New Blu-ray Reviews

Buck Privates Blu-ray Movie  

Universal 100th Anniversary Collector's Series / Blu-ray + DVD

Universal Studios | 1941 | 84 min | Not rated | Apr 17, 2012 | Jeffrey Kauffman

Comedy legends Bud Abbott and Lou Costello cemented their place in film history with the hilarious wartime comedy classic BUCK PRIVATES. After spending years on stage in burlesque and on radio perfecting classic routines such as "Who's on First?," the duo transitioned to motion pictures at Universal in 1940. In their first leading roles, Bud and Lou play con artists who accidentally enlist in the U/S.Army to avoid going to jail. Making matters worse, their no-nonsense drill sergeant turns out to be the cop who tried to arrest them! Featuring classic routines such as "Drill," "Dice Game" and "You're Forty, She's Ten," the film also starred the popular singing group The Andrews Sisters performing the Academy Award-nominated song "Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy." Following the success of BUCK PRIVATES, Bud and Lou made an astounding 26 more movies at Universal leaving a legacy of laughter that will be treasured forever.

Comedy / Musical / War

The Terror Experiment Blu-ray Movie  

Fight or Flight

Starz / Anchor Bay | 2010 | 82 min | Not rated | Apr 10, 2012 | Martin Liebman

A terrorist sets off an explosion that rocks the Federal Building and unleashes a toxic gas throughout the ventilation system. His purpose: to expose the Government's secret biological warfare weapon, a deadly virus that instantly attacks a person's adrenal system, causing them to become inhumanly aggressive, with an uncontrollable urge to kill each other.

Action / Thriller

A Night to Remember Blu-ray Movie    

Digitally Re-Mastered Centenary Edition

ITV DVD | 1958 | 123 min | Rated BBFC: PG | Mar 19, 2012 | Dr. Svet Atanasov

On its maiden voyage in April 1912, the supposedly unsinkable RMS Titanic hits an iceberg in the Atlantic Ocean.

Drama / History

The Legend of the Legendary Heroes, Part 2 Blu-ray Movie  

Limited Edition / Blu-ray + DVD

FUNimation Entertainment | 2010 | 300 min | Rated TV-14 | Apr 17, 2012 | Jeffrey Kauffman

Ryner Lute is a lazy student of Roland Empire Royal Magician's school. One day, Roland Empire goes to war against a neighboring country Estabule, and he lost his classmates in the battle. After the war, Lute sets out for a journey to search the relics of a "Legendary Hero" at Emperor Sion Astar's command. And he finds out a deadly curse spreading the continent.

Action / Adventure / Anime / Fantasy / Foreign

Battle of the Bulge Blu-ray Movie  

Warner Bros. | 1965 | 170 min | Not rated | May 15, 2007 | Martin Liebman

This World War II spectacular tells the story of the tank battles of December, 1944, in which the Nazi Panzer forces staged a massive last-ditch offensive on the Belgian front.

Action / Drama / History / War

War Horse Blu-ray Movie  

Blu-ray + DVD + Digital Copy

Disney / Buena Vista | 2011 | 147 min | Rated PG-13 | Apr 03, 2012 | Kenneth Brown

The friendship between a boy and a horse who are separated but whose fates continue to be intertwined over the course of World War I.

Adventure / Drama / History / War / Melodrama / Epic / Period

BuzzKill Blu-ray Movie  

Indican | 2012 | 94 min | Not rated | Feb 14, 2012 | Brian Orndorf

A struggling writer, Ray Wyatt, acquires fame in an unusual way when a notorious serial murderer, named the Karaoke Killer, steals his car and the newest draft of his script.

Dark humor

Roadracers Blu-ray Movie  

Director's Cut

Echo Bridge Entertainment | 1994 | 93 min | Rated R | Apr 17, 2012 | Martin Liebman

Cynical look at a 1950's rebellious Rocker who has to confront his future, thugs with knives, and the crooked town sheriff. The film originally aired on Showtime Network as part of their Rebel Highway series that took the titles of 1950's-era B-movies and applied them to original films starring up-and-coming actors of the 1990's.

Action / Drama

The Legend of the Legendary Heroes, Part 1 Blu-ray Movie  

Limited Edition / Blu-ray + DVD

FUNimation Entertainment | 2010 | 325 min | Rated TV-14 | Apr 17, 2012 | Jeffrey Kauffman

Ryner Lute is a lazy student of Roland Empire Royal Magician's school. One day, Roland Empire goes to war against a neighboring country Estabule, and he lost his classmates in the battle. After the war, Lute sets out for a journey to search the relics of a "Legendary Hero" at Emperor Sion Astar's command. And he finds out a deadly curse spreading the continent.

Action / Adventure / Anime / Fantasy / Foreign

The Asphyx Blu-ray Movie  

Redemption | 1972 | 1 Movie, 2 Cuts | 83 min | Rated PG | Apr 17, 2012 | Casey Broadwater

Hugo is a brilliant turn-of-the-century scientist-loved and respected by his family and friends, admired by his colleagues. But he is a man quickly becoming obsessed with a curious and frightening question... what is the mysterious apparition found in the photographs of his dying subjects? Hugo brings to a family boating party his newest invention-a motion picture camera. The party quickly turns into a disaster as he captures on film the tragic drowning of his son and his fiancee. When the film is replayed later, the same ghostlike presence appears. It flies towards his son, and vanishes inside his dying body. Has Hugo discovered The Asphyx, the spirit of the dead described in Greek mythology?

