It's impossible to re-create at home the wholly immersive experience of 2013's Oscar-winning "Gravity." However, Tuesday's newly re-released Blu-ray comes closest — bringing a long out-of-print Dolby Atmos track and additional features into a more affordable orbit.
Longtime "Planet of the Apes" aficionado Lou Harry and Nick Rogers (whose less-fortunate introduction was Tim Burton's boondoggle) talk the 10th overall film in the series — "Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes," now in theaters.
A bad film, but it's the right level of straightforward bad that feels like a benchmark for the genre. "Madame Web," the misbegotten Spider-Man spinoff, hits Blu-ray.
Essentially "The Nice Guys" with studio notes, "The Fall Guy" is a vivid and vibrant valentine to Hollywood's stunt community, another charm machine for Ryan Gosling and Emily Blunt, and a fun kickoff to 2024's summer-movie season.
In conjunction with the forthcoming 25th anniversary of its release, "Star Wars: Episode I — The Phantom Menace" will be re-released in theaters this weekend. Here is Evan Dossey's original essay on "The Phantom Menace," republished from 2019.
Amazon Prime Video's sturdy four-season adaptation of Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan character comes to 4K UHD Blu-ray, and it's a stunning, must-own set for fans that surpasses the streaming presentation in every way.
A Murder of Crowes — Midwest Film Journal's monthlong celebration of actor Russell Crowe — concludes with Nick Rogers' reflection on 2003's "Master & Commander: The Far Side of the World."
A Murder of Crowes — Midwest Film Journal's monthlong celebration of actor Russell Crowe — continues with Matt Hurt's essay on the 2007 remake of "3:10 to Yuma." Here, Crowe is key to the film's exploration of masculinity and the fragility therein.
Coming Around Again — an occasional series in which the writer reconsiders a film that didn't work for them the first time around — returns with Nick Rogers' revisit of 2004's "Kill Bill, Vol. 2." It also doubles as Rogers' "Class of ... " retrospective title for April.
Going berserk with the best of them, "Boy Kills World" creates a balls-to-the-wall experience that, while it won't please everyone, does the trick quite nicely for those who would seek out its basest, blood-soaked charms.
A Murder of Crowes — Midwest Film Journal's monthlong celebration of actor Russell Crowe — continues with Evan Dossey's look back at one of his first big Hollywood efforts, 1995's "Virtuosity."
A driftless spy thriller that smooths down its sharpest edges into dopey romance and screamy nonsense. George Roy Hill's 1984 adaptation of John le Carré's "The Little Drummer Girl" at least offers a solid A/V presentation on Blu-ray.
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