Wind River Blu-ray Review

• Actors: Jeremy Renner, Elizabeth Olsen, Jon Bernthal, Martin Sensmeier, Julia Jones
• Director: Taylor Sheridan
• Disc Format: AC-3, DTS Surround Sound, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
• Language: English
• Subtitles: Spanish
• Region: Region A/1
• Rated: R
• Studio: LIONSGATE
• Release Date: November 14, 2017
• Run Time: 107 minutes

        After his success as screenwriter with hits the last two years in a row (Sicario, Hell or High Water), Taylor Sheridan has once again blended a crime narrative with the modern western genre, this time as the director. Sicario dealt with drug trafficking, Hell or High Water was about small town bank robberies, and Wind River about a murder investigation on a remote Native American reservation. The terrain may have switched from the hot deserts of southern states to the freezing mountains of Wyoming, but it is the plot’s connection with the setting that aligns it with the classic westerns of the past. At the same time, there is a painful intimacy to the tragedy in Wind River which was missing from his previous films, making this a somber affair despite an action-packed climactic resolution.

Preacher: Season Two Blu-ray Review

• Actors: Tom Brooke, Dominic Cooper, Ian Colletti, W. Brown
• Disc Format: AC-3, Box set, Dolby, Dubbed, Subtitled, Widescreen
• Language: English
• Subtitles: French, German, Polish, Arabic, English, Turkish
• Dubbed: French, German
• Region: All Regions
• Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
• Number of discs: 4
• Rated: Not Rated
• Studio: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
• Release Date: November 14, 2017
• Digital Copy Expiration Date: December 31, 2019

        As much as I enjoyed the brutal mix of dark humor, horror violence, and stylistic action found in the first season of “Preacher,” it also often felt aimless. There were great scenes within various episodes, but they rarely seemed to be working together in any discernible way. As a result, the first season felt somewhat inconsequential, almost as if it was killing time before finding direction for the story. Season two starts off with much more focus to its thrills, including a storyline about the hunt for God that remains constant for the full season, and two impressive episodes co-directed by frequent collaborators and series creators, Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg (Superbad, Pineapple Express, This is the End).