Posts Tagged ‘drama’
Here’s Flash Casey DVD Review: His Girl Friday, The Big Sleep, and Andy Hardy Walk into a Bar…
There’s a lot of story going on for such a short runtime.
Read MoreGentleman Jim Blu-ray Review: Still Packs a Punch
A lighthearted drama that packs a punch and has some good laughs.
Read MoreLe Combat Dans L’ile Blu-ray Review: An Overlooked Surprise by an Underrated Filmmaker
A stylish gem of the French New Wave.
Read MoreDesperate Souls, Dark City, and the Legend of Midnight Cowboy DVD Review
A flawed but still fascinating pseudo-doc about a groundbreaking masterpiece of American cinema.
Read MoreThe Edge of the World Blu-ray Review: Director Michael Powell’s First Masterpiece
Michael Powell’s early solo effort is a romantic and swift portrait of resilience during changing times.
Read MoreBefore Night Falls Blu-ray Review: Expresses the Overall Importance of Artists and Their Art
A profound, evocative portrait of liberation against extreme boundaries.
Read MoreNo Bears Blu-ray Review: A Powerful Work About the Passion for Filmmaking
A simple but profound portrait of the resilience of creative expression.
Read MoreNil by Mouth Blu-ray Review: A Strong, Gripping Example of British Cinema
A brutal and relentless portrait of working-class angst and family dysfunction.
Read MoreHardcore Blu-ray Review: A Solid and Nervy Depiction
A flawed but compelling and uncomfortable depiction of the dark netherworld of pornography.
Read MoreMillennium Mambo Blu-ray Review: A Lyrical and Subtle Film
A neon-drenched portrait of aimless youth that creeps on you if you look at it closely.
Read MoreThe Servant Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review: A Scathing, Subversive Film of Class, Sexuality, and Manipulation
A subtly nasty power play of British social mores.
Read MoreReturn to Seoul Blu-ray Review: A Young Life in Turmoil
A frustratingly honest character study and stark portrait of cross-cultural complications.
Read MoreStorm Warming Blu-ray Review: A Flawed but Hard-hitting Expose of Small Town Corruption
t is perfect? No. Is it relevant? Unfortunately, yes.
Read MorePalm Trees and Power Lines Movie Review: A Disturbingly Common Premise Given a Modern Feel
A familiar story gives way to a creepy and shattering portrayal of growing up.
Read MoreIce Merchants Movie Review: A Heartrending Winner
A wordless but lyrical animated short tale of love, loss and daily responsibilities.
Read MoreIrreversible: Straight Cut Movie Review: Still Remains an Exhaustive, Challenging Experience
A dark and unflinching masterpiece of French extremity gets a new recut and reevaluation.
Read MoreEO Movie Review: One of the Very Best Films of the Year
A bold and exasperatingly inventive view of life through the eyes of an equine hero.
Read MoreHold Me Tight Blu-ray Review: An Engrossing Multi-character Piece
A mostly successful and somber family drama.
Read MoreEuphoria: Seasons 1 & 2 DVD Review: Full of Candor, Humor, and Empathy
A raw, gritty, tough, and terrifyingly modern television show on teen angst.
Read MoreI’ve Heard the Mermaids Singing Blu-ray Review: A Prime Example of the Immediacy and Importance of Films by Women
A charming and quietly resonant film about queerness and the ambitions of women.
Read MoreThe Chocolate War Blu-ray Review: Aims a Rather Sharp Eye on the Weird Rituals of Toxic Male Youth
An interesting, but not entirely successful portrait of bizarre boarding school politics.
Read MoreRachel, Rachel Blu-ray Review: A Tender Story of a Woman’s Awakening
A dated but still sensitively crafted character study of repression with a career-defining performance by the great Joanne Woodward.
Read MoreHotel du Nord Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review: A Somber French Realist Classic
A prime example of Marcel Carne’s attention to fully showcasing the depths of humanity.
Read MoreComing Apart Blu-ray Review: A Realistically Troubling Portrait of Our Deepest, Darkest Impulses
A disturbing, but highly impactful experiment of toxic masculinity and sexual exploration that’s way ahead of its time.
Read MoreThe Worst Person in the World Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review: Breathtakingly Honest
This incredible, deep, and fully fleshed-out film because it gives us fellow thirty-somethings a much-needed voice.
Read MoreTribeca 2022 Review: Coming Out with the Help of a Time Machine
The short’s mixture of sci-fi and themes of family bond is definitely relevant.
Read MoreTribeca Film Festival 2022 Review: A Love Song
A minimalist but heartfelt drama of love that has seen it all but hasn’t quite given up on it.
Read MoreMississippi Masala Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review: Mira Nair’s Beguiling Sophomore Film
A teaching lesson for how to truthfully tell a cinematic story centering on race relations and the boundaries that unfortunately always come with them.
Read More‘Round Midnight Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review: Perhaps the Greatest and Most Compelling Jazz Film Ever Made
Legendary saxophonist Dexter Gordon gives a fantastic, Oscar-nominated performance as Dale Turner, a brilliant, world-weary New York musician but troubled alcoholic living in Paris.
Read MoreParallel Mothers Blu-ray Review: Penelope Cruz Delivers Another Luminous Performance
Another example of Almodovar’s typically extraordinary filmmaking gifts and proves that he’s still got it.
Read MoreJockey Blu-ray Review: Clifton Collins Jr. Is Simply Marvelous
There is authenticity that gives it a documentary feel.
Read MoreOrdinary People Blu-ray Review: The Puzzle of Life Isn’t Always Complete
It’s a showcase for tremendous acting.
Read MoreSXSW 2022 Review: Master
Mariama Diallo’s narrative logics and ideas are in the right place, even if some of them don’t always stick the landing.
Read MoreHester Street Blu-ray Review: Joan Micklin Silver’s Beguiling 1975 Masterpiece
A great example of the hopes and tragedies immigrants face in their new world.
Read MoreWheel of Fortune and Fantasy Blu-ray Review: A Wonderful and Highly Gorgeous Work of Art
Every character is relatable.
Read MoreGold Diggers of 1933 Blu-ray Review: It’s Perfect
Gold Diggers of 1933 is one of the very best Depression-era musicals.
Read MoreThe Piano Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review: Jane Campion’s Sublime Masterpiece
There’s isn’t a frame of this dark, Gothic, feminist love story that hits a wrong note.
Read MoreThe Learning Tree Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review: A Semi-Autobiographical Story from Gordon Parks
If you want an understanding on why Gordon Parks is an important filmmaker, then The Learning Tree should make a good starting point.
Read MoreAngels with Dirty Faces Blu-ray Review: A Seminal Gangster Classic
The Blu-ray from Warner Archive is solid.
Read MoreRatcatcher Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review: A Definite Punch to the Gut
A film filled with blunt beauty and unsparing truth.
Read MoreLove & Basketball Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review: A Love Story That Feels Fresh
I thought that Love & Basketball was a strange choice for Criterion, but when I watched the supplements, I saw that it made total sense.
Read MoreThe Damned Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review: A Demonstrative Descent into Family Destruction
The cast is uniformly excellent and willing to take risks.
Read MoreSongs My Brothers Taught Me Blu-ray Review: A Compelling Cinematic Experience
It’s a poetic and soulful film that deserves everyone’s attention.
Read MoreBeasts of No Nation Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review: Not Soon Forgotten
Newcomer Abraham Attah gives one of the most soulful performances in the history of child acting.
Read MoreShe Done Him Wrong Blu-ray Review: But This Film Will Do You Right
If you love classic film, and want to see something bold but subtle, then you should add this to your collection.
Read MoreMerrily We Go to Hell Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review: A Prime Example of Dorothy Arzner’s Legacy
This 1932 pre-Code masterpiece boldly tackles modern marriage.
Read MoreIrma Vep Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review: A Great Milestone in Olivier Assayas’s Body of Work
It predicted everything that would happen with the moving image, including the unfortunately sanitized cinema of today.
