The cult of celebrity, the ‘ownership’ of fans, the price of love, and the need for peace, privacy, and solace from the madness that is the modern world. Aronofsky’s divisive film, Mother!, comes home on DVD and blu-ray today. Vaguely Lynchian there is the semblance of a ghost story at the heart of the film…
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South Park: The Complete Third Season
The fun, comedy, and sheer insanity of what is South Park Season Three blazed across my screen this week, as I delved into The Complete Third Season of the Comedy Central show available now on blu-ray from Paramount Pictures. Over the course of seventeen episodes the small Colorado town of South Park is explored through…
The Twilight Zone (1964) – Night Call, From Agnes – With Love, and Spur of the Moment
It’s back into the depths of The Twilight Zone as I continue my exploration of The Complete Series, now on blu-ray from Paramount Pictures. Up first this week is Night Call. This episode originally aired on 7 February, 1964, and was penned by the legendary Richard Matheson. Elva Keene (Gladys Cooper) is living a nightmare,…
Dunkirk (2017) – Christopher Nolan
When I saw Dunkirk in IMAX this summer, I came out of the theatre with a one word review, “Wow.” Now Christopher Nolan’s brilliant retelling of the British evacuation from Dunkirk comes home on blu-ray and DVD thanks to Warner Brothers. Running at a taut hour and forty five minutes (Nolan’s shortest film since Following),…
The Lego Ninjago Movie (2017) – Charles Fisher, Bob Logan, and Charlie Bean
Opening like a Shaw Brothers movie, The Lego Ninjago Movie is from some of the creative minds that were behind The Lego Movie, and The Lego Batman Movie. It hits blu-ray and DVD today from Warner Brothers, and may find a measure of success that it didn’t quite gain at the theatres. Dealing with a…
The Twilight Zone (1964) – The Self-Improvement of Salvadore Ross, Number 12 Looks Just Like You, and Black Leather Jackets
There’s the signpost up ahead! It’s time to turn to The Twilight Zone: The Complete Series, as I continue exploring the iconic show, available now on blu-ray from Paramount Pictures. First up in this week’s trio of episodes is The Self-Improvement of Salvadore Ross. Jerry McNeely penned the teleplay based on a short story by…
Twin Peaks: A Limited Event Series
Debuting on blu-ray from Paramount Pictures this week is the incredible follow-up to the cult television program, Twin Peaks: A Limited Event Series. When I first heard of the possibility of a new series, set twenty five years after the first, just like Laura Palmer (Sheryl Lee) said would happen I was ecstatic. When I…
South Park: The Complete First Season
It’s hard to believe that South Park is twenty years old! And what better way to celebrate than a re-release of the series previous seasons on blu-ray from Paramount Pictures? As I settled in to watch this show, for the first time in a very long time I was struck by a couple of things….
The Twilight Zone (1963/1964) – Ring-a-Ding Girl, You Drive, and The Long Morrow
This instalment of the Twilight Zone, an exploration of The Complete Series on blu-ray (now available from Paramount Pictures) finds us about a third of the way through the final season. Earl Hamner Jr. pens the first episode up this eve, Ring-a-Ding Girl, which first aired on 27 December, 1983. Barbara ‘Bunny’ Blake (Maggie McNamara)…
The Twilight Zone (1963) – The 7th is Made Up of Phantoms, A Short Drink From a Certain Fountain, and Ninety Years Without Slumbering
It’s that time again!! Paramount Pictures continues to be my guide as I explore the depths of The Twilight Zone: The Complete Series on blu-ray. This week’s trio of episode begins with The 7th is Made Up of Phantoms, which aired on 6 December, 1963 and was written by series creator, Rod Serling. It’s 25…
The Mind Reels 