Author: Jason Zingale

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: “Dragons Forever” It’s somewhat ironic that the third film to star the martial arts trio known as the Three Dragons (Jackie Chan, Sammo Hung and Yuen Biao) is titled “Dragons Forever” since they would never work together again. The movie plays like a breakup album of sorts, as their characters spend almost the entire film fighting one another, eventually joining forces before…

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: “Black Adam” Dwayne Johnson has made such a big deal about his arrival in the DC cinematic universe that you’d think all these years of development were spent making something truly special. In reality, “Black Adam” is an exhaustingly derivative superhero flick that isn’t much of a movie at all; there’s very little character development, while the barebones story is just 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: “The Banshees of Inisherin” Writer/director Martin McDonagh’s latest film is one of the best-reviewed movies of the year, but while there’s quite a bit to like on a performance level, the story itself is pretty ludicrous, both in the reasoning for its central conflict and the eventual escalation between the two parties. That may very well be the point — after all,…

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 Woman King” If the real-life female warriors at the center of Gina Prince-Bythewood’s “The Woman King” seem awfully familiar, it’s because they served as the inspiration for the Dora Milaje, the all-woman military guard who first appeared in Christopher Priest’s “Black Panther” comics in the late ‘90s and who played a pivotal role in Ryan Coogler’s film of the same name.…

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: “Pulp Fiction” If “Reservoir Dogs” is the movie that put Quentin Tarantino on the map, then “Pulp Fiction” is the film that made him a household name. Though it’s a much bigger movie — in size, scope and ambition — it shares many of the same technical and thematic elements of his directorial debut. “Reservoir Dogs” arguably has the snappier dialogue, but…

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: “Don’t Worry Darling” “Don’t Worry Darling” received so much bad press in the leadup to (and after) its worldwide premiere at the Venice Film Festival that you’d think it was a Nazi propaganda film. The reality is that actor-turned-director Olivia Wilde’s sophomore feature is such a middling affair that it honestly wasn’t worth all the attention. Though the movie builds some decent…

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: “Planes, Trains and Automobiles” Writer/director John Hughes is responsible for some of the greatest comedies of the last 40 years, and for my money, this 1987 comedy starring Steve Martin and John Candy is his finest work. It’s hard to believe that the two actors only ever made one film together because they’re perfectly matched as the traveling odd couple — Martin…

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: “Three Thousand Years of Longing” It’s not unusual for director George Miller to take long breaks in between projects — over the course of his 43-year career, he’s directed only 10 feature films — but it’s still surprising that it took him seven years to get another movie off the ground after the critical and commercial success of “Mad Max: Fury Road.”…

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: “Casablanca” There’s not much to be said about Michael Curtiz’s 1942 wartime drama that hasn’t already been covered in the 80 years since its release, but suffice it to say that it’s considered one of the greats for a reason, and it looks better than ever thanks to this newly remastered and restored 4K edition. Released shortly after the United States reluctantly…

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: “Top Gun: Maverick” Tom Cruise might be the last real movie star on the planet. His dedication to making massive, spectacle-driven blockbusters — the kind best experienced with an audience on the big screen — is something to be admired. He really seems to care, and it shows, perhaps no more so than in this decades-in-the-making sequel to the 1986 original. Though…