This Week on Blu-ray: August 23, 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; It&&num;8217&semi;s a big week&comma; everyone&excl; We&&num;8217&semi;ve got equal parts garbage and greatness&period; But let&&num;8217&semi;s get the bad stuff out of the way first&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>There is a ton of bad TV this week&period; From the first season of DC&&num;8217&semi;s <em>Legends of Tomorrow<&sol;em>&comma; all the way to the sixth season of the bafflingly highly watched <em>The Walking Dead<&sol;em>&period; I can&&num;8217&semi;t speak for the second season of <em>The Strain<&sol;em>&comma; but I haven&&num;8217&semi;t heard anything too encouraging&period; Another show is the initially promising <em>Narcos<&sol;em>&period; If&comma; for some reason&comma; you&&num;8217&semi;re not able to use Netflix&comma; you can now buy the Blu-ray&period; I don&&num;8217&semi;t want to alarm any of you&comma; but <em>Ash vs Evil Dead<&sol;em> is finally getting its release&period; I&&num;8217&semi;m a HUGE <em>Evil Dead<&sol;em> fan and I can never get enough&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<figure id&equals;"attachment&lowbar;111997" aria-describedby&equals;"caption-attachment-111997" style&equals;"width&colon; 800px" class&equals;"wp-caption aligncenter"><img class&equals;"wp-image-111997 size-full" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2016&sol;08&sol;24175628&sol;Narcos&period;jpeg" alt&equals;"&lpar;Narcos&comma; Netflix&rpar;" width&equals;"800" height&equals;"512" &sol;><figcaption id&equals;"caption-attachment-111997" class&equals;"wp-caption-text">&lpar;Narcos&comma; Netflix&rpar;<&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;<p>Before we get to the really good stuff&comma; I have to finish up the bad&period; We&&num;8217&semi;ve been blessed with the prequel to Snow White and the Huntsman&comma; <em>The Huntsman&colon; Winter&&num;8217&semi;s War<&sol;em>&period; You can attempt to trick us into thinking a movie will be good just based on cast alone&comma; but I like to think we&&num;8217&semi;re smarter than that&period; However&comma; the cast is really damn impressive&period; Emily Blunt&comma; Chris Hemsworth&comma; Jessica Chastain&comma; Charlize Theron&semi; I don&&num;8217&semi;t blame the fooled people&period; I don&&num;8217&semi;t know if anyone is interested&comma; but <em>Ratchet and Clank<&sol;em> has been made into a movie&period; Yeah&comma; it doesn&&num;8217&semi;t really interest me either&period; You&&num;8217&semi;re probably better off playing the game that&&num;8217&semi;s based off the movie that&&num;8217&semi;s based off the game&&num;8230&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>I&&num;8217&semi;d like to think that I&&num;8217&semi;m a pretty big Robert De Niro fan&comma; but if someone were to say that <em>Midnight Run<&sol;em> was one of his best films&comma; the majority of people probably wouldn&&num;8217&semi;t know what that movie was&period; I&&num;8217&semi;m here to tell you that it&&num;8217&semi;s a damn masterpiece&period; It&&num;8217&semi;s funny&comma; adventurous and exciting&period; There&&num;8217&semi;s very few things better than Charles Grodin whining and Robert De Niro telling him to shut the fuck up&period; Kudos goes to Shout Factory and their Shout Select label&period; You can also pick up <em>Maggie&&num;8217&semi;s Plan<&sol;em> if you like&period; Looks a little too Noah Baumbach for my taste&comma; but Ethan Hawke is a good selling point&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<figure id&equals;"attachment&lowbar;111998" aria-describedby&equals;"caption-attachment-111998" style&equals;"width&colon; 1000px" class&equals;"wp-caption aligncenter"><img class&equals;"wp-image-111998 size-full" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2016&sol;08&sol;24180042&sol;Midnight&period;jpg" alt&equals;"&lpar;Midnight Run&comma; Starz&rpar;" width&equals;"1000" height&equals;"539" &sol;><figcaption id&equals;"caption-attachment-111998" class&equals;"wp-caption-text">&lpar;Midnight Run&comma; Universal Pictures&rpar;<&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;<p>We&&num;8217&semi;re getting films from the Criterion Collection again&excl; I forgot to mention last week&&num;8217&semi;s <em>Ingrid Bergman&colon; In Her Own Words&comma;<&sol;em> my apologies&period; But I&&num;8217&semi;m here to make up for it with two releases &lpar;thanks for covering my ass&comma; Criterion&rpar;&period; <em>A Taste of Honey<&sol;em> is a film from 1961&comma; directed by Tony Richardson&period; Made within the British New Wave movement&comma; this seems like a movie that was picked up more for its cultural significance than for its quality&period; I can&&num;8217&semi;t confirm that it&&num;8217&semi;s bad&comma; but most New Wave movements produce bad movies&&num;8212&semi;the kinds of bad movies that film school students rave on about&period; To make up for it&comma; we have <em>Woman in the Dunes&period; <&sol;em>Director Hiroshi Teshigahara was nominated for Best Director at the 1965 Academy Awards for this erotic drama&period; <em>Woman in the Dunes <&sol;em>is complicated&comma; Japanese and black and white&period; Count me in&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>We finally get the Blu-ray release for Shane Black&&num;8217&semi;s amazing film&comma; <em>The Nice Guys&period; <&sol;em>Black directs another superb action&sol;comedy with all the right quirks in all the right places&period; It&&num;8217&semi;s wonderfully perverse and intelligent to boot&period; Despite all my love for <em>The Evil Dead&comma; <&sol;em>this is the movie I&&num;8217&semi;m going to be recommending this week&comma; and I&&num;8217&semi;ll be recommending it all year as well&period; That&&num;8217&semi;s it for This Week on Blu-ray&period; Next week it&&num;8217&semi;s <em>Me Before You<&sol;em> as we talk about <em>The Night Manager<&sol;em> and possibly bring up <em>The Jungle Book<&sol;em>&period; Until next time&comma; let us know what you will be watching&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;