Strange Journey: The Story of Rocky Horror Blu-ray Review: “It’s not a movie. It’s a way of life.”
By Gordon S. Miller |
Richard O'Brien is the legendary creator of The Rocky Horror Show and the lesser-known co-creator of Linus O'Brien, who directed ...
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The Devil Queen Blu-ray Review: Day of the Dead
By Steve Geise |
There are ample reasons that this 1974 Brazilian drama is on the Kino Cult imprint instead of the general Kino ...
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The Bad Seed (1956) Blu-ray Review: Sugar and Spice, a Murderous Delight
By Joe Garcia III |
Directed by Mervyn LeRoy, The Bad Seed (1956) is a powerful psychological, horror thriller that stars Nancy Kelly and Patty ...
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The Stranger (2025) Blu-ray Review: Killing an Arab
By Steve Geise |
In the latest film adaptation of Albert Camus’ classic novel, director Francois Ozon (The Crime is Mine) remains remarkably faithful ...
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Jinsei Blu-ray Review: A Bold, Interesting Film
By Mat Brewster |
I consider myself to be a reasonably intelligent man. I've watched a lot of movies in my life. Some of ...
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Film Noir: The Dark Side of Cinema XXVII Blu-ray Review: Three From Republic Pictures
By Mat Brewster |
Boy, does it seem like movies have gotten longer these days. I mean, really long. It is almost as if ...
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Harlem School 1970 Blu-ray Review: Everyone Can Relate to This
By Davy |
Capturing public education at its roots with a deliberately primitive lens, multitalented filmmaker Phil Gries makes us flies on the ...
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Le Choc Blu-ray Review: Delon and Deneuve Deliver
By Steve Geise |
Ten years after their only other narrative feature film together (Un Flic), screen legends Alain Delon and Catherine Deneuve teamed ...
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Manon 70 Blu-ray Review: Ruthless People
By Steve Geise |
Writer/director Jean Aurel’s 1968 film tracks the rocky romance between two narcissists completely incapable of real emotions. Loosely updating the ...
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Money From Home 3D Blu-ray Review: Step Inside the World of Martin and Lewis
By Steve Geise |
When 3D first became a movie theater fad in the 1950s, the technology occasionally drifted outside of its typical sci-fi ...
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A Midsummer Night’s Dream (1935) Blu-ray Review: Cagney Pounds the Boards
By Steve Geise |
Although Shakespeare’s evergreen comedy has been adapted to the screen many times, Max Reinhardt’s lavish 1935 production was the first ...
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Exit 8 Blu-ray Review: Clever and Creepy
By Davy |
Most video games don't exactly translate well to the big screen. But there a few that do, and Exit 8 ...
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Presenting Lily Mars Blu-ray Review: Broadway Baby
By Steve Geise |
Just four years removed from The Wizard of Oz, Judy Garland was still struggling to transition from child actress to ...
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Hyperspace (3-D Director’s Cut) Blu-ray Review: Funnier Than Spaceballs
By Gordon S. Miller |
Suffering a six-year delay and a very brief U.S. theatrical release, Kino Lorber and 3-D Film Archive have teamed up ...
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Letty Lynton Blu-ray Review: A Pre-Code Melodrama That Blends Romance and Crime
By Gordon S. Miller |
While Letty Lynton is credited with being based on Marie Adelaide Belloc Lowndes' 1931 novel of the same name about ...
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The Boxer (1977) Blu-ray Review: The Fighter Still Remains
By Mat Brewster |
According to the excellent visual essay by Tom Mes, which is included in this new Blu-ray release of The Boxer, ...
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Scooby-Doo!: The Mystery Begins Blu-ray Review: One of the Best Versions of the Franchise Since Its Heyday
By Shawn Bourdo |
The made-for-television film, Scooby-Doo!: The Mystery Begins aired originally on the Cartoon Network on September 13, 2009. The film debuted ...
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Ping Pong Blu-ray Review: Balls of Furi
By Steve Geise |
At the start of this century, three notable live-action sports comedies emerged from Asia: Waterboys, Ping Pong, and Stephen Chow’s ...
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The Island (1980) 4K UHD Review: At Least It’s Never Boring
By Mat Brewster |
Steven Spielberg's Jaws was a massive success. It turned Spielberg into a household name. It almost single-handedly created the summer-blockbuster ...
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Brit Noir Collection III Blu-ray Review: Panic on the Streets of London
By Steve Geise |
Kino’s third collection of late-period British noir compiles three tense dramas likely to be unknown to most viewers. While there’s ...
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Genndy Tartakovsky’s Primal: The Complete Third Season Blu-ray Review: Death Isn’t the End
By Gordon S. Miller |
Although main character Spear was killed off at the end of the second season and there was talk about the ...
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The Double (1971) Blu-ray Review: A Dead Man’s Dream
By Mat Brewster |
A man is shot inside a parking garage. As he lies dying, he flashes back on his life, recalling all ...
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Start the Revolution Without Me Blu-ray Review: An Amusing Parody
By Gordon S. Miller |
Starring Gene Wilder and Donald Sutherland, and Gene Wilder and Donald Sutherland, Bud Yorkin's Start the Revolution Without Me is ...
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The Maverick Queen Blu-ray Review: Barbara Stanwyck Tangles with Butch and Sundance
By Joe Garcia III |
Directed by Joseph Kane, The Maverick Queen (1956) finds silver-screen queen Barbara Stanwyck squaring off against Butch Cassidy, the Sundance ...
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Sugar Cookies (1973) Blu-ray Review: Exploitation Not Psychological Non-Thriller
By Kent Conrad |
Sugar Cookies is an exploitation movie that desperately wants to be some kind of psychological erotic thriller. It just forgot ...
