New Blu-ray Reviews

Breaking Bad: The Complete Fourth Season Blu-ray Movie  

Sony Pictures | 2011 | 610 min | Rated TV-14 | Jun 05, 2012 | Martin Liebman

Walter White is a down-on-his-luck chemistry teacher struggling to make ends meet for his wife and physically challenged son. Everything changes when Walter receives a startling diagnosis: terminal lung cancer. With only a few years to live and nothing to lose, Walter uses his training as a chemist to cook and sell crystal meth with one of his former students. As his status grows, so do his lies, but Walt will stop at nothing to make sure his family is taken care of after he's gone, even if it means putting all their lives on the line.

Crime / Drama / Thriller / Dark humor

The 39 Steps Blu-ray Movie  

Criterion | 1935 | 87 min | Not rated | Jun 26, 2012 | Dr. Svet Atanasov

Canadian Richard Hannay is vacationing in England when a terrified woman begs him to help her. He's certain she's crazy until she appears at his flat with a map in hand and a knife in her back, muttering something about 39 steps.

Mystery / Thriller

Denver and Rio Grande Blu-ray Movie  

Olive Films | 1952 | 89 min | Not rated | May 29, 2012 | Jeffrey Kauffman

Edmund O'Brien and his team of railroading men try to build a rail line through a mountain pass, while a group of less scrupulous construction workers sabotage the entire operation in the hopes that they can get their tracks laid first and get the money from the railroad.

Western

$5 a Day Blu-ray Movie  

Image Entertainment | 2008 | 98 min | Rated PG-13 | Aug 24, 2010 | Michael Reuben

When a free-spirited hustler who boasts he can live on $5 a day -- calls to say he's dying and needs a ride to New Mexico for a dubious cure, his son reluctantly agrees to join him on the cross country odyssey.

Comedy / Drama

Harold and Maude Blu-ray Movie  

Criterion | 1971 | 92 min | Rated PG | Jun 12, 2012 | Dr. Svet Atanasov

Young, rich, and obsessed with death, Harold finds himself changed forever when he meets lively septuagenarian Maude at a funeral.

Comedy / Drama / Romance / Dark humor

Planzet Blu-ray Movie  

Sentai Filmworks | 2010 | 53 min | Rated TV-14 | May 22, 2012 | Jeffrey Kauffman

In the year 2047, an alien life-form codenamed FOS invades Earth and smashes through the world's major cities in one wave. The earth unites to fight back and puts up a Diffuser in place to stop further invasions 3 years after. Now in 2053, a plan is made for a last counterattack that must disable the Diffuser for an offensive...and Akeshima Taishi, who lost his father to the FOS when they first invaded, may finally get his revenge.

Action / Anime / Sci-Fi / Foreign

Memorial Day Blu-ray Movie  

Image Entertainment | 2011 | 108 min | Not rated | May 29, 2012 | Michael Reuben

Memorial Day, 1993. When 13-year-old Kyle Vogel discovers the World War II footlocker belonging to his grandfather, Bud, everyone tells Kyle to put it back. Luckily, he ignores them. Although Bud has never talked about the war, he finds himself striking a deal with his grandson: Kyle can pick any three souvenirs, and Bud will tell him the stories behind each one. Memorial Day not only takes us on a journey into Bud's complicated wartime past, but also into Kyle's wartime future. As the two men share parallel experiences in combat, they come to realize how that magical day on the porch shaped both of their lives.

Action / Drama / Family / History / War

Before and After Blu-ray Movie  

Mill Creek Entertainment | 1996 | 108 min | Rated PG-13 | May 15, 2012 | Martin Liebman

When teenage son Jacob is being accused of murdering his girlfriend, the well-respected and close-knit Ryan family is in turmoil. Jacob flees, father Ben destroys possible evidence, the village community turns hostile and mother Carolyn is forced to temporarily close her doctor's practice. Then Jacob gets arrested and soon finds himself and his family entangled in a web of truth, trust and lies, all on his way to court.

Drama / Thriller

Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Alpha Blu-ray Movie  

Blu-ray + DVD

Cinedigm | 2011 | 25 min | Not rated | May 22, 2012 | Jeffrey Kauffman

After a decade-long manhunt, US Intelligence received new intel on Boris Chevtchenko, mastermind of the world s most heinous war crimes. Linked to Russian ultranationalists, Chevtchenko is about to deliver a dirty bomb large enough to contaminate Moscow for centuries. Enter the Ghosts The US Army s most elite Future Soldiers, precision-trained and lethal human weapons armed with the most devastating high-tech combat systems, to take out Chevtchenko and stop this international catastrophe before it erupts. But behind enemy lines, the Ghosts discover that Chevtchenko is just the tip of the iceberg. What begins as a surgical strike spirals out of control into a no-holds-barred battle. And the Russians have a few high-tech surprises of their own, packing a blow that even the Ghosts won't forget.

