New Blu-ray Reviews
Home- January 21, 2012
Annie Hall Blu-ray Movie
The Woody Allen Collection
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer | 1977 | 93 min | Rated PG | Jan 24, 2012 | Casey Broadwater
A comedian and an aspiring singer try to overcome their neuroses and find happiness.
Comedy / Drama / Romance
Finding Life Beyond Earth Blu-ray Movie
Nova: Finding Life Beyond Earth
PBS | 2011 | 113 min | Not rated | Jan 10, 2012 | Brian Orndorf
Take a spectacular trip to distant realms of our solar system to discover where secret forms of life may lie hidden. Combining the latest telescope images with dazzling animation, this program immerses audiences in the sights and sounds of alien worlds, while top astrobiologists explain how these places are changing how we think about the potential for life in our solar system. We used to think our neighboring planets and moons were fairly boring—mostly cold, dead rocks where life could never take hold. Today, however, the solar system looks wilder than we ever imagined.
Documentary / Thriller
- January 20, 2012
Nothing in Common Blu-ray Movie
Image Entertainment | 1986 | 119 min | Rated PG | Jan 31, 2012 | Michael Reuben
David Basner fled an unhappy home for a successful life in advertising, but he has remained a perpetual child. Then one day his father calls to announce that his mother has left him. Suddenly David finds himself pulled back into his parents' lives, only now it's David who has to be the grown-up. And these responsibilities couldn't come at a worse time, as David struggles to land the most important deal of his career.
Comedy / Drama / Romance
Drive Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + UV Digital Copy
Sony Pictures | 2011 | 100 min | Rated R | Jan 31, 2012 | Martin Liebman
A Hollywood stunt performer who moonlights as a wheelman discovers that a contract has been put on him after a heist gone wrong.
Crime / Drama / Thriller / Heist
The Roots of Heaven Blu-ray Movie
Limited Edition to 3000 - SOLD OUT
Twilight Time | 1958 | 126 min | Not rated | Jan 17, 2012 | Jeffrey Kauffman
A Nazi POW survivor makes zealous and misguided attempts to save the elephant herds of French Africa from big game poachers and hungry natives.
Adventure / Drama
To Kill a Mockingbird Blu-ray Movie
Universal 100th Anniversary | Collector's Series | Commemorative Limited Edition / Blu-ray + DVD + Digital Copy
Universal Studios | 1962 | 129 min | Not rated | Jan 31, 2012 | Jeffrey Kauffman
Atticus Finch, a lawyer in the Depression-era South, defends a black man against an undeserved rape charge, and his kids against prejudice.
Crime / Drama / Mystery
The Thing Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + DVD + UV Digital Copy
Universal Studios | 2011 | 103 min | Rated R | Jan 31, 2012 | Kenneth Brown
At an Antarctica research site, the discovery of an alien craft leads to a confrontation between graduate student Kate Lloyd and scientist Dr. Sander Halvorson. While Dr. Halvorson keeps to his research, Kate partners with Sam Carter, a helicopter pilot, to pursue the alien life form.
Horror / Mystery / Sci-Fi / Thriller
Rolling Thunder Blu-ray Movie
Double Play | Special Edition / Blu-ray + DVD
Studio Canal | 1977 | 100 min | Rated BBFC: 18 | Jan 30, 2012 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
Major Charles Rane comes back from the war and is given a number of gifts from his hometown because he is a war hero. Some greedy thugs decide that they want to steal a number of silver dollars from him. In the process they also manage to kill his wife and son and destroy his hand. The Major wants revenge so he enlists the help of his war buddy Johnny to meet the thugs in a final showdown.
Action / Crime / Drama
Star Trek: The Next Generation, The Next Level Blu-ray Movie
A Taste of TNG in High Definition
Paramount Pictures | 1987-1992 | 183 min | Rated TV-PG | Jan 31, 2012 | Martin Liebman
The sampler disc will include both parts of the series premiere "Encounter at Farpoint", the Season Three episode "Sins of the Father" and the Season Five episode "The Inner Light".
Action / Adventure / Sci-Fi
- January 19, 2012
Real Steel Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + DVD + Digital Copy
Disney / Buena Vista | 2011 | 127 min | Rated PG-13 | Jan 24, 2012 | Martin Liebman
Charlie Kenton is a washed-up fighter who lost his chance at a title when 2000-pound, 8-foot-tall steel robots took over the ring. Now nothing but a small-time promoter, Charlie earns just enough money piecing together low-end bots from scrap metal to get from one underground boxing venue to the next. When Charlie hits rock bottom, he reluctantly teams up with his estranged son Max to build and train...
