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
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’...
Digital Week – December 18th
Blu-rays of the Week Panique (Criterion) Belgian author Georges Simenon’s novels have been adapted for the cinema for decades, and Jacques Duvivier’s 1947 drama based on Simenon’s short novel Monsieur Hire’s...
Digital Week – December 11th
Blu-rays of the Week Brewster McCloud (Warner Archive) Made immediately after his 1970 breakthrough, M*A*S*H, Robert Altman’s character study of a young man who wants to fly—literally—while living in the bowels of the...
Digital Week – December 4th
Blu-rays of the Week Attraction (Dark Sky) This big-budget Russian armageddon flick by Fyodor Bondarchuk—son of renowned director Sergei Bondarchuk (who made the classic 7-hour War and Peace in 1966—is a supremely silly...
Digital Week – November 20th
Blu-rays of the Week Crazy Rich Asians (Warner Bros) Considered an historic film as the first Hollywood studio release to have an all-Asian cast since 1993’s The Joy Luck Club, director Jon M. Chu’s adaptation of the...
Digital Week – November 13th
Blu-rays of the Week The Meg (Warners) The ludicrousness of this gargantuan shark movie—it’s Jaws on steroids—is beside the point when all anybody wants is to see, in CGI, how the ocean behemoth makes mincemeat of lots...
Digital Week – Nov 6
Robin Williams—Comic Genius (Time-Life) When Robin Williams committed suicide in 2014, the world was robbed of one of its greatest comedians, an endlessly inventive and original performer who was always “on” whenever in...
Digital Week – October 30
Blu-rays of the Week Mamma Mia 2—Here We Go Again (Universal) In this otherwise turgid sequel to the inexplicably beloved stage and screen musical comprising many Abba songs, Lily James (as Meryl Streep’s character when...
Digital Week – October 23rd
Blu-rays of the Week Arizona (RLJ Entertainment) In this pitch-black comedy that swings for the fences but falls short, Danny McBride is a frustrated homeowner who’s been foreclosed on and who takes it out on the real...
Digital Week – October 16th
Blu-rays of the Week Ant-Man and the Wasp (Disney/Marvel) In this protracted, fitfully entertaining sequel to Ant-Man, the interplay among Paul Rudd, Evangeline Lilly, Michael Douglas and Michelle Pfieffer makes it...
