The Phantom (1996) 4K UHD Review: Goofball Pulp Antics
By Kent Conrad |
The essence of pulp entertainment is, usually, propulsive momentum. There's not a lot of time to evaluate the sense of ...
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Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die 4K UHD Review: Lots of Fun but Not Enough to Kill You
By Mat Brewster |
There is a thin line between making something genuinely weird and trying too hard at it. Good Luck, Have Fun, ...
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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 |
Hal Ashby's Let's Spend the Night Together captures the Rolling Stones' 1981 North American Tour in support of Tattoo You. ...
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Moneyball 4K UHD Review: Steals Home
By Greg Hammond |
Bennett Miller’s Moneyball is a semi-biographical baseball drama written by Steven Zaillian and Aaron Sorkin. It is based on Michael ...
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Trouble in Paradise Criterion Collection 4K UHD Review: No Trouble at All
By Greg Hammond |
Produced and directed by Ernst Lubitsch, Trouble in Paradise (1932) was adapted by Grover Jones from the play The Honest ...
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Ben-Hur (1959) 4K UHD Review: Pomp v. Pulp
By Rock London |
Winner of 11 Oscars, Ben-Hur is (mostly) an epic snooze. It spends a godawful amount of time letting its characters ...
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Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins… 4K UHD Review: An American James Bond
By Mat Brewster |
In the mid-1980s, Orion Pictures went scouring through existing IP looking for something to launch a new franchise upon. They ...
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Death Ship 4K UHD Review: Nazi Ghosts on a Boat
By Mat Brewster |
Whenever I'm watching a movie, especially when I'm going to review it, there is a part of my brain, somewhere ...
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Bullet in the Head 4K UHD Review: John Woo’s Most Personal Film
By Mat Brewster |
Like most great auteurs, John Woo is obsessed with certain themes. His films often deal with ideas of masculinity, brotherhood, ...
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A Bridge Too Far 4K UHD Review: An Hour Too Long
By Mat Brewster |
Operation Market Garden was a hugely ambitious military mission conceived by Field Marshal Montgomery as a means for the Allied ...
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Once a Thief 4K UHD Review: Action-packed Comedy
By Mat Brewster |
John Woo is the auteur of cool. He crystallized the heroic bloodshed genre into something Hollywood is still emulating today. ...
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Dead Again 4K UHD Review: Mysteries in the Past and Present
By Mat Brewster |
While watching Dead Again, I kept thinking about a couple of other films with Kenneth Branagh. The first was his ...
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Port of Shadows 4K UHD Review: Poetic Realism at Its Finest
By Mat Brewster |
I've come to love a movie that brings together a group of disparate and desperate souls who come together and ...
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Somewhere in Time 4K UHD Review: Love and Time Travel
By Mat Brewster |
Somewhere in Time is a deeply romantic movie filled with longing glances, passionate embraces, and grand declarations of love. It ...
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Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker’s Apocalypse 4K UHD Review: There and Back Again
By Gordon S. Miller |
Eleanor Coppola accompanied her husband Francis to the Philippines, and at his request, shot behind-the-scenes footage during principal photography of ...
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Ben-Hur 4K UHD Review: A Chariot Race for the Ages
By Cinema Sentries |
Written by M. J. Washington When it comes to the "golden age" of Hollywood epics, few films loom as large ...
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The Mirror Crack’d 4K UHD Review: The Mystery Slack’d
By Steve Geise |
When a Hollywood film production invades a quaint English village and circumstances quickly lead to murder, it’s up to Agatha ...
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All the President’s Men 4K UHD Review: Follow the Money in High Definition
By Cinema Sentries |
Written by M. J. Washington There is a specific kind of tension that only a true-life political thriller can conjure, ...
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Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy 4K UHD Review: That’s a Wrap on Their Monster Movies
By Gordon S. Miller |
Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy was the comedy duo's last movie for Universal, their second-to-last together, and their ninth ...
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Diva 4K UHD Review: The Queen of Color
By Steve Geise |
I’d never seen Diva before this new 4K release, and I’m glad I waited. Powered by exquisite cinematography punctuated by ...
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Keeper 4K UHD Review: Weird Movie, Fantastic Direction
By Kent Conrad |
Liz is pretty excited to go on a weekend trip to Malcolm Westbridge's cabin. Kind of, because though she's pretty ...
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Abbott and Costello Meet Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde 4K UHD Review: A Good Balance of Horror and Comedy
By Gordon S. Miller |
In Victorian England, a series of murders terrorizes London and it's clear from the film's title, Abbott and Costello Meet ...
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Death on the Nile (1978) 4K UHD Review: Poirot in High Definition
By Mat Brewster |
A little over 20 years ago, my wife and I spent about 10 days in Paris over the winter holidays. ...
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Evil Under the Sun 4K UHD Review: Exactly What I Want from an Agatha Christie Adaptation
By Mat Brewster |
Peter Ustinov portrayed Agatha Christie's great Belgian detective, Hercule Poirot, a total of six times from 1978 to 1986. The ...
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Barry Lyndon Criterion Collection 4K UHD Review: An Absolute Masterpiece
By Mat Brewster |
Though I am very much a fan of Stanley Kubrick's films, I have put off watching Barry Lyndon for years. ...
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The Killer (1989) Deluxe 4K UHD Review: A Breathtaking Ballet of Blood and Bullets
By Gordon S. Miller |
Written and directed by John Woo, The Killer is a seminal '80s action film that gets the Deluxe 4K UHD ...
