Blu-ray Highlights: Week of September 11th, 2016 – You Look
Strap yourselves in, folks. I told you September looked like a good month for Blu-rays. From major new blockbusters to awesome cult movies, this week could be a wallet-buster.
Weekend Roundtable: Favorite Airplane Movies
With the true-story drama ‘Sully’ opening in theaters this week, it might perhaps be in poor taste to do a Roundtable about favorite plane crash scenes in movies. Let’s broaden the topic out a bit to cover any mo...
TIFF Journal: ‘Paterson’
Jim Jarmusch’s particular brand of philosophical deadpan comedy probably should have gone out of style by now. However, since the guy was always an artist who seemed displaced in time, his movies continue to appeal to a sele...
TIFF Journal: ‘I, Daniel Blake’
Fresh off of a Palm d’Or win at Cannes, Ken Loach returns with another of his achingly naturalistic polemics that feeds all of the 80-year-old filmmaker’s best and worst impulses. ‘I, Daniel Blake’ is devas...
TIFF Journal: ‘Elle’
Paul Verhoeven is as much an intellectual prankster as a filmmaker. Now that he’s abandoned Hollywood to work exclusively in Europe, the provocateur seems as dedicated to upsetting viewers as entertaining them. He deliberate...
Weekend Movies: Hope Floats
Since each week in this month features at least one potentially interesting new movie, there’s definitely hope that September will be much better than usual this year. Even though three of this weekend’s four wide rele...
‘Sully’ Review: Grumpy Old Pilot
Like almost all of the later period films directed by Clint Eastwood, ‘Sully’ seems to be executed with a mixture of passion and disinterest. The movie has some rousing, even stunning sequences executed by the aging fi...
‘The Wild Life’ Review: A Life Very Ordinary
You know what no one asked for? An impossibly bland animated adaptation of ‘Robinson Crusoe’ narrated by a parrot. Yet here we are. Thanks to the seemingly endless profitability of CG-animated family entertainment, we&...
SteelBook Alert: Breakfast of Champions
Starving for some new Blu-ray SteelBooks to collect? Angry that so few good SteelBooks get released in the United States? You should be looking abroad.
Poll: Fall 2016 Returning TV Shows
Last week, we asked you about the fall 2016 new TV series you might want to give a look. This week, let’s see which returning shows you’ll continue to watch this season.
‘Fear the Walking Dead’ 2.10 Recap: “The End Ti
Hey, remember how those idiots on ‘Fear the Walking Dead’ got themselves into a life-threatening predicament last week? Want to see how they get out of that mess? Too bad. The latest episode focuses on different idiots...
Dolby Atmos Beyond 7.1.4 – Part 2
Having connected three home theater A/V receivers to expand my Dolby Atmos surround sound into a crazily convoluted 7.1.6 channel system, the next step was actually making it work. Sadly, that proved to have some unexpected challe...