New Blu-ray Reviews

Rifftrax Live!: Reefer Madness Blu-ray Movie  

San Diego 2010

Legend | 2010 | 104 min | Not rated | Aug 02, 2011 | Jeffrey Kauffman

On August 19, 2010 thousands witnessed what can only be described as one of the top two RiffTrax Live! events of 2010 (there were only two RiffTrax Live! events in 2010). The guys from MST3K perform live in front of an audience as 'Reefer Madness' and a number of short subjects play on the big screen in front of them.

Comedy / Music

Something Borrowed Blu-ray Movie  

Blu-ray + DVD + Digital Copy

Warner Bros. | 2011 | 113 min | Rated PG-13 | Aug 16, 2011 | Kenneth Brown

Rachel, a talented attorney at a top New York law firm, a generous and loyal friend is, unhappily, still single...as her engaged best friend Darcy is constantly reminding her. But after one drink too many at her 30th birthday party, Rachel unexpectedly ends up in bed withschool, Dex, the guy she’s had a crush on since law school, who just happens to be Darcy’s fiancé. Meanwhile, Ethan, Rachel’s constant confidante and sometimes conscience, has been harboring a secret of his own, and Marcus, an irrepressible womanizer, can’t keep his mind out of the gutter or his hands off any girl within reach.

Comedy / Drama / Romance

Harakiri Blu-ray Movie    

切腹 / Seppuku / Masters of Cinema / Blu-ray + DVD

Eureka Entertainment | 1962 | 133 min | Rated BBFC: 15 | Sep 26, 2011 | Dr. Svet Atanasov

Following the collapse of his clan, an unemployed samurai arrives at the manor of Lord Iyi, begging to be allowed to commit ritual suicide on the property. Iyi's clansmen, believing the desperate ronin is merely angling for a new position, try to force his hand and get him to eviscerate himself—but they have underestimated his beliefs and his personal brand of honor.

Drama / Foreign / Period

Priest 3D Blu-ray Movie  

Blu-ray 3D + Blu-ray

Sony Pictures | 2011 | 87 min | Unrated | Aug 16, 2011 | Martin Liebman

A legendary Warrior Priest from the last Vampire War now lives in obscurity among the other downtrodden human inhabitants in walled-in dystopian cities ruled by the Church. When his niece is abducted by a murderous pack of vampires, Priest breaks his sacred vows to venture out on an obsessive quest to find her before they turn her into one of them. He is joined on his crusade by his niece's boyfriend,...

Action / Horror / Sci-Fi / Thriller / Comic book

Executive Decision Blu-ray Movie  

Warner Bros. | 1996 | 133 min | Rated R | Jul 26, 2011 | Michael Reuben

Intelligence expert finds himself leading a strike force against terrorists who have seized control of a jetliner with 400 passengers.

Action / Adventure / Thriller

Katanagatari: Volume 1 Blu-ray Movie  

Premium Edition / Blu-ray + DVD

NIS America | 2010 | 308 min | Rated PG-13 | Jul 05, 2011 | Jeffrey Kauffman

This story teakes place in the Edo era where Yasuri Shichika is the seventh head of the Kyotou school of Japanese sword martial arts living in Fushou Island with his sister Nanami. With the order from a female samurai general Togame, he sets out for a trip to collect the twelve treasured swords created by a legendary swordsmith Shikizaki Kiki.

Action / Adventure / Anime / Drama / Fantasy / Romance / Martial arts / Foreign

Super Blu-ray Movie  

IFC Films | 2010 | 96 min | Rated R | Aug 09, 2011 | Casey Broadwater

After his wife falls under the influence of a drug dealer, an everyday guy transforms himself into Crimson Bolt, a superhero with the best intentions, though he lacks for heroic skills.

Comedy / Crime / Teen / Dark humor

Monamour Blu-ray Movie  

Cult Epics | 2005 | 2 Movies | 94 min | Not rated | Jul 26, 2011 | Dr. Svet Atanasov

Dario is a little publisher from Milano. He is joining the Mantova Festival Letteratura (Book fair) 2004. Marta, his unsatisfied wife, accompanies him. Leon is a French designer-photographer. While Dario is busy with his own business, Marta take a visit to the celebrated Palazzo Te; here under Giulio Romano's fresco representing Jupiter's erected penis she meets Leon. Immediately they become lovers and spend the entire book exhibitions' days making love almost everywhere. This liaison will have soon effects also on the regular one between Marta and Dario.

Drama / Erotic / Foreign

Ring of Fire Blu-ray Movie  

IMAX

Inception Media Group | 1991 | 38 min | Not rated | Jul 12, 2011 | Jeffrey Kauffman

One of nature's most spectacular and perilous wonders, volcanoes, are profiled in this IMAX film focusing on the Ring of Fire, the line of volcanoes in the Pacific Rim.

