New Blu-ray Reviews
Home- August 22, 2010
Black Label Society: Doom Troopin’ Live, The European Invasion Blu-ray Movie
Eagle Rock Entertainment | 2006 | 114 min | Not rated | Aug 24, 2010 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
Footage from guitar virtuoso Zakk Wylde's band, Black Label Society, on their 2005 Tour of Europe. Featuring concerts at the Elysee Montmartre in Paris, and the Astoria in London, as well as candid behind the scenes footage.
Music
Mona Lisa Blu-ray Movie
Image Entertainment | 1986 | 103 min | Rated R | Aug 24, 2010 | Casey Broadwater
George is a tough, yet also warmhearted small-time mobster recently released from prison. He agrees to chauffeur Simone, a high-priced prostitute. She enlists him to search for her closest friend, another prostitute named Cathy. During their time together, George slowly falls in love with Simone.
Crime / Drama / Film-Noir / Romance
Highlander: Season Two Blu-ray Movie
Davis-Panzer | 1994 | 1078 min | Not rated | Aug 17, 2010 | Kenneth Brown
For Duncan MacLeod, season two is one filled with hope, heroics and heartache. Through it all the mystery of the "Highlander" unfolds and deepens as his incredible story leaps time and emotions to bring us further into the tortured world of the Immortals. In the end, there can be only one.
Action / Adventure / Fantasy / Sci-Fi
Jane's Addiction: Live Voodoo Blu-ray Movie
Eagle Rock Entertainment | 2009 | 77 min | Not rated | Aug 31, 2010 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
Filmed live on Halloween night 2009 at Voodoo Experience in New Orleans, Live Voodoo sees the reunion of the classic Jane's Addiction line-up of Perry Farrell (vocals), Stephen Perkins (drums), Eric Avery (bass) and Dave Navarro (guitar).
Music
- August 21, 2010
Polytechnique Blu-ray Movie
Alliance | 2009 | 76 min | Rated CA: 14 | Aug 25, 2009 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
Told from the perspective of the victims, recounts the Montreal Massacre of December 6, 1989 when Marc Lepine entered engineering school Ecole Polytechnique, and targeting feminists, shot 28 people, killing 14 of them.
Crime / Drama / History / Foreign
The City of Your Final Destination Blu-ray Movie
Screen Media | 2009 | 118 min | Rated PG-13 | Aug 17, 2010 | Jeffrey Kauffman
28-year-old Kansas University doctoral student Omar Razaghi wins a grant to write a biography of Latin American writer Jules Gund. Omar must contact and win the confidence of three people who were close to his subject: his brother, his widow, and his younger mistress. He hopes they will authorize him to write the biography.
Drama
Supernatural: The Complete Third Season Blu-ray Movie
Warner Bros. | 2007-2008 | 653 min | Rated TV-14 | Nov 11, 2008 | Jeffrey Kauffman
Sam Winchester grew up hunting unearthly horrors. But now law school and a normal life beckon. That is, until Sam’s estranged brother Dean appears with troubling news: their father has disappeared, a man who’s hunted evil for 22 years. So to find their father, the brothers must hunt what he hunts... and Sam must return to the life he’d rather leave behind.
Action / Horror / Thriller / Dark humor / Supernatural
- August 20, 2010
Lost: The Complete Sixth Season Blu-ray Movie
The Final Season
Disney / Buena Vista | 2010 | 802 min | Rated TV-14 | Aug 24, 2010 | Kenneth Brown
After a somewhat mysterious sequence of events, an oceanic flight from Sydney to LA crashes on what appears to be a deserted island. The chance of being found and rescued is fairly small, so the survivors have to cope with a set of challenges. They have to learn to survive on the island, a mysterious place with enough dangers on its own. Also, they have to learn to live with each other if any success is to be expected. And finally, they have to live with themselves and their pasts. Interwoven with the events on the islands are flashbacks to the pasts of 14 main characters. Step by step, we learn a little more about their diverse and unexpected pasts as the group's quest to survive takes shape.
Action / Adventure / Drama / Mystery / Sci-Fi / Thriller / Psychological thriller / Supernatural
Le placard Blu-ray Movie
The Closet
Gaumont | 2001 | 84 min | Not rated | Jun 03, 2010 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
François Pignon, a very bland sort of man who works as an accountant in a rubber factory, is about to be fired. His new neighbour comes up with an idea to prevent such a thing to happen: he spreads the rumor that he's gay so that the factory management might be afraid they'll be sued for sexual discrimination. Of course, nothing happens as it should, but the changes in François Pignon's life -and other people's too- is drastic !
Comedy / Foreign
Rambo: The Complete Collector's Set Blu-ray Movie
First Blood / Rambo: First Blood Part II / Rambo III / Rambo
Lionsgate Films | 1982-2008 | 4 Movies | 393 min | Rated R | Jul 27, 2010 | Dustin Somner
For over 25 years, Sylvester Stallone's "mythic commando" Rambo (Variety) has thrilled audiences worldwide. From "ragged and flashy" First Blood (The New York Times) to the "shockingly entertaining" Rambo (The Seattle Times), the series chronicles a reluctant killing machine as he wages war against corrupt global forces - all while facing a battle within his own soul. Rambo: The Complete Collector's Set has everything the ultimate Rambo fan needs, including all 4 films together for the first time!
