New Blu-ray Reviews

You've Got Mail Blu-ray Movie  

Includes "The Shop Around the Corner" on DVD

Warner Bros. | 1998 | 2 Movies | 119 min | Rated PG | Feb 01, 2011 | Kenneth Brown

Joe Fox and Kathleen Kelly are rivals in business: he working for Fox Sons, a chain of discount bookstores; she owning a tiny bookshop of her own. However, unaware of their true identities, Kathleen and Joe have begun communicating anonymously via an e-mail chat room, building a strong and caring relationship without ever revealing their names.

Comedy / Romance

Fish Tank Blu-ray Movie  

Criterion | 2009 | 123 min | Not rated | Feb 22, 2011 | Dr. Svet Atanasov

Fifteen-year-old Mia lives with her mother and sister in the housing projects of Essex. Her adolescent conflicts and emerging sexuality reach a boiling point when her mother's new boyfriend enters the picture.

Drama / Coming of age

Heavy Metal Blu-ray Movie  

Sony Pictures | 1981 | 90 min | Rated R | Feb 01, 2011 | Martin Liebman

A glowing green orb from outer space spreads destruction throughout the galaxy. Only when encountered by its one true enemy, to whom it is inexplicably drawn, will goodness prevail throughout the universe.

Adventure / Animation / Fantasy / Music / Sci-Fi / Erotic / Comic book

Thelma & Louise Blu-ray Movie  

20th Anniversary Edition

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer | 1991 | 130 min | Rated R | Feb 08, 2011 | Casey Broadwater

Thelma and Louise are accidental outlaws on a desperate flight across the Southwest after a tragic incident at a roadside bar. With a determined detective on their trail, a sweet-talking hitchhiker in their path and a string of crimes in their wake, a high-speed thrill ride and empowering personal odyssey follows even as the law closes in.

Crime / Drama

Kansas City Confidential Blu-ray Movie  

Blu-ray + DVD

Film Chest | 1952 | 99 min | Not rated | Feb 15, 2011 | Jeffrey Kauffman

Joe Rolfe is an ex-con who's trying to go straight with a job as a deliveryman for a florist. Unfortunately, a gang led by a criminal mastermind have rob an armored car using a van that looks just like Rolfe's. Narrowly avoiding arrest, Rolfe begins a determined search for the real thieves -- with shocking results.

Crime / Drama / Film-Noir

Vinyan Blu-ray Movie    

Koch Media | 2008 | 96 min | Rated FSK-16 | Oct 16, 2009 | Dr. Svet Atanasov

A couple leaves the civilized world behind and descends into a living nightmare in this chilling horror thriller. Six months after losing her only child in the Southeast Asia tsunami, Jeanne is convinced she sees him in a film about orphans living in the jungles of Burma. While her husband is worried that she's losing her mind, he agrees to a search mission. Introduced to a dangerous gang of human traffickers, who leave them stranded, the couple descend upon a treacherous jungle and plunge into a supernatural kingdom where the dead never really die.

Drama / Horror / Thriller

Pleasantville Blu-ray Movie  

Warner Bros. | 1998 | 125 min | Rated PG-13 | Feb 01, 2011 | Kenneth Brown

Pleasantville is a 1950s sitcom enjoying cult status on a contemporary cable channel. David loves it, but his sister Jennifer is too hip. When a mysterious TV repairman gives them a new remote control, the pair are transported into the world of Pleasantville, like it or not. They find themselves trapped in an alternate reality where the town exists in black and white—in a white-bread world without passion or violence. But the teenagers have also brought an unexpected—and double-edged—gift to Pleasantville: a sense of possibility that spreads like wildfire throughout the town. There can be no turning back once the citizens begin experiencing such strange wonders as sex, art, rain... and ideas.

