Welcome to another look at highlights arriving on Blu-ray and DVD. There’s some really interesting stuff including lots of family entertainment, independent features and critical hits. 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!

Ana - Set in Puerto Rico, this comedy/drama follows a broke used car dealer who discovers a 9-year-old girl sleeping in the back of one of his vehicles. Learning that her mother has just been arrested, the salesman decides to help her locate her long-lost father. His kind-hearted choice may also have something to do with avoiding dangerous persons to whom he owes money. This...

Delivers a few THRILLS, CHILLS

Rating: ««« out of ««««

Running Time: 124 minutes

It has been 123 years H.G. Wells’ The Invisible Man hit bookshelves and 87 years since the first of many cinematic adaptations. The latest arrives at theaters this week. It’s an impossible task to outdo the original classic, so the newest version tries a different approach to the material, focusing not so much on the titular character as it does on a woman he happens to be terrorizing. While not all of it works, the film makes an effort to distinguish itself and offers a few thrills and chills.

Cecilia Kass (Elisabeth Moss) is the withdrawn and abused wife of obsessive optics genius Adrian...

Welcome back to another look at highlights arriving on Blu-ray and DVD. There’s plenty of great stuff coming your way that should have every member of the family covered. 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!

Can’t Kill This - This comedy/horror co-production between Italy and France has an alternate title that cannot be typed in full on this page (for those who are curious, it’s called, F**k You Immortality). The story is about a pair of aging hippies who are searching for a reclusive old friend who has been cursed with a very strange condition. He hasn’t been able to age a day since the...

Dependence on CGI feels false

Rating: «« out of ««««

Running Time: 100 minutes

The written work of Jack London has been celebrated for more than 100 years, with some of his most popular stories set in the Yukon where he once traveled and lived. His naturalist fiction loosely based on his experiences strove to detail both the beauty and harshness of the wild and all lifeforms who either live there or are drawn to it. His work has been adapted into film a few times over the years and the latest attempt is The Call of the Wild, which uses new technology to tell its story. While advancements have no doubt assisted the filmmakers in accomplishing some of the trickier aspects of...