New Blu-ray Reviews
Home- October 20, 2012
Hellsing Ultimate: Volumes 1-4 Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + DVD
FUNimation Entertainment | 2006-2008 | 195 min | Rated TV-MA | Oct 30, 2012 | Jeffrey Kauffman
The worst enemy of the Night - is one of its own... A secret war brews in the night - a war where humanity is merely a pawn. The Hellsing Organization deploys in the shadows to protect the mortal world. But now, artificially-spawned vampires have appeared, forcing Hellsing to call in their ultimate weapon - the rogue vampire, Arucard! After he transforms the dying Seras Victoria into a vampire, they join forces to combat the undead army, as well as her own newfound hunger!
Action / Anime / Drama / Horror / Supernatural / Comic book / Foreign
Korn: The Path of Totality Tour - Live at the Hollywood Palladium Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + CD
Shout Factory | 2012 | 75 min | Not rated | Sep 04, 2012 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
To celebrate the release of their tenth studio album, The Path of Totality, legendary rockers Korn performed live to a sold-out crowd at the famed Hollywood Palladium.
Music
- October 19, 2012
Magic Mike Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + DVD + UV Digital Copy
Warner Bros. | 2012 | 110 min | Rated R | Oct 23, 2012 | Kenneth Brown
Set in the world of male strippers, Mike takes a young dancer called The Kid under his wing and schools him in the fine arts of partying, picking up women, and making easy money.
Comedy / Drama / Music / Romance / Erotic
The League: The Complete Season Three Blu-ray Movie
20th Century Fox | 2011 | 360 min | Rated TV-MA | Oct 09, 2012 | Casey Broadwater
Unsportsmanlike conduct takes on a whole new meaning in the hilarious, smack-talking fantasy football comedy, The League. Season Three kicks off as Kevin and Jenny have a run-in with a local drug dealer, and Pete regrets learning a new sexual position. Ruxin hires a hot new au pair, but does Taco have his eyes on her end zone? It’s time to trade up to special never-before-seen extended episodes and outrageously unrated bonus features. The race to the playoffs is on…but who wins the Shiva, and who gets the dreaded Sacko?
Comedy
The Doors: Live at the Bowl '68 Blu-ray Movie
Eagle Rock Entertainment | 1968 | 71 min | Not rated | Oct 23, 2012 | Jeffrey Kauffman
In 1968, four friends took to the stage of the most iconic venue in the world for a concert that would live on for decades as their best performance ever captured on film. After more than forty years, The Doors: Live at the Bowl '68 is back with a vengeance.
Documentary / Music
Bande à part Blu-ray Movie
Band of Outsiders
Gaumont | 1964 | 95 min | Not rated | Oct 10, 2012 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
Two crooks with a fondness for old Hollywood B-movies convince a languages student to help them commit a robbery.
Comedy / Crime / Drama / Foreign / Heist
- October 18, 2012
Letter from an Unknown Woman Blu-ray Movie
Olive Films | 1948 | 86 min | Not rated | Oct 16, 2012 | Jeffrey Kauffman
In Vienna, about 1900, a dashing man arrives at his flat, instructing his manservant that he will leave before morning: the man is Stefan Brand, formerly a concert pianist, planning to leave Vienna to avoid a duel. His servant gives him a letter from an unknown woman, which he reads. In flashbacks we see the lifelong passion of Lisa Berndle for him: first as a girl who was his neighbor; next as a young woman who, in secret, has his child; then as a mature woman who meets him again and abandons husband and son to be with him. Each time he does not remember who she is or that they have ever met. By morning, he has finished the letter, and her husband awaits satisfaction.
Drama / Romance / Period
Lost Girl: Season 1 Blu-ray Movie
Giant Ape Media | 2010 | 572 min | Rated TV-14 | Oct 23, 2012 | Jeffrey Kauffman
No synopsis for this title.
Crime / Fantasy / Horror
Exorcism Blu-ray Movie
L'éventreur de Notre-Dame
Redemption | 1974 | 1 Movie, 2 Cuts | 97 min | Not rated | Oct 16, 2012 | Casey Broadwater
Exorcism stars Jess Franco's wife and muse, the incomparable Lina Romay, as a performance artist who stages faux satanic rituals for the gratification of the Parisian elite. When a defrocked priest with a penchant for S&M (Franco) witness one of these erotic spectacles—and mistakes it for an actual black mass—the moral crusader launches a one-man inquisition upon the sexually liberated women of Paris.
Horror / Erotic
Female Vampire Blu-ray Movie
La comtesse noire
Redemption | 1973 | 1 Movie, 2 Cuts | 100 min | Not rated | Oct 16, 2012 | Casey Broadwater
Countess Irina of Karlstein resides quietly in a hotel on the island of Madeira, where she sustains her immortality by feeding on the life essence of men and women. When new victims are found fatally drained of potency, forensic scientist Dr. Roberts consults his colleague, Dr. Orloff, who confirms that a vampire is responsible. Meanwhile, Irina is confronted by a poet who believes he is destined to become her lover and join her among the immortals! Jess Franco's influential erotic horror film is presented here in its full-strength version, and for the first time in a widescreen format.
