New Blu-ray Reviews

License to Drive Blu-ray Movie  

Starz / Anchor Bay | 1988 | 90 min | Rated PG-13 | Jan 17, 2012 | Martin Liebman

Les doesn't have a driving license yet, but to impress his gorgeous date Mercedes he borrows his grandpa's Cadillac for a night out... and has to witness the poor car going through more and more intense maltreatments.

Comedy / Teen

Abduction Blu-ray Movie  

Blu-ray + Digital Copy

Lionsgate Films | 2011 | 106 min | Rated PG-13 | Jan 17, 2012 | Jeffrey Kauffman

A teen finds himself in mortal danger after realizing that his entire childhood has been built on lies. Realizing that the people who raised him aren't his real parents after stumbling across a childhood photo of himself on a website devoted to missing children, the frightened teen flees for his life as FBI agents Frank Burton and Sandra Burns race to protect him and uncover the truth about his mysterious...

Action / Drama / Mystery / Thriller / Teen

Archer: The Complete Season One Blu-ray Movie  

20th Century Fox | 2009-2010 | 211 min | Rated TV-MA | Dec 27, 2011 | Casey Broadwater

At ISIS, an international spy agency, global crises are merely opportunities for its highly trained employees to confuse, undermine, betray and royally screw each other. At the center of it all is suave master spy Sterling Archer, whose less-than-masculine code name is "Duchess." Archer works with his domineering mother Malory, who also is his boss. He also has to deal with his ex-girlfriend, Agent Lana Kane and her new boyfriend, ISIS comptroller Cyril Figgis, as well as Malory\'s lovesick secretary, Cheryl.

Action / Animation / Comedy / Crime

Shakespeare in Love Blu-ray Movie  

Lionsgate Films | 1998 | 123 min | Rated R | Jan 31, 2012 | Jeffrey Kauffman

It is the summer of 1593, and the rising young star of London's theatre scene, Will Shakespeare, faces a scourge like no other: a paralyzing bout of writer's block. While the great Elizabethan age of entertainment unfolds around him, Will is without inspiration on material. What Will needs is a muse--and in an extraordinary moment in which life imitates art, he finds and falls for a woman who draws him into his own dramatic adventure of star-crossed love. It all begins when Lady Viola, desperate to become an actor at a time when women were forbidden from such depravity, disguises herself as a man to audition for Will's play. But the guise slips away as their passion ignites. Now Will's quill again begins to flow, this time turning love into words, as Viola becomes his real-life Juliet and Romeo finds his reason to exist. Yet all is not well in Will's world. For even as the parchment begins to pile up, he's plagued by the fact that Lady Viola must marry the insufferable Lord Wessex.

Comedy / Drama / Romance / Period

The Nude Vampire Blu-ray Movie  

La vampire nue

Redemption | 1970 | 80 min | Not rated | Jan 24, 2012 | Casey Broadwater

Wealthy and decadent industrialist Georges Radamante rules over a strange secret suicide cult and wants to achieve immortality by figuring out a way to share the biochemistry of a young mute orphaned vampire woman. Complications ensue when Radamante's son Pierre finds out what's going on and falls for the comely lass.

Horror / Erotic / Foreign / Surreal

Orphans Blu-ray Movie    

Park Circus | 1998 | 101 min | Rated BBFC: 18 | Oct 31, 2011 | Dr. Svet Atanasov

Four grown up children come together the night before the funeral of their mother in Glasgow. While Thomas sings a tribute in the local pub, a fight breaks out and Michael is stabbed. John wants to avenge his brother, while Thomas goes to chapel with his sister Sheila for an all-night vigil. Even here, though, is not safe, as a storm tears the roof from the church. Each sibling must find their own way to come to terms with their grief during a turbulent long, dark night of mishaps and misunderstandings. After an emotional and traumatic night, the siblings eventually reunite in grief.

Comedy / Drama

B Gata H Kei: Yamada's First Time: Complete Series Blu-ray Movie  

Limited Edition / Blu-ray + DVD

FUNimation Entertainment | 2010 | 300 min | Rated TV-MA | Jan 31, 2012 | Jeffrey Kauffman

OMG! There's this girl at school, Yamada, who wants to make like a hundred sex friends. She totally thinks she can devirginize one hundred different boys! Can you believe that? That's like every boy in the school. Who does she think she is? I heard that Yamada's never even been kissed. Oh. My. God. I would totally die. That's like burn all your makeup and shave off your eyebrows embarrassing. I can't even think about it. Today at lunch I saw Yamada flirting, like for reals, with that geek Kosuda. You know the guy. Photography club, no muscles, boring face, reminds you of a black-and-white movie. Super lame. If Yamada can't even make the sex with him, she'll never score a hundred cherry boys. She needs to take like Sex Ed or something because I heard she can't give it away! Limited Edition comes in a collectible artbox.

Anime / Comedy / Romance / Teen / Erotic / Foreign

Bucky Larson: Born to Be a Star Blu-ray Movie  

Sony Pictures | 2011 | 97 min | Rated R | Jan 17, 2012 | Martin Liebman

Bucky is a small town grocery bagger, going nowhere in life -- until he discovers that his conservative parents were once adult film stars! Armed with the belief that he has found his destiny, Bucky packs up and heads out to LA, hoping to follow in his parents' footsteps.

Comedy

Rebecca Blu-ray Movie  

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer | 1940 | 131 min | Not rated | Jan 24, 2012 | Jeffrey Kauffman

A young bride is terrorized by the memories of her husband's glamorous first wife.

