New Blu-ray Reviews
Home- March 19, 2017
Ghost in the Shell Blu-ray Movie
Mondo X Series #18 / Blu-ray + UV Digital Copy
Starz / Anchor Bay | 1995 | 83 min | Not rated | Mar 14, 2017 | Martin Liebman
Set in the year 2029 and following World Wars III and IV, a Japanese-led Asian block dominates world affairs. The alliance maintains its international supremacy through its elite security force whose cybernetically enhanced operatives tackle an array of hi-tech terrorists and other threats to international security. These augmented agents can "ghost hack" (i.e., download their consciousness) via the now omnipresent internet into other machines and human/machine cross breeds. Major Motoko Kusanagi, a cybernetically augmented female agent, has been tracking a virtual entity known as the Puppet Master with her crack squad of security agents. The shape-shifting Puppet Master, a rogue creation of a rival agency of the security apparatus, has concluded that it is a life form in its own right, "born in sea of information," and requested political asylum and true physical existence in defiance of its creators.
Action / Anime / Mystery / Sci-Fi / Thriller / Comic book / Foreign
Collateral Beauty Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + UV Digital Copy
Warner Bros. | 2016 | 97 min | Rated PG-13 | Mar 14, 2017 | Michael Reuben
A tragic event sends a New York ad man on a downward spiral, prompting his partners to adopt a desperate strategy to save their business.
Drama
- March 18, 2017
Cinema Paradiso Blu-ray Movie
Nuovo cinema Paradiso / Arrow Academy
Arrow | 1988 | 1 Movie, 2 Cuts | 174 min | Not rated | Mar 21, 2017 | Jeffrey Kauffman
A filmmaker recalls his childhood, when he fell in love with the movies at his village's theater and formed a deep friendship with the theater's projectionist.
Comedy / Drama / Foreign / Melodrama / Period / Coming of age
Silence Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + UV Digital Copy
Paramount Pictures | 2016 | 161 min | Rated R | Mar 28, 2017 | Martin Liebman
In the 17th century two Jesuit priests face violence and persecution when they travel to Japan to locate their mentor and to spread the gospel of Christianity.
Drama / History
Red Dawn Blu-ray Movie
Collector's Edition
Shout Factory | 1984 | 114 min | Rated PG-13 | Mar 14, 2017 | Dr. Stephen Larson
In the heartland of the United States of America, a group of teenagers band together to defend their town, and their country, from invading Soviet and Cuban forces.
Action / Adventure / Drama / Thriller / War / Teen
American Violence Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + DVD
Cinedigm | 2017 | 107 min | Not rated | Mar 14, 2017 | Jeffrey Kauffman
This intense thriller follows one man’s path to execution and the strong-minded doctor brought in to take a deeper look at the violent circumstances that have doomed him. Jackson Shea (Kaiwi Lyman-Mersereau) has lived a life of deceit, brutality and corruption. But when a series of chilling, violent events lands him on Death Row, one psychologist (Denise Richards) must determine whether his violent behavior is inherent in his soul, or if he is able to be rehabilitated and saved from execution. Also starring Bruce Dern, Columbus Short, Johnny Messner, Michael Paré and featuring Stipe Miocic and Rob Gronkowski.
Thriller
They're Playing with Fire Blu-ray Movie
Kino Lorber | 1984 | 96 min | Rated R | Mar 14, 2017 | Brian Orndorf
A married college professor decides to seduce her student, whom she hired as a handyman for her yacht. The hesitant student succumbs to his buxom professor, but their romance is interrupted by her corrupt husband and a masked murderer.
Crime / Thriller
China Girl Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + DVD
Vinegar Syndrome | 1974 | 89 min | Rated X | Mar 28, 2017 | Brian Orndorf
An international crime syndicate searching for a secret formula uses sexual torture to find it.
Comedy / Crime / Erotic
- March 17, 2017
The Delinquents Blu-ray Movie
Olive Films | 1957 | 72 min | Not rated | Mar 21, 2017 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
Being scorned by his father's girlfriend, Scotty befriends street thug Eddy and quickly transforms from being a good kid to a member of a ruthless gang of teens.
Crime / Drama
Kung Fu Trailers of Fury Blu-ray Movie
Severin Films | 1972-1983 | 120 min | Not rated | Mar 01, 2016 | Jeffrey Kauffman
Get ready for the most hard-kicking, face-smashing, snake-fisting trailer collection of them all! From the golden age of kung fu cinema comes this insane tsunami of masters, mobsters, furious vengeance and incredible fighting styles, starring Bruce Lee, Jackie Chan, Lo Lieh, Sammo Hung, Angela Mao, Chuck Norris, Jimmy Wang Yu and Wu Tang, too. These are the most over-the-top and rarely-seen original trailers for Hong Kong classics that include THE WAY OF THE DRAGON, DEATH BLOW, TWO CHAMPIONS OF SHAOLIN, DAGGERS 8, SNAKE IN THE EAGLE'S SHADOW, SHAOLIN WOODEN MEN, THE STORY OF DRUNKEN MASTER, ENTER THE FAT DRAGON, BRUTAL BOXER and many more, plus exclusive new bonus features that deliver unique historical and cultural perspectives on the amazing world of martial arts movies.
