Crime 101 - BLU-RAY

In Tuner, Academy Award-winning director Daniel Roher's first narrative feature, Leo Woodall stars as a gifted young piano tuner whose heightened sense of hearing draws the attention of criminals, who see his talents as useful for opening safes as well as for tuning Steinways. With his once-promising musical career over, he works across New York with his mentor Harry Horowitz (Academy Award-winner Dustin Hoffman), encountering a range of characters, including composition student Ruthie (Havana Rose Liu), with whom he forges an unexpected connection. Niki's safecracking work threatens his budding romance with Ruthie and pulls him into increasingly dangerous territory. Blending romance, drama, and the taut suspense of a heist thriller, Tuner also features performances from Tony Award-winner Tovah Feldshuh, Lior Raz, and Jean Reno.

Ernest Hemingway's choice for the lead in the film version of his "The Old Man and the Sea" was the right one: Spencer Tracy's performance brought him the sixth of his nine Academy Award nominations, and the film won the National Board of Review's 1958 Best Picture and Best Actor awards. Alone in a small skiff, an aging Cuban fisherman catches a huge marlin - and must defy the sea, marauding sharks, and his own flagging strength to bring his great catch home. Filmed in part on sun-drenched Cuban locales, and graced by Dimitri Tiomkin's Oscar winning score, "The Old Man and the Sea" is a colorful cinematic ode to the indomitability of the human spirit.

Quentin Tarantino's epic-length edit of his two-part outrageous homage to Asian action cinema stars Uma Thurman as the Bride, an ex-killer for hire whose wedding rehearsal is brutally cut short by her onetime cohorts. Awakening from a four-year coma, the Bride sets out for revenge against her old allies and the man who put them up to it, former boss and lover Bill (David Carradine). With Vivica A. Fox, Lucy Liu, Daryl Hannah, Sonny Chiba, Michael Madsen, Michael Parks, Gordon Liu. 4 1/4 hrs. Widescreen; Soundtrack English.