New Blu-ray Reviews
Home- January 28, 2013
Pathfinders: In the Company of Strangers Blu-ray Movie
Inception Media Group | 2011 | 96 min | Not rated | Jan 08, 2013 | Michael Reuben
Untold and lost history. A true story of the American Pathfinders, the volunteer paratroopers whose deadly mission was to land 30 minutes before the Normandy invasion, locate and mark strategic "drop zones" and set up the top-secret navigation equipment needed to guide the main airborne assault on D-Day.
Action / History / War
A Christmas Story 2 Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + DVD + UV Digital Copy
Warner Bros. | 2012 | 85 min | Rated PG | Oct 30, 2012 | Brian Orndorf
Five years later, Ralphie has his eyes fixed on a car. But trouble is sure to follow.
Comedy / Holiday
Citadel Blu-ray Movie
Cinedigm | 2012 | 84 min | Rated R | Jan 29, 2013 | Jeffrey Kauffman
An agoraphobic father teams up with a renegade priest to save his daughter from the clutches of a gang of twisted feral children.
Drama / Horror / Thriller
The Nest Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + DVD
Shout Factory | 1988 | 88 min | Not rated | Feb 19, 2013 | Martin Liebman
Horrifying shocker as a biological experiment goes haywire when meat-eating mutant roaches invade an island community, terrorizing a peaceful New England fishing village and hideously butchering its citizens.
Horror / Sci-Fi / Thriller
The Thieves Blu-ray Movie
도둑들 / Dodookdeul
Well Go USA | 2012 | 135 min | Not rated | Feb 12, 2013 | Jeffrey Kauffman
In order to let things cool down from their latest heist, Popeye and his group of thieves go to Macao on a job. But the mastermind behind this job is none other than Popeye’s old partner Macao Park, who escaped with 68kg of gold several years ago on their last job together. But his plan takes an unexpected turn when Popeye brings Pepsi, an old flame of Park's, to settle the old score. Their target is a $20 million diamond known as ‘Tear of the Sun’, kept safely away in a casino to be sold by a notorious Chinese fence. While working together to steal this fabled diamond, they all have their own agenda to keep the diamond for themselves. But who will succeed and live to see another day?
Action / Crime / Foreign / Heist
A Thousand Cuts Blu-ray Movie
Kino Lorber | 2011 | 77 min | Unrated | Jan 22, 2013 | Casey Broadwater
A stranger with a haunted past shows up unannounced at the home of Hollywood's hottest horror director, and is determined to teach him what real horror is all about.
Thriller
The Blue Angel Blu-ray Movie
Der blaue Engel / Masters of Cinema / Blu-ray + DVD
Eureka Entertainment | 1930 | 1 Movie, 2 Cuts | 107 min | Rated BBFC: PG | Jan 28, 2013 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
Professor Immanuel Rath, the sexually-repressed instructor of a boys' prep school, after learning of the pupils' infatuation with French postcards depicting a local nightclub songstress, decides to personally investigate the source of such indecency. But as soon as he enters the shadowy Blue Angel nightclub and steals one glimpse of the smoldering Lola-Lola, commanding the stage in a top hat, stockings and bare thighs, Rath's self-righteous piety is crushed. He finds himself fatefully seduced by the throaty voice of the vulgar siren, singing "Falling in Love Again." Consumed by desire and tormented by his rigid propriety, Professor Rath allows himself to be dragged down a path of personal degradation.
Drama / Music / Romance / Foreign / Melodrama
- January 27, 2013
All Superheroes Must Die Blu-ray Movie
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Image Entertainment | 2011 | 78 min | Not rated | Jan 29, 2013 | Michael Reuben
Four superheroes awaken in a seemingly abandoned town, stripped of their powers and at the mercy of their sinister arch-nemesis who forces them into a series of brutal challenges — where the stakes include the lives of the innocent, as well as their own.
Action / Drama / Comic book
That Obscure Object of Desire Blu-ray Movie
Cet obscur objet du désir / StudioCanal Collection
Lionsgate Films | 1977 | 104 min | Rated R | Jan 29, 2013 | Jeffrey Kauffman
The story of the romance between Mathieu Faber, a wealthy businessman, and Conchita, his young maid. Consumed by his obsessive desire to possess her, his feelings progressively change from overflowing passion to a self-destructive hatred.
