Blu-ray Highlights: Week of August 19th, 2018 – $@%!#&
You thought you got all the Marvel superheroes you could take last week? One of the few who’s not (yet) part of the Avengers team follows right on their heels to both Blu-ray and Ultra HD.
Weekend Roundtable: New Oscar Categories
Now that the Oscars are creating a new “Popular Film” award, it’s time to open the floodgates for all manner of categories that the Academy has previously overlooked. What other special achievements in filmmaking...
Skate Kitchen Review: Almost Cooking with Fire
Being a teenager isn’t easy. Though every kid has a different pile of crud to deal with, they tend to have more in common than not. They all want to find where they belong. They want to figure out how to navigate their world...
Mile 22 Review: Mediocre Action Flick Fails to Go the Distance
Mile 22 was practically tailor made for me. I’ve been a vocal fan of Peter Berg’s brand of mayhem, finding the likes of Deepwater Horizon or Battleship extraordinary works that viscerally thrill with a welcome economy....
Alpha Review: You Beta See This
Alpha is not a complicated film. It’s a simple story with straightforward characters, but this simplicity allows its characters to grow and the audience to become immersed in their world.
Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood Review: Spilling the B
A good documentary needs more than just a good story. It also needs to be a well-assembled film in its own right. Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood leans a little too heavily on its subject matter, but it’s a doozy ...
Impulse Purchase of the Week: The NES Classic Edition
I was in a Best Buy the other day shopping for something else when I spotted fresh stock of Nintendo’s NES Classic Edition gaming console on a shelf, marked at an attractive price. I’d passed this over during its initi...
Crazy Rich Asians Review: Not So Crazy After All
Romantic comedies often get a bum rap, and rightly so. Too often, they’re fleshed out with one-dimensional characters and plots that would simply unravel if the two leads characters had kindergarten-level communication skill...
Poll: Is the “Popular Film” Oscar a Good Idea?
Ever since the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, in all its estimable wisdom, announced the creation of a new “Popular Film” category at the Oscars, debate has raged about whether this is a smart move or the...
Contest – Win Avengers: Infinity War on Blu-ray and 4K Ultr
Prepare to get avenged! I’m not even sure what that means, but we have an extra 4k Ultra HD Blu-ray copy of the Marvel blockbuster Avengers: Infinity War. What do you say? Let’s give it away!
Fear the Walking Dead 4.09 Recap: “God Knows If There’
Fear the Walking Dead is back from its mid-season hiatus, but this may be the first time in the entire Walking Dead franchise’s run when all eyes were really watching what Chris Hardwick would have to say for himself upon hi...
Slender Man Review: Slim Chance of Scares
Basing an entire horror movie around an internet creepypasta sensation, which inspired an actual attempted murder, is not an inherently bad idea for a film. In fact, it could have turned out okay. Sadly, Slender Man somehow turned...