New Blu-ray Reviews
Home- January 05, 2012
Peter Gabriel: New Blood, Live in London 3D Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray 3D + DVD
Eagle Rock Entertainment | 2011 | 141 min | Not rated | Oct 24, 2011 | Kenneth Brown
Filmed at Hammersmith Apollo in March of this year, New Blood Live In London captures Peter Gabriel performing live with the 46 piece New Blood Orchestra. The repertoire mixes cover versions from his Scratch My Back album with classic tracks from across his solo career in brand new orchestral arrangements.
Music
The Swimming Pool Blu-ray Movie
La Piscine
Park Circus | 1969 | 1 Movie, 2 Cuts | 123 min | Rated BBFC: 15 | Nov 28, 2011 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
A blissed-out summer holiday on the Côte d'Azur is interrupted by the arrival of an old acquaintance and his eighteen-year-old daughter—unleashing a gathering tidal wave of sexual tension, jealousy, and sudden violence.
Crime / Drama / Romance / Foreign
- January 04, 2012
Dolphin Tale Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + DVD + UV Digital Copy
Warner Bros. | 2011 | 113 min | Rated PG | Dec 20, 2011 | Kenneth Brown
The film is inspired by the remarkable true story of a courageous dolphin named Winter and the compassionate people who banded together to save her life.
Drama / Family / Teen
Moneyball Blu-ray Movie
Sony Pictures | 2011 | 133 min | Rated PG-13 | Jan 10, 2012 | Martin Liebman
The story of Billy Beane and his controversial yet successful run as general manager of the Oakland A's.
Biography / Drama / Sport
Strauss: Die Liebe Der Danae Blu-ray Movie
Arthaus Musik | 2011 | 150 min | Rated PG | Nov 15, 2011 | Jeffrey Kauffman
Strauss' least known opera is offered in this 2011 Deutsche Oper Berlin production.
Music
Strauss: Capriccio Blu-ray Movie
Metropolitan Opera
Decca | 2011 | 148 min | Not rated | Dec 20, 2011 | Jeffrey Kauffman
Strauss' final opera, first seen at the Met in 1998 in this John Cox production, was revived in 2010 for Renee Fleming. One of the world's great Strauss interpreters, she brought a "plush and alluring" voice and "noble phrasing" to her portrayal of the Countess, "a role that suits her iedal" (The New York Times). Fleming is joined in this Live in HD production by an extraordinary cast (Joseph Kaiser, Russell Braun, Peter Rose) under the musical direction of Andrew Davis.
Music
Traffic Blu-ray Movie
Criterion | 2000 | 148 min | Rated R | Jan 17, 2012 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
A conservative judge is appointed by the President to spearhead America's escalating war against drugs, only to discover that his teenage daughter is a crack addict. Two DEA agents protect an informant. A jailed drug baron's wife attempts to carry on the family business.
Crime / Drama / Thriller
Contagion Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + DVD + UV Digital Copy
Warner Bros. | 2011 | 106 min | Rated PG-13 | Jan 03, 2012 | Kenneth Brown
Illustrates the worst-case scenario of a global viral pandemic as people become severely ill and harried doctors struggle to contain the disease.
Drama / Mystery / Sci-Fi / Thriller / Psychological thriller
Dolphin Tale 3D Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray 3D + Blu-ray + DVD + UV Digital Copy
Warner Bros. | 2011 | 113 min | Rated PG | Dec 20, 2011 | Kenneth Brown
The film is inspired by the remarkable true story of a courageous dolphin named Winter and the compassionate people who banded together to save her life.
Drama / Family / Teen
- January 03, 2012
Against All Odds Blu-ray Movie
Image Entertainment | 1984 | 121 min | Rated R | Mar 29, 2011 | Michael Reuben
An injured football player, broke and at loose ends, reluctantly takes a job tracking down the former girlfriend of an old friend, a shady club owner and bookie. The girlfriend also happens to be the daughter of the football team’s owner, a wealthy society lady and L.A. real estate developer. When the football player finds the girlfriend hiding out in a tiny resort in Mexico, sparks fly between them, but they’re involved in game bigger than either of them suspects.