Comedy / Drama / Teen / Imaginary / Coming of age

The Stranger Blu-ray Movie  

Blu-ray + DVD

Film Chest | 1946 | 95 min | Not rated | Feb 15, 2011 | Jeffrey Kauffman

Charles Rankin, a respected academic at a prominent Connecticut college seems to have the perfect life: a beautiful new wife; and a charming home in a small town that holds him in high esteem. Enter Mr. Wilson, a detective on the hunt for Nazi war criminal Franz Kindler. The appearance of Mr. Wilson threatens to reveal that underneath this idyllic veneer is a secret that could tear everything apart.

Crime / Drama / Film-Noir / Mystery

10 Blu-ray Movie  

Warner Bros. | 1979 | 122 min | Rated R | Feb 01, 2011 | Kenneth Brown

Forty year-old Oscar-winning screenwriter George attempts to combat a bout of mid-life crisis by pursuing the woman of his dreams, even though he first sees her as she is making the way to her own wedding. Tracking the object of his affections to her honeymoon destination in Mexico, George makes several bumbling attempts at seduction, much to the chagrin of his long-suffering girlfriend.

Comedy / Drama / Romance

The Double Life of Véronique Blu-ray Movie  

La double vie de Véronique

Criterion | 1991 | 98 min | Not rated | Feb 01, 2011 | Dr. Svet Atanasov

Two women share a deeply haunting emotional bond, though neither is consciously aware of the other's existence.

Drama / Fantasy / Music / Mystery / Romance / Foreign

At the Edge of the World Blu-ray Movie  

Passion River | 2009 | 90 min | Not rated | Jan 25, 2011 | Jeffrey Kauffman

'At the Edge of the World' chronicles the controversial Sea Shepherd Antarctic Campaign against a Japanese whaling fleet.

Action / Adventure / Documentary

Tamara Drewe Blu-ray Movie  

Sony Pictures | 2010 | 112 min | Rated R | Feb 08, 2011 | Martin Liebman

Once the ugly duckling in the Dorset village of Ewedown, Tamara Drewe returns to sell her late mother's house, now a glamorous journalist with a life-changing nose job. She awakens feelings in sexy old flame, Andy, the decent odd job man at pretentious author Nicholas Hardiment's writers' school and in Nicholas himself, a serial philanderer who cheats on his loyal wife Beth. But Tamara has a new man in her life, Ben, an obnoxious rock drummer whose marriage proposal she accepts, to the dismay of local girl - and Ben's biggest fan - Jody. Jody's efforts to sabotage the engagement lead to Tamara, on the rebound and finding Andy in the arms of another, allowing Nicholas to have his wicked way with her, and also allowing it to be photographed and sent to a distraught Beth.

Comedy / Comic book

An Affair to Remember Blu-ray Movie  

Limited Edition

20th Century Fox | 1957 | 115 min | Not rated | Feb 01, 2011 | Casey Broadwater

Two people meet on a luxury liner and fall in love, but because they have other lovers waiting for them, they cannot consummate their passion. They vow to find each other again, and if the feelings are mutual, they will be together. But, when a tragedy strikes, it could affect their love.

Comedy / Drama / Romance / Melodrama

Dvorak: Symphonies No.7 & 8 Blu-ray Movie  

Naxos | 2011 | 74 min | Not rated | Feb 22, 2011 | Jeffrey Kauffman

Recorded at Joseph Meyerhoff Symphony Hall, Baltimore, USA.

Music

Exit Through the Gift Shop Blu-ray Movie    

Revolver Entertainment | 2010 | 86 min | Rated BBFC: 15 | Sep 06, 2010 | Dr. Svet Atanasov

The story of how an eccentric French shop keeper and amateur film maker attempted to locate and befriend Banksy, only to have the artist turn the camera back on its owner with spectacular results. Billed as "the world's first street art disaster movie" the film contains exclusive footage of Banksy, Shephard Fairey, Invader and many of the world's most infamous graffiti artists at work.

