New Blu-ray Reviews
Home- July 27, 2012
The Lorax Blu-ray Movie
Dr. Seuss' The Lorax / Blu-ray + DVD + UV Digital Copy
Universal Studios | 2012 | 87 min | Rated PG | Aug 07, 2012 | Kenneth Brown
A boy searches for the one thing that will enable him to win the affection of the girl of his dreams. To find it he must discover the story of the Lorax, the grumpy yet charming creature who fights to protect his world.
Animation / Family / Fantasy / Musical
Things to Come Blu-ray Movie
Network | 1936 | 97 min | Rated BBFC: PG | Jun 18, 2012 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
After decades of world war and a plague that wiped out much of the population, mankind struggles to rebuild its once-great civilization. Progress is at last being made—until the eve of a new manned space flight. Now, fear of another technological era threatens to tear apart the new society.
Drama / Sci-Fi
Peter Gabriel: Secret World Live Blu-ray Movie
Eagle Rock Entertainment | 1994 | 102 min | Not rated | Jul 24, 2012 | Jeffrey Kauffman
Peter Gabriel's extraordinary 1993 live show filmed in Modena, Italy. The setlist contains many of Gabriel's best-loved songs, including 'Solsbury Hill', 'Sledgehammer', 'In Your Eyes', 'San Jacinto' and 'Don't Give Up'.
Documentary / Music
Slipknot: {sic}nesses - Live at Download Blu-ray Movie
Eagle Rock Entertainment | 2009 | 87 min | Not rated | Jul 31, 2012 | Jeffrey Kauffman
Recorded live at Download Festival, Donington Park, England, Saturday June 13, 2009. Also features: 1. full length film, 'Audible Visions of (Sic)nesses, directed by M. Shawn Grahan. 2. Music videos for 'Psychosocial', 'Dead Memories', 'Sulfur', & 'Snuff' (plus the making of Snuff.)
Documentary / Music
- July 26, 2012
WWE Undertaker: The Streak 20-0 Blu-ray Movie
WWE Studios | 2012 | 37 min | Not rated | Jul 24, 2012 | Martin Liebman
The complete collection of all of The Undertaker's 20 WrestleMania victories.
Documentary / Sport
Hard to Kill Blu-ray Movie
Warner Bros. | 1990 | 96 min | Rated R | Jul 17, 2012 | Brian Orndorf
Detective Mason Storm, falls into a coma after being shot during a fire-fight that killed his wife Felicia and son Sonny. He reawakens seven years later to find his son alive and seeks vengeance with the coma-ward nurse and his old partner.
Action / Crime / Drama / Martial arts
Oblivion Island: Haruka and the Magic Mirror Blu-ray Movie
Hottarake no Shima: Haruka to Mahō no Kagami / Blu-ray + DVD
FUNimation Entertainment | 2009 | 100 min | Rated TV-G | Aug 14, 2012 | Jeffrey Kauffman
16-year-old Haruka is on a mission to find her mirror a precious childhood gift from her mother that mysteriously disappeared. While following a strange fox like creature in the woods, she tumbles into a mystical world where once-cherished toys and treasures go when their owners neglect them. Join Haruka and her new friend Teo on a roller coaster ride of adventure as they contend with the island's greedy ruler who wants the mirror for his own evil plan!
Adventure / Anime / Family / Fantasy / Foreign
La Grande Illusion Blu-ray Movie
Grand Illusion
Lionsgate Films | 1937 | 114 min | Not rated | Jul 31, 2012 | Jeffrey Kauffman
During the First World War, two French soldiers are captured and imprisoned in a German P.O.W. camp. Several escape attempts follow until they are sent to a seemingly impenetrable fortress which seems impossible to escape from.
Drama / War / Foreign
Weekend Blu-ray Movie
Criterion | 2011 | 97 min | Not rated | Aug 21, 2012 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
After meeting one lonely Friday night at a bar, Russell and Glen find themselves caught up in a lost weekend full of sex, drugs, and intimate conversation. Although they have conflicting ideas of what it is they want from life and certainly how to get it, they form a startling emotional connection that will resonate throughout their lives.