Read MoreSecrets & Lies Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review: Cinema at Its Best
Secrets & Lies has everything one could ever want in a film.
Read MoreSXSW 2021 Movie Review: Udo Kier is Flawless in ‘Swan Song’
Udo Kier is at a career-best level as an elderly gay man reconciling with his troubled past.
Read MoreTouki bouki Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review: Deserves to be Seen and Discovered
It is a universal tale of wanting a better way of living, but sometimes having to tread dangerous waters to make those seemingly attainable dreams come true.
Read MoreSmooth Talk Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review: A Teen’s Roller Coaster Ride from Innocence to Harsh Reality
Smooth Talk moves seamlessly from coming-of-age comedy to drama to horror film.
Read MoreMalcolm & Marie Movie Review: A Frustratingly Distressing Acting Showcase
A 106-minute nonsensical shouting match.
Read MoreThe Ascent Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review: Larisa Shepitko’s Masterpiece
A haunting and unforgettable portrait of war gets a fantastic new upgrade by Criterion.
Read MoreVariety (1983) Blu-ray Review: A Revealing Character Study of a Woman Rediscovering Herself
A moody and very provocative depiction of female obsession and sexuality.
Read MoreBeau Travail Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review: Mysterious, Haunting, and Transformative
Claire Denis’s 1999 masterpiece of jealousy, erotic/repressed desire, and personal destruction makes its long-awaited debut to the Criterion Collection.
Read MoreAn Unmarried Woman Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review: Bold and Groundbreaking
A still fresh, unapologetically honest portrait of a woman’s reawakening.
Read MoreSpring Night Summer Night Blu-ray Review: An Honest Portrait of Small Town Woes and Broken Dreams
Flicker Alley brings much needed new life to a nearly obscure, minimalist, but extraordinary gem of a film.
Read MoreBilly Liar Blu-ray Review: Tom Courtenay’s Performance is Absolutely Spellbinding
The late, great director John Schlesinger crafts a sad but uproarious portrait of a young man’s inner and outer life.
Read MoreTV Review: Twin – A Limited Series
In his new series, Kristofer Hivju gets to play not just one larger-than-life character, but twin brothers who couldn’t be more dissimilar – or more at odds with one another.
Read MoreNow, Voyager Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review: A Superior Tearjerker
A beloved 1942 Bette Davis classic gets a stellar release from the Criterion Collection.
Read MoreFantastic Fest 2019 Review: Koko-di Koko-da: Horror Through Repetition
Dying over and over shouldn’t be fun, but Koko-di Koko-da sure is a creepy joyride.
Read MoreTrue Believer (1989) Blu-ray Review: Blisteringly Performed Courtroom Drama
Briskly paced, excellent acted late ’80s drama stars a disillusioned James Woods and a young, idealistic Robert Downey Jr.
Read MoreThe Snake Pit Blu-ray Review: One of the First and Best Motion Pictures to Bring Mental Illness to Life
A controversial, watershed classic that taps into a relatable topic that afflicts many of us.
Read MoreThe Reflecting Skin Blu-ray Review: A Brutally Surreal Coming-of-Age Gem
A beguilingly weird swan dive into twisted childhood as if made by David Lynch and Terrence Malick.
Read MoreDiamonds of the Night Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review: The Story of Youth Under Fire with a Brilliantly Fractured Eye
A startling and very tense debut from the most unflinching director of the now-ancient Czechoslovak New Wave.
Read MoreThe Miseducation of Cameron Post Blu-ray Review: Understated and Challenging
Chloe Grace Moretz’s amazing performance anchors this timely, funny, and at times difficult film of a sadly still existing subject.
Read MoreA Silent Voice Blu-ray Review: Bully Redemption in a Subdued Tone
An animated drama about a school bully picking on a deaf girl tells a story quiet about redemption and consequences.
Read MoreFar from Heaven Blu-ray Review: Subtle and Graceful Filmmaking
A remarkable and impeccably acted portrait of 1950s suburban malaise from the early 2000s.
Read MoreShame (1968) Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review: A Harrowing, Nightmarish Bergman Masterpiece
As unflinchingly honest and unforgiving as a film can ever get.
Read MoreThe Real McCoy (1993) Blu-ray Review: Dammit, Kim!
Kino Lorber places Russell Mulcahy’s heist stinker starring Kim Basinger and Val Kilmer on display for you to give or take.
Read MoreShoplifters DVD Review: Two Hours of Pure, Understated, Humanistic Cinema
One of the very best films of 2018.
Read MoreMikey and Nicky Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review: Elaine May Should Be Unanimously Acclaimed
A very underappreciated masterpiece of toxic masculinity and bleak relationships.
Read MoreSarah T.: Portrait of a Teenage Alcoholic Blu-ray Review: A Powerful Performance by Linda Blair
A sobering, if slight look at teenage alcoholism.
Read MoreA Dry White Season Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review: Truly Gripping Cinema
An unflinching and sadly relevant drama of violence and ongoing oppression.
Read MoreDistant Voices, Still Lives Blu-ray Review: Accurately Captures the Battle of the Sexes
A minimalist, but masterful portrait of harrowing family dynamics.
Read MoreDon’t Worry, He Won’t Get Far on Foot Blu-ray Review: Don’t Worry, You Didn’t Miss Anything
Gus Van Sant assembles an impressive cast for a lackluster biopic.
Read MoreGold (1974) Blu-ray Review: Always Believe in Your Soul
Kino Lorber digs up this strange British mish-mash of just about every genre under the ground starring Roger Moore, Susannah York, Ray Milland, and Bradford Dillman.
Read MoreLife Itself (2018) Movie Review: Dour, Sentimental Drivel
The depressing Life Itself will surely be a contender for worst movie of the year.
Read MoreMarrowbone (2018) Blu-ray Review: A Cure for Insomnia
A talented young cast and impressive production pieces can’t save this meandering debut from Sergio G. Sánchez.
Read MoreCondemned! | The Devil to Pay! DVDs Review: Both Worthy of Exclamation Points
The Warner Archive Collection dusts off two pre-Code Ronald Colman classics featuring Ann Harding, Loretta Young, Myrna Loy, and a familiar-looking terrier.
Read MoreNico, 1988 Movie Review: Both Simplistic and Unsentimental
A sublime biopic carried by Trine Dyrholm who excels as the late famed musician.
Read MoreA Strange Adventure (1956) Blu-ray Review: An Unremarkable Thriller
Young Nick Adams highlights this entertainingly cheapo Republic Pictures crime flick, now available from Kino Lorber Studio Classics.
Read MoreI Walk Alone (1947) Blu-ray Review: A Fine, Slow-Burning Film Noir
Burt Lancaster and Kirk Douglas go toe-to-toe for the very first time in this classic crime drama from Kino Lorber Studio Classics.
Read MoreTiger by the Tail (1970) Blu-ray Review: The Lyons’ Tiger’s a Bear, Oh My
Christopher George, Tippi Hedren, Charo, and a lot of wood paneling star in this odd little thriller from Kino Lorber Studio Classics.
Read MoreAmerican Animals Movie Review: A Conflicted yet Clever Heist Thriller
American Animals offers up a witty yet complex demonstration of the conflicting pursuit of the American Dream.
Read MoreAlexander Hamilton (1931) DVD Review: I Never Expect to See a Perfect Work Anyway
An entirely-too-old George Arliss portrays a much younger Hamilton in this early pre-Code biopic from the Warner Archive Collection.
Read MoreThe Hanging Tree (1959) Blu-ray Review: Hangin’ with Mr. Cooper
The Warner Archive Collection knots it up with this captivating western starring Gary Cooper, Maria Schell, Karl Malden, and first-timer George C. Scott.
Read MoreThe Ship from Shanghai (1930) DVD Review: Slippery When Whet
The Warner Archive Collection raises an early Sound Era seafaring thriller featuring Kay Johnson and Louis Wolheim.
