New Blu-ray Reviews

Going Places Blu-ray Movie  

Les valseuses

Kino Lorber | 1974 | 118 min | Not rated | Nov 01, 2011 | Dr. Svet Atanasov

Two whimsical, aimless thugs harass and assault women, steal, murder, and alternately charm, fight, or sprint their way out of trouble. They take whatever the bourgeois characters value: whether it's cars, peace of mind, or daughters. Marie-Ange, a jaded, passive hairdresser, joins them as lover, cook, and mother confessor. She's on her own search for seemingly unattainable sexual pleasure.

Comedy / Drama / Foreign

Beautiful Girls Blu-ray Movie    

Studio Canal | 1996 | 112 min | Rated BBFC: 15 | Oct 31, 2011 | Dr. Svet Atanasov

In this post-coming-of-age comedy, a piano player at a crossroads in his life returns home to his friends and their own problems with life and love. The high school reunion in a small Massachusetts town gives the group of buddies plenty of opportunities to try and sort out their views about women. From the former stud-turned-snowplow operator to the aspiring nightclub musician who escaped to New York, these clueless cads can only hope for some female guidance.

Comedy / Drama / Romance

Deep End Blu-ray Movie    

Edition Collector

Carlotta Films | 1970 | 92 min | Rated U Tous publics | Nov 28, 2011 | Dr. Svet Atanasov

15-year-old Mike takes a job at the local swimming baths, where he becomes obsessed with an attractive young woman, Susan, who works there as an attendant. Although Susan has a fiancé, Mike does his best to sabotage the relationship, to the extent of stalking both her and her fiancé. Mike becomes increasingly desperate to have Susan for himself, with tragic results.

Comedy / Drama / Romance / Foreign

Camp Nowhere Blu-ray Movie  

Mill Creek Entertainment | 1994 | 96 min | Rated PG | Oct 11, 2011 | Martin Liebman

Morris "Mud" Himmel has a problem. His parents desperately want to send him away to summer camp. He hates going to summer camp, and would do anything to get out of it. Talking to his friends, he realises that they are all facing the same sentence: a boring summer camp. Together with his friends, he hatches a plan to trick all the parents into sending them to a camp of his own design, which would actually be a parent-free paradise. Blackmailing former drama teacher Dennis Van Welker into helping, they must convince the parents that the camp is genuine, and that they aren't allowed to visit...

Adventure / Comedy / Family

Cowboys & Aliens Blu-ray Movie  

Extended Edition / Blu-ray + DVD + UV Digital Copy

Universal Studios | 2011 | 1 Movie, 2 Cuts | 135 min | Unrated | Dec 06, 2011 | Kenneth Brown

A spaceship arrives in Arizona, 1873, to take over the Earth, starting with the Wild West region. A posse of cowboys are all that stand in their way.

Action / Sci-Fi / Western / Comic book

UFC: Ultimate Knockouts 9 Blu-ray Movie  

Starz / Anchor Bay | 2011 | 95 min | Rated PG | Nov 08, 2011 | Martin Liebman

Nothing puts an exclamation mark on a fight like a devastating knockout, and on Ultimate Knockouts 9, the finishes are more spectacular than ever. From Anderson Silva and Lyoto Machida’s lightning fast kicks to the crushing punching power displayed by Rich Franklin, Jon Jones, BJ Penn and Cain Velasquez. Don’t blink, because you might miss some of the UFC’ s greatest knockouts ever.

Sport

5 Days of War Blu-ray Movie  

Starz / Anchor Bay | 2011 | 113 min | Rated R | Nov 29, 2011 | Martin Liebman

A veteran war journalist documents atrocities in the crossfire between Georgian and Russian forces, and finds that releasing the footage, given the overwhelming lack of interest from news networks, is equally as challenging as physical survivial.

Action / Drama / War

A Little Help Blu-ray Movie  

Image Entertainment | 2010 | 109 min | Rated R | Oct 25, 2011 | Casey Broadwater

Up to now Laura has had the wind at her back in life by virtue of her good looks and effortless charisma. But lately things have begun to take some dark and difficult turns. Her marriage to real estate agent Bob Pehlke has become tense and loveless - Laura even has suspicions that he's cheating - and her relationship with her 12 year-old son Dennis has become strained as well, his emerging adolescence...

Comedy / Drama

Sarah's Key Blu-ray Movie  

Elle s'appelait Sarah

Starz / Anchor Bay | 2010 | 111 min | Rated PG-13 | Nov 22, 2011 | Michael Reuben

A tragic and shameful moment in French history continues to have consequences in the present day in this screen adaptation of the novel by Tatiana de Rosnay. Julia Jarmond is a nwriter from the US living in Paris with her husband, Bertrand, an architect who is restoring a block of apartments in Paris owned by his family. Julia learns that Bertrand's family obtained the building through less than honorable means; the original owners were Jews who were forced to sell in the wake of the Vel' d'Hiv Roundup in 1942, when the Nazi-affiliated Vichy government arrested over 13,000 Parisian Jews.