Action / Sci-Fi / Short / War

John Carter 3D Blu-ray Movie  

Blu-ray 3D + Blu-ray + DVD + Digital Copy

Disney / Buena Vista | 2012 | 132 min | Rated PG-13 | Jun 05, 2012 | Kenneth Brown

Civil War vet John Carter is transplanted to Mars, where he discovers a lush, wildly diverse planet whose main inhabitants are 12-foot tall green barbarians. Finding himself a prisoner of these creatures, he escapes, only to encounter Dejah Thoris, Princess of Helium, who is in desperate need of a savior.

Action / Adventure / Fantasy / Sci-Fi

John Carter Blu-ray Movie  

Blu-ray + DVD

Disney / Buena Vista | 2012 | 132 min | Rated PG-13 | Jun 05, 2012 | Kenneth Brown

Civil War vet John Carter is transplanted to Mars, where he discovers a lush, wildly diverse planet whose main inhabitants are 12-foot tall green barbarians. Finding himself a prisoner of these creatures, he escapes, only to encounter Dejah Thoris, Princess of Helium, who is in desperate need of a savior.

Action / Adventure / Fantasy / Sci-Fi

This Means War Blu-ray Movie  

Extended Cut + Theatrical / Blu-ray + DVD + Digital Copy

20th Century Fox | 2012 | 1 Movie, 2 Cuts | 97 min | Rated PG-13 | May 22, 2012 | Casey Broadwater

Two of the world's deadliest CIA operatives are inseparable partners and best friends - until they discover that they've fallen in love with the same woman. Deciding to keep their friendship a secret from her, they pull out their full arsenal of fighting skills and high-tech gadgetry to defeat their greatest enemy - each other.

Action / Comedy / Romance

Silver City Blu-ray Movie  

Olive Films | 1951 | 90 min | Not rated | May 29, 2012 | Jeffrey Kauffman

A mining expert helps a girl and her father dig for silver despite a landowner's henchmen.

Western

A Bullet for the General Blu-ray Movie  

¿Quien sabe?

Blue Underground | 1967 | 1 Movie, 2 Cuts | 118 min | Not rated | May 22, 2012 | Dr. Svet Atanasov

El Chuncho's bandits rob arms from a train, intending to sell the weapons to Elias' revolutionaries. They are helped by one of the passengers, Bill Tate, and allow him to join them, unware he is an assassin working for the Mexican government.

Action / Western / Foreign

Holy Man Blu-ray Movie  

Mill Creek Entertainment | 1998 | 114 min | Rated PG | May 15, 2012 | Martin Liebman

Ricky Hayman, right hand of Good Buy Shopping Network's owner John McBainbridge, is responsible for over two years of very bad sales numbers. He gets a last chance. Accidentally, he and Kate Newell nearly run over G with his car and decide to take him with them. What they never could guess was that G really is the one good man around. Being on the search for enlightenment, G offers his help generously to save Ricky's job.

Comedy / Drama

Run for Cover Blu-ray Movie  

Colorado

Olive Films | 1955 | 93 min | Not rated | May 29, 2012 | Jeffrey Kauffman

Odd little Western that gets off to a snappy start when a man (Matt Dow) is mistaken as a train robber. After the town's sheriff shoots the kid he's riding with, Dow clears his name and ends up as the new sheriff. He romances a Swedish woman and settles in to a peaceful life only to find that the boy has a few secrets of his own.

Drama / Western

Murdoch Mysteries: Season 4 Blu-ray Movie  

Acorn Media | 2011 | 624 min | Not rated | May 29, 2012 | Michael Reuben

Detective William Murdoch of the Toronto police department pushes the boundaries of Victorian-era criminal science to solve baffling murders in this smart, compelling series. Season 4 pits the kindhearted cop against a would-be vampire, a costumed killer, and ruthless mobsters, inspiring him to whip up a slew of innovative crime-fighting techniques along the way. But while Murdoch nabs the culprits with the help of politically ambitious Inspector Thomas Brackenreid and eager Constable George Crabtree, he struggles to subdue his feelings for former sweetheart Dr. Julia Ogden.

Action / Crime / Mystery / Period

Smokey and the Bandit Blu-ray Movie  

Universal 100th Anniversary / Blu-ray + DVD + Digital Copy

Universal Studios | 1977 | 96 min | Rated PG | Jun 05, 2012 | Brian Orndorf

The Bandit is hired on to run a tractor trailer full of beer over county lines in hot pursuit by a pesky sheriff.

Action / Comedy / Crime

Sherlock: Season Two Blu-ray Movie  

BBC | 2012 | 270 min | Not rated | May 22, 2012 | Kenneth Brown

Sherlock Holmes stalks again in contemporary versions of the classic detective stories, translated to 21st century London, where the world's first "consulting detective" advises Scotland Yard with the aid of his friend and comrade, Dr. John Watson, a soldier recently returned from deployment to Afghanistan.

Crime / Drama / Mystery

Terminal Velocity Blu-ray Movie  

Mill Creek Entertainment | 1994 | 102 min | Rated PG-13 | May 15, 2012 | Martin Liebman

A maverick skydiver and a former KGB agent team up to stop the Russian mafia from stealing gold.

Action / Mystery / Romance / Thriller