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Looney Tunes: Collector’s Vault Volume 2 Blu-ray Review: 51 Cartoons, From Their Library to Yours
By Gordon S. Miller |
The Looney Tunes: Collector's Vault Volume 2 is a two-disc set of shorts from 1935 to 1963 with the first ...
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Slap the Monster on Page One Blu-ray Review: Politics and Yellow Journalism in 1970s Italy
By Mat Brewster |
Near the end of this Italian political drama, Bizanti (Gian Maria Volonté), the chief editor of a right-wing, pro-fascist newspaper, ...
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I Was a Teenage Sex Pistol Blu-ray Review: Never Mind the Bullocks, Here’s (the True Story Behind) the Sex Pistols
By Joe Garcia III |
I Was a Teenage Sex Pistol (2025), directed by Nick Mead and Andre Relis, tells the story of Glen Matlock, ...
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The Nine Demons: Visual Vengeance Collector’s Edition Blu-ray Review: A Devilish Good Time
By Steve Geise |
Are you tired of all of these meticulously restored and remastered films? Ready for a blast of unadulterated, classic kung ...
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The Paper: Season One Blu-ray Review: Return-to-Office Mandate
By Steve Geise |
Dunder Mifflin is no more, but their Toledo-based parent paper company is still very much in business. Operating out of ...
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The Song of Songs Blu-ray Review: Dietrich Moves from Muse to Master
By Steve Geise |
Marlene Dietrich is generally remembered for her fierce independence and abandonment of societal norms, marked by glamorous crossdressing, affairs with ...
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Colt .45 Blu-ray Review: You’d Watch It for Randolph Scott
By Joe Garcia III |
Colt .45 (1950) is a fun western with a simple plot. Directed by Edwin L. Mann and filmed in Technicolor, ...
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A Magnificent Life Blu-ray Review: A Mediocre Life Story
By Steve Geise |
Writer/director Sylvain Chomet rose to international fame with his 2003 breakout animated feature film, The Triplets of Belleville. Even within ...
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The Christophers Blu-ray Review: Soderbergh Paints a Masterpiece
By Steve Geise |
Sometimes the best way to experience a great film is to know nothing about it. I went into this Blu-ray ...
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Dastardly & Muttley in Their Flying Machines: The Complete Series Blu-ray Review: For the Birds
By Steve Geise |
Warner Archive continues their Blu-ray upsells of classic Hanna-Barbara animated series with this 1969 oddity, previously only available on DVD. ...
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Night and Day Blu-ray Review: Cole Porter Vanishes Behind Cary Grant’s Star Power
By Steve Geise |
This biopic about Cole Porter boasts more than 20 of his songs. If that sounds like a lot, it is, ...
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A Man Named Rocca / La Scoumoune Blu-rays Review: Same Story, Same Actor, Very Different Films
By Mat Brewster |
In 1962, French author José Giovanni wrote a novel entitled L'Excommunié about an ex-gangster who comes to Marseilles to help ...
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Difficult People: The Complete Series Blu-ray Review: A Series Close to My Heart
By Davy |
Every now and then, there is a show that comes along and really wins me over (despite the fact that ...
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The Black Shield of Falworth Blu-ray Review: Men in Tights
By Steve Geise |
This 1954 swashbuckler is most notable for the romantic pairing of real-life married couple Tony Curtis and Janet Leigh. Curtis ...
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Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo Blu-ray Review: Just Over Two Hours on Your Television Screen
By Mat Brewster |
Just over four months after the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, 15 American B-25 bombers took off from aircraft carriers in ...
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Pretty Maids All in a Row Blu-ray Review: Exploitation with a Social Conscience
By Mat Brewster |
From a certain angle, it seems absolutely bonkers that a film starring Rock Hudson, Telly Savalas, Angie Dickinson, and Roddy ...
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Come Live with Me Blu-ray Review: A Very Relaxed Film
By Mat Brewster |
World War II-era films are fascinating to me. Especially those made in America before the USA entered the war. There ...
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Hang ‘Em High 4K UHD Review: An Important Film for the Western Genre in America
By Shawn Bourdo |
In 1968, Clint Eastwood was in the midst of his evolution from a television star in Rawhide to an International ...
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Strange Cargo Blu-ray Review: Weird Movie
By Mat Brewster |
Joan Crawford and Clark Gable starred in eight films together, all for MGM. Strange Cargo was the final one. It ...
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High Art Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review: A Must Have for Queer-film Aficionados and Indie-film Buffs
By Davy |
Pride month is over, but it's really not. Resilience and resistance are key to our survival as LGBTQIA+ people, especially ...
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Hi, Mom! 4K UHD Review: Young, Feral De Palma
By Rock London |
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 ...
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The Super Mario Galaxy Movie Blu-ray Review: Whole Lotta Stuff Going On
By Greg Hammond |
Three years after The Super Mario Bros. Movie turned Nintendo's mascot into a box-office powerhouse, The Super Mario Galaxy Movie ...
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Gilmore Girls: The Series Blu-ray Review: Days of Their Lives
By Gordon S. Miller |
Gilmore Girls: The Series collects the previously released seven seasons (1-6, The WB / 7, The CW) and revival miniseries, ...
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The Mastermind Blu-ray Review: That Title Might Be Sarcastic
By Mat Brewster |
On the outside, JB Mooney (Josh O'Connor) has a pretty good life. He's got a nice wife (Alana Haim) and ...
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Born a Ninja / Commando the Ninja Blu-ray Review: Recycled Ninja Trash but Fun
By Kent Conrad |
It's an interesting challenge to write a review on a movie, or pair of movies, when the liner notes in ...
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