Top Gun
(Paramount, $25)
Watching Top Gun in its 25th-anniversary edition, it’s possible to see it simply as “the rousing Reagan-era smash it was,” said Entertainment Weekly. Intriguingly, the film also marked “the precise moment when so many of our summer movies became soulless confections.”
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In a Better World
(Sony, $46)
This timely meditation on male aggression plays like a “potent essay on the roots of society’s most primal evils,” said The Washington Post. Set in both an African tribal village and a coastal town in Denmark, it won the 2011 Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film.
POM Wonderful Presents: The Greatest Movie Ever Sold
(Sony, $31)
Morgan Spurlock has proven to be “a master of the grand gimmick,” said the New Orleans Times-Picayune. This recent feature from the Super Size Me filmmaker explores product placement and was fully paid for by product placements.
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Brooklyn vs. the Beckhams: trouble in paradiseIn the Spotlight Scion of the Beckham clan and billionaire heiress wife Nicola Peltz staged an elaborate vow renewal – and none of his family were on the guest list
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August 21 editorial cartoonsCartoons Thursday's political cartoons include AI-driven water shortages, Sharpie-corrected slavery, and airstrikes on Washington, D.C.
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Alien: Earth – a 'bold' prequel to the space horror classicThe Week Recommends Set two years before Alien, new Disney show pays 'homage' to the original