Drama / Romance
Brake Blu-ray Movie
MPI Media Group | 2012 | 92 min | Rated R | Jul 24, 2012 | Casey Broadwater
What appears to be a random kidnapping becomes something more sinister when Secret Service Agent Jeremy Reins discovers he's being used as a pawn in a terrorist plot. Watching the clock tick down to an unknown catastrophe, Jeremy is forced by his captors to listen to the outside world on the brink of collapse, knowing that the only way to save the people he loves is to divulge a secret that he has sworn to protect.
Action / Thriller
- July 25, 2012
Cinema Verite Blu-ray Movie
HBO | 2011 | 90 min | Rated TV-14 | Apr 24, 2012 | Michael Reuben
Docudrama about the making of the first "reality TV" show, a ten-part PBS documentary offering an inside look at the life of an American family.
Drama
Total Recall Blu-ray Movie
Mind-Bending Edition
Lionsgate Films | 1990 | 114 min | Rated R | Jul 31, 2012 | Jeffrey Kauffman
Construction worker Douglas Quaid discovers a memory chip in his brain during a virtual-reality trip. He also finds that his past has been invented to conceal a plot of planetary domination. Soon, he’s off to Mars to find out who he is and who planted the chip.
Action / Adventure / Sci-Fi / Thriller
Ransom Blu-ray Movie
15th Anniversary Edition
Disney / Buena Vista | 1996 | 121 min | Rated R | Jun 05, 2012 | Brian Orndorf
When a rich man's son is kidnapped, he cooperates with the police at first but then tries a unique tactic against the criminals.
Crime / Thriller
- July 24, 2012
Le Havre Blu-ray Movie
Criterion | 2011 | 94 min | Not rated | Jul 31, 2012 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
When an African boy arrives by cargo ship in the port city of Le Havre, an aging shoe shiner takes pity on the child and welcomes him into his home.
Comedy / Drama / Foreign
Mean Streets Blu-ray Movie
Warner Bros. | 1973 | 112 min | Rated R | Jul 17, 2012 | Kenneth Brown
A slice of street life in Little Italy among lower echelon Mafiosos, unbalanced punks, and petty criminals.
Crime / Drama / Dark humor
The Last of England Blu-ray Movie
Kino Lorber | 1988 | 87 min | Not rated | Jul 24, 2012 | Casey Broadwater
A kaleidoscopic view of the culture and history of director Derek Jarman's native England. Filled with rage at Margaret Thatcher's conservative reign and haunted by the continuing scourge of AIDS (with which Jarman was diagnosed), the film is both deeply personal and grimly historical, and is undoubtedly one of the most important British films of all time.
Drama
The Deep Blue Sea Blu-ray Movie
Music Box Films | 2011 | 98 min | Rated R | Jul 24, 2012 | Jeffrey Kauffman
The wife of a British Judge is caught in a self-destructive love affair with a Royal Air Force pilot.
Drama / Romance / Period
Footnote Blu-ray Movie
Hearat Shulayim
Sony Pictures | 2011 | 106 min | Rated PG | Jul 24, 2012 | Martin Liebman
The story of a great rivalry between a father and son, both eccentric professors in the Talmud department of Hebrew University in Jerusalem. The son has an addictive dependency on the embrace and accolades that the establishment provides, while his father is a stubborn purist with a fear and profound revulsion for what the establishment stands for, yet beneath his contempt lies a desperate thirst for some kind of recognition. The Israel Prize, Israel's most prestigious national award, is the jewel that brings these two to a final, bitter confrontation.
Drama / Foreign
On the Inside Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + DVD
Starz / Anchor Bay | 2011 | 91 min | Rated R | Jul 24, 2012 | Martin Liebman
Allen Meneric is committed to a psychiatric institution for the criminally insane because of a brutal revenge murder. There he is forced to deal with the very ill and the dangerous until, as part of a socialization program, he is transferred to minimum security where he meets Mia, a beautiful bipolar female inmate. Ever haunted by his past, Allen seeks his redemption when sudden events demand that he protect Mia from the violence and chaos of the institution.
Drama / Thriller
Operation Condor Blu-ray Movie
Armour of God II: Operation Condor / Fei jing gai wak / Project Eagle
Echo Bridge Entertainment | 1991 | 91 min | Rated PG-13 | Jul 17, 2012 | Martin Liebman
The swashbuckling hero-for-hire "Asian Hawk" is called from the deep of the African forest to lead a mission in search of a huge cache of gold hidden in the desert by German soldiers during World War II.
Action / Adventure / Comedy / Crime / Thriller / Martial arts / Foreign