New Blu-ray Reviews

Kimi Ni Todoke - From Me To You: Volume 2 Blu-ray Movie  

Premium Edition / Blu-ray + DVD

NIS America | 2010 | 273 min | Rated E | Apr 10, 2012 | Jeffrey Kauffman

Kitahoro High's second term is coming to a close. After dealing with dark rumors and finally confronting her inner emotions, Sawako knows the feelings she holds for Kazehaya are romantic in nature. She has grown more confident thanks to the true friends by her side, but will they be able to remain together even when school is out? Will she be able to tell Kazehaya how she feels?

Anime / Comedy / Drama / Family / Romance / Teen / Comic book / Foreign

The Red House Blu-ray Movie  

Blu-ray + DVD

Film Chest | 1947 | 100 min | Not rated | Apr 24, 2012 | Jeffrey Kauffman

Teenage Meg convinces her schoolmate Nath to come help with chores on the farm where she lives with her aunt and uncle, Ellen and Pete. When Nath insists on using a short cut home through the woods, Pete warns him of danger associated with a mysterious red house. Curious, Meg and Nath ignore his warnings and begin exploring.

Drama / Film-Noir / Horror / Mystery / Thriller

Chasing Madoff Blu-ray Movie  

MPI Media Group | 2010 | 91 min | Not rated | Apr 03, 2012 | Casey Broadwater

The story of Harry Markopolos and his team of investigator's ten-year struggle to expose the harrowing truth behind the infamous Madoff scandal. Throughout the decade long investigation, Markopolos pieced together a chain of white-collar predators consisting of bankers, lieutenants, and henchmen, all linked to the devastating Ponzi scheme. With risk and danger apparent, Markopolos and his loyal team relentlessly continued to pursue the frightening truth. Finding himself trapped in a web of epic deceit, the once unassuming Boston securities analyst turned vigilante investigator now feared for his life and the safety of his family, as he discovered no one would listen.

Documentary

Pariah Blu-ray Movie  

Universal Studios | 2011 | 86 min | Rated R | Apr 24, 2012 | Kenneth Brown

Alike is a 17-year-old African-American woman who lives with her parents and younger sister in Brooklyn's Fort Greene neighborhood. Alike is quietly but firmly embracing her identity as a lesbian. With the support of her best friend, Laura, she is especially eager to find a girlfriend. Wondering how much she can confide in her family, Alike strives to get through adolescence with grace, humor, and...

Drama

The Coast Guard Blu-ray Movie  

Hae anseon / Blu-ray + DVD

Palisades Tartan | 2002 | 95 min | Rated R | Jan 17, 2012 | Dr. Svet Atanasov

At South Korea's border with the North, troops guard the coast. Each bullies those ranking beneath him; tensions are high. PFC Kang and his friend Private Kim are on patrol when drinking youths jeer them. Two nights later, Kang follows orders, opening fire at a person who has infiltrated the border zone. It proves to be a young man, one from the earlier encounter, on a drunken tryst with his girlfriend, Mi-yeong. Kang is commended, yet horrified. Mi-yeong is unhinged. Kim tries to hold onto friendship, duty, and his humanity. While Kang retreats into bizarre behavior and violence, Mi-yeong becomes easy prey to soldiers. Sickness is all.

Action / Drama / War / Foreign

Ocean Odyssey: The Blue Realm Blu-ray Movie  

Image Entertainment | 2004-2008 | 435 min | Not rated | Feb 08, 2011 | Michael Reuben

A natural history series about amazing creatures of the sea. Utilizing superb high-definition imagery, engaging stories and leading marine scientists, the series takes viewers on extraordinary journeys of discovery.

Documentary / Nature

Lourdes Blu-ray Movie    

Artificial Eye | 2009 | 99 min | Rated BBFC: U | Jul 12, 2010 | Dr. Svet Atanasov

In order to escape her isolation, wheelchair-bound Christine makes a life changing journey to Lourdes, the iconic site of pilgrimage in the Pyrenees Mountains

Drama / Foreign

Jillian's Travels: Africa 3D Blu-ray Movie  

Blu-ray 3D

Level 33 | 2012 | 60 min | Not rated | Apr 10, 2012 | Martin Liebman

Jillian's Travels is an adventure filmed in spectacular 3D that brings children and families on the journey of a lifetime. Viewers will take a trip into the heart of Africa, and become immersed in a world where wild animals seem so close you can touch them. Jillian Palmer and her brother, Jack, become our guides when their parents take them on an African safari. The video diaries are fresh, funny, and packed with jaw-dropping 3D images. We experience the biggest annual migration of mammals in the world shot from a hot air balloon floating over the savannah. We get close-up footage of an amazing array of animals up and down the food chain. There are lions, leopards, hippos, hyenas, zebras, giraffes, wildebeests, vultures, gazelles, flamingos, cape buffalo, and many, many more.

Family / Nature

The Bravest Blu-ray Movie  

Image Entertainment | 2001 | 451 min | Not rated | Apr 17, 2012 | Michael Reuben

A reality TV show in the style of COPS chronicling the work of metropolitan firefighters.

