RoboCop (2014) Blu-ray Review: Let’s Hope They Don’t Remake RoboCop 2
By Mark Buckingham |
Doesn’t live up to the original, barely can stand on its own.
13 Sins Blu-ray Review: Borrowing from the Best
By Mark Buckingham |
What would you do be willing to do for six million dollars?
Death Spa Blu-ray Review: Light on Creativity, Heavy on Cringe-Worthy Acting
By Mark Buckingham |
I’d rather work out than watch it again.
3 Days to Kill (2014) Blu-ray Review: Not As Advertised
By Mark Buckingham |
It’s an okay flick as long as you know what you’re getting.
Trust Me (2014) Movie Review: Jerry Maguire with an Unfortunate Ending
By Mark Buckingham |
It’s so good until it suddenly isn’t.
An Unreal Dream: The Michael Morton Story DVD Review: Justice Prevails
By Mark Buckingham |
A powerful story of determination and redemption, and how sometimes bad things happen to good people.
Knights of Badassdom Blu-ray Review: Verily Indeed
By Mark Buckingham |
It’s a fun horror comedy shout-out to nerds, with a modicum of cheesy moments.
Monsters: The Complete Series DVD Review: Another Great Horror Anthology
By Mark Buckingham |
A time warp back to the late ’80s for a cheesy horror romp with the stars of yesteryear.
After the Dark Movie Review: This is What “Trying Too Hard” Looks Like
By Mark Buckingham |
A good idea spoiled with pretentiousness.
Book Review: Alien: Out of the Shadows by Tim Lebbon
By Mark Buckingham |
Doesn’t take many risks or push the boundaries of established canon, but for franchise fans, it’s still worth picking up.
Never Sleep Again: The Elm Street Legacy Blu-ray Review: A Must-Own for Any Nightmare Fan
By Mark Buckingham |
The definitive behind-the-scenes for the Nightmare franchise gets the HD treatment.
Maidentrip Movie Review: A Journey of Both Personal and Historical Significance
By Mark Buckingham |
A trip worth taking.
La Notte Criterion Collection DVD Review: They Don’t Make ‘Em Like This Anymore
By Mark Buckingham |
A slow-burn Italian relationship drama that leaves you hanging.
Murder University DVD Review: Cyanide Capsule Sold Separately, Unfortunately
By Mark Buckingham |
I sat through this whole ungodly atrocity so you don’t have to.
The Fly (1958) Blu-ray Review: A Classic Reborn in HD
By Mark Buckingham |
A truly classic Vincent Price creature feature.
ThanksKilling 3 DVD Review: What the Hell Did I Just Watch?
By Mark Buckingham |
It’s like a cross between Team America: World Police and Legend or The Neverending Story.
Frankenstein’s Army DVD Review: Things That Go Bump, Boom, Chop, Slice, Ratatatat, and Stab in the Night
By Mark Buckingham |
WWII zombie monstrosities done right.
Hatchet III Blu-ray Review: The Proper End to a Trilogy
By Mark Buckingham |
A buckets-of-blood throwback to classic horror.
From the Head Movie Review: What Happens in the Bathroom, Stays in the Bathroom
By Mark Buckingham |
Spend a little while with the unusual yet familiar psyches of strip club patrons and the man who gives them soap.
The Life After Death Project DVD Review: An Academic Approach to the Afterlife
By Mark Buckingham |
Your doubts will be challenged.
Hitchcock (2012) Blu-ray Review: A Legend Plays a Legend
By Mark Buckingham |
Hopkins shines as the master of suspense.
Pawn (2013) Blu-ray Review: Intensity That Just Won’t Quit
By Mark Buckingham |
An enjoyable but flawed thriller.
Tai Chi Hero Movie Review: A Worthy Successor
By Mark Buckingham |
A solid kung fu coming-of-age flick.
Great Barrier Reef Blu-ray Review: Keeping the Streak Alive
By Mark Buckingham |
BBC Earth’s tradition of excellence continues with this closer look at one of the world’s greatest natural marvels.
Broken City DHD Review: Taut Noir Thriller Debuts in a New Format
By Mark Buckingham |
This unlikely character-driven noir flick delivers a solid cast and production, and in an all new format.
Woochi: The Demon Slayer Blu-ray Review: Rebranding Gone Awry
By Mark Buckingham |
Nice whimsical fantasy that trips on its shoelaces a bit trying to figure out what it wants to be.