Drama / Foreign

The Devil's Double Blu-ray Movie  

Lionsgate Films | 2011 | 108 min | Rated R | Nov 22, 2011 | Jeffrey Kauffman

Summoned from the frontline to Saddam Hussein's palace, Iraqi army lieutenant Latif Yahia is thrust into the highest echelons of the "royal family" when he's ordered to become the 'fiday' -- or body double -- to Saddam's son, the notorious "Black Prince" Uday Hussein, a reckless, sadistic party-boy with a rabid hunger for sex and brutality. With his and his family's lives at stake, Latif must surrender his former self forever as he learns to walk, talk and act like Uday. But nothing could have prepared him for the horror of the Black Prince's psychotic, drug-addled life of fast cars, easy women and impulsive violence.

Action / Biography / Drama

The Four Musketeers Blu-ray Movie    

Digitally Restored

Optimum Home Entertainment | 1974 | 106 min | Rated BBFC: PG | Oct 03, 2011 | Dr. Svet Atanasov

D'Artagnan has become a Musketeer. Protestants hold La Rochelle, and the Queen loves Buckingham, who'll soon send ships to support the rebels. Richelieu enlists Rochefort to kidnap Constance, the Queen's go-between and D'Artagnan's love. The Cardinal uses the wily, amoral Milady de Winter to distract D'Artagnan. But soon, she is D'Artagnan's sworn enemy, and she has an unfortunate history with Athos as well. Milady goes to England to dispatch Buckingham; the Musketeers fight the rebels. Milady, with Rochefort's help, then turns to her personal agenda. Can D'Artagnan save Constance, defeat Rochefort, slip de Winter's ire, and stay free of the Cardinal? All for one, one for all.

Action / Adventure / Comedy / Romance

The Pee-wee Herman Show on Broadway Blu-ray Movie  

Image Entertainment | 2011 | 89 min | Not rated | Oct 04, 2011 | Michael Reuben

Subversive humor and childlike wonder based on both Reubens' original stage show, "The Pee-wee Herman Show," and the Emmy-winning Saturday morning TV show, "Pee-wee's Playhouse."

Comedy

Cruel Game Blu-ray Movie  

Seedsman Group | 2001 | 84 min | Rated R | Oct 11, 2011 | Michael Reuben

A handsome L.A. playboy juggles four gorgeous girlfriends, searches for true love, and gets involved in an elaborate con.

Drama / Romance

Helldriver Blu-ray Movie  

Nihon bundan: Heru doraibâ / Blu-ray + DVD

Well Go USA | 2010 | 114 min | Not rated | Nov 22, 2011 | Jeffrey Kauffman

A beautiful girl with an artificial heart and a chainsaw sword must save Japan from a zombie uprising.

Action / Horror / Foreign

Thir13en Ghosts / House of Wax Blu-ray Movie  

Double Feature

Warner Bros. | 2001-2005 | 2 Movies | 204 min | Rated R | Oct 19, 2010 | Martin Liebman

See individual titles for their synopses.

Horror / Thriller / Teen

Taking Off Blu-ray Movie    

Park Circus | 1971 | 89 min | Rated BBFC: 18 | Nov 07, 2011 | Dr. Svet Atanasov

Unable to deal with her parents, Jeannie Tyne runs away from home. Larry and Lyne Tyne search for her, and in the process meet other people whose children ran away. With their children gone, the parents are now free to rediscover/enjoy life.

Comedy / Drama

The Rules of the Game Blu-ray Movie  

La règle du jeu / 1959 Reconstructed Version

Criterion | 1939 | 107 min | Not rated | Nov 15, 2011 | Dr. Svet Atanasov

A weekend at a marquis' country château lays bare some ugly truths about a group of haut bourgeois acquaintances.

Comedy / Drama / Romance / Foreign

Sigur Rós: Inni Blu-ray Movie  

Blu-ray + CD

XL Recordings | 2011 | 75 min | Rated G | Nov 15, 2011 | Casey Broadwater

Icelandic post-rock band Sigur Rós melds its sonic landscape with visuals in this concert film/documentary.

Documentary / Music

The Smurfs Blu-ray Movie  

3-Disc Holiday Gift Set / Blu-ray + DVD + UV Digital Copy

Sony Pictures | 2011 | 2 Movies | 103 min | Rated PG | Dec 02, 2011 | Martin Liebman

When the evil wizard Gargamel chases the tiny blue Smurfs out of their village, they tumble from their magical world and into ours -- in fact, smack dab in the middle of Central Park. Just three apples high and stuck in the Big Apple, the Smurfs must find a way to get back to their village before Gargamel tracks them down.

Animation / Comedy / Family / Fantasy / Comic book

Fairy Tail: Part 1 Blu-ray Movie  

Blu-ray + DVD

FUNimation Entertainment | 2009-2010 | 294 min | Rated TV-14 | Nov 22, 2011 | Jeffrey Kauffman

In the Kingdom of Fiore, powerful wizards make their living by joining magical guilds and contracting out their services to become "wizards for hire". Harnessing the forces of Dragon Fire, Ice, Weaponry, and the Zodiac, four young wizards of the infamous guild Fairy Tail team up to seek their fortunes. Growing stronger with every mission, they travel the countryside helping people and battling rival guilds, but with personalities as different as their magic skills, this team may end up doing more damage than good.

Action / Adventure / Anime / Comedy / Fantasy / Comic book / Foreign