New Blu-ray Reviews

Midnight Cowboy Blu-ray Movie    

20th Century Fox | 1969 | 113 min | Rated BBFC: 18 | May 02, 2011 | Dr. Svet Atanasov

A naive hustler travels from Texas to New York to seek personal fortune but, in the process, finds himself a new friend.

Drama

Sons of the City: New York Blu-ray Movie  

Image Entertainment | 2011 | 54 min | Not rated | May 17, 2011 | Casey Broadwater

Basketball is known as 'The City's Game'. Countless dreams born on the asphalt of neighborhood courts in cities around the country all climax with NBA stardom. Sons of the City: New York celebrates the greatest players from New York who lived their dreams of success and stardom in the NBA. From Bob Cousy and Dolph Schayes, to Tiny Archibald and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, to Bernard King and Chris Mullin, this is a look at the lives and careers of the biggest stars from the biggest city.

Sport

Dance in the Vampire Bund: Complete Series Blu-ray Movie  

Limited Edition | Combo Pack / Blu-ray + DVD

FUNimation Entertainment | 2010 | 300 min | Rated TV-MA | Jun 14, 2011 | Jeffrey Kauffman

The story revolves around Mina Tepes, princess-ruler of all vampires, and her "protector," Akira. Mina gains permission to create a special district for vampires, "The Bund", off the coast of Japan by paying off the national debt of the Japanese government. Tensions, however, run high as fearful humans and extremist vampire factions begin to interfere with Mina's wish for peace with the human world.

Action / Anime / Drama / Horror / Romance / Supernatural / Foreign

Handel: Theodora Blu-ray Movie  

C MAJOR | 2009 | 189 min | Not rated | May 31, 2011 | Jeffrey Kauffman

George Frideric Handel's oratorio is presented in a staged production from the 2009 Salzburg Festival, in honor of the 250th anniversary of the composer's death.

Music

Alfano: Cyrano de Bergerac Blu-ray Movie  

Naxos | 2007 | 141 min | Not rated | May 31, 2011 | Jeffrey Kauffman

Best known today for having completed Puccini's unfinished 'Turandot', Franco Albano wrote many well regarded operas of his own, including 'Cyrano de Bergerac.'

Music

Passion Play Blu-ray Movie  

Image Entertainment | 2010 | 94 min | Rated R | May 31, 2011 | Casey Broadwater

After Nate Poole, a low-life, junkie musician escapes death at the hands of a dangerous mobster in the Mexican desert, he discovers Lily, a living angel with white wings growing out of her back. Nate decides to use Lily as leverage to buy back his life from the gangster, only to realize -- much too late -- that she is the best thing that has ever happened to him.

Drama / Thriller

TO Blu-ray Movie  

Elliptical Orbit / Symbiotic Planet / Blu-ray + DVD

FUNimation Entertainment | 2009 | 2 Movies | 86 min | Rated TV-14 | Jun 07, 2011 | Jeffrey Kauffman

An epic journey to the stars told across two stunning sci-fi fables. A crew returns home after 15 years in space. While they have only aged by two years, everyone they know is now fifteen years older. One hundred years have passed and mankind presses on ever deeper into the solar system. But far from establishing a new world order in space, man has brought the same old rivalries and conflicts with him. A war erupts as the race to colonize a new Earth intensifies.

Action / Anime / Fantasy / Sci-Fi / Foreign

Ice Cold in Alex Blu-ray Movie    

Vintage Classics

Optimum Home Entertainment | 1958 | 130 min | Rated BBFC: PG | Jun 13, 2011 | Dr. Svet Atanasov

1942: The Libyan war zone, North Africa. After a German invasion a British ambulance crew are forced to evacuate their base but become separated from the rest of their unit.

Adventure / Drama / War

The Cat o' Nine Tails Blu-ray Movie  

Il gatto a nove code

Blue Underground | 1971 | 112 min | Not rated | May 31, 2011 | Martin Liebman

A reporter and a retired, blind journalist try to solve a series of killings and in so doing, both become targets of the killer.

Crime / Horror / Mystery / Thriller / Foreign

Stanley Kubrick Blu-ray Movie  

Limited Edition Collection

Warner Bros. | 1960-2006 | 11 Movies | 1332 min | Rated R | May 31, 2011 | Kenneth Brown

See individual titles for their synopses.

Adventure / Biography / Crime / Documentary / Drama / History / Horror / Mystery / Romance / Sci-Fi / Thriller / War / Dark humor / Psychological thriller / Imaginary / Supernatural / Erotic / Surreal / Melodrama / Epic / Period

The Five Deadly Venoms Blu-ray Movie  

The Five Venoms / 五毒 / Wu du

Vivendi Visual Entertainment | 1978 | 102 min | Rated R | May 17, 2011 | Jeffrey Kauffman

The sixth and final disciple of a dying martial arts master is instructed to find the master's five former disciples, each specializing in their own unique kung fu style, and defeat any evil ones amongst them.

