New Blu-ray Reviews

Disclosure Blu-ray Movie  

Warner Bros. | 1994 | 128 min | Rated R | Mar 06, 2012 | Michael Reuben

An executive at a high-tech firm is passed over for a promotion, only to discover that his new boss is a woman with whom he'd had an affair 10 years earlier. When the woman immediately makes an aggressive sexual overture toward him, the man sues for sexual harassment, which uncovers a series of revelations about his own past and the future of his company.

Drama / Thriller

Puzzle of a Downfall Child Blu-ray Movie    

Portrait d'une enfant déchue

Carlotta Films | 1970 | 105 min | Rated U Tous publics | Feb 22, 2012 | Dr. Svet Atanasov

Lou Andreas Sand, a once famous model, recalls her past as she tries to make success in the modeling world of New York...

Drama

Where Love Has Gone Blu-ray Movie  

Olive Films | 1964 | 111 min | Unrated | Feb 28, 2012 | Jeffrey Kauffman

After his teenage daughter Danny is arrested for the murder of his ex-wife's current lover, Luke Miller recalls his marriage to Valerie Hayden and the subsequent events which led to the tragedy. The lurid story seems to have been suggested by the real-life Lana Turner/Johnny Stompanato/Cheryl Crane murder scandal of six years earlier when Lana's daughter Cheryl stabbed her mother's boyfriend (Stompanato) to death in the bedroom of Lana's Beverly Hills home.

Drama

X: The Unheard Music Blu-ray Movie  

MVD/VSC | 1986 | 84 min | Not rated | Dec 13, 2011 | Jeffrey Kauffman

X: The Unheard Music takes long, detailed, and often funny look at the LA music scene of the late 70s and 80s and focuses on the group that critics had singled out as the leader of the underground pack. The Unheard Music is a documentary that combines live footage of the band and interviews with the four members (as well as their friends and families) with surreal music videos and montages of newsreel footage and vintage television commercials which help to illustrate X's uphill struggle against the music industry. Their story rings true even today. Bonus interviews and more.

Documentary / Music

How the Universe Works Blu-ray Movie  

Discovery Channel | 2010 | 344 min | Rated TV-PG | Feb 28, 2012 | Kenneth Brown

How The Universe Works shows you how the cosmos is designed, built and how it actually works. From the beginning of time, stars, galaxies, planets, solar systems and more have been working individually and together to produce all that is and all that we see. See as never before the inner workings of our world, and explore black holes, supernovas, neutron stars, dark energy and all the titanic forces that make us who we are. With a dynamic cast of experts and a new generation of CGI, How the Universe Works looks under the celestial hood to reveal the inner workings of outer space: the story of how it's made and how it runs. This is your ultimate Cosmos Operator's Manual.

Documentary

My Week with Marilyn Blu-ray Movie  

Blu-ray + DVD

Starz / Anchor Bay | 2011 | 99 min | Rated R | Mar 13, 2012 | Martin Liebman

Colin Clark met Marilyn Monroe while working as a young assistant on Laurence Olivier's "The Prince and the Showgirl." When Marilyn experienced emotional difficulties during shooting, the 23-year-old third assistant director came to her aid and romance developed. But one week of honesty and fun was not enough to save the doomed star from self-destruction.

Biography / Drama

Nijinsky Blu-ray Movie  

Olive Films | 1980 | 98 min | Rated R | Feb 28, 2012 | Jeffrey Kauffman

Set in the early 1910s at a time of passionate artistic experimentalism, and based on biographical fact, this is the story of Vaslav Nijinsky, the young and brilliant but headstrong premier danseur and aspiring choreographer of the Ballets Russes. The company is managed by the famous Sergei Diaghilev, himself a controlling and fiercely possessive impresario. The increasing tension between these powerful egos, exacerbated by homosexual desire and jealousy, becomes triangular when the young ballerina Romola de Pulsky determinedly attempts to draw the increasingly mentally unstable Nijinsky away from Diaghilev.

Biography / Drama / Music

Lady for a Day Blu-ray Movie  

Inception Media Group | 1933 | 96 min | Not rated | Mar 20, 2012 | Michael Reuben

Apple Annie is an indigent woman who has always written to her daughter in Spain that she is a member of New York's high society. Now her daughter plans to return to the United States with her new fiance and his father, a Spanish count. Annie must pretend to be wealthy or the count will not give his blessing. She gets the help of Dave the Dude, who considers Annie a good luck charm, to obtain a luxury apartment and entertain the visitors, but things don't go quite as planned...

Comedy / Drama

The Little Shop of Horrors Blu-ray Movie  

Legend | 1960 | 72 min | Not rated | Mar 06, 2012 | Jeffrey Kauffman

Seymour is a young man who works in a flower store. He manages to create a carnivorous plant that feeds on human flesh. Nobody knows about it, so Seymour and the plant become good "friends". The plant needs food to grow up, so it convinces him to start killing people.

