Red Dust Blu-ray Review: Love and Lust on a Rubber Plantation
By Mat Brewster |
Any movie fan will tell you that you have to learn to suspend your disbelief from time to time. Movies ...
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Yes: Symphonic Live Blu-ray Review: Performing at a High Level in 2001
By Gordon S. Miller |
Yes – Symphonic Live finds the band (vocalist Jon Anderson, lead guitarist Steve Howe, bassist Chris Squire, and drummer Alan ...
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Shameless: The Complete Series Blu-ray Review: A Hefty Load of Gallaghers
By Steve Geise |
Like the original UK series, Showtime’s U.S. version of Shameless followed the misadventures of a scrappy family of siblings headed ...
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The Sin of Nora Moran Blu-ray Review: A Pre-code Marvel
By Mat Brewster |
The Sin of Nora Moran is a little low-budget melodrama about a girl who is born into poverty, fights just ...
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The Dead Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review: An Intimately Haunting Portrait of Memory and Humanity
By Davy |
Legendary, maverick filmmaker John Huston was always one of cinema's greatest storytellers. He never stuck to one genre; he had ...
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Orwell: 2+2=5 Blu-ray Review: Brings the Nightmare Front and Center
By Joe Garcia III |
Written and directed by Raoul Peck, Orwell: 2+2=5 casts an eye-opening spotlight on the life and work of the author ...
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James Stewart Collection Blu-ray Review: Four Great Films at a Great Price
By Mat Brewster |
A couple of years ago, me, my wife, and my brother were in one of those old-fashioned diners - the ...
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Fackham Hall Blu-ray Review: One Joke After Another
By Mat Brewster |
My wife and I are big fans of British panel shows. These are basically game shows, but with celebrities (mostly ...
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Twilight Zone: The Movie Blu-ray Review: An Uneven Affair
By Gordon S. Miller |
Based on Rod Serling's iconic TV series, Twilight Zone: The Movie is an anthology of four stories, a new one ...
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Blue Moon (2025) Blu-ray Review: Hawke and Kaplow Outshine Rodgers and Hart
By Steve Geise |
I was fully prepared to dislike this film, or even worse, be totally unmoved by it. From Ethan Hawke’s distracting ...
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Manpower (1941) Blu-ray Review: Great Cast, Disappointing Movie
By Mat Brewster |
Sometimes a film disappoints you for what happens on the screen. Sometimes a film disappoints for what it could have ...
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The Verdict (1946) Blu-ray Review: Watch Lorre and Greenstreet One Last Time
By Mat Brewster |
Between 1941 and 1946, Sydney Greenstreet and Peter Lorre starred in nine different films together. Their first pairing was The ...
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Captain Blood Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review: Errol Flynn’s Swashbuckling Lead Debut
By Joe Garcia III |
Captain Blood (1935), directed by Michael Curtiz, is a fast-paced pirate film based on the novel by Rafael Sabatini and ...
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Falling Skies: The Complete Series Blu-ray Review: Wyle Sans Scrubs
By Steve Geise |
Between his acting stints in the ER, Noah Wyle headlined this TNT series about humans battling an alien invasion. While ...
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Tom and Jerry: The Golden Era Anthology (1940-1958) Blu-ray Review: One of the Best Animation Sets to Date and That There Will Ever Be
By Gordon S. Miller |
As part of the 85th anniversary celebration of Hanna-Barbera’s Tom and Jerry franchise, Warner Bros. Entertainment has released Tom and ...
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One Battle After Another Blu-ray Review: Bizarre Love Triangle
By Gordon S. Miller |
Inspired by Thomas Pynchon's novel Vineland, Paul Thomas Anderson's One Battle After Another is an action thriller that tells a ...
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Illustrious Corpses Blu-ray Review: A Slow-burning Mystery
By Mat Brewster |
The 1970s were a tumultuous time in American history. There were gasoline shortages and high crime in the cities. The ...
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O.C. and Stiggs Blu-ray Review: Robert Altman’s Teen Comedy
By Steve Geise |
If you weren’t aware that esteemed director Robert Altman made an ‘80s teen comedy, blame MGM’s decision to largely shelve ...
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Köln 75 Blu-ray Review: Two Movies in One
By Steve Geise |
Writer/director Ido Fluk spins his imagining of Keith Jarrett’s 1975 improvised concert performance into an energetic but bipolar film. For ...
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Italia: Fire and Ashes Blu-ray Review: Italy’s Film Heritage Reborn Like a Phoenix
By Steve Geise |
Snippets of random silent film reels dance across the screen, transporting us to the earliest days of Italian cinema. Without ...
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Lippy the Lion and Hardy Har Har: The Complete Series Blu-ray Review: Don’t Worry, Be Happy This Is Available
By Gordon S. Miller |
Lippy the Lion and Hardy Har Har, along with Wally Gator and Touché Turtle and Dum Dum, was a part ...
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Wally Gator: The Complete Series Blu-ray Review: Complete but Swampy
By Steve Geise |
Right before I started watching this set, I finished watching The Huckleberry Hound Show Blu-ray collection, a pristine release with ...
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Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk Blu-ray Review: A First-hand Account of Life in Gaza
By Davy |
Every day, my heart breaks for the Palestinian citizens of Gaza. It doesn't seem Israeli's ridiculous occupation of it will ...
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Splendid Outing Blu-ray Review: Disturbing and Honest
By Davy |
The role of women in society continues to be undermined by men, especially a certain orange lunatic and his equally ...