Read MoreA Lost Lady (1934) DVD Review: A Lost Cause
The Warner Archive Collection finds a rare Barbara Stanwyck flick co-starring the famous Emerald City Wizard himself, Frank Morgan.
Read MoreThe New Centurions (1972) Blu-ray Review: Blue Lives Shatter
Twilight Time books a classic, slow burning cop drama starring George C. Scott and Stacy Keach.
Read MoreThe Seven-Ups (1973) Blu-ray Review: This One Gets Seven Thumbs Up
Twilight Time proudly unleashes the intense, unofficial sequel to “The French Connection”. And it’s nothing short of awesome.
Read MoreKind Lady Double Feature DVD Review: Team Sherlock Holmes or Team Dr. Zaius?
The Warner Archive Collection pairs two different versions of the same story ‒ with Basil Rathbone and Maurice Evans taking turns playing the bad guy ‒ on one disc.
Read MoreThe L-Shaped Room (1962) Blu-ray Review: The Misplaced Misfits
Twilight Time releases the forgotten, award-winning “kitchen sink” drama from Bryan Forbes, which all fans of Morrissey and The Smiths should probably see.
Read MoreForever Amber (1947) Blu-ray Review: It Never Seems That Long Until You’re Grown
By hook or crook, Linda Darnell climbs her way to the top in the once-controversial drama, now available from Twilight Time.
Read MoreDon’t Bother to Knock (1952) Blu-ray Review: Marilyn Monoir
Twilight Time releases the odd real-time film noir cult classic starring Richard Widmark, Marilyn Monroe, and Anne Bancroft.
Read MoreThe Hospital (1971) Blu-ray Review: George C. Scott Loses His Patients
There’s a killer on the loose and someone has to foot the bill in this obscured, Oscar-winning satire now available from Twilight Time.
Read MoreWild Bill (1995) Blu-ray Review: The End of an Era (in Film)
Twilight Time unholsters Walter Hill’s wildly uneven western starring Jeff Bridges as the iconic gunman.
Read MoreThe Crazies (1973) Blu-ray Review: The Best Kind of Crazy
The best version yet of an influential classic.
Read MoreWuthering Heights (1970) Blu-ray Review: Subtly Mind-Blowing
AIP’s only Gothic romance is just as weird as you’d expect, and can now be seen in High-Definition thanks to Twilight Time.
Read MoreSummer of ’42 (1971) Blu-ray Review: There’s a First Time for Everything
The obscured (if slightly controversial now) coming-of-age hit returns to home video courtesy the Warner Archive Collection.
Read MoreWhile the City Sleeps / Beyond a Reasonable Doubt (1956) Blu-rays Review: Puttin’ on the Fritz
Fritz Lang’s final two American films ‒ both starring Dana Andrews ‒ get the much-deserved Warner Archive Collection treatment.
Read MoreTribeca 2018 Review: Disobedience Is a Compelling Portrait of a Defiant Romance
Rachel McAdams, Rachel Weisz, and Alessandro Nivola give three of the year’s best performances in this compelling romantic drama.
Read MoreAllenesque: Five Woody Allen Movies on Blu-ray from Twilight Time
From screwball spoofs to serious dramas, this quintet of features from the one and only comedian/filmmaker offers a variety of stylings.
Read MoreTribeca 2018 Review: Dry Martina Is a Bewildering yet Engaging Star Vehicle
Antonella Costa is the strong, complicated center of a tortuous story.
Read MoreHarper (1966) / The Drowning Pool (1975) Blu-rays Review: Newman’s Own Detective Series
The Warner Archive Collection brings us two excellent transfers of two contrasting tales starring the great Paul Newman.
Read MoreA Woman’s Devotion (1956) Blu-ray Review: Mangled PTSD Crime Drama
Kino Lorber Studio Classics unburies Paul Henreid’s butchered, noir-esque tale with Ralph Meeker and Janice Rule.
Read MoreDirector Leena Pendharkar on Her Latest Film “20 Weeks”
She talked about bringing the authentic relationship between the two main characters to life, the filmmaking aesthetics, and the backstory behind the screenplay as well.
Read MoreAuntie Mame (1958) Blu-ray Review: And It’s Completely Lucille Ball-Free, Too!
The Warner Archive Collection brings us a beautiful restoration of Rosalind Russell’s original great aunt.
Read MoreDoc Hollywood (1991) Blu-ray Review: A Crash, a Clash, a Fox Office Splash
Michael J. Fox goes country in this early ’90s rom-com now available on BD from the Warner Archive Collection.
Read MoreHell on Frisco Bay (1955) Blu-ray Review: Another Kind of San Francisco Treat
Alan Ladd leaves his heart in San Francisco in this glorious re-discovery from the Warner Archive Collection.
Read MoreOh God, They’re Singing: Three Classic Musicals on Blu-ray
The Warner Archive and Twilight Time give us some old song and dance routines, available in High-Definition (and in one case, widescreen) for the first time.
Read MoreA Trio of WAC Pre-Codes: Oh, the Horror Icons!
The Warner Archive Collection presents three pre-Code rarities featuring a serendipitous number of classic early horror movie stars.
Read MoreThe Sea Wolf (1941) Blu-ray Review: Another Major Discovery from the WAC
Formerly lost at sea, the original 100-min cut of this classic sails in to home video thanks to the Warner Archive.
Read MoreThe Emperor in August / Sayonara / The Yellow Handkerchief Blu-rays Review: Three for Japan
All is fair (great, in fact!) in love, war, and on the road in this trio of classics from Twilight Time.
Read MoreNot As a Stranger (1955) Blu-ray Review: Robert Mitchum, Sociopathic Surgeon
Kino Lorber brings us Stanley Kramer’s first directorial effort starring Olivia de Havilland, Robert Mitchum, and Frank Sinatra.
Read MoreThe Violent Years (1956) Blu-ray Review: Ed Wood’s Teenage Girl Gang Terrorists
With everything from original production materials to a bonus feature Ed allegedly worked on, this AGFA/SWV BD is packin’ a lot of Wood.
Read MoreThe Pirates of Blood River (1962) Blu-ray Review: A Dish, Out of Water
Twilight Time unsheathes an enjoyable Hammer Films outing with ex-Sinbad Kerwin Mathews and a smoothly sinister Christopher Lee.
Read MoreBeneath the 12-Mile Reef (1953) Blu-ray Review: Sunken Leisure
Young Robert Wagner sinks to new depths ‒ literally ‒ in this early CinemaScope effort, now available in a beautiful, uncut, widescreen HD transfer from Twilight Time.
Read MoreCaptain from Castile (1947) Blu-ray Review: A Power-fully Fun Swashbuckler
Twilight Time foils foes with a splendid classic Hollywood adventure tale starring Tyrone Power.
Read MoreThe Long, Hot Summer (1958) Blu-ray Review: Climax Change
Twilight Time heats things up with Martin Ritt’s Southern Gothic tale starring Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Tony Franciosa, and an inarticulate Orson Welles.
Read MoreNight Moves (1975) / Scarecrow (1973) Blu-ray Reviews: The WAC Gets Hacked
The Warner Archive Collection rescues two neglected classics with Gene Hackman, including his one and only pairing with Al Pacino.
Read MoreA Quintet of Pre-Codes from the Warner Archive
The WAC has more early ’30s fun to offer, featuring young Loretta Young, Joan Blondell, leading man Edward Everett Horton, and a pre-wheelchair Lionel Barrymore.
Read MoreI, Tonya Movie Review: Using Camp to Deconstruct It
Although an imperfect film, I, Tonya celebrates the imperfections of its leading lady with surprising emotional resonance.
Read MoreCall Me by Your Name Movie Review: A Deeply Felt Ode to Unrequited Love
Transcending tropes of the genre, Call Me by Your Name is a wondrous feat in expressing emotions often left unspoken.
Read MoreCop-Out (1967) Blu-ray Review: A Boring Stranger in the House
Kino Lorber’s dated mod pic features a drunken James Mason, Bobby Darin as a total creep, and that’s about it.
