Steve Geise

Due to the lack of any strong directorial hand or narrative flow, the footage largely feels like watching someone’s vacation movies, albeit a vacation in an endlessly fascinating environment.

New restoration shines a light on a fascinating project anchored by Crawford’s spellbinding performance.

The film moves very well, both in pacing and camerawork.

While McDowell shows clear signs of the counterculture fire that would erupt in A Clockwork Orange, his efforts are in service of a clearly lesser film.

This passion project by writer/composer/co-director Saul Williams is a kinetic, thought-provoking work that represents his strongest artistic statement to date. 

Aside from the setting and U.S. cast, the show feels like it belongs on BBC, which has its pros and cons. 

The new Blu-ray set is essential for all fans of the series and/or Rod Serling’s overall work.

In 1993, a 16-year-old boy named Brandon Lee enrolled at a secondary school in an upscale neighborhood in Scotland. A few things immediately distinguished him from his peers: his mature appearance, his intellectual superiority, and his Canadian accent. Still, he gradually acclimated to Bearsden Academy and found a friend group of classmates that accepted him….

While Tate is great as one of her signature characters, some odd decisions derail much of the goodwill for the production.

Arrow Video is to be commended for continuing to spotlight the giallo genre in this handsome new box set.

Corey Yuen’s adept touch at action direction ensures that fight scenes are explosive and show Kaneshiro in the most favorable light as the true hero of the piece.

A fascinating peek behind the political curtains, giving readers unique insider access.

The film often feels like a predecessor of The Out-of-Towners or Date Night, except here the couple are newly introduced and find their mishaps charming instead of additive to already dissolving relationships.

While the film just doesn’t flow as well as it could, the world building and character development are done with enough finesse to make the project worth watching. 

The film’s close adherence to the source material has its perks and drawbacks.

While all four films are independent projects with no recurring characters, they carry a unifying theme of deceitful women up to no good.

It’s a treat to see Gong Li back in an art house-friendly Chinese drama.

Where Tomine’s original works were somewhat detached and unresolved, Audiard looks for and delivers emotional resonance in the wayward couplings of his characters.

A winning junction of stellar art and spellbinding plot.

Rock Hudson stars in this romantic comedy about the author of a well-known fishing guidebook who has never actually fished, making him sorely out of his depth when he’s forced to enter a fishing competition. He’s also burdened with the annoying but adorable press agent Paula Prentiss who arranged the competition but seems determined to…

Crosby and Astaire are delights performing solo and together.

The five films presented here are completely straightforward, pedestrian affairs without any hint of experimentation.

In spite of the film’s split personality, it’s worth viewing for the amazing amount and variety of stars.

As the least-known contender in this year’s Oscar Best Picture nominees, Drive My Car has the best opportunity to surprise Western viewers unfamiliar with its story or cast. Thankfully, it takes full advantage of that opportunity, with director and co-screenwriter Ryusuke Hamaguchi somehow managing to turn a minor Haruki Murakami short story into a three-hour…

The plot lets Catwoman do what she does best: steal stuff.

Now 30 years after its theatrical release, the film has lost none of its power and is instead more stunning than ever thanks to this lush presentation.

Arrow Video’s second box set collection of giallo classics is now available, arriving less than a month after the first collection. Unlike the first set, all three of the films presented here are more what one would consider true gialli, with seedy crime plots stuffed with sex and gore. All three films are presented in…

Spielberg proves to be adept at filming a musical, and is probably the only living director who could have pulled it off this successfully.

The set is the first of a planned multi-volume collection of giallo essentials, intended to provide neophytes and connoisseurs with a treasury of classics.

The new set contains the feature-length pilot episode as well as all six hour-long episodes.

This is the only series where I like each film more than the one that preceded it.

This mid-career effort by legendary director John Houston is overlong, clinical, and ponderous, and yet Montgomery Clift’s tortured lead performance demands attention and rescues the film. The film is less a biography than an exploration of Sigmund Freud’s few seminal research years that led to his groundbreaking work in the field of psychology. Freud teams…

So joyous and feel-good that it’s impossible to watch without a smile on your face.

Alfredo Gasper is a hard-working newspaper reporter in Argentina who has become disillusioned about the trajectory of his stalled career. When he’s drowning his sorrows at an upscale bar one night, he chats with the friendly Hungarian bartender and former journalist named Paar Liudas. Together, they cook up a get-rich-quick scheme to establish a bogus…

A must-have for curious newcomers as well Hepburn aficionados.

Licensed video games are always fraught with the peril of hardcore fan expectations vs. actual gameplay. Add in the burden of Doctor Who’s nearly 60-year franchise history and a baker’s dozen of Doctors, each with their own fans and detractors, and it seems foolish to even attempt to adapt the property to the gaming world….

Elvis Presley’s performance as a doctor running an inner-city clinic is about as lackluster as that nutty premise.

A loving and informative tribute to this titan of oceanography and conservation.

Rock Hudson is in prime leading man form in this beautifully photographed 1961 romp through the Italian Riviera. Hudson plays an American playboy named Robert who is so well off he can afford to own and maintain an exquisite Italian villa he only visits in September every year. He also maintains a relationship with a…

Essential viewing for musical theatre fans as well as students who weren’t around for the historical moments of the last 50 years.

Noel Coward’s play has been adapted for the screen multiple times dating back to 1945, but it’s been long enough since any recent attempt that someone had to make another run at it. While the cast is strong, the conventional direction by Edward Hall is uninspired, making this a fairly unspirited take on the Coward…

Her completely unconventional film is certain to find a devoted fan base, even as it risks disappointing her most ardent supporters hoping for more music.

The new box set achieves its main purpose.

This 1949 Judy Garland vehicle that is an update of the 1940 Jimmy Stewart movie, The Shop Around the Corner,

The film is at its best when the captive Aki starts poking apart the relationship dynamic between the fully grown but totally dependent man and his nurturing old mother.

Kino Lorber has opted to provide the full roadshow version of the film.

Generally overlooked in the West, but thanks to this expertly produced new box set the films have a much better chance to connect with discerning kaiju fans.

Elvis is totally fine in the film, but he’s hampered by a bizarre script and a lackluster leading lady in the icy Joan O’Brien.