Every week there are tons of newly released films, Blu-rays, books, comics, and CDs, but the truth is, very few of them are worth your time. That’s where this feature comes in. Each posting attempts to highlight the best new media releases of the coming week. It’s far from exhaustive, and of course it will be mostly according to my taste, but I’ll try to do my best to include a wide variety, so hopefully you’ll see something that interests you too.
Scorsese’s latest earned huge critical praise and scored five Oscars at yesterday’s ceremony. Despite making several attempts, I never made it to see this one in the theatre, but with its Blu-ray release on Tuesday, I’m definitely going to be checking it out, and you probably should too.
This is quite an ambitious new series from creator Kyle Killen, whose previous work includes the critically adored (but quickly cancelled) Lone Star. Jason Isaacs stars as a cop who is involved in a car accident and falls into a coma. He wakes up to discover that while his wife survived the crash, his son was killed. However once he goes to sleep he wakes up to a different reality where his son survived and his wife was killed. He has no way of knowing which is the actual reality and which is merely a dream. The procedural element involves two cases in each episode, one in each reality, both of which will inform the other. It’s an ambitious concept that will be hard to keep going week to week, but I’m definitely interested in seeing them try.
Produced by Illumination Entertainment, The Lorax looks like it should be a faithful telling of the Dr. Seuss classic. Illumination demonstrated that it was able to blend humour and heart in their last film, Despicable Me, so hopefully this one follows suit.
Sleep well,
DTE
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