New Blu-ray Reviews
Home- August 10, 2012
The Delta Force Blu-ray Movie
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer | 1986 | 128 min | Rated R | Jun 05, 2012 | Michael Reuben
A flight from Athens to Rome is hijacked. What the hijackers don't realize is that an elite team of commandoes has been called into service to eliminate them and retake the plane.
Action / Adventure / Drama / Thriller / War
- August 09, 2012
The Hunger Games Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + UV Digital Copy
Lionsgate Films | 2012 | 143 min | Rated PG-13 | Aug 18, 2012 | Jeffrey Kauffman
In a not-too-distant future, North America has collapsed, weakened by drought, fire, famine, and war to be replaced by Panem, a country divided into the Capitol and 12 districts. Each year two young representatives from each district are selected by lottery to participate in The Hunger Games. Part entertainment, part brutal intimidation of the subjugated districts, the televised games are broadcast throughout Panem. The 24 participants are forced to eliminate their competitors, literally, with all citizens required to watch. When 16-year-old Katniss' young sister, Prim, is selected as the mining district's female representative, Katniss volunteers to take her place. She and her male counterpart Peeta, will be pitted against bigger, stronger representatives who have trained for this their whole lives.
Action / Adventure / Drama / Fantasy / Sci-Fi / Thriller / Teen
Johnny Carson: King of Late Night Blu-ray Movie
American Masters
PBS | 2012 | 114 min | Not rated | Jul 17, 2012 | Brian Orndorf
No synopsis for this title.
Documentary
The Assault Blu-ray Movie
L'assaut
Studio Canal | 2010 | 88 min | Rated BBFC: 15 | Aug 06, 2012 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
GIGN (Groupe d'Intervention de la Gendarmerie Nationale) making it onto the big screen, and what more than to introduce them via a true, high profile aircraft hijacking of an Air France Airbus 300 plane in the year 1994 involving the supposed attempt of using a fuel laden aircraft as a missile targeted against a major city landmark, a chilling 7 years before a terrorist group managed to carry out this dastardly act on the soil of USA.
Action / Thriller
Grosse Pointe Blank Blu-ray Movie
15th Anniversary Edition
Disney / Buena Vista | 1997 | 107 min | Rated R | Aug 07, 2012 | Kenneth Brown
Martin Blank is a freelance hitman who starts to develop a conscience, which causes him to muff a couple of routine assignments. On the advice of his secretary and his psychiatrist, he attends his 10th year High School reunion in Grosse Pointe, Michigan (a Detroit suburb where he's also contracted to kill someone). Hot on his tail are a couple of over-enthusiastic federal agents, another assassin who wants to kill him, and Grocer, an assassin who wants him to join an "Assassin's Union."
Action / Comedy / Crime / Romance / Thriller / Dark humor
Strauss: Die Frau ohne Schatten Blu-ray Movie
Opus Arte | 2011 | 218 min | Not rated | May 29, 2012 | Jeffrey Kauffman
ORCHESTRA: Vienna Philharmonic CONDUCTOR: Christian Thielemann ARTISTS: Stephen Gould, Anne Schwanewilms, Michaela Schuster, Wolfgang Koch
Music
- August 08, 2012
Sebastiane Blu-ray Movie
Derek Jarman
Kino Lorber | 1976 | 90 min | Not rated | Aug 07, 2012 | Casey Broadwater
Filmed entirely in vulgar Latin, this experimental film recounts the life of Sebastiane, a puritanical but beautiful Christian soldier in the Roman Imperial troops who is martyred when he refuses the homosexual advances of his pagan captain. When this film was released, it was the only English-made film to have required English subtitles, and it is an early film by the noted experimental and outspokenly homosexual director Derek Jarman, who died in 1994.
Drama / History / Erotic / Foreign
Puccini: Il Trittico Blu-ray Movie
Royal Opera House
Opus Arte | 2011 | 180 min | Not rated | Jul 31, 2012 | Jeffrey Kauffman
Leading director Richard Jones staged his witty, darkly comic realization of Gianni Schicchi for The Royal Opera in 2007. The production was revived in 2012 and here he completes the trio with two new productions of Il Tabarro and Suor Angelica.
Music
The Nutty Professor Blu-ray Movie
Universal 100th Anniversary / Blu-ray + DVD + Digital Copy
Universal Studios | 1996 | 95 min | Rated PG-13 | Mar 06, 2012 | Brian Orndorf
Murphy stars as Dr. Sherman Klump, a kind, "calorically challenged" genetics professor who longs to shed his 400-pound frame in order to win the heart of beautiful Jada Pinkett. So, with one swig of his experimental fat-reducing serum, Sherman becomes "Buddy Love," a fast-talking, pumped-up, plumped down Don Juan. Can Sherman stop his buff alter ego before it's too late, or will Buddy have the last laugh?
