing giant McGraw-Hill. Based on a true story.
Comedy / Drama
- May 05, 2013
The Assassin's Blade Blu-ray Movie
The Butterfly Lovers
Well Go USA | 2008 | 102 min | Not rated | May 07, 2013 | Jeffrey Kauffman
Life is fleeting as the butterfly, beautiful yet transient. As legends has it, a pair of butterfly lovers reappears once more after having gone through three lifetimes of repeated pain and tears. This time, they find each other in the world of martial arts. Liang is highly skilled in martial arts and resides in the mountains. When his master tasks him to take care of Zhu, a girl from a wealthy family who disguises as guy to herself from revenge, it sparks off the painful journey that they must go through once again. Zhuâ's father, in order to pay the kindness shown to him, has betrothed her to a General Ma, although Zhu is in love with Liang. Love can fester into hate in some while in the selected few, it can lead to undying love that survives one lifetime after another.
Action / Adventure / Fantasy / Romance / Martial arts / Foreign
In the Name of the Father Blu-ray Movie
Universal Studios | 1993 | 133 min | Rated R | May 07, 2013 | Jeffrey Kauffman
Based on the book 'Proved Innocent', by Gerry Conlon, the true story of the group of Irishmen dubbed the Guildford Four, who were the victims of a miscarriage of justice which saw them convicted of bombing a soldiers' pub in 1974. Daniel Day-Lewis plays Belfast wideboy and petty crook Gerry Conlon, who, along with his father (Pete Postlethwaite) and two friends, is forced into a false confession, claiming responsibility for the terrorist attack. 'My Left Foot' director Jim Sheridan focuses on the father-son relationship, as well as the long-running appeal against their sentences, led by their determined solicitor (Emma Thompson).
Biography / Crime / Drama / History / Thriller / Period
Bandolero! Blu-ray Movie
Explosive Media | 1968 | 106 min | Rated FSK-16 | Nov 30, 2012 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
Posing as a hangman, Mace Bishop arrives in town with the intention of freeing a gang of outlaws, including his brother...
Action / Crime / Drama / Romance / Western
Cinderella III: A Twist in Time Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + DVD
Disney / Buena Vista | 2007 | 70 min | Rated G | No Release Date | Kenneth Brown
Lady Tremaine gets her hands on the Fairy Godmother's wand, then turns back time to the day Cinderella tried on the glass slipper. She enlarges the slipper to fit one of the stepsisters, Anastasia, then erases Prince Charming's memories of meeting Cinderella. Now, Cinderella must foil Lady Tremaine's scheme and win back her prince.
Adventure / Animation / Family / Fantasy / Musical / Romance
Cinderella II: Dreams Come True Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + DVD
Disney / Buena Vista | 2002 | 73 min | Rated G | No Release Date | Kenneth Brown
The movie explores Cinderella's "happily ever after" life as a princess in 3 stories, with help from the Fairy Godmother. First, Cinderella's awkward first days at the palace, when she tried so hard to fit in that she forgot to be herself. Second, how Jaq felt so left out that he wished to be a human. Third, how Cinderella taught one of her nasty step-sisters how to smile which leads to her own true love.
Adventure / Animation / Family / Fantasy / Musical / Romance
Cinderella II: Dreams Come True / Cinderella III: A Twist in Time Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + DVD
Disney / Buena Vista | 2002-2007 | 2 Movies | 143 min | Rated G | Nov 20, 2012 | Kenneth Brown
The movie explores Cinderella's "happily ever after" life as a princess in 3 stories, with help from the Fairy Godmother. First, Cinderella's awkward first days at the palace, when she tried so hard to fit in that she forgot to be herself. Second, how Jaq felt so left out that he wished to be a human. Third, how Cinderella taught one of her nasty step-sisters how to smile which leads to her own true love.
Adventure / Animation / Family / Fantasy / Musical / Romance
- May 04, 2013
Cloud Atlas Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + DVD + UV Digital Copy
Warner Bros. | 2012 | 172 min | Rated R | May 14, 2013 | Kenneth Brown
An epic story of humankind in which the actions and consequences of our lives impact one another throughout the past, present and future as one soul is shaped from a murderer into a savior and a single act of kindness ripples out for centuries to inspire a revolution. Based on the best-selling novel by David Mitchell.
Drama / Sci-Fi / Supernatural / Epic / Period
Starlet Blu-ray Movie
Music Box Films | 2012 | 103 min | Not rated | May 07, 2013 | Jeffrey Kauffman
An unlikely friendship forms between twenty-one-year-old Jane and the elderly Sadie after Jane discovers a hidden stash of money inside an object at Sadie's yard sale.
