Tuesday, April 21, 2026

Good Luck. Have Fun. Don’t Die Blu-ray Disc Review




Imagine you’re sitting in a diner with many different people of various persuasions and then suddenly a man who looks like he came out of a box of wires steps inside all disheveled with long facial hair, strange lights and other types of technology going up and down and around his entire body and the first thing he says is he’s here to give a select group of people the opportunity for an adventure. Of course the man is armed too. This is the situation we enter in the new film Good luck. Have fun. Don’t die.

After recruiting the people he chooses for his mission. You immediately find yourself in various life and death situations as strangers begin to shoot at you and everything you thought that was real is turned on its head, almost as if you were a character in a video game.

Good luck. Have fun. Don’t die stars Sam Rockwell as the mysterious stranger with the call to adventure while it’s cast includes Haley Lu Richardson, Michael Pena, Zazie Beetz and Juno Temple. Aspects of the film may remind viewers of various other apocalyptic time travel stories that include 12 Monkeys the Terminator series and some of the production design appears to have been somewhat influenced by the book The Electric State.

The Blu-ray disc picture quality is fantastic with a 1080P Full HD image that looks so crystal clear that even when upscaled to 4K I’m not sure if an actual 4K Blu-ray would make a discernible difference. That’s how great this image quality looks. An English Dolby ATMOS soundtrack is provided and while my sound bar clearly identified the audio as Dolby ATMOS for some reason my Blu-ray disc player interpreted it as Dolby TrueHD despite the fact that this is a relatively new high end 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray Disc player. The sound is terrific and atmospheric and at times a bit aggressive, but whether or not it’s a true Dolby ATMOS Soundtrack or a Dolby TrueHD Soundtrack may be something that differs depending where the film was screened. An English Descriptive Audio track for the visually impaired is also provided as a listening option and English Closed Captions for the deaf and hearing impaired are encoded on to this Blu-ray disc as options. A redeemable coupon for a Movies Anywhere digital copy is also provided. The five minutes and seven seconds promotional behind the scenes look is somewhat misleading as it’s called The Making Of Good luck. Have fun. Don’t die, but clearly it’s not much of a behind the scenes featurette and feels more like the type of promotional video you might see when a film is about to be released to theaters on a streaming platform.

Good luck. Have fun. Don’t die is available now but sold separately on 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray disc as well as Blu-ray disc each with a digital code included at retailers on and off-line and a digital version is available at digital retailers online courtesy of Universal Studios home entertainment.

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Monday, April 20, 2026

Dust Bunny Movie Review.



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Saturday, April 18, 2026

Sony HT-A3000 3.1 Soundbar Unboxing.



An unboxing of the Sony HT - XA3000 3.1 Soundbar.


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Sony HT - X8500 2.1 Soundbar:


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Sony HT - S100F 2.0 Soundbar:


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A review of the Sony HT–A3000 will be forthcoming and linked here as well once it’s live.


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Thursday, April 16, 2026

The Iron Bat Symmetry: Batman Begins (2005) and Iron Man (2008).

The Iron Bat Symmetry: Batman Begins (2005) and Iron Man (2008).

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Tuesday, April 14, 2026

The Testaments Series Premiere Review.


 The Testaments Series Premiere Review.

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Friday, April 10, 2026

Psycho Killer Digital Copy Review.





Psycho Killer is a curiously bad horror film directed by film and TV producer Gavin Polone from a screenplay by Andrew Kevin Walker. The film depicts a satanic serial killer that is hunted by a highway patrol woman, whose husband was murdered by him. There’s not much else to say about this film because it’s not very good. My understanding is it was produced with a release year of 2023 in mind, but was shelved until 2026. Malcolm McDowell has a small cameo in the film, but his presence really adds nothing to it other than oh that’s Malcolm McDowell.

A standard English Dolby Digital Surround soundtrack is included along with an Audio Description Soundtrack and English Captions for the deaf and hearing impaired encoded as options. The picture quality is fine with 4K DolbyVision, but otherwise there are no extra value features whatsoever on this digital copy aside from two trailers that one could see on the main menu before one plays the film if they’re watching it on iTunes.

Psycho Killer is available now on digital copy through Movies Anywhere as well as other digital media distribution services online.

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Sunday, April 5, 2026

Avatar Fire and Ash Digital Copy Review.

 




Avatar: Fire and Ash is not so much a sequel to Avatar: The Way of Water. It is a continuation of one story in the same way that Kill Bill: Volumes 1 and 2 are halves of the same story. The big difference, though is that Avatar often repeats the same plot points and lacks any of the colorful characters that would make one be invested in the good protagonist and question the antagonist in a meaningful way. 


Given the nature of both films, I feel this comparison is fair.Tarantino had memorable characters and real villains to be afraid of, and you cared about the journey of the Bride while Cameron‘s characters are mostly flat with little range nor much to distinguish themselves individually in a meaningful way. Even with the introduction of an alternative group of Navi that are actually somewhat more interesting than the Sully family, in the end just the acts theatrics and eye candy, but no substance. At times certain sequences seem simply ridiculous in unintended ways, Avatar is not terrible. The first film was a trendsetter that presented a realistic alien world that we all could disappear into when we saw it, but this series has squandered so much of that initial goodwill.


This digital copy is one of the most comprehensive ones I have ever watched, which is interesting considering the film itself is so weak in many ways. The picture quality is excellent. The English Dolby ATMOS 5.1 Surround Soundtrack is in some ways better than the picture itself.


A Spanish Language Dubbed Soundtrack and English and Spanish Language captions are also provided as options. The menus are standard interactive, steel frames with music from the film and are easy to navigate. There’s also a family friendly, listening option that takes out any of the adult words spoken in the theatrical cut of the film.


Extra value features include the documentary Igniting The Flame: The Making of Avatar: Fire and Ash (2 hours and 55 minutes), which can be viewed collectively or individually in 13 parts covering all aspects of the production. A tribute to Producer Jon Landau (21:00), a 13 minute RDA in world orientation and marketing materials made up of music videos and theatrical trailers wrapped up the bonus content.


While I was disappointed with the film, I still do appreciate having it on digital and I do intend on buying the 4K ultra HD Blu-ray when it becomes available because I’m a completist and I want the entire series on physical media. The value proposition is very good. You get a lot for your money and so that’s what makes this review all the more harder for me because it’s not that Avatar Fire and Ash is the worst movie ever made, but it’s just not as good as the original and it feels repetitive because it’s really just the second half of a two part movie that should’ve been edited into one film to make it more coherent. Avatar: Fire and Ash is available now at online retailers like Movies Anywhere and iTunes.


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