New to Blu-ray/DVD: The Accountant
In The Accountant (Warner Home Video), Christian Wolff (Ben Affleck) is a high-functioning autistic man whose mathematical skills have attracted various underworld figures to seek him out to cook their books. Wolff is good at this job, and has managed to survive many encounters with dangerous clients. Operating from a modest storefront in …
TV Recap: Brooklyn Nine-Nine: 9 Days (3.12)
While in the middle of solving a high-profile mafia-related case, Holt and Jake contract a case of the mumps and decide to be quarantined together. They think they’ll have the energy to find Joey Girabaldi while the illness runs its course but must ultimately battle a concerned Amy and the rigors of high fevers and huge goiters to get results. Incoherent and lost In their own illness-ridden minds, time seems to be running out…
Silence: A Thematically Rich and Rewarding Exploration of Religious Faith
There’s a moment in Silence, Martin Scorsese’s (Kundun, The Last Temptation of Christ) decades-in-the-making adaptation of Shūsaku Endō’s prize-winning1966 novel, when the central character, Father Sebastião Rodrigues (Andrew Garfield), a Jesuit priest on a spiritual and physical journey in 17th Japan, gazes into a stream, finding…







