New Blu-ray Reviews
Home- June 23, 2011
The Lincoln Lawyer Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + DVD + Digital Copy
Lionsgate Films | 2011 | 118 min | Rated R | Jul 12, 2011 | Jeffrey Kauffman
A lawyer conducts business from the back of his Lincoln town car while representing a high-profile client in Beverly Hills.
Crime / Drama / Thriller / Psychological thriller
Hair Blu-ray Movie
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer | 1979 | 121 min | Rated PG | Jun 07, 2011 | Michael Reuben
During the Vietnam war, a small time farm boy enlists in the army and encounters the New York City hippie subculture and he is rapidly indoctrinated into it.
Comedy / Drama / Musical
- June 22, 2011
Waiting for Forever Blu-ray Movie
20th Century Fox | 2011 | 99 min | Rated PG-13 | May 03, 2011 | Casey Broadwater
A Hollywood-set romantic tale of a guy who is content to live his life without a job yet with the love of his life, a young actress.
Drama / Romance
The Romantic Englishwoman Blu-ray Movie
Kino Lorber | 1975 | 116 min | Rated R | Jun 21, 2011 | Casey Broadwater
Comedy-drama about a successful novelist who invites a handsome young man to his home to provide input to his screenplay. His wife completes the romantic triangle.
Comedy / Drama
The Hidden Blade Blu-ray Movie
隠し剣 鬼の爪 / 隱劍鬼爪
Panorama | 2004 | 131 min | Rated IIB | Feb 25, 2011 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
An honest, low-ranking samurai, Munezo Katagiri finds himself buffeted by the confusion of old and new in mid-19th century Japan. Facing outside pressure, the Shogunate is trying to open Japan to the West and some carefully selected Western ways, while maintaining its fragile political base. Munezo, and his colleague Samon Shimada try to maintain their footing, paying heed to the demanding moral code of the samurai while also learning new military strategies, particularly the mastery of Western artillery. But Munezo also has a personal complication. He is secretly in love--so secretly, he may not even admit it to himself--with his family's maid, the sweet and beautiful country girl, Kie. His passion leads him to rescue Kie from a loveless marriage after she leaves his household; the samurai even shocks propriety by carrying away the low-caste young woman on his back. Just as Munezo starts to get his domestic situation in something to resembling order, Munezo hears devastating news. A comrade, Yaichiro Hazama, has been caught up in a plot in Edo. Their clan has sent the rebellious samurai home in the humiliating transport of a "prisoner's basket." Munezo comes under suspicion because he and Yaichiro, the clan's best swordsmen, shared a famed instructor, but Munezo refuses to cooperate with the chief retainer's witch hunt. Tension finally leads Munezo to confess his growing affection to Kie, a development that the young woman begins to hope will lead to the abandonment of caste structures. But before Munezo can realize his romantic destiny, Yaichiro escapes. Munezo is ordered to kill him, and the loyal, honorable samurai is faced with one final challenge to his principles.
Drama / Romance / Foreign
Brazil Blu-ray Movie
Theatrical US cut
Universal Studios | 1985 | 132 min | Rated R | Jul 12, 2011 | Jeffrey Kauffman
Low-level bureaucrat Sam Lowry escapes the monotony of his day-to-day life through a recurring daydream of himself as a virtuous hero saving a beautiful damsel. Investigating a case that led to the wrongful arrest and eventual death of an innocent man instead of wanted terrorist Harry Tuttle, he meets the woman from his daydream and, in trying to help her, gets caught in a web of mistaken identities, mindless bureaucracy, and lies.
Drama / Fantasy / Sci-Fi / Dark humor / Surreal
A Matador's Mistress Blu-ray Movie
Manolete
Xenon | 2008 | 93 min | Not rated | Jun 07, 2011 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
In the 1940s, Manuel Rodríguez Sánchez, known to the world as Manolete, owned the Spanish bullring. This searing biopic follows his notorious affair with movie siren Lupe Sino at the height of his fame, and his death in the ring at age 30.
Biography / Drama / Romance
- June 21, 2011
Season of the Witch Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + Digital Copy
20th Century Fox / Relativity | 2011 | 95 min | Rated PG-13 | Jun 28, 2011 | Jeffrey Kauffman
14th-century knights transport a suspected witch to a monastery, where monks deduce her powers could be the source of the Black Plague.
Adventure / Drama / Fantasy
Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + DVD + Digital Copy
20th Century Fox | 2011 | 99 min | Rated PG | Jun 21, 2011 | Casey Broadwater
Back in middle school after summer vacation, Greg Heffley and his older brother Rodrick must deal with their parents' misguided attempts to have them bond.
Comedy / Family / Coming of age
Primal Scream: Screamadelica, Live Blu-ray Movie
Eagle Rock Entertainment | 2010 | 204 min | Rated G | May 31, 2011 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
Primal Scream formed in Glasgow, Scotland in 1982 and in 1991 recorded what many rock critics have listed as one of the great alternative albums of the 1990s, Screamadelica. Screamadelica Live captures the band performing this album in its entirety for the very first time, at London’s Olympia in 2010. The Blu-ray includes an exclusive bonus of the Screamadelica Classic Album documentary.