Read MorePlatoon Leader / Soldier Boyz Blu-ray Review: The Dudikoff Abides
Kino Lorber gives us a double feature offering of two ‘lesser’ Michael Dudikoff actioneers.
Read MoreThe High Commissioner (1968) Blu-ray Review: The Accidental Spy from Down Under
Kino Lorber brings us a fun tale of an abrasive detective wrapped up in international intrigue starring Rod Taylor and Christopher Plummer.
Read MoreLady Bird Movie Review: Greta Gerwig Soars in Her Directorial Debut
Lady Bird takes the tired coming-of-age genre and makes it feel refreshing and naturalistic.
Read MoreOnly Noirs and Horses: Four Flicks from the Warner Archive
From classic psychological thrillers to obscure westerns, these WAC releases are worth betting money on.
Read MoreGod’s Own Country Movie Review: Love Abounds On-Screen
An emotionally sensitive look at intimacy and identity.
Read MoreThe Big Knife (1955) Blu-ray Review: Cuts Like a Life
Jack Palance, Ida Lupino, and a barely restrained Rod Steiger star in this dark exposé of ’50s Hollywood from Arrow Academy.
Read MoreSuddenly, Last Summer (1959) Blu-ray Review: It Happened One Time
Odd, compelling, and strangely satisfying, this unique and controversial film returns to shock contemporary audiences for entirely different reasons.
Read MoreKid Galahad (1962) Blu-ray Review: Elvis. Bronson. Sold.
Twilight Time brings us the only film in history to feature Elvis Presley and Charles Bronson, which automatically makes it awesome by default.
Read MoreThe Suspicious Death of a Minor (1975) Blu-ray Review: Deep Red Something
Sergio Martino’s wild giallo/poliziotteschi/comedy hybrid is just as jaw-droppingly amazing as it sounds.
Read MoreThe Crimson Kimono (1959) Blu-ray Review: A Crash Course in Orientation
Samuel Fuller’s powerful (and still topical) look at racism gets a beautiful HD release from Sony Pictures and Twilight Time.
Read MoreState Fair (1962) Blu-ray Review: Suppose They Held an Exhibition and Nobody Came?
Jose Ferrer directs Pat Boone, Bobby Darin, and Ann-Margret in an awkward musical remake of a musical remake.
Read MoreTom Sawyer (1973) / Huckleberry Finn (1974) Blu-ray Review: Wild Oates and Foster Kids
Twilight Time proudly proclaims “I’ll be your Huckleberry” with these ’70s Mark Twain musicals from Arthur P. Jacobs and Reader’s Digest.
Read MoreRunning on Empty (1988) Blu-ray Review: Fam on the Run
Sidney Lumet’s stunning drama, featuring a standout performance by an Oscar-nominated River Phoenix, hits BD from the Warner Archive.
Read MoreWhere the Boys Are (1960) Blu-ray Review: Life Was a Beach Even Then
Where the Boys Are still entertains admirably.
Read MoreBeggars of Life (1928) Blu-ray Review: All Aboard
Kino Lorber reveals the dynamic Silent Era offering starring imposing vagabond Wallace Beery and a crossdressing, rail-hoppin’ Louise Brooks.
Read MoreHell and High Water (1954) Blu-ray Review: CinemaScope Claustrophobia
Richard Widmark and Samuel Fuller sink to new heights in this wonderful Cold War sub thriller, now available in HD from the folks at Twilight Time.
Read MoreThe Quiet American (1958) Blu-ray Review: Silent, but Deadly?
Twilight Time gives the overlooked Americanized version of Graham Greene’s bestseller an opportunity to speak up and be accounted for.
Read MoreThe Valachi Papers (1972) Blu-ray Review: Pulp Non-Fiction
Twilight Time gives us a chance to tear into an underappreciated European Charles Bronson mafia flick from James Bond pioneer Terence Young.
Read MoreThe Creep Behind the Camera / The Creeping Terror Blu-ray Review: Creepshots, Redefined
Synapse Films releases a docudrama about one of cinema’s most inept movies, along with a new 2K scan of the original creature feature.
Read MoreVarieté (1925) Blu-ray Review: The Spice of Life
Kino Lorber releases a restored look at a visually stunning masterpiece from the German Silent Era.
Read MoreSpencer’s Mountain (1963) Blu-ray Review: Good Morning, Johnboy
Henry Fonda, Maureen O’Hara, and James MacArthur inspire everything from each other to TV shows in this classic family drama from Warner Archive Collection.
Read MoreBrutal Tales of Chivalry (1965) Blu-ray Review: Who Says Chivalry Is Dead?
The one and only Ken Takakura shows those young upstarts how to do it in this early yakuza offering from Toei and Twilight Time.
Read MoreThe Man in the Moon (1991) Blu-ray Review: Wither Mulligan and Witherspoon
Twilight Time brings us Robert Mulligan’s famous final film, featuring a dynamic debut from young Reese Witherspoon.
Read MoreThe Stone Killer (1973) Blu-ray Review: Another Winner Starring Charles Bronson
Michael Winner’s overlooked third collaboration with the iconic stone-faced action hero gets the HD treatment from Twilight Time.
Read MoreWho’ll Stop the Rain (1978) Blu-ray Review: Drugs, Not Hugs
Director Karel Reisz lends a lot of Creedence to this grim and gloomy tale of Dog Soldiers running amok, recently released to Blu-ray from Twilight Time.
Read MoreInferno (1953) 3D/2D Blu-ray Review: Survival of the Richest
The line between film noir and technicolor melodrama is finely drawn in the sand, as this must-see Twilight Time offering proves.
Read MoreRonin (1998) Blu-ray Review: Welcome Back to Cinematic Reality, Kids
Arrow Video revives John Frankenheimer’s criminally neglected late ’90s gritty crime thriller via a beautiful, all-new 4K scan.
Read MoreAfter the Storm (2016) Blu-ray Review: Human Drama is Equally Sad, Sweet
Japanese director Kore-Eda continues career-long streak of touching, humorous and very human dramas.
Read More36 Hours (1964) Blu-ray Review: Captivating Wartime Espionage
James Garner finds himself right in the middle of a dirty Nazi trick in this taut WWII thriller from the Warner Archive Collection.
Read MoreTerror in a Texas Town (1958) Blu-ray Review: The Dark Side of the West
Arrow Academy releases Joseph H. Lewis’ wonderful western/film noir hybrid, which features Sterling Hayden as a Swedish sailor who brings a whaling harpoon to a gunfight.
Read MoreTwilight Time Presents: Riches, Fortunes, Millions, and Women
Four classics ranging from comedic capers to World War II musicals to soul-stirring Woody Allen dramas make their HD home video debut.
Read MoreS.O.B. (1981) Blu-ray Review: Julie Andrews’ Most Revealing Role
The Warner Archive Collection releases Blake Edwards’ bitingly funny stab at Hollywood, featuring his famous wife’s only nude scene.
Read MoreSpotlight on a Murderer (1961) Blu-ray Review: Illuminating French Proto-Slasher
A most unique mystery/black comedy from Georges Franju receives a long-overdue opportunity to shine in the US thanks to Arrow Academy.
Read MoreTwilight Time Presents: Go Big, but Don’t Go Home!
Four classic titles ranging from suffocating small town drama to the wonderful world of corporate corruption highlight this must-see wave of new Blu-ray releases.
Read MoreA Woman’s Face (1941) / Flamingo Road (1949) DVDs Review: The Dark Side of Joan
Two classic features from the one and only Joan Crawford return to DVD thanks to the Warner Archive Collection.
Read MoreThe Sheik (1921) / The Son of the Sheik (1926) Blu-ray Review: Happy Valentino’s Day
Kino Lorber unleashes two of the greatest works from legendary Silent Film heartthrob Rudolph Valentino.
