When I Was Thirty: Back to the Future Trilogy

Back at the end of last September, my wife pooled all of our close friends and family together to buy me Blu-ray trilogies. We decided that we would do one trilogy per month. 

I've done three of these posts so far ("LOTR", "Bourne", and "Oceans"). In those, I feel I tried to act like something I'm not. By that, I mean I actually tried to watch and review special features. The truth is: I don't really have time for that with all of these, I've found. I've decided to focus on what I love about these movies from here on out. How they connect to me, and, really, to all of us. Digging out themes is what I really love to do. I'm not doing consumer reviews here. I'm sharing a love of classic American cinematic trilogies. 

So, I'm not gonna really review the extras, I'll just list what's available, whether I get to watch them or not. If I get to watch them, as was totally necessary with LOTR, I will comment. 

For this one, let's get it out of the way now: the "Back to the Future: 25th Anniversary Trilogy" Blu-ray is beautiful. The movies looks great, they sound great, and there are hours upon hours of featurettes and makings-of and interviews and archive footages and commentaries, even a documentary about the physics of the films. I will watch some of this eventually. 

Thursday Movie Picks: Father-Son Relationships

Fathers and sons don't always see eye-to-eye. In fact, some men have no relationship with their fathers...period, many by choice. These three are fathers that are there for their sons but not really there, you know? These are stories of emotionally distant men with second chances but only if father and son, and even if they don't know it, can trust in each other enough to work together.

It's the return of the All in the Family Edition of Wandering through the Shelves' Thursday Movie Picks. This time biologically related fathers and sons.