Contest: Win Us on Blu-ray!
Let’s be clear here. When I say “win us,” I don’t mean you’re going to win this whole web site or the content on it. However, we do have an extra Blu-ray copy of Jordan Peele’s horror thriller U...
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Blu-ray Highlights: Week of June 16th, 2019 – What About Al
If this week’s biggest Blu-ray and Ultra HD release looks strangely familiar, you may have already caught it when it hit streaming a couple weeks ago. That’s becoming a common trend these days, but fortunately the stud...
Weekend Roundtable: Favorite Sci-Fi Comedies
The combination of science fiction and comedy can often be an uneasy blend. The Men in Black franchise had some success with it initially and has struggled through three sequels now to replicate the results. This week’s Roun...
SteelBook Alert: I Think It’s Gonna Be a Long Long Time
The latest wave of Ultra HD Blu-rays up for preorder at Best Buy include monsters, gremlins, a phoenix, and other assorted unusual pets – plus whatever the hell crazy animals Elton John dressed up as during the 1970s.
The Crazy Eighties: Angel Heart
From the kiddie gangster spoof Bugsy Malone to the school musical Fame to the acid trip extravagance of Pink Floyd: The Wall, British director Alan Parker had one of the most eclectic careers in filmmaking. His sleazy horror thril...
Fear the Walking Dead 5.02 Recap: “Talking’s Bad, Bre
If HBO’s Chernobyl miniseries didn’t already put a mortal terror of nuclear radiation contamination into you, Fear the Walking Dead ups the ante by adding zombies to a reactor meltdown scenario.
Blu-ray Highlights: Week of June 9th, 2019 – Chapter and Ve
Marvel’s first female-led superhero blockbuster comes home to Blu-ray and Ultra HD this week, just in time to temper everyone’s disappointment over how the second one turned out.
Weekend Roundtable: Turning to the Dark Side
As one of our picks in this week’s Roundtable explains, “You either die a hero or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain.” While Dark Phoenix flies into theaters, let’s look at some other f...
Now Streaming: Good Omens
Even as his American Gods fell apart in its second season, allegedly due in some part to the author’s interference, Neil Gaiman split his attention to a second television project more under his direct control. Amazon’s...
NOS4A2 Pilot Recap: “There’s a Nice List and a Naught
Based on a novel by author Joe Hill (son of Stephen and Tabitha King), AMC’s new horror series NOS4A2 is unfortunately not very good. However, it seems marginally more interesting to look at it as a really f’ed up rete...
Fear the Walking Dead 5.01 Recap: “People Don’t Just
Last season’s semi-reboot of Fear the Walking Dead started off with what seemed to be a lot of promise, only to turn frustrating and dumb as it went, leading to a very disappointing finale. Now the show is back for a fifth s...
Deadwood: The Movie Review – A Very Belated Series Finale
Of all the TV shows unceremoniously canceled too soon, HBO’s beloved Western series Deadwood was one of the most painful losses. After talking about it for thirteen years, creator David Milch has gathered almost the entire c...