Blu-rays of the Week Spiderman—Into the Spider Verse (Sony) Winner of the Oscar for Best Animated Film, this enjoyable “alternative” Spiderman origin story follows a teenager who, after a bite by a radioactive spider...
Digital Week
Digital Week – March 12th
Blu-rays of the Week Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald (Warner Bros) This sequel to J.K. Rowling’s first post-Harry Potter story (and maiden attempt at a screenplay) tracks a wizard, Newt Scamander (Eddie...
Digital Week – March 5th
Creed II (Warner Bros) In this sequel-to-cum-remake-of Creed I and Rocky IV, the son of Ivan Drago—the Russian from Rocky IV—faces off against Adonis Creed, who wants to avenge his father Apollo (who was killed in the...
Digital Week – February 26th
Blu-rays of the Week A Star Is Born (Warner Bros) Despite its acclaim, box office haul and awards, this is definitely the least of the four versions I’ve seen of the standard she-becomes-famous-while-he-goes-downhill...
Digital Week – February 19th
Blu-rays of the Week Backbeat (Shout Select) Iain Softley’s engaging 1994 biopic of Stu Sutcliffe—John Lennon’s best friend who never had real musical smarts and who got kicked out of the Beatles, died tragically of a...
Digital Week – February 12th
Blu-rays of the Week Bohemian Rhapsody (Fox) Remi Malek’s remarkable transformation into Farrokh Bulsara, aka Queen frontman Freddie Mercury, is the no-brainer reason to see this entertaining if flawed and...
Digital Week – February 5th
Blu-rays of the Week All the Colors of the Dark (Severin) In this entertaining giallo (the irrepressibly Italian horror/mystery genre), Edwige Fenech gives another impressively scream-laden performance as an unstable...
Digital Week – January 29th
Blu-rays of the Week American Renegades (Lionsgate) In this efficient if undistinguished action flick, a group of American soldiers in Bosnia agrees to bring up from the surface of a nearby lake a cache of gold hidden...
Digital Week – January 22nd
Blu-rays of the Week First Man (Universal) In his first film since winning the Oscar for directing the wildly overpraised musical La La Land, Damien Chazelle proves his versatility, even though his straightforward...
Digital Week – January 15th
Blu-rays of the Week Halloween (Universal) Forty years after the original slaughter by Michael Myers, original survivor Laurie Strode—now a grandmother—always felt he would return to finish her off: now that he’s...
Digital Week – January 9th
Blu-rays of the Week Hell Fest (Lionsgate) After a group of dumb teenagers traipses down to the local amusement park for a Halloween-themed party, the horror soon becomes reality as bodies start piling up in ever more...
Digital Week – January 2nd
Blu-rays of the Week I Still See You (Lionsgate) After a cataclysmic event that killed many, survivors still see “remnants,” the apparitions of those who died, in Scott Speer’s workmanlike adaptation of Daniel Waters’...