Drama

16 Wishes Blu-ray Movie  

Image Entertainment | 2010 | 90 min | Rated G | Nov 16, 2010 | Michael Reuben

Abby Jensen has been planning for her 16th birthday ever since she was a little girl. When the big day actually arrives, she receives a box of Sweet Sixteen Birthday Candles, each of which corresponds to a wish on the Wish List secretly taped to her closet door. As her wishes come true, her day gets better and better until she makes a wish that changes everything and helps her finally understand that being a kid isn't so bad.

Comedy / Drama / Family / Teen / Coming of age

The Tree Blu-ray Movie    

L'arbre

France Télévisions Distribution | 2010 | 101 min | Not rated | Dec 16, 2010 | Dr. Svet Atanasov

The O'Neills lived happily in their house in the Australian countryside. That was until one day fate struck blindly, taking the life of Peter, the father, leaving his grief-stricken wife Dawn alone with their four children. Among them, eight-year-old Simone denies this reality. She is persuaded that her father still lives in the giant fig tree growing near their house and speaks to her through its leaves. But the tree becomes more and more invasive and threatens the house. It must be felled. Of course, Simone won't allow...

Drama / Romance

Jours tranquilles à Clichy Blu-ray Movie    

Quiet Days in Clichy

LCJ Editions | 1990 | 116 min | Not rated | May 02, 2011 | Dr. Svet Atanasov

Expatriate Henry Miller indulges in a variety of sexual escapades while struggling to establish himself as a serious writer in Paris.

Drama / Erotic / Foreign

The Boy In Blue Blu-ray Movie  

Starz / Anchor Bay | 1986 | 97 min | Rated R | Apr 10, 2012 | Martin Liebman

Based on the life of Ned Hanlan, the late-19th century Canadian sculler and world champion. Hanlan was one of the first scullers to successfully utilize the "sliding seat."

Biography / Drama / Sport

The Hills Have Eyes: Part 2 Blu-ray Movie  

Part II

Kino Lorber | 1985 | 86 min | Rated R | Mar 20, 2012 | Casey Broadwater

A group of bikers, which includes some of the survivors from the original film, embark on a journey by bus to a biker race near the desert of the infamous incidents. However, because of a mistake, they are late and decide to take a shortcut through the desert. Halfway through the desert, the bus breaks down. While trying to repair the bus, some of the group wander off and wind up in the traps of the survivors of the mutant family of the first. Then the mutants go after the rest...

Horror

The Terrorists Blu-ray Movie  

Ransom

Starz / Anchor Bay | 1974 | 89 min | Rated PG | Apr 10, 2012 | Martin Liebman

A gang of hijackers led by Ian McShane seize a British plane as it is landing in Scandinavia. Ruthless military police chief Colonel Tahlvik is assigned to rescue the plane and it's passengers. But he must also deal with the problem of the British Ambassador, whose residence has been seized by a second group of terrorists.

Crime / Drama / Thriller

Road Trip Blu-ray Movie  

Paramount Pictures | 2000 | 1 Movie, 2 Cuts | 94 min | Unrated | Sep 11, 2012 | Martin Liebman

Four friends take off on an 1800 mile road trip to retrieve an illicit tape mistakenly mailed to a girl friend.

Comedy / Teen

Frozen Planet Blu-ray Movie  

The Original UK Series

BBC | 2011 | 300 min | Rated TV-G | Apr 17, 2012 | Kenneth Brown

The seven-part series will focus on life in the Arctic and Antarctic. The production team were keen to film a comprehensive record of the natural history of the polar regions, because climate change is affecting landforms such as glaciers, ice shelves, and the extent of sea ice.

Documentary / Nature

Killer Nun Blu-ray Movie  

Suor Omicidi

Blue Underground | 1979 | 88 min | Unrated | Apr 24, 2012 | Dr. Svet Atanasov

A demented nun tortures and kills patients while having a sexual relationship with another nun.

Drama / Horror / Mystery / Thriller / Foreign

A Trip to the Moon Blu-ray Movie  

Le voyage dans la lune / Blu-ray + DVD

Flicker Alley | 1902 | 1 Movie, 2 Cuts | 15 min | Rated G | Apr 10, 2012 | Dr. Svet Atanasov

A group of men travel to the moon by being shot in a capsule from a giant cannon. They are captured by moon-men, escape, and return to the earth.

Adventure / Fantasy / Sci-Fi / Short / Foreign / Surreal

W.E. Blu-ray Movie  

Blu-ray + DVD + Digital Copy

Starz / Anchor Bay | 2011 | 119 min | Rated R | May 01, 2012 | Martin Liebman

Two love stories, one historic and one contemporary, are interwoven. The famous romance between King Edward VIII and American divorcée Wallis Simpson is juxtaposed with the affair of a Russian security guard with a New York trophy wife Wally Winthrop. Wally is obsessed with the story of Edward and the woman he loved, and embarks on her own research of their life together, even attending the Sotheby's auction of the Windsor Estate. She comes to see that their relationship, although glamorous, was not the perfect one that she had imagined it to be.

Drama / Romance / Period