New Blu-ray Reviews
Home- November 30, 2011
The Rocketeer Blu-ray Movie
20th Anniversary Edition
Disney / Buena Vista | 1991 | 109 min | Rated PG | Dec 13, 2011 | Kenneth Brown
A stunt pilot living in 1930's California finds a stolen jet-pack and uses the device to fight gangsters and Nazis as The Rocketeer.
Action / Adventure / Family / Sci-Fi / Comic book
Adele: Live at the Royal Albert Hall Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + CD
Sony Music / Columbia | 2011 | 90 min | Not rated | Nov 29, 2011 | Jeffrey Kauffman
A live concert performance of Grammy-winning pop/soul sensation Adele Adkins at the Royal Albert Hall in London.
Music
The Birth of a Nation Blu-ray Movie
Special Edition / Blu-ray + DVD
Kino Lorber | 1915 | 193 min | Not rated | Nov 22, 2011 | Casey Broadwater
Nearly 100 years after its initial release, The Birth of a Nation remains one of the most controversial films ever made and a landmark achievement in film history that continues to fascinate and enrage audiences. It is the epic story of two families, one northern and one southern, during and after the Civil War. D. W. Griffith's masterful direction combines brilliant battle scenes and tender romance with a vicious portrayal of African-Americans. It was the greatest feature-length blockbuster yet to be produced in the United States and the first to be shown in the White House. After seeing it, President Woodrow Wilson remarked it was "like writing history with lightning!"
Drama / History / War / Epic
- November 29, 2011
One Day Blu-ray Movie
Universal Studios | 2011 | 108 min | Rated PG-13 | Nov 29, 2011 | Kenneth Brown
After one day together -- July 15th, 1988, their college graduation -- Emma Morley and Dexter Mayhew begin a friendship that will last a lifetime. She is a working-class girl of principle and ambition who dreams of making the world a better place. He is a wealthy charmer who dreams that the world will be his playground. For the next two decades, key moments of their relationship are experienced over several July 15ths in their lives. Together and apart, we see Dex and Em through their friendship and fights, hopes and missed opportunities, laughter and tears.
Drama / Romance
Colors of Christmas Blu-ray Movie
Digital Environments | 2009 | 305 min | Not rated | Sep 08, 2009 | Martin Liebman
Capture the holiday spirit in this bright & colorful collection of festive holiday scenes, featuring red poinsettias, evergreen Christmas trees, brilliant silver & gold ornaments, and shining lights. To accompany this stunning imagery, choose from 6 different music programs to create that special holiday mood, all recorded in 5.1 surround sound. Then sit back, relax, and enjoy the sights and sounds of Christmas!
Music / Other / Holiday
Tanner Hall Blu-ray Movie
Starz / Anchor Bay | 2009 | 95 min | Rated R | Dec 13, 2011 | Martin Liebman
As Fernanda enters her senior year at Tanner Hall - a sheltered boarding school in New England - she's faced with unexpected changes in her group of friends when a childhood acquaintance, the charismatic yet manipulative trouble-maker, Victoria appears. Shy and studious, Fernanda is usually the voice of reason among her friends - adventurous and sexy Kate...
Drama / Teen
Vietnam in HD Blu-ray Movie
A+E Networks | 2011 | 282 min | Not rated | Dec 06, 2011 | Jeffrey Kauffman
Their story is in danger of being lost to history. The men who came home from the Vietnam War represent a second silent generation. These are the men who won every battle in a lost war. Using the same experiential approach to storytelling as WWII in HD, HISTORY gives these veterans a voice. Through a collection of color Vietnam footage never seen by the public from private collections, museums, the US government, veteran's and news organizations as well as sources from Vietnam, they tell their stories and relive their struggles, courage and fears. This six-hour miniseries spans the massive initial troop build-up in 1965 to the fall of Saigon a decade later. Sound design, using popular music from that era, powerfully evokes the time period and experience.
Documentary / History / War
The Help Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + DVD + Digital Copy
Disney / Buena Vista | 2011 | 146 min | Rated PG-13 | Dec 06, 2011 | Kenneth Brown
At the dawn of the civil rights movement, three Mississippi women are about to take one extraordinary step. Twenty-two-year-old Skeeter has just returned home after graduating from Ole Miss and her mother won't be happy till she finds a husband. Aibileen, a wise African-American maid and caretaker suffers after the loss of her own child. And Minny, Aibileen's sassy best friend, struggles to find and...
Drama / Melodrama / Period
Design for Living Blu-ray Movie
Criterion | 1933 | 92 min | Not rated | Dec 06, 2011 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
A playwright and an artist both fall in love with an American living in Paris. The girl can't make up her mind between the two men, however, so the threesome decide to move in together.