Horror / Erotic
Excision Blu-ray Movie
Starz / Anchor Bay | 2012 | 81 min | Unrated | Oct 16, 2012 | Martin Liebman
A surgery-obsessed teen struggles with her outcast status while plotting to lose her virginity and save her sister from the ravaging effects of cystic fibrosis in this genre-bending shocker from writer/director Richard Bates, Jr. Pauline (Annalynne McCord) is a pretty young girl whose penchant for picking scabs has escalated into a fanatical obsession with the flesh. Recognizing this, Pauline's stern mother insists that the young girl visit the church therapist for counseling. Incensed at the prospect of being judged by a religious hypocrite, Pauline only delves deeper into her visceral fantasies while concocting an ingenious plan to impress her mother. Meanwhile, as Pauline begins devising ways to combat her younger sister's cystic fibrosis, her adolescent hormones kick into overdrive.
Horror / Dark humor
Gone in 60 Seconds Blu-ray Movie
1974 / Blu-ray + DVD
Anderson Merchandise | 1974 | 98 min | Rated PG | Oct 16, 2012 | Michael Reuben
Insurance investigator Maindrian Pace and his team lead double lives as unstoppable car thieves. When a shady Argentine buyer puts down $200,000 on a 48-car order, Pace and his crew race to deliver. As Pace himself prepares to steal the final car, a 1973 Ford Mustang codenamed "Eleanor", he is unaware that his business partner has tipped off the police after a dispute.
Action / Crime / Drama
WWE CM Punk: Best in the World Blu-ray Movie
WWE Studios | 2012 | 109 min | Rated TV-14 | Oct 09, 2012 | Martin Liebman
The life of WWE Superstar CM Punk.
Sport
Dreamworks Spooky Stories Blu-ray Movie
Scared Shrekless | Shrek's Thrilling Tales: The Pig Who Cried Wolf / The Ghost of Lord Farquaad / Monsters vs Aliens: Night of the Living Carrots | Monsters vs Aliens: Mutant Pumpkins from Outer Space / Blu-ray + DVD
DreamWorks | 2003-2011 | 91 min | Not rated | Aug 28, 2012 | Martin Liebman
A compilation of Halloween-themed shorts: Scared Shrekless Shrek's Thrilling Tales: - Shrek: The Pig Who Cried Wolf - Shrek: The Ghost of Lord Farquaad - Monsters vs Aliens: Night of the Living Carrots Monsters vs Aliens: Mutant Pumpkins from Outer Space
Animation / Comedy / Family / Fantasy / Short / Holiday
Red Dawn Blu-ray Movie
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer | 1984 | 114 min | Rated PG-13 | Oct 09, 2012 | Martin Liebman
In the heartland of the United States of America, a group of teenagers band together to defend their town, and their country, from invading Soviet and Cuban forces.
Action / Adventure / Drama / Thriller / War / Teen
- October 17, 2012
People Like Us Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + DVD
Disney / Buena Vista | 2012 | 114 min | Rated PG-13 | Oct 02, 2012 | Brian Orndorf
A man is tasked with delivering $150,000 of his deceased father's fortune to the sister he has never met.
Comedy / Drama / Coming of age
Despair Blu-ray Movie
Despair - Eine Reise ins Licht
Carlotta Films | 1978 | 117 min | Not rated | Sep 19, 2012 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
Germany in the early 1930s. Against the backdrop of the Nazis' rise, Hermann Hermann, a Russian émigré and chocolate magnate, goes slowly mad. It begins with his seating himself in a chair to observe himself making love to his wife, Lydia, a zaftig empty-headed siren who is also sleeping with her cousin. Hermann is soon given to intemperate outbursts at his workers, other businessmen, and strangers. Then, he meets Felix, an itinerant laborer, whom he delusionally believes looks exactly like himself. Armed with a new life insurance policy, he hatches an elaborate plot in the belief it will free him of all his worries.
Drama / Fantasy
Rashomon Blu-ray Movie
羅生門 / Rashômon
Criterion | 1950 | 89 min | Not rated | Nov 06, 2012 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
In medieval Japan, four people offer conflicting accounts of a rape and murder.
Crime / Drama / Mystery / Thriller / Psychological thriller / Foreign / Period
Everybody's Fine Blu-ray Movie
Lionsgate Films | 2009 | 100 min | Rated PG-13 | Oct 16, 2012 | Jeffrey Kauffman
A widower who realized his only connection to his family was through his wife sets off on an impromptu road trip to reunite with each of his grown children.
Adventure / Comedy
Pete's Dragon Blu-ray Movie
35th Anniversary Edition / Blu-ray + DVD
Disney / Buena Vista | 1977 | 129 min | Rated G | Oct 16, 2012 | Kenneth Brown
An orphan is befriended by a dragon, invisible to all but him, who helps him find a home with a lighthouse keeper and his daughter, even as they are pursued by the boy's corrupt foster family and a charlatan medicine man out to destroy the dragon for his own greedy purposes.
Family / Fantasy / Musical