Aliens, exes, and culture clashes, oh my! It seems like a lot of worlds get shaken up in this week’s home entertainment picks.
Those rascally world-conquering aliens are back in Roland Emmerich’s long-awaited sequel to ID4, Independence Day: Resurgence. A gay Asian-American New Yorker clashes, and finds sparks with, a closeted actor from Beijing in romantic dramedy Front Cover (above). Finally, Michael Moore releases a stand-up surprise in time for the election, Michael Moore In Trumpland.
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($49.99 3D Blu-ray, $39.99 Blu-ray, $29.98 DVD; 20th Century Fox)
Yes, those pesky aliens are back – although Will Smith ain’t – with insanely massive space ships, cray cray technology, and a collective woody to nail Earth’s butt this time. Director Roland Emmerich again destroys loads of cities, defies logic, and has characters say ridiculous things, and all that’s missing is a big bag of popcorn. Extras include deleted scenes, featurettes, gag reel, commentary, concept art and more.
($24.99 DVD; Strand)
In writer/director Ray Yeung’s culture clash romcom, Ryan, a gay, Chinese-American fashion stylist, finds culture clash and some steamy sparks when working with a prickly, popular actor from China, Ning. The latter is shocked and appalled by the former’s openness, but slowly finds ease and fascination with it, while Ryan, a self-described “potato queen” – aka exclusively into white men – not only warms up to Ning but feels perhaps a bona fide attraction. Yet will their two different worlds force them apart or ultimately bring them together? A superb, insightful gay film with a gorgeous pair of Asian romantic leads – something we don’t see enough of… yet!
https://youtu.be/70G9x4l0cAk
(VOD)
Just in the nick of time, Michael Moore has unleashed a stand-up concert film, shot in the swing state of Ohio, that addresses the upcoming election. Alas, it’s not a multilayered, investigative piece like he’s best known for, and there isn’t as much Trump-centric material as the title indicates, yet it’s a timely plea for sanity – “Make America Sane Again” is his mission – for when swing voters reach the booths.
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Hussain-TheCanadian
Im definitely going to watch “Front cover”, and Trumpland – going to be fun!
Celtic
Front cover was pretty good. I would have changed the ending but I won’t spoil it by saying how.
Bob LaBlah
That trash (Independence Day: Resurgence) will have to go down in the top five stinkers of all time. Yes, that just how HORRIBLE that movie was. People walked out the theatre twenty minutes into it. None of the characters could make you believe they were even acting in a movie.
Gates
@Bob LaBlah: I didn’t even make it 20 minutes. They need to stop it with all these space and comic book movies, they suck. They don’t need actors to make these movies just a computer and a cute guy in a weird outfit. I miss the days of real movies with real stories and real acting.