New Blu-ray Reviews
Home- January 17, 2011
Nomad: The Warrior Blu-ray Movie
Vivendi Visual Entertainment | 2005 | 111 min | Rated R | Jan 18, 2011 | Jeffrey Kauffman
The fate of a ravage, divided nation lies in the hands of one boy, destined to become warrior king. Young Mansur must learn the art of war and the way of the sword to unite his country against bloodthirsty invaders hell-bent on its destruction.
Drama / History / War
Justified: The Complete First Season Blu-ray Movie
Sony Pictures | 2010 | 572 min | Rated TV-MA | Jan 18, 2011 | Martin Liebman
After U.S Marshal Raylan Givens finds himself in hot water over the shooting of a Miami crime boss, he is reassigned to the last place on Earth he'd rather be; Harlan County, Kentucky, where he was born and raised. There he must deal with his ex-wife, criminal father, an old friend turned white supremacist, and the latter's former sister-in-law who quickly rekindles her attraction to Givens. Kentucky won't be the same now that the cowboy marshal is home.
Action / Crime / Drama / Western
City Lights Blu-ray Movie
Charlie Chaplin: The Collection / Blu-ray + DVD
Park Circus | 1931 | 87 min | Rated BBFC: U | Nov 15, 2010 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
A homeless tramp befriends a lovely blind flower seller and convinces her he is a millionaire while he secretly labors to pay for the restoration of her sight.
Comedy / Drama / Romance
- January 16, 2011
RED Blu-ray Movie
Special Edition
Summit Entertainment | 2010 | 111 min | Rated PG-13 | Jan 25, 2011 | Martin Liebman
Secrets former CIA's top agents know, just made them top targets, They must use all of their collective experience and teamwork to stay ahead of their pursuers and stay alive.
Action / Comedy / Crime / Comic book
- January 15, 2011
Shock Corridor Blu-ray Movie
Criterion | 1963 | 102 min | Not rated | Jan 18, 2011 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
Seeking a Pulitzer Prize, reporter Johnny Barrett has himself committed to a mental hospital to investigate a murder. As he closes in on the killer, insanity closes in on him.
Drama / Mystery
Puccini: La Fanciulla del West Blu-ray Movie
Nederlandse Opera
Opus Arte | 2009 | 159 min | Not rated | Nov 16, 2010 | Jeffrey Kauffman
Nikolaus Lehnhoff's Hollywood style production updates Belasco's Wild West story to the Capitalist culture of Wall Street, perfectly reflecting Puccini's innovatory spirit.
Music
The Great Debaters Blu-ray Movie
Vivendi Visual Entertainment | 2007 | 126 min | Rated PG-13 | Jan 11, 2011 | Jeffrey Kauffman
A drama based on the true story of Melvin B. Tolson, a professor at Wiley College Texas. In 1935, he inspired students to form the school's first debate team, which went on to challenge Harvard in the national championship.
Drama / History
RoboGeisha Blu-ray Movie
Robo-Geisha
FUNimation Entertainment | 2009 | 102 min | Unrated | Nov 16, 2010 | Dustin Somner
To help them achieve their goal of taking over the world, a megalomaniac Japanese businessman and his son recruit a vicious gang of Geisha assassins. These include two feisty sisters with an amazing range of surgically added weapons.
Action / Comedy / Horror / Sci-Fi / Martial arts / Foreign
- January 14, 2011
Saw: The Final Chapter Blu-ray Movie
Unrated / Blu-ray + DVD + Digital Copy
Lionsgate Films | 2010 | 90 min | Unrated | Jan 25, 2011 | Jeffrey Kauffman
As a deadly battle rages over Jigsaw's brutal legacy, a group of Jigsaw survivors gathers to seek the support of self-help guru and fellow survivor Bobby Dagen, a man whose own dark secrets unleash a new wave of terror.
Crime / Horror / Thriller
Skiing Everest Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + DVD
Topics Entertainment | 2009 | 80 min | Not rated | Dec 14, 2010 | Jeffrey Kauffman
“Skiing Everest” is the first documentary about the small elite fraternity of high-Altitude skiers who climb the highest peaks in the world in pure Alpine Style, carrying their skis and declining to use supplemental oxygen. At the top of the world, high in the Death Zone, they lock into their skis and challenge the most dangerous slopes in the world-under the weather conditions that are as perilous as the thin air, hidden crevasses, and 10,000 ft. sheer faces that drop into Nepal and Tibet far below.
