Author: Jason Zingale

Blu Tuesday is a weekly column where we review the newest home video releases, along with a rundown of the included extras, to determine whether they’re worth buying, renting or skipping. Pick of the Week: “Masters of the Universe” Director Travis Knight is responsible for arguably the best live-action Transformers movie to date, so it makes sense why Mattel would entrust him with the big-screen adaptation of its own popular toy line. But while Knight delivers what is probably the best version of a live-action He-Man movie (and certainly better than the 1987 cult classic), it’s still a pretty hit-and-miss…

Blu Tuesday is a weekly column where we review the newest Blu-ray and 4K releases, along with a brief rundown of the included bonus material, to determine whether they’re worth buying, renting or skipping. Pick of the Week: “Little Shop of Horrors” Frank Oz’s 1986 adaptation of the Howard Ashman/Alan Menken Off-Broadway musical may have a dedicated cult following, but it’s hardly a movie that was screaming out for a 4K release. To be fair, “Little Shop of Horrors” has never been my cup of tea, but it does contain some catchy songs (courtesy of future Disney legends Ashman and…

Blu Tuesday is a weekly column where we review the newest Blu-ray and 4K releases, along with a brief rundown of the included bonus material, to determine whether they’re worth buying, renting or skipping. Pick of the Week: “Go” Following the success of “Pulp Fiction,” the late ‘90s and early ‘00s were flooded with a wave of nonlinear, perspective-shifting crime indies trying to replicate Quentin Tarantino’s trademark style. Most of the would-be copycats came and went with little fanfare, but this 1999 crime comedy from Doug Liman (“Swingers”) is one of the few films to successfully imitate the Tarantino formula…

Blu Tuesday is a weekly column where we review the newest Blu-ray and 4K releases, along with a brief rundown of the included bonus material, to determine whether they’re worth buying, renting or skipping. Pick of the Week: “Interview With the Vampire” Neil Jordan’s 1994 adaptation of the Anne Rice bestselling novel was pretty successful upon its release, so it’s surprising that the movie never received a proper sequel with the original cast. With that said, the film hasn’t aged particularly well over the past two decades, with many of its flaws made only more evident in that time. The…

Blu Tuesday is a weekly column where we review the newest Blu-ray and 4K releases, along with a brief rundown of the included bonus material, to determine whether they’re worth buying, renting or skipping. Pick of the Week: “Minions & Monsters” The “Minions” movies have never quite lived up to the “Despicable Me” films, mainly because the spinoff franchise feels more like a cash grab designed to sell merch and theme park tickets than anything of actual substance. The films lack the emotional core of the main series, and the chaos-loving creatures are just more effective in supporting roles. With…

Blu Tuesday is a weekly column where we review the newest Blu-ray and 4K releases, along with a brief rundown of the included bonus material, to determine whether they’re worth buying, renting or skipping. Pick of the Week: “The Sheep Detectives” It would be easy to dismiss “The Sheep Detectives” as nothing more than a cutesy animal movie based solely on the plot synopsis, but that would be a mistake because it’s actually a charming murder-mystery comedy — think “Knives Out” meets “Babe” — that balances its lighthearted premise with some surprising emotional depth. Based on the 2005 novel “Three…

Blu Tuesday is a weekly column where we review the newest Blu-ray and 4K releases, along with a brief rundown of the included bonus material, to determine whether they’re worth buying, renting or skipping. Pick of the Week: “Troy” Wolfgang Petersen’s “Troy” got a pretty bad rap when it debuted in 2004, but public opinion has softened over time, and it’s gained a respectable cult following in the ensuing years. Though its deviations from the source material remain a major sticking point among fans of Homer’s “The Iliad,” if you can forgive the many changes within David Benioff’s script, there’s…

Blu Tuesday is a weekly column where we review the newest Blu-ray and 4K releases, along with a brief rundown of the included bonus material, to determine whether they’re worth buying, renting or skipping. Pick of the Week: “Project Hail Mary” Ridley Scott’s “The Martian” was my favorite film of 2015, so it shouldn’t come as much of a surprise that “Project Hail Mary” (also based on a novel by Andy Weir and adapted for the screen by Drew Goddard) has captured my heart in much the same way. Directed by Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, who prove that they…

Blu Tuesday is a weekly column where we review the newest Blu-ray and 4K releases, along with a brief rundown of the included bonus material, to determine whether they’re worth buying, renting or skipping. Pick of the Week: “Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby” Much like Will Ferrell and Adam McKay’s other collaborations, “Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby” takes an “everything but the kitchen sink” approach to its comedy, where an endless barrage of jokes and visual gags is thrown at the screen to see what sticks. The stuff that works is very funny, but there’s a…

Blu Tuesday is a weekly column where we review the newest Blu-ray and 4K releases, along with a brief rundown of the included bonus material, to determine whether they’re worth buying, renting or skipping. Pick of the Week: “Is God Is” Based on the 2018 Off-Broadway play of the same name by Aleshea Harris, this Southern Gothic revenge thriller is one of the more unique directorial debuts in recent memory. Though the story itself isn’t all that original, the way it’s told certainly is, blending elements of Greek tragedy with grindhouse cinema to create a confident and bold genre film…