Music
Midnight Cowboy Blu-ray Movie
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer | 1969 | 113 min | Rated R | May 29, 2011 | Michael Reuben
A naive hustler travels from Texas to New York to seek personal fortune but, in the process, finds himself a new friend.
Drama
American: The Bill Hicks Story Blu-ray Movie
BBC | 2009 | 102 min | Not rated | Jun 07, 2011 | Kenneth Brown
British-made documentary about the legendary American comedian Bill Hicks. Featuring interviews with Hicks's closest friends and family members, the film traces his life and career from his early performances in his hometown of Houston, Texas while still a teenager through to his untimely death from cancer at the age of 32.
Animation / Biography / Comedy / Documentary
- June 20, 2011
Cedar Rapids Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + Digital Copy
20th Century Fox | 2011 | 87 min | Rated R | Jun 21, 2011 | Casey Broadwater
Tim Lippe has no idea what he's in for when he's sent to Cedar Rapids, Iowa to represent his company at an annual insurance convention, where he soon finds himself under the "guidance" of three convention veterans.
Comedy
Max Manus: Man of War Blu-ray Movie
Music Box Films | 2008 | 118 min | Unrated | Jun 28, 2011 | Jeffrey Kauffman
Follows a young adventurer who is involved in liberating Nazi-occupied Norway.
Biography / Drama / History / War / Foreign
Pigs & Battleships / Stolen Desire Blu-ray Movie
豚と軍艦 / 盗まれた欲情 | Buta to gunkan / Nusumareta yokujô | Masters of Cinema / Blu-ray + DVD
Eureka Entertainment | 1961 | 2 Movies | 201 min | Rated BBFC: 15 | Jun 27, 2011 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
A young hoodlum decides to work for a criminal organization that is tearing itself apart.
Comedy / Crime / Drama / Foreign
Bulletproof Blu-ray Movie
Universal Studios | 1996 | 84 min | Rated R | Jun 07, 2011 | Michael Reuben
Small time crook Archie Moses considers Rock Keats his best buddy, until Moses graciously brings Keats on a big-time drug score and is horrified to discover that his trusted friend is actually an undercover cop. When a gunfight breaks out, Keats is accidentally shot in the head by Moses in the ensuing melee. After recovering, Keats returns to work only to find that his first assignment is to escort his ex-best friend back home from Arizona, so Moses can turn state's evidence against the ruthless drug king pin he was working for. Hardly a happy traveling duo, they soon discover that there's a mole revealing their every move and that they are neither safe from the police, the FBI nor the drug thugs hot on their trail. Although they hate each other now, they soon realize that with their lives at stake, the original ties that bind are still strong--especially if it means surviving.
Action / Adventure / Comedy / Crime
- June 19, 2011
Keeping Score: Mahler Blu-ray Movie
San Francisco Symphony | 2010 | 224 min | Not rated | May 10, 2011 | Jeffrey Kauffman
Michael Tilson Thomas performs several pieces by Mahler with the San Francisco Symphony as well as exploring the life and work of the composer in an accompanying documentary.
Music / Foreign
Rideback: Complete Series Blu-ray Movie
Limited Edition / Blu-ray + DVD
FUNimation Entertainment | 2009 | 300 min | Rated TV-14 | Jun 28, 2011 | Jeffrey Kauffman
Atop her robotic RideBack motorcycle, an ex-dancer ignites the fires of rebellion in a nation held captive by its own oppressive government. After an injury forces Rin to trade her stage career for college life, she finds new thrills as a member of the RideBack Club. When she discovers an unusual connection with one machine in particular – Fuego – she is forced into the middle of a revolution. The tyrannical new government rules with an iron fist, and Rin is reluctant to take them on. But as her dearest friends suffer, and the insurgency struggles to topple the increasingly powerful regime, Rin may have no choice but to gun Fuego’s engines and speed directly into the heart of the fight for freedom.
Action / Anime / Drama / Sci-Fi / Comic book / Foreign
- June 18, 2011
Kiss Me Deadly Blu-ray Movie
Criterion | 1955 | 106 min | Not rated | Jun 21, 2011 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
One evening, private detective Mike Hammer picks up a strange woman, Christina, who's standing on the highway wearing only a trench coat. They're stopped farther on by strangers who knock out Mike and murder Christina. Although warned not to investigate by the police, Mike and his girlfriend and assistant, Velda, become ensnared in a dark plot involving scientist Dr. Soberin and Christina's terrified roommate, Lily.
Crime / Drama / Film-Noir / Mystery / Thriller
Sucker Punch Blu-ray Movie
Extended & Theatrical Cut / Blu-ray + DVD + Digital Copy
Warner Bros. | 2011 | 1 Movie, 2 Cuts | 127 min | Rated R | Jun 28, 2011 | Kenneth Brown
A young girl is institutionalized by her wicked stepfather. Retreating to an alternative reality as a coping strategy, she envisions a plan which will help her escape from the facility.
Action / Adventure / Fantasy / Thriller / Martial arts / Surreal