Archive for January 2015
ANZAC Girls DVD Review: Ladies at War and in Love
The exciting true story of Australian nurses serving in WWI.
Read MoreRatboy (1986) DVD Review: Locke and Load
And to think all it took for us to get rid of Sondra Locke was to let her direct!
Read MoreCracked (2013) DVD Review: “What Lies Beneath” an Incomplete Season Set?
BBC Video drops the ball with an unlabeled half-season set of an already canceled Canadian TV show.
Read More2015 Oscar-nominated Live Action Short Films Review
An intriguing collection of characters attempting to connect with others.
Read MorePanic Button (1964) DVD Review: When Mannix Met Mansfield
The Warner Archive Collection releases the rarely-seen comedy that may have inspired a famous Mel Brooks movie.
Read More2015 Oscar-nominated Animated Short Films Review: Feast is Far and Away the Best of the Five
If these are five of the best animated shorts, then it would appear to be a poor year for animated shorts.
Read MoreA Kiss Before Dying (1956) DVD Review: Just Skip the Kiss and Kill Me Already
A tepid, presumably rushed adaptation of the Ira Levin novel that is mostly notable for being a great gathering of future B movie and television actors.
Read MoreBook Review: The Complete Steve Canyon, Volume 5: 1955-1956 by Milton Caniff
Caniff’s artwork is so evocative the mood of the panel is conveyed before reading the word balloons.
Read MoreAbove Suspicion: Complete Collection DVD Review: It’s No Prime Suspect, but It Ain’t Half Bad
It’s impossible not to compare it to La Plante’s other series, but it is well worth watching.
Read MoreThe Kingdom of Dreams and Madness DVD Review: The Glorious End of an Era
Documentary shines a spotlight on the legendary animation Studio Ghibli and its visionary co-founder, Hayao Miyazaki.
Read MoreMy Old Lady Blu-ray Review: or, Secrets & Lies: The Previous Generations
Aging author/playwright Israel Horovitz finally makes his feature film directorial debut. But is he too late in doing so?
Read MoreThe Bride Wore Black (1968) Blu-ray Review: The Roots of ’70s Grindhouse Cinema
François Truffaut’s homage to Hitchcock makes a stunning Blu-ray debut from Twilight Time.
Read MoreAtlas Shrugged Part III Blu-ray Review: Fool’s Gold
Producer John Aglialoro completes his quixotic quest to adapt Ayn Rand’s epic novel to the screen.
Read MoreBreaking Away (1979) Blu-ray Review: How Kids Grew Up Before the Internet
Quite possibly the only movie in history to partly focus on cycling and not suck in the process.
Read MoreThe Serpent’s Egg DVD Review: The Non-Bergman Bergman Film
David Carradine sleepwalks through Ingmar Bergman’s one and only (and kind of weird) Hollywood production.
Read MoreThe Drop (2014) Is the Pick of the Week
Rest in peace, James Gandolfini.
Read MoreA Walk Among the Tombstones Blu-ray Review: Somber, Slow Detective Throwback
This adaptation of Lawrence Block’s alcoholic detective series is true to the character, maybe to a fault.
Read MoreStay Hungry DVD Review: A Special Peculiarity as Sports Films Go
An oddly interesting mix of socialism and bodybuilding politics.
Read MoreThe Party (1968) Blu-ray Review: Psychedelic Comedy of Errors
Blake Edwards and Peter Sellers team up for a subversive, slightly racist classic.
Read MoreFavorite Films of 2014
Did we mention yours?
Read MoreThe Scorpion King 4: Quest for Power Blu-ray Review: “The Search for More Money”
Thoroughly mindless entertainment. Minus the whole “entertainment” part.
Read MoreWetlands (2013) Blu-ray Review: Filth Presented as Frankness
German director David Wnendt’s misguided and NSFW tale of filthy femininity finds its on to Blu-ray.
Read MoreGone Girl Is the Pick of the Week
This week brings us David Fincher’s latest thriller, an empires final boardwalk, a Hendrix biopic, a space documentary and The Facts of Life.
Read MoreThe Wizard of Oz Movie Review: TCM and Fathom Events Lovingly Present a Timeless Classic
Run, don’t walk, to the merry ole land of Oz with TCM and Fathom Events!
Read MoreAdam Blair’s 2014 Movie Roundup
My 10 most overlooked and eight most overpraised.
Read MoreThe Purple Rose of Cairo Blu-ray Review: When Worlds Collide
Twilight Time continues its legacy of giving a damn about Woody Allen’s classic, truly good movies.
Read MoreStill Alice Movie Review: Going, Going, Gone, Girl
A luminous Julianne Moore takes us inside the horror of Alzheimer’s by disappearing while in plain sight.
Read MoreLeft Behind (2014) Blu-ray Review: Ungodly in Every Sense of the Word
A movie about people who are lost made by people who couldn’t find their asses with both hands and flashlights.
Read MoreArcher (Vice): The Complete Season Five Blu-ray Review: Smugglers’ Blues
With season five, Archer continued to be one of the funniest shows going.
Read MoreThe Vanishing (1988) Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review: Thriller as Character Study
A woman’s disappearance creates a terrible bond between the man who took her, and the one who lost her.
Read MoreBoyhood Is the Pick of the Week
After a week off I’m looking for movies about boys, girls, a former wizard growing horns, and Nick Cage in his most inexplicable role ever.
Read More‘Rebel, Rebel’: Six Tales of Defiance from Twilight Time
From Streisand to Stone, controversies to conniving, this sextet offers it all.
Read MoreTaken Movie Review: A Fun-tastic Action Revenge Flick
A good old-fashioned bad-guys-getting-their-butts-handed-to-them kinda movie.
Read MoreRye Coalition: The Story of the Hard Luck 5 DVD Review: A Band of Brothers Bound Together
New Jersey underground rockers take a look back at a career unknown.
Read MoreHoliday in Spain Blu-ray Review: Scent of a Mystery Woman
With so much work invested into a weird little gimmick flick starring Denholm Elliott and Peter Lorre, what’s there not to love?
Read MoreA Will for the Woods DVD Review: A Documentary That Deserves to Be Seen
The story of Clark Wang and his journey to have a green burial.
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