New Blu-ray Reviews

Nothing Sacred Blu-ray Movie  

Kino Lorber | 1937 | 77 min | Not rated | Dec 20, 2011 | Casey Broadwater

Hazel Flagg of Warsaw, Vermont receives the news that her terminal case of radium poisoning from a workplace incident was a complete misdiagnosis with mixed emotions. She is happy not to be dying, but she, who has never traveled the world, was going to use the money paid to her by her factory to go to New York in style. She believes her dreams can still be realized when Wally Cook arrives in town. He is a New York reporter with the Morning Star newspaper. He believes that Hazel's valiant struggle concerning her impending death is just the type of story he needs to resurrect his name within reporting circles after a recent story he wrote led to scandal and a major demotion at the newspaper.

Comedy / Drama / Romance

Mildred Pierce Blu-ray Movie  

HBO | 2011 | 336 min | Rated TV-MA | Jan 03, 2012 | Kenneth Brown

Glendale, California, 1931: Mildred Pierce, a young mother with a talent for baking, is left a "grass widow" after throwing her husband, Bert, out of the house. Forced to hunt for work to support herself and her two young daughters, 11-year-old Veda and seven-year-old Ray, Mildred visits an employment agency, only to encounter job opportunities she feels are beneath her. Amidst her job search, she receives dating advice from her friend and neighbor, Lucy Gessler, and begins an unexpected affair with an ex-business partner of her husband's, Wally Burgan. When Mildred receives a call from the agency regarding an opening as a housekeeper to a wealthy socialite, she reluctantly agrees to meet with her. After cutting the acerbic interview short, Mildred seeks refuge at a local diner, Cristofor's Café, where fate, and a waitress named Ida, will play a role in shaping her future.

Drama

WWE: Best Pay-Per-View Matches 2011 Blu-ray Movie  

WWE Studios | 2011 | 540 min | Not rated | Dec 27, 2011 | Martin Liebman

A collection of the finest pay-per-view WWE matches of 2011.

Sport

Ice Quake Blu-ray Movie  

Starz / Anchor Bay | 2010 | 90 min | Rated PG | Jan 03, 2012 | Martin Liebman

The permafrost thaws underground rivers of volatile liquid methane and creates a succession of violent and destructive earthquakes. The crack now leaks a deadly gas from deep within the earth’s core, and the world could end before New Year’s Eve! It’s up to a single geologist and his family to save the world by stopping this crack from spreading and the gas from getting into a nearby cave system that would destroy the planet.

Action / Nature / Sci-Fi / Thriller

2012: Zombie Apocalypse Blu-ray Movie  

Uncut and Unrated

Asylum | 2011 | 90 min | Not rated | Dec 27, 2011 | Martin Liebman

Months after a zombie plague has wiped out 90 percent of the American population, a small group of survivors fight their way cross-country to a rumored refuge on the island of Catalina.

Action / Horror / Sci-Fi

Don't Be Afraid of the Dark Blu-ray Movie  

Blu-ray + UV Digital Copy

Sony Pictures | 2010 | 100 min | Rated R | Jan 03, 2012 | Martin Liebman

Introverted Sally Hurst has just moved in with her father Alex and his girlfriend Kim when she realizes that their sprawling estate holds its fair share of secrets. Ascending to the depths of the house, Sally gains access to a secret lower level that has lain undisturbed for nearly a century, when the original builder vanished without a trace. When Sally accidentally opens the gateway that kept the creatures locked up tight, she realizes that in order to prevent them from destroying her family is to convince her skeptical father than monsters really exist.

Horror / Thriller

First Squad: The Moment of Truth Blu-ray Movie  

Fâsuto sukuwaddo

Starz / Anchor Bay | 2009 | 1 Movie, 2 Cuts | 73 min | Not rated | Jan 17, 2012 | Martin Liebman

During the winter of 1942, the Red Army valiantly resists the Nazi invasion. Nadya, a Russian adolescent, has the ability to foresee the "Moment of Truth"- the crucial point where all powers converge and where only one person can change the course of the battle. This ability becomes indispensable to the ultra-secret 6th Division of Russian Military Intelligence that is waging war against "Ahnenerbe," an occult order within the SS. This organization then calls up Baron von Wolff from the kingdom of the dead. In order to confront this super-power from the Darkness, Nadya must also call upon beings from the hereafter.

Action / Anime / Drama / War / Foreign / Period

Redline Blu-ray Movie  

レッドライン

Starz / Anchor Bay | 2009 | 103 min | Not rated | Jan 17, 2012 | Martin Liebman

A white knuckle ride to smash the senses! REDLINE is the biggest racing tournament with the most deadly racers in the universe. Only held once every five years, everyone wants to stake their claim to fame, while organised crime and militaristic governments want to leverage the race to their own ends.

Action / Anime / Sci-Fi / Foreign

Division III: Football's Finest Blu-ray Movie  

Image Entertainment | 2011 | 98 min | Rated R | Jan 17, 2012 | Michael Reuben

When the coach of the Pulham Blue Cocks dies, the college considers cutting the football program, since the team hasn't won a season in years, even in Division III, the lowest division in college football. In a publicity stunt, President Georgia Anne Whistler hires known lunatic and felon, Coach Rick Vice, for what could be the football program's final season.