Comedy / Romance
Chillerama Blu-ray Movie
Wadzilla / I Was a Teenage Werebear / The Diary of Anne Frankenstein / Zom-B-Movie
Image Entertainment | 2011 | 4 Movies | 120 min | Unrated | Nov 29, 2011 | Michael Reuben
It's the closing night at the last drive-in theater in the US and Cecil B. Kaufman has planned the ultimate marathon of lost film prints to unleash upon his faithful cinephile patrons. Four films so rare that they have never been exhibited publicly on US soil until this very night! What could possibly go wrong?
Action / Comedy / Fantasy / Horror / Musical
Jawbreaker Blu-ray Movie
Image Entertainment | 1999 | 87 min | Rated R | Apr 05, 2011 | Michael Reuben
The most powerful clique at Reagan High. Courtney Shane, Julie Freeman, Marcie Fox and Lizz Purr are all best friends. Or, to be more precise, they are drawn together by their appreciation for each other as the most popular and the most beautiful girls at Reagan. They are at the height of their popularity when an innocent birthday prank results in tragedy. The class nerd, Fern Mayo, stumbles on the girls' panicked attempts to cover up their involvement, and the result is a darkly comical tale of corruption, redemption and makeover madness.
Comedy / Crime / Teen / Dark humor
- November 28, 2011
Beauty and the Beast: The Enchanted Christmas Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + DVD
Disney / Buena Vista | 1997 | 72 min | Rated G | Nov 22, 2011 | Kenneth Brown
Belle prepares the castle for Christmas against Beast's wishes, trying to bring him happiness for the season. Forte, a pipe organ, fears that Belle's plans may eventually bring about an end to the curse... the curse that brought him more importance in the Master's life. Forte uses Fife, a flute who desperately wants a solo, to destroy Belle's plans and get rid of her.
Animation / Family / Fantasy / Musical / Romance / Holiday
ESPN: 30 for 30 Blu-ray Movie
Collector's Set / Films 01-30
ESPN Films | 2009-2016 | 1813 min | Not rated | Nov 22, 2011 | Martin Liebman
30 for 30 is the umbrella title for a series of documentary films airing on ESPN, its sister networks and online highlighting important people and events in sports history. This includes three "volumes" of 30 episodes each, a 13-episode series under the ESPN Films Presents title in 2011–2012, and a series of 30 for 30 Shorts shown through the ESPN.com website. The series has also expanded to include Soccer Stories, which aired in advance of the 2014 FIFA World Cup.
Documentary / Sport
Mindcandy Volume 3 Blu-ray Movie
FUSECON | 2003-2011 | 219 min | Unrated | Dec 06, 2011 | Jeffrey Kauffman
Demos from the worldwide demoscene are presented on this compilation, including several audience favorites at such demoparties as Breakpoint.
Music / Other
Smallville: The Final Season Blu-ray Movie
Warner Bros. | 2010-2011 | 1012 min | Rated TV-14 | Nov 29, 2011 | Kenneth Brown
In Smallville's tenth and final season, Clark Kent abandons his alter ego, the Blur, to become DC Comics' most iconic hero: Superman.
Adventure / Drama / Fantasy / Sci-Fi / Teen / Comic book
- November 27, 2011
Branded to Kill Blu-ray Movie
殺しの烙印 / Koroshi no rakuin
Criterion | 1967 | 91 min | Not rated | Dec 13, 2011 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
A yakuza assassin with a fetish for sniffing steamed rice botches a job and ends up a target himself.
Action / Crime / Drama / Thriller / Foreign / Surreal
Another Earth Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + DVD + Digital Copy
20th Century Fox | 2011 | 92 min | Rated PG-13 | Nov 29, 2011 | Casey Broadwater
On the night of the discovery of a duplicate planet in the solar system, an ambitious young student and an accomplished composer cross paths in a tragic accident.
Drama / Sci-Fi
The Family Tree Blu-ray Movie
Entertainment One | 2010 | 101 min | Rated R | Nov 21, 2011 | Jeffrey Kauffman
A mother and wife stricken with memory loss allows a dysfunctional family a second chance at harmony and happiness.
Comedy / Drama
The Hangover Part II Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + DVD + UV Digital Copy
Warner Bros. | 2011 | 102 min | Rated R | Dec 06, 2011 | Kenneth Brown
Phil, Stu, and Alan travel to Bangkok for Stu's wedding only to find themselves in another post-blackout misadventure.
Comedy / Dark humor
- November 26, 2011
Yu Yu Hakusho: Season 4 Blu-ray Movie
Anime Classics
FUNimation Entertainment | 1994-1995 | 700 min | Rated TV-PG | Nov 29, 2011 | Jeffrey Kauffman
No synopsis for this title.
Action / Anime / Comedy / Drama / Supernatural / Martial arts / Comic book / Foreign