New Blu-ray Reviews
Home- November 28, 2012
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
- November 27, 2012
The Passion of Joan of Arc Blu-ray Movie
La Passion de Jeanne d'Arc | Masters of Cinema | Limited Edition / Blu-ray + DVD
Eureka Entertainment | 1928 | 1 Movie, 3 Cuts | 97 min | Rated BBFC: PG | Nov 26, 2012 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
On trial for claiming she'd spoken to God, Jeanne d'Arc is subjected to inhumane treatment and scare tactics at the hands of church court officials. Initially bullied into changing her story, Jeanne eventually opts for what she sees as the truth. Her punishment, a famously brutal execution, earns her perpetual martyrdom.
Biography / Drama / History / Foreign / Period
Wu Dang Blu-ray Movie
Well Go USA | 2012 | 101 min | Not rated | Dec 04, 2012 | Jeffrey Kauffman
In early Republican China, rumors were going around about the treasure in Wudang Mountain. An American conspirator took his well-trained kung fu daughter to Wudang by sponsoring a Taoist martial arts competition, to steal the treasure.
Action / Foreign
The Blue Angel Blu-ray Movie
Der blaue Engel
Kino Lorber | 1930 | 107 min | Not rated | Dec 04, 2012 | Casey Broadwater
Professor Immanuel Rath, the sexually-repressed instructor of a boys' prep school, after learning of the pupils' infatuation with French postcards depicting a local nightclub songstress, decides to personally investigate the source of such indecency. But as soon as he enters the shadowy Blue Angel nightclub and steals one glimpse of the smoldering Lola-Lola, commanding the stage in a top hat, stockings and bare thighs, Rath's self-righteous piety is crushed. He finds himself fatefully seduced by the throaty voice of the vulgar siren, singing "Falling in Love Again." Consumed by desire and tormented by his rigid propriety, Professor Rath allows himself to be dragged down a path of personal degradation.
Drama / Music / Romance / Foreign / Melodrama
Kill 'Em All Blu-ray Movie
Well Go USA | 2012 | 91 min | Not rated | Dec 11, 2012 | Jeffrey Kauffman
Welcome to the Killing Chamber - a high-tech bunker where captured international assassins are ready to do what they do best, just to survive. If they're going to break out of this concrete hell, they must duel each other, fight deadly ninjas, and battle against gangs of masked maniacs.
Action / Martial arts
Comic Book Confidential Blu-ray Movie
Strand Releasing | 1988 | 90 min | Unrated | Dec 04, 2012 | Brian Orndorf
Award winning director Ron Mann's (Grass, Twist) loving, comic-book-style homage provides the inside scoop on one of the most colorful and popular of all American art forms. From the fantastic adventures of superheroes Spiderman, Captain America, and Batman to the realism of American Splendor, from the terror of Tales from the Crypt to the sophisticated commentary of Maus and the pure insanity of MAD, Comic Book Confidential treats comics with the esteem they deserve.
Documentary / History / Comic book
- November 26, 2012
Golden Winter Blu-ray Movie
Asylum | 2012 | 89 min | Not rated | Sep 25, 2012 | Martin Liebman
A boy befriends a litter of homeless Golden Retrievers. Together, they help stop a bank robbery just in time for Christmas.
Family / Holiday
Intrigue in the Bakumatsu: Irohanihoheto Collection 2 Blu-ray Movie
Sentai Filmworks | 2007 | 325 min | Rated TV-14 | Nov 27, 2012 | Jeffrey Kauffman
The Shogunate is in its final years, and war is fast approaching. When Akizuki Yojiro, a dark and mysterious mercenary, nears something supernatural with some kind of importance to him, the ornament on the end of his sword hilt waves in its direction, his eyes glow mysteriously, and he is driven to go after it. He comes across a traveling theater group who is out for revenge for the killing of the parents of the group's leader, and whose mysterious playwright likes to secretly help along events of history. Yojiro joins them to lend them his skill against their enemies, while dark conspiracy continues to follow behind him.
Action / Adventure / Anime / Mystery / Supernatural / Foreign
The Day Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + DVD
Starz / Anchor Bay | 2011 | 84 min | Rated R | Nov 27, 2012 | Martin Liebman
A group of five people working to stay alive in a post-apocalyptic future discover what they think is a safe, abandoned farmhouse, but they soon find themselves fighting to stay alive as a gang of bloodthirsty predators attack.
