New Blu-ray Reviews

The Best of The Little Rascals in 3D Blu-ray Movie  

Our Gang / Blu-ray 3D + Blu-ray

Legend | 1931-1938 | 84 min | Not rated | Oct 30, 2012 | Jeffrey Kauffman

Spanky, Buckwheat, Porky and all of the Little Rascals at their hilarious best! The Gang has never looked this good - restored, in color and now available in this stunning stereoscopic 3D transfer!

Comedy

ParaNorman Blu-ray Movie  

Blu-ray + DVD + UV Digital Copy

Universal Studios | 2012 | 93 min | Rated PG | Nov 27, 2012 | Kenneth Brown

A misunderstood boy who can speak with the dead, takes on ghosts, zombies and grown-ups to save his town from a centuries-old curse.

Adventure / Animation / Comedy / Family / Horror / Supernatural

ParaNorman 3D Blu-ray Movie  

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

Universal Studios | 2012 | 93 min | Rated PG | Nov 27, 2012 | Kenneth Brown

A misunderstood boy who can speak with the dead, takes on ghosts, zombies and grown-ups to save his town from a centuries-old curse.

Adventure / Animation / Comedy / Family / Horror / Supernatural

2012 World Series Champions: San Francisco Giants Blu-ray Movie  

A&E Home Video | 2012 | 90 min | Not rated | Nov 20, 2012 | Jeffrey Kauffman

Don't miss the greatest moments of the 2012 World Series with the OFFICIAL 2012 WS FILM, available as a Blu-ray single including the winning team's Season in review. Catch the highlights of all of the games, interviews, and classic moments from baseball's biggest stage.

Documentary / Sport

Titanic: Blood & Steel Blu-ray Movie  

Lionsgate Films | 2012 | 634 min | Not rated | Dec 04, 2012 | Jeffrey Kauffman

Titanic: Blood & Steel is the untold story of the building of a legend, and the many lives it affected during its 3-year construction. To its wealthy investors, it was a dream. To the middle class who oversaw the project, it was a challenge. But to the working class who built it, Titanic was the start of a revolution. With Ireland under British rule, and the Protestant and Catholic struggle intensifying, Titanic was more than a ship - it was a symbol of ambition, hope and unity.

Adventure / History

Drácula Blu-ray Movie  

Universal Studios | 1931 | 103 min | Rated G | No Release Date | Kenneth Brown

Spanish language version of the legendary vampire staking his claim on a British estate in search of new blood filmed in the same sets at night as Bela Lugosi's Dracula; with a different cast and crew.

Drama / Fantasy / Horror / Supernatural / Foreign / Period

Ted Blu-ray Movie  

Unrated / Blu-ray + DVD + UV Digital Copy

Universal Studios | 2012 | 1 Movie, 2 Cuts | 114 min | Rated R | Dec 11, 2012 | Kenneth Brown

John makes a Christmas miracle happen by bringing his one and only friend to life, his teddy bear. The two grow up together and John must then choose to stay with his girlfriend or keep his friendship with his crude and extremely inappropriate teddy bear, Ted.

Comedy / Imaginary

Brazil Blu-ray Movie  

Director's Cut and "Love Conquers All" versions

Criterion | 1985 | 1 Movie, 2 Cuts | 143 min | Rated R | Dec 04, 2012 | Dr. Svet Atanasov

Low-level bureaucrat Sam Lowry escapes the monotony of his day-to-day life through a recurring daydream of himself as a virtuous hero saving a beautiful damsel. Investigating a case that led to the wrongful arrest and eventual death of an innocent man instead of wanted terrorist Harry Tuttle, he meets the woman from his daydream and, in trying to help her, gets caught in a web of mistaken identities, mindless bureaucracy, and lies.

Drama / Fantasy / Sci-Fi / Dark humor / Surreal

Dave Blu-ray Movie  

Warner Bros. | 1993 | 110 min | Rated PG-13 | Sep 25, 2012 | Michael Reuben

An affable temp agency owner with an uncanny resemblance to the President is asked to impersonate the Chief Executive after the real President suffers a near-fatal stroke.

Comedy / Romance

Wagner: Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg Blu-ray Movie  

Glyndebourne Festival Opera / London Philharmonic Orchestra

Opus Arte | 2011 | 281 min | Not rated | Oct 30, 2012 | Jeffrey Kauffman

Audiences have always found Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg to be a life-enhancing celebration of wisdom, art and song. So it proves in David McVicar’s production – the first at Glyndebourne – which is updated to the early 19th century of Wagner’s childhood. At the centre of a true ensemble cast is Gerald Finley, a ‘gleamingly sung’, ‘eminently believable’ Sachs (The Independent on Sunday), supported by the dynamic conducting of Vladimir Jurowski which, like McVicar’s production, uses Glyndebourne’s specialintimacy to bring sharp focus to bear on the subtlety of Wagner’s musical and dramatic counterpoint. Filmed in High Definition and recorded in true Surround Sound.

