Short Circuits: 'All Is Lost' on video; activities app; Game Informer top 10

The harrowing man-at-sea adventure "All Is Lost" features Robert Redford as an isolated and adrift sailor in the midst of an indifferent, wantonly cruel universe.

But writer/director J.C. Chandor distills that idea to its visually purest form yet, in a one-man study of revealing character through action. He shows, not tells, and takes filmgoers on a physical and existential voyage that proves why big-screen movies can still matter.

The beating heart at the center of Chandor's daunting exercise is Redford, who plays his nameless adventurer in a nearly wordless performance with the wary determination that a generation came to know and adore throughout the 1970s.

Extras on the DVD and Blu-ray (Lionsgate, $27-$30) include commentary by Chandor and producers Neal Dodson and Anna Gerb; "Big Film, Small Film" featurette on making a complicated film with a limited budget; four making-of vignettes; a "Preparing for the Storm" featurette with storyboards, special-effects reel, time-lapse footage and a unique preshooting clip in which a director of photography takes on the Redford role and Chandor "plays" the wind and sea.

Washington Post

Colin Covert says: At 77, after a legendary career, Robert Redford has delivered his defining performance.

Also out Tuesday

TV: "The Americans" (Season 1), "Dallas" (Season 2), "Newhart" (Season 2), "Sherlock" (Season 3).

Blu-ray: "The Jungle Book."

At its core, OptimizeMe (free for iPhones) is an activity log. When you do anything, you put it in.

There are four broad categories — health, creativity, pleasure and routine — each of which have lots of subcategories, from how much you walked, what you ate, whether you watched TV and if you had sex. OptimizeMe also integrates with the Moves app if you have that installed, easily tracking your steps and runs.

The cool part about OptimizeMe is the analysis it gives you later. All of the data you logged is turned into beautiful charts with a lovely correlation feature where it takes data from one activity (like sleeping) and shows how much it affects another activity (like your overall mood).

Lifehacker

1. "Donkey Kong: Tropical Freeze"

2. "Tomb Raider: Definitive Edition"

3. "Broken Age: Act 1"

4. "The Banner Saga"

6. "OlliOlli"

7. "The Walking Dead: Season Two, Episode 1 – All That Remains"

8. "The Room Two"

9. "Bravely Default"

10. "Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII"