New Blu-ray Reviews
Home- October 28, 2010
Antichrist Blu-ray Movie
Criterion | 2009 | 109 min | Not rated | Nov 09, 2010 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
A grief-stricken man and woman retreat to their cabin deep in the woods after the accidental death of their infant son, only to find terror and violence at the hands of nature and, ultimately, each other.
Drama / Horror / Psychological thriller
Wild Ocean 3D Blu-ray Movie
IMAX 3D / Blu-ray 3D + Blu-ray
Image Entertainment | 2008 | 42 min | Not rated | Nov 02, 2010 | Martin Liebman
Wild Ocean is an uplifting cinematic experience capturing one of nature's greatest migration spectacles through the magic of IMAX. Plunge into an underwater feeding frenzy amidst the dolphins, sharks, whales, gannets, seals and billions of fish. Filmed off the Wild Coast of South Africa, Wild Ocean is a timely documentary that celebrates the animals that now depend on us to survive and the efforts by local people to protect this invaluable ecological resource. Hope is alive on the Wild Coast where Africa meets the sea.
Documentary / Nature
Hunt to Kill Blu-ray Movie
Starz / Anchor Bay | 2010 | 97 min | Rated R | Nov 09, 2010 | Martin Liebman
After being taken hostage by dangerous criminals, a border patrol agent and his teenage daughter must lead the criminals through the treacherous Pacific Northwest mountains.
Action / Thriller
- October 27, 2010
Wallander - Series 2 Blu-ray Movie
Faceless Killers / The Man Who Smiled / The Fifth Woman
BBC | 2010 | 3 Seasons | 270 min | Not rated | Oct 19, 2010 | Martin Liebman
In these three new feature length episodes the idyllic tranquility of Ystad in Southern Sweden is shattered by violence and murder. In Faceless Killers an elderly couple are attacked at an isolated farmhouse and the town witnesses an outbreak of racist violence. Wallander is contacted by an old acquaintance who is suspicious about his father's death in The Man Who Smiled. An elderly birdwatcher falls to his death in a meticulously planned and brutal murder in The Fifth Woman.
Crime / Drama / Mystery / Thriller
Mirrors 2 Blu-ray Movie
Unrated | includes Into the Mirror (2003 on DVD / Blu-ray + DVD
20th Century Fox | 2010 | 90 min | Unrated | Oct 19, 2010 | Casey Broadwater
The grisly slaughters continue after a young woman is brutally murdered in front of a mirror that is a portal to the world of the undead. Embarking on a murderous rampage, one by one she stalks the men and women responsible for her horrific death, exacting bloody revenge by dismembering and eviscerating the guilty. They can’t run, they can’t hide and they can’t look in the mirror because inside the mirrors the dead live on...waiting for vengeance.
Horror / Mystery / Thriller / Supernatural
8 Mile Blu-ray Movie
Universal Studios | 2002 | 110 min | Rated R | Apr 14, 2009 | Jeffrey Kauffman
No matter who we are, no matter where we live, we're all bound by borders. Many of us are content to live within these borders--others are simply forced to exist within them. But some of us need to break out, burst through, even if what is on the other side is both frightening and unknown. From this comes the tale of one young man's dilemma as he navigates his way through his colliding worlds. Set against Detroit's hip-hop scene in 1995, Jimmy Smith Jr., a young white rapper, struggles to find his voice. The people of Detroit know 8 Mile Road as the city's perimeter. It is also a psychological dividing line between urban and suburban, between black and white, between where Jimmy is and where he wants to be. Here, survival is key, and for many, the emotional life preserver is hip hop. In the absence of nurturing parents, Jimmy and his friends--cool and charasmatic Future, optimistic dreamer Sol, aspiring activist DJ Iz and slow but steady Cheddar Bob--have created their own family. Jimmy and his "crew" (Three One Third), live on hopes of getting their "big break" while struggling to eke out a living at their dead end day jobs. At night, they feed their dreams in the hip hop clubs where the city's best rappers battle each other with abusive rhymes that are wielded like weapons. Here, words are meant to wound and victory belongs to the quick-witted.
Drama / Music
Carlos the Jackal Blu-ray Movie
Carlos / The Movie & The Trilogy
Optimum Home Entertainment | 2010 | 1 Movie, 2 Cuts | 504 min | Rated BBFC: 15 | Nov 01, 2010 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
The story of Venezuelan revolutionary Ilich Ramírez Sánchez, who founded a worldwide terrorist organization and raided the 1975 OPEC meeting.
Biography / Crime / Drama / Thriller
How to Train Your Dragon 3D Blu-ray Movie
Samsung 3D Starter Kit Exclusive / Blu-ray 3D
DreamWorks | 2010 | 98 min | Rated PG | Oct 15, 2010 | Martin Liebman
A young Viking named Hiccup lives on the windswept island of Berk, where his father Stoic the Vast is the tribe's feared chief, and fighting dragons is part of every young warrior's training. But Hiccup's destiny of becoming a prized dragon fighter takes an unexpected diversion when he saves and befriends an injured dragon, Toothless. Hiccup now embarks on a mission of his own to convince his tribe to abandon its barbaric tradition of ruthless dragon-slaying and try out some new methods.
Adventure / Animation / Comedy / Family / Fantasy / Teen
The Bridge on the River Kwai Blu-ray Movie
Collector's Edition / Blu-ray + DVD
Sony Pictures | 1957 | 161 min | Rated PG | Nov 02, 2010 | Martin Liebman
Allied commandos are dispatched deep inside the Burmese jungle to blow up a strategic bridge built by British POWs.
