Swing Time Is the Pick of the Week
When it comes to classic cinema, I think that the Astaire and Rogers films have to be mentioned somewhere. While ...
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Fatso Blu-ray Review: Starring the Great Comedian Dom DeLuise
Being a guy on the chubby side, I can definitely relate to films about the dangers of binge-eating and food ...
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Let the Sunshine In Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review: Love Is…Brutally Human
For most people, love is a constant slope towards madness and eventual pain. We crave it, but sometimes, when it's ...
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The Image Book Blu-ray Review: Godard Expresses the Hell of the Contemporary World
Have you ever watched a film and wondered what's actually in the images you're seeing? Have you every looked at ...
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Diamonds of the Night Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review: The Story of Youth Under Fire with a Brilliantly Fractured Eye
There are many similarities between Luis Bunuel and underrated auteur/director Jan Nemec. They both use surrealism to dictate the often ...
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The Miseducation of Cameron Post Blu-ray Review: Understated and Challenging
The fact that conversion therapy still exists is appalling to me, and it is still a controversial topic that rarely ...
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The World Before Your Feet DVD Review: One Very Must-see Documentary
There are 8,000 miles in New York City; miles that we all know, or have seen in movies and TV. ...
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Far from Heaven Blu-ray Review: Subtle and Graceful Filmmaking
The partnership of acclaimed director Todd Haynes and actress Julianne Moore should be ranked up there with the collaborative works ...
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Shame (1968) Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review: A Harrowing, Nightmarish Bergman Masterpiece
War is Hell. They're have been many films that tackled the often difficult subject of war, and its effects on ...
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Shoplifters DVD Review: Two Hours of Pure, Understated, Humanistic Cinema
Director Hirokazu Kore-eda has made some of the best portraits of humanity for over two decades. These are stories of ...
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Mikey and Nicky Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review: Elaine May Should Be Unanimously Acclaimed
When it comes to underappreciated figures of film, none are more legendary and important than Elaine May. After a successful ...
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Sarah T.: Portrait of a Teenage Alcoholic Blu-ray Review: A Powerful Performance by Linda Blair
After The Exorcist, Linda Blair's career got a bad rap because nothing else came close to the level of success ...
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A Dry White Season Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review: Truly Gripping Cinema
Racism is one those things that just doesn't seem to go away. Every day you turn on the news to ...
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The Atomic Cafe Blu-ray Review: How I Learned to Keep Worrying and Fear the Bomb
When conversing of satire about our deepest, troubling fear about potential nuclear catastrophe, Stanley Kubrick's 1964 masterpiece, Dr. Strangelove: Or ...
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Nancy Movie Review: An Uncomfortably Subtle and Hauntingly Grim Portrait
In a year of dysfunctional families, alien horror, and more superhero nonsense, it was refreshing to finally find a film ...
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Gas Food Lodging Blu-ray Review: A Moving Study of Women on Their Own Terms
As I have mentioned time and time again, the essence and importance of women filmmakers continues to be taken for ...
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Distant Voices, Still Lives Blu-ray Review: Accurately Captures the Battle of the Sexes
Stories about troubled families doesn't hit cinema too often, but when they're done well, such as in Rachel Getting Married, ...
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A Raisin in the Sun Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review: A Wonderfully Acted Film
While some movies about the African-American experience are embarrassing and downright stereotypical, there are others that realistically transcend the bad ...
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Smithereens Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review: Indie Filmmaking at Its Most Raw and Unpolished
Films about women by women are pretty rare these days. These are stories about women taking control of their lives ...
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The Day After Blu-ray Review: Still Has a Probing Effect on Society Today
When it comes to nuclear annihilation, there have been many successful cinematic attempts to truly justify the horrifying reality of ...
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The Addiction Blu-ray Review: A Very Disturbing but Highly Intelligent Tale of Urban Vampirism
As a filmmaker, Abel Ferrara has always stepped outside of the mold to deliver highly provocative works of humanity going ...
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Smash Palace Blu-ray Review: Defies Convention and Cliche
Sometimes films about divorce and parental miscommunication are difficult to swallow, especially because of how terrible they can be for ...
