New Blu-ray Reviews

Running with Scissors Blu-ray Movie  

Mill Creek Entertainment | 2006 | 122 min | Rated R | No Release Date | Michael Reuben

Based on the personal memoirs of Augusten Burroughs, Running with Scissors is a wickedly funny, brave and moving tale of surviving a most unusual childhood. Augusten's (Joseph Cross) mother (Annette Bening) is a deluded aspiring post with bipolar disorder whose marriage to his dad (Alec Baldwin) is in ruins. Soon, she is seeing a very eccentric therapist named Dr. Finch (Brian Cox), while Augusten is left in the care of Finch's wackly family, including his tightly-wound daughter (Gwyneth Paltrow). Abandoned by his parents and adopted by the Finches, he finds a kindred spirit in youngest daughter Natalie (Even Rachel Wood) and motherly support from Finch's long suffering wife Agnes (Jill Clayburgh). Constantly recording the events of his life in his journals as a way to cope, Augusten finds himself avoiding school, learning about love from an older man (Joseph Fiennes), and making big decisions at the tender age of fifteen.

Comedy / Drama

The Squid and the Whale Blu-ray Movie  

Mill Creek Entertainment | 2005 | 81 min | Rated R | No Release Date | Michael Reuben

Based on the true childhood experiences of Noah Baumbach and his brother, The Squid and the Whale tells the touching story of two young boys dealing with their parents' divorce in Brooklyn in the 1980s.

Comedy / Drama / Coming of age

Superman: Brainiac Attacks Blu-ray Movie  

Warner Bros. | 2006 | 76 min | Not rated | Mar 12, 2013 | Kenneth Brown

Embittered by Superman's heroic successes and soaring popularity, Lex Luthor forms a dangerous alliance with the powerful computer/villain Brainiac. Using advanced weaponry and a special strain of Kryptonite harvested from the far reaches of outer space, Luthor specifically redesigns Brainiac to defeat the Man of Steel. But when Brainiac betrays Luthor and reveals its sinister plans for world domination, Superman must brave the mysterious Phantom Zone to find the strength to survive this deadly showdown.

Action / Animation / Sci-Fi / Comic book

Hyde Park on Hudson Blu-ray Movie  

Blu-ray + DVD + UV Digital Copy

Universal Studios | 2012 | 94 min | Rated R | Apr 09, 2013 | Jeffrey Kauffman

The story of the love affair between FDR and his distant cousin Margaret Stuckley, centered around the weekend in 1939 when the King and Queen of the United Kingdom visited upstate New York.

Biography / Comedy / Drama / History / Period

Hell's Half Acre Blu-ray Movie  

Olive Films | 1954 | 91 min | Not rated | Mar 26, 2013 | Jeffrey Kauffman

A woman who believes her missing husband is in prison in Hawaii on a murder charge travels there to see if it actually is him...

Action / Adventure / Crime / Drama / Film-Noir / Mystery

Parental Guidance Blu-ray Movie  

Blu-ray + DVD + UV Digital Copy

20th Century Fox | 2012 | 105 min | Rated PG | Mar 26, 2013 | Casey Broadwater

When his daughter goes away for work, a grandfather finds himself having to take care of his three grandkids using 21st century methods -- though he soon resorts to an old-school style of parenting.

Comedy

The Devil and Miss Jones Blu-ray Movie  

Olive Films | 1941 | 92 min | Not rated | Mar 26, 2013 | Jeffrey Kauffman

Department store owner J.P. Merrick finds that several of his employees are unionizing to get more money and better working conditions. In order to find out who the organizers are, he gets a job at the store as a shoe salesman. Not realizing his true identity, he's befriended by Mary Jones and Joe O'Brien, the two ringleaders, and Elizabeth Ellis, a charming older woman with whom he develops a romance.

Comedy / Romance

Nanook of the North / The Wedding of Palo Blu-ray Movie  

and Other Films of Arctic Life

Flicker Alley | 1922-1934 | 2 Movies | 281 min | Not rated | Mar 19, 2013 | Dr. Svet Atanasov

See individual titles for their synopses.

Documentary / Romance

Continuum: Season One Blu-ray Movie  

Universal Studios | 2012 | 440 min | Rated TV-14 | Mar 26, 2013 | Kenneth Brown

It's the year 2077, when a radical group of criminals evade the death-penalty through time-travel back to 2012 they inadvertently bring back police-officer Kiera Cameron with them. The Protector finds she has an ally in the unlikeliest form, a young computer expert that may have links to her past and his future.

Action / Sci-Fi / Thriller

Scooby-Doo! and the Samurai Sword Blu-ray Movie  

Warner Bros. | 2009 | 75 min | Not rated | Mar 12, 2013 | Kenneth Brown

The Mystery Inc. crew travels the globe on a transcontinental treasure hunt to solve a series of ancient riddles. Scooby-Doo and Shaggy are indoctrinated by an unlikely Sword Master.

