New Blu-ray Reviews

The Cannonball Run Blu-ray Movie  

HBO | 1981 | 98 min | Rated PG | Nov 08, 2011 | Brian Orndorf

A wild, illegal, and popular cross-country car race is organized, and the eccentric entrants will do anything to win, including low-down, dirty tricks.

Action / Comedy

Rushmore Blu-ray Movie  

Director's Cut

Criterion | 1998 | 93 min | Rated R | Nov 22, 2011 | Dr. Svet Atanasov

Wunderkind Max Fischer, a sophomore at upscale Rushmore Academy, sees his world turn topsy-turvy when he's smitten with widowed first-grade teacher Rosemary Cross. To win her heart, Max enlists the aid of school benefactor Herman J. Blume.

Comedy / Drama / Coming of age

The Fisher King Blu-ray Movie  

Image Entertainment | 1991 | 138 min | Rated R | Nov 08, 2011 | Casey Broadwater

After inspiring a disgruntled caller to carry out a massacre, popular radio “shock jock” Jack Lucas suffers a breakdown, but his life changes when he meets Perry, a homeless man and former college professor, who believes he is supposed to find the Holy Grail.

Comedy / Drama / Surreal

Steve Winwood: Live in Concert Blu-ray Movie  

Image Entertainment | 2004 | 55 min | Not rated | Nov 01, 2011 | Michael Reuben

The singer-songwriter performs some of his greatest hits before a live and enthusiastic audience as part of the Soundstage series jointly produced by WTTW, the PBS station in Chicago, and HD Ready. Original broadcast date: Sept. 2004.

Music

13 Blu-ray Movie  

Starz / Anchor Bay | 2010 | 90 min | Rated R | Nov 08, 2011 | Martin Liebman

A naive young man assumes a dead man's identity and finds himself embroiled in an underground world of power, violence, and chance where men gamble behind closed doors on the lives of other men

Drama / Thriller

Loups=Garous Blu-ray Movie  

Sentai Filmworks | 2010 | 102 min | Rated TV-14 | Nov 29, 2011 | Jeffrey Kauffman

After a virus claims millions, most live in the safety of a closed-off world, relegating themselves to an on-line existence. But when a young girl decides to brave life outside the virtual world, she finds a group of friends - and a killer. Someone is hunting and violently murdering children. Who? Why? And is she the next target?

Action / Adventure / Anime / Drama / Mystery / Sci-Fi / Thriller / Foreign

Little Big Man Blu-ray Movie  

Paramount Pictures | 1970 | 139 min | Rated PG-13 | Nov 08, 2011 | Martin Liebman

Fictional biography of a 120-year-old white man, adopted by the Indians as a child, who witnessed General George A. Custer's megalomaniacal last stand at Little Big Horn in 1876.

Adventure / Comedy / Drama / History / War / Western / Period

Monte Carlo Blu-ray Movie  

Blu-ray + Digital Copy

20th Century Fox | 2011 | 109 min | Rated PG | Oct 18, 2011 | Casey Broadwater

While on a trip to Paris with her best friend and soon-to-be-stepsister, Grace is mistaken for a British socialite, resulting in all three young women flying to Monte Carlo for a charity ball, auction, and the chance for international romance. However, when a million-dollar necklace goes missing, Grace and her friends must scramble to find it before the auction is ruined and their identities are exposed.

Adventure / Comedy / Romance / Teen

The Count of Monte Cristo Blu-ray Movie  

Disney / Buena Vista | 2002 | 131 min | Rated PG-13 | Sep 13, 2011 | Dr. Svet Atanasov

Betrayed by his childhood friend Fernand, sailor Edmond Dantes is found guilty of trumped-up charges and sent to the island prison of Chateau d'If. Thirteen years later, having learnt the art of fencing from the Abbé Faria, a fellow inmate who also revealed to him the location of a vast treasure hidden on the island of Monte Cristo, Edmond realises that the time has come and carries out a daring escape attempt. Taking the treasure for himself, he reappears as the Count of Monte Cristo and becomes the talk of Parisian society; but he soon learns that Fernand has married Mercédès, Edmond's own childhood sweetheart, and starts drawing up his plans for revenge.

Action / Adventure / Drama / History / Romance

Destroy All Monsters Blu-ray Movie  

怪獣総進撃 / Kaijû sôshingeki

Media Blasters | 1968 | 89 min | Not rated | Nov 08, 2011 | Jeffrey Kauffman

Female aliens take control of Earth's monsters and begin using them to destroy the human race.

Action / Fantasy / Sci-Fi / Foreign

The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl Blu-ray Movie  

Lionsgate Films | 2005 | 93 min | Rated PG | Nov 08, 2011 | Jeffrey Kauffman

Sometimes the most amazing superheroes are the ones inside your dreams. So discovers ten-year-old Max, an outcast little boy who has become lost in his own fantasy world in an attempt to escape the everyday worries of dealing with parents, school bullies and no-fun summer vacations. But when Max realizes the cool characters, high-flying adventures and incredible secret powers that dwell in his imagination might be far more real than anyone is willing to believe, his whole world changes. Now, Max is blasting off on a mission to Planet Drool where Sharkboy--a kid once lost at sea and raised under the watchful fins of sharks only to become half-shark--and Lavagirl--a volcanic beauty who emits leaping flames and red-hot rocks--live in a realm of astonishing wonders, one in which the Train of Thought can whisk you off to the mouth-watering Land of Milk and Cookies. Teeming with mountainous roller coasters and violet skies, Planet Drool looks like the perfect kid paradise until Max meets up with the shocking Mr. Electric and his sidekick Minus who are trying to do away with all dreams forever. With Sharkboy and Lavagirl in trouble, only Max can guide them--by imagining every clever move of their wily escape from Mr. Electric's Lair.

