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: “Bumblebee” After more than a decade of subpar “Transformers” movies that have progressively gotten worse under the direction of Michael Bay, leave it to Laika CEO Travis Knight (making his live-action directorial debut) to deliver the tune-up that the franchise desperately needed. Though “Bumblebee” is by no means perfect, it does a good job of balancing the robot mayhem — the opening sequence…

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: “Stan & Ollie” Jon S. Baird’s biopic of the legendary comedy duo Laurel and Hardy may have gotten lost in the awards season shuffle, but it’s a sweet, sad little film about the pair’s 1953 tour of the United Kingdom as they struggled to stay relevant amid the changing cinematic landscape. Steve Coogan and John C. Reilly are both quite good as…

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: “Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse” Audiences may have to wait a while until they see someone other than Peter Parker donning the mask in a live-action Spider-Man film, but for fans of Miles Morales and diversity in general, “Into the Spider-Verse” is an incredibly satisfying animated adventure that pushes the limits of what can be done in the superhero genre. The unique visual…

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: “Green Book” By far one of the most divisive Best Picture winners in recent Academy Awards history, “Green Book” may not be fully deserving of cinema’s highest honor, but the criticisms lobbied against it by Film Twitter were exaggerated to say the least. Though the movie’s watered-down depiction of racism in 1960s America prevents it from being anything other than a surface-level…

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 Favourite” This wickedly funny costume drama from Greek satirist Yorgos Lanthimos wouldn’t normally be my cup of tea, but it boasts a trio of incredible, multilayered performances from Olivia Colman, Emma Stone and Rachel Weisz, who elevate the sharp, acid-tongued dialogue beyond just a few belly laughs. Colman has the juicier role as the emotionally needy Queen Anne, but for my…

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: “Ralph Breaks the Internet” Disney’s follow-up to the 2012 hit film, “Wreck-It Ralph,” may not be as good as its smart and witty predecessor, but it’s still a mostly entertaining sequel that manages to avoid feeling like a complete retread — at least until the final act. Though many of the supporting characters have been pushed aside in favor of expanding the universe,…

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: “A Star Is Born” Bradley Cooper’s rendition of “A Star Is Born” may be Hollywood’s fourth version of the iconic love story (most closely resembling the 1976 film starring Barbara Streisand and Kris Kristofferson), but it’s arguably the best one yet. It was certainly an audacious choice for Cooper’s directorial debut, and though it’s not perfect by any means, the actor turned…

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: “Bohemian Rhapsody” After being stuck in development hell for the better part of the last decade and then dogged by on-set drama involving director Bryan Singer during production, it’s amazing that this film got made at all. “Bohemian Rhapsody” is by no means the definitive version of Queen’s story, but it’s a rousing albeit sanitized look behind the scenes of one 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: “Widows” Director Steve McQueen isn’t the kind of filmmaker that you’d expect to make a movie like “Widows,” but while it might look like a studio heist film on the surface, it’s actually a fairly unconventional take on the genre that brings an arthouse sensibility to the proceedings. It’s also unique in the way that it goes about telling its story, focusing…

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: “Suspiria” Luca Guadagnino’s “Suspiria” is more of a reimagining than a straight-up remake of the 1977 cult classic from Italian horror director Dario Argento, and in many ways, that works in the film’s favor because it allows the movie to exist as its own thing. Boasting solid performances from Dakota Johnson and Tilda Swinton, as well as some really great sequences (including…