New Blu-ray Reviews
Home- December 12, 2012
eXistenZ Blu-ray Movie
Echo Bridge Entertainment | 1999 | 97 min | Rated R | Dec 04, 2012 | Martin Liebman
A game designer on the run from assassins must play her latest virtual reality creation with a marketing trainee to determine if the game has been damaged.
Horror / Sci-Fi / Thriller / Imaginary / Surreal
Girls: The Complete First Season Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + DVD + UV Digital Copy
HBO | 2012 | 300 min | Rated TV-MA | Dec 11, 2012 | Michael Reuben
Four 20-something women in New York try to figure out what they want - from life, from men, from themselves and each other. The answers aren't always clear or easy, but the search is profoundly relatable and infinitely amusing.
Comedy
Ice Age: Continental Drift 3D Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray 3D + Blu-ray + DVD + UV Digital Copy
20th Century Fox | 2012 | 88 min | Rated PG | Dec 11, 2012 | Casey Broadwater
Manny, Diego, and Sid embark upon another adventure after their continent is set adrift. Using an iceberg as a ship, they encounter sea creatures and battle pirates as they explore a new world.
Adventure / Animation / Comedy / Family
Ice Age: Continental Drift Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + DVD + UV Digital Copy
20th Century Fox | 2012 | 88 min | Rated PG | Dec 11, 2012 | Casey Broadwater
Manny, Diego, and Sid embark upon another adventure after their continent is set adrift. Using an iceberg as a ship, they encounter sea creatures and battle pirates as they explore a new world.
Adventure / Animation / Comedy / Family
The Portrait of a Lady Blu-ray Movie
Special Edition
Shout Factory | 1996 | 145 min | Rated PG-13 | Dec 11, 2012 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
Isabel Archer is a beautiful American girl living abroad in Europe. She inherits a fortune, giving her the rare chance to lead an adventurous and free life, but she then falls into a misguided relationship with and later weds gentleman confidence artist Gilbert Osmond. His true nature, including a barbed and covetous disposition, turns her life into a nightmare. She is then forced to weigh her personal desire to escape him against established propriety and constrictive gender roles.
Drama / Romance / Period
Death Valley Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + DVD
Shout Factory | 1982 | 88 min | Rated R | Dec 11, 2012 | Martin Liebman
A divorced mother, her young son and her new boyfriend set out on a road trip through Death Valley and run afoul of a local serial killer.
Crime / Horror / Thriller
- December 11, 2012
Les Misérables Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + UV Digital Copy
Sony Pictures | 1998 | 134 min | Rated PG-13 | Dec 11, 2012 | Martin Liebman
Jean Valjean, a Frenchman imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a police officer named Javert. The pursuit consumes both men's lives, and soon Valjean finds himself in the midst of the student revolutions in France. Based on the acclaimed epic novel by Victor Hugo.
Drama / History / Romance / Melodrama / Period
Bleach the Movie 4: Hell Verse Blu-ray Movie
Viz Media | 2010 | 94 min | Rated TV-14 | Dec 04, 2012 | Jeffrey Kauffman
Hell – A place where beings that have committed mortal sins during their lifetime are sent. It is a realm where even Soul Reapers are forbidden to interfere. When a group of vicious Sinners plot to escape from this eternal prison, they discover that Substitute Soul Reaper Ichigo Kurosaki is the key to their freedom. The Sinners launch an attack and in the process kidnap Ichigo's younger sister Yuzu and take her to Hell. With the help of a mysterious man named Kokuto, Ichigo and his friends must now travel into the depths of Hell to stop the Sinners and save Yuzu, unaware that their actions could bring Hell to the World of the Living.
Action / Adventure / Anime / Supernatural / Foreign
- December 10, 2012
The Island Blu-ray Movie
A Ilha / L'île sanglante / Blu-ray + DVD
Shout Factory | 1980 | 109 min | Rated R | Dec 11, 2012 | Martin Liebman
David Warner leads a band of modern-day pirates who raid yachts and sail boats of people on vacation out in the Caribbean. Michael Caine is a reporter who goes out there with his son to investigate the mystery of the disappearing boats. He runs across the band of raiders and they decide to induct them into their tribe.