Stitches Blu-ray Review: An Irish Horror Spoof That Needs Some Polish
By Mark Buckingham |
A valiant effort at a tricky sub-genre, but doesn’t quite hit all the right notes.
This Is 40 Blu-ray Review: An Endearing Look at Middle Age
By Mark Buckingham |
Apatow continues the Knocked Up saga with a funny and touching look at life at the end of your 30s.
Spiders (2013) DVD Review: It’s Only Bad If You Watch It
By Mark Buckingham |
It could have at least been funny. Instead it just ended up being bad.
The Blob (1958) Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review: An Oldie but Goodie Returns in High Def
By Mark Buckingham |
Still stands as one of the classics.
Africa (2012) Blu-ray Review: Remarkable, Vast, Deadly Wilderness, Now in High Definition
By Mark Buckingham |
One of the most untamed parts of the world, revealed in all its fury and tenderness.
Deadfall (2012) Blu-ray Review: Nothing New Here, and Not Especially Well Recycled
By Mark Buckingham |
Despite a strong cast, the intertwining stories are thin and uninteresting.
Bath Salt Zombies DVD Review: This Is Not the Dustin Mills Flick You’re Looking For
By Mark Buckingham |
I watched it so you wouldn’t have to.
Sushi Girl Blu-ray Review: Reservoir Dogs’ and The Usual Suspects’ Slightly Underdeveloped Lovechild
By Mark Buckingham |
Great ensemble cast — if only they had a little more of a story to tell.
Compliance DVD Review: It’d Be Awful If It Weren’t True
By Mark Buckingham |
This prank call goes horribly wrong.
End of Watch Blu-ray Review: Or, Training Day 2
By Mark Buckingham |
Gritty and tense, it does almost everything I want a cop drama to do.
House at the End of the Street Blu-ray Review: Not Befitting of the Talent It Attracted
By Mark Buckingham |
If I wanted pointless twists, I’d have eaten a plate of rotini pasta.
War of the Dead Blu-ray Review: It Forgot to Make Me Care
By Mark Buckingham |
Follows the formulas and cliches of action and horror, but never gives any reason to stick with it.
Osombie DVD Review: Good Dumb Fun
By Mark Buckingham |
It’s an amusing, offensive, complete waste of time with a ridiculous premise — everything that cheesy action/zombie movies are supposed to be.
The Good Doctor Blu-ray Review: I Cannot Understate How Unexciting This Is
By Mark Buckingham |
The story doesn’t warrant the cast it garnered.
The Night of the Devils (1972) Blu-ray Review: Still Good, 40 Years Later
By Mark Buckingham |
Serves as an example of what a horror movie can be if you replace gore and fancy effects with tension and storytelling.
The Adventures of Mark Twain (1985) Collector’s Edition DVD Review: Still Good for Fans; An Intro to Twain for Newbies
By Mark Buckingham |
A person who won’t watch this movie has no advantage over one who can’t watch it.
Rudyard Kipling’s Mark of the Beast (2012) DVD Review: It’ll Make a Nice Coaster
By Mark Buckingham |
I’m pretty sure nobody involved with this project knew what they were doing.
The Ice House (1997) DVD Review: A Twisty Mystery Sporting a Young James Bond
By Mark Buckingham |
What’s that, guv’nah? A good British mystery movie? I say!
G.I. JOE: Renegades: The Complete First Season Blu-ray Review: It Seems You Can, In Fact, Go Home Again
By Mark Buckingham |
This take on the franchise atones for the sins of the live-action movie, takes a nomadic approach to character introduction, and tells a much-needed mature and interesting story along the way.
Tight DVD Review: Can Porn Stars Become Rock Stars?
By Mark Buckingham |
Just as shallow as porn, but with far fewer sexy bits.
The Babymakers Blu-ray Review: Finally, A Lifetime Movie Made for Men
By Mark Buckingham |
Broken Lizard antics mixed with what would otherwise be another typical chick flick? I’m in.
Surviving Progress DVD Review: How to Temper a Double-Edged Sword
By Mark Buckingham |
Human progress has given us some fantastic tools and technology, but that same development threatens our continued existence on this planet.
Snow White and the Huntsman Blu-ray Review: A Visual Spectacle, But Not Quite a Classic Reborn
By Mark Buckingham |
Convincing effects can’t cover up a thin story with some judicious liberties taken, but it’s still a fun ride.
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