Blu-ray Highlights: Week of June 30th, 2019 – Joyeux Jour d
Are you a fan of classic French cinema? I hope so, because if not, this July 4th holiday week is decidedly lacking in fireworks as far as new Blu-ray releases go.
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Weekend Roundtable: Erased from Memory
The plot of the movie Yesterday involves an alternate timeline where nobody remembers The Beatles. Let’s apply that premise to movies. Is there a particular movie you wish could be erased from memory so you’d never hav...
SteelBook Alert: Smaller Is Better?
Pixar, Marvel, John Wick… We expect all these franchises to get SteelBook releases. One of them this time, however, is doing something a little weird – emphasis on “little.”
Legion 3.01 Recap: “All Past Is Future”
After its deeply confusing and, let’s be honest, frequently incoherent second season, FX’s bizarre superhero drama Legion saw its viewers throw their hands in the air and its ratings nosedive. However, the show still h...
Us Contest Results
It had been a while since we held a contest around here and I think we may need more time to get back into the swing of things. Even so, we got some pretty good responses to last week’s contest, one of which will win Jordan ...
Fear the Walking Dead 5.04 Recap: “Every Day Brings a Chanc
I guess Fear the Walking Dead wasn’t done with Rubén Blades yet after all. The actor returns for a second appearance this week. Another thing the show apparently isn’t done with: ridiculous action set-pieces.
Blu-ray Highlights: Week of June 23rd, 2019 – The Elephant
In a year inundated with them, one of Disney’s live-action remakes didn’t quite live up to expectations. Will the movie have a better shelf life on home video? That’s one question raised by this week’s new ...
Weekend Roundtable: The Toy That Got Away
As both the Toy Story and Child’s Play franchises return to theaters this weekend (brilliant counter-programming on United Artists’ part), this seems like a good time to look back at our own childhoods. When you were a...
Now Streaming: I Am Mother
With, for much of its running time, just one human character trapped in an isolated compound with a seemingly-friendly robot whose intentions eventually come into question, the Netflix sci-fi thriller I Am Mother has a lot in comm...
City on a Hill Pilot Recap: “Only the Bad Understand”
Showtime’s new crime drama City on a Hill arrives with an impressive pedigree, good writing, and strong performances. Unfortunately, it follows in the footsteps of a lot of similar TV shows and may struggle to set itself apa...
Fear the Walking Dead 5.03 Recap: “The Wind Blows Us Right
One of the changes that came with last season’s quasi-reboot was to give Fear the Walking Dead a strong Western vibe. The show very nearly makes that literal this week by taking the characters to the Old West… in a manner of...
Now Streaming: Too Old to Die Young
I would almost say that his new Amazon streaming series Too Old to Die Young plays like a parody of a bad Nicolas Winding Refn movie, except that the word “parody” might imply something funny about it. There’s no...