Read MoreKiss of Death (1947) / Edge of Eternity (1959) Blu-rays Review: Homicidal Tendencies
Twilight Time brings us two remarkable, unforgettable, trend-setting thrillers from yesteryear in two equally beautifully transfers.
Read MoreLudwig (1973) Blu-ray Review: The Historical Epic Wherein Nothing Really Happens
Love it or hate it, Arrow Academy has unveiled an undeniably beautiful box set for one of Luchino Visconti’s final films.
Read MoreL’assassino (The Assassin) Blu-ray Review: The Lady-Killer of Rome Returns
Elio Petri’s forgotten, strange, and very dark satire makes a long-overdue debut in the U.S. from the newly launched Arrow Academy.
Read MoreThe Girl and the General (1967) DVD Review: All Give Some, None Give All
A shockingly subdued Rod Steiger stars in this Italian-made WWI dramedy from Pasquale Festa Campanile.
Read MoreInteriors (1978) / Chilly Scenes of Winter (1979) Blu-rays Review: Suicidal Tendencies
Twilight Time unveils the HD debuts of two distinctly different dramas featuring Mary Beth Hurt.
Read MoreTwilight Time Presents: Odd Men Out (and the Women Who Drive Them)
Vindictive villains, stereoscopic Stooges, speculative spouses, heroic horsemen, and illiterate inventors highlight this quartet of New-to-Blu releases.
Read MoreMillionaires in Prison (1940) DVD Review: The Club Fed of the ’40s
The Warner Archive paroles a corny prison yarn featuring Shemp Howard and the voice of Jiminy Cricket as inmates.
Read MoreBlu-rays Review: Twilight Time Goes Around the World (and Then Some)
Six globetrotting adventures and dramas make their HD home video debuts, including a Sonny Chiba disaster flick and that missing title from you Ray Harryhausen collection.
Read MoreProperty Is No Longer a Theft (1973) Blu-ray Review: Undeniably Italian
Elio Petri’s forgotten, strange, and very dark satire makes a long-overdue debut in the US from the newly launched Arrow Academy.
Read MoreBattleground (1949) Blu-ray Review: War is Hell, but This Is Far from That
The Warner Archive Collection unveils a marvelous, meticulously restored look this WWII classic.
Read MoreMine Movie Review: An Interesting Idea Mines for Substance
The single-location thriller goes international with the simplistic Mine.
Read MoreWomen on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review: Vote for Pedro
Pedro Almodóvar’s career-defining, groundbreaking dark screwball comedy gets the Criterion treatment ‒ and is just as awesome as you’d expect it to be.
Read MoreSeptember Storm (1960) Blu-ray 3D Review: The Stars That Didn’t Steal the Night Away
A forgotten, completely forgettable underwater treasure-hunting flick receives more love than it probably deserves in this fully restored, fully loaded 3D release from Kino Lorber
Read MoreMoscow on the Hudson (1984) Blu-ray Review: Relocation, Relocation, Relocation!
Robin Williams turns in an exceptionally fine dramatic performance in this must-see classic from Paul Mazursky, now available in High-Definition from Twilight Time.
Read MoreThe Goodbye Girl (1977) Blu-ray Review: Back When Richard Dreyfuss Was Sexy
Neil Simon’s Oscar-winning precursor to the contemporary rom-com receives a warm welcome from the Warner Archive Collection.
Read MoreDark Passage / On Dangerous Ground Blu-ray Reviews: Bogie. Bacall. Lupino. Ryan. Sold.
The Warner Archive Collection shows us its dark side with two more gems from the fabulous world of film noir.
Read MoreWho’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966) Blu-ray Review: Be Afraid. Be Very Afraid.
The motion picture that single-handedly brought about the fall of the Hays Code receives a fearless restoration from the Warner Archive Collection.
Read MoreManchester by the Sea Blu-ray Review: A Modern Masterpiece
Kenneth Lonergan crafts a near-perfect, and superb tale of humanity through the darkness.
Read MoreAlfred the Great (1969) DVD Review: Greater Things Have Happened
The Warner Archive Collection presents the home video debut of this legendary box office failure featuring a young Ian McKellen.
Read MoreWhen a Feller Needs a Friend (1932) DVD Review: How About a Break Instead?
The Warner Archive Collection dusts off one of the sappiest, nerve-wracking, Depression-era family melodramas ever made. Enjoy.
Read MoreMusicals and the Musically Inclined from the Warner Archive
Debbie Reynolds, Doris Day, and Julie Andrews highlight a trio of amazing rom-coms from more enjoyable, innocent times.
Read MoreMoby Dick (1956) Blu-ray Review: A Newly Restored Whale of a Tale
Twilight Time brings us the most famous filmic Melville adaptation of all, lovingly restored to match the original theatrical presentation.
Read MoreTwilight Time Presents: A Quartet of Quirky Killers
Susan Hayward, Anthony Perkins, Tony Curtis, and Shelley Winters commit killer performances in this assortment of murderous movies.
Read MoreMoby Dick (1930) DVD Review: The Version You Never Thought Possible
For those of you who think they know Dick, the WAC salutes you.
Read MoreMichael Collins / Man in the Wilderness Blu-rays Review: Super Heroes
The Warner Archive Collection brings us both a legendary man and a man of legend in these two High-Def offerings.
Read MoreThey Were Expendable / She Wore a Yellow Ribbon Blu-rays Review: The WAC Duke
Two of the most famous John Ford/John Wayne collaborations make their HD home video debut courtesy the Warner Archive Collection.
Read MoreUniversal Studios Home Entertainment Holiday Gift Guide 2016
From classic tear-jerkers to vintage knee-slappers, these goodies are sure to warm the hearts and tickle the funnybones of movie buffs.
Read MoreTwilight Time Presents: The Southern Pacific Training Montage
Runaway locomotives, trainspotting hoboes, rail-hopping escapees, and deep-rooted Deep South prides and prejudices highlight this delivery of Blu-ray goods.
Read MoreTwilight Time Presents: Sense and Sensitivities
From insensitive employers to less-than-sensible debates about mayonnaise, this assortment of odds and ends is sure to inspire those of you who feel like humanity has lost all common sense.
Read MoreTwilight Time Presents: All for the Glory of Love
From Peckinpah to Price and from Scott to Sinatra, this assortment of classics from Twilight Time doesn’t mess around.
Read MoreMen & Chicken Blu-ray Review: Hard-Boiled Danish
Breaching all boundaries of good taste, I can’t decide if Denmark’s award-winning black comedy is for mankind or just plain fowl.
Read MoreCrime or Climb: Tails of Scaling and Failing from the Warner Archive
Sean Connery ascends, George Hamilton pretends, and Don Siegel defends in this trio from the WAC.
Read MoreEdward G. Robinson Breaks Out of the Warner Archive Collection!
Yeah, a quartet of individual titles starring classic Hollywood’s perennial tough guy make their DVD debuts, see?
Read MoreFrom Horrifying to Horrible: Back in Print from the Warner Archive
From a magnificent assembling of classic horror of the ’30s, to the various sorts of silliness the whole of the ’90s had to offer, these four releases will have you screaming.
Read MoreStablemates / Lord Jeff DVDs Review: A Double Dose of Rooney
The Warner Archive Collection slips us a couple of Mickeys (with plenty of Wood) in these two rarely-seen gems.
Read MoreStakeout on Dope Street (1958) DVD Review: Kershner. Corman. Coleman. Oh, My!
This forgotten gem from the Warner Archive Collection offers just the facts, and more than a little strange movie history.
Read MoreTwilight Time Presents: Party Poopers, Poor Sports, Sore Losers, and Bad Romances
From pubescent tweens and nightmarish games to pornographers and people who love to shoot things up, there’s an awful lot of foul play afoot here.
Read MoreTwilight Time Presents: Something I Can Never Have
From the unconditional (or unwanted) affection of one’s parental unit, to the ever-classic pursuit of maximum financial units, these five flicks have more to offer than just a nude Ornella Muti (although that’s just fine on its own!).
