Archive for July 2020
Five Cool Things and the New Mutants
What an eclectically cool week.
Read MoreTony Curtis Collection Blu-ray Review: Charming
Kino Lorber presents three mid-tier films from the great actor, and it is great to finally have them on Blu-ray.
Read MoreCarole Lombard Collection I Blu-ray Review: An Early Glimpse of the Queen of Screwball Comedy
The set includes Fast and Loose, Man of the World, and No Man of Her Own.
Read MoreThe Tenant Is the Pick of the Week
Roman Polanski’s super underrated 1976 creepfest headlines a new week of releases.
Read MoreCastle Rock: The Complete Second Season Blu-ray Review: A Stronger Stephen King Feel to It
What I was hoping for: a dark scary world with many twists and turns that kept me on the edge of my seat.
Read MoreCaptain America: The Winter Soldier Blu-ray Review: A Suspenseful Thriller
One of the top action movies of 2014.
Read MoreFive Cool Things and a Bookstore Haul
A cool week was made even cooler by a trip to the bookstore.
Read MoreDream Demon Blu-ray Review: Newly-Unearthed ’80s Horror Fantasy
Rarely scary, but visually gripping, an unsuccessful attempt to copy Nightmare on Elm Street scores as a fantasy film.
Read MoreWorst Cartoons Ever! DVD Review: They Stink!
Anyone can own great cartoons, but it takes a true fan of the art form to own and appreciate the worst that animation has to offer.
Read MoreMost Wanted (2020) Movie Review: A Middling Crime Drama with Identity Crisis
A drama like Most Wanted, which heavily banks on its characters, needed a much strong emotional connection.
Read MoreThe Whistlers (2020) Movie Review: Barely a Peep
It’s exciting in some areas, but never quite amounts to anything spectacular.
Read MoreBook Review: Picturing Peter Bogdanovich: My Conversations with the New Hollywood Director by Peter Tonguette
Bogdanovich was lucky, but he was also terribly unlucky.
Read MoreNever Give a Sucker an Even Break Blu-ray Review: W.C. Fields’ Last Star Turn Delivers Laughs
Although it’s a presentation of a series of sketches rather than a unified story being told, that doesn’t make it any less funny.
Read MoreMarriage Story Is the Pick of the Week
Noah Baumbach’s marvelous portrait of a marriage reaching its not-so-simple end tops a new week of interesting releases.
Read MoreFive Cool Things and Possessor
I’m getting tired of staying home, but at least there are still cool things to consume
Read MoreTaste of Cherry Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review: Not to Everyone’s Taste
Iranian classic finally gets a Criterion Blu-ray release.
Read MoreThe World in His Arms Blu-ray Review: Swashbuckling Gregory Peck
A high-flying adventure on the high seas.
Read MoreMarriage Story Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review: Emotionally Brutal and Full of Life
Noah Baumbach crafts a searingly intense and sometimes humorous examination of a very broken marriage.
Read MoreThe Mad Fox Blu-ray Review: Kabuki-styled Cinematic Fantasia
Sometimes kabuki, sometimes animated, always fascinating, The Mad Fox is rife with political intrigue and forbidden romance.
Read MoreMurder by Decree (Special Edition) Blu-ray Review: Fogbound
A bland Sherlock Holmes seeks to unmask Jack the Ripper, in Bob Clark’s sluggish and tame (but still fun) ensemble mystery.
Read MoreBook Review: Gramercy Park by Timothée de Fombelle and Christian Cailleaux
The rare comic that uses the trappings of noir to tell a new story.
Read MoreThis Island Earth Blu-ray Review: Highly Recommended for the Sci-fi Film Buff
Scream Factory has done impressive work with this title.
Read MoreBruce Lee: His Greatest Hits Is the Pick of the Week
A mammoth box set featuring five standout films of the greatest martial artist of all-time tops a new week of great releases.
Read MoreFive Cool Things and Gillian Welch’s All the Good Times Are Past and Gone
Some of the cool things from this past week.
Read MoreFilm Noir: The Dark Side of Cinema IV Blu-ray Review: Too Much Melodrama, Not Enough Noir
These three films are decent enough dramas but lack the edge of a good film noir.
Read MoreThe Old Guard Movie Review: An Insightful Thrill Ride
Gina Prince-Bythewood breathes all sorts of new life into the realm of comic book cinema.
Read MoreAmerica as Seen by a Frenchman Blu-ray Review: A Fascinating Snapshot in Time
A glimpse into my country’s past a viewed from a foreigner.
Read MoreBlood Tide Blu-ray Review: Fun and Monsters in the Greek Sun
James Earl Jones quotes Shakespeare and conjures a barely seen monster in this masterpiece from Greek auteur Nico Mastorakis.
Read MoreSolid Metal Nightmares: The Films of Shinya Tsukamoto Blu-ray Box Set Review
Arrow’s impressive box set contains a whopping 10 films surveying the career of this film auteur.
Read MoreRelic (2020) Movie Review: Gritty Familial Horror with Supernatural Elements
Natalie Erika James’ directorial debut offers a blend of lingering frights and melancholia.
Read MoreInmate #1: The Rise of Danny Trejo Movie Review: A Complex and Compelling Story
The compelling documentary about the life of actor, businessman, and activist Danny Trejo.
Read MoreInferno of Torture Blu-ray Review: Torsos, Tattoos, and Torture
Another in Teruo Ishii’s series of films depicting sadistic practices in Japanese history, all of which involve disrobing women.
Read MoreThe War of the Worlds (1953) Is the Pick of the Week
A slightly dated, but very chilling sci-fi classic tops a new week of releases.
Read MoreGame of HAM Review: Outrageous Fun for Those Not Easily Offended
Folks should use their imagination and make of the game and its accompanying paraphernalia what they will.
Read MoreFive Cool Things and the Fourth of July
Happy Birthday, United States of America.
Read MoreThe Flesh and the Fiends Blu-ray Review: Selling Corpses in Scotland
Donald Pleasence steals the show.
Read MoreThe Truth (2019) Movie Review: Truthfully Middle-Ground
Both an adequately understated family drama and a missed opportunity.
Read MoreUrban Cowboy Blu-ray Review: The Devil Should Have Gone Down to Texas Instead
This 1980 cash-in on the country pop craze has little to say, and isn’t much fun.
Read MoreWild Palms Blu-ray Review: It’s No Twin Peaks
Futuristic miniseries throws in so many ideas that it never settles on one.
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