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Baal Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review: Unbearable, Unflinching, and Savage
When the legendary Rainer Werner Fassbinder died in 1982 at the age of 37, he really did leave behind an ...
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100 Years of Horror DVD Review: A Look Back at the Genre
When it comes to the history of horror, there have been many documentaries tracing the beginning of this rather infamous ...
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Westfront 1918 Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review: Unglamorously Shows War the Way That It Is
When depicting war, no other medium can do it as mercilessly as film. War movies can be as dire and ...
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The Apartment (Limited Edition) Blu-ray Review: Continues to Stand the Test of Time
When talking about the greatest director-actor collaborations in film history, you usually here of Ford & Wayne, Scorsese & DeNiro, ...
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Silent Night, Deadly Night Collector’s Edition Blu-ray Review
As usual, the horror genre gets a very bad rap, where many people and critics consider it to be the ...
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Certain Women Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review: A Truly Amazing Film
When it comes to filmmaking, from the past to the present, it is always men at the forefront. However, and ...
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Home for the Holidays Blu-ray Review: An Unfairly Neglected, but Wickedly Funny Take on Family Dynamics
All of us have them: that dysfunctional family that you don't want to deal most of the time, can barely ...
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The Big Sick Blu-ray Review: The Most Heartfelt and Realistic Romantic Comedy of the Year
When it comes to the romantic-comedy genre, the cliches are always there, front and center. You always get the same ...
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Beatriz at Dinner DVD Review: A Great Feel-bad Film of the Trump Era
When it comes to making audiences squirm, dark comedies pretty much have that at a lock. However, with some of ...
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Re-Animator Limited Edition Blu-ray Review: One of Horror’s Truly Finest Films
The horror genre tends to get a really bad rap. Yes, I know that some movies of this rather reviled ...
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Crashing: The Complete First Season Blu-ray Review: A Worthwhile and Hilarious Series
When it comes to being a comedian, there are good things (great material, popularity, success), and there are definitely bad ...
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Buena Vista Social Club Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review: Cuban Musicians Get the Recognition They Deserve
When it comes to music, there are many styles and cultures: Mexican, Spanish, Portugese, etc. However, Cuban music seems to ...
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Tampopo Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review: An Endearing, Sensual, and Tasty Experience
Some of the best films about food not only include food itself, but the reasons why it is essential, especially ...
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The Wanderers Blu-ray Review: Philip Kaufman’s Cult Classic Captures a Bygone Era
I think it's safe to say everyone can relate to being a teen. Doesn't matter what time period you're in, ...
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Canoa: A Shameful Memory Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review: Harrowing but Important
In this day and age, politics have become a horror show, meaning that corruption and savagery usually comes first, and ...
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Cinema Paradiso (Arrow Academy) Blu-ray Review: A Timeless Classic
As the most magical medium in the world, Cinema has the power to move us: to make us laugh, cry, ...
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Deluge Blu-ray Review: Deserving to be Rediscovered
Today, when it comes to the disaster film, style is usually chosen over substance, meaning that a huge budget is ...
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Moonlight Blu-ray Review: Will Take Its Place Alongside the Greatest Films Ever Made
When it comes to films about sexuality, especially those from the LGBT point of view, you don't often see it ...
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Manchester by the Sea Blu-ray Review: A Modern Masterpiece
Last year, 2016, was actually a great time for thought-provoking cinema. You had a modern musical; a story of a ...
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Cameraperson Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review: No Better Film Experience Last Year
When it comes to human honesty, there is no better genre of film stronger than the documentary. In a time ...
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The Watermelon Woman (20th Anniversary Edition) DVD Review: Completely Universal and Extremely Relevant
With the exception of last year's immensely stunning Moonlight, there rarely have been films that tackle gay and lesbian counterculture, ...
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American Masters: By Sidney Lumet Review: See the Master in a New Light
The great Sidney Lumet (1924-2011) was an American original, a genius storyteller, and a quintessential New York filmmaker whose versatile ...
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The Quiet Earth Blu-ray Review: A Brilliant Take on the Last-Man-on-Earth Scenario
When it comes to science fiction films dealing with the apocalypse, sometimes bad CGI and special effects overshadow characters and ...