Read MoreValley of the Kings (1954) DVD Review: The Other Precursor to Indiana Jones
The Warner Archive Collection digs up a significant artifact from cinematic history, albeit from a print which has sadly been desecrated.
Read MoreForbidden Hollywood, Volume 10 DVD Review: The End of an Era? Not Quite!
The Warner Archive Collection unveils its final ‘Forbidden Hollywood’ set with a fine gathering of controversial and naughty gems from the pre-Code days.
Read MoreSeven Miles from Alcatraz DVD Review: Prison Breaks for Patriotism
A minor WWII flick about Nazi spies featuring John Banner as the bad guy makes its way to DVD courtesy the Warner Archive Collection.
Read MoreHaunted Honeymoon (1940) / A Fine Pair / Brotherly Love (1970) DVDs Review: Reverse Power Flux Couplings
Three uniquely different looks at the fine art of bad romances arrive on DVD courtesy the Warner Archive Collection.
Read MoreThe Swinging Cheerleaders (1974) Blu-ray Review: Hey, Where’s the Swingin’?
The appropriately misleading exploitation flick from Jack Hill gets a deluxe treatment from Arrow Video.
Read MoreLucifer: The Complete First Season DVD Review: You’re in for a Devil of a Time
Tom Ellis brings the infamously infernal Vertigo/DC Comics character to life, giving boring cop shows a fresh, much-needed twist.
Read MoreTwilight Time Presents: Breaking the Rules of a Lovelorn, War-torn World
From bitter one-armed, one-legged, one-eyed veteran vigilantes in Santa Barbara to faithful female Jewish writers smuggling money into Nazi Germany, this lot of features proves all is indeed fair in love and war.
Read MoreThe Immortal Story Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review: A Marvel of Deep Emotion and Haunting Spareness
A minimalist, but soulful depiction of lost souls in the 19th century.
Read MoreChato’s Land (1972) Blu-ray Review: A Million Ways to Die Hard in the West
Charles Bronson is turned loose for the first time in a marvelously bleak western now available from Twilight Time.
Read MoreThe Whip Hand (1951) DVD Review: RKO Sets Its Sights to Start Seeing Red
The Warner Archive Collection uncovers a fun little flick about reeling in one big Commie plot.
Read MoreEdge of Doom (1950) DVD Review: Can Dana Andrews Save Farley Granger’s Soul?
Samuel Goldwyn’s one and only film noir is also the bleakest irreligious religious movies in history.
Read MoreThese Three (1936) DVD Review: Kids Say the Darndest Things
The Warner Archive Collection outs Lillian Hellman’s first filmic adaptation of a once-controversial play.
Read MorePrivate Property (1960) Movie Review: Seamy and Sexy in Equal Measure
This underseen 1960s noir is a precursor to the 1990s erotic thriller.
Read MoreWhen Everything is WAC: A Visual Buffet from the Warner Archive
From one of Lucille Ball’s first big roles, to one of John Carradine’s last, this assortment of odds and ends from the Warner Archive Collection has it all.
Read MoreTwilight Time Presents: Our Own Personal Freedoms
A quintet of moving pictures that are guaranteed to hear your prayers (or at least be your friends when you’re feeling unknown and all alone).
Read MoreWild Bill Hickok Rides / Roughshod / Station West DVDs Review: Girls Run the West
Three 1940s westerns ‒ each with a stronger-than-usual female presence ‒ make their home video debut courtesy the Warner Archive Collection.
Read MoreBad Boy (1949) DVD Review: You Make Us Feel So Good
The Warner Archive Collection asks ‘Wha’cha gonna do?’ about this juvenile delinquent problem.
Read MoreFatherland (1986) / Sense and Sensibility (1995) Blu-rays Review: Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes
Two transitionary tales from the West make their HD debut from Twilight Time.
Read MoreThe Littlest Hobo (1958) DVD Review: The Dogs Must Be Crazy
The Warner Archive Collection unleashes one of B moviedom’s greatest unsung canine performers in this weird critter noir.
Read MoreMy Pal Wolf DVD Review: Dog Gone Girl
Child actress Sharyn Moffett has to learn how to cut one’s wolf loose in this forgotten RKO ditty, now available from the Warner Archive Collection.
Read MoreShadows and Fog Blu-ray Review: or, Smoke and Mirrors
Even with an unmistakable style and fine supporting cast, Woody Allen’s final Orion Pictures production is a bittersweet one indeed.
Read MoreScorpio (1973) Blu-ray Review: A Different Kind of Zodiac Killer
Burt Lancaster and Alain Delon shoot the breeze ‒ and just about everything else in sight ‒ in Michael Winner’s oft-criticized (but still enjoyable) espionage flick.
Read MoreBroken Lance Blu-ray Review: The Open Range (Robert) Wagnerian Opera
Twilight Time presents the Oscar-winning western remake that inspired even more movies.
Read MoreForbidden Hollywood, Volume 9 DVD Review: Bogart’s Face and Bette Davis Eyes
The Warner Archive Collection ups the ante with their latest release of pre-Code rarities, adding a fifth bonus flick into the fray.
Read MoreMan-Proof DVD Review: Pidegon Shoots Down Tone Deaf Loy
The Warner Archive Collection unveils an uneven war of the sexes dramedy featuring an unbeatable cast.
Read MoreThe Mad Genius / The Great Man Votes DVDs Review: Unburiedmore
The Warner Archive Collection digs up two forgotten starring vehicles of cinematic titan, John Barrymore.
Read MoreHitler’s Madman / Hitler’s Children (1943) DVDs Review: A Double Dose of Propaganda
The Warner Archive Collection unveils two similarly dissimilar movies from the movie industry’s “rushin’ front.”
Read MoreWild Bill Elliott Western Collection DVD Review: The End of an Era
The last of the hard-hitting, two-fisted B movie cowboys takes his final ride off into the sunset in this eight-film set from the Warner Archive Collection.
Read MoreTwilight Time Presents: Various Vamps, Visitors, Bats and Vats
As another dreadful holiday season falls upon us, there is perhaps no better time to re-celebrate Halloween with this line-up of killer October chillers.
Read MoreAnother Language / What Every Woman Knows DVDs Review: The Helen Hayes Code
The Warner Archive Collection proudly presents several forgotten starring vehicles for the First Lady of the American Theater.
Read MoreBobby Ware Is Missing DVD Review: And Starring Neville Brand as Indiana Jones
One missing little film featuring two lost little boys has been rescued by the great big Warner Archive Collection.
Read MoreCry of the Hunted / Wind Across the Everglades DVDs Review: Attack of the Swamp Features
Two entirely different ’50s bayou flicks ‒ now available on home video from the Warner Archive Collection ‒ receive a mite good scrutinizin’.
Read MoreWalt Before Mickey Movie Review: Missing the Magic that Made Disney Disney
A difficult film to recommend to even the most die-hard Walt Disney fan.
Read MoreTwilight Time Presents: Hard Pills to Swallow and Hard Acts to Follow
From tales of vengeance to yarns of violence, this quintet of feature films shows some great men who are truly down on their luck.
Read MoreThe Beginning or the End (1947) DVD Review: Are You Gonna Drop the Bomb or Not?
Hollywood’s first depiction of the Manhattan Project ‒ itself a bomb at the box office ‒ hits home video at last thanks to the Warner Archive Collection.
Read MoreThe Hoodlum Saint DVD Review: When Nick Charles Met Jessica Fletcher
William Powell, Esther Williams, and Angela Lansbury star in a forgotten footnote of film history, newly available to DVD via the Warner Archive Collection.
Read MoreTrader Horn (1931) / Eskimo (1933) DVD Reviews: A Pair of Van Dykes
W.S. Van Dyke’s early pre-Code adventures shot in Africa and the Arctic make their digital media debuts thanks to the Warner Archive Collection.
