‘The Walking Dead’ was off the air for the past two months and, frankly, I bet that a lot of its viewers were grateful for the break. I know I was. This season has been underwhelming, to put it mildly. The show returne...
Still lagging behind in your viewing of this year’s Oscar nominees? This week’s bustling batch of new Blu-ray releases will give you a chance to catch up on a few of them before the ceremony on Sunday. Get on it!
Most science fiction movies that Hollywood spits out are really just action movies with light sci-fi trappings, providing an excuse to watch spaceships dogfight like fighter jets or giant robots smash each other to bits. Every so ...
Simultaneously the most popular and the most hated movie of 2017, the latest installment in the ‘Star Wars’ saga will come to Blu-ray and Ultra HD in SteelBook form soon. Be honest, even if you didn’t like the fi...
Last week, we asked about your favorite movie in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Now tell us which entry in the franchise you rank as the worst to date.
Bad parents are a running theme through this week’s new Blu-ray releases, from the neglectful to the obnoxious to the outright homicidal. Having Mel Gibson play one of them is potentially problematic all on its own.
The producers of superhero movies have been very aggressive about casting Oscar winners and nominees to lend some prestige and class to their silly comic book fantasy epics. Among others, Anthony Hopkins, Robert Downey Jr., Benedi...
Over the past decade, Marvel has already cranked out 18 movies as part of its Cinematic Universe project and shows no sign of slowing down. As Black Panther gets his first solo movie, let’s take a moment to assess which of t...
Nominally based on writings by the late author of ‘Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?’ (better known for its movie adaptation, ‘Blade Runner’), Amazon’s anthology sci-fi series ‘Philip K. Dick...
After the long-running successes of ‘Six Feet Under’ and ‘True Blood’, producer Alan Ball was likely granted carte blanche to do whatever he wanted at HBO. With the premiere of his new series ‘Here an...
It’s Valentine’s week and, curiously, almost no romantic movies are available on Blu-ray to capitalize on that. In fact, catalog releases are heavily weighted with gory horror flicks. I wonder what kind of message that...
When screenwriters run out of fiction ideas to make movies about, turning toward real events is often a good idea. Setting aside bio-pics of famous people (which we’ve already done a Roundtable about) or documentaries (did t...
