Feature-length doc heads up the extras on Shout Factory’s Jackie Chan Collection Vol. 1 —

How tenacity, adaptation, and intelligent shoe design led to Nike’s greatest creation — In recent years the secondary market for new and used sneakers as collectibles has boomed into a massive industry, sending values for vintage classic shoe models skyrocketing. And in the world of athletic footwear there’s no name more hallowed than Jordan — Air Jordan, that is. Even two decades after…

The newest film in DC’s Animated adapts one of the most interesting tales from the “Elseworlds” conceptual line of non-continuity reinventions. Batman: The Doom That Came to Gotham is a Lovecraftian story which originated in comics form in 2000–2001, written by Mike Mignola and Richard Pace. …

When John Wick hit in 2014, its incredible world-building was one of the key ways in which it pulled ahead of the action pack. …

John Woo returns to the Criterion Collection with the transitional precursor to his bullet ballads — New on Criterion Blu-ray, Last Hurrah for Chivalry is a historic transitional film in Hong Kong action cinema, released at a time when wuxia films were starting to feel old fashioned. As we’ve outlined in our Shaw Bros exploration, kung fu and wuxia cinema progressed in the 1970s in a…

It may be the 9th in a saga, but CREED III continues to tell a story with grace and depth — For the third film in the story of Adonis Creed — itself part of the larger Rocky legacy now nine films deep — most viewers probably have a pretty good idea of what to expect from one of the most venerated and consistently exciting of cinematic franchises. Part of the…

I seem to be in the minority, but I was very pleased with Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, a very different kind of adventure for Ant-Man and his family-based crew that wildly changes the scope and formula of the series and delivers hearty chuckles, a menacing villain, and a foothold…

DC’s latest terrific animated adventure reminds us why to let them do their thing — Legion of Super-Heroes, DC’s newest direct-to-video animation feature, continues their trend of mining the comics universe for its most compelling, unusual, and often lesser known material. I’m especially fond of DC’s throwback takes on Silver Age storytelling, and “Legion of Super-Heroes” is such a fun and delightfully nerdy super-squad concept…

New on Blu-ray this week, Shout! Factory brings the Jackie Chan Collection Vol. …