New Blu-ray Reviews
Home- March 18, 2013
The Song of Bernadette Blu-ray Movie
Limited Edition to 3000 - SOLD OUT
Twilight Time | 1943 | 156 min | Not rated | Mar 26, 2013 | Jeffrey Kauffman
In 1858 France, Bernadette, an adolescent peasant girl, has a vision of "a beautiful lady" in the city dump. She never claims it to be anything other than this, but the townspeople all assume it to be the virgin Mary.
Biography / Drama / Period
Fate/Stay Night: Collection 2 Blu-ray Movie
Sentai Filmworks | 2006 | 300 min | Rated TV-14 | Mar 19, 2013 | Jeffrey Kauffman
There is a war going on between masters and servants in order to attain the Holy Grail. Each master can call up one servant each, and their task is to eradicate the other servants, either by defeating them or killing their master. When there is only one master or servant left, he or she is granted the Holy Grail, and any wish they desire will come true.
Action / Anime / Comedy / Drama / Fantasy / Romance / Thriller / Foreign
Christine Blu-ray Movie
Limited Edition to 3000 - SOLD OUT
Twilight Time | 1983 | 110 min | Rated R | Mar 12, 2013 | Jeffrey Kauffman
Geeky student falls for Christine, a rusty 1958 Plymouth Fury, and becomes obsessed with restoring her to former glory.
Drama / Horror / Mystery / Teen / Supernatural
Malena Blu-ray Movie
Uncut | First Press Limited Edition
GreenNarae Media | 2000 | 108 min | Rated KMRB: 18+ | Jan 25, 2013 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
Amidst the outbreak of World War II, Renato, a young Sicilian boy, becomes infatuated with beautiful war widow Malena. Malena is leered at by men, reviled by women and eventually suffers greatly for her beauty. Ever-watchful Renato does not come to her aid but, nevertheless, learns a valuable lesson about courage.
Comedy / Drama / Romance / Erotic / Foreign / Coming of age
- March 17, 2013
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey 3D Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray 3D + Blu-ray + DVD + UV Digital Copy
Warner Bros. | 2012 | 169 min | Rated PG-13 | Mar 19, 2013 | Kenneth Brown
A curious Hobbit, Bilbo Baggins, journeys to the Lonely Mountain with a vigorous group of Dwarves to reclaim a treasure stolen from them by the dragon Smaug.
Action / Adventure / Fantasy / Epic
Rust and Bone Blu-ray Movie
De rouille et d'os
Sony Pictures | 2012 | 122 min | Rated R | Mar 19, 2013 | Martin Liebman
Put in charge of his young son, Ali leaves the north of France for Antibes to live with his sister and her husband as a family. Ali's bond with Stephanie, a killer whale trainer, grows deeper after Stephanie suffers a horrible accident.
Drama / Romance / Foreign
The Great Magician Blu-ray Movie
Daai mo seut si
Well Go USA | 2011 | 128 min | Not rated | Mar 19, 2013 | Jeffrey Kauffman
In 1916, China was in turmoil with warlords battling against each other and Japanese conspirators lurking in the dark. One day, a mysterious man named Zhang Xian takes the capital city by storm with his mesmerizing magic tricks. He soon catches the attention of ruthless warlord Commander Lei, who is eager to please his seventh wife Liu Yin by taking her to see Zhang's performance. Unbeknownst to Lei, his favorite concubine was once the fiancée of Zhang, and approaching him to earn his trust is just the first step in the vengeful illusionist's secret agenda...
Drama / Mystery / Thriller / Foreign
Army of Shadows Blu-ray Movie
L'armée des ombres / StudioCanal Collection
Studio Canal | 1969 | 145 min | Rated BBFC: 12 | Apr 08, 2013 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
Betrayed by an informant, Philippe Gerbier finds himself trapped in a torturous Nazi prison camp. Though Gerbier escapes to rejoin the Resistance in occupied Marseilles, France, and exacts his revenge on the informant, he must continue a quiet, seemingly endless battle against the Nazis in an atmosphere of tension, paranoia, and distrust.
Drama / History / War / Foreign
Stand Off Blu-ray Movie
Whole Lotta Sole / Blu-ray + DVD
Ketchup | 2011 | 89 min | Rated R | Mar 26, 2013 | Michael Reuben
In a comedy of errors, Jimbo robs a fish market to pay back his gambling debts to a local Belfast mobster, but the market turns out to be a front for the very same mobster. On the run from both the cops and the mob, Jimbo takes refuge in a local antique shop, where the proprietor mistakes Jimbo for a hitman. A baby, a band of Irish gypsies and a beautiful African immigrant are all caught in the crossfire.
Crime / Thriller / Dark humor
Cold Creek Manor Blu-ray Movie
Disney / Buena Vista | 2003 | 119 min | Rated R | Sep 04, 2012 | Michael Reuben
Wanting to escape city life for the saner, safer countryside, New Yorkers Cooper Tilson, his wife Leah and their two children move into a dilapidated old mansion still filled with the possessions of the previous family.
Mystery / Thriller
Sisters Blu-ray Movie
Image Entertainment | 2006 | 92 min | Rated R | Oct 05, 2010 | Michael Reuben
A reporter witnesses a brutal murder, and becomes entangled in a mystery involving a pair of Siamese twins who were separated under mysterious circumstances, one of them forced to live under the eye of a watchful, controlling psychiatrist.