Action / Drama / Sci-Fi / Sport
Gantz II: Perfect Answer Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + DVD
Viz Pictures | 2011 | 142 min | Not rated | Jan 17, 2012 | Jeffrey Kauffman
Kei, the college boy, has become a stern warrior in the service of Gantz, a black sphere that brought him and Masaru inexplicably back to life after a fatal encounter with an oncoming subway train. He and others among the newly dead accumulate points by killing aliens on missions assigned to them by Gantz. With 100 points, they can either escape their limbo and lose all memory of their time there or return another person to life.
Action / Horror / Mystery / Sci-Fi / Comic book / Foreign
The Shiver of the Vampires Blu-ray Movie
Strange Things Happen at Night / Le frisson des vampires
Redemption | 1971 | 95 min | Rated R | Jan 24, 2012 | Casey Broadwater
A young honeymooning couple stop for the night at an ancient castle. Unbeknownst to them, the castle is home to a horde of vampires, who have their own plans for the couple.
Horror / Erotic / Foreign / Surreal / Period
The Toy Blu-ray Movie
Image Entertainment | 1982 | 102 min | Rated PG | Jan 24, 2012 | Michael Reuben
Writer Jack Brown needs a job to save his house from foreclosure, but the only job he can find is as a "cleaning woman" in the department store owned by tycoon U.S. Bates. There Jack is seen working by Eric Bates, the tycoon's spoiled but lonely son, who is home from military school for his annual one-week visit. Eric's father has said he can have "anything" in the store -- and Eric wants Jack!
Comedy / Family
- January 18, 2012
Dutch Blu-ray Movie
Starz / Anchor Bay | 1991 | 108 min | Rated PG-13 | Jan 17, 2012 | Martin Liebman
Volunteering to drive his girl friend's son home for Thanksgiving to Chicago from his boarding school in Georgia, little does Dutch expect the picaresque adventures in store for him. When a blunt, down-to-earth construction worker takes to the road with an insufferable twelve-year-old snob (desperately insecure under the surface) who doesn't approve of him in the least, quite a bit must happen before they can reach their destination as friends-- or, for that matter, get home at all.
Adventure / Comedy / Drama / Holiday
Courageous Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + UV Digital Copy
Sony Pictures | 2011 | 129 min | Rated PG-13 | Jan 17, 2012 | Martin Liebman
Four men, one calling: To serve and protect. As law enforcement officers, Adam Mitchell, Nathan Hayes, David Thomson, and Shane Fuller are confident and focused. Yet at the end of the day, they face a challenge that none of them are truly prepared to tackle: fatherhood. While they consistently give their best on the job, good enough seems to be all they can muster as dads. But they're quickly discovering...
Action / Drama / Family
Picnic Blu-ray Movie
Limited Edition to 3000 - SOLD OUT
Twilight Time | 1955 | 115 min | Rated PG | Jan 17, 2012 | Jeffrey Kauffman
The morning of a small town Labor Day picnic, a drifter blows into town to visit an old fraternity buddy who also happens to be the son of the richest man in town. Hal is an egocentric braggart - all potential and no accomplishment. He meets up with Madge Owens, the town beauty queen and girlfriend of Alan Benson.
Drama / Romance
Stir Crazy Blu-ray Movie
Image Entertainment | 1980 | 111 min | Rated R | Jan 24, 2012 | Michael Reuben
Skip and Harry are framed for a bank robbery and end up in a western prison. The two eastern boys are having difficulty adjusting to the new life until the warden finds that Skip has a natural talent for riding broncos with the inter-prison rodeo coming up.
Comedy / Crime
Kill List Blu-ray Movie
Double Play / Blu-ray + DVD
Studio Canal | 2011 | 95 min | Rated BBFC: 18 | Dec 26, 2011 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
Nearly a year after a botched job, a hitman takes a new assignment with the promise of a big payoff for three killings. What starts off as an easy task soon unravels in an unforeseen direction.
Crime / Drama / Horror / Thriller
- January 17, 2012
The Double Blu-ray Movie
Image Entertainment | 2011 | 98 min | Rated PG-13 | Jan 31, 2012 | Michael Reuben
Story kicks off with the mysterious murder of a senator bearing the marks of a Soviet assassin, who was long thought to be dead. To hunt down the killer, a retired CIA operative, who spent his career going toe-to-toe with his Soviet nemesis, is teamed with a young FBI agent.
Crime / Drama / Mystery / Thriller
Primeval: Volume 3, Series 4 and 5 Blu-ray Movie
BBC | 2011 | 581 min | Not rated | Jan 10, 2012 | Kenneth Brown
When strange anomalies in time start to appear all over England, the Anomaly Research Centre has to help track down and capture all sorts of dangerous prehistoric creatures from Earth\'s distant past.
Action / Adventure / Fantasy