Documentary / Martial arts
Tanna Blu-ray Movie
Entertainment One | 2015 | 104 min | Not rated | Mar 07, 2017 | Jeffrey Kauffman
Set on a remote Pacific island, covered in rain forest and dominated by an active volcano, this heartfelt story, enacted by the Yakel tribe, tells of a sister's loyalty, a forbidden love affair and the pact between the old ways and the new.
Drama / Foreign
Notfilm Blu-ray Movie
Milestone | 2015 | 129 min | Not rated | Mar 07, 2017 | Michael Reuben
A documentary on the making of the 1965 short entitled "Film", the only work of cinema written by Nobel Prize-winning author Samuel Beckett.
Documentary
Film Blu-ray Movie
Milestone | 1965 | 22 min | Not rated | Mar 07, 2017 | Michael Reuben
A twenty-minute, almost totally silent film (no dialogue or music one 'shhh!') in which Buster Keaton attempts to evade observation by an all-seeing eye. But, as the film is based around Bishop Berkeley's principle 'esse est percipi' (to be is to be perceived), Keaton's very existence conspires against his efforts.
Drama / Short / Foreign
- March 16, 2017
Bon voyage Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + DVD
ARP Sélection | 2003 | 114 min | Not rated | Mar 01, 2017 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
An actress, a writer, a student, and a government worker band together in an effort to escape Paris as the Nazis move into the city.
Comedy / Drama / Mystery / Foreign / Period
Elle Blu-ray Movie
Sony Pictures | 2016 | 131 min | Rated R | Mar 14, 2017 | Martin Liebman
Michèle seems indestructible. Head of a successful video game company, she brings the same ruthless attitude to her love life as to business. Being attacked in her home by an unknown assailant changes Michèle's life forever. When she resolutely tracks the man down, they are both drawn into a curious and thrilling game that may, at any moment, spiral out of control.
Crime / Drama / Thriller / Psychological thriller / Erotic / Foreign
Another Man's Poison Blu-ray Movie
ClassicFlix | 1951 | 90 min | Not rated | Mar 28, 2017 | Jeffrey Kauffman
Janet Frobisher (Bette Davis) is a rich mystery writer who falls in love with her secretary's fiancé and lures him away. But her happiness is far from ensured. She first must deal with a long forgotten ex-convict husband who tries to blackmail her, and then she must scheme her way out of the clutches of her husband's ruthless partner, George Bates (Gary Merrill).
Crime / Drama / Film-Noir / Thriller
Karate Girl Blu-ray Movie
Tokyo Shock | 2011 | 91 min | Not rated | Feb 23, 2017 | Brian Orndorf
Ayaka was born to a legendary karate family. When she was little, her father was killed by a mysterious group and her younger sister was taken by the group. As time passes by, Ayaka lives in Yokohama as an ordinary female high school student. An incident leads Ayaka to meet her younger sister once again, but her sister is now a lethal killing machine. To get her sister back, Ayaka must stand up to mysterious group alone.
Action / Foreign
The Lovers on the Bridge Blu-ray Movie
Les amants du Pont-Neuf
Kino Lorber | 1991 | 125 min | Rated R | Mar 14, 2017 | Brian Orndorf
A homeless artist who is losing her sight, Michele finds herself drawn to a passionate relationship with a troubled street performer named Alex. Then, despite all obstacles, they together find love and shelter on the famed Pont-Neuf bridge in Paris. But, in time, their unlikely love will be tested as Michele's secret past catches up with her.
Drama / Romance / Foreign
Yu-Gi-Oh! ARC-V: Season 1, Volume 2 Blu-ray Movie
Cinedigm | 2014-2015 | 552 min | Rated TV-Y7-FV | Mar 07, 2017 | Jeffrey Kauffman
No synopsis for this title.
Action / Anime / Comedy / Family / Fantasy / Foreign
- March 15, 2017
Love Circles Blu-ray Movie
La ronde de l'amour
Intervision Picture Corp | 1985 | 97 min | Rated R | No Release Date | Dr. Svet Atanasov
This film traces the chance meetings that happen everywhere, every day, from the view of a pack of cigarettes handed from person to person. As it is passed between partners in a string of chance sexual encounters, the pack is carried around the globe.
Drama / Erotic