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Some Like It Hot Criterion Collection 4K UHD Review: Nobody’s Perfect but This Release Comes Close

By Gordon S. Miller | Oct 5, 2026

The Criterion Collection presents Billy Wilder's cross-dressing comedy Some Like It Hot in a two-disc set, one 4K UHD and ...

The Hot Spot Blu-ray Review: A Dark, Sweaty Film Noir

By Mat Brewster | Sep 20, 2026

Dennis Hopper knew film noir. He came of age in the 1940s and 1950s, the genre's peak. His first film ...

Italo-Crime Collection 4K UHD Review: Italian Action from Across the Globe

By Mat Brewster | Sep 19, 2026

Kino Lorber presents three Italian crime films from the 1970s. Unlike a lot of these types of releases, I wouldn't ...

Auntie Mame 4K UHD Review: How Vivid!

By Joe Keaton | Sep 5, 2026

From the start, Auntie Mame flaunts its taste for excess. Costumes, performances, sets—all are unapologetically big and bright. And Rosalind ...

The 7th Voyage of Sinbad 4K UHD Review: A Celebration of Ray Harryhausen’s Dynamation

By Gordon S. Miller | Aug 31, 2026

The 7th Voyage of Sinbad is the first of three Sinbad films produced by Charles H. Schneer with special effects ...

Disclosure Day 4K UHD Review: Spielberg Returns to the Alien Well

By Mat Brewster | Aug 30, 2026

There is an iconic moment in Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Steven Spielberg's 1977 classic, where a little boy ...

Practical Magic 4K UHD Review: Spellbinding

By Lorna Miller | Aug 25, 2026

Practical Magic is a movie that has grown on me over time which I enjoy more with each viewing. The ...

Repo Men 4K UHD Review: Bland Runner

By Steve Geise | Aug 21, 2026

Although its title might lead viewers to believe this 2010 film is a continuation of Repo Man (1984), the film ...

The Pink Panther (1963) 4K UHD Review: The Birth of a Multimedia Franchise

By Gordon S. Miller | Aug 19, 2026

Kino Lorber presents on 4K UHD director Blake Edwards' quintet of Pink Panther films starring Peter Sellers as the iconic ...

Fire and Ice 3-Disc Limited Edition Steelbook Review: “A Comic Book Adaptation of Frank Frazetta.”

By Gordon S. Miller | Aug 13, 2026

Artists Ralph Bakshi and Frank Frazetta and writers Gerry Conway and Roy Thomas teamed up to create Fire and Ice, ...

MacArthur 4K UHD Review: War is Boring

By Mat Brewster | Aug 11, 2026

I find it impossible to talk about MacArthur without comparing it to Patton, the 1970 film starring George C. Scott ...

King Creole 4K UHD Review: Here’s Looking at You, Kid

By Steve Geise | Jul 28, 2026

While Elvis Presley’s later films generally fell into a formulaic, lazy rut, this early effort marks a high point in ...

Bringing Out the Dead 4K UHD Review: Long Night’s Journey into Night

By Gordon S. Miller | Jul 21, 2026

Based on Joe Connelly's novel of the same name, screenwriter Paul Schrader and director Martin Scorsese reteam in Bringing Out ...

Kiss of the Spider Woman (2025) Blu-ray Review: The Kiss of Death

By Steve Geise | Jul 8, 2026

Bill Condon’s much-maligned film adaptation of the musical of the movie of the play of the novel arrives with considerable ...

Hang ‘Em High 4K UHD Review: An Important Film for the Western Genre in America

By Shawn Bourdo | Jul 4, 2026

In 1968, Clint Eastwood was in the midst of his evolution from a television star in Rawhide to an International ...

Hi, Mom! 4K UHD Review: Young, Feral De Palma

By Joe Keaton | Jul 2, 2026

Brian De Palma’s fourth feature, Hi, Mom!, is the suspense master’s first—and arguably best—full-blown comedy. Loose, politically charged, and eager ...

Minority Report 4K UHD Review: One of Spielberg’s Best Films of the Century

By Gordon S. Miller | Jun 13, 2026

Based on Philip K. Dick's 1956 short story of the same name, Steven Spielberg's Minority Report is a captivating techno-thriller ...

Scream 7 4K UHD Review: Neve Campbell Steals the Show

By Davy | Jun 13, 2026

Scream 7, directed by the original film's screenwriter Kevin Williamson, has Sidney Prescott (Neve Campbell) living a new life far ...

The Great Outdoors 4K UHD Review: Wisconsin Vacation

By Steve Geise | Jun 10, 2026

Following their winning partnership on the classic ‘80s teen films Pretty in Pink and Some Kind of Wonderful, writer John ...

Speed Racer 4K UHD Review: A Spectacular Spectacle

By Gordon S. Miller | Jun 5, 2026

Based on the 1966 Japanese anime TV series, Speed Racer might be the most visually dazzling film writers/directors Lana and ...

The Snowman 4K UHD Review: Stuck in a Scenic Snowdrift

By Steve Geise | Jun 2, 2026

Detective Harry Hole (Michael Fassbender) is hot on the trail of a legendary serial killer in this 2017 adaptation of ...

