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: “Bill & Ted Face the Music” Fans of the “Bill & Ted” movies have been waiting nearly 30 years for another installment in the sci-fi comedy franchise, and quite frankly, it’s a miracle that it happened at all. Perhaps even more miraculous is that the film doesn’t totally suck. In fact, it’s better than 1991’s “Bill & Ted’s Bogus Journey” and serves…

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: “Game of Thrones: The Complete Collection” Hating on “Game of Thrones” may be popular these days, but it remains one of the best shows in modern TV history thanks to its exciting storytelling, incredible performances, stunning visuals and show-stopping moments. There aren’t many shows capable of captivating the attention of so many different types of viewers, but that’s what made “Game of…

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: “Parasite” Director Bong Joon-ho’s genre-defying film is every bit as excellent as its reputation suggests, masterfully balancing several different tones to tell its dark and socially conscious tale of class warfare. The movie is constantly evolving. Just when you think it’s headed in one direction, with the poor but wily Kim family spinning their web of deceit and slowly integrating themselves into…

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: “Quiz” In September 2001, Charles Ingram defied the odds by winning the top prize on the British edition of “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?,” though his victory was short-lived after the show’s producers accused him, his wife and alleged co-conspirator Tecwen Whittock of cheating. Based on the play by James Graham, this three-part miniseries from director Stephen Frears recounts the origins…

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: “District 9” Neill Blomkamp’s “District 9” is not only one of the coolest and most original sci-fi films of all-time, but it’s hands-down one of the best directorial debuts of the past 20 years. The fact that this CGI-heavy film was made for only $30 million is ridiculously impressive, as it looks better than most Hollywood movies that cost three or four…

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: “300” Zack Snyder’s 2004 remake of “Dawn of the Dead” may have put him on the map, but it’s “300” that made him the filmmaker he is today. While not quite his best work, Snyder’s faithful adaptation of the Frank Miller graphic novel is where his trademark visual style really began to take shape, and those visuals look even more impressive on…

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: “Whiplash” Damien Chazelle’s sophomore effort is a gripping, electrifying and brutally unrelenting thriller that draws you in from the very first beat of the drum and never lets go — a freight train of intensity and emotion that leaves you breathless and your heart still pounding when it’s over. “Whiplash” is not only one of the best films of the past decade,…

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 Alfred Hitchcock Classics Collection” 2020 has been an awful year, but it’s about to get a little better with the release of this new collection featuring some of Alfred Hitchcock’s best and most iconic movies, including “Rear Window,” “Vertigo,” “Psycho” and “The Birds.” Though it would have been nice if Universal offered each film individually — at this point, only “Psycho”…

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: “Sherlock Holmes” / “Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows” Guy Ritchie may not have been the most popular choice to direct a big-screen reboot of the Sherlock Holmes franchise, but he proved his doubters wrong with this immensely entertaining action-adventure film that reimagines Arthur Conan Doyle’s famous detective for modern audiences. The dialogue snaps and the action sparkles in all the ways you’d expect…

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 Trip to Greece” If it wasn’t already obvious from the first three installments of Michael Winterbottom’s “The Trip” series, actors Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon are very good friends — and they would have to be after spending this much time together doing nothing else but pushing each other’s buttons. But while they may be playing exaggerated versions of themselves as…