New Blu-ray Reviews
Home- April 05, 2011
Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives Blu-ray Movie
ลุงบุญมีระลึกชาติ / Lung Bunmi raluek chat
New Wave Films | 2010 | 109 min | Rated BBFC: 12 | Mar 28, 2011 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
Suffering from acute kidney failure, Uncle Boonmee has chosen to spend his final days with his loved ones in the countryside. During this time, the ghost of his deceased wife appears to care for him and his long lost son returns home in a non-human form. In order to understand the reasons for his illness, Boonmee treks through the jungle with his family to a mysterious hilltop cave which he comes to understand is the birthplace of his first life.
Comedy / Drama / Fantasy / Foreign
- April 04, 2011
Wagner: Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg Blu-ray Movie
Opus Arte | 2008 | 306 min | Not rated | Jan 25, 2011 | Jeffrey Kauffman
A double premiere, Katharina Wagner's first production on Bayreuth's Green Hill and the first live recording from the Festival on Blu-ray.
Music
Casino Jack Blu-ray Movie
20th Century Fox | 2010 | 109 min | Rated R | Apr 05, 2011 | Casey Broadwater
Jack Abramoff plays in the same game as the highest of rollers and resorts to awe-inspiring levels of conning, scheming and fraudulent antics to get what he wants. Aided by his business partner Michael Scanlon, he parlays his clout over some of the world's most powerful men. When the two enlist a mob-connected buddy to help with one of their illegal schemes, they soon find themselves in over their heads, entrenched in a scandal that spins so out of control that it makes worldwide headlines.
Biography / Comedy / Crime / Drama
Dinoshark Blu-ray Movie
Starz / Anchor Bay | 2010 | 90 min | Not rated | Apr 26, 2011 | Martin Liebman
A baby dinoshark swims away from a broken chunk of Arctic glacier that broke away due to global warming. Three years later, the dinoshark is a ferocious predatory adult and kills tourists and locals offshore from Puerto Vallarta, Mexico. The protagonist, Trace, is first to notice the Dinoshark and witnesses his friend get eaten, but has trouble convincing people that a creature of such antiquity is still alive and eating people.
Horror / Sci-Fi
Attack Force Z Blu-ray Movie
30th Anniversary Edition
Cinevision | 1981 | 93 min | Not rated | Mar 29, 2011 | Martin Liebman
The elite volunteers of Attack Force Z are assigned the difficult and dangerous task of locating and recovering a defecting Japanese government official. Set in the Sambalang Straits in the South Pacific during World War II.
Action / Drama / History
- April 03, 2011
Peter Pan Blu-ray Movie
Universal Studios | 2003 | 114 min | Rated PG | Apr 05, 2011 | Kenneth Brown
In stifling Edwardian London, Wendy Darling mesmerizes her brothers every night with bedtime tales of swordplay, swashbuckling and the fearsome Captain Hook. But the children become the heroes of an even greater story, when Peter Pan flies into their nursery one night and leads them over moonlit rooftops through a galaxy of stars and to the lush jungles of Neverland. Wendy and her brothers join Peter and the Lost Boys in an exhilarating life--free of grown-up rules--while also facing the inevitable showdown with Hook and his bloodthirsty pirates.
Adventure / Family / Fantasy / Romance / Imaginary / Coming of age
All About Ah-Long Blu-ray Movie
阿郎的故事
Kam & Ronson Enterprises | 1989 | 99 min | Rated IIA | Dec 31, 2010 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
A story about a motorcylce racer who single-handedly raises his young son, and runs into trouble when his ex-wife returns to claim the boy.
Drama / Sport / Foreign
Teen Wolf Blu-ray Movie
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer | 1985 | 92 min | Rated PG | Mar 29, 2011 | Martin Liebman
Teen discovers that puberty for him means he turns into a werewolf. One of the beneficial side effects is that it also turns him into a top-notch basketball player. But will his notoriety cost him his friends and can he find true love?
Comedy / Sport / Teen / Supernatural / Coming of age
Ernest Goes to Camp / Ernest Goes to Jail Blu-ray Movie
Mill Creek Entertainment | 1987-1990 | 2 Movies | 173 min | Rated PG | Mar 22, 2011 | Martin Liebman
No synopsis for this title.
Comedy / Crime / Family
Asafiev: Les Flammes de Paris Blu-ray Movie
The Flames of Paris / Osipova/Savin/Yasilev/Bolshoi Ballet
Bel Air Classiques | 2010 | 103 min | Not rated | Jan 25, 2011 | Jeffrey Kauffman
The famous 1932 Stalinist ballet is given a revisionist production by the Bolshoi Ballet.