Documentary

Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle Blu-ray Movie  

Extreme Unrated Edition / Blu-ray + Digital Copy

New Line Cinema | 2004 | 88 min | Unrated | Jul 29, 2008 | Jeffrey Kauffman

Harold is a young Korean American with office work to catch up on. Kumar is a young Indian American, who has an interview for med school to attend in the morning. And these two flatmates both have a bad case of the munchies. Not just any munchies but a desperate desire for White Castle hamburgers. When they discover that the only White Castle joint in town has closed, they decide it's worth driving any distance to sate their fast-food fixation. As long as they have plenty of weed to smoke on the way of course.

Adventure / Comedy

Middle Men Blu-ray Movie  

Paramount Pictures | 2009 | 112 min | Rated R | Feb 08, 2011 | Martin Liebman

Comedy-drama starring Luke Wilson as a successful businessman who gets caught up in the profit and pitfalls of early 1990s internet commerce. Jack Harris (Wilson) enjoys a comfortable life in the suburbs with his wife (Jacinda Barrett) and two children. He has a reputation as an outstanding and trustworthy financial operator, which encourages ruthless lawyer Jerry Haggerty (James Caan) to direct two of his clients his way. Wayne Beering (Giovanni Ribisi) and Buck Dolby (Gabriel Macht) are non-business savvy drifters who have come up with an innovative idea: using the newly hooked up World Wide Web to set up a pornographic website and charge for access. The millions start rolling in, but it isn't long before Jack's status as a middle man puts him in touch with the other side of the industry - Russian gangsters, FBI investigations and entanglements with 24-year-old porn stars...

Biography / Comedy / Crime / Drama / Period

It's Kind of a Funny Story Blu-ray Movie  

Universal Studios | 2010 | 101 min | Rated PG-13 | Feb 08, 2011 | Kenneth Brown

At 5AM on a Sunday in Brooklyn, 16-year old Craig Gilner bicycles up to the entrance of a mental health clinic: Stressed out from the demands of being a teenager, before his parents and younger sister are even awake, Craig checks himself into Argenon Hospital and is admitted by a psychiatrist. But the youth ward is temporarily closed - so he finds himself stuck in the adult ward. One of the patients, Bobby, soon becomes both Craig's mentor and protege, while Craig is also quickly drawn to another 16-year-old displaced to the adult ward, the sensitive Noelle, who just might make him forget his longtime unrequited crush Nia. With a minimum five days' stay imposed on him by staff psychiatrist Dr. Eden Minerva, it's kind of a funny story...

Comedy / Drama

All About Eve Blu-ray Movie  

60th Anniversary | Limited Edition

20th Century Fox | 1950 | 138 min | Not rated | Feb 01, 2011 | Casey Broadwater

Just as stage legend Margo Channing feels her star is dimming, she takes on a protege named Eve Harrington, a young and ambitious ingenue. With the help of sharp-eyed theater critic Addison DeWitt, this dreamy-eyed kid spins a deceptively cunning web around Channing's inner-circle, including Margo's director boyfriend Bill Simpson, playwright Lloyd Richards and his wife Karen—until she reaches her goal, which is Margo's spotlight on Broadway.

Comedy / Drama

Les Misérables in Concert: The 25th Anniversary Blu-ray Movie  

Universal Studios | 2010 | 170 min | Not rated | Feb 22, 2011 | Jeffrey Kauffman

Cameron Mackintosh presents a brand new 25th anniversary production of Boublil & Schönberg's legendary musical, LES MISÉRABLES, with glorious new staging and spectacular reimagined scenery inspired by the paintings of Victor Hugo. This new production has already been acclaimed by critics, fans and new audiences and is breaking box office records across the UK. Cameron Mackintosh is now ‘Bringing her Home’ to play at the Barbican Theatre in London (where it originally premiered in 1985) as part of the show’s 25th Anniversary celebrations. Les Mis will run for 22 performances only between 14 September – 2 October 2010. This will be the first time anywhere in world that two productions of the same musical are playing in the same city, giving London theatre-goers the only chance of seeing this acclaimed new production.

Musical