Ultra HD Blu-ray Movie Reviews

The latest billion-dollar-plus live-action blockbuster from Disney is further proof that the fuzzy little alien troublemaker Stitch has indeed taken over our planet. Some of the details may have changed from the beloved 2002 animated original, some new wrinkles, yet the basic story at its core remains, and it still works like a charm.

The Amateur is based on the novel by Robert Littel, and is an espionage thriller, that tells the story of Charlie Heller, a brilliant, but deeply introverted decoder for the CIA, working out of a basement office at headquarters in Langley, whose life is turned upside down when his wife is killed in a London terrorist attack. After pressing his supervisors to, not only take action, but allow him to be a part of the investigation, Heller, played by Rami Malek, discovers that they seem to be reluctant to get to the bottom of who may be involved. Despite their objections, he decides to take matters into his own hands, embarking on a dangerous trek across the globe with his intelligence serving as the ultimate weapon for eluding his pursuers, and achieving his revenge.

Sinners is a joy to watch and a challenge to review simply because it manages to tread new ground in such an entertaining fashion. Set in the Jim Crow South of 1932 Mississippi, the story is very much about Black empowerment as twin brothers Smoke and Stack (both played with simmering intensity by Michael B. Jordan) return home from adventures in Chicago and elsewhere, looking to open a juke joint for their old community.

There's a pretty nifty mystery at the heart of Dark City so I'll tread lightly in my plot summary. Alex Proyas' film draws largely from science fiction tales before it, most notably The Matrix and Blade Runner, yet giving us something uniquely his. We meet our hero, John Murdoch (if that is his real name) unconscious in a bathtub with no memory of how he got there. He soon finds himself in a world of trouble and on the run in an oddly old-fashioned city where the sun never shines. Everyone he meets in his quest for the truth behind his increasingly bizarre predicament is a little bit sus, making curious little comments that tease the brain but ultimately make sense when all is revealed.