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When the neon glow of the mid-1980s “Brat Pack” era began to dim, its brightest young stars were forced to seek out darker, more complicated roles to prove their staying power. Fresh Horses (1988) represents one of the most fascinating, if ultimately uneven, attempts at this transition. Directed by David Anspaugh, who was riding high off the triumphant […]
Ah yes, the timeless tale of the white man struggling to fit in. Forget sweeping epics! American Yakuza zeroes in on a far more specific dilemma! What happens when all-American Nick, equipped with a forklift and a murky past, tries to blend into the Japanese mob? How will Nick respond when his fellow yakuza gleefully […]
Arrow Video’s February Slate Features Japanese Mobsters, an All-Star Cult Classic, a High-Tech Nightmare, and the Legend of King Arthur! Westworld, The Visitor, and Excalibur Make Their Global 4K UHD Premiers, and American Yakuza Arrives on Blu-ray!
Another holiday season, another brand new Lord Of The Rings box set home video release. Last year saw both The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit trilogies debut on the 4K Ultra-HD Blu-ray format. This year, the Midde-Earth 31-Disc Ultimate Collector’s Edition arrives with an upgrade in packaging, some physical swag and a new […]
Just in time for the holiday shopping season, Warner Bros has lay upon us one of the finest motion picture trilogies of all time as Peter Jackson’s The Lord of the Rings: The Motion Picture Trilogy is bestowed upon us. There have been strategies as to how this movies have been rolled out on both […]
Where do I even begin here? I categorically knew nothing at all about this movie going in. All I knew is Why So Blu reviewers Aaron Neuwirth and Gregg Senko liked it. Aaron who can usually peg what he calls “Brian Movies” declared several months ago that this indeed is one of those. Therefore, since […]
Back with more films from 2018 new and old counting down to the end of the year and those highly anticipated Top Ten lists. This week sees three new outings, an exclusive single night director’s cut and a couple of notables that film folks have been chatting up all on the critical chopping block. Tales […]
We’re so close to the Sept. 13 release date of the five-star doc De Palma on Blu-ray that there’s already a distinctive smell of candid cinema chatter in the air. (Just look to Brandon Peters’ very cool recent Raising Cain Blu-ray review for firm evidence!) And speaking of honest talk about films, let’s hop onto yet […]
Comic-Con and Star Trek stories may be dominating this weekend, but that doesn’t mean the indie film scene is lying low. We’re taking a gander at a whopping six new films that provide film fans more options. From dramas to docs, zombies to steampunks, we’re checking out a wide range of interesting and out there […]
Witness is finally making its debut in the US on Blu-ray. Its been available in other countries for quite some time now. Another one of those films that just seems so surprising that its taken so long to put out. Not only is it a Harrison Ford film, but Peter Weir is no slouch in […]
Screenwriter Hossein Amini makes a stylish directing debut with this sleek thriller set in Greece and Istanbul, 1962. Intrigue begins at the Parthenon when wealthy American tourists Chester MacFarland (Viggo Mortensen) and his young wife Collete (Kirsten Dunst) meet American expat Rydal (Oscar Isaac), a scammer working as a tour guide. Instead of becoming his latest […]
Magnolia Home Entertainment is releasing the fantastic thriller The Two Faces of January as well as the critically acclaimed horrorThe Honeymoon on Blu-ray and DVD January 13. More information about these titles can be found below. . . . . . .
The month-long horror wishlist continues with the Sawyers! . . . . .
Warner Brothers is celebrating its landmark 90th anniversary with a year-long initiative to release seven new major home entertainment collections. The campaign’s flagship release, The Best of Warner Bros. 100 Film DVD Collection, showcases 100 movies from the studio’s historic, hallowed archives — the largest film library in the world. The limited and numbered box […]
I am super busy these days, but there are a certain number of films that I could not pass up when it came to checking them out on Blu-ray, at my own leisure, in the comfort of my own home. The following list is set of films that I consider to be some of the […]
So now that we have left the summer movie season behind (a recap featuring the Why So Blu crew’s top picks can be found HERE), it is time to get into the big fall releases. There are a lot of great looking releases on their way, including both “prestige” level films as well as those […]
“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.” – Edmund Burke At last, we sadly come to the end. Third acts in movie franchises have historically been weaker than the movies that preceded them. There are rare exceptions to that but if you think about movies like […]
After the critical and commercial success of The Fellowship of the Ring, the expectations were higher for The Two Towers. For Peter Jackson and crew, The Two Towers was the hardest movie to make out of the three because when their script was changed from two movies (as originally intended) to three, some major changes […]