Blu-ray Highlights: Week of August 6th, 2017 – Fall on Your
Several movies that didn’t do particularly well at the box office hit Blu-ray this week. Who’s going to take the blame for this?
Several movies that didn’t do particularly well at the box office hit Blu-ray this week. Who’s going to take the blame for this?
Noah Hawley has been a pretty busy guy this year. In addition to creating and launching the supremely weird superhero drama ‘Legion‘ a few months ago, Hawley’s fascinating and often hilarious spinoff of the Coen ...
Here’s to you, Mrs. Robinson. Between the new Oscar nominee, the latest Pixar epic, some cult horror flicks and a handful of genuine movie classics, this is a pretty busy week for new Blu-ray releases. Let’s see if we ...
The first season of FX’s ‘Fargo’ spin-off was originally supposed to be a limited-run series. When the show proved popular and the network asked for another season, creator Noah Hawley wasn’t sure he even w...
As far as new TV shows go, this fall has been pretty much a bust so far. This may be the worst pilot season in recent memory. Thankfully, we still have lots of returning favorites to watch instead. Which series are you happy to se...
There’s a tragic, strange and often forgotten postscript to the Coen brothers’ masterpiece ‘Fargo’. The filmmakers put a “Based on a True Story” credit at the start of their movie as a wry in-jo...
Time travel seems to be a major theme on Blu-ray this week. From mutant superheroes to talking dogs, everybody’s zipping back and forth from past to future, or vice versa.
As I mentioned last week, Fox’s upcoming wave of war movie SteelBooks in the UK doesn’t do much for me. Even if you feel the same, the studio has a lot more metal cases coming down the pike, and many of these have uniq...
Apparently having run out of original ideas, just about every TV network has gotten in the game of producing new series based on old movies lately. Even among this recent proliferation, I don’t think that I’ve ever exp...
All things considered, March turned out to be a pretty good month for some major Blu-ray titles. Unfortunately, as we leave that month behind, April gets off to a less impressive start. [Post has been updated since it was first pu...
The end of a month means a huge shift in Netflix content, with movies being removed and added like mad. For every good movie that’s leaving the stream this week, we have another coming in. There’s also one TV show that...
The Roundtable took a break for a couple of weeks over the holidays, but it’s back to kick off 2011. Where I live in Boston, we had a pretty big blizzard just after Christmas. That got me thinking on the subject of movies ab...