Action / Adventure / Comedy / Family / Fantasy / Sci-Fi / Imaginary

Super 8 Blu-ray Movie  

Blu-ray + DVD + Digital Copy

Paramount Pictures | 2011 | 112 min | Rated PG-13 | Nov 22, 2011 | Martin Liebman

During the summer of 1979, a group of friends witness a train crash and investigate subsequent unexplained events in their small town.

Adventure / Mystery / Sci-Fi / Thriller / Teen / Period / Coming of age

UFC: Ultimate Matt Hughes Blu-ray Movie  

Starz / Anchor Bay | 2011 | 320 min | Not rated | Sep 20, 2011 | Martin Liebman

A look at the life and career of one of the UFC's ultimate fighters.

Sport

Hellraiser Blu-ray Movie  

Midnight Madness Series

Image Entertainment | 1987 | 94 min | Rated R | Sep 06, 2011 | Martin Liebman

Evil Julia helps her lover, Frank, come back to the mortal world from hell. Because Frank has used the Lament Configuration box to taste pleasures outside the normal realm of human sensation, freeing him from hell unleashes Pinhead and a menagerie of demons (cenobites) back unto earth.

Fantasy / Horror / Thriller

BKO: Bangkok Knockout Blu-ray Movie  

Magnolia Pictures | 2010 | 94 min | Rated R | Aug 30, 2011 | Brian Orndorf

A group of fighters are selected, via competition, to go to Hollywood for a project. In fact, after winning they are drugged and kidnapped, and forced to fight for their lives in a contest staged for the benefit of some extremely wealthy gamblers.

Action / Foreign

Gia Blu-ray Movie  

HBO | 1998 | 125 min | Unrated | Nov 08, 2011 | Michael Reuben

Fact-based story of top fashion model Gia Marie Carangi follows her life from a rebel working in her father's diner at age 17 to her death in 1986 at age 26 from AIDS, one of the first women in the U.S. whose death was attributed to the disease. In between, she followed a downward spiral of drug abuse and failed relationships.

Biography / Drama / Romance / Erotic

Farscape: The Complete Seasons Blu-ray Movie  

A&E Home Video | 1999-2003 | 4 Seasons | 4136 min | Not rated | Nov 15, 2011 | Jeffrey Kauffman

Farscape features a diverse ensemble of characters who are initially escaping from corrupt authorities called Peacekeepers. The protagonists live inside a giant space-dwelling creature named Moya, which serves as their ship. In the first episode, they are joined by the main character, John Crichton (Ben Browder), a modern-day American astronaut who accidentally flew into the entrance of a wormhole near Earth during an experimental test flight. On the same day, another stranger is picked up by Moya: a stranded Peacekeeper named Aeryn Sun (Claudia Black) who appears human. Despite his best intentions, John does make a few major enemies; the primary of these is known as Scorpius. There are a few stand-alone plots, but the show gradually unfolds progressive arcs beginning with their recapture by the Peacekeepers, followed by John's search to find another wormhole back to Earth, and an eventual arms race for wormhole technology.

Action / Adventure / Drama / Sci-Fi / Foreign

The Conversation Blu-ray Movie    

Collector's Edition

Studio Canal | 1974 | 114 min | Rated BBFC: 12 | Oct 31, 2011 | Dr. Svet Atanasov

A lone surveillance expert has a crisis of conscience when he suspects that the couple he is spying on will be murdered.

Drama / Mystery / Thriller / Psychological thriller

Pink Floyd: Wish You Were Here Blu-ray Movie  

Immersion Edition / Blu-ray + CD

EMI | 1975-2011 | 180 min | Unrated | Nov 08, 2011 | Jeffrey Kauffman

Disc 1 / CD 1: Album<br> Disc 2 / CD 2: Bonus tracks<br> Disc 3 / DVD 1: Two surround mixes and stereo mix<br> Disc 4 / DVD 2: Various video content<br> Disc 5 / BD: The two DVDs combined with HD audio and video, minus one surround mix (quad mix)<br>

Music

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 Blu-ray Movie  

Blu-ray + DVD + UV Digital Copy

Warner Bros. | 2011 | 130 min | Rated PG-13 | Nov 11, 2011 | Kenneth Brown

In the epic finale, the battle between the good and evil forces of the wizarding world escalates into an all-out war. The stakes have never been higher and no one is safe. But it is Harry Potter who may be called upon to make the ultimate sacrifice as he draws closer to the climactic showdown with Lord Voldemort. It all ends here.

Adventure / Family / Fantasy / Mystery / Epic