Every Show’s Your Last Show | A Prairie Home Companion (2006) Warner Archive Blu-ray

A Prairie Home Companion (2006) - Lily Tomlin, Meryl Streep, & Lindsay Lohan

Robert Altman’s final film, completed and released to theaters just five months before his death, A Prairie Home Companion is generally considered a minor work from the legendary director, often relegated to a trivia note in his career, if not forgotten amidst his more popular and acclaimed successes. That fate is at least a little… Read More Every Show’s Your Last Show | A Prairie Home Companion (2006) Warner Archive Blu-ray

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Grabthar’s Hammer and the Suns of Warvan | Galaxy Quest (1999) 4K Ultra HD

Galaxy Quest (1999) - Tim Allen, Alan Rickman, Sigourney Weaver

Released at Christmas of 1999 as one of the very last movies of that decade, the science-fiction adventure spoof Galaxy Quest was a solid box office hit, if not quite one of the year’s huge blockbusters. Marketing for the film presented it as a goofy Tim Allen comedy vehicle, like The Santa Clause in outer… Read More Grabthar’s Hammer and the Suns of Warvan | Galaxy Quest (1999) 4K Ultra HD

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Whatever This Is, It’s Loud and Unpleasant | Secret Level (2024) Amazon Prime Series Premiere

Secret Level (2024) - Pac-Man

The new animated series from the creators of Love, Death + Robots is, I suppose unsurprisingly, an infuriating mess and generally a huge waste of time. Coming in hot at the end of the year, Amazon Prime’s Secret Level is one of the worst new TV shows of 2024. Judging whether it will turn out… Read More Whatever This Is, It’s Loud and Unpleasant | Secret Level (2024) Amazon Prime Series Premiere

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Wolverineing Is Hard | Deadpool & Wolverine (2024) 4K Ultra HD

Deadpool & Wolverine (2024) - Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman

Universes and movie franchises collide in Deadpool & Wolverine, the blockbuster crossover that functions simultaneously as: 1) a trilogy-capping sequel to the popular Deadpool series, 2) the official merger of the X-Men (and some other less-loved stragglers) into the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and 3) the point where Disney gives up pretending that any of this… Read More Wolverineing Is Hard | Deadpool & Wolverine (2024) 4K Ultra HD

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8-Bit Replay | The Terminator (1992) for NES

The Terminator (1992) NES video game

Poor timing was just the first of many failures that befell the official Nintendo Entertainment System video game adaptation of James Cameron’s The Terminator. By late 1992, the original Terminator movie was already eight-years-old, and even the blockbuster sequel (that presumably inspired the release of this game) had left theaters almost a year and a… Read More 8-Bit Replay | The Terminator (1992) for NES

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You’re Dead, Honey | The Terminator (1984) 4K Ultra HD

The Terminator (1984) - Arnold Schwarzenegger

Five sequels, a couple TV spinoffs, and innumerable viewings later, The Terminator is no longer the same movie it was forty years ago. What started as a scrappy, low-budget thriller made by a relatively unknown young director desperate to prove himself, has transformed into the first cog in a popular and long-running franchise, as well… Read More You’re Dead, Honey | The Terminator (1984) 4K Ultra HD

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Everyone Lies, About Everything | The Day of the Jackal (2024) Peacock Series Premiere

The Day of the Jackal (2024) - Eddie Redmayne & Eleanor Matsuura

Even if it has next to nothing to do with the original novel or movie from which it takes the title, the new streaming reboot of The Day of the Jackal is a very stylish and suspenseful modern thriller. The need to adapt it into TV series format, however, may have resulted in the story… Read More Everyone Lies, About Everything | The Day of the Jackal (2024) Peacock Series Premiere

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Commencing Revival Procedures | The Transformers Issue #1 (1984) Marvel Comic Book Reprint by Skybound

The Transformers Issue 1 (1984) comic book

As a tie-in with its wildly successful Energon Universe line of comic books, Robert Kirkman’s Skybound Entertainment has also licensed the right to reprint the original Marvel Comics run of The Transformers, first published in 1984. Re-reading it today unleashes a flood of nostalgic memories from my own ten-year-old youth. The Skybound reprint of The… Read More Commencing Revival Procedures | The Transformers Issue #1 (1984) Marvel Comic Book Reprint by Skybound

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Be Careful How You Write It | All the President’s Men (1976) Blu-ray

All the President's Men (1976)

Looking back on it from the perspective of another particularly fraught moment in American history, the 1976 film adaptation of All the President’s Men feels both as timely and relevant as it ever has and, simultaneously, like an almost quaint artifact from an era in which truth and facts still had some currency in the… Read More Be Careful How You Write It | All the President’s Men (1976) Blu-ray

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