Lectures For Lifelong Learners!

Blu-ray pick of the week: cloak and dagger

“The Devil You Know” is also new to Blu-Ray this week. Cloak and Dagger One of the silver linings of getting older is obtaining the sense of what was important to you as a child. The test is a simple one. Ask yourself: How fondly do you remember it? Then if the answer...

Blu-Ray pick of the week: The batman

“X” is also new to Blu-Ray this week. The Batman As a genre, superhero movies tend to have a lot in common with each other. They’re all stories about heroic (or sometimes anti-heroic) crusaders (sometimes caped and sometimes not) with dual identities (sometimes secret...

Blu-Ray pick of the week: Licorice pizza

“Infinite” is also new to Blu-Ray this week. Licorice Pizza Writer-director Paul Thomas Anderson revisits two of his favorite subjects—the 1970s and California’s San Fernando Valley—in “Licorice Pizza,” a movie that, as far as I observed, featured neither licorice nor...

Blu-Ray Pick of the week: Uncharted

“Dog” is also new to Blu-Ray this week. Uncharted Nintendo has Mario. Sega has Sonic. Microsoft has Master Chief. Sony, for their video game console Play Station, has Nathan Drake, protagonist in their numerous “Uncharted” games. So who better than good ole reliable...

Blu-Ray pick of the week: Turning Red

“Blacklight” is also new to Blu-Ray this week. Turning Red Sometimes I like being wrong. When Disney/Pixar’s animated feature “Turning Red” first begins we’re introduced to thirteen-year-old Meilin (voice of Rosalie Chiang) and I thought she was going to be...

Blu-Ray pick of the week: ‘Round Midnight

“Moonfall” is also new to Blu-Ray this week. ‘Round Midnight Bertrand Tavernier, the director and co-writer of 1986’s “’Round Midnight,” imbues the movie with a visual style and pacing reflective of its main character, Dale Turner (Dexter Gordon), as well as its...