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Blu-Ray Pick of the Week: Unhinged

“The New Mutants” is also new to Blu-Ray this week. Unhinged The city that serves as the backdrop for “Unhinged” is one populated by extensive freeway congestion, aggressively hostile drivers, and an infrastructure that’s described as a confusing mass of spaghetti...

Blu-Ray Pick of the Week: Bill & Ted Face the Music

“The Last Dance” is also new to Blu-Ray this week. Bill & Ted Face the Music “Bill & Ted Face the Music” does what the last movie in any good trilogy does: It refers back to the previous movies, comes full circle, and ties up loose story points. As we know...

Blu-Ray Pick of the Week: The Shepherd of the Hills

“Antebellum” is also new to Blu-Ray this week. The Shepherd of the Hills The sight of a young, trim, virile John Wayne wearing a big brim hat and brandishing a Winchester repeater could easily lead anyone to think that 1941’s “The Shepherd of the Hills” is a western....

Blu-Ray Pick of the Week: The Ipcress File

“Friendsgiving” is also new to Blu-Ray this week. The Ipcress File Given that “The Ipcress File” is a British spy movie from 1965, it’s best to answer the burning question first: How does Harry Palmer (Michael Caine) compare to that other famous British spy whose...

Blu-Ray Pick of the Week: Haunt

“Tremors: Shrieker Island” is also new to Blu-Ray this week. Haunt I appreciate “Haunt,” a movie about an extreme haunted house, for being scary in the same way that haunted houses themselves are scary. There is a wide variety of settings, and each of those settings...

Blu-Ray Pick of the Week: El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie

“Batman: Death in the Family” is also new to Blu-Ray this week. El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie I have to admit to approaching “El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie” with hesitation and trepidation. This is due to the fact that I hold the television series “Breaking Bad”...