New Blu-ray Reviews

Jack and Jill Blu-ray Movie  

Blu-ray + DVD + UV Digital Copy

Sony Pictures | 2011 | 91 min | Rated PG | Mar 06, 2012 | Martin Liebman

Jack Sadelstein, a successful advertising executive in Los Angeles with a beautiful wife and kids, who dreads one event each year: the Thanksgiving visit of his identical twin sister Jill. Jill's neediness and passive-aggressiveness is maddening to Jack, turning his normally tranquil life upside down.

Comedy

Transformers Prime: Season One Blu-ray Movie  

Limited Edition | Includes 96-page prequel graphic novel

Shout Factory | 2011 | 600 min | Rated TV-Y7 | Mar 06, 2012 | Martin Liebman

The TRANSFORMERS saga starts a new chapter as old foes return, legendary heroes rise, and new ones are found in unlikely places. The new EMMY Award winning series TRANSFORMERS PRIME, A Hasbro Studios production, currently airs on The HUB television network in the U.S. and Teletoons in Canada, deepens the epic mythology of both the AUTOBOTS and DECEPTICONS, while starting a new chapter for a new generation of fans.

Action / Adventure / Animation / Family / Sci-Fi

Kaboom Blu-ray Movie    

Universum Film | 2010 | 86 min | Rated FSK-16 | Oct 28, 2011 | Dr. Svet Atanasov

A sci-fi story centered on the sexual awakening of a group of college students.

Mystery / Sci-Fi / Teen / Dark humor / Erotic / Surreal / Coming of age

The Human Centipede 2 [Full Sequence] Blu-ray Movie  

Unrated Director’s Cut

IFC Films | 2011 | 91 min | Not rated | Feb 14, 2012 | Casey Broadwater

Inspired by the fictional Dr. Heiter, disturbed loner Martin dreams of creating a 12-person centipede and sets out to realize his sick fantasy.

Horror

Arakawa Under the Bridge x Bridge: Season 2 Blu-ray Movie  

Premium Edition / Blu-ray + DVD

NIS America | 2010-2011 | 316 min | Rated PG-13 | Feb 07, 2012 | Jeffrey Kauffman

Just when you thought things couldn't get any weirder by the banks of the mighty Arakawa, they go ahead and get weirder by a whole lot. Rec, Nino, and the rest of the riverside residents return, and with the addition of another batch of nutty citizens the insanity gets turns up to eleven...thousand.

Anime / Comedy / Romance / Comic book / Foreign

Dr. Seuss' The Lorax Blu-ray Movie  

Deluxe Edition / Blu-ray + DVD + UV Digital Copy

Warner Bros. | 1972 | 25 min | Rated TV-G | Feb 14, 2012 | Kenneth Brown

A young boy goes to meet a ruined industrialist in a treeless wasteland and hear his tale of what happened to him. His tragic story is about how he began a thriving business with a useless fashion product derived from the trees of a forest. As his business booms, the forest and its inhabitants suffer as he wantonly clearcuts without regard to the warnings of a wise old creature called the Lorax about the dire consequences of his greed.

Animation / Family / Musical / Short

Tyrannosaur Blu-ray Movie    

Studio Canal | 2011 | 92 min | Rated BBFC: 18 | Feb 06, 2012 | Dr. Svet Atanasov

Joseph, a tormented, self-destructive man plagued by violence, finds hope of redemption in Hannah, a Christian charity-shop worker he meets one day while fleeing an altercation. Initially derisive of her faith and presumed idyllic existence, Joseph nonetheless returns to the shop and soon realizes that Hannah’s life is anything but placid. As a relationship develops, they come to understand the deep pain in each other’s lives. An unconventional love story, Tyrannosaur transcends its bleak circumstances through Joseph and Hannah’s vigorous impulse toward redemption.

Drama

Elite Squad: The Enemy Within Blu-ray Movie  

Tropa de Elite 2: O Inimigo Agora É Outro

Cinedigm | 2010 | 115 min | Rated R | Feb 14, 2012 | Jeffrey Kauffman

After a bloody invasion of the BOPE in the High-Security Penitentiary Bangu 1 in Rio de Janeiro to control a rebellion of interns, the Lieutenant-Colonel Roberto Nascimento and the second in command Captain André Matias are accused by the Human Right Aids member Diogo Fraga of execution of prisoners. Matias is transferred to the corrupted Military Police and Nascimento is exonerated from the BOPE by the Governor. However, due to the increasing popularity of Nascimento, the Governor invites him to team-up with the intelligence area of the Secretary of Security. Along the years, Fraga, who is married with Nascimento's former wife, is elected State Representative and Nascimento's son Rafael has issues with his biological father.

Action / Crime / Drama / Thriller / Foreign

All Things Fall Apart Blu-ray Movie  

Image Entertainment | 2011 | 110 min | Rated R | Feb 14, 2012 | Michael Reuben

A drama centered on a promising football running back during his senior year in college.

Drama / Sport

The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 1 Blu-ray Movie  

Special Edition - Theatrical Version

Summit Entertainment | 2011 | 117 min | Rated PG-13 | Feb 11, 2012 | Martin Liebman

The Quileute and the Volturi close in on expecting parents Edward and Bella, whose unborn child poses different threats to the wolf pack and vampire coven.