Comedy / Romance / Supernatural
- August 07, 2012
Grimm: Season One Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + UV Digital Copy
Universal Studios | 2011-2012 | 990 min | Rated TV-14 | Aug 07, 2012 | Kenneth Brown
In modern day Portland, Oregon, a police detective inherits the ability to see supernatural creatures.
Crime / Drama / Fantasy / Horror / Mystery / Supernatural
The Incredible Mr. Limpet Blu-ray Movie
Warner Bros. | 1964 | 99 min | Rated G | Aug 07, 2012 | Michael Reuben
Meek and mild mannered bookkeeper Henry Limpet has few passions in life. If Henry could have one thing it would be to become a fish. While on a visit to Coney Island, Henry falls into the water and miraculously gets his wish. Now a fish, he makes friends, Ladyfish and Crabby the hermit crab and loves his new life.
Comedy / Family / Fantasy
Das Weib des Pharao Blu-ray Movie
The Loves of Pharaoh
Alpha-Omega | 1922 | 100 min | Rated FSK-0 | Jun 30, 2012 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
The Ethiopian King Samlak offers his daughter Makeda to the powerful Pharaoh Amenes in order to secure peace between the two countries. What was intended as a political move ends as a debacle. Instead of Makeda, Amenes chooses Samlak's beautiful slave girl Theonis. Nevertheless, Amenes can not secure the love of Theonis as she is in love with the young Egyptian Ramphis. Having suffered humiliation, the Ethiopians declare war on Egypt. Amenes is injured in a battle and perishes - but only seemingly. The happy union between Theonis and Ramphis is in peril when Pharaoh Amenes returns to claim his wife and his throne.
Drama / History / Foreign
Beautiful Planet: England & the Low Countries Blu-ray Movie
Mill Creek Entertainment | 2012 | 113 min | Rated PG | Jul 24, 2012 | Martin Liebman
No synopsis for this title.
Documentary / Other
Cilea: Adriana Lecouvreur Blu-ray Movie
Universal Music | 2012 | 151 min | Not rated | May 01, 2012 | Jeffrey Kauffman
No synopsis for this title.
Music
- August 06, 2012
Tough Enough Blu-ray Movie
Starz / Anchor Bay | 1983 | 106 min | Rated PG | Jul 03, 2012 | Martin Liebman
An aspiring country/western singer, whose money is disappearing faster than his career opportunities, enters a "Tough Man" amateur boxing contest to earn some cash to pay his bills. Amazingly enough, he wins it, and is picked to go onto the national finals. He's torn between his first love, music, and the glitz, glamor and money of the "Tough Man" world.
Action / Drama / Romance / Sport
This Is Not a Movie Blu-ray Movie
Lorber Films | 2011 | 99 min | Not rated | Mar 20, 2012 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
As the apocalypse approaches, Pete Nelson (Edward Furlong) checks into a Las Vegas hotel, embarking on a surreal journey to the center of the human psyche in an attempt to decipher the churning sea of pop culture, government propaganda, and mass media that clouds our collective consciousness.
Comedy / Drama
Marley Blu-ray Movie
Magnolia Pictures | 2012 | 145 min | Rated PG-13 | Aug 07, 2012 | Casey Broadwater
A documentary on the life, music, and legacy of Bob Marley.
Biography / Documentary / Music
Murder in the First Blu-ray Movie
Warner Bros. | 1995 | 123 min | Rated R | Jul 17, 2012 | Martin Liebman
An eager and idealistic young attorney defends an Alcatraz prisoner accused of murdering a fellow inmate. The extenuating circumstances: his client had just spent over three years in solitary confinement.
Drama / Period
- August 05, 2012
Step Up Blu-ray Movie
Disney / Buena Vista | 2006 | 103 min | Rated PG-13 | Jul 03, 2012 | Brian Orndorf
Everyone deserves a chance to follow their dreams, but some people only get one shot. Tyler Gage is a rebel from the wrong side of Baltimore's tracks--and the only thing that stands between him and an unfulfilled life are his dreams of one day making it out of there. Nora is a privileged ballet dancer attending Baltimore's ultra-elite Maryland School of the Arts--and the only thing standing in the way of her obviously brilliant future is finding a great dance partner for her senior showcase. When trouble with the law lands Tyler with a community service gig at Maryland School of the Arts, he arrives as an angry outsider, until his skills as a gifted street dancer draw Nora's attention. Now, as sparks fly between them, both on and off stage, Tyler realizes he has just one performance to prove that he can step up ...
Drama / Music / Romance / Teen
Metropolitan Blu-ray Movie
Criterion | 1990 | 99 min | Not rated | Jul 24, 2012 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
A group of friends from New York's haute-bourgeoisie gather together during the holiday season.
Comedy / Drama / Romance / Holiday