Action / Drama / Horror
Lawless Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + DVD + Digital Copy
Starz / Anchor Bay | 2012 | 116 min | Rated R | Nov 27, 2012 | Martin Liebman
In Depression-era Franklin County, Virginia, a trio of bootlegging brothers are threatened by authorities angling for a cut of their profits, including a sadistic and vain special deputy from Chicago.
Crime / Drama / Period
Tutto Verdi: The Complete Operas Highlights Blu-ray Movie
C MAJOR | 2012 | 98 min | Not rated | Oct 30, 2012 | Jeffrey Kauffman
No synopsis for this title.
Music
Step Up Revolution 3D Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray 3D + Blu-ray + UV Digital Copy
Lionsgate Films | 2012 | 99 min | Rated PG-13 | Nov 27, 2012 | Jeffrey Kauffman
Emily arrives in Miami with aspirations to become a professional dancer. She sparks with Sean, the leader of a dance crew whose neighborhood is threatened by Emily's father's development plans.
Drama / Music / Romance / Teen
Zombie Flesh Eaters Blu-ray Movie
Zombi 2 | Limited Edition
Arrow | 1979 | 91 min | Rated BBFC: 18 | Dec 03, 2012 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
Strangers looking for a woman's father arrive at a tropical island where a doctor desperately searches for the cause and cure of a recent epidemic of the undead.
Horror / Foreign
- November 25, 2012
Paul McCartney: Live Kisses Blu-ray Movie
Eagle Rock Entertainment | 2012 | 75 min | Not rated | Nov 13, 2012 | Jeffrey Kauffman
Live Kisses captures Paul McCartney performing the songs from his acclaimed Kisses On The Bottom album live from the legendary Capitol Studios in Hollywood. Paul is joined by a virtuoso group of musicians led by Diana Krall on the piano in these sparkling renditions of classic songs from the American songbook and the wonderful new song My Valentine. In between the songs there are interview clips with Paul, Diana Krall and many of those involved in the recording of the Kisses On The Bottom album.
Documentary / Music
- November 24, 2012
Monteverdi: L'Incoronazione Di Poppea Blu-ray Movie
The Coronation of Poppea
Opus Arte | 2012 | 183 min | Not rated | May 29, 2012 | Jeffrey Kauffman
ORCHESTRA: Baroque Orchestra of the Gran Teatre del Liceu CONDUCTOR: Harry Bicket ARTISTS: Miah Persson, Sarah Connolly, Jordi Domenech, Franz Josef Selig
Music
Ninja Scroll Blu-ray Movie
獣兵衛忍風帖 / Jūbei Ninpūchō
Sentai Filmworks | 1993 | 91 min | Rated TV-MA | Dec 04, 2012 | Jeffrey Kauffman
A ninja-for-hire is forced into fighting an old nemesis who is bent on overthrowing the Japanese government. His nemesis is also the leader of a group of demons each with superhuman powers.
Action / Adventure / Anime / Fantasy / Martial arts / Foreign
Double Impact Blu-ray Movie
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer | 1991 | 110 min | Rated R | Oct 02, 2012 | Brian Orndorf
Alex and Chad, twins separated at the death of their parents. Chad is raised by a family retainer in Paris, Alex becomes a petty crook in Hong Kong. Seeing a picture of Alex, Chad rejoins him and convinces him that his rival in Hong Kong is also the man who killed their parents. Alex is suspicious of Chad, especially when it comes to his girlfriend.
Action / Crime / Drama / Thriller / Martial arts
Blow Out Blu-ray Movie
Carlotta Films | 1981 | 108 min | Rated U Tous publics | Nov 21, 2012 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
Former police technician Jack Terry makes his living doing sound for slasher flicks. While recording new outdoor effects one night, Jack witnesses a couple's car careen off a bridge into a river, but he can save only the female occupant, Sally. Jack begins to suspect something when he learns that her dead companion was a presidential hopeful. Re-playing his tape over and over, Jack thinks that he hears a gun shot before the crash-causing tire blowout. When sleazy photographer Manny Karp comes forward with photos of the accident, Jack discovers the real reason that the naïve Sally was in the car—and also a way to prove his auditory suspicions through motion pictures. Even with all his surveillance talent, however, Jack cannot see (or hear) how dangerous the big picture really is until it's too late.
Drama / Film-Noir / Mystery / Thriller
- November 23, 2012
Coldplay Live 2012 Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + CD
Capitol Records | 2012 | 97 min | Not rated | Nov 19, 2012 | Jeffrey Kauffman
A visually exciting original concert special that captures the band in the midst of its biggest world tour yet, in support of the hit albumMylo Xyloto.
Documentary / Music