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...
As beautifully made and complex as it is thuddingly dull and confused, ‘Black Hollow Cage’ is easy to admire and almost impossible to enjoy. Spanish writer/director Sadrac González-Perellón may be a craftsman and ambit...
If the reported ticket pre-sale numbers are accurate, we’re about to see a huge weekend at the box office. Advance purchases for Marvel’s latest movie are said to be through the roof. In addition to the MCU’s 18t...
That’s right, someone made a documentary entirely about poop. I suppose it shouldn’t be too surprising. There are documentaries about every topic. Why should poop get left out?
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...
From its earliest days crafting music videos and Oscar-winning shorts, Aardman Animations has been one of the most delightfully consistent players in the field. The stop-motion studio specializes in creating beautifully animated s...
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...
It’s funny how perspective has shifted on Black Panther as a character so quickly. For years, he was a cult favorite who spoke to a specific community but never really took center stage. Then, as the Marvel movie empire expa...
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...
Now six weeks in, this was only the second weekend in 2018 with a 2018 movie release winning the box office. Thanks to a lack of strong competition, the final ‘Fifty Shades’ movie came out on top.
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...