Action / Crime / Film-Noir / Romance
Shark Night Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + Digital Copy
20th Century Fox / Relativity | 2011 | 91 min | Rated PG-13 | Jan 03, 2012 | Casey Broadwater
Seven friends who are spending a weekend at a lake house discover the waters are infested with sharks.
Adventure / Horror / Mystery / Thriller
March of the Wooden Soldiers Blu-ray Movie
Babes in Toyland
Legend | 1934 | 77 min | Rated G | Sep 14, 2010 | Jeffrey Kauffman
Ollie Dee and Stanley Dum try to borrow money from their employer, the toymaker, to pay off the mortgage on Mother Peep's shoe and keep it and Little Bo Peep from the clutches of the evil Barnaby. When that fails, they trick Barnaby into marrying Stanley Dum instead of Bo Peep. Enraged, Barnaby unleashes the bogeymen from their caverns to destroy Toyland.
Comedy / Family / Fantasy / Music / Holiday
- January 02, 2012
Boardwalk Empire: The Complete First Season Blu-ray Movie
HBO | 2010 | 733 min | Rated TV-MA | Jan 10, 2012 | Kenneth Brown
Boardwalk Empire begins in Atlantic City in 1920. Its the eve of Prohibition and county treasurer, Nucky Thompson is looking to cash in! Nucky must battle back room politics, vicious power struggles, relentless federal agents, ambitious underlings, rumrunners and gangsters which include Arnold Rothstein, Lucky Luciano and Al Capone.
Crime / Drama / Period
She's All That Blu-ray Movie
Lionsgate Films | 1999 | 96 min | Rated PG-13 | Jan 03, 2012 | Jeffrey Kauffman
Zack is the reigning stud of Harrison High School, and everyone thinks his match with princess Taylor will last forever. When Taylor dumps him for an obnoxious star of "The Real World", Zack is devastated. But he rebounds, betting his friend Dean that he can turn any girl into a prom queen. Dean chooses Laney, a geeky outcast who worries about Bosnia and spends her days painting in her basement. Laney has no time for Zack, but he persists and as time goes by, the two find themselves friends. Rather than raising her to his social level, Zack finds himself falling hard for non-conformist Laney.
Comedy / Romance / Teen
Elite Squad: The Enemy Within Blu-ray Movie
Tropa de Elite 2: O Inimigo Agora É Outro / Elite Squad 2
Revolver Entertainment | 2010 | 115 min | Rated BBFC: 18 | Dec 26, 2011 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
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
- January 01, 2012
Donizetti: Anna Bolena Blu-ray Movie
Deutsche Grammophon | 2011 | 196 min | Not rated | Dec 20, 2011 | Jeffrey Kauffman
No synopsis for this title.
Music
Final Destination 5 Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + DVD + Digital Copy
Warner Bros. | 2011 | 92 min | Rated R | Dec 27, 2011 | Kenneth Brown
Survivors of a suspension-bridge collapse learn there's no way you can cheat Death.
Horror / Thriller
Justified: The Complete Second Season Blu-ray Movie
Sony Pictures | 2011 | 546 min | Rated TV-MA | Jan 03, 2012 | Martin Liebman
After U.S Marshal Raylan Givens finds himself in hot water over the shooting of a Miami crime boss, he is reassigned to the last place on Earth he'd rather be; Harlan County, Kentucky, where he was born and raised. There he must deal with his ex-wife, criminal father, an old friend turned white supremacist, and the latter's former sister-in-law who quickly rekindles her attraction to Givens. Kentucky won't be the same now that the cowboy marshal is home.
Action / Crime / Drama / Western
Final Destination 5 in 3D Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray 3D + Blu-ray + DVD + UV Digital Copy
Warner Bros. | 2011 | 92 min | Rated R | Dec 27, 2011 | Kenneth Brown
Survivors of a suspension-bridge collapse learn there's no way you can cheat Death.
Horror / Thriller
Ice Age: A Mammoth Christmas Special Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + DVD + Digital Copy
20th Century Fox | 2011 | 26 min | Rated G | Nov 22, 2011 | Kenneth Brown
When Sid accidentally destroys Manny's heirloom Christmas rock and ends up on Santa's "naughty list," he leads a hilarious quest to the North Pole to make things right and ends up making things much worse. Now it's up to Manny and his prehistoric posse to band together and save Christmas for the entire world.
Animation / Comedy / Family / Short / Holiday