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: “Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire” The last Godzilla/King Kong team-up movie was such a lifeless mess that it wouldn’t take much to improve upon it, and in that regard, “Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire” is a success. But while the kaiju action is definitely more exciting this time around, it still suffers from some painfully boring human characters (save for…

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: “Anatomy of a Fall” “Anatomy of a Fall” isn’t just one of the best films of 2023 — it’s one of the best films of the past decade and fully deserving of the Criterion treatment. An engrossing courtroom drama that holds you in its grip for the entirety of its 151-minute runtime, “Anatomy of a Fall” is unique in that it never…

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: “American Hustle” During the early 2010s, there wasn’t a hotter filmmaker around than David O. Russell thanks to movies like “The Fighter,” “Silver Linings Playbook” and this con-artist caper loosely based on the Abscam scandal. But while those other two films are both great, “American Hustle” might just be the best of Russell’s career — an immensely entertaining, impeccably structured dramedy that…

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: “Dune: Part Two” “Dune: Part Two” is a frustrating movie, if only because much of the plot feels more like setup for a future installment than the conclusion it was meant to be. Clocking in at nearly three hours, the film is entirely too long and suffers from many of the same issues as its predecessor. That movie at least had an…

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 Crow” Based on the 1989 comic book series of the same name, “The Crow” may have only been a modest hit when it was originally released in 1994, but it’s since become a cult classic that has spawned several sequels and even a short-lived TV series. However, the movie will forever be haunted (and defined) by the tragic on-set death 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: “Andor: The Complete First Season” “Rogue One” is arguably the best “Star Wars” movie to be made under the Disney banner, so it’s certainly fitting that this prequel series from Tony Gilroy also happens to be one of the best “Star Wars” TV shows to date. A tense and gritty political thriller about the birth of the Rebellion, “Andor” takes a decidedly…

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 Departed” It’s hard to believe that some people think “The Departed” is one of Martin Scorsese’s lesser films because it has everything that you’d expect from a classic Scorsese movie. Though it’s based on existing source material (the 2002 Hong Kong thriller “Infernal Affairs”), “The Departed” manages to distinguish itself as its own animal thanks to some stark cultural differences 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: “Monster” It may not have been selected as Japan’s official submission for Best International Feature at this year’s Academy Awards, but director Kore-eda Hirokazu’s twisty, “Rashomon”-style drama is a really solid film. Though it starts out as a tale about a single mother who discovers that her son’s strange behavior is the result of a bullying teacher at school, as “Monster” slowly…

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: “Wednesday: Season One” Alfred Gough and Miles Miller have previous experience with taking an existing IP and turning it into a successful teen drama (“Smallville”), so the duo’s Gen Z reimagining of “The Addams Family” should come as no surprise. The show itself is a bit of a mixed bag. Though it starts out as an obnoxiously one-note high school drama that…

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: “Aliens” It’s hard to choose my favorite James Cameron film, but 1986’s “Aliens” is in the Top 3, as it’s the rare sequel that’s better than its predecessor. “Aliens” is bigger, meaner and scarier than the 1979 original, improving upon the premise in every way. Though it takes about an hour for things to really kick off, once the bodies start piling…