Music

Serial Experiments Lain: The Complete Collection Blu-ray Movie  

Limited Edition / Blu-ray + DVD

FUNimation Entertainment | 1998 | 325 min | Rated TV-14 | Nov 27, 2012 | Jeffrey Kauffman

Acclaimed artist Yoshitoshi ABe (Haibane Renmei, Texhnolyze) brings to life the existential classic that paved the way for blockbuster films such as The Matrix. Follow along as fourteen year old Lain—driven by the abrupt suicide of a classmate—logs on to the Wired and promptly looses herself in a twisted mass of hallucinations, memories, and interconnected-psyches.

Anime / Drama / Mystery / Sci-Fi / Psychological thriller / Foreign / Surreal

Deathtrap Blu-ray Movie  

Warner Archive Collection

Warner Bros. | 1982 | 116 min | Rated PG | Nov 20, 2012 | Michael Reuben

If you were a famed mystery playwright with a devastating string of recent flops, what would you do for a can't-miss thriller script? Beg for it? Pay for it? Or would you kill for it? You would if you were Sidney Bruhl, the leading character in Ira Levin's dazzlingly funny, deliciously scary Broadway-smash-turned-movie-hit DEATHTRAP. Michael Caine stars as Bruhl and Christopher Reeve plays Bruhl's one-time student who's written a play so flawless "even a gifted director couldn't ruin it"... and who requests Bruhl's production help. And Dyan Cannon is Bruhl's loving wife, who doesn't want the student helped to an early grave. Sidney Lumet directs DEATHTRAP's hairpin twists with such drop-dead wit and delightful dread that you'll stop laughing only long enough to gasp in surprise.

Comedy / Crime / Mystery / Thriller

Baron Blood Blu-ray Movie  

Gli orrori del castello di Norimberga

Kino Lorber | 1972 | 98 min | Not rated | Dec 11, 2012 | Casey Broadwater

A young man, visiting the castle of a murderous ancestor accidentally brings his dead relative back to life!

Horror

Black Lagoon: Complete Collection Season 1 and 2 Blu-ray Movie  

Blu-ray + DVD

FUNimation Entertainment | 2006 | 2 Seasons | 625 min | Rated TV-MA | Dec 04, 2012 | Jeffrey Kauffman

Rokuro's mundane trip to South East Asia turns from pleasure cruise to festival of pain when modern-day pirates take him hostage. Revy, Dutch, and Benny are the ruthless crew of the Black Lagoon. For them, getting shot at while smuggling drugs, guns, and stolen goods is part of a typical day at work - and Rokuro is joining the team.

Action / Adventure / Anime / Comedy / Crime / Mystery / Comic book / Foreign

The Tango Lesson Blu-ray Movie    

Artificial Eye | 1997 | 102 min | Rated BBFC: PG | Sep 10, 2012 | Dr. Svet Atanasov

Uninspired by her latest screenplay, a murder mystery set in the world of high fashion, female director Sally places herself under the tutelage of Pablo, an Argentinean tango dancer living in Paris. As her lessons proceed, Sally and Pablo forge a deep and sensual bond, one which is complicated after they strike a bargain: if he will train her to be an expert tango dancer, she will feature him in her next film.

Drama / Romance

Yanni: Live at El Morro, Puerto Rico Blu-ray Movie  

Sony Music | 2011 | 61 min | Not rated | Nov 27, 2012 | Jeffrey Kauffman

No synopsis for this title.

Music

Grave of the Fireflies Blu-ray Movie  

火垂るの墓 | Hotaru no Haka | Remastered Edition

Sentai Filmworks | 1988 | 90 min | Rated TV-PG | Nov 20, 2012 | Jeffrey Kauffman

On the final days of World War II, 14-year-old Seita and his four-year-old sister Setsuko are orphaned after their mother is killed during an air-raid by American forces in Kobe, Japan. After having a falling-out with their aunt, they move into an abandoned bomb shelter. With no surviving relatives and their emergency funds and rations depleted, Seita and Setsuko must struggle to survive their hardships as well as those of their country, which is on the losing end of the war.

Adventure / Anime / Drama / History / War / Foreign

The Bonfire of the Vanities Blu-ray Movie  

Warner Bros. | 1990 | 125 min | Rated R | Nov 06, 2012 | Michael Reuben

The story of New York City bond salesman Sherman McCoy, who is charged with the hit-and-run of a young black man during an unexpected foray into the South Bronx while driving his mistress home from the airport.

Comedy / Drama

The Postman Always Rings Twice Blu-ray Movie  

Warner Bros. | 1946 | 113 min | Not rated | Nov 13, 2012 | Michael Reuben

A married woman and a drifter fall in love, then plot to murder her husband... but they must live with the consequences of their actions.

Crime / Drama / Film-Noir / Romance

Star Trek: The Next Generation, Season 2 Blu-ray Movie  

Paramount Pictures | 1988-1989 | 999 min | Rated TV-PG | Dec 04, 2012 | Martin Liebman

Space... The final frontier... These are the voyages of the Starship Enterprise. Its continuing mission: To explore strange new worlds... To seek out new life and new civilisations... To boldly go where no one has gone before!

Action / Adventure / Sci-Fi