New Blu-ray Reviews

New Year's Eve Blu-ray Movie  

Blu-ray/DVD Combo + UV Digital Copy

Warner Bros. | 2011 | 118 min | Rated PG-13 | May 01, 2012 | Kenneth Brown

The lives of several couples and singles in New York intertwine over the course of New Year's Eve.

Comedy / Romance / Holiday

The Grey Blu-ray Movie  

Blu-ray + DVD + UV Digital Copy

Universal Studios | 2011 | 118 min | Rated R | May 15, 2012 | Jeffrey Kauffman

A group of oil-rig roughnecks are left stranded on the sub-arctic tundra after their plane experiences a complete mechanical failure and crashes into the remote Alaskan wilderness. The survivors, battling mortal injuries, biting cold and ravenous hunger, are relentlessly hunted and pursued by a vicious pack of rogue wolves.

Action / Adventure / Drama / Thriller

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Starz / Anchor Bay | 2011 | 99 min | Rated BBFC: 15 | Apr 09, 2012 | Dr. Svet Atanasov

July 2010, Montreal, Canada. Sophie Malaterre, 25 years old, fashion designer, is not looking forward to the summer holidays. No projects, no friends, no boyfriend Someone tells her about the website SWITCH.com that allows people to switch houses with someone else for a month. Sophie finds, by chance, a duplex in Paris, with view of the Eiffel Tower. Her first day there is idyllic. The next morning, she is woken up by the cops. A decapitated body is in the room next door. She has no way of proving that she isn't Bénédicte Serteaux, the owner of the duplex.

Action / Crime / Thriller

Birdsong Blu-ray Movie  

Masterpiece Classic

PBS | 2012 | 165 min | Not rated | Apr 24, 2012 | Brian Orndorf

SEBASTIAN FAULKS'S epic love novel set against the First World War has been adapted for the screen for the first time. In two movie-length parts, the story tells of Stephen Wraysford (EDDIE REDMAYNE), a young Englishman who arrives in Amiens in Northern France to stay with the Azaire family and falls desperately in love with Isabelle Azaire (CLMENCE POSY). They begin an illicit and all-consuming affair, but the relationship falters. Years later, Stephen finds himself serving on the Western Front in the very area where he experienced his great love. As he battles amidst the blood and gore of the trenches he meets Jack Firebrace (JOSEPH MAWLE), a tunneller who unexpectedly helps him endure the ravages of war and enables him to make peace with his feelings for Isabelle.

Drama / Romance / War / Period

Beyond Blu-ray Movie  

Starz / Anchor Bay | 2011 | 90 min | Not rated | May 22, 2012 | Martin Liebman

A detective on a mission to find the kidnapped granddaughter of the Chief of Police. The straight laced Koski is unwillingly paired up to solve the case with Farley, a famous psychic claiming to have had visions of Amy. The investigation grows stranger as they get deeper into it, revealing a troubled family and their haunted house. Koski begins to question his sanity and is forced to confront a dark secret of his own.

Thriller

George Harrison: Living in the Material World Blu-ray Movie  

Hip-O Records | 2011 | 210 min | Not rated | May 01, 2012 | Jeffrey Kauffman

The film focuses the imaginative and inspired eye of one of cinema's most preeminent filmmakers on one of the world's most influential men. The film takes viewers on the musical and spiritual voyage that was George Harrison's life, much of it told in his own words. The result is deeply moving and touches each viewer in unique and individual ways.

Documentary / Music

The Aggression Scale Blu-ray Movie  

Starz / Anchor Bay | 2012 | 85 min | Not rated | May 29, 2012 | Martin Liebman

Four heavily armed hitmen and two unusual teenagers go to war over $500,000 of stolen cash.

Action / Thriller

Boogie Woogie Blu-ray Movie  

MPI Media Group | 2009 | 94 min | Rated R | Sep 14, 2010 | Michael Reuben

An art dealer and gallery owner is desperate to acquire 'Boogie-Woogie', a Mondrian painting he covets above all others. Its owners, the ailing Alfred Rhinegold and his wife Alfreda, do all they can to raise the price by courting rival bidders. A whirlwind of wheeling, dealing and bed-hopping ensues as lives and careers are made and broken.

Comedy / Drama

Being John Malkovich Blu-ray Movie  

Criterion | 1999 | 113 min | Not rated | May 15, 2012 | Dr. Svet Atanasov

A puppeteer discovers a portal that leads into the mind of John Malkovich.

