New Blu-ray Reviews
Home- January 23, 2013
Forbidden Games Blu-ray Movie
Jeux interdits / The René Clément Collection
Studio Canal | 1952 | 86 min | Rated BBFC: 12 | Jan 07, 2013 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
A timeless evocation of childhood innocence corrupted, René Clément’s Forbidden Games tells the story of a young girl orphaned by war and the farm boy she joins in a fantastical world of macabre play. At once mythical and heartbreakingly real, this unique film features astonishing performances by its child stars and was honored with a special foreign language film Academy Award in 1952.
Drama / War / Foreign / Coming of age
The Awakening Blu-ray Movie
Universal Studios | 2011 | 107 min | Rated R | Jan 29, 2013 | Kenneth Brown
1921 England is overwhelmed by the loss and grief of World War I. Hoax exposer Florence Cathcart visits a boarding school to explain sightings of a child ghost. Everything she knew in unravels as the 'missing' begin to show themselves.
Horror / Thriller / Supernatural / Period
- January 22, 2013
Seven Psychopaths Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + UV Digital Copy
Sony Pictures | 2012 | 110 min | Rated R | Jan 29, 2013 | Martin Liebman
A screenwriter, struggling for inspiration for his script, gets drawn into the dog kidnapping schemes of his oddball friends. Things take a turn for the worse when a gangster's mutt goes missing.
Comedy / Crime / Drama / Dark humor
Tabu Blu-ray Movie
New Wave Films | 2012 | 118 min | Rated BBFC: 15 | Jan 14, 2013 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
A restless retired woman teams up with her deceased neighbor's maid to seek out a man who has a secret connection to her past life as a farm owner at the foothill of Mount Tabu in Africa.
Drama / Foreign
The Sex Thief Blu-ray Movie
Remastered Edition
Kino Lorber | 1974 | 90 min | Rated R | Jan 22, 2013 | Casey Broadwater
Casino Royale director Martin Campbell's first film was a low-budget sex romp called The Sex Thief, intended as an homage to the James Bond series. Irresistible to women, the roguish title character (David Warbeck) channels his inner Connery, muttering witty double entendres, relishing the danger of his secret mission, forever sidetracked by beautiful women.
Comedy / Crime / Erotic
Wild River Blu-ray Movie
Fox Studio Classics
20th Century Fox | 1960 | 110 min | Not rated | Jan 15, 2013 | Casey Broadwater
Social drama set in rural Alabama in the 1930s, directed by Elia Kazan. Montgomery Clift stars as Chuck Glover, an agent sent by the Tennessee Valley Authority to oversee the building of a dam on the Tennessee River. He encounters opposition from the local people, including an elderly woman, Ella Garth (Jo van Fleet) who refuses to budge from her land, and various factions who object to his providing paid employment for local black labourers. Lee Remick co-stars as Ella Garth's granddaughter Carol, who gradually falls in love with the sensitive and liberal-minded Glover.
Drama / Romance / Melodrama / Period
Shakugan no Shana S: OVA Series Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + DVD
FUNimation Entertainment | 2009-2010 | 92 min | Rated TV-14 | Jan 22, 2013 | Jeffrey Kauffman
Yuji Sakai is about to learn that there is more to the world than going to school and finding a girlfriend when he meets a sword-wielding girl with fiery red eyes and flame colored hair. Denizens of the Crimson Realm are invading our world and it's up to the Flame Haze, Shana to slay them. However, when Yuji gets in the way of her sword, he learns that death is much more different than he imagined it would be. 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. 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
Keep the Lights On Blu-ray Movie
Music Box Films | 2012 | 101 min | Not rated | Jan 22, 2013 | Jeffrey Kauffman
New York-set drama detailing the tumultuous gay relationship between documentary filmmaker Erik (Thure Lindhardt) and the self-destructive, closeted Paul (Zachary Booth). After a brief sexual encounter, the relationship between the two men develops into an on-off eight-year affair defined by heady highs, suffocating lows and deeply dysfunctional emotional patterns. In love but out of his depth, Erik struggles to deal with Paul's crack cocaine addiction and negotiate his own boundaries while remaining true to himself.
