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DVD/Blu-ray Roundup for Oct. 26, 2018

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Welcome back to another look at highlights arriving on Blu-ray and DVD. There’s a really big blockbuster coming your way, as well as a few intriguing independent films. So if you can’t make it out to the movies this week, be sure to give one of these titles a try!


Big New Releases!

I Think We’re Alone Now –...

‘First Man’ is great in space…Yet the human drama doesn’t reach same heights

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Running Time: 141 minutes

Most people know of astronaut Neil Armstrong as the first person to step foot on the moon. However, less are aware of the incredible work and dedication it took to get there. Director Damien Chazelle (La La Land, Whiplash) chronicles the man’s story in the biopic, First Man. The film expertly recreates the tension and peril that all of these explorers face as they head into the sky.

Sadly, the human drama isn’t nearly as engrossing.

The movie begins, following Armstrong (Ryan Gosling) as an aerospace engineer already engaged in testing equipment. After his young daughter succumbs to weakened health following a brain tumor...

‘The Hate U Give’ is a must-see for young adults

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Running Time: 132 minutes

By now, we’ve come to expect certain common themes and subject matter in young adult film adaptations. In fact, so many are dystopian science-fiction dramas that many of them fuse together, at least in my mind.

The Hate U Give takes a very different approach, dealing with real, topical and at times, shocking subject matter. It’s also remarkably effective and stands out as a picture that teenagers would be well advised to see.

The story revolves around Starr Carter (Amandla Stenberg), a 16-year-old black girl who travels from her home in a low-class community to a high school in an upper-class, mostly white...

DVD/Blu-ray Roundup for Oct. 19, 2018

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Welcome back to another look at highlights arriving on Blu-ray and DVD. There are some really big blockbusters arriving, as well as plenty of intriguing independent films. So if you can’t make it out to the movies this week, be sure to give one of these titles a try!

Big New Releases!

Ant-Man and the Wasp - The latest Marvel superhero movie to hit the streets is a sequel that continues the adventures of Ant-Man. While under house arrest, the character is contacted by his old compatriots to help them on a new mission involving inter-dimensional travel. He must avoid bad guys and the police in order to save his friends. Reaction was very positive towards this effort. A...

‘Bad Times at the El Royale’ builds suspense, but ends up crumbling

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Running Time: 141 minutes

A few years back, writer/director/producer Drew Goddard surprised many a critic with The Cabin in the Woods, a freaky and fun deconstruction of the horror genre, jesting at its many tropes and why audiences enjoy them so much.

Bad Times at the El Royale certainly feels like the work of the same filmmaker, experimenting with narrative timelines and attempting to build suspense by revealing small pieces of information instead of directly spelling out what and why things are occurring.

All of the events unfold at El Royale motel near Lake Tahoe, situated on the border of California and Nevada (with a running state line visible...

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