Welcome to another look at some of the highlights arriving on 4K Ultra HD, Blu-ray and DVD. This is a slower week, but there are still a couple of notable pictures coming your way. So, if you can’t make it out to the movies this week, or need to stay indoors for a few days, be sure to give one of these titles a try!

BIG NEW RELEASES!



CALIGULA: THE ULTIMATE CUT: Curiously enough, one of the week’s biggest releases is a film that was shot 48 years ago. In 1976, Tinto Brass shot an expensive biopic written by Gore Vidal about the Roman emperor Caligula.



It begins during his childhood when the title character’s family is murdered. He survives and over time slowly rises in...

Rating: 3 out of 4 stars

Running Time: 104 minutes

This animated feature from Paramount Pictures opens exclusively at theaters on Friday, Sept. 20.

I’m aging myself here, but as a child I will admit to being a fan of the Hasbro “Transformers” toy line (most kids of the 1980s were). In addition to the popular cartoon T.V. series right around the height of their popularity, the following years saw a 1986 animated feature and, starting in 2007, a live-action series of blockbusters. Honestly, those recent efforts did little to impress me. The visual effects were impressive, but the stories were nonsensical at times with little within them to grab and engage me as an adult viewer....

Welcome to another look at some of the highlights arriving on 4K Ultra HD, Blu-ray and DVD. Last week was slow due to the holiday, which means that it’s time for a much busier edition with several notable efforts. So, if you can’t make it out to the movies this week or need to stay indoors for a couple of days, be sure to give one of these titles a try!

BIG NEW RELEASES!



ALL OF US STRANGERS: A T.V. writer living in a nearly empty downtown London condo meets a neighbor and begins a relationship with him. As they share details about their pasts, the lead also decides to travel to the suburbs and visit his parents. Oddly enough, they look exactly as they did some 30 years earlier. It...

Rating: 3 out of 4 stars

Running Time: 110 Minutes

This feature from Universal Pictures and Blumhouse Productions opened in theaters on Friday, Sept. 13.

Believe it or not, the new film Speak No Evil is actually a remake of a very popular and critically lauded 2022 Danish film. It even won awards in its homeland. This information gave this reviewer the impression that this redo might be more of an arthouse thriller than a chiller. As it turns out, that assumption couldn’t be further from the truth. This film is a disturbing effort that fully embraces fear and terror as it reveals itself.

When quiet American couple Louise Dalton (Mackenzie Davis) and husband Ben (Scoot McNairy)...