Drama / Romance
Tales of the Night Blu-ray Movie
Les Contes de la nuit / Blu-ray + DVD
Cinedigm | 2011 | 84 min | Not rated | Jan 29, 2013 | Jeffrey Kauffman
Each night in a seemingly disused cinema a girl, a boy, the old projectionist Téo and their friend, a scops owl, gather together to design and enact fantastic tales inspired by the folklore and art of different lands and times, assisted by Téo's machines which bring their drawings to life.
Animation / Family / Fantasy / Foreign
Jack & Diane Blu-ray Movie
Magnolia Pictures | 2012 | 110 min | Rated R | Jan 08, 2013 | Casey Broadwater
Diane's feelings for Jack -- the girl she met over the summer -- begin to manifest themselves in terrifying ways when she learns that her friend will soon be moving away.
Drama / Horror / Romance
Gentleman's Agreement Blu-ray Movie
Fox Studio Classics
20th Century Fox | 1947 | 118 min | Not rated | Jan 15, 2013 | Casey Broadwater
Gregory Peck plays a journalist who goes undercover as a Jew to expose anti-Semetism in post-war America.
Drama / Romance / Melodrama
The Talented Mr. Ripley Blu-ray Movie
Studio Canal | 1999 | 139 min | Rated BBFC: 15 | Sep 19, 2011 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
Tom Ripley is a calculating young man who believes it's better to be a fake somebody than a real nobody. Opportunity knocks in the form of a wealthy U.S. shipbuilder who hires Tom to travel to Italy to bring back his playboy son, Dickie. Ripley worms his way into the idyllic lives of Dickie and his girlfriend, plunging into a daring scheme of duplicity, lies and murder
Crime / Drama / Thriller / Psychological thriller / Period
- January 21, 2013
Hara-Kiri: Death of a Samurai Blu-ray Movie
一命 / Ichimei
Cinedigm | 2011 | 128 min | Not rated | Jan 22, 2013 | Jeffrey Kauffman
An tale of revenge, honor and disgrace, centering on a poverty-stricken samurai who discovers the fate of his ronin son-in-law, setting in motion a tense showdown of vengeance against the house of a feudal lord.
Drama / Foreign / Period
Hotel Transylvania Blu-ray Movie
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
Hansel & Gretel Blu-ray Movie
Asylum | 2012 | 90 min | Not rated | Jan 08, 2013 | Martin Liebman
Two teen siblings are enslaved by a psychotic recluse within her gruesome house of horror in the woods..
Horror
Sansho the Bailiff Blu-ray Movie
山椒大夫 / Sanshô dayû
Criterion | 1954 | 124 min | Not rated | Feb 26, 2013 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
When an idealistic governor disobeys the reigning feudal lord, he is cast into exile, his wife and children left to fend for themselves and eventually wrenched apart by vicious slave traders.
Drama / Foreign / Period
Pina 3D Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray 3D + Blu-ray
Criterion | 2011 | 104 min | Not rated | Jan 22, 2013 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
A tribute to the late German choreographer, Pina Bausch, as her dancers perform her most famous creations.
Documentary / Musical / Foreign
- January 20, 2013
Hannah and Her Sisters Blu-ray Movie
The Woody Allen Collection
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer | 1986 | 107 min | Rated PG-13 | Jan 15, 2013 | Michael Reuben
Three sisters deal with their tangled relationships amidst the wonders of New York City.
Comedy / Drama / Romance
For a Good Time, Call... Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + DVD + UV Digital Copy
Universal Studios | 2012 | 1 Movie, 2 Cuts | 87 min | Unrated | Jan 22, 2013 | Kenneth Brown
Lauren and Katie move in together after a loss of a relationship and a loss of a rent controlled home, respectively. When Lauren learns what Katie does for a living the two enter into a wildly unconventional business venture.
Comedy / Romance
The Men Who Built America Blu-ray Movie
Lionsgate Films | 2012 | 360 min | Not rated | Jan 22, 2013 | Jeffrey Kauffman
No synopsis for this title.
Biography / Documentary / History