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Little Men (2016) DVD Review: An Amazing Film About People and Their Live
Personally, I prefer the smaller films, films that tell stories about humanity and its complexities. I feel that they make ...
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The Driller Killer Blu-ray Review: If Looking for a Routine Slasher Film, Look Elsewhere
New York is arguably the most cinematic city of all-time. It has been filmed by the likes of Woody Allen, ...
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Citizen Kane 75th Anniversary Blu-ray Review: An Underwhelming Celebration of Cinema History
What can you say about Citizen Kane that hasn't already been said? Director/actor/writer/producer Orson Welles' controversial landmark film has been ...
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Macbeth (1948) Blu-ray Review: Something Welles This Way Comes
Orson Welles was always a man of very eclectic tastes and certain cinematic desires. He wasn't just a dominating, and ...
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The Initiation Blu-ray Review: Better Than Most of Its Slasher Ilk
During the early 1980s, the slasher genre was at an all-time peak, not critically but commercially. The more movies that ...
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Front Cover DVD Review: A Funny, Charming Take on the Asian Gay Experience
Obviously as most of us know, there are many people who think that gay cinema is just a way of ...
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The Hills Have Eyes (1977) Blu-ray Review: Wes Craven’s Masterpiece
When legendary horror master Wes Craven passed away last year, it really shocked the world. Here was a man whose ...
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Vamp Blu-ray Review: Belongs in the Pantheon of Great Comic Horror
Usually, horror comedies are a one-in-a-million, meaning that some work (the Evil Dead trilogy, Slither), and others don't (976-Evil, Vampires ...
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Kamikaze ’89 Blu-ray Review: Captures the Vision of a Pre-Internet World
Rainer Werner Fassbinder remains one of the greatest directors in the history of cinema. The way he filmed actors, especially ...
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Paperback Review: Madeline Kahn – Being The Music, A Life by William V. Madison
As we all know, Madeline Kahn was a genius, a trailblazer, and a comedy icon. We fell in love with ...
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Raiders! The Story of the Greatest Fan Film Ever Made Review: An Incredibly Involving Documentary
The power of film has its perks: you're able to collect anything and everything about film, you find and make ...
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The Immortal Story Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review: A Marvel of Deep Emotion and Haunting Spareness
We all knew that Orson Welles was mad, but we also knew that he had the ability to make cinematic ...
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Return of the Killer Tomatoes! Blu-ray Review: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love My Vegetables and George Clooney’s Mullet
Once in a while, there is a classic comedy, a comedy so funny and so legendary that it sets the ...
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Tab Hunter Confidential Movie Review: It Tells the Hard Truth about the Darkside of Stardom
As we all know, Hollywood can be a make-or-break industry, creating stars and destroying them. Some make it, while others ...
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The Witch Blu-ray Review: An Incredibly Spooky Descent into Gothic Madness
As we know, the horror genre is a rather dying one. In this case, filmmakers are forced to think up ...
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Room Blu-ray Review: A Difficult but Emotionally Rewarding Cinematic Experience
There is no greater fear for a parent than the loss of a child to certain horrifying circumstances, such as ...
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Lamb DVD Review: A Heartbreaking Tale of Two Broken Individuals
Films that deal with uneasy relationships, such as Sundays and Cybele, can have a certain uncomfortable effect on audiences. Maybe ...
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The American Friend Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review: A Tense Blend of Suspense and Character Study
There have been a few cinematic adaptations of famed author Patricia Highsmith's stories, such as 1951's Strangers on a Train, ...
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Jane B. Par Agnes V. & Kung-Fu Master Blu-ray Review: 2 Films by Agnes Varda Starring Jane Birkin
As everyone, or at least film buffs, know by now that famous filmmaker Agnes Varda is the most influential female ...
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The Mutilator Blu-ray Review: One of the ’80s More Vicious Outings
When it comes to the 1980s, the slasher genre was one of the most popular of phenomenons, with major franchises ...
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Spotlight (2015) DVD Review: One of the Greatest Depictions of Investigative Journalism Ever Made
Investigative journalism has become a dying art, mainly because people can get the news on the internet with their smartphones, ...
