Blu-ray Highlights: Week of August 7th, 2016 – Careful, You
Despite appearances, new Blu-ray discs will indeed be released this week. You’d be forgiven for not noticing.
Weekend Roundtable: Favorite Movie/TV Antiheroes
Any actor will tell you that playing the villain is way more fun than playing the hero. Even better is to play an antihero, which lets you have all the fun of acting like a total bastard and yet the audience still roots for you to...
‘How He Fell in Love’ Review: How He Bored the Audien
‘How He Fell in Love’ wants to be a complicated adult love story about selfish people who do wrong in the name of feeling right. Fair enough. There are quite a few of those stories. They can be interesting and enlighte...
Weekend Movies: The Joke’s on Us
Given the way that Marvel and Disney own the comic book movie market, DC and Warner Bros. are desperate to catch up. This weekend, they throw a Hail Mary with a first-of-its-kind supervillian team-up flick. At the same time, there...
‘Suicide Squad’ Review: A Mess, But Kinda Fun
You can say this about ‘Suicide Squad’: For a mediocre comic book blockbuster, it at least has a good hook and a strong cast. That was clear when it was announced and that’s what the pop-music-backed trailers pro...
‘Our Little Sister’ Review: A Cinematic Family Hug
In a summer full of explosions, swears, and giant CGI entertainment comes a little bit of Japanese counterprogramming that couldn’t be further from the blockbuster norm. That’s just not how director Hirokazu Kore-eda w...
SteelBook Alert: Fortified with Extra Ks
Collectors, your lives may have just been made a little easier. No longer will you have to choose between buying either 4k Ultra HD or a regular Blu-ray in SteelBook packaging. On a few upcoming titles, at least, you finally can g...
‘Indignation’ Review: Nostalgically Dull
Growing up is tough. It’s so haaaaaard to come of age. Now, imagine trying to come of age in the unenlightened and repressive decade of the 1950s. Whoo-boy! That ain’t easy, folks.
On the Table: ‘Raptor’ Board Game Review
Get ready to embark on a journey to a lost world (shh… don’t tell InGen) as we take a look at Matagot’s new board game ‘Raptor’, developed by acclaimed game designers Bruno Cathala and Bruno Faidutti.
‘Preacher’ 1.10 Recap: “Show Us God”
‘Preacher’ is a very weird show, and the first season ended with a very weird finale. It’s also a very uneven show that was never quite as clever or as satisfying as I may have wanted. I’ll give it one thin...
Rattle and Hum
When it comes to complicated home theater electronic gear, sometimes the smallest things can cause the biggest problems – even, in some cases, literally the tiniest of objects. I learned that lesson the hard way recently when I ra...
‘Wayward Pines’ 2.10 Recap: “There Is No Greate
One year ago, I wrote about the first season finale of ‘Wayward Pines’ fully expecting it to be the series finale. Somehow, the show got renewed. Even though the second season didn’t start off great, I continued ...