New Blu-ray Reviews
Home- December 24, 2012
Killer Joe Blu-ray Movie
Unrated Director's Cut
Lionsgate Films | 2011 | 103 min | Unrated | Dec 21, 2012 | Jeffrey Kauffman
When a debt puts a young man's life in danger, he turns to putting a hit out on his evil mother in order to collect the insurance.
Crime / Thriller / Dark humor
- December 23, 2012
Looper Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + UV Digital Copy
Sony Pictures | 2012 | 119 min | Rated R | Dec 31, 2012 | Martin Liebman
In 2042, a mob hitman assassinates targets that arrive from the future of 2072. For him, it's just a job... until he receives a new target: himself from the future.
Action / Crime / Sci-Fi / Thriller
WWE: Best Pay-Per-View Matches 2009-2010 Blu-ray Movie
WWE Studios | 2009-2010 | 540 min | Rated TV-PG | Aug 24, 2010 | Martin Liebman
The pinnacle for every sports entertainer is to appear on pay-per-view, and once there, they desire to steal the show-put on the best match. For the first time ever on home video, the WWE Universe can enjoy the best PPV matches in a one-year span in one home video collection. The stars of Raw, SmackDown, and ECW present the greatest bouts of the year, from longtime PPV standards WrestleMania, SummerSlam, Survivor Series, and Royal Rumble, as well as newly themed events, including Breaking Point, Hell in a Cell, Bragging Rights, TLC, and Elimination Chamber.
Sport
Tosh.0: Deep V's Blu-ray Movie
Paramount / Comedy Central | 2010 | 345 min | Not rated | Dec 21, 2012 | Martin Liebman
Host and comedian Daniel Tosh talks all things Internet in his weekly series, uncovering new technology as well as old."Tosh.O" tells all about blogs, tweets and pokes, giving viewers an inside look at the world wide web. <br> Contains the final 16 episodes of season 2.
Comedy
Werewolf: The Beast Among Us Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + DVD + UV Digital Copy
Universal Studios | 2012 | 1 Movie, 2 Cuts | 93 min | Rated R | Oct 09, 2012 | Kenneth Brown
Set in a 19th-century village, a young man studying under a local doctor joins a team of hunters on the trail of a wolflike creature.
Action / Fantasy / Horror / Thriller
The Man Who Knew Too Much Blu-ray Movie
Criterion | 1934 | 76 min | Not rated | Jan 15, 2013 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
A British family gets mixed up with spies and an assassination plot while vacationing in Switzerland.
Crime / Mystery / Thriller / Psychological thriller
Manufactured Landscapes Blu-ray Movie
Zeitgeist Films | 2006 | 80 min | Not rated | Dec 11, 2012 | Michael Reuben
Documentary about the photography of Edward Burtynsky, who transforms such unlikely sights as slag heaps, e-waste dumps, huge factories and ship recycling plants into aesthetic objects.
Documentary
- December 22, 2012
The Good Doctor Blu-ray Movie
Magnolia Pictures | 2011 | 93 min | Rated PG-13 | Dec 18, 2012 | Casey Broadwater
Dr. Martin Blake, who has spent his life looking for respect, meets an 18-year-old patient named Diane, suffering from a kidney infection, and gets a much-needed boost of self-esteem. However, when her health starts improving, Martin fears losing her, so he begins tampering with her treatment, keeping Diane sick and in the hospital right next to him.
Drama / Thriller
Penguindrum: Collection 1 Blu-ray Movie
Sentai Filmworks | 2011 | 300 min | Rated TV-14 | Dec 31, 2012 | Jeffrey Kauffman
Once you make a decision, does the universe conspire to make it happen? Is destiny a matter of chance, a matter of choice or the complex outcome of thousands of warring strands of fate? All twins Kanba and Shoma know is that when their terminally ill sister Himari collapses at the aquarium, her death is somehow temporarily reversed by the penguin hat that she had asked for. It's a provisional resurrection, however, and it comes at a price: to keep Himari alive they need to find the mysterious Penguin Drum. In order to do that, they must first find the links to a complex interlocking chain of riddles that has wrapped around their entire existence, and unravel the knots that tie them to mystifying diary and a baffling string of strangers and semi-acquaintances who all have their own secrets, agendas and "survival strategies." And in order for Himari to live, someone else's chosen destiny will have to change. It's a story of love, fate, life, death... and Penguins!
Anime / Drama / Mystery / Foreign
- December 21, 2012
Rihanna: Loud Tour Live at the O2 Blu-ray Movie
Def Jam | 2012 | 110 min | Not rated | Dec 18, 2012 | Jeffrey Kauffman
The pop superstar captured live in performance at London's O2 Arena. The tour, in support of Rihanna's fifth studio album 'Loud' (2010), featured an elaborate stage show and saw the singer perform hits including 'Only Girl (in the World)', 'California King Bed', 'Umbrella' and 'We Found Love'.
