New Blu-ray Reviews

LEGO Star Wars: The Padawan Menace Blu-ray Movie  

Blu-ray + DVD

20th Century Fox | 2011 | 22 min | Rated TV-G | Feb 07, 2012 | Casey Broadwater

A routine Jedi Academy field trip is turned into a rip-roaring comic adventure in LEGO® Star Wars®: The Padawan Menace™. Tour guide Master Yoda leads a group of rambunctious Jedi younglings through Senate chambers when he senses a disturbance in the Force. Summoned to help save the Republic, he discovers that one of the younglings, Ian, has secretly boarded his ship...and young Ian has a taste for adventure! Meanwhile, C-3PO and R2-D2 are put in charge of the boisterous group and find themselves in over their heads. As the evil Sith prepare to wreak havoc, it’s up to Yoda and the Droids to ensure that their young charges aren't torn to bricks!

Adventure / Animation / Family / Fantasy / Sci-Fi / Short

Le beau Serge Blu-ray Movie  

Criterion | 1958 | 99 min | Not rated | Sep 20, 2011 | Dr. Svet Atanasov

A young man returns to his home village to find that an old friend has become an unhappily married alcoholic.

Drama / Foreign

Don't Say a Word Blu-ray Movie  

20th Century Fox | 2001 | 113 min | Rated R | Sep 13, 2011 | Michael Reuben

A group of thieves steal a rare gem, but in the process, two of the men double cross the leader of the thieving group, Patrick, and take off with the precious stone. Ten years later, prominent psychiatrist Nathan Conrad is invited to examine a disturbed young woman named Elisabeth. Patrick immediately kidnaps Nathan's daughter, forcing Nathan to attempt to get Elisabeth to reveal a secret number which will ultimately lead Patrick to the whereabouts of the precious gem that has eluded him.

Crime / Thriller / Psychological thriller

Henry's Crime Blu-ray Movie  

20th Century Fox | 2010 | 108 min | Rated R | Aug 23, 2011 | Michael Reuben

Sleepwalking his way through life, Henry gets an unexpected wakeup call when he becomes an unwitting participant in a bank heist. Rather than give up the names of the real culprits, he takes the fall and discovers his true calling. Having done the time, Henry reasons he may as well do the crime. Discovering a forgotten tunnel connecting the bank to a nearby theater, he recruits his old cellmate Max to aid in the robbery, all the while playing the lead in the theatre's current production where he finds himself falling for his leading lady, Julie.

Comedy / Crime / Drama

Hide and Seek Blu-ray Movie  

20th Century Fox | 2005 | 101 min | Rated R | Sep 13, 2011 | Michael Reuben

As a widower tries to piece together his life in the wake of his wife's suicide, his daughter finds solace -- at first -- in her imaginary friend.

Drama / Horror / Thriller

UFC: Bad Blood Blu-ray Movie  

Starz / Anchor Bay | 2011 | 150 min | Not rated | Aug 30, 2011 | Martin Liebman

Once friends, now bitter enemies, UFC superstars Chuck "The Iceman" Liddell and "The Huntington Beach Bad Boy" Tito Ortiz waged intense battles inside and out of the Octagon. UFC: Bad Blood - Liddell vs. Ortiz gives an all access look at the epic feud forged in heated competition over the UFC Championship, and fueled by personal conflict that often boiled over.

Sport

Footloose Blu-ray Movie  

Paramount Pictures | 1984 | 107 min | Rated PG | Sep 27, 2011 | Martin Liebman

Classic tale of teen rebellion and repression features a delightful combination of dance choreography and realistic and touching performances. When teenager Ren and his family move from big-city Chicago to a small town in the West, he's in for a real case of culture shock. Though he tries hard to fit in, the streetwise Ren can't quite believe he's living in a place where rock music and dancing are illegal. There is one small pleasure, however: Ariel, a troubled but lovely blonde with a jealous boyfriend. and a Bible-thumping minister, who is responsible for keeping the town dance-free. Ren and his classmates want to do away with this ordinance, especially since the senior prom is around the corner, but only Ren has the courage to initiate a battle to abolish the outmoded ban and revitalize the spirit of the repressed townspeople.

Drama / Music / Romance / Teen

Latter Days Blu-ray Movie  

TLA Releasing | 2003 | 107 min | Not rated | Aug 30, 2011 | Brian Orndorf

Aaron Davis and Christian Markelli are the two most opposite people in the world. Aaron is a young Elder (or a Mormon missionary) who wants to do his family proud and is quite passionate about his religion and film. Christian is a shallow WeHo waiter/party boy who only looks forward to bedding a new guy every night. After Aaron and three other missionaries move into the apartment across from Christian, his friends bet him $50 that he can't get one of them to jump into the sack, so he instantly latches onto Aaron. There are two problems, though - Christian is falling in love with Aaron and the Mormons are not the biggest fans of the homosexual community.

Comedy / Drama / Romance

Ben-Hur Blu-ray Movie  

Ultimate Collector's Edition

Warner Bros. | 1959 | 222 min | Rated G | Sep 27, 2011 | Jeffrey Kauffman

Judah Ben-Hur, a Jewish nobleman in 1st-century Jerusalem, is unwittingly thrust into an heroic odyssey, finding himself and his family enslaved by the Romans, placing him on a path for a fateful encounter with Jesus Christ and to ultimately face his tormentors during a furious chariot race. Filmed in MGMCamera65 (UltraPanavision)

Action / Adventure / Biography / Drama / History / Epic / Period

Glee: The Complete Second Season Blu-ray Movie  

20th Century Fox | 2010-2011 | 1000 min | Rated TV-PG | Sep 13, 2011 | Casey Broadwater

A high-school Spanish teacher becomes the director of the school's Glee club, hoping to restore it to its former glory.