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The Emigrants / The New Land Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review: A Profound Cinematic Experience Like No Other
There have been many films about the dangerous journey of immigrants to America, the land of prosperity and new beginnings, ...
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Grandma Blu-ray Review: A Common Story with Uncommon Grace
You would think that a road trip movie about a girl and grandmother bonding would be another one of those ...
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The Devil Wears Prada 10th Anniversary DVD Review: One of the Best Films of the Last Ten Years
In the fashion world, which can be very intimidating, it is literally a dog-eat-dog world where only the strong (and ...
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TV Review: American Masters: Mike Nichols
When the great Mike Nichols passed away on November 19, 2014, it was a very shocking blow to not just ...
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My Favorite David Bowie Songs
David Bowie was a genius, a rebel, a god, and a musical innovator who had no equal. He was brilliant, ...
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Mistress America Blu-ray Review: The Voice of a Generation
I am a really big fan of indie films, films that rely on characters and their issues, rather than special ...
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The Green Inferno Blu-ray Review: A Truly Visceral Experience
As we know, Eli Roth is one of those directors who is kind of a "love him or hate him" ...
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Bone Tomahawk Is the Pick of the Week
Since everyone is getting over the Christmas holidays, I think they are just too stuffed with food and having to ...
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Blood Rage Blu-ray Review: One of Arrow’s Top Releases
Of course the slasher genre is of an acquired taste, mainly because of the lack of unique dialogue or acting. ...
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The Rocky Horror Picture Show 40th Anniversary Blu-ray Review: Don’t Dream It, Buy It
What else can I say about The Rocky Horror Picture Show that hasn't already been said before. It is the ...
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White Shadow (2013) DVD Review: A Work of Unflinching Beauty and Harsh Reality
When it comes to humanist dramas, most moviegoers don't usually take the time to see these films because of the ...
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We Are Still Here Blu-ray Review: A Modern Horror Masterpiece
The horror genre is kind of a dying genre, a literally tried-and-true category of cinema, where filmmakers are constantly trying ...
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People, Places, Things DVD Review: This Generation’s Annie Hall with Refreshing Modernity
When Annie Hall was released in 1977, it was a gamechanger in depicting complicated adult relationships. It was smart, witty, ...
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Book Review: TCM Presents Leonard Maltin’s Classic Movie Guide (Third Edition)
Although some books on cinema should be taken with a few grains of salt, not just because of some ways ...
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Eaten Alive Blu-ray Combo Review: A Strangely Entertaining Cult Film Worthy of Rediscovery
Horror films are like the misunderstood stepchildren of cinema, and when you talk about them, one of the best examples ...
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Finding Neighbors DVD Review: A Rare, Charmingly Adult Take on Unlikely Relationships
In the midst of the overbaked summer blockbuster season, which means having to hear endlessly about big moneymakers such as ...
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La Grande Bouffe Review: Strangely Succeeds Despite Its Uncomfortable Content
As many of us know, 1970s cinema was a changing time in a new kind of filmmaking, where the content ...
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10,000 Saints Movie Review: See It for the Great Performances
There have been many coming-of-age films set in the 1980s that work so well, such as Let the Right One ...
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Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley’s Island of Dr. Moreau is the Pick of the Week
As an extreme film lover, I'm always torn between variety. Sometimes, there is too much to choose from, and it ...
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My Beautiful Laundrette Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review: The Film Stands the Test of Time
When discussing some of the most influential LGBT films, Stephen Frears' 1985 modern classic My Beautiful Laundrette usually is one ...
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Do I Sound Gay? Movie Review: Not Your Typical LGBT Documentary
There have been many documentaries about the depiction of the gay stereotype, such as The Celluoid Closet and Word Is ...
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Spider Baby Blu-ray Review: An Extremely Offbeat but Amazing Movie
In this 1960s, the independent film boom was well under way of becoming the next big thing in cinema. The ...
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Pit Stop Blu-ray Combo Review: One of Jack Hill’s Very Best Films
When the 1960s arrived, there started a new type of film: the independent film. Films under this label were made ...