Comedy / Drama / Romance / Dark humor / Erotic / Foreign / Surreal
Abducted Blu-ray Movie
Layover
Asylum | 2012 | 91 min | Rated TV-MA | Jan 08, 2013 | Martin Liebman
A flight to Chicago is forced by a storm to a layover in Detroit, to hotel tycoon Hollingsworth's bitchy wife, heiress and deputy Susanne's fury, which rises to dismissal on the spot when her P.A. Rebecca White fails to book her a fast flight or a decent hotel. Rude as ever, kind only to her equally spoiled dog, complaining to the noisy neighbors this time gets her abducted, first as nasty witness, after identification as valuable prize, by Vlad's bunch of Russian white slavers, who tricked some local girls there, supposedly for an East European contest with a shot at a modeling career. When Rebbecca misses her, the company sends a ranking executive and enlists the FBI, but only the P.A. can make sense of a cryptic clue in her recorded ransom message.
Crime / Mystery / Thriller
Guns: The Evolution of Firearms Blu-ray Movie
Mill Creek Entertainment | 2012 | 280 min | Rated PG | Jan 22, 2013 | Martin Liebman
A seven-part history of the firearm.
- January 26, 2013
The Imposter Blu-ray Movie
Revolver Entertainment | 2012 | 99 min | Rated BBFC: 15 | Jan 07, 2013 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
A gripping thriller straight out of real life, THE IMPOSTER is an original film experience that walks the razor’s edge between true-crime documentary and stylish noir mystery. The twisting, turning tale begins with an unsettling disappearance – that of Nicholas Barclay, a 13 year-old Texas boy who vanishes without a trace. Three and a half years later, staggering news arrives: the boy has been found, thousands of miles from home in Spain, saying he survived a mind-boggling ordeal of kidnap and torture by shadowy captors. His family is ecstatic to have him back no matter how strange the circumstances – but things become far stranger once he returns to Texas....
Biography / Documentary
Alex Cross Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + UV Digital Copy
Summit Entertainment | 2012 | 101 min | Rated PG-13 | Feb 05, 2013 | Jeffrey Kauffman
After Washington DC detective Alex Cross is told that a family member has been murdered, he vows to track down the killer. He soon discovers that she was not his first victim and that things are not what they seem.
Action / Crime / Drama / Mystery / Thriller
- January 25, 2013
Cabaret Blu-ray Movie
Warner Bros. | 1972 | 124 min | Rated PG | Feb 05, 2013 | Michael Reuben
A female entertainer at the Kit Kat Club of Weimar-era Berlin falls in and out of love with a visiting British scholar while the Nazi Party rises to power around them.
Drama / Music / Musical / Romance / Period
Beaches Blu-ray Movie
Disney / Buena Vista | 1988 | 123 min | Rated PG-13 | Nov 06, 2012 | Jeffrey Kauffman
A privileged rich debutante and a cynical struggling entertainer share a turbulent, but strong childhood friendship over the years.
Comedy / Drama / Music / Melodrama
Celeste and Jesse Forever Blu-ray Movie
Sony Pictures | 2012 | 92 min | Rated R | Feb 05, 2013 | Martin Liebman
Celeste and Jesse met in high school, married young, and at 30, decide to get divorced but remain best friends while pursuing other relationships.
Comedy / Drama / Romance
The Crew Blu-ray Movie
Mill Creek Entertainment | 2000 | 88 min | Rated PG-13 | No Release Date | Martin Liebman
Back in the days when mobsters were larger than life, none lived bigger than Bobby, "Bats", "The Brick" and "Mouth". But now well into retirement, the old crew find themselves suddenly facing eviction from their run-down Miami Beach hotel - The Raj Mahal. That's when they decided there's only one thing left to do - turn back the clock and pull one last "hit" in order to save their home.
Comedy / Crime
Mafia! Blu-ray Movie
Mill Creek Entertainment | 1998 | 87 min | Rated PG-13 | No Release Date | Martin Liebman
Takeoff on the Godfather with the son of a mafia king taking over for his dying father
Comedy / Crime
Mafia! / The Crew Blu-ray Movie
Double Feature
Mill Creek Entertainment | 1998-2000 | 2 Movies | 175 min | Rated PG-13 | Nov 06, 2012 | Martin Liebman
No synopsis for this title.
Comedy / Crime
Side by Side Blu-ray Movie
Cinedigm | 2012 | 99 min | Not rated | Feb 05, 2013 | Jeffrey Kauffman
Documentary directed by Chris Kenneally and presented by Keanu Reeves which explores the ongoing debate between traditional celluloid and digital film. In conversation with a number of world renowned directors and industry experts including David Lynch, James Cameron, Martin Scorsese and Anthony Dod Mantle, the documentary tells the story of filmmaking and gives those on both sides of the debate the chance to argue their points and preferences as digital film begins to assert itself as a more cost-effective and accessible means of production.
Documentary