Terror Train Blu-ray Review: Halloween on a Train

By Davy | May 15, 2026

After the massive success of John Carpenter's game changing 1978 classic slasher Halloween, everyone tried to replicate its magic, but ...

Rider on the Rain 4K UHD Review: A Subverting Thriller

By Mat Brewster | May 12, 2026

In a seaside town in the South of France, a strange man gets off a bus in the pouring rain. ...

Hold That Ghost 4K UHD Review: Plenty of Laughs and Suspense

By Gordon S. Miller | May 2, 2026

Hold That Ghost is the third film starring Bud Abbott and Lou Costello and their third released in 1941. The ...

Stone Cold (1991) 4K UHD Review: Glorious Last Gasp of ’80s Action

By Kent Conrad | May 1, 2026

Stone Cold is so committed to its action-movie stupidity, I think it deserves a place in the So Bad It's ...

Die My Love 4K UHD Review: Kids Make You Crazy

By Mat Brewster | Apr 30, 2026

My wife was in labor for a good 24 hours before the doctors told us it would be better to ...

Dust Bunny 4K UHD Review: A Dark, Quirky Delight

By Mat Brewster | Apr 28, 2026

When the 4K UHD disc of Dust Bunny landed on my desk, I have to admit I'd never heard of ...

The House of Seven Corpses 4K UHD Review: The House of Nothing Happening

By Kent Conrad | Apr 27, 2026

There are many variations on genre movies, but there is a basic split of creators working in genre that is ...

The Phantom (1996) 4K UHD Review: Goofball Pulp Antics

By Kent Conrad | Apr 22, 2026

The essence of pulp entertainment is, usually, propulsive momentum. There's not a lot of time to evaluate the sense of ...

Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die 4K UHD Review: Lots of Fun but Not Enough to Kill You

By Mat Brewster | Apr 21, 2026

There is a thin line between making something genuinely weird and trying too hard at it. Good Luck, Have Fun, ...

The Rolling Stones: Let’s Spend the Night Together 4K UHD Review: It’s Only Rock ‘n’ Roll (but I Like It)

By Gordon S. Miller | Apr 20, 2026

Hal Ashby's Let's Spend the Night Together captures the Rolling Stones' 1981 North American Tour in support of Tattoo You. ...

Moneyball 4K UHD Review: Steals Home

By Greg Hammond | Apr 17, 2026

Bennett Miller’s Moneyball is a semi-biographical baseball drama written by Steven Zaillian and Aaron Sorkin. It is based on Michael ...

Trouble in Paradise Criterion Collection 4K UHD Review: No Trouble at All

By Greg Hammond | Apr 16, 2026

Produced and directed by Ernst Lubitsch, Trouble in Paradise (1932) was adapted by Grover Jones from the play The Honest ...

Ben-Hur (1959) 4K UHD Review: Pomp v. Pulp

By Joe Keaton | Apr 13, 2026

Winner of 11 Oscars, Ben-Hur is (mostly) an epic snooze. It spends a godawful amount of time letting its characters ...

Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins… 4K UHD Review: An American James Bond

By Mat Brewster | Apr 11, 2026

In the mid-1980s, Orion Pictures went scouring through existing IP looking for something to launch a new franchise upon. They ...

Death Ship 4K UHD Review: Nazi Ghosts on a Boat

By Mat Brewster | Apr 8, 2026

Whenever I'm watching a movie, especially when I'm going to review it, there is a part of my brain, somewhere ...

Bullet in the Head 4K UHD Review: John Woo’s Most Personal Film

By Mat Brewster | Apr 1, 2026

Like most great auteurs, John Woo is obsessed with certain themes. His films often deal with ideas of masculinity, brotherhood, ...

A Bridge Too Far 4K UHD Review: An Hour Too Long

By Mat Brewster | Mar 23, 2026

Operation Market Garden was a hugely ambitious military mission conceived by Field Marshal Montgomery as a means for the Allied ...

Once a Thief 4K UHD Review: Action-packed Comedy

By Mat Brewster | Mar 22, 2026

John Woo is the auteur of cool. He crystallized the heroic bloodshed genre into something Hollywood is still emulating today. ...

Dead Again 4K UHD Review: Mysteries in the Past and Present

By Mat Brewster | Mar 13, 2026

While watching Dead Again, I kept thinking about a couple of other films with Kenneth Branagh. The first was his ...

Port of Shadows 4K UHD Review: Poetic Realism at Its Finest

By Mat Brewster | Mar 8, 2026

I've come to love a movie that brings together a group of disparate and desperate souls who come together and ...

Somewhere in Time 4K UHD Review: Love and Time Travel

By Mat Brewster | Mar 6, 2026

Somewhere in Time is a deeply romantic movie filled with longing glances, passionate embraces, and grand declarations of love. It ...

Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker’s Apocalypse 4K UHD Review: There and Back Again

By Gordon S. Miller | Feb 17, 2026

Eleanor Coppola accompanied her husband Francis to the Philippines, and at his request, shot behind-the-scenes footage during principal photography of ...