Action / Martial arts / Foreign / Period

The Stunt Man Blu-ray Movie  

Severin Films | 1980 | 131 min | Rated R | Jun 07, 2011 | Jeffrey Kauffman

Cameron is a young veteran who is running from the police when he comes upon a movie set and accidentally causes the death of a stunt man. When Cameron explains his situation to the director Eli Cross, the eccentric man agrees to conceal him from the police on the condition that he take the stuntman's place. Before long, Cameron realizes that the autocratic director is taking advantage of him by putting him in deadly danger.

Action / Comedy / Drama / Romance / Thriller

Merry-Go-Round Blu-ray Movie    

Dong fung po / 東風破

Kam & Ronson Enterprises | 2010 | 125 min | Rated I | Dec 29, 2010 | Dr. Svet Atanasov

A dying drug addict ran away from San Francisco to Hong Kong, to meet up with a net friend she had never met. However, the one she ran into was an ill-tempered old man, who lived as a recluse at Tung-wah Coffin Home. A Chinese herbal physician, who had been staying in San Francisco over decades, decided to return to Hong Kogn when a deed was delivered by courier to her. The owner of a traditional herbal shop in Hong Kong, was a lad who hated to carry on his family business. He came to himself on account of three women. The world changes so swiftly, things we were once familiar with could just vanish in no time. A chance encounter with strangers could bring new horizon to their lives. You can always acquire a new life regardless of your age. You just have to believe.

Drama / Romance / Foreign

Jackass 3.5 Blu-ray Movie  

Paramount Pictures | 2011 | 85 min | Unrated | Jun 14, 2011 | Martin Liebman

More crazy stunts with the Jackass gang!

Comedy

The Man Who Would Be King Blu-ray Movie  

Warner Bros. | 1975 | 129 min | Rated PG | Jun 07, 2011 | Jeffrey Kauffman

Adaptation of Rudyard Kipling’s story about two English ex-soldiers who leave British-ruled India for a remote part of Afghanistan in order to become kings.

Action / Adventure

Soul Eater: The Meister Collection Blu-ray Movie  

Parts 1 & 2

FUNimation Entertainment | 2008 | 650 min | Rated TV-14 | May 24, 2011 | Jeffrey Kauffman

Maka is a Meister and Soul is her Weapon. As students at the Grim Reaper’s Death Weapon Meister Academy, their study habits couldn’t be more different. But in battle against the supernatural forces of evil, they’re a freakin’ lethal team.

Action / Adventure / Anime / Comedy / Supernatural / Comic book / Foreign

Lolita Blu-ray Movie  

Warner Bros. | 1962 | 154 min | Not rated | May 31, 2011 | Kenneth Brown

Humbert Humbert is a fastidious, middle-aged British novelist who is both appalled by and attracted to the vulgarity of American culture. When he comes to stay at the boarding house run by Charlotte Haze he soon becomes obsessed with Lolita, the woman's teenaged daughter. In fact, his passion for the girl becomes so overwhelming that he is willing to accept Charlotte's intimations of marriage just in order to be close to her daughter. Humbert then plots to spend more and more time alone with Lolita, but his pursuit of his obsession soon becomes such that it leaves all their lives damaged.

Drama / Romance / Dark humor / Psychological thriller

Barry Lyndon Blu-ray Movie  

Warner Bros. | 1975 | 185 min | Rated PG | May 31, 2011 | Kenneth Brown

Redmond Barry is an Irish country boy who falls in love with a well-to-do local girl and is subsequently tricked by her family into leaving town. Disillusioned with love, the brokenhearted youngster embarks on an adventure which sees him serve in the Seven Years War, earn a living as a professional gambler, and eventually move into the higher ranks of society, when he meets and marries the beautiful Lady Lyndon. Despite the luck that has brought him such riches, it is this final move, the cynical choice to marry for social advancement rather than love, which brings about his downfall.

Adventure / Drama / History / War / Epic / Period

Money Train Blu-ray Movie  

Image Entertainment | 1995 | 110 min | Rated R | May 17, 2011 | Casey Broadwater

Foster brothers, John and Charlie share a life-long dream of robbing the Money Train that collects millions of dollars each night from NYC subway stations. Only two things stand in their way: they're cops; and Donald Patterson, the hard-assed MTA chief, is their boss. They're his trains, it's his money, and he's never been robbed. But on New Year's Eve, the rates are going up...

Action / Comedy / Crime / Thriller / Heist

Needless: Collection 1 Blu-ray Movie  

Sentai Filmworks | 2009 | 300 min | Rated TV-14 | Feb 15, 2011 | Jeffrey Kauffman

In the near future, mankind has suffered from a Third World War, leaving extreme damage all over and forced mankind to become even more distinct from their species. The world was at chaos and from this chaos comes a new species: “Needless”. The Needless are humans who have contracted a “disease” as humans may call them, and allow them to wield extraordinary powers far superior to any mankind. Their abilities include Telekinesis, elemental powers, gravity control, adaptation, radioactive release and all manners of scientific impossibility.

Action / Adventure / Anime / Comedy / Sci-Fi / Erotic / Comic book / Foreign