New Blu-ray Reviews

Doctor Who: The Complete Fifth Series Blu-ray Movie  

BBC | 2010 | 585 min | Rated TV-PG | Nov 09, 2010 | Kenneth Brown

The adventures of a time-travelling humanoid alien known as the Doctor who explores the universe in a sentient time machine called the TARDIS. Along with a series of companions, the Doctor faces a variety of foes while working to save civilizations, help people and right wrongs.

Adventure / Fantasy / Sci-Fi

The Last Airbender Blu-ray Movie  

Blu-ray + DVD + Digital Copy

Paramount Pictures | 2010 | 103 min | Rated PG | Nov 16, 2010 | Martin Liebman

Air, Water, Earth, Fire. Four nations tied by destiny when the Fire Nation launches a brutal war against the others. A century has passed with no hope in sight to change the path of this destruction. Caught between combat and courage, Aang discovers he is the lone Avatar with the power to manipulate all four elements. Aang teams with Katara, a Waterbender, and her brother Sokka to restore balance to their war-torn world.

Action / Adventure / Family / Fantasy / Martial arts

The Kids Are All Right Blu-ray Movie  

Universal Studios | 2010 | 106 min | Rated R | Nov 16, 2010 | Casey Broadwater

Two teenaged children conceived by artificial insemination get the notion to seek out their birth father and introduce him into the family life that their two mothers have built for them. Once the donor is found, the household will never be the same, as family ties are defined, re-defined, and then re-re-defined.

Comedy / Drama

Room in Rome Blu-ray Movie    

Habitación en Roma

Optimum Home Entertainment | 2010 | 107 min | Rated BBFC: 18 | Oct 18, 2010 | Dr. Svet Atanasov

Alba and Natasha are two lesbian women who meet in Rome and decide to spend the night together in a hotel room. However, their night of fun and sex gradually turns into something more meaningful as both women realise as the hours pass that they are falling in love, something neither had expected.

Drama / Romance / Erotic / Foreign

Sherlock: Season One Blu-ray Movie  

BBC | 2010 | 266 min | Not rated | Nov 09, 2010 | Kenneth Brown

Sherlock Holmes stalks again in contemporary versions of the classic detective stories, translated to 21st century London, where the world's first "consulting detective" advises Scotland Yard with the aid of his friend and comrade, Dr. John Watson, a soldier recently returned from deployment to Afghanistan.

Crime / Drama / Mystery

The Expendables Blu-ray Movie  

Blu-ray + DVD + Digital Copy

Lionsgate Films | 2010 | 103 min | Rated R | Nov 23, 2010 | Jeffrey Kauffman

A group of mercenaries is hired to infiltrate a South American country and overthrow its ruthless dictator.

Action / Adventure / Thriller

Spirits of the Dead Blu-ray Movie    

Histoires extraordinaires

Arrow | 1968 | 1 Movie, 2 Cuts | 121 min | Rated BBFC: 18 | Nov 15, 2010 | Dr. Svet Atanasov

Three separate stories of souls tormented by their own phantasmal visions of guilt, lust, and greed. Based on the works of Edgar Allan Poe.

Drama / Fantasy / Horror / Mystery / Foreign

Open Season 3D Blu-ray Movie  

Blu-ray 3D + Blu-ray

Sony Pictures | 2006 | 86 min | Rated PG | Nov 16, 2010 | Martin Liebman

Boog, a 900-pound grizzly bear, is content entertaining tourists and living in park ranger Beth's barn. His life takes a drastic turn when he rescues a one-horned mule deer named Elliot from a hunter, and is subsequently tranquilized and returned to the wild. Elliot and Boog recruit the other animals to help turn the tables on the hunters to make the woods safe.

Adventure / Animation / Comedy / Family

Eric Clapton's Crossroads Guitar Festival 2010 Blu-ray Movie  

Rhino Music | 2004-2013 | 279 min | Unrated | Nov 09, 2010 | Jeffrey Kauffman

The Crossroads Guitar Festival hosted by Eric Clapton, in Chicago, features performances by a host of guitar legends.

Music

Ramona and Beezus Blu-ray Movie  

Blu-ray + DVD + Digital Copy

20th Century Fox | 2010 | 103 min | Rated G | Nov 09, 2010 | Casey Broadwater

The misadventures of irrepressible third-grader Ramona and her tomboyish big sister Beezus. Ramona's vivid imagination and boundless energy may drive her family and friends mad at times, but they come in handy when she puts her mind to finding ways to save the family home.

Adventure / Comedy / Family / Fantasy

Avatar Blu-ray Movie  

Extended Collector's Edition

20th Century Fox | 2009 | 1 Movie, 3 Cuts | 178 min | Unrated | Nov 16, 2010 | Casey Broadwater

An ex-Marine finds himself thrust into hostilities on an alien planet filled with exotic life forms. As an Avatar, a human mind in an alien body, he finds himself torn between two worlds, in a desperate fight for his own survival and that of the indigenous people.