Crime / Horror / Mystery / Thriller
Nosferatu: Phantom der Nacht Blu-ray Movie
Nosferatu the Vampyre / Dracula
Studio Canal | 1979 | 1 Movie, 2 Cuts | 107 min | Rated FSK-16 | Jan 24, 2013 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
It is 1850 in the beautiful, perfectly-kept town of Wismar. Jonathan Harker is about to leave on a long journey over the Carpathian Mountains to finalize real estate arrangements with a wealthy nobleman. His wife, Lucy, begs him not to go and is troubled by a strong premonition of danger. Despite her warnings, Jonathan arrives four weeks later at a large, gloomy castle. Out of the mist appears a pale, wraith-like figure with a shaven head and deep-sunken eyes who identifies himself as Count Dracula. The events that transpire slowly convince Harker that he is in the presence of a vampyre. What he doesn't know is the magnitude of danger he, his wife and his town are about to experience.
Horror / Supernatural / Foreign / Period
Storage 24 Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray
Magnolia Pictures | 2012 | 87 min | Not rated | Mar 12, 2013 | Casey Broadwater
Johannes Roberts directs this British sci-fi horror. When a military cargo plane crashes in central London, carnage and chaos ensue as its highly-classified contents are strewn across the city. Unaware of the prevailing state of emergency, recently separated young couple Charlie (Noel Clarke) and Shelley (Antonia Campbell-Hughes) have asked their friends, Mark (Colin O'Donoghue) and Nikki (Laura Haddock), to accompany them to the Storage 24 depot to divide up their possessions after their break-up. When the power suddenly goes off, the friends find themselves trapped inside the depot, and prey to an alien killer intent on hunting them down one by one.
Horror / Sci-Fi / Thriller
Zeta One Blu-ray Movie
The Love Factor
Redemption | 1969 | 89 min | Rated R | Mar 19, 2013 | Casey Broadwater
In this playful spoof of the James Bond films, Robin Hawdon stars as Word...James Word, a womanizing secret agent whose investigation of a criminal mastermind (James Robertson Justice) leads him to discover a race of beautiful, exotic superwomen.
Comedy / Fantasy / Sci-Fi
- March 16, 2013
NFL Super Bowl XLVII Champions: Baltimore Ravens Blu-ray Movie
Vivendi Visual Entertainment | 2013 | 74 min | Not rated | Mar 12, 2013 | Martin Liebman
A journey through the Baltimore Ravens Super Bowl run.
Sport
The Other Son Blu-ray Movie
Le fils de l'autre
Cohen Media Group | 2012 | 105 min | Rated PG-13 | Mar 19, 2013 | Jeffrey Kauffman
As he is preparing to join the Israeli army for his national service, Joseph discovers he is not his parents' biological son, and that he was inadvertently switched at birth with Yacine, the son of a Palestinian family from the West Bank. This revelation turns the lives of these two families upside-down, forcing them to reassess their respective identities, their values and their beliefs.
Drama / Foreign
Shakugan no Shana: Season 3 Part 2 Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + DVD
FUNimation Entertainment | 2012 | 325 min | Rated TV-14 | Mar 26, 2013 | Jeffrey Kauffman
Shana and Alastor, Lord of the Crimson Realm, continue to do battle with the Denizens, who are trying to steal the Power of Existence from mortals. In the last battle, Yuji is revealed to be a mystes, a "torch" of nearly unlimited Power of Existence. Since the Denizens want to capture Yuji and use him to upset the balance of the Realm, Shana resolves to protect Yuji. Yuji then vows to join Shana in her fight.
Action / Adventure / Anime / Comedy / Drama / Foreign
Naked Lunch Blu-ray Movie
Criterion | 1991 | 116 min | Rated R | Apr 09, 2013 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
A part-time exterminator and full-time drug addict named Bill Lee plunges into the nightmarish Interzone, a netherworld of sinister cabals and giant talking bugs.
Drama / Surreal
The Missing Lynx Blu-ray Movie
El lince perdido
Phase 4 Films | 2008 | 101 min | Rated PG | Apr 26, 2011 | Brian Orndorf
Follows the adventures of a group of animals in their quest to escape from being kidnapped by an unscrupulous hunter, hired by a benevolent millionaire to start a new Noah's ark. The animals will have to spoil the hunter's plan and liberate their peers from his hands.
Animation / Comedy
- March 15, 2013
Music of the Heart Blu-ray Movie
Miramax Classics
Echo Bridge Entertainment | 1999 | 123 min | Rated PG | Jan 27, 2013 | Martin Liebman
A single mother of two young children, whose husband left her for a family friend, leaves the security of her small hometown and moves to East Harlem and begins teaching violin to support her family. She didn't have extensive experience to offer the school; she had her talent, her determination, and her violins. At first, the kids, the parents, and the principal were skeptical. But, Roberta taught with such passion that it was infectious and soon her young violinists were manifesting incredible results. Despite her success, after 10 years of teaching, the Board of Education eliminates her position due to budget cuts, and Roberta fights back. Based on the true story of Roberta Guaspari-Tzavaras and her passion for teaching.
Biography / Drama / Music