Read MoreGentleman’s Fate / The Phantom of Paris DVDs Review: John Gilbert, Cinema’s Forgotten Heartthrob
The Warner Archive Collection unburies several talkies from one of the Golden Age of Hollywood’s many fallen stars.
Read MoreTwilight Time Presents: Five Features from the Escalator of Life
“The Best Country Places in the Fabulous World,” or “The Month Henry Baker Hearts Everything.”
Read MoreCount Your Blessings (1959) DVD Review: More of a Curse, Really
Deborah Kerr, Rossano Brazzi, and Maurice Chevalier sink in a dreary comedy set across the English Channel.
Read MoreJohnny Angel / Riff-Raff (1947) DVDs Review: Double Fistin’ RKO Film Noir
The Warner Archive Collection unleashes several underrated film noir gems from the iconic studio.
Read MoreTwilight Time Presents: Absolute Beginnings and Bitter Endings
From Bowie to Brando to Blofelds, this selection of five fairly forgotten flicks has an awful lot going on.
Read MoreFive Came Back (1939) DVD Review: The Birth of the Disaster Film Genre
The powerful melodrama, co-written by Dalton Trumbo, makes its long-overdue debut from the Warner Archive Collection.
Read MoreThe Diary of a Teenage Girl Movie Review: A Refreshing and Honest Look at Female Adolescence and Sexuality
A stunning debut for Marielle Heller as a director.
Read MoreOnce a Thief (1965) DVD Review: Post-Beat America Meets the French New Wave
The Warner Archive Collection releases an excellent, atmospheric, innovative, and gritty crime drama from yesteryear. A definite must-see.
Read MoreSignpost to Murder DVD Review: Stuart Whitman Goes Loco for Joanne Woodward
The Warner Archive Collection brings us a seldom seen psychological thriller that has trouble finding its own direction.
Read More42nd Street / Ladyhawke / Wolfen Blu-rays Review: The Musical, Magical, and Mythical
The Warner Archive Collection brings us three classic catalogue titles out of the Standard and into the realms of High-Definition.
Read MoreRush (1991) Blu-ray Review: The ’90s Drug Genre Looks Inward
A slow-burn examination of drugs and police corruption is revealed in Kino’s recent Blu-ray release.
Read MoreA Newly Widened Screen, Part II: Alibis and Those Who Sympathize
The Warner Archive Collection brings us two more titles from the early days of DVD in widescreen for the first time.
Read MoreTwilight Time Presents: Rebellion! Turmoil! Endless Talking!
From the hormonally-charged historical wrongdoings of King Henry VIII to David Mamet’s acclaimed verbal diarrhea, this batch of flicks has all bases covered.
Read MoreSmokey and the Hotwire Gang DVD Review: Anthony Cardoza Strikes Again!
Witness an unforgettably forgettable failure from one of low budget cinema’s most notable underachievers.
Read MoreArrow in the Dust DVD Review: This is More Like Dust in the Wind
The Warner Archive does its best to preserve a flick where Sterling Hayden punches Lee Van Cleef, and l’il wooden Indian figures are set aflame and thrown off a ledge. And that’s about it.
Read MoreKid Glove Killer DVD Review: Van Heflin Shines in Unsuccessful Film Pilot
Is it a film noir? A political corruption yarn? A forensics investigatory piece? A rom-com? It’s all these things, and more!
Read MoreThe Scorpio Letters DVD Review: Amusing Z-Grade Eurospy Fodder
The only thing poisonous about these letters was found in the Nielsen ratings.
Read MoreBlack Patch (1957) DVD Review: A Genuinely Magnificent, Forgotten B Western
Imagine if David Lynch traveled back in time to the ’50s, made a TV show, then re-edited it into a feature film to create the Spaghetti Western movement.
Read MoreTwilight Time Presents European Dramas, American Musicals, and Zardoz
Caution: Musicals, intense British drama, and ’70s cinematic hallucinogens lie ahead.
Read MoreEscape from East Berlin DVD Review: Don Murray Flees Communist Oppression!
The Warner Archive Collection digs up the fictionalized account of a famous digging out co-starring Colonel Klink himself.
Read MoreThe Velvet Touch (1948) DVD Review: Shades of Colombo in the Shadow of Birdman
The Warner Archive Collection dusts off the charming, well-made film noir howcatchem starring Rosalind Russell and Sydney Greenstreet.
Read MoreBad Men of Tombstone DVD Review: The First of the Last of the Badmen
Barry Sullivan and Broderick Crawford team up for a fabulous, forgotten B western of high grade ore.
Read MoreFace of Fire (1959) DVD Review: Slow but Poignant Human Horror
Filmmaker Albert Band manages to pave the way for every other sci-fi and horror series ever with one simple drama now available (at last) from the Warner Archive Collection.
Read MoreOur Mother’s House DVD Review: The Illegitimate Dawn of an Unofficial New Wave
Seven kids raised on religion, a dead mother, and a deadbeat dad. You do the math.
Read MoreThe Bounty (1984) / U Turn (1997) Blu-rays Review: Twilight Time Goes South
The two best bad trips you can possibly book this season.
Read MoreOne Foot in Heaven DVD Review: Ass-Kickers, Shit-Kickers, and Methodists
Fredric March stars as Minister William Spence in this forgotten (but enjoyable) biopic.
Read MoreSolomon and Sheba (1959) Blu-ray Review: A Show with Everything (Including Yul Brynner)
A tale as old as recorded time. The script isn’t that fresh, either.
Read MoreLenny (1974) Blu-ray Review: They Call Dustin Hoffman Bruce?
Yep, it’s a happy kind of picture, kids. But at least you’ll be able to see sultry Valerie Perrine in the buff!
Read MoreFar from the Madding Crowd (1967) Blu-ray Review: A Magnificent Festering!
If you avoid certain NFL-oriented video games, does that mean you’re Far from the Madden Crowd?
Read MoreThe Breakfast Club: 30th Anniversary Edition Blu-ray Review: Kids Can Be So Cool
Universal re-releases John Hughes’ quintessential teen dramedy just in time for a two-night theatrical re-offering.
Read MoreMark of the Devil Blu-ray Review: Say Hello to Arrow Video USA, Kids!
The movie that left its mark on the annals of exploitation advertising history inaugurates Arrow Video’s new North American label.
Read MoreCHiPs: The Complete Third Season DVD Review: Lay Down the Roller Boogie
Finally, the classic cop show we all love to love for all the wrong reasons returns.
Read MoreSpeed (1936) DVD Review: James Stewart Returns to Reclaim His Title
The Warner Archive Collection unburies the famous late actor’s first starring role, wherein he is paired with Ted Healy as a sidekick!
Read MoreThe Murder Man (1935) DVD Review: When Spencer Met Stewart
Spencer Tracy’s first starring role for MGM is supported by the feature film debut by James Stewart in this unconventional murder mystery.
Read MoreBorn Reckless (1958) DVD Review: My Long Hard Ride with Mamie Van Doren
A delightfully dumb ditty that is bursting with equestrian euphemisms and great B-grade bombshells.
Read MoreBandit Queen Blu-ray Review: A Brutal, Boring, Bolly-less Biopic
Twilight Time gives the controversial Phoolan Devi biography an upgrade. But is that really a good thing?
Read MoreAdventure in Baltimore DVD Review: Pastor Robert Young Hasn’t Got a Prayer
Unhappy honeymooners Shirley Temple and John Agar appear on-screen together for the second and final time in this odd 1949 dud.
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 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 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 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 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 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 More‘Rebel, Rebel’: Six Tales of Defiance from Twilight Time
From Streisand to Stone, controversies to conniving, this sextet offers it all.
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 MoreForbidden Hollywood, Volume 8 DVD Review: Four Films That Broke the Code
The Warner Archive Collection presents a quartet of Pre-Code classics that delve into vice with very little virtue.
Read MoreStonehearst Asylum Blu-ray Review: Might Make Poe Proud
It’s pretty good right up until it tries too hard.
