New Blu-ray Reviews
Home- July 19, 2012
Fire with Fire Blu-ray Movie
Captive Hearts
Olive Films | 1986 | 103 min | Not rated | Jul 31, 2012 | Jeffrey Kauffman
A young woman from a Catholic school and a young man from a nearby prison camp fall in love and must run away together to escape the law, the church and their parents.
Drama / Romance
The Astronaut's Wife Blu-ray Movie
Warner Bros. | 1999 | 109 min | Rated R | Jul 10, 2012 | Kenneth Brown
They were the perfect all-American couple: a courageous, honored NASA astronaut and his beautiful school-teacher wife. They were passionately in love, so connected they could sense each other even when he was floating in space and she was two hundred thousand miles below. And in two minutes it all turned to inexplicable horror. For two minutes, astronaut Spencer Armacost loses total consciousness while on a routine space shuttle mission, returning home just barely alive and a bewildered hero. The President, the nation, and his friends celebrate his safe return, but to his wife Jillian something seems strangely amiss from the moment he returns to Earth.
Drama / Sci-Fi / Thriller
Star Trek: The Next Generation, Season 1 Blu-ray Movie
Corrected version red Starfleet symbol on spine/yellow UPC
Paramount Pictures | 1987-1988 | 1184 min | Rated TV-PG | Jul 24, 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
The Night Porter Blu-ray Movie
Il portiere di notte
Starz / Anchor Bay | 1974 | 118 min | Rated BBFC: 18 | Jul 30, 2012 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
A concentration camp survivor discovers her former torturer and lover working as a porter at a hotel in postwar Vienna. When the couple attempt to re-create their sadomasochistic relationship, his former SS comrades begin to stalk them.
Drama
CSN 2012 Blu-ray Movie
Crosby, Stills & Nash
Alternative Distribution Alliance | 2012 | 90 min | Not rated | Jul 17, 2012 | Jeffrey Kauffman
Crosby, Stills & Nash join forces for their first live performance video in over 20 years! Filmed during their 2012 tour, CSN 2012 includes many of the trio's classic hits as well as new songs, "Radio", "Almost Gone", and "Girl From The North Country" (a cover of Bob Dylan's 1963 release).
Music
- July 18, 2012
Just Cause Blu-ray Movie
Warner Bros. | 1995 | 102 min | Rated R | Jul 17, 2012 | Michael Reuben
A brutal murder is committed in the Florida Everglades. Eight years later, a principled Harvard law professor tries to save the convicted man on Death Row who swears he's innocent of that crime. For the small-town detective who investigated the killing, however, there's no question he caught the right man.
Crime / Drama / Mystery
Firstborn Blu-ray Movie
Olive Films | 1984 | 101 min | Rated PG-13 | Jul 31, 2012 | Jeffrey Kauffman
A teenager and his kid brother spar with their mother's shady new boyfriend in this dramatic thriller from veteran British director Michael Apted.
Drama / Thriller
Next of Kin Blu-ray Movie
Warner Bros. | 1989 | 108 min | Rated R | Jul 17, 2012 | Brian Orndorf
A southern boy goes to Chicago where he becomes a cop and finds himself in the middle of a plot involving a vengeance-seeking Appalachian relative.
Action / Crime / Thriller
- July 17, 2012
Being Flynn Blu-ray Movie
Universal Studios | 2012 | 102 min | Rated R | Jul 10, 2012 | Kenneth Brown
Working in a Boston homeless shelter, Nick Flynn re-encounters his father, a con man and self-proclaimed poet. Sensing trouble in his own life, Nick wrestles with the notion of reaching out yet again to his dad.
Comedy / Drama
Get the Gringo Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + DVD + Digital Copy
20th Century Fox | 2012 | 96 min | Rated R | Jul 17, 2012 | Casey Broadwater
Driver is a career criminal who crashes his car while trying to escape from the United States Border Patrol in a high-speed car chase over the US-Mexico border. With a trunk full of cash and a bleeding body on his back seat, things aren't looking good for Driver, and he soon finds himself in El Pueblito, Mexico's toughest prison, where life is especially harsh for 'gringos'. However, Driver's bid for survival is unexpectedly aided by his friendship with a 10-year-old boy.