Vengeance Trilogy Blu-ray Movie
Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance / Oldboy / Lady Vengeance
Alliance | 2002-2005 | 3 Movies, 4 Cuts | 361 min | Rated CA: 18 | Dec 14, 2010 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
'Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance' - The sister of a simple and deaf factory worker, Ryu, falls ill and needs a kidney transplant, however he is not a match so he looks to the black market which he can’t afford. After being fired from his job, his rebel girlfriend suggests that he kidnap the child of his former boss, Park. When the girl accidentally dies, her father seeks vengeance for her death. 'Oldboy' - Park Chan-Wook’s classic genre-defining revenge tale of a man who’s wrongly been imprisoned for 15 years and is then suddenly released. Given money and a cell phone, he’s challenged to discover who incarcerated him in the first place, but he only has five days to uncover the truth. Even with a mysterious young girl to help him, his tortures have just begun. Cannes-winner championed by Tarantino, OLDBOY regularly appeared in top ten best movie polls across the country and is listed as one of the all-time best films as rated by IMDB users. 'Lady Vengeance' - After being wrongfully convicted of kidnapping and murdering a young child, a beautiful young woman (Lee Young-ae) is imprisoned for 13 years. While in prison she gains the respect and loyalty of her fellow cellmates, all the while plotting her vendetta on the man responsible (OLDBOY’s Choi Min-Sik). Upon her release she sets in motion an elaborate plan of retribution, but what she discovers is a truth so horrifying, even revenge doesn’t seem punishment enough.
Crime / Drama / Mystery / Thriller / Dark humor / Comic book / Foreign
Checking Out Blu-ray Movie
Image Entertainment | 1989 | 96 min | Rated R | Jan 18, 2011 | Casey Broadwater
Ray is a man obsessed with his own mortality. When Ray's best friend dies of a heart attack, Ray is convinced that all of his aches and pains are an indication of his own imminent death. His life turns into a slapstick farce of health-crazed anxiety and hypochondria, until he finally learns that all he has to fear is fear itself.
Comedy
Howl Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + DVD
Oscilloscope Pictures | 2010 | 84 min | Rated R | Jan 04, 2011 | Casey Broadwater
It's San Francisco in 1957, and an American masterpiece is put on trial. Howl, the film, recounts this dark moment using three interwoven threads: the tumultuous life events that led a young Allen Ginsberg to find his true voice as an artist, society's reaction (the obscenity trial), and animation that echoes the poem's surreal style. All three coalesce in hybrid that dramatizes the birth of a counterculture.
Biography / Drama
Orlando Blu-ray Movie
Sony Pictures | 1992 | 94 min | Rated PG-13 | Dec 21, 2010 | Martin Liebman
Orlando is a youthful English nobleman, a favorite of Queen Elizabeth I, who defies the laws of nature with surprising results. Immortal and highly imaginative, he undergoes a series of extraordinary transformations, including changing from a man to a woman. The transformations illustrate the complexity of the eternal war between the sexes.
Drama / Romance / Period
Fire on the Amazon Blu-ray Movie
Starz / Anchor Bay | 1993 | 79 min | Rated R | Jan 18, 2011 | Martin Liebman
A photojournalist and an environmental activist join forces in a risky murder investigation of a famous environmentalist deep in the hot and steamy Amazonian jungle.
Action / Adventure
- January 13, 2011
Coraline 3D Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray 3D + Blu-ray + DVD + Digital Copy
Universal Studios | 2009 | 101 min | Rated PG | Jan 04, 2011 | Martin Liebman
The story of a young girl who unlocks a mysterious door in her new home and enters an adventure in a parallel reality.
Adventure / Animation / Family / Fantasy / Imaginary / Supernatural
Beethoven: Symphonies No. 5 & 6 Blu-ray Movie
Arts and Music Expressions Series
MediaInVision | 2010 | 67 min | Not rated | Oct 19, 2010 | Jeffrey Kauffman
No synopsis for this title.
Music
Once Upon a Time in America Blu-ray Movie
Warner Bros. | 1984 | 229 min | Rated R | Jan 11, 2011 | Jeffrey Kauffman
Drama about the rise and fall of a group of Jewish gangsters in New York at the beginning of the century through the 1960s.
Crime / Drama / Epic / Period
The Naked Kiss Blu-ray Movie
Criterion | 1964 | 91 min | Not rated | Jan 18, 2011 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
Kelly is a feminist who takes on the causes of abused women and disabled children. Originally a prostitute, she flees from the city to a small town where she reforms and becomes a pediatric nurse after she looks in the mirror and sees "nothing but the buck, the bed, and the bottle for the rest of my life." She falls in love with Grant, the town's philanthropist and most eligible bachelor, but a sinister secret he's hiding mars their chance for a happy ending, as she learns the true price of going straight.
Crime / Drama
Takers Blu-ray Movie
Sony Pictures | 2010 | 107 min | Rated PG-13 | Jan 18, 2011 | Martin Liebman
A seasoned team of bank robbers successfully complete their latest heist and lead a life of luxury while planning their next job. When a former member of their team, is released from prison he convinces the group to strike an armored car carrying $20 million. As the "takers" carefully plot out their strategy and draw nearer to exacting the grand heist, a reckless police officer inches closer to apprehending the criminals.
Action / Crime / Thriller / Heist