Comedy / Drama / Dark humor / Imaginary / Surreal

Joyful Noise Blu-ray Movie  

Blu-ray + DVD + UV Digital Copy

Warner Bros. | 2012 | 118 min | Rated PG-13 | May 01, 2012 | Kenneth Brown

The small town of Pacashau, Georgia, has fallen on hard times, but the people are counting on the Divinity Church Choir to lift their spirits by winning the National Joyful Noise Competition. The choir has always known how to sing in harmony, but the discord between its two leading ladies now threatens to tear them apart. Their newly appointed director, Vi Rose Hill, stubbornly wants to stick with their tried-and-true traditional style, while the fiery G.G. Sparrow thinks tried-and-true translates to tired-and-old. Shaking things up even more is the arrival of G.G.'s rebellious grandson, Randy. Randy has an ear for music, but he also has an eye for Vi Rose's beautiful and talented daughter, Olivia, and the sparks between the two teenagers are causing even more friction between G.G. and Vi Rose.

Comedy / Drama / Music

The Vow Blu-ray Movie  

Blu-ray + DVD

Sony Pictures | 2012 | 104 min | Rated PG-13 | May 08, 2012 | Martin Liebman

Real-life story of a newlywed New Mexico couple, Kim and Krickitt Carpenter, who were struck by tragedy shortly after their marriage. A car crash puts the wife in a coma, where she is cared for by her devoted husband. When she comes to, without any memory of her husband or their marriage, the husband must woo her and ultimately win her heart once again.

Drama / Romance

Some Days Are Better Than Others Blu-ray Movie  

Palisades Tartan | 2010 | 93 min | Not rated | Apr 24, 2012 | Casey Broadwater

No synopsis for this title.

Drama

Be Kind Rewind Blu-ray Movie  

New Line Cinema | 2008 | 102 min | Rated PG-13 | Jun 17, 2008 | Martin Liebman

Jerry is a junkyard worker who attempts to sabotage a power plant that he believes is melting his brain. But, when his plan goes awry, the magnetic field that he creates accidentally erases all of the videotapes in a local video store where his best friend Mike works. Fearing that the mishap will cost Mike his job, the two friends team up to keep the store's only loyal customer—a little old lady with a tenuous grasp on reality—from realizing what has happened by recreating and re-filming every movie that she decides to rent. From "Back to the Future," to "Robocop," to "Rush Hour," to "The Lion King," Jerry and Mike become the biggest stars in their neighborhood by starring in the biggest movies ever made.

Comedy / Sci-Fi

Puella Magi Madoka Magica: Box Set Volume 1 Blu-ray Movie  

Limited Edition / Blu-ray + DVD + CD

Aniplex | 2011 | 100 min | Rated 13+ | Feb 14, 2012 | Jeffrey Kauffman

"Has a loving family and best friends, laughs and cries from time to time..." Madoka Kaname, an eighth grader at Mitakihara middle school, lives such a life. One day, she has a very magical encounter. She doesn't know if it's by chance or by fate yet, but this meeting will change her destiny. This is the beginning of a new story of magical girls...

Anime / Drama / Fantasy / Psychological thriller / Foreign

The Wizard of Gore / The Gore Gore Girls Blu-ray Movie  

Image Entertainment | 1970-1972 | 2 Movies | 176 min | Unrated | May 01, 2012 | Michael Reuben

See individual titles for synopses.

Comedy / Horror / Mystery

Nazis at the Center of the Earth Blu-ray Movie  

Asylum | 2012 | 90 min | Rated R | Apr 24, 2012 | Martin Liebman

Researchers in Antarctica are abducted by a team of masked storm troopers. They are dragged deep underground to a hidden continent in the center of the earth. Here Nazi survivors, their bodies a horrifying patchwork of decaying and regenerated flesh, are planning for the revival of the Third Reich.

Horror / Sci-Fi / Thriller / Supernatural

Halloween: Resurrection Blu-ray Movie  

Halloween 8

Echo Bridge Entertainment | 2002 | 90 min | Rated R | Apr 17, 2012 | Martin Liebman

The reality programmers at DangerTainment have selected Rudy, Bill, and a group of thrill-seeking teenagers to spend one fun-filled night in the childhood home of serial killer Michael Myers.

Horror / Thriller

Fauré: Requiem Blu-ray Movie  

Paavo Järvi & L’Orchestre de Paris

EUROARTS | 2012 | 72 min | Not rated | Apr 24, 2012 | Jeffrey Kauffman

No synopsis for this title.

Music

The Odessa File Blu-ray Movie  

Image Entertainment | 1974 | 129 min | Rated PG | May 15, 2012 | Michael Reuben

A German journalist attempts to track down Nazi war criminal.

Drama / Thriller / War

The Order Blu-ray Movie  

Image Entertainment | 2001 | 89 min | Rated R | May 15, 2012 | Michael Reuben

Rudy Cafmeyer, a thief and smuggler who deals in rare objects, must rescue his archaeologist father from a secret religious order that wants to use an ancient artifact to bring about the apocalypse.

Action / Adventure / Comedy