New Blu-ray Reviews

They Made Me a Fugitive Blu-ray Movie  

I Became a Criminal / Kino Classics Presents

Kino Lorber | 1947 | 100 min | Not rated | Jul 24, 2012 | Casey Broadwater

Trevor Howard is Clem, an ex-serviceman who is drawn to black-marketeering. When his sadistic gang boss betrays him after Clem refuses to deal in drugs, the story takes a brutal, vengeful turn. An atypically grim and uncompromising film for its time.

Crime / Drama / Film-Noir

Romy and Michele's High School Reunion Blu-ray Movie  

15th Anniversary Edition

Disney / Buena Vista | 1997 | 92 min | Rated R | Aug 07, 2012 | Michael Reuben

Two women get into a lot of trouble when they go to their high school reunion and lie about their lives after twelfth grade.

Comedy

Blindness Blu-ray Movie  

Echo Bridge Entertainment | 2008 | 121 min | Rated R | Sep 04, 2012 | Martin Liebman

When a sudden plague of blindness devastates a city, a small group of the afflicted band together to triumphantly overcome the horrific conditions of their imposed quarantine

Drama / Mystery / Romance / Sci-Fi / Thriller

Full Metal Jacket Blu-ray Movie  

Warner Bros. | 1987 | 117 min | Rated R | Aug 07, 2012 | Kenneth Brown

The story of an 18-year-old marine recruit named Private Joker - from his carnage-and-machismo boot camp to his climactic involvement in the heavy fighting in Hue during the 1968 Tet Offensive.

Drama / History / War / Melodrama

Blue Like Jazz Blu-ray Movie  

Lionsgate Films | 2012 | 106 min | Rated PG-13 | Aug 07, 2012 | Jeffrey Kauffman

Don, a nineteen-year-old sophomore at a Texas junior college, tries to escape his Bible Belt upbringing for life in the Pacific Northwest at the most godless campus in America.

Comedy / Drama

We the Party Blu-ray Movie  

XLrator | 2012 | 104 min | Rated R | Jul 31, 2012 | Michael Reuben

A contemporary urban high school tale about sex, money, music and coming of age in the US in the second decade of the 21st Century.

Comedy

High Fidelity Blu-ray Movie  

Disney / Buena Vista | 2000 | 114 min | Rated R | Aug 07, 2012 | Kenneth Brown

Rob Gordon is the owner of a semi-failing record store in Chicago where he sells music the old fashioned way- on vinyl. He's a self-professed music junkie who spends his days at Championship Vinyl with his two employees Dick and Barry. Although they have an encyclopedic knowledge of pop music and are consumed with the music scene and creating their all-time favorite top-five lists of subject specific songs, it's of no help to Rob whose needle skips the love groove when his long-time girlfriend Laura walks out on him. As Rob examines his failed attempts at romance and happiness the process finds him being dragged kicking and screaming into adulthood.

Comedy / Drama / Music / Romance

Nature: Cracking the Koala Code Blu-ray Movie  

PBS | 2012 | 53 min | Not rated | Jul 24, 2012 | Brian Orndorf

Follow individual koalas from a small social group on an Australian island to learn just how a koala manages to survive and thrive on a diet poisonous to almost all other herbivorous mammals.

Biography / Documentary / Family / Nature / Other

Beautiful Planet: Germany & Austria Blu-ray Movie  

Mill Creek Entertainment | 2012 | 173 min | Rated PG | Jul 24, 2012 | Martin Liebman

No synopsis for this title.

Documentary / Other

Hijacked Blu-ray Movie  

Blu-ray + DVD

Starz / Anchor Bay | 2012 | 90 min | Rated R | Jul 31, 2012 | Martin Liebman

Special agent Paul Ross (UFC star Randy Couture) has made it his mission to destroy the international crime syndicate known as "The Tribe" but when the group hijacks a private jumbo jet, Paul is pushed to new limits. The hijackers are demanding $2.73 billion or they'll begin killing off the passengers, one of which is Paul's ex-fiancée (Tiffany Dupont).

Action / Thriller

Untamed Americas Blu-ray Movie  

National Geographic | 2012 | 190 min | Not rated | Jul 10, 2012 | Jeffrey Kauffman

Outside the concrete jungles and just minutes from our own backyards, another world is fighting, thriving, and surviving. Witness the elegance, power, and speed of a world rarely captured in National Geographic's miniseries focused solely on the continent of America. Scaling mountains from north to south, crossing harsh, dry deserts, trekking through forests and circling the coasts, Untamed America takes a fresh look at life, death, familiar creatures and scientific revelations.

