The final chapter (allegedly) in The Skywalker Saga, "Star Wars: Episode IX - The Rise of Skywalker" is now out on Blu-ray.  Let's take a minute and discuss how this franchise that has produced so much mediocrity has managed to make people so angry.  

Is it the great moments getting buried (and there are great moments) or is it something else?

Both "The Wizard" and "1917" are out today on Blu-ray and one of these movies is all about placing the audience there with the main characters as they struggle.  The other most definitely features a character struggling but is more concerned with how to sell video games than what the struggle means and how it should be approached.

Let's discuss.

In "Spoiler Alert!:  The Badass Book fo Movie Plots:  Why We All Love Hollywood Cliches"  Chris Vander Kaay and his fellow authors breakdown 38 different movie genres, telling us the essential elements to each and every one in comedic form.  How did the book come about and what movies does Vander Kaay like most?  Listen as we discuss it all.  

The 1923 and 1956 versions of "The Ten Commandments," both made by Cecil B. DeMille, are out now in a single Blu-ray set.  That gives us the perfect opportunity to discuss a filmmaker getting the opportunity to rework the same source material. So, as that's something we often suggest, let's take a look at how that worked out here.

As the Mark Ruffalo-starring "Dark Waters" is all too happy to tell us, companies don't care about us, they care about the bottom line.  Not only that, they care about the bottom line to the point where they will allow people to die to protect it.

No, it's not science fiction, it's disturbing fact and we're talking about it today.