Drama / History / War / Epic
- October 26, 2010
How the Earth Was Made: Complete Season 1 Blu-ray Movie
A&E Home Video | 2009 | 611 min | Not rated | Oct 26, 2010 | Jeffrey Kauffman
Spectacular on-location footage, evidence from geologists in the field, and clear, dramatic graphics combine in this stunning 13-part series from History to show how forces of geology have formed our planet.
Documentary / History / Nature
Toy Story 3 Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + DVD + Digital Copy
Disney / Pixar | 2010 | 103 min | Rated G | Nov 02, 2010 | Kenneth Brown
When their owner clears out his bedroom in preparation for starting college, Woody, Buzz and the rest of the toy-box gang are dumped in the donations box at a local nursery school and find themselves at the mercy of a horde of wild, sticky-fingered toddlers. As they struggle to stay together while coping with the chaos, the gang meet a new bunch of toys led by pink teddy bear Lotso, while Barbie is at last united with her male counterpart, Ken. The yearning to return home cannot be ignored, however, and many comical adventures ensue as the toys make a series of elaborate escape attempts.
Adventure / Animation / Comedy / Family / Fantasy
Alien Anthology Blu-ray Movie
Alien / Aliens / Alien³ / Alien: Resurrection
20th Century Fox | 1979-1997 | 4 Movies, 8 Cuts | 532 min | Rated R | Oct 26, 2010 | Casey Broadwater
See individual titles for their synopses.
Action / Documentary / Horror / Sci-Fi / Thriller
Vincere Blu-ray Movie
Artificial Eye | 2009 | 125 min | Rated BBFC: 15 | Sep 13, 2010 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
The movie relates the tragic story of Ida Dalser, who fell for the future Italian Fascist leader, Benito Mussolini, supported him while he was unemployed in the early 1910s, and married him, presumably around 1914. She bore Mussolini a son, Benito Albino, before the outbreak of World War I. The two lost touch during the war years and, upon discovering him again in a hospital during the war, she also discovered Rachele Guidi, who had married Mussolini in the meantime, and a daughter borne to Guidi and Mussolini in 1910
Biography / Drama / Romance / Foreign
- October 25, 2010
Thomas Kinkade's Christmas Cottage Blu-ray Movie
Lionsgate Films | 2008 | 96 min | Rated PG | Nov 02, 2010 | Jeffrey Kauffman
Necessity is the mother of invention. In the 1980's, Maryann Kinkade is behind in her mortgage payments and about to lose her small house in Placerville, a town in California's gold country in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada. Her son Thom, who's attended art school and is in his 20s, determines to make the transition from amateur to professional painter to help save the family's home. He seeks advice from an aging mentor
Drama / Family / Holiday
Legend of the Black Scorpion Blu-ray Movie
The Banquet / 夜宴 / Yè yàn
Vivendi Visual Entertainment | 2006 | 131 min | Not rated | Oct 26, 2010 | Jeffrey Kauffman
Ancient China - the Imperial Court. The emperor dies mysteriously. His death starts a journey of loyalty and betrayal, conspiracy and slaughter, and love and hatred a la Shakespeare's Hamlet.
Action / Drama / History / War / Martial arts / Foreign
The Pacific Blu-ray Movie
HBO | 2010 | 534 min | Rated TV-MA | Nov 02, 2010 | Kenneth Brown
An epic 10-part miniseries that delivers a realistic portrait of WWII's Pacific Theatre as seen through the intertwined odysseys of three U.S. Marines: Robert Leckie, John Basilone and Eugene Sledge. The extraordinary experiences of these men and their fellow Marines take them from the first clash with the Japanese in the haunted jungles of Guadalcanal, through the impenetrable rain forests of Cape Gloucester, across the blasted coral strongholds of Peleliu, up the black sand terraces of Iwo Jima, through the killing fields of Okinawa, and to the triumphant, yet uneasy, return home after V-J Day.
Action / Adventure / Biography / Drama / History / War / Melodrama / Epic
- October 24, 2010
Zombies of Mass Destruction Blu-ray Movie
Optimum Home Entertainment | 2009 | 89 min | Rated BBFC: 18 | Oct 18, 2010 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
A small town wrestling with xenophobia is forced to open its collective mind in order to ward off a pack of brain-chomping ghouls in this horror-comedy from writer-director Kevin Hamedani.
Comedy / Horror
- October 23, 2010
Corigliano: Circus Maximus Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray Audio
Naxos | 2010 | 53 min | Unrated | Sep 28, 2010 | Jeffrey Kauffman
Academy Award and Pulitzer Prize winning composer John Corigliano's Third Symphony is performed by the University of Texas Wind Ensemble.
Music
Europakonzert 2010 Blu-ray Movie
Oxford / Elgar: Cello Concerto/ Brahms: Symphony. 1/ Wagner: Meistersinger
EUROARTS | 2010-2011 | 90 min | Unrated | Oct 26, 2010 | Jeffrey Kauffman
No synopsis for this title.
Music
Good Blu-ray Movie
National Entertainment Media | 2008 | 96 min | Rated R | Sep 28, 2010 | Jeffrey Kauffman
John Halder is a 'good' and decent individual with family problems: a neurotic wife, two demanding children and a mother suffering from senile dementia. A literary professor, Halder explores his personal circumstances in a novel advocating compassionate euthanasia. When the book is unexpectedly enlisted by powerful political figures in support of government propaganda, Halder finds his career rising in an optimistic current of nationalism and prosperity. Seemingly inconsequential decisions lead to choices, which lead to more choices... with eventually devastating effect.
Drama