Inside Out 2 is the Pick of the Week

I assume most of you saw my message on the music site. I’m having hard drive trouble so that site is on pause for now. Dealing with that nonsense is likely gonna slow my writing down on this site. But it is Tuesday and I know everybody is desperately waiting to tell them my Pick of the Week, so here we go.

For a very long time, Pixar was one of the greatest animated studios around (depending on the day I’d put them or Ghibli at #1). They are still great, but certainly, they’ve had a few duds from time to time. I don’t know if it is that, or the fact that my kid has gotten older and is less interested in animated movies, but we’ve not gone to see the last few Pixar films in the theater.

Honestly, we hardly see anything in the theater so maybe that’s the problem.

I did get to go to a special screening of Inside Out in 2015 and it quickly became one of my favorite films of the year. I wasn’t exactly hot with anticipation over a sequel, as the original ends on a perfect note, but Pixar has a great track record with sequels, so I am excited to finally see it.

It really was a film I kept saying we should go see in theaters, but for one reason or another, we never made it. I’m thrilled to get a chance to watch it on home video.

Also out this week that looks interesting:

Horizon: An American Saga Chapter 1: Kevin Costner’s 3-hour epic tells the story of America from just before, during, and just after the Civil War. I’ve heard very mixed reviews, but I’m interested. I like Costner quite a lot.

Super Friends: The Complete Series: I am old enough to remember Saturday morning and weekday afternoon cartoons. I am certainly old enough to lament their demise. There was something special about coming home from school or waking up on a Saturday morning and watching episode after episode of your favorite cartoons. Superfriends was just slightly before my time. I remember them, but not super-well. Still, having them boxed up like this is a treat.

All of Us Strangers: Andrew Scott stars in this drama about a screenwriter who returns home to find his parents living their lives just as they were when they died…30 years prior. The Criterion Collection has the release.

The Strangers: Horror film starring Liv Tyler about three strangers who terrorize a newlywed couple in their remote house.

To Kill a Mastermind: 88 Films has been steadily putting out Shaw Brothers Kung Fu movies. This one is about a secret crime syndicate and the guys hired to stop them.

The Golden Lotus: Another Shaw Brothers film being put out by 88 Films, this time it isn’t so much a Kung Fu martial arts flick but an erotic melodrama. That ought to be interesting.

Batman 85th Anniversary Collection: Gathers together ten animated films celebrating the Dark Knight. The films are all in 4K and as follows: Mask of the Phantasm, Year One, Assault on Arkham, The Killing Joke, Gotham by Gaslight, Hush, Soul of the Dragon, The Long Halloween, The Doom That Came to Gotham, Batman and Harley Quinn.