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Mike Frezon Weekly RoundUp 8-8-2017 Where to find the Best Deals on Movies & TV Shows on 4k/UHD, Blu-ray and DVD… The Features – Snatched – 2017 – The Breaking Point – 1950 – King Arthur: Legend of the Sword – 2017 Weekly RoundUp 8-8-17

Richard Gallagher The Valachi Papers Blu-ray Review The Valachi Papers, an intriguing but flawed inside look at the workings of the Cosa Nostra in the United States, arrives on Blu-ray from Twilight Time with a very nice transfer from Sony. [review]

Cameron Yee The Final Master Blu-ray Review A Wing Chun martial arts master looking to spread the discipline beyond the borders of Southern China, where it originated, looks to the Northern Chinese city of Tianjin, a location renowned for its martial arts culture, to start an academy. But...

Mike Frezon Weekly RoundUp 8-1-2017 Where to find the Best Deals on Movies & TV Shows on Blu-ray and DVD… The Features – Going in Style – 2017 – Hired Gun – 2016 – The Bitter Tea of General Yen – 1932 Weekly RoundUp 8-1-2017

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Matt Hough The Ottoman Lieutenant Blu-ray Review A tedious love triangle played against the backdrop of World War I being waged in Turkey, Joseph Ruben’s The Ottoman Lieutenant attempts to contrast the grand passions of romance and patriotism but comes up woefully short. [review]

Matt Hough Sleight Blu-ray Review The magic tricks are by far the most impressive aspect of J.D. Dillard’s Sleight, an otherwise humdrum drug-fueled melodrama that’s neither smartly acted nor directed. [review]

Matt Hough Tom Sawyer/Huckleberry Finn Blu-ray Review The Reader’s Digest adaptations of two Mark Twain classics – Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn – may not match one another in quality, but both offer tuneful versions of the familiar stories that fans of the songwriters or the original...

Neil Middlemiss Ghost in the Shell Blu-ray Review Ghost in the Shell is an ambitious, stylized, visually impressive film with a good cast. While it may not have satisfactorily explored the moral questions of who we are and what makes us human, it makes a genuinely earnest attempt at probing...

Matt Hough Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Sex* Blu-ray Review Woody Allen's sketch comedy offshoot from the best-selling David Reuben's sexual query digest Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex* But Were Afraid to Ask not only proved to be as popular as the book that...

Matt Hough State Fair (1962) Blu-ray Review Having already won viewers’ hearts in the early 1930s as a Will Rogers comedy vehicle and in the lavish 1945 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical adaptation, the 1962 remake of State Fair offers a very starry cast, most of the tuneful melodies from the...

Matt Hough Colossal Blu-ray Review Wonderful talents have their time (and ours) and talents wasted in Nacho Vigalondo’s inconsequential allegorical fantasy Colossal. [review]

Matt Hough Silkwood Blu-ray Review Mike Nichols’ biographical drama Silkwood puts the viewer into the hearts and minds of its central characters telling an increasingly harrowing true story without sacrificing character development, narrative drive, or the building suspense. [review]

Matt Hough Shooter: Season One DVD Review Television series based on hit films are nothing new, but it’s a rare television series that spends its entire first season basically remaking the movie on which it was based: Shooter does just that. [review]

Mike Frezon Weekly RoundUp 7-18-2017 Where to find the Best Deals on Movies & TV Shows on 4k/UHD, Blu-ray and DVD… The Features – Kong: Skull Island – 2017 – Blood Alley – 1955 Weekly RoundUp 7-18-2017

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Matt Hough The Promise Blu-ray Review An uninspiring love triangle played out against the backdrop of the first year of World War I in Turkey with a special emphasis on the Armenian Genocide phenomenon forms the core of Terry George’s The Promise. [review]

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Matt Hough The Untouchables: The Scarface Mob DVD Review The Scarface Mob may take some liberties with the real story for the sake of dramatic impact, but it’s an enjoyable feature length look at the origin of television’s The Untouchables and is recommended for fans who don’t already have...

Matt Hough The Fate of the Furious Blu-ray Review The Fast and Furious gang is back for their eighth adventure, this time fighting against one of their own in F. Gary Gray’s The Fate of the Furious. [review]

Richard Gallagher The Sea Chase Blu-ray Review The Sea Chase, one of two John Wayne films to be released on Blu-ray by the Warner Archive this month, is a strange one. For one thing, it is difficult to wrap one's head around the idea of Wayne portraying a German (albeit an anti-Nazi German)...

Matt Hough Blow-Up Blu-ray Review Director Michelangelo Antonioni takes a rather jaundiced look at the London swinging singles scene of the 1960s in Blow-Up, the director's tenth film and a great international success critically and at the box-office, his first full length feature in the...

Mike Frezon Weekly RoundUp 7-11-2017 Where to find the Best Deals on Movies & TV Shows on 4k/UHD, Blu-ray and DVD… The Features – The Fate of the Furious – 2017 – The Fifth Element – 1997 Weekly RoundUp 7-11-2017

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Matt Hough Spark: A Space Tail Blu-ray Review Mediocre animation and unoriginal story ideas don’t add up to very much in Aaron Woodley’s Spark: A Space Tail. [review]

Matt Hough Road to Bali Blu-ray Review Road to Bali ranks among the craziest of the Road series, and even if Bob and Bing are starting to show their age a bit, their verbal antics retain a comic spark more than half a century later and make it an easy recommendation. [review]

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Matt Hough Absolutely Anything DVD Review With a cast that boasts the likes of the usually reliably funny Simon Pegg, American comedian Rob Riggle, the voice of Robin Williams, and the surviving members of Monty Python, Terry Jones’ Absolutely Anything should have been a lot funnier and a...