A few weeks ago, I tuned in to watch The Rookie because I needed a Nathan Fillion fix. Haven’t seen him in a while. I stopped watching the show after the second season. I’m not big into investigative dramas (I’m just too much a fantasy and science fiction type) and it wasn’t the same as seeing Fillion in Castle with its great balance of drama and comedy. (I miss you funny Nathan!) The episode that I caught was the March 25th episode titled “Speed,” which was okay, but ultimately just made me want to watch Speed, the movie again.

So, I checked out the 20^th Anniversary DVD of Speed from my local library. (Side note here: please support your local library as much as possible. Library funding, I’m appalled to be saying, is one of the latest targets of the current administration. Anywho….) This movie with Sandra Bullock, Keanu Reeves, Dennis Hopper, Jeff Daniels, and the whole cast still rocks. After 20 years, it’s still suspenseful—a whole bucket of popcorn kind of movie. Yeah, it’s a bit hokey in bits, but it is entertainment, not reality. It’s meant to be fun. Watch and enjoy.

Then because I am way too into DVD extras, I watched the film again with the commentary from screenwriter Graham Yost and producer Mark Gordon. I hoped for some valuable insight into the screenwriting process and the trials and tribulations of producing a film. It gave me that and more. Yost and Gordon are incredibly engaging and funny in this commentary. A true bonus and I truly recommend it. (Although, I have to warn you that they do point out some errors in the film that you might not be able to ignore on a later rewatch.)

Next, because I was in the mood for a few more laughs I had to pop in my Serenity DVD just to watch the bloopers. Maybe it’s because I love Joss Whedon’s short-lived space cowboy mashup series Firefly so much or maybe that it features Nathan Fillion at his silliest (and the rest of the wonderful cast, too), but this is the best blooper reel I’ve ever seen. It cracks me up every time I watch it—even if I haven’t been rewatching Firefly. If you don’t have or can’t get the DVD, you can catch the blooper reel on Youtube: Serenity Bloopers. I hope that gives you a few chuckles. These days, we need all the funny we can get.

Of course, I may have already given you a laugh at how much I rely on DVDs for entertainment—so very old school. After all, everyone streams these days, right? I do that, too, but I still love some movies so much that I always want to own my own copies. There’s something that feels good about pulling a DVD off the shelf and loading it into the machine. I’m the same way with books. I do get some books on my Kindle, but most of the time I like to hold the real thing in my hands. Therefore: the library. Very old school, but free to everyone. So far…right?