This Week On Blu-Ray: July 19th 2016

<p>Welcome to This Week On Blu-Ray&comma; where I tell you what the big releases are and whether they&&num;8217&semi;re worth getting&period; Thankfully&comma; you don&&num;8217&semi;t get to read my negative thoughts in a bunch of movies &lpar;just a couple&rpar;&period; But let&&num;8217&semi;s start with the good&comma; you can own the best OJ story told this year with ESPN&&num;8217&semi;s 30 for 30 documentary&comma; <em><strong>O&period;J&period; Made In America<&sol;strong>&period; <&sol;em>One heartbreaking moment after another&comma; <em>Made In America<&sol;em> is incredibly disturbing and thought provoking&period; Challenging almost any season of HBO&&num;8217&semi;s <em>The Wire&comma; <&sol;em>this 8 hour miniseries is a sprawling look at not just one man&comma; but an entire country at a time of racial unrest and loss&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Before starting Jonathan Nolan&&num;8217&semi;s HBO epic&comma; <em>Westworld&comma; <&sol;em>in October&comma; you can now binge watch all 5 seasons of the hit and miss CBS series&comma; <em><strong>Person of Interest<&sol;strong>&period; <&sol;em>Half murder-of-the-week storytelling&comma; half prescient look into surveillance and artificial intelligence&comma; Nolan crafted one hell of a concept that misses the mark on personal storytelling for a large portion of the series&comma; but really picks itself up near the end of the second season&period; You can pick up the fifth and final season on its own or in a complete box set&period; There&&num;8217&semi;s also the option of getting the fourth season of <em><strong>Orphan Black<&sol;strong>&comma;<&sol;em> but I&&num;8217&semi;ll assume you know better&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<figure id&equals;"attachment&lowbar;110175" aria-describedby&equals;"caption-attachment-110175" style&equals;"width&colon; 640px" class&equals;"wp-caption aligncenter"><img class&equals;"size-full wp-image-110175" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2016&sol;07&sol;03122331&sol;MV5BMGVjMTBiYjMtMGE0Yi00ODMyLWE5YmYtMjIwOWY5OGU3N2MxXkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyNTQzMDY4NzE&percnt;40&period;&lowbar;V1&lowbar;&period;jpg" alt&equals;"&lpar;Person of Interest&comma; Warner Bros Television&rpar;" width&equals;"640" height&equals;"360" &sol;><figcaption id&equals;"caption-attachment-110175" class&equals;"wp-caption-text">&lpar;Person of Interest&comma; Warner Bros Television&rpar;<&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;<p>Now let&&num;8217&semi;s get the bad news out of the way&period; There&&num;8217&semi;s too many options if you want to buy the atrocity that is <strong><em>Batman V&period; Superman&colon; <&sol;em><em>Dawn of Justice<&sol;em><&sol;strong> &lpar;our review <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;bagogames&period;com&sol;batman-v-superman-dawn-of-justice-review&sol;">here<&sol;a>&rpar;&period; You can have your choice of the regular ultimate edition or the 3D ultimate edition&period; Maybe you&&num;8217&semi;ll enjoy getting a steelbook for the overbloated mess that is now even longer&period; I don&&num;8217&semi;t want to forget about the 4K&period; Either way&comma; you can make your mind up on whether this is a film to revisit&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>We&&num;8217&semi;ve got a big week for my favorite home video label&comma; The Criterion Collection&period; Any fan of Alain Resnais&&num;8217&semi; <em>Last Year at Marienbad&comma; <&sol;em>will want to give a look into his follow-up to that film&comma; <em><strong>Muriel&comma; or the Time of Return<&sol;strong>&period; <&sol;em>Following a widow&comma; her past comes to haunt her in the form of an old lover&comma; Resnais is a master at the mysteries of life and what may come next&period; We continue the Resnais love with his acclaimed 1955 short documentary&comma; <em><strong>Night and Fog<&sol;strong>&period; <&sol;em>Known as one of the first documentaries on the Holocaust&comma; <em>Night and Fog <&sol;em>captures the horror of the concentration camps in 32 minutes better than most films can in 2 hours&period; On the lighter side of things&comma; King Hu&&num;8217&semi;s 3 hour wuxia masterpiece&comma; <strong><em>A Touch of Zen<&sol;em><&sol;strong> is getting the Criterion treatment&period; I personally have not seen the film&comma; but I&&num;8217&semi;m looking forward to anything with this much love put into it&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<figure id&equals;"attachment&lowbar;110174" aria-describedby&equals;"caption-attachment-110174" style&equals;"width&colon; 1024px" class&equals;"wp-caption aligncenter"><img class&equals;"size-large wp-image-110174" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2016&sol;07&sol;03122417&sol;28791id&lowbar;057&lowbar;w1600-1024x576&period;jpg" alt&equals;"&lpar;A Touch of Zen&comma; Janus Films&rpar;" width&equals;"1024" height&equals;"576" &sol;><figcaption id&equals;"caption-attachment-110174" class&equals;"wp-caption-text">&lpar;A Touch of Zen&comma; Janus Films&rpar;<&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;<p>From there&comma; you get the rest of the batch with Jean-Marc Vallee&&num;8217&semi;s latest <em><strong>Demolition<&sol;strong>&comma; <&sol;em>the Michael Shannon&sol;Kevin Spacey anomaly&comma; <strong><em>Elvis and Nixon<&sol;em><&sol;strong>&comma; Tony Jaa&&num;8217&semi;s latest&comma; <em>SPL 2&colon; A Time of Consequences&comma; <&sol;em>but you can find it on Blu-Ray as <em><strong>Kill Zone 2<&sol;strong>&period; <&sol;em>Don Cheadle is down to play for miles with the music biopic&comma; <em><strong>Miles Ahead<&sol;strong>&comma; <&sol;em>and last but certainly not least is Scream Factory&&num;8217&semi;s release of the cult classic&comma; <em><strong>The Return of the Living Dead<&sol;strong>&period; <&sol;em>So there you have it&comma; not too bad of a week&period; Until next time&&num;8230&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;