It’s time for another look at highlights arriving on store shelves. There are a lot of summer releases arriving, so many will already be familiar to readers. Of course, there are some intriguing little films arriving, too. So if you can’t make it out to the movies this week, be sure to give one of these titles a try!

Big New Releases!

Cell - This adaptation of the Stephen King horror novel didn’t get much of a release earlier in the year. It reunites John Cusack and Samuel L. Jackson (who appeared together in 1401). The story is a spin on the zombie genre and it involves an electrical signal that turns cell phone users into mindless maniacs. Reaction was very, very poor...

Rating: «« out of 4 stars

Running Time: 132 min.

This week’s most prominent release is The Magnificent Seven, and it certainly has big shoes to fill. Based on the 1954 Japanese film Seven Samurai, the 1960 original starring Yul Brynner and Steve McQueen is one of the most popular Westerns of all time — it even earned the approval and praise of the source material’s director, Akira Kurosawa. Now, a new version saddles up with some famous faces in front of the camera.

In this retelling, cruel industrialist Bartholomew Bogue (Peter Sarsgaard) has the town of Rose Creek under his control, pushing citizens out with intimidation and destruction.  Young widow Emma Cullen (Haley...

Welcome back for another edition of DVD and Blu-ray highlights coming your way. Some of the summer releases are starting to arrive, so there are plenty of big flicks hitting shelves. If you can’t make it out to the movies this week, be sure give one of these titles a try!

Big New Releases!

Free State of Jones - This Civil War biopic revolves around Newton Knight, a liberal Southern Unionist in Mississippi who rallied slaves, deserters, and like-minded farmers to fight against the Confederacy. The movie itself had some trouble gaining supporters — reaction was split with a few more weighing unfavorably on the results. While the performers earned compliments, there...

Rating: «« out of 4

Running Time: 123 min.

It’s been a while since we’ve seen Bridget Jones on the big screen. The original exploits of the character back in 2001 were, surprisingly enough, charming and very, very funny. Not long after, Bridget Jones: Edge of Reason (2004) rehashed the material in a painfully ineffective manner. After more than a decade, the character has returned in a new feature. So, is Bridget Jones’s Baby a worthy return or nothing more than a nostalgic cash grab?

From this reviewer’s perspective, the answer lies somewhere in the middle. This is a definite improvement over the previous calamitous and best forgotten entry. Yet in all honesty, it’s a...