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Abbott and Costello Meet the Invisible Man 4K UHD Review: Does a Great Job Blending Genres
By Gordon S. Miller |
Set in the same universe as The Invisible Man (1933) because the invisible serum used was invented by John Griffin ...
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Catch Me If You Can 4K UHD Review: Catch It As Soon As You Can
By Mat Brewster |
Frank Abagnale, Jr., is a con man. His biggest con may have been convincing a lot of people that he ...
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Isle of Dogs Criterion Collection Review: A Boy and His Dog and Other Dogs
By Gordon S. Miller |
Nine years after the fantastic Fantastic Mr. Fox, writer/director Wes Anderson returned to stop-motion animation with Isle of Dogs (2018), ...
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Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein 4K UHD Review: One of the Best Horror Comedies
By Gordon S. Miller |
Although it's not the first time someone came up with the idea of pairing horror and comedy, Abbott and Costello ...
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Scars of Dracula 4K UHD Review: A Blood-sucking Delight
By Mat Brewster |
The success of The Curse of Frankenstein in 1957 led Hammer Studios to make a slew of horror films, many ...
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The Ninja Trilogy 4K UHD Review: A Ninja Good Time
By Mat Brewster |
If you were a boy of a certain age in the early 1980s, you probably had a thing for ninjas. ...
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Alec Guinness Masterpiece Collection 4K UHD Review: So Much More Than Obi-Wan
By Mat Brewster |
I'm of the generation that knows Alec Guinness as Obi-Wan Kenobi from the Star Wars movies. Older generations will know ...
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The Searchers 4K UHD Review: He Had to Find Her
By Shawn Bourdo |
By 1956, John Ford had already won four Best Director Oscars. He didn't have anything left to prove as a ...
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Burden of Dreams Criterion Collection 4K UHD Review: Madness and Art in the Jungle
By Mat Brewster |
Werner Herzog is one of cinema's greatest directors. His films are strange and wonderful. They are imbued with a sense ...
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Howards End 4K UHD Review: A Confounding “Romance”
By Greg Hammond |
Howards End, based on the novel by E. M. Forster, and directed by James Ivory, is a visual treat filled ...
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Dust Devil (1992) 4K UHD Review: Beautiful, Baffling African Horror
By Kent Conrad |
Richard Stanley's career has been haphazard at best. He started making videos for the weird goth-cowboy British band Fields of ...
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The Curse of Frankenstein 4K UHD Movie Review: The Dawn of Hammer Films
By Greg Hammond |
Terence Fisher’s The Curse of Frankenstein, stars Peter Cushing as Victor Frankenstein. It was the first Hammer horror film in ...
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The Cat and the Canary (1927) 4K UHD Review: Silently Delightful
By Mat Brewster |
I've seen something like 40 silent films in my life. That isn't a lot considering the hundreds of silents that ...
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Weapons 4K UHD Review: Don’t Fall for the Hype
By Greg Hammond |
Weapons, the second thriller/horror film from Zack Cregger (Barbarian), tells the story of a mid-size, Northeastern town where 17 third-graders, ...
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Knight Rider (1982): The Complete Series 4K UHD Review: Boy Meets Car
By Gordon S. Miller |
Glen A. Larson had a prolific career in television as a writer and producer in a variety of genres, and ...
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Rampage (1987) 4K UHD Review: Murder Thriller Almost Gets It
By Kent Conrad |
William Friedkin did not have an easy '80s. From the giddy heights of The Exorcist, his prestige had fallen with ...
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A Nightmare on Elm Street 7-Film Collection 4K UHD Review: A Dream Come True
By Mat Brewster |
When I was in seventh or eighth grade, I had an 8-foot tall poster of Freddy Krueger that I displayed ...
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The Bad Guys 2 Collector’s Edition 4K UHD Review: A Sequel That Strikes Gold
By Gordon S. Miller |
The Bad Guys are a quintet of five traditionally bad animals: Wolf (Sam Rockwell), Tarantula (Awkwafina), Snake (Marc Maron), Shark ...
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F1 The Movie 4K UHD Review: Brad Pitt Feels the Need for Speed
By Steve Geise |
What is it about veteran actors and racing movies? With F1, Brad Pitt joins a club including James Garner in ...
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Tim Burton’s Corpse Bride 4K UHD Review: Such a Beautiful Nothing
By Kent Conrad |
I do not know Tim Burton (in high school one of my classmates claimed his aunt dated him). I do ...
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Dogtooth 4K UHD Review: Deeply Weird but Satisfying
By Mat Brewster |
As the parent of a teenager in these times, I have to admit I feel a great deal of anxiety ...
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The Concorde…Airport ’79 4K UHD Review: The Disaster Movie That Ended Them All
By Mat Brewster |
Disaster movies were hugely popular throughout the 1970s. They featured large casts full of classic actors and young, up and ...
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The Last of Us: The Complete Second Season 4K UHD Steelbook Review: Terrific Television
By Mat Brewster |
Sequels are hard. Television series past season number one are hard. The moment right before you start to tell a ...
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Airport ’77 4K UHD Review: Another Day, Another Disaster
By Mat Brewster |
Disaster movies remained quite popular throughout the 1970s, and despite the general critical consensus that these movies aren't very good, ...
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