Comedy

The Adventures of Tintin Blu-ray Movie  

Blu-ray + DVD + UV Digital Copy

Paramount Pictures | 2011 | 107 min | Rated PG | Mar 13, 2012 | Martin Liebman

Animated adventure film bringing Hergé's Tintin to the big screen. With plot lines drawn from three Tintin stories - 'The Crab With the Golden Claws', 'The Secret of the Unicorn' and 'Red Rackham's Treasure' - the film follows intrepid young reporter Tintin as he joins forces with Captain Haddock to find the treasure of his ancestor, Sir Francis Haddoque. A clue hidden inside a model ship bought from a market stall seems to point the way to the Captain's treasure. With the assistance of accident-prone Detectives Thompson and Thomson, Tintin and Haddock set out to solve the mystery. Needless to say, however, they are not the only ones after the loot.

Action / Adventure / Animation / Family / Mystery / Comic book

The Adventures of Tintin 3D Blu-ray Movie  

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

Paramount Pictures | 2011 | 107 min | Rated PG | Mar 13, 2012 | Martin Liebman

Animated adventure film bringing Hergé's Tintin to the big screen. With plot lines drawn from three Tintin stories - 'The Crab With the Golden Claws', 'The Secret of the Unicorn' and 'Red Rackham's Treasure' - the film follows intrepid young reporter Tintin as he joins forces with Captain Haddock to find the treasure of his ancestor, Sir Francis Haddoque. A clue hidden inside a model ship bought from a market stall seems to point the way to the Captain's treasure. With the assistance of accident-prone Detectives Thompson and Thomson, Tintin and Haddock set out to solve the mystery. Needless to say, however, they are not the only ones after the loot.

Action / Adventure / Animation / Family / Mystery / Comic book

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy Blu-ray Movie    

Double Play / Blu-ray + DVD

Studio Canal | 2011 | 127 min | Rated BBFC: 15 | Jan 30, 2012 | Dr. Svet Atanasov

In the bleak days of the Cold War, espionage veteran George Smiley is forced from semi-retirement to uncover a Soviet agent within MI6's echelons.

Drama / Mystery / Thriller / Psychological thriller / Period

Top Gear: The Complete Season 17 Blu-ray Movie  

BBC | 2011 | 348 min | Not rated | Feb 28, 2012 | Kenneth Brown

The Top Gear crew embark on their seventeenth season.

Comedy / Documentary / Sport

Confucius Blu-ray Movie  

孔子 / Kong zi / Blu-ray + DVD

FUNimation Entertainment | 2010 | 125 min | Rated TV-MA | Mar 27, 2012 | Jeffrey Kauffman

The compelling biography of the Great Sage set in the chaotic and decadent world of the warring states during the Spring and Autumn Period, the film focuses on the turbulent later years of Confucius's life, specifically from his appointment to political office at 51 to his death at 73, and all the dramatic stories in between.

Biography / Drama / History / Foreign

Buck Blu-ray Movie  

IFC Films | 2011 | 88 min | Rated PG | Dec 27, 2011 | Casey Broadwater

Follows horse trainer, Buck Brannaman from his abusive childhood to his phenomenally successful approach to horses. A real-life "horse-whisperer", he eschews the violence of his upbringing and teaches people to communicate with their horses through leadership and sensitivity, not punishment. Buck possesses near magical abilities as he dramatically transforms horses - and people - with his understanding,...

Documentary

Monty Python and the Holy Grail Blu-ray Movie  

Blu-ray + UV Digital Copy

Sony Pictures | 1975 | 92 min | Rated PG | Mar 06, 2012 | Martin Liebman

An absurdist send-up of the legend of King Arthur and his knights' quest for the Holy Grail.

Adventure / Comedy / Dark humor / Imaginary / Surreal

Heart: Dreamboat Annie Live Blu-ray Movie  

Summit Entertainment | 2007 | 83 min | Not rated | Nov 25, 2008 | Michael Reuben

A live concert recorded on April 13, 2007, at the Orpheum Theatre in Los Angeles, in which Ann and Nancy Wilson and the current line-up of their band play every track of their first album, thirty years after its release, plus encore tracks.

Music

The Deer Hunter Blu-ray Movie  

Universal 100th Anniversary / Blu-ray + DVD

Universal Studios | 1978 | 184 min | Rated R | Mar 06, 2012 | Jeffrey Kauffman

Three friends volunteer to serve in Vietnam, they fail to foresee the horrors that will encapsulate their future lives.

Drama / War / Melodrama

Killing Bono Blu-ray Movie  

Arc Entertainment | 2010 | 114 min | Rated R | Aug 07, 2012 | Michael Reuben

A dark comedy about the people who <i>don't</i> find fame and fortune, the film is loosely based on the lives of brothers Neil and Ivan McCormick, who grew up with the members of U2 and played in a rival band, only to watch their former schoolmates become world famous while the McCormick brothers continued to struggle for recognition.

Comedy / Music / Dark humor

The Front Line Blu-ray Movie    

고지전 / Go-ji-jeon

Cine-Asia | 2011 | 133 min | Rated BBFC: 15 | Feb 27, 2012 | Dr. Svet Atanasov

A veteran intelligence officer accepts the assignment and discovers mysterious and tragic occurrences surrounding a former comrade he had long thought dead. In the epic battle for survival that follows, the two men become locked in a deadly battle of wills. One will sacrifice his humanity for the sake of his 'brothers'; the other will discover compassion in the agonies of war. Ultimately, both will be forced to fight side-by-side, so their loved ones can enjoy freedom for just one more day.

Drama / War / Foreign