Documentary / Nature

Mr. Nice Blu-ray Movie  

MPI Media Group | 2010 | 121 min | Not rated | Oct 11, 2011 | Dr. Svet Atanasov

The true story of Howard Marks, an Oxford grad who became a major marijuana importer in the 1960s in the U.K. and managed to escape jail time by posing as an agent for MI5.

Comedy / Crime / Drama

Rumble Fish Blu-ray Movie    

Masters of Cinema

Eureka Entertainment | 1983 | 94 min | Rated BBFC: 18 | Aug 27, 2012 | Dr. Svet Atanasov

Rusty James is the leader of a small, dying gang in an industrial town. He lives in the shadow of the memory of his absent, older brother — The Motorcycle Boy. His mother has left, his father drinks, school has no meaning for him, and his relationships are shallow. He is drawn into one more gang fight and the events that follow begin to change his life.

Crime / Drama / Romance / Coming of age

The Big Bang Theory: The Complete Second Season Blu-ray Movie  

Blu-ray + DVD + UV Digital Copy

Warner Bros. | 2008-2009 | 558 min | Rated TV-14 | Jul 10, 2012 | Michael Reuben

As Penny and Leonard return from the date on which they departed at the end of season 1, what will be the outcome? Will Raj ever speak to a woman without chemical assistance? Will Howard ever learn how not to be sleazy? And will Sheldon ever master the difficult concept of "friendship"?

Comedy / Romance

Hatfields & McCoys Blu-ray Movie  

Sony Pictures | 2012 | 290 min | Not rated | Jul 31, 2012 | Martin Liebman

TV mini-series starring Kevin Costner and Bill Paxton as the head of two families caught up in a bitter feud in 19th century America. The series is based on the real life feud between a West Virginia family and their rivals from Kentucky, which lasted almost 30 years and became a byword for the dangers of family and tribal loyalties. 'Devil' Anse Hatfield (Costner) and Randall McCoy (Paxton) fight side by side in the Confederate army. The two men return home from the Civil War exhausted and seeking peace. However, courtesy of a series of misunderstandings, a civil war abruptly breaks out between the two families that promises to be almost as deadly and divisive as the nationwide war...

Drama / History / Romance / War / Western / Epic / Period

Detention Blu-ray Movie  

Sony Pictures | 2011 | 93 min | Rated R | Jul 31, 2012 | Martin Liebman

A downtrodden 17-year-old girl is sent to detention where she must survive a slasher film killer and save the world in time for prom.

Comedy / Horror / Sci-Fi

Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale Blu-ray Movie  

賽德克·巴萊 | Sàidékè balái | International Cut

Well Go USA | 2011 | 150 min | Not rated | Aug 07, 2012 | Jeffrey Kauffman

The most expensive production in Taiwanese history (budgeted at approximately $25 million), Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale chronicles the true story of Taiwan's aboriginal people and their revolt against the Japanese colonizers in the 1930s.

Action / Drama / History / War / Comic book / Foreign

Missing in Action Blu-ray Movie  

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer | 1984 | 102 min | Rated R | Jun 05, 2012 | Casey Broadwater

Colonel James Braddock launches a mission deep into the jungles of Vietnam to find the POW camp that he escaped from and free the Americans still held there.

Action / Adventure / Drama / War

About a Boy Blu-ray Movie  

Universal Studios | 2002 | 101 min | Rated PG-13 | May 01, 2012 | Michael Reuben

In London, wealthy bachelor Will Freeman and introverted, sad 12-year-old Marcus forge an unexpected friendship. Will inspires Marcus to gain confidence and style while the mature-beyond-his-years Marcus helps the carefree Will mature and embrace the responsibility of adulthood in a way he never has before.

Comedy / Drama / Romance / Coming of age

The Boogens Blu-ray Movie  

Olive Films | 1981 | 96 min | Rated R | Aug 07, 2012 | Jeffrey Kauffman

In a small town near Denver, two young men begin to explore a long-abandoned old mine recently reopened by a group of miners. When one of the men is discovered missing, his friends begin a search that leads them to horrifying consequences. They’re all unaware of the evil that’s been unleashed and soon, one by one, an unseen monster snatches up the townspeople. Suddenly, the grisly truth is revealed and a young couple is forced to confront the unknown to save their lives… and the entire town.

Horror