New Blu-ray Reviews
Home- May 04, 2011
The Man Who Could Cheat Death / The Skull Blu-ray Movie
Legend | 1959-1965 | 2 Movies | 165 min | Not rated | May 03, 2011 | Jeffrey Kauffman
A collector of esoterica, Dr. Maitland (Peter Cushing), buys an unusual skull from his ordinary source of artifacts. The skull is what remains of marquis De Sade. Much too soon he discovers how the skull affects him: by turning him into a frenzied killer...
Drama / Horror / Sci-Fi / Thriller
Repo Chick Blu-ray Movie
CAV | 2009 | 88 min | Not rated | Feb 08, 2011 | Kenneth Brown
A Los Angeles heiress wannabe high profile celebrity is disinherited from her family and her wealth. She gets a job as a repo chick and she goes about boosting property from subprime borrowers. In an attempt to regain her family and fortune she goes on the ultimate repo mission to find a stolen train carrying six unstable nuclear missiles.
Comedy
- May 03, 2011
Rififi Blu-ray Movie
Du rififi chez les hommes / Arrow Academy / Blu-ray + DVD
Arrow | 1955 | 118 min | Rated BBFC: 12 | May 09, 2011 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
Four ex-cons hatch one last glorious robbery in the City of Light.
Crime / Drama / Film-Noir / Thriller / Foreign / Heist
The Marrying Man Blu-ray Movie
Mill Creek Entertainment | 1991 | 116 min | Rated R | May 10, 2011 | Martin Liebman
Millionaire playboy Charley Pearl has got it all. Charm, looks, style and he's about to marry the daughter of the most powerful man in Hollywood. But a funny thing happens on his way to the altar...he meets sultry Las Vegas lounge singer Vicki Anderson and it's lust at first sight.
Comedy / Romance
Houdini / Those Daring Young Men in Their Jaunty Jalopies Blu-ray Movie
Monte Carlo or Bust!
Legend | 1953-1969 | 2 Movies | 231 min | Rated G | May 03, 2011 | Jeffrey Kauffman
Two Tony Curtis films are offered in this two disc set, 1953's 'Houdini,' a supposed biography of the famous magician, and 1969's 'Those Daring Young Men in Their Jaunty Jalopies,' a sequel of sorts to 'Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines.'
Biography / Comedy / Drama / Romance
The Sandlot Blu-ray Movie
20th Century Fox | 1993 | 101 min | Rated PG | Mar 22, 2011 | Casey Broadwater
It's the early 1960s and fifth-grader Scotty Smalls has just moved into town with his folks. Kids call him a dork - he can't even throw a baseball! But that changes when the leader of the neighborhood gang recruits him to play on the nearby sandlot field. It's the beginning of a magical summer of baseball, wild adventures, first kisses, and fearsome confrontations with the dreaded beast and its owner who live behind the left field fence.
Comedy / Drama / Family / Sport / Coming of age
Benny & Joon Blu-ray Movie
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer | 1993 | 98 min | Rated PG | Apr 05, 2011 | Casey Broadwater
A quirky young man moves in with an overprotective mechanic and his spirited younger sister, and changes their lives.
Comedy / Romance
- May 02, 2011
The Rite Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + DVD + Digital Copy
Warner Bros. | 2011 | 114 min | Rated PG-13 | May 17, 2011 | Kenneth Brown
An American seminary student travels to Italy to take an exorcism course.
Drama / Horror / Thriller / Supernatural
Another Stakeout Blu-ray Movie
Mill Creek Entertainment | 1993 | 109 min | Rated PG-13 | May 10, 2011 | Martin Liebman
Once again, Seattle detectives Chris Lecce and Bill Reimers are teaming up on a stakeout, but this time they're bringing along a headstrong female partner, Gina Garrett, and her mischievous dog, Archie. Together, they're posing as the perfect family and it looks like these unlikely housemates might just catch their suspect . . . if they don't kill each other first.
Action / Comedy / Crime / Thriller
Deep Red Blu-ray Movie
Profondo rosso
Blue Underground | 1975 | 1 Movie, 2 Cuts | 127 min | Not rated | May 17, 2011 | Martin Liebman
When a respected psychic is brutally murdered, her pianist neighbor teams up with a journalist to track down the killer.
