New Blu-ray Reviews
Home- June 29, 2011
Cold Fish Blu-ray Movie
冷たい熱帯魚 / Tsumetai Nettaigyo
Third Window Films | 2010 | 146 min | Rated BBFC: 18 | Jun 27, 2011 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
Shamoto runs a small tropical fish shop. His second wife, Taeko, does not get along with his daughter, Mitsuko, and this concerns him. One day Mitsuko is caught shoplifting at a local grocery store. A seemingly friendly man named Murata helps negotiate things between Mitsuko and the store manager. Since Murata also runs a tropical fish shop, Shamoto establishes a bond of friendship with him rather quickly. Mitsuko even begins working for Murata and living at his house. What Shamoto is unaware of is that Murata's friendly face disguises his many deep dark secrets.
Crime / Drama / Thriller / Psychological thriller / Foreign
Jumanji Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + DVD
Sony Pictures | 1995 | 104 min | Rated PG | Jun 28, 2011 | Martin Liebman
When two kids play an old magic board-game they found, they release a man trapped for decades in it and a host of dangers that can only be stopped by finishing the game.
Adventure / Comedy / Family / Fantasy
13 Assassins Blu-ray Movie
Jûsan-nin no shikaku / Blu-ray + Digital Copy
Magnolia Pictures | 2010 | 125 min | Rated R | Jul 05, 2011 | Casey Broadwater
At the end of Japan's feudal era, a group of unemployed samurai are enlisted to bring down a sadistic lord and prevent him from ascending to the throne and plunging the country into a war-torn future.
Action / Adventure / Drama / History / Martial arts / Foreign
Beastly Blu-ray Movie
Sony Pictures | 2011 | 86 min | Rated PG-13 | Jun 28, 2011 | Martin Liebman
Kyle Kingson has it all - looks, intelligence, wealth and opportunity - and a wicked cruel streak. Prone to mocking and humiliating "aggressively unattractive" classmates, he zeroes in on Goth classmate Kendra, inviting her to the school's extravagant environmental bash. Kendra accepts, and, true to form, Kyle blows her off in a particularly savage fashion. She retaliates by casting a spell that physically transforms him into everything he despises. Enraged by his horrible and unrecognizable appearance, he learns that the only solution to the curse is to find someone that will love him as he is - a task that might be impossible.
Drama / Fantasy / Romance / Teen / Supernatural
Legends of Flight 3D Blu-ray Movie
IMAX / Blu-ray 3D + Blu-ray
Image Entertainment | 2010 | 45 min | Not rated | Jun 07, 2011 | Martin Liebman
LEGENDS OF FLIGHT is a film that will not only delight and entertain the aviation enthusiast but also educate and inspired renewed interest in aviation by the traveling public...
Documentary
Das Boot Blu-ray Movie
2-Disc Collector's Set
Sony Pictures | 1981 | 1 Movie, 2 Cuts | 208 min | Rated R | Jul 05, 2011 | Martin Liebman
This is the story of 42 raw recruits caught up in a war they didn't understand, and the Captain who must lead them in their struggle to survive.
Action / Drama / History / War / Foreign
- June 28, 2011
New York, New York Blu-ray Movie
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer | 1977 | 163 min | Rated PG | Jun 07, 2011 | Michael Reuben
An egotistical saxophone player and a young singer meet on V-J Day and embark upon a strained and rocky romance, even as their careers begin a long uphill climb.
Drama / Music / Musical / Romance / Period
Cowboy Bebop: The Movie Blu-ray Movie
カウボーイビバップ 天国の扉
Image Entertainment | 2001 | 115 min | Rated R | Jun 28, 2011 | Casey Broadwater
2071 A.D. Planet Mars. On the eve Halloween, a tanker explodes killing and injuring more than 500 people on a freeway in the crater of Alba City. The damage extends beyond one kilometer from the center of explosion. The use of biological or chemical weapon is heavily suspected. The reward is W300,000,000.00 (Mars currency) to find out the perpetrator. Short of funds as usual, the crew of the Bebop is lured into the investigation by the staggering amount of money they could possibly receive for being able to accurately point the blame. They start a search on their own, and so begins the adventures of the young slacker, Spike Spiegel, and his cohort, the ex-cop, Jet Black, leading their gang of bounty hunters on the trail of an elusive nemesis.
Action / Anime / Crime / Drama / Sci-Fi / Thriller / Foreign
- June 27, 2011
Zazie dans le métro Blu-ray Movie
Criterion | 1960 | 93 min | Not rated | Jun 28, 2011 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
A girl causes chaos on the streets of Paris after she runs away from her transvestite uncle.
Comedy / Fantasy / Foreign
Blue Crush Blu-ray Movie
Universal Studios | 2002 | 105 min | Rated PG-13 | Jun 07, 2011 | Jeffrey Kauffman
Life for Anne Marie has been one long Pipe dream. She's about to make that dream a reality if she can keep from drowning in her own fear. At the Pipe Masters surf competition on the North Shore of Oahu, more is at stake for Anne Marie than the pressure of competing in one of the world's most dangerous, aggressive and male-dominated sports. She must first win a dreaded contest within. Sharing a beach shack with her best friends Eden and Lena, and her rebellious younger sister Penny, Anne Marie lives for the adrenaline-charged surf scene, rising before dawn every day to charge the Pipeline's deadly waves. Things change when a pro football team with slovenly habits and fat wallets checks in. Like it or not, Anne Marie starts losing her balance--and finding it--as she falls for quarterback Matt Tollman. Suddenly there are options: trophy wife or trophy winner? But there's really only one choice for someone like Anne Marie.