Music
- April 02, 2011
One + One | Sympathy for the Devil Blu-ray Movie
The Rolling Stones
Fabulous Films | 1968 | 100 min | Unrated | Mar 28, 2011 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
A free-form, part fiction, part documentary piece juxtaposes Rolling Stones performances with images of civilization's destruction.
Documentary / Music
Rabbit Hole Blu-ray Movie
Lionsgate Films | 2010 | 91 min | Rated PG-13 | Apr 19, 2011 | Jeffrey Kauffman
The Corbett's are a happily married couple whose perfect world is forever changed when their young son, Danny, is killed in an accident. Ms Corbett tries to redefine her existence only to find solace in a mysterious relationship with a troubled young comic-book artist. Her fixation with him pulls her away from memories of her son, while Mr Corbett immerses himself in the past, seeking refuge in outsiders who offer him something Becca is unable to give. The Corbetts, both adrift, make surprising and dangerous choices as they choose the path that will determine their fate.
Drama
The Last Continent Blu-ray Movie
Le dernier continent
Entertainment One | 2007 | 106 min | Not rated | Apr 12, 2011 | Jeffrey Kauffman
Biologist and filmmaker Jean Lemire travels with the crew of the Sedna IV to the Antarctic to witness firsthand the effects of climate change.
Documentary / Foreign
Blow Out Blu-ray Movie
includes "Murder à la Mod" (1968)
Criterion | 1968-1981 | 2 Movies | 108 min | Rated R | Apr 26, 2011 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
Former police technician Jack Terry makes his living doing sound for slasher flicks. While recording new outdoor effects one night, Jack witnesses a couple's car careen off a bridge into a river, but he can save only the female occupant, Sally. Jack begins to suspect something when he learns that her dead companion was a presidential hopeful. Re-playing his tape over and over, Jack thinks that he hears a gun shot before the crash-causing tire blowout. When sleazy photographer Manny Karp comes forward with photos of the accident, Jack discovers the real reason that the naïve Sally was in the car—and also a way to prove his auditory suspicions through motion pictures. Even with all his surveillance talent, however, Jack cannot see (or hear) how dangerous the big picture really is until it's too late.
Comedy / Crime / Drama / Film-Noir / Mystery / Thriller
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader Blu-ray Movie
Explorer Pack / Postcards Booklet / Blu-ray + DVD + Digital Copy
20th Century Fox | 2010 | 113 min | Rated PG | Apr 08, 2011 | Casey Broadwater
Edmund and Lucy Pevensie, along with their cousin Eustace, are swallowed into a painting and transported back to Narnia and the magnificent ship The Dawn Treader. They join King Caspian and a warrior mouse named Reepicheep for a mission which holds the fate of Narnia itself. The courageous voyagers overcome their own greatest temptations, as they travel to mysterious islands; have fateful confrontations with magical creatures and sinister enemies; and reunite with their friend and protector, the "Great Lion" Aslan.
Adventure / Family / Fantasy / Epic
- April 01, 2011
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + DVD + Digital Copy
Warner Bros. | 2010 | 146 min | Rated PG-13 | Apr 15, 2011 | Kenneth Brown
As Harry races against time and evil to destroy the Horcruxes, he uncovers the existence of the three most powerful objects in the wizarding world: the Deathly Hallows.
Adventure / Family / Fantasy / Mystery / Epic
Hubble 3D Blu-ray Movie
IMAX / Blu-ray 3D + Blu-ray + DVD + Digital Copy
Warner Bros. | 2010 | 44 min | Rated G | Mar 29, 2011 | Martin Liebman
An IMAX 3D camera chronicles the effort of 7 astronauts aboard the Space Shuttle Atlantis to repair the Hubble Space Telescope.
Documentary / Nature
- March 31, 2011
The Greatest Story Ever Told Blu-ray Movie
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer | 1965 | 199 min | Rated G | Mar 29, 2011 | Jeffrey Kauffman
The life of Jesus Christ.
Biography / Drama / History / Epic / Period
Kes Blu-ray Movie
includes "Cathy Come Home" (1966)
Criterion | 1966-1969 | 111 min | Rated PG-13 | Apr 19, 2011 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
Billy is a fifteen-year-old miner's son whose close bond with a wild kestrel provides him with a spiritual escape from his dead-end life.
Drama / Coming of age
Dogtooth Blu-ray Movie
Kynodontas / Κυνόδοντας
Kino Lorber | 2009 | 94 min | Unrated | Mar 29, 2011 | Casey Broadwater
Three young people exist in a strange world of their parents' devising.
Drama / Dark humor / Foreign