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At the Circus Blu-ray Review: Send in the Clowns
By Gordon S. Miller |
The Marx Brothers followed up Room Service by helping out At the Circus where the trio strive to keep Wilson's ...
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The Death Wish Collection Blu-ray Review: Bronson’s Signature Series Finally Collected
By Steve Geise |
The new Kino Lorber collection compiles all five of Charles Bronson’s signature films in one comprehensive package. Shockingly, this is ...
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French Noir Collection II Blu-ray Review: Four Formidable Leading Men
By Steve Geise |
Kino Lorber’s second collection of French noir films highlights four powerful performances by classic leading men. Although the films are ...
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Young, Violent, Dangerous Blu-ray Review: The Title Says It All
By Mat Brewster |
Titles are funny things. Sometimes titles are straightforward; they'll be the name of a character or the place where all ...
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Doris Day 4-Film Collection Blu-ray Review: Day Outshines All of Her Co-Stars
By Steve Geise |
This new set compiles four of Doris Day’s most beloved films in one convenient Blu-ray package. She’s clearly the main ...
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Curb Your Enthusiasm: The Complete Series Blu-ray Review: A Comedy of (a Lack of) Manners
By Gordon S. Miller |
Larry David became a household name by co-creating Seinfeld, considered one of the most successful sitcoms of all time. The ...
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House on Haunted Hill (1959) Blu-ray Review: Agatha Christie in a Carnival Fun House
By Joe Garcia III |
Producer/director William Castle brings the carnival spook house to life on the big screen in House on Haunted Hill. His ...
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Splitsville Blu-ray Review: A Romantic Comedy for People Who Hate Romantic Comedies
By Davy |
Messy people have messy relationships, and they don't always know what to do with them. That's the overall message of ...
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The Americas: Complete Limited Series Blu-ray Review: Epic Photography, Tired Subjects
By Steve Geise |
Coming to this NBC nature series after a couple of decades of binging exclusively on BBC and Disney wildlife fare, ...
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Peanuts: Ultimate TV Specials Collection DVD Review: Hours of Animated Entertainment from the Mind of Charles Schulz
By Gordon S. Miller |
The Peanuts 75th Anniversary Ultimate TV Specials Collection gathers 40 TV specials from A Charlie Brown Christmas (1965) to Happiness ...
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I’m “George Lucas”: A Connor Ratliff Story Blu-ray Review: What It Takes to Be an Artist
By Davy |
Film and nerdism are two great things that go great together. When the love of film and the love of ...
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I Know Where I’m Going! Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review: I Sure Know Where I’ve Been
By Mat Brewster |
Though not quite as epic or spectacular as some of their better-known films, I Know Where I'm Going! from Michael ...
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Grass and Chang Blu-ray Review: Laying the Foundation for King Kong
By Steve Geise |
Years before they co-directed the original King Kong, filmmakers Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack teamed for these two ...
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Wicked Games: Three Films by Robert Hossein Blu-ray Review: The Actor Directs
By Steve Geise |
Robert Hossein was primarily renowned as an actor, but he also carved out a substantial career as a talented director. ...
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Monk in Pieces Blu-ray Review: A Beguiling Biodoc
By Davy |
Art has no boundaries, and it doesn't always have to explain what it is all about. It can cross over ...
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The Newsroom: The Complete Series Blu-ray Review: Same As It Ever Was
By Steve Geise |
Even though this HBO dramatic series began broadcasting in 2012, it remains shockingly timely in 2025. Watching it for the ...
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Together Blu-ray Review: The Best Film David Cronenberg Never Made
By Davy |
As I may have mentioned in previous reviews, the horror genre is perhaps the most consistent one, meaning that there ...
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A Song for You: The Austin City Limits Story Blu-ray Review: A Celebration of Its Ruby Anniversary
By Gordon S. Miller |
Released in 2016, Keith Maitland's A Song for You: The Austin City Limits Story tells the tale of the what ...
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No Wave: The Underground Films of Beth B & Scott B Blu-ray Review: Confrontational, Fearless, and Highly Original
By Davy |
During the unfortunately short-lived No Wave movement, New York filmmakers like Beth B and her husband Scott B were making ...
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Little House on the Prairie: The Complete Series Blu-ray Review: A Tenderhearted Family Drama
By Gordon S. Miller |
The Little House on the Prairie is a multimedia franchise that began with author Laura Ingalls Wilder's first children's novel, ...
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The Mad Miss Manton Blu-ray Review: You’d Be Crazy Not to Love This
By Mat Brewster |
The Mad Miss Manton takes place during the Great Depression. It is about a rich socialite and her gaggle of ...
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Spinal Tap II: The End Continues Blu-ray Review: Belongs in Everyone’s Christmas Stocking
By Rons Reviews |
When I heard that legendary documentarian Marty Di Bergi (Rob Reiner) was bringing us more, I couldn’t wait to see ...
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Kansas City Confidential Blu-ray Review: A Tidy Midwestern Noir
By Mat Brewster |
Planning and executing the perfect crime is a wonderful movie trope. All the planning, scheming, and preparation so often go ...
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The Conjuring 4: Last Rites Blu-ray Review: The Long and Winding Road
By Steve Geise |
Paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren return for a case so traumatizing it caused them to end their careers. That’s ...
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Out of the Fog Blu-ray Review: Into Beauty
By Mat Brewster |
Life is always hard on the gentle people. The poor people. The people who just want to have a moment's ...
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Manhattan Melodrama Blu-ray Review: John Dillinger’s Favorite Movie
By Mat Brewster |
On the night of July 22, 1934, John Dillinger, one of the world's most famous gangsters, went to see a ...
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