Adventure / Horror / Mystery / Thriller
Collision Earth Blu-ray Movie
Der Jüngste Tag
Starz / Anchor Bay | 2011 | 90 min | Not rated | Dec 11, 2012 | Martin Liebman
When the sun converts to a magnetar for a short time, the planet Mercury is thrown out of orbit (along with a spaceship exploring it) and set on a collision course for Earth. Can a disgraced scientist manage to use his failed weapon system, Project 7, to save our planet?
Action / Adventure / Drama / Foreign
Liberal Arts Blu-ray Movie
MPI Media Group | 2012 | 97 min | Rated PG-13 | Dec 18, 2012 | Casey Broadwater
When 30-something Jesse is invited back to his alma mater, he falls for a 19-year-old college student and is faced with the powerful attraction that springs up between them.
Comedy / Drama / Romance
Why Stop Now? Blu-ray Movie
MPI Media Group | 2012 | 87 min | Rated R | Dec 11, 2012 | Casey Broadwater
When a college piano prodigy tries to check his mother into rehab, he is taken hostage by her drug dealer and swept along on a wild adventure.
Comedy / Drama
Lost Horizon Blu-ray Movie
Limited Edition to 3000 - SOLD OUT
Twilight Time | 1973 | 150 min | Rated G | Dec 11, 2012 | Jeffrey Kauffman
This retelling of the classic tale of James Hilton's Utopian lost world plays out amid musical production numbers and pop music. While escaping war-torn China, a group of Europeans crash in the Himalayas, where they are rescued and taken to the mysterious Valley of the Blue Moon, Shangri-La. Hidden from the rest of the world, Shangri-La is a haven of peace and tranquility for world-weary diplomat Richard Conway. His ambitious brother, George, sees it as a prison from which he must escape, even if it means risking his life and bringing destruction to Shangri-La's ancient culture.
Adventure / Fantasy / Musical
Dick Tracy Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + Digital Copy
Disney / Buena Vista | 1990 | 105 min | Rated PG | Dec 11, 2012 | Michael Reuben
Dick Tracy attempts to stop the crime spree of Big Boy Caprice. Based on the famed detective hero of the comics.
Action / Comedy / Crime / Film-Noir / Romance / Thriller / Comic book / Period
Ashanti Blu-ray Movie
Severin Films | 1979 | 118 min | Rated PG | Dec 11, 2012 | Jeffrey Kauffman
Dr. Anansa Linderby is kidnapped in a medical mission in Africa by a slave trader. From this moment, her husband will do anything to recover her and to punish the bad guys, but that will be not an easy task...
Action / Adventure / Drama / Thriller
The Qatsi Trilogy Blu-ray Movie
Criterion | 1982-2002 | 3 Movies, 4 Cuts | 276 min | Not rated | Dec 11, 2012 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
See individual titles for their synopses.
Documentary / Music
Luck: The Complete First Season Blu-ray Movie
HBO | 2011-2012 | 540 min | Rated TV-MA | Nov 27, 2012 | Kenneth Brown
A TV series centered around characters who are tied to the same horse-racing track.
Drama / Sport
- December 09, 2012
Two-Lane Blacktop Blu-ray Movie
Criterion | 1971 | 103 min | Not rated | Jan 08, 2013 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
A mechanic and a driver live only to race and maintain their 1955 Chevy. Heading east from California with no particular agenda, they give a girl a ride, and en route she incites jealousy between the men by sleeping with them both. Meanwhile, the trio encounters an overbearing GTO driver who agrees to race them to New York, each side putting at stake their most prized possession: their car.
Drama
The Apparition Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + DVD + UV Digital Copy
Warner Bros. | 2012 | 82 min | Rated PG-13 | Nov 27, 2012 | Brian Orndorf
Theorizing that the paranormal exists as a result of human belief, a group of students attempts to create a supernatural entity. The experiment goes horribly wrong. Years later, young couple Kelly and Ben begin to experience a terrifying, unexplained presence in their new home. In desperation, they enlist the help of a paranormal specialist only to find the house may not be the problem.
Horror / Thriller / Supernatural
Tales from the Crypt Presents: Ritual Blu-ray Movie
Echo Bridge Entertainment | 2002 | 106 min | Rated R | Dec 04, 2012 | Martin Liebman
Third film installment of the popular HBO series "Tales From the Crypt". A remake of the 1943 film "I Walked with a Zombie".
Horror