Fantasy / Romance / Teen / Supernatural

Santana Greatest Hits Blu-ray Movie  

Live at Montreux 2011

Eagle Rock Entertainment | 2011 | 167 min | Rated G | Feb 21, 2012 | Jeffrey Kauffman

No synopsis for this title.

Music

The Tin Drum Blu-ray Movie    

Die Blechtrommel / Arrow Academy / Blu-ray + DVD

Arrow | 1979 | 1 Movie, 2 Cuts | 163 min | Rated BBFC: 15 | Jan 30, 2012 | Dr. Svet Atanasov

A boy is born in Germany with an advanced intellect. Annoyed by the world around him, he refuses to grow older after his third birthday.

Drama / War / Dark humor / Foreign

Frankenhooker Blu-ray Movie  

Synapse Films | 1990 | 85 min | Not rated | Nov 08, 2011 | Dr. Svet Atanasov

A wacky doctor decides to bring his fiancée back to life after losing her in a lawnmower accident. He uses cocaine addicted hookers to get most of the errr.. parts.

Comedy / Horror / Sci-Fi / Dark humor

Downton Abbey: Season 2 Blu-ray Movie  

Masterpiece Classic: Downton Abbey | Original UK Edition

PBS | 2011 | 548 min | Not rated | Feb 07, 2012 | Brian Orndorf

From the sinking of the Titanic to the end of the First World War, the secure and ordered world of the beloved estate is rocked as the lives of the inhabitants of Downton Abbey are shaped by intrigue, crisis and romance. Season one sets a lavish stage of beautiful scenery and architecture, and a class structure rigid yet just beginning to give way at the beginning of the 20th century, and of the Great War. Season two picks up two years later, in 1916, as the war rages on over Europe, and grand Downton Abbey has been converted into a convalescent hospital for wounded veterans of the brutal combat. In season 3 the Great War is over and a long-awaited engagement is on, but all is not tranquil at Downton Abbey as wrenching social changes, romantic intrigues, and personal crises grip the majestic English country estate.

Drama / Romance / War / Period

Broken Blade: The Complete Film Series Blu-ray Movie  

Sentai Filmworks | 2010-2011 | 6 Movies | 300 min | Rated TV-14 | Feb 21, 2012 | Jeffrey Kauffman

In Cruzon, children are born with the ability to control quartz. This power allows them to levitate simple objects - or control enormous and complex mobile battle suits called Golems. But when an ancient Golem is discovered during the height of a brutal war, a young king and his beautiful queen turn to Rygart Arrow. Though an "un-sorcerer," Rygart can miraculously pilot this ancient and powerful weapon. But in war, school friends can turn into bitter enemies and allies have suspicious motives.

Action / Anime / Drama / Fantasy / Comic book / Foreign

Urbanized Blu-ray Movie  

Cinedigm | 2011 | 85 min | Not rated | Feb 14, 2012 | Jeffrey Kauffman

Documentary about the design of cities, which looks at the issues and strategies behind urban design and features some of the world’s foremost architects, planners, policymakers, builders, and thinkers. Over half the world’s population now lives in an urban area, and 75% will call a city home by 2050. But while some cities are experiencing explosive growth, others are shrinking. The challenges of balancing housing, mobility, public space, civic engagement, economic development, and environmental policy are fast becoming universal concerns.

Documentary

WWE WrestleMania XXIV Blu-ray Movie  

WWE Studios | 2008 | 233 min | Not rated | May 20, 2008 | Martin Liebman

The greatest fighter in the world will battle the world's largest athlete when Floyd "Money" Mayweather Jr. and the 7', 400lb Big Show clash at WrestleMania 24. The WWE Champion will be decided in a Triple Threat Match as John Cena, Triple H, and Randy Orton wage war. And Edge seeks to defend his World Heavyweight Championship in the face of Undertaker's undefeated WrestleMania record of 15-0. Do not miss this legendary event.

Sport

Beavis and Butt-Head: Volume 4 Blu-ray Movie  

Paramount Pictures | 2011 | 251 min | Rated TV-14 | Feb 14, 2012 | Martin Liebman

All-new episodes for 2011!

Animation / Comedy / Music / Short / Teen

Scarlet Street Blu-ray Movie  

Classics Edition

Kino Lorber | 1945 | 102 min | Not rated | Feb 28, 2012 | Casey Broadwater

When a man in mid-life crisis befriends a young woman, her venal fiancé persuades her to con him out of some of the fortune she thinks he has.

Drama / Film-Noir

Into the Universe With Stephen Hawking Blu-ray Movie  

Discovery Channel | 2010 | 180 min | Rated TV-PG | Jan 31, 2012 | Kenneth Brown

Into The Universe with Stephen Hawking is an epic new kind of cosmology series, a Planet Earth of the heavens. It takes the world's most famous scientific mind and sets it free, powered by the limitless possibilities of computer animation. Hawking gives us the ultimate guide to the universe, a ripping yarn based on real science, spanning the whole of space and time -- from the nature of the universe itself, to the chances of alien life, and the real possibility of time travel.

Documentary / Nature / Sci-Fi