Action / Thriller / War
The Long Good Friday Blu-ray Movie
Image Entertainment | 1980 | 114 min | Rated R | Aug 24, 2010 | Casey Broadwater
Entrepreneurial mob boss Harold Shand runs an underworld empire but his dreams are much bigger. He and his sophisticated wife aspire to partner with American mobsters to turn the barren docklands of London into a development for the upcoming Olympics. But their perfect plan begins to unravel when a string of deadly bombings leads Shand to the stunning realization that he is being targeted by the IRA.
Crime / Drama / Mystery / Thriller
- August 19, 2010
Rob Roy Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + DVD
Fox Pathe Europa | 1995 | 139 min | Rated R | May 05, 2010 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
In the highlands of Scotland in the 1700s, Rob Roy tries to lead his small town to a better future, by borrowing money from the local nobility to buy cattle to herd to market. When the money is stolen, Rob is forced into a Robin Hood lifestyle to defend his family and honour.
Adventure / Biography / Drama / History / Romance / War / Period
- August 18, 2010
Tokyo Story Blu-ray Movie
東京物語 / Tôkyô monogatari / The Ozu Collection / Blu-ray + DVD
BFI Video | 1953 | 136 min | Rated BBFC: U | Jul 19, 2010 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
An aging couple journey to visit their grown children in bustling postwar Tokyo.
Drama / Foreign / Melodrama
Pandora and the Flying Dutchman Blu-ray Movie
Kino Lorber | 1951 | 122 min | Not rated | Aug 03, 2010 | Casey Broadwater
Albert Lewin's hauntingly romantic film of the famed legend of The Flying Dutchman stars Ava Gardner as Pandora Reynolds, a nightclub singer on vacation in Spain, with whom all men fall hopelessly in love.
Adventure / Drama / Fantasy / Mystery / Romance
Withnail and I Blu-ray Movie
Image Entertainment | 1987 | 107 min | Not rated | Aug 24, 2010 | Casey Broadwater
Camden Town, the arse-end of the sixties. Two struggling, unemployed actors decide some respite is in order and so depart their miserable flat for a week in the Lake District – one that will involve rain, booze, minimal supplies, a randy bull and an even randier Uncle Monty.
Comedy / Drama
- August 17, 2010
The Vampire Diaries: The Complete First Season Blu-ray Movie
Warner Bros. | 2009-2010 | 927 min | Rated TV-14 | Aug 31, 2010 | Kenneth Brown
Meet vampire brothers Stefan and Damon are vampires, one good and one evil; Elena, a double for the beauty both brothers loved some 150 years earlier; plus Jeremy, Bonnie, Matt and more denizens of Mystic Falls, VA.
Drama / Fantasy / Horror / Romance / Thriller / Teen / Supernatural
Psycho Blu-ray Movie
50th Anniversary Edition
Universal Studios | 1960 | 109 min | Rated BBFC: 15 | Aug 09, 2010 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
A Phoenix secretary embezzles $40,000. On the run she checks into the remote Bates Motel, run by a young man under the domination of his mother.
Horror / Mystery / Thriller / Psychological thriller
Invisible Target Blu-ray Movie
男兒本色 / Naam yi boon sik
Vivendi Visual Entertainment | 2007 | 130 min | Rated R | Aug 10, 2010 | Jeffrey Kauffman
An armored truck is secretly transporting $100 million for a U.S. bank when it is hijacked by a band of robbers calling themselves the 'Ronin Gang'. The gang blows up the truck and makes off with all the cash. Three young detectives, led by Chan Chun, are soon assigned to thwart another massive bank robbery organized by the Ronin Gang.
Action / Crime / Martial arts / Foreign
- August 16, 2010
Casshern Sins: Part 2 Blu-ray Movie
FUNimation Entertainment | 2008-2009 | 300 min | Rated TV-MA | Aug 17, 2010 | Dustin Somner
The world is falling apart and Casshern is to blame. He is said to have killed a robot named "Luna" and by doing so unleashed a plague referred to as "ruin". But Casshern has no recollection of committing such an act, none the less both the humans and sentient robots hold him accountable. Now he must struggle to unravel what has truly happened to the world to be able to make a mends for his sins.
Action / Adventure / Anime / Drama / Sci-Fi / Foreign
Casshern Sins: Part 1 Blu-ray Movie
FUNimation Entertainment | 2008 | 300 min | Rated TV-MA | Aug 17, 2010 | Dustin Somner
The world is falling apart and Casshern is to blame. He is said to have killed a robot named "Luna" and by doing so unleashed a plague referred to as "ruin". But Casshern has no recollection of committing such an act, none the less both the humans and sentient robots hold him accountable. Now he must struggle to unravel what has truly happened to the world to be able to make a mends for his sins.
Action / Adventure / Anime / Drama / Sci-Fi / Foreign