Drama
The Rabbi's Cat Blu-ray Movie
Le chat du rabbin / Blu-ray
Cinedigm | 2011 | 100 min | Not rated | May 07, 2013 | Jeffrey Kauffman
Algiers, 1920s. Rabbi Sfar has more than one problem. His beautiful daughter Zlabya is becoming a teenager and above all, his parrot-killing cat has just started talking. The delivery of a box from Russia further complicates things when a painter is discovered inside, more dead than alive. He is on a quest for a hidden tribe and its mythical city in Africa. Convinced that the city exists, he sets off on an incredible adventure, taking with him the Rabbi, his cat, a wise old Arab Sheikh and an eccentric Russian millionaire.
Adventure / Animation / Comedy / Comic book / Foreign
Best of the Best: Without Warning Blu-ray Movie
Echo Bridge Entertainment | 1998 | 90 min | Rated R | Mar 10, 2013 | Martin Liebman
L.A. Police Department martial arts consultant Tommy Lee is catapulted into the harrowing world of Russian gangsters, high-tech crime and counterfeit money. When his best friend's daughter is killed, Lee learns that she was working for a gang of Russian criminals who have devised a foolproof system for creating billions of dollars of undetectable counterfeit money.
Action / Adventure / Crime / Martial arts
Parker Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + UV Digital Copy
Sony Pictures | 2013 | 119 min | Rated R | May 21, 2013 | Martin Liebman
Parker (Jason Statham) is a professional thief who lives by a personal code of ethics: Don't steal from people who can't afford it and don't hurt people who don't deserve it. But on his latest heist, his crew double crosses him, steals his stash, and leaves him for dead. Determined to make sure they regret it, Parker tracks them to Palm Beach, playground of the rich and famous, where the crew is planning their biggest heist ever. Donning the disguise of a rich Texan, Parker takes on an unlikely partner, Leslie (Jennifer Lopez), a savvy insider, who's short on cash, but big on looks, smarts and ambition. Together, they devise a plan to hijack the score, take everyone down and get away clean.
Action / Crime / Thriller / Heist
Baron Blood Blu-ray Movie
Gli orrori del castello di Norimberga / Blu-ray + DVD
Arrow | 1972 | 1 Movie, 3 Cuts | 98 min | Rated BBFC: 15 | Apr 29, 2013 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
A young man, visiting the castle of a murderous ancestor accidentally brings his dead relative back to life!
Horror
- May 03, 2013
Cloak and Dagger Blu-ray Movie
Olive Films | 1946 | 106 min | Not rated | Apr 30, 2013 | Jeffrey Kauffman
From legendary director Fritz Lang comes an engrossing spy thriller years ahead of its time. Gary Cooper is a US scientist, parachuted into war-torn Nazi Germany to obtain military secrets. But the deeper he probes, the deadlier his mission becomes...especially when his involvement with mysterious Lilli Palmer catapults him into an intense maelstrom of danger, betrayal and murder.
Adventure / Romance / Thriller / War
Night of the Scarecrow Blu-ray Movie
La nuit de l'épouvantail
Olive Films | 1995 | 85 min | Rated R | Apr 30, 2013 | Jeffrey Kauffman
A warlock's ghost uses the body of a scarecrow to take his long-awaited revenge upon a rural community.
Horror / Sci-Fi / Supernatural
- May 02, 2013
Scanners Blu-ray Movie
Second Sight | 1981 | 103 min | Rated BBFC: 18 | Apr 08, 2013 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
After a man with extraordinary—and frighteningly destructive—telepathic abilities is nabbed by agents from a mysterious rogue corporation, he discovers he is far from the only possessor of such strange powers, and that some of the other "scanners" have their minds set on world domination, while others are trying to stop them.
Horror / Sci-Fi / Thriller
Babe: Pig in the City Blu-ray Movie
Universal Studios | 1998 | 97 min | Rated G | May 07, 2013 | Jeffrey Kauffman
Babe, fresh from his victory in the sheepherding contest, returns to Farmer Hoggett's farm, but after Farmer Hoggett is injured and unable to work, Babe has to go to the big city to save the farm.
Adventure / Comedy / Drama / Family / Fantasy
WWII From Space Blu-ray Movie
Lionsgate Films | 2012 | 92 min | Not rated | May 07, 2013 | Jeffrey Kauffman
This History Channel special uses an all-seeing CGI eye that offers a satellite view of WWII, allowing the viewer to experience it in a way that places key events and tipping points in a global perspective.
Action / Documentary / History / War
The Guilt Trip Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + DVD + UV Digital Copy
Paramount Pictures | 2012 | 96 min | Rated PG-13 | Apr 30, 2013 | Martin Liebman
An inventor and his mom hit the road together so he can sell his latest invention.
Comedy
True Blood: The Complete Fifth Season Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + DVD + UV Digital Copy
HBO | 2012 | 720 min | Rated TV-MA | May 21, 2013 | Kenneth Brown
In a world where vampires have come out of the coffin, Sookie Stackhouse, a telepathic waitress, discovers a new world of different creatures when she meets Bill Compton, a vampire.
Drama / Fantasy / Horror / Mystery / Romance / Thriller / Supernatural / Erotic