Action / Crime / Drama / Thriller / Dark humor
Treasure Island: The Complete Series Blu-ray Movie
Vivendi Visual Entertainment | 2012 | 180 min | Rated TV-PG | Jul 24, 2012 | Jeffrey Kauffman
Young Jim Hawkins is the only one who can sucessfully get a schooner to a legendary Island known for buried Treasure. But aboard the ship is a mysterious cook named John Silver, whose true motivation on the journey challenges Jim's trust in the entire crew.
Adventure
Force of Evil Blu-ray Movie
Olive Films | 1948 | 79 min | Not rated | Jul 31, 2012 | Jeffrey Kauffman
A crooked lawyer tries to protect his numbers running brother from a ruthless crime boss.
Crime / Drama / Film-Noir
The Last Days of Disco Blu-ray Movie
Criterion | 1998 | 114 min | Not rated | Jul 24, 2012 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
In the last months of the disco era, a popular dance club becomes the center of nightlife for a group of young people who recently arrived in Manhattan.
Comedy / Drama / Music / Romance / Period
A Perfect Murder Blu-ray Movie
Warner Bros. | 1998 | 107 min | Rated R | Jul 17, 2012 | Michael Reuben
A hotshot Wall Street trader discovers that his rich and beautiful "trophy" wife is having an affair with a bohemian artist and plots to have her murdered.
Crime / Drama / Thriller
The Turin Horse Blu-ray Movie
A Torinói ló
Cinema Guild | 2011 | 147 min | Not rated | Jul 17, 2012 | Casey Broadwater
A farmer and his daughter try to survive in a desolate landscape even though the horse that had always provided their livelihood has already given up on them.
Drama / Foreign / Period
- July 16, 2012
Silent House Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + DVD + UV Digital Copy
Universal Studios | 2011 | 86 min | Rated R | Jul 24, 2012 | Kenneth Brown
An ominous presence triggers dark memories for a woman who's returned to the family cottage with her dad and uncle.
Horror / Mystery / Thriller / Psychological thriller
Cellular Blu-ray Movie
Warner Bros. | 2004 | 94 min | Rated PG-13 | Jul 17, 2012 | Michael Reuben
A random wrong number on his cell phone sends a young man into a high-stakes race against time to save a woman’s life. With no knowledge of Jessica Martin other than her hushed, panicked voice on the other end of the tenuous cell phone connection, Ryan is quickly thrown into a world of deception and murder on his frantic search to find and save her.
Action / Crime / Thriller
Burke & Hare Blu-ray Movie
Redemption | 1972 | 92 min | Rated R | Jul 17, 2012 | Casey Broadwater
A pair of enterprising street thugs provide anatomical specimens to the Edinburgh Medical College—often by robbing the graves of the recently dead, sometimes though even more nefarious methods.
Horror
- July 15, 2012
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie Blu-ray Movie
Le charme discret de la bourgeoisie
Studio Canal | 1972 | 102 min | Rated BBFC: 15 | Jul 16, 2012 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
An upper-class sextet sits down to dinner but never eats, their attempts continually thwarted by a vaudevillian mixture of events both actual and imagined.
Comedy / Drama / Fantasy / Dark humor / Foreign / Surreal
Dark Nemesis Blu-ray Movie
MTI Video | 2011 | 85 min | Not rated | Jul 10, 2012 | Jeffrey Kauffman
A group of desperate soldiers hatch a plan to steal a Warlord's treasure and start a new life. Faced with the threat of a horrific death at the hands of the Warlord's executioners, the men escape into a desolate and forbidden land known only as the Shadowlands. Now the men must flee from the Warlord's vicious assassins whilst defending themselves from the terrifying creatures that inhabit the land.
Action / Fantasy