Comedy / Drama / Musical / Romance / Teen

Bored to Death: The Complete Second Season Blu-ray Movie  

HBO | 2010 | 240 min | Rated TV-MA | Oct 04, 2011 | Kenneth Brown

Jonathan Ames, a young Brooklyn writer, is feeling lost. He's just gone through a painful break-up, thanks in part to his drinking, can't write his second novel, and carouses too much with his magazine editor. Rather than face reality, Jonathan turns instead to his fantasies — moonlighting as a private detective — because he wants to be a hero and a man of action.

Comedy / Drama

Mr. Nobody Blu-ray Movie    

Optimum Home Entertainment | 2009 | 157 min | Rated BBFC: 15 | Sep 12, 2011 | Dr. Svet Atanasov

Nemo Nobody, a 118 year-old man, is the last mortal on Earth after the human race has achieved quasi-immortality. On his deathbed, Nemo shares his life story with a reporter and reviews the choices he made along the way. Yet even with his last breath, a pivotal decision awaits to conclude his destiny.

Drama / Fantasy / Romance / Sci-Fi / Imaginary

Death of the Virgin Blu-ray Movie  

Indican | 2009 | 103 min | Not rated | Sep 13, 2011 | Brian Orndorf

May, a young Canadian woman with a horrifying past travels to the small highly spiritual town to take her vows into nun hood. There she begins to have premonitions of varies murders that seem to be related to the paintings of Caravaggio. When the inexplicable murders begin, May is plagued by merciless dreams and a tortured ghost that haunts her waking hours. In an escalation of terror and madness, she discovers an obscure secret that digs deep into the history of the town.

Horror / Mystery / Thriller

Gary Moore: Live At Montreux Blu-ray Movie  

Eagle Rock Entertainment | 2010 | 119 min | Not rated | Sep 20, 2011 | Dr. Svet Atanasov

2010 saw Gary Moore make a return to rock music after a long period of time exploring the blues. He was writing and working on a new rock album when all was brought to a halt by his untimely death on 6 February 2011. This concert from Montreux in July 2010 was his last performance to be filmed. The setlist draws heavily on his hugely successful rock albums of the eighties, stirs in a couple of his classic blues tracks with some memorable hit singles and includes three brand new songs that would have featured on the album left sadly uncompleted on his death. Gary Moore was one of the finest and most respected guitarists the British Isles have ever produced. This concert shows just what a talent we will miss.

Music

Transformers: Dark of the Moon Blu-ray Movie  

Blu-ray + DVD + Digital Copy

Paramount Pictures | 2011 | 154 min | Rated PG-13 | Sep 30, 2011 | Martin Liebman

The Autobots learn of a Cybertronian spacecraft hidden on the Moon, and race against the Decepticons to reach it and learn its secrets, which could turn the tide in the Transformers' final battle.

Action / Sci-Fi

Dumbo Blu-ray Movie  

70th Anniversary Special Edition / Blu-ray + DVD

Disney / Buena Vista | 1941 | 64 min | Rated G | Sep 20, 2011 | Kenneth Brown

Ostracized from the rest of the circus animals, poor Dumbo the elephant is separated from his mother, who is chained up in a separate cage after trying to defend her child. Only brash-but-lovable Timothy Mouse offers the hand of friendship to Dumbo, encouraging the pouty pachyderm to exploit his "different" qualities for fame and fortune.

Adventure / Animation / Family / Fantasy / Musical

Maniac Cop Blu-ray Movie  

Synapse Films | 1988 | 85 min | Rated R | Oct 11, 2011 | Martin Liebman

In New York, a man in a cop's uniform starts killing people for no apparent reason.

Action / Crime / Horror

The 10th Victim Blu-ray Movie  

La decima vittima

Blue Underground | 1965 | 92 min | Not rated | Sep 13, 2011 | Martin Liebman

It is the 21st Century, and society's lust for violence is satisfied by "The Big Hunt," an international game of legalized murder. But when the sport's two top assassins (Marcello Mastroianni and Ursula Andress) are pitted against each other, they find that love is the most dangerous game of all. As the world watches, the hunt is on. Who will become THE 10TH VICTIM?

Action / Sci-Fi / Thriller / Dark humor / Foreign

Hawaii Five-0: The First Season Blu-ray Movie  

Paramount Pictures | 2010-2011 | 1086 min | Not rated | Feb 14, 2012 | Martin Liebman

Catch the wave of the re-imagined hit drama in its sizzling, landmark first season! Lieutenant Commander Steve McGarrett (Alex O'Loughlin) leads an elite crime-fighting, cracking the island's toughest cases while also tracking down the elusive killers of his legendary father. Joining the intensely driven McGarrett are by-the-book Detective Danny "Danno" Williams (Scott Caan); former protege of McGarrett's father, Chin Ho Kelly (Daniel Dae Kim); and ex-pro surfer now rookie cop-with-attitude Kono Kalakaua (Grace Park). Throughout all 24 explosive episodes, every day is trouble in paradise for Hawaii's most elite law enforcement unit.

Action / Crime / Drama

Breakfast at Tiffany's Blu-ray Movie  

50th Anniversary Edition

Paramount Pictures | 1961 | 115 min | Not rated | Sep 20, 2011 | Martin Liebman

Struggling writer Paul Varjak moves into a New York apartment building and becomes intrigued by his pretty, quirky neighbor Holly Golightly. Holly's lifestyle confuses and fascinates Paul; in public she flits through parties with a sexy, sophisticated air, but when they're alone she changes into a sweetly vulnerable bundle of neuroses.

Comedy / Drama / Romance