Documentary / Nature

Top Gear: The Complete Season 16 Blu-ray Movie  

BBC | 2010-2011 | 417 min | Not rated | Aug 09, 2011 | Kenneth Brown

The 16th season of the popular British automotive show.

Comedy / Documentary / Sport

Hoodwinked Too! Hood vs. Evil Blu-ray Movie  

Blu-ray + DVD

Starz / Anchor Bay | 2011 | 87 min | Rated PG | Aug 16, 2011 | Martin Liebman

Red Riding Hood is training in the group of Sister Hoods, when she and the Wolf are called to examine the sudden mysterious disappearance of Hansel and Gretel.

Animation / Comedy / Family / Fantasy / Mystery

The Specialist Blu-ray Movie  

Warner Bros. | 1994 | 110 min | Rated R | Aug 16, 2011 | Michael Reuben

Set in Miami, an explosives expert helps a seductive beauty avenge the murder of her parents, teaming up against a formidable trio of villains: a powerful Cuban crime boss, his son, and their merciless hit man.

Action / Thriller

Armed and Dangerous Blu-ray Movie  

Image Entertainment | 1986 | 88 min | Rated PG-13 | Aug 16, 2011 | Casey Broadwater

Dooley, a cop wrongly sacked for corruption, teams up with a useless defence lawyer in their new careers... as security guards. When the two are made fall guys for a robbery at a location they are guarding, the pair begin to investigate corruption within the company and their union. They soon make enemies of everyone, but can the unlikely duo save the day ?

Action / Comedy / Crime

The Perfect Game Blu-ray Movie  

Image Entertainment | 2009 | 118 min | Rated PG | Aug 02, 2011 | Casey Broadwater

Based on a true story, a group of boys from Monterrey, Mexico who become the first non-U.S. team to win the Little League World Series.

Drama / Family / Sport

Rounders Blu-ray Movie  

Lionsgate Films | 1998 | 121 min | Rated R | Aug 23, 2011 | Jeffrey Kauffman

Mike is a law student who has once been burned playing poker, and has turned his back on gambling in order to settle in with his girlfriend Jo, and his studies. When his former partner in crime Worm is released from prison, though, he is tempted back to the card tables and realises how much he enjoys the thrill of gambling. Jo leaves him, and he goes on a poker spree with Worm, in an attempt to recoup a debt that Worm has carried over from before prison. The men to whom Worm owes the money get heavy, and Mike is forced into a showdown with Teddy KGB, the hood to whom he lost his life savings a year before.

Crime / Drama

Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood Blu-ray Movie  

Echo Bridge Entertainment | 1996 | 89 min | Rated R | Jul 05, 2011 | Martin Liebman

A parody of a lot of Afro-American movies, for instance "Boyz N the Hood", "South Central", "Menace II Society", "Higher Learning" and "Juice". We follow Ashtray as he returns to the place he grew up in and meet his father and his basket-case friends. A lot of crazy stuff happens, for example, Ashtray is older than his father and his best friend Loc Dog's grandmother is a trigger-happy old lady who blames her eccentric-looking kid for not being tough enough.

Comedy / Crime

Demolition Man Blu-ray Movie  

Warner Bros. | 1993 | 115 min | Rated R | Aug 16, 2011 | Michael Reuben

A cop is brought out of suspended animation in prison to pursue an old ultra-violent enemy who is loose in a nonviolent future society.

Action / Comedy / Crime / Sci-Fi / Thriller

Eastbound & Down: The Complete Second Season Blu-ray Movie  

HBO | 2010 | 210 min | Rated TV-MA | Aug 02, 2011 | Kenneth Brown

Kenny Powers, an arrogant, burned-out, former major-league pitcher takes up residence in a small Mexican town; there, joined by his lackey Stevie Janowski and a new love interest, Vida, he fashions a comeback scenario that involves a local baseball team, the Charros, and its filthy-rich owner, Sebastian Cisneros.

Comedy / Sport / Dark humor

Léon Morin, Priest Blu-ray Movie  

Léon Morin, prêtre

Criterion | 1961 | 118 min | Not rated | Jul 26, 2011 | Dr. Svet Atanasov

As the Germans take over France during World War II, widowed mother Barny becomes increasingly anxious about her half-Jewish daughter. She decides to hide the girl on a nearby farm and have her baptized as a cover. The ceremony reminds Barny of the absurdity of religion, and inspires her to pick a fight with parish priest Léon. She's surprised to learn that he shares a great many of her views, and the two begin a chaste yet deep relationship.

Drama / Foreign

The Matrimony Blu-ray Movie  

Xin zhong you gui

Palisades Tartan | 2007 | 91 min | Not rated | Jul 26, 2011 | Martin Liebman

A woman finds the key to a room in the attic that her husband forbids her from entering. When she opens the door, she is confronted with the haunting existence of the woman her husband refuses to forget.

Drama / Horror / Thriller / Foreign