Drama / Mystery / Romance / Thriller / Psychological thriller

A Lonely Place to Die Blu-ray Movie    

Kaleidoscope Entertainment | 2011 | 99 min | Rated BBFC: 15 | Dec 26, 2011 | Dr. Svet Atanasov

A group of five mountaineers are hiking and climbing in the Scottish Highlands when they discover a young Serbian girl buried in a small chamber in the wilderness. They become caught up in a terrifying game of cat and mouse with the kidnappers as they try to get the girl to safety.

Adventure / Crime / Thriller

The Whistleblower Blu-ray Movie  

20th Century Fox | 2010 | 112 min | Rated R | Jan 24, 2012 | Casey Broadwater

Based on a true story, a female cop from Nebraska serves as a peacekeeper in post-war Bosnia and outs the U.N. for covering up a sex scandal.

Biography / Crime / Drama

Wings Blu-ray Movie  

Paramount Pictures | 1927 | 144 min | Not rated | Jan 24, 2012 | Martin Liebman

Jack works on his sports car and dreams of flying. His neighbor Mary is in love with him but he seems not to notice, having been smitten by the fair Sylvia, but he can't see that Sylvia has eyes only for David. The distant drums of war beckon, and Jack and David train to be pilots in the American Expeditionary Corp. Their rivalry soon evolves into camaraderie as they do aerial battle with the Germans in the skies over France. Meanwhile Mary has joined the Women's Motor Corp and despairs that Jack doesn't notice her.

Action / Drama / Romance / War

Journey to the Center of the Earth 3D Blu-ray Movie  

Blu-ray 3D + Blu-ray

Warner Bros. | 2008 | 92 min | Rated PG | Jan 17, 2012 | Kenneth Brown

A science professor's untraditional hypotheses have made him the laughing stock of the academic community. But on an expedition in Iceland, he and his nephew stumble upon a major discovery that launches them on a thrilling journey deep beneath the Earth's surface, where they travel through never-before-seen worlds and encounter a variety of unusual creatures.

Action / Adventure / Family / Sci-Fi

A Haunting in Salem 3D Blu-ray Movie  

Blu-ray 3D + Blu-ray

Asylum | 2011 | 86 min | Not rated | Oct 04, 2011 | Martin Liebman

The new sheriff of Salem, Mass., has to protect his family from the vengeful ghosts in his house after he discovers that he is the victim of an ancient curse.

Horror / Mystery / Thriller / Supernatural

Notorious Blu-ray Movie  

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer | 1946 | 102 min | Not rated | Jan 24, 2012 | Jeffrey Kauffman

The daughter of a convicted Nazi spy is asked by American agents to gather information on a ring of Nazi scientists in in postwar Rio.

Drama / Film-Noir / Romance / Thriller

Mysteries of Lisbon Blu-ray Movie  

Mistérios de Lisboa

Music Box Films | 2010 | 257 min | Not rated | Jan 17, 2012 | Jeffrey Kauffman

Mysteries of Lisbon plunges us into a veritable whirlwind of adventures and escapades, coincidences and revelations, sentiments and violent passions, vengeance, love affairs, all wrapped in a rhapsodic voyage that takes us from Portugal to France, Italy, and as far as Brazil. In this Lisbon of intrigue and hidden identities, we encounter a series of characters all somewhat linked to the destiny of Pedro da Silva, orphan in a boarding school. Father Dinis, a descendent of the aristocratic libertines, later becomes a hero who defends justice, a countess maddened by her jealousy and set on her vengeance, a prosperous businessman who had mysteriously made his fortune as a bloodthirsty pirate; these and many more all cross in a story set in the 19th century and all searching for the true identity of our main character.

Drama / Mystery / Foreign

Whisper of the Heart Blu-ray Movie    

Mimi o Sumaseba / Studio Ghibli / Blu-ray + DVD

Studio Canal | 1995 | 111 min | Rated BBFC: U | Jan 09, 2012 | Dr. Svet Atanasov

Shizuku Tsukishima, a young girl in junior high, loves to read. Yet, every time she opens a library book, it seems the same name appears on the cards: "Seiji Amasawa". As Shizuku learns who this person is, she also begins to learn about herself and her goals in life—a discovery that will change her life forever.

Anime / Drama / Family / Music / Romance / Comic book / Foreign

Spellbound Blu-ray Movie  

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer | 1945 | 118 min | Not rated | Jan 24, 2012 | Jeffrey Kauffman

A psychiatrist tries to help the man she loves solve a murder buried in his subconscious.

Film-Noir / Mystery / Romance / Thriller / Psychological thriller / Melodrama

George Gently, Series 1 Blu-ray Movie  

Acorn Media | 2007-2008 | 2 Seasons | 265 min | Not rated | Jan 17, 2012 | Michael Reuben

After his wife is killed in a suspicious hit-and-run accident, George Gently, a police detective in the London Criminal Investigation Division in 1964, applies for retirement. But an unexpected lead sends Gently to the northeast, where he encounters a brash but talented young sergeant named John Bacchus. To his own surprise, Gently finds that he still has important work to do on the police force.

Crime / Drama / Mystery / Period

Good Morning, Vietnam Blu-ray Movie  

25th Anniversary Edition

Disney / Buena Vista | 1987 | 121 min | Rated R | Jan 17, 2012 | Kenneth Brown

A new Disc Jockey is shipped from Crete to Vietnam to bring humor to Armed Forces Radio. He turns the studio on it's ear and becomes wildly popular with the troops but runs afoul of the middle management who think he isn't G.I. enough. While he is off the air, he tries to meet Vietnamese especially girls, and begins to have brushes with the real war that never appears on the radio.

Comedy / Drama / War