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Gerontophilia DVD Review: A Perverse, but Tenderly Made Turning Point in LGBT Cinema
When Harold and Maude premiered in 1971, it wasn't a box-office hit, but it did break new ground of how ...
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Welcome to Me Blu-ray Review: Kristen Wiig Is Amazing, but This Movie Is Far from Perfect
We know that Kristen Wiig has proven herself to be actress of extreme range and talent, as she has demonstrated ...
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Odd Man Out Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review: Deft and Thrilling Storytelling
There have been many films about personal and conflicted crisis of conscience, such as American Beauty (1999), The Apostle (1997), ...
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A Brief History of Time Criterion Collection Review: A Quirky, Idiosyncratic Tribute
Everyone knows the story of Stephen Hawking, the iconic physicist, cosmologist, author, and director of research. They also know that ...
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The Way He Looks Blu-ray Review: An Instant Classic
There have been many coming-of-age movies, such as The Yearling (1946), The 400 Blows (1959), To Kill a Mockingbird (1962), ...
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Stay Hungry DVD Review: A Special Peculiarity as Sports Films Go
Usually, when discussing movies of the 1970s, even the bad ones, there are some films that continue to get lost ...
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Matt Shepard Is a Friend of Mine Movie Review: A Deserving, Wonderful Tribute
Matthew Shepard was an innocent human being. A human being who was taken from this world all too suddenly. A ...
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Darkman Collector’s Edition Blu-ray Review: Delivers the Fun Quotient
As we all know, Sam Raimi is one of our favorite directors, cult films (The Evil Dead series), and blockbusters ...
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National Gallery Movie Review: Frederick Wiseman Delivers Cinematic Fulfillment
Although the documentary genre is a brilliant piece of cinema history, many people haven't exactly embraced it, and that unfortunately ...
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PlayTime Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review: Hulot vs. Modernization
As we film buffs know the works of Chaplin, Godard, Dreyer, and Antonioni, we are able to see their versions ...
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Sleeping Beauty (1959) Diamond Edition Blu-ray Review: Same Great HD Presentation, but Less Features
In terms of film classics, there is always a Disney film in that pantheon, but unfortunately Sleeping Beauty (1959) isn't ...
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My Name Is A by Anonymous DVD Review: A Horrifyingly Real and Daring Expose
Based on the horrifying true story of the murder of 10-year-old Elizabeth Olten in 2009, director Shane Ryan's very disturbing ...
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Book Review: Steven Spielberg’s America by Fredrick Wasser
There are tons of books about film and film directors that actually miss the mark, but Fredrick Wasser's Steven Spielberg's ...
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Willow Creek Blu-ray Review: A New Horror Classic
The huge, unparalleled success of 1999's The Blair Witch Project was a blessing and a curse. It changed the way ...
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Boredom DVD Review: A State This Documentary Won’t Leave You
While boredom is a very intimidating condition that affects all of us at some point in our lives, Albert Nerenberg's ...
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Blue Ruin Blu-ray Review: An Intense, Visceral Experience
There have been many films that center on the nature of revenge, but it is very rare that any of ...
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Persona (1966) Criterion Collection Review: Chilling, Strange, and Metaphysical
In my own opinion, no other film in history has garnered so much critical analysis as Ingmar Bergman's 1966 masterpiece, ...
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Document of the Dead DVD Review: An Absolutely Wonderful Labor of Zombie Love
There have been many documentaries about the making of movies, especially about the horror genre, but Roy Frumkes' 32 year-old ...
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The Escape (1939) DVD Review: An Emotionally Charged Gangster Classic
As we all know, the greatest year in Hollywood history was 1939, and it was really the year of Gone ...
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Infliction DVD Review: A Low-budgeted, Clever Shocker
Normally, I'm not into the whole "found footage" genre, because it can be a little cliched. There have been some ...
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Blazing Saddles Movie Review: Funny Racism with a Bite
Although I prefer Mel Brooks' other masterpiece, 1974's Young Frankenstein, it took some time for me to warm to his ...
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Star Dust DVD Review: B-movie About Hollywood
Making a film about the ups and downs of Hollywood is a pretty bold feat. Some have surpassed perfection: All ...
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