Animation / Comedy / Family / Mystery

Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries: Series 1 Blu-ray Movie  

Acorn Media | 2012 | 779 min | Not rated | Mar 26, 2013 | Michael Reuben

Phryne Fisher sashays through the back lanes and jazz clubs of late 1920's Melbourne fighting injustice with her pearl handled pistol and her dagger sharp wit.

Crime / Drama / Mystery / Period

Adventures in Zambezia Blu-ray Movie  

Blu-ray + DVD

Sony Pictures | 2012 | 82 min | Rated G | Aug 06, 2013 | Martin Liebman

When a spirited young falcon named Kai learns of Zambezia, the fabulous city of birds, he leaves his remote country home against the wishes of his father. But when his dad is captured by an evil lizard who plans to attack the city, Kai must learn the importance of teamwork if he’s to rescue his father, save his new friends and help keep Zambezia lizard free.

Adventure / Animation / Comedy / Family

Bach: Matthaus-Passion Blu-ray Movie  

St. Matthew Passion

Arthaus Musik | 2012 | 173 min | Not rated | Mar 26, 2013 | Jeffrey Kauffman

This 2012 recording of the most influential and wide spread oratorio by Johann Sebastian Bach features the Hungarian conductor Iván Fischer, a visionary in his field, with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra in Amsterdam.

Music

Earth's Final Hours Blu-ray Movie  

Starz / Anchor Bay | 2012 | 91 min | Rated PG-13 | Apr 02, 2013 | Martin Liebman

When bizarre radiation storms suddenly erupt, defense systems are wiped out, polar outposts are incinerated and space debris blasts holes clear through our planet. Now a tough federal, a cool government scientist and his rebel genius son have uncovered a magnetospheric nightmare that could stop the Earth’s rotation. Do a disgraced inventor and an archaic satellite hold the sole keys to our survival, or is the clock ticking towards the annihilation of mankind?

Action / Sci-Fi / Thriller

Hemingway & Gellhorn Blu-ray Movie  

HBO | 2012 | 155 min | Rated TV-MA | Apr 02, 2013 | Michael Reuben

A drama based on the romance between Ernest Hemingway and war correspondent Martha Gellhorn, who helped inspire Hemingway's novel For Whom the Bell Tolls, and the only one of the writer's four wives to ask him for a divorce.

Biography / Drama / Romance

Tormented 3D Blu-ray Movie  

Blu-ray 3D + Blu-ray

Well Go USA | 2011 | 106 min | Not rated | Apr 02, 2013 | Jeffrey Kauffman

Daigo doesn't go to school anymore. His sister, Kiriko, is worried and their father is no help. Now Daigo is missing. He's in danger, and Kiriko will have to follow him into a world of nightmares to discover the truth.

Horror / Supernatural / Foreign

WWE: Royal Rumble 2013 Blu-ray Movie  

WWE Studios | 2013 | 167 min | Not rated | Feb 26, 2013 | Martin Liebman

As WWE kicks off the Road to WrestleMania with the 2013 Royal Rumble, the Rock returns to the WWE Universe. Plus, dozens of superstars compete in WWE's historic over-the-top-rope main event.

Sport

Joe Bonamassa: An Acoustic Evening at the Vienna Opera House Blu-ray Movie  

Fontana | 2012 | 108 min | Not rated | Mar 26, 2013 | Jeffrey Kauffman

No synopsis for this title.

Music

The Atomic Kid Blu-ray Movie  

Olive Films | 1954 | 86 min | Not rated | Mar 26, 2013 | Jeffrey Kauffman

While a Uranium prospector is in the desert he is accidentally exposed to radiation from an atomic bomb test. He becomes radioactive and is recruited by the FBI to help break up a spy ring.

Comedy / Sci-Fi

Bachelorette Blu-ray Movie  

Starz / Anchor Bay | 2012 | 87 min | Rated R | Mar 19, 2013 | Brian Orndorf

Three New York friends are invited to be maids-of-honour at the wedding of the girl they belittled at high school in this farcical comedy adapted from her own play by director Leslye Headland. When they learn that Becky (Rebel Wilson), the former classmate they called 'Pig Face', wants them to be bridesmaids at her wedding to the hunky Dale (Hayes MacArthur), bitches-about-town Regan (Kirsten Dunst), Katie (Isla Fisher) and Gena (Lizzy Caplan) set out to give her a sending off she'll never forget. When they finally set out on their boozy, drug-induced blowout, however, a mishap with the bridal gown soon derails their plans, forcing them into a riotous night-time odyssey as they desperately try to right the wrong.

Comedy / Drama / Romance / Dark humor