Blu-ray Review: Sonic the Hedgehog

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With his cover blown, Sonic must now escape to another world, but he needs the golden rings that he accidentally dropped into an open portal in San Francisco. As Tom and Sonic head toward the Bay Area, their every step is dogged by Robotnik, who wants to capture and study the hedgehog. As they travel, Sonic and Tom strike up an unlikely friendship, which they’ll need to rely on to overcome Robotnik and his advanced machinery.

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Blu-ray Review: Gretel & Hansel

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Gretel is bothered by strange and unsettling dreams, however, and soon becomes wary of Holda, who begins to teach Gretel the supernatural powers of a witch. As Gretel warms to Holda, Hansel becomes suspicious, and after a fight with his sister she takes him outside in the dark, leaving him alone. When Hansel doesn’t return, Gretel seeks to go after him, but Holda has other, more sinister plans for the boy.

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Blu-ray Review: Birds of Prey and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn

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Nearly an hour of extras is included, though there are no deleted or alternate scenes. It’s a pretty standard assortment as there’s one for costume design, creating the look of the film and general “making of” stuff. It’s fine as supplemental material, but there’s nothing vital.

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Video Game Review: Nioh 2

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If you didn’t play the original, be prepared to endure a learning curve as you sort out how to mix attacking and evasion effectively while keeping an eye on your Ki (read: stamina) meter. Practically every foe you encounter is capable of ending your life if you get too lazy or think a straightforward hack n’ slash approach with topple lesser enemies without incident. Creating that mindset was the first challenge we had to overcome. It would not be the last.

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Video Game Review: Ori and the Will of the Wisps

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While the game puts lots of tools and options at your disposal, they often don’t feel as smoothly implemented as we wanted them to be. Far too often we found ourselves cursing a missed jump or taking damage from an enemy that our melee strikes carried us into. There’s little more annoying than getting stuck on some thorns, unable to leap to safety as you watch your life slip away. We welcome the challenge of smart level design, but uneven controls added more frustration than we would’ve liked.

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Blu-ray Review: Richard Jewell

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As we watched the film we found ourselves hoping that Wilde’s Scruggs would be a composite of multiple reporters, much in the same way Hamm’s Agent Shaw is. It wasn’t, and it’s hard to imagine Eastwood, Wilde and company thinking portraying Scruggs as someone that sleeps with sources to get key info was a good move. She’s largely cast as the villain, along with Hamm, shown as a conniving headline chaser with no scruples. A late (and modest) redemption arc does nothing to really redeem the character.

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