Horror / Sci-Fi

Fullmetal Alchemist the Movie: The Sacred Star of Milos Blu-ray Movie  

Blu-ray + DVD

FUNimation Entertainment | 2011 | 110 min | Rated TV-14 | Apr 24, 2012 | Jeffrey Kauffman

After a mysterious prisoner with only a few weeks left on his sentence breaks out of prison in Central City, the Elric brothers attempt to track him down. The search leads them to Table City in the southwestern country of Creta, where Alphonse rescues a young alchemist named Julia from the very man they are trying to capture. In the thick of the fight, they literally tumble into Julia's home turf, the slums of Milos Valley, and are embroiled in the grassroots rebellion of her people. Takes place after episode 20 of the Brotherhood series.

Action / Adventure / Anime / Comedy / Drama / Fantasy / Sci-Fi / Foreign / Period

David Lean Directs Noël Coward Blu-ray Movie  

Criterion | 1942-1945 | 4 Movies | 409 min | Not rated | Mar 27, 2012 | Dr. Svet Atanasov

See individual titles for their synopses.

Comedy / Drama / Fantasy / Romance / War / Supernatural

Dvorak: Rusalka Blu-ray Movie  

Kultur | 2010 | 189 min | Rated G | Mar 27, 2012 | Jeffrey Kauffman

No synopsis for this title.

Music

The Divide Blu-ray Movie  

Unrated / Blu-ray + DVD

Starz / Anchor Bay | 2011 | 122 min | Unrated | Apr 17, 2012 | Martin Liebman

Nine strangers -- all tenants of a New York high rise apartment --escape a nuclear attack by hiding out in the building's bunker-like basement. Trapped for days underground with no hope for rescue, and only unspeakable horrors awaiting them on the other side of the bunker door, the group begins to descend into madness, each turning on one another with physical and psycho-sexual torment.

Drama / Horror / Sci-Fi / Thriller

Sharpe's Rifles & Eagle Blu-ray Movie  

BFS Entertainment | 1993 | 2 Seasons | 208 min | Not rated | Apr 17, 2012 | Kenneth Brown

In the midst of the desperate missions and battles of the Napoleonic Wars, maverick British officer Richard Sharpe rises through the ranks of Wellington’s army by his own daring deeds and ambition. Adapted from Bernard Cornwell's bestselling novels.

Action / Adventure / Drama / War

Going Postal Blu-ray Movie  

Acorn Media | 2010 | 183 min | Not rated | Sep 20, 2011 | Michael Reuben

In the fantasy world of Ankh Morpork, a con man named Moist von Lipwig is sentenced to death, but Lord Vetinari offers him a choice: he can walk out of the door (and fall to his death) or become Postmaster of the city's rundown Post Office. Lipwig chooses the latter and enters a world of eccentrics, mysteries and deadly conspiracies.

Comedy / Fantasy

Assault on a Queen Blu-ray Movie  

Olive Films | 1966 | 106 min | Unrated | Mar 27, 2012 | Jeffrey Kauffman

A group of adventurers refloat a WWII German submarine and prepare to use it to pull a very large heist; The Queen Mary which they plan to rob on the high seas.

Adventure / Crime / Thriller

High Road to China Blu-ray Movie  

Hen's Tooth Video | 1983 | 105 min | Rated PG | Apr 17, 2012 | Michael Reuben

Patrick O'Malley, a boozing, washed-up aviator, meets his match when he's hired by determined heiress Eve Tozer to find her long lost father. They travel east in O'Malley's WWI biplanes, surviving close calls, combat with warlords and attacks by mysterious enemies along the way. But nothing tops the ongoing battle they have with each other - which leads, inevitably, to romance.

Adventure / Drama / Romance / War

Windtalkers Blu-ray Movie  

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer | 2002 | 134 min | Rated R | Nov 28, 2006 | Michael Reuben

Marine Joe Enders is assigned to protect Ben Yahzee, a Navajo code talker, the Marines' new secret weapon, but if Yahzee should fall into enemy hands, he's to protect the code at all costs. Against the backdrop of the horrific Battle of Saipan, when capture is imminent, Enders is forced to make a decision: if he can't protect his fellow Marine, can he bring himself to kill him to protect the code?

Action / Drama / War

The Iron Lady Blu-ray Movie  

Blu-ray + DVD + Digital Copy

Starz / Anchor Bay | 2011 | 105 min | Rated PG-13 | Apr 10, 2012 | Martin Liebman

Biopic starring Meryl Streep in an Oscar-winning performance as former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. Thatcher's life and political career are portrayed in flashback from the perspective of her later years as she struggles with Alzheimer's disease and grieves for her recently-deceased husband, Dennis (Jim Broadbent). The film traces her life from her childhood years in the family grocer's shop through to her graduation from Oxford, her early working life and her decision to enter politics. Her eleven-year stint in office is marked not only by her strictly conservative and hard-nosed leadership style, which earn her the nickname 'The Iron Lady', but also by spending cuts, strikes, the introduction of an unpopular poll tax and the Falklands War.

Biography / Drama / History / Period