This Week On Blu-Ray: July 26th 2016

<p>Welcome to another installment of This Week On Blu-Ray&comma; where I tell you what the big releases are and whether they’re worth getting&period; We&&num;8217&semi;re in a bit of an uneventful week due to a certain movie that was released last week that may or may not be titled <em>Batman V Superman&colon; Dawn of Justice&period; <&sol;em>That means it&&num;8217&semi;s perfect timing for Melissa McCarthy&&num;8217&semi;s latest&comma; <em><strong>The Boss<&sol;strong>&period; <&sol;em>Co-starring Kristen Bell and directed by McCarthy&&num;8217&semi;s husband&comma; Ben Falcone&comma; <em>The Boss <&sol;em>didn&&num;8217&semi;t have the best critical response &lpar;22&percnt; Rotten Tomatoes score&comma; 40 Metacritic score&rpar; or audience reception &lpar;C&plus; Cinemascore&rpar;&comma; but made enough money to be profitable and keep McCarthy&&num;8217&semi;s status as a money-making star&period; You already know if you&&num;8217&semi;re buying this at this point&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<figure id&equals;"attachment&lowbar;110440" aria-describedby&equals;"caption-attachment-110440" style&equals;"width&colon; 1024px" class&equals;"wp-caption aligncenter"><img class&equals;"size-large wp-image-110440" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2016&sol;07&sol;03115639&sol;MV5BMTU1MjkxMDcyMF5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTgwMjA5MDE1ODE&percnt;40&period;&lowbar;V1&lowbar;SY1000&lowbar;CR0014491000&lowbar;AL&lowbar;-1024x707&period;jpg" alt&equals;"&lpar;The Boss&comma; Universal Pictures&rpar;" width&equals;"1024" height&equals;"707" &sol;><figcaption id&equals;"caption-attachment-110440" class&equals;"wp-caption-text">&lpar;The Boss&comma; Universal Pictures&rpar;<&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;<p>A surprise favorite of mine from this year was John Carney&&num;8217&semi;s <em><strong>Sing Street<&sol;strong> <&sol;em>&lpar;our review <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;bagogames&period;com&sol;sing-street-review&sol;">here<&sol;a>&rpar;&period; A mix between a musical&comma; coming of age film and political commentary of Ireland in the 1980&&num;8217&semi;s &lpar;all things I dislike&rpar; turned out to be one of the most fun movies I had seen this year&period; Carney&&num;8217&semi;s films center around music and its way to bring people together&period; That doesn&&num;8217&semi;t change here&period; It&&num;8217&semi;s truly the familiar that twists its way into something special&period; Then we get the first-person experiment&comma; <em><strong>Hardcore Henry<&sol;strong> <&sol;em>&lpar;our review <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;bagogames&period;com&sol;hardcore-henry-review&sol;">here<&sol;a>&rpar;&period; Never quite living up to the ambitious concept&comma; we can always rely on the magical Sharlto Copley to liven things up&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>We&&num;8217&semi;ve also got the &lpar;overrated&rpar; horror&sol;thriller&comma; <em><strong>The Invitation<&sol;strong>&period; <&sol;em>Christopher Cross and I talked about it <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;bagogames&period;com&sol;film-fallout-podcast-13-hush-invitation&sol;">here<&sol;a> on our podcast Film Fallout and I think we came to an agreement&period; Showered in hype&comma; Karyn Kusama&&num;8217&semi;s latest film takes a simple premise and doesn&&num;8217&semi;t do a hell of a lot to make it any different from that kind of dinner-time suspense thriller&period; Speaking of hype&comma; Terrence Malick&&num;8217&semi;s <em><strong>The New World<&sol;strong> <&sol;em>comes to The Criterion Collection in a 3 disc set&period; Essentially the beginning of the end for any coherence that may have existed in Malick&&num;8217&semi;s filmography&comma; the folks at Criterion are completionists so they must have decided to finally get the upgrade over with&period; I mean&comma; these are the guys who think the two David Fincher films that deserve the Criterion treatment are <em>The Game<&sol;em> and <em>The Curious Case of Benjamin Button<&sol;em>&&num;8230&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<figure id&equals;"attachment&lowbar;110438" aria-describedby&equals;"caption-attachment-110438" style&equals;"width&colon; 1024px" class&equals;"wp-caption aligncenter"><img class&equals;"size-large wp-image-110438" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2016&sol;07&sol;03115656&sol;MV5BZWQyMzMwYzYtMWU5ZS00OGZhLThlNDYtNmZiNzZmZmU5NmYyXkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyNTM0NDAwNzk&percnt;40&period;&lowbar;V1&lowbar;-1024x429&period;jpg" alt&equals;"&lpar;The Invitation&comma; Drafthouse Films&rpar;" width&equals;"1024" height&equals;"429" &sol;><figcaption id&equals;"caption-attachment-110438" class&equals;"wp-caption-text">&lpar;The Invitation&comma; Drafthouse Films&rpar;<&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;<p>Maybe there&&num;8217&semi;s better luck for those of you who enjoy all things Kevin Costner&excl; His latest film&comma; <em><strong>Criminal<&sol;strong>&comma; <&sol;em>starring almost every well known character actor from the 90&&num;8217&semi;s gets a regular Blu-ray AND 4k release&period; Who knew Costner had the demand&quest; Kino Lorber made the right call in giving the public another Humphrey Bogart film in <strong><em>Deadline &&num;8211&semi; U&period;S&period;A<&sol;em><&sol;strong>&period; And I know some of you may have been worried&comma; but fear not&comma; I could never forget Charles Bronson&&num;8217&semi;s <em><strong>Death Wish II&period;<&sol;strong><&sol;em> It&&num;8217&semi;s no <em>Death Wish III&comma; <&sol;em>but you can&&num;8217&semi;t go wrong with some Charles Bronson&period; There we have it&period; It&&num;8217&semi;s been another week of This Week On Blu-Ray and this week is even more dour than last&period; Maybe next week we&&num;8217&semi;ll get to talk about something a little better&period; Maybe a little something with Mr&period; Colin Farrell&period; Until next time&&num;8230&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;