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Blu-Ray Pick of the Week: Extra Ordinary

Possessed cheese is a thing. At least it is according to “Extra Ordinary,” a comedy from Ireland about a driving instructor named Rose Dooley (Maeve Higgins) who also has the gift to communicate with ghosts. “Gift” though, is the wrong word.

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Blu-Ray Pick of the Week: The Invisible Man

It’s been standard for a while for modestly budgeted motion pictures to use Toronto, Ontario, as a stand in for New York. The city structure, climate, and architecture are close enough to make it believable. As of “The Invisible Man,” we can add another replacement city to the list.

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Blu-Ray Pick of the Week: Onward

The 3D animated movies made by Pixar look good—really good. They’ve been impressing audiences with their depth of field, light and shadow, and their own rules of physics for the past twenty-five years. This is great, but they also have not changed much in that time.

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Blu-Ray Pick of the Week: The Call of the Wild

If a movie like “The Call of the Wild” doesn’t give you a hankering to see the Alaska and the Yukon territory in Canada, nothing will.

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Blu-Ray Pick of the Week: Gretel And Hansel

Looking up director Osgood Perkins (son of Anthony Perkins of “Psycho” fame, for those keeping score of such things) on IMDB, I discovered that he started his directing career in 2015. This is because most of his credits are as an actor under the name Oz Perkins.

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Blu-Ray Pick of the Week: Guns Akimbo

It is mostly by reading that I acquire new words to my vocabulary. Movies have taught me some words, but those have mostly been from higher-brow scripts. I don’t think that many will argue that writer-director Jason Lei Howden’s latest movie, “Guns Akimbo,” about a man named Miles who has pistols bolted to his hands, is high-brow.
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Blu-Ray Pick of the Week: The Gentlemen

“The Gentlemen” is one of those ironic titles. It’s about a group of men—and one woman—who are anything but gentle. Sure, the men look the part with their posh, well-tailored suits and hats. Each is a dandy who dresses well enough to blend in with the upper crust of London society.
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Blu-Ray Pick of the Week: Just Mercy

I sometimes think if modern society had a polytheistic religious structure like those of our ancient ancestors, there would be a god of movies. This god would, for the most part, be a lazy, unimaginative lout who cared more about appealing to the basest nature of the movie-going masses than providing them with nourishment for the soul.
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Blu-Ray Pick of the Week: Dolittle

I predict that in fifteen to twenty years, “Dolittle” will be remembered fondly as a classic. The how and why is because this movie delivers exactly what it needs to deliver for its target audience: Boys aged 7 to 12.
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The Current War

The last names of the chief players in “The Current War” are ones we know today: Edison and Westinghouse. Edison is of course Thomas Edison. As played by Benedict Cumberbatch from the script by Michael Mitnick and direction by Alfonso Gomez-Rejon, the man is a fiercely competitive titan of industry…
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The Etruscan Smile

“The Etruscan Smile” opens with Brian Cox, one of the great character actors of our time, enjoying a naked morning swim in the chilly shores of Scotland. It’s not exactly an image audiences have been clamoring to see, but the fact that it’s obviously cold, and his character doesn’t react at all to the cold, says a lot…
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The Call of The Wild

Ah, the great outdoors. The cool, crisp air, the crunch of the snow beneath your feet, the beauty of a sunset beyond the mountains at the end of a perfect day. To be sure, one thing “The Call of the Wild” does well is embrace its location, the beatific Yukon territory of Alaska circa the 1890s…
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Sonic The Hedgehog

“Sonic The Hedgehog” is inspired by one of the most popular video game franchises ever created. Its central premise follows Sonic, a blue hedgehog, who’s extraordinarily fast. For a film adaptation, one might presume director Jeff Fowler would take us on…
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1917

The entire 118-minute film looks like it was done in one long take, which heightens the sense of urgency and suspense. It’s one of the best films of 2019, and certainly the most technically impressive.

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