Music
Metallica: Quebec Magnetic Blu-ray Movie
Blackened Recordings | 2009 | 185 min | Not rated | Dec 11, 2012 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
Quebec Magnetic is a live concert video album by Metallica, documenting two shows the band played at the Colisée Pepsi in Quebec City, Canada on October 31 and November 1, 2009 on their World Magnetic Tour, released on December 11, 2012. The album is the first to be released via Metallica's own label, Blackened Recordings. The album was announced on September 20, 2012, with fans voting online to decide which of the two shows recorded would be shown in its entirety; the remaining songs will be shown as "extras" on the album. On October 22, the album's tracklist, release date and cover art was released. A 33 second teaser trailer for the album was released on November 19. The album sold about 14,000 copies during the first week after its release, charting at number two on the Billboard Top Music Videos chart.
Music
Red Hook Summer Blu-ray Movie
Image Entertainment | 2012 | 121 min | Rated R | Dec 21, 2012 | Michael Reuben
Flik Royale, a sullen boy from middle-class Atlanta, spends the summer with the religious grandfather he's never met before, Bishop Enoch Rouse, in the housing projects of Brooklyn's Red Hook district.
Comedy / Drama / Thriller
- December 20, 2012
Zorro Blu-ray Movie
Somerville House | 1975 | 118 min | Rated G | Nov 20, 2012 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
A newly arrived governor finds his province under the control of the corrupt Colonel Huerta. To avoid assassination by Huerta, he pretends to be weak and indecisive so Huerta will believe he poses no threat. But secretly he masquerades as Zorro, and joins the monk Francisco and the beautiful aristocrat Hortensia in their fight for justice against Huerta and his soldiers.
Action / Adventure / Comedy
Shakugan no Shana: Season 2 Part 2 Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + DVD
FUNimation Entertainment | 2008 | 300 min | Rated TV-14 | Dec 18, 2012 | 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
WWE SmackDown: The Best of 2009-2010 Blu-ray Movie
WWE Studios | 1999 | 540 min | Rated TV-PG | Jan 25, 2011 | Martin Liebman
Superstars of World Wrestling Entertainment do battle in elaborate, long running rivalries in a weekly two-hour showdown.
Sport
- December 19, 2012
The Tin Drum Blu-ray Movie
Die Blechtrommel | Director's Cut
Criterion | 1979 | 163 min | Rated R | Jan 15, 2013 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
A boy is born in Germany with an advanced intellect. Annoyed by the world around him, he refuses to grow older after his third birthday.
Drama / War / Dark humor / Foreign
The Words Blu-ray Movie
Extended Special Edition / Blu-ray + UV Digital Copy
Sony Pictures | 2012 | 1 Movie, 2 Cuts | 103 min | Rated PG-13 | Dec 24, 2012 | Martin Liebman
Bradley Cooper, Dennis Quaid and Zoe Saldana star in this romantic drama following three interconnected storylines told through an author's attempt to overcome his regrets. Popular writer Clayton Hammond (Quaid) gives a reading of his new novel 'The Words', which tells the story of struggling author Rory Jansen (Cooper) and his wife Dora (Saldana). After his first book is rejected, Rory decides to pass off a manuscript by an anonymous writer, inadvertantly given to him by Dora, as his own. The book is a success but Rory later meets the man who wrote it (Jeremy Irons). Rory decides to come clean about the origin of the novel, aware that the consequences could be damaging to both his professional and personal life. After the reading, Clayton is interviewed by student Daniella (Olivia Wilde), who discovers how the author's own mistakes are linked to his novel.
Comedy / Drama / Thriller
The Legend of Heroes Trails in the Sky Blu-ray Movie
Sentai Filmworks | 2011 | 81 min | Rated TV-14 | Dec 18, 2012 | Jeffrey Kauffman
No synopsis for this title.
Action / Adventure / Anime / Fantasy / Foreign
Trailer War Blu-ray Movie
Drafthouse Films | 2012 | 113 min | Not rated | Dec 18, 2012 | Michael Reuben
From the vaults of the Alamo Drafthouse Cinema comes a selection of the wildest, strangest and cheesiest trailers ever seen.
Other / Short
The Well-Digger's Daughter Blu-ray Movie
La Fille du puisatier
Kino Lorber | 2011 | 107 min | Not rated | Dec 24, 2012 | Casey Broadwater
A father in pre-WWII France is torn between his sense of honor and his deep love for his saintly daughter when she gets in trouble with the wealthy son of a shopkeeper.
Romance / Foreign