Horror / Mystery / Thriller / Foreign
The Greatest Places Blu-ray Movie
IMAX
Inception Media Group | 1996 | 40 min | Not rated | May 17, 2011 | Jeffrey Kauffman
Seven of the world's most geographically incredible locations come to life in The Greatest Places.
Documentary
Beverly Hills Cop Blu-ray Movie
Paramount Pictures | 1984 | 105 min | Rated R | May 17, 2011 | Martin Liebman
A freewheeling Detroit cop pursuing a murder investigation finds himself dealing with the very different culture of Beverly Hills.
Action / Comedy / Crime
Running on Karma Blu-ray Movie
大隻佬 / Daai zek lou
Kam & Ronson Enterprises | 2003 | 93 min | Rated IIB | Dec 23, 2010 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
A monk turned body-builder, with the gift to see into people's lives, befriends a female cop, and uses his gift to change the force of Karma and her destiny.
Action / Drama / Foreign
- May 01, 2011
Chopin: Piano Concerto No. 2 Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray Audio
Naxos | 2010 | 63 min | Not rated | Feb 22, 2011 | Jeffrey Kauffman
Antoni Wit and the Warsaw Philharmonic perform Chopin's Second Piano Concerto with soloist Eldar Nebolsin, utilizing the new Polish National Chopin Edition.
Music
Something Wild Blu-ray Movie
Criterion | 1986 | 114 min | Rated R | May 10, 2011 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
A straitlaced businessman meets a quirky, free-spirited woman at a downtown New York greasy spoon. Her offer of a ride back to his office results in a lunchtime motel rendezvous—just the beginning of a capricious interstate road trip that brings the two face-to-face with their hidden selves.
Comedy / Crime / Drama / Romance / Thriller
Poor Pretty Eddie Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + DVD
HD Cinema Classics | 1975 | 92 min | Rated R | Apr 26, 2011 | Jeffrey Kauffman
A jazz singer is on the road when her car breaks down in an isolated spot. Unfortunately for her, the only place to turn for help is a lodge that is run by a former starlet and a homicial Elvis impersonator.
Drama / Horror
The Venture Bros.: Season 4 Blu-ray Movie
Warner Bros. | 2009-2010 | 326 min | Rated TV-MA | Mar 22, 2011 | Kenneth Brown
Questions are answered and truths are revealed. Learn how Henchman 21 copes with life without 24. See what happens when Brock and the Venture family are forced to part ways. Discover the final fate of H.E.L.P.eR. And all the while, the balance of the free world hangs in the hands of Dean Venture, who must kill.. Hitler.
Action / Adventure / Animation / Comedy / Dark humor
- April 30, 2011
The Long Kiss Goodnight Blu-ray Movie
Warner Bros. | 1996 | 121 min | Rated R | Mar 29, 2011 | Kenneth Brown
Samantha is a suburban mom who makes a killer lemon meringue pie. Charly is a covert op who kills. They’re both the same person. Both may be as good as dead. Geena Davis stars as a woman whose fading amnesia reveals her secret life as an elite government assassin, and Samuel L. Jackson portrays the low-rent detective helping her unlock her memory, all while rogue agents scramble to bury Samantha/Charly and her past.
Action / Crime / Drama / Mystery / Thriller
Muay Thai Giant Blu-ray Movie
Somtum
Magnolia Pictures | 2009 | 102 min | Rated R | Apr 26, 2011 | Casey Broadwater
Seven foot gentle giant Barney Emerald is drugged and robbed while on holiday in Pattaya. Two Thai sisters, one who speaks English, the other,a Muay Thai kick-boxing champion, befriend him so he can recover his passport. When Barney eats the spicy "somtum", it has a physical reaction, sending him into a raging and violent martial-arts frenzy. The girls use the somtum to control Barney's powerful reactions to earn back his money and take down the local crime lords.
Action / Comedy / Crime
Chopin: Piano Concerto No 1 Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray Audio
Naxos | 2010 | 68 min | Not rated | Feb 22, 2011 | Jeffrey Kauffman
This audio only Blu-ray offers the first recording of the new Polish National Chopin Edition of the composer's First Piano Concerto in E minor, Op. 11.
Music