Comedy / Sport / Dark humor

The Twelve Kingdoms: Part 2: Sea of the Wind, The Shore of the Maze Blu-ray Movie  

Episodes 15-33 / 十二国記「風の海 迷宮の岸」

Media Blasters | 2002-2003 | 475 min | Rated 13+ | Oct 11, 2011 | Jeffrey Kauffman

The fate of those who live within the Twelve Kingdoms is intertwined in such ways that only the Heavens can understand their true meaning. Instead of being born as a holy beast of power, Taiki - the Kirin of Tai - was born as the first son of the Takazato family in Japan. But a quiet, lonely life is not the destiny of one such as Taiki, because the will of the Heavens can never be denied. Returned to the Twelve Kingdoms, he must fulfill his duty and choose the next King of Tai.

Adventure / Anime / Drama / Fantasy / Foreign

Frankenhooker Blu-ray Movie    

Arrow | 1990 | 85 min | Rated BBFC: 15 | Jan 02, 2012 | 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

Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex: Individual Eleven Blu-ray Movie  

Starz / Anchor Bay | 2006 | 163 min | Not rated | Jun 21, 2011 | Jeffrey Kauffman

Taking the "A" Story from Second Gig. When a series of terroists attacks commited by a group called the Individual Eleven becomes attributed to the already sensitive refugee problem. It's up to Section 9 to solve the problem. and The Major finds a suprising link to her past.

Action / Anime / Mystery / Sci-Fi / Foreign

Attack on Leningrad Blu-ray Movie  

Entertainment One | 2009 | 101 min | Not rated | Oct 18, 2011 | Jeffrey Kauffman

When in 1941 Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union, their troops quickly besieged Leningrad. Foreign journalists are evacuated but one of them, Kate Davies, is presumed dead and misses the plane. Alone in the city she is helped by Nina Tsvetnova a young and idealist police officer and together they will fight for their own survival and the survival of the people in the besieged Leningrad.

Drama / War

Is It Just Me? Blu-ray Movie  

TLA Releasing | 2010 | 93 min | Unrated | Dec 06, 2011 | Brian Orndorf

Frustrated by his ongoing failure to meet Mr. Right, Blaine stumbles upon what might be his perfect match in an online chat room-Xander, a sweet, hunky guy who's recently moved to LA. Smitten, Blaine then finds that he's been chatting to Xander under his go-go dancer roommate's profile, setting in motion a convoluted comedy of errors with romance as the ultimate objective.

Comedy / Romance

Matinee Blu-ray Movie    

Panic sur Florida Beach

Carlotta Films | 1993 | 99 min | Rated U Tous publics | Jun 01, 2011 | Dr. Svet Atanasov

A showman introduces a small coastal town to a unique movie experience and capitalizes on the Cuban Missile crisis hysteria with a kitschy horror extravaganza combining film effects, stage props and actors in rubber suits in this salute to the B-movie.

Comedy / Drama / Period / Coming of age

Film Socialisme Blu-ray Movie  

Kino Lorber | 2010 | 101 min | Unrated | Jan 10, 2012 | Casey Broadwater

A symphony in three movements. Things such as a Mediterranean cruise, numerous conversations, in numerous languages, between the passengers, almost all of whom are on holiday... Our Europe. At night, a sister and her younger brother have summoned their parents to appear before the court of their childhood. The children demand serious explanations of the themes of Liberty, Equality and Fraternity. Our humanities. Visits to six sites of true or false myths: Egypt, Palestine, Odessa, Hellas, Naples and Barcelona.

Drama / Foreign

Thielemann Conducts Faust Blu-ray Movie  

C MAJOR | 2011 | 90 min | Rated G | Oct 25, 2011 | Jeffrey Kauffman

Under the musical direction of their chief conductor designate, Christian Thielemann, the Staatskapelle Dresden performed this special concert to celebrate Franz Liszt and his bicentenary. At its home, the prestigious Semperoper in Dresden, the orchestra presented a Faust-themed concert with two works by Wagner and Liszt inspired by Goethe’s drama.

Music

Killer Elite Blu-ray Movie  

Blu-ray + DVD + UV Digital Copy

Universal Studios | 2011 | 117 min | Rated R | Jan 10, 2012 | Kenneth Brown

An ex-special ops agent is lured out of retirement to rescue his mentor. To make the rescue, he must complete a near-impossible mission of killing three tough-as-nails assassins with a cunning leader.

Action / Thriller

Rifftrax Live!: House on Haunted Hill Blu-ray Movie  

Nashville 2010

Legend | 2010 | 116 min | Not rated | Aug 02, 2011 | Jeffrey Kauffman

Join the RiffTrax® guys as they bring their special brand of rapid-fire comedic commentary to every skeleton-hanging-from-visible-wires, clumsy sexual overtone, and a stunningly inept test pilot whose 'heroics' typically lead him to bloody his own nose after locking himself in a broom closet!

Comedy / Horror / Music

Make the Yuletide Gay Blu-ray Movie  

TLA Releasing | 2009 | 89 min | Not rated | Nov 29, 2011 | Brian Orndorf

The holidays get overly festive as Olaf "Gunn" Gunnunderson, an out-and-proud gay college student, crawls back into the closet to survive the holidays with his parents. He keeps his cool as his quirky Midwestern hale and hearty parents try to set him up with his high school sweetheart, Abby. But when his boyfriend, Nathan, shows up at their doorstep unannounced, Gunn must put on a charade to keep the relationship a secret. With pressure mounting from all sides, will Gunn come out before the truth does?

Comedy / Drama / Romance