Blu-ray Highlights: Week of February 5th, 2017 – Easy ̵
February this year starts with a monstrous assortment of new Blu-ray releases. Do you see any titles you’re in love with?
February this year starts with a monstrous assortment of new Blu-ray releases. Do you see any titles you’re in love with?
The massive deluge of Blu-rays this week brings us a mutant apocalypse, airborne sharks and a farting corpse, among other weirdness. October is off to a crazy start.
Showtime aired two back-to-back episodes of ‘Penny Dreadful’ on Sunday, closing not just this season but bringing the entire series to an abrupt end. Creator John Logan has confirmed that this is the end of the line fo...
After a trio of really strong episodes, ‘Penny Dreadful’ takes a small step back this week with a new entry that, if not necessarily bad, focuses a lot of time on the show’s least interesting storyline and ends w...
I had some reservations about the early episodes this season, but ‘Penny Dreadful’ really pulled itself together a couple episodes ago and has been strong ever since. This week’s entry has quite a lot going on an...
After the previous episode of ‘Penny Dreadful’ scaled the season down to just a couple of characters in a room, this week’s follow-up expands its gaze a little bit, but only so far as to focus on two specific sto...
As it did in each of the previous two seasons, ‘Penny Dreadful’ takes a step back from its globe-spanning storylines this week to spend an entire hour focused on backstory. This time, the show strips itself down to jus...
As much as I enjoy ‘Penny Dreadful’, the show’s confused and sometimes incoherent plotting has been a frustration all along. The new season apparently wants to tie together old storylines from the first two years...
Frankly, I was grateful that Dorian Gray didn’t appear in the season premiere of ‘Penny Dreadful’ last week. He was the show’s most annoying character last season. As I feared, unfortunately, he’s bac...
Despite flagging ratings during its often incoherent narrative mess of a second season, Showtime brought its horror series ‘Penny Dreadful’ back for another round. I like the show and am glad to have it back. Let’...
Are you looking for another exciting blockbuster movie to own on Blu-ray? This week brings us the biggest box office hit of the year… assuming that the year we’re talking about is 1960, that is.
For all the complaining I’ve done about this second season of ‘Penny Dreadful’, I’m very surprised to admit that the season finale is far more satisfying than I expected it to be. It’s not a perfect e...