Lectures For Lifelong Learners!

Blu-Ray Pick of the week: Cyrano

“V/H/S 94” is also new to Blu-Ray this week. Cyrano The reason great classics endure the tests of time and place is because they have a universal appeal to which all peoples, in all times and places, can relate. At the heart of these classics is typically a...

blu-ray pick of the week: Spider-man: No way home

“C’mon C’mon” is also new to Blu-Ray this week. Spider-Man: No Way Home One of the appeals of virtuous superheroes is how they can serve as models for our own lives. We may never achieve the supreme level of virtuosity as our favorite costumed vigilantes, but it’s...

Blu-Ray pick of the week: scream

“Death on the Nile” is also new to Blu-Ray this week. Scream My guess is that if I was writing about movies coming to home video in 1996, I would have recommended “Scream” the week it hit the shelves of your local VHS rental store. That would have been my highest...

Blu-Ray pick of the week: ordinary people

“Sing 2” is also new to Blu-Ray this week. Ordinary People As of this writing, the Best Picture Oscar for the year 2021 has not yet been awarded. In honor of this noteworthy award, my choice this week is “Ordinary People,” a Best Picture winner from forty-one years...

Blu-Ray pick of the week: Nightmare alley

“For the Love of Money” is also new to Blu-Ray this week. Nightmare Alley Guillermo del Toro is a great director. This is not only because he’s had an amazing career churning out mostly good movies filled with imagination and style. It’s also because he knows how to...

Blu-Ray pick of the week: Red Rocket

“West Side Story” is also new to Blu-Ray this week. Red Rocket To describe Mikey Saber (Simon Rex), the protagonist of co-writer/director Sean Baker’s “Red Rocket,” as a narcissistic and possibly sociopathic ex-porn star who cheats on his wife Lexi (Bree Elrod) and...