Action / Adventure / Fantasy / Sci-Fi / Epic

Deadwood: The Complete Series Blu-ray Movie  

HBO | 2004-2006 | 3 Seasons | 2140 min | Rated TV-MA | Nov 23, 2010 | Kenneth Brown

In an age of plunder and greed, the richest gold strike in American history draws a mob of restless misfits to an outlaw settlement where everything - and everyone - has a price. The settlers, ranging from an ex-lawman to a scheming saloon owner to the legendary Wild Bill Hickok and Calamity Jane, share a constant restlessness of spirit, and survive by any means necessary. Welcome to Deadwood...a hell of a place to make your fortune.

Crime / Drama / History / Western / Period

A Christmas Carol 3D Blu-ray Movie  

Blu-ray 3D + Blu-ray + DVD + Digital Copy

Disney / Buena Vista | 2009 | 96 min | Rated PG | Nov 16, 2010 | Martin Liebman

Ebenezer Scrooge begins the Christmas holiday with his usual miserly contempt, barking at his faithful clerk and his cheery nephew. But when the ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Yet to Come take him on an eye-opening journey revealing truths Old Scrooge is reluctant to face, he must open his heart to undo years of ill will before it's too late.

Adventure / Animation / Family / Fantasy / Supernatural / Period / Holiday

Black Ransom Blu-ray Movie    

See piu fung wan

Vicol Entertainment | 2010 | 93 min | Rated IIB | Jun 29, 2010 | Dr. Svet Atanasov

A powerful triad boss has been kidnapped, and the new police superintendent Koo decides to recruit the help of Mann, a former supercop who has since been relegated to back-up duty. Mann has his work cut out for him when he realizes his opponent is Sam, a former cop with plenty of grudges. When Sam takes the fight to Mann's family, Mann is more than determined to bring down the dangerous kidnapper and his gang.

Action / Thriller / Foreign

Echoes of the Rainbow Blu-ray Movie  

Sui yuet san tau

Tai Seng | 2010 | 120 min | Not rated | Oct 26, 2010 | Dr. Svet Atanasov

A semi-autobiographical look at Alex Law's childhood during 1960s Hong Kong. A struggling father from Guangzhou, an iron-willed mother supporting the family and their kids face countless challenges from the changing world.

Comedy / Drama / Romance / Foreign

Sengoku Basara: Samurai Kings: The Complete 1st Season Blu-ray Movie  

FUNimation Entertainment | 2009 | 325 min | Rated TV-14 | Oct 12, 2010 | Dustin Somner

In feudal Japan, many generals struggled for power in unending warfare, but one man proved to be too big a threat - the dark lord Oda Nobunaga. Sanada Yukimura and Date Masamune, two young warriors from different regions who become heated rivals, must form an unlikely alliance with the rest of the generals to take down the Devil King. Sengoku Basara is based on the PlayStation game Devil Kings by Capcom. The series was animated by Production I.G., and directed by Itsuro Kawasaki.

Action / Adventure / Anime / Drama / War / Foreign

Modern Times Blu-ray Movie  

Criterion | 1936 | 87 min | Rated G | Nov 16, 2010 | Dr. Svet Atanasov

The Tramp struggles to live in a modern industrial society with the help of a young homeless woman.

Comedy / Drama

Elvis Costello: Spectacle Season 1 Blu-ray Movie  

MVD/VSC | 2009 | 650 min | Not rated | Nov 17, 2009 | Kenneth Brown

Conceived to provide a forum for in- depth discussion and performance with the most interesting artists and personalities of our time, Spectacle: Elvis Costello With... fuses the best of talk and music television. Each of the thirteen episodes in this complete first season exposes the essence of iconic and influential figures who are given the rare opportunity to speak intelligently and in-depth about music and their careers - how their classic songs were written and why; their experiences; their influences and the creative process overall, revealing new insights about their extraordinary work and lives. Unique performances - by the featured guests, by Spectacle\'s multi-faceted host, Elvis Costello, and by the guests and host, along with other spontaneous illustrative moments - further distinguish Spectacle as one of the most complete music television experiences fans could want.

Documentary / Music

Metropolis Blu-ray Movie  

The Complete Metropolis

Kino Lorber | 1927 | 149 min | Not rated | Nov 23, 2010 | Casey Broadwater

In a futuristic city sharply divided between the working class and the city planners, the son of the city's mastermind falls in love with a working class prophet who predicts the coming of a savior to mediate their differences.

Drama / Sci-Fi / Foreign

Charlie St. Cloud Blu-ray Movie  

Charlie St Cloud

Universal Studios | 2010 | 99 min | Rated PG-13 | Nov 09, 2010 | Kenneth Brown

Accomplished sailor Charlie St. Cloud has the adoration of his mother Claire and his little brother Sam, as well as a college scholarship that will lead him far from his sleepy Pacific Northwest hometown. But his bright future is cut short when a tragedy strikes and takes his dreams with it. After his high-school classmate Tess returns home unexpectedly, Charlie grows torn between honoring a promise he made four years earlier and moving forward with newfound love. And as he finds the courage to let go of the past for good, Charlie discovers the soul most worth saving is his own.

Drama / Fantasy / Romance