Cinema Sentries

Greta Gerwig is one of those tours de force you hear about from time to time.

A bleak, but funny, tale of Hollywood’s love/hate relationship with itself.

Looking for a horror movie to watch? Hidden Horror is the perfect guide to recommending new favorites.

Do you like good music and incredibly enjoyable main characters?

If you like to watch people acting for the sake of watching great acting, then The Talented Mr. Ripley is for you.

An intriguing look at a little known time in their lives.

Max Allan Collins’ latest is a thrilling send-up of the grittiest pulp paperbacks.

This movie feels more traditional, but with enough of that Coen brothers charm to keep their diehards happy.

A fitting capper to the Three Flavours Cornetto Trilogy.

The shocking death of Oscar Grant is reenacted tragically and reverently by debut director Ryan Coogler.

20 Feet From Stardom is still a long way to fame in this beautiful documentary devoted to the ladies of music.

Tropiano’s book will help you learn a bunch of the good stuff.

A biting documentary casting a lens on war, genocide, and moviemaking.

Adventures rage on the high seas with Fox’s latest Blu-ray

Forrest J. Ackerman’s life and love of horror is spotlighted in this charming documentary.

Crazy Heart could so easily have been a melodrama, but instead it is a cautiously optimistic tale of redemption.

The plot is interesting enough, but it lacks the tension that the title suggests.

Robert Evans goes to hell and back in his new autobiography.

The last chance to enjoy the adventures of Fry, Bender, Scruffy, and the rest.

If you are a Simpsons devotee, then you will want to pick it up.

I’m hoping that the show has finally started to find its rhythm.

A comprehensive catalogue of counterfeit combat.

All’s not well in “The Well.”

This mini-episode presents an important bit of Who history.

What’s all the hubbub about “The Hub”, bub?

The lack of interesting characters and mythology keeps it as a standard TV procedural.

Washington and Wahlberg band together to shoot guns and make you laugh.

While talking to Jenni I found myself deferring the questions and having an amazing conversation with her about disability, movies, and everything in between.

I’m not quite sure it’s going to appeal to every fan.

Both films are really hard to get through because of the poor technical execution and editing.

Love can be a witch if you’re Veronica Lake.

Sit down with three hilarious men making fun of a 1960s classic!

The discussion continues.

If you’re expecting Drive 2, you’re in for serious disappointment.

MST3K star Kevin Murphy talks Rifftrax’s Night of the Living Dead live show.

It’s nice to see some improvement.

While the end is definitely in sight, the audience is still being strung-along for the sake of padding this story out as much as possible.

“The stories are okay, and the Marvel Comics references are fun to catch, but I haven’t connected to the characters yet.” – Gordon S. Miller

“I wish I could say the show was growing on me, but it’s really not.” – Todd Karella

The main thrust of the fourth season involves Neal looking into his father’s past.

“The day Charlie rules the world, I’ll blow myself.” – Dennis Reynolds

Harry Dean Stanton: Partly Fiction isn’t that meaty, but there is enough to keep the audience’s interest most of the time.

Three writers give a postmortem on the Summer of 2013.

The indie film you should see this weekend.

If nothing else, you will probably pick up a few new insults to hurl at people when the time comes.

Ernst Lubitsch and the Criterion Collection are a match made in comedic heaven.

A quite, methodical exploration of man’s ability to connect with each other.

A fun read, but I wouldn’t consider it a worthy collection of reviews.