Drama / Nature / Romance / Sport / Teen / Coming of age
Of Gods and Men Blu-ray Movie
Des hommes et des dieux / Blu-ray + DVD
Sony Pictures | 2010 | 123 min | Rated PG-13 | Jul 05, 2011 | Martin Liebman
Under threat by fundamentalist terrorists, a group of Trappist monks stationed with an impoverished Algerian community must decide whether to leave or stay.
Drama / History / Foreign
- June 26, 2011
Louie: The Complete First Season Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray/DVD Combo
20th Century Fox | 2010 | 281 min | Rated TV-MA | Jun 21, 2011 | Casey Broadwater
A mix of sketches and stand-up focusing on a recently divorced man raising his two children.
Comedy / Dark humor / Surreal
Britten: Billy Budd Blu-ray Movie
Glyndebourne Festival Opera
Opus Arte | 2010 | 200 min | Rated G | Jun 28, 2011 | Jeffrey Kauffman
Based on Herman Melville's novella of naval life in the late 18th century, Britten's 'Billy Budd' is a gripping reflection on good and evil, innocence and corruption.
Music
Coeur Fidèle Blu-ray Movie
Faithful Heart / Masters of Cinema / Blu-ray + DVD
Eureka Entertainment | 1923 | 85 min | Rated BBFC: PG | Jun 27, 2011 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
Marie wants to escape from her job and also from her lover, Paul, an unemployed drunk. She dreams of going off with Jean, a dockworker. The two men quarrel and fight over Marie on two occasions, but Paul retains a hold over her. Marie has a baby who falls ill and as time goes on Jean and a crippled neighbor try to help the child. Paul nearly causes the death of the child whilst in a drunken stupor and in a final struggle that occurs, the crippled woman seizes Paul's gun and shoots him dead.
Drama / Foreign
- June 25, 2011
The People vs. Larry Flynt Blu-ray Movie
Image Entertainment | 1996 | 129 min | Rated R | Apr 05, 2011 | Michael Reuben
At the twilight of the sexual revolution in the U.S., a sex industry entrepreneur named Larry Flynt leveraged a small string of Ohio strip-clubs into the beginnings of a publishing empire. "Hustler" magazine's publisher, a grade-school dropout and Kentucky redneck, was nobody's hero, but circumstance would cast him as the era's last crusader. It was a role that brought Larry Flynt both ruin and glory. Flynt becomes the unlikely champion of the First Amendment when he takes his fight against the Rev. Jerry Falwell all the way to the Supreme Court.
Biography / Drama / History
Dragon Ball Z Kai: Part 5 Blu-ray Movie
FUNimation Entertainment | 2010 | 325 min | Rated TV-PG | Jun 28, 2011 | Jeffrey Kauffman
The epic showdown between Goku and Frieza reaches its climax as planet Namek crumbles beneath their feet! In the aftermath of battle, neither fighter is anywhere to be found, but Earth’s few remaining heroes have much bigger problems. A mysterious and powerful stranger known only as Trunks arrives from the future with a warning: the Androids are coming, they take no prisoners, and even Goku – wherever he may be – is no match for their kind!
Action / Adventure / Anime / Fantasy / Sci-Fi / Martial arts / Comic book / Foreign
Neil Young & The International Harvesters: A Treasure Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + CD
Reprise | 1984-1985 | 52 min | Not rated | Jun 14, 2011 | Jeffrey Kauffman
Features performances from Neil Young's 1984-1985 US tour with the International Harvesters. A Treasure is Volume 9 in Young's Archives Performance Series, but only the sixth to be released to date.
Music
Supernatural: The Complete Second Season Blu-ray Movie
Warner Bros. | 2006-2007 | 909 min | Rated TV-14 | Jun 14, 2011 | Kenneth Brown
Sam Winchester grew up hunting unearthly horrors. But now law school and a normal life beckon. That is, until Sam’s estranged brother Dean appears with troubling news: their father has disappeared, a man who’s hunted evil for 22 years. So to find their father, the brothers must hunt what he hunts... and Sam must return to the life he’d rather leave behind.
Action / Horror / Thriller / Dark humor / Supernatural
- June 24, 2011
Kill the Irishman Blu-ray Movie
Starz / Anchor Bay | 2011 | 106 min | Rated R | Jun 14, 2011 | Jeffrey Kauffman
The true story of Danny Greene, a tough Irish thug working for mobsters in Cleveland during the 1970's.
Biography / Crime / Thriller
Black Moon Blu-ray Movie
Criterion | 1975 | 101 min | Not rated | Jun 28, 2011 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
After skirting the horrors of a mysterious war being waged in the countryside, beautiful young Lily takes refuge in a remote farmhouse, where she becomes embroiled in the surreal domestic life of an extremely unconventional family.
Drama / Fantasy / Mystery / Imaginary / Surreal