Read MoreThe Picture of Dorian Gray (1945) Blu-ray Review: Shades of Gray
The Warner Archive Collection breathes new life into the innovative classic.
Read MoreWhen the Wind Blows (1986) Blu-ray Review: Wild Is the Wind
So, anyone for a nuclear holocaust, then?
Read MoreThe Twilight Samurai (Tasogare Seibei) Blu-ray Review: Ex-Swordsman Blues
Wait, THIS lost to “The Barbarian Invasions”? THIS?!
Read MoreFlaming Star Blu-ray Review: Hunka Hunka Burning Death
Elvis Presley’s best performance? Well, if such a thing was ever possible, this is most assuredly it.
Read MoreJudgment at Nuremberg Blu-ray Review: Picking Up the Pieces
Stanley Kramer’s powerhouse post-World War II courtroom drama gets another chance to shock and delight via Twilight Time.
Read MoreThe Skeleton Twins Movie Review: A Twisted Tale of Those Bound by Blood
Bill Hader and Kristen Wiig turn dysfunction into emotional drama in The Skeleton Twins.
Read MoreBunny Lake Is Missing Blu-ray Review: Required Viewing Is Found
The only film to ever have employed a couple of Zombies as a Greek chorus hits High-Def courtesy Twilight Time.
Read MoreThe Hook (1963) DVD Review: “Kid, Any Day a War Ends is a Nice Day.”
Kirk Douglas, Nick Adams, and Robert Walker, Jr. star in a well-made Korean War drama from George Seaton.
Read MoreBirdman of Alcatraz Blu-ray Review: The Cinematic System’s Sympathetic Psychopath
Twilight Time brings us a much-needed High-Def release of the Burt Lancaster/John Frankenheimer classic.
Read MoreMokey / Revolt in the Big House DVD Reviews: A Young Robert Blake Two-fer
The controversial actor goes from motherless juvenile delinquent to prison revolutionary in these two New-to-DVD rarities from the Warner Archive.
Read MorePossessed (1947) Blu-ray Review: At Last, Gender Equality in Film Noir!
Joan Crawford takes the wheel in a classic thriller that has received a startling new HD release from the Warner Archive.
Read MorePete Kelly’s Blues (1955) Blu-ray Review: Uneven Musical Gangster Noir (in Color)
The Warner Archive presents the second of three strikes for Jack Webb’s failed franchise.
Read MoreThe St. Louis Kid DVD Review: Another James Cagney Rarity Makes Its Debut
A cocky, real jerk of a truck driver learns the hard way about the evils of milk in this weird, uneven 1934 feature.
Read MoreYankee Doodle Dandy Blu-ray Review: You’re a Grand Old Film
James Cagney gets born on the fourth of July for the Warner Archive’s dynamic HD release of the already exceptional George M. Cohan biopic.
Read MoreA Handful of de Havilland: Three Obscure Olivias from the Warner Archive
Olivia de Havilland encounters the plights and perils of a gold rush, a wartime rush, and rushed productions in a trio of forgotten films.
Read MoreOne Night at Susie’s DVD Review: Makes a Hardened Man Humble
The Warner Archive presents vintage film enthusiasts with one of the few surviving films of actress Billie Dove.
Read MoreThe Lusty Men DVD Review: An RKO Rodeo Picture
Robert Mitchum and Arthur Kennedy are two wild studs that only Susan Hayward can handle.
Read MoreShoot-Out at Medicine Bend DVD Review: The Feel-Good Flick of ’57
OK, so Randolph Scott, Bret Maverick, and the Green Hornet walk into a bar dressed as Quakers…
Read MoreSon of a Gunfighter DVD Review: Sundown of the American Gundown
The Warner Archive brings us the home video debut of an odd, early Euro western prototype.
Read MoreAudrey Rose Blu-ray Review: An ‘Exorcist’ for the Neil Simon Crowd
Twilight Time brings vintage horror movie lovers a misaligned tale of reincarnation and possession.
Read MoreIn the Flesh: The Complete Season Two DVD Review: The Undead Return. Again.
Because who doesn’t long for a BBC drama that includes gay zombie love?
Read MoreLa Bamba (1987) Blu-ray Review: Lou Diamond Phillips Debuts as Ritchie Valens
The film that made you rue the day Los Lobos first started saturating radio airplay returns in High-Definition.
Read MoreThe Killer Elite (1975) Blu-ray Review: The Wrath of Caan
Sam Peckinpah sets his bloody sights on a tale of covert government agents and stealthy ninja assassins. What’s not to love there?
Read MoreSalvador (1986) Blu-ray Review: Oliver Stone Finds His Calling
Twilight Time revives the controversial director’s first (notable) film back for another haunting round.
Read MoreLolly-Madonna XXX (1973) DVD Review: More Than a Name on a Postcard
A rare type of film that precariously teeters between sleazy exploitative trash and fine underrated art.
Read MoreThe Musketeers (2014) Blu-ray Review: Finally, A Reimagining Worth Viewing
Sporting great battles, amazing costumes, and a fresh take, this incarnation of the Alexandre Dumas tale has a lot of potential.
Read MoreThe Dogs of War (1980) Blu-ray Review: These Boots Are Made for Walken
Recommended. Even if we don’t get to hear Christopher Walken recite Shakespeare.
Read MoreThe Moonshine War (1970) DVD Review: Early Hicksploitation with an Unlikely Cast
Alan Alda and Patrick McGoohan portray Southerners in this tale from the disgraced director of the television remake of Catch-22.
Read MoreChe! (1969) Blu-ray Review: A Prime Example of ‘What Were They Thinking?’
Omar Sharif as Che Guevara. Jack Palance as Fidel Castro. A match made in bad movie heaven.
Read MoreEnchantment (1948) DVD Review: Everlasting Loves, Friends, and Lovers Divine
David Niven and Teresa Wright headline a WWII romantic drama about lost love.
Read More2 by Ken Loach: Riff-Raff (1991) / Raining Stones (1993) Blu-ray Review: Depressingly Fascinating
Two low-key, very sincere movies about everyday, average people get a Hi-Def release from Twilight Time.
Read MoreThe Buddy Holly Story (1978) Blu-ray Review: And I Suppose You’re Mary Tyler Moore?
Even when cast as a legendary rock and roll icon, Gary Busey still looks friggin’ nuts.
Read MoreThe Secret of Santa Vittoria Blu-ray Review: Because Nothing Brings a Town Together Like Booze
Stanley Kramer’s wonderful World War II comedy/drama is an absolute must-see.
Read MoreMan Hunt (1941) Blu-ray Review: Ein Film von Fritz Lang? Oh Heck, Ja!
America’s late wake-up call to World War II receives a lovely upgrade from Twilight Time.
Read MoreRansom! (1956) DVD Review: “And Introducing Leslie Nielsen”
Glenn Ford sets the stage for Mel Gibson’s 1996 remake (and shows that young buck how to do it in the process).
Read MoreRadio Days (1987) Blu-ray Review: Twilight Time Strikes Gold(en Age of Radio)
Woody Allen bridges a couple of generational gaps with a heartfelt look at growing up.
Read More1948 Film Noir in Review: Three Thrillers from Poverty Row’s Monogram Picture
The Warner Archive Collection unleashes a handful of B film noir tales.
Read MoreThe Warner Archive Presents Alan Ladd, Cinema’s Very Own Napoleon
From way out west to war in the east, a little Ladd goes a long way.
Read MoreBorn Yesterday (1950) Blu-ray Review: A Memorable Holliday in DC
Twilight Time presents us with a classic comedy from Columbia Pictures that’s just as big of a laugh as its own studio head.
Read MoreViolent Saturday (1955) Blu-ray Review: The Day Before Sunday, Bloody Sunday
Twilight Time gives us a much-appreciated upgrade to its previous DVD.
Read MoreA Threesome with Errol Flynn (Because Who Wouldn’t Want to?)
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