As someone who hasn't watched a Transformers movie since 2011's Dark of the Moon, I don't feel that I've missed much. I actually really liked (and, for the most part, still do) the 2007 film, but each successive installment seemed to move the franchise further and further away from what made that movie work. Cringeworthy humor, unlikeable human characters, and disposable robot characters all seemed to become staples of these films, and the visual spectacle was often too chaotic and…
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Blade Runner 2049 2017
Blade Runner 2049 is the sort of film that's made for the cinema. From the eye-popping visuals to the thunderous score to the indulgent (though not unearned) runtime, everything about this film is best experienced in theaters. So, it should come as no surprise then that I chose Blade Runner 2049 as my first ever 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray viewing. I wanted to see if the experience could compare to how I felt seeing this film in the theater, and…
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Power Rangers 2017
"Alpha, Rita's escaped! Recruit a team of teenagers with attitude!" With those ten fateful words, Haim Saban and Shuki Levy launched a pop culture juggernaut, a franchise spanning a quarter of a century with some twenty-odd individual series, enough merchandise to go to the moon and back, and now three major motion pictures. The most recent of which, Lionsgate's big screen Power Rangers reboot, was met with a healthy dose of cynicism and hand-wringing alike when first announced. With each…
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Arrival 2016
Every so often, in this age of franchises and blockbuster tent-poles, a film sneaks up on you. While not an original screenplay -- being adapted from a 1998 short story titled "Story of Your Life" -- ARRIVAL is nevertheless a breath of fresh air... particularly for science fiction, a genre that lately seems to be drifting away from its philosophical roots in favor of CGI drenched action/adventure spectacle. ARRIVAL is refreshingly introspective and atmospheric, denying the viewer the mere escapist…
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