New Blu-ray Reviews

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.

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

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

Loulou Blu-ray Movie    

Gaumont | 1980 | 110 min | Rated U Tous publics | Jan 09, 2013 | Dr. Svet Atanasov

A bored wife leaves her husband for an unemployed, petty criminal.

Drama / Romance / Foreign

Peter Pan Blu-ray Movie  

Diamond Edition | Three Disc / Blu-ray + DVD + Digital Copy

Disney / Buena Vista | 1953 | 77 min | Rated G | Feb 05, 2013 | Kenneth Brown

Wendy and her brothers are whisked away to the magical world of Neverland with the hero of their stories, Peter Pan.

Adventure / Animation / Family / Fantasy / Musical

The Jazz Singer Blu-ray Movie  

Warner Bros. | 1927 | 89 min | Not rated | Jan 08, 2013 | Michael Reuben

For five generations, men in the Rabinowitz family have been Cantors in the synagogue, but Jakie is more interested in jazz and ragtime music. Jakie leaves his New York home for good. After years on his own, now calling himself Jack Robin, he gets an important opportunity -- on Broadway.

Drama / Music / Musical / Romance

Flight Blu-ray Movie  

Blu-ray + DVD + UV Digital Copy

Paramount Pictures | 2012 | 139 min | Rated R | Feb 05, 2013 | Martin Liebman

An airline pilot saves a flight from crashing, but an investigation into the malfunctions reveals something troubling.

Drama / Thriller

The Joy Luck Club Blu-ray Movie  

Disney / Buena Vista | 1993 | 139 min | Rated R | Dec 11, 2012 | Jeffrey Kauffman

The Joy Luck Club tells the uplifting story of four remarkable friends whose extraordinary lives are filled with joy and heartbreak. Their Lifelong friendship reveals a mosaic of the startling events and conditions that have shaped their lives - and how these experiences have affected the hopes and dreams they hold for each of their children.

Drama / Romance

The Paperboy Blu-ray Movie  

Millennium Media | 2012 | 107 min | Rated R | Jan 22, 2013 | Jeffrey Kauffman

A sexy thriller based on the New York Times best seller by Pete Dexter. Lured by imploring letters from the beautiful siren Charlotte (Nicole Kidman), handsome, hard-nosed reporter Ward James (Matthew McConaughey) and his partner, Yardley Acheman (David Oyelowo), return to Ward's hometown of Lately, Florida, to investigate the seemingly unjust imprisonment of Charlotte's lover, alligator hunter Hillary Van Wetter (John Cusack)

Crime / Drama / Thriller / Period

Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, Part 2 Blu-ray Movie  

DC Universe Animated Original Movie #16 / Blu-ray + DVD + UV Digital Copy

Warner Bros. | 2013 | 76 min | Rated PG-13 | Jan 29, 2013 | Kenneth Brown

Batman along with new sidekick Robin have finally reclaimed Gotham City and allowed a ray of hope to penetrate the reign of terror that The Mutants had cast upon his city. With Batman back in the spotlight the extended media coverage has awoken a far worse evil at Arkham Asylum The Joker! Forever destined to be mortal enemies The Joker has a diabolical scheme that may pull Batman down to the darkest levels of insanity. While on the horizon a global catastrophe races towards Gotham and with it comes a familiar face The Man of Steel though this time he has Batman in his sights. Witness as the aging Dark Knight wages a tireless war against crime while proving that courage and will are indeed timeless.

Action / Adventure / Animation / Crime / Film-Noir / Sci-Fi / Comic book

Downton Abbey: Season 3 Blu-ray Movie  

Masterpiece Classic: Downton Abbey | Original UK Edition

PBS | 2012 | 542 min | Not rated | Jan 29, 2013 | Brian Orndorf

From the sinking of the Titanic to the end of the First World War, the secure and ordered world of the beloved estate is rocked as the lives of the inhabitants of Downton Abbey are shaped by intrigue, crisis and romance. Season one sets a lavish stage of beautiful scenery and architecture, and a class structure rigid yet just beginning to give way at the beginning of the 20th century, and of the Great War. Season two picks up two years later, in 1916, as the war rages on over Europe, and grand Downton Abbey has been converted into a convalescent hospital for wounded veterans of the brutal combat. In season 3 the Great War is over and a long-awaited engagement is on, but all is not tranquil at Downton Abbey as wrenching social changes, romantic intrigues, and personal crises grip the majestic English country estate.

Drama / Romance / War / Period

Hotel Transylvania 3D Blu-ray Movie  

Blu-ray 3D + Blu-ray + DVD + UV Digital Copy

Sony Pictures | 2012 | 92 min | Rated PG | Jan 29, 2013 | Martin Liebman

Welcome to Hotel Transylvania, Dracula's lavish five-stake resort, where monsters and their families can live it up, free to be the monsters they are without humans to bother them. On one special weekend, Dracula has invited some of the world's most famous monsters - Frankenstein and his wife, the Mummy, the Invisible Man, a family of werewolves, and more - to celebrate his daughter Mavis' 118th birthday. For Dracula, catering to all of these legendary monsters is no problem - but his world could come crashing down when a human stumbles on the hotel for the first time and takes a shine to Mavis.

Animation / Comedy / Family

Dangerous Liaisons Blu-ray Movie  

危險關係

Well Go USA | 2012 | 110 min | Not rated | Feb 12, 2013 | Jeffrey Kauffman

Wealthy playboy Xie Yifan has never met a woman he can't have, but the one he desires the most is businesswoman Mo Jieyu, who plays the cynical game of love and lies just as well. The two decide to make a bet on the chastity of Yifan's second cousin, virtuous widow Du Fenyu. If Yifan succeeds in bedding Fenyu, he gets Jieyu. And thus begins the